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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 28, 1910)
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Chi cago, Stager building. FORTLANn. MF.HNF.M.AY. JiF.rT. I. 19t0. A I1ITT FOR LTERV CITIZITN. The Oregonlan offers herewith a memorandum of the various questions and subjects to be decided bj- the peo ple of Oregon at the election Novem ber . These measures, submitted un der the Initiative or through referen dum to the people, make a grand total cf thirty-two. Many of them are of the most serious and lasting impor tance. Some of them involve radical, even vital, changes In our method of government. It Is aside from the question row to say that the duty thus Imposed on the electorate Is on erous, difficult and Impossible. These great Issues must be met and they must somehow be settled. Here Is the list: TV oman suffrage. Constitutional convention. Separate Sanatoria! and legislative districts. .Abolishing constitutional protslon for equal and uniform taxation. Ptrmitunc each county to regulate taxation and exemption, and abolishing poll-tax. ZUmdin tha atate by dlatrlcta to build or purchase railroads. Claa.lnratloa of property for purposes of taxation. Annexing part rf Washtnrton County to Multnomah. Prohibition. Giving cities and towns power to control and regulate liquor traffic. Prohibiting taking af fr'h from Roxua KlTr egcept by hook and Una. VroTtdina; a method cf creatine new eoun- tlea. Koad bonding by counties. Amandine primary law to pay fara and ex penses of deiexatea to National conven tion. Creatine six new counties. Ra-eetabllshtng threa Normal schools. Annextnc part of Clackamas to Multnoman. Rmplnyars liability law. Creatine commtsstnn to study question of employers' liability. Creatine people's Inspectors of Covemment. Proportional representation In Legislature. Reorganising Jury system. There Is a state. Concessional. leg islative and county campaign now be fore the people of Oregon: but the Issues to be decided In the contests be tween Individuals, or In the conflict of political Ideas, opinions or princi ples, are of small consequence In com parison with the immense Importance Df these Initiative measures. A glance over the list is enough to give vast concern to every citizen who cares for his state and for Its welfare. There are a dozen measures prohi bition, taxation, female suffrage, town option, employers liability and the like that will Immediately and profound ly affect every one of them, the daily life and property interest of every citizen. The voter may be indifferent to the success of this or that candi date, or this or that ticket, and the result may not be serious. But no one can say that these weighty meas ures are not of deep moment to him end that it is not an imperative obli gation upon him to study every one of them and see that all are decided as nearly as possible on their merits. The Oregonlan will discuss these measures, all of them, fully, candidly and without bias, and inform the pub lic as to each proposal and Its intent, meaning and probable results. It has here a duty to perform, and It will be performed. The voter has no less a duty before him and he ought not to evade his responsibility. THE CIA-sTj AT THE T. M. C. A. It is not everybody who realizes that the Portland Toung Men's Chris-, tian Association Is. among other things, a great popular college. The courses of study which are offered to young men at Its night classes cover substantially every branch of useful knowledge and the instruction is aimed directly at efficiency. Mr. Stone says frankly that the de sire is to make men producers of wealth. At the foundation of all other (rood things In this world lies wealth. Without it we can possess neither art ror culture, and it Is very doubtful whether religion would be of much value unless we had food to eat and clothes to wear before we sought its Diesslngs. Spiritual comforts to' a, man shivering and starving look some times a little pale. The courses of study at the Young Men's Christian Association have opened the doors of opportunity to a class of ambitious students who would otherwise never have risen beyond the routine of dull and hopeless toll. Employed all day. If they receive instruction at all it must be after nightfall. . To these classes comes the me chanic, who aspires to become an en jrineer. The carpenter who would rise to the dignity of an architect 'finds courses adapted to his needs. The more advanced mathematics are not neglected so that the foundation Is laid for higher studies In electricity. Me chanical drawing opens the gates of numerous technical vocations. Long before this kind of instruction was even attempted In the public schools, the Y. M. C. A. took it up and pro moted H. The sneers of some who believed that "culture" was the first and only thing to give an ambitious young man did not deter apostles like Mr. Stone from pursuing their useful purpose. Culture is all very well In Its place, but a long way ahead of it comes the capacity to do productive work in the world. After men have learned to create something which society values, then they may devote themselves to the acquisition of the graces. First cultivate the Intellectual cabbages and potatoes, then set aside time for the rosM and lilies. If we raise nothing: but roses, -whereon shall we be fed? THE O'FAIK ALPHABET. Thirty-two candidates for the lower house of the Legislature submitted their names to the Republican pri mary in Multnomah last Saturday. The names, beginning with Abbott and ending with AVetherbee. were grouped on the Republican ballot In alphabet ical order. The alphabetical arrange ment is the law. It is symmetrical and orderly and ought to be clear and easy for the voter; but the results are disastrous for the candidate who is not near the head of the list. For ex ample, the successful nominees are: Al'bott. tTyda. Amti rose- ole. 4'nlllns. Cot tell. Fouts. Rushlight. Am me. T'lrelow. Poant. Clemens, Tan rf iKma nrlmArv nominees, it will be observed, are chosen from the first three letetrs of the alphabet. Two are taken from the remaining twenty-three letters. These results are not accidental; they are Inevitable, In many cases at least, from this me chanical and undiscrlmlnatlve ar rangement. It has been observed heretofore that -where there are many candidates in one list or grouping, the first names have a decided .advanr tage. So heavy Is this handicap against persons unfortunate enough to belong down in the alphabet, that the vast majority of representatives in the last Legislature, for example, had names from A to M. " A reasonable and feasible solution Is that, where there are several names for one office, the ballot should be so arranged that the names would rotate In orderly succession, so as to have a new grouping on. say. each thousand ballots. Whynot? OtR NEWT-ST-STATE CHARITY. The state sanitarium near Salem for sufferers from tuberculosis, for which provision was made by a legis lative appropriation of $75,000, will In a very. short time be ready to ac cept and treat patients. Unlike any other sanitarium of this character In Oregon, this institution will give pref erence to the indigent who are afflict ed with the pitiful and wastng disease. Treatment approved by the latest dis coveries In medical science and by the most advanced ideas on sanitation will be given at the State Sanitarium. The first object of this endeavor Is to check the spread of tuberculosis in the In terest of a menaced public. A second ary consideration, but one earnestly desired and Intelligently pursued. Is the cure of the disease In Individual cases and the return thereby, to the world energies that are being held In suspense and menaced by dissolu tion, through the inroads of a wasting malady. Patients admitted to the State Sani tarium will be carefully and scientifi cally treated In the hope and belief, unless the disease has progressed too far, of restoring them to health. Fur thermore, convalescing patients wlll be taught how to avoid a recurrence of the malady and how to protect their homes from Invasion by this In sidious foe to human life. How to iiv ha not to Infect others and the economic value of health will receive due attention In treating these patients. The charity thus bestowed Is at once tender and far-reaching, prac tical as well as pitying, and. In the great scheme of things, forceful and economic. It Is under the direct su pervision of the State Board of Health and will no doubt make a record for h.imanin' fnr medical science and for Intelligent sanitation in which the state may rejoice and be glad. WATCH THE CROSSINGS. Each crew supposing the track clear, a freight train crashed into a street car, overturned It and Injured a dozen or more passengers Monday night. That there were no fatalities nor seri ous Injuries was due to good luck, not to foresight. It was the duty, well known to every railway employe, to send a flagman to the crossing. This was neglected. Freedom from acci dent begets carelessness; in this case criminal carelessness. Both crews as sumed the track was clear; the as sumption is false, and always fraught with danger. In the case of automobiles approach ing streetcar tracks, ordinary caution Is thrown to the winds. Not one driver in ten slows down so as to have the machine under control. At corners where buildings cut off a view of ap proaching cars, speed is seldom slack ened. Drivers almost universally as sume the way is clear. Common pru dence ought to teach them not to take that chance. They should assume that a car Is coming, not that It is not coming. In no case would slowing down cause delay of more than thirty seconds. On the newly-paved streets in the northwestern section of town narrow escapes of automobiles from collision with cars on Sixteenth, Twenty-first and Twenty-third streets are of hourly occurrence every day. Freedom from fatal accident, like the collision Mon day night, la due to good fortune alone. There ought to be an ordinance, purely In the Interests of their own safety, compelling chauffeurs to alow down to four miles an hour as they approach a railway track. Be it repeated: Com ing to a line of rails, slow down. NOT "DISGRACED." The grand Jury has again filed the stereotyped report, familiar to the public for many years. In regard to the crowded, unclean, ill-lighted, ill ventilated condition of the City Jail. A "disgrace to the City of Portland" is the stereotyped phrase that accompa nies this stereotyped Teport, One thing Is made clear. The City Jail is a fine place to keep out of. If the air is im pure, there Is plenty of fresh air out side. Yet more claimants for a chance to breathe this fetid air appear at the Xar of the Police Court than can be accommodated with standing room, not to mention sleeping room while they breathe It. There Is no compulsion about seek ing these accommodations, yet men seek them sometimes over and over again, and further load the air, heavy with foul odors before, with the reek from their stinking breaths and un clean bodies. If under the conditions described by the grand Jury the place is full to overflowing, what would it be if the accommodations of a clean worklngman's boarding-house were supplied to the motley crowd that haunts the City Jail? The grand Jury is composed of de cent, reputable men who enjoy the luxuries of clean, orderly homes and who think so highly of fresh air that they take care to enjoy Its freedom. They make the very common mistake of supposing that the foul air and TIIE MORXIXtf OKEfeoXIAX. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 191Q. cramped quarters of the Jail are as ob noxious to those who seek accommo dations there through their offenses against society as these conditions are to themselves and to other well-ordered citizens. No doubt the Jail is unclean. It houses for the most part unclean peo ple. No doubt it smells bad. Such people carry their odors about with them. No doubt It Is Ill-ventilated and dark and damp. To the extent that these defects In sanitation can be, they should be remedied. As to the rest, if the accommodations are poor, and un questionably they are. It Is in the power of those who are lodged therein to find and maintain better. The tax payers of Portland regret that they do not, but they have no particular cause to feel "disgraced" over the matter. IN MR. SCOTT'S MEMORY. Memorial, services for the late Harvey W. Scott will be held under the auspices of Pacific University at Forest Grove tomorrow. Something like a half century ago In June, 1863 Mr. Scott entered that University and graduated therefrom, the only member In his class and the first graduate of that institution. A tall young stripling, smooth shaven, with a heavy shock of brown hair, wearing a hickory shirt, home made trousers, home-kntt socks and heavy shoes bought for service, he presented himself to Dr. S. H. Marsh, a carefully-prepared, though rudely clad student, for entrance to the uni versity. In conjunction with a brother long since deceased, who was then taking college preparatory work at Tualatin Academy, he lived and ate, studied and slept In a small room near the old academy building. His father lived several miles north of Forest Grove M the time, and the boys walked back- aftd forth once a week, bringing to their lodgings bread, meat and such other food as they could carry for the week's rations. This was the be ginning of a life of active endeavor that Is but now ended. The record of long intervening years Is an open book with which the people of Oregon are familiar. An honored grave In River view Cemetery marks the close of this long endeavor. The Oregonlan, so closely Identified with the life work of Mr. Scott, Is pleased to note the an nouncement of the forthcoming trib ute by the university whose halls echoed to the tread of his feet in his energetic young manhood, to the de termination that budded and blos somed there, and gave of its largess to Oregon and the entire Pacific North west through many forceful, fruitful years. As man may. ha foueht his fight. I 'roved his worth by his endeavor. THE WICKED STAGE. There is sound sense In Mr. Wilton Lackaye's remark that the home Is the place where plays should be cen sored. It often happens that the sup pression of a play by public officials merely stimulates curiosity to see It. This was the case with Bernard Shaw's "Mrs. Warren's Profession," which the New York police would not allow on the stage when it first crossed the water. Subsequently they forgot all about their moral objec tions and It was played before great audiences, no doubt all the more nu merous because of the previous prohibition. Official censorship of the plays has always been a good deal of a farce In countries where It has existed. Aus tria presents an excellent- example of its working. In the timo of Franz Grill parzer, rerhaps the greatest of the German dramatists, the stage at Vienna was strictly censored, but the effect was not In the slightest degree to promote morality. No matter how vile a drama might be, the censors gave it their license if only it con tained nothing against the policies of the government. Grlllparzer's noble plays wrce prohibited or hindered one after the other because the purblind censor thought he saw In them glim merings of a love for liberty instead of that abject servility which the despotism desired. The British censorship, mild as It has always been, never pleased dra matic authors and has done little or nothing to uphold public morality. The notions of a police official upon moral questions are seldom very val uable. He usually deems everything wicked which departs from his own narrow traditions. Whatever agrees with his preconceived notions of pro priety he licenses, no matter how in herently depraved It may be. The only effective censorship of plays must be exercised in the home, and Mr. Lackaye is doubtless right in the opin ion that the duty should be performed by women. In this country, if they do not perform it, nobody will, for our men take their opinions not only upon the drama, but upon every other liter ary and artistic subject, from their wives and daughters. Men would not go openly to see a play which their womenfolk declared to be objection able, though they might possibly slink In surreptitiously. In spite of Mr. Lackaye's apparent opinion to the con trary, American men do sometimes visit places which their wives regard as immoral. It Is indeed a regrettable spectacle to see young women attending a play that Is sure to leave them with Ideas in their heads which they were a great deal better off without. Why parents permit their girls to attend such per formances Is one of the mysteries of our imperfect civilization. Europeans are not a whit more particular than we are as to the character of their dramas. Plays may be seen habitually on the stage In Paris which no Amer ican city would tolerate, but upon the whole they are less injurious, prob ably, than the comparatively mild de grees of indecency which we permit because young people are not allowed to see them. No respectable Parisian parent would dream of permitting an unmarried daughter to attend a per formance of "The Merry Widow" or any play of that detestable tribe. They go themselves, on the principle doubtless than an egg at a certain stage of ripeness is In little danger of being spoiled no matter what happens to It, but they leave their children religiously at home. Here, whatever the parents see is seen also by the sons and daughters of the family, and, what Is worse, the children are often permitted to attend malodorous plays wthout adult companions. Concerning the condition of the stage in this country. Mr. Lackaye Is somewhat more despondent, perhaps, than there is real occasion for. Un questionably some of the plays we have on the stage are "utterly unfit," as he says, though not all good Judges would agree with him that "The Easi est Way" is one of them. It requires a good deal of moral acumen to dis tinguish Infallibly between plays which uplift and those which degrade. When Ibsen first Invaded this country all his dramas were lumped together as ob jectionable. They were Immoral. They tended to destroy the family, and so on. We have come to the conclusion now that this preliminary judgment was erroneous and the Scandinavian genius Is now accepted as a brilliant moral luminary- Something of the same sort- Is likely enough to happen with regard to "The Easiest Way." It is not a play for young girls, but for all that it Is not necessarily wicked. Conceding with Mr. Lackaye that an objectionable play now and then gets a foothold on the stage, it Is not quite so certain that "Most plays now adays are frivolous," as he somewhat rashly asserts. There has been a not able change for the better in the character of our popular plays in the last ten years, and there is some reason to believe that the ones which com mand most attention just now are deeply thoughtful rather than frivo lous. Zangwill's "Melting Pot" filled the theater while it was running In Portland, and we understand from the accounts that it fares the same In other towns, though few would call it frivolous. "The Great Divide," "The Servant in. the House" and "The Bat tle" are serious rather than trivial, and we take it that they are typical specimens of tho really popular mod ern plays. Johnstown, Pa., whose name is syn onymous with one of the greatest dis asters by flood in the annals of the United States, shows an increase of 64.4 per cent In population since 1900. Its present population is 65,482, de spite the prediction, after the flood had practically destroyed it, not so many years ago, that the site would be abandoned. This predicton was based upon the fact that Its citizens who had escaped with their lives from the great wall of water that over whelmed the city almost in the twink ling of an eye were distracted with grief and terror and longed to flee the scene, and that no one from the out side would care or dare to rehabilitate It. The Federal count has disposed of these predictions by showing a gain in population of nearly 2u,ouu in ten years. Apple land near Silverton, which costs less than $50 an acre to pur chase and clear, does not look like a bad investment. It is possible that many persons would make more money in the long run by planting orchards In desirable spots along the Willamette and Columbia than by seeking high-priced land in other lo calities. Fruit of moderate quality from cheap land might pay better than first prize beauties from an orchard at 2500 per acre. J. Ellis Barker, the British tariff "expert" who tells Americans, that free trade has robbed English work lngmen of their farms, forgets that in this country almost everybody can read. Hence big stories are not al ways swallowed. English working men never had any land to lose. Free trade has transformed them from ser vile and brutalized farm hands, prac tically serfs to the landlords, into in telligent artisans. The anti-assembly forces that took part in the Republican primary are now reproached from Democratic quarters for their obvious purpose to support all the Republican candidates. To be sure. What were the Democrats taking part in the Republican family row for? When an advertiser announces .that he is again ready to lend money In large amounts on Portland real estate at & per cent. It means two things: First, that money Is more plentiful; second, that Portland real estate is considered gilt-edged security. The Sultan of Sulu says when he gets back home he is going to build an American house If it breaks him. If he really has no fear of bankruptcy, let him try to furnish it with a few paintings from Pierpont Morgan's gallery. You never can tell what twists poli tics will take. As the debate over conservation progresses, the rights of states loom large. And yet this ques tion was thought to have been settled at Appomattox forty-five years ago. San Diego has started the ball roll ing on Admiral .Evans' proposition to station a fleet of battleships on the Pacific Coast. If any man west of the Rockies oppose It, shoot him on the spot. Journalism is to be taught at Ore gon University. During the first semester the class should practice get ting the contents of a bushel basket into a peck measure for a tryout. For the September primaries 108, 693 citizens of Oregon registered. About 45,000 didn't go to that trouble, and at least 15.000 of them live In Multnomah County. At Seattle, they sent a man up for a year because he swore In his vote falsely. In Portland that sort of per jury Is considered a good Joke on the Republican party. Conquering the Alps was merely preliminary for Chavez, the Peruvian aviator, for yesterday he departed for the undiscovered country. Now watch the Democratic papers that were mixing up In the Republican nrimarles fall in behind all the Demo cratic candidates In eight. The Old Guard never surrenders. It doesn't die, either. It waits until the foe has fallen asleep and grabs the fruits of his victory. About 75,000 Republicans were reg istered and 40,000 voted. The dilatory citizens have a chance in November to do better. When Texas and New Mexico fight over one of their dam projects at Pueblo, Mr. Bryan should be referee. By all means, let Oregon turn back her lunatics to California. We have enough of our own. It may be suspected that New York Democrats are keeping their eyes on Saratoga. Tacoma will be a few scents ahead with its official skunk-killer. insidious Democracy would defeat Republican harmony. Let all the fang make a date for Sunday. O you Beavers! RETAILERS CREATE HIGH PRICES. Apple Grower Says That Some Portland Merrhanta' ProBta) Axe 30O Per Cent. DAYTON. Or., Sept. 26. (To the Ed itor). As there are frequent discus sions in the newspapers with reference to the high cost of living, and In con Junction therewith notice is made ol the great prosperity of the farmers, it might be well to consider every phase of the subject before coming to a conclusion. "In my walks around Portland last Saturday I noticed the prices that were being asked for fruit, more particu larly apples, at the rets'I stores. Apples that would pack 160 in a box were being retailed at 20 cents a dozen, for which the retailer paid from 50 to 75 cents per box, according to quality. Larger sized apples that would pack 128 in a box. were offering, according to quality and location, at 25 and 30 cents per dozen, and for these latter the retailer paid from 65 to possibly 85 cents per box. Allowing a percent age for loss through decay, which would not accrue If the apples were disposed of quickly, which undoubtedly could be done if offered at a reason able price, the gross profit of the re tailers is in excess of 300 per cent. Another instance coming under my observation was in front of a store on Fourth street, where a box of King apples, windfalls, were exposed for sale and marked two for five cents. These apples would pack S4 in a box. They cost the retailer 40 or 50 cents, and he was trying to sell them at J4.20. Here is the point I wish to make: there are thousands of boxes of apples lying In Front-street basements, rotting, without a market. The population of the city of Portland Is hungry for those same apples and if the latter could be placed within the people's reach and st a reasonable price, these apples wouM be consumed and the producer would receive enough to reimburse him for the cost of pack ing and shipping. As it is. the producer gets nothing, the would-be consumers don't eat any apples and the short-sighted retailer is the cause of it. Whereas, If he would reduce the selling price one half he would sell ten times as many apples, reap a greater aggregate profit and confer a benefit on both sides of his market. ' There is as much difference between a California and an Oregon apple as Is possible to imagine; In fact, so much as not to leave room for any argument. Notwithstanding this, September 10 a carload of California Gravenstelns were landed In Portland, with hundreds of tons of our Gravennte1ns on the market. It rtruck me as being rather peculiar because of the situation with reference to our apples, and I Judged there must be some reason not apparent for It. I Immediately began investigating, the re sult of which was I found this ""oad of California apples had been originally shipped to Seattle, but not being suffi ciently near the standard exacted by that city's vigilant inspector they were sloughed on to Portland, there to be dis posed of. On the same day I a1,ed around looking at the various fruit stores and Inspecting the quality of fruit that wan exposed for sale, and of 11 stores visited six had California Gravenstelns for sale and three had no Oregon apples in view. . ,, It anyone buys an apple and bites into It. finding It mealy and without flavor he naturally, not knowing and not even thinking where the apple was grown, becomes disgusted and probably will resolve in his mind not to buy any more apples this year. But if he should by accident be supplied with a Juicy, beautifully-flavored, home-grown apple he becomes enthusiastic and orders a box or two sent home. .That thmoraL Pointed Paraajrapbs. Chicago News. A Imereiful man is merclfu to his chauffeur. One way to retain your friends is by not using them. The man who worships the dollar sign Is apt to be crooked. Or a friend indeed may be one who minds his own business. Better the sure thing of today than the uncertainty of tomorrow. When a man says "Everybody says so," it means that he said so. A man who doesn't know what he is talking about always loves to argue. It's easier to talk about the straight and narrow path than it is to walk In it. Fortunately for both halves of the world, neither half knows how the oth er half lives. ' But the pure food laws do not make any provisions for love that is adulter ated with filthy lucre. An Ohio man aged 70 married a girl aged 20 and deeded her 600 acres of land. Then she had plenty of grounds for divorce. A Kansas woman wants a divorce be cause her husband throws bricks at her. No man has a right to throw any thing at his wife but bouquets and hot air. i Ed Howe's Philosophy. Atchison Globe. A man can be perfectly natural and not very satisfactory. Unless you own an automobile, down hill is as bad as up hill. If you get rich, you must do it in spite of high taxes and hard times. There's one good thing about an au tomobile. It can outrun the dust. When the wife talks bass, and the husband talks tenor, we know who's foreman in that house all right. Don't tell a good story, even though you know one; its narration will sim ply remind your hearer of a bad one. About the only difference between investing 125 In a meerschaum pipe and sinking a similar sum in a willow plume is that smoking hurts you. Any mother could gain distinction by asserting that her children inherited their good traits from the father's side of the house, but mighty few women care much for fame. Flashlights. Detroit Free Press. Now and then you run across a really pretty girl who can cook and sew, but not every day. Some women wonder how their grandmothers ever kept track of their husbands before telephones were in vented. It's a good thing to give your em ployer credit for knowing more about his own business than you do. Sometimes perseverance makes a bore out of a man. Our idea of being good is not having nv one oblectlns: to our presence at the banquet table. Every man has nis iauus, ana jouu and mine aren't bo blamed insignificant either. The Chair for the Sewlns Machine. New York Tribune. , n.r , Ihlnir In mmAmher in All nil ji v. w....n - ( DAwlno mnohlna fa to hfl.ve a rujuuiiK " e - chair of exactly the right height. The negleot of this detail nas Deen mo means of giving a bad name to many a m-- ,t,t0. nf ataal anrl Iron, for If wiii.iJA the seat is too low the operator not only gets very urea, dul mo bmuu" runs noisily and neavuy. Great Strategist. Pittsburg Post, Th.i fallow la a srreater strategist than Napoleon ever was." "As to now r- -u, .nt a f. raise nf salarv a year ago and hasn't told his wife about it yet," Jirvw York's .Honaeeleanlng. Kansas City Star. Indeed, few persons realize how bad ly the New York Republican organiza tion needed cleaning out umu x. t. was forced into the fight. FROM CRADLE TO THE GRAVE. Esaay by Robert G. Insreraoll, Regarded by Many His Masterpiece. Robert J. InReraoll'a Essay on Ufa written after tha birth of his grandchild. Born of love and hope, of ecstasy and pain, of agony and fear, of tears and Joy dowered with the wealth of two united hearts held in happy arms with Hps upon life's drifted font, blue veined and fair, where perfect peace finds perfect form rocked by willing feet and wooed to shadowy shores of sleep by siren mother, singing soft and low looking with wonder's wide and startled eyes at common things of life and day taught by want and wish and contact with the things that touch the dimpled flesh of babes lured by light and flame, and charmed by color's won drous robes learning the use of hands and feet, and by the love of mimicry beguiled to utter speech releasing prisoned thoughts from crabbed and curious marks on soiled and tattered leaves puzzling the brain with crooked numbers and their changing, tangled worth and so through years of alternating day and night, until the captive grows familiar with the chains and walls and limitations of a life. And time runs on in sun and shade until the one of all the world is wooed and won. and all the lore of love is taught and learned again. Again a home is built, with the fair chamber wherein faint dreams, like cool and shadowy vales, divide the billowed hours of love. Again the miracle of birth the pain and Joy, tl.e kiss of welcome and the cradle song drowning the drowsy prattle of a babe. And then the sense of obligation and of wrong pity for those who toil and R-eep tears for the Imprisoned and de spisedlove for the generous dead, and in the heart the rapture of a high re solve. And then ambition with its lust of pelf and place and power, longing to put upon its breast distinction's worth less badge. Then keener thoughts of men, and eyes that see behind the smil ing mask of craft flattered no more by the obsequious cringe of gain and greed knowing the uselessnes of hoarded gold, of honor bought from those who charge the usury of self-respect, of power that only bends a coward's knees and forces from the lips of fear the lies of praise. Knowing at last the un studied gesture of esteem, the reverent eyes made rich with honest thought, and holding high above all other things high as hope's great throbbing star above the darkness of the dead the love of wife and child and friend. Then locks of gray, and growing love, of other days and half remembered things holding the withered hands of those who first held his, while over dim and loving eyes oeatn soiiiy presses down the lids of rest. And so, locking in marriage vows his children's hands and crossing others on i o it Tipiico with daughters' babes upon his knees, the -white hair mingling with the gold, he Journeys on from day to day to that horizon where the dusk is waiting for the night. At last, sitting by the holy hearth of home as evening's embers change from red to gray, he fans asieep wtinin me ami of her he worshipped and adored, feel ing upon his pallid lips love's last and holiest kiss. WHY BRIDGE SUPPLANTED POKER Its Paxtnershlp Feature Appealed to the American !pirit. Kansas City Times. A Kansas statesman at Topeka la that nrMsre has replaced thi . im..,. o-nmo nf nnker. With no attempt to go into such a delicate question as that of the comparative menxs oi ine iwu Bnncn, ,u "-"j .raij that If the versatile Mr. R. V. Foster is right, bridge has attained itn nrpwnt voerue because it more nearly represents the American char In the period preceding the Civil War, according to Mr. Foster, people had little confidence in each other, life was a game of big risks and bluff, and bo poker was naturally the National game. In the era ot carpetoags ana lit . 1.1. to An i V1I0- husfness on Bmall capital, with the expectation that they could make up for their defi ciencies by getting the best of some body else. Then euchre came into vogue, the best bower representing the advantage conferred, say, by rebates. a Tprlnd of nartnershiDS followed, in tl.l. Kunlnnon wo M onnriimtArl nil Sci entific principles by combining the best elements In concerns mat naa previ ously been competitors. Whist was i t1 tk ..l.ntlrlK niT-tnorhtri pre e 111111 en 11 y mo uv-.v... i' - ..... game. Finally came the time of the great combinations wnicn can dictate terms precisely as the dealer's combi nation has the make at brtdge. Here is an ingenious explanation, for the Kansas statesman, of why bridge has waxed and poker waned. As to its correctness, why, that is another mat ter. Couldn't Stand Sollrnde. Chicago Record-Herald. Man is a gregarious animal. Loneli ness is the worst of fates. Those who have seen a college performance of the "Agamemnon" will recall that it opens with a watchman on the top of a tower who is waiting for the beacon fires to announce the fall of Troy. He has been posted there 10 years a long time. A watchman occupying a similar po sition in New York has just let go after a single month. His Job was to sit on the roof of a theater and look out for rain. The roof was a sliding one. When the sky was clear the roof wras left open. When the sky was wet the roof was pulled to. The season had been dry. There was no work to do. And there was no companionship to fill up the terrible hours of leisure every body was busy below. So the lonely anchorite, though holding a union card and drawing union wages, climbed down and resigned. Of course, all the world loves a stay er, even when he stays too long, like the faithful old Greek, but it will not overlook the human qualities of the man who hankered for the companion ship of his kind and made some sacri fice to get it. Unwritten Slander. Everybody's Magazine. A Western bookseller wrote to a house in Chicago asking that a dozen of Cannon Farrar's "Seeking After God" be shipped to him at once. Within two days he received this re ply by telegraph: "No seekers after God In Chicago or New York. Try Philadelphia." In Society Drama, Washington Herald. "When I was in burlesque," an nounced the drummer, "I used to help the comedian a lot. Maybe I can help you get some laughs." "As to how?" inquired the leading man. "Every time you utter an epigram I'll hit the bass drum." Initial Advance. Boston Transcript. Interviewer I'm told, sir, that you began life as a poor bricklayer. What was your nrst step rorwara .' Great Contractor I became a good bricklayer. ICs a Conspiracy. Springfield Union. With deep pain we observe that every time Colonel Roosevelt tries to keep in the background somebody pushes the background up in front, mot Onr Equal In That. Toledo Blade. "We are making immense strides," says an English suffragette. But has she learned how to get off a streetcar? YELLOW JOURNALISM TO DATE j Xot the Jiewapapr, hnt Sympat by- Working JHasaslnea. Syracuse Herald. A few years ago "yellow Journalism" was discussed so much that we all came to know just about what "yellow Journal Ism" was. Then the newspapers all began to get accurate and optimistic, and have kept it up ever since. Meanwhile, under cover of the lapsing of "yellow journalism" discussion, a new variety of "yellow journalism" has crept In and spread Itself to an unwarranted extent. The latter day kind costs you more than a penny. You have to pay a nickel; or 10 or 15 cents, or more for it, up to 35 cents. It comes periodically, like hay fever, only oftener bad 'cess to it. It is poison much more expensive than the purchase price, too. This sickly relapse of "yellow Journal- 1 Ism" insults you In the first place by tak ing it for granted that you are some Kina of a "rummy." Then its contributor starts in to catch interest by stating nis troubles, and how he came out of them victorious by saving 3 cents a week and all his burnt matches for 50 years when he built a cozy home out of the matches, and had saved enough money to ret his daughter's teeth fixed. Why do periodical "yellow journals" always assume that all their readers aro steeped in misery, woe, want, dissatis faction, moral indecision or subconsci ous inclination toward crime? The chief business reason for this line Is probably this: If a publisher can worrj people to start with, get them all worked up, scared, doubtful and brooding, he sort of puts his reading public down and out. Then they must have, first, sym pathy: then hints as to how they can get out of the sad ways they have fallen into. The publisher gives It to them forthwith. He is willing to think for them once a week or once a month, and to make his publication a habit, llko a drug. . Publications that cater especially to women sometimes print long stories of "actual experiences." written allegedly by an "average woman." They make it very convincing that she Is an "aver age woman" Just one of you girls." and that sort of thing. But she is a woman who has suffered, sisters, yes, suffered as you all do (suffer, darn you. suffer, or else get us two new subscribers) and she has known, and felt. But heavens, the million things she has known and felt! Some of them were never spoken of in connection with our homes before! But that's the yellow cir culation idea, to get the woman to know ing and feeling or else be perplexed by a painful doubt as to whether they aren't very stupid. Having been taught to think and feel a million things, they are sup posed to "come back" for the next home brightening issue, etc. If tho saffron pub lishers keep it up, and the heads of fam ilies stand for it, all our womenfolk will soon be doing nothing else but thinking and feeling. , In the last analysis, the latest school of yellow reading matter seems a bit synonymous with dirty dishes. Beside it the Innocent good spirits and optimism of the newspapers are tame, i deed. DEAF AND DUMB FAKERS. Such Impostor Seeking Charity In 4hla City Are Exposed. PORTLAND. Sept. 27. (To the Edi tor ) a short time ago, an able-bodied man came to my home on the East Side and asked for financial aid, claim ing to be deaf and dumb, thereby leav ing us to infer that he was Incapable of earning his daily bread, by honest means. I wish to Inform the publlo that the man referred to was an impos tor as we quickly discovered, for my wife and I are both deaf, while our children can hear. Now and then, it has come to my notice that impostors called at other homes for the same purpose of fraud. Whenever the homes of the deaf people are stumbled upon there impostors beat a hasty retreat when tested as to their veracity. A very frequent assertion they make is that they are on their way to a school for the deaf to get an education. Schools for the deaf do not receive men, and are always free. This "gag" Is repeated In many states of the Union, and must be profitable. As no deaf man or woman within my knowledge there are about 100 in Portland ever resorts to begging, these impostors injure the deaf as a class. Wo are lowered in the estima tion of the public and classed with beggars. Idiots, insane and criminals. I wish to request every person meet ing a beggar shamming to be deaf and dumb, to report the matter to the police Instead of handing out alms. This will rid qur city of such undesirables. Jt. J. J. Clean Tp or Be Done Vp. Culpeper (Va.) Enterprise. On the afternoon of September 8. 1910, I was inaugurated Councilman for the corporation of Culpeper, and I am now a full-fledged official of your town, with authority galore. I am chairman of the sanitary committee, which is a place I have long sought and mourned because I found it not. To those who honored me with their votes and to the honorable Mayor, who seem to appre- - m t- .lnnHneHS. and to the citizens of the town of Culpeper gener ally, I will say tnai mey muni. i. ho Hnne tin. and I shall clean uij, v. " . . , give no further notice. Respectfully, S. M. Newnouse. Taklns; Hold. Chicago Daily News. r.ih.f t must studv that young - i-lQucrhter. T want to see how he takes hold of things that in terest him. n.,..i.i.r Ail Wo-ht. dad. Just peep out suddenly on the piazza some night. A Fairy Tale. . Chicago News. T.ittta T.ola Is the house that Jack built a fairy tale, papa? Papa es, aear. IJttle Lola Why is it a fairy tale? Papa Because it didn't-cost any more han the architect's estimate. Not the Same. Chicago News. Peckham No, sir, I never made the same mistake twice. Meeker That's tunny; you married a. second time. Peckham Oh, tnat,was er anoinei mistake. Kew York Journalism. Louisville Courier-Journal. ' "See this society belle about er ru mored engagement?" ' 'Yes, sir. If she admits It. get 10 lines. If she denies it, get half a column and her photograph." CURRENT NEWSPAPER JESTS. T wish T wera rlead !" "Hoavens! Can't yon marry her, or did you?" Cleveland Leader. "Did the man whose auto was in collision int nie-ht elve It a cursory examination?" "It sounded that way, sir." Baltimore American. Joy-rldins- Is variously significant, but chiefly, perhaps, as showing what curious things ara getting to pass for joy among us. Puck. "JVhat would you do if yopr doctor told you you had appendicitis?" "Reach for a check book and a fountain pen." Wash ington Star. Ethel (getting basket ready for picnie Lettuce la said to make one aleepy. Tom Put In a tew heads for the chaperon. Boston Transcript. "I'm not quite sure whether yours is a constitutional disease or not," admitted tha physician. "That being the case." sighed tha invalid, "I'll have to get a decision from the United States Supreme Court." Cbl caara Dally News.