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8 THE MORNING OREGONIAN. WEDNESDAY, JULT 2T, 1910. rOBTUKD. OBZGOX. Entered at Portland. Oregon. Postofflce as Second-Class Matter. Subscription Bates Invariably la Advance. (BT MAID. gaily. Sunday Included, one year 8.00 Daily, Bunday included, six months.... 4-25 Dally. Sunday Included, three month!. . 2.25 Dally, Sunday Included, one month..,. .75 Pally, without Sunday, ona year 6.00 Dally, without Sunday. six monthi.... 825 Dally, without Sunday, three months... 1.T5. Daily, without Sunday, one month 60 Weekly, one year 1-00 Sunday, one year 2-50 Sunday and weekly, one year..... 50 (By Carrier). Dally. Bunday Included, one year...... 2 Dally. Sunday Included, one month.... Row to Remit Send Poet office money or oer, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency ara at if. nder, risk. Give Poetofflco address In tun. including- county and state. . ,'tS Bates 10 to 14 pases. 1 cent: 1" to 28 pages. 2 cents; SO to 40 pases. S cents: o to 60 paxes. 4 cents. Foreign postage double rate. ..fiT"!.11 Bulness Office The 8. C. Beclt 7A h-?PolaI Agency New York, rooms 48 S?or,itun building. Chicago, rooms 610 012 Tribune building. FORTXAJTD, WE r F-SDA V, JUX.Y 17. 1910. The decided stand taken by the Portland Retail Merchants' Association in favor of the "open shop means one of two things a long fight with labor unions or a speedy triumph of the sentiment to be displayed In the win dows of the retail merchants who are pledged to the principle for which the open shop stands. "We stand for the open shop, meaning thereby a square deal and equal rights for union and nonunion workers," Is the accepted motto of these merchants. This action has been brought about by the teamsters' strike, which has been troubling the business interests of the city for some weeks, and which Is still far from peaceful adjustment. The strife, like all similar contentions In industrial and business life, has been greatly regretted by citizens of all vocations. It has worked hardship In some cases npon the public, which eventually pays all bills, and has brought annoyance and even exaspera tion to business men, "without In the least benefiting labor, organized or unorganized, or anybody. But worst of all and most lasting of all is the bitter ness that has been engendered between the employing and employed forces in the Industrial and business life of the community, the effect of which is parctically Ineradicable. Labor has a right to organize. If has a right to take any necessary law ful means to protect itself, to advance its welfare, and to keep for itself the loyalty of Its Individual units. It has a right to form the various trades Into unions and to contract with employ ers. If It can, for the exclusive service of such unions. But it has no right to coerce the employer into making such an arrangement by the threat of force or by lawless attacks upon indi viduals seeking to take the places of persons who have voluntarily left their employment. "We do not under stand that union labor declares or as erts that it may resort to violence In such cases or in any case. Indeed, it distinctly disclaims any purpose to go at any time or in any manner without the pale of law, and repudiates the acts of those who do use violence or break the public peace with design of , intimidation or otherwise. So far there , Is agreement between the employer e and his employe as to their respective legal rights and privileges. ; Actually during the present team- sters' strike there have been much disorder, repeated physical attacks on the nonunion teamsters who have replaced the union men, and a J definite coercive effort so to overawe fc these men that the employers would p have no recourse but to take back the J old men and to recognize the union. r Whether this policy of lawless force J has the active countenance and sup- port of the strike managers It is not J necessary now to Inquire. That it exists and Is pursued, by individuals at least, for the benefit of the strik- ers will not be denied. It is enough r to add that the strike has throughout t, been attended by circumstances of ' violence and disorder, that neither side has shown signs of yielding or com promise, and that the great business j interests of Portland, represented by the Retail Merchants' Association, have at last deemed it incumbent on them f to take a stand, in view of what had i been done and of what they expected would be done in the name of labor. I The Oregonian is an employer of I union labor in Its mechanical depart ments. Throughout a long period It t has got along amicably with union labor, and has never had a strike. It has alw ays been able to arrange its differences, if it had any. with its union 'employes on a basis of conciliation i and compromise. The printers' union is j a very strong body of high-class work jnen, who haye long maintained intact ; their organization through intelligent adaptation to conditions an,d ready ad ' Justmant to the changing requirements ' of Invention and mechanical lmprove ; ment. It Is skilled labor In the strict .. est sense, because skilled workmen 'and no others are eligible to member, '.ship. So It is with other strong unions In employments that require long apprenticeship, steady applica- " tion, sober industry and at least aver- age Intelligence. There Is no ques tion nowadays about the status of J such labor organizations, no difficulty about their recognition and employ ment, and no desire to break them down. But there is objection and dif- Acuity about extension of the union 5 principle, so far as it insists on exclu sion of all ether labor, to the rougher ' classes of labor, requiring no special training and no great skill. Such unions find It hard to exist against the persistent competition of workers who do not desire to join any union. So with teamsters. It Is easy enough to fill the places of the strikers, or it would be If there was no effectual physical 'protest from the men whose places are taken, or from their sympathizers. The union organizers, who would have a closed town in all branches of Industry, meet many obstacles, there fore. In their comprehensive campaign. f n the present situation, and with the , public in its present unmistakable temper of hostility to the "closed shop" so far as it involves the un skilled or the least skilled branches of K" labor. It Is evident that the scheme for "unionizing" all Portland will not J succeed. It should not succeed, ,as It has succeeded in San Francisco, where , it has tied up industry and business J and made a dead town. I ' Another insurrection is under way in Cuba. From advices from Havana - It would seem ta be mere serious than J the periodical spasms of trouble that sweep ever our nearby ward. General . Miniet and Colonel Jane, revolutionary " veterans who have been "agin the government" In many a previous cam paign, are said to be at the head of the present movement and have "taken to the woods" at the head of a good-sized following. The act of go ing "to the woods" has a different meaning In Cuba from that with which it is generally credited in this country, and experienced leaders like Miniet and Jane with only a handful of fol lowers can cause a large amount of worry and expense for the govern ment. The Cubans have had several years in which to demonstrate their ability to govern themselves, but do not seem to be doing much better than they did before they were released from Spanish bondage. Eventually the United States will be obliged to take charge of that rich fighting ground. TAXES EQUAL AND UNIFORM. Three constitutional amendments as to taxation confront Oregon voters un der Initiative and referendum for dis posal next November. One comes from labor unions, abolishing state uniform ity of taxation and giving each county authority "to regulate taxation and exemptions." Two others from granges abolish" the old requirement that taxation shall be "equal and uni form" and authorizing different rates of taxation on. different classes of property. These amendments are dangerous to the security of property. They orig inate in socialistic groups, which are bent on making raids on business and property through the unrestrained popular power of taxation. Uniformity and equality of taxation are the bulwark of property-owners against depredations of extreme so cialism. They are the oldest-tried and the best-tested method. They have been the rule of taxation since the founding of the commonwealth and this rule has been the most satisfac tory that could have been applied. Back of this provision of equal and uniform taxation in the constitution is the oldest experience that men have had in affairs, of government and of Justice. All taxes should be equal and uni form throughout the state. The amendments of the labor unions and of the granges should be voted down. They are equally wrong and danger ous. REBUKE TO PrNCHOTISM. Ex-Governor Miles C. Moore, of Washington, delivered a very interest ing address at the meeting of the Washington Bankers' Association at Grays Harbor. Mr. Moore came to the Pacific Northwest with the van guard, and few men are better equipped to render judgment on any policy affecting our resources. As a prelude to his financial address, Mr. Moore commented on the fact that the Pacific Northwest "is the only territory ever acquired by the United States by exploration and. settlement. It cost the Government nothing, unless a portion of the $2500 it cost to send the Lewis and Clark expedition across the continent Is chargeable to it." Mr. Moore answered the statement of a Plnchotized Southern Senator in the recent debate in the Senate that It was "the noble blood and treasure of the South and New England Statea that added all these grand public lands to this country, and it comes with little grace for the Western men to throw it up to the South and New England that they have no Interest in these public lands." He said: "So far as it re lates to the 'Oregon country,' it is doubtful if one drop of New England or Southern blood was shed, or a dol lar of their money spent In acquiring it. It was the pioneers and the set tlers with their rifles that pushed back the frontier, that saved Oregon to the United States and settled the Indian question. It was the donation land act, and the homestead law, and the .prizes offered by a generous Govern ment, that filled all the Western land with a brave and progressive people." These are unanswerable facts which most effectively show the Injustice of the Eastern conservation policy as ap plied to the West. The men who have wrested the country from the wilder ness and made it a habitable region know by actual experience what is best for the country they have re claimed.' They are denied the right and privilege of a conservation policy that is best adapted to this country, and in lieu thereof are expected hum bly to submit to the wild theories and development-stifling fads of the Pin chots. the Garflelds and other enor mously wealthy Eastern men, utterly devoid of practical knowledge of the country on which they seek to foist their fads. WALSTCT-GROWTXO. There can scarcely be a doubt that there is a future in walnut-growing in this state. For some years past exhib its have been made annually in this city of walnuts from several localities of the Willamette Valley and the prod uct shown has not only been above criticism it has been worthy of, and has received, the highest encomiums of a critical public. Next to fruit, there is no product whose consumption has increased in recent years so rapidly as nuts. The consumption of these was formerly confined to the fireside gastronomy of long Winter evenings, more especially evenings In the country. One of the attractions of the Whittier fireside in old New England, as recited in the poet's Incomparable Winter Idyl, "Snow Bound," was a basket of "nuts from brown October's wood." Evi dence later in the same direction is found In the lines stamped in gilt or burned into wood on thousands of nut-bowls that hold place with the family reading lamp on the evening table: When Winter winds plow fierce and cold Let nuts be cracked and stories told. Later nuts came Into use in the manufacture of fancy candies and cakes; later still in making salads and dressing for fowls, so that in one form or another they have come to be some thing pf a staple in the family menu. To meet this increasing demand, supply has made the customary effort at response, but as yet without com plete success. There are. of course, always nuts In the market, but the quality Is often Inferior, The best of the annual crop is quickly absorbed by the demand and the price Is uni formly high. It follows that the sup ply could be Increased with profit, and since the walnut is a slow-growing tree and one that does not become commercially profitable for ten or twelve years, it Is apparent that prof itable walnut culture Is some years in the future. The apple tree Is just now the prime favorite of the horticulturist. There is a demand for good apples that is Increased from year to year, and one that shows no signs of abating. Yet diversity in horticulture, as in agri culture, is wise, since it is surety against possible overproduction of even a greatly favored fruit, which the Oregon apple certainly is. It may be said, therefore, that the nut grove, carefullly and intelligently planted, with due regard to location, soil and selection of varieties, is full of promise for the patient man who looks ahead. It was formerly asserted In the true dogmatism pf doggerel that He who plants pears Plants for his heirs. Tet experience has abundantly proved that the man who has planted pear trees, choosing location wisely, and cultivating properly, has himself gath ered the fruits of his endeavor while laying a sure foundation of " compe tency for his heirs. So though the walnut tree Is a slow srrower and re fuses to be forced into premature i bearing, it is not so slow but that a man of middle age may plant a wal nut grove and enjoy for many years the profits of a crop of nuts before he turns the venture over to his heirs. WHEAT SPECriAIKG OPPOSED. Increased orders for grainbags and excellent threshing returns indicate that the wheat crop of the Pacific Northwest Is turning off much better than has been predicted. It now seems reasonably certain that with the large carry-over from the 1909 crop there will be about as much wheat available this season as last. The heavy carry-over from last season is having a noticeable effect on the finan cial situation. Country banks have advanced large sums to speculatively inclined farmers and warehousemen, and this money, which should now be available for harvesting and moving the new crop, is 'still tied up in old crop wheat. . In, the larger cities, on which the country banks in the end draw heavily for crop-moving pur poses, the drain Is also felt, and this year there will probably be a smaller movement of money to the country for speculative purposes. There will unquestionably be a suf ficient amount of money for all legiti mate purposes in connection with the actual movement of the -crop, but the farmer who desires to gamble on the future will hardly be able to secure such heavy advances on wheat as have been made In the past. Big crops In the country will lose some of their usual significance if they are piled up In warehouses for speculative purposes. There are still plenty of men in the business who can remem ber when 50 cents per bushel -was re garded as a high . price- for wheat. These men are not taking any chances on 90-cent and $1 wheat, and the en tire trade, both at tidewater and in the Interior, will proceed under easy sail until the course of-the market is more clearly defined. With such a heavy demand for money to be used in all kinds of de velopment work throughout the coun try, banks will hardly feel disposed to add greatly to the millions that are al ready tied up in advances on old-crop wheat. An early selling movement will undoubtedly prove more satisfac tory to all than a speculative season which might terminate with large quantities of wheat on hand on a fall ing market. AOAIK THE MAINE. If the battleship Maine is ever to be raised from the mud and slime of Havana harbor it should be done without unnecessary delay. Probably no light would be thrown on the cajuse that sent her to the bottom where she has lain for more than a dozen years. Even If the suspicions of Spanish treachery as the cause of the disaster that had so large a part in bringing on the Spanish-American War were verified Upon bringing the ship to the surface and by instituting expert In quiry into her condition, no good could result from the findings. However, as a menace to navigation in the har bor in which she is sunken, and as an inspiration to the quality of National patriotism which zealously guards and loyally remembers Its own, the vessel should be raised and the controversy about the matter of her disposal ended. Plans looking to this object have been submitted to the War Depart ment by Engineer O'Rourke. who has the Pennsylvania Railroad's tunnel under North River and the bridge over the Hudson at Poughkeepsie to the credit of his ability to do large things. These plans have been referred to an Army board of engineers, and in time will be reported upon. In the mean time the people of the United States have come to "remember the Maine" without acrimony and with sorrow softened by time for the fate of the unfortunate men who lost their lives when she went down. THE OBSTRUCTIVE NICABAGCAJJS. President Madriz, who seems to be a kind of a puppet for which Zelaya, safe In Mexico, pulls the string, has ordered the Norwegian steamships en gaged in the New Orleans fruit trade to keep out of the ports of Nicaragua on the gulf side. Norway has agreed to the order, and as a result the fruit trade has been seriously hampered. Many of these steamers are owned or partly owned by American citizens, and nearly all of them are under charter to American firms. The order Is accordingly of serious detriment to the fruit trade of this country. If American citizens were granted the same privileges as are given those of every other enlightened nation on earth, these vessels of foreign build would be given American registry and their status in the present trouble would be vastly different from that which they would have as Norwegian vessels. So long, however, as the government of Madriz Is recognized by Norway as having an official standing, this coun try can hardly question the propriety or Norway declining to take offense at the order regarding her shipping. This additional interference with the trade of the United States, following so closely the repeated insults that Nica ragua has offered us, may not provoke retaliation. Had this Government shown any disposition to perform any of the functions demanded by the Monroe Doetrine, instead of following the vacillating policy which has made us ridiculous before the world. It is hardly probable that Norway or- any other country would have recognized the right of the Zelaya-Madriz govern ment to order ships away from the port. This Government has imposed on it by the Monroe Doctrine the duty of keeping the peace in th Central American -republics. Any attempt that has been made to perform this duty since the present trouble began has been in such a weak, half-hearted manner that we have, become the laughing stock of the diplomats of other countries. War - between the United States and Nicaragua Is not & necessity. It might safely be termed an Impossibility, but it will not re quire much more . Interference with our trade and our political rights In that country to provoke trouble that will speedily end the insults and slurs to which this country has been sub jected for many months. The Nica raguan trouble has got past the joke stage. The New York stock market yes terday suffered one of those periods of drastic liquidation in which profit able and unprofitable stocks both suf fered. Too much legislation, state and National, has made railroad stocks very unattractive as an investment, and the "dumping" process, which was unusually heavy yesterday, has been quietly getting under way for several weeks. A contributing factor to the weakness has been the con tinued unfavorable .reports from the grain belt. The damage to iwheat. corn and oats will in the aggregate reduce the output of those grains several million tons and the earnings of the railroads will suffer accordingly. There will not only be less grain to move, but the farmers who have had their crops cut down by unfavorable weather will find their purchasing power curtailed to such an extent that they will not buy as much lumber and other commodities as they would had the crop been a large one. However, the country, is still rich and prosper ous, and the present dullness is not serious. After fifty-six years" occupancy for religious services, the building known as the First Presbyterian Church, of Corvallls, has been supplanted by a modern structure and the old one has been torn down. Its timbers were rough-hewn with the broadax, its lumber whipsawed, its first shingles dressed with a drawing-knife. Very few probably not one of those who helped with their hands to fashion the old building lived to see .it de molished. A simple event of this kind marks an epoch in the life of a com munity in the special line that It represents. The old church was built, we are told, when the City of Corvallls was the village of Marysville. The historical fact thus chronicled is no doubt new to very many of the present citizens of the place and unknown to nine-tenths of the students of the State Agricultural College there. No fact of early history is too trifling to note, and the Jottings, made in con nection with the razing of the little, old, outgrown church building at Cor vallis, are of more than passing in terest. With throats unslaked and Black lips baited Agape we hear them call. . This refers now to the crackle in the throats of citizens of the Mount Scott, Waverly-Richmond and Wood stock districts, for particulars of which see report in The Oregonian's local news columns of the meeting of citi zens last night at Myrtle Park, voicing a call for Bull Run water. It is evi dent that this cry will not be drowned In aqua pura until private-water plants in the thirsty region are sup planted, by purchase or otherwise, with mains sufficiently large to carry a full supply of Bull Run water to the homes in this populous section of the city. In answer to a request for his views on the possibilities of war between Japan and the United States, Secretary of War Dickinson cables from Manila that "war with Japan is not a possibil ity unless wisdom Is discarded." The world's history from ' the time when Julius Caesar ran out of material to conquer a replete with Instances where wisdom was discarded and fighting began. Viewed in the light of past performances in the war line, the statement of the Secretary of War contains fully as much Incontrovert ible fact as can be found in that famous axiom that assures us: "If it don't rain .we will have a long dry spell." It not only behooves the Forest Re serve force to be on the alert to pre vent fire from getting started in the Mount Hood region, it behooves camp ers and settlers to exercise extreme vigilance in the same direction. With, moss, twigs and fir needles as dry as tinder, a smouldering coal would be sufficient to start a blaze that only a heavy rainfall could check. The menace is grave the damage that would result from a forest fire In that region is incalculable. Where remedy is hopeless prevention is doubly neces sary. The death of Judge Hanna, for many years identified with the juris prudence of Southern Oregon, is noted. He had been a resident of the Pacific Coast sixty years and was on the Cir cuit Bench for thirty years with an intermission of a few years during which he pursued the practice of law. He resigned In February of the present year, owing to ill-health, and died peaceably at his home in Jacksonville July 25 at the-age of 78 years. His record both as a. jurist .and a private citizen is unblemished. . There Is a time-honored joke about the procession that was "two hours passing a given point" (the day was warm ana a big scnooner sold for a nickel), but its counterpart is & reality at last, for a barrel of toeer rolled off the towpath of the Erie Canal at Schenectady the other day and Is yet a menace to navigation. Eight inches is the draught of a steamer Joseph Supple proposes to build to ply between Portland and the Upper Willamette. Now if the farmers of the Valley will construct broad ir rigation ditches, -they can have trans portation direct to their front doors. Joseph W. Folk, ' we hear, "con demns the assembly plan in Oregon.' Certainly he does. He Is, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. It is Bryan's turn now to "condemn the assembly." Hood River Is getting out a new booklet for publicity purposes. The best advertisement that region ever had or can get is its apples. Nothing new in a telephone war. Isn't it going on between subscribers and "Central" twenty-four hours every day? Portland next Monday, he will find no sentiment in favor of conservation that conserves backwords. Now Linnton wants to be annexed to Portland. And it's ten years till the next census. MUCKRAKE, "PROGRESS,' SOCIALISM j Demagogon l.nri ug; with False) Llaze and Sowing the wind. Washington Star. In his address at Omaha to the Na tional Association of Advertising Clubs, Charles W. Fairbanks ascribed the growth of socialism in this country to muckraking- influences. Unquestion ably he Is right. The extreme and per sistent abuse and misrepresentation of our public policies and our public serv ants has been addressed in the main to the thoughtlessr the restless and the un successful, and the result has been to drive them together into an organisa tion for action. That organization in some quarters is now formidable, and both orators and newspapers many of them unintentionally are lashing- It members Into what may prove to- be a dangerous frame of mind and purpose. Muckraking is a broad term. There are muckrakers and muckrakers. The man who says that the Republican party is owned, body and soul, by the "interests," takes their orders and legislates In their behalf against the general welfare, is a muckraker. He has no warrant for the assertion, and is indulging either In maliciousness, or reckless partisan buncombe. Whatever his impulses, he is an evildoer, and no fit person for leadership. The man who says that the Demo cratic party Is owned, body and soul, by the "interests," and Is making an outcry against them only in a spirit of hypocrisy, lntend'jig to do their bid ding after securing the offices, is a muckraker. There is no warrant for his assertion. He Is either malicious, or a reckless coiner of campaign phrases. He, too, is an evildoer. Then we come to the man who de clares that both of the old uartles are owned by the "Interests": that the pub lic welfare Is disregarded, no matter which is in power. And this man sup ports his declaration by quoting the Democrats against the Republicans, and the Republicans against the Democrats. His remedy Is simple. Let the people turn from the old and corrupted or ganizations ' and support a new one, with Its members instructed by what has gone before. The man of this class who just now is the loudest, and equipped with the most novel theories and phrases, is the so cialist. In his sounding lingo, he tells the people that the many are being "ex ploited" by the few for the benefit of the few, and that their condition that of the many is at best but a species of slavery. He dwells upon "exploited." It is the premium word n his vocabulary, -and he gives it a gen erous exercise. All muckrakers to the contrary, our public servants are not owned by the interests ; our public policies are not shaped for the benefit of the "inter ests"; the country is not Interest-rid den, and Is not headed- for the devil, with socialism, or any other ism, the only refuge. Mortgages Not Taxed In Washington. COTTAGE GROVE. Or.. July 23. CTo the Editor.) Are mortgages taxed in Washington, the same as in Oregon? JAMES HEMENWAY. No. The Legislature of 1907 passed a bill at the suggestion of J. H. Easter- day, Tax Commissioner, which amend ed the law governing the taxation of personal property as follows: "Provided, that mortgages, notes, ac counts, moneys; certificates of deposit, tax certificates, judgments, state, coun ty, municipal and school district bonds and warrants shall not be considered as property, for the purposes of this chapter." . Large Investments by the Eastern Insurance companies in Washington mortgages at low rates of Interest is one result that followed the decision to exempt mortgages from taxation. The Bourne RarX Weston Leader. Much ado has been made over Sen ator Bourne's speech on "Popular vs. Delegated Government." It is said over a. million copies have been printed, and more are ' In demand. It is a strong speech it "listens good," as the saying goes, and popular government appeals to the public fancy.. The Oregon system which it indorses, made Bourne Senator, and he upholds it with enthusiasm. .He was a corruptlonist under the old sys tem and failed to win. Under the new he opened a barrel of money also and distributed It among the people instead of the solons. He "advertised" himself from one end of the state to the other, and was made "the people's choice" for the toga. Yet the fact remains that he could never have won his exalted posi tion without the barrel. This merely goes to show that money is largely es sential to success in politics under any system. Nature Faking Again. Everybody's Magazine. A commercial traveler driving from town to town through the pine woods of Florida saw a drove of emaciated razor back hogs rushing wildly from tree to tree. He halted at the palings of a "cracker's" home and asked a woman in a sunbonnet what was the matter with the swine. "Well, you see,", the woman explained, "my old man is deaf and dumb, and when he wanted to call the hogs to their swill he learned them to come when- he tapped on one of the trees. It worked all right when they first got learned, but them woodpeckers Is makin' the poor things run their legs off." Paraphrasing- Proverbs. Boston Transcript. "Let's see," observed the smart boarder, seating himself at table, "how is it the proverb runs" - "You refer to the saying that one man's meat is another man's hash." put in one. "Or," said another, "Don't cry over skimmed milk." "Or possibly," said a third, "In butter there is strength." "No,'1 returned the smart boarder, "the particular - proverb I had In mind is, 'None but the bra-e can face the fare.' ' Fsse? Teeth. Ohio State Journal. Paper Is entering Into Important arts of Europe. The most novel use of It Is in the manufacture of false teeth by the Germans, who say of the product that it is keeping its color well and is decidedly Stronger than the porcelain imitation. When the wine makers of Greece found the lumber too costly with which to make wine casts the manufacturers sub stituted paper pulp and have found it most satisfactory. .., She Didn't Mind. , Scraps. "Sarah, I really wish you would- be more careful: I do not like to hear your mistress scoiamg you so often," - said the master of the house to the parlor maid. "Oh, don't mind me, sir," replied Sarah, simply, "I take no notlce" . Happiness on Earth. Atlantic Constitution. "The man died eating watermelons," some one said to Brother Dickey. "Yes, suh," he said. "Providence some times puts us in paradise befo' we gits ter neaven. Ideal Companion. Life. "Was your husband kind to you durln your illness?"' "Koind? Ah. indade. mum! Moike was more loike a neighbor than a husband." IX ARDENT DEFBXSB OF" THE DOG Spontaneous. Symposium Evoked by m Public Attack. A recent communication from A. J. Martin and editorial comment stated something, as witness: Byron's Tribute to Desra. SEA VIEW, Wash., July 2. (To the Editor.) I am glad to see that you speak in praise of Byron, for perhaps then he can change your mind, if not your heart on the subject of the dog. For you, of course, have read (If not. kindly do so) 'his "Inscription on the monument of a New Foundlaad Dog." X quote: Near the spot are deposited the remains of one Who possessed beauty without vanity. Strength without insolence. Courage without ferocity, And all the virtues of man, without his vices. I commend its reading te all those who differ with you and as well those ( who may agree. I suppose also that you would call all "words," "words," vaporing rhapsody. Senator Vests "Eulogy on the Dog." I. would copy it and send if I thought you would publish it. Byron says further In that poem that the dog Vnhonored falls. While man, vain lnaectl hopes to Da for given. And claims himself an exoluelve heaven. Though the dog, according to man's vain exclusive estimate of himself, is "Denied in heaven, the soul he held on earth." I agree with you on many things generally, and find enlightenment In your editorials, but this time t am xornlst you; most emphatically for nlst you. N. H. BLOOMF1ELD. Nuisance in at Neighborhood. PORTLAND. July 25. (To tho Edi tor.) Mr. Martin Is right in what he says about dogs. It Is all right to have a dosr if neoDle live in a lone some place or need protection, but living right in the city there is no neea for tlitin. There are two or three larcre doits on one block in our neigh borhood who keep the neighbors awake night after night by their loud-mouthed baying, howling and fighting, and bark ing, snd the wonder Is that some of them hu-ve not been shot before this by scrr.e irate citizen. I'.ver;- late homegoer o person coming along any hour of tho night is the signal for all three brutes to rush cut with their uneartb.lv- howls snd shrieks, and sleepers are awakened with no redress whatever. The day time in enlivened by the spectacle ot those does rushing In front of horses and trams, leaping and barking loudly as If Intending to seize the horees legs in their massive mouths. Net ona ot ttaeu are licensed, either. ROBERT SIDDELH Senator Vest's Eulogy on the Doer. SEATTLE. Julv 26. (To the Edi tor.) I suggest that you print Eulogy on the Dog," by the late sen ator Vest, of Missouri, and. let readers of The Oregonian judge which is tne more humane and true, Senator Vest or A. J. Martin. I send it herewith In hope you will print it. LELIA M. KEADY. EULOGY ON THE DOG. Gentlemen of the Jury: The best friend a man has In this world may turn against him and become his en emy. His son or daughter that he has reared with loving care may prove ungrateful. - Those who are nearest and dearest to us, those, whom we trust with our happiness and our good name, may become traitors to their faith. The money that a man has h may lose. It flies from him. perhaps when he needs it most. A man's repu tation mav be sacrificed .in a moment of ill-considered action. The people who .are prone to fall on their knees to do us honor whan success Is with us may be the first to throw the stone of malice when failure settles its cloud upon our heads. . The one absolutely unselfish friend a man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog. Gentlemen of the jury, a man's dog stands by him in prosperity or In pov erty, in health and in -sickness. He will sleep on the cold ground, where the wintry winds blow and the snow drives fiercely, if Vnly he can be near bis master's side. He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer. He will lick the wounds and sores that come In encounter with the roughness of the world. He guards the sleep of his pauper master as If he were a Prince. When all other friends desert he re mains. When riches take wings or reputation falls to pieces, he is as con stant in his love as the sun in its journey through the heavens. If for tune drives the man forth an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privi lege than that of accompanying him to guard against danger, and fight against his enemies, and when the last scene of all comes, and death takes the master In its embrace and his body is laid away in the cold ground, no matter if all other friends pursue their way, there by his graveside will the noble dog be found, his head be tween his paws, his eyes sad, but open in alert watchfulness, faithful and true, even to death. I'aefulneaa of the Dog. PORTLAND, July 26. (To the Edi tor.) Must everything, in order to avoid extermination, be judged from a monetary standpoint? Is the Alaskan dog sledding over trails of ice and snow, where there is no other means of transportation, useless? Those who depend upon the safe delivery of his load would not agree with Mr. Martin. Is the noble St. Bernard, with the salvation of hundreds of lives to his credit, useless? Those who have been saved from death through the intelli gence and strength of these friend- of man would not agree with Mr. Martin. Is the dog who awakens the family and saves them from death by fire or from - loss by burglary, useless? Is the dog who guards the sleeping baby In a sheltered nook on the porch or in the shade of a tree while the busy mother goes about the household duties, serene and free from fear, use less? Ask the sheep man if his dog is useless. Ask the families in isolated districts if the dog is not a protec tion against tramps. . CAROLYN SHANAHAN MAYES. Does and Men. PORTLAND, July 26. (To the Edi tor.) Just back from Camp. My at tention was called to A. J. Martin's tirade against dogs In The Oregonian of July 20. We all know there are various kinds of dogs, and some know that many of them are worthless. A person Who cannot appreciate a good dog is not competent to discriminate, let us look at Lordly humanity for a moment. There are various kinds of him, many of whom are worthless like wise. Some have principles and prac tices so corrupt, and habits so filthy and disgusting that to compare them to one of those useless brutes would be casting a reflection on the brute ereation. and would warrant a howl of protest from every respectable canine citizen of dogdom. I heartily approve of the observa tions Of "Etella" In The Oregonian in regard to the fondling of dogs by women, etc. I always regard such per sons with a shrug ef the shoulders, which In our French method of ex pression means much. I appreciate a good dog and would prefer his com panionship to that ef the man who is ever ready to kick him. " ' , J. E. MAURICE. Life's Sunny Side . Th lAtllilll.tft T , ...... . " a uwrcnesier car was very hot and tired, snd his car was so crowded he had hard work . s .B,ci. v ne ii up came along and saw a man standing on the runnlnff.hnar i . . . i . " , " jvwa .uice.j ear. old child occupying an end seat near .lm V- ; J . . 1 , .... . jio miu jJiuimiiveiy; xou u have toglve me a fare for that little girl." xiii ourij, sum tne man calmly, 'but I refuse to do It." A V.AaA , . . , . which the conductor demanded his Hah.. . 1 . ,. . aim iuB ii 11 ii cxtmiy retusea. At last the latter said, with a laugh: "One reason why I wont pay for the child is that she is not mine and she is not with me." Boston Record. see A disembodied soul that during Its earthly incarnation had had troubles of Its own descended into hades. In its new embodiment it was strolling along with a rather pompous air when it met his satanic majesty. "You act as if you were the owner of this place." observed the sovereign. "I ought to be." replied the new ar rival, airily: "my wife was giving it to me right along." Everybody's Maga zine. e Among Senator Depew's stories there Is one about a veteran on a streetcar. This veteran, in all the panoply of his blue uniform, brass buttons and white cotton gloves, was on his way to a Fourth of July picnic on the out skirts of the village. A stranger boarded the car, and the veteran, lean ing across his wife, engaged the man in conversation. The talk soon turned to warfare, and the veteran said: "Yes, sir; I've seen fightln. I got this gash across the cheek at Chicka mauga. My stiff leg, by gosh, comes from a ball in the knee Chancellors ville. This thumb nail here was shot off at Gettysburg. I lost the tip of my ear at Spottsylvania." "Dear me," said the stranger, "how Interesting. You have, indeed, sir. seen hot fighting. But. tell me, how did you get that long, deep, murderous dent down the side of your nose? A cavalry charge hand-to-hand engagement, eli?" The veteran frowned and ignored the question. He began to talk about the heat. But his wife interrupted. "Go on. Bill," she said impatiently. "Tell the gentleman how you got the dent in your nose." "You shut up, Hannah," said the veteran. "I won't, nuther." said the old woman. "For it just about riles the skin off me to hear you braggin' and braggin" about the marks you got in the war. whilst you won't never open your head about the finest and most noticeable mark of all the one I give you with the f ireshovel." Washington Star. "I say, Jones, dine with me at the house tonight, will you?" "Certainly, with pleasure. Will your wife expect me?" "No; that's the beauty of it. We had a quarrel this morning and I want to make her mad." Peekskill Palladium. e An auction was announced of the library and household effects of a man who had once entertained in a lavish way. and among the persons who went to the sale were many who had enjoyed the fallen family's hospitality. When a. set of after-dinner cups was put up one woman said: "There are only five of those, not six." The auctioneer con sulted his catalogue. and replied: "Thank you: you are right." and pro ceeded with the sale. Then the woman whispered to the one next to her: "I knew I was right, because my husband dropped one of that set the last time we dined there."-Argonaut. ROYALTY IN THE EDITORIAL FIECT Hot Stuff From Emperor Bill's Person ally Conducted Yellow Journals. New York World. Emperor William will start a news paper, as was first cabled to the World, and will be its owner, proprietor, man ager, circulator.and booster. There are no vacancies on the edi torial, reportorial or literary staffs, which boast of the most varied scintil lating, near-omniscient genius and are composed thus: Chief editorial writer Other editorial writers Star reporter Others Dramatic critic .. Music critic Art critic Military expert. ............ Naval expert Religious authority. ........ Sociological savant. ........ and Contributing-editor. Wllhelm II. R. I. The name of the newspaper will ba Der Pass Auf, which is the only thing about it that is not strictly original. Although Pass Auf, "Look Out," Is an admirable title for a sheet that will hit every head It sees. It is borrowed from the name of the publication to which William's great and good friend, Theo dore Roosevelt, contributes. ' The tone of ths Pass Auf will be deep saffron, with a dash of gunpowder. From advance proofs it is possible- to quote some of the editorial utterances In the first issue: "We know well the respect that is due to royalty, and we always main tain It. But it is our duty to say that If a certain Insular cousin of ours does not stop building dreadnoughts, super dreadnoughts, and hypersuperdread noughts we will sail over there one day and blow him into the middle of next week. This is meant In the frankest way and need not disturb the peace of Europe nor anybody else." "We have received from our distin guished contemporary, Theodore Roose velt, a copy, hand-painted on vellum, of the address he delivered at our Uni versity of Berlin. For the first time in our life we waited half an hour to hear that address and we heard it. So we have donated the vellum copy to the Royal and Imperial Antiquarian So ciety, whose members have been high ly successful In their search for the source of Mr. Roosevelt's remarks," Theorising; Conservationists. Goodwin's (Salt Lake) Tribune. The so-called statesmen of our coun try affect much concernment over the conservations of the Nation's natural resources. Get a hundred of these shouters in a room and ask them If they have any idea how a poor man. tossed out upon the frontier, goes to work to make a living, for himself and . his -babies, and quite 98 of them would ba dumb as oysters. They deal in theories, they know nothing about conditions. And that they, if given charge of these censervations, which they talk about, would not know what to do, is plain enough from what they have already done. Where Flsjhtlnsr la Not Prohibited. Boston Transcript. -Kigg Talking about pugilism and state laws, did you ever notice It? Fogg Ever notice what? Figg That there's no law to prohibit- fighting in the state of matrimony. Read the Platform. Eugene Register. Every Republican in Lane County should read the platform adopted at the state assembly Thursday. Situation In Nutshell. Baker City. Democrat. And after all. the assembly nominees will have to come before the people by direct primary.