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THE MORNING OREGON-AX, SATURDAY. DECEMBER 17, 1910. 10 roanjLxo. ormjox. Filtered at PortlMd, Oregon. Pootofflco as Serond-4'lasa Matter. Cuacrlptloa K:ee Im-artablr In (BT MAIL rwilr. Sunday Include. on year I :y. tuntr Included, sis month.... 4.x J'ai'r. Sunday Included. thro month.. - -liundar Included, on month.... iiasiy. without Sunday, an year S-o T'ailv. vttbout Sunday. month... ti ). vtrhaut Sunday, thre mnntna... J. . . . . ...... . - Mnnfh -AO Weekly, on jrer JfJ f'ltidar. on year tjadey and weakly, on year........ (BI CARRIER) I'a'Ir. Hone- htelorted. on year...... JJ nndt Included, on month.... -3 llam M mH nrnil poto(hc money O'd-r. xpreae order or personal check on ur local bank, stamp, coin or currency ore at th a-nder-a r:ea- (tiro poetoftlc ad-treea la full. lr.clodln county and r i injT Bate 10 to 1 pace. 1 cent; 16 f .- pacee. i cent; 30 to IO pa. cent: o t f, pee. 4 cento. Fori(n poata( .-bl rate. Leefera Baal Oflleeo Verre. -"rj!" .S.W York. Hrun"lc building. Inl- 1 AO roRTlAXD. MTTEDAt, DEC. IT. Hit. tOKTDT TKK CANAL? CERTAINLY. It will cost JO.OOO.OOt) to fortify tha Panama Canal. So the President tells the country. He recommends vnnHltur for that rjuroose. But protest goes up In various parts of the country from "International peace" enthujlasU. "Could not the tame ends be ac complished." asks one of these en thusiasts, "by a neutralization of the canal and zone under an agreement made by and with all the great mart time and military powers?" That Is. the United States should put defense and control and sov ereignty over the canal in hands of other powers. This country should Cot he free to use the Intrroceanic artery as Its own needs ami Interests vouid require. In great national crisis or extremity, the United States should be bound to put the canal to no ue that the other powers, perhaps out of mpathy with this country or hnattlo to It. might deem "contra band." In other words, this country, after having- Invested 1400,000.000 In this canal, should turn over the valu able property to a foreign tribunal. In other words, again, this country, after having built the canal as a means of defense and offense In war. should not be free to use It for that purpose. Let It be remembered thnt the chief re.ison for the canal Is that It will give mobility to the military and the naval power of this country. As a "commercial proposition" the canal will be a failure. The Un'ted States would Just as logically "neutralise" Its Navy or Us naval establishments at Brooklyn. Boston or Norfolk by Inter national agreement. This country earilt have to fortify the canal and to make It doubly and trebly secure against foreign aggres sion. It does no harm to hold sewing bees for discussion of "arbitration"; but In the final arbitrament of war eacti nation win necine sis wants aim Its needs for Itself and will Interpret and apply treaties and "rules" of war fare to suit Its necessities. Every na tion's duty first and last Is to Itself. In, diplomat-y and In Hague discus sions, civilities) and highbred court esies pass between nations. But where there are rival Interests be tween nations there are enmities arhich rise not out of the feelings but out of the necessities of their po sition. The United States will not put It pelf In the position of having to ask permission of other rations as to what use It will make of the Panama Canal. It will determine the "square deal" lor Itself. It will not put other na tions over Itself In control or man agement of this big work, created out of American labor. American brslns and American treasure. THE CRISIS IX BKXTAI. Some comment has been occa sioned by the Interesting circum stance that tt Is the Conservative party In England which appears to be advocating the referendum. How to explain this anomaly has puzzled number of our American Newspa pers. They remark that In this coun try It Is the extreme radicals who wish to Invoke the referendum while the conservatives shudder at It as a thing of evil omen. How then do.-. It come about thut the Lords turn to II as tnir l.ui npe ih n.i itn.m... asainst the aurges of advancing de mocracy? The explanation Is offered ty one newspaper th.it the referen dum demanded by the English Con servatives Is not the genuine thing. Jt la a fake Imitation, misleading and delusive. This astonishing opinion Is backed by the argument that Lord I;osebery"s compromise, which lies bohlnd the demand for the referen dum plan, would alas produce a reactionary House of Lords. Just like the old system, snmie of the Lords would be elected bv their peer, others srouM be namod by the crown, but however they attained to their veate. the consequent e would be the auune. They would Invannblr be) Cones. Hence the referendum would, never be used except when the House of Commons was Liberal, and then 4t would simply serve to make their proposed legislation Ineffective. This reasoning Is more plausible than sound. For one thing, it Is br no means certain that members of the upper house) elected by the peers would always be Conservatives. Lib oval peers are not unknown even now. auid no doubt It elections became cus tomary among the nobility, parties would b formed. They would not all vote In the same way onlrss human nature should change suddenly and auaaxlngry. Certainly the Lords earned by the crown would not nec essarily be Conservatives, since the "crown" signifies the ministry In power at the moment. If this were Liberal In Its politics tt would nomi nate Liberal peers. We- see therefore that Lord Roaeberys scheme of re form for the Lords does not Imply an In variably reactionary chamber by any mean. But there Is another point which may be worth mention ing. History teaches us that the British aristocracy never has been totally out of sympathy with the -lower orders." In feeling It stands a great deal nearer to the laborers and peasantry than It does to the bourgeoisie." as It la called, or the prosperous manufacturing and mer cantile classes. In the early labor troubles of Kngland the wage-earners bad the sympathy and active aid of tnanr peers. Time and again in the course of history the peers have made an al!ln.-e with the peasantry agsinst Ihe middle class. Tho two last elee C jns show clearly that they retain to this day an Imposing following among the wage-earners In the cities and the farm laborers. With this in mind, it is perhaps possible to under stand why the peers should prefer a genuine referendum to the uncon trolled dominion of the House of Commons, which represents above all else the mMdle. or mercantile, order. With the Commons supreme the Lords would be a nullity. Under the system of the referendum they might often form an alliance with the labor element and carry the day. From every point of view, then, it seems likely that the demand of the Lords for the referendum is not a mere piece of deceptive humbug, but a stroke of genuine statesmanship. The paper which calls it "hypocritical twaddle" might well study the subject a little more attentively.. The last two Parliamenary elections have gone against the Lords, or the Conserva tives, which Just now comes to the same thing. The second was not quite so disastrous as the first, but It was decisive enough. The voice of the British people Cemands the re form of the upper house in tones which It is futile to call uncertain. Tho Lords have no other choice than to yield completely to the Commons on the one hand and cease to play an effective part In legislation or else to appeal to the w age-earning masses. Certainly they cannot be expected to accept the former alternative unless the latter presents the greater danger to their Interests. In fact, they have made up their minds to cast In their lot with the lower orders. They wise ly prefer a fighting chance for them selves to Inevitable ruin. There never has been much sym pathy between hereditary aristocra cies and mercantile middle classes. When they have existed side by side In the samo country they have usual ly fought until one or the other was extirpated. In Rome the mercantile order finally won out. So it did In Florence and Venice. The British Lords are less odious to the middle class than some other aristocracies have been because they wisely take successful traders Into their ranks as the saints are translated to paradise, but still the same conflict exists, and in the end It will blot them out. Their proffered alliance with the wage earners, even if H were accepted, would only give them a respite, as they probably know. But to say that the proffer Is not genuine Is the same as saying that a drowning man will not catch at a straw. Moreover. In making the offer they have shown true aristocratic astuteness, for the referendum is th most attractive bait to the democrats that could be Imagined. A DKSIAJ. FROM THE KANTIAM. The Scio News disputes a statement of The Orcgonlan that the new county tax amendment to the constitution is a forerunner of the Henry George sin trie tax. "Such Interpretation." de clares the News. "Is not warranted. . . . The only purpose of this amendment la to cause all classes of property to bear their Just proportion of the support of government." The News doesn't want to believe It. therefore the News says it Isn't so. The News is one of several radical county papers In Oregon tht believe nothing they should believe and every thing they should not believe. The News assortment of opinions, with which It weekly brushes aside the most commonly accepted facts. Is the wonder of the Santlam Forks. The county home rule tax scheme Is the product of the fertile brain of lawgiver U'Ren. He Is the official representative In Oregon of the Fela fund. He openly proclaims his pur pose now to go ahead with the single tax propaganda under the favorable terms of the new amendment. Every other single taxer In Oregon is now getting busy. The way is open at last. We are going to have two years hence the greatest fight In the state's history over the question of exclusive land valuation and taxation. The sin gle taxers have the money, the pur pose, and the prestige of a partial vlc torv. Let the News wait a little. It will see w hat It will see. THE MHJTART VIKW. General Wood has Joined the ranks of military alarmists who sec the stfety of the Nation only in a stand ing army of formldnble strength and equipment, an elaborate system of coast defenses and a navy of tremen dous power held In leash, and ready at a moment's notice to let loose its terrors upon a presumptuous roe. Times have changed since the gentle Longfellow, sitting in his quiet study at Cambridge, on the border or a country protected from Invasion only bv wooden frigates and sloops of war. wrote: Her half th power that nil th world wuh terror. Were half ihe wealth bellowed on camp ond court Given ' redeem the human mind rrom Titer, wer no Bred of oroenalo and forts. Could ho have foreseen the formid able battleships clad In triple steel, waiting occasion to dlsplode their tires of thunder each at the other the "Invlnciblcs." the "Indefatiga blcs" and the Dreadnoughts, of vari ous names and mighty power that ride the high seas today, he would have stopped with this sentiment and not staked his reputation as a prophet of universal peace upon the concluding lines of his poem, via.: pac. ard no looser from tt brasen portal . Th b;.i of war- great organs shako th TTMla beautiful e touM "f th Immortal Th holy melodies ot lov arts. This is the poetical sentiment In regard to war. a sentiment voiced again and again by Longfellow and Whlttier and Emerson. Opposed to It Is the practical view which sees hu man nature as It Is and bids nations In time of peace to prepare for war. THE RlXr.Xs TEAPOT TEMPEST. Secretary Balllnger Is -vindicated." Colonel Roosevelt is rebuked and soured on Pinchot, GUvls Is arrested and acquitted for breaking the fire sUshings law. Garfield Is In deep eclipse, and Newell Is still shaking for bis Job. These are the developments, up to date, of the great feud that has made Washington oUiclaJdom quake nigh unto tw-o years. Thus conservation has been a fer tile subject In diverse and sundry ays. Falstaff was of the opinion there lived not three good men un hanged In Kngland, and a number of eminent cltlaens have been echoing that sentiment here In th United States. Yet after the probing com mittee of Congress is done and the peopl- birve. spoken In the elections and Teddy's and Clifford's fervent love (or each, other has cooled, and Ballln ger has ferreted out bigger rascals In Alaska than Glavis. Gurfield, Pinchot & Co. ever did. there Is seen to have been a big tempest of the teapot va riety. Now It is rumored that Mr. Ballln ger, after vindication, will retire and Jlr. Tawney, who was made a lame duck In the recent upheaval In Min nesota, is to take his place. We shall all fervently pray that Messrs. Pin chot, Garfield, Glavis et al. have been disabused of the Idea that the office is theirs as the people's caretakers, and that President Taft, In appointing Mr. Tawney over their heads, will not be heaping insult upon injury. FINAL CHOP REPORT. The Government crop report which appeared Thursday is the final report for tho season and as the wheat, oats, barley and similar grains have all been harvested and most of the corn Is either husked or "shocked," the figures presented ought to have more value than any that have yet ap peared regarding the 1910 crop. Corn and oats show the largest yield on record and the wheat crop is well up toward the top of the column. The figures for this record grain crop at present prices present an interesting comparison with those of last year. We find according to this Govern ment report, that the combined yield of wheat, corn and oats was 4.947. 478.000 bushels. Based on Thurs day's closing quotations in Chicago this crop would show a valuation of J2. 438.792.000. The 1909 crop of the same cereals WaS .D 1 9, I - UUSllt-19 O.IIU prices ruling a year ago, that crop of 430,000.000 bushels less showed a to tal valuation 'of 82.S76.331.000. This big crop at smaller prices offers an excellent field for speculation as to which of the two crops was of the greatest value to the country as a whole. A decrease of 8137.000.000 in the value of a crop, is an Item of some importance, but In that in crease of 430.000,000 bushels In the amount handled, there were great possibilities for tonnage for the rail roads and employment for a large number of men in harvesting and handling It. Taken as a whole the big crop at moderately good prices or such as now prevail undoubtedly spreads more prosperity than the smaller crop at higher prices. The Pacific Northwest, which does not figure as a corn-growing locality, this year had a slightly larger oats crop than that of a year ago but we were so unfortunate as to have a smaller wheat crop which Is being marketed at much lower prices than prevailed a year ago. However, w ith the large carryover from the previ ous season tne rarmers oi me i-onn-west will, in the aggregate, have about the same amount of grain to sell, as they had last year, and prices are still holding around a figure that makes the industry highly profitable. KKAI'ItlKTIONM EST. The Indianapolis News, an inde pendent newspaper printed In a state where Independence in politics is an Iridescent dream or a mugwump as sumption. Just as you choose to look. at It, urges upon congress to noia me house membership to its present fig ures (391) in the forthcoming Con gressional reapportionment- "Take the state with which the present fig ures would make the greatest gain in Congressmen," advises the News, "and letting It keep the number it now has, reduce the representation of the other states proportionately." When the News has worked out Its remarkable proposal in detail. It is very likely to beat a hasty retreat, for the inevitable result will be that In diana will lose one-half or more of Its present representation of thirteen. Washington is the state showing the greatest gain In ten years, for It has added 120 per cent to Its population, while 7 per cent Increase is the best Indiana can do. Under any fair scheme of reapportionment Wash ington will double Its present Con gressional delegation, and Oregon will get another House member. If. however, the unit of reapportionment is to be the 1910 population of Wash ington, divided by three (its present House membership), the result will be a representative for every 380,000 people. Instead of 391 members of the House of Congress, as at present, apportioned on a unit of 193,000, we should have Its numbers reduced al most exactly one-half. Oregon woiild probably continue to hold Its own in Its two members; but nearly all other states would lose heavily. The scheme is impossible. Are the states of the West, which have grown In a decade with unprece dented rapidity, entitled to equitable representation in Congress on the basis of population or are they not? Of course they are. and It will be dif ficult to prevent them getting it. It can readily be understood that there will be a strong protest in the older states, like New England, against cutting down their membership, but the march of empire has long been steadily westward, and the balance of political power Is swinging from there to the newer and more vigorous and assertive, citizenship of the West. The only way In w hich .these, older states may hold their own, even measurably. In Congress. Is to Increase the House membership: but the House Is already an unwieldy and unruly body, and the sentiment of the coun try will be against further enlarge ment. Nevertheless, in the struggle for advantage and the trading, shift ing and scheming of the old-timers to keep their places and their prestige, there probably will be some Increase. Bnt It cannot be much. Washington will In the reapportionment get six members and Oregon three. Indiana, New England and parts of the Middle West and South must lose. New York will have one-tenth the IIouy mem bers. But tt will not have one-tenth the power In Congress. rNFORTCNATE KEXTT1 RY. The State of Kentucky, famed as the home of brave men. fair women and fast horses, rich In natural re sources, with a fine climate and won derful soil and one of those delightful localities "where every prospect pleases and only man Is vile." showed a gain of but . per cent in popula tion in the past decade. East, west, north and south, other states, many of them less favored by nature than Kentucky, showed a much greater percentage of gain than was recorded In the famous blue-grass region. The explanation for this failure of Ken tucky to progress In keeping with other states and In a degree warranted by natural conditions Is not far to seek. Two predominating causes, the feud and the night rider, have com- blned to give the unfortunate state more unfavorable advertising than has fallen to the lot of any other state In the Union. The numerous Kentucky feuds have been responsible for some of the most picturesque murders ever committed in uncivilized America and can in no manner be recommended as attrac tions that will Induce new settlers to locate in the vicinity. But the Ken tucky feudists are so much preferable as citizens to the cowardly night rid ers who have been burning barns, whipping women and in other forms of outlawry and incendiarism exhibit ing Kentucky to the rest of the world as a fine state to remain away from, that by contrast they appear quite re spectable and decent. Even the pro saic census returns show that a fine discrimination has been made by new comers between these two branches of outlawry, for Breathitt County, made famous by the bloody Hargls feuds, showed a slight gain in the ten years, while Crittenden County, one of the storm centers of the night riders, showed a loss of nearly 2000. If Kentucky, by taking for compari son some other states possessing no greater advantages, will make an esti mate of the relative increases in pop ulation elsewhere, it will find It possi ble to determine what these night riders have cost the state. Increas ing population in an undeveloped country creates demand for railroads and is largely responsible for the de velopment of resources which without transportation remain dormant. The new settler creates new wealth In ad dition to that which he brings Into a state. In the aggregate the amount, of cap ital that has been directly and indi rectly frightened out of Kentucky by the crimes of the night riders will run Into millions. It would have been a distinct economic advantage to Ken tucky to have Jailed or executed all the night riders. Marjorle, the oldest daughter of George Gould, was married a few months ago to a plain American citi zen, it having previously been herald ed abroad that she scorned a title bought with her father's gold. The fanfare of patriotic trumpets that proclaimed this event and this senti ment has scarcely died away and now comes the announcement that Miss Vivian, the second daughter of the head of the house of Gould, is going to marry an English baron more than twice her age a veteran of the Boer and Matabele wars, a polo player and an enthusiastic hunter and racer. Of his other qualifications to become the husband of a young American heiress, nothing is said. Perhaps it is enough that Miss Vivian Gould will In due time be known as Lady Decles, wife of John Graham Hope Horstley Beresford. That she is but 19 while he is 4 4 does not count at present. The difference may be figured out later In connection with a plea for separation and settlement. Six months ago when T. R. was speaking platitudes In European uni versities, the -cables carried the words in full for tho front page. Now when he Is doing the same stunt at home, he gets space the length of your pen cil inconspicuously placed. After he came back. It seems he didn't ceme back. Nobody doubts that Mr. White will make a worthy Chief Justice, but ev erybody believes that Mr. Hughes de served the appointment for his merit and for other reasons. The country whispers sadly that Mr. Hughes has missed a great promotion and Mr. Taft a great opportunity. A Christmas gift by the Steel Trust of 50,000 pounds of candy to 3000 children is small restitution. The way that concern has been treating the public for fifteen years is Just like taking candy from children. The 90-year-old man of Durkee who made final proof on his home stead the other day Is a testimonial to climatic conditions in Baker County, where death is an accident as well as Incident. When disputes between milliners and hairdressers get Into the Justice courts of Vancouver or Seattle where women may serve as Jurors, will not spice and gaiety be added to local news stories? Fire Chief Campbell Is right about bestowing a medal on the fireman for heroism and his suggestion of a formal ceremony is proper. A gener ous gratuity should accompany the bauble. The children that E. J. Baldwin "forgot" to mention In his will bid fair to divide the enormous wealth of the amorous old turfman among a small army of lawyers. What does Tawney, living in the middle of 4he continent, know of the "war scare?" Watch him change his mind if he becomes Governor of the canal zone. ' When Senator Lafe Young enter tained his colleagues Thursday, Daniel Webster, Henry Clay and Charles Sumner must have turned over In their graves. If Municipal Judge Tazwell makes good his threat to send lawless chauf feurs to the rockpile Portland will have fewer automobile accidents. With tho advent of trolley cars In the Panama Canal zone, the North amerlcanization of the strip may be said to be almost complete. Carnegie cannot abolish war with ten millions. A healthy nation spends that amount In ten days of fighting. Maybe, after all, we shall have to include the- Hawthorne bridge open ing with the New Year's celebration. Lafe Young of Iowa is the cham pion Senate-tradition buster of the century this century or the last. nnA Avoellent wav to escane the danger pointed out in General Wood's report Is not to engage in war. In one day Senator Lafe Young made up for all tho unknown days in the country newspaper office. What point did General Wood ex pect to gain by exposing our unpro tected coasts? Draw regulation? What draw reg ulation? Bridge draws? Ha, ha. TALKING DOG ASTOI XUS GERMANY Want Told In Short Sentences of Words la Proper Rotation. Berlin Cor. New York Times. The scientific sensation of the hour in Germany Is the talking dog Don, a dark brown setter belonging to a royal game keeper named Ebers at Thiershutte, near Hamburg. Don promises to become as celebrated an attraction as the horse Clever Hans, which startled the zoolog ical savants of Europe eipht years ago with his alleged mathematical feats. Karl Hagenbeck, the world-famed ani mal dealer, has offered Don's master Si'ioo for the privilege of exhibiting the dog in the Hagenbeck outdoor menag erie at Hamburg. The dogs vocabu lary, it is said, already embraces six words. His alleged elocutionary powers came to light early this week as the result of reports from the United States that Professor Alexander Graham Bell had succeeded in teaching a terrier to speak. It was decleared that Germany not only possessed a dog with similar gifts, but a dos which had been talking- for five years In fact, ever since he was six months old. The story was first considered a Joke, but Thiershutte all the week has been the Mecca of interested inquirers, who have come away convinced that Don Is a genuine canine wonder. His callers included a number of newspaper men. who went to Thiershutte to interview Urn dnir. The KamekeeDer. Bbers, af firms that the dog began talking in 1905 without training of any kind. According to his owner the animal sauntered tip one day to the table where the family wore eating and, when his master asked, "You want something, don't you?" the dog stupified the family by replying in a deep masculine tone, "Haben, haben." ("Want, want.") The tone was not a bark or growl. It Is declared, but dis tinct speech, and Increased in plainness from day to day as his master took more interest in the dog's newly discovered talpnt. Shortly afterward, the story goes, the dog learned to say "Hunger" when asked what he had. Then lie was taught to sav "Kuchen" (cakes), and finally "Ja" and "Xein." And it Is added that he is now able to string several ot tnese words together in sensible rotation and will say "Hunger, I want cakes," when an appropriate question Is addressed to him. , The New York Times correspondent has caused inquiries regarding Don to be made through trustworthy authorities at Hamburg. He Is assured that the dog Is an unqualified scientific marvel. Don's owner is overwhelmed with ap plications from circus and music hall managers, who are outbidding one an other for the privilege of exhibiting the dog. - NEW GRBTNA GREEN IN MAKING Connecticut Justice - Drogglat Issues Attractive Offer to Lovers. New York World. The time is not far distant when the magic phrase, "Shall we elope?" will be replaced by a new phrase of tender Im port, "Let's go to Fairfield.' And If sue blushes an J sighs and presses his hand then there'll be work for John K. Boyle, J. P.. proprietor of the Center drugstore, Fairfield, Conn., who has just come out with an en trancing offer to prospective brides and grooms, following his election as Jus tice of the Peace. Here is what he will do: Meet bride and bridegroom at rail road station with automobile, convey them to Town Hall and help them pro cure marriage license. Convey them back to his etore. where a floral bower and pretty little altar will be found awaiting them in a snug corner, marry them free of charge, present to the bride a pound of choco late and kiss the bride (optional). But Mr. Boyle is young and handsome. Give bride and bridegroom a merry wedding trip in his automobile about the environments of Falrfield- All these things came into Mr. Boyle's mind soon after his election. He feels that Connecticut's marriage laws are the best In the world for elopers, and wishes to bring the fame of Gretna Green to hs town. DOINGS IN THE3 OREGON COUNTRY. Seared 'Em Out. Amity Standard. r thn hobo tribe loaf ing about town Sunday night caused an uneasy teeiine anions sume vu business men. A night watchman was put on for the night and when the morning dawned they had hied them selves away to other climes. Wet Day In a Dry Town. Grass Valley Journal. There was a lively scrap on Main -. . iDa. PpIHiiv afternoon and the fray was pulled off In about one foot . . . . i n-1 of muaay water aim buuw. xuo shal, with the aid of five or six men and a pair of handcuffs, succeeded in landing the fellow in the city JalL Small Boy's Experience. Eugene Register. To have a small safety pin become unclasped in his nose was the experi ence of a 2-year-old boy of Cottage Grove, who was brought to Eugene last evening by Dr. Kime, of that city. The child was playing with the pin and shoved it up his nose and past the clasp. It became unclasped and It was impossible to pull it out the way tt was put In. A Eugene surgeon pushed the pin up the nose until it could be reached with a hook through the throat, and it was then pulled out that way. without hurting the little boy very much. Round and Round and Round. Dallas Itemlzer. What Is said to be the first circular stable in Oregon has just been finished on the farm of S. E. Carmack, near In dependence, by McNamee Brothers, whose plans contemplate a large sav ing in space and labor. The-barn is 60 feet in diameter with walls 20 feet high. The foundation Is of concrete, as Is the ground floor. Stalls are pro vided for 12 horses, six cows and a carload of feeding cattle. The hay mow will hold 100 tons of hay and Is equipped with a circular track and a fork. The roof Is self-stipporting, not a post being In the center of the structure. The stalls head toward the center, simplifying feeding and re moval of offal., Tne arrangement con templates a wider stall at the rear portion to aid In keeping the stable san itary. " Railroad a Good Rabbit Bounty. YACOLT. Wash.. Dec. 13. (To the Editor.) In The Oregonian of Decem ber 12 there appeared in the editorial columns an article in regard to Burns Commercial Club's movement to secure a bounty on rabbits. When the rail roads are built into Harney County I think that the only bounty necessary will be a hearty invitation to hunters. I say hunters, not the Individuals who i.v. o-unn firlnff- at moving trees, bushes, etc, oftentimes killing sheep, cattle ana even men "sportsmen." - Where Posies Bloom lu December. ROSEBURG. Or, Dec. 14. (To the Editor.) I clipped today's cartoon from all The Oregonians I could find and sent them back East, together with a little note telling that roses and mag nolias are still In bloom in the Umpqua Valley, that strawberries were picked during the month, and that new pota toes were gathered here on the 8th day of December. Your artist had a most happy thought whon he con ceived the cartoon in today's Issue. Here's wishing him a whole lot more good hunches. G. P. SCHLOSSER, j THAT -WOMAN WHO INTERRUPTS Annoyance to Her Friends and Hin drance to World's Work Philadelphia Inquirer. Do you know the woman who goes about this busy world interrupting? I often suffer from her. Only yesterday, for instance, I met at an at home an old friend whom I had not seen for months. We sat down on a sofa, which was a little withdrawn from "the madding crowd,'" and began an ani mated conversation. But just when our mutual confidences were beginning to get interesting, the "woman who inter rupts" spied us. Across the room she sailed and settled herself between us. "Now, then, what are you two talking about?" she inquired genially.' We did not feel inclined to tell her nor, for that matter, did she really care to know. She had interposed herself where she was not wanted and broken up a pleasant tete-a-tete without any special object in view; and what satis faction she can take in such an action is beyond my Imagination. She must have unlimited belief in my own brain power, for she expects me to be able even to count the stitches in the heel of a stocking and listen to her in volved account of her daughter-in-law's faults at one and tho same moment! I was deeply engrossed in my knitting the other day when she came .nto the room. Seeing the puzzled expression on my face, one would think she might have waited a moment before pouring her woes forth. But she didn't, because lhe "woman who interrupts" never considers her friends. And how she worries her maids! Method is impossible in her house. No sooner have the maids gone upstairs to "do" the bedrooms than she calls tneni down to see to something in the base ment. Probably hardly have they begun, when she rings violently for them to perform some duty on the first floor. More than one good servant has left simply because she couldn't stand her worrying ways. Her way seems scattered with broken off conversations and half-finished jobs. She hinders the work of the world, this "woman who interrupts." LOT OF FILIPINO WOMEN IS HARD Life Hold No Vacation Time for Them L'utll Old Age Comes. Phllllplnes Monthly. Filipino women know how to win husbands. It Is a common thing In the Islands to see a girl, young and brown and strong, crushing rice with a heavy wooden "mallet, while around her sit a number of admiring swains, looking on, but never dreaming of of fering to help. And the girl doesn't expect It. She pounds cheerfully away, and by and by her reward comes in a husband to work for. Life accustoms the Filipino woman to labor at a very early age. As a tiny girl she is rarely seen without an appendage in the shape of a baby brother br sister perched on her little brown hip. When she grows a few inches taller and a few degrees stronger she is -pressed into service as a water carrier, bearing heavy Jars of water poised gracefully on her head from the river to her home. Now, too, she works in the fields, and a vivid bit of color she makes in her short, kilted scarlet skirt. When she becomes a woman and she Is a woman at 15 or before she may have a small shop to tend, and there is the rice to beat and much other work to do. Marriage brings no vacation. She is pretty sure to have many children to care for. She tends the fields, cooks, and frequently has a stall in the mar ket for several hours a day. But when the women are really old then their rest time comes. They sit quietly by, looking on as life goes past them; but taking part no more. In spite of the hard labor they have had there is gen erally a very peaceful look in the brown, wrinkled faces of these old women. An Overdose of Christmas Candy. New York Sun. "Nineteen pounds of candy came to mv sister and myself last Christmas, said a self-supporting woman. "My els ter is a trained nurse. I am a visiting secretary. We had discreetly men tioned whenever possible to our wealthy patrons that we had Just set up house keeping in a modest little apartment. We did this in the hope that the usual deluge of candy might be turned into other channel and that a pretty piece of glass or china or silver would be substituted. But no, the candy came u usual. As each expensive box ar rived we felt the Merry Christmas spirit sink in our hearts. "Finally, In desperation we took stock of the various five, two and one-pound boxes and estimated their purchasing power. We realized that if we had been verv noor we should have received wel come gifts of groceries and fruit. If rich we should have received cut glass. or silver. Our surplus candy was due, as we fully realized, to the lack of understanding which the very rich have for what they consider the higher grade of employes. They were all Kina hearted people and our disappointment, as we surveyed our candy boxes, would have made them truly sorry. But why, we asked ourselves, didn't they try for a minute to put themselves in our places? This seems to me the true Christmas spirit. - Population of London. JARBIDGE, Nev.. Dec. 12. (To the Editor.) I write you to find out the present population of the city of Lon don, England, shown by last year's census, also the population pt ln City of London, England, as shown by the census taken ten years previous, or 1899. This information Is sought to decide a controversy, lours truly, A. L. ANDERSON. The latest available official statis tics on London's population are for 1901, when the total for the County of London was given at 4,536,063. Ihe limits embracing this population are the same as those of the London School Board district. The preceding census (1891) gave the County of Lon don a population of 4,228,317. Greater London (metropolitan and city police districts) had a population In 1891 of 4,o.i3,S06 and in 1901 a total of 6.580,616. The estimated present population of Greater London Is 7,537, 196. For comparison with other cities the population of the County of Lon don Is usually taken. One Thins; After Another. Tlt-Blts. "Life ain't nothin' but disappoint ment,' groaned the Chronic Grumbler. "Cheer np!" urged the Cheerful Idiot. "Didn't yer git 10 for puttin' yer pic ture in the paper as havin" bin cured o' all yer ills by Bunk's Pills?" "Yes, I did. An' now all my relatlfs are askln' me why I don't go to work, now th't I'm cured!" Superstitious. Chicago News. Munhall How did It happen that one of the shipwrecked sailors starved to death after the barrel of pork had been found? Carson The other sailors wouldn't, let him eat. Munhall Why? Carson He would have made the thirteenth at the table. A Paternal View. Tit-Bits. "Ansn-pr me. Clara." he said in a mo ment of passion. "I can hear this sus pense no longer." "Answer mm. uiara, ecnoea mo u,u man In the hall, thinking of the coal and gas bills. "I can't bear this expense much longo" " Life's Sunny Side That Jest about the name of Oyster Bay being changed to Blue Point is getting old now. But they're telllns another story which pivots on the cat aclysm which furnished the base for the first. Colonel Abe Gruber. who has the same foDd affection for Colonel Roosevelt that a cat has for a bulldog, was discussing the recent election. "Colonel Roosevelt's defeat was final," said Colonel Gruber. "He'll never coma back." One of those present doubted th quality of Colonel Gruber's Informa tion. Colonel Gruber, by the way. has Just had his nose rubbed by the Repub lican County Committee, which laughed Itself to sleep at a meeting in which Colonel Gruber undertook to roast Colonel Roosevelt. But the small and noisy politician persisted. "It makes me think." said he, "of the day they buried old Tite Harrison down at Am Ityville. The funeral procession was moving along the Gtreet. when Uncla Abe Burse stepped out of a store. Ha hadn't heard the news. " 'Sho,' said Uncle Abe Burse, "who they bury in' today?' " 'Pore old Tite Harrison, . said- the storekeeper. " 'Sho,' said Uncle Abe Burse. Tite Harrison, hey? Is Tite dead?" " 'You don't think we're rehearsln' with him. do you?" snapped the store keeper. Cincinnati Times-Star. e J. Pierpont Morgan, at one of th dinners marking trie recent session of the church congress In Cincinnati, de plored the too common separation of religion and business. "Too many em ployers." Mr. Morgan said, "are Ilka John Nicholson. Nicholson advertised for, a porter, and one of the applicants said to him: 'I think I'd suit, sir. I have a recommendation here from my clergyman that ' 'That recommenda tion,' John Nicholson interrupted, 'is all very good as far as it goes. As I shan't need you on Sundays, however, I'd prefer a reference, from somebody who can vouch for you during the week.' "Kansas City Star. e Garrett P. Servls, the science writer, said of Halley's comet: "The ignorant and superstitious dread that the comet evoked in some quarters reminds me of the Millerites. The Millerites, back in '72, when Grant was up for a second term, were preaching the imme diate destruction of the world. They were even giving their property away. Well, at a Millerite campmeeting ona night in Maine, a Millerite preacher preached that the end of the world would come on October 1, just a month before election. The preacher noticed a man in a front seat who manifested every symptom of satisfaction when ever the date was driven home. Per plexed, he accosted the man at the end of the service and asked him why he had shown pleasure over such a terri ble matter. 'Anything to beat Grant, was the reply. Kansas City Star. . in A kind-faced young man, secretary to one of the Senators, had occasion not long ago to run over to the French Embassy to deliver some papers to Am bassador Jusserand. It promised to be the first time in a number of years that he had met op portunity to utilize his college course in French, and before going to the embassy the young man set about bon ing up on such phrases as he would need. - A liveried servant opened the door or M. Jusserand's place, and the young man held out the packet, at the same time remarking In college French that he wished to have it delivered imme diately to "Mush-shuh Zhu-sair-raw. The servant looked at the young man with austerity, about as the undersized clerk in a voting booth looks at a man of the opposite political faith, and in- qU"Couian't you spealc English, sir or German?" ' , The young man does not know yet whether the fault was his French or tho servant's linguistic limitations. Washington Herald. This one was added to the Joy of na tions at the cosmopolitan dinner of the St Andrew's Society the other nigh. Everybody was wearing the thistle and shouting for bonnie Scotland, when President Thomas, of some inland col lege, had told how happy it made him to watch a New Englander dickering over a "hoss" trade. To see a Yankee swapping horses with an innocent Scotchman he declared to be a pure intellectual joy. "Yes," said Augustus Thomas when he got on his feet to make the next speech, "and the difference between the Kew Englander and the Scotchman is that you love to match the Yankee, but you have to watch the Scot-' New York Sun. t An Object Lesson, , Ideas. "Charles," said a sharp-voiced wom an to her husband In a railway car riage, "do you know that you and I onca had a romance in a railway car- ri"Never heard of it," replied Charles, In a subdued tone. "I thought you hadn't; but dont you remember it was that pair of slippers I presented to you the Christmas before we were married that led to our union? Well, Charles, one day when we were going to a picnic, you had your feet up on a seat, and when you were not look ing I took your measure. But for that pair of slippers I don't believe we d have ever been married." A young unmarried man, sitting by, immediately took down his feet frSm the seat. ' ' Facts About "The Merry Widow." Cleveland Plain Dealer. The total number of performances of "The Merry Widow." given by Mr. Sav age's several companies in America, is 2769. It has been played in every country In tha world except China. Many millions of copies of "The Merry Widow" waltz were sold in Europe, England alone purchasing 2,000,000 copies the first month the operetta was played in London. r i v.a AnmrncAr- tins H T" A W Tl r ranz mo tuu..v.., nearly J2,000,000 In royalties from the hundreds of companies playing his op eretta throughout, ino unu. More than 4.000,000 persons have paid to see "The Merry Widow" in America. Christmas Dinner for Horses. Uoncua rltv Star. This is to be another long-to-be-re- i a ri,..tutmoa rtav for horses, too. meuiueicu viio..ii rf -- The plan used last year by officers and members ot the Humane Society by which more than one thousand horses were given a good dinner Christmas Ib to be followed again. - . . 1. hnea riintt.r Flit . i irta RaltimnrA avenue. oeen uijoiieu " - - - The Kansas City Rapid Motor Transpor- mora uuv.wmo J - ' its address. End of World for Some. a ..on th.. nrnnhM-v fit Flame uout tr l and other seers as to the "ending o that he snail nave some cuu"""" tUB UiCi.De. " rr - vut number on Thursday ever, ing, December 15, and no doubt, wi v.- v.nn. rlnctors at large 'jaicn tne UCgul . . , i j .,.v, tham crnlr.f. And I ' CUmmS 1 " - e, rus can with good grace.sprtng a cata vsis tor eacn uay o. again. Cv -w