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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAT, JUNE 3, 1910.
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PORTLAND, FRIDAY. JUNE S, 1910.
RESPECT FOR THE (OIBTS.
Respect for the courts is a fine
thing-. One may go farther than that
and say that it is a necessary thing,
for without the respect of the public
our courts will in the long run lose
their power and without their , power
to decide controversies the country
would lapse into barbarism. All this
Is admitted by every sensible person;
and yet it is as certain as anything
can be that the courts are losing the
respect of the public andathat it is
by their own fault. The follies, vexa
tions and endless delays which attend
the administration of justice have be
come so serious that the people of the
United States are at times and in
places beginning to revert to those
primitive conditions where every man
takes his cause into his own hand and
seeks justice by violence. This ten
dency excites universal apprehension
everywhere. Lawyers and judges,
however, securely hidden in their of
fices and courtrooms, seem unaware
of the feeling of the public or indif
ferent to it. In either case the con
sequence will be the same.
To show that it .is not mere vain
talk to say that the condition of af
fairs excites universal 'apprehension,
let us recall a few facts of current
knowledge. One of the magazines for
June publishes an article headed "The
Cruelties of the- Courts," in which are
recounted the fortunes of a long list
of suitors. Their causes were tried,
appealed and retried, and then the
whole process was repeated over and
over again. Instances are cited where
the same suit was tried seven times In
succession, the various proceedings
covering from five to twenty years.
Some the jury would decide for the
plaintiff and the higher court would
favor the defendant. In the next trial
probably the jury would find for the
defendant and then the Supreme Court
would be disposed to decide for the
plaintiff. Thus the interminable and
senseless proceedings were strung out
year after year unttl everybody con
nected with them was sick and dis
couraged. Not quite everybody, how
ever. In almost njl these suits a cor
poration appeared either as plaintiff or
defendant. Now a corporation does
not die. It does not fall sick and it
never gets discouraged. The ordinary
suitor has to hire a lawyer for the
special occasion of his trial and pay
him a heavy fee. . The corporation
employs an array of lawyers by the
year and the salaries go on just the
eame, whether there are suits in court
or not. The consequence is obvious.
Thus happily situated, when the cor
poration has a good case it hurries on
the trial and naturally wins. "When
It has a bad case it delays the trial
from ten to twenty years and again it
wins, or at any rate it seldom loses.
Again, the President of the United
States, who is not an alarmist, has
said emphatically that the condition
of American Justice is a reproach, to
civilization. To illustrate the timet
riess of his remark, the Saturday
Kvening Post publishes this week an
other of those lists of Interminable
lawsuits which make Dickens' Jam
dyce and Jarndyce look like speedy
Justice. One of them is the case of
a poor working girl whose hip was
Injured by a streetcar. She sued the
company for damages in February
1908, and in spite of all her lawyer's
efforts the cause had not been brought
to trial in May, 1910, more than two
years afterward. Meanwhile the poor
thing has developed tuberculosis and
no doubt before her suit is decided
she will die. hat excuse can organ
ized society make for tolerating such
tragedies? But the public knows the
facts connected with our futile court
proceedings well enough. Everybody
admits the existence of the evil, but
nobody seems able to propose a rem
edy which can be widely adopted.
Kew Tork has introduced great re
forms in its court proceedings, but it
still takes two years or more in that
city to try an ordinary ci-i suit even
If there are no appeals.
Philadelphia has not thought it
worth while to attempt to reform its
courts, which are the most indolent
and inefficient in the whole world
Nothing to equal them can be found
even in Turkey unless the accounts
are misleading. The judges do not
take bribes, and that is all that can
be said for them. They do not take
bribes, but neither do they decide
causes, and if a judge does not do that
pray what is he good for?
The best example we have in this
country of a tribunal which really
functions, that is which tries causes
and decides them, is to be found in
the Municipal Court of Chicago. There
an ordinary civil suit can be brought
to trial within ninety days after pro
ceedings are begun. Taking into con
sideration the further fact that in the
year ending December 4, 19 09. this
court finally heard and disposed of
48.4 90 suits, we perceive that there
Is nothing inimical to Justice in the
atmosphere of the United States. We
can get our lawsuits ended when we
really set about doing It. The writer
in the Saturday Evening Post, to
whom we have referred, believes that
the persons most to blame for the de-
lays and denials of Justice are the
Judges. The Oregonian has previously
expressed a similar opinion. He cites
the instance of a New Hampshire
Judge who by his sale authority, with
out the aid of any statute, reformed
the judicial processes of his state.
Other judges might undoubtedly move
far in the same direction If they were
not too timid. However that may be,
the condition is becoming intolerable,
and If it is not remedied there is -no
reason to hope that the public can re
spect the courts a great while longer.
"COXSERVERS". OF THE SAME STRIPE.
There is -effort -to defend the policy
of the Government in withdrawing
large areas of land from public settle
ment by the contention that if the
United States doesn't "conserve" the
public lands, the corporations will.
"What is the Southern Pacific doing
with the more than 2,000,000 acres of
the land grants that It gobbled by re
fusal to obey the terms of the law
under which the lands were granted?"
asks one troubled critic.
The Southern Pacific is doing noth
ing. Nor Is the Government. There
is the trouble. The Government not
only pursues a policy of desolation.
Isolation and inertia as to its lands by
keeping settlers off, but for forty years
It has permitted the Southern Pacific
Railroad to do the same.
It is no justification of the United
States in driving the homebuilder out
by having the plea offered in its de
fense that the railroads have done it
and will do it if the Government
doesn't step in ahead of them and do
the same'.
If the Southern Pacific has "con
served" 2,000,000 acres of land, Jt does
not solve the problem of the state to
have the Government "conserve" 20,
000,000 acres. The United States
should offer its own lands for settle
ment in accordance with its historic
policy. Furthermore, it should require
the Southern Pacific Railroad to open
its lands for settlement in accordance
with the terms of its land grant. The
course and duty of the Government
are clear In both Instances.
SPECULATING OR GAMBLING 7
A Portland grain-buyer a few days
ago purchased 27,000 toushels of wheat
from an Eastern Washington farmer
at 60 cents per bushel in the interior.
Nearly six months earlier the same
buyer had offered the farmer 98 cents
per bushel for the wheat. When it
was . ready for market last Fall it
would have commanded from 90 cents
to 9 5 cents per bushel. Not Including
Insurance, interest charges and ware
house expenses, this . mer has lost
more than $10,000 by holding his
wheat long, after It was ready to sell.
This loss would be a tidy sum for
some small wheat-pit operators to
drop by remaining tco long on the
bull side of the market. Forgetting
that for every speculator who loses
money by his poor judgment in select
ing the winning side of the market
there is another speculator who has
won, . some of our moralists exclaim
that it "served the gambler right" for
trying to force wheat prices up to
extravagant heights.
For this reason, speculation has less
effect on prices than is generally sup
posed. The man who buys or sells
wheat is backing his judgment as to
the size and condition of the crops,
the prospective demands of the con
sumers, and other price-lnnuencing
factors in the game. The Eastern
Washington farmer held his wheat oft
the market because he thought prices
were going higher. The effect of his
speculation was neutralized by some
Russian farmer who .sold with a rush
at the high prices that were aided by
the withdrawaf of the American sup
plies from the market. Tho European
market is the world's market, and it is
the foreign consumers who in the end
fix the prices.
The Palouse farmer can buy or hold
and the Russian farmer can sell. The
Chicago bulls can buy and the Chi
cago bears can sell, but in the end
some one must consume the product.
and it is on the extent of this con
sumers' demand, and not on specula
tive manipulation, that the price will
be fixed. Speculation is bad for the
speculators, whether they are farmers
or Board of Trade men, for the spec
ulative game resembles all other
games of chance, inasmuch as the
man who is playing it cannot win all
the time. The American farmers have
paid rather dearly for their experi
ence in learning that the American
Society of Equity is powerless to con
trol the price of wheat unless it ex
tends its scope to include all of the
wheatgrowers on earth. Then the
monopoly would be so strong that
bread riots would figure in the pro
ceedings. ALASKA'S POSSIBILITIES.
Alaska, still in the mining camp
stage of its history, is a country that
is but little understood by: the outside
world. Enjoying the distinction of
being the "last frontier" In the new
world, it has attracted within its bor
ders' an adventurous tribe from all
parts of the world. With such a rest
less, cosmopolitan population, "contin
ued 'political turmoli is not surprising.
Nor is it surprising that the people of
the United States are unable to de
termine at all times which, if any, of
the numerous factions are in the right.
The air of mystery that still hovers
over so much of Alaska, together with
an absence of hampering facts, has
enabled the muckrakers to give their
fancy free rein, so that there has been
a vast amount of misinformation
printed regarding our marvelously
rich northern possession.
Along with that great output of the
muckrakers' mill has appeared in con
tradiction much in the way of relia
ble information which is opening the
eyes of the Eastern people to the pos
sibilities of our undeveloped possession
in the north. That "Alaska must ul
timately benefit from the Federal in
vestigation of her affairs" is the opin
ion of Daniel Guggenheim, head of
the syndicate whose operations in
Alaska have drawn the attention of
the world to the wonderful resources
of the country. "The Federal investi
gations," says Mr. Guggenheim, "have
brought to the attention of the peo
ple of the United States as nothing
could have brought it that there is a
great sleeping empire of enormous
wealth at our very doors. Now it is
time for the Government So stop talk
ing and do something which will give
the people the opportunity to go to
Alaska and take part in the work of
development."
Mr. Guggenheim asserts that "Alas
ka is not one man's land" or a set of
men's land, but every man's land. It
is an empire without people, and is
waiting. The thing to do Is to stop
talking and act. To have large unde
veloped quantities of goldsilver, lead,
copper, tin, zinc, coal, oil, etc., at our
very doors and to refuse to avail our
selves promptly of this . proffered
wealth is to hold the country back.'
Whatever designs the Guggenheims
may have on Alaska and its resources.
it is quite plain to all who are famll
lar with the situation that there is
plenty of logic and sound sense.
backed up by facts, in the statement !
of the senior member of the firm.
' In advising "enterprising young
men, anxious to succeed, willing to
work and having backbone and stam
ina," to go to what he terms the
"magnetic north," Mr. Guggenheim is
corroborating 'the views of nearly
every shrewd observer who has ever
made even a casual study of the coun
try and its resources. The United States
never made a better investment than
the purchase of Alaska; but it was
not bought for a National park to be
used as a Summer outing district by
the Pinchots and other enormously
rich conservers of our natural wealth.
THE GASOLINE ENGINE.
The power behind the aeroplane is
the gasoline engine. The record
breaking flight made by Curtiss this
week has again called attention to
this comparatively new' motive power
which has revolutionized land travel
and made aerial navigation possible.
In nearly all of the flights made since
the Wright brothers first kept the
heavier-than-air machine off the
ground, the principal difficulty has
been with the power. Aeroplane en
gines, quite naturally must be con
structed so as to have the lightest
possible weight. In their efforts to
secure the minimum of weight, the
engines were made so frail that they
were continually giving way under the
strain that was placed on them. The
success of Curtiss is undoubtedly
due In a large measure to his expert
knowledge of the motive power of his
aeroplane. Long before his ingenuity
was directed toward aerial craft, Cur
tiss was experimenting with gasoline
engines, his efforts being directed to
the production of light-built high
speed machines. So successful was he
in this work that in ,1907 he produced
a motorcycle with which he estab
lished a new world's record by cover-in-
a mile at Ormond Beach, Florida,
in forty-six seconds. Since then he
has built engines for dirigible air
ships, for submarine boats, for rjotor
boats and for aeroplanes.
Aerial navigation is not yet far
enough along on the road to success
to - admit of accurate modeling by
which builders can guard against the
varying currents of wind; but the pro
pelling power seems so satisfactory
that the room for improvement lies in
increasing the load capacity of the
aeroplane, so that it can carry greater
supplies of fuel for long trips. The
automobile and the airship would
still be among the coming inventions
were It not for the gasoline engine.
SEEKING A COLLEGE.
The father and mother of a young
man who will enter college next Fall
have written to The Oregonian to ex
press their apprehensions on the sub
ject of hazing, football and the like
They seek an institution for their son
where these erudite branches do not
form an important part of the cur
riculum. Their letter will be found
elsewhere in the paper. Here it is
mentioned merely to give point to our
fears that they will seek in vain. Foot
ball Infests every instltuticn of learn
ing that we have ever heard of. Or
perhaps ths reader may prefer to say
that it adorns them. At any rate it
is there, and, so far as one can per
ceive, it Is likely to stay.
The boy who goes to college must
fortify his mind to meet the tempta
tlon of football, baseball, track ath
letics and all the rest of the cirels
so-called sports, and he must also
muster up- the courage to stand the
ordeal of hazing. The faculties all
declare that they are opposed to haz
Ing, but we must understand them in
a modified sense. They are opposed
to it when some student is maimed
and there is a public hullabaloo.
Hazing is believed by some colleges
to warm up the "college spirit" and
make students loyal to their alma
mater. The alumnus when he gets
out into the icy world remembers
nothing with so much zest as the times
when he hazed or was hazed. The
act of sitting with his hands tied be
hind him under the pump on a Win
ter's night while his dear comrades
'deluged him with water takes on
roseate aspect under the enchantment
of memory. He delights to recall the
time when he was kicked downstairs
in a sack and stood on the roof naked
for three hours in the rain. These
things are Joyous for the alumnus to
remember In after years when he sits
by his ripe fireside, and the faculties
know it all too well. So they fight
hazing with paper swords and would
not really banish it for the world.
Upon the whole, we do not be
lieve the parents in question are wise
to look for the kind of a college
they speak of. In our opinion.
they could find it they would not
like it, for their son would have no
companions there but milksops and
mollycoddles.
THE LIBRARIANS.
At the meeting of librarians on
Wednesday evening Dr. Arthur Bost-
wick, of St. Louis, talked about books
like a sensible man and a scholar.
Among other notable things he said
that we ought to be careful not to let
children dissect in school the poems
and stories which we expect them t
love in later life. He wittily empha
sized his point by telling the librarian
that a person who could deliberately
analyze Gray's Elegy into Its elements
would be likely to cut up his grand
mother. Whether he would devour
her afterward the doctor did not say,
but we think he would. ' The empha
sis of the modern librarian Is thrown
upon the problem of inducing people
to read. For this purpose they open
their stacks to the public and permit
Tom, Dick and Harry' to go into the
sacred recesses at pleasure and handle
the volumes with grimy fingers. What
is the virgin whiteness of the margin
of a book to the flame of high incen
tive in the mind of a man?
The modern library goes to the
reader and besets him with all the
persuasiveness it can command. Its
spirit is no longer scholastic or reoluse,
but missionary. It has realized its
educational potency and determined
to make the most of it.
The person who fancies that the
free public library in Portland or any
other city is mainly occupied In deal
ing" out trashy novels to silly women
needs information on the subject. He
ought to go into the reading-room
and note the serious men. young and
old, who habitually resort there to
read scientific periodicals: In the cir
culating department on any day a lit
tle after the noon hour and in the
evenings he will find young working
men studying books on mathematics,
engineering, electricity and the like.
Novels exert but a small portion of
the true literary and scholarly In
fluence which the library exerts on
, the community. More novels go out.
than books of poetry or
works of science,
but that does not
signify. The public library is deeply
and strongly educative and its man
agers everywhere realize their oppor
tunity and zealously seize upon it.
The jurisdiction of H. M. Adams,
traffic chief of the North Bank road,
has been extended to cover the Oregon
Electric and United Railways lines.
recent additions to the Hill system in
this territory. This will give Mr.
Adams full sway in one of the great
est traffic-producing regions west -of
the Rocky Mountains. Through his
ong association with both the Harri-
man and the Hill railroad systems in
the Pacific Northwest, Mr." Adams is
exceptionally well qualified for the
added duties that have been placed on
him. He not only has a perfect knowl
edge of the varying local conditions in
the wide territory covered by the
steam and electric lines for which he
will seek, traffic, but he also has a
large acquaintance and high standing
with the people who will supply this
traffic. Mr. Hill does not seem to be
overlooking any of the essentials to
success in the new field which he has
so recently invaded.
Forest fires are raging in Idaho and
a considerable loss has already result
ed. This Is about two months earlier
than we have been accustomed to ex
pect these annual destroyers of forest
wealth. The Idaho fire started in a
slashing made by members of the For
estry Reserve service, and, like prac
tically -all of these blazes, was due to
carelessness. There is one feature of
the acquirement by big syndicates of
so much of the timber that must ap
peal to all, and that is the precaution
taken - by the owners against fire.
There are at least a dozen large tracts
in this state where the owners main
tain a fire patrol system which is so
perfect that losses are almost un
known even in the height of the dry
season. This vigilance is,- of course.
not possible where the timber is held
by small owners, but there is no ex
cuse for most of the forest fires which
annually cost the country millions in
timber wealth.
Wise men among the Grangers note
in the inrush of politicians and pro
fessional men upon the Grange as
members a Just cause for apprehen
sion. Nothing Is clearer than that
such men do not seek affiliation with
the farmers' organization from disin
terested motives. They see, or think
they see, in a body, full hilf of the
voting strength of which is made up
of non-voters at general elections, an
organization which they can swing
for personal and party aggrandize
ment. There is no other reason, than
this why professional politicians from
the cities seek membership - in the
Grange. What .care such men for the
matters that occupy the attention of
rural members at the regular meet
ings of the lodge? What for the sim
ple entertainments, the recitals, the
music, that are given for the "good
of the order" ? What for the initia
tion ceremonies, with their pretty sym
bols and salutary lessons? Nothing,
of course.
Foreigners in Blueflelds seek pro
tection under the Stars and Stripes.
That is because we are a world power.
In the olden time, it will be recalled,
Americans were prone to seek shelter
under the Union Jack, and always
found it, of course. But when Secre
tary Whitney, under Mr. Cleveland,
began to build the White Navy, there
was a change in foreign affairs. Now,
at home or abroad, the Red, White
and Blue stands for something.
The Bank of England reduced the
bank rate to 3 i per cent yesterday
and gold is pouring into London in
such quantities that easy money is
assured for the present. A few mil
lions of this gold that has been flow
ing into the old-world metropolis was
sent from this country to pay for rail
road . securities which disgusted for
eign holders had sold through fear of
too much anti-railroad legislation.
Charity to the dead Is always touch
ing, but sometimes it is not wise. The
late Mr. Havemeyer seems to need the
mantle as much as anybody we can
remember, but reverence for his saint
ed memory should not be permitted to
smother the truth about the - sugar
frauds, and from present indications it
will not.
A speaker at the Baptist Association
meeting Wednesday night condemned
present-day preaching as dead plati
tudes. Perhaps so and possibly; but
as the comet has come and gone, some
sulphurous doctrines, so effective of
yore, produce little terror now.
About the time General Secretary
Scullin, of the National Peace Indus
trial Association, hits Portland, some
local body goes on strike. Yet Mr.
Scullin is as gentle as a dove bearing
an olive branch.
Fourteen cars of Nebraska hogs
were unloaded in the Portland stock
yards Wednesday. It is little wonder
prices rule high when the corn-fed
animal is brought such a distance.
If the State of Washington has
reached the degree of "badness1
wherein daylight saloons are a neces
sity, as Governor Hay thinks it has.
the state is in a bad way.
The news that contracts will be let
to extend a railroad 170 miles into
Alaska will cause maiy to look up the
territory on the map who never sup
posed it was so broad.
After all is said, there are only four
Important news centers at this time.
namely, Washington, D. C, Ben Lo
mond, Cal., Reno, Nev., and the
Colonel.
Mr. Hearst cables some caustic
words on Mr. Roosevelt. The inci
dent will close with "You're another!"
A United States surgeon has found
Jeffries to be in as good condition as
Johnson. How good is Johnson?
There seems now to be no doubt
that the war in Nicaragua has got
beyond comic opera belligerencies.
Will Charles D. Norton rank James
Schoolcraft Sherman in official and
social circles at Washington?
It may turn out that the Govern
ment, not the Havemeyer interests,
will "take care of the boys."
Perhaps Taft will employ the As
sistant President to receive and confer
with the Insurgents.
of course,
CAN THEY "COMB BACK"!
Several Imq izli-f - Sncaresrted by m Na
tional Athletic Contest.
PORTLAND, June 2. To tha Editor.)
It is reported the most popular selling
question of the season is: "Can Jeff come
back?" This is provincially narrow. It
is class monopoly. The ""question should
include: "Can Bwana come back? Bwana
Turrvbo of the first page! Can Jonathan
come back? Jonathan who made the
speech but didn't make the appointment!
Can the Hydrocolickys come back? That
bunch of turbulent ldiocratics hereabout
whose fathers before them were "dacent"
Democrats but who now are calling them
selves non-partisans, non-politicals, non
entities, non "the dlvll," and what not!
For the most part, the literary prizefight
ers seem to agree that Jeff can come back
if he can stand the punch; the political
forecasters are unanimous that Bwana's
wind is good; he can enunciate four col
ums of international thrills, any morning
before breakfast, dlctafe an enormous cor
respondence between the ham and eggs
and hot cakes and coffee, wrestle with
Kings. Emperors. Dukes. Lords ano. Am
bassadors from 10 to 11:55 A. M.; deliver
a philippic from -2 to 4 P. M. without the
slightest exhaustion, a rubdown at 6 P.
M., and after dinner take on authors,
dramatists, philosophers, statesmen, gen
eralissimos, and small-beer nobility until
11 P. M. and go to bed as fresh as a daisy
in dewy morn.
That Jonathan is great at shadow-boxing,
he can stave a hole through the con
stitution, statutes, precedents, and settled
Governmental procedure with a pamphlet
punch, wallop a windbag until it will
squeal and shriek for the initiative and
take the count for Statement One, skip
the rope for Aldrich and sprint over the
fence for the people, and through his in
fluence with the powers enjoin the . en
croachments of Halley's comet. But the
poor hydrocolickys or local nonentities
what of them? Over there in the old
country a turncoat was something awful,
yet everybody knew where to place him.
Not so with those boobyheads who were
neither flesh, fowl or good red herring,
called here in America non-partisans and
non this and non that.-
Would any good Democrat marry his
daughter to a man who didn't know what
he was? From such the good Lord de
liver us!
What is there to be ashamed of In the
name Democrat? Isn't it rich with pa
triotism, ripe with honors and noblo in
character and achievements? Isn't it the
6ire of constitutional democracy or rep
resentative government and all the glories
and born of American citizenship? Isn't
something to be peddled about, swapped
sold, exchanged, bargained and delivered
in Job lots in the marts of a Machiavelian
political mediocrity of has-been brokers
and hungry Micawbers to elect to office
the appendicitis end of Republican fac
tions and a few apostate Democrats for
whom St. Peter is awaiting at a partisan
gate with an uplifted chair!
Out with them, carpet-baggers, ozone
merchants, weather cocks, flip-flappers.
and mother of pearl patriots, who are
ashamed of the memory of Jefferson and
Jackson and the sturdy democracy of
Harmon, Gaynor and Champ Clark, which
Is carrying the banner of democracy
pure and undeliled up to the parapets of
victory.
Can the local Democrats come back?
Sure they are coming back to the old
fighting form as Democrats in name and
Democrats in principles. They will pull
down the three-ball sign over their head
quarters and let the non-partisans start
a pawnshop of their own. J. H. M.
IMPORTANT NEWS BOILED DOWN,
How Reports Would Have Appeared
After the Copy Editor Fixed Them.
New York Mall.
Miss B. Frietchle, a spinster of Fred
erick, Md., narrowly escaped being killed
this morning. A troop of Confederates,
General T. J. Jackson commanding, were
marching down Fourth street, when Miss
Frietchie unfurled "a flag from her attic
window. The men were about to Bhoot
when General Jackson ordered them to
desist, under pain of ignominious death.
George H. Cassabianca, 15 years of
age, was burned on a steamer this morn
ing. The vessel was burning and young
Cassabianca refused to leave it before
being ordered so to do by his father, who.
however, had already perished. The boat
was demolished, partly covered by insur
ance.
Three fishermen, all married, who sailed
away at sundown last evening, were
drowned during the night. The bodies
were found early this morning.
AUGUST 4 Edgar Wilson Nye, a news
paper man, assaulted Ah Sin, a China
man, here late last night, in an alterca
tion over a euchre game. Nye was un
der the impression, he alleged, that the
Chinaman had attempted to cheat. He
declares that 24 packs of playing cards
were found in the Mongolian's long
sleeves and that his nails were waxed.
Nye was discharged.
Waistcoats of Edward VII.
Le Cri de Paris.
It is well known that King Edward dic
tated the fashions in his kingdom. But
there may be general Ignorance of the
fact that he sometimes borrowed his pat
terns of sovereigns who had preceded him
on the throne.
In these later days, the waistcoats of
the King, that all gentlemen made It
their duty to copy, were quite simple.
The - collar was sufficiently open to per
mit the appearance in all its elegance of
the sailor tie; the last button at the bot
tom was not buttoned.
These waistcoats were exact copies of
those worn by Charles II. the cut of
which was described by Samuel Pepys.
And Charles II had himself reproduced
his waistcoats from that of a personage
who figured in a fresco In the cathedral
of Winchester, a painting of the date of
14S9. So Edward VII was pleased to re
store a style more than four centuries
old. These waistcoats were formerly
worn by women as well as by men. King
Edward only changed the material. In
the time of Charles II they were of silk
or of brocade. Edward modestly wore
them of gray cloth.
Same Old Game.
" Eugene Register.
Leading Democrats of the state are
centering on a plan to nominate Jeffer
son Myers as candidate for Governor.
How can they do that and not violate
the direct primary law, which they claim
to hold in such reverence and venera
tion? These self-jconstltuted Democratic
leaders are doing what they would con
demn a regular delegated body of Ore
gon Republicans from doing but, of
course, that is different. Any snap judg
ment Democratic leaders take on the
people and the direct primary will be
condoned and indorsed by independent
papers, which are, really. Democratic to
the core and work the independent racket
for all it is worth in behalf of the
Democratic party.
Elimination by Electricity.
Toronto Globe.
Edison says there is no reason in this
age of electricity why horses should be
allowed within the limits of cities.
Some day when real progress Is made
in the adaptation of electricity to our
needs there may be no reason for cities
at all.
Lobx Acquaintance
The Tattler.
"Aw will you give this note to Miss
May de Sylphington, the aw pretty
little blonde creature with the violet
eyes, don't you know, who dances in the
ballet?"
"That'll be all right, guv'ner. I ought
to Know her; I'm her son.
VICE OF" SMOKING IN PlLIC.
lMseuaalou of the Vnlwrsal Practice :
From Many Points of "View
Chicago Tribune.
The waste of money paid for drink is
accompanied by the still greater waste of
moral force and standing, and followed
by the disease, misery and crime so often
the consequence of the liquor habit.
The matter of smoking can not be dis
cussed on the same grounds, nor does the
correspondent nor many other critics hold
that the habit entails any such results.
Save a few fanatics, no one objects to a
reasonable consumption of tobacco by
those who have attained their full
growth, but there is no doubt that smok
ing in public places has approached the
point where it is not only a nuisance, but
may even become a menace to health.
One has only to stand upon the street
and count the number of men who pass
with cigars, pipes or cigarettes, blowing
into the air clouds of smoke containing
who knows how many million bacteria,
spitting on the pavements, or throwing
butt ends of cigars into the gutter with
the same possibilities of spreading dis
ease, to realize the truth of this asser
tion. Tobacco smoke is constantly puffed
in the faces of men. women and .children
to whom it Is most offensive. It is al
most impossible to enter a restaurant of
any standing, without beelng greeted by a
tobacco-laden atmosphere so dense that
all but strong stomachs quail at it. In
streetcars, especially in warm weather.
the passengers must often ride for miles
with the tobacco fumes of the front plat
form smokers blowing in their faces.
Offices reek with the stench of burning
tobacco or extinguished cigars.
There is no one quite so selfish as a
man addicted to tobacco. As a writer in
the Outlook recently said, the man who
smokes a cigar detests one who smokes
a cigarette or a pipe, and the others re
turn the feeling. They do not seem to
realise that the person who does not
smoke at all has good reason for hating
all their tribe. The person and garments
of a smoker are redolent of tobacco, and
this odor, offensive to so many, is some
times so pungent as to be distinguished
at a considerable distance, sickening those
who have-to endure it.
Reform in this matter will not come
until every man realizes that it is Impo
lite to smoke, in the presence of non
tobacco users without asking permission;
that It is bad manners, to say the least,
to pass through crowded streets puffing
smoke in others' faces: that a restaurant,
an elevator car, or an office much fre
quented by the public is no place to smoke
at all: in short, that he should not in
dulge in a habit which will put any other
person to inconvenience or discomfort.
It is a, question of good taste, of consider
ation for the feelings of others, of chi
valry, if you will, and gentlemanly in
stincts. SHALL ITS NAME BE
CHANGED f
This Question Submitted to the M
E.
Church South.
The Methodist Church in the slave
holding states adopted a separat and In
dependent organization in 1845 under the
name of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South. That name has been retained lor
65 vears. Now it has been decided by
the General Conference of the church, in
Bession at Asheville. to submit to the next
General Conference, which will be held
in 1913, a resolution changing the name
of the church. This resolution asks the
bishops "to submit the old historical
name, 'the Methodist Episcopal unurcn
of America.' " To adopt this suggestion
will require the approval of three-fourths
of the members of all the 45 annual con
ferences. after which the resolution will
be submitted to the General Conference
n 1913. It seems that the demand for
the change came largely from the
church in the Western states. The optn
ion appears to be that the necessary
majorities will not be obtained
Churches are usually extremely con
servative, and men do not take kindly
to any changes, especially in so m
portant a matter as the name.
The division of the Methodist Church
was not occasioned by any question of
theological doctrine. About the time or
the division there was a constant and
very bitter agitation of the policy of
slavery. In 1844 there was a move
ment in the General Conference to de
Dose Bishop James O. Andrew because
his wife owned slaves. It was believed
that the deposition of Bishop Andrew
would work a urreat injury to the church
in the South ana tnat tne cnurcn in
the North would be Injured If tn
bishop exercised his offioe in that sec
tion. Besides- this, the constant agita
tion of the slavery question in the
General Conference was creating heart
burnings and bitterness. In lS4o, when
the separation took place, the Southern
church had about 4ta,uoo memDers, oi
whom 124.000 were negroes. In 1908
the membership had increased to 1,735,
576, with nearly 16,000 churches, worth
$40,000,000.
Looking Out for Insects.
Garden Magazine for June.
No good garden can be run without
the use of a good spray pump. Watch
for blight insects and pests of all kinds
and spray all the vegetables that are
subject to blight with Bordeaux mix
ture twice during June, n tne weatner
Is either very dry or excessively wet,
spray every week. Do not wait for the
blight to show ltseii, as in most, cases
It Is then too late. For eating insects
of all kinds poison must be used. I
alwavs mix the poison with the Bor
deaux, which helps it to stick to the
plant. Be careful when using tnis; ao
not spray it on well-advanced vegeta
tables, such as cabbage which has head
ed. If cabbage worms are troublesome
after tlje, heads have attained any size,
I usually pick them off by hand. For
aphis, use any of the tobacco prepara
tions as a spray; but above all keep the
Bordeaux going, as it is the greatest of
all garden savers. Or you may use
Paris green, about half a pound to 60
gallons of water, first mixing it into a
paste. Arsenate of lead can be used in
the same manner. For quick work,
white hellebore powder dusted on the
plants is effective.
Reflectlona of a Bachelor.
New York Press.
The time people are surest about the
ioys of matrimony is just before they
get into it.
Cheerful idiocy can make a man surer
of the success of his plans than the
profoundest wisdom.
A man knows it isn't necessary to
Jingle a few silver coins in his pocket
when he has plenty of bonds in the safe
deposit.
A woman keeps her ideals Just the
way she, does her old love letters, even
when Bhe has known for years not a
bit of It all was true.
There's hardly anybody a girl can- ad
mire so much for his truthfulness as a
man she can kiss and then have him
pretend to her own face she wouldn't
let him.
Another Cause of HlKh Coat of Living.
Virginia (Minn.) Enterprise.
The idea of teaching every girl to
thump the piano and every boy to be
a bookkeeper will make potatoes worth
$8 per barrel in another 20 years.
And Still Another.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
The price of meats may be less, but
It seems as though the brown paper
that goes on the scales with every pur
chase weighs heavier each week.
The Return of "Our Immortal.
Christian Science Monitor.
We may miss the big- comet that sails
through the sky, '
Likewise the eclipse of the moon.
But the best show of all we won't let it
get by
When Roosevelt sails homeward In June.
LIFE'S SUNNY SIDE
Attorney-General Wirkersham. at a din
ner in Washington, aald of a wrong-headed
financier: i
"His methods aro so deplorable that,
when he tries to defend them he goes to
pieces.
"In fact, he reminds me of an old man
who was brought up before a country
Judge.
" "Jethro. said the Judge. you are ac-
cused of stealing General Johnson's ehick
ensu Have you any witnesses?'
" 'No. sail.' old "Jethro answered haught
ily. 'I had not. sah. I dont steal chick
ens befo witnesses, sah.' " Minneapolis
Journal.
A well-known attorney of this city had
a client whose case presented a mass Of
technicalities, of which his lawyer took
every advantage. Before the final argu
ment and handing down of opinion, how
ever, the client was forced to take a jour
ney of some hundreds of miles and was
compelled to be absent for several weeks.
He arranged with his attorney to flash
him by telegraph the result of the trial,
but told -him so to word his telegram
that the addressee alone would compre
hend its import.
The result was the awarding of a ver
dict In favor of the litigant in question,
and his delighted counsel sent him the fol
lowing message:
"Justice and truth have triumphed."
What was his amazement at receiving a
few hours later a telegram from his client
which said:
'Yours received. Hard lurk. Appeal
Immediately." Philadelphia Times.
Mrs. Pennington looked down the sravcl
walk and saw the newly hired cook com
ing toward the house with a bed spring
and mattress on her back.
Why have you brought your bed. Mar
tha?" asked Mrs. P. "Don t you know
that your room here is completely lur
nished?" Well, hit's dis way. Mrs. Pennington,
you see, when you sleeps on jour own
bed you sleeps like you wnnts. but when
you sleeps on odder folkses' bed you mtis"
sleep kinder particular." National
Monthly.
see
A lawyer once asked a man who had
at various times sat on several juries:
Who influenced you most the lawyers.
the witnesses or the Judge? He expect
ed to get some useful and interesting in
formation from so experienced a juryman.
This was the man's reply:
I'll tell yer. sir, 'ow 1 maKes up my
mind. I'm a plain man. and a reasonin
man. and I ain't influenced by auyimrc
the lawyers say: no, nor by what the
Judge savs. I Just looks at the man in
the docks and I says. 'If he ain't dene
nothing, why's he here?' And I brings
em all in guilty.' "snort atones.
An Object Leason.
Atchison Globe.
Picture No. 1 shows a young man
and a young girl all In white standing
In the gloaming beside a lily.
"What a superb lily." said the girl.
"Isn't It?" said the man.
He was going to marry her.
"Let me show you something," he
said.
Picture No. 2 shows the young man
bending over the lily and the girl
watching him In startled fawn fashion.
"I am going to tie this string around
thii lily," said the man.
"But why?" asked the girl.. "You'll
hurt it. won't you?"
"You'll see," said the man.
In Picture No. 3 the man Is leaning
against a garden wall with his arms
foiled. He looks sad and the girl Is
also looking sad. Both are looking
down, as dejected as if they had opened
a potato hill and found no potatoes
In it.
The next day the girl and the man
came back to the lily. It was dead.
The juice could not rise to the flower
and it starvtd to death.
"Oh, what a shame." said the girl.
But that
corset!
evening she loosened her
More Popular Fiction.
Chicago Tribune.
"I Just Adore Grand Opera."
"I Don't Care for the Nickel; It's the
Principle of the Thing."
"Yes, Mabel: I'd Love You Just the
Same If You Were as Poor as a Church
Mouse."
"No, Sor, the Young Leddy Isn't at
Home."
"I Haven't the Money With Me Now,
but I'll Pay You Next Week. Sure."
"He's Not Five Years- Old Yet, Con
ductor."
"I . Don't Want It for Myself. You
Know; I'm Buying It for a Friend."
"I Detest Liquor, but the Doctor Ad
vises Me to Use It."
la There Such a Colleger
PORTLAND, June 2. (To the Edi
tor.) As we have a boy who will at
tend a university In September will
you kindly Inform us If there Is any
such institution on this Coast where
baseball, football and hazing are not
considered ,a part of the studies, but
where hoodlumism is prohibited?
PARENTS.
IN THE MAGAZINE
SECTION OF THE
SUNDAY
OREGONIAN
OUR UNMANNED
PACIFIC COAST DEFENSES
Who will man the guns at the
mouth of the Columbia in time of
invasion T Timely article by an
officer of the United States Army,
who declares our only hope lies in
the militia.
FEDERAL SUPREME COURT
AS HUMAN BEINGS
Not supermen at' all, but gTeat
lawyers with fads, fancies and red
blood, like the rest of mankind.
ADVANCE NEWS OF THE
COLONEL'S DEPARTURE
The Japanese schoolboy reports
the tributes from Europe when T..
R. leaves Southampton for home.
JEFFRIES TELLS OF
HIS HARDEST FIGHT
This was the second battle with
Fitzsimmons. It is interesting to
compare the story as told by the
victor with the stories of sporting
writers.
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