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Jtp TTIE aiORXiyg OREGOXIAX. TTITIISO AV, DECEMBER 16, 1909. PORTLAND, OltECpN". Entered at Portland, Ongon, Postof0.ee as Eecond-CIass Matter. Subscription Bate Invariably In Advance. (Br Mall.) Dally, Sunday Included, one year $8 00 Dally, Sunday Included, six montha. ... 4 15 Pally. Sunday included, three months.. Ially. Sunday Included, one month..... .75 Dally, without Sunday, one year 6.00 XJallv, without Sunday, six montha.... 3.25 Dally, without Sunday, three montha... 1.75 Dally, without Sunday, one month 60 weekly, one year, l.OO Cufiday, one year 2.30 Sunday and weekly, one year 3 50 (By Carrier.! Dally, Sunday Included, one year..... 9.00 Dally. Sunday Included, one month.... .75 How to Remit Send postofflce money order, express order or personal check on your local toank. Stamps, coin cr currency are at the sender's risk. Give postofnoe ad dress in full, including; county and state. Postage Rates 10 to 14 pases. 1 cent; 16 to 28 paxes. 2 cents; 30 to 40 paxes. 3 cents; O to 60 paxes. 4, cents; Foreign postage double rate. Eastern Business Office The S. C. Beck with Special Agency New York, rooms 49 60 Tribune building. Chicago, rooma 510-512 Tribune building rORTLAM), THXRSPAT, DEC. 16, 1900. TTIE TAKGLE AND THE SOLUTION. After live years of actual trial, Oregon Is ready to return to. the convention system. Its return takes the form of an effort to combine direct primary and convention by allowing a referendum on the action of the convention. This temporary compromise, however, need not detract from the real i significance of the Oregon reaction. The .'real value of the thing lies In the fact that Oregon, one of the first Republican states to Join the direct nominations camp, is re i solved to be the first to get out. New York rfuo. It Is a very practicable, and there fore a perfectly demonstrable thing. .Oregon does not, however, propose to ; reject the principle or method of di jrect nominations. It proposes the con tention or assembly, to guide them. The result will be left to the primary. Then, if the suggestions of the con vention shall be rejected then we Bhall see what will happen next. Men have a right to associate In parties. Having this right, they have also the right to use all honorable means to carry their ; purposes Into practice and action. Men of sense and judgment cannot expect, ,3o not expect, to pursue, each for him icelf. a separate and disconnected part. It Is right, as necessary, therefore, to fcomblne, to come to agreement, for Iconcerted action in the primary elec tion. This is all that the convention or assembly means. Organization is Indispensable to party action. Nothing can be effected without it. Here the representative arystem must come In.- Here is demon stration of the necessity of consultation before the primary. It was done last Spring at Portland. The result was a triumph. And the further result is a municipal government of highest ef ficiency and character directed, too which is rare enough by common sense. The primary, without the direction or guidance thus proposed, will spilt the dominant party of a state into its separate units. It "will prevent or de feat all combination of men having general common ideas about the wel fare of the state for the measures' necessary to preserve and promote them. Party is nothing, in' itself, in deed; but it as an indispensable agent and factor, for support of any sane and definite policy in government of the people, for the people and by the peo ple. The minority party in a state may pretend .to think otherwise, but it will always hold together and fight for Its purposes, nevertheless. One of Its fav orite methods while it sticks to its own party Ideals is to pretend there la nothing In party that should hold the allegiance or the attention of the opposition majority. Of this insincer ity there have been exhibits in Ore gon, enough to open men's eyes. In a free country there la no way to effect anything in politics except through party organization. All those who now decry party organization in , our "state will be earnest supporters of their own party candidates for the chief offices, next year, and the next. Then, If they can bamboozle another lot of Republicans, they will elect the next Governor and the next Senator, and have full political control in Ore gon. Perhaps the Democratic party ought to be In full control in this state. That is another question. But let It come Into control In a straightforward man ner, by the open front door by no back door, like the direct plurality pri mary and statement one. Honest and earnest men intend to know what they are d,o!ng n politics, and what ra tional effect Is to be expected from their efforts. Hospitable. therefore, as Democrats may be to the loose pri mary and to Statement One, to this Idea and to this practice." no quarter iwill be given to It by Republicans who regard party as a means and neces sary means of pursuing definite poli cies In the general affairs of state and government. HEVT,LOI'lXfl THE 1XTERIOR. The value of the electric line, as a feeder for assembling and distributing freight, in connection with the steam railroads, has been pretty thoroughly demonstrated wherever an electrlo line system of any importance has been built. For that reason tho Hill system, in securing control of the Spokane & Inland electrlo lines has added im mensely to its facilities for handling the business of the Inland Empire. In an Interview at Spokane, Mr. Hill. In discussing the matter said: "We pro pose to use the road In conjunction with our steam roads to continue to build up Spokane." With an equal de gree of truth. Mr. Hill could state that he Intends to use the lines "to continue to build up" Portland, for it is In this city, at the foot of a down-hill haul for his steam roads, that the commod ities producing the greatest tonnage in the Inland Empire will seek . a market. Grain. livestock, lumber and min erals are the principal commodities produced In the terriory reached by the Spokane & Inland. Lumber, of course, goes East, and most mineral products are shipped In that direction, but grain and livestock find a better market at Portland than at any other point on the Pacific Coast, and. nat urally, will continue to come here In increasing quantities. It will be nany years before the demands of home con sumption will require all of the grain that Is produced -In the Inland Em pire, and so long as there is a surplus for export, it will seek the -world's markets at tidewater by the most econ omical route. The building of the Spokane & Inland electric system brought Into direct touch with the team roads a good many localities In which development -was slow and ex pensive .by reason of lack of transpor tation facilities. The results have been so satisfactory that It may be regarded as a certainty that there will be a con siderable 'Increase In the mileage of these feeders, as population Increases and development progresses. The Pacific Northwest, on account of Its abundant water power, offers ex ceptional inducements for construction and operation of electric lines as feed ers for the steam roads, and their value as traffic developers has been successfully demonstrated wherever they have appeared. The Spokane & Inland, in radiating from Spokane, was obliged to work into territory al ready supposed to be served by the steam roads. Its report of earnings, 13 well as those of the steam roads, since it was built, shows, however, that Instead of taking business away from the old roads, it assisted tJn de veloping enough new business to en able all of the roads lrt the territory to show gains. Similar satisfactory results will appear when an electric line Is thrown north from Connell or Winona to the heart of the Big Bend country, permitting the im mense grain tonnage of that locality to reach tide-water by a gravity haul. MORE OKLAHOMA BANK FAILrKES- The "bank guarantee'? chickens are coming home to roost in Oklahoma. The first big failure after the passage of the famous law, wiped out the guaranty fund and compelled an as sessment on good bankers as well as on "wild-catters." Now comes the announcement of the failure of the Farmers National Bank, of Tulsa, in which more than $122,000 of the state funds are on deposit. The State Banking Board has also authorized one of its members to take charge of the First State Bank, of Klefer,, unless the bank can withdraw J 30,000 which it has on deposit in the defunct Tulsa bank. It will be noticed that these failures are taking place In the most prosperous times that Oklahoma has ever known. Farmers of the state are- marketing an immense crop of corn and wheat at the high est prices that have been quoted since Oklahoma became a state. Livestock, dairying and small farm ing products are also selling at high prices and there Is an utter ab sence of all conditions that usually cause bank failures. It requires no very keen scrutiny of the Oklahoma bank guaranty law however, to show -why there are bank failures in the midst of this wide spread and bountiful prosperity. Under the beneficent workings of the law the state relieves the depositor of all responsibility In the safeguarding of his funds. So long as the guasanty fund can be drawn on, or legitimate bankers will pay assessments to make up the shortages caused by the wild cat bankers, there is absolutely no In centive for a depositor to show pref erence for safe anks. With such a premium on loose banking methods, "wlld-catters" have flocked to Okla homa and by offering inducements, which legitimate bankers could not and would not offer, have drawn in heavy deposits that would never reach them if the depositor were obliged te protect himself by placing his .money in the hands of a legitimate banker. If Oklahoma cannot prevent Its nu merous bank failures in the midst of unparalleled prosperity, it is a cer tainty that there will be plenty of trouble for that guaranty fund when the Inevitable period of hard times appears. i MORE ABOUT ART. It may not be a bad plan to follow Dr. C. E. Cllne meditatively through the interesting letter which he con tributes to The Oregonian today, and make such comment upon his argu ments and aspirations .as the case seems to demand. We should greatly prefer to make the comment uniform ly laudatory, If that were possible, for the concept of whht he ardently calls "a Fine Art 'Plan." here in Portland turning out "Last Suppers"' by the bale and "Davids" by the ton. Is certainly alluring. But at present we fear it is more or less visionary. i Unhappily, our divergence from Dr. Cline's visws begins with the first sen tence of his letter. It is impossible to concede that there Is anything like a "general demand" for instruction in the fine arts in Portland, or any other American city. If such a demand really existed outside the doctor's teeming fancy, schools "would spring up over night to satisfy it. Just as busi ness colleges appear in magio multi tudes to supply the call for typewrit ers and stenographers. There,, is a pretty widespread' desire' in most American cities to learn some thing about art. People wish to know what Giotto did and what Rubens did, They like to be able to explain In conversation how each important painter influenced his contemporaries and successors. They deem it part of a desirable education to remember the names of the most remarkable pictures and something of their subject matter, together with the usual formulas of art criticism. We suspect, from an attentive perusal of Dr. Cline's letter, that this Is the principal teaching he wold have his "Fine Art Plant" do. and It Is well enough as far as it goes. When a person cannot obtain living men for companions, very likely he Is wise to substitute skeletons. It is necessary to insist, however, that no amount of such Instruction about painters and pictures would ever teach anybody art or tend In the slightest degree to awaken the true artistic spirit. On the contrary. It would prob ably quench the nascent sparks of genius by substituting arid formulism in the place of living energy. Dr. Cline's reference to the early classical colleges which were estab lished In Oregon Is wonderfully happy In this connection. The history of those excellent schools beautifully Illus trates the precept that Instruction about an art never can lead to ar tistic productiveness. The will to. cre ate must first exist. Then a school. If It Is of the right kind, may some times be serviceable. They have been teaching the Iliad at Salem and Forest Grove for a good many years, but we are not aware that either college has graduated a Homer, or even a Poe. All that a school can Impart Is the technic of art. The productive Im pulse which uses' the technic must evolve from the life of the people. To teach the form before the substance has begun to need it is the worst of all pedagogic blunders. Its Immediate consequence is a preference of form to substance, or, to put it more harshly, of sham to realitj-. "Outbursts of genius in the fine arts" have never been "sporadic," as Dr. Cline would have us think. They have Invariably been national In character and have grown naturally and inevlta- ably from the life of the people. Given a life which, like ours, is centered on mechanical problems, w-hlch greatly overvalues material luxuries and com-, forts and which is cramped by a deadly heritage of killjoy Puritanism, we should be, unreasonable to expect that It can flower in art. Our artists must, of course, be sporadic productions, "sports," as the botanists would call them, because the main trend of our life Is away from beauty. The only Instruction in an art school which could possibly be vital and fruitful must be given by those very geniuses who. Dr. Cline thinks, are too sporadic to serve the purpose. They are not by any means sporadic in Paris, how ever, nor were they In Florence in Benvenuto' Cellini's day, or In Athens In the time ' of Pericles. When the spirit of the people is fertilized to pro duce them, artists are plentiful enough. The reason why young people go from Portland to Paris and Florence to study art is, first, because they seek in structors who are themselves success ful painters; second, because of the wealth of educative and inspiring ma terial in the museums; and, third, .be cause of the atmosphere, the tradition of great accomplishment and the ap preciative spirit they feel around them. None of these requisites exists In Port land, or could be acquired here, no matter how much money there might be to spend, for them. Our young peo ple would continue to resort to Eu ropean cities to study art If we had a dojen schools here at home, and they would be wise to" do so. On the other hand, music can be studied In New Tork better than anywhere else in the world, 'at any rate so far as execution goes. The city has become a powerful center of artistic reproduction and at the same time, a fertile school of re productive artists; but we do not find that New Tork thus far. with all. its schools and money,, has brought forth a creative genius in music. THE CHRISTMAS RUSH. Encouraged by the bright sunshine and balmy air of the past two days. fthe Christmas shopper has been abroad In this city. With but little more than a week left In which to dis pose of -the all-Important question, "What shall I give?" or, more spe cifically, "What can. I afford to give that the recipient will appreciate?" the multitude has trod each other's heels In desperate and unmannerly haste, seeking. Even If one happens to belong to that relatively small num ber that does not believe in gift-giving at Christmas, he can see to what straits thi3 complex question drives the Christmas shopper. "What can I afford?" and "What will they like?" are the component elements of thia complex Christmas question. Time was, as many of us remember, when the tokens of good will that passed between "grown-ups" at Christmas time consisted of hearty salutations, genial smiles and cordial clasps of the hand; when the chil dren "hung up their stockings," In the eagerness of anticipation, at early bedtime, and In the gray dawn of the Christmas morning scrambled out of bed, sure to be delighted with what ever the stockings contained. From these small, simple and happy beginnings the great rush of Christmas buying and giving of today has grown. It may be hoped that some, at least, of the tired, rushing, anxious throng that crowds the streets and stores and cars In these days of preparation for Christmas will find In the Joy of giving and the pleasure of receiving, full recompense for the fa tigue and perplexity of the shopping season, and for the enforced economy in Individual and household expendi tures In coming months that promis cuous gift-giving necessarily entails. INTERVENTION IN NICARAGUA. Now that the United States has taken the Initial steps toward the pacification of Nicaragua, ft Is diffi cult to see how It can withdraw before the task Is completed. A nation which has engaged in a war can seldom retire with decency until It has been victor ious or defeated. In this Instance, pre mature withdrawal from the scene of hostilities would be doubly embarrass ing, because our Intervention would afford Zelaya ground for demanding damages should he put down the In surgents and establish his power. The only tolerable course seems to be to go through with the affair, now that we have undertaken It, whatever the consequences may be. Some of them may not .prove alto gether undesirable. Zelaya Is 'said to own a monstrous lot of monopolies which yield him huge profits. These monopolies disturb Mr. Knox' peace of mind alarmingly. There seems to be no present Intention of making . a permanent conquest of Nicaragua. Our forces are to be withdrawn when,, with the help of Mexican troops, they have put free elections on the same footing as in Mexico. Diaz' well-known zeal f for liberty of the ballot will cause him to enjoyhls part In this humanitarian work thoroughly. Still, even if the United States troops are promptly withdrawn, this Intervention will stim ulate anerw that suspicious hostility to the encroaching Tankee which exists everywhere in the Latin nations of Central and South America. It may not be of much consequence, but It Is a bar to commerce. Perhaps Mr. Taft had the 111 effect of the Nicaraguan Intervention In mind when he asked Congress for a ship subsidy. He prob ably expects that they will neutralize each other. I-AST OF GREAT INDIAN CHIEFS. Red Cloud, the famous chief of the Sioux Indians, died Friday night at his home near Pine Ridge Agency, In North Dakota, literally the last noted Indian warrior of the once powerful tribe to" which Sitting Bull, Spotted Tail and Standing Elk belonged. Not only so, but he was the last noted In dian warrior of the great plains who had led their braves to 'battle n re sistance to the coming of the white man and the despoilment of their an cestral hunting grounds. Sitting Bull, Spokane Garry, Joseph the Nez Perce, Moses, Rain-in-the-Face, Leschi, Ger onimo, American Horse and all the rest preceded Red Cloud to the happy hunting grounds, each and all having been made, by force of arms, to ac cept a home on reservation lands In lieu of the untrammeled freedom of the great plains. Each struck with all the force of enraged savagery at tire advance guard of civilization as it appeared to claim a foothold upon his lands. Each led, with savage ferocity, his retinue of half-naked warriors against his In trenched foe. or rallied them for fierce resistance when hot pressed by the forces of Howard, Crook, Canby or Miles. Each led la his turn, and often, a raid against -peaceful but. In the Indian view, encroaching settlers, and more than one of them counted in his trophies of war the scalp of the paleface who had been drawn Into ambuscade. Some of them, including Red Cloud, fought the coming of the railroad as the destroyer pf their ideal hunting grounds. Some (of them fell on the firing line, but ntost of them, grown old "and decrepit tamed by time, though they had defied circum stance retired to their allotted homes, dwelt Ill-content In the shadow of a civilization that they de spised, and died of old age in the tepees which, to the last, they pre ferred to houses. Spokane Garry, one of the most en lightened chieftains of them all, died thus on a bed of skins in a wind-swept tepee near Spokane, around which the snow was piled high frail and aged ane, blind some eighteen years ago. Geronimo, the Apache, died a few months ago under similar conditions. In Oklahoma, scorning. It was said, a civilized bed to the last. And so. doubtless, many of the others passed on and out, conquered but not sub dued. ,- Most of them lived to a great age. Red Cloud, the last of the Indian chieftains of military fame, died at the age of 88 years. The story of each was that of a vanishing race of which he was a sturdy, rebellious, re sistant leadter; a savage who, in the arrogance of his rude strength, boldly refused to capitulate to the moving force of civilization. Civilization is still moving in Japan, the latest evidence of the fact being a proposed factory law to be offered at the present session of the Diet. Under the provisions of this law em ployment of children under 12 years of age Is forbidden, and workers un der lo years and women must not be worked more than twelve hours a day, and must have two days' rest each month. As there are nearly 400,000 women employed In Japanese fac tories, the effect of this law, if It Is passed, will be quite Important on the Industrial situation. Much of Japan's prestige in manufactures has been at tained through Its underpaid and overworked women and children, and If it Is now to become civilized and treat Its laboring classes as human be-; ings Instead of machines, Its advan tage over other manufacturing coun tries will be less pronounced than at the present time. The news columns In yesterday's Oregonian reported a big poultry show in progress at Asotin, Wash., and preparations at Vancouver, Wash., for extensive entries at the Portland Poultry Show, to be held this month. In another column appeared the state ment that fresh eggs- were selling at Aberdeen, Wash., at 70 cents per dozen. While these Items have . no direct connection with each other, they suggest to the unfortunate con sumer of 70-cent eggs that some time In the future It may be possible for poultry experts who conduct . poultry shows to succeed in breeding a hen that will be less generous In laying eggs at 10 cents per dozen and more prolific when the quotation is 70 cents per dozen. There Is an Omar Khayyam Club In London. Its membership is limited to fifty-nine, in sentimental remem brance of the fact that Fitz Gerald's poem was published In the year 185 9. At the recent dinner of the club the well-known author, Chesterton, was one of the speakers. The club natur ally from old Omar's example takes an Interest in wine; and Chesterton In his speech said one of his non-conformist friends had made the apology for the miracle of turning water Into wine at the marriage feast, that Christ had created merely a non-alcoholic beverage. "I cannot Imagine," said Chesterton, "any such wilful waste of divine power." - It is now suggested that a portion of the management of unruly Nica ragua be turned over to Mexico. In a remarkable exposure of "Barbarous Mexico," now running in an Eastern magazine, John Kenneth Turner makes the plain, unqualified statement that Mexican planters are shanghaing and placing in slavery men of all classes. Including actors and profes sional men. If we could be assured that Mexico would extend this kind of treatment to Zelaya, there would be small objection to Intrusting Mexico with the management of the Presi dent. V A writer sends to The Oregonian a letter criticising Dr. Brougher's ser mons. One recital from the pulpit was the story of a newly-married man who said he loved his wife so much that he could eat her; another choice remark was, that If a person would see some thing swell he should soak a sponge. Now, what's the matter with that preaching? The critic, who lives on Yukon avenue, Portland, says, how ever, that he went to the church' to hear the "Word" of God," and was dis appointed. President Taft Is right when he says that one way to cut down National ex penses Is to get more -and better work out of the employes. Now let him put the theory Into practice by making a start in Washington. The country will not be convulsed if. for example, of fice hours in the departments shall be lengthened thirty minutes each day. Exposure of the methods of race track robbers, professionally known as bookmakers, by one of their own num ber, ought to serve as a warning to Innumerable victims.' But, unfortu nately. It won't; the crop of "suckers" steadily grows larger. ' In the schools of Albany there are 689 boys and 689 girls. It Is a beau tiful proportion. Nature will do things Just right, if you don't thwart her; and if you do thwart her, or try to,, in the long run you will get the worst, of It. When they speak of republican gov ernment In Great Britain they mean representative government, not gov ernment by Initiative and referendum. Statement One, or recall. They put their trust In their popular elective legislature, the House of Commons. It is well for baseball that charges of bribing an umpire were not proved. If ever the sport ceases to be clean, it ceases to be. Half a dozen men will not override the distinctly expressed demand of Portland for bridge facilities. wants cmr to pat for pipes. Writer Ssys Water Halss Snoold Aot Be Tued to Land-Owners. PORTLAND, Dec. 15. (To the Editor.) Under the old law, .water mains were laid and paid for out of the water fund. The rule was to lay no mains on any un graded street, or on any street where the receipts "from the water consumed would not pay 6 per cent on the cost of laying the main. Now, the old settled districts of -the city had their mains all laid under this law, and many of the citizens of these districts have been furnished, with meters, and pay for the water they con sume at greatly reduced rateB, while in the newly settled districts It has been the general rule, of late years for those who platted their tracts to lay a system of small pipes throughout their additions before putting the property on the mar ket, Many of these additions have all been sold, and are quite thickly settled, s In other districts, where no system o small pipes was laid, and which were remote from mains, the residents were compelled to pipe their water long distances and at great expense. Now the 'residents of such districts are not granted .the use of me ters, and therefore are paying a heavy toll into the water fund more than enough to pay 6 per cent on the cost of laying the larger mains. -f In some in stances, small private pipes have already paid into the water fund a revenue suffi cient to replace them with mains suitable for all purposes. In many of those dis tricts the water supply has become, through those " small pipes, inadequate. There is no tire protection. The streets are being Improved, and mains are need ed to replace and reinforce those small pipe systems. Is it just to assess the property of .those people and make them pay even a part of the cost of laying such mains when the people of older set tled districts had no such expense? When it comes to justice, the question to me seems very simple. If the present law is just, then the old law was unjust, and if the old law was just, then the present law is unjust. I, for one, agree with Mayor Simon, that the present law is un just, wrong and unsatisfactory, and that it should be repealed and the old law re enacted in Its place. H. B. GRANTHAM. The old law was not Just to water con sumers and taxpayers, nor now Is the present law, nor will the, proposed new law satisfy the equities and exigencies of water service-- Land benefited by water mains should pay some unjform part of the cost of the mains. Land never has done this hi Portland, and will not under the proposed law; hence all this discon tent. Meter disparities can be and will be corrected by raising the household me ter rate. The longer the existing unjust system is continued and it Is the same now as for many years, because landown ers are not paying for mains by assess mentthe wider will the injustice spread. The system, of paying for mains should be remodeled and adjusted so as to make the lotowner pay some uniform part of the expense, GOOD WORDS FOR O REG OX. With Good Words. Also for the Oregron . Life Insurance Company. Insurance. Monitor. New York. If there Is one state In the Union more than another whose future Is pregnant with promised prosperity, that state is Oregon. Another genera tion will probably witness the transfer of the world's commerce with the countries of the Orient to the Pacific. The nations who dominate this great ocean will control the trade of the world. The fact has been recognized by our' own Government and earnest ef forts are being made to" forestall this mighty movement that will make of our Pacific Cist the connecting link between the nations of the Far East and of the West. A generation hence It will be on this coast, rather than on our Atlantic seaboard, that the eyes of commerce will be turned. For more than 300 miles the western boundary of Oregon is washed by the waters of this mighty .ocean, with the city of Portland on Its northern border, the apparent gateway through which this commerce will find its way. Here is a young state one and one half times larger than all New England, with its wealth of minerals and of timber, and as yet with a population of less than 700,000, rapidly swelling from the best of our Immigration and des tined soon to reckon Its people by the millions. In this great and growing state Oregon Life is the chief represen tative of domestic life Insurance. It Is easy to see what a prospective future must open up to such a company estab lished in the Important city of Portland, with all the advantages of a pioneer domestic Institution of the state. These are the reasons why we have taken a special Interest in exam ining the status of Oregon Life and Its qualifications to perform the important mission which It is likely to be called on to fill. The Jewish Idea. The Jewish Tribune, Portland. From the Intermarriage of "the sons of God"- (worshippers of God) with "the daughters of man" (idolators) strong men were born, but God said : "My spirit does not always dominate man's judgment, because he prefers the flesh," is what we read In this Pentateuchal portion (Gen esis vi:l-4). Each religion Is perfectly suited to its adherents; it leads to God; Is sanctioned by God. and therefore is part of the whole spiritual economy of man. Each religion has Its own characteristics and therefore can neither be swallowed nor merged into any other religion. Idolatry accepting Judaism, which Is named Christianity, could not entirely efface its previous character, hence the retention of the Sunday as a holy day to this day; hence the definition of monotheism-trinity the deifying of a hsman being, and many more sanctified 4rpagan reminis cences. The admixture of individuals of various religious, persuasions make the Individuals themselves religious her maphrodites and their children Irreligious individuals. Intermarriage spells destruc tion to religion and causes the elimina tion of the highest and sublimest gift the human race possesses the spirit of God. Strong; Talk: In. Condon. Condon Globe. Rev. J. T. Merrill Is a strong; man in the pulpit and Is not afraid to say what he thinks Is right. He said: "It is a dirty shame that, these big, strong men of Condon stand back and compel their wives and sweethearts to do the church work, and these men trying to go to heaven by proxy." Still Selllrj OIL Chicago Tribune. Notice any symptoms of approaching dissolution on the part of the Standard Oil Company? Multnomah Grana-e Resolutions. Multnomah Pomona Grange, at Its session yesterday, adopted resolutions opposing the proposition fey- a consti tutional convention In 1910, on the ground that such convention would be in danger of falling under control of corporations and machine politicians who would promulgate the new consti tution without ratification by the citi zens; to the abridgement or detriment of the rights of the people. The Grange also adopted resolutions opposing the assembly or convention plan for suggestion of candidates for nomination, on the ground that such course would be hostile to the spirit and purpose of the primary law and a menace to the Initiative and referen dum, "stulltefying the lntellgence of the Electorate." Similar resolutions were adopted by Lents Grange last Saturday. JOHN WESLEY'S REAL LOVE STORT New Edition of Great Divine's Life Tells Loss of Sophy Hopker. London Cor. Pittsburg Gazette-Times. Methodists all over the world will soon be reading the first volume of the new edlUon of Wesley's Journals, the great Msthodlpt classic, which, after parsing through innumerable editions. Is produced again with a remarkable series of notes based upon diaries and manuscripts de ciphered and discovered by Rev. Nehe mlah Ournock, of Raylelgh. Chief among the new material now printed by Mr. Curnock is a full account bv John Wesley himself of an Incident known as "the Georgia love affair." in this Wesley describes his friendship with Miss -Sophy" Hopkey, and the poignant sorrow T.ith which he discovered her en gagement to another man. Miss Sophy." in 1736, at the time John Wesley met her, was "not more than 18 years old," and harassed by a "master ful and unprincipled rover." Her only guardian was her aunt, the wife of Mr. Uauston, planter and chief magistrate of Savannah. Wesley was 33 years old. He had been sent to Georgia by the trustees of that colony as -missionary to the In dians, but upon arrival was appointed -"minister" of Savannah and Frederica, then a' town of huts one year old. From the first, Causton was desirous of marrying his wife's niece to Wesley. Miss Sophia Christiana Hopkey was also not unwilling, partly from fear of "Tommv" Mellichamp, her masterful lover, and partly -from affection for the "grave, learned and saintly" Wesley, whom "she loved and feared in about equal propor tions." Wesley met the young girl at the hut town of Freder,iea, a distant part of his parish. She-wanted! to return to England, but was persuaded to go to Savannah, and went in Wesley's boat. The journey lasted six days, during which Wesley and "Miss Sophy" had only his servant. "Jemmy," and the boat's crew for com pany. The written account and the diary deciphered by Mr. Curnock tell how the time was spent. They prayed and sang, read Fleury's "Manners of the Ancient Christians," rowed long distances and fre quently landed and walked. On the evening of the first day they landed on an uninhabited island, "made a fire, supped, went to prayer together, and then spread out our sail over us on four stakes to keep off the night dews." Un der this on one side were "Miss Sophy, myself and one of oud boys who came with me from Savannah; on the other our boat's crew." Though the northeast wind was "piercing cold," she "complained of nothing, appearing as satisfied as if she had been warm upon a bed of down." The next day they landed again on St. Katherine's Island and stayed there, weather-bound, for four days. Wesley now began to study his young companion more closely, and on the fourth night came his first declaration of love. Observing in the night the fire we lay by burning bright, that Miss Sophy was broad awake, I asked her, "Miss Sophy, how far are you engaged to Mr. Melli champ?" She answered: "I have prom ised him either to marry him or to marry no one at all." I said (which, Indeed, was the expression of a sudden wish, not of any formed design): "Mies Sophy, I should think myself happy if I was to spend my life with you." She burst out into tears and said: "I am every way un happy; I won't have Tommy, for he is a bad man. And I can have no one ele." She added: "Sir, you don't know the dan ger you are In. I beg you would speak no word more on this head." And, after a while, "When, others have spoken to me on the subject I felt an aversion to them. But I don't feel any to you. We may con verse on other subjects as freely as ever." At Savannah, Wesley became tutor as well as friend to "Miss Sophy," instruct ing her, as he did others, in French. By January he again "hinted at a deslreof marriage," but she declared her Intention "to live single," and thought it best cler gymen should not be "incumbered with worldly cares." For two months Wesley tormented him self, his conscience and "his -friends with the question whether he should marry "Miss Sophy." At last. In March, 1737, just a year after he first met her, the crisis came. On March 4 he resorted to a trial by lot. On one was writ "Mary," on the sec ond "Think not of it this year." After we had prayed to God to "give a perfect lot," Mr. Delamotte drew the third, in which were these words, "Think of it no more." Instead of feeling "the agony I had rea son to expect," Wesley accepted the de cision by lot cheerfully. But the "agony" came again when it was announced that "Miss Sophy" was engaged to a Mr. Will iamson, whom she ultimately married. Wesley makes in the diary which Mr. Curnock has discovered and deciphered the following heartbroken entries: 3. Took leave of her, y, (an hour) at home. Could not pray! 3. Tried to pray, lost, sunk! 4. Bread, conversed with Delamotte. Lit tle better! 5. Mr. Causton came In. talk; tea. 6. Kempls; Germans. Easier. 7. Prayers. 8. Mtas Sophy et cetera, H (an hour) within -with her. 4 (of an hour) with Dela motte. Prayer. No such dayvsince I first saw the sun! O deal tenderly with thy servant! Let me not see such another! Lottery of the Marrlaire Market. January Smart Set. In marriage he who hesitates is bossed. If Cupid is blind. Hymen has ten thou sand peeled eyes. Between two evils, it Is better to wed a talkative lobster than a self -satisfied clam. After marriage, what one knows that one should not, one ceases to know. This is wisdom. ' The husband of a popular celebrity should be forgiven much for he's very lonely. A man is as great a fool as a clever woman thinks It worth while to make him. Masterful men are finally mastered, be cause they fail to measure the staying power of woman. There are two kinds of dangerful wives those -whom other married men like, and those who like other married men. Take no thought as to whom you shall marry. Marry whom you please, and you will discover that you have somebody else. Senator Gore as Political Prophet. Philadelphia Record (Dem.) The blind Senator Gore, of Oklahoma, predicts the renomlnation of Roosevelt for President in 1013. He apparently needs no keen eyesight to foresee the shadow of that coming event. k , , CCTtRKST'SMALL CHANGE. "Have you forgotten yon owe me $5?" "No. not yet. Give me time, and I will." Judge. . Tommy Pop. what Is the offloe that seeks the man. Tommy's Pop The tax office, my son. Philadelphia Record, "You ought to save money for your fam ily." "Yes, but " "But what?" "My fam ily won't let me." Cleveland Leader. "Nobody realizes the Immensity of space." "Except the -man who has to fill a daily half-column with alleged humor." Louis ville Courier-Jotrmal. , When Women Vote Poll Clerk Mary Gladys Jarley votes ballot number two hun dred and" M. G. J. Oh, wait a moment, please! Give me that back! I want to add a postscript Puck. "I represent not my own restricted inter ests." said the Impassioned declalmer; "I represent the millions." '-Millions of what?" Inquired Senator Sorghum, cautiously; "mil lions of people or millions of dollars?" Washington Star. "Hear about Jimmy?" asked th lanky youth with the bat and balls. "No." respond ed his chum. "What's happened to him?" "Lots. He found a' quarter in de street, went to de ball game, got hit wld a ball an' den fot licked when he got home." "Gee whiz! guess dat's what you'd call trouble com ing from an unexpected quarter." Chicago Daily News MILTON AKD LONGFELLOW LEAD Interesting; Results Noted at Sale of Haber Boole Collection. Xevr Tork. New Tork Cor. North American. More than $6000 was netted at the ealo of books, letters, manuscripts arid prints collected by Louis I Haber. of New Tork City, held at Anderson's auction rooms. An extremely rare first edition of John t Milton's poems, printed both In Latin and English, with the first engraved portrait of the author. London, 1645, brought $450. His "Paradise Lost," first edition, with the rare second title-page, London. lfiST, was sold for $420. Longfellow's "Pilgrim age Beyond the Sea." two volumes in original wrappers, with an early portrait of the author and an inserted letter from him to his friend. Rev. Dr. Roswortli, written in 1S3S. relating to the work, Bos ton. 1S33-34. went for $350. The- original manuscript of Rudyard Kipling's famous story, "At the End of the Passage," written on 11 sheets of paper and signed in full, "Ridyard Kip ling." brought $290. Other Important sales were: Thomas Killegrew's "Comedies and Tragedies." a rare first edition, with por trait of author, London,' 1664. $120, and Perrault's "Popular Tales." edited from the original editions, with introduction by Andrew Lang, first edition, Oxford. 1SSS. $00; "Tales From Shakespeare." by Charles Lamb, first edition, London, 1S07. $103. and a Latin manuscript of tho four teenth century, "Aristotle's Opera," $166. A letter from Charles Lamb to Robert Southev. with mention of Coleridge. Wordsworth, Landor, Cook and Maddox. written from London, May 6, 1815. $136. and an autograph poem, "To the Book," signed by Lamb, and evidently written for some one's album, $360, and George Puttenham's "The Art of English Poesie." with a scarce oval wood cut portrait of Queen Elizabeth In royal robes, London. 1589, $100; Charles Lamb's "Essays of Ella" and "The Last Days of Elia," two volumes. London. 1&23-33, original boards, first edition. $106: "A Mystical Ballad." autograph poem by James Russell Low ell. 1844. $131. The first English translation of Sir Thomas More's "Utopia," by Ralph Rob inson, London, 1551. $300. A remarkably fine copy of the great picture book of the Middle Ages, the "Nuremberg Chronicle." 1493. $200: Edgar Allen Poe's "Denial of an Attack on Fitz-Greens Halleck," an auto graph letter written from New Tork, Au gust 15, 1845, to Laughton Osborne, author of "Arthur Carryl," $180. DANCES INTO MILLIONAIRE'S HOME Once Penniless Southern Girl Teaches Miss Krlclt for 9400 a Month. Pittsburg Corr. New Tork Press. A poor but shapely girl has found favor in the eyes of Miss Helen Frick. daughter of the steel man, and she has been placed beyond want for years to come. Miss Anna O'Neil, one of the foremost dancers In the "Pirates of Penzance" ballet, which was given by the rich girls of Pittsburg for the bene fit of the poor, has been engaged as companion to Miss Frick at a salary of $400 a month, with saddle and driv ing horses and her own maid. She has just taken up her duties In" the coast home of the Frlcks. Miss O'Neil is of the South and came to Pittsburg to reside with her sister, who is the wife of a rich banker. She practically has been dependent on the sister, and when the now famous half billion dollar chorus was being formed here in the Summer of 1908. the contri bution, of the banker's wife was her sister, who, she.- said, could sing and dance divinely. And Miss O'Neil could. The daughters of Pittsburg millionaires became enthusiastic about the graceful Southern girl, and when Miss Lucille Roessing, who had been engaged as leading woman for "The Pirates of Pen zance," eloped in the course of rehear sals with Paul Griffey of Denver, Miss O'Neil was importuned by several of the daughters of millionaires to try for the leading part She modestly tried it In rehearsal, and took the rich Pittsburg girls by storm. She was prevented from making herself famous only by the unexpected return of Mrs. Griffey, who said she would not break her engagement even for a bridal trip. So popular was the penniless Southern girl with the rich young women of Pittsburg that she had the place of honor next the leading woman, and it was understood she was able and willing at all times to take ' the part of the prima donna Miss Frick was much Impressed with Miss O'Neil, as was her mother, and several weeks ago she came to Pittsburg and engaged Miss O'Neil under a long engagement. "I will give you $400 a month, your own horses and provide you with a maid if you will be my companion and teach me to dance and sing like your self," said the light-haired little daugh ter of a man worth $70,000,000, and Miss O'Neil said "Yes." Rich Peers Live on . Fat of the Land. London Cor. Baltimore News. Here is the annual tribute levied by seven peers on the land values of Lon don: The Duke of Westminster, 3,000. 000; Lord Howard de Walden, 2,900,000; the Duke of Bedford, f2.25O,000; Lord Portman, 1.820,000; Lord Northampton. 1,600,000; the Duke of Norfolk, 1,500.000; Earl Cadogan, 1,500,000. Now, what have -these peers done to create this enormous wealth? The ques tion answers itself. They have done less than nothing. Their only task has been to receive the torrent of gold which the toil of London has poured into their laps. It is the people whOBe industry has creat ed these values. It Is they who have made the roads and laid the sewers and built the tramways. It is they who have raised the factories and shops and filled them with the hum of Industry. It Is they who have borne the crushing burden of the rates that have created the values. . And the dukes have taken all the plun der and have given nothing but blankets in return. They have not even contrib uted a penny to the rates. Two sovsiyra. The Frost King. For three long days and nights the -frost-king reigned. As it drew near the Joyous Chrlstmastlda; . And over alt the sombre landscape wide. Which wailing winds bad swept as Autumn waned. Came the pale flush of beauty, and I said: "Lo! Winter, painted Autumn has outdone"; For ever pine and fir tree bent Its head Beneath Its weight of Jewels In tbe sun. A short time since, they whispered in de light These ranks of trees in Autumn's golden glare; Bat now, on every hand enrobed in white, And laden down with gems and fabrics rare. They are too awed even to breathe a prayer. And breathless stand awaiting fall of night. EARLB STANNAKD. Brownsville, or., December, 1008. Winter. I wandered to a far and lonely hllL Adown whose grassy, slope a streamlet brawls ; ' But all the tiny, leaping waterfalls Were silent and a-crystal with the chill Which that old tyrant, winter, doth Instill; And as I stood, the wind came through the trees. And presently the sky began to nil With drifting snow-flakes, like to drowsy bees. And there I stood, entranced with what I saw. ' Darkly encompassed by the wandering storm ; ' Being so filled with strange delight and awe. At all the antics of the white-wing swarm. That e'en until the world was sheathed white I watched the dancing winter bees alight. 1 EARLB STANXARD. Brownsville, Or., December, 190a