to
THE ZUORXIXG OREGONIAN, FRTDAT, APRIL. 8, 1910.
FOBTLASO, OREGON.
Entered at Portland. Oregon. Postofflce as
5econd-CIns Matter.
Subscription Rates Invariably tn Adrance.
(BT MAIL.)
Dally. Sunday Included, on year 8.00
Oaily. Sunday Included. six months... 4.25
Dully. Sunday included, three months.. 2.25
Daily, Sunday Included, one month.... -'5
Dally, without Sunday, one year..... 8.00
Daily, without Sunday, six months.... 3-25
Daily, without Sunday, three months l.3
Dally, without Sunday, one month. . -60
SV r-k y. one year l-oO
Sunday, one, year 2.50
Sunday and weekly, on year 3-60
Bjr Carrier.)
Dally. Sunday Included, one year..... 9.00
Dally. Sunday Included, one month. .73
How to Remit Send Postofflce money
order, express order or personal check on
your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency
are at the sender's risk. Give postofflce ad
dress In full, including; county and state.
Postare Rate lO to 14 pases. 1 cent; 16
to 28 paKes. 2 cents: 30 to 40 paees. 3 cents;
40 to 60 pases. 4 cents. Foreign postaes
double rate.
Rastero Baslneos Office The S. C. Heck
wlth Special Asency New York, rooms 48
50 Tribune bulldlns- Chicago, rooms 510-312
Tribune bulldins
PORTLAND. FRIDAY. APRIL. S. 1810.
THE GROWTH OF VAMTES.
Criticism is offered but only from
shallow critics because the school
district (Portland) pays $115,000 for
an unimproved block in Portland, n
which to erect a high school building.
Once this would have been deemed
an impossible price, but it is not
deemed excessive now. The objection,
however, is not so much against the
price at this time as against the "in
crement" in the hands of the long
time owner. The property cost him
but little many years ago. None
wanted it then. Now he sells at a
high valuation, yet not higher than
other property in general.
Then the objection must lie against
Increase of values in Portland that
Is, against the growth and progress
of the city. For Jacob Kamm is not
the only one who has had the benefit
of the rise in values. The benefit has
been general. Everybody has, shared
It. Investors are now buying, in the
hope and belief that their property
will increase In value two-fold or ten
fold, within a few years. Thousands
of owners in Portland, tens of thou
pands throughout Oregon, are holding
on, with similar expectations.
Now and then some shallow person
or common fool rises to remark that
this is all wrong and that the growth
of values, due to the foresight, effort,
steadiness and faith of former or sue.
oessive owners, should be confiscated
by the state for the benefit of those
who have had none of these qualities,
or were too indolent to exert them.
But there will be no serious effort to
invert the pyramid of human society
and make it stand on its apex.
Jacob Kamm is pointed at as a man
who has done nothing, sat still, and
got rich. He is now an old man, still
doing business but not very actively.
He came to Oregon sixty years ago
and exerted himself during all his
early and middle manhood to push
business. He gained a moderate for
tune, the foundation of which was
laid in industry, in self-privation and
In faith in the future of Portland and
of Oregon. Men not enterprising
themselves say he has not been enter
prising. Men of less force and ten
acity complete failures themselves
have complained about his force and
tenacity. He acquired property many
years ago, when others had no faith
in this city; and now these others
some of them complain that his
property has grown in value; He be
gan as a steamboat engineer, and put
some portion of the money he made
and saved into property and staid by
it. His fault is that he hasn't done
as much as critics, who themselves
have done nothing, say he ought to
have done. But he never has ceased
to pursue his steady business that of
a steamboat man; and though ad
vanced in years he still pursues it.
The man who has accomplished noth
ing can always tell about the delin
quencies of the successful man.
But the point here to be made is
that it is right that property should
grow in the hands of the owner; and
necessary, too, or there can be no
growth at all. But the Socialist
needn't bend his eye merely on growth
of values In the city. He may let his
outraged feelings find relief in. excla
mation against the great prices that
agricultural and fruit lands through
out the Northwest are now command
ing. He might ''get in" yet on any
of these things, but he prefers to
spend his effort In envious howls
against the prosperity that has come
to others through their industry, in
telligence and foresight. The tale of
John Matthisen, of Hood River and
Portland, who has now gone on a visit
to Germany, told yesterday In an arti
cle reprinted by The Oregonlan from
the New York Times, tells something
that one and another who think the
efforts of society not their own ef
forts ought to carry them, would do
well to ponder. Only they won't do it. It
suits them better to tulk about "the
unearned increment," which their kind
always lack the energy and foresight
to share. But if they think they are
going to take away from others the
increase of values that comes to their
property, they will find how many
more and great a multitude besides
the rich they will encounter. That
policy would knock the real estate
business in Portland, and all values,
on the head, in a day. But silliness
Is the natural element of some people;
and that is a reason why they never
got on.
VNVKCENSARY WORRY.
The Astorian (newspaper) continues
in a most distressing frame of mind
over failure of the Port of Portland
tug and pilot service to pay big div
idends. Our lugubrious friend accuses
The Oregonlan of "sheer avoidance of
the real practical details that tell the
story of success and failure as people
understand it; the use of figures that
deal with wheat rather than the Port's
figures of cost and revenue," etc., etc.
The Astorian had asserted that the
business of the Columbia River had
been driven to Puget Sound by the
bad management of the Port of Port
land. The Oregonlan presented Gov
ernment figures which showed that
the Astorian, as usual, had been guilty
of a mistake. The tug and pilot ser
vice on the river and bar was taken
over by the Port of Portland for the
reason that this city took up
the work of improving the channel
in the river, and on the Columbia bar.
No one looked for a profit from the
operations of the dredges and no
profit was expected from the tug and
pilot service. It was undertaken
solely and exclusively for the purpose
of making the Columbia River an at
' tractive port for ships. It has suc
ceeded in this respect beyond expect
ations, for not only has the Port of
Portland tug and pilot service been
the best we have ever had. but' "inde
pendent" pilots (they were too inde
pendent under the 'old regime) have
displayed such marvelous activity
that they now pay their own expenses
to ports hundreds of miles away for
the purpose of securing the work of
piloting vessels over the bar.
These are the conditions which
make a good service and Portland will
see that they are maintained: it is per
fectly willing to foot the bills. Until
our down-river friends are asked to
contribute to the "loss" that is caus
ing them such poignant grief, they
might permit us to worry along with
our own burdens.
TYPE OF A CLASS.
Because The Oregonian has at times
to deal with insects that breed in fes
tering dungheaps and vile waters, and
to deal moreover with the causes that
produce them, it now offers a remark
on a petty journal at Albany. There
is no law to forbid you to stick a
pin through a bed bug; no law to pre
vent you from "flappling," as Pope
says, "this bug with gilded wings, this
painted child of dirt that stinks and
stings." You strike at the gnat or the
mosquito.
This little essay is merely a "flap."
No elaboration here is necessary. The
phrase is "shoo fly."
One of the buzzing insects about
the ears of The Oregonian is the man
who "runs" the paper which he calls
the Albany Democrat. The Oregonian
is fully aware that this shallowest of
all inanities will deem it the highest
hbnor he could possibly receive to ob
tain this notice and get this kick. He
gets it, finally, because he insists day
by day that, since and because The
Oregonian has a conception of Deity
different from and higher than that
which himself is able to reach, and
an idea of the divine element In man
that doesn't stoop to his own. The
Oregonian therefore is "an organ of
infidelity." Also, that since and be
cause The Oregonian does not accept
as final truth the gibberish of the
shysters and upstarts who would re
ject all experience in the principles
that underlie human government, it
therefore is "an opponent of every
thing that would tend to uplift of the
people." Also since and because The
Oregonian is not a believer in the fu
tilities of attempted prohibition, nor
in any theory that would cut off free
dom and responsibility of human ac
tion, therefore it is "an organ of the
dram-shop."
Not very many" persons are there
who narrow their- minds to these no
tions; yet there are some here and
there and then some more. The Al
bany Democrat is given the honor of
mention, only because it seems to be
the best organ of the inspissated bile
and stupidity of all of them. ,
But let nobody look to that paper
because, from this notice, he might in
fer it had any kind of originality or
brightness. It is a type only a type
compounded of Pharisaism, of ignor
ance, of malice and of stupidity. This
review is for others of its class, as
well as for itself. Yet these are "good
people," no doubt if they could but
burst their bonds!
WHERE "CONSEKVATIOS" HURTS.
From across the water as well as
from across the border men and fami
lies are pushing toward the "fat" lands
of Canada. Sailings from British to
Canadian ports for the first three
months of the current year are equal
to those of the same period for two
preceding years, while the stream
across the American line has doubled
in volume. during the same period.
It is not that Canadian lands are
better than those, upon the American
side, but there the only restriction
placed upon development is to come
over, live upon and develop the lands,
while upon the American side the ur
gent needs of the present are subject
ed to the possible needs of the future.
WHERE WAS THE CORX?
Pork has dropped $1 a barrel in
Chicago, due, it is said, to the' plentiful
supply of corn. Where has this corn
been, while the hold-up price of pork
was maintained? The sudden discov
ery of a full supply of corn in April, a
month before planting time, and six
months before the new crop comes in,
is indicative of the methods employed
to raise the price of American food
products.
Of course the supply of corn a
month ago, when pork was steadily
advancing because of the scarcity of
corn, was in excess of the present sup
ply by a month's feeding. It is grati
fying to reflect that many consumers
called the bluff of the producers and
manipulators, and either cut pork
from their dally bill of fare or reduced
the consumption of this food product
to the minimum. It is possible that
this action caused the sudden discov
ery that corn was in plentiful supply
and resulted in the drop in the price
of pork.
OREGON TRUNK EXTENSION.
Bids have been called for the grad
ing of the Oregon Trunk Line from
Madras to the northern line of the
Klamath Indian reservation, and it is
expected that the work will be under
way by May 1. This announcement
is a confirmation of the report printed
several weeks ago, though at the time,
it was denied by officials of the road.
Anyone familiar with the topography
of the country traversed by the Ore
gon Trunk on which work is already
in progress would hardly doubt for a
moment that the line was to be pushed
south after emerging from the Des
chutes canyon and reaching the bor
ders of the great Central Oregon em
pire. The most expensive part of the
line will be completed by the time
the southern end of the canyon is
reached. It would be strange, indeed,
if the road were not continued far
enough south to equalize the heavy
cost of construction and at the same
time supply the road with traffic
which could not be reached with a
terminus at Madras.
There are many reasons why Port
land would like to see the state line
the southern terminus of the road. It
would then draw-jill of the traffic to
this city. But there is no good rea
son for believing that the -Klamath
country will be any more of a term
inus for the Oregon Trunk than there
was for believing that Madras was
the final objective point. There are
so many excellent reasons why the
Hill line should push on to California
and so few reasons why it should
terminate in Oregon that it may be
regarded as a certainty that the road
will be pushed through to San Fran
cisco at the earliest possible day. Long
before the line reaches the California
metropolis, however, it will have
opened up a wide area of new trade
territory which will be tributary ex
clusively to Portland.
It will tap vast tracts of fine tim
ber and will build up new cities and
towns, "alf of which to greater or lesser
degree will pay tribute to Portland.
The Harriman lines, which are also
pushing southward with surveys look
ing to more favorable routes, will also
aid in this new deve!oprer.
years of waiting, one of the richest
portions of the state is at
ceive transportation facilities, the lack
of which alone prevented growth
equal to that in other parts of the
state.
AS TO PUBLIC DOCKS.
The city can't buy any dock, ade
quate for public use, for $500,000, nor
any site for such dock for that money;
for which reason, chiefly, as we sup
pose, the Mayor has not sold the
bonds and started augmentation of
the interest account.
It will take a great deal of money
to enter this business. In an effective
way, and a great deal of money to
carry it on afterward. The undertak
ing will be an ever-increasing charge
to the city.
If the city is to go into this business
it must make up its mind to put five
millions of dollars into it. Then the
charge of maintenance will be exces
sive, as the charge of carrying on
every public work is.
If the Mayor supposed he could do
anything with so small a sum as
$500,000 probably he would try. But
it does not appear to The Oregonian
a .reasonable proposition, still less a
practicable one. Though we have not
had a word with him on the subject,
possibly he views It in the same light.
The vote of bonds to the amount of
$500,000 for such a purpose cannot be
deemed, Jt seems to us, to have been
well considered. Even if the Mayor
should sell the bonds, the money, we
believe, would better lie in the treas
ury than to be paid out upon a scheme
without a plan. Besides, caution is
necessary In the matter of increasing
the bonded debt of the city and cre
ating an additional troop of public em
ployes. Public docks here will always
be a charge upon the taxpayers of the
city, far beyond any receipts or bene
fits. The Oregonian would have no
bonds sold further, nor in the near fu
ture, for any project beyond such as
have already been undertaken. The
city is loaded up heavily enough now,
and many overlook the fact that it
isn't so easy to pay debts as to incur
them. They indeed disregard it en
tirely, when the public has to pay the
debt. Possibly they think there is
some magic in this kind of business
which makes it cost nobody anything.
The importunity that urges the sale
of these bonds springs chiefly from
the urgency of the subject by those
who have sites to sell, for which they
expect great prices from the city
greater far than they could obtain
from private buyers. The number of
such, we are told, is anywhere from
a dozen to twenty; but just so soon
as the selection were made all the
unsuccessful ones would turn at once
against the project and condemn it,
and moreover would condemn the ad
ministration for the action it had
taken.
These views are The Oregonian's
own. It has no knowledge whether
they correspond with those of the
Mayor or not. Portland is not suffer
ing from want of public docks; and
the city should not, at this time, in
view of the present extent of its debt
and difficulties of administration, load
itself up with any line of business
that private individuals can carry on
as well or better.
REV. C. C. 8TR4.TTON.
An impressive funeral service mark
ing the close of a long and useful life
was that conducted at Taylor-Street
Church Wednesday in memory of Rev.
Charles Carroll Stratton. The services
were simultaneous iwlth the obsequies
of Judge Williams at Trinity Church,
and the burial, as was that of Judge
Williams, was in Rlverview Cemetery.
Seldom indeed does the state take to
her peaceful bosom at the same hour
the bodies of two of her most useful
and prominent sons. The story of
Judge Williams' life has been written
in reminiscence and eulogy. Affection,
veneration and admiration wailed be
side his bier and followed him in rev
erent silence to the place of his final
repose.
The ministrations of Rev. C. C.
Stratton and his energetic part as an
educator on the Pacific Coast were
recalled by hundreds who knew him
in his generous prime. With touching
eulogy upon his long and earnest en
deavor and its results, as written upon
the minds of the men and women of a
primitive commonwealth, his body
was committed to the loving bosom of
our common mother.
It is perhaps not too much to say
that no man in his profession, that of
Christian minister and educator, was
better or more favorably known in
this state forty-five years ago than
was Rev. C. C. Stratton. Enthusiastic
without being tiresome; earnest with
out being dogmatic; scholarly yet not
pedantic, he went his cheerful, help
ful way among men now in the itin
erancy of his church and again occu
pying a position in one of its higher
educational Institutions. Sympathy
added its tender touch to the later
months of his life, which were clouded
by an affliction that softened grief at
his passing. For the rest, it is written
in the records of the Oregon Confer
ences of the Methodist Episcopal
Church covering the long period of his
activities. Few who knew and
worked with Mr. Stratton in his early
manhood survive him, but of those
who knew and honored him in the
prime of his endeavor many yet re
main to bear witness to his persuasive
eloquence as a preacher and his help
fulness as a teacher.
DR. BLACK ON SIN.
There is something interesting in
the Rev. Hugh Black's determination
to believe that what he calls "sin" is
a real entity. In his lecture at the
First Presbyterian Church Wednesday
night he rolled the concept of sin as
a sweet morsel under his tongue. The
Bible, he said, was as much the book
of man's sin as of God, while "Shakes
peare's tragedies are all studies in
judgment, and sin is the obverse side
of a view of God."
This is admirable fooling, but it is
hardly anything better than fooling.
The tragedy of Lear has nothing to do
with anybody's sin except very inci
dentally. On the contrary, the root
of the tragedy lies in Lear's extraor
dinary goodness of heart. The strug
gle is between the nature of things
and the deep generosity of man. In
fact, there are few great tragedies j
which are' based principally upon any
body's sin, though many depend upon
mistakes. It would be difficult to say
that Oedipus sinned. He fulfilled the
oracular curse, but not intentionally.
The essence of sin lies in the intention
of the act, not in the act itself, grant
ing that there is anything which really
corresponds to the theological concept
of sin..
From what Mr. Black had to say
about Christian Science one may guess
that his knowledge of it, like Dog
berry's reading and writing, comes by
nature. The denial of the reality of
evil which Christian Science makes is
not by any means "shallow optimism,"
as Mr. Black calls it, but profound
philosophical insight. It holds that
evil is not inherent in the nature of
things, but is introduced incidentally
.to the processes of life. Life in its
striving toward the ends it cherishes
has not yet succeeded in perfecting
harmony. There are blunders and
clashes in its plans which must be
worked out slowly and gradually rem
edied. These are the "errors of mor
tal mind" which Christian Science
speaks of. To say that they are "the
obverse side of God" is to misinterpret
the phenomena of life grossly. They
are more like the chips falling from
the tools he uses.
"The ingratitude of republics," of
which we have all heard, can hardly
be worse than the ingratitude of some
communities. That, at least,, must be
the way A. W. Doland, of Spokane, re
gards it. For more years than most
of the Spokane citizens can remember
Mr. Doland has been the most ener
getic and effective champion of lower
freight rates for Spokane. In season
and out of season he has fought the
railroads and the Coast jobbing cities
in an effort to secure lower rates. In
all of his contests, however, Mr. Do
land has fought the uphill fight with
out resorting to any such crazy scheme
for forcing terminal rates as is now
being attempted by a certain element
in. Spokane. Now, with the town torn
asunder on the question, we find the
chairman of the "people's terminal
rate committee" accusing Mr. Doland,
chairman of the .' "citizens' railroad
committee," of being protected by the
railroads, and opposing the franchise
hold-up from mercenary motives. In
view of Mr. Doland's long years of
service in securing rates for Spokane
to which it was never entitled, the ac
tion of the people's committee certain
ly bears more than a tinge of ingrat
itude. Today the Government issues an
other of its justly celebrated market
disturbing crop reports. The one duo
today will not deal in quantities, but
will tell us in percentages about how
the conditions at the present time
compare with those for the corre
sponding period last year. If one-half
of the private "dope" that has been
supplied the public by the grain-pit
men in the past month can be accept
ed as reliable, the report due today
should be a very bullish affair. Bains
which have caused such a severe
break in prices have all fallen since
the data on which the report was
based were collected. Unfortunately,
the Government crop reports as a rule
are so thoroughly unreliable that they
throw but little real light on actual
conditions. What effect they have on
the market is largely governed by the
varied interpretations that are placed
on them by the men who buy and sell
grain as a means of livelihood.
Numerous Portlanders who have
had occasion to visit Seattle in the
past few days report great activity
among the census takers and assist
ant census takers in the Puget Sound
metropolis. The Seattle Chamber of
Commerce has employed a large num
ber of assistants to the" resgular census
takers, and every man leaving the city
is invited to aid in swelling the census.
"You have lived here some tjme dur
ing the year, haven't you?" was the
inquiry made when a Portland man
declined to sign because he did not re
side in Seattle. By securing a suffi
cient number of names of those who
have lived in Seattle for a few weeks
or a few days, or over night, but little
difficulty will be experienced in bring
ing the figures up to large proportions.
Who can say that Theodore Roose
velt is not the foremost man of
all this world? He has established
harmony between the Vatican and the
Methodist Mission at Rome. It Is a
corcordat that will take its place in
history. This effected. Colonel Roose
velt sets out at once for other parts
of Europe to settle difficulties between
the nations. It's no joke either; for
didn't he stop the war between Rus
sia and Japan?
Senator Bourne says that the reason
he has done nothing for Portland in
the bridge draw and other matters is
that the local commercial bodies
didn't tell him what to do. Joke, no
doubt. Meanwhile, the humor of the
situation does not particularly appeal
to the thousands who are daily held
up on the bridges.
Baker City has just voted against
the issue of $200,000 in bonds to re
build its pipeline. Baker City is
among the most progressive munici
palities in Eastern Oregon, and when
it votes 6 to 1 against a proposition of
this kind the reason is evident. It
wants something better.
There may be something in the idea
of hydrogen in the comet's tail to pre
cipitate all this untimely moisture.
If Noah had not been so mighty par
ticular about his passenger list there
would, no doubt, have been some sci
entific records on the subject.
The election of Dr. Kime as Mayor
of the bustling young City of Cottage
Grove last Monday assures a business
administration to the metropolis of
Nesmith County.
Opponents of tariff are industrious
ly showing the difference in cost of
li'ing in this country and Canada, but
very few of them emigrate and make
the saving.
Mr. Bryan raced homeward 11.000
miles hoping to greet Bryan III, but
the stork got mixed in the delivery.
Grandad is still the Great Disap
pointed. The Solomon Islanders who eat the
widows of chieftains find an easy so
lution of a domestic problem.
The orchardist would better have
his oil pots ready when the rain is
cer.
Autos must keep off the track today
at Salem.,
WHAT A H KARIG-HOl SE IS FOR
Its Relation to Banks la Facilitating;
Barinnsi It Power In EmrrxveelM.
OAK GROVE, Or.. April 5. (To the
Editor.) Will you please inform thou
sands of your subscribers the meaning
of a clearing-house, its duties and for
what reason clearing-houses exist?
W. C E.
Briefly stated, a clearing-house is a
place for banks to "swap checks." All
banks, for convenience of customers, cash
checks and drafts that are drawn on
other banks. If there were only two
1 banks in a town, a messenger going from
one to the other could get the cash with
I out loss of time. But how much time
would be wasted in a city that had 15
or 20 or 50 banks? To avoid this there
i is a place where clerks from each bank
j meet at a. certain hour each day. bring
j ing with them all the checks and drafts,
called exchanges. This place is the clearing-house.
The exchanges are distributed
among the clerks of the banks that must
pay them. Each bank in turn receives
from all the other banks the exchanges
drawn on it and which it must pay. Each
bank will have a balance every day,
small or large, either against it or in its
favor. If it is a debtor bank it will send
to the clearing-house before the closing
hour its balance in cash. If it is a credi
tor bank it will receive at the clearing
house through its messenger the balance
due it.
The volume of business as shown . by
the clearing-house fairly measures trade
conditions in a city. Therefore, bank
clearings from all cities ih the United
States are telegraphed every Friday even
ing and published Saturday morning.
They show the percentage, of increase or
decrease as compared with the corre
sponding week one year ago.
In a much broader sense the clearing
house is an association of banks. That
is to say, the clearing-house is the agency
by which all the banks may act in unison
on any important question. For example,
some bank is in difficulty owing to a
run, and asks aid of other banks to help
it out. This matter would come before
the clearing-house, and if it were decided
to aid the bank with ready cash, each
member of the clearing-house would join
in the loan. The proportionate share of
each bank would be based on its share
of the clearing-house business, or upon
its capital stock and surplus.
One of the most important acts ever
done by a clearing-house association was
by the New York clearing-house, which,
in the panic of 1SS3, issued certificates
to the amount of many millions. These
certificates took ' the place of currency
and were accepted by all the banks in
place of cash. Similarly, in the panic of
1907, clearing-house certificates were is
sued in nearly every city in the United
States. Each bank placed in the hands
of the clearing-house commi:.-tee certain
approved securities. Based on the value
of these securities the clearing-house as
sociation Issued certificates which were
accepted and used as cash. They actually
created a temporary circulating medium
to take the place of gold and paper money
which had been "tied up;" the currency
was actually as good as gold, as the
result proved. .
HOW MARI.RS GET BEARINGS.
Latitude and Longltinle Found by Sun,
Moon and Stars.
OTIS, Or.. April 5. (To the Editor.)
Can the navigator at sea determine
his latitude and longitude at any hour
of the day, or must he wait for the sun
to. stand on the meridian? If the latter,
how does he know "where he is at" at
other times? Please answer as fully as
your time and inclination will permit.
A. N. L.
Latitude may be found by equal alti
tudes, ex-meridian altitudes, meridian
altitude of the sun, meridian altitude
of a fixed star, or the moon. Longitude
may be found by equal altitudes, sun
set and sunrise or by a star. In fact, a
ship's position can be determined by
nearly any fixed planet at any time.
The most common method employed
is to take an observation at 9 A. M.
for longitude and a sight at noon (me
ridian altitude) for latitude. In case f
heavy weather and overcast skies the
position is noted by dead reckoning.
The course on which the craft is sail
ing is noted by compass and the dis
tance sailed by log gives the position
from the last observation. "Patent logs
have been brought to such a high state
of perfection that on a recent voyage
of a steamship from Yokohama to the
Columbia River, a differential of less
than 50 miles was noted.
Pointed Paraa-raphs.
Chicago News.
Even baseball fans can't keen the
flies off.
The lucky man at a wedding may be
one who loved and lost.
Even a man who has time to love
his enemies seldom does it.
It is sometimes easier to give In
than to keep up the argument.
It's easy for a man to get married
if he looks good to a. young widow.
The wise farmer makes hay while
hogs are selling, at $11 a hun
dredweight. - If a man has money to burn the rest
of us try to make light of his fortune.
One kind of curiosity i3 a small
boy with two grandmothers who isn't
spoiled.
And some men spend so much time
hustling that they haven't time to ac
complish anything.
The wise man makes tracks toward
the cellar when the barometer indicates
a brainstorm.
Beauty.
Judge.
There are many kinds of beauty, and
many beauties who are unkind.
Some are born beautiful, some
achieve beauty by home treatment, and
some have beauty thrust upon them in
a beauty parlor.
A born beauty can often evade a
duty, but manufactured beauties pay a
heavy tariff. -
Beauty is only skin deepi medium
height and very small in circumference
Beauty Is the cheese with which a
woman baits her matrimonial trap.
Beauty Is supposed to be a matter of
taste, but with some it is a . lack of
taste.
Beauty may be an accident, but no
one has ever taken out Insurance
against it.
Be good if you would be respected;
be good looking if you would be loved.
Beauty unadorned must be A No. 1.
Rose by another name might still be
an American Beauty.
The Great Question.
Springfield Republican.
The season for the Roosevelt speeches
has opened, and the promise of limit
less performances in this line stretches
ahead. What will the harvest be?
Making; Him Useful.
Pittsburg Post-
"Asked your Congressman for any
free seeds?"
"Saw; but I've written him to find
me two or three good Summer boarders,"
JUDGE WILLIAMS' WITTY ANSWERS
Hon- He Replied to Personal Attack. In
the Campaisn of 1SSO.
PORTLAND, April 7. (To the Editor.)
The Oregonian's reference to the cam
paign of calumny that was waged against
the late Judge Williams during his pub
lic life at Washington recalls to the
writer an incident which occurred during
the Presidential contest in 1SS0. He took
an active part in "stumping" Oregon and
just preceding the election made a. speech
in Salem in the old Reed Opera-house,
where standing-room was in great de
mand. For two months his "ancient
enemy" had been very active in counter
acting as best he could the influence of
the Judge's forensic efforts and. inciden-'
tally, the old Washington stories were
revamped and found wide circulation in
the opposition press. In all his speeches
throughout the state he entirely ignored
the attacks upon himself, since -he was
not a candidate for any position until
he arrived in Salem. There, before an
immense throng, and at the close of his
great effort for the election of Garfield
to the Presidency he said In substance as
follows:
"During this campaign, although a pri
vate citizen simply making use of a
privilege which belongs to every Ameri
can citizen, I have been made the target
for a lot of personal abuse which Bhould
have no place in a National contest that
is engaging the attention of the people
on questions of vital and far-reaching
consequences. Thus far. I have made no
mention of this phase of the campaign in
this state, but since arriving in 6alem
many of my old friends have asked me if
the circumstance has not greatly annoyed
me. To these inquiries I want to say
that in a certain way these resurrected
stories of a decade ago, always false and
vicious, have annoyed me greatly, that
is, in the same sense in which a. clerk
of a San Francisco hotel was annoyed by
an inquisitive customer who had just
written his name on the register and
seemed dominated by an inordinate desire
to engage in conversation. The clerk was
busy but his short answers had no effect
upon the loquacity of the traveler. After
catching his breath for a fresh attack
the latter said to the clerk:
" 'I see you have a lot of dust in San
Francisco.'
" 'Yes,' replied the clerk.
" 'Does the dust here annoy you very
much?' inquired the former.
" 'Very much,' said the clerk.
" 'Are youtroubled with weak lungs?'
" 'No, replied the hotel man.
" 'Must have throat trouble,' suggested
the other.
" 'No, there's nothing at all the matter
with my throat.'
" 'And your eyes look strong,' ventured
the inquirer, 'but they must have some
hidden trouble which great quantities of
dust aggravate.'
" 'My eyes are as sound as a dollar,'
replied the clerk.
" 'Well.' inquired the persistent travel,
er, if your eyes are sound, your throat
in good condition and your lungs A-l, '
how in the name of sense does the dust
in San Francisco especially annoy you?'
" 'Why,' said the clerk, finally loosening
up. "you see it is this way. I have been
here in this business for the last five
years and I am sure that on an average
of at least 25 times every day some d d
fool steps up to the counter and says,
"I see you have a lot of oust in San
Francisco." "
Our best National campaigners are usu
ally noted for their ability to tell a good
story at the proper time in the delivery
of a speech by way of illustration, but It
is seldom a better one is more aptly
applied than this one by Judge Williams
in one of tlie most effective addresses he
ever delivered. T. T. GEJSR.
"Watch Pinebot Clubs."
Boston Advertiser.
While it is well understood that Mr.
Pinchot, ex-Forester of the United
States, is not waiting to get what is
coming to him in Europe, his cause
has not been left wholly abandoned in
this country In his .absence. Word
comes from Chicago that one J. J.
Tobias, chancellor of the Chicago law
school, is working to establish "Watch
Pinchot Grow Clubs." The Pinchot
boom for the Presidency, in the opinion
of the trusty Tobias, is- destined to
advance by leaps and bounds. With the
Pinchot press bureau at Washington
working overtime, with trusty Tobias
emitting strange noises at Chicago and
running around in a circle, attention
may even be distracted from the un
fortunate tragedy in Europe, where the
unhappy forester is at last to meet
the restraint which he has so impa
tiently refused to undergo from any
other source. After that scene, the
chances are that the press bureau will
be disbanded, Tobias will be disowned
and the Pinchot boom for the' Presi
dency will be laid away in lavender.
Increased Railroad Efficiency.
New York Evening Post.
In ten years railroad mileage in
creased 25.5 per cent, locomotives in
creased 54 per cent, passenger cars in
creased 31 per cent and freight
cars Increased 63 per cent, according to
Mr. Hill's "units," while ton miles In
creased 148 per cent. "That," says Mr.
Hill, "shows where the trouble is." But
Mr. Hill makes out a remarkable case
for increased efficiency in railroading.
With an increase of only 25.5 per cent
in mileage, 64 per cent in locomotives,
31 per cent in freight cars, the rail
roads produced 148 per cent more ton
miles and 126 per cent more passenger
miles of the commodity called trans
portation In 1907 than in 1897. This is
a statement not of Impossible demands
upon the railroad facilities, but of ac
tual performances. The average
weight of rails, the tractive power of
locomotives and the capacity of cars
all increased, as did the efficiency of
operation.
Htsa-Cost-of-Llvlns; Crnsade in 1804.
Philadelphia North American.
Records yellow with a century's
age were unearthed in the office
of Clerk of Courts Robert M. Mc
Farland the other day. They show
that a high-cost-of-living crusade was
in progress as early as 1804.
A document filed with Judge Moore
that year is signed by 100 citizens pe
titioning the court to "set a stipulated
price on provisions for man and horse,
and on liquors in the taverns of the
country."
The petitioners asserted "it is the
consensus of opinion that 25 cents for
a pint of whisky is an extortion, as
whisky has been purchased for 40 cents
a gallon, pork at from 3 to 4 cents a
pound and flour for $2 per hundred
weight." The records give no evidence as to
whether the prayer was ever answered.
"Wheat Kins;" of Kansas.
Des Moines Capital.
The man who farms more land than
almost any other in the United States
was formerly a resident of Iowa. He
is James N. Fike, of Colby, Kan. His
farm consists of 10,200 acres, located
in Thomas County. Wheat is his fa
vorite crop. The "wheat king," as he
is known, went down into Western
Kansas 25 years ago. He led a. political
life during the greater part of that
time. When he acquired control of this
vast tract of land he diverted his en
ergies to farming it until he is today
recognized to be one of the foremost
agricultural men in the world.
Requires Too Many Diane.
St. Paul Dispatch.
Of course Mr. Cannon was misquoted.
The average newspaperman is not suf
ficiently hardened to quote Mr. Cannon
verbatim.
Vnwise feg-Iect.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Never take oft tomorrow the collar
you should change today.
LORD KITCHENER COMING HERS
Portland Will Probably See Great Brit,
sin's Distinguished Soldier.
On his way from San Francisco to
British Columbia. Kitchener of Khar
toum, next to Lord Roberts the great
est of England's living Generals, will
pass through Portland. Whether he
will receive public or semi-public honor
at the hands of his countrymen as well
as Americans here, has not yet been
determined. One report is to the ef
fect that he wishes to travel incognito.
After his arrival in San Francisco, he
will probably make known his inten
tions. Kitchener's exploits in Egypt and es
pecially his brilliant campaign against
the wild dervishes who followed the
Mahdi's successor and were defeated at
Omdurman and Khartoum, have lately
been recalled to public attention by
the journey of ex-President Roosevelt
past those historic towns. Kitchener
commanded also in the South African
war, and from 1902 to 1909 he was com
mander in chief in India, where his
task of preserving order and suppress
ing incipient rebellion was not one of
the easiest.
He remodeled the Indian army. Last
Summer he was appointed field
marshal in place of the Duke of Con
naught, retired, and as such ranks
with Lord Roberts, holding the highest
title possible in the army.
An Irishman on his father's side and
by birth. Kitchener has the dash and
the fire that characterizes the typical
soldier of Celtic blood. On his mother's
side he is English, coming from a Suf
folk clergyman's family. To the spin
dle side of the house no doubt he owes
his coolness many call it cold-bloodedness
his faculty of accurate calcu
lation and his persistence. It is a
great combination for a soldier and
some of the most illustrious names in
British military history show such a
mixture of blood and temperaments.
He was educated at the Royal Mili
tary Academy. Woolwich which cor
responds to West Point In the United
States and entered the Royal Engi
neers in 1871.
Until 1SS2 he was engaged in mak
ing military surveys in Palestine and
Cyprus, leading a roving and exploring
life, in, which he found enjoyment. His
longing for active work as a soldier,
however, brought him. In 18S2, the
command of the Egyptian cavalry, and
thenceforth he was the man of action.
.
In 1S84 and 1SS5 he commanded the
Nile expedition, which vainly attempted
to rescue General Gordon at Khartoum.
In 18S6 he (was commissioner In the de
limitation of Zanzibar, and then return
ing to Egypt, became a Pasha in the na
tive army. "While leading his troops at
the battle of Handoub, in 1SSS, he was
seriously wounded, in the face by a bul
let. In the following year he was given
the Cross of the Bath for his part in the
action at Toski under General Grenfell.
For four years he was Adjutant-General
and second in command of the Egyptian
army and in 1S92 was made sirdar, or
commander of the Egyptian forces with
the rank of Brigadier-General.
Throughout several years Kitchener had
been preparing for the recovers' of the
provinces of Egypt which had been lost
to the power of the mahdi. With the
capture of Dongola in ISitfi his active
campaign toward this end began. Ad
vanced to the rank of Major-General, he
completed the defeat of the Dervishes
at the battle of Omdurman and captured
Khartoum. For restoring Egypt to
British rule he received a peerage, with
the title of Baron Kitchener of Khar
toum, the thanks of Parliament and a
grant of $150,000. In 1S99 Ho was appoint
ed Governor-General of the Sudan.
After General Buller's disastrous defeat
by the Boers in South Africa Lord Rob
erts was appointed commander in chief
of the British forces, and made Kitchener
chief of staff. While engaged in main
taining lines of communication with Cape
Colony Kitchener came into frequent en
gagements with the Boers, and on one
occasion he narrowly escaped capture
by General De Wet, whom he later
defeated. When in December, 1900, Lord
Roberts returned to England, Kitchener
became commander In chief and in two
years, 1900 to 1902, he completed the work
of subjugating the Boers.
For his services in South Africa he
was made successively LJeutenant-Gen-eral
and General, given the title of Vis
count and the thanks of Parliament and
a grant of $250,000. He was made com
mander In chief of India in 1902.
Over six feet tall and straight as an '
arrow, slender but muscular, and with
vigor showing in every line and move
ment of his body, possessed of keen blue
eyes and a shapely head. Kitchener has
been described by war correspondents as
the ideal soldier in action. He has had
little liking for correspondents, however.
Brusque, hard-working and a stern dis
ciplinarian, he has always commanded
the respect of his soldiers, though little
affection. He is a bachelor considered
now. at the age of 59 a confirmed one
and has never been fond of the society
of ladies.
As Now.
Cleveland Leader.
"Rome was not built in a day."
"I'll bet it wasn't. If Romulus was
any real contractor, he probably put
up a bunch of scaffolding and then laid
off for a year or two."
IN THE MAGAZINE
SECTION OF THE
SUNDAY
OREGONIAN
BUILDING THE GRAND
TRUNK PACIFIC
Canada 's great oeean-to-ocean
railroad, which opens a new em
pire to man's industry. Some of
the surprises to the builders.
WHEN JEFFRIES FIRST MET
THE CHAMPION CORBETT
In this chapter, Jeffries tells
how he was fired with ambition
and determination to win the
world's championship; what he
learned from Corbett.
NAMELESS WATERFALL
NEAR PORTLAND
Now almost inaccessible, in the
heart of the Cascade Ransre. The
cataracts, well shown by the cam
era, are most beautiful, and they
must soon be a Meeca for nature-lovers.
DETECTIVE CONNOR AND
THE WIDOW'S MITE
Another of Mr. Clemens' heart
stories, with a genuinely religious,
if entirely unorthodox, touch.
ORDER EARLY FROM YOUR
NEWSDEALER