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The country Is naturally eager for
n explanation of the combined mili
tary and naval demonstration which
eur Corrrnmrnt is making in the
neighborhood of Mexico. Inspired re
ports from the White House "give us
to understand that the purpose of the
unusual movement la purely educa
tional. The Administration has sud
denly conceived the Idea of living the
troops and ships some much-needed
practice In Imitation warfare. There la
not the slightest reference to the Mex
ican troubles In the proceeding;. Of
course, all this Is a mere diplomatic
euphemism. Nobody believe It and no
body Is expected to believe It. The
phrase "educational maneuvers is
sJmply a polite way of telling the coun
try that the President does not think it
best to disclose his plana Just now.
What these plans may be It la left to
the future to disclose. The rumor that
Intervention In the Mexican troubles
will soon ensue is not entirely improb
able. Ktnrs from Mexico has been so
meager since the outbreak of the re
bellion that the public does not know
the true condition of affairs there. No
doubt the government of Dtax la In
worse straits than haa been commonly
supposed.
Dlax has fallen 111 Just at the time
when a strong hand is most needed on
the reins of his wild steeds. Coinci
dent with his Illness there may be ap
parent to the discerning a general
breakdown of authority In the country.
Well grounded reports have long been
hinting that unrest rh Mexico Is wide
spread. The land laws have stirred up
any amount of popular discontent. The
system of peonage which everywhere
prevails haa grown more and more
odious as one American adventurer
after another brought new ideas into
the country and spread them abroad.
In some sections there has been actunl
slavery and the form under which It
is practiced Is said to be abominable.
Naturally these circumstances have
had their effect upon the popular esti
mate of Dlax and his government.
Admirable as his policy has been In
many respects, it seems likely that ha
has made fatal blunders in dealing
with the forces of discontent. Instead
of permitting free speech to the agi
tators and taking the wind out of their
sails by reforming abuses, he has pur
sued a consistent course of suppres
sion. Politicians and editors have been
Jailed, banished or shot. No open op.
position to the government has been
tolerated at elections. The whols
country has been smothered In a net
of espionage. History teaches only
too clearly the results of such a sup
pressive policy. It puts off the evil
day but it also multiplies the power of
the Inevitable reaction.
Dlas Is a man great enough, one
would think, to have adopted more
enlightened measures in handling his
agitators, but every statesman has his
weak points. His Interest haa always
lain more In the direction of exploit
ing the resources of the land than in
promoting its more human clvllixa
tion. The quantity of capital which
he has attracted to Mexico from the
United States and other countries la
almost Incredible. It has built rail
roads, opened mines, established vast
plantations and founded banks, but
It has not appreciably promoted the
happiness of the common people.
They are In much the same condition
s the Spaniards left them, worse per
haps. On the other hand the Influx
of foreign capital and Influence has
Injured Dlnx In the minds of his coun
trymen. The saying is common among
them that Mexico has been delivered
over to the foreigners to be plundered.
Of course this Is nonsense, but non
sense often serves as well as sense in
fomenting revolutions. A good deal
of Rousseau's Emlle Is absurd, but the
French revolution flovted readily
enough from Its alluring pages.
One may venture a guess that the
foreign capital Invested In Mexico is
answerable for Mr. Taft'a educational
maneuvers along the border. The In
surrectionists have unavoidably done
more or less Injury to the railroads,
mines and plantations and as the
troubles Increase greater perils will
threaten. Some of the damage la in
separable from active warfare and
would afford no proper excuse for in
tervention, but there may have been
wanton destruction contrary to civil
ized practices and still worse Is prob
ably feared. In that case it is natural
for England and Germany to be on
the alert. Those governments do not
neglect the rights of their citizens In
Mexico or anywhere else. They would
Intervene If the insurrection threat
ened serious damage to their Interests
unless the United States appeared
ready to save them the trouble. Be
sides that our own Investments In
Mexico are heavy. It is Impossible
to abandon them to the fierce passions
of the Insurgents. They must be pro
tected and It Is the duty of the Gov
ernment to have ships and troops at
hand for any emergency which may
rise.
We may aesume that Mr. Taft has
no thought of interfering wlt-i the ac
tual course of the revolution. The
country does not wish to see It sup
pressed by American troops. The
Mexicans fancy, at any rate, that they
are fighting for liberty and there was
time when we did the same thing
ourselves. Hence American sympathy
for the rebels Is abundant and natural
In some quarters. At the same time
we cannot be expected to stand Idly
by and see our property wantonly
ruined. If soldiers and ships are need
ed to defend It they will no doubt be
on tts (round, promptly. But that is
the full extent of any Intervention
which this country is likely to make
in the affairs of Mexico.
THE DEMOCRATS IX lSlt-
Colonel George Harvey.
who
dragged Woodrow Wilson from the
scholastic obscurity of Princeton Into
the bright white light of his present
political glory, discusses brilliantly in
the current North American Review
the "political predestination" of the
Governor of New Jersey. Professor
Wilson is fortunate in having a press
agent of the persuasive powers and
prophetic instinct of Colonel Harvey;
for haa not that Journalistic genius
pointed out in advance each step in
the forward march of the professor In
his new career? The "politrtal pre
destination" of Professor Wilson. In
the terms of his authorized and In
spired biographer, "guided by
circumstances, conditions and history'."
Is to be the Democratic nominee for
President in 11J.
Editor Harvey proves by appeals to
history that every Republican candi
date for President is opposed through
the operation of fixed and inevitable
political causes by Democratic can
didate of strongly contrasted charac
teristics. Therefore, since Taft in the
Harvey opinion Is to be nominated. It
la incumbent on the Democrats to find
his antithesis. Who Is he? Here U
the answer:
Ooviouaty bat ana thame or Inquiry de
mands consideration. Who ta tha real an
ttihe.'s of Taft? Hry"T Tea. as In .
Hot Brrao'a races have baan ran. Oaynor .
Tee; but Oaynor la dlaqunllf lad by Fata.
Folk? Tee; bat Folk claarly la outclaaaed.
Champ Clark T Tbaorallcally. parhapa. but
practically only as a pretty compliment.
Dlx? The carrier of water upon both shoul
dera? Ihi npholder of party feay. on tha
ona hand, and tha eource of preteita to
bolter on tha other? Nalther oppoeite nor
BPoelte la Dls. Remain Harmon and WII
n. Which, we repeat, la tha aotltheala of
Taft ?
Wilson U the real "antithesis be
cause he Is lithe and sinewy In figure,
eloquent of speech, a radical Tllden
Democrat, hails from the East and
South, and is Imaginative, profound
and uncompromising. It may be
agreed that the Wilson eulogist has
here described a type fairly opposed to
Taft: but he has failed to mention the
one potent and final reason why Gov
ernor Harmon will not be the Demo
cratic nominee, and Wilson la likely to
be. It is that Colonel Bryan has in
the Commoner distinctly voiced his
hostility to Harmon, and he Is proba
bly friendly to Wilson.
Logic, circumstances, conditions and
history may have much to say about
the naming of the next Democratic
Presidential candidate; but Bryi
have more to say.
not bo nim as rt appears.
T-nliki. Watmor'a music which is
said to e better than It sounds. Mr.
Gifford PInchot'a wisdom sounds bet
ter than It assays. "The Republican
party." he said in his Akron (O.) ad
itrru "cannot live half dead and half
alive. It cannot continue half reac
tionary and half progressive.
Mr. Plnchot borrows hia figure from
Lincoln who declared that the nation
m-nnld not endure half slave and hail
free, and that a house divided against
Itself must fall. But slavery was a
great moral question, and there could
be no compromise. The proDiems inn
have divided the so-called progressives
and the so-called reactionaries are not
moral but political, not personal but
economic. With slavery there was
nnri rnnid J but one solution free
dom. With the multiplied questions
that vex and disturb our moaern me
there may be a dozen solutions or
policies.
Mr. Plnchot would destroy me re
publican party If he could not apply
hi. nartlrular remedies: but not even
the progressives are agreed as to the
correct policies In all things. Plnchot
would be a general wltnoui an army
If he had his way. He would not com
promise where he should compromise.
But compromise is the essence of all
nriiri-ai iciinn. Would Plnchot read
out of the Republican party everybody
who does not ana cannot agree wim
him? We suppose so. Then the Re
publican party will soon be not only
half dead, but entirely dead. Yet we
look for a better understanding and
greater unity all around.
WORLD'S WHEAT nCPPLY IXCREASINO.
The March report of the Agricul
tural Department appeared yesterday
with the figures on grain In farmers'
hands. The amount estimated Is 180,
000.000 bushels, compared with 173,-,
000,000 bushels last year, and a' ten
year average of 141.000.000 bushels.
As the effect of this report had been
pretty well discounted, there were no
violent changes In the market, the
close being practically the same as on
the previous day. The influence of
the world's big crops for the past two
years has been quite severely felt in
the market and May wheat closed yes
terday more than 21 cents per bushel
undef-the closing price a year ago.
with other options showing similar
losses. ' If it were possible for the
United States to consume the entire
wheat crop at home the somewhat de
pressing influences of a big stock in
farmers' hands and a good . prospect
for the growing crop would be less
weakening on prices.
For the present, however, the Unit
ed States must continue to figure as
an exporting country. The causes for
the twenty-cent decline In wheat
prices are world wide and not local.
This most recent era of dollar wheat
which tapered to an end at the be
ginning of the new year began In May,
1S07, when the speculators, for once
at least, accurately forecasted a poor
world's crop. For the five years prior
to 107 the world's crop averaged
J. 123. 000. 000 bushels. The 1907 crop
fell nearly 100.000.000 bushels short
of this average and prices soared so
far above the dollar mark and were
so well sustained that in June, 1909,
they touched 1.0 per bushel. Dol
lar wheat made great changes In the
world's trade. It stimulated produc
tion and simultaneously restricted
consumption. Including the light crop
of 1907, which was responsible for the
reappearance of dollar wheat, the
average' world's crop for the past four
years was 3. 391.000.000 bushels, that
of last year breaking all records with
an out-turn of S.681.000.000 bushels.
Taking three-year periods the aver
age for the years 1908-9-10 was
S. 477. 000. 080 bushels, a gain of 183.
000.000 bushels over' the preceding
three years. These figures, whlch are
gathered from official sources, show
quite clearly that not only have three
big world's crops made up for all of
the shortage caused by the light crops
of the preceding years, but the amount
produced over and above Immediate
requirements is sufficient to enable
the accumulation of substantial stocks
In the market centers of the Old World
as well as in this country. Big crops
at moderate prices are much better for
the people as a whole than small crops
and high prices. If the year 1911
piles In a bumper crop on top of those
which Immediately preceded it there
may be a reduction In the cost of liv
ing without seriously impairing the
handsome profits which have been
made In business for the past three
years.
KEATTI.ES EXPERIENCE.
Seattle appears to think that the
way to restore good times Is to in
crease the taxes. Four or five years
ago, when the prosperity and rapid
growth and development of the city
were the .marvel of the Western world,
there was a proposal for municipal
ownership of the street railways.- It
was defeated by a substantial vote.
Lately there has been much dissatis
faction about the operation of a sub
urban street railway from Seattle to
Renton. Some inspired genius sug
gested municipal ownership andat the
election Tuesday there waa voted a
bond Issue of 1800,000 for the pur
chase of the railroad by the city.
It may be supposed that If the prop
osition had been submitted to the vot
ers five years ago, when everybody had
money, it would have received small
consideration. But now, when condi
tions are different and the taxpayer at
Seattle Is struggling along under a
heavy load, growing larger each year,
the electorate cheerfully plies on more
and more. When it is reflected that
the average per capita tax in Seattle
has grown 700 per cent in less than ten
years, one is prone to wonder at the
ready and easy manner In which Se
attle Increases the load.
It may possibly be worth while for
other cities to study the experience of
Seattle. When there Is less special ac
tivity here If there ever Is less
building, less street work, lees public
work of various kinds, will the remedy
be more bonds for bridges, more new
street, an underground river tunnel,
an opposition street railway system?
Or what?
THE BRAVE rORVAXXJS OIBIA
College girls need open-air exercise
as much aa their brothers. Corvallls
has been a little excited over their ef
forts to obtain it under favorable con
ditions but the mental arltatlon of the
community will subside by and by
while the benefit to the young women
will remain. Mrs. Grundy in Corvallls
oni Athnr tnvm mnv as well make UD
her mind that the period of the cling
ing vine nas just, aooui vauisncu,
The modern woman is fully deter
mined to be self-sufficing, robust,
capable human being. In struggling
toward that Ideal she may lose some
nf , nualitiea which have made her
attractive, "but she will gain others.
Nature has formed tne masculine
creature with such subtle Ingenuity
that he cannot help adoring women no
matter under what aspect they may
present themselves to his eyes. Thia
vAnAotn of mn llki the frairlle
and clinging type a little better than
the athletic, but our sons win preier
the ample biceps. Woman demands
the right to earn her own living and
we must permit her to acquire the
mental and muscular equipment es
sential for that purpose."
Considered apart from mere con
ventions the -gymnasium suits in
which the Corvallls girls made their
little flight across the campus are
vastly more beautiful than hobble
skirts. The neat athletic attire per
mits freedom of movement while at
the same time it drapes the figure
with complete modesty. It is stared
i aimniv because it is not often seen
on the street. If women had the
courage to adopt some such costume
for public use and agreed to discard
their fashionable gowns, whether hob
ble or harem, their charms would be
enhanced and their- health would be
Improved.
Woman owes many of the Ills from
which she suffers to the sins of men.
That must be confessed frankly. But
she also owes many to her own gro
tesque notions of what is becoming.
To contract the cavities of the body
within steel walls does not promote
the health. Neither is it strictly hy
gienic to drag a dust gathering train
along the pavement and thence into
the parlor. The Oregonian applauds
the spunk of the Corvallls girls and
hopes their cheeks will grow rosier
with every sprinting trip they make in
their pretty gymnasium uniforms.
( HANDICAPnXQ PORTLAXTJ.
The Oriental steamship lines run
ning out of Puget Sound, fostered and
fed by the transcontinental railroads,
are carrying wheat and flour to. the
Orient at $1.60 per ton with some
consignments taken as Tow as $1 per
ton. The line of steamers operating
out of Portland Is holding out for $3
per ton with the natural result that
an immense traffic which should be
handled through Portland is being di
verted to Puget Sound. It requires no
profound knowledge of mathematics,
traffic, steamships or railroads to un
derstand from this situation that
wheat Is worth $1.50 per ton more at
Puget Sound porta than It is at Port
land. And yet every few months, the
high-priced traffic officials and legal
lights of the railroads which should
be protecting Portland against such
unnatural and unwarranted Invasions
are hauled up before either the. Ore
gon or the Washington Railroad Com
mission to prove that there is no dif
ference in the price of wheat on Puget
Sound and at Portland.
The Northern Pacific and the Great
Northern, controlled by the Hill in
terests, and the Milwaukee road, con
trolled by the same group of capital
ists that controls the Harriman lines,
by reason of their traffic arrange
ments with the steamship lines that
have cut wheat and flour rates to
ruinous figures, could stop this rate
war in less than twenty-four hours.
Their failure to do so is not only a
discrimination against Portland but
Is rapidly producing a situation
where In the near future they may be
forced to haul wheat 145 miles be
yond Portland to Tacoma without get
ting an additional cent for the extra
haul. If the $1 to $1.50 per ton which
the Puget Sound lines are now charg
ing for wheat and flour to the Orient
were a legitimate rate, or one which
would show even an Insignificant
profit for the service, Portland would
have no complaint to make.
We could view with a fair degree of
equanimity the customary attitude of
our local Oriental steamship line,
clinging like a barnacle to a sunken
piling while the tide of traffic sweeps
by it, if there were any insurmount
able disabilities which warranted such
discrimination against the port. Such
disabilities do not exist. The local
steamship line, even with its irregu
lar and unsatisfactory service, secure
a larger proportion of local freight
inward and outward than Is carried
by any of the steamship lines that the
railroads are so generously feeding
with trans-continental freight and at
the same time permitting to slash
wheat and flour rates. The Hill lines
spent $50,000,000 building a water
level line down the Columbia River
to Portland in order to avoid hauling
the products of the Inland Empire to
tidewater by way of the lofty Cas
cade Mountain ranges. They are now
permitting Puget Sound wheat and
flour operators to demonstrate that
these products are worth $1.50 per ton
more on Puget Sound than In Port
land. The demonstration is not legitimate,
but it establishes a precedent which
will rise and plague the railroads
when they attempt to Justify their re
fusal to route grain through Portland
to Puget Sound at the same rates
which are named for Portland. This
city has never had a square deal in
the Oriental business and the present
discriminatory rate war, which could
not exist without the sanction and ap
proval of the transcontinental rail
roads, is the worst handicapping that
has yet been laid on us.
A movement is on foot to exempt
American vessels from canal tolls
when the Panama waterway Is com
pleted. As previously explained, such
a concession would be nothing more
nor less than a subsidy paid to the
owners of American vessels. This
canal toll subsidy would not in the
slightest degree favorably . affect
freight rates for shippers but would
make it comparatively easy for a few
wealthy shipowners to form a trust
that would nullify much of the use
fulness of the canal. Pacific Coast
commercial organizations. Instead of;
lending their aid to increasing the
cost of getting freight through the
canal, should make an immediate and
unanimous demand for cheap ships.
For every shipowner who will make
use of the canal there will be a
thousand producers who must supply
the freight and pay the bills. The best
interest of these producers lies in hav
ing their products carried to market
at the lowest possible rate consistent
with good service. A ship subsidy
gains nothing in attractiveness by
coming before us in the form of im
munity from canal tolls.
The superiority of oil as a fuel for
battleships has been well demonstrat
ed by a number of vessels on which
the experiment has been made. An
effort is now being made to have all
of the fighting machines of the Gov
ernment provided with this handy, ec
onomical and generally advantageous
fuel. Quite naturally some objection
will be raised on the Atlantic Coast,
for the reason that fuel oil is a Pa
cific Coast product and cannot be se
cured on the Atlantic at such reason
able prices as are paid on the Pacific
Coast. The Influent that Is strong
enough with the Government to force
the carrying of coal for the fleet 14,
000 miles around the Horn to stations
located a few miles from extensive
coal mines on this Coast, will prob
ably be sufficient to prevent the gen
eral use of oil in the Navy, but when
the inevitable demonstration of the
necessity of a full Pacific squadron
is made oil and not coal will be the
fuel burned on the Pacific station.
Public sympathy, full handed,- is
coming to the relief of the wretched,
destitute sufferers of the famine dis
trict of China.. Among the contribu
tions Is flour to the value of $210,000
shipped from Seattle by the troopship
Buford, $5000 in cash cabled from this
city and $31,000 in money and flour
sent from New York. Before "the
flour can reach them, thousands of
these naked starvelings will have
ceased to need help, but there are yet
other thousands - who, through the
contributions sent, may be able to keep
base life afoot until the next stress of
famine is upon them. Pity in this
case is not for those who have died,
but for those who continue the forlorn
struggle for wretched existence which
is all they know, or can ever know of
life.
The useless life and tragical death
of the man who lives to himself alone
are illustrated now and then in find
ing human bonea in the smouldering
ashea of a cabin that has served such
a man the purpose of a shelter. A
further Illustration of the fact that
hoarded money is the most useless of
all things, and the most sordid and
unresponsive to human needs, la
shown in the occasional finding among
the ashes of such a poor domicile coins
to the value of several hundred dol
lars. Such bungling of the great prob
lem of life as is made manifest In a
case of this kind is softened by a single
word. Except for what he did to him
self, it Is usually noted that the hermit
waa "harmless." using the word in a
strictly negative sense.
Now, of a verity, this interstate
commerce law Is going too far In
smashing time-honored customs. Here
are two dozen cond actors and brake
men on the Missouri Pacific indicted
for taking cash fares at less than the
published rates. No more can the pas
senger on a local pass up a $2 bill and
a bit of cardboard of varied hue and
go hia way rejoicing. What will the
poor spotter do for a living if these
laws are enforced?
Rome California lawyers no doubt.
shed many a regretful tear when they
heard that Ruer was at last Denina
prison bars. It must have seemed like
the destruction of a profitable invest
ment. He was the most productive
asset they had. Does not his imprison
ment amount to an act of confisca
tion? purely the Constitution will not
permit such a -valuable source of reve.
nue to be annihilated in this ruthless
way. "j
Herr Schaffenbergs experiments in
growing bulbs ' at Canby will be
watched with Interest. There are
thriving tulip farms on Puget Sound,
iut none in Oregon although the cli
mate is Just what is needed. It Herr
Schaffenburg succeeds In producing
tulips and hyacinths which can corm
pete with the fine Haarlem growth he
will add notably to the beauty of Ore
gon and tfte wealth too.
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To learn how a good brewer touches
the heart, as well as other parts of
man's anatomy. Just read ' the list of
gifts to Mr. Busch.
Rebellious Greasers will find the
American soldier a better marksman
than ever were the Kentucky squirrel
shooters sixty-odd' years ago.
General Grant will attend the coro
nation unless he has business of Im
portance in Mexico.
The records for laying big eggs
make the goose laugh.
SOCIAL HAPPEMXGS IX PLUSH.
Two Weddlng-a Up-Set and a Litter of
Pisa All la One Day.
Lakevlew Examiner.
A DEL. Or., Feb. 23. (Editor Examiner)
Not seeing anything In your valuable
paper about Adel we thought we would
send you a few of the happenings here.
We have Just pulled off one of the grand
est times that ever happened in Adel,
but It came near ending In a very sad
affair. On the morning of the 22d Too
ley Judge Morris 'was notified that
there waa something doing at the home
of Mr. Caldwell, and after borrowing
a plug hat and donning some other
pretty good borrowed clothes his Too
leyness was at once rushed to the scene
of action by private conveyance and
at high noon, before a merry crowd
of friends and relatives Joined In wed
lock Mr. C. F. Caldwsll and Miss Llssle
S. Cooper.
After the presents, someone unbe
known to me sounded the dinner bell
and we all filed Into the dining-room
and threw our feet under the mahog
any to one of the most palatial wed
ding dinners It has ever been our good
fortune to partake of. But. before
the Judge had time to do Justice to the
turkey the phone rang and he received
the following message from F. H. Oli
ver at Hotel Wible: "Dear Judge: Rush
to Hotel Wlble at once; couple from
Plush waiting anxiously for you to
make them one; say nothing, wedding
private."
Of course, the Judge said nothing to
any one only Just the crowd, as he has
made himself famous for keeping se
crets, so he was at once rushed to
Hotel Wlble with all the crowd fallow
ing. On arriving at the scene of action
he found Mr. Oliver and his companion,
Mr. O. Holyhan. busily engaged In mak
ing wreaths from the scattering sage
brush and Juniper for the bride. After
all due preparations were made the
Judge at once more Mr. John Gee and
Deliah M. Burns, both well-known res
idents of Plush, man and wife. After
the ceremony all present partook very
freely of the refreshments that Mr. Gee
had brought from Greater Plush with
him. to the health of the happy couple.
They all went their different ways to
sober up and prepare themselves for
the social ball to be held at the Adel
Hall In the evening.
But here our troubles began. Mr.
Wible, of Hotel Wlble, hooked four
horses onto the big coach and headed
the guests for the hall. It was a very
dark night and as he lost his bearings
on the Morris grade, drove too high,
capsizing the rig and all the passen
gers Into the wire fence below; and
the way they lit was not graceful.
Dr. Johnston from the Dugout was
sent for and soon dressed the wounds.
Those crippled were: Mrs. Wlble,
hurt In the back; W. S. Wlble, two
teeth out and reputation sprung; Miss
Myrtle Wible. crippled under the hat;
Mrs. Roberts, eye blacked and face bad
ly skinned; Mr. Roberts, one finger
badly cut: shoulder hurt, side badly
bruised. Mrs. Grlsel. head and face
badly bruised; R. B. Grlsel, cheek badly
affected, one wheel dished; Bert Lee,
waddle over right eye, left listener
knocked down and voice affected; John
Gee, groom, cheek and nerve both af
fected, one wheel sprung; Mrs. Gee,
bride, face and head very badly cut and
bruised all over; rest of party not hurt
but had to change clothes.
All of the party was able to proceed
on to the ball after having their vari
ous wounds dressed, except Mrs. Gee,
who was very badly hurt and will not
be able to be up for some time to
come. All able to be present declared
that everything was a success, even to
Charles Wallls, the coarse-voiced man
from Fort Bidwell, and to cap the cli
max at daybreak this morning Wible'a
old sow that has a reputation for up
setting all the swill barrels In town. In
the dead hours of night, gave birth to
11 pigs, even Jim Givens, who has
not smiled since he got home from
the city, smiled and said It was a big
ger time than they ever had In Pump
kin Center.
ED. ADEL SCREAMER.
WHEN PHILLIPS WAS REPORTER
The Editor Said It Pained Htm to See
One Labor So Hard.
The Bookman.
One erroneous idea, that has been
held by a good many of David Graham.
Phillips' readers, l that he had a rapid,
fluent, and at times an over-hasty--pen.
Nothing could be further from the
truth. Phillips himself admitted free
ly that from first to last he always
found literary composition a labor a
labor of love, that he could not have
shirked If he would but none the less
a labor. A story, which he sometlmee
told at his own expense. Illustrates
this. It was shortly after his gradua
tion from Princeton that he sought
work as a reporter, and finally by of
fering his services for nothing, ob
tained a chance to phow what he could
do. on the leading daily in a Western
city.
The weather was cold and the tem
perature of the office Somewhat below
60; yet hour after hour Phillips would
sit at his desk with the moisture roll
ing from his brow. In the anguish of
trying to make literature from .such
material as: "Yesterday afternoon John
Jones fell off a stepladder and dislo
cated his snouieier. um aay ii w
the tenth of Phillips' services the
presiding genius of the paper stood for
some minutes watching him. "Who is
that young man?" he presently asked
the city ed'tor. The lajter explained.
"Get rid of him!" came the curt edict.
"But," expostulated the city editor,
"we are getting him for nothing!" "I
don't care!" rejoined the higher power,
"I don't care If he Is paying for the
privilege! Get rid of him at once; I
can't bear to see any human be'ng
work so hard!"
The Censns tn Switzerland.
London Standard.
The census which was taken on De
cember 1 last furnishes Interesting In
formation on many subjects. Thus on
the questions of the languages which
are spoken In the republic German
leads the list with 2.699.149 persons
speaking It; French comes next with
796.220; Italian, with 301.323, and
Romanche with 39,912. All four lan
guages are "official'" and may be em
ployed by the Deputies in the Swiss
Parliament. On the western frontier
French is gradually ousting German,
while Italian is gaining over German
in parts of the Canton of Valais. espe
cially at Brieg.
There are 665,025 strangers in the
land, of whom at least 23.000, as far as
can be Judged, I've In hotels the great
er part of the year. In the census of
1900 the number of strangers was 383,
424. Lausanne boasts the largest sin
gle family, numbering 22, Including the
parents. In the village of Walchwil,
Canton of Zug, with a population .of
1044, 608 villagers possess the name of
Hurlimann. and as many of their Chris
tion names are the same, comic opera
situations frequently happen. Five
women and two men have been re
quested to "reconsider" their ages.
Naturalization Laws
PORTLAND, March 6. (To the Editor.)
Please answer the following ques
tions n The Oregonian:
.If a child Is born to foreign parents
who are not citizens of the United
States, Is that child a citizen or not?
If an American woman marries a
man who is not a citizen of the Unit-d
States, does she lose her citizenship?
- A SUBSCRIBER.
A child born in the united States to
parents who are not citizens becomes
a citizen.
.Any American woman who marries
a foreigner takes the nationality of
her husband.
CO-OPERATION TO SAVE BABIES
Dairymen, Pure Food Men and Parents
Should Work Together, Writer Say.
PORTLAND, March 7. (To the Edi
tor.) In reply to the communication
in The Oregonian of last Monday,
signed by an energetic "Housewife," I
wish to express appreciation of all the
truth it contains.
The subject of clean milk and clean
bottles versus clean parentage should
not be a made a narrow, personal one.
It Is of National Importance. There is
more than one Bide to all questions,
and the nurse sees the side with which
the public and the good housekeeper
are little familiar.
I approve most heartily of the thor
ough inspection of dairies, and so stat
ed previously. I find that theories
necessary though they may be, are at
best but guides, and that experience
and good Judgment must go hand in
hand in making use of them. I do not
believe in the wholesale condemnation
of herds of cows who are In apparently
good condition, because the tuberculin
test has been applied and reported
positive. Tests are not Infallible, and
until doctors have a more sound basis
for their claims of Infection of human
beings by the milk of tubercular an
imals, more injustice than Justice is
being done by the practice of condemn
ing herds.
The fact remains that clean milk Is
not all. Thousrh cleanliness is next
i tn mrfiiiiMs it ic not e-nriltnesa. Clean
milk Is cleanliness; and very desirable,
clean parentage is godliness and indis
pensable to healthy babyhood. If this
good housewife had been a nurse for a
few years, she would not need this fact
demonstrated to her.
BoyB need training for their future
high calling of fatherhood. They need
to be taught before it is too late that
"sowing wild oats" is ' a crime and
that the harvest Is disease and death
to much which later In life they will
value most. That a wild boy makes
a poor father, and that the purest
woman on earth cannot be an antidote
for the results of his life, all this is
manifested in his children. Goodness
In the mother never can take the place
of Industry, knowledge and the cour
age necessary to the woman who would
cope successfully with the many
emergencies of mother life. What
women do not know, does hurt them
and their children and their children's
children.
I once had a S-months-old babe put
under my care when it seemed to be
about dead. It could not make an
audible cry, nor could It swallow. I
sat by its cot all night and fed It one
drop of fluid at a time lest it strangle
to death. I held my breath many
times listening for the next feeble
breath. I prayed for Its life with
every drop I got It to retain. . The
good phys'cians did what they could.
They told me what to do if the baby
lived through the night, and I went to
bed. The baby at the end of six weeks
was a normal child, so far as food was
concerned. It was thriving on the
very milk on which It was starving
when brought to me. The milk was
never sterilized, it was modified to
suit the needs of that baby. The milk
came from a herd of untested cows,
and was cared for properly after com
ing into the hospital.
When the mother came to take the
baby home, she asked to hold it and
give It the bottle. She placed the child
In her lap. allowing the little head to
hang over her knee and tipped the full
bottle up over the child's head to feed
it. The baby spluttered and strangled,
and the mother did not know enough
to hold it In a comfy position and hold
the bottle bo it could nurse without
strangling.
And 8he loved the child. The latter
afterward became an Imbecile, the re
sult of inherited syphilis. Had 'he
baby been well born, it might have
stood the feeding of the Ignorant
mother, but the combination of ignor
ance and disease was too much. I could
modify the milk, but I could not
cleanse the source of life for the baby.
Another baby boy was brought to
me at my home, to save if I could. He
was starving to death on two quarts
of milk a day. The milk could not be
retained, he cried continually with
hunger, became a skeleton, and devel
oped a hernia that threatened his life
constantly. I called a physician and
we devised a bandage that, while, it
required changing many times a day,
reduced the hernia effectually. The
physician left the feeding to me, be
cause he said that it was an experi
ment with delaying death. I gave the
little fellow a prepared food of the
strength for a new born babe, and put
him on modified cows' milk as soon as
he could digest It. In a few weeks I
taught the mother to care for him and
prepare his food. He went back to
the same farm on which he had previ
ously been starved, nor did he ever
require an operation for hernia. He
la now a large, strong boy. Improper
feeding is at the root of most digestive
disturbances In babies as physicians
well know.
Work with the dairyman, not against
him, with the Food Commissioner, not
against him, and remember that until
a man is proved guilty (not thought
guilty) he is in the eyes of the law
considered to be innocent. More repu
tations are talked to death than are
forfeited by the acts of the person
talked about, as women ought to know.
Believe me, the dairyman, the pure
food man and the mother need help,
not annihilation. Co-operation will ac
complish anything. Strife will accom
plish nothing.
Help to teach the boy purity, the girl
the dignity of motherhood, the dairy
man the gospel of cleanliness and the
Food Commissioner the value of co-operation.
Then expect the millen'um.
One doesn't need to die to get to
heaven. Portland will be it. Grand
mothers, graduate nurses, great aunts,
good housewives and babies will all be
In it to stay.
A GRADUATE NURSE.
Light for a Birthday Cake,
Kansas City Star.
Marie Dressier Is famous for. her epi
grams. An actor at the opera house
was recalling one of her Justly famous
bits 'of repartee. Miss Dressier was
inviting her friends to a birthday
party. "There'll be a birthday cake, I
suppose? someone remarked. "Yes,
there'll be a cake, never fear," was the
reply. "And candles,. of course?" went
on the alleged wit. "My friend." said
Miss Dressier, "this Is to be a birth
day party, not a torchlight proces
sion." Tha Cry of the Orcamrr.
John Boyle O'Reilly.
I am tired of planning and tolling .
In the crowded hive of men:
Heart weary of building- and spoiling.
And polling' and building attain.
And I long for the dear old river
Where I - dreamed my youth away
For a dreamer 11-ea forever
And a toller dies in a day.
I km Ick of the ahowy meaning
Of a life that ia half a lie.
Of the faces lind with achamlng
In a throng that hurries by.
From the sleeplpss thought's endeavor
I would go where the children play
For a dreamer lives forever.
And a toiler dies in a day.
I feel no prlda but pity
For tha burdens the rich endure.
There is nothing sweet In the city
But the patient lives of the poor.
Oh. the little hands too skillful.
And the child mind choked with weeds.
The daughter's heart grows willful.
And the father's heart that bleeds.
No, no; from the street's rude bustla
From trophiaa of mart and stage,
I would fly to the wood's low rustle
And the meadow's kindly page.
Let me dream as of yore by the river
And be loved for the dreams alway
For a dreamer Uvea lorever, ,
And a toller dies in a day.
Timely Tales of the Day
D. O., Lively, general agent of the
Union Stockyards at Portland, Or., is
a prominent after-dinner speaker and
an inveterate story teller.
Some time ago, having been troubled
for a time with a sore throat, he called
in the family physician for treatment.
The doctor came early in the day for
the first call, appeared again soon
after luncheon, came again late in the
evening and was again on hand early
the next forenoon.
Mr. . Lively wondered somewhat at
the doctor's unusual and apparently
uncalled-for solicitude over what ap
peared to be a very slight ailment, and
when he put In an appearance again
in the afternoon said to him:
"Doc, why all this anxiety about this
case? My throat is not very sore and
I don't believe It Is necessary for you
to neglect your other business to such
an extent."
"My dear Lively," replied the doctor,
eyeing him severely, "you have the
reputation of being a popular speaker,
and I have myself heard some of your
stories, and I know that If I allow this
sore throat to reach a stage where you
are unable to talk, they will accumu
late in your system and you will inev
itably die of blood poison."
Despite its recent recall election and
a reform Mayor and anti-gambling
Chief of Police in the saddle In Seattle,
there Is one little woman in Tacoma
whose Spring bonnet is held up tempo
rarily because Seattle is not closed as
tight in high places as Seattle would
have the world believe It Is.
This young woman, a Newlywed, has
recently learned to play bridge. She
was delighted several days ago to re
ceive an invitation to a bridge affair In
one of the most excxlusive homes in
Seattle. Several other Tacoma women
were also invited, but they were all ex
pert bridge players, and Mrs. Newlywed
was not. Her social standing was hard
ly sufficient to warrant the invitation
she thought, but she made up her mind
she ought to "break In" when oppor
tunity presented itself, so decided to
attend.
With the other Tacoma women she
went to Seattle and spent a delightful
afternoon. There were six or eight
tables, and the hostess was gracious
very gracious. When Mrs. Newlywed
prepared to leave she was presented
with a neat little bill for $17.50.
"What is that for, please?" she smil
ingly asked of the hostess, thinKing it
was possibly an odd sovenir.
"You lost," said Mrs. Seattlelte with
the air of any good "banker."
It dawned on little Mrs. Newlywed.
"We were not playing for money,
were we?" she asked, falteringly.
She was Informed In the affirmative.
Little Mrs. Newlywed had $10 in her
purse besides her return steamer ticket
to Tacoma. The $10 had been given her
by Mr. Newlywed as first payment on a
new Spring hat. Tearfully she parted
with It to Mrs. Seattlelte, and signed
an "I. O. U." for the $7. 60 balance.
"What shall I do?" Bhe asked a friend
the other day. "I hate to tell and
I haven't any hat to show for the money
and must get $7.50 besides at once. Oh,
what shall I do!"
Has anyone in Portland found an Arctic
fox skin, stamped with the name of Dr.
Frederick Cook, the explorer? If so, Dr.
Louis J. Wolf would like to hear from
him.
Dr. Wolf was physician of the Peary
party that made the nearest approach to
the North Pole before its actual dis
covery. While in the Arctic regions ha
collected a large number of souvenirs.
Including a handsome fox belt, which he
has since exhibited with great pride.
Just how this skin happened to be
stamped with the name of Dr. Cook, Dr.
Wolf has not been able to explain to
the satisfextion of his friends, but that
It is so stamped there Is no doubt.
Recently Dr. Wolf hung the fur on the
fire escape for an airing. When he went
to get it. it had been blown Into the
street and was not to be seen, nor haa
Dr. Wolf had any trace of it since.
"What surprises me," said Dr. Wolf,
"Is that this fur has not started a rumor
that Dr. Cook is in town. Surely whoever
found It did not tell any newspaper
man of his discovery. Every time I havs
picked up a newspaper since the fur was
lost. I have expected to see a scarehead
announcing that Dr. Cook is in Portland."
Walter H. Evans, assistant United
States District Attorney. Is a gentle
man who can appreciate a Joke, but he
thinks the practical one played on him
last week a little far-fetched.
Mr Evans went to his office in the
Federal building last Thursday to open
his mail. Among the letters was a plain,
white envelope ' from an Oakland firm,
which, upon opening, he found to con
tain the following:
"Dear Sir: You wish to be restored
as nearly as possible to your former con
dition of health, strength and ability to
make your living as before you lost yout
limb.
"If you have a good amputation, en
ergy, ambition, and a good artificial limb
you 'can take up your work where you
left it off. , . ,
"The president of this company lost his
leg about 20 years ago. Since that time
he has devoted himself to the manufac
ture of artificial limbs, and has made
valuable improvements, which makes it
possible for the unfortunate to walk
about with comfort and in a natural
manner. .
"If you purchase a light-weight leg
with a cordless ankle you will receive
perfect satisfaction, because they are
the most comfortable artificial limbs
procurable, cannot get out of order,
squeak or rattle. They are absolutely
safe and reliable, as there are no break
able parts in their construction.
"You have not sent for our catalogue
yet. It. contains valuable intormation
that wUl prove most lntereeting to you.
Fill out the enclosed query blank today."
Half a Century Ago
From The Oregonian. March , 1861.
The population of Oregon ia only be
tween 52,000 and 68,000; that of California
3S4.771. We have been In the habit of
estimating the population of Oregon at
60,000 and that of California at 600,000.
We have disunion papers in Oregon that
profess great regard for the Union and
at the same time avow that their "sym
pathies" are with the secessionists. On
the same plan a man might sympathize
with a horsethlef and claim that ho did
not necessarily sustain horse-steal'ng.
The editor of tha Vancouver Chronicle,
Mr. L. E. V. Coon, announces hls retire
ment from that journal In the Issue of
the 7th of March.
T,t.am Vnn ti er idvi thftr th TTrilon
cannot be "patched up." He thinks the
dlsunlonlsts are "fighting the battle of
the Lord" and setting the Mormons free
by destroying the government. Brig
ham's fine theories will probably fall to
the ground.
There s undoubtedly a large amount
of money In the hands of parties waiting
Investment, but the continued agitation
at the East prevents a restoration of con
fidence in business matters. Sales of mer- .
chandise almost nothing for the week,
without any speculative demand. m
We have the announcement this week
that Brady will again try the 80-hours'
walking feat before long. This Is what
we call a clear case of felo de se. In the
second degree, but "sich is life." Man
never knows when he Is well off. For
the bubble reputation he walks all day:
all along through' the dreary watches of
the night; day and night for three days
and nights, and for what for grandeur.