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THE MORNING ORERONIAN. THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1910. (Sty teammt PORTLAND. OREGON. ' Entered at Portland, Oregon, Postofflce as Second-Class Matter. (Subscription Rate Invariably .in Advance. (BY MAIL). Pally. Sunday Included, one year. . . . . $8.o0 Dally. Sunday Included, six months.... 4.25 rjally, Sunday Included, three months.. Xally. Sunday Included, one month.... -5 Dally, without Sunday, one year 6.O0 Dally, without Sunday, six months.... 3.'J Daily, without Sundav. three months... 1. 1 5 pally, without Sunday, one month 6" Veekly, one year ' Funday. one year 2. SO Sunday and weekly, one year 3.50 (By Carrier). Daily, Sunday Included, one year 9.00 Jjaily. Sunday Included, one month 75 How to Remit Send Postofflce money or Jar, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. Olve Postofflce address In lull. Including county and state. Postage Rates 10 to 14 pases. 1 cent: 16 to 28 pages. 2 cents: 30 to 40 pages. 8 cents; 40 to 60 pages, 4 cents. Foreign postage double rate. Eastern BdsIsms Office The S. C Beck 'Ith Special Agency vv York, rooms 48 r0 Tribune building. Chicago, rooms 610 B12 Tribune building. JWRTLa.VD, THURSDAY, JULY 1. 1810. "TALKING ONLY FOB BUNCOMBE." Democratic industries are "protect ed" nobly by the new tariff, yet their patriot statesmen are dissatisfied. Hefe is an exhibition of the way "revision downward" affected chief Democratic Industries: Sugar, molasses and manufactures of Eame as Dingley rates. Tobacco, and manufactures of Same as TDlnsley rates. Rice Same as Dingley rates. Cotton manufactures Same as Dingley rates. Hpmp Rates advanced. Whisky Rates advanced. Semi-tropical fruits Same as Dingley rates. Wool Same as Dingley rates. Yet Champ Clark, candidate for Speaker of the next House of Repre sentatives, overlooks Democratic bene fits from the new protective tariff and denounces the Payne law as graft orie species of special privilege." On iprizefight day the Missouri statesman made a denunciatory speech in New rYork City at the Tammany Hall cele Ibratlon, from which speech he was careful to omit the foregoing exhibit. He declared that Republicans had promised the people "honest" revision downward, but in fulfilment of the promise had revised it upward. Champ declaimed particularly against maintenance of the Dingley schedule on wool a schedule, by the way, .which the great State of Texas and other Democratic strongholds, along with the Republican States of Oregon, "Washington, Idaho and other wool producing commonwealths, are con tent with the new law. Champ de clared ' further: If we have the next House, as I believe awe will have, we will honestly and cour ageously report & bill to revise the tariff rlown to a revenue basis, pass It through the House and send it over to the Senate. Per haps by that time the Senate, yielding to bie public demand, will also pass It. If It fines not, we will go o the people on that issue In 1912. A good place for Democratic com patriots of the Missouri Congressman to have "shown" the people the worth of their low tariff professions would Ihave been in the schedules affecting raw products and manufactures of Democratic States. But nay. People of Southern States, for example, will not give up their share of protective tariff spoils to back up the flamboyant oratory of speechifying politicians. With them the issue is one of profits rather than of rhetoric or aspirations for office. Protective tariff is not a party issue Ind cannot now be made such an issue. The American people in both parties are victims of the "protective" delu sion.! Until they recover from this fal ecy of taking from one Industry, or group of interests, to benefit another, tio dividing line between parties can. be drawn on the tariff question.' Rep resentative Haven, Democrat, recently triumphant in New York, in a fanfare election, declared for low duties or free trade on cotton manufactures and raw products competing with the products of the South, but his speeches did not awaken enthusiasm in the great Democratic stronghold below Mason and Dixon's line. . Patriot politicians. Champ Clark in eluded, will have to clean off the pro- itectiVe tariff tar from their exploits in both parties before the people will "be shown" to the point of believing their free-trade or tariff-f or-revenue professions. The word "buncombe" is derived from the remark of a Congressman from Buncombe County, North Caro lina, that he was "talking only for Buncombe." It is fit synonym for pro tective tariff and Champ Clark's ora tory. VALUABLE ORCHARDS. Most of the Willamette Valley farm ers long since abandoned the prac tice of growing wheat which must find a. market in competition with the cheap land and cheap labor of the Ar gentine, India, Russia and other re gions where nature has been less kind than she has been to Oregon. They ihave replaced the wheat crop with fruit and small farming and are now receiving larger returns per acre in a single season than they formerly re ceived in ten. East of the Cascade Mountains the country was not set tled or developed until a number of years after the Willamette Valley be came prominent as a wheat-growing section. As the great territory lying east of the mountains was several years behind the valley in the wheat Industry, so also it was relatively late in shifting from w.heat to more profit able crops. The change Is coming, however, and the extent of the development that has already taken place is again noted In the sale of a fruit ranch near Dayton, !Wash., for $150,000. On this 240- acre ranch are 100 acres of bearing ' orchard and 30 acres of young or chard. That the large sum paid for the ranch is quite reasonable is shown In the statement that the returns Ifrom the orchard for the past three years have exceeded J100.000, and that the crop of the present season is esti mated at 75,000 boxes. While this is the largest individual transaction in fruit farms that has yet been reported in the inland empire, there are a large number of big orchards there, and the output Is increasing enormously each year. Not all of the land that now grows wheat is well adapted to fruit-growing, but the greater profits of the industry, as compared with grain growing, are certain to result in a steadily increasing acreage being with drawn from grain and placed in fruit and small farming. This means a larger and more prosperous popula tion, and in the change that Is now taking place both east and west of the Cascade Mountains Portland will re ceive full share of the benefits. The Oregon fruit-grower; dairyman and small farmer can well afford to Import wheat from Argentina or Russia, If it becomes necessary. ASSEMBLY CANDIDATES AND OTHERS. Candidates for party nomination are free to enter the primaries, whether recommended ;by assembly or not. That is-thtir privilege under the law and no advocates of assembly will gainsay It. But candidates who deny right of members of party to assemble and pick men that such assembly deems fittest to represent party and hold office, exceed the limits of proper citizenship and good seeming.. Assembly Is one of the highest- prized rights of free citizenship. It is I declared In constitutions the basic privilege of liberty. It is the - most I frequent of American habits. It is the one means citizens have of con cert and common purpose. It is a practice certainly not to be abolished because of. Its ancient abuse. There will be no political assembly in Ore gon again like convention of the "old days." Neither law nor public prac tice would permit it. . Candidates who denounce , assem bly in Oregon will live to regret. Their act displays them In their own opinion superior to the members of party in conference, as representatives of party. It amounts to presumption on their part that they each command majority of party and are supreme leaders and bosses of party. Yet it ia altogether probable that such can didates can win nomination, at best, only by small plurality or minority of votes. The opposition of majority in election is a prospect for such can didates to ponder over. With candidates who concede the right' of co-members of party to as semble, the case is altogether different. On such basis they may conform with the rules of primary and constitution and American political usage. It is a new doctrine, certainly, that citizens should not confer together to recommend candidates for office or that candidates should not accept such recommendation, or that other candi dates who have no representative body of citizens to. vouch for them, possess superior merit for office. As pirants for office who assert this doc trine belong to a "new" class of American citizenship; PROGRESS OF CONSERVATIOX. Endless trouble looms ahead for those matchless conservers of wilder ness and solitude, Messrs. Pinchot and Garfield. President Taft and Secre tary Ballinger plan to "open up" the 87,000,000 acres of phosphate and pe troleum lands and water power sites with special legislation. But first of all the non-Pinchotized Geological Survey is to be called in to classify the lands. "This legislation," says Mr. Ballinger, "will require a lot of test and study. The problem is intricate." That any work of conservation should go forward without the aid of the twin champions of wilderness and solitude and of Socialistic Government exploitation of resources, is almost un believable. Meanwhile the gentleman Pinchot, who was let out of the job of Forester, and the other gentleman Garfield, who was supplanted by Bal linger as Secretary of the Interior, have hied off to the Colonel for blg brother sympathy and vengeance. Next September they plan a big con servation convention at St. Paul, whence they think they will rend the skies and make Ballinger and his sat ellites wobble in their orbits. The "test and study" of Taft and Ballinger and -their "intricate problem" of con serving the West will be picked to pieces in that convention, supposedly with the aid of the Colonel and the grand sonorosity of Beveridge and other insurgents. Not the interests of the West are expected to triumph there, but the sewing-bee notions of New England and the tyrannical rule of Pinchot, as imported from the Kaiser's forests in Germany. So that there Is- work' ahead in con servation, piles of it, for all hands. Most important of all, Western peo ple, who are most concerned and who live nearest the resources, are to have least to say about matters. As President Taft remarked recently, everybody favors conservation, what ever it may mean. GOOD IMMIGRANTS AXD BAD. With over 1,000,000 aliens entering the country during the past fiscal year it is apparent that the United States has got back most of its lost prestige as a paradise for European labor. We are not yet quite up to the wonderful record of 1906-7, but have very closely approached that year's total of 1,130, 615, the arrivals to June 1 being 936, 545. For the eleven months the gain over the preceding period was more than 330.000. Not only in numbers but in quality the 1909-10 immigra tion shows a very satisfactory gain over some preceding years. There was an increase in the number of Germans, British, Irish and Scandinavian immi grants, with correspondingly smaller proportion of the less desirable races of Europeans. Unfortunately for this country we are not receiving as hlgh a grade of European immigrants as are pouring into Canada. As a matter of fact, a great many of the better class who come to this country with the inten tion of engaging in agricultural pur suits, cross over the line into Canada, leaving us with the less desirable ele ment that swarms into the cities. The reason for this preference ,is not far to seek. It rests almost wholly in our absurd land laws, and the sucoess of the faddists in locking -up vast tracts of land which should be avail able for this most desirable class of foreigners, who ' are now developing Canada at a pace never equalled in the best days of the old West. Not only is the new settler in Canada un hampered by any of the American Btyle of conservation, but even were we on even terms with the Dominion in available supplies, our restrictions are much more severe. In Canada the settler is not required to live on his land more than six months in the year, thus having plenty of time to seek employment elsewhere If it is necessary for him to do so in the three years before he can acquire title. Another point on which the Cana dians score heavily in this competition for the foreign immigrants is in giving sons and daughters of legal age per mission to take up land and still live at home while acquiring title to it. On this side of the . line we have a development-stifling policy of conserva tion which drives the most desirable foreigners away from us. In Canada the inducements to the newcomer are so liberal that' it is small wonder that there is a large and Increasing move ment not only from Europe but from the United States. We are receiving too many of the class of immigrants that we do not need, and not enough of the "desirables" who would become good citizens. It Is a very poor ex change when we take in several thou sand low-type foreigners and lose thousands of our own citizens, and with them the best of the newcomers, many of whom left the old world to avoid the policies which keep in Idle ness vast tracts of land which should be under cultivation. THE POIXDEXTER STORY. - Representative Poindexter, of "Wash ington, told Colonel Roosevelt that he (Poindexter) was the special and par ticular champion of the Roosevelt policy of conservation in the State of Washington, and on that issue he had been elected to Congress in 1908. It would also appear probable that he told Colonel Roosevelt that Sena tor Piles and Secretary Ballinger, and most of the other conspicuous citizens of Washington, in and out of office, were engaged in an infamous conspir acy to defeat Poindexter, and, there fore, to overthrow the cherished Roosevelt scheme of conservation. Such was evidently the basis of the report of the precipitate intrusion of the Ex-President in ' the Washington contest. . Now Colonel Roosevelt denies that he promised Poindexter his support, and he especially disclaims any pur pose to interfere anywhere between candidates. Undoubtedly Colonel Roosevelt knows what he wants to do and undoubtedly he wants nothing to do with the Poindexter campaign. Yet it remains to be explained how a news agency so reliable and careful as the Associated Press was made to send broadcast the definite announcement that Colonel Roosevelt had placed himself behind Mr. Poindexter. Colonel Roosevelt could not elect Poindexter Senator in Washington if he would. It is not unlikely that Poindexter will get a plurality of the popular vote. He will not get a ma jority, and he will not be the so-called "people's choice." The Legislature will not elect him. Colonel Roosevelt has been wise to avoid the risk of a marked and signal rebuke from the people of Washington, who, it may be remarked incidentally, do not believe either in Poindexterlsm or Pinchotlsm. THE INDEPEKDEXCE LEAGCE. Mr. Hearst's once far-famed Inde pendence League has been moribund for so long that it passed for dead in the minds of most people. The news that the last sad rites have just been celebrated over its .remains in Chicago comes therefore as a surprise. It seems like a funeral too long de ferred. The corpse can hardly be in a condition to admit of the final tear ful but Indispensable exhibition to the procession of mourners. So the public will reason in its mistaken reflections upon the melancholy event. The truth of the affair is that, while the League has been corpselike a great while, it has not been really a corpse. The transition, though too long de layed, perhaps, was not actually ef fected until last Tuesday. The pass ing away bit by bit of the feeble rem nant of the Independence League marks the close of one of the most interesting experiments ever tried in American politics. Unembarrassed by a shred of prin ciple and controlling abundant finan cial resources, as well as powerful newspapers here and there, Mr. Hearst set about the enterprise of seeking any and every important office which became vacant. His political method consisted of appeals to the "prejudice of ignorant people. Truth cut no figure in his campaigns. Common sense was defied with the utmost bravery. His almost acknowledged purpose was to build his political for tunes on humbug and trickery. The result might have been predicted be fore he began his career by any per son who understands the character of the American people. It is possible to deceive them occasionally, but im possible to enlist them in a game of confessed deception- Now and then they may be misled, but they will not follow a leader who boasts of his charlatanism. They distrust their accustomed leaders pretty thoroughly sometimes, but they never have been induced by their distrust of a bad man to build their hopes on a worse one. PORTLAND'S LIVESTOCK SHOW. The Portland Fair and Livestock Association has announced its plans for a big September meeting at the grounds of the Country Club. This will be welcome news not only to the Portland business interests, but to thousands' of stock breeders all over the Pacific Northwest. The financial difficulties, due to bad management and other unfavorable features, for a time threatened to put an end to this annual exhibition, which in point of merit far outshone anything of the kind ever attempted in the Pacific Northwest. But a number of-public-spirited men who have been putting up money since the present fair grounds were first located, have de cided to make one more effort to pre vent the abandonment of the great enterprise. This year the fair will be held a few days ahead of the State Fair at Salem. If Portland people will give the same cordial support that has always been given the State Fair, its success and permanency will be as sured. Portland has become the live stock headquarters for the Pacific Northwest; the location in this city of the largest stockyards and packing plant west of the Missouri River has given this city a remarkable prestige throughout the United States. But the Pacific Northwest, with its millions, of acres of unoccupied land, with its vast and wonderful production of al falfa and other stock feed, is unable to supply the demand of this big plant. Our livestock Industry is in greater jieed of expansion than any other branch of our agricultural pur suits, and in no other way can the in terest In the breeding of fine stock be increased so easily as by means of these fairs, where large prizes should be hung up for the best-bred animals. The .coming big fair, like its prede cessors, badly managed as they were, will draw exhibits from all parts of the northwest, and even beyond the Rocky Mountains. While the direct immediate profits to Portland may be slightly less than those which resulted from the recent Rose Carnival, the in direct benefits to the city by the awakened interest in our livestock and agricultural resources which will follow the September fair, will be much greater. The project is one that should be loyally supported by every citizen, and every possible effort put forth to make this meeting as great a success as its Importance warrants. Now that it has been definitely decided that the fair will be held, the manage ment should take immediate steps to ward providing transportation between the city and the fair grounds. The miserable streetcar service of the past two years has been no small factor in cutting down the receipts; this Is a handicap that should be removed at once. It Is simply im possible to handle the crowds that should attend the fair, on a single track line, and this year the people should be assured before the fair opens that an adequate car service would admit of their getting back and forth without unnecessary loss of time. There is no good reason why the livestock show should not be made as prominent an event in the Fall as the rose show is In the Spring. All that is needed Is the same local sup port for the Fall attraction as is given the Spring event. A Coos County game warden says that large numbers of cats, once do mesticated, which are now running wild in the woods, are killing so many birds and destroying nests to such an extent that game will be scarce un less something is done to check the destruction. The game warden advo cates the payment of a bounty for the killing of all cats not properly con fined. Killing house cats for a bounty would be about as exciting as shooting monkeys in South Africa where they are too tame to object. The problem of a bounty, however, might be per plexing. If the tame cat retains all of the nine lives with which it is credited in civilization, either the bounty would of necessity be small or it would be limited to one life per cat. Topographer Sargent, of the United States Geological Survey, has sailed for Alaska to make public land surveys in the Tanana Valley, near Fairbanks. If the conservationists do not get in their fine work in the near future, there will be opportunities for a large number of energetic farmers to secure more gold than the average miner will take out of the country. The Summer season in Alaska Is short, but- the land is wonderfully rich, and nature hustles all kinds of vegetable growth along with a rush, so that it is possible to grow almost every thing that is produced in the agri cultural districts much farther South. So long as the mining camps continue to draw crowds the farmers will be assured of a good market at very high prices. The New York stock market is still in a panicky condition. While there was a recovery at the close yesterday, prices are still gravitating to very low levels in comparison with the figures reached last Fall. The Interstate Commerce Commission decision seems to have spent its force for the present, and there is more uncertainty over crop conditions than there is over the probable effect of the famous decision. As the railroad men are catching their breath after the first shock, there Is a growing belief that something that will prevent Its enforcement will turn up before the order finally becomes effective. This has had a tendency to steady the market, but so long as crop damage reports continue as serious as they are at preserit, stocks, especially in the "granger" roads, will be de cidedly weak. Ten negroes are crowing over Johnson's pugilistic prowess to one who rejoices in the majestic intelli gence of Booker Washington. A race which Imagines it can find salvation in the knuckles of a prize-fighter has still a long road to travel before it reaches the promised land. As for the whites who feel humiliated by Johnson's victory, they are better off without the kind of pride which the issue of a prize fight can wreck. One fancies, however, that the true seat of their sorrow is in the pocket rather than the heart. In one breath Democratic critics of Republican assembly declare as sembly a scheme to boss and "own" the people; in the next they point out examples of the people's revolt against old-time boss-ridden conven tions. The only kind of assembly, then, that can hold the respect and confidence of the people is an "open," representative, independent one. That is correct. Such assembly will be the one for Portland, July 21, for which Republicans are choosing delegates. It is nothing but rank discrimina tion in Chicago to refuse -permission for a parade with music for the victor. If the white man had won, nothing would have been too good or too noisy. The black man gets it all around, even from the time Noah turned down Ham. Mr. Johnson's wife is wise to one great fact. She is reported to be wearing a profusion of diamonds. Money files, but precious stones are an investment. Mr. Johnson should guard his. Dirty kitchens in hotels, grills and restaurants are like the kitchen., in many homes, but prominent because of their greater magnitude. A good test Is when the owner and help eat there. Dr. Jordan says intelligence is not required to play football, but he ap proves the English game. Cannot "blacksmiths and boilermakers" shine in the open play as well? Nobody wants a tubercular sanita rium or detention hospital In his neighborhood. Nowadays the good Samaritan takes the other side of the street. The Portland delegation at the Salem Cherry Fair today should be large. The Salem cherry is in prime condition to bite. Who would have thought that the Senatorship of Washington State could develop instantaneously into a National issue? Portland people at Salem today should not forget to ask for boiled water. There is danger in the raw article. When the Colonel said he would keep out of politics until September he must have had his fingers crossed. The sale of a tract at Eagle Point for $90,000 means more Oregon apples for the world. In cherries Oregon leads the world. At Salem this week the finest of the fine will be shown. The Colonel is hedging in the Poin dexter affair. - . MR. ROOSEVELT'S INCONSISTENCY. He Has Cant Doubt on Ills Good Faith In Public Promises Made. Brooklyn Eagle, Ind. Dem. When Mr. Roosevelt declared that nothing could Induce him to re-enter politics until next September, at the earliest, his decision was accepted as wise, up to that time, and would have been accepted 'as wiser, had he made the time longer. He had been wel comed abroad and was received at home as a great American, represent ing no party and greeted by all parties. Well for him had- he let that record stand. Better yet, had he done nothing to contradict his assertion or to chill the" satisfaction of his countrymen with his non-partisan welcome home by casting doubt on his good faith or at least on his stability of purpose. He has cast doubt on his good faith. He has chilled the satisfaction of his countrymen. He has advertised his own instability of purpose. He has done this to accomplish a specific result in the state Legislature and the state Legislature in both houses has refused to accomplish that result by turning it and him under, and by making him go 'way back and there setting him down hard. The inconsistency of his course had been the same, had he succeeded. Then, however, there would have been sycophants or casuists who would have excused his instability to apparent ne cessity and applauded his Buccess as a brilliant stroke. As it is he not only rescinded his good resolution, but he failed to "justify" it by the poor plea of "necessity" or of "success." The lesson is signal. The mortification is or should be signal. The lesson should be educational, but we fear that neither mortification nor lesson will be educational to Mr. Roosevelt at all. For a man, within a fortlnght, to take a stand of which every one had to ap prove, because it was right, and then to reverse that stand, under pressure, or under the ambition of vanity, and utterly to fall in the reversal, should be predicable of no American .and could be predicable only of the one American of whom it should be un thinkable. Few things could be more regret able than Mr. Roosevelt's reversal of his declaration to the people. The only palliation of that could have been that his party called on him to lead it in a dire emergency and he had to yield to it, just as It had to obey him. That would have been a poor enough excuse. Even that has been denied to him and repudiated by the party. There was and is no dire emergency. There was no call by the party to hi n. There was a command to the party by him. The call by , him to the party was rejected by the party. The command by him to the party was flouted by the party. His default to promise was lamentable. The rebuke to him was absolute. The result will be helpful to politics in the large, in any event. It will be loquent of in struction to the people in any event. We fear it will be lost on the man to whom it should be most educational. But it will not be lost on the politics or on the politicians of the future. To both it will be salutary. To history it will be significant. Domestic Drama at Daughter's. Atchison Globe. An old-fashioned woman from the coun try recently packed some fried chicken, bread and doughnuts In a market basket, and went to see her daughter who lives in a big city. She was scandalized when the family stayed up till 11 o'clock, and decided that she wouldn't tell pa about it when she wrote home next day. "He might think we have fallen into evil ways," she said to herself as she was going off to sleep. She awoke at her usual time, 4 o'clock, and the house seemed strangely quiet. "Town folks do get lazy," she thought, "and they prob ably don't get up till 5." She dressed and went downstairs, and watched the clock till 5. Not a sound; then she waited till 6, and at 7, between hunger and alarm, she was almost crazed. "They've been murdered in their beds!" she yelled at 8 o'clock from the front steps, . and soon the house was filled with people rushing In to see what had happened. The fam ily were surprised and Indignant, when police, market gardeners, newsboys, etc., rushed into their bedrooms, and woke them up, and this explains why the old fashioned woman came home' that day. "I never exepcted," she sobbed to pa, "that any girl would talk to her ma as Jane talked to me." One of Life's Tragedies. (Washington, D. C, Herald.) I was coming over to Washington, D. C, from New York not long ago, with a party of friends, and we were pass ing the time playing seven-up. Busily engaged in playing, I did not notice when a man from behind touched rhe on the shoulder. When he did it again I turned around. In a quiet even voice the stranger said: "May I speak to you a moment please?" I was annoyed at being interrupted, but there was something in his plea that sUswtled me. I laid down my cards and went around to his seat. "What is It" I asked. "I'm sorry to disturb you," he said, as he grasped my hand in a grip so fierce that it hurt, "but I've just gone blind. I can't see at all God help me!" It was true. He had been stricken with blindness, and we had to help him off at the Union station and tele graph back to his friends in New York to come and get him. Talk about life's tragedies! Singapore, a Home for Rabbits. (London Telegraph.) A syndicate has established a 85 acre poultry farm at Singapore, stocked with imported English fowls. Hou dans. Black Minorcas and White Leg horns seem to thrive best. An effort is also to be made to Import rabbits, pigeons and cows from England, as it is believed they will do well in that equable climate. Heroism of a Spanish Nun. Edinburgh Scotsman. The heroism of a Spanish nun. Sister Algeria, during the recent war with the Riffians, was rewarded at Melilla a few days since by the commander of the Span ish forces there, who, in the presence of all the civil and military officials of the town, decorated her with the red cross of the Order of Military Merit. His Shoes in Use for SO Years. Indianapolis News. Isaiah Berg, of Milton Grove. Pa., has a pair of "Sunday" shoes that he has worn to church yearly every Sunday for 30 years. He also has a pair of 'every day" bdots that he has worn much of the time for 25 years. The shoes and boots were made by Abraham Ebersole, of MastersonviUe. One Rembrandt Brings $8250. London Tit-Bits. Rembrandt etchings fetched high prices at the sale of the Theobald collection at Gutekunst's art. room in Stuttgart. One, "Rembrandt in the Act of Drawing." was bought by a Berlin dealer for $8250. This is a proof from the unfinished plate, and the only other one known to exist is in the British Museum. DESTROY DANGEROUS HOUSEFLY Rules Which Every Housekeeper Should Observe. New York Times. Musca domestlca, the "typhoid fly." which is the more accurate name for the common housefly, is- now classed as the most dangerous of the enemies of mankind. "Regarded in the light of recent knowledge." Dr. Daniel D. Jack son says in The Review of Reviews for July, "the fly Is more dangerous than the tiger or the cobra." It Is known to be the chief cause of intestinal epidemics in cities. From intestinal diseases alone more than 7500 persons died last year in this city, while the deaths from ma laria in Greater New York were less than 100. This country spends annually hun dreds of thousands of dollars to destroy the malarial mosquito, practically noth ing to quell the universal scourge of flies. All flies bear disease-breeding germs. Their origin is in filth. They live in filth. Where conditions of filth exist the progeny of one fly may mount Into the sextllllons In a single season. They bear into the homes and food, water, and milk supplies of the people not only the germs of typhoid and cholera, but of tubercu losis, anthrax, diphtheria, ophthalmia, smallpox, stapylococcus infection, swine fever, tropical sore, and the eggs of para sitic worms. In combating the pestilent evil the Merchants' Association of this city has issued a "fly poster" reading as follows: Keep the flies away from the sick, espe cially those ill with contagious diseases. Kill every fly that strays Into the sick room. His body is covered with disease germs. Do not allow decaying; materlu.1 of any sort to accumulate on or near your premises. Ail refuse which tends In any way to fer mentation, such as bedding straw, paper waste and vegetable matter, should be dis posed of or covered with lime or kerosene oil. Screen all food. Keep all receptacles for garbage carefully covered and the cans cleaned or sprinkled with oil or lime. Keep all stable manure In vault or pit, screened or sprinkled with lime, oil or other cheap preparation. See that your sewage system Is In good order; that It does not leak. Is up to date, and not exposed to flies. Pour kerosene into the drains. Cover food after a meal; burn or bury all table refuse. Screen all food exposed for- sale. Screen all windows and doors, especially the kitchen and dining-room. Burn pyrethrum powder in the house to kill the flies. Don't forget if you see flies, their breeding place Is In nearby filth. It may be behind the door, under the table or In the cuspidor. If there Is no dirt and filth, there will be no flies. If there is a nuisance in the neighborhood write at once to the Health Department. But flies are something worse than a nuisance. They should be shunned as the plague is shunned. SPECIAL DELIVERY NOT SAFE. Letters Thus Sent Offer Temptation to Dishonest Employes. Washington Herald. Since the change in postal regula tions which now permit the use of stamps to the value of 10 cents in place of the special delivery stamp, the amount of such mail has greatly increased. It is due ' to this increase that peculiar features of the service were brought to the attention of the Postofflce Department officials. So frequently has complaint been made recently that an investigation resulted, which brought to light the fact that a large percentage of special delivery letters contain valuables. An official stated that full four out of five persons believe a special delivery stamp on a letter means security. He points out that the practice of sending money or valuable papers In special delivery letters has been in dulged in so much recently as to make the letter less safe than one with only the 2-cent stamp affixed. Since there are dishonest men among the three quarter million employes of the Postal Service who handle mail just as there are dishonest men in all walks of life the thief has learned to look for val uables in the special delivery envelope. The special delivery letter Is handled as Is the other first-class mail. It is only when it reaches the office of de livery that the additional stamp means anything to the postal employe. This explains why such a large percentage' of special delivery letters go astray, as compared with other mail. The only remedy is publicity and a change in the habits of those persons who use the special delivery .instead of the reg istry system when sending money or other valuables. Ed. Howe's Philosophy. A politician takes himself as seriously as a young doctor. Do you know of a nastier noise than a mule makes when he Is lonesome? Watch any game long enough and you will find cheating going on. When a man becomes an agent his first move is to attempt to victimise his friends. When a woman is getting ready to go away for the Bummer, she's as busy as when she is getting ready to be married. So far as we have observed, most of the scientific treatises on motherhood are writ ten by spins with nothing to raise but their hopes and parasols. The man who spends a good deal of his time telling his friends that be Intends to whip you. Is pretty apt to talk off his fighting edge. Ask a merchant the price of anything:, and he will always say it la "only" three dollars or ten cents, or whatever the price may be. If you never bother busy people when you're loafing, that's one big long mark to your credit, anyway. A woman may believe In her husband, but she is more Inclined to argue with him than she is to argue with her minister or doctor. A big fat woman doesn't look it, but she longs for Sympathy, and to be "understood" Just as much as a thin pale woman. Speaking of a safe and sane Fourth, re member that firewater La a good deal more dangerous and damaging than firecrackers. Bankruptcy, says a man who Is on the inside. Is when you put your money In your hip pocket and let your creditors take your coat. More Rest Needed. New York Press. In hot weather the nervous system de mands far more rest; seven- hours' sleep the minimum for men, eight for women, and it Is well for both if a snooze of this sleep is Just after midday. An Interval should be between lunch and sleep or the sleep will be heavy, fattening, weaken ing and sweaty.' Ten hours of sleep may not be too much for very hard workers. A good thing is occasional resting quietly on a long chair or couch for an hour and keeping the mouth Shut of talking. "It Is canny to sit and say nowt," but this is a practice that would agree with everybody in some houses. Canning Business In Brazil. (Baltimore American.) According to official returns. Vice Consul General J. J. Slechta of Rio de Janeiro says that the 21' canning and preserving factories In the federal dis trict of Brazil produced 1770 metric tons of miscellaneous fruit, vegetable, meat and fish preserves last year, one factory alone producing 1107.5 tons. This shows a considerable increase over 1908, when 19 factories produced 1473 metric tons. Courted for 3 2 Years. Springfield, Mass., Despatch. Fifty-two years ago Mary S. Bartlett, of Haverhill, Mass., broke' her engage ment to marry Frank B. Nichols, and be gan the support of her widowed mother, by teaching school. Miss Bartlett and Nichols are just married. New Australian Federal City. London Echo. The Home Affairs' Department, Mel bourne, issues invitations to the design ers of the world to furnish competitive designs for laying out the new Aus tralian Federal capital city at Yass-Can-ber- LIFE'S SUNNY SIDE Eleanor, aged six, had been going to school only a few weeks. She had learned to raise her hand If she want ed anything. One day she put this into effect when she was sent to the chicken-house to get the eggs. Just as she reached the chicken house door her mother heard her say, "All you chickens that laid an egg, raise your hands." The Delineator. Mark Twain approached a friend, a business man, and confided the fact that gems of thought were forming in his brain with such rapidity that they were even beginning to sparkle in his eyes, and that he needed the assistance of a stenographer. "I- can send you one, fine young fel low," the friend said. "He came to my office yesterday in search of a position, but I didn't have an opening. I am sure you will And him all right." "Has he a sense of humor?" Mark asked, cautiously. "Oh, I am sure he has in fact, he got off one or two pretty witty things himself yesterday," the friend hastened to aBsure him. "Sorry, but he won't do then," the writer said, with a disappointed shake of his head. "Why er why not?" "I'll tell you," said the author of "Tom Sawyer," with a confidential air. "You see, I had one once before with a sense of humor, and it interfered too much with the work. I cannot afford to pay a man $2 a day for laughing." Uncle Remus' Magazine. m Leslie M. Shaw, at the recent ban quet of the Commercial Travelers' League, said of a silly argument against a great American merchant marine: "This argument Is groundless. It re minds me of old Mother Taliaferro. "Mother Taliaferro lived in a dugout In North Carolina very near the line When the boundary between North Carolina and Virginia was changed II shifted the old woman's dugout into the latter state. "'Well, mother,' said a surveyor to her. 'you don't live in North Carolina any more. You live in Virginia now. How do you like it?" " 'Like it? . said the old woman. 'Why, I like it fine, o'course. Every body knows that Virginny is a health ier state than North Carolina.' " Washington Star. i Just when Mrs. Ackroyd had finished packing her trunks and after William Ackroyd had bought railway tickets for her and their two daughters, little Bessie came down with a severe case of whooping cough. 'The doctor posi tively refused to let the child start on a long journey, and even If he had thought it safe for the little one to leave home he assured Mrs. Ackroyd that she would not be permitted to take the patient into a hotel anywhere. "Isn't it a shame?" the distressed lady walled. "Here we are with everything in our trunks, and my husband has even bought our berths in the sleeper." "It is unfortunate, but I don't know Svhat you can do except sit down and wait for four or five days. It may ba safe then for you to start away." When her husband got home that evening Mrs. Ackroyd was weeping. "Don't take it so hard, dear," he said. "It might be a good deal worse. Our little one is likely to get along all right. The doctor says the case isn't an unusually severe one, and when I telephoned him this afternoon he said he thought it might be safe for you to start away by the end of the week." "I know. He told me the same thing. But I feel that we'll never go. I never postponed anything yet that didn't turn out sadly. I once postponed a wedding, and the marriage never took place." Half an hour later William Ackroyd was still sitting in a corner alone, thinking It over. Chicago Record Herald. i-onr It Would Work In the Family. Chicago Tribune. "Johnny, did you take that jam? Answer me this instant!" "What Jam, ma?" "You know very well what Jam. Did you take it?" "That's a leading question, ma. I can't incriminate myself." "Johnny!" "And besides, ma. It's no crime to take Jam, because there's no mention of blackberry jam in the constitution." "Johnny, I'm losing patience. Once more, did you take that jam?" "Ma, I'd like to delay until next Fall to prepare my case. My witnesses have gone to Europe." "You're overruled. If I waited you might destroy the evidence." "Then I want a change of venue." "Overruled. This is just as good a place as the woodshed." "Can I have a habeas corpus, ma?" "Johnny, you're hurting your own case by all this quibbling. Come now, did you take it or didn't you?" "Ma, I'd like to appeal the case to some court that isn't in session." "Nonsense. This court is capable of trying It. If you're guilty I want to know It, and If you're innocent I should think you'd be glad to have a chance to prove it. Are you guilty or not guilty?" "Not guilty, ma'-" Vegetable Garden In July. Suburban Life. In July, seeds should be planted of many of the vegetables, to provide a crop during the Fall months. Make two sowings of bean seeds two weeks apart. Sow an early variety of beets for suc culent roots in the Fall. Set cabbage and cauliflower for late crops. Make a planting of corn for late Fall use. Even cucumbers may be planted this month; the. young fruit will make ex cellent pickles. When Visiting. Christian World. "Does your mother allow you to have two pieces of pie when you are at home, Willie?" asked his hostess. "No. ma'am." "Well, do you think she would like you to have two pieces here?" "Oh, she wouldn't care," said Willie, confidentially. "This isn't her pie." One Element in the High Cost. New York Herald. Fine-spun theories attributing the ad vance in the cost of living to increased production of gold or to the tariff are well enough, but there's no denying the obvious fact that one Important element In the advance is the enormously in creased cost of Government National, state and municipal. Always on Hand. Red Hen. "Haven't you any purpose in life?" asked the minister of the melancholy druggist. "No," sighed the druggist, "but I've something Just as good." Conforming to Custom. Chicago Tribune. Perseus had rescued Andromeda from the sea monster. ' "You recognize the Inevitable, do you not?" he said. So they were married. Plenty of Funds Lett. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Someone estimates that American tourists will spend $13,000,000 In Eng land this Summer. What a waste! The amount would build a battleship.