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THE IKTRXIXO OREGOXIAN. THURSDAY, APRIL, 7, 1910.
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PORTLAND, THL'HSDAV, APRIL 7, 1910.
IS THE FTJ-TKENTII AMKSDMENT
AUK?
The Democrats of the state of
Maryland are much exercised in spirit
because they never have been able
to disfranchise the negroes. They
look with envious eyes upon their fel
low partymen farther south who by
"srandf a t her clauses,' fake educa
tional requirements and the like have
managed to deprive the blacks of their
votes in spite of the fifteenth amend
ment to the Federal constitution and
they groan in perpetual apnny because
they have not yet been able to follow
their example. Two successive amend
ments to the state constitution have
been submitted to the people by the
Maryland Democrats for this exalted
purpose but both hive, with almost
inconceivable perversity, been reject
ed. The feeling grows' amnng the
Democratic leaders of the state that
something out of the ordinary must
be done. The affair must be taken
out of the hands of the people in one
"way or another and naturally they
look to the lawyers to discover a
method of doing; it.
By what seems to be a direct inter
vention of Providence a great man has
arisen to meet the dir? emergency.
His name is Arthur W. Machen, Jr.
By the exercise of a legal acumen
which appears to be superhuman and
may even be divine,. Mr. Machen has
reached the conclusion that the fed
eral constitution is unconstitutional,
(saint Theresa praying for the con
version of the Pope is as nothing
compared to Mr. Machen impeaching
the constitutionality of the constitu
tion. The sublimity of his concept ap
pals one. Lest the reader should find
It too overwhelming, we hasten to
Bay that it is not the entire constitu
tion which Mr. Machen believes to be
unconstitutional, but only a part of it,
to tell the truth a very small part,
namely the fifteenth amendment. P,y
a marvelous coincidence it is just that
part which safeguards the rljrht of
the negroes to vote. With this incon
venient, and as it appears, illegitimate
fragment of the sacred document elim
inated, nothing would stand in the
way of the disfranchisement of the
blacks and the everlasting dominion
of the Democrats over the vordured
hills and grassy vales of Maryland. It
Is well, perhaps, to aid the explana
tory remark that pretty nearly all the
pegroes who are green walled by the
hills of Maryland are Republicans. It
follows naturally that they have no
(Tight to vote from the general prin
ciples of ethics.
; Mr. Machen assails the fifteenth
amendment with an astonishing pha
lanx of lawyers' arguments, all based
on the clause in the constitution which
Bays that no state shall be deprived
pf its equal representation in the Pen
Ate without its consent. The fifteenth
(Intendment, he contends, deprived
Maryland of its equal representation
In the Senate anil to that amendment
Maryland never agreed. Hence these
tears. How was the deprivation ac
complished? Perpend. A 'state," in
the meaning of the constitution, is
tieither more nor less than the people
Of . that state. W hen the fifteenth
amendment enfranchised the negroes
It added a huge new body to the
people of Maryland and thus deprived
the old electorate of part of its rep
resentation in the Senate without its
consent.
It may be proper to interpolate here
the Information that Mr. Machen is
not crazy. He is a lawyer in active
nd Mjccessful practice and his attack
n the fifteenth amendment wa.s pun
ished in the Harvard I.inv Review.
Nothing could be more nspcctn'nie. or
Store, foolish. The fifteenth aiuend
taient was added to the constitution
$n a perfectly regular way and like
911 the oilier amendments it binds the
States which i :d not agree to it as well
as those which did. I'nder any other
supposition each amendment would be
Valid only in these states which voted
tor it. A lovely condition of things
would ensue if the proposition were
admitted. It is nullification and seces
sion all over again. As the Spring
field Republican remarks. if Mr.
Machen is right, the t'lvil war might
as well never have been fought, for
its results amount to nothing at all.
Jt la hardly likely that the Supreme
Court is ready Just yet to cancel the
results of the struggle between the
North and South to gratify the Demo
crats of Maryland and please the in
genious fancy of a partisan lawyer.
MIIS1IY I.OltltY lAI'OSK.I).
J It is interesting In tho extreme to
pote that the only tangible evidence
if the presence at Washington of a
paid lobby in connection with a ship
subsidy hill discloses the subsldy-seek-rrs
as the culprits. That immense
sums have been spent by some secret
agency behind the plan hVs for years
been , apparent through the vast
amounts of costly liter;! ture circulated
in the interest of the graft. The ab
sence of any organised effort to light
the iniquitous measure by means of
a lobby, or otherwise, emboldened the
grafters to such an extent that they
have gone too far in their vilification
of those who are not in favor of
taxing the people for the benefit of a
few millionaire ship-owners.
The attack of Mr. Penten. paid put
licity agent of the subsidy forces, on
Representatives Steenerson and Kus
termftnn "was po brutal and uncalled
for that it has had the good effect
of exposing the shady methods -of
the ship-subsidy lobby and eventually
may bring to light the sources from
which the apparently mexhausiible
supply of funds is coming. Unfor
tunately for the cause of American
shipping, the present disgraceful at
tempt to influence legislation by coer
cion, threats and other unlawful meth
ods does not establish a precedent in
ship-subsidy bribery and corruption.
As far back a .'IS "2, when the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company secured its.
first subsidy, it developed in a subse
quent investigation that the directors
of the company had actually approved
an appropriation of $1,000,000 for use
in securing the passage of "a subsidy
bill.
This was nearly forty years ago.
The trusts that are most interested in
passage of the present ship-subsidy
bill are colossal affairs in comparison
with the one company which set aside
a million-dollar - "shrsh fund" forty
years ago. Whatever may be the out
come of the libel suit against Mr. Fen
ton, the attacked members of Con
gress, who have exposed the nefarious
methods of the subsidy trust, have
performed a service of- great value to
the country.
INEKADirABLE VILLAINY.
Xow, everybody knows, and every
body has known, this many and many
a year, that the attack on George H.
WUHanis, in Oregon and at Washing
ton, when he was Attorney-General,
and when President Grant named him
for Chief Justice, had its origin in
the venom and mendacity of vicious
minds. The attack on Richard A.
Rallinger Is of the same description,
but less vehement and venomous; be
cause scoundrelism now. rife as it is.
can't quite reach the heights of its
pretensions then.
These assailants and calumniators
appear at every stage in the history of
democracy. They revib 1 Washing
ton; they reviled Lincoln. They would
revile the Lord from heaven. It is
their nature; for they can fmly live
and breed in muck and ordure, after
their kind, as other coprophagi.
These creatures, of the human kind,
always disgusting to decent 'sensibili
ties in their own time, and damned in
history whenever it carries their
names to posterity, rrobab!y wlil exist
in every age nnd time. They are in
eradicable diseases of the body politic,
loathsome, yet having power of propa
gation in the villainies of human na
ture, as maggots breed in a carcass
under -warmth of the sun.
Some of these creatures in Portland,
who defamed Oregon's greatest citi
zen when he was Mayor of Portland,
and asserted that he was in league
with all possible and imaginary cor
ruption and wroyig. have recently been
professing greate-st veneration for his
character and his name. But it is not
surprising. Yet the wolves that pull
down the horse or stag have belter
morals. At least they can't be taxed
with hypocrisy.
lAI'ANSION ALWAYS HAS FOES,
Often nowadays one hears that
trade in the Orient is not worth the
statesmanship of Hay and Knox and
that expansion of American influence
in the Orient will not return the price
of the effort. This may or may not
bo true. The trend of American ex
pansion indicates that it may not bo
true. The observer can loarn from
history that it is precarious to proph
esy gloomy things about the spread
of America westward.
When Britain was "negotiating a
treaty with the United States for pos
session of that part of Washington
now comprised in the State of Wash
ington, it had proph' ts who declared
the -N'orlh Pacific Coast not worth
Britain's keeping.- On the American
side were near-sighted statesmen who
asserted the same for their nation.
Commander Gordon. brother of
Aberdeen, then War Minister of Eng
land, "would not give tho bleakest
knoll on the bleakest hill of Scot
land for all these mountains in a
heap," anil Gordon knew because he
had spent more than a year on Colum
bia River. So, too, spJd Lieutenant
William Peel, son of England's pre
mier, for the younger Peel had been
with Gordon and also knew the coun
try. In the United States the country
beyond the Rocky Mountains was de
clared in Congress unfit for any Amer
ican citizen to live in except as a
place of punishment. The land was
too far away to be of any use and talk
of connection by steam witli the Co
lumbia River was absurdity.
, But -the United States gained hold
and Britain lost. The one has been
glad ever since and t: e other has
been sorry. So that international
pother about affairs on the Pacific
Ocean and its border lands have cost
dear thus far only the nations that
thought the lands anil the ocean not
worth striving for.
WATKIIWAYS ASH Jt VI I.IWAIIS.
In the current number of the
World's Aork, James J. Hill con
cludes his interesting series of articles
on "Highways of Progress." In this
article he discusses the future of our
waterways and reiterates his former
statements that the interests of the
railroads and the. waterways are not
antagonistic. Mr. Hill advocates
establishment of a permanent com
mission to carry out a comprehen
sive plan for development of trunk
lines, first on a scale that would make
them "real carriers of commtnve" in
stead of artificially supported enter
prises of doubtful utility. He would
give this commission authority to ex
pend regular appropriations for river
and harbor work. In commenting on
failure of water transportation to hold
its own iigainst the railroad. Mr. Hill
asserts that the charges- on the water--ways
'have not been low enough to
offset the advantages of speed and
certainty of delivery by rail.
In this connection Mr. Hill presents
a plausible reason why the waterways
of Germany, so often held up as an
example of ompotirion. are 'enabled
to wrest so much business from the
itate-owned railrouds of that country.
He quotes a report made to the Chi
cago Harbor, Commission by Dr.
George C. Tunell, in which it is stated
that "the average freight rate per
ton per mile on the United Prussian
and Hessian State Railroads during
1906 was 13.41 mills, while the aver
age rate, in the United States was but
7.4 S mills. Unlike the railroads of
Kurope; those of this country compete
vigorously with the water carriers for
even the lowest kind of traffic. The
average rate on coal and coke on the
United Prussian and Hessian State
Railways in l'.'OS was 9.70 mills; on
the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway it
was but 3.27 mills."
From these figures it will be noted
that the water carriers in Germany
have a much greater leeway for cut
ting rates than American water car
riers could possibly have, with the
much lower rail rates prevailing in
this country. While Mr. hill is undoubted-
sincere in his friendly senti
ment toward the waterways of the
country, his views are at variance with
those of a great -many other railroad
men in other parts of the country.
Waterway improvement has nearly al
ways been antagonized by the rail
roads. Even along the upper and
middle Columbia River the railroads
opposed all river improvements for
many years, although their own exper
ience with steamboats between Celilo
and Lewiston had "proved that the
boats could not successfully compete
with the railroads at the rates now
in effect. '
Mr. Hill takes the position that rap
idly increasing industrial development
will soon make the traffic burden so
heavy that the railroads will be un
able to bear it unaided. This pres
sure, he insists, should be relieved by
increasing the efficiency of our rivers
and also by improving terminal facili
ties where the river carriers load and
discharge freight. The article through
out is a much stronger plea for the
waterways of the country than one
might expect from a man who has for
so long been closely identified with
the greatest competitor of the boats.
IR. ALLEN'S WINE tALfl LATIOX,
Twenty-two hundred an acre seems
at firrst glance to be a very high price
for agricultural land of any sort. The
unwary will declare in their haste
no doubt that Dr. Allen, of Massa
chusetts, made a big blunder in paying
at that -rate for his cosy Hood River
orchard, but a little piece of calcula
tion will set them- right.
It is not a very remarkable thing
for an orchard to pay a net profit of
$400 an acre. Many acres near Hood
River pay a good deal more than
that sum. Ten per cent, of $2200 is
only $220, so that the orchard which
Dr. Allen has bought may be expected
to return something like 20 per cent
on his investment. When we remem
ber that the best bonds nowadays pay
sea rcoly more than five per cent it
will be seen that he has done fairly
wcil -with his money.
The transaction will look better still
when it is taken into account that
his orchard does not depend on the
stability of any bank or the shrewd
ness of any railroad management for
its value. Bankruptcy cannot injure
it, nor high finance assail. Clearly
Dr. Allen understands a thing or two
besides .therapeutics and - anatomy.
W1IAT ONE SENATOR HAS DONE,
Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts,
has secured adoption of an amend
ment to the river and harbor bill pro
hibiting opening of the draws in
bridges across the Charles river and
Fort PoiiJ: Channel, Boston, during
rush hours. Boston is a great sea
port, ani there is an immense volume
of coastwise - and foreign shipping
moving through these draws day and
night. But Boston apparently thinks
that the rights of a few hundred thou
sand people who dwe.l in the city are
entitled to. some consideration, even
if it is necessary to divide the incon
venience of a draw- bridge between the
people and the vessel masters and
owners. Of course the inconvenience
which the shipping passing through
Portland's bridge draws would suffer
in the course of a day if the draws
were closed for a few hours, would be
inconsequential in comparison with
that of Boston, but the improvement
would be just as welcome to the de
layed and vexed Portlanders as it witl
be to the Bostonians.
Senator Bourne, of Portland, is a
member of the -commerce committee
wVioh adopted the resolution afford
ing Boston this great relief, but it is
not in evidence that he made any at
tempt to secure similar relief for
Portland. There is a possibility that
the requirements of the Golf - club,
or the mailing list of Statement No.
1 voters are taking up so muc'h of his
time that the vexatious and unneces
sary delays of 200.000 Portlanders
cannot well be considered at this time.
Xow that Senator Lodge has dem
onstrated that the Government actu
ally can do the fa'ir thing by the peo
ple, some of our closed-draw enthusi
asts might endeavor to enlist the serv
ices of the Senator from Massachu
setts. If they do not decide to appeal
direct to Senator Lodge, they might
join in the purchase of an alarm eloe'i
for Senator Bourne. . .
t Ol (.US, f(ILl)S A'D, CONSl'M PTION.
If the Is'ew York doctors are to be
believed, people suffer from colds a
great deal more than they need. A
number of them discoursed to an au
dience of mothers y pon this pertinent
subject the other day, according to the
Xew York Times, and gave them val
uable advice which ought to be known
to everybody. The best remedy for
a cold that is, for a common cold
seems to be a stream of tepid water
with a little salt in it. The water is
permitted to How into one nostril and
out at the other. . It washes away the
germs which are the real caise of the
cold anil aids the mucus membranes
to resume their normal condition.
This is a great improvement over cat
nip tea, cayenne pepper, mustard
plasters and most of the other old
time remedies for colds. It is so sim
ple, and probably so effectual, that it
is not likely to be used very widely.
People like a little mystery and some
ceremony mingled with, their merlica
ments. If a cold could be cured hy
merely sni fling at a piece of rock salt,
many would stiil prefer to treat it
with smartweed tea and a night sweat.
The pomp of a cure is to most peo
ple its greatest charm. If the pomp
is absent they have no faith in the
cure. That is one reason why doc
tors habitually shroud themselves with
regal state and imposing ceremonial.
The Xew York physicians, explain
ing the origin of colds, lay a good deal
of stress on drafts. "Keep out of
drafts," they told the assembled
mothers on the occasion which we
have mentioned, "and your nose will
never trouble you." The difficulty in
applying this precept practically is
that -we cannot keep cut of drafts.
The more one shu-is them the more
dangerous thc-y become, because when
they do strike, as they certainly will
in the end. their insidious power is re
doubled by the coddling we have given
ourselves. One of the physicians who
sjioke at the Xew York mothers'
meeting illustrates this point beauti
fully. The poor thin- confessed that
site caught cold whenever a draft
touched her feet. This is a pitiable
condition for a human being to lapse
into. That physician ought to have
been ashamed to disclose what her
system of pampering herself had led
to. A person who is normally hard
ened by xposure can sit in drafts
with perfect safety. They are a nat
ural circumstance in the world we in
habit, and they become dangerous
only when s e are improperly prepared
for them. At this meeting another
wretched being was cited who caught
cold from the draft on his wrists
whenever he put his hands In his
pockets. The consequences of exces
sive coddling could hardly be better
demonstrated.
The way -a draft acts to cause a cold
is easy to understand. It cools the
surface which it strikes and thus
drives the blood to the interior of the
body. The inrush of tlood expands
the inner lining of the cavities, opens
its pores and admits the microbes
which are forever swarming about
seeking what they may devour. Once
Inside the membranes, they begin
their work of destruction. The log
ical conclusion seems to be that as
often as we are hit by a draft we must
expect to catch cold, but reflection
discloses that this is erroneous. In
the first place, it Is not necessary to
have the insides of our bodies swarm
ing with deadly microbes. They
gather there because we breathe im
pure air. devour indigestible food and
too much of it, and commit other sins
against internal cleanliness, which is
vastly more important than mere ex
ternal baths. The latter have been
erected into a fetich by modern soci
ety, but the idol is only clay and is
bound to crumble before long. If we
used half the energy In keeping the
insides of our bodies clean which we
spend in soaping and scrubbing the
outsides, we should live longer and
more happily. Unfortunately, a dirty
skin is visible, while a foul stomach
can be concealed. Therefore our out-
( sides are diligently washed while the
stomach wallows in filth. No sin is a
sin as long as it can be kept out of
sight.. .
In the second place. It is not neces
sary that the. internal membranes
should be so extremely sensitive to in
rushes of blood as the Xew York phy
sicians seem to believe. By properly
exposing our bodies to cold air, espe
cially to pure cold air, we can accus
tom the lining surfaces to an occa
sional .surplus of blood. We- can
harden them so that they will not
open doors for the microbes to scud
through every time a draft strikes the
feet or wrists. The gospel of over
protection is as full of evil In medi
cine as in economics. People protect
themselves too much already. When
Arctic explorers are traveling over
the polar ice, exposed night and day
to the severest extremes of cold and
breathing frigid air constantly, they
never thjnk r . catching cold. But as
soon as they return to what is iron
ically called "civilization" and take to
coddling themselves, they almost in
variably begin to sneeze and snuffle.
When Indian youths are brought In
from their tepees to the close rooms
of the Government schools, the
chances seem to be about even that
they will die of tuberculosis.
The best modern teaching on the
subject of colds is to cure them by not
taking them, and the best way not to
take them is to give the body a gener
ous supply of pure air and sunlight,
with a moderate supply of simple food.
The probability is that if we wore no
clothing, had no houses but open
sheds and no food but what each per
son cooked for himself, we should
never hear of such a thing as a cold.
Whether the gain would outweigh the
loss is another rftiestion.
A summary of the condition of
Portland's Xational banks, as printed
in The Oregonian yesterday, makes
a remarkably favorable showing. A
gain of .more than 27 per cent in
deposits in 11 months, with corre
sponding prosperity reflected in the
other items in the statement,. Is in
keeping with the favorable statistics
in other branches of business in this
city. As the .outlook for the future
in every branch of business or Indus
try is much brighter than ever before
in the history of the city, we may
reasonably expect this favorable show
ing to be steadily improved through
out the year. There are so many
great industrial enterprises actually
under .way and so much new capital
coming into the country that It would
be almost impossible to check the
record upward movement that is now
in evidence not only in Portland, but
throughout Portland territory, in Ore
gon, Washingto'n and Idaho.
From a picturesque standpoint, na
ture made few mistakes in moulding
the stage settings for Portland; but
modern requirements of business
have made it necessary to "make
over'.' a considerable portion of the
territory adjacent to this city. Down
on the peninsula the Harriman forces
are driving a tunnel under the Ports
mouth hill, and a little farther down,
on the opposite side of the river, the
Hill forces are to build a tunnel
through to the Tualatin valley. The
river, as nature left it, was not exactly
suited to our demands, and the Port of
Portland is straightening It out and
deepening the water. We are also cut
ting down hills in some parts of the
city, and filling up valleys elsewhere.
This remodeling, however, can all be
accomplished without robbing the city
of its natural beauties. When the
streets are all improved and the roses
at a blooming age, Portland will be
prettier than ever, which, as it stands,
is a. strong statement.
Ex-Presidents and widows of ex
Presidents are given the franking
privilege in a bill that passed the
House yesterday. How about the wife
of an ex-President? Must she wait
until -she is a widow?
A woman mistook the moon, for the
comet and became greatly excited.
This seems incredulous to persons who
in sentimental youth have become ac
quainted with night's luminary.
Some statesmen think battleship
money would better be spent on roads.
Then when the enemy comes it will
have unobstructed and easy transit all
about.
Senator Bourne has abandoned his
absent-treatment homestead bill as
impracticable. His collection of also
ran bills is growing.
The only sovereign T. R. obeys is
the American people. Won't that
sound fine when he runs for office
again ?
- Many a tribute paid the dead was
owing before life and the means of
appreciating the tribute were taken
away.
Not all agents of sailors' unions are
wholesale murderers, but now and
then one seems to be the limit.
"Xow we see what a tough time the
beasts in the African jungles have
been, having.
Now that T. R. has shut out the
Methodists, the noise Is louder yet.
HERE'S RICH STIFF ABOUT T. R.
Relijchtf uI Comment on America's Fore
most Citizen.
Harper's Weekly.
The joke is on us. When we saw the
big headline on the front page of the
World. "HERO. ABANDONED. STARV
ING, KEPT BEACON BURNING." the
suspicion never crossed our mind that It
might be Somebody Else. But it was
a mere llghthousekeeper of the name of
Loughborough, or something like that.
Well, anyhow, there were other things
of passionate interest in another part of
.the paper about' Himself. We never feel
very confident of the accuracy of war
correspondents, but from what we read
and we read It all we Judge that he
hasn't changed much. Thank God for
that! We confess that we were troubled
by that report of whiskers sprouting. But
the minute our eyes lit upon "the follow
ing statement for publication," namely,
"I have nothing to say and will have
nothing to say," as a preface to quite a
long talk, we knew that everything was
all right. This Impression, too. was con
firmed by the further blunt and unequivo
cal declaration that anything he had said,
would, might, or should say in the future,
"can be accepted as false as soon as it
appears." That marked the condition of
the impatient as normal.
Well, sir, he got out Just in the nick
of time. Naturally he did not feel like
talking freely, but the insinuating Mn
O'Laughlin, war correspondent of the
New York Times and Chicago Tribune,
managed to worm out of him a truly
thrilling account of an adventure which
took place the day before he left that
makes one's hair stand on end. It seems
that some foolhardy elephant was about
to attack him In a jungle. With careless
mien he stepped forward, and drawing
a. painstaking bead, he plunked the hide
ous beast in the left eye. Its carcass is
said to be one of the finest specimens.
But, be that as it may, another "bull ele
phant" that is the only kind they raise
there "dashed at him. touching him
with its trunk as it passed." Mind you;
Its trunk, not Its tail, as plainly appears
from the observation taken later by Lieu-tenant-Colonei
Mearns, showing that the
desperate and despicable creature was
moving south by southeast. "The hunter
saved himself by a quick Jump behind a
tree." Another account says "up," but
we guess "behind" is right. If that
wasn't a close squeeze,' what was It?
Well, anyhow, he then began his jour
ney homeward bound, "during which he
struggled afoot through a thick Jungle
under the burning equatorial sun, 14
hours the first day, 13 the second, and 12
the third. There wasn't any fourth. He
had arrived. On the way he picked up
a white-eared kob, a shoe-horn stork, and
a dikdik. The others got nothing. They
came by train. Egypt was waiting. It
is'a way Egypt has. On the banks were
colored gentlemen clad in feathers and
colored ladles clad in smiles. There was
nothing particular to talk about, so he
passed the morning writing a few books,
finally reaching his destination at early
dusk. He entered Khartoum, according
to the war correspondent of the World,
who, by the way, is a liar, "with his
usual self-confidence," only to find the
stupid authorities wabbling about like a
lot of headless hens. "We assume," said
Slatin Pasha, "that he does not want a
public demonstration; consequently," etc.,
etc. Did one ever hear, the like? We
have no wish to stir up trouble, but
frankly we must say that we have no
patience with such persons. However,
another Pasha, appropriately named Say
ing or Said or Having Said, came out to
meet him with a bunch of Egyptians and
the unhappy incident was passed over
with the customary silence.
The first real speech made for publica
tion was delivered with emphasis on the
following day. It was a lallapaloosa.
The natives were informed that they
were blessed by British rule and ought
to be glad of it, by George! "Every
word," writes Mr. Lambert, war corre
spondent of the American, "was snapped
out with every ounce of his energy and
every syllable was emphasized with a
Jerk of the clenched fist." That made
the lazy beggars sit up and take notice.
We suspect it was the first time they
even heard a real orator. Our own Peer
less Leader was down that way once, but
his oily harangues were as zephyrs to a
cyclone compared with this burst of in
tellectual endeavor. Many experienced a
decided uplift.
Others didn't. Sheik All Youssef in par
ticular, the head of. the Constitutional
Nationalists, manifested a distinctly
querulous disposition. He did not think
his conquered people were getting a
square deal out of unqualified commenda
tion of British 'rule in the Soudan. He
'even went so far as to suggest that mix
ing up In their -politics at a critical time
was unwise and calculated to do harm.
"Another view-point, however," says the
war correspondent of the A. P., "is that
judgment should be withheld until results
show whether his speech was rash or
succeeds by its very daring." That strikes
us as the proper sentiment. It will be
ail right, we are sure. Anyway, people
who don't know their own business ought
to be told, and the sooner they learn that
the better. '
In the evening he was greeted at the
palace with a fanfare of trumpets, walked
up to the throne and sat down. The nig
gers brought in some sandwiches and
luncheon was served to the Khedive and
his guest. - Rippling conversation ensued
for an hour. The Khedive listened. He
is a most accomplished linguist and lis
tens perfectly in English. He really need
not' have done so, because, although the
fact is not generally known, our Hero
speaks Khedive fluently. We await re
ports of further doings without anxiety.
He is armed to the teeth.
Reflection off a Bachelor.
New York Press.
Most people never forget to pose except
when they are home with the family.
About the time a man has gone broke
on an automobile he has learned a little
about running one.
A man can easily get an idea he wants
to do something for the world if a good
salary goes with it-
You can tell a woman who has a na
tural complexion by the way those who
haven't hate her for it.
A girl likes to have a man give ber
flowers; but she likes a thousand times
more to have him beg for one back to
carry in his watch case.
Triable to Burn Up.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Gifford Pinehot has gone over to Eu
rope to tell Roosevelt all about It, and
Ballinger may as well get ready to have
Ice applied to his ears."
But Not Rooset-elt.
Washington Herald.
What Mr Roosevelt is going to do po
litically in the future seems to be a mat
ter of worry to a large number of peo
ple, not Including Mr. Roosevelt, how
ever. '
ONE PORTLAND MAX ABROAD.
Xew York Paper' Description of a
Notable Event. "
New York Times. April 1.
Wearing many diamonds, his fare
wreathed in smiles and his big touring
car stored in the hold, John Matthiesen.
who came to this country In 1887. sailed
yesterday on the North German Lloyd
liner George Washington with his wife
and son Edward to see his native land
from the seat of his touring car. When
he left Germany there were many
places he had never seen. Now he
satisfies a life-long ambition.
Matthiesen is the proprietor of the
Hotel Zur Rheinpfalz. in Portland, Or.
He and his family are traveling in the
second cabin. He and his wife had one
stateroom, his son another, and a third
was full of baggage. He is rotund
and of pleasing address, and in every
link of his massive watch chain that
stretched from vest pocket to vest
pocket a diamond was set.
Matthiesen had many more pieces of
jewelry, and he was told that he had
better register his I property with the
customs officials to avoid trouble over
the duty when he returns, but he did
not think this was necessary, exhibit
ing bills to show that every piece had
been purchased on this side.
When Mr. Matthiesen went to the of
fice of the line to make arrangements
for shipping his automobile the of
ficials could not find his name on the
booking list. The agent was apologiz
ing when the hotelkeeper told them
it was in the second cabin. He ex
plained that he went second cabin by
choice, because he did . not like those
who travel first class.
"I am making this voyage for pleas
ure alone, and I am going to travel In
my own way," he said. "I am not much
on style. I don't want to dress for
dinner, and I want to be in a place
where if I don't dress the others won't
criticise me. No. sir. I am going second
class and I am going in comfort.
"Out West I have my meals served
the way I want them. I don't propose
to sit down tcVeat and have a waiter
come in Juggling a bit of Frenchified
cooking, then wait 20 minutes for him
to bring another mouthful. No Installment-plan
meals for me; I want
as much as I want, and all at once.
That's my style."
Mattheisen ' beams good nature.
Speaking of his trip he said:
"Me and the wife are going to have
a great time. When I was In Germany
I never saw much of the country. If
I visited a nearby town I had to walk
there and back. Now I can afford to
go back and see things the right way.
Instead of walking we will travel in
an automobile."
New York is a much finer, place now
than when he was last here, according
to Mr. Mattheisen, but he rather de
plored that it was growing up Instead
of spreading out. Before going to- the
steamer he took his wife and son down
to West street to see one of the old
horse cars. The car. he explained, was
not the attraction, but he wanted them
to see a horse car with a stove In It.
They took a ride In one of the cars.
The Oregon man was frank in speak
ing of his money. He admitted he had
$20,000 worth of Jewelry. He said he
came here a poor young man in 1887.
went to Oregon and took up a home
stead in the Hood River section. The
property became so valuable that he
sold it for $72,000. This was his start.
He went to Portland, became a hotel
proprietor, and prospered. He modestly
declined to state-the amount of his
fortune, but admitted it , would keep
him from want.
HOW TO KILE OFF DANDELION.
Gasoline Applied as This Writer Directs
Annihilates the Pest.
PORTLAND, April 5. (To the Editor.)
It may be of interest to persons annoyed
with the dandelion (taraxacum) to know
that an application of gasoline destroys
it. The dandelion is the most per
sistent pest in lawns known on this Coast.
The plague Is everywhere. At the end of
two years in average Oregon soil the root
Is 12 to 16 inches long. Digging does not
eradicate them, as a bit of root an inch
or two long left in the ground in a short
time sends up a smiling yellow blossom,
which soon ripens its seeds, each seed
having a cotton-like covering constituting
wings, by which one plant starts a hun
dred or more all over the neighborhood.
For 12 years in this city, with crow
bar, pick and shovel, kerosene, salt and
boiling water, have I tried in vain to get
rid of the dandelion. Last Summer I
treated a few of them to a dose of gaso
line with gratifying results. But gaso
line is a bad thing to use about a lawn,
as It kills all the grass It touches. To
avoid this, I now use a three-quarter-inch
bit of gas pipe, three fet long, which
Is placed directly on the center of the
dandelion. Into the upper end of this
gas pipe is poured from the spout of a
little pitcher a teaspoonful of the fluid.
This arrangement prevents the gasoline
spreading on the grass.
In 24 hours or so, .the dandelion thus
treated, turns to a sickly purple, and the
end is near. One gallon of gasoline will
kill hundreds of plants.
C. E. CLINE.
As the Eastern Man Seen It.
New England Grocer.
We recognize without qualification
the superiority of the Western apples
with regard to size, style and general
beauty of the fruit. There Is no ques
tion about It. but when it comes to
flavor there is no apple grown west of
the Hudson River which will compare
for a moment with the New England
grown apple. Western apples are to
the New England palate flavorless and
Inclined to be "punky." The Eastern
apple-growers do not consider them
selves in competition with the Western
grown fruit for the very reason named.
For instance, no one wanting a barrel
of New England Baldwin or Northern
Spy apples would think of taking in
stead Western apples, so that there
cannot be any real competition. The
Western box apples are popular in New
England at a certain season when New
England apples for seasonable use are
scarce.
Very Practical, Indeed.
Yakima Republic.
William S. U'Ren. of Oregon City, Or.,
writes to us saying that In his state the
people have adopted "practical methods
of selecting their United States Senators."
From a Democratic standpoint they are
probably the most practical methods ever
devised, he might have added in order to
make his statement Ynore, impressive.
They have enabled the Democrats, who
are only about one-fourth of the popu
lation, to elect two United States Sena
tors, one of whom belongs to 'their own
party. .
His Middle Name Hla Fortune.
St. Paul Dispatch.
Thomas Fortune Ryan ts a candidate
for the United States Senate from Vir
ginia. We take it for granted that he
is making the campaign on the
strength of his middle name.
Learnlns From Cataloamea.
, Washington Herald.
"A fellow can pick up, some useful in
formation from these seed catalogues."
"How now?"
"I have Just discovered that succotash
isn't a regular vegetable."
What Democracy Needs.
Charleston News and Courier.
It is easy enough to discover Harmon,
but what we want to find is harmony.
Not Mr. Payne.
Springfield (Mass-) Republican.
It is a pertinent question who is the
Republican leader of the House? Name
him, if you can.
LIFE'S SUNNY SIDE
The judge stared hard at the accused
man.
"You are charged." be said, "with rob
bing a Hmburger cheese factory. Have -you
anything to say?"
"Judge." the prisoner hoarsely replied.
"I was driven to it by hunger."
The Judge shook his head portentously.
"Six months at hard labor, for the lar
ceny, and six months for the excuse." he
growled. "Call the next case." Cleve
land Plain Dealer. . .
V
One of the stories Justice Brewer was
so fond of telling was used by him to
show high regard for the law of Kansas.
Justice Brewer related that a Justice
of the peace owned a farm in Kansas
that bordered on Missouri. One day the
Justice was sitting on a fence, built di
rectly on the state line, superintending
some work his son and a farm hand were
doing. The son and his companion en
gaged In a dispute which ended in a fist
fight. The justice of the peace. Justice
Brewer would explain, watched the en
counter for a few minutes and then
shouted in a loud voice:
"Gentlemen, in the name of tho law
of the state of Kansas and by virtue of
my authority, I command you to desist."
"Just then the rail broke." continued
Justice Brewer, "and the justice of the
peace landed in Missouri. Arising to his
feet, he exclaimed:
' "Give him son; I hav lost my
jurisdiction." " Kansas City Journal.
Professor William Frear. of the Penn
sylvania State College," said Hermann
B. Winter, of Philadelphia, who Is at the
Arlington, "not so very long ago dis
cussed in Harrisburg the 83 kinds of
brkfast foods that he recently tested
for the Government.
" "Most of them were very good," said
Professor Frear. The taste test in most
cases was pleasure rather than work. To
make work out of It would be to act like
a little boy I knew in Bellefonte.
" 'This little boy's mother went the
other day to a reception, leaving the baby
in Jimmy's care. With an Injured look
Jimmy said on her return: "Mamma. 1
wish you wouldn't make me mind the
baby again. He was so bad that I had
to eat two mince pies ami half the fruit
cake to amuse him." Washington Herald.
A group of Scotch lawyers were me
convivially at an Ayrshire Inn one cold
evening last December. The conversa
tion turned upon pronunciations.
"Now, I," said one of the barristers,
"always say neether, while John, -here,
says ny.ether. What do you say. Sandy?"
The hot tipple had made Sandy doze,
and at the sudden question he aroused
and replied. "1? Oh, I say whuskey."
Lippincott's.
.
"In a certain country of Arkansas a
man named Walters was put on trial for
stealing a watch." said Frank J. Jenkins,
of Little Rock, at'the Riggs.
"The evidence had been conflicting, and
as the jury retired the judge remarked,
suavely, that if he could afford any as
sistance in the way of smoothing out
possible difficulties he should be, most
happy to do so.
"Eleven of the jurors had filed out of
the box. but the twelfth remained, and
there was on his countenance an expres
sion indicating great perplexity.
"Is there any question you would like
to ask me before you retire?" asked, his
honor, observing the juror's hesitancy. .
"The. man's face brightened. 'Yes. your ,
honor,' he replied, eagerly. 'I'd like- to j
know, your honor, whether the prisoner -,
really stole the watch." " Washington
Post.
"Doctor," said the young man with the -jingling
pockets, "I have come to thank
you for your valuable medicine."
"So it helped you, did lt?"repUed the
doctor, smiling. "I am very glad." .
The young man nodded. -
"It helped me wonderfully," he said. '
"And how many bottles did you take?"'
Inquired the medico.
"Oh, I didn't take any of it!" replied
young fur coat. "But uncle took one
bottle, and now I am his sole heir."
JAPAN'S VIEW OF IT. -And
the Method of Her AnolOfretto.
PORTLAND, Or.. April 6. (To the Ed
itor.) It Is far from fact that "Japan
pretends that Corea remains an inde
pendent nation." as The Oregonian puts
it In the editorial of April 6. Japan made
strenuous efforts for more than two
scores of years, until the Russia-Japan
war, to make Corea an Independent na
tion sufficiently strong to liberate- herself
from foreign intrigues dangerous to Ja
pan's existence. Corea did not prove
herself capable of doing this, and after
the Russia-Japan war, Japan declared to
the whole world In most explicit and def
inite terms that Corea shall be made
Japan's protectorate. This was stipu
lated in the Portsmoth treaty and was
clearly stated in official communiques
to the powers, which' subsequently led
to the treaty between Corea and Japan
of November 17, 1905. Under these cir
cumstances Japan never since pretends
that Corea is an independent nation, but
Insists that Corea is a protectorate.
This action of Japan was and remains
fully Justified on reason of necessity to
preserve Japan's national existence. The
right to preserve one's own existence, or, .
in other words, the right of self defense
under certain circumstances, holds good
equally to an individual as - well as a
nation.
Suppose, for Instance, that a neighbor's
house was set in flames on account of
the neighbor's flagrant negligence to keep
the house in order. What, in this case,
should be the right and duty of the fire
department, or in absenoe of such public
Institution, of a man living next door?
He is fully Justified In taking every
nnKslble measure or action necessary to
get the flames under control and In order
to keep his own house from conflagra
tion. There is at present no fire de
partment in the community of nations,
and every member of the family of na
tions Is Justified to perform the duty of
the fire department for himself. What
Japan did and is still doing toward Co
rea is nothing more than the man under"
the same circumstances. This Is not at
all "subterfuge" nor "diplomatic circum
locution," as The Oregonian .puts It. Nor
Japan is an aggressive nation any more
than a modest mistress.
Y. NUMANO.
Ralslna- Something Elae.
Kansas City Star. -.
The House has consented to the plan
to raise the Maine. The House Is willing
to have anything laised in preference to
what the insurgents have been raising,
i
The Musical Lawn Mower.
(A New Jersey man has Invented an attach
ment to & lawn mower, which will produce.
muKic while the sraas Is belnr cut. News
Nots.)
Denver Republican.
Oh. give back the days of the old-fashioned
clatter.
When, at the first peep of ths dawn.
Your neighbor you called him as mad as a
h&tter
"Went mowing- his long-whiskered lawn;
For now he's "improved" It with themes op
eratic That complicate matters anew.
And the 4e,nKuae you hurl Is both loud and
emphatic . '
As tho tunes of the mowing 'reach you.
Ke begin with a scens from some standby
from "Verdi, ,
Which drowns out the click of tho blades.
And h ttfrns on a bit from old "Carmen." so
sturdy.
When he trims off the terrace's grades;
And you .toss on your bed and your, curs at
Puoclni.
And you wish to see quartered and drawn
Ths neighbor of your s, who so low-down and j
mean ho
Makes music while mowing the lawn.