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Postage Rates 10 to 14 pages. 1 cent; 18 to 28 pages. 2 cents; 30 to 40 pases. 3 cents; 40 to 60 pases, 4 cents. Foreign postage double rate. Kaatern Business Office The S. C. Beck with Special Agency New York, rooms 48 00 Tribune building. Chicago, rooms 61O-012 Tribune building. PORTI-AXD, TUESDAY, MARCH .8. 1810. PRBSEjrr A3TD PAST. IX OCR POTJT1C8. More than usual, procrastination is the rule of the present Congress. Noth ing gets ahead. Even the postal sav ing's bill that passed the Senate last week Is to toe "referred," in the House; and there are free predictions that it never will see the light again. How, or in what way the House can manage to dawdle away the time, doing noth ing. Is truly a wonder. It would seem surely that such, indolence would be come irksome. In the platform on which Taft was nominated (1908) "immediate admis sion" of Arizona and New Mexico as states was proclaimed as a purpose of the Republican party. Fulfillment was expected by the country. But, like all other business which Congress should attend to, this also Us shirked and neglected. A few members of either house oppose with the old argument that the strength of states having small populations ought not to be increased in the Senate. It has been a futile argument from the be ginning. There would have been no Union in the first place, had the argu ment prevailed. ' And nearly every state admitted since the original thir teen, has had, on its admission, Bmaller population than Arizona or New Mexico now; and several of them now, that have, been states these many years, have at this day fewer inhabi tants than either of the two territories now seeking admission. One of the original thirteen (Delaware) has fewer than either Arizona or New Mexico; and Nevada, a state these forty years and more, has no more than one-third Df the population of either. Oregon was admitted as a state in 1859, with less than 50,000 inhabitants; and twenty years later her population was less than that of either of the terri tories knocking for admission today. Mention of Delaware In this relation (Delaware, by the latest census had a population of 184,735) recalls the fact that Delaware has a peculiar his tory on the subject of statehood, to which little attention has been given In recent times, but which throws Strong light on the reasons why the States "were given equal representation In the Senate. The United States Sen ate, as Sidney George Fisher, of Phila delphia, well-known as a lawyer and publicist, shows in his book on "The Evolution of the Constitution," was a gradual development from the Gov ernor's Council of colonial times, which at first was a ' mere advisory council of the governor, afterwards a part of the legislature sitting with the assembly, then a second house of the legislature sitting apart from the as sembly as an upper house; sometimes appointed by the governor, sometimes elected by the people, until it gradu ally became an elective body, with the Idea that its members represented cer tain districts of land, usually the coun ties. It had developed thus far when the National Constitution was framed end it was adopted in that instrument so as to equalize the states and to pre vent the larger ones from oppressing the smaller ones. This was accom plished by giving each state two Sena tors, so that the smaller and the, larger were alike. The language of the Con stitution Itself,, describing the func tions of the Senate, was framed prin cipally by John Dickinson, iwho at that time represented Delaware, one of the smaller states of he Union which had suffered In early colonial times from too much control by Pennsyl vania. . . The Senate, therefore, was intended to preserve the balance of power among the states, and to prevent the oppression of the small states by the larger ones. . John Dickinson, as a representative from Delaware, a very small state, had much Influence in Bhaping this part of the Senate's func tions, under the Constitution. Dela ware had been partially annexed to Pennsylvania before the Revolution. The two provinces had the same gov ernor, but different legislatures. At first they had been under the same governor and the same legislature, and it cost Delaware a struggle to get an independent legislature. She knew by experience how easily a small state could be unduly controlled or Ignored, and her representative naturally -became the champion of the weaker commonwealths. This championship not only resulted in the peculiar Constitution of the United States Senate, but also. In the clause which says, "No new state shall be formed or created within the Juris diction of any other -state,, nor any state be formed by the Junction of two or more -.states, withoiit consent of the legislatures of the states con cerned, as well as of Congress." This exposition renders perfectly Intent, glble clauses of the Constitution un intelligible without it. Delaware had but just recently emerged from the influence of Penn sylvania In her affairs. She had only a short time before gained her com plete Independence of Pennsylvania. In 1776 Delaware had elected dele gates to frame a constitution. This body had done Its work the first of its kind In our history, effected by a body distinctly elected for the pur pose. The delegation from Delaware, In the constitutional' convention, led by John Dickinson, mindful of the old experience of their state with Penn sylvania, led the movement which . made the United States Senate what It is. It was one of the facts or fic tions by which the autonomy of the states, real or supposed. was asserted and maintained. It was a fact or fic tion that contributed Its, part to the pretensions of state sovereignty that produced the" Civil "War. Local and state demagogues, chief of whom was Jefferson, employed to the uttermost the local feeling and jealousy, ap pealed to the fear of centralized gov ernment, and pressed the assertion of the equal power of the "co-states" (the expression is Jefferson's own), to' prevent the consolidation of the Union; till finally this doctrine was perverted to an assertion of the right of states, or of any state, to withdraw from the Union. That was by no means the idea or purpose of those who asserted in the constitutional con vention the equaMty of the states and fortified it by insistence on equal rep resentation of the states In the Senate. But it was a good enough basis for the argument of Jefferson, Jefferson Da vis, Robert E. Lee and the larger sec tion of the Jeffersonian ' party in the Northern States. However, in spite of all, the country adheres to the idea and principle of equal rights and powers for the states in the Senate. There is impatient desire, indeed, here and there, to get rid of it. ' But it is adhered to, it will be retained, as a sort of balance wheel for the general system. By a paradox not uncommon in politics, great num bers who have adhered to the idea of state sovereignty, and to a Senate, of equal states, as an affirmation of it, now denounce the Senate as the seat or citadel of privilege and power, an instrument of despotism, an organ of centralized government, that should be" abolished in the nam of liberty, and of the untrammeled rule of, the people! Our "Statement One" is an effort in that line. Primarily it means that there ought to he no Senate; since1 it is a body that tout obstructs "the people's will." ( DEMOCRACY AXD DISSOWJTION'. Before the Legislature of Maryland the other day Senator Chamberlain, of Oregon, speaking for Initiative and referendum, said he 'could not under stand the position of the legislatures which opposed the Initiative and ref erendum, as they practically said to the votens: "You nave intelligence enough to vote for me, but you have not the Intelligence to vote for the laws you want." This doesn't meet the case at all. It is exceedingly shal low. What la the purpose or object of a legislative body? "Why have a legislative body? Solely because It Is supposed and believed that men elect ed as representatives will be In posi tion to take some time, to- give some' thought and care(-,to study of meas ures proposed; to hear objections and to reach conclusions, on balance of judgments. - -.- It is in no degree whatever a ques tion whether men have "sense enough" to vote for members to repre sent them," yet haven't "sense enough themselves to make all their laws by a direct vote. This Is among the cheapest jf all the arguments of dem agogy. ' Some questions, of leading Import ance, sure to attract general attention, to call out general discussion, to com pel strict and careful examination, may well enough go to -the whole pub lic for decision. For, If they are ivery important, they certainly will have such determination, anyway. Great questions always are decided by the popular vote even through the agency of the representative system. But the function of legislative bodies is to bring to bear on- questions of Im mense range and variety, which the whole people have not time to examine and cannot possibly examine, a care ful and special study, through repre sentatives elected by the people for the purpose. These representatives have opportunity to hear the whole ar gument, to consider, to decide. The entire electorate cannot do it not be cause as any thmk (according to the sneer of Chamberlain) that - they haven't sense enough, but . because they haven't the time and opportunity for it. Besides, democracy can endure only through the representative ' sys tem. Scattered, broken into warring fragments, it twill accomplish nothing. It must have a principle of unity and cementation. The representative and legislative system furnishes it. Senator Chamberlain's dictum would abolish the representative system and legislatures altogether. Yet he doesn't mean it. He Is merely playing with a great subject, In a flippant way, for personal and partisan advantage. He ought not to do It. No democracy can stand, without resistance to the tendency of Its factions towards dis solution. The representative system furnishes that only way. THE PASSING OF LOUIS JAMES. Death of Louis James, the Shake spearean actor, has occasioned melan choly comment over the decline of the drama of the greatest of all play wrights. Probably the apathy of the public to Shakespeare's plays Is but an eclipse that is temporary." That Is a charitable way of commenting on the public's lack of appreciation of masterpieces that have been delight ing the world 300 years. .. Mr. James was one of the actors who have suffered from this eclipse. Throughout his last tour, which car ried him through Portland, he played to small houses. But few actors are playing Shakespearean roles at this time, in fact, when one1 enumerates Sothern, Marlowe, Hanford and Man tell he has completed the list of con spicuous figures. It may be said that James, being a Shakespearean star of the second or third magnitude, could not expect to "draw" even moderate favor in box office receipts. To some extent this may be true. But James certainly de served more cordial treatment than the cold-hearted public afforded him in his latter days. The late career of James was a dis appointment to the most ardent of his early .admirers. . He sprang from a school of fine artists who, twenty and thirty years ago, carried the dramatic art in America to its highest perfec tion. He was leading man with Law rence Barrett twenty years ago. He played roles in conjunction with the celebrated Ada Rohan, Augustira Daly, John Drew. Mrs. John Drew and Joseph Jefferson. He was contem porary with Edwin Booth, Henry Irv ing, Ellen Terry, Salvini, Richard Mansfield and Modjeska. Many other players at the time of James dramatic schooling were meeting the require ments of a severe and exacting popu lar taste, amid keen competition and fierce rivalry for favor. Mary Ander son, Genevieve Ward, Mrs. Bowers and Fanny Janauschek were In the zenith of their careers. The great Italian, Salvini, was touring America. Fanny Davenport, Clara Morris and Rose Coghlan were in full popularity. These great players were followed by retinues of other distinguished favor ites, of the dramatic art. (. Louis James had some gleams of the first magnitude and these he showed in his early successes. But while a good actor, he lacked the superb touch of a great artist and what may be equally to the point, the' ceaseless striving of the student. For the three essentials of actor, artist and student are all together what makes the dramatic star Of the brightest bril liancy. Lacking In either of the three, the player on the stage falls short. Mansfield possessed these qualifica tions in eminent degree. The activity of genius never allowed him peace. It drove him always to strive after something more and 'better as student, artist and actor. His dramatic power was ever on the ascendant. Louis James, however, did not de velop his powers beyond the mid period of his career and we say it with due regard for the praiseworthy elements of his work. He reached a certain point, then stopped, and, as always In such case, fell "back. He was an entertaining actor; highly pop ular fifteen and twenty years ago, and highly appreciated to the last by those who knew his early achievements. AS MIGHT HAVE BUKX EXPECTED. The shocking affair between Cudahy and Lillls, in Kansas City, Is a per fectly normal outcome of the "un written law." ' First one man shoots another for "ruining his home." Pub lic opinion supports him in his bold defiance of the law. and naturally the next man who becomes jealous of his wife grows still' bolder. He hires a mercenary thug to assist him, and be tween them they perpetrate one of those outrages which we all supposed civilization had left behind in the middle ages. It Is a long time since Abelard received his punishment, but evidently we have retrograded to about the condition of society which then prevailed. The next step will be for Ameri can husbands who suspect their wives of misconduct, to keep armed bands of assassins In their employ and set them upon everybody who they hap pen to fancy may be guilty of "invad ing their homes.". This Is what the unwritten law must naturally lead to, and we hope it rejoices the hearts of those clergymen who uphold It, to see the outcome in all Its frantic and savage- horror. Lynchings, burnings at the stake, riots and murders In the streets, muti lations of enemies by hired assassins, these are some of the consequences of our National contempt for law. These are the results of ur permis sion to every man to take his rights Into his own hands and seek what he calls Justice by any means he may choose, to the neglect and , ignominy of the courts. One of the principal agencies whereby civilization has evolved has been the cessation ... of private vengeance and the execution of Justice by the courts. In this coun try we have pretty nearly lost all that has been gained in this direction in the last thousand years. At any rate, It has been lost in many parts of the United States. In those regions there might as well be no punitive law whatever, for it is never applied to cases where much passion has been excited. The remissness of our crim inal law is surely, and not very slowly, disintegrating our civilization. TODAY'S CROP REPORT. The grain trade throughout the United States, and even throughout the world. Is awaiting, withs considerable interest, the appearance of the United States Government crop report today. The report, which will be made pubic at noon, will give what purports to be an accurate estimate of the stocks of wheat in farmers' hands. It was the publication of this report one year ago which caused a slump of more than 10 cents per bushel In wheat prices, and for a few days promised to demoralize the carefully constructed "corner" which Mr. Pat ten was building. Subsequent develop ments In the market, and- the signal failure of the Department of Agri culture to account for even approxi mately as large an amount of wheat as it was asserted was in farmers' hands March 1, have led the grain trade to wonder if the Government figures appearing today will be as far wrong as those of a year ago. Added Interest is given the situation by the appearance a few days ago of the estimate of Statistician Snow, who estimates the amount of wheat In the hands of farmers March 1, at 170,000,000 bushels. Snow's estimate on year ago was 24,000,000 bushels smaller than that of the Government, and if there Is a similar differance this year, Secretary Wilson may be expected to find 200,000,000 bushels in farmers' hands. In order to make his figures on the crop of 735,000,000 bushels for the total crop come out even approximately correct, it will be necessary for Secretary Wilson to credit the farmers' stocks with at reast 200.000,000 bushels. This, with the single exception of 1907, when the farmers stocks were reported at 206, 000,000 bushels, would be the largest on record. As the American visible at that time was 45,000.000 bushels, compared with 25.000,000 this year, figures would show the statistical po sition of wheat to be very weak. Per haps the most uncertain feature of the situation is the attitude of the farmers. Several years of good crops and high prices have placed these farmers in a position of financial In dependence and It Is not improbable that many of them may decline to sell at any marked decline In prices. If this attitude is generally assumed, a weak statistical position may not for the present, at least, be accompanied by weakness in prices. PORTLAND GATEWAY DECISION. The United States Supreme Court has decided in favor of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company In the cel ebrated case involving the right of that road to refuse through checking of baggage and routing of passengers for Puget Sound, by way of Portland. This suit was originally filed for the purpose of forcing the Northern Pa cific ' to accept at; Portland for "Puget Sound delivery, as a portion of a through haul, passengers and baggage collected by the Union Pacific at points in the East, where the Northern Pacific also had connections. Tho Northern Pacific objected to taking the short haul from Portland to Puget Sound for the reason that it had a through route from the East over its own rails, and insisted that it should not be forced to take the business at Portland when it had facilities for hauling it the entire distance from trfe: East. The disagreement between the two roads resulted In much Inconvenience to travelers who came west to Puget Sound .via Portland and were obliged to recheck their baggage at this point. During the heavy travel to the A.-Y.- P. Exposition at Seattle this Inconven ience was particularly noticeable. The perfection of a trackage agreement by which the Harrlman lines can now reach Puget Sound, Independent of the Northern Pacific, has to a large extent nullified the immediate effect of the United States Supreme Court de cision, for the traveling public can now travel the entire distance be tween Eastern points and Puget Sound without the necessity of rechecklng baggage or repurchasing local tickets between Portland and Puget Sound. As a precedent which might be useful in similar controversies in the future, this decision will, however, be useful. While the public would undoubtedly be much better served by a free inter change of traffic between. all the'roads entering or passing though this city, there have never been very great ex pectations that the Portland gateway on the Puget Sound passenger traffic could be held open. This decision will have a tendency to show the Hill-Harriman peace pact In the Puget Sound territory in the light of a public good; for the travel ing public Is now enjoying facilities which the United States Supreme Court has decided the conflicting rail roads were not bound to supply. HOW CRIME DOES NOT PAY. Baker and Udy, the taxicab robbers who held up the Twelve-mile" House and the Seven-mile House, have been sentenced to 13 and 15 years, respec tively, in the Penitentiary. The aggregate amount secured by these young hfghwaymen in their comparatively brief- career of crime was about $250. A mathematical cal culation on the business aspect of the case proves pretty conclusively that crime does not pay. Good behavior on the part of Baker and Udy will probably reduce their sentences to about ten years. The net earnings of able-bodied young men for ten years in a country like Ore gon would be so much greater than the average loot of the highwaymen that .even the monetary Inducements of a life of crime are not such as (would attract many recruits. At both of the fair meetings which have been held at the. Country Club grounds, the gate receipts have suf fered by reason of the wretchedly in adequate transportation facilities. The present management of the fair in the poor service to the aviation meet, has been afforded an excellent ex ample of how a crowd cannot be handled with present facilities on the line between the city and the Country Club grounds. . Unless some steps are taken to improve this service before the next fair Is held, It will be under the same heavy handicap that has prevented its predecessors proving successful. - Portland is no longer a village, and, unless this fact Is recog nized by the fair management and the transportation lines, we shall ex perience a repetition of Sunday's trouble at the next fair meeting. A New York dispatch says that figures on the sales of mules at the markets of St. Louis, Kansas City and other stock centers for the past four months show an increases of more than 15 per cent over the same period last year. This Is taken as an indica tion of increased - prosperity In the South, where high-priced cotton Is. always the signal for a brisk trade in mules. This may be one of the fac tors in gauging the prosperity of the South, but If every community in the West has purchased as many Missouri mules In proportion as have been coming into Portland within the past year, most of that 15 per cent in crease is due to the demand from the West. Yet' the mule thrives In Ore gon, and iwe have land enough for several breeding farms. The mills of Pennsylvania Justice, like those of the gods, grind slowly, but they finally get out the grist. The State Supreme Court has affirmed the conviction of two of the thieves who conspired to defraud the state in con nection with the furnishing of the state capltol building. The culprits will now serve two years and pay a fine of $500 each. A former state treasurer and the man who had the furniture contract were more fortu nate. Both died before they were called on to pay the penalty for their peculations. Twelve dancers In San Francisco broke the .world's Marathon dance record by remaining on their feet 14 hours 41 minutes. To keep one of the female contestants on the floor, an injection of strychnine was neces sary, and another fiirl suffered a broken toe. The fool-killer always did give San Francisco a wide beith. Clatsop County will build three bridges of steel to replace that num ber . of decaying wooden structures across streams within its limits the coming season, "because lumber is so high." Next thing we know we shall all be wearing diamonds, owing to the high price of glass. Women are more Imaginative than men they can keep in their far ahead thoughts the Easter bonnets even when the skies are dark and stormy. ' ' One of Roosevelt's policies was to Indict "muekraker" newspapers for libel. Taft's . critics have not yet urged him to adhere to that policy. There probably will be 32,000 votes cast in Seattle today, and Gill (Re publican) will be elected Mayor by a majority over all. The people who didn't buy aviation tickets and the men who didn't sell them have exchanged opinions about each other. The Democratic newspaper at Boise has become politically Independent. Same old mask that does service In Oregon. No, tho Peary doubters don't wish to be shown the Pole. That kind of proof would be too strenuous for them. The "aviation" was a high flyer both at the ticket window and on the free neighboring summits. Mr. ' Cudahy. it will be recalled, came from a famous family of butch ers. Philander, Jr., inherits his father's diplomacy, or lack of it. - Naturally a . packer would have sharp cutlery. ALL REAL REPUBLICANS AGREE. I No Sentiment Agaisst Assembly Among ' Loral Members of Party. Grants Pass Observer. There is no "kick" coming from the people regarding the holding of Repub lican assemblies, except from a few mouthy Democrats,' who are afraid that their party will lose the dishonest ad vantage It has enjoyed during the two general elections held under the pri mary law. All Republicans entitled to be called' such accept the new arrange ment favorably. They perfectly under stand that the assemblies In no .way interfere with the action of the pri mary law, and they know that the very basis of the primary law Is polit ical partljrism, and 'that It recommends the holding of party meetings or as semblies for the ' selection of primary candidates to be submitted for nom ination or otherwise to voters. All backers of the Republican party recognize that some action had to be taken to prevent the utter demoraliza tion of the party by the dishonest methods of the Democrats, In falsely registering as Republicans, and by that means Interfering harmfully with the Republican nominations, entirely con trary to the expressed purpose of the primary law Republicans know, too, that the Democrats have never con formed to the primary law They have held caucuses and named their candi dates, not for nominations, but for election. The Republicans do not pro pose to do that. They propose only to get together and select reputable candidates for nomination, and leave the rest to the Republican voters at the primary election, who may approve or condemn the assembly candidates aa they may judge best. BALUXOER-PI9TC7HOT INQUIRY, Secretary of Interior Not Represented by Efficient Counsel. Washington Letter. You may have gleaned from the A. P. dispatches that Secretary Ballinger is woefully weak before the Congressional Investigating committee, because he has not the right kind of counsel. While he has three attorneys In attendance, only one, Vertrees,' participates in the pro ceedings, and he, being a Tennesseean, and unfamiliar with public land business and the Intricacies' of this controversy, almost dally allows Pinchot and other witnesses on that side to get away with things that could be readily exploded by the right kind of a lawyer. However, Ralllnger seems to be satis fled, as he Is reviewing the evidence from the standpoint of a lawyer, whereas Pinchot, Glavis, et al. are putting forth all manner of opinions, conclusions, etc., which are not legal evidence but which, getting Into the newspapers, have a ten dency to shape public opinion, and that Is what they are after. The subject Is one we can hardly discuss without- In viting the comment that Ballinger Is be ing worsted, and that his friends are -trying to pave the way for his downfall. As a matter of fact, fully half, and perhaps more, of the testimony that Is being admitted by the joint committee would not be entertained by any court of law, but the committee in this respect, while Inclined to do the fair thing, has no control on the situation whatever. Of course, only one side has yet been presented, but the hearing is dragging out to such length that public interest is likely to wane before the Ballinger side get In their answers, and the effect, es pecially In the East, is likely to be bad. What Mr. Taft Will Be Judged On. Chicago Inter-Ocean, Rep, All signs point to a . judgment. In the stormy times or next November, that will not reckon so much with postal banks, and Injunction bills, and amendments to the Interstate commerce act, and statehood bills, as with other measures. The Taft administration will be Judged, perhaps somewhat unjustly, on the tariff act, with which nobody Is thoroughly, pleased, and which Is es pecially assailed by the "Insurgents." And the Taft administration will also be judged on the workings of the pub licity features of the corporation tax law, under which tens of thousands of small business concerns have been com pelled to lay open their most private affairs to their keenest competitors. Tens of thousands of these business men the very backbone of the Repub lican party In the past are sullen and indifferent - to the party leadership which has done them such a grievous Injury. Their resentment is not appeased by Mr. Taft's urgency of a Federal In corporation law, avowedly to get more publicity and more supervision. At best, the issues on which the Taft administration will be Judged will make the situation an anxious one for the Republican party In November. The University of Paris. London Globe. Not only is the University of Paris al most as big as that of Edinburgh, but it is Just as cosmopolitan in regard to its students. They seem to flock there as they did in the Middle Ages, not only from all parts of Europe, but today from all the divisions of the world. There are now enrolled in the "Album" 115 students from Great Britain, 107 from the United States, 306 from Egypt, 233 from Ru mania, 2S1 from Germany, 133 from Austria-Hungary, 1366 from Russia. Other countries represented are Bulgaria, Greece, Canada. Mexico, Panama. Buenos Ayres, Rio de Janeiro, China and Japan. In the case of the Turks, Hungarians and Argentinians, these are sent by their own Governments. It is not only Paris, we are told, that is so favored. Some of the provincial seats of learning have a good percentage of foreign students. Twenty years ago Paris had on her books only 467 students, compared with 3000 today. Roosevelt's Oriental Word "Safari." An Orientalist, In Fourth Estate. Although I am well acquainted with Oriental languages, I can at this mo ment think of only two Oriental words which have been incorporated into our English lexicons. The Crusaders brought with them the "Abablc "stable" and the trial of Warren Hastings In troduced "loot." Our ex-President has given usr the word "safari" for a march or Journey. In his letter of sympathy to the widow of the late John A. Johnson, of St. Paul, he uses the heading "On Safari," which is a Persian or Hindustani phrase signifying on a journey or on the march. Getting; Along. Lakevlew Examiner. R. B. Jackson has sold to A. A. Davis, Klamath Marsh, about $33,000 worth of cattle, to be delivered at Williams River, April 15. He also retains about 600 head of yearlings from his herd. The exact price paid per head for these catle is not known, but Is considerably In advance of anything sold before in the pountry. Mr. Jackson embarked In the cattle business about eight years ago In Northern Lake County. At that time he was a school teacher, having a capital of $40 In money, a hard hat and a pair of red socks. This develop ment In so short a time again shows the resources of Lake County. MARRIED ME LACK SEXTIMEMT! Newspaper Tbesls That Disproves a Contrary Popular Notion. Chicago Inter Ocean. Are married men wanting In senti ment? Have curl papers, negligee wrappers and- the other dlsilluslonments of mar ried life driven the old youthful senti mental regard for women out of their soulsT Miss Estelle Stout is 'on trial In the Chicago Criminal Court on a charge of muder. Her lawyers have made an effort to obtain a Jury of unmarried men. They have sought to bar mar ried men on ths ground that married men are devoid of sentiment. Miss Stout Is 18 and unusually pret ty. Her lawyers know human nature. They expect the glrllshness and beauty of the defendant to have weight with the Jury. Naturally they have tried to select the kind of Jury upon which the pathos of beauty In distress will make the strongest appeal. Are these lawyers right In their as sumption that sentiment lives only among unmarried men and that It is dead among the men upon whom matri mony has laid its burdens? It is the unmarried man, these law yers doubtless would tell you. who gallantly gives his seat to a woman In a streetcar. It is the unmarried man, they might say, who during the rush hours po litely holds back to allow women to enter the elevated train before him. It Is the unmarried man, they prob ably ' would declare, who with fine courtesy removes his hat when women are present in the elevator. It Is the unmarried man, they evi dently believe, who does visual homage to a woman on tho street and turns to look his admiration after her as she sweeps by. It is the unmarried man, they might assert, whose heart warms with sym pathy when misfortune lays Its heavy hand upon a woman. In short, according to their Idea. It would seem that it is in the unmarried man alone that the spirit still lives which led the old French courtier to leap into the lion's den to rescue his lady's glove, or which prompted Sir Walter Raleigh to spread his cloak over the puddle that his queen might pass dry-shod. But some persons would disagree with the lawyers. They would argue that It Is not the unmarried man but the married man who exhibits polite ness, courtesy, the chlvalrlc spirit In public places. It seems only fair that we should give the' married man "his day In court." Who- walks the baby up and down the floor until 3 A. M. with the ther mometer at zero while wifey sleeps? Who sticks uncomplainingly at the office desk while wifey enjoys herself at a Summer resort? Who lets himself grow shabby that wifey may have her Easter bonnet or realize that dream of a new silk dress? Who denies himself pleasures and skimps and lays by that the children may go to college? Who hides his worries behind a smiling face that adversity may not make the ones at home unhappy? Who is like a rock In a weary land when sorrows come or misfortunes gather "flockwlse?" The married man, the married man! GREET ROOSEVELT AS CONQ.UEROR All Europe Will Join In Making His visit a Great Triumph. W. E. Curtis, In Chicago Record-Herald. Never since Alexander the Great en tered Babylon, with the one exception of. Julius Caesar's return from his cam paign In Gaul, has the continent of Europe been so stirred up by the pros pect of a visitor as it Is now in ar ranging for the reception of Theodore Roosevelt. Kings' and Emperors, col lege professors and scientists, soldiers and statesmen, learned societies and legislative assemblies are preparing to give him a triumphant welcome. He has received invitations from nearly every city of prominence In the United Kingdom and the principal countries of Europe. He has been asked to lecture at universities He has been Invited to banquets and to balls. He will be the guest of tho Khedive of Egypt, the King of Greece, the King of Italy, the Emperor of Aus tria, the Emperor of Germany, the President of France, the King of Eng land and various other potentates of lesser importance, and all the ambas sadors in Washington, except Mr. Bryce and Baron Rosen, have been summoned home by thoir sovereigns to act as masters of ceremonies. The Italian ambassador. Baron May or des Planches, sails on the 24th; Bar on Hengelmuller, the Austrian ambas sador, sails on March 2; M. Jusserand, the French ambassador, sails a few days later, and their object in going Is to assist In the entertainment of Theodorus Afrlcanus, the greatest lion hunter and hippopotamus pursuer of modern times. Theodore Roose'elt is today the best known and undoubtedly the most popu lar man In the world, and his trium phal invasion of Europe has no parallel in history. No private citizen of any country has ever been offered the hon ors and the attentions he will receive, and he will bear them off as gallantly and as gracefully as any human being could do. General Grant received a great many honors, and he left a per manent Impression- upon every class of society wherever he went by his sim ple dignity, his reticence and the pres tige of his military renown, but Roose velt represents the other extreme ol American individuality, and his re ceptlon and entertainment will corre spond. Underlines and Their "Policies."' . New York World. Dem. Tho trouble with the whole conser vation fraternity appears to be that every one, from the office boy up through Glavis and Jimmy Garfield to the awful Gifford Pinchot, had "poli cies." Glavis had his policies. Garfield had his policies, and Plnchot's policies were kept in the holy of holies. Such is the force of example. These were men of My Type, and of course each had policies of his own, without much regard for law. Mr. Taft will have the sincere sympathy of the American people In his brave and thus far suc cessful effort to be a real President when so many underUngs, deputies, proxies and pretenders holding over from a lawless day are claiming to exercise his powers and prerogatives. The Doctrine and the Practice. Eugene Register. The Portland Journal Insists that the state Is being loaded with too many initiative measures for the November election. How now, Mr. Redhead, would you abridge the inalienable rights of the people whom you profess to serve so faithfully It Is all right for you to preach against the rights of Republicans to peaceably assemble and talk over matters for the good of the party, because you could not serve the Interests of Oregon Democracy and do otherwise, but you are treading on most dangerous ground when you seek to check the God-given rights of the masses to Initiate any kind of a mea sure they see fit. You are evidently going back on your own political doc trine. The New 'College Game. When other arms and other legs The game of football play; And fair co-eds and wispy segs Commingle in the fray, . There may perchance fp bleachers rise The voice of some old frat. To say with sorrow and surprise, "And so, it's come to that!" Chicago Tribune. Life'sSuniirSideJ "Lord Curzon. during the visit thl ended In his marriage to Miss Leit proved very interesting in his col proud way." The speaker, a Chicagoan, smiled ai' resumed: Cold and proud as young Georel Curzon was, he regarded the House el Lords as colder and prouder. He toi. me once that when he asked his fatht. ji nis urst speech in the House ol Lords had been difficult, the old gen tleman replied: ""Difficult!. It was like addressing sheeted tombstones by torchlight.' ' Washington Star. - There Is a lad of 10, living in a Penn sylvania town where the schoolmasters still employ the rod in order that the child may not be spoiled, who found himself liable to that form of chastise ment at the hands of his teacher. As the youngster approached tho principal, the fierce aspect of the lat ter's countenance, together with the sight of the upraised cane, quite undid him and he began to blubber. Then, innocently and doubtless with some vague, recollection of a visit to the dentist, he stammered: "Please, sir, may may I take gas:" Harper's Monthly. Of Jack Binns, the Republic's "wire less hero," the manager of a New York theatrical agency said: 1 tried my best to land him. I went as high as a thousand a week. But 1 Wfl nn iift . "Blnns said that on the boards Yief be as out of place as Hawksley'a bo: I asked him what Hawksley's hoss wt and he spun me a yarn. "He said a man by the name Hawksley went to a horsedealer ai said: " 'Look-a-here, I want to buy a bos! A. useiui. all-round, factotum kind r , hoss. You know what I mean. A hos I can ride In the Sons o' Temperancf parade. A good, quiet family hoss tin wife and babies can trust themselves to In the cart. A hoss the bov can rid. in the Spring races, and at the saml time the sorter hoss what'U plow doubl. with an ox on a pinch. A hoss. I meai ter say '"Mr. Hawksley. said the dealer, wit! a sour laugh, -ye don't want the hoss t. wait on the table, do yer " Phlladel phla Record. A co upon to his off! man lived, In front of the house and started tf i walk across the ground. It happened j that work was in progress on a nev well, of which the doctor knew nothinc until he found himself sinking Into the earth. He fell Just far enough to bp unable to get out of the hole unassist ed, and lustily yelled for help. When he was finally pulled up the ntrea man remarked to him: "I say. Doc, you had no business dow there." "No, I don't think I had," replied th doctor. , "Don't you know," continued the hired man, "you ought to leave the well alone and take care of the sick!"i Llp-plncott's. I . . 1 untry doctor was recently calle f visit a patient some way fro f ce. Driving to where the si I , he tied his horse to a t: The courtroom was crowded. A wifp. was seeking divorce on the grounds of extreme cruelty and abusive treatment. Guns, axes, rolling-pins and stinging invectives seemed to have played a prominent part In the plaintiff's mar ried life. ' The husband was on the stand under going a gruelling cross-examination. The examining attorney said: "You have testified that your wife on one occasion threw cayenne pepper In your' face. Now. sir. kindly toll us what you did on that occasion." . J Tho witness hesitated and lo j! 3 confused. Every one expected that"Vai was about to confess to some shock 5 act of cruelty. But their hones w shattered when he finally blurted c. j I sneezed.' Everybody's. ENGLISH AS IT IS PHOOl XCK.n. Perils and Uncertainties of What t Call Our Mother Tongue. New York World. Ten professional men. including pi.' slclans, lawyers, a teacher and preacher, took part in a pronouncing match In a New York hall of the Youju ' Men's Christian Association recently. Twenty-one words were written on the blackboard. The best man In the 10 pronounced 12 words right, according to accepted authority. The aver.-iK" number of errors was li. Such are tuc peiils and uncertainties of that whirl i wo ie yiettacu to can our jnoti tongue. William Henry P. Phyfe having r plied a hook of 'Seven Thousand W , Often Mispronounced," found it eas a later edition to increase the Hi-1 10,000. It Is not likely, that eve the second effort he reached the" 1 word, for decisions on disputed pron clatlons are chiefly arbitrary, and e presumptive auttiorities take little trouble to agree among themselves. Only one man in the Young Men's Christian Association ten pronounced "harass" with the accent on the first syllable. He admitted that ho was perhaps right by accident. The nint-. to-one argument of educated usage. in dicated here has not prevailed with'tiio dictionary-makers. It may catch tip yet--; There -Is the hopeful instance- o; "squalor" and "squalid." Of these two, words the latter is arbitrarily "squaw-, lid," as pronounced, while in tho former the logical "squaw-lor" has been recog-. nizod only In modern times against tho fixed "squay-lor" of earlier years. After all. the harmonizing of English pronunciations is a matter of some Im portance in comparison with the sim plifying of spelling. Growth of the Dutch Treat Habit. New York Tribune. The dinner of the Dutch Treat Club, which recently took place, was the sub- . Ject of discussion at an uptown res taurant on the evening following the dinner, and in emulation of the ex ample set by the club the four men agreed to divide the check when it was handed to them, calling the attention of the head waiter to the fact. "That's" nothing new here," said the head waiter. "One party, numbering from' four to seven, comes here regularly v once a week, has a big dinner, anc then each one pays his- share to the ' man who acts as treasurer for that evening. The Dutch habit is growing, and no one likes it better than tiia waiters, for the tips at a dinner whcia ' four or six pay are always larger than when one man foots the bills." 1 , Fresh-Air Wife Kreezes Husband. Kansas City Journal. I The other nig-ht Sergeant Weaver, ct Indianapolis, Ind., went to sleep In ; a. warm room. Outside, the thermometfr was somewhere around the zero marf;. In the morning when the sergeant awoke he was frightened. He could not speak. Neither could he open 1ns mouth, nor brush the snowy whi;e counterpane from his manly . n.oii tache. At last he divined the trutj'.. He was frozen In bed. He mumbled fi help. After copious applications of hot water the- sergeant was releasel. Weaver is bUterly Indignant with hl wife, who is a fresh-air advocate, arc; hereafter the windows in the Weaver home will remain closed. To Suppress Mysticism. ' Somorville Journal. Nobody can read the mystic verse. the magazines without thinking tha price of poets licenses ought to be creased.