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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.