THE MORXrN'G OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1910. 10 rORTLAD, OKEGOX. Entered at Portland. Oragon. Fostofflce as Fcon-1-C:aa Matter. fcuoecrlpuoa Ksim Invariably la AdTanee. (BT HAIL). fal'r. Roniay Included, on year S'I? laliy. Punay Included, m months J.-5 Fally. Burnley ln-luded. three montha... 2.25 Ially. Sunday Included, ont moma..... -75 . rlir. without Sunday, one year. .... aOO ' Daily, without Sunday, alx montha 3 J Tail-. without Sunday, tnrea mnthe... LiS Ially. without Sunday, ona month Vakly. ona yaar. 'Sunday, ona yaar ............... J-JJJ ' Sunday and weakly, ona year. a-30 (BT CARRIES). Pally. Sunday Included, ona yaar ' IaKy. Sunday lncluaed. ona month:..... -T3 ', How ta Remit Send Potofflce money order, expreaa order or personal cheek oa '. your local bank, tit amps, coin or currency , are at the aender-a rlk. Gla poatofflee addreea la full, including county and etate. Pnataca Ratra 1 to 14 pages. 1 cent: 1 to 3a picas. 1 cinu; to pegae, I eanta: . 40 to o pe-aa, 4 cent a. Foreign poaiage doobla rata. ' Eastern RasslneM Offtrea Verree Ce-i-1 Vn New York. Hrunawlck building. Cnl . Mo. Stager building. .PORTLAND. ITODAt, OCT. 11. "10. THE CBOLEfiA CTRh E. ' Asia-tic cholera ha reached the . : Cnlted State, there being three posl itively Identified cases already in K ' fork and a number of others sus pected. New York authorities, are taking extraordinary precautions to prevent the spread of the disease, but , ao long as health officials In foreign (ports are so lax in enforcing their . regulation this country will be la ! constant danger. There is always filth and dirt In -which the cholera ) germ can thrive In the congested ten 'ement districts of New York, but ' even at the worst, conditions are so much less favorable for the develop ment of the germ than they are In other countries that cholera scares are not easily started here. In the present epidemic which is sweeping over some parts of Europe and which through steerage passengers from ln lfected ports has already reached New York, Russia Is the headquarters and 'the chief offender In permitting the spread or tne area a aisease. 1 Cholera epidemics run far back into J history. The disease has a way a nr.. ,1 mntt ranlrilv and claimed the greatest number of victims among peo- i pie who failed to observe tne simplest nie rete-ardlnr sanitation. It was from the unclean of India that th 1 .i ! .nrAat AL'af in T? in! fi and 1 (found so many unclean fatalists there ' that for two centuries It never de parted. Varying climatic conditions 'have at times checked the ravages of ' th disease, and again It has levied fearful toll on the people. Through all the years in which It has been kill ing thousands, even millions, of her people, Russia has made cut rew at tempts to stamp out the disease. We And. for example, in a St. Pe tersburg cable to The Sunday Orego nlan. the statement: "Vessels loaded with grain from Odessa, where there Is plague, as well as cholera, are al Umi en enter sit. Petersburg without any medical Inspection or sanitary precautions whatever." The uispatcn f,.rth.r uetee that nut of 11.082 towns throughout the country only 38 have any kind or drainage at aii, ana oniy 192 are provided with a water supply. It is not surprising to react . mat la such conditions the highest Russian medical and sanitary authorities are v.olnnfnv trt ernress the, most pessi mistic views concerning the unhealth- lness of Russia. Thus far the cases which have reached the United States have come through the ports of Hamburg and Naples. Hamburg has always been a favorite embarking point for Russians coming to this country. So long as conditions remain as they are In Rus sia, this country will be In danger of the scourge. The owner of a well kept lawn adjacent to a thistle field will never be free from thistles until they are exterminated in the field. It will be similarly Impossible for the United States to escape cholera and plague so long as they are permitted to nourish unchecked in countries with which we are constantly doing busl- AOAEi TILE SPEED MAX I A. Experimentally the Munlclpafbourt is assessing speed maniacs SCO for exceeding the maximum limit of auto mobiles as fixed by ordinance. This Is double the fine ordinarily imposed for such offenses. It is not worth while to discuss the efficacy of the more expensive punishment. If loss or tl will not deter a man from speeding, forfeiture of twice that sum won't. He will simply charge tip the amount to the high cost or living. But what about imprisonment for a second or third offense? Other cities have tried it with a fair measure of success. Given a long, well-paved street like Union avenue on the East Side or Thurman street on the West Side particularly those stretches distant from business sections the tempta tion to "open 'r up" is too strong for many ordinarily law-abiding men and boys to resist. They are encour aged, too. by young women whom Anywhere else you would call normal, Wealthy, pleasure-loving folk. At all :lmra they are willing to take the chance of arrest. Thought of danger to themselves or to others does not enter into the scheme of what they consider rational enjoyment. We are not referring to Joy riders, who more r less under the Influence of Uquor make the night hideous, but to well known, reputable citizens whose one public fault is that they drive their ars too fast. They must curb this mania. It can not be tolerated on city streets. Be 'ore automobiles came into use, eight :niles an hour was the maximum limit or vehicles drawn by horses. Speed noderate for motor cars. while wenty-flve miles an hour Is not re tarded as wildly excessive. Still not day goes by when registers on cer- aln machines do not show forty-five r fifty miles. This Is outrageous. I speed mania is not cnecaea. tne ime may come erhen the public will et up an irresistible demand that no automobile under any conditions shall allowed to move faster than, flf een miles an hour within corporate mils of a city. For all practical pur poses this is fast enough. It la pos ible that ordinances will be passed equiring gear to be so locked that tore than fifteen miles an hour ould not be accomplished. A new danger to occupants and to edestrians has presented itself in 'ortland since most of the principal treets have been hard paved. Slight una outer a kw w -greasy'' surface. Cars skid on vel thoroughfares, often half the .-Idta of a street. At corners where there Is a grade, it is next to tmpos- aioio iu control can even uuu "uu- erate speed: at a high rate, the situa tion la murderous. Hence the neces sity of extreme caution before contin uous rains have cleaned the streets' surface. Death toll by speed maniacs in Portland has been small, but it can not be expected that good fortune will always attend those who drive at a furious rate. There is never need for it. Our streets are narrow. At every corner danger lurks. The Oregonlan would be glad if every professional and private chauffeur took and stuck to a pledge never to be guilty of speeding that would cause his arrest. A MEJfACK TO PORTLAND. Rather than made larger, Multno mah County should be made smaller. One government for both county and city should suffice. Instead of one for each. It would be much cheaper for taxpayers. This has not been done hitherto because the county is too larite. Yet schemes have been started for nearly trebling the area of Multnomah by annexing to it big slices of Clacka mas and Washingtno. The purpose be hind these schemes is taxation of Port land for roadbulldlng in country dis tricts. This county, however, is un able to provide all the road improve ments needed in its present area. Then how much more impossible the prob lem after annexation T If these Washington and Clackamas County slices expect to tax Portland for their roads, why should they alone enjoy this privilege t Just as logical to make the whole state one road dis trict, grabbing road taxes from this city. .These annexations, if carried, will make impossible the future conso!1da tion of city and county governments; a union which would be obviously cheaper for taxpayers and would re duce the number of political Jobs. This is a question that should be properly decided by home rule of the localities affected. Yet It Is to be de cided by voters throughout the state, many of whom know and care little about the real merits of the contro versy. Similar local questions are in volved in the numerous county parti tion projects on which voters are called upon to cast their ballots this next election. These county questions should be decided either by the Legis lature or by vote of the localities con cerned. The initiative has been sorely misused in this business. joirx rSnrrz. TH-nhshl Inhn Diet tha Wiscon sin farmer who has been at last arrested after a long siege, will end i1a mrwr In nriaon or on the gallOWS. Unhappily for those who wish for the latter alternative capital punishment la not nertmnea in isconam. um than mnhe amnetlmea fomt the law. Before Diet disappears from his tory it would be curious and interest ing If some psychologist like Profes sor Hugo Munsterberg would take his case In hand and make a thorough study of his character. There must be some instructive singularities in the makeup of a man who dares to defy the courts and has the ability to re sist legal process for several years, as m.r, hui rinne Nn doubt he had the sympathy and clandestine aid of his neighbors, for it was a corporation which sought to deprive him of part of his farm, but even with such assist ance his performance seems marvel ous. Of course his stubbornness Is nut nt riw in the modern world. One man, even if his cause Is Just, cannot hope to accomplish anytning Dy ngnt lng society except his own ruin. Diets has brought ruin upon himself and upon his wife end children as well. But in other times there was a place en .h.MAtr ilka Diets and a very useful one. His psychological kindred nave piayeo. a great pn m uum history. We may say with some truth that they have won for us the larger nwmnrtien nr mir liberties. It was the men who did not know when they h.tin whn fnnerht "on and on and on" until death struck them down. that defied kings in tne past ana con quered freedom of thought In mar tyrs' fires. So in spite or our rever n, inw anr! order and our re spect for the decisions of the courts, we may still cherish a little admira tion for Dletx" pluck. It was mis directed. It was saaiy niuappuou. oi rminr itself is praiseworthy. Without it the world would be a vast ly less desirable place to live in than tt Is and man would be far more sub ject to oppression and outrage. TARDT REMORSE. If young Merle Fuller's sorrow could restore to life the man whom he shot In a fit of passion it would be well. Since it cannot we must per force make the best we can of his resolution never again to carry a re volver. Had he made this admirable resolve some months ago, he would not now have the death of a fellow being on his conscience and the man whom he killed would be pursuing the useful course of his life. Fuller has been acquitted by the court at Van couver, as our slayers of men usually expect to be. and no. doubt during the remainder of his career he will seek to redeem by his conduct the crime he committed in haste. His expe rience may serve as a lesson to those misguided men who fancy they are protecting themselves from aggression by carrying deadly weapons. Nine times out of ten It is the armed man who suffers violence In a rough crowd while the peaceable- person who car ries no weapons will not be molested. There is a story of a typical tough who entered a barroom, cast off his coat and proceeded to "clean out" the room. Naturally his endeavor excited resistance and for a Urae Xhere was a lively scene. Finally nobody remained to be con quered and expelled but one little fellow whom the rowdy might have eaten at a mouthful. He did not de vour him, however. On the contrary, the small individual approached him confidently, pulled from his pocket not a -revolver but a plug of tobacco and in brotherly tones offered the Invader a "chaw." Need we say that it was accepted in the same . spirit that prompted the offering and the twain became comrades, for the rest or the nlghtT 'There is something worth considering In the old Scripture that "a soft answer turneth away wrath." Equally efficacious ds the soft manner, or at least the. manner which is unaggressive. The principal reason why no man should -go armed In civil society Is that his weapon tends to make him aggressive. He resents little things which unarmed he would pass by without -notice. A re volver gives to any person who car ries It more than a slant's strength and it is only here and there a man who has the self-restraint not to act like a giant and a bad one. too. ONXY A TEMPORARY OBSTRCCTIOX. No one believes, not even Frank Klernan himself, that the people or Portland can be deprived or the trans portation facilities of which they are in need for crossing the river. Con struction of the Broadway bridge was authorized in response to an almost unanimous demand for the structure. It met with the approval of the great majority of the taxpayers of the city. Few, if any, of them have changed their opinion regarding the necessity of the bridge. This being the situation, it is folly to believe that in the long run, after every technicality has been exhausted, and every obstacle encoun tered has been removed, the peo ple of Portland will not get iwhat they want, what they are willing to pay for, and an improvement to which they are entitled. It is. of course, a very prof itable move for the owners of busi ness property on the east side of the river thus to prevent-a much-needed Improvement, but how about the thousands and tens of thousands of taxpayers who have homes on the east side of the river and are obliged to cross to the west' side to do business and find employment T. Is it right that a few Frank Kler nan a shall prevent these taxpayers from providing the necessary facilities for crossing the river? The building of the Broadway bridge can be de layed, but It cannot be prevented. The courts of the land, from the highest to the lowest, are organized and main tained by the people and for the peo ple, not for a few of the people who seek to enhance the value of some special property at the expense of the many, but for the great majority. The best that Klernan can possibly expect Is a temporary delay and ultimate de feat. Meanwhile, the thousands of taxpayers who suffer dally delays from a few minutes to an hour on account of the congested condition or traffic on the Inadequate Steel bridge are accu mulating resentment that may some day make Portland a very unpleasant place of residence for the Frank KJer nans. BIO SHIPS, SMALL FREIGHTS. Great is the tramp steamer and wonderful is the amount of traffic handled by '-his modern ocean wan derer. The British tramp steamship Scottish Monarch yesterday finished loading a cargo of 266,000 bushels of wheat, the product .of more- than. 100 farms. The British steamship Knight of the Garter is finishing off a cargo of more than 5.000,000 feet of lumber. an amount which required . in raw material all of the timber from 160 acres of the best forest In the" state. It. Is in the Immense size and cargo capacity of these great ocean freight ers that we can trace the growth of Portland as a seaport. The Scottish Monarch, for instance, was the lar gest or the October grain fleet to leave- Portland, and her cargo was 120,000 bushels greater than that of the largest October grain ship In 1900. Going back ten years earlier, tne big October cargo was 82,990 bushels. In 18 80 the largest ship of the Octo ber fleet carried but 63,499 bushels and in 1870 when Portland was Just beginning to figure as a grain port, the largest cargo sent foreign in Octo ber consisted of 24,580 bushels, while number of cargoes that year ranged between 15.000 and 20,000 bushels. It is not In the remarkable increase In the size of these cargoes that all of Portland's growing prestige is re flected. Very few of the diminutive carriers of thirty years ago could load to their full capacity in Portland. Each season a large portion of their cargo was lightered down the river to be placed' aboard -after the ship reached Astoria. Now monster freighters like the Scottish Monarch and the Knight-of the Garter go through to the sea without lighterage and without delay. As Portland improved the channel to the sea and made It possible for vessels or Increasing size to reach this city, there was a corresponding de crease in freight rates. While In the days of the 20,000 bushels cargo, as much as 100 shillings per ton freight was paid, the Scottish Monarch car ries her cargo to Europe at SO shil lings per ton-- KEYNOTE OF GROWTH. . Butte Grange Patrons of Husbandry made a showing greatly to its credit and to -the credit or the surrounding country at Tlgardvllle. Washington County, last week. The section rep resented is one of the oldest agricul tural settlements of the Willamette Valley on the "West Side. But like other sections It .was slow to develop on account of a restricted market and almost total lack or transportation facilities for many years. The wagon roads in the early days between Port land, then a pioneer hamlet, ana tne relatively small cultivated areas or Washington County the Tualatin Plains apd beyond were the only highways, . and these during many months of many years were almost Impassable even on horseback. A writer recalls a stage rtae raneo between Forest Grove and Portland in March. 1870. The vehicle was the mall coach. The thrifty carrier was glad to Increase his small and dearly earned pay from Uncle Sam by taking as many passengers for the trip as his cramped vehicle could noia ana his laded team' could pull over the uneven roads and through the mud. which at that season of the year was at It deepest. Starting early, almost before it was light, from tne fosi- offlce in Forest Grove, the Journey was continued without . Intermission until almost dark, when at last even Jefferson street canyon, with its ruts and Jolts and discomfort, was left behind and the passengers, bruised, hungry, mud-bespattered and weary, thankfully dismounted and with wolf ish appetites set out to hunt some thing to eat. This is foreign to the subject intro duced, yet not wholly so. There were at that time and for years before as fine vegetables and as luscious fruits gro-vm in the district represented at the Tlgardvllle Fair as any that were shown last week. "My vegetables are a sight to behold," said one of the pioneer farmers or that region in the long ago. "I have rutabagas as big as a water pall, pumpkins as big as a washtub, carrots and parsnips a foot and a half ana two reet long ana potatoes, a dozen of which will nil a Deck measure. But. law me." he added, "you can't sell your stuff and it is more trouble to get rid of it than It is to raise it. The hogs eat all they can: we chop It up and feed it to the cattle and live on It and on the hog meat that it makes the, year j round, and still tons of it go to waste." So the story of generous abundance and a restricted market ran on for years and years and yet even then.' anxious to show each other the products of their endeavor, the farm ers of Washington County instituted and maintained a September Agricul tural Fair at Hlllsboro for a number of years and the trophies of their industries and the bounty of their lands have not jet entirely passed from memory. Fruits, grains, fancy work, vegetables and kitchen products then, as now, attested the industry, skill and tireless patience of the farmer folk. These showed their products, not in the hope of stimu lating a market, for there was no market to stimulate: not in the hope or attracting settlers because none of the visitors came from a far section. The fair was simply an expression of neighborly spirit, of friendly rival ry and of a desire to meet friends and acquaintances in a social way. These features, happily, the agrl cultural fairs of the present day re tain and the Grange fairs especially emphasize. But added thereto Is the exultant feeling that comes from the knowledge of a market at the very doors of farm houses. For do not electric lines wind in and out among these long Isolated farms? And do not the cars go singing along over the rails, regardless of heavy rains ana muddy roads? , This is the accompaniment of the agricultural fair ' of the present day which the old-time fairs lacked Rapid transit to and through agricul tural sections -this is the farmer's friend and ally; this, to borrow the words of Hamlin Garland, is a refrain of "the song that the century sings. This is the keynote of growth, the thrill of which is felt throughout the great Pacific Northwest. No bad cause was ever made any better by misrepresentation, and no good cause was ever seriously dam- faged by It. The cause of temperance needs defense .from the attacks of its friends. The over-enthusiastic re former who included a number of oleomargarine shops in her list of "blind pigs" In this city, no doubt meant well, but In her desire to show up Portland in a much worse light than was warranted by the facts, she wandered far from the truth, and thus destroyed any good effect which her work might have had with people who do not approve of misrepresentation Between the saloonkeeper who sells liquor to minora and drunks and the temperance worker whose enthusiasm Induces her or him to substitute mis representation for facts, the liquor men and the temperance people get about an even break in the way of a handicap. If it Is through a complicated sys tem of distribution worked up by in terested parties that the tax for milk has become burdensome to consumers, relief should not be far to seek nor difficult to attain. The case was somewhat complicated when, In an swer to the loud protest against rais ing again the price of milk, the dairy men responded that inspectors made their business so costly by ordering their cows killed, forcing expensive improvements about their barns, etc.. that they would either have to charge more for milk or go out of business. Sifted down to the matter of simplify ing the distribution system, ,it Is easy enough. Los Angeles, it is "said, has such a system. In this particular, at least, Portland would do well to fol low the Los Angeles system. ' The United States forbids the sale of liquor to Indians on reservations. It is inexorable in the punishment of offenders. Nevertheless, liquor is con stantly sold to Uncle Sam's wards. Near every reservation there are al ways low-down white men who barter the stuff and Indians who have an ap petite for It. If prohibition does not prohibit In the case of a primitive peo ple under guardianship, how can it be expected to prohibit among a free peo ple? The "short ballot" movement ought to receive some Impetus in Oregon from the appearance of the 13-foot document which awaits the voter this Fall. The notion that liberty is rortl fled by voting for the rat-catcher, the pound-master and the garbage man fades slowly, but still It is fading. Many who yell loudest for liberty can not distinguish It from humbug. There are now under care and treat ment In the Oregon Asylum for the. In sane 1628 patients, the largest number in the history of that institution. This statement is not surprising. It merely corresponds with the larger number of people in the state. There is noth ing to show that the pro rata or insan ity has increased over that of former years. There has not been a county-seat re moval contest in th's region for years, but the effort to be made by Kelso to remove headquarters 'from Kalama will bring the deficiency to excess in a short time, once it Is begun. If Walter Camp, who knows the game from A to Izzard. cannot inter pret the new football rules, how are rank novices to adapt their play to suit the 1910 regulations? Helen Gould will spend 860.000 on a bathing pool in her country home, but a million could not make It equal any "or swimmln' hole" in the land for genuine luxury. The world owes at least two cur rent blessings to Russia. One is the idea or using dynamite bombs in pri vate and public quarrels. The other Is cholera. At one station in Mississippi a bunch of negroes did not recognize the Colonel. That was one time he was not advertising his dentist. A six-inch geranium bloom Is doing pretty well for California, but there is more fragrance in a six-Inch Oregon onion. ' Is It possible that La Follette who rejects the Colonel's aid considers himself a bigger man than T. R.T Senator Abraham's excuse for non- attendance at the Salem harmony meeting could not be better. One steamship from Alaska at least has arrived at Seattle with its gold cargo undisturbed All these new buildings in their coats of tile will make Portland a white city. . NEIGHBOR'S VIEW OF BOt'R-XE. Taeoma Editor TainJta He Blundered ia Bolting Primary Election. Taeoma Ledger. A breach between Jay Bowerman. Republican nominee for Governor, and Jonathan Bourne. United States Sen ator, is adding eplce to the Oregon cam paign. Bowerman has addressed an open letter to the Senator in which the record of the latter is attacked in vig orous style. The first act of hostility came from Bourne. when he gave out an interview advising Republican elect ors to vote against every assembly nominee. Bowerman was one of the assembly nominees. Or, rather, he wae recommended by an assembly of Re publicans, and his name went before the voters at the primary election. He was nominated by a large plurality. Candidates contesting with him for the nomination for Governor are now in line for Bowerman and the rest of the ticket, but Senator Bourne is fighting the men who were recommended by an assembly before the primary election was held. It Is the contention of Bowerman that, having received the nomination at the primary election, he i entitled to the support of all Republicans. He de nounces Bourne's attitude as in the in terest or the. Democratic candidate ror Governor and as a part or an alleged alliance between Bourne, Republican Senator, and Chamberlain, Democratlo Senator, for future political control of the state. The arraignment of Bourne in the open letter is most severe. A document like this will surely put General Apathy to rout in Oregon. Meantime there is stout demand from scores or Republicans ror harmony. This demand is so strong that it looks very much as ir Bourne made a tactical blunder when he came out with advice to Republican electors to scratch the ticket nominated at the primary elec tion. ,- BOURNE I3T ROLE OP BOSS. Instructs Republicans to Vote for Democratic Candidate for Governor. Oregon City Enterprise. Tha VannhlMana nf Hrpfnll have been taking orders from Jonathan for a long while, and Mr. Bowerman nas right fully donned his fighting clothes and forced Oregon's golf-playing Senator out into the open. Bourne knows, as every other man knows, that he can never again be elected United States Senator under the primary law. The Republicans will not stand for him. If he should obtain a plurality of the votes in the primary, there would unquestionably be an inde pendent Republican candidate in the field against him. But with a preferential voting sys tem, such as is now proposed, it would be smooth sailing, provided the Legis lature is willing to enact such a meas ure and a complacent Governor would call for a special election. Bowerman would not accept a substitute for th. nt-lmaw law hilt OkWrM West would do whatever George Chamberlain ordered. Jonathan cannot go back to the Sen ate. His record shows that his much- hea1t frlenriarrin nf tha neOole is pure "gufr." He is great on proclama tions, DUt it is eviuenc mat no hm ..ni. anna tnn often. JaV T)mF,rmfln la tha nnmlnea of th a Re publican party for Governor, and when Bourne attempts to Bwii.cn tuo no publican voters wholesale to the Demo- 4 Cum. - Pham Wloln mfthlnH UIBUU WUUU.k. candidate, he has a large round con tract upon nis nanas. BOrmNE-CHAMBERLAIJr COMBINE. Democratic Scheme Can Be Foiled Only by Union of Republlcana. St. Helens Mist. The great evil of the direct primary law Is the Interference or Democrats in Republican primaries, and the only way to put a stop to such work is for Republicans to stand by the nominees of their party when they are not per sonally ' unworthy. If this had been done when Mr. Cake was nominatea, no would have been eleoted United States Senator instead of Jonathan Bourne, and the motive for further interference in Republican primaries would have been removed. Republican dissensions have been of great benefit to certain Democrats, but not to the Democratic party. No voice Is raised for Democratic principles in Oregon today, the efforts of the so called leaders of that party being de voted to promoting strife among Re publicans in order that certain Indi viduals on both sides may remain the beneficiaries. The personal combina tion between Jonathan Bourne and George Chamberlain is too plain to be denied. Let the Republican party unite in support of the nominees of the direct primary, and this combination will lose Its power. Land Values Low In Coos. Myrtle Point Enterprise. A great many people who come to this section of the country are Inclined to find fault with land values because thev consider them too high. The fact -that local people buy them at the price and attain wealth in growing ana marketing produce raised thereon would not tend to sustain the contention or the stranger, and another thing to look at is that very little of the land Is offered for sale, even at prices consid ered not too high. The fact that actual demonstration has proved that more can be made off of 16 or 20 acres of fertile Oregon land than can be se cured from cultivating 160 acres of land in the Middle West Is another argument to prove that land is not held at ficti tious values. "The proof of the pud ding is the eating thereof," and the true test of land values is in . careful and thorough cultivation. Reflections of a Bachelor. New York Press. A woman is never as proud of her ankles as a man can be or his beard. The crazier a man is to get married- the crazier he will afterward know he was. In the next world somebody has got to answer ror Inventing the piano in the flat above. Some people seem . to think the Ten Commandments are only good resolu tions specially made to be oroken. If s awfully easy to think you are good. when all the- matter with you is you haven't a chance not to be. The People Learning Jonathan. Lebanon Criterion. The people are beginning to learn where their Senator, Jonathan Bourne, stands. They were considerably en lightened on the subject in an open letter to Mr. Bourne published this week in The Oregonlan, and written by Jay Bowerman, Republican candidate for Governor. That letter baa been a tower of strength to Mr. Bowerman and has made him many votes. The people are beginning to see things and Mr. Bowerman in an open, clear-cut man ner, has assisted them in the matter. Live Table Talk. Louisville Courier-Journal. "I hose you will be interested in yon der gentleman," said the hostess. "I have assigned tlm to take you out to dinner." T shall be. responded the lady ad dressed. "That gentleman was formerly my husband, and he's behind with his alimony. Specialisation. Fllegende Blaetter. Doctor What can I do for you? Patient I have cut by index finger. Doctor Very sorry. But I am a spe olallst on the middle' finger. MORGAN'S 8100,000 BEDROOM. Will slees tn Luxurious Chamber In Million-Dollar House. New York World. When J. Pierpont Morgan goes to Cin cinnati next Tuesday he will have by far the most valuable bedroom in the Queen City. He will sleep in the special guest chamber at Dalvay, the home which the late Alexander McDowell built at a cost of 81,000,000 and which has been thrown open to the greatest of American finan ciers by his adopted daughters, the Misses Stallo. These young women re cently sailed for Europe to be gone for a year or two, and before tsey went away they made all arrangenjents for his reception and entertainment. The bedroom in which Mr. Morgan will sleep cost Mr. McDowell more than $100, 000. It is as large as the ordinary flat, and has genuine Louis XVI furniture throughout. It Is hung with rose pink damask , tapestry, and is decorated, among other costly things, with three gold cabinets, each filled with antique jewelry and rare bric-a-brac. Mr. Mor gan's special servants, who are In Cin cinnati to prepare for his coming, say the house will be suited to every convenience he could wish. Mr. Morgan will remain in Cincinnati for three weeks, attending the sessions of the Episcopal convention, which will beg.n on Wednesday, He has detailed six chauffeurs to be ready with their cars, has sent about two dozen servants under the guidance of John Frailer, headwalter at Sherry's restaurant In New York City, and Miss Kate CI ax ton. the housekeeper for the same place. Louis Sherry will come to Cincinnati tomorrow morning and will have charge of the dinners to be given at Dalvay for the bishops of the church by Mr. Morgan. He will bring with him a complete corps of servants to take charge of the kitchen at Dalvay. When Mr. Morgan comes he will be accompanied by his special guests, Bishop Greer, of New York City; Bishop Lawrence, of Massachusetts: Bishop Doane, of Albany, N. Y., and a half dozen prominent Episcopal clergymen and laymen from other parts of the country. He will sit In the house of deputies and will represent St. George's Church, of New York City, the largest Eplsoopal church In this country. It has 5000 mem bers. He is allied with the low church members of his denomination and has attended the last eight triennial conven tions of the church body. ARE PARTIES SHIFTING PLACE ST Is Republican to Be the Radical, Demo crat, the Conservative T Boston Globe. . Abraham Lincoln wrote a letter to a Boston political gathering before he was regarded as a candidate for Presi dent, in which he said the situation then existing reminded him of two men who fought so furiously that each fought himself out or his own coat and into the coat or the other. The party of Jefferson, Lincoln said, after half a century had changed coats with Its opponent, and the latter now wore the garb of true democracy. It Is not an uncommon sight to see parties cross the dividing line and change sides- Is this spectacle about to be repeated? As more radical lead ers are pushed to the front in the Re publican party by the Insurgent move ment, the radicals who have led the Democrats since 1896 seem to be falling to the rear, and men of a more con servative type are taking their places. Judge Baldwin in Connecticut, Wood row Wilson in New Jersey, and Judson Harmon in Ohio, each the chosen leader of the Democracy of his etate, belong to the Cleveland school. If they win this Fall, they will contribute the pres tige of success to their wing of the party. The long-looked-for and long overdue realignment of parties may come In the course of the next two years. . "OK" as a Verb. PORTLAND. Oct. 10. (To the Edi tor.) The Oregonlan has been" my teacher so many years that I Hesitate to question its authority. However, I must take issue with it in its answer to & corresDondent as to the use of X). K. The Oregonlan considers Its use good form in business, but declares that "O. K." can not be used as a verb, there rore can have no present or past par- ticlDle. ir you consent to "O. K." at all you are compelled to accept it as a vero as well as a noun. For example: "Did you 'O. K.' these bills?" "I 0. K'd' half of them yesterday, and I am' "O.K'ing the remainder now." This is not elegant English, but if trade terms are to be grafted Into written language (The Oregonlan so approves) let's use them to the full, not half way. Lv . J. Wrote to Stork About It. New York Herald. Requesting the delivery of a baby girl, the following letter addressed to "The Stork, care of Mr. Snyder, super intendent. Central Park," reached the office 'of Park Commissioner Stover yesterday: "Dear Mr. Stork: I would like to have a baby girl, but if you have no girl please send a baby boy. I have only one big brother, nd would like to have a baby to play with." The epistle written in a childish hand, was signed "Martha Grants, 9 years old, 451 Fifty-fourth street, Brooklyn," and there was a postscript. which read: . . "Be sure not to bring a baby girl and boy, too, because it will be too much for my mamma. Photographer's Novel Charity. Boston Herald. There is a man in New York who has his own notions about charity, and who believes there are more ways than one of brightening the lives of the poor. He is an amateur photographer. He takes with him into the East Side a dozen plates and a hand camera and offers to make a picture of the family for per sons who cannot afford to go to a pho tographer. Two prints is all he ever gives, one being to keep, the other to send back to the old folks at home. He says there are many thousands or these poor pople who never had a picture taken In their Uvea The curious part or it is that when he offers to make them for nothing they frequently refuse, fear ing that there is some trap or scheme In it. Weodrow Wilson as a Campaigner. New York Times. With the ease and good-fellowship of a veteran stump speaker. Dr. Wood row Wilson got into instant touch with the 4700 persons who listened to him. His genial sense of humor and his keen wit put them in good humor, and with forceful oratory held his audience to attention and drove his arguments home. After the meeting the audi ence filed out of the hall making ex clamations like this: "Gee, he's a wonder." "Didn't he get to them quick T' AH the Rage, Puck. The Farmer But. great gosh. Sua an! What could you do to earn a llvin' If ye went to New York? His Daughter Why, I .could write my experiences for some magazine, couldn't I? Impossible Partnership. Galveston News. Nothing is more absurd than the pre diction that Colonel Roosevelt and Mr. Bryan will form an alliance. Even In a political firm there ought to be at least one silent partner. Life's Sunny Side When Miss Jennie Lee was on tour with the dramatized version of "Bleak House," she met with an amusing ex perience. One night she was in the midst of the long and harrowing death scene of poor Jo. The stage was dark ened and the limelight illuminated the pale features of the death-stricken boy. People were sobbing all over the house. Suddenly, to her consternation. Miss Lee heard the limelight man addressing her in a brawny Scotch whisper, audible to half the house. "Dee quick. Miss Lee dee quick!" he roared softly. "The limelight gaen out!" She did die "quick." but It was for the purpose of making a speech to that limelight man, whlcli he said he would never forget. Detroit Free Press, a a a "Did you succeed in selling old Nye a lot In the new cemetery?" one of the Summer residents asked a native of Harborville. "No, I didn't," said the man, with an expression 'reminiscent of both amuse ment and scorn. "He said he was afraid he'd never get the full value of suoh an Investment." "I can't see how he could help get- , ting it," said the Summer resident. "We all have to die some time." "I know," said the native, "and I re minded him of that fact, but he told me he never could lay his plana from month to month, and now two of his nephews own yachts, he thought more' n likely he should be lost at sea." Youths' Companion. a a a Michael Butler, one of Unole 6am's trusties, who carries mall to the Jack les at the Philadelphia Navy-Yard, and over Gray's ferry road to the Naval home, had this Joke the other day for a party of friends. It's a -story about the definition of the word miracle. "Mike said to Pat, 'Can you tell mo the definition of the word miracle?" ' 'Sure,' said Pat, with a grin. " 'Well, will you tell me? queried Mike. " TU do that, replied Pat. 'Now, Just torn around.' "Mike did as he was told, and Pat booted him hard. "Mike straightened up In anger. " 'Did you feel thatr asked Pat, with a chuckle. "You bet your life I did,' Mike re plied. "Well, if you hadn't felt It. it would have been a miracle,' " Philadelphia Times. a a a General Frederick D. Grant, at. Pine Camp, N. Y., said of camp cookery: "Soldiers in camp have a right to ex pect nourishing and palatable rood. They mustn't expect, however, French 'plats.' They mustn't be overparticular, like the man at the quick lunch coun ter. '"Give me,' said this man. two new-' laid, brown-shelled eggs, fried on one side and mounted on a grilled slice of Virginia peach-fed ham be sure it is peach fed, mind you.' "The waiter roared down the speak lng tube: "Two new-laid, brown-shelled eggs, fried on fried on "Then he turned to the man again. " 'Excuse me, sir,' he said, but which side will you have them fried on, please? " Philadelphia Bulletin. Tipping In This Country. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. ' There is nothing new about the tlpless ness of a hotel In London, though its success, if It is successful, la a genuine novelty. Years ago the Palmer House in Chicago, of which the late Potter Palmer was proprietor, announced that its employes would not be permitted to re ceive tips. Palmer vaa a multi-million aire and could afford, if he had the back-' bone and disposition, to put up a big fight against the tip nuisance. But it was all in vain. The guests of the hotel seemed to take pleasure in defying the rule, and the employes clandestinely ac cepted all that was offered them. So the scheme was abandoned. The tip evil is chiefly kept alive by the public It has invaded American life with a virulence exceeding the carefully-regulated prac tice in Europe. Americans are the worst tippers in the world. The worst offend ers are commercial travelers and the new rich. Pointed Paragraphs. Chicago News. Ifs folly to be good unless you are good for something. It's an insult, to beg a girl's pardon after kissing her. The man who is entirely satisfied with himself Is a freak. When the world laughs at a fool he imagines It is laughing with him. The calmness of a man is frequently the cause of a woman's storm. There are times when we should be thankful if we fail to get Justice. If a young man has no family tree ifs up to him to branch out for himself. Self-esteem is a brand of yeast that enables a man to rise in his own estlma- tion. . Did you ever hear a woman boasting of how little It cost her to have her last year's hat remodeled? Enjoyable Occasion. - -Washington Star. "Was your chafing-dish party a suc cess?" "Great. We spoiled all the food early in the evening and then went to a reg ular restaurant." ' . . i Rare Caae. Washington Herald. '"He takes a cold bath every morning; a very remarkable man." "Plenty of men do that." "But I knew him for five years be fore he ever mentioned the fact." New Aliment. Washington Post. Perhaps the country now is suffering more from undigested statesmanship than It did from undigested securities some time ago. Faith In Grandmother. Chicago Record-Herald. Somehow we are unable to have much faith in a grandmother who insists on wearing French heels and two pounds of purchased hair. Elektra. New York Times. Th baas fiddles groan and the larsa trom bone Gives a bellowing- yowl of pain. While the deep baiioon frunta a sordid tana And the lutea make wind and rain. The flageolat aqueaka and the piccolo shriek And tha toasa drum bump to tha fray. While the lone aaxaphono with a hideous sroaa Joins the cacophononi lay. It-s a deep blood lust and we're taught wo nut Oulp it down and pronounce It grana. And torget the lore when Trovatore -was sweat to understand. Ah, those dear old airs, it now appears. w ere not to " -j ' we mnat ahake with fear through a great nightmare And awake with a terrible start. O, the nameless dance and tha hideon trance And the strange, strange noise and tha mur- And tha fun of a far-flung ain. No more, no more; it waa fun galora While wa pmngea uiraugn iaa rokuns waeda. Bat the time has come to be going home TO tha fine Ola musics-, creeua.