THE MOTCXFNG OREGONIAN. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21. 1911. rOtTUND. ORtOOX. rr;r4 at Frt ' a 1 Onin. Poetoff.eo a t,-an1-ruae Vtttr. !. nMay ln.-.ud.'i. ori year. . . . . .1- ai.r. Putiilty IfvclU'l'!. I fa rae cnoetba. 1 :)y. aur.dai tncltdal. or. moata.... t iiT. :naul FjndtT. ene year. . . . . . . -I wfRoif Sunday, moatba.... 3 3S e::r. w.tftoot SriQtltir, tfcrea Bomb. XIS L'...'T. wlthaai aa.laj. M Kolk "v ne yr ................ - ene .ar .......... t-o 9ifcday and weakly, ena yer. ...... ... a IBT CARRIEKl raitr. Sua'fay tnr:u 11. on year...... t i'.r. ual4 ln-iult. ana roonrh..... .,J Hew ta Raaail end poetofflce wienar i r-J w. epra wdr or pereoaal eh am :or local bank, siamra. co or forrTtr , a a? the ttMl-rr rt.a. Oie paiornca lre In fn!L including eontr aod atata. ' fa. Rataa 10 to la pagaa. I rant: l ' . t cents; lO la paa-aa. a ta ao paca. ceota. roreiga poaiaa iMa rata. I n Haataaaa Office Vet-r Conk 's N-w tora. I'rvmwitA. Building. Cfcl- ta. Stager building. UBIXASD. TtTE&DAY. ITB. 11. 111. nr.covD choick Being Governor of all the people, overnor West will of course sign the tusk bill to add the acond-cholc eatur to the primary 1- Keporte hat ha will veto tha meuura are. of ours, founded on aa unwarranted issumptlon that (1) tha Governor will Kek thue to promote tha inter- iMtt of a pre-election alllanca and partnership with Jonathan Bourne; and that (2) a Democratic Governor la In duty bound to hla party to adopt any expedient of political strategy or sheer demagogy that will tend to de moralize and disrupt tha Republican party. A Governor of all the people, of course, will rl3 above auch jordld and unworthy considerations. A conspicuous, meritorious and practical feature of the primary laws In Washington and Idaho Is the sec-ond-cholce provision. It has solved there tha problem of Judicious nom inations. It has tended to keep the dominant party harmonious and satis fled. It has been tha means of unit ing the discordant and warring ele ments In a political party and enabled it to rut up a solid front at tha polls. It has removed tha chtxf objection to the plurality primary, in so far as It permits a candidate of a minority to j overnue me wm ana arjirri vx iu great majority. It Is fair to alL Senator Bourne. It la to be expected, will violently oppose the second choice bill. Senator Chamberlain will see In such a measure a menace to hla continued Influence In the operations ar.d counsels of the Republican pri mary. Governor West but w shall let tha Governor apeak for himself later. XH TATT AS A FOIl LAK UVAnr.K. The McCa!! bill for establishing tariff reciprocity with Canada entered the Houh of Representative as a Republican measure. It emerged with Its political character amaslngly transformed. But for the support of the Democrats It would have been hopelessly defeated. Only seventy eight members of Mr. Taffs party sup ported It while elghty-elx voted against It. The Republican party was spilt pretty near the middle, though tha cleft was noticeably on tha side un favorable to Mr. Taft's cherished measure. Tha Democrats were as noticeably of one accord. No mora than five of them voted against rec iprocity while 14J stood for It. if we look at the list of Republican states the record Is fully as curious and perplexing. A majority of tha Mouse membership from twenty-one states which are usually accounted Republican went against reciprocity with only six showing a majority In favor of It. Tha Republican oppo nents of tha McCall bill were grouped In the most unexpected manner. Tha bitterest political foes fought' shoulder to shoulder against the Presidents measure.. Stand-patter and Insurg ent forgot their old causes of enmity and united for the ' occasion, though they did not seem to be governed by ar.y particular rule. Soma of both sorts were In favor of tha bill and soma against It. Still, speaking roughly, we may say that moat of tha Insurgent members of the House voted against the rec iprocity bill. What their motives were can only be guessed at but one may fairly suppose that soma of them believed a free exchange of products with Canada would Injure our farm ers. Others, no doubt, know very well that It could not lnjuro the farmers- but feel obliged to bow to the superstitious fiction that It must do so. For many years the first outcry against any measure of commercial freedom has been that It would ruin the farmers and working classes and tha old wall waa set up mechanically when the McCall bill was Introduced. Just as a ca" will suck whatever comes Into Its mouth. We are Inclined to think neverthe less that soma of tha Insurgent mem- 'bers have been misled by tha energy of the protest. It Is excessively loud, to be sure, but only a few men are making It. The farmers In general are not half so badly frightened over the prospect of reciprocity as some would have us think they are. It may be that a number of Representatives in Congresa have mistaken tha sten torian shouts of a few farmer politi cians for the voice of the farmers themselves. The latter understand moderately well that some slight pos sible looses on the price of their prod ucts would be amply compensated bj cheaper goods which they must buy In order to live. There is no real pro test against President Taft's measure from the people of tha agricultural states. They may not favor it en thusiastically but It does not frighten them and their Insurgent representa tives will gain no especial prestige by opposing It. We may believe that the Repre sentatives are aware of this and that they oppose reciprocity not so much In the hope of gaining popularity as because they dislike tha President. The McCall bill Is tha first Adminis tration measure which undeniably represents Mr. Tsft himself and in his best mood. He has fathered marry others but they have emanated from his advisers and have borne In nu merous instances tha stamp of unpop ular interests. In advocating reci procity Mr. Taft seams to have broken away from tutelage and taken the reins into his own hands. The peo ple like this. They admire a man who has a will of his own and while soma may not care much about reci procity tha majority do care a great deal about the new disposition of the President. Should the McCall bill fi nally carry and become law It will go far to make Mr. Tift an acceptable Presidential candidate In 111. The tcsurgenla understand this and It ac counts for a great deal of their hos tility to reciprocity. It is really hos tility to Mr. Taft as tha next nominee of the Republican party. Tba almost unanimous vote of the Democrats In favor of tha bill may be attributed to a similar motive. The Insurgents do not wish to sea Mr. Taft the next Presidential candi date of the Republican party because they believe he can not be elected Some of them would even refuse to support him. The Democrat are Just as eager to see him nominated because they believe he would be an easy man to defeat. For this reason they give him all possible help In passing the reciprocity bill which will further his prospects Immensely If it becomes law. In our opinion both the Insur gents and the Democrat are reason ing Incorrectly. Should Mr. Taft live up to the record ha Is now making he would not b an easy man to de feat. He has been unpopular be cause he has yielded his own better Judgment to Indiscreet advisers. If he goes his own way during the rest of hs term the TOters will rally round him more and more enthusiastically. In particular If he call a special ses sion to take up the reciprocity bill and other desirable measure whose fata Is now uncertain It will enhance his prestige Incalculably. No matter whether tha roter desire reciprocity at this moment or not, they do desire now and always a President who knowa how to exercise the full power of hi great office and tha nearer Mr. Taft comes to that Ideal tha better his chances for re election In 11. HO CONTROL OF TTBUC nniTIWf Tha able and Ingenious gentlemen who got up the local Rlesland-Kella-her public utilities bill produced an extraordinary document. Besides de vising an elaborate system of local control, they Instructed the Governor, the Supreme Court and the Circuit Court as to their respective duties and withdrew the city of Portland and Its public service corporations from the authority of the stale, county, and government. Oreat scheme. Indeed! Now the Legislature ho enacted tha Malarkey state-wide public utili ties control bill. The vote In both houses was overwhelming. The meas ure was sharply attacked and freely nnit In Ms final form It was satisfactory to tha Legislature and doubtless Is to the Governor. We hear now that the referendum Is to be Invoked on the Malarkey act by the disappointed partisans of the Rlealand-Kellaher bill. The plan is to hold up the state act till November. 1112. and meanwhile at tha city elec tion In June through the Initiative pass the Rlesland-Kellaher bill. What then? Will the city have effective and Judlclou control of Ita public utilities meanwhile? Hardly. We can foresee only a fla of trouble some litigation and of freedom from real discipline and regulation of the local corporations. If the local bill passes, so. we think, will the people of tha state by a Urge vote approve the state-wide act. It Is to ba as sumed that tha cltlxens of the state at large will not waive the opportunity to control their public utilities. In order that Portland may have It own supreme and exclusive way. . If then the state act passes, tha local bill be comes void. Tha trouble with the active sponsors of the Rlesland-Kellaher bill la that they prefer no control to state con trol no control except their control. But neither city nor state ought to turn over It public utilities to Dan Kellaher. rnOTETT1G Ol K PANAMA PROPERTY. Perhaps the moat noticeable feature of the sentlm.Tt against the fortifica tion of the Panama Canal Is the fact that It Is confined to tha United Statea. It is somewhat surprising that Great Britain. Germany and other foreign countries, which might rea sonably be expected to favor neutral ity at the canal, have maintained a due reel silence regarding the matter. Among our own people has arisen aU of the opposition made to the fortifi cation plan, r.lchard Olney. ex-Soc-retary of State, one of the original ob jectors to tha fortification of the canal, la out with another statement protesting against the Administration plans for properly guarding the great property. In support of his argu ment. In hla latest manifesto. Mr. Olney refers to the Clayton-Bulwer treaty of 150 In which Great Britain and the United States "agreed not to ever, erect or maintain fortifications commanding the canal." This treaty made at a time when It wa uncertain whether the canal would be completed by a single na tion or by number of powers was uperseded br number of others of mora recent date. In selecting one most favorable to hla argument. Mr. Olney mentions the draft of the nay Pauncefota treaty of 1800 which pre vented fortification but permitted tha United States to maintain such mili tary police along tha canal a may be necessary to protect It against lawless ness and disorder." Admitting that thl treaty failed to get through the Senate. Mr. Olney deems It "Important to refer to It because It clearly dis tinguishes between fortifications of the Panama Canal and military polic ing against lawlessness and disorder. The former "was prohibited and the latter allowed." It Is quite obvlou that a treaty which wa never ratified could neither "prohibit" nor "allow" any privileges or usages of the canal. This brings tha Olney argument down to the treaty of December 1. 1901. which ha says "undoubtedly was a matter of careful negotiation and In which on tha one hand, the United States made no assertion of right to fortify, and on the other hand. Great Britain gave It consent to the malntainance of such military police along the canal a may be necessary to protect it against lawlessness and disorder." It was unnecessary that the United States, as far back as 101, should make any assertions of the right to fortify the canal. Tha project was still in an embryotlc state with all of the details -to be worked out. The Panama Canal project, when It fi nally assumed definite shape and ac tive construction began, became ex clusively an American enterprise. It was built by American money through territory in which tha American Gov ernment had exclusive rlghu. There was no mora necessity for the United States to ask permission to fortify the canal than there was for It to secure permission to equip It -with a certain style of locks and gates. Great Britain, In giving treaty con sent to tha proper policing of the canal as a protection against 'lawless ness and dUordcr," undoubtedly be- Uavad that some kind of fortification was a necessary feature of tha mili tary police programme. It Is some what puzzling to understand the mo tive which prompt American citizens of the type of Mr. Olney to attempt to weaken the position of the United State at Panama and place In the hands of foreign powers facilities which they have not sufficient nerve to ask for themselves. ALT ALFA HOOTS rOB II CM AX TOOD. The cautious reader will put a grain or two of salt into the report that alfalfa roots have been found to be a delicious and sustaining article of human food, before he swallows it. There Is no accounting for tastes and the Hermlston man who Is said to have been devouring these vegetable substance for a week or more may have a palate exactly suited to such esculents. "Why should any man go hungry," cried Peter Pounce, -lth theso delicious-salads growing In every field?" Tha trouble 1 that tha human stom ach can not digest a great many' herbs which are agreeable and nutritious for cattle. Most of the foods upon which tha human race subsists are very an cient. Tha discovery of America con tributed nothing of prime importance to our diet except maize and potatoes. Tobacco also belongs to tha Western Hemisphere but wa do not class that pestiferous plant among articles of diet. A great many roots which were consumed locally by the Indians were abandoned aa soon a tha white man appeared with his European or Ori ental food plant. W 0 not hear of the camaaa lily root or tha wapato be ing prepared for use now, though a great deal has been written about their sapidity and nutritious qualities. Almost all the new foods which are occasionally . recommended by Inno vators In medlcln and diet turn out rather disappointingly. Peanuts, which havl been highly praised, con tain a substance which nauseates most people if many of them are eaten. Walnuts affect the vocal cords un favorably. Beans contains an acid which must be carefully neutralized before they become entirely whole some. In short, there are only a few varieties of food stuffs which are adapted by Nature to the needs of man In the North Temperate Zone and all of these but potatoes and maize he has been eating for many thou sands of years. When one has men tioned meat, grain, fruit and some half a dozen roots what else Is there? No doubt peas and beans must be In cluded In our list, but not many other products of the soil. Alfalfa root may be an acceptable article of hu man diet, but tha presumption Is against them. WIVES ntOM CERMA.VT. Eugene Beck, a farmer of the Big Bend wheat district, has gone to Lux emburg. Germany, his errand being to procure a colony of German las sies to become the wives of the lonely bachelor ranchers of that wheat abounding region. His mission Is not quite so big In possibilities of home sickness and unhapplness due there to, as is the schema of the woman missionary In foreign lands, but that It foreshadows more of heartache than heart's ease among the transplanted damsels of foreign birth and tongue Is a foregone conclusion to all who are familiar with the excess of wretch edness embodied In tha term: "A homesick woman." A ahlTwarrx-kfil ullor WaltlnaT for a sail," was Tennyson's embodiment of pathetlo longing and waiting, a homesick woman, waiting without hope of return to her kindred 1 an embodiment of wretchedness in real life to whom all sympathy, kindness and patience are due, "I wa so homesick for four or five years after I came out hre," said a gray-haired woman recently In speaking of hei early home In the beautiful wilder ness of the Oregon country, "that I wished John (her husband) had died before I ever saw him." Fancy, if possible, misery that will drive a gentle,, affectionate woman to a wish of this kind! There may be hard utility Justified by an end which no homesick woman can see from tha beginning In the scheme to Import wives from simple, populous German homes in "fader land" for tha sturdy matter-of-fact ranchers of the wide and lonely areas of tha Western world, but there Is nothing In It that calls for Jest or superficial thought. In the view of tho utilitarian these German girls will be "better off" a the wives of American nnchers than In their simple homes in Luxemburg, and no doubt posterity will be the gainer by the change; but sympathy Is cer tainly the due of the "homesick" col ony during the first five years resi dence on tha lonely ranches of the Great West AMr.BICA'8 GREAT WHEAT PORTS. Nearly one-half of ail the wheat shipped foreign from the United State in January was sent from Port land, and for the seven month end ing February 1, this city led all other American ports by a margin of more than 1.900.000 bushels. The nearest approach to Portland was made by the Puget Sound cities with combined shipment of J. 254.221 bushels, Balti more coming third with 2,861.160 bushel and Philadelphia fourth. For the first time New Tork has fallen Into fifth place. These figures, which are taken from the preliminary state ment of the Bureau of Statistics, and the accompanying figures on flour ex ports show that the Oregon and Washington porta combined, exported nearly one-half of the wheat that was sent foreign- from the United States In the past seven months while, for tha same period, nearly one-sixth of tha flour export cleared from Portland and Puget Sound ports. The fact that this heavy gain In percentage of business handled has been made without very much of an Increase In the volume makes a no ticeable showing of tha declining pres tige of the Eastern ports aa wheat ex porting point at a time when the West is more than holding its own. The decrease from all ports has been remarkably uniform for the past few years. For the seven months ending February 1, 1909. the total export of wheat were 67.962,610. For the same period a year later, there was a de crease to 87.S25.636 bushels. This year the total for the period Is 17, 026 167 bushels. While wheat thus decreased approximately 20.000.000 kih.i in the seven months' period ach year since 1909. flour exports fell away 1,000.000 barrels eacn year. The wheat crop of the United States last year was with two exceptions the largest on record. Tet the export for the first seven months of the cereal year war the smallest, for any simi lar period. These facts together with the msager shipments from tha At lantic and Gulf port at a time when the North Pacific port are still ship ping heavily, indicate that the East and Middle West are much nearer the point where consumption overtake production than ha been generally supposed. Summarized, all American porta have shipped in wheat and flour this season, a total of approximately 43. 000,000 bushels. Of this amount the Pacific Northwest, with a crop below the average, has contributed more than 14.000,000 bushels. Next year with our new territory and a good crop In tha old districts, thl percent age will undoubtedly show still great er Increases. ' It is Impossible for any community to measure the loss it suffers through the death of a man like the late W. H. Corbett. With an energy and abil ity that made him, while still a young man, a ieader in the Industrial and commercial life of the city, the limit of hla power was still far In the fu ture. He planned and bullded on an extensive scale. With his Ufa work hardly more than started ha bad al ready achieved wonderful success and has left hi Impress on tha city In which he wa an important factor. Aside from his business qualifications and his enterprise, Mr. Corbett was a good, clean, high-minded citizen, of a type which la all too rare. The loss of such men, while Irreparable to his family and Immediate friends, 1 also felt by the entire community. Do you remember men of Port land, grown old or growing old how as boys you thought the Washington Guard was the mainspring of the Nation's defense? Were there ever such uniforms as the soldiers of the old guard wore In those days? And their high-topped, laced boot a they valiantly marched ankle-deep through the mud of First street on Washing ton' birthday; do you remember how these excited your envy and admira tion? And have you ever heard music since that compared with the strains of "Tankee Doodle" as piped by the brass band that led this valorous pro cession ? Of course not. Hark back in memory half a century and enjoy Washington's birthday in eager, good old-fashioned style. It "will make you boys again while the review lasts. The extent of the encroachment which the farmer has made on the stockman in the neighboring State of Washington is shown In tho report of the State Board of Tax-Commlssloneri which has been sent to the Legislature at Olympla. According to the figures of the tax commissioners, there are at the present time but 805.60 S head of cattle In the state, compared with 406,669 In 1906. Sheep have decreased In number from 625.770 In 1906 to 359,407 In 1910. An encouraging feature of the report is tha statement that 69 per cent of tha cattle in tha state are milch cows. As a good milch cow will annually turn off a greater value in butter and milk than the total salable price of the ordinary stock animal, the change has been for the better. The problem of closing the Post office in citle on Sunday la easy of solution. . Keep th'em open. Let the clerks pattern after many labor iminna hv araranlzlns' and enforcing a six-day law for the members, by which a man get on day rest in tne wee. This might require mora men, but the probability la otherwise; the knowl edge that ha ha a regular day off coming Is a powerful Incentive to "pull out" to a man who hitherto ha had but a few hours of a "spoiled" day. The email office will not bo af fected, for their postmasters of neces sity have ,to be "good fellows" and open at train time. v Unless tho Governor shall use his veto power, which is unlikely, a new law will allow County Court to appro priate annually $500 for poultry shows, the money to be used for ex penses and premiums. There i merit In this measure. While tho money will for a few years go exclusively to the "cranks" who make form and feather the aim of the business. It will aid in disseminating proper knowledge and creating rivalry among people who are now far from enthusi astic. The 100-egg hen Is needed on the Oregon farm, and money prizes and blue ribbons will speed her com ing. t The common rule In politics Is that the more bills a Governor vetoes the greater his popularity. We shall soon see whether it covers Governor West' o. not There are exceptions to all rules and he may be persuaded by soma unfriendly demon to veto just the bill which everybody wants him to sign. Shut up In that philosophical seclusion iwhich he loves he is liable to make all sorts of mistakes about popular likes and dislikes. It. Is said that the head of Gulteau. the assassin of President Garfield, Is preserved in a private museum near Muncle, Indiana. A gruesome relic, truly, and one scarcely deserving a passing glance of horror. The au thorities in charge of the body of .h. ..aaaain of President McKlnley very properly took no chances with the curiosity shop and the relic hunt ers, but buried the body of Czolgoss In Quicklime. Rudyard Kipling showed young Gates the way when he lifted Harvey Cheyne out of Southern California and turned him over to the "highly paid specialist" of the Lake Shore in "Captain Courageous" with all records broken. If an acre of land net it owner $1600 a year, how much is It worth when money brings In 8 per cent in terest? It is iworth $20,000. Who'll be the first to pay that Bum for an acre of celery land at Hood River? Just a word of advice: When a noted citizen goes to Baltimore, let him be announced as Tom Richard son, of Portland. . Samson, according to a local clergy man, was "a fighter who could not come back." Tet upon his reappear ance he brought down the house. ' A net profit of $1600 on an acre of celery in the Hood River Valley shows that all it resources are not up a tree. la It not about tlrme to resurrect? the word "sllurian" to apply to tho bridge obstructionists? If the second-choice bill la vetoed everyone will surmise iwhy. HOW TO PROTECT PHEASAA'TS. Market for Plumage Asserted to Be Very Thuac Needed. PORTLAND. Feb. 20. (To the Editor.) Such nonsensical laws as that recently brought to light bearing on the wearing of and sale of the plumage of tha China pheasant account largely for the utter disregard by tho majority of our people of a large part of the laws on our statute books. Here is a law that will make criminals of a large part of any Oregon community. The animals are to be protected by the prosecution of the ultimate con sumer. Why not bring into court and cinch every one wearing an elk's tooth? A fine of about HO.OuO would be about in proportion to the value of a China pheas ant. Or to go a trifle further, judging from the price of meat, shoes, gloves, etc., cattle must be on the verge of extinction. Why not send any one to the rockplle for a reasonable period, of from nve to 15 years, according to his physical strength, who may be caught wearing shoes? This .would help both ways. The police would be able to catch one occasionally, and the county needs the rock to make automobile roads. President Finley, of the Audubon So ciety, says the market demand must be stopped. .Unhappily for the China pheasant Mr. Flnley's recommendations will not reach much beyond the con fines of ths state, while the feathers make an exceedingly pretty bat so that other ladles in other states will gain what our own wives, daughters and sweetheart lose. Moreover. It Strikes the writer, who has lived in the North west all his life and seen various kinds of game crowded out by the march of settlement, that the surest way to keep the China pheasant from extinction Is the very thing President Finley bemoans, viz.. the establishment of a market value for the plumage. As a game bird he will soon go the way of the prairie chicken, which only a few years ago could be seen by the thousand in a day's travel. Has any one seen even a few of late years? But had they had a brilliant plumage like the Chinas, one might as well have asked a farmer to be allowed to go gunning in his pasture for sheep as to have hunted chickens, provided, of course, a market had been established for the feathers. The Law referred to is only equaled for utter asslnlnlty by the zeal with which a certain element of any community seeks to enforce it. There is no ques tion but the people who are attacked by It feel hurt, humiliated and wronged, and it is about time for the normal citi zen without inclination to disobey the law of our land to rise In his might and put a good-sized wad of such plnhead legislation in the wastebasket, not for getting in the meantime to relegate the legislator to the simple life. B. C. WOOD. 10 YAiitJIXA INDIANS KNOWN. Pioneer Duobla Their Existence as a Distinct Tribe. NEWPORT. Or., Feb. 16. (To the Edi tor.) In Sunday's Issue of February 12 Dr. Frachenberg says:' "It was sup posed until now that the Lower Ump qua and Sluslaw forms of speech were mere dialects of the Yaqulna." In the investigation of a matter of this kind, it seems to roe it would be nacessary to find an Indian claiming to be a Taquina Indian (if there ever was a tribe of that name). This certainly cannot be done. I aerlously doubt If within the knowledge of the oldest pio neer any evidence can be found to es tablish the fact that there was a tribe of. Yaqulna Indiana I allude, of course, to' the Indians who many years ago lived at the mouth of the river or on Its banks and known distinctively as "Yaqulnas," and from which the bay is supposed to have derived its name. The reports made to the Indian Depart ment by Indian superintendents, such a Parrlsh, Palmer, Brooks and Harvey, are perfectly familiar with this bay and the people living on its shores, but say nothing about Yaqulnas, though they speak with positlveness about Tilla mook. Alseas and Siuslaws, snd tribes south, but not a word about Slletz or Yaqulna Indiana Why this omission? Because there was none of these In dians and their "dialect" had been burled year before the Siletz reserve was set aside. When Tag-an-e-sla lo cated at the mouth of Siletz with a few Yukas (the tribe having been brought to the Slletz from Yuka Creek), he found a few Tillamook.- Nestucca and Salmon River Indians, but no Indiana claiming to be distinctly Slletz or Yaqulna In dians. , . I visited Yaqulna in May, 1&2, and where the Ocean House now stands Ar-mas-eh waa living and had lived since a young man. He was then white-haired and at least 70 years old. He had about him probably 20 persons all told. He said he was a "Ko Keel" (Coqille). had left bis tribe, and stragglers up and down the Coast made up his "tribe" or following. He knew nothing of any other Indians ever living in the bay, es pecially the "Yu Koonas." as he pro nounced the name, though the great shell mounds everywhere to be seen in dicated, even to his mind, the day when Indians were numerous. But they had long since passed to the happy hunting round. It la very gratifying to know that the dialect of the Yaqulnas Is In no danger of being mixea up wim iu "Waw-waw" of the Lower Umpqua and Sluslaw Indians. R. A. BEN9ELL. A Han Who Remembered Waterloo. Philadelphia Ledger. ' James Grieve believed to be the old est man in Scotland, died at his dwell ing. Coran-tee Loch, Eckslde. recently. He was a native of Innernesshire. where, according to his own belief, he wa born In the year 1800. He fixed the date of hi birth by his recollec tions of Waterloo. He was then a boy working In the fields, and when the news of the victory arrived, he, with his feilow laborers, participated in the general rejoicings. At that time he was 14 or 15 years of age. He main tained the use of his faculties almost up to the last, and was able to see and speak with visitors till within a few weeks, says the Westminster Gazette. Mr Orieve bad spoken with men who had seen Prince Charlie and had heard his grandfather describe that historic personage; and his grandfather and his' uncle had taken part in a High land clan feud. For almost ninety-five years he worked as a shepherd, and even after he had retired from con tinuous labor he continued to assist In the fields. College Man's Tlew Appropriations. HOOD RIVER, Or.. Feb. 14. (To the Editor.) In your editorial of the 13th . . v.. is (1(1(1 nnn Htate." vou inex. 1 v'b"" ' . - , say that it is with some reluctance, and at the risk of being misunderstood, that you mention the appropriation for the State University. Now, do not be afraid of being misunderstood bythe men who foot the bills. We believe In people ... Hiifr wtrtt nndpr getting an cuu""u. - "- such extravagance and poor Judgment as Is shown in that bill. 11 . man m ,T..T f tlllt T I am a cuncso - worked my way through and paid my own bills. The Agricultural School is .... , , n . wl.h n n n wO ail tne scnoui additional courses. This country is ..1 j.ffw nn anhoola and is turn- lne out too many "educated fools. Snow-Burden. Edith st. Thomas. They bear the bJrdon of the snow They bear it with a patient graca, Tha drooping- trees! Tat well they know A melting hour cornea on apace. Ah, If hot Time, that crowns me white. Aa equal clemency would show, Tnen I. soma soft, mild day or nlht. Would drop tha burden of tha snow! ELLIS AND THE VERSOS SEWER. Woodlawa Association Give Statement f Its Views. PORTLAND. Feb. 17. (To the Edi tor.) On behalf of the members of the Woodlawn Improvement Association will you kindly grant space in The Oregonian to correct a wrong im pression that has been given out re garding the stand the association has taken upon the sewer question which has been agitating the residents of the Vernon sewer district. We the committee referred to in the following .resolution wish to state the following facts: At the regular meeting of Woodlawn Improvement Association held this evening the following resolution was passed; That a committee be appointed to Inform the public the action taken by the Woodlawn Improvement Asso ciation regarding the sewer question, which is as follows: "On January 6. 1911 (notice the date), at a regular meeting a resolution was passed favoring a sewer providing same did not empty .into Columbia slough. At the meeting of the association held January 20, 1911, it was stated that if the sewer was built it was to empty Into the Columbia slough. Coun cilman J. T. Ellis, for the tenth ward, was present and did not correct that statement. If it was not then con templated to empty the sewer into the Columbia slough Councilman J. T. Ellis, (we regret we cannot in Justice to our selves use the word "our" before the word "Councilman") should have then and there disputed that statement, which he did not do, but allowed it to stand. In view of that statement being undisputed and allowed to stand, the residents of Woodlawn, and of other districts as well, have objected, very strongly to any sewer being built which would empty into the Columbia slough - We believe a large majority of the residents of Woodlawn are anxious that a sewer should be constructed, providing that a proper Banltary outlet can be obtained, and that It can be built at a cost which Is not excessive. The foregoing we think uhows. the reason fqr the stand the residents of Woodlawn have taken. We would lose our dignity and self respect, if we should make any reply to the slurs and innuendoes cast upon us by Councilman J. T. Ellis, and the resi dents, of other districts, embraced in the Vernon Sewer District. CHARLES E. YORK, President. W. MANLET COOK, Secretary. J. M. KNIGHT, G. H. HAMILTON, W. L. GREENE, Committee. PLKA FOR THE) BLACK BEAR. Trapper Says Animal Is Harmless and Deserves Protection. PORTLAND. Feb. 1. (To the Edi tor.) I have noticed in the columns of The Oregonian the doings of the Legislature In regard to our game laws and would like to say a word or two on behalf of one of the nobest of ani mals on the list of big game, the black bear. Everyone knows Just what he looks like, but I think that, with the exception of a few hunters and nat uralists, I can safely say" that very lit tle of his habits and haunts is known. I have spent several years hunting and trapping in the wilds and have had tha opportunity to study all these things and have come to the conclu sion that this big good-natured fellow Is being' persecuted, for the Oregon law gives him no protection whatever. The average person seems to think that a bear is some big. vicious beast, who goes rumbling and growling through the forest, killing everything that crosses his path, but let me say right here that I have tracked and trailed bear many a time and the only times that I have ever found him kill ing anything to eat was In the Fall of the year, when he goes along the streams pulling out a salmon now and then. Of course, he wlll'eat meat but very seldom does he ever kill It him self. He is somewhat of a vegetarian, living on roots, skunk cabbages, etc. As for his actions In coming In con tact with the ' human family, several times I have met one face to face, and both of us alone, but most always he will start out of that vicinity at about the same pace his human brother does. The black bear Is becoming scarcer year by year and with all the foolish bills that have been before our law makers in regard to the protection of game, why will 'some of the sports men of our good state overlook him, as evon around sheep and cattle he is almost harmless unless starved? H. K. B. Dearth of Morriaseable Women. SOUTH BEND, Wash., Feb. 20. (To the Editor.) Mr. Keaton has a com munication In The Oregonian of Feb ruary 15 asking for the reorganization of the Women's Matrimonial Bureau to assist In aiding the development of home-bulldlng in our Coast counties. Cannot some of our progressive Port land women do that organize and help draw the eligible women of the East here. It would be a blessing for our different communities if they would do so, as we need women who will stay on the farm, stay by their hus bands and raise families. The glare and glitter of the cities are smashing our quiet, peaceful and happy country homes; the wives for. our hundreds of yoilng farmers, who have homes ready, are not here In the West we must get them from the East, er from Europe, and that's tho long and short of it. Give the Eastern women a chance here and from what I have seen of them in the East they will put an end to this chaos and confusion on our farms. The women of Montreal have aided the Dominion farmers by the Intro duction from Europe of 5000 marriage able women all settled now. The Canadian government educational de partment has brought across the ocean from Ireland 1000 female school teachers. J. B. W. A Suocessful Campaign. Chicago Record-Herald. We're married sister off at last, and pa and ma are glad: Tba troubles that we had are past; we've all quit feeltn' sad: Now mebby I'll have things to wear that wasn't pa's tefore. And none of us will hava to car about expense no mora. They ay his father's got a pile; ha gave a house to als. Where him and her will live la style, with servants, after this; Pa used to fret a lot about the price of meat and coal. ' But now hla Heart Is free from doubt and Joy Is In his soul. Wa put on all tha airs wa oould whan ha began to come; I acted as they said I should and sa quit bein' glum; Ma, every chance she got. would toll about our pedigree. And made him think wa had a swell and old. old fambly tree. Wo all pretended to believe that sis was somethin' great. And that we'd set around and grieve if she would meet her fate; Ma af ten cot him coaxed aside and in a tremblln' tone Would tell about the bors who'd tried to win her for their own. We went in debt to dress her well of -course he never knew; Gas, but we kept her lookin' swell; she was outclassed by few; Fa cut my hair to save expense; we kept things clean and neat. And everything waa cooked Immense whan he stayed here to eat. We've got her married oft at last, and pa and ma are glad; Ths troubles that wa had axe past; we'll all quit bein' sad; It took all we could raise to dress her so he'd catch a prize; The way the plan worked out I guess it pays to advertise. Timely Tales of the Day Hon. G. O. West. Mayor emeritus of Chehalis. at a banquet given bv the Portland Commercial Club in honor of the delegates of the Houthwestern Washington Development Association, which held a convention in Vancouve-. Wash., this week, told of how be came tc the United States from England in 1856, in an old "windjammer," whicn took two months to cross. The weather was rough, so to be sure they were holding their course, the mate and captain compared their notes in the logbook. One day the mate waa humiliated to read, after the other ob servations, "The mate Is very drunk today." He remonstrated with the captain, saying that he might lose his position with the company when he returned. "Well, you are drunk, ain't you?" asked the captain. "Yes, I am drunk, but I .don't want to have it recorded in .the logbook." "Well, it will have to stand." The next day, when the captain read the logbook he was shocked to see, after the nautical observations, "The captain is sober today." He remonstrated with the mate and said he did not want 4t recorded that he was sober, because the company might get the Impression that he was an old soak. "Well, you are sober, ain't you?" "Yes." meekly answered the captain. . "Then It will have to stand," glee fully rejoined the mate. a a a H. W. Stone, general secretary of tha Portland Young Men's Christian Asso ciation, was recently the chief speaker at the State Boys' Convention at HiUs boro. Several hours before tha meet ing at which the address was to be de livered. Mr. Stone went to E. E. Per kins, religious work director of the Portland Y. M. C. A., for advice. "My address Is pretty heavy for a talk to boys," he said. "As I have It outlined now, It's too sober. 60 I guess tell a story. What do you think of this one? "A man was just about to be re leased from the Insane Asylum at 3a lem. "You will be cured in two months,' the physician told him. So the man wrote a letter to his family breaking the good news. As he was preparing to mail it he dropped a stamp that lit sticky side down on a cockroach. As the man watched the stamp scoot along the floor, then up the wall and across the ceiling, he was seized with despair. " 'Two months be hanged- 1 won't be cured for two years!" he exclaimed." "Fine," was Mr. Perkins' assurance. It is generally admitted that Mr. Stone Is one of the best story-tellers In Oregon. But the lunatic story didn't go. When he finished the anecdote there was a dismal silence not a laugn not a smile. It is said Mr. Stone came nearer losing his self -possession than ever before, and that his address that night was the poorest he ever deliv ered. Mr. Perkins had coached the boys not to laugh. a a a Another story told around the Y. M. C. A. is on A. M. Grilley, the physical direct6r. Mr. Grilley also sought to "put one pver" on Mr. Stone, but It re sulted quite differently. All of the Y. M. C. A. secretaries had been invited to spend an evening at Mr. Stone's home. It was known to them that the occasion was to be abso lutely Informal, and also that the gen eral secretary has a personal aversion to appearing In a dress suit. So Mr. Grilley conceived the idea of getting all the guests to go In evening dress. Some of the others thought they coul.i play an even better joke and direct it at Mr. Grilley. As a result, when Mr. Grilley entered the Stone residence that night, clad in the most formal evening wear and car rying a silk hat. he found that all of his fellow-secretaries had arrived be fore hirn. but there wasn't another evening suit to be seen. Mr. Grilley was the hero of the evening and he re ceived all of the deferenoe and atten tion that his attire warranted. a a Gabriel Win gate, late candidate for Secretary of State, whom every one in Astoria calls Just "G," is an ardent Scot. When Harry Lauder appeared In Portland last year, Wlngate and hi trusty crony, Flnlayson, Journeyed to the metropolis to make part of the great comedian's audience. While they were gone, it rained In Astoria, and a great slice ft the hill directly under Wlngate's mansion slid away Into the tide flats below. Re turning home late at night, singing "I Love a Lassie," the two Scots were mystified when they reached what should have been the neighborhood of home and found the landscape changed beyond recognition. Wlngate surveyed the surrounding blocks and found them bearing their usual aspect. At length he espied his house, towering apparent ly in thin air. "Whist, man." he said. "There's the house, all right, but whaur's the hill It used to stand on?" Half a Century Ago From The Oregonian. Feb. 21. 1861. The officers of the Multnomah Coun ty Agricultural Society for the present year are as follows: President, Thomas Frazer; first vice-president, John Powell; second. P. A. Marquam; treas urer, J. D. Holman; secretary, M. S. Burrell; executive committee, A. J. Dufur, Jas. F. Bybee, H. Falling. Colonel M. T. Simmons is announced In Washington Territory as a candi date for Delegate to Congess. President Marsh, of the Pacific Uni versity, Oregon, has obtained the requisite funds in aid of that. institu tion during his present visit to North ern cities. In Mesllla and Arizona meetings have been held at which Southern rights were fully indorsed. These are the people who expect the National Government to build a Pacific railroad to suit their convenience. The Oregon carried a pretty large lot of Oregon produce to Victoria. Passenger fare .was fixed at $10 for steerage and $20 for cabin. Freight $8 for all but flour, which was $8. Woman. Detroit Free Press. She's on the Job from morning till sight, she Is a source of rare delight. She has her fads and follies, but her Sho stands for all that's good and true, and ana IB num. imuugu uu . . O, woman, lovely woman, she would make a fog horn sing. She rises at the break of day and dishes up our breakfast hay. She scrubs and dresses alt the kida and packs them OS to school; She Irons out their Sunday clothes, she bakas a pie and mends our hose. Then makes a tempting dish of Jell snd puts it out to cooL Sho keeps on toiling all day long, but hums a lilting bit of song, ghe sweeps and dusts and mops the floor and plans the evening meal, She shakes the furnace now and then, and makes the bed and cleans the den. If a man had half as much to do he'd make an awful squeal. In times of trouble she is great, sho takes the knocks and bumps of fate. Without a word of bitterness or whining or regret: Her stock of patience Is Immense, she makes man look ilka thirty cents; In Joy or sorrow woman la the country' one best bat.