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16 CTTfie (Dmrimintt rOKTLAXD. OREGON. Catered at Portland. Onioi. Fostorflce Vronl-l'Itu Matter. . tiu-iption Katae Invariably la Adva BT MAIL) &!. fgntu lnrtnel. on Tear laUd Suaday Included. s!x moothe.... J jJ t-i.r. Xun Included, threw month.. J.- Sunday ircliiaa4. aaa month.... -' I - i . . . v r . K.O I t 1 wirhA... K..n.4a flnOIlth..... S-2i la-ly.' w':houl stsit.lay! Hire month.. I-nr. without Sunday, ona monttt J? W...!,. . yr ? S-iaday. one year fj" Cu.lar ana weekly, on rear " (BT CARRIER) r!lT. fmeii InrTucWd. one year...... Xt'r. ftuB4af lo!uol. oa month..... Hw KraaU eaad pnatortlce money rtfjr. aaarna uUr oc personal check o your local baas- Stampe. coin or currency r at in wntT-m risk. Oive poelofftce acreaa Id fall laeludlac county and state. rKa lO to II paga. 1 cant: IS to r -. t rant; i to eO iaca. cents: 40 to pacaa. a cant. Forln poatage aorchia rata. EaMara fti-lnr i OfftWa Varro at Confc Iln New lork. Urunsalca. building- thl raaa. 3tr oilalog. i-ortuaxd. nuo.tT. mi, it. mil TKE STBXGC.LK IX pcouva . The bill to limit the power of the Lords which hu Just passed the Brit ish House of Commons contains three provisions. The first deprives the Lords of the right to reject or amend bill which pertsJa to the raisins; of revenue. The second provides that a bill which shall pass the Commons three times within two years shall be come law without the consent of the Lords. The third makes five rears Instead of seven the legal duration of a Parliament. Of course It may be dissolved within that period, but If not . dissolved, then at the end of five years It la to expire by limitation. This measure has passed the Com mons by a targe majority. The coali tion of Liberals. Laborites and Home rulers held together Inflexibly and rave Mr. Asqulth a majority of 124 en the final vote. This Is much better than anybody expected Just after the last election. The Liberals barely held their own at the polls and it was free ly prophesied that the Laborites and Irishmen would drop away; leaving the Ministry In the cold, but nothing of the kind has happened. The oppo sition to the power of the Lords has lost none of Its determined vigor, and Mr. Asquith's promise to introduce a home-rule bill almost Immediately In sures harmonious action for the future. The Lords are compelled to face the question whether to give op their ancient power In the government of the empire or fight for it. The bill as it has passed the Commons leaves them nothing" but a phantom Influ ence, since It wholly deprives them of authority over finance and allows them no more than a suspensory veto for two years on other legislation. Should they resolve to fight for their privileges. It is difficult to perceive any chance for them to win. To be sure, the opponents of the Ministry now have a majority of about 430 In the upper chamber, but that can be reduced to a cipher by a stroke of the King's pen. King George Is bound by the British constitution to create enough new peers to pass the measure as It comes from the Commons, should Mr. Asqulth request 1C He may. of course, refuse to do so. but In that case he assumes personal re sponsibility and must abide by the consequences. A new election would certainly ensue, and among the ques tions Involved would be the constitu tional authority of the King to thwart the will of the people's representa tives. The throne would be shaken and far-reaching consequences might ensue. It is not In accord with the disposition of Englishmen to trust really fundamental questions to the decision of a popular election. They usually prefer to compromise, and we may feel pretty certain that before matters come to an actual crisis the Lords will have some plan cf adjust ing differences ready to submit to the Commons. At present it would be haxardous to guess exactly what form this pro posal may take, but there Is more talk of adopting the referendum than of anything else. It has been suggested that when an Irreconcilable difference arises between the Lords and Com mons the proper way to decide It Is by submitting to the people the point at Issue. Some go farther and pro pose to submit to a referendum any bill which Is unsatisfactory to a re spectable minority of the lower house. It Is notable that In Kr.glund the ref erendum Is distinctly a conservative recourse. The Lords scril to believe that It offers almost the only prac ticable method of emerging from their dilemma with even the shadow of their power remaining to them. In this country those who advocate the referendum are looked upon as verging toward extreme radicalism. Thin contrast measures the difference between British politics and ours. Here radicalism often means political effort to make government honestly nervir-eable to the people. In Kng l.nd It means fundamental alteration In the constitution. Those legislative changes which are thought to advance the public welfare are obtained with much Iras ceremony la Great Britain than they are here. In fact, most European countries have devised gov ernmental machines which work more easily tbvn ours. It la salt? by some students that our sratem of checks and balances, which has been carried to an extreme, de prives public servants of the power to serve the people efficiently while It leaves them sufficient leeway to scheme and plot against the public welfare. It follows that most of our political effort Is expended In trying to prevent our officials from stealing our property or punishing them for what they have already stolen. These critics go on to say that the rational consideration of public questions on their merits Is almost Impossible In the United States, because with us the prim Inquiry always must be. "Does the proposed measure Jibe with the sacred constitution? Just as former ly theologians used to ask of a new scientific discovery. "Does it agree with Genesis T The question of Its truth and Intrinsic merit was lost sight of. It Is noticeable that in the United States Senate speeches, on Issues of constitutionality are much more 'fre quent than discussions of the real value of any proposed measures. Those who account for the prevalent corruption In our politics by saying that our governmental machine has become unworkable need not despair. Politics In England Is now compara tively free from corruption and all questions are discussed on their mer its, but It was not so a century and a half ago. Then bribery was far more rife In England than It Is here, and the Influence of mercenary rings con trolled Parliament almost without a check. The British governmental ma chine had become unworkable, but means were found to cure its defects, and now when new difficulties show themselves new remedies seem to be available promptly. There la no reason why Americans should not develop the same political capacity In course of time, though It seems to necessitate rather less rell ance upon Infallible documents and more upon current knowledge and In telligence than we see now. GOVERNOR. OR KIOH FRIEST OF APIS It is related that the ancient Egyp tian! worshiDed a bull called Apis Apia was selected wherever he might be found, but the sacred books re quired that he "be black, with a white triangle on his forehead, a white cres cent on his right side and a bunch like a beetle under his tongue." A bull mirhi Him th u.hlte trlane-le on the forehead and the bunch like a beetle under the tongue, but ir tno wmte crescent was on the 'left side Instead Ik. rlirhf Vis flA f V. The SA- cred bull waa kept In a magnificent edtrice, ir ne cnose to gore ino kuiip in,tn, nn thj wall ne tear down and trample the gorgeous tapestries. It was his divine pleasure, ana no one snouiu -aw hin nnv nr ronalr the damajre. The bull was also an oracle. He who desired guidance deposited a goia goln, went through certain ceremonies and the next exclamation he heard was supposed to be of heavenly Inspiration. In nrrnn Ihera la a faction self-called high priest of the Oregon system not rar aurereni irom in anrlent EcYDtlans. The Oregon plai must always retain Its triangle. Its crescent and Its beetle-like bunch un- Aw . fnnru. Ma WhO deDOSiLS hlS coin obtains an oracle through the direct primary or tne initiative id Is a voice from neaven. umr mnai blind obedience Is heresy. To the horror of this faction, the Legislature attempted to repair prop erty damage and. put a knob on the direct primary horn of the sacred bull. Tha rirl la ail but done, but there is a way to prevent the desecration. The Governor's veto is oemannea. definite word has yet come out of Salem as to what the Governor In tends to do. but when It does come the people and the lookers-on In other states will better understand what chance there U for representative government In Oregon. And inciden tal! thla decision will Indicate whether Oregon has In its executive a Governor of the wnoie people or m. high priest of Apia. HKIXl Portland a-alns 12 per cent In pop ulation In ten years. But In one year taxea Increase 45 per cent. ny ; There is one tax-producing resource the public. But there are a dozen spenders and dlsbursers of taxes. State, county, city, school district. Port of Portland all have the tax-levying power. All reach Into the taxpayers pocket and take out what they want. The taxpayer has no recourse but to pay. There is too much division of au thority In the tax-levying power. There ought to be a central body for review and limitation. There ought to be check, restraint, steadiness, consideration, economy. There Is dis persion, haste, waste, prodigality, in- llrrriltr Everybody's hands but his own are in the taxpayers pocket. mere a loud call for help. Is he ever to be heard T NAVY FOB SOCIAL, riRPOSfcST Representative Humphrey, in dis cussing the Navy Department's reason for keeping the American Navy on the Atlantic Coast instead of the Pacific, advanced some new reasons which seem quite logical. Mr. Humphrey ex pressed the opinion that the people of the Atlantic Coast had no fur of war coming down on them on that side of the country, and he also asserted that It was not because of lack of facilities on the Pacific that the vessels were held on the Atlantic station. "The reasons are financial and so cial." said Mr. Humphrey. "The Navy is kept on the Atlantic in order that the money spent In Its maintenance may be spent upon that coast" and in order that "brass buttons may glitter." In a way this may be regarded as a serious charge, but as t litre is abso lutely no other logical reason that can be advanced for keeping the Navy where It will never be needed and leaving exposed a coast where It Is certain to be needed If It is needed anywhere, the statement will be ac cepted as having points that entttle It to credence. It has been bo long since the Navy engaged In any serious warfare that some of Its officers have the idea that It la a social affair, and as society on the Pacific Coast Is still In a crude state as compared with the monkey dinner and champagne bath stage reached on the Atlantic, the latter Is. of course, preferred. The Atlantic has ample land de fenses, even If It should ever be at tacked. The Pacific, with Its enor mous coast line, la practically without land defenses. It Is admitted by dip lomats and statesmen throughout the world that the Pacific will be the scene of the world's next great battle. This country mT no be an active partici pant in that coming conflict, but It should keep Its expensive Navy where It can be used for something better than social purposes. WHAT GERMAN CKNSF9 SHOWS. The official census of Germany was concluded last December, and the totals. Just compiled, show a popula tion of of 4.69:SS1. This is a gain of more than 4.440,000 since 1905, when the last previous census was taken. Germany Is a wealthy coun try where the thrift of the people Is proverbial. Were It otherwise. It would be impossible for such a com paratively small area of land to sup port such a vast population, and espe cially to support such a prodigally wasteful and enormously expensive royal family as now burdens the Fatherland. The German figures on population and area are of exceptional Interest for purposes of comparison with thost of the Pacific Northwest. The 64.-, g94. ill population of the empire was living on 208.S30 square miles of land. In Oregon. Washington and Idaho there are 250.010 square miles of land, and the 1110 census showed a popu lation In the three states of 2.130.150. The soil, climate and natural re sources of the North Pacific States will average up well with those of Ger many. By eliminating a sufficient THE MORNING OREGONIANV FRIDAY, number of square miles to make the area the same as that of Germany, we would have In the three states an area which, acre for acre, would be fully as valuable as that of Germany. These figures show In a striking manner the possibilities of the future In this coun try. In an area more than 4U.uuu square miles smaller than that of Ore gon, Washington and Idaho there was an increase In the German population In Ave years of more than twice as many people as now dwell In the en ti nin amiArn miles of the three states. For obvious reasons none of the oeoDla of the Pacific Northwest would care to exihange all conditions which prevail here for those which prevail in Germany. It is a certainty, however, that we would reap great benefits by the addition of a few mil lion hard-working, energetic people who would clear our waste lands and get them Into a productive state. With the opening of the Panama Canal, which will bring Germany and other Old World countries much closer to the Pacific Coast, the ef forts of our development leagues and Immigration agencies might with ad vantage be extended across the At lantic. If a country of 208.830 square miles can stand the strain of an ad dition of 800,000 per year to its pop ulation, already well past 60,000,000 there ought to be something especially attractive in a land greater in extent and equally rich in resources which now has little more than 2,000.000 people scattered over its 250,000 miles of territory. Just at present we can easily stand the admission of a good many thou sand Germans and other foreigners of the type that has made Germany famous for its thrift and productive power. MOVFKT PENSIONS. The Oregonlan has recently re-' celved several letters from old soldiers who fancy, because it has severely criticised abuses, extravagances and iirninrlrkm of the Denslon system. that It has attacked the veterans of the Civil War who "served the repun ii,." ami "marl It nosslble for all to live In peace, contentment and pros perity. . Of course these wormy sur vivors of the mont terrible war of modern times have not read The Ore gonlan carefully, for It has repeatedly sought to make clear the fact that It favors generous pensions to all veter ans In any way disabled or in want, if they had a record of meritorious service In the Union Army. We are at a loss to understand what else could be demanded or expected. Will anyone say? It would appear to The Oregonlan that If the lt,ara are to be let down and pensions are to be granted freely and indiscriminately for any and every cause, or for no cause, to all sorts and conditions of people who may have en listed In the war the professional old soldiers the real veterans who de serve and have the unbounded respect and gratitude of the country will suf fer. Why should they be required to divide the Nation's bounty with men. or the relatives of men, who have no claim, or only the slightest shadow of claim, for pensions? In the last decade 25,000 private pension claims have been ahoved through Congress for so-called veterans or their depend ants4 or survivors or relatives, who could not comply with the very liberal and elastic rules of the pension de partment. One who will glance through the pages of the Congression al Record will be astounded at the dimensions of the invalid pensions granted directly by Congress. The private pension calendar In the Con gressional Record for February 10, 111, fills eleven pages, in small type. Where Is to be the end? Do the veterans who disagree with The Oregonlan desire to condone fraud and perpetuate graft? Do they think the bounty-Jumper, the deserter and the camp-follower entitled to the same consideration as the loyal youth who shouldered his gun and fought, bled, and. If need be, died for his flag? We think not. Or -would they purge .v. mil of its taint of dishon esty and Its Incubus of the ondeserv- Ing and unpatnoucr is incir pa triotic duty to protect the Nation from the enemy In the rear or In their midst. In time of peace, as It was to defend it in time of rebellion. When tv, understand that all any honest man or honest newspaper wants Is honest pensions to honest pensioners, there can' be no disagreement with them. THE COST OF rnJBCSTrBTN'G. Th. MtTinn s-overnment. appar ently for the purpose of allaying any fears that might arise ir an oi ma ..Miiir nor known, has from the beginning of the present Insurrection displayed a tendency to reg.iru n ii.. v.. ir riaa even objected to dig nifying the revolution by terming it a war. If. as now reported. Ameri can cltlxens are to be shot after drum head courts-martial the situation must be much more serious man m.i. admitted. Mexican revo lutions, like those of Central Armerlca ntv.e amall nations, have always been attended by so many comic opera features and by so mtie Diooasnea that they have always appealed to ad- American voungsters in search of excitement which might be followed by substantial rewaras. jusi at present there seems to be an un usually large number of these Ameri can soldiers of fortune who have wandered across the line for tne pur- ose of aiding those who are seeKing a overthrow the Dlax dynasty. t. t. nnfnrinnnta that an unkind fata should have permitted these exclte- icnt-lovlng adventurers to tan into h.n.ia nf the Mexican government troops, for without doubt the sym pathy of the American people is with he revolutionists wno nave iounu um Ueged republican form of government s It is carried out In Mexico a hollow mockery. For all that. It Is not clear that thla Government can ao any more ... ik. uvea nf its daring young citizens than It could If they were en gaged In' warfare against more Import, notion. There are certain pro visions In our treaty with Mexico which compel us to guarantee the good be havior of our cltlxens wnen mey visit i .ViVin. nn tra Muth. When our uur 1 1 -, f ' " citizens, with a full knowledge of the fact that they are violating the treaty d Imperiling their own saieiy. lane . arms arainst a friendly nation, they must suffef the consequences. A few months ago a great outcry was made over the execution In Ni-..rao-iia of two Americans who had been fighting with the revolutionists., but before the Indignation had spread very far the Nlcaraguan government made public letters irom tne two vic tims In which they admitted that they had entered the game with a full knowledge of what the penalty would be In case of failure. It Is probable that the Americans now held in cap tivity were equally well Informed as to the risk they were running and, dis tressing as their fate may be, it is not one that can be prevented by the American Government without estab lishing a precedent which some time might rise to plague us. A paper down at Klamath is making something of a fuss because a memor ial to the Legislature for the estab lishment of a fish hatchery on Klam ath waters had received no attention from any Portland newspaper or com mercial body or any other institution or person in this part of Oregon. A correspondent accounts for this lam entable oversight by suggesting that Inasmuch as "the chief industry of Portland always has been and still is salmon fishing," Portland people "may be a little envious toward another sec tion of Uie state that might secure a small portion of the state's money for fish propagation." The correspondent adds that "we are large patrons of the Portland papers." It would appear that, the Portland papers had sadly failed In their mission of spreading the light through at least one benighted Klamath mind. An explanation of the failure of any Portland paper to notice this important legislative memorial might possibly be that they have never seen it. "Si:pio." excitedly cry the stand pat foes of the second-choice, "suppose we should have the second-choice pro vision in the primary law. Some day It might aid in the nomination of an assembly Republican." Dreadful, in deed. But under the primary law as it stands about one-half the members of the present Legislature were "assem bly" Republicans, and a .very large proportion probably one-half the county officers elected throughout the state. There really appears to be no way to keep them down and out ex cept by sheer and outright exclusion from any Republican primary. Where at the Bourne-Chamberlain-West ring would rejoice greatly. But are Bourne, Chamberlain and West to run and ruin the Republican party? Or are Repub licans to devise some platform or basis without regard to past affiliations or alliances on which they may reason ably try to get together? Who would keep them apart? And why? Washington dispatches commenting on the Humphrey amendment to the naval bill, which provides that no coal shall be shipped from the Atlantic Coast to the Pacific Coast for the use of the Navy, state that "California members who helped Humphrey get his amendment through the House are certain that the Senate will strike it out." Action of, this kind would con firm the very ugly rumors that have been spread as to the reason for the enormous waste or money invoivea in carrying coal 14,000 miles around the Horn to ports already abundantly sup plied with cheap fuel. If the Senate does not desire to have the battleships use the same coal that proves satis factory to the ships of other nations, it might provide for the opening up of the Alaska coal mines, which will turn out a product equal to any that is found on the properties of the Eastern coal trust, which seems to be well In trenched In the Senate. The American battleship Delaware made the trip from Hampton Roads to Rio de Janeiro without a stop at an average speed of Utt knots an hour. While there are a number of tramp steamers churning around the world that could make an equally good run, the Brazilians hail the performance as a world's record and are very enthusi astic over the superior design of the vessel. The cordial reception given the vessel suggests that we might use more of our battleships aa publicity agents. The visit of the Delaware caused the leading paper of the city to suggest that the government should study the United States as an aid to Its future financing. It also quoted statistics to prove that the country is the richest and most powerful Na tion on earth. The Delaware is not old enough to have had much of a chance, but she seems to have accom pllshed something on her first trip. "The second-choice," say the reac tionary Bourne-Chamberlaln-West out fit, "the dreadful second-choice elected a Democratic Governor in Idaho last November." Falsehood or Ignorance, or both, this Is. Governor Hawley, nmnirat defeated Brady. Republi can by a few hundred votes. It is false to say that second-choice beat Jiraay, who. by the way, was the first choice nnminea bnvlnir more votes than his two opponents. Prohibition did it, and a few other things foreign to the pri mary, of which Brady waa a leading promoter and sponsor. Roator DeDew's memory is almost aa well trained as his conscience. "He could not remember" whether the re- nnrt at the Lorlmer committee naa been doctored between the time when It was signed and the time when it aa rojtd to the Senate. The mere suspicion of such a trick would make n honorable Senator writne wiia shame, but Mr. Depew "cannot re member. Tha, lawvera have made a fetish of procedure and obstruct Justice with -.iriolol rnlea " So MVS AttOrneV- General Wickersham. If you please. The Oregonlan has beenseaylng the same thing for lo these many months. Will the lawyers pay any more atten tion to Mr. Wlckersham's strictures thon to onra? We hone they will, out it Is hard for the leopard to change his. spots. Why should the city not obtain damages from the little clique who are obstructing its development by tricky opposition to the Broadway bridge? Their Indefensible operations have already cost the city a large sum of money. If It is possible to compel them to pay for' their amusement, certainly nothing could be more Just. Th Rrhoof Board has caught the Infection prevailing in official circles. An "assistant to tne assistant, noa been installed In the City .Superin tendent's office. vtolna- bills to create offices which the Governor could fill by appointment Is administering drastic medicine from the family chest. Five thousand Japanese In parade at Honolulu means more ureaanougnia for the war scare. . The sundry civil bill Is civility Itself Portland. Half a million for a site a look-in. FEBRUARY 2i. 1011. RECIPROCITY SATlR.iL POLICY. Hlatory and Sentiment Sustain the Preaent Movement.' WOODSTOCK. Or., Feb. 23, (To the Editor.) Permit me, a native of East Anglla, to remind your readers of the ethnic affinities of the Anglo-American people now occupying the conti nent of North America. This blended blood race is mainly descended from the Angles and Saxon Teutonic race, which colonized Britain in the fifth century. Their mother-country was Sehleswlg-Holstein. Hence came the name England from Engle-Land. In the Summer of 1579 Sir Francis Drake sailed along the coasts of Ore gon and California and gave to that portion of the continent the name of New Albion. History reminds us that Albion was the ancient Celtic name for Britain. Alban or Albl was the ancient name for the Highlands of Scotland. Thus. In name, Drake linked our portion of Pacific North America with ancient Albion. He did more than this. He gave the American Indian of this coast an English dog. English pigs, and seeds of English grain to sow. This was the first seed that was ever sown In the soil of America. In the Summer of 1614 Prince Charles, afterwards King Charles I of England, gave the name of New Eng land to the Atlantic portion of Ameri ca, which had been explored and mapped by Captain John Smith. This was 35 years after Drake had named the Pacific Coast portion New Albion. In the Summer of 1602 the Massa chusetts coast of New England was explored by Captain Bartholomew Gos nold. He and his companions were the first to sow English grain seeds in Atlantic North America. The full history of this expedition was written by my kinsman. John Brereton, in 1602. An exact facsimile thereof is to be seen in the public library of Portland. The first English discovery of North America and thereby of the entire continent of America was made by John and Sebastian Cabot in the Sum mer of 1487. In the following Sum mer Sebastian Cabot In a second voy age explored the coast of New Eng land and took some of the aborigines and their products for exhibition in London. At a later date. August 1, 1488, Co lumbus first saw the continent of South America. Hence, how incon gruous it seems in the present-day for Anglo-Americans to think about establishing a Columbus holiday an nual celebration. Drake was the first to record the existence of wild native horses which he saw In numbers on the coast of California, At that period the Span lards had found no native horses ex isting in the southern portions of America. The late Professor Thomas Condon of Eugene was the first dis coverer of the remains of the ancient progenitors of the Indians' "cayuse." This serves to prove the rational cor rectness of brake's record in 1579. Thus briefly do I show the ancient and Interesting connection that exists in Uncle Sam's dominions in North America with the Angles of Britain and their animals and food. With this ancient affinity of race and interna tional intercourse, why should not re ciprocity in business, trade and socl ableness exist, expand and flourish more and more between Canada, Great Britain and the United States? Uncle Sam's Pacific Coast States surely offer today far better induce ments for settlement and Intercourse to the present descendants of the An gles, Saxon and Celtic races than they did in Drake's time. R. M. BRERETON. BLACK SNOW FALLS IN THB ALPS, Hamt Etna Thought Reaponalble for Strange Covering;. Pall Mall Gazette. A curious natural phenomenon has been observed during the last few days in the lower Emmen Valley above the Lake of Brlenz. Last week the inhabitants woke up to find that It had been snowing both In the valley and on the slopes of the surrounding hills. About six Inches of new snow was lying, and as far as' the eye could see it was not white, but of a grayish black color, as If a thick coating of dust and soot had accumu lated upon it. It was much blacker than snow which has been lying a week In a city exposed to all the smuts of the sur rounding chimneys, whereas, of course. In the Emmen Valley there was noth ing to soil It. The only explanation which any one can offer of the phenomenon of black snow is that It may be due to volcanlo ash brought by winds across the sea and the mountains from Etna, which has lately been in eruption. Red snow, of course, is a fairly com mon phenomenon In the Andes, and was remarked by Darwin. So far no other part of the Alps except the Em men Valley seems to have had the unpleasant experience of a fall of black snow. The snow, moreover, is getting darker and thicker here. The inhabitants of the valley are herdsmen, who in their chalets make the famous Emmenthal cheese, while those who live on the shores of the Lake of Brlenz are chiefly engaged in wood carving. a India and Feudatory States. DAYTON. Wash., Feb. 20. (To the Editor.) Would you please name the eight large provinces Into which Brit ish India la divided and also explain what is meant by the "feudatory States"? There are nine Indian provinces, as follows: Madras, Bombay, Bengal, Eastern Bengal and Assam. The Pun Jab, United Provinces of Agva and Ondh, Burma. Central Provinces, Northwest Frontier Provinces. Bengal has recently been divided. Native or feudatory states are con trolled by the British government, but not so directly as the wholly British territory. Some, but not all, pay tribute to the supreme government. The nature of British control over these states varies and is exercised chiefly through a political resident, who assists the native Prince. These Princes can manage their internal af fairs, but have no power to make war or peace. Their external relations are In the bands of the supreme govern ment and they can maintain only a limited military force. Hazell's An nual, 1910. A list of feudatory states follows: Hyderabad, Baroda, Mysove, Jammu and Kashmir, Rajputana, Cen tral India, Bombay States, Madras, Central Provinces, Bengal States, East ern Bengal and Assam States, United Provinces, Punjab, Baluchistan Agency. Baritone's Songa, In Eight Years. New York Herald. Proprietors of the Cafe des Beaux Arts were surprised when their bari tone, Vincent Serra, proved to them that during the eight years in their employ he had sung 29,200 songs. You see, It is this way," he ex plained. "I sing ten songs a day. five at dinner and five at supper. I give an average of five minutes to each. I have really sung more than 30.000 times, as I have taken no account of encores. To sing so many songs with out stopping for intermission would take twelve hours a day for a period of eight months." He is proud of the feat, and said that he felt equal to sing 100.000 more songs. He came from Turin. Italy. CONSOLIDATING THE COLLEGES ) Correspondent Declares In Favor of One Great Institution. PORTLAND, Or., Feb. 23. (To the Editor.) The editorial under the head ing, "Unite the Schools," In Wednes day's issue of The Oregonlan is most timely and the paper is to be congrat ulated on the stand it takes. The prop osition to unite the university and Agricultural College will, or ought, to strike a responsive chord in the mind of every reasonable man. The normal school quarrels were a blot on the fair name of the state. When the subject was passed to the voters they quickly did something the Legislature always failed to do they settled it in favor of one school. The Oregonlan might well have gone fur ther and combined the normals with the others In one great institution. There has been a vast deal of politics worked In these educational institu tions, also a lot of so-called sentiment. Sentiment is an insidious disease. A poor quality kills off common sense, whilst It Is made the subject of spurts i of poetry and eulogistic oratory to the detriment of the taxpayer, it aoes not regard the greatest good of the great est number. The government of Germany main tains Innumerable castles and palaces because of this sentiment. Some the Emperor has never seen and never visits, but the people pay just the same for them. Up goes a cry from a Eugene graduate, "Hooray for Old Oregon!" "Not on your life," says the O. A. C. man, "you are not the whole thing, go way back and sit down, we are the people!" "Tut, tut." comes from the normals, "we are the bone and sinew of Old Oregon." The outsider asks who in blazes Is Old Oregon, anyway, and where Is it? Whenever those managing these in stitutions discover that politics and di vided sentiment must be eliminated from them, we shall make progress and we will have a real Old Oregon which every graduate can be proud of. With one great Institution supported by the state at reasonable cost, politics will disappear, and it will get all it needs to make it a magnificent success. A healthy- sentiment will grow around it worth 10 times the diluted article which now has to. bellow so loud to down the voice of "competing sentiment" of some other Btate Institution. It is the old problem of "United we .stand. divided we fall!" Oh, for the time when political trips and logrolling by our educational institutions are done away with! SlmDly stated and reasonably spoken, let us get together and have one grand Old Oregon I ROBERT C. WRIGHT. OPENING FOR CONSERVATIVES. Why Do They Not Invoke Initiative? Aska Looker-on. MOUNT VERNON, Wash, Va. (To the Editor.) Though a non resi dent of your state, I read with much Interest your troubles with the "re formers" in the matter of their untir ing Industry In the use of the initia tive and referendum, as set fortn in The Oregonlan, of which I am a con stant reader. I often wonder why the "conserva tivee" do not make more use of these Instruments (initiative and referendum) to counteract or set aside some of the measures already adopted, for It strikes me that the affirmative side of any such measure submitted to popular vote usually has the best of It. The proponents are always active In its support, while the opponents lack or ganization. Those indifferent or thoughtless usually vote In the af firmative under the impression that "there must be a reason" for the sub mission, while those not voting on the proposition either way practically count for It. for, if the affirmative vote Is greater than the negative, though it be only a email minority of the aggre gate, the measure is adopted. You appear to have had a conserva tive Legislature, and it has taken the "initiative" in setting aside the "Blngle tax" recently carried by the reform faddists, and indeed it might have gone further down the line in the endeavor to reform backward. The legislative prerogative of submitting laws to the people is much preferable to the cum bersome initiative by petition, though the conservatives may resort to the tnlt'atlve expedient hereafter as well as the reformers and faddists. JAS. POWER. Rlarhts of Married Women. PORTLAND, Or., Feb. 23. (To the Editor.) Will you kindly answer these questions In some near issue of The Oregonlan? These matters I have often heard discussed by women, and some of us would like to have reliable In formation on them. 1 What are married women's prop erty rights In Oregon? 2 In these days of women's working and paying out of their.own earnings for real estate which they are buying on the Installment plan, is there any way by which when the deed is finally acquired a woman can hold, or sell, or improve, such real estate without re quiring her husband's signature as well as her own to any legal papers necessary? j When a married man dies without leaving a will, leaving a wife and children, are they legally his sole heirs to any kind of property he may leave? Do his parents, brothers or sisters have any claim lawfully? MRS. B. M. SMITH. Property rights of married women and married men are the same in Ore gon. One may acquire property but cannot 'give legal title without the signature of the other. No portion of an estate descends to parents, brothers or sisters if deceased leaves a wife and Issue. Wlfe-Beatera to Be Recalled? San Francisco Chronicle. As a part of Its "progresslveness" Oregon has just abolished the whip- plng-post for wlfe-beaters. iToDabiy the latter will now be dealt with through the recall. Raise a rig. rhflrn Rerord-Herald. If yoa wish to own an auto that will travel fast and lar, Raiaa a Dif : If you have a dear desire for a splendid private car, Ralfln a dIr: If your daughter yearna for Jewels that will make a luria oiaze. Or your wife would be a leader where soma v other, matron swaya; If you wlah to g-ive up tolling and In com fort spend your days. There's a way don't overlook it Hales a pig. , If you're sick of serving other and are longing for a change. Raise a pig: If you wish to gaze at wonder that are far away and strange. Raise a pig; If your on would like to squander money on a cnoru girl. If you yearn to own a castle having walls inlaid with pearl. If your darling daughter wishe to be mar ried to an earl, There' a way don't overlook it Raise a pig. If within the Senate chamber you would like to hoW a seat. Raise a pig: If you wish to be untroubled by tha rising price of meat. Raise a pig; If you wish to get from under tha big burden which you bear. If you wish to go to Wall street and cre ate a furore there. If, in short, you have a longing to .become a millionaire. There' a way don't overlook It Raise a pig. ' Timely Tales of the Day "I like a good hater; I am one my self," said Detective Joe Day, "but when a man is so rabid that he can't see any good in anything belonging to an ene my. I think he is going too far. I knew a man like that once, and I remember what he said to me one time aoout a saloonkeeper named Kelley. "Kelley's place was robbed one night, many years ago, and I was assigned to ! the investigation. On my way to the place I met Mr. Good Hater, and he asked me where I was going. ' 'Kelley's saloon has been robbed.' I replied, 'and I am going up to see ; about it,' j "I went to the saloon and found that ' a box of cigars and a bottle of whisky j had been taken, but could find no clew to the robber. Returning to headquar ! ters I met the same man again and he 1 a eUarl mo '"What did that old rascal loser "I told him, and also that there was no clew to the robber. " 'Joe,' he said, 'do you want to catch that fellowr " 'Sure thing,' I replied. " 'Well, now, you do Just as I say. You go to the morgue and wait there, and if that fellow drank Kelley's whis ky and smoked his cigars he'll be in pretty soon.1' Those Portland citizens who made the personal acquaintance of Rev. John Balcom Shaw, of Chicago, who has Just closed religious meetings running for two weeks in Portland churches, were Impressed with the democratic spirit of the famous pulpit orator. The story is told that those in charge of the ar rangements for the entertainment of Dr. Shaw ordered a suite of rooms cost ing $10 a day, at a famous Portland hostelry, to be used by Dr. Shaw dur ing his stay here. No sooner had Dr. Shaw been taken to his headquarters and inspected them and the price than he called up an in fluential Portland man, who was one . of the minister's hosts, and said: "I'm sorry, Mr. , but I can't stay in this place you have so kindly ar ranged for me." "And why not?" was asked. "Why, because these rooms are too fine for me, and besides, they cost $10 a day," said Dr. Shaw. "Well we know that," came the reply. "Well, this 110 a day is the Lord s monev, and there is no use wasting it. Any il.bO room is good enough for me, ' said the visitor. "Well, doctor, we had planned that you would want to receive many visit ors during your stay here and would want some place In which to entertain them," said the Portland man. "Well," concluded Mr. Shaw, "1 11 have to seek other quarters, and If my vlslt ors refuse to come to see me in a $1.60 room, I'm afraid I can't Bee them. ' And the well-known minister moved. Father George Thompson, at the Catholic laymen's banquet in the Hotel Portland in honor of George Washing ton, was speaking of the hard work in volved in collecting funds for the new Girls' Orphanage below Oswego. "The young pastor," said the priest, "has much of this work put upon his shoulders, and very properly, too. In this I am reminded of the story told of the old and young priest. The young man worked upon his sermons with a great deal of energy. He worked all of the week, so as to be fully prepared for Sunday. But the more hours he put In the more he seemed to fail in reaching the hearts of his parishioners. "The older priest did no work upon his sermons. He seemed to be able to hold h's audience with the utmost ease and the least amount of preparation. This worried the young priest and he finally came to the older one and said: -Father, I notice, that you make no preparation for your sermon, and that you win your audience from the very start. They pay so much attention to what you say, while I. who work all week upon my words, receive only " scant attention from those who listen Why is It?" "Well, my young friend. It Is this wav By working in your study all week the devil finds out what you are going to say and spends his time steel fng the hearts of your parishioners against you. I. without PParf l'0"' rfach the hearts of my 8 parish ioners, for I do not knwhRt devil I am going to say before I have said It.'" Stage-Struck. Current Literature. "Aha!" said the eng. As It BPlattered a bit, "I was cast, fur the villain And I made a great hit. HOMER DAVENPORT Tells the Story of SILVER TON'S FAMOUS BRASS BAND in the SUNDAY OREGONIAN If Homer Davenport had not achieved fame as a cartoonist, he would have won it by his story ot the Silverton brass band. It is a classic. Homer Davenport's story of "The Country Boy" is running as a serial in the Sunday Ore gonian. . Homer tells, in quaint, homely style, of the organization of the band, the arrival of the shiny brass instruments and the long study of gaudily colored pictures before the band costumes were ordered. Homer then "hung out" at the depot for weeks. Finally the uniforms arrived but let him tell his own story in his own way. , He also describes his experi ences in joining a Good Templars' Lodge, the memorable visit of the band to Portland to join in the Cleveland celebration, and tells the story of his dog chum Duff. Davenport 's own illustrations are a feature of the story. I OTHER FEATURES IN THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN "Mt. Hood in Winter Time," a striking full-page photograph. 'Cap" Anson's forty years of baseball. Althea Chase's Sketches of Portland. What the Nation's "Lame Ducks" Will Do After March 4. Hashimura Toso, Detective. A Live Talk With David. Gar rick. Mr. Twee Deedle, The Widow Wise, Sambo, and a page of car toons. Two pages of children 's stories. ORDER FROM YOUR NEWS DEALER TODAY