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TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, 10, 'l910. PORTLAND, OEEOOX. Entered at Portland, Oregon Postofflce as rtecond-Class . Matter. Subscription Kates Invariably In Advance. (BT MALL). Dalty. Sunday included, one year. . .,..98.00 XaHy. Sundar included, six months. ... 4.25 l'ft-liy. Sund&r Iscluded. three months. .. 2.25 Dally, Sunday included, one month. .75 Dally, without Sunday, one year. 6.00 Daily, without Sunday, six months... 8.25 Xaily, without Sunday, three month s. 1.75 Xaily, without Sunday, one moil til. . .. .60 Weekly one year . , ....... . ..... , .H 1.50 Sunday one year. ........... ..a,, 2.50 fiundsy and weekly, one yar., ..... 3.60 (Br Carrier. Dally, Sunday lnataded, one year.,... 600 Daily, Sunday Included, one month....- .75 How to Remit Send Postofflce money rder. express order or personal check on toot local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. Give postolflce ad dress in full, including county and state.. Posts e Kate 10 to 14 pages, 1 cent; 1 to V8 pages, 2 centa; SO to 40 pages, S cents; 40 to 60 pages, 4 cents. Foreign postage double rate. Eastern Business Of fire The S. C. Beck wlib Special Agency is'ew York, rooms 4a C0 Tribune building. Chicago, rooms 610 612 Tribune building. PORTXASD, TUESDAY. MAT 10. lfllO. brOEAXE'S TKRMEfAX BACHDOWK. Spokane has had to "back down from Ha demand lor terminal rates in exchange for grant of franchises to the Milwaukee and the North Coast railroads. The railroads served no tice that they could well stay out of Spokane and had. -stopped construction" toward that city; that terminal rates were absurd and impossible and would disarrange the railroad map of the whole country; and-that, moreover, if it were necessary for them to have ac cess to Spokane, the City Council could not keep them out nor impose successfully any conditions that they were unwilling to meet. This long-and-short-haul fever in Spokane was made the worse by the anti-capitalistic craze that is rampant in many cities, in some degree also in Portland, and that makes unreason able demands whenever a public serv ice corporation seeks privileges of do ing business. But the substantial in terests of Spokane mercantile, bank ing, manufacturing and realty united to administer a dose of com mon sense to the City Council, with the result that that body has with drawn from, its unreasonable attitut'.e of denying new railroads entrance S:o their city except on long-and-short-haul basis. Mow the business men will direct their efforts for terminal rates toward enactment of Congress. The Spokane Chamber of Commerce has apparently lost faith in the Inter state Commerce Commission. On re ceipt of the news that the House at Washington had retained in the long-and-short-haul clause of the railroad bill a provision authorizing the com mission to use its own discretion where conditions warranted change or modi fication, the Spokane Chamber of Commerce sent telegrams to the vVaahingtoni and Idaho Senators in forming them: "Common honesty and Justice to Inland Empire demand law bbsolutelyj prohibiting railroads from charging more for short than long haul." The Spokesman-Review is also trr-willing to trust the Interstate Commerce Commission. In support Bf its objection, it quotes from the Sommiss ion's decision in the Spokane rate case: "It cannot be denied, in Hew of these incontrovertible facts, that water competition does exist, and that It does produce a controlling ef fect upon many rates to the Pacific Coast from many Eastern destina tions." Not only did -fhe commission In the words quoted recognize the existence of conditions nvhich made a fair and equitable long-and-short-haul tariff an Impossibility in the Pacific Coast ter ritory, 'but it etlll further emphasized the presence of these conditions by Btatlng that: "this commission has sev eral times found that water competi tion did exist as now asserted by the defendants and has held that this competition would in the main Justify the system of transcontinental tariffs which these defendants have estab lished." Knowledge of the existence of these conditions and of the impossibility of overcoming them was responsible for refusal of the North Coast and Mil waukee railroads to promise Spokane terminal rates in payment for fran chises. That there are a considerable number of people in Spokane who neither ask nor expect the impossible is shown by the overwhelming petition of voters which forced the City Coun cil to recede from its position in de manding terminal rates for Spokane bs payment for a franchise. KATIBAL RESC1.T OF NOX-r.VRTISAX- tSHll'. Fate of the railroad bill in Congress displays the logical result of non-partisan, "Independent," insurgent poli tics. Insurgent members emasculate an important Republican measure and repudiate allegiance to a party policy whose outcome will either make or undo, vindicate or discredit, the po litrcal organization which was sup posed to have their support. They are pursuing their own d-pslgns of politics and demagogy and asserting them su perior to purposes of their party, as pronounced by majority Republicans and Administration. So that Congress will probably ac complisb nothing for needed im provement In the power of the Inter state Commission. It all goes to show once more that party govern ment ana party responsibility are only effective methods of political and governmental action. Great manv persons have been praising insurgent revolters without foreseeing the effect. let it Is oldest of lessons that the only opportunity for remedial legislation oomes from subordination of minority opinions to plans of majority. It is impossible to enact Republican meas ures without this concert. The sow ing of the wind of non-partyism prom ises to be followed by the reaping of the whirlwind of failure and disrup tion. A small part of the Republican party has Joined the Democratic party In unmaking the measures that embody the most Important Roosevelt policies regulation of railroads. The Senate takes out of the Administra tion bill practically everything that it contains to commend it. The House tacks on amendments that axe sure to be fatal to Its enactment, such as long and short haul, supervision of tele phone and telegraph companies by the Commission, and other numerous matters. In all this disruptive work Democrats uphold insurgents, for it is the aim of Democrats.to put the blame for nothing done and for pledges un kept on the Republican party. Insurgency has made this chaos; no auestlon about that. And what la In surgency? It is a catchword where with to designate "with fair name the personal designs of men who think it popular to go off on their own hook in politics, without regard for'the pur poses for which men associate in party and hold government responsible, and who "won't play" unless they get just what they want. No -political organi zation and no political success Is pos sible with such methods of conduct. The country has had a carnival of non-partisanship for several years. The inevitable result has arrived. Maybe it is what the country wishes and needs. If so, well and good. But It will soon get rid f sham and hum bug of the thing. r now thk wHiBx,wrsr. On the first page of the Seattle Dally Times for Sunday, May 8, ap pears In large headlines the following: 'Seattle, 230.000; Portland, 210,000." On page 6 of the same issue of the Times is printed conspicuously the fol lowing ancient legend: 'Population of Seattle, 809,376 Polk's Directory estimate revised." Obviously the Times family ought to get together. In support of its first-page announce ment, our Seattle neighbor gives the Seattle Civic Census Bureau as de claring that Ui its judgment ."not less than 2 30,000 people will be credited to this city (Seattle's) population." To justify its Portland figures, the Times speaks of its information as absolutely satisfactory" to the Times no doubt and "absolutely authen tic." We'll let it go at that. The Oregonian will also refrain from comment on the previous unjus tifiable estimates' in Seattle of over 300,000 people there, and will make no prophecy now as to the final result of the census. It feels warranted, however, in reproducing from its own columns the following paragraph, printed April 28, 1910: Now. of course, we don't believe that there is any jrreat scheme for a bojrus re turn in Seattle. It is Incredible. The town cannot afford .to do It, and won't do it. for It has honest citizens and decent people, lust as Portland has. That is the reason that there will be no count there above 226,000 and it Is likely to be less since it will be on Its face obvious and demonstra ble fraud. There will be no need, or desire. perhaps, to investigate too closely any fig ure up to 225,000. This paragraph, too; which ap peared In The Oregonian January 11. 1910, has interest at this time: "We feel that we ought to add a word about the population of Seattle, in view of the early time when the Federal census will be taken and all estimates, calcula tions, prophecies and prognostications will be found true or false, as the case may be. If the Times" statement as to the 1909 school population in Seattle (39,866) is correct mark the "it the reaeral census or iviu will barely give Seattle more than 200.000 people. Including- Japanese and transient Alaskans. Let all persons interested in Se attle's population stick a pin here. Why did Seattle, which has Intel ligent and enterprising people, fool ishly .plume Itself for so great a fall? SUNDAY ACCIDENTS. The eagerness with which pleasure- seekers flock to the open country, on the first bright Sunday in Spring, is, unfortunately, not at all times watched or attended by the caution es sential to safety In -this day of speed ing trains and flying automobiles. Last Sunday, for all its brightness and warmth, was a day of misfortune to many who sought the vernal glories of the country. At Albany four auto ists were in a wreck from which they narrowly escaped with their lives; near Dallas a gay party of young peo ple out driving were struck by a local train and one young woman was in stantly killed; at Newport a steam launch grounded on a sand spit In a fog and a party of twenty-two young people were rescued from a perilous position by the United States lifesaving crew; near Winchester, Douglas Coun ty, two young women were drowned while boating; and over in Washing ton two young people were suspended over a bridge some twenty feet above Wilson Creek, over the edge of which their frightened horse had backed. As an introduction to the outdoor pleasure season this list of accidents is somewhat startling. It not only emphasizes the need of the greatest caution in going abroad with modern equipment for rapid transit, but sug gests the disquieting fact that pru dence is not always a safeguard against grave disaster. OCR lVKLOVKl DRUGS. Persons who rail Indiscriminately at "faith cures" of all sorts often lose sight of one very important aspect of the subject. It is a valuable influence which all the methods of faith cure, healing by prayer, and so on exert in common that they discourage the use of rlniffs. Fra.il hiimanitv In ita nr-iml ltive and untaught condition, is prone to dose itself with chemicals for every disease and almost every discomfort. Is the man too warm? He slops down some kind of a drugged drink to make him cool. Is he too cold? He swal lows a potion to make him warm. If the-baby cries It must be hushed with a soothing syrup. The dependence of people on drugs to remedy all their ills has been some what relaxed by the Eederal Pure Pood and Drug3 Act, which discloses the insidious poisons hidden in many of the most popular remedies; but there, is still much to do to cure old habits of using cocaine, opium, alcohol and the like and to prevent the forma tion of new ones. It Is estimated that some two or three millions of people In the United States are slaves to some drug other than strong drink. So destructive are the effects of the prac tice that the Government has thought it worth while to issue a Farmers' Bulletin to warn the public of the many habit-forming chemicals which are contained in seductive forms In soothing syrups, headache powders, "temperance drinks" and other traps for the unwary. It is Bulletin No. 3 93 and may be obtained by writing to the Department of Agriculture. The food and - drugs act does not positively forbid the use of deleterious chemicals in patent medicines. It merely requires that the contents of the bottle or package La printed on the wrapper. A person who is not familiar with the properties of drugs may De deceived by alluring adver tisements just as easily when the in gredients are named as when they are not. Many of these so-cailed med icines are purposely- prepared with habit-forming substances. The object is to secure regular customers. Nat urally, a person who has been insid iously enslaved to opium or cocaine will be a lifelong purchaser of the "medicine" which has ruined him. It is said also that many low-class phy sicians take part in the base practice of enticing victims to form the drug naoir xuoercuiosls patients are es pecially chosen by them to operate upon. They sell some drug purporting to cure consumption. In reality all It does is to deaden the person's nerves so that he does not feel the Irritation of the disease, and therefore ceases to cough. Meanwhile the ravages of the malady continue unchecked, and death is In fact hastened by the rem edy. Should the patient by chance re cover, he finds himself addicted to some drug which makes him a hope less slave all his life. Surely it is better to perish of tuberculosis than to live an opium or cocaine fiend. The point, we reiterate, is that the dishonest remedies for consumption only intensify the ravages of the dis ease, while they fix a terrible drug habit upon the sufferer. Anything which tends to diminish the addiction of mankind to drugs, be it faith cure, education, Fletcherism or what not, deserves to -be commended for that service, whatever else we may blame it for. SO A KLET FEVER Than-scarlet fever there is no disease more justly dreaded in the family and the community. Of the class known as filth diseases, it la distinctly prevent able and actively contagious. Of all diseases incident to childhood, . it is the one most likely to leave distressing consequences behind. Smallpox in its virulent form is more loathsome, but the sufferings it entails are not more severe than are those that follow in the train of scarlet fever. This disease has prevailed to some extent in this city for many months. The cases have, for the most part, been of a mild type, and this fact has, through inducing carelessness, con duced to its spread until it has be come epidemic in some sections of the city. Some of the later cases have developed with a suddenness that was surprising to physicians, and with a virulence that quickly proved fatal. At present there are about ninety registered cases In the city. The problem of stamping this disease out is now before the Health Board, the School Board, physicians and parents. especially the patrons of the public schools. It is necessary in order to do. this to establish the most rigid quarantine of the inmates of all homes where it exists. No subterfuge, no careless "taking of chances" by allow ing any one of the children of a stricken family to attend school should be attempted; none will be permitted. If proper vigilance prevails. This is not said to excite alarm, but merely to induce the care necessary to stamp out this scourge. Owing to the fact that the convalescent stage of this disease is the stage at which the germs are more readily dissemi nated the stage at which the patient, "feeling as well as ever," is permitted to break quarantine it is one of the most difficult of all diseases to stamp out. While it is hoped that it will not become necessary to close the public schools in, order to accomplish this purpose, there should be no hesitancy in doing so If prudence seems to de mand it. The menace, as far 'as- it ex tends. Is grave. It should not be al lowed to spread, even if every school room door in the city must be closed until September in order to compass this object. . A BACKSET TO ATlATIOX. The military prospects of aviation do not look quite so brilliant as they did a few weeks ago. Then every body was -prophesying that the next war would be fought in the air. Now it is conceded that we shall probably fight on the land, if we can raise money enough to fight at all. This transformation of military ideals has been brought about by two accidents. The great German war dirigible, the Zeppelin II, was torn from its anchor age by a high wind and swept away to destruction In spite of everything that could be done to save it. Three hun dred soldiers held to the drag ropes. tout it was all in vain. The ponderous contrivance sailed off in the wind and was wrecked beyond repair. At about the same time, a -..-ar balloon of the dirigible type which some British of ficers were experimenting with turned turtle and became a total loss. No doubt these accidents will give secret-Joy to military men of all ranks. They are as brave as human crea tures can be, of course, but it does not follow that they like the prospect of carrying on warfare in the upper regions of the atmosphere. It is bad enough to be shot to pieces on solid ground. To know that one must drop plumb down ten thousand fathoms deep, or such a matter, adds a new terror to the soldier's death. It makes civilized warfare resemble the battle in Heaven, which Milton so vividly describes, where the combatants on one side, after being defeated, were hurled over the .battlements of the celestial city and fell nine days and nights into the place appointed for them. No doubt the problems of aerial navigation will ultimately be solved. The human intelligence has never yet been baffled permanently by any difficulty which ft seriously sought to overcome. But It is rash to say that aviation has yet reached a degree, of security that It Is likely to serve greatly the ends of either commerce or war. WILL CLEAR THE DECKS. , Secretary Ballingers announced de termination to engage in houseclean ing, or "snake-killing," in his depart ment will no doubt be seized on by the Secretary's muckraking assailants as an opportunity for further slander and vilification. The hearing has disclosed the existence of a bitter per sonal feeling against the Secretary by Pinchot, who, according to one of the witnesses. Director Smith, of the Geo logical Survey, had referred to Ballin ger as a "yellow dog," and had told Smith that "if we don't get him one way, we'll get him another." In his unsuccessful effort to "get" Secretary Ballinger, Mr. Pinchot pressed into his service a number of the subordin ates in Ballinger's department. Of these subordinates, Glavis was what might be termed cheap and noisy, but Director Newell and Chief Engineer Davis, of the Reclamation Service, by virtue of their higher positions, were very active figures in harassing the Secretary and interfering with his pol icy. As soon as these, gentlemen are detached from the Government pay roll, the muckrakers will, of course, add them to the list of martyrs of the Glavis type. Tet in the circumstances, Mr. Ballinger, in Justice to himself, cannot well do otherwise than dis charge these men who have done everything in their power to interfere with his work and discredit his ad ministration. To Mr. Pinchot, of course, more than anyone else. Is due the blame for the unsupported attacks that have been made on Mr. Ballinger, but the wily Pinchot has departed from the 6cene, leaving his allies to face the punishment which they have earned. Now that the Investigation has dis closed the great handicap under which Mr. Balllnger labored, with mutiny, treason and insubordination per meating his department, the necessity of his announced policy for the- fu ture can be fully appreciated by all fair-minded peopVe. Mr. Ballinger is at the head of a great branch of the Government. For the success or fail ure of the trust thus imposed on him, it is he alone that will be held re sponsible. There can be, but one captain on a ship, and in every line of commercial endeavor of Govern ment work there must be some recog nized head whom the people will hold to accountability. As Mr. Ballinger had been selected for the head of his department, and the investigation has vindicated him of all charges brought against him. It is but natural that he should now remove the disloyal sub ordinates who attempted to ruin him and bring confusion to his administra tion. Senator. Simmons, of North Caro lina, is one of those unreasonable men who possess that old fogy notion that it's a poor rule that won't work both ways. The Senator from the cotton belt wants to know why the Depart ment of Justice has suddenly discov ered that it is a crime to speculate in cotton with a view to advancing prices, while there is apparently nothing det rimental in the manipulation of the bears, who devote their energies to de pressing prices. Senator Simmons calls attention to the fact that no pro test came from the Attorney-General when a bear raid squeezed several cents per pound out of the price of cotton. If the Government is deter mined to punish some one for alleged manipulation of cotton prices, it would seem that the interests of the produc ers would he best served if the begin ning were made on the nefarious 'short" sellers, who have been caught in the act of depressing prices, instead of centering the fire on the men who bought cotton because natural condi tions seemed to indicate that it was cheap. The owners of the British bark Donna Francisca, which sailed out of the Columbia yesterday, bound for Europe, "have just completed a useful but expensive experiment with the laws of supply and demand. Cargo was plentiful and ships rather scarce when the Donna Francisca was wing ing her way up the Pacific in ballast more than two years ago, and her owners refused to accept a rate of 28s 9d per ton for freight to Europe. A year later they declined an offer of 27s 6d, but last month they accepted 25 shillings, and the ship is again on the high seas earning money. Her twenty-six months of idleness in this port cost the owners a large sum of money, but It again demonstrated that freight rates are regulated by the law of supply and demand, and not by the ability of shipowners to keep their tonnage idle. The position that has been taken by the School Board in the matter of re quiring teachers employed in the pub- tic schools to be able, upon require ment, to pass a satisfi-jtory health ex amination is eminently proper. The campaign against tuberculosis is her alded far and wide as one. of educa tion. How contradictory and absurd in this view It Is to employ teachers in the schools who are in failing health, With tendencies toward tuberculosis. Added to this is the fact that a sick or ailing person can do nothing well, and the best efforts of men and wo men who are teachers of the young are justly. due to the duties of their vocation. Applied with proper discre tion, the new rule cannot fall to be salutary. The Umpqua river claimed two vic tims by drowning last Saturday even ing, and the regular season for these tragedies may be said to have opened Despite the presence of an abundance of lakes, rivers and bays on which the population should take lessons In handling boats and in swimming, the number of deaths by drowning make a very large list each year. In the Umpqua tragedy, carelessness was ap parently responsible for the loss of life, but the matter will soon be for gotten by all except the bereaved relatives. And from now on there will be a steadj increase in the number of fatalities of this nature. The statement that a memorial church to the late Rev. George H. At kinson is to be built in this city re calls the kindly face and dignified bearing of the pioneer missionary and minister as he went In and out among the settlers of early Oregon for many years. A plain monument in River- view cemetery marks the last resting place of this beloved minister, who lives and will yet live long in the 1m press that was left by his endeavor upon the people and Institutions of early Oregon. Senator Depew continues to be an noyed by reports that he will not suc ceed himself. The Senator is a hu morist; but there is no reason why the State of New York should carry Its great Senatorial joke any farther, An Oregon Electric fender dragged a man sixty feet and killed him yes terday. Killing people seems to be the main work of the customary fender, Better no fender and let death be in stantaneous than mangle the victim. Business rr.en, politicians and of ficeholders of Salem to the number of 60 will journey .to Klamath Falls next week. A few fences need look ing after. The comet, they say, can easily be seen now if you get up early enough or stay out long enough. Or somebody is prevaricating. Consulting a physician at the very start will prevent an outbreak of scar let fever. Doctors are cheaper than undertakers. Science is breeding blue cats in Boston. The blue cat and red-headed negro are Indigenous in. the Bay State. Poet laureates have their uses; so have professional mourners. There the similarity begins and ends. The first circus of the season is meandering down the Valley, gath ering the early shekels. A "cop" in a "sojer" cap will be no "cop" at all. The helmet is a mark of distinction SPOKAJVK YIELDS TO RAILROADS. City Council Abandon Plan to Exact Terminal Rates for f ranchises. The city Council of Spokane win not ex act terminal rates from the Milwaukee and the Xorth Coast railroads In return for franchises sought by those railroads for en trance IrKO- -the city. The Council recently resolved that the railroads must grant ter minal rates enjoyed by Portland, Seattle and other ocean ports en exchange for the franchises. Last Friday midnight the Coun cil rescinded that resolution by a vote of 7 to 3, in response to a petition signed toy 17,000 cltlxena and a demand .of the busi ness interests of the city. The subject has become a wery tense one and now It is an nounced by the defeated terminal-rate con- tinjrent that anv frunnhiaft AniitiauM in favor of the railroads will have to run the gauntlet of popular - referendum. Robert E. Strahorn, builder of the North Coast, de clared that t-he new railroads entering Spo kane would never grant terminal rates In exchange for franchises; that the demand oi oponane naa caused suspension or work on the Spokane-Puget Sound line of his road and that the Council could not exact terminal rates nor keep business from tld new railroads If they chose to get It. Mr. Strahorn made a stirring speech to the Council. In part as follows! I absolutely know that the Council can no more se6ure terminal rates by the method proposed to be adoDted here than they can stop the course of the comet the papers axe talking about; it simply cant be done as far as we are concerned, and we absolutely know it.- what I mean to say Is that we can not build our railroad Into Spokane and submit to any such a franchise or with any such a clause. when this Question became some- what strenuous here three or four months ago I had secured funds to build probably the most expensive sec tion or the North Coast road from here through Hangman Creek Canyon to Te koa and beyond. The contracts were let; there was about $5,000,000 appro priated for that purpose. As quickly as It was discovered that there was any possible danger of this franchise not being obtained here I was ordered to discontinue that construc tion. It was discontinued, and, gentle men, that construction etopped In 24 hours. There were 1600 men marched off that work. Now, there are miles and miles of that grade out in that canyon and be yond upon where the grass is growing today, and whether it will ever be fin ished I don't know. I simply know that this has been the crucifixion of one railroad for the present to Spokane. Mow, this is all there Is to it: Do you want those roads or don't you want them? Terminal rates have nothing to do with It, We can't stand for it and we won't. The reason why we won't is because we can't. And the reason why we cant Is because we can't get the money. This one road was going into a terri tory that exceeds in extent any unde veloped territory In the whole Pacific Northwest. I refer to the great Clear water country, with the country sur rounding it in every direction. Now, gentlemen, you all know mighty well where the business of the Clearwater country Is tending. You know mighty well what a slender hold Spokane has got on it There isn't anybody here so unintelli gent that he doesn't know that, and it behooves you to go after it if you are going to get it; and you will never get it by choking off railroad build ing. There isn't any other way to get it but Just that way go after it. On the North Coast line as laid out there were two bridges crossing the Columbia River. I presume you all know that bridges are not built across the Columbia River unless they are wanted mighty badly, and unless there is great big money behind the railroad that Is building. One of these bridges was laid out after very much care in its location, at a point a little below the mouth of the Snake River on portion of the North Coast system which was designed to run across Southern "Washington on the line from "Walla "Walla through to Puget Sound, The bridge was right on that line. Another bridge was planned to be erected across the Columbia River at a -point near Ringgold Bar. Ringgold Bar is about 40 miles north of the bridere I before mentioned. This lo cation was on the main line extending from Spokane to Puget Sound. This work was going along together in a svstema-tlc war with the full intent of developing both enterprises, build iner the SDOkane line and utilizing that Columbia River bridge across Ringgold Bar as well as the bridge across the Columbia River below the mouth of the Snake on the line from "Walla Walla to Pueret Sound. The Ringgold bridge is not there; the lines that we started to connect witn it have been stopped; the grass is srrowlns: over them. Any man - can find that out by going out into that country. People all over the country there know it and they ask why. Tou gentlemen sitting around this little row of tables can answer tne question wuy. Gentlemen, do you know that every bank in this city Is on our side In this matter absolutely every Dank? jnow, do vou know what that means to have all of these banks looking at this thing in the wav we do? There are some su or 40 million dollars of resources in these banks. That Is one-half of your total assessed valuation of this city. Isn't that a property Interest worth navintr attention to? And another thing, you can make the round of the real estate offices In this town today, and every last one of them will tell you that this thing has hurt the city to an extent that is In calculable holding up these franchises. You know it- There Is no question about it. Now, the merchants of this- town to the extent of 75 per cent are absolutely in favor of letting the roads oome in here without this terminal rate pro vision. There is no question about that The manufacturers, every one but two of them that amount to anything in this city, are right on this side of ours. Don't the manufacturers know what is good for them? I guess they do. If we don't get this franchise and get into this city under reasonable con ditions, we shall come some other way and get the business anyway, ana we shall not have to pay you a cent for the urlvileKe. not one cent! ' And gentlemen, you can't stop It any more than you are stopping the Milwaukee today from coming In nere. Cause of the Quarrel. Chicago Record-Herald. "What was the cause of your quarrel?" asked the Judge, addressing the lady who wanted a divorce. "I merely suggested, when he com plained because the golf club raised the oues. that he resign and get the exer cise he needed by mowing the lawn.1 "And are you eure that was all?" "Well, he wanted me to resign from my domestic science club and take course of domestic science - In the kitchen." Hool Hoo! Somerville Journal. Who's always handing out new dope? Who said: "No, thank you!" to the Pope? Who is the whole world s only hope? We don't need to tell you. Who of the White House had a lease? Who used to boss New York's police? Who's now for universal peace? . . . Why, you know, of course! Who's always on the jump and go? Who tells the wind which way to blow? Who seeks no friends and fears no foe? Now, what's the use of asking that! "Who loves to hit a stinging crack? Who pretty soon is coming back? And what will happen -then? Alack! The Lord only knows! MR, BALLINGER HOlLD REMAIN ' His work Is Not Yet Ended, and He Should Finish It. Washington Post. The report that Hon. Richard A. Bal linger, Secretary of the Interior, will find an excuse for resigning soon after . the conclusion of the Balllnger-Pin-chot hearing has no semblance of probability. It is not like Mr. Bal linger, and there would be no occa sion for it- After a siege of many months, in which every kind of in sinuation, suspicion and Implication was admitted into the Congressional hearing. Secretary Ballinger has emerged victorious. Not a single fact has been produced to show that he was even derelict in duty, much less corrupt. The huge pile of malice, vilification and misrepresentation that was intended to crush him has crumbled, and President Taft's confi dence in him is now seen to have been founded on solid ground. Mr. Ballinger has borne himself dur ing this long ordeal with patience and dignity. He has not replied to every vague insinuation, but he has replied to every definite charge against him. and his reply has been backed by doc umentary evidence. He has revealed himself as a strong, able man. a good fighter and a fearless public official, who has not swerved from his duty. He has obeyed the law himself and he has forced others to obey It. It is Impossible to believe that Mr. Ballinger will seek occasion to retire. It would be proof of a weakness that he has never shown. No doubt he has felt, at times, that a public official performs an ungrateful task. This feeling has been expressed even by President Taft; but Secretary Ballinger has shown too high a sense of duty to Justify the belief that he will yield to a passing whim and throw off the responsibilities that he carries. He has mastered the difficult questions arising In his department, and has in jected into the service a strong, pro gresslve spirit. He Is needed at his post. The people are realizing more and more that this quiet, determined clear-sighted man is in the place where he can Serve them and protect their interests most effectively. His work is not yet ended, and it is not in his nature to leave a task unfin lshed. SAGACITY OF ROOSEVELT. Decision to Remain a Private Citixen Averts Tnmnhaoui Conflict. New York Evening Post. If the statements in a Washington paper, quoted In our dispatches tod&y. concerning Mr. Roosevelt s political at titude could be accepted as correct, they would furnish renewed evidence of the ex-President'a political sagac Ity. Nothing could more effectively consolidate his Influence and strength en his hold on the public than the adoption of the position indicated in the dispatch. According to this In formation, he has written letters in which he not only supports the Taft administration, but positively asserts his intention to remain in private life for the present, and not to be a can dldate for the Presidency In 1912. If all this shall prove true, the result will be that a tumultuous conflict within the Republican party will be avoided, such as would of necessity arise if, on the return from his whirl of foreign ovations, the question of his Immediate political future were to form part of the Halcyon, and vocifer ous goings-on that will " in any case attend his home-coming. The state ments quoted, however, are, as our Washington correspondent points out, in some very essential respects con tradictory to known facts, and there is therefore every reason to believe that the source of the Washington ar ticle Is to be found at a distance of much less than 3000 miles from the National Capital. INTELLIGENT CARE OF BOOKS Suggestions for the Owner una the Borrower of Prised Volumes. Milwaukee Wisconsin. Never hold a book near a fire. Never drop b book upon the floor. Never turn leaves with the thumbs. Never lean or rest upon an open book. Never turn down the corners of leaves. Never touch a book with damp or soiled hands. Always keep your place- with a, thin bookmark. Always place a large book upon & table before opening it. Always turn leaves from the top with the middle or forerlnger. Never pull a book from a shelf by the bindmg at the top, but by the back. Never touch a book with a damp cloth or with a sponge in any form. Never place another book or anything else upon the leaves of an open book. Never rub dust from books, but brush it off with a soft, dry cloth or duster. Never close a book with a pencil, pad of paper, or anything else between the leaves. Always keep any neatly bound bor rowed book covered with paper while in your possession. Never attempt to dry a book, accident ally wet, by a fire, but mop off the moisture .with a soft, dry cloth. Never write upon paper laid upon the leaves of an open book, as the pencil or pen point will either scratch or cut the book leaves. Three Telegrams. Harper's Weekly. I. Blue Haven, May 3. William J. Blnks, New York: Please send me 500 at once. Tom. II. New York, May 4. Thomas Blnks, Yule College, Blue Haven: You must economize. Send me your bills. Father. III. Blue Haven, Tilay 5. William J. Binks, New York: All right- Am economizing. Have forwarded bills by freight. Cheaper than express. Love to mother. Tom. . - Pleased With Portland. Florence West. The parties who shipped dressed veal to Portland on board the Wilhelmina last week as an experiment are well pleased with the returns. The meat arrived in Portland in prime conditilon and brought the highest price quoted for that day. This shows our people that they can dis pose of their surplus stock now by ship ping it to Portland and opens . up a market for what is not needed at home, so the producer can dispose, of what extra stock he has without driving it out. Being Fair. Troy Times. ; To say unpleasant things In a pleasant way is a fine art, A certain writer of biographies had highly developed his talents along this line, and his verdict on the great of his chosen period Is much . Ilka" that of the New Hampshire parson at the funeral of. a parishioner. "Brethren," he said, "we must agree that our deceased friend was mean in some things, but let us in Christian char ity allow that he was meaner In others." .... Simple. Kliegende Blaetter. Mistress Why, Lizzie! Now you have broken another valuable vase! You have done - more damage than your wages amount to. What shall I do? Maid Raise my wages, ma'am! More in the Future Than the Past. Kansas City Star. If the truth must be confessed the pub lic is considerably less interested in the story of Jim Jefrfies' life than it Is In the matter of his future performance. LIFE'S SUNNY SIDE A man In West Newton, who has many friends, was- puzzled the other day when one of them -called him to account-for neglecting his wife. 'What in the world la the trouble?" said the friend. "You used to be madly in rove with Mrs. Blank. Dont you care tor ner any more r T surely do, said the husband. 'Well, if you love her, how does it come that you haven't spoken to her for the last 15 years?" "Oh, that," said the roan. "The fact Is, I hate to interrupt her." Boston Trav eler. "As every one who has visited London knows," said a young man formerly at tached to our embassy at the British capi- ' tal, "the number of passengers carried on certain busses Is limited by regulation. Once a kindly Irish conductor, though quite aware that his bus was full, had permitted a young and sickly woman to squeeze in. The bus had not proceeded far before the usual crank spoke up. Conductah!' he exclaimed, 'You've one over your number, y" know! 'Have I, sir? asked the conductor with affected concern. Then, beginning to count from the opposite end, leaving the complainant until the last, he re peated: 'Wan, two, three, four, folve, six, sivin, eight, noine. tin, 'lefen. twelve, thlr so I have, sir, an', be the Lord Harry, ye're the wan. Out ye go!' "And out he did go. Pittsburg Chron icle-Telegraph. m v The Comtesse de M artel, the well- known novelist who writes under the name of "Gyp," has a pretty wit. She was on one occasion assisting at a char ity bazaar in Paris, to which came Baron Rothschild as a visitor. The writer im mediately pressed him to buy something. What am I to buy?" said the wealthy nobleman. "You have nothing I want. Stay, I have an idea. Sell me your auto graph. I should like that." Without de lay the lady took a sheet of note paper and wrote; "Received from Baron Roth schild the sum of 1000 francs for charity. Gyp." The baron read, handed over the money willingly, and departed, well pleased with the comtesse's ingenuity.- Tit-Bits. e Mayor Sheehan, of Elmlra. was rldlctfr- ing the pretensions of a political oppo nent. "He takes," said Mayor Sheehan, "too much credit. He reminds me of the cayuse farmer. This farmer came home one night from a banquet, and, throwing himself down in a rocking chair before the stove, he sighed: 'I'm about tired out. Be the cows in the barn?' 'Yes, Adonlram,' said his wife. 'Hosses fed and bedded down?' asked the farmer, and he took from his pocket a cigar with a gilt band about it. 'Yes, Adonlram.' Chickens ain't locked up, though, be they?' Tes, Adonlram, long ago. 'Wood chopped for morn In 'Yes. 'Ducks picked and wagon wheel mended for to morrow's market?" Yes, Adonlram." The farmer lighted the cigar, yawned and said: 'Well, then, Just hand me the Farm Journal and draw me a Jug of cider. Maria. Til turn In soon. Fannin's beginnin' to tell on me." " Kansas City Star. m w m The rural free delivery reaches Its flower of perfection in Vermont. "Mr. Carrier," said a lady who was summering among the mountains. "I have a letter received several days ago, say ing a package has been forwarded to me by mall. I have not received It yet. Have you seen anything of it?" "A package?" asked the rural free de liverer. "Yes, sir." "What kind of a package?" "Why, a small package a box, in fact covered with paper, containing some of my property." "A small box pasteboard probably?" "Yes." "Let me see," pondered the rural fre deliverer. "A package? Oh, yes. I guesa that was your package I delivered to Mrs. Browne down in the foothills a few days ago. She hadn't had any mail for a long time, and I kind of felt sorry for her." Saturday Evening Post. Typhoid had broken out In their neigh, borhood, and the family resorted to travel as the best means of precaution until the trouble should subside. They arrived at Quebec by the morning' boat, intending to take it to Montreal in the evening, but the sightseers got tired, and returned early in the afternoon to find the smoke stack on the level with the dock, the tide having dropped 13 feet. "Mamma." cried the little girl, "did God drink up all that water?" "Yes, my child." "Then shouldn't we tell him it wasn't boiled?" Ideas. Pointed Paragraphs. Chicago News. The near-great man Imagines he Is the real thing. Some men are proud of their ability to tell a lie that passes for the truth. ' When it comes to an argument a wo man gives In only when she gives out. Most people Imagine they would rather be miserably rich than happily poor. Don't fool away your time telling a man he is a liar. If he is he knows it. And a man ever sincerely loves the ground a woman walks on unless she owns it. We may know a good thing when we see it, but nine times out of ten the other fellow beats us to it. When a woman refuses to remove her hat in a theater it's a safe bet that her husband doesn't cut much Ice at home. A woman never cries for the purpose of making herself feel better. She turns on the briny flow for the purpose of mak ing some man feel worse. Stars and Stripes for Church. Baltimore News. While several churches In Baltimore have had electric signs of "Wlecome" placed over their entrances and some have entered other outward signs to at tract the people to services. It remained for the Sailors' Union Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church, Cross street, near Cov ington, to have a flag raised on its edi fice. This is done, as the pastor, the Rev. H. E. Norris, says, to Instill patriot Ism into the sailors, who attend services at the church. Flags have been raised on Sunday Schools, church halls and other buildings connected with a church, but never in the history of any church In Maryland has a pole been placed on the church from which the Stars and Stripes will flutter. The flagpole was contributed by a shipbuilder. Reflections of a Bachelor. New York Press. It's so natural to lie It's astonishing how few people do it welL The more fun a man thinks he can have being out nights the more his wife knows she can't. Insane asylums- are all places where everybody inside thinks everybody out side Is crazy. - The way for a man to make a girl stop running away from him Is for him to stop chasing her. When a man comes to you with an offer to make you rich you're lucky if he doesn't go away with a dollar he bor rowed from you. Not Our Fault, Denver Republican. James Bryce says Americans 1 don't know much about their own scenery. The billboard fiends will not give them a. chance.