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Chi . 8trr buiKInc aT0RTUND. lTOD.tT. REFT. SB. the rrxsiox ixst. The Torid'i Work has begun the ublicaMon of a series of articles vhlch promts to throw a bright light tipon the subject of pensions. The Tlrst of the series, which appears in the October number. Is replete with Information and fruitful suggestions. Jn fact, tho w rlter's storo of knowledge 3s amazln when we take Into account The refusal of the Commissioner of Pensions to permit him to consult the Archives of his office. What cun bo the reason why the Pension Hurcau -w lshwa to conceal Its records from the jpubile? Is It because, there Is so much to be ashamed ofT Mr. Hale's revela tions In the World's Work seetn to warrant some such conclusion, but of ours we shoulii not Judgo even the tension Bureau hastily. There may be some more honorable reason for the refusal, though It Is hard to 1m nglne what It can be. The most start Jir. of Mr. Hale's statistics relate to rth magnitude of our pension bills, tile tries In various ways to impress (the figures upon the reader. He tells lis for one thin that the largess of he Government to th old soldiers. Bvnd others who are politely calltd old soldiers, costs each family In the country upon the average 110 a year. This la a neat little sum for each breadwinner to contribute in these jiplng times of high prices. When the Items which come from everybody 'jare added together they amount to the Imposing sum of $157,000,000. "This Is our annual tribute to tho sur Wivors of the -wars the country has fought. But the word "survivor" must be interpreted very liberally here. It Includes a large number of young women who cannot be supposed to rave borne arms against the South or Spaniards. Maria L. Sparks, for in stance, was espoused by Levi S. Sparks fifteen, years after the close of the fwar. He had another wife living at Jie time, but bigamy is no bar to the Savors of our pension office. When Jjovl departed to a better world the Ooreniment continued his pension to Maria, who was courteously designated fes his 'iwidow." It is perplexing to figure out Maria's preclso connection iwlth the perils tn0 clv11 v,'ar but -he is no more remote from them than are thousands of others who help (O swell our enormous -pension bill. Now that the veterans are growing old St haa become quite- the fashion, Mr. Hale intimates, for blooming damsels to set their caps for them. The sur rlvlng pension make an admirable provision for a youthful widow after the demise of the incumbrance. These thriving wiJows cannot be supposed to have helped much toward saving I ha country, but they show a decidedly fchrewd appreciation of Its bounty. The $157,000,000 which we pay an nually for pensions compares very In terestingly with tho sums which other lands expend upon their military' es tablishments. Thus the entire Oer snan army, the best and most efficient Jn the world, costs that country $200. 4)90,000. a year. This is only a little Knore than we pay out for pensions. Dud tf plans now maturing are carried n?ut !t is a good deal less than we shall soon be paying. One scheme Is incu-t-atlng which will run the pension bill up to some $264,000,000. Perhaps when this grab is actually consum mated people will begin to consider he. subject seriously. It stands to reason that nobody complains of lib eral pensions to honest veterans who need help from the Government. Kven If they were to be allowed a dollar a clay for the rwt of their lives, as some j.ropose. there would be no grumbling. The trouble with the ponsion list arisw from the Indisputable fact that It Is not composed entirely of the riames of hom-st veterans. Three rourths of the soldiers who fought in the Civil War are now dead and yet twe are paying every year for pensions more than three times the entire an aiual cost of the Japanese army and navy. It amounts to a tax of ti per winnum on every human being in the Vnited States. This Incredible piece f extortion is inflicted upon us, not for the sake of veterans who have ktctually fought for thrlr country, but too much for the sake of scoundrels and fcwlndlera. Between thoe gentry and the genuine veterans we should draw to. clear distinction and never drop it out of xntnd. The pex.slon rolls teem with the ruunes of deserters. Some of them lire there through simple perjury. Pome may thank the charity of Con srressmen who are very generous in Awarding pensions to cowards and ramp followers. It la a common prac tice for Congress to pass bills which declare that such a person "shall be Sield and considered to have been hon orably discharged" when it has been (.roved that he was a deserter. Some times Congress gtves a man a record n the Army, discharges him honor ably and pensions him all In the same act. The carelessness and imposition 'upon the taxpayers would be incredl Ihle if It were not so well prored. It 3s these scandalous grants of pensions, with similar frauds in other directions, which awell the pension bill beyond reason. Were they eliminated, the deserved payments to actual veterans would be no gTeat burden upon the country- But the problem of elimi nating fraud from the pension list la extremely difficult. The cunning In dustry of pension agents has so In trenched It that some students of the mbject say there Is no remedy short of abolishing all pensions and starring fresh with the honest claimants. This Is really what the genuine veterans Jiave to dread. The country Is liable to become so disgusted as the revela tions of Imposture grow that It will demand drastic measures of reform. f that ever happens the veterans may thank the mercenary agents who have honeycombed the whole business with rascality. OVB MNE LARGEST CITIES. In 1900 the United States had eleven cities of more than 300,000 population. Pittsburg was lowest of the group, with J21. 16. Natural increase and the annexation of Allegheny (129,896) raised that city Into eighth place. Ac cording to the thirteenth census the nine largest cities in their order are: PopnUttHMV r.t-. Bank 1. N-r Tork 2. Chicaso . .. a Philadelphia. 4. St. Lula . .. a. Hit(vn . ... a Clvlan4 .. T. Kaltlmor . 8. plttaburs a rtroit ... 1in 1!X. Inc. 3.T 4.76.t".S 8.4.ST.22 ..S.l 23 . . l.M.IXH .. 7.l-". . . 7 .. Bl.6Lt .. .V..4.- .. kt:i.Bn. ..- 6o.1t 1-jua.svT l-T 11 4 IBS 4rt. rK o.T K.T 4H.'SU S-3 10. Kurraln in K.n rranclKO. a-:2.76-J Relative rank of the first n-re Is unchanged from ten years ago. but Cleveland has pushed Baltimore out of the sixth place. Detroit's tremen dous gain la due In large measure to extraordinary effort put forth to se cure automobile factories. It Jumped from thirteenth place to ninth. Tenth place will fall either to Buffalo or San Francisco. CAMPAIGN Or EDCOATIOX. Most heartily doea The Oregonlan approve the following plank In the platform of the Methodist Episcopal conference held recently at Hlllsboro: VT ahoald tak th month of Octobor for a campaign of education- Our church ahoulU t open for Ui full JJouUon of th quaatlnn; literature ahould ba circulated throuKh our Sunday arhoout; achool bouae -it ...m-na viv, ii, an oDDortunlty and atraat meeting, ar fruitful of reault among a claa not rtaUM or our puiyt nut thia offort should be put forth to spread the gospel of temperance, of total abstinence from the use of Intoxicating liquor, not in. the tried and ineffective cause of prohibition. And not only in October, but through out tho voar ahould the followers of John Wesley preach the doctrine of shunning vice wherever people gainer to hear them. Tt mav xafelv be assumed that if the saloons of the United States had to depend on support from the mem-hri-shtn of the Methodist Church. 9 per cent of them would go out of hii-sinm at once. Do prohibitory en- atmonta affwi the attitude of Meth odists toward the evil of intemper ance 7 Isn t it true tnai eaucauou most of all, spiritual education haa taught them to aDstain irora intem perate use of liquors? Statutes do nnt vnt ar fliA root of the evil: least r nil atatntoa that cannot ba enforced. The cure for Intemperance lies where the gTeat toay or Aietnoaists icarueu It In the education of the mind and heart. REFORESTING OBEGOJf. The Forestry Bureau la planning a real service in some of the burned over districts of Oregon. These In clude the Bull Run watershed, where some 700 acres will be replanted to trees adapted to that region. The largest area to be replanted, however, is in the Mount Hebo district of Tilla mook County, which was burned over in 1857 and has never been reforested. Think what a splendid growth of tim ber would have stood now on this vast area, running up Into many hun dred acres, if replanting In that far away Autumn had been possible. This district la now a mat of under brush not profitable or possible even for the range of dairy cows. It is immensely fertile and by proper treat ment will be made to produce pastur age while the trees are growing, fol lowed by a fine belt of timber In com ing years. Eastern hard woods will be planted in most of that section, tests covering a period of years, made by the ranchers themselves, having proved that these trees will thrive there. One thing is certain. If hickory, white oak, chestnut and black walnut will grow there at all, the trees will make a much more rapid growth in the mild and humid air and rich al luvial soil of our principal coast coun ty than they do in the more rigorous climate and stingy soil of New Eng land. The experiment is well worth trying. It will, among other things, give our forestry policy a chance to prove its worth. EXAGGERATED FASHIONS. Extreme fashions In women's ap parel that have been Introduced Into the United States it is said from the demimonde of Paris are, to put it mildly, shocking to the sensibilities of modesty. They mock at utility, menace health, are bold In suggestion and in a far-reaching sense demoral izing. Look at the woman ambling along the streets, her body in a length ened, exaggerated cuirass, her nether limbs spanceled, her skirts drawn in between the knees and ankles, her feet encased In "open work" stock ings and Ion', narrow, high-heeled shoes, her gown fitting so closely as to scout the Idea of anything more than gauze underclothing, her hands encased In creaseless gloves, and tow ering above all, a structure called by courtesy a hat that is an exaggerated copy of a Hindu turban, held in place by savage-looking pins, bedecked with all the colors of the rainbow, over a mass of hair contorted Into curls and puffs and braids, which the graves of the Orient have been robbed to supply. Is not this a picture that should give pause to moralists and bring de cency and common sense double quick to the rescue, lest the Infection or contagion becomes epidemic among young women who lack discretion and young girls who make bold to attract attention? It Is true that few. If any, sensible women have adopted these extremes of fashion in attire. "Gear" would be a better name for such ca parison of the human body, since truly the housings of a war horse in barbaric times did not equal In ab surdity the housings that American women of extreme fashion have bor rowed or copied from the courtezans of France and the pagans of the East, In that the housings of the war horse did not Impede his movements. At least there were no spancels on his legs. He, at least, was not out with the purpose of being caught. While It Is true that relatively few American women adopt these extreme styles in dress. It is also true that the spectacle presented by those who do is a demoralizing one when it Is not disgusting. That is, those whom It docs not disgust are. or may be, led to an Improper estimate of women which unconsciously extends to the mass of sensible, modest, womanly American women. Again any style of woman's dress that has a tendency to attract the curious and excite the con tempt of sensible men Is to be de plored and should ba discouraged by TITE MOKXTNG (TREGOXT AN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1910. moral, decent people who look away from the evanescent present to the future of the race, so largely influ enced by the moral. Intellectual and physical status of Its mothers. In this view the question of the present ex aggerated fashions In woman's apparel loses the frivolity and grotesquenees of the passing hour and becomes one of serious moment. THE KEW TORK HATPORM. It is only by stretching language a tittle that Mr. Roosevelt's famous New York nlatform can be called pro gressive. It contains, to be sure, some vigorous denunciation of "the crook and grafter." but this Is not progress. We have. all been denouncing those impediments for a long time. The progressive mind Inquires how to get rid of them. To this question Mr. Roosevelt does not afford a very clear answer. Doubtless he has one In mind' but he will never have a better chance to speak It out than he had at Saratoga. Praise of President Taft Is natural and proper. Mr. Roosevelt, in view of the past, could scarcely have avoid ed including it and upon the whole it la well put. The tariff paragraphs present a different pnase. jnr. j.ait i not responsible for the Payne- Aldrich tariff and it Is not necessary in order to uphold his Administration to publish fulsome half-truths about it Kn trtmtworthv authority would admit that the tariff haa been reduced 11 per cent, as Mr. Rooseverts piai form claims. it ia not ranrpded bv competent Judges of the subject that the Payne Aldrlch tariff merely Increased the taxes "on some luxuries and articles not of ordinary use." Cotton socks are of ordinary use. bo are gooas made of rubber. The addition that there was "no Increase on any com mon food product" Is not as straigni forward as It might be. Our common nsA nrrwiiirta are raised at home and the tariff does not affect their prices. Moreover the KepuDiican iuuumu platform promised revision downward. Letting duties stand Is not revision downward. On the tarif Mr. Roose velt's platform speaks with a double tnndiA tt shows all his ancient Ig norance of the subject with a pretty obvious purpose to miaieao. ine tences of the platform referring to the tariff commission and revision one schedule at a time should be credited to Mr. Taft. to whom the Ideas belong. When Mr. Roosevelt was President he never hinted at anything of the sort. What the platform really means to say concerning direct primaries we must wait for time to tell. Its lan guage Is too cryptic to admit of prompt interpretation. MTVTNO IAXD CONSERVATION. vhn tt thA American Mining Congress now In session at Los Angeles do not seem to be In favor of the Pin chot policies of conservation so far as they apply to mining lands. This attitude of the mining men Is due to their practical knowledge or tne sub ject as compared with the theoretical immrimi of Mr. Pinchot and his fel low faddists. In discussing the pro posed Pinchot leasing plan, i-reeiaent Buckley of the Congress stated a well known fact w'hen he said, "Leasers would not handle great quantities of low-grade ore that now are mined at a profit. It would not pay them- and all this would go to waste." The force of this statement can be well under stood by those who are familiar with the Alaska mining business about a dozen years ago when hundreds of miners leased properties, and, after skimming the cream from the claims, abandoned them to the owners, who In many cases would not handle the low-grade dirt that should have been handled with the other. The same would be true of the Alaska coal properties about which Pinchot and the muckrakers have had so much to say. The private owner of a coal claim would endeavor to get all that he could out of It. but the lessee would be strongly tempted to work that portion which paid the largest profits and leave the remainder. The Imposition of restrictions which would prevent this plan of working would re sult in there being no lessees to take hold of the property. It la not nat tering to the genius of Mr. Pinchot that, no matter what branch of the land business, whether coal, timber, agricultural or mining land, is In volved: he Is always opposed by men having the best practical knowledge and actual experience regarding such lands. ' It is the Pinchot policy that compels the people of Alaska, with millions of tons of coal right at their doors, to import the fuel from Australia, Japan .nH ptriHah Columbia. It haa withheld from settlement so much land through out the West that tne oniy peopie satisfied are the big syndicates which, with supplies thus lessened, are en abled to exact much higher prices for their enormous holdings. WALL STREET'S DISTRESS, ttroti ntrAt the financial nerve center of the United States naturally feels the effect of the political gnosx dancing more than It la felt elsewhere. While it is gradually getting accus tomed to the resurrection of Bryan platitudes two to ten years old, it is Impossible to awaken any life in the market. The leading financial and commercial papers of the East all call attention to the dullness and lack of demand for stocks. If the present sit uation continues very long, a large percentage of brokerage houses will be obliged to retire from business. This Is a situation that ought to be self-adjusting; the law of supply and demand affects stock brokers as well as men of other callings. Wall street thould not, however, get the impres sion that it la up to all the rest of the country to sneeze when Wall street takes snuff. Loss of confidence in the value of most of the railroad and industrial securities has undoubtedly been cre ated by attacks warranted and un warranted, made mostly for political purposes. But because the public de clines to give the broker a' chance to earn a commission on the sale of a few shares. It does not fol low that the country Is going to the bow-wows or that there is not plenty of money for Investment far beyond the narrow confines of Wall street. Among tho excuses offered by the optimistic dealers In Wall street se curities for the present dullness is the alleged heavy demand from the West for money for crop-moving purposes, and for use in payment of the quar terly dividends due In October. It may have escaped the attention of Wall street that large sums of money are going West for other pur poses than to meet crop-moving re quirements. Hundreds, perhaps thou sands, of men who formerly believed that railroad stocks and bonds and good industrial securities offered strong investment attractions have become uneasy over the future of In vestments of this class and are looking to the West for something better. Throughout the West there are plenty of opportunities for Investment in timber, farm lands, or even in manu facturing enterprises, where neither the state nor the oovernmeni win ever place a limit on the amount or prom that can be honestly earned from the Investment. Why should a sensible Investor buy stocks in a railroad in which It now Reems a certainty that the Government will limit the extent of the profits, when he can buy land In a country traversed by a railroad whloh will treble and quadruple in value without any possibility of the Investment being jeoparaizea oy gov ernment interference? Brokers and dealers in stocks ana bonds who have been forced out of hnainoan hv the nresent furore against capital can follow their former clients to the great and growing West, where we have something superior to stocks and bonds to offer intending purchas ers. It requires an enormous amount of money to keep this country in gooa running order, and a strained situation in Wall atreet will always be felt to a certain extent In the West. .At present, however, the West is demon strating that good crops and confi dence are making a very satisfactory standoff for a bad stock market and political hysteria In the East. Tho Milton Fruitgrowers' Union has Just sold 350 carloads of apples, nearly the entire product of the Milton-Free-water district. Fruit shipments al ready sent forward from Mllton-Free- water this season are 3i6 cars, ana n le otlmatert that the season's total will reach 675 cars. These shipments, go ing out of two small towns wnicn in tho palmiest days of the wheat Indus try in that section could not muster half that number of cars of wheat in an entire season, show the great change that has taken place since vhuiirnviTir was suDDlanted by fruit. Not only does the industry bring In profits many fold greater man wneat growing, but employment is given to thousands of people in an area which In wheatgrowlng days would not have taken care of more than a few hun dred. Eastern Oregon as well as other noeta if thA state has scored heavily In a financial way by abandoning grain- growing for the more pronxaDie cropa now being marketed. Conttia. nnthorlMea have Dlaced the ban on mixed marriages, and have an nounced their intention or inrowins every possible legal technicality In their way. It is also proposed to ask the next Washington Legislature for a law which will make this disgusting nntlfA an difficult that it Will be much less frequent. There are some folles from which the law is unaoie to protect the fools. Were It only the fools who were made to suffer by these mixed marriages. It might be well to let them pay the fiddler. Other people have some rights in the world,, and they should be protected against hav ing such dirty tragedies as these Japanese-American marriages which occur with increasing frequency. The asy lum or the Jail ought to be used as a refuge for white girls who. marry Jap anese husbands. The Bates & Cheesoorough steam ship line between Atlantic and Pacific Coast ports should be given the best possible support by Portland mer chants, provided it makes the same rates to Portland that are made to other Coast ports. The railroads make no distinction, and if the steamship line is to receive full support from this city it should adopt the same policy. Mer chants of this city can annually use thousands of tons of freight for which rail transportation offers absolutely no advantages over water .carriers. It would thus seem that there is an ex cellent opportunity for the merchants and transportation men to get together on a basis that would enable the main tenance of a first-class freight service between Portland and Atlantic ports. Major-General Funston objects to shoulder straps on the uniforms of bellboys, something that "takes years of waiting and hard service to earn," he says. Discipline and breeding will keep the smile from the face of a Point man when he hears that. Tomorrow Is Portland day at Clark County's First Annual Harvest Festi val, now being celebrated at Vancou ver. Portland ought to send a big delegation. In point of time and miles, Vancouver Isn't much farther than the Country Club grounds. Isn't General Funston Just a bit fin icky on the subject of bellboys wear ing caps the same shape as Army offi cers? If this headgear exasperates him, how can he bear to look at their brass buttons without righteous anger? Having been embodied in the "New Tork platform, the word "crook" may now be considered as legally adopted Into the English language, or, let us say, into the American branch of it. There Is not time to get it into the Initiative this year, but the Legislature ought to pass a law classing the amal gamation of white and Oriental as miscegenation. Astoria's centennial next year will have the sympathetic . Interest and aid not only of Portland, but of the entire State of Oregon and of Southwestern Washington. Why didnt some "enterprising "sport" think to take moving pictures of the Saratoga convention together with a few phonographic records? Rates -for speeding have at last been raised in the Municipal Court, They should be doubled every time for con stant offenders. In several particulars, the New Tork platform is not in harmony with the Colonel's Osawotamle speech. Without Heney and Burns on the Job, "the Government case against Has kell was bound to fall. la equity, the Chicago aviator who fell down a chimney is entitled to- a chlmney-rwep's pay. The local wood dealer who sold short measure to a policeman did not know his customer. Departmental figures show Oregon has the best apple crop this year, and Washington next. FLATS RENTED AT 3O0O A MONTH How Kmablon'a Attitude Toward them Has Changed. Christian Science Monitor. There is building in the metropolis of the country at present a $1,600,000 apartment-house designed especially lor the accommodation and comfort or those who are so circumstanced that thev can look forward to the coming of rent day with Indifference and back ward to it without regret. This struc ture, we are Informed, is to contain 18 luxurious apartments, renting all the way from $10,000 to $25,000 a year. The apartments are to be divided into 12 called ordinary and six called duplex Strange to say, while one may rent a duplex apartment in this structure from $10,000 up, the scale for the ordi nary apartments runs from $14,000 up. This would seem to indicate that, in a social way, one can do better by re maining ordinary than by becoming du plex, and yet the common impresBlon has always been quite different. At first blush a millionaire unfamiliar with social classifications In the palatial flat center might imagine that by moving into a complex apartment he would have better standing on the avenue, but this, we now see, would be a mis take. It would be worth his while even to pay a considerable bonus for an ordi nary flat. However this may be, the fact or greatest moment to those who are look ing forward to the time when they can live in a palatial apartment-house of the truly modern type is the risa mey are running by delaying the move. When flats first came into use in this country people living in dwellings could hardly be induced to look at them. "They live In a flat" was regarded for a long time as a term of reproach. The people who occupied five rooms at $20 or seven rooms at $25 were alluded to by those who occupied houses with up stairs and outdoor attractions as "mere flatters." Gradually the flat became an apartment, and interest on the cost of hardwood floors, marble wainscoting, porcelain bath tubs and so on was add ed to the rent, so that the people in dwellings, while still unreconciled, treated the occupants with greater re spect, and would now and then unbend so far as to return their calls. Still later, the social barrier disappeared al together, and during recent years in stances have come to notice where the occupants have been found to hesitate when asked If they knew the people in the detached house across the way. Just what the outcome of the com plex and ordinary apartment system may be it is impossible to say, but when It Is considered that the rent is now beginning to vary between $10,000 and $26,000 a year, it will be seen that those who might have rented a flat at one time from $16 to $35 a month, and who failed to Jump at the opportunity, and who have since clung .to a dwelling, may now be excluded from fiat life al together. In the very nature of things rents for the ordinary and complex apartment will advance. Judging the future by the past, the time may come when an apartment, ordinary or com plex, that will not command at least $100,000 a year will be occupied only by those who are devoid of social aspira tions. WHY NOT HAVE OXE ELECTION f Sna-a-eatlon as to Simplifying Oresjon's Present Method. THB DALLES, Or.. Sept. 28. (To the Editor.) Now that the primary election is over it would appear that the final results are Just about as un certain as they were before. The pri mary would theoretically nominate a set of men for each of two theoretical parties, and the election would decide which of the two parties was to dom inate, but here In Oregon, there being no clearly divided parties, where does It come In? The people are all howling over what a gTeat thing the direct pri mary is, as it eliminates bosses from the party, but the same people are doing their best to destroy the party by Statement No. 1, so It occurs to me to ask. What good is the primary, any how. Theoretically, It narrows the field to two parties or so, but now it seems that it is still possible for other candidates to enter the field and the only result has been to eliminate a few undesir ables. So I would suggest, why not abolish the primary altogether .and have one direct election and have it over with and the man who gets the most votes gets the office, all the same as direct legislation. Let any man who has the money to canvnsn lur c, Bct UD for any office he wants or make It free for all without any petitions and let everybody in. It seems to me this would be as logical as our direct legis lation system. If then there are not enough offices to go around we can just create a few dozen or more by direct legislation, so that there will be enough. In this glorious progressive state, where every man is his own legisla ture, let us also have It so that each man has his own office. Z. M. CHASE. Stopping Gold Coinage. Ohio State Journal. The United States Treasury Department will endeavor to stop the further 'coinage of gold money. The intention Is to take the gold bullion and issue gold certifi cates for It. There are several reasons for this course. First, the paper money is more popu lar, especially when it comes to eagles and double eagles. The prettiest money In the world is a fresh gold (certificate for $10 or $20. And. second, the substitution of paper for metal will save the expense of coin age, printing coming much cheapor. It is estimated that the Government will save $300,000 to $500,000 by changing from minting to printing. Third, the gold coinage seems to get out of the country very soon, and so Is an encouragement to buy abroad and go abroad. Thus Its use does not enter into the common benefits of the country. Any of these reasons is sufficient to Jus tify the stopping of the coinage, but, all together, they make the change one that is demanded. Breaking It Gently. Tit-Bits. SImpklns always was soft-hearted, and when it devolved upon him to break gently the news of Jones" drowning to the bereaved Mrs. Jones it cost him much paper. Ink and perspiration before he sent the following: "Dear Mrs. Jones: Your husband can not come home today. His bathing cult was washed away in the surf. P. S. Poor Jones was Inside the suit." Observing. Cleveland Leader. The Man Did you notice that woman we Just passed? The Woman The one with blond puffs and a fur hat and a military cape, who was dreadfully made up, and had aw fully soiled gloves on? The Man Yes, that one. The Woman No, I didn't notice her. Why? Another Shot at Shakespeare. Washington Star. "Shapespeare was a smart man," said SI Simlin, "but there was times when he didn't hit it right." "For instance?" "That remark about "rather bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.' If that was the case there wouldn't be no hoss trades." Saving Ilia Larynx. Boston Transcript. No whirlwind campaign for Candidate Wilson, of New Jersey. He does not in tend to make business for the throat doctora,. , "APPROVED" HOMES FOR CO-EDS Novel Written hy Graduate A Ida Plan of Housing Freahmen. Detroit Free Press. "Phllippa at Halcyon" is the name of a new novel by Katherlne Hollands Browne, a graduate from the U. of M. several years ago. "Phllippa at Halcyon" is a romance written right around one of the "approved" houses In which Dean Jordan seeks to house her freshman girls. The fact that the book was supposed to be an Ann Arbor ro mance has Just begun to be known, and as a consequence the interest con cerning about the houses on the "ap proved" list is becoming more absorb ing. Three years ago the idea of ap proved" houses here in Michigan- was first widely talked of. Before that freshman girls were always advised to try and find rooms in a house where there were no men roomers, and where also they might have the use of the landlady's parlor in which to entertain their men callers. Then the regents believed it would be a good thing to make a rule governing the houses In which a first-year girl might room, ad vising all women entering the uni versity to communicate witn bub. ov. dan. dean of women, before securing rooms. It is in one of these woman s league houses that "Phllippa" is sup posed to have had her romance at Ann Arbor. This year there are nine of these league houses, and in the nine houses are accommodations for just ten times that number of girls. That means that 90 freshman girl-s will be as nicely ac commodated and have all the social ad vantages that come to the girls who are members of some sorority, in that they will have the use of a parlor to entertain their callers, and the land lady as chaperon. This Insures the first-year girl many of the privileges that would be hers in her own home, and that she would be deprived of in many rooming-houses not on the "ap proved" list. WHY CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LIVES. It Preachen an Optimism That Is Turned to Practical Lae. Louise Satterthwalte in Lippincotf s Magazine. One of the favorite criticisms of Christian Science is that it takes the ground that since God is good, he can not have created sickness or death; therfefore, since there is only one Creator, these things have no founda tion in absolute fact and are therefore unreal. The logic of the reasoning seems to some extent lost upon the world at large, but the Christian Scien tist, finding that better health, morals and business result from the belief in the unreality of evil rather than from faith in its power, points to full meas ure of value received from this species of optimism, and goes on his way re joicing. Could the whole world be convinced that unfaith In evil is really throwing all its force in with good, might it not be worth while? Should we never again fear anything, never be afraid of germs, draughts, food, the weather, contagion, "colds."' in short, all the pet bugaboos of modern times? Should we not be a healthier, saner and a more Joyful people? The only optimism worth having is that which proves of practical use. Christian Science has- demonstrated Its value in Just this way. Had it not done so, it would have died a natural death long ago, since there is little on the surface of it to allure or tempt the average mortal to a study of its meta physical statements. DRY FARMERS HAVE BIG CROPS. Lessons Learned by North Dakota as to the Best Methods. Minneapolis Journal. Farmers in almost every section of North Dakota have learned a lesson from the lack of rainfall and are pre paring to change their farming meth ods in many particulars. Among other things the amount of grain harvested In spite of the short rainfall showed very clearly the high degree of drought-resistance of the soil, but it also taught the farmers that they had not in the past been doing their full part In the conservation of moisture. There have been numerous converts to the Campbell system of dry farming, which includes deep plowing, deep sow- lng and the formation of the dust blan 1 . . nn oiirfopa In mlnlmlTA mirfnrfi evaporation. Several farmers In difrer ent parts of the state became converts to the Campbell system several years ago, and In years when the precipita tion was up to normal were laughed at by their neighbors for their extra pains, but the laugh was the other way this year. These , dry farmers reaped remarkable harvests this year, their wheat yielding in many cases 40 bushels an acre, while neighboring fields tilled by the catch-as-catch-can method turned out six to. ten bushels. Hold Back Fires I ntll Fall. LAKEVIEW, Or., Sept. 26. (To the Editor.) During all the discussions per taining to forest fires and their preven tion, nothing of importance has so far been said. Therefore I suggest that If a law were passed forbidding brush fires, or fires of any kind, until the Fall months, eay, not earlier than September 1, of each year, many extensive flres can be prevented. All clearings can he fired and cleared Just as well as under the present method. S. V. REHART. Wide Variation. Kansas City-Journal. On the subject of the Roosevelt Barnes fight In the New York primar ies President Taft cogently says: "The variation of the Ohio River in Cincin nati is over 60 feet and there are sim ilar variations at other points along the Ohio and Mississippi." For quite a while the President's attitude in this bitter contest was unknown. Table Talk. Washington Star. "What makes you suspect that BHg glns Is behind on his board bill?" "The fact that he says 'thank you" and looks perfectly pleased when he gets the neck and wing of the chicken." Inklnd Suggestion. Des Moines Capital. One St. Paul speaker wants to build a monument to Gilford Pinchot. Is Gif ford as much of a "dead one" as all that? ' Da Monk Dat Was a Fee. T. A. Daly In the Catholic Standard and Tlmea. Las' night rni' merry Jontlemen Eeea geeva me da mon' For com' where dey are have da feast An maka leetla rua. Dey lad for har da organ play An', too, dey laugh an' ahout Wen on da tables where dey eat Da monk' jomp about. Dey are bo pleaw' weeth Glacomo Dey feed iieem nuta an' exoch. An' w'en dey geeve heem wine for dreenk He Uka eet vera mooch. Oh, my! eet.ee a shame for see How fast he leeck eet up. You no can guess how hard eet be For mak heem drop da cup. He like ao mooch Jeea high-tone life Dat seem ao bright an" gay, He try for bite me on da han' For takin' heem away. But Oh. my frand. eef you could see Dat leetla monk' dees morn'! He ees so seeck, you bat my Ufa, He woesh ha newa born. Heoa eyes ees red, hee tongue ees dry. He Jooka half a dead; He no can wear hees leetla hat. So beeg eas grow hees head. Poor leetla monk"! You gta drunk . An mak' meestak' ao beeg. You theenk you can bee Jontleman, But find yoursel' a peeg. Yet. leea'en. Oh, my Glacomo! Be a mm' data, worse dan you, For torn' men dreenk an" newa theeak. jDejxar-jieae a' mrKT e Life's Sunny Side Sir Henry Hawkins was once presid ing over & long, tedious and uninter esting trial, and was listening appar ently with great attention to a very long-winded speech from a learned counsel. After a while he made a pen cil memorandum; folded it and sent it by the usher to the Queen's counsel in question, who, unfolding the paper, found these words: "Patience competi tion. Geld medal. Sir Henry Hawkins. Honorable mention. Job." Exchange, a a A woman entered the Fourth district police station a few days ago and asked Sergeant Sinking to have the river near her home dragged. "My husband has been threatening for some time to drown himself." she explained, "and he's been missing now for two days." "Anything peculiar about him by which he may be recognized?" asked tho officer, preparing to fill out a de scription blank. For several minutes the woman seemed to be searching her memory. Suddenly her face brightened. "Why." yes. sir: he's deaf." Cincin nati Commercial Tribune. a a He may have meant to be polite, but there can be no question that he actu ally did a very rude thing. He was a Frenchman, riding in a streetcar. Two women entered and, seeing no seats, stood. The gentleman, who sat near them, rose, removed his hat, and said, "I give my seat to the elder of these two ladles." Neither made a move to take the seat, but each glanced at the other in a haughty manner, as much as to say, "Sit down, madam!" "Is neither madame." said the French man, bowing to one lady, "nor madame." bawing to- the other, "the elder? Then I shall have to resume my seat." Youth's Companion. a a a A Scottish parson, remarkable for the simple force of his pulpit style, was en larging one Sunday upon the text, "Ex cept ye repent ye shall all likewise perish." "Yes, my friends," urged he with sol emn earnestness, "unless ye repent ye shall surely perish." deftly placing his left forefinger on the wing of a blue bottle fly that had just alighted upon the reading desk the while the parson's right hand was uplifted "just as sure ly, as, my friends, I flatten this poor fly." But before the threatened blow de scended the fly got away, whereupon the minister further "Improved the oc casion" with ready wit, exclaiming: "There's a chance for ye yet, my friends!" London Scraps. a a a Henry Labouchere. the owner of Lon don Truth, and a very famous wit and cynic, was several years ago detained on the border between France and Ger many, while the customs officials went through his trunks. "You will kindly replace the things you have scattered about," said the much annoyed Mr. Labouchere. and when the officials rudely refused, he added, "Very well, give me a telegreph blank and see that this dispatch la forwarded at once." This was the dispatch: "To His Highness, Prince Bismarck: Very sorry not to be able to breakfast with your highness tomorrow, but I am unavoidably detained here." Needless to say. the trunks were re packed at once. Cleveland Leader. Canned Swear Words. Westminster Gazette. Another vocal trouble comes from Hungary. There a gramophone dealer has been so annoyed by the singing of the girls In a dressmaker's workshop that adjoined his room that he filled one of his Instruments with swear words and set It to work when the girls were all assembled at their labors. The defense that he was only "testing new records" did not save him from having to pay damages to the amount of a sovereign. He would have found it cheaper to buy a parrot. Willing, bat Hnnd trapped. Washington Star. "Can't you do something that will lighten your husband's sense of care and make his worrlment seem less?" said the helpful woman. "No," replied young Mrs. Torklns. "I've often wished I could when I have observed his discontentment in the eve ning. But there's no possible way of my learning to pitch an invincible game for the home team." On a Philanthropic Mission, Chicago Tribune. "I see you've advertised for a lost dawg, ma'am, and " "Yes, but that isn't my little Jewel. That's a mongrel. Take him " "I know that, ma'am. No dawg could never take the place of your lost darlin. but if you'd like to have a gentle little creetur to love while you're hunting fur your Jool I'll sell you this 'un fur fifty cents, ma'am." Nothing New. Governor Haskell might have as much difficulty In proving that there is a "new Roosevelt" as the Colonel himself would have in showing that his "new national ism" is really new. or Dr. Eliot in demon strating the essential novelty of his "new religion." FEATURES in the SUNDAY OREGONLAN ACTIVITIES OF THE PORTLAND Y. W. 0. A. Helping 3500 girls to get along in the world, fostering health and right living, aiding them to be come good, useful women. MEMALOOSE ISLAND, CITY OF THE INDIAN DEAD Elegy for the Red Men of Ore gon whose bodies were laid to rest on an almost forgotten rock in the Columbia River. AT THE BEAUTIFUL LAKES OF KILLARNEY Annie Laura Miller tells of ro mantic scenery and presents an assortment of characteristic Irish yarns. HASHIMURA TOGO, IN NEW ROLE OF DETECTIVE His first stunt is an assignment to discover the Democratic ma jority in the next Congress. ORDER EARLY FROM YOUR NEWSDEALER.