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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:
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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.