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THB IUXT101 IN ORBOON. Tho defeat of Mr. Bowtrma for Co vara or la a men Incident la the confused end uncertain condition of political affairs in Oregon, and in the Nation. At base It is an expression ;af the spirit of discontent and dissat isfaction that has everywhere seized the Republican party, divided It into warring factions, achieved Its demoral ization, and wrought for It general disaster. Democratic Governors have tern chosen to succeed Republican : tiovarnors In New York. Connecticut. w Jersey. Massachusetts, Wyoming : and possibly In Iowa and Idaho. A Democrat has also been re-elected Governor In Ohio. Republican ma jorities were easily reduced in Penn sylvania. Kansas. Minnesota and every other Northern State where there was aa election for Governor except Cali fornia. Congress Is Democratic for the first time In fourteen years, Re publican Senators are to be turned out in New York. Indiana. Ohio, West Virginia and In several other states. The. cyclone has swept the country. The tail thereof has hit Oregon. Yet. of course. Oregon has gtn nominally Republican by a large vote except for Governor. It has re-elected two Republican Congressmen. The state government will continue to be Republican except as to Governor. Tho great bogus campaign of "non partisanship" for the election of two Democratic Judges has failed and Re publican candidates have been elect ed. The Legislature will be Republi can. County officers are Republican. But the most conspicuous candidate of the Republican party, who was the sole target of attack by the allied Chamberlain and Bourne forces, has succumbed. The result will be hailed undoubtedly In many places as a Demo cratic triumph. Doubtless a largo number of citizens who voted for Mr. West will deny that they are Demo crats, or that they desired or intended to contribute to tho growing prestige and widespread successes of that party. But that is the result that has been brought about. The men who voted for West will get nothing from it. The Bourne and Chamberlain partnership will. The Oregonian ut ters these, words without bitterness and without reproach. It states the obvious situation. Many explanations of particular reasons for the result In Oregon will be offered. We shall hear a lot about the assembly, the "interests." the -machine." prohibition, the normal schools and so on. Yet these ara only the avenues through which many so-called Republicans gave expression to their purpose to defeat tho Republican candidate. One excuse or reason was as good as an other. The party everywhere had been In power too long. It was time for a change. It was a good thing for the Republican party to be licked once in a while. A new deal would help things all around. It was the function and duty of every Republican to manifest a spirit of Independence and or freedom from restraint There was too much Roosevelt" or there was too much Aldrich and! Cannon and Taft. Tho tariff ought to have been revised and wun't The cost of liv ing was too high. The saloons had the Republican party under their I thumb. Tho bosses must be kicked I out. And so on. Bowerman bore the brunt and burden of It all. It was too much. At the time of Mr. Bowerman's stomlnationThe Oregonian said It was not the best and wisest that could have been made. It has no purpose In recalling now that statement to chide Mr. Bowerman's friends or to explain and defend Its own course. Through the impetus and impulse of tho assembly Mr. Bowerman got the primary nomination, though with a small plurality. The aggregate oppo sition vote was very largely against him. If tho election had been held at that time. It was obvious to The Oregonian that Mr. Bowerman would ' have been overwhelmingly beaten. It went Into the campaign believing that tho chances were very much against ' his election. Though It had criticised the methods of Mr. Bcwerman's nom ination and was dubious about results. It regarded him as a man well quali fied to be Governor and supported i htm energetically If not with entire : cheerfulness. It saw ia the election of Mr. West the continued dominance of political and personal Influences In Ms administration that It deemed detrimental to tho best Interests of tho state. Tho Oregonian has no rea son to change Its opinion. Nor will It suspend Us warfare on tho Bourne and Chamberlain coalition. Tet it wishes Mr. West as Governor well. It will offer no captious criticism of any ' of his administrative acta; nor will It I fail to commend, as It has heretofore S commended him. for any meritorious l service bo shall have rendered. Yet (It would like to sea him a Governor without personal or political obliga tion to Senator Chamberlain and Sen ator Bourne. Possibly tho course of I events will sorro that problem for him i and for tho state. Tho moot momentous issues of the campaign war centered In tho lnltla j tire and referendum measures. They . contained matters fraught with great ! consequence to tho public. It Is too , early at this writing to say what has . Ttappened In all the measures; yet The Oregonian Is gratified to observe that for tha most part Its advice as to thee measures appears to have been followed. Prohibition would have been a sad mistake in Oregon. We ' ve escaped Its menace for tho pres- ent. Yet we shall have It again and again unless tho problem of tho sa loon Is solved, at least measurably. In Portland and throughout Oregon. If the saloon element fancies that It has taCAsv victory. U. la crossly. mUUkao. Tho people who voted down prohibi tion for the most part have no traffic with any saloon. They regard It as an unmitigated evil and would abolish It utterly if it could be done without the substitution of some greater nuisance or greater evil. It is up to tho Greater Home Rule Association to show Its good faith by carrying for ward tho movement for the improve. ment of the conditions under which liquor may bo sold, for the elimination of tho dive, and the ostracism of the rowdy and lawless saloonkeeper. These are things that must be done. PORTLAND'S GROWING DEBT. City . voters have declared that city taxpayers shall go into the business of public wharves and shall support the business out of taxes. This project la laden with big debt, and waste and high charges to be levied upon pri vate property. The drydock is such a public business, but has been neces sary for the city to have for Its ship ping. But In tho case of wharves, fa cilities have been ample and rates reasonable, without municipal under taking. However, tho public Is now launched upon this business and all citizens must now make .the best or 11. The constant endesvor hereafter must be to keep down extravagance, check the number and the greed of public em ployes and restrict the deficit, which taxpayers shall bo called upon to make good, to as low figures aa possi ble. This big docks project also means that the city will need to reject other schemes of debt for which various groups of citizens are clamoring. The public debt In Portland as now au thorized Is about 116.000.000. not In cluding some 18.000.000 Improvement bonds for streets, sidewalks and sew ers. This means that' Portland Is loading itself heavily with Interest charges. More debt will have to bo authorized later for public wharves, because the $2.5000.000 sanctioned yesterday will but begin tho business. This city Is a thriving and prosper ous and rapidly-growing one. Taxes, however, do not promote its thrift nor Its growth. No people ever succeeded In taxing themselves rich. Vigorous as Port lard Is. it would be more so with lighter burdens of taxation. WHY STOCKS DETUNED. Twenty-four hours is hardly suffi cient time for even Wall street to grasp the full meaning of the election returns. For that reason tho whole sale slump in prices in that historic thoroughfare Is liable to be credited with an Importance greater than that to which It Is actually entitled. Colonel Roosevelt and his very recent ally, Willie Hearst, throughout .the cam paign Insisted that Wail street was fighting Stimson. But Wall street since the beginning of tho present era of "big business has always felt safer under a Republican than a Demo cratic administration. It thus follows that Wall street preferred to take any punishment which a Democratic ad ministration might bring with it, to being forever threatened with tho erratic big stick. It is highly prob able that the election of Stimson with the attendant prestige It would bring the Colonel would have caused a greater slump than that -which took place yesterday. By reviewing the course of tho New York stock market for tho few weeks preceding the election, yesterday's slump loses considerable of Its surprise-causing features. For more than a month, tho defeat of Stimson and Its probable partial extinguish ment of Roosevelt was so near to a foregone conclusion, that stocks began rising. For nearly six weeks the mar ket was very strong at substantial advances throughout the list. About a fortnight ago tho New York Journal of Commerce printed a list of thirty three prominent industrial stocks and thirty-eight railroad stocks in which the aggregate value, based on tho market quotations of October It, was 1500,000.000 greater than it was on tho quotations eighteen days earlier. There have been some fluctuations since the list was printed, but when the market closed at the bottom yes terday It was still hanging around tho figures which showed a gain of $500. 000,000 in. tho first eighteen days of October. In the Industrials, for instance, steel, which was credited with a gain of more than $30,000,000 in the first eighteen days of October, was quoted October 1 at "S, while the close yes terday was "8. Union Pacific, the leader among the railroads, closed October 1 at 175, a gain of ten points In eighteen days; yesterday it closed at 1744. These figures show that even after the slump, a list of the leading securities affected were worth about 1500.000.000 more than they were October 1. From appearances the professionals who had fully dis counted the election of Dlx by work ing stocks up to high figures were quick to take their profits, when the political situation was clarified. The returns show the names of some pretty good Democrats swept Into Congress by the tidal wave and from most of these men capital has no more to fear than It would have from honest, fair-minded Republicans. For that reason. It la not Improbable that tho drastic liquidation tn stocks which set in yesterday will be checked before It goes very far. The elements which make for prosperity In this country are too numerous and poten tial to be entirely overcome by politics. . ALASKAN DEVKLOrcOEST. Mors than t9.S50.000 worth of gold has been received from Alaska at the Seattle assay office in the first ten months of the year. It is believed that the receipts for tho full twelve months together wtih that which has failed to pass through the Seattle assay office will bring the total for the year up to more than S15.000.000. This Is a large sum to be realized from a single industry. It is nearly as much as tho proceeds of tho average Oregon wheat crop. By rapid circulation in Vancouver, Seattle and other cities and towns where the owners of the gold spend their Winters, It becomes a very Important factor In general business. While ft Is the enormous output of tho Alaskan placer mines that has made that country famous, tho world will bo unable to compre hend tho true value of that wonderful reion until changed conditions admit of a permanent population developing other resource. , The fisheries ara of marvelous ex tent and are more certain dividend payers than tho mines, but will never be worked to the best advantage until better transportation and better laws make Alaska a white man's country. Timber resources are also of practi- cully, unlimited, extant, a-Oil f""1 Iron and oil are all in evidence on a magnificent scale. In a land so ex ceptionally well favored in natural resources there are opportunities for a large population. As this population increases and Alaska gets down to business principles, the entire Pacific Coast will profit by the change. It is a mistaken idea that any one portion of the. Pacific Coast does not feel the prosperity or adversity of some other locality. When California has a poor grain crop, Oregon and Washington ara called on to supply the shortage, and while the business is profitable. It would be much better for both Ore gon and California if the latter pro duced enough grain for her own re quirements, and Oregon could then ship her surplus abroad and bring new money Into the country. So with Alaska. The disbursements of the gold miners are fully appreciat ed all over the Pacific Coast. Every community gets some benefit from them. It will not be possible, how ever, to get tho best results from Alaska until a permanent population working there the year round gets busy with tho coal. oil. timber and other agricultural resources of the country. 'When 'development along these lines begins on a large scale the Alaska trade will reach proportions never dreamed possible a few years ago. Incidentally it might be stated that one-half of the annual cost of public docks in Portland would bring to Portland the finest and fastest fleet of Alaskan steamers that could be found on the Pacific Coast, and there would be no trouble In finding dock age facilities for them. HOW CITIES ARE BTTt.T. Tho building or additional 200 miles of electric lines In this state as announced by President Stevens, of the Hill system, is of more importance than all of the public docks that could be built in a century- These proposed new lines with their feeders will open up territory that Is rich In trade pos sibilities, and It Is all tributary to Portland and to no other port. To understand what the expenditure of this $10,000,000 for additional facili ties by which the Willamette Valley people can reach Portland means for this city, it Is necessary only to take note of what has happened along the lino of the. Oregon Electric, which is not yet four years old. These new electric lines are opening up territory that Is producing fruit, dairy products, wool, hops, lumber, grain and other great staples, for which there is a never satisfied demand. In nearly all of these staples the output ia far In excess of homo re quirements, and there Is an Immense and steadily Increasing surplus that finds a market east of the Rocky Mountains and beyond tho sea. These products, of course, find a market in competition with those from other parts of the world. If they are not given cheap transportation from the farm to tidewater or to tho East ern markets, we will lose the market and the railroads will lose the haul. In this economic fact Ilea the mutual interest of the Tailroads, and Portland and the tributary territory. AH that is necessary for Portland to do to make this a great port is to maintain a deep channel to tho sea, and by keeping down publlo debt and taxes encourage the establishment of manufacturing enterprises. The rail roads are doing more for Portland and Oregon at this time than tho pub lic dock and debt promoters can do in a thousand years. What Portland needs is more Jfm Hills and fewer Joe Teals. THE FRUITS Or VICTORY. The 'hilarity of the Democrats over the great National victory they have won will naturally be sobered In a few days by prosaic considerations upon the best use to make of it Which of the fundamental Democratic policies will it be wisest to begin upon when the new Congress meets T Shall It bo the tariff, or tho revision of the 'House rules, or state rights, or the reform of the courts T Much depends upon a Judicious selection, because, In spite of their brilliant success at the polls, the Democrats are likely to encounter certain difficulties when they begin the actual business of leg islation. No doubt tho most serious of these difficulties will consist in turning their untried hands to this new task. It Is much easier to be a critic of what others are doing than to do things oneself. For many years now tho Democrats have been critics and not very skillful ones at that. They have bad no opportunity to enact any of their cherished projects into laws. All they could do was to pick flaws in the measures offered by the Re publicans. As we said, they, have shown no particular ability even In this comparatively humble role. Without effective leadership and with Dot much apparent loyalty to their professed principles they have usually scattered their fire badly and very often a number of them have fought in tho enemy's ranks. It will not be easy for the Democrats to lay aside their habits, of aimless party anarchy all at once and undertake disciplined and united action. Last year In their part of erltlca they were greatly aided by tho Insurgents, who possessed bril liant capacity In that field. Often it looked as If the Democrats were merely following tho leadership of such men as Murdock and Norris, like disciples in the steps of a master. Now tho Insurgents' keen ability to find fault will be turned against their former allies, or followers, and we fear the results may be disastrous. The expectation that the insurgents will continue to be their faithful allies, which gives so much comfort to the Democrats, is pretty certain to prove fallacious. Most of the Democratic candidates who have been elected. to Congress are anything but progressive in their ideas. The voters chose them mors to punish the regular Republi cans than for any merit they pos sessed. They represent nothing which could attract the allegiance of the in surgents and their acknowledged lead er. Champ Clark, is as far behind the times as' Cannon himself. Hence there is little reason why the Demo crats should expect much help from the insurgents in Congress. The lat ter are quite likely to pursue their own aims In a compact body In tho hope of becoming the nucleus of a transformed Republican party. We may possibly see them attracting a bold and rebel spirit from tho Demo cratic ranks now and then, but they will not consent to merge their iden tity with the numerical victors. There is more political kinship between the standpst Republicans and such Dem- lmrati,ri lk.ern.aa4 Clark than thexo. ia between -te Democrats and men of the Murdock school. For example, tha Insurgent Repub licans stand unanimously for a tariff commission and revision of the duties one after another with careful con servation of the protective principle. To this both the Democrats and the regular Republicans are opposed. Their opposition Is stated in different terms, but not so different as to pre clude harmonious action. The regu lars dislike the commission Idea- be cause they look upon the tariff as a sacred unity and cannot bear the thought of dismembering It, slaying it piecemeal, as It were. The Democrats oppose the. commission because of its fidelity to the protective principle. But the significant point is that both regulars and Democrats oppose it. while the insurgents favor it. When the test comes they may be found aligned according to their preferences and the tariff commission may be wrecked Still no downward revision can be expected on tho revenue, or free trade, basis, because neither tho Senate nor the President favors it. Moreover, there are a great many Democrats who would vote against it, whatever they may have said on the stump. Thus the blessings of Demo cratic rule must come from something other than tariff revision. In that particular field they are fairly cer tain to give us no new gains and may destroy those we already have. The Washington Railroad Commis sion, which is now investigating tho matter of Jobbing rates in our neigh boring state, has undertaken a monu mental task. The present hearing was brought about by a complaint of Ta coma and Seattle Jobbers, who were dUsatislled with distributive rates which resulted from tho interstate commerce hearing In the celebrated Spokane case. Any change that is made in the distributive rates out of the coast cities naturally affects the Interior cities, which have been partly placed on the Jobbing map by the In terstate Commerce Commission, and if the State Commission can work out a system of rates that will be satisfac tory to all of these points it will have displayed talent that makes easy the answer to such questions as "How old is Annr and "Who struck Billy Pat terson?" Meanwhile coast Jobbers are Increasing their orders for freight by water and will meet the emergencies as they arise either at tidewater or in the interior. It is not always bank clearings and statistics that call attention to the growth of a community. We note, for example, that Seaside, Or., has within the past few days reported a bank failure with the attendant sui cide, and two hold-ups. These may not be very acceptable methods for calling attention to the town's growth, but any one who has not visited the popular little beach town for several years will hardly believe that it has grown Into such proportions that it has become possible for such things to happen there. It is only a very few years ago that Seaside in Winter had a population so small that there would hardly be any one with whom to prove an alibi when two men went out to hold up people and the need of a bank was never thought of; Occasionally Oregon gets a lot of effective publilcty without going after It and without cost. The other day the Now York Tribune printed a story of a newly arrived German immigrant who, on being searched at the Custom House, was found to have several lumps under his clothes. These proved on examination to be rolls of bank bills aggregating $11,000. He ex plained that he was going to Oregon to buy an apple orchard with tho money. This story has been copied into half a dozen of the big Eastern newspapers which came to The Orego nian yesterday. It Is one of the odd things in the small news of the day that within a year will find its way into the reprint of half the newspa pers of the land. And it won't hurt Oregon. One of the most misleading of com mon sayings is that which tells us "human life hangs by a thread, it is but a dying taper," and so on. Man is a tough animal,' very hard to kilL Tho fisherman who survived after eleven hours of exposure on a log In the frightful storm of November 7 illustrates our point, and his case Is not unique by any means. If human life really did hang by a thread tha race would have been extinct long and long ago. It Is no wonder that Mr. Taft's smile faded as he read the election returns. Still he may possess that supreme political .genius which can draw victory from defeat. It is easily possible for him to exercise qualities for the next two years which will re trieve present reverses and usher in a great political triumph. Science is making progress. By the use of a serum, physicians in San Francisco saved the life of a man dy ing of lockjaw. . The injections cost $30, which Is a small price to pay for a human being. Those of the fair sex genuinely wanting the ballot may be clothed with the franchise by taking up their residence in Vancouver and yet par ticipate in all other Portland activi ties. As a Republican state with a Demo cratic Governor-elect, Oregon finds herself in the company of much greater commonwealths, notably New York and Ohio. Elevation of Portland from the forty-second place among American cities to the twenty-eighth in ten years Is something to be proud of. They who find no pleasure in dis cussing Tuesday's results may turn the conversation to that universally popular topic. Oregon apples. That Abruzzi-Elklns affair has last ed too long for any good to come of it, aver the gossips, who see bad luck In long engagements. Everybody Is naturally curious to know what tho contributing editor will have to say in this week's Out look. Some one Is sure to spring it, so here goes: West-ward the star of Oregon takes its way. And there's only two weeks in which to save enough money for tha Thanks giving blr' ,- - . INTERESTING YOUNG CHILDRE.V How Cornell TJalverUty la Matin Farmers for the Future. Christian Herald. For many years the New York State Agricultural College of Cornell Univer sity has made a practice of answering letters from school children, bearing in quiries on subjects relating to horticul ture and natural history. These letters averaged thirty thousand a year. 'and they come largely from youngsters of Upper New York state. Most of the communications were until recently an swered by Mr. Spencer, who signed his replies "Uncle John." Consequently "Uncle John's" name Is a household word in the rural parts of- New York. President W. C Brown of the New York Central Railroad knew this and it was his idea to attach to the agricul tural special sent out by his company a car equipped for the children's own use in charge of "Uncle John." So, while the older folks crowd Into the dairy car, the poultry car and tho farm garden car, wherever the train stops, the chil dren pile Into the forward car of the train labeled "Uncle John's boys and girls." There they are greeted by a gray haired man of the comfortable rotund ity ascribed to St. Nicholas himself, and it Is safe to assert that that particular car holds more Nature enthusiasts than any othec, coach on the train. "Catch 'em young. Get them enthu siasts than any other coach on the train. Minds are growing, and the next generation of railroad men won't have to bother about teaching agriculture." That ithe way President Brown ex plained bis reasons for providing in struction for the children. MAKING OF KEWSPAPER MEN Theories May Be learned In Collegei Tkra Kxperlenee. Louisville Courier-Journal. Theological schools do not turn out ready-made preachers, but young men who are trained to become preachers. Medical schools do not turn out phy sicians, but young men who will in time become physicians. The skilled surgeon Is not the product of a collego of surgery, but of education plus ex perience. The lawyer learns more out of college than he learns in college. Schools of journalism will not make journalists, but there is no reason why they should not be Increasingly useful tn training young men who have a nat ural aptitude for.newspaper work. The most valuable equipment they can give the student la knowledge' of subjects with which the newspaper man must deal after graduation from the ranks. Street -fights, fires, railroad wrecks, political conventions, and the many occurrences and events custom arily treated as news, are handled dif ferently by different newspapers. The "cub" reporter who begins work with out opinions of his own as to how the news should be served to the consumer will learn the taste and the methods of the newspaper he serves as readily as the graduate of a school of journalism. But there are too many bright young men who can write and article and too few possessing a sufficiently broad ed ucation to fit them for higher position and larger usefulness. Writing is part ly a gift and partly an art acquired by conscientious practice. Knowledge of what to write and what not to write must be gained by conscientious study that may well be begun In college, but must be continued throughout life. Seaaoa of Political Tumult. Christian Herald. As the political campaign draws to a close and the shouting of the great Na tional "talk test" is nearly ended, the average American citizen is glad of the prospect of relief from tfie surfeit of discussion which has occupied the last six weeks. It has been a period of unusual excitement and the furious contention of the various factions, with their charges and counter-charges, has bean even more pronounced than in re cent years. But while in the great game of politics these vivid passages may amuse the practical politicians, they are by no means edifying or agreeable to the general public. Be sides, each candidate of Importance has his hired trumpeters, who, with pen and voice, deluge the opposition with blander and rancor, which are returned with liberal interest. This goes on at a tremendous rate until thoughtful peo ple stand amazed and dismayed. Worthy candidates, who had believed themselves possessed of fairly clean records, find themselves pictured as creatures so vile that they feel like surrendering to the nearest Sheriff and E-oinK to hide in jail. Every public man, at such a time. Is presented in a double role; as a good, patriotic citi zen, and as a despicable corruptlonist and a dangerous foe to honest govern ment. It's a sorry spectacle, but appar ently unescapable under existing polit ical conditions. "Bromidloms' at the Aero Meet. New York Dispatch. ' Here are a few of the bromidloms rampant at Belmont Park, heard on an average of 900 times In a given after noon during the aero meet: 1. "Two days ago I didn't know a biplane from a monoplane, and now I'm explaining things to everybody." 2. "Yes, It's fine to watch them, but they'll never be practicable." To which the Invariable answer is: 3. "It doesn't look as If they're go ing fast, but you can bet they are." 4. 'My, the Wrights must have made a lot of money!" And the reply here is: "Yes, but think of the expenses for repairs!" 6. "Well, I don't want to try It un til they get the thing worked out." 8. "I wonder how it feels to be up that hlghr 7. "It must be terrible for their wives." - . Pointed Parajrxapba. ' Chicago News. It's as useless to worry as it is to tell people not to worry. More men have been ruined by schemes than by bad associates. It's never too late to mend except when you find yourself broke. Talk is so cheap that most of it has to be disposed of at a discount Costly experience Is a drug In the market when you attempt to sell It. With the exception of money there Is nothing harder to keep than an um brella. i . ,n,, .an yi.tt-t- -tiMiire ttie value of anything people quarrel over by the size of the quarrel. Money is something most of us spend a lot of in a strenuous effort to get something for nothing. The Campaign In New York. New York World. A well-dressed young man called at the headquarters of the Democratio state commute and accosted "Charley" White, the well-known sporting referee, who Is sergeant-at-arms to the commit tee. . "Excuse me, sir." asked the young man. "but where can I find General Apathy 7" - "Who asisea "General Apathy." ..... i .,, WMto. u a' llcrht H . CJM " -- dawned upon him. "You'll find him at the Republican headquarters. The whole Apathy family live there." The American Author of Today. Life. He has "a keen mind." He Is "brilliant and incisive." u. . nrnnderful and "comDelllng" knowledge of human nature. His dialogue always -spamies. He is full of "gems of thought." He' has "intense human interest." He "grips you." " , His work is always "vital. He "tm-llls you mightily." He has "created a new type." . JUDGE PARKER GAZES ON T. R. Sidelights en a Lively Incident In New York: Political Campaign. New York Sun. - As he stepped off a regular train without a solitary private car. Judge Alton B. Parker was greeted by a small crowd, composed mostly of correspond ents. They told him that he had the chance of his life to hear Mr. Roosevelt. The Judge thought he'd take a chance. He walked down the platform toward where the Richland audience was gath ered. Suddenly Mr. Parker guessed he wouldn't go right up to the rear plat form. He thought he could hear all right from where he stood. He re marked that all was well. "You, my friend, who fought in the Grand Army," the Colonel was saying as the Judge surveyed him from afar, "in those days you appealed to all good citizens to stand together, and so now I have the right to appeal to all good citizens to stand together in this contest. - We have as our candidate" (but the noise interrupted him). "I can't talk against two tooting en gines," he shouted. "Against one?" asked a man In the crowd. "One I can get on fairly well with." was the retort. "We ask your support of Stimson." continued the Colonel, "because he is opposed to Tammany Hall and by the big trusts. Eyery crooked business man " "Say, Colonel," piped a suspicious looking individual, "Judge Parker can't hear you. The Colonel glared. "Every crooked business roan," he went on, "and every crooked politician I expect to oppose our candidate. I am glad to see you, comrade." Comrade I hear with pleasure and believe in every word you say. The Colonel I am glad you do. While this repartee was going on Judge Parker held his place. He couldn't be persuaded to greet the' Col onel and be went away without even speaking. He remarked as he left that everything was fine where he had been, meaning, of course, that the Democrats were blossoming out In good shape. Mr. Roosevelt knew that the Judge was there all the time. . HOW SOME MEN FALL IN LOVE. Propinquity Accounts for Seme of the Oddly Assorted Couples. Truth, London. In the case of men propinquity ac counts, perhaps, for some of the most oddly assorted couples. If a man sees a woman at regular intervals for any length of time she becomes a habit, and the moment he becomes conscious of the habit he usually proposes, preferring to take the Ills he thinks he knows rather than those he wots not of. Here, again, the cloak of habit obscures from him the fact that she dresses badly and is proportionately jealous of other women, that even if Ghe did her hair with rather less resemblance to' a wooden transfor mation she could never be either attrac tive or punctual. If she makes him really comfortable the cloak may never fall, and they count as a happily married couple. Less material grounds are that the girl may have a turn for sentiment, the man for romance. For how many en gagements are the moon and a rich baritone responsible? For. how many more a pair of earrings or a curl on the nape of the neck? I know of one en gagement that was entirely due to a hunting accident The man broke his arm out hunting, and in the lull caused by the temporary and unwilling suspen sion of his activities the girl found his sling perfectly irresistible. If a man is going out to India for a term of years he nearly always makes a point of pro posing the night before he starts, and the girl nearly always accepts him. Ab sence does not always make the heart grow fonder, but the thought of absence Invariably Incites it to momentary aberration. Shortage in Girls. Chicago Tribune. As though an" increased cost of liv ing, higher freight rates, and similar ills to man were not sufficient, we are confronted, so the statisticians tell us. with a shortage of women. Although there are more women than men in the census tables, the supply of girls, the raw material from which women .are made, is far below that of boys, and unless something can be done about it there will not be enough women to go around. To make matters worse, boys are in creasing at an alarming rate. Not con tent with coming in singles, they are appearing In doubles and triples, thus making for a still greater discrepancy in the other sex. We do not pretend to account for this. We only state it as a tact t or many years the balance of sex has been with the women. New England, we are told, swarms with unmated females. Matrimonial agencies thrive there, and a fine export business is done with Nome, Alaska, and other points where the nsan predominate. Now that the production has fallen off, the law of supply and demand will advance the price, and that in the face of Winter's approach. One-Cent Poatage en Drop Letters. Syracuse Post-Standard. Provided Postmaster-General Hitchcock does not find it advisable to ask the next Congress to reduce the rate upon all first-class mail matter to 1 cent, as he now hopes to do. he should not fall to ask the reduction upon drop letters. The United States can well afford to carry letters mailed in Syracuse for de livery In Syracuse or upon the rural routes out of Syracuse for one cent There would be profit to the Government In handling this business at the one-cent rate. Further, the reduction would mean a great increase in the amount of local mail handled and a great convenience to local merchants, who while they may send circulars for a cent must pay 2 cents upon each bill sent out In some cases it is found cheaper to use the postal service. Whatever the course of the Postoffiee Department with regard to first-class mail rates generally, the letter mailed at a postoffiee for deliv ery from that office should pay only 1 cent ' Prince of Wales Take IS-Cent Lunch. London Cor. Boston Herald. Stoke Flemming, a little village near Dartmouth, has the honor of providing the Prince of Wales with an 18-cent tea every Sunday afternoon. There is a famous lunch shop in this village, where tea with clotted cream, rasp berry jam and rich cakes are served, and the young cadets from Dartmouth College, having aiscovemu v. uw sort to it every week. Most of them gorge on jam and cakes, but the Prince of Wales takes the wiser course and has a sober tea of bread and butter and cream and one slice of cake. Then, while his comrades are busy chalking up their accounts to be paid at some time in the future, the young Prince settles his bill and goes home. A Little Essay on Hotel Beda. Chicago News. "Have you always been iir the show business?" I asked tho six-foot-eight contortionist "Oh, no." he hastened to say, "I be gan work as a commercial traveler, and was on the road selling goods tor 15 years." "Then what in the world put It into your head to become a contortionist?" I questioned. "I was compelled to become one," he told me. his voice vibrant with what, I subsequently learned, was resentment over past Impositions, "I was compelled to become one by the little, measly ho tel beds I had to sleep, in." Life's Sunny Side When a noted Irish orator was In Am erica a few years ago, he appeared at a meeting In 9t Louis and delivered an address on the subject of "Home Rule for Ireland." There were, six thousand of his countrymen In the audience. At the close of his remarks the chairman asked : f "Would anyone like to ask the speak er a question?" A man in the rear of the hall, who was quite evidently under the influence of liquor, arose and said: "Will the gen tleman tell us if there is any reason why the Irish should not be wiped oif the face of the earth?" Immediately pandemonium reigned. The disturber was attacked from every quarter. Calls of "Down with him," "Let me at him," came from all directions. Finally he was rescued by the police man and. torn and bleeding, and in an unconscious condition, was placed in an ambulance which had been called. Or der was In a measure restored. While the audience could still hear the clatter of the ambulance and the sound of Its gong as it conveyed its burden to the hospital, the chairman stepped forward anda) asked: "Would anybody like to asknother question?" National Monthly m m Em 11 Seidel. the Mayor of Milwaukee, said in a recent after-dinner speech: . "Some people hold that alcohol is to blame for the poverty and wretchedness w-e see around us. That Is as illogical a view as one I heard put forth by a news boy the other day. "As I waited on a corner for a car a bootblack said to a newsboy: " 'Bill, how is it the sea don't run over when all the rivers runs into it?" " 'Why, ye chump,' Bill answered, don't ye know the sea is full of sponges?" " Detroit Free Press. George von L. Meyer, the Secretary of the Navy, praised, at a naval dinner in Washington, the old sea dog. "One of these typical old sea dogs," he ended, '"was persuaded one day in Philadelphia to attend a tea. 1 met him a short time afterward, and said: " 'Well, Marlinspike, I hear you've been doing tea parties in Philadelphia?' " Tfes, sir," the old salt replied. 'I did go to one tea party, sir.' " 'And how did you feel there among ail those ladles?' I asked. " 1 felt like a sperm whale doln' crochet work," he replied." Washington Star. a a a A lecturer gave a very learned and In teresting address before a woman's club on "The Decadence of Pure English." At the close of the talk a much-overdressed woman came up to h lm and said: "I did enjoy your talk ever and ever so much, and I agree with you that the English language is decading something awful. Hardly no one talks proper now adays, and the land only knows what the next generation will talk like If nothing ain't done about it" Youth's Companion. a a "It would probably take many genera tions of adversity to train Americans in to the far-seeing thriftlness of my peo ple," once observed an American of Scotch birth. "I remember a case of a Scotch woman who had been promised a new bonnet by a lady. Before she undertook the purchase the lady called and asked the good woman: " 'Would you rather have a felt or a straw bonnet Mrs. Carmichael?' " 'Weel,' responded Mrs. Carmichael thoughtfully, 1 think I'll tak' a strae ane. It'll maybe be a mouthfu' to the coo when I'm done wl' It' " Llppin cott's. ' a a , Talk about making good with your friends, a New Orleans man told every body he knew . that he was going to Philadelphia for the dual purpose of see ing the world's baseball series and hav ing a slight surgical operation performed. Reaching this city, he consulted a spe cialist and was told that an operation was not necessary. "But, doctor." the New Orleans party urgently interposed, "it must be done." "Why must it?" wonderingly queried the surgeon. "Because," was the startling rejoinder of the Southern man, "I told all the boys at home that I was going to have tha operation performed, and if I don't make good they will kid the life out of me." Philadelphia Telegraph. Ed Howe's Philosophy. Atchison Globe. Your ; credit may be good, but your money is better. Dressmakers have a mighty poor opin ion of the average woman's "figure." Men don't like hard work; they don't like loafing. Unfortunately, there is no happy medium.. There are a number of undesirable citizens Colonel Roosevelt has not heard of. and not all of them belong to the predatory rich. A man who passes through a strange town in an automobile looks as import ant as railroad officials used to look in private cars, in the old days before rail road officials were disciplined. Raising a hundred bushels of corn per acre is more important than establishing a new altitude record, or going through the Niagara whirlpool in a barrel, even if it does attract less attention. So far as we have been able to learn, the bloodhounds never came as near catching anything else as they did to catching Eliza just before she struck the Ohio River and the floating ice. The more a man neglects his business for booze, or politics, or committee work generally, the more he complains about hard times. You never knew a man who neglected his work who wasn't always complaining about the country going to . the dogs. Two Students With "Historic" Names. New York Mali. There was a great laugh among the members of the fire insurance class of the School of Commerce and Ac counts of New. York University on Washington Square the other night when Instructor E. R. Hardy, of the New York Fire Insurance Exchange; called the roll of students. He pro gressed down through the alphabet to the Js. "Mr. Jeffries?" "Here." "Mr. Johnson?" The response was lost in the chorus of laughter. There will likely be a change In the arrangements of the roll before the next lecture. Reflections of a Bachelor. Vat-V TrftFS. Good manners can run a close race for success with brains. Who rides away to fast on horseback, walks home afoot' and limping. Roses withered to ashes, when they were from the right man. bloom forever to a woman. . Girls take such an accurate measure of their brothers it's queer they never do of any other man. A man things fifty cents is a copper when he is spending it on himself and tio when on J-ils family. The Difference. Baltimore American. "Last year Jones was paying court to a woman." "Well." . ' ' "This year he Is paying her alimony. Unsolved Problem. Dallas News. Percy Noodles declared that he has lain awake half the nights for a week trying to Imagine how a girl in a hob ble skirt would ride a bicycle. i