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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.
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. 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