10 TITE MORXTN'G OREGOXTAX. SATURDAY. APRIL 22, 1911. t (Drjptroitintt roiruxD. ouoox. ITr. rrl at Portland imcoa. peetofftce aa n4-v Lj Uitltr. uMcxiptMm Una-Invariably la Advaae. (BT MAIL! rerfy. Bonds? retloded. oae year. ..-0e t-aity. luD'lay InrluUwU. bobiM.... Oa-ty. FuBoar included, thra moataa.. 1- Iunly Included, aaa moata. -11 X.-ei;. witnout Sunday. o yar.. l-i.7. artthovf guadar. aia aostttl.... I'.'.j. without Sunday. three mobtnm. lallr. without Sunday, aaa nMlb Wkl. aoa yar - Sunday, om ar J-4 SMiay aad vaakly. oaa year... ....... - (OT CARRIER Party. jaay Included, oea yaar...... Xi:t. Sunday lsc:udad. oaa month.. ... tlaw la ttajll end poatofflca moaar fd nraaa order or paraooal ch your locai bank tttampa. com or corraaay ar at tna .aujafa rtaau Give poatoflic eHr la foli laelndln emnly aad atala. rnuit Rain iw to 14 pagva. I cant'. I la j p-aaa. 1 casta; JO to o raa. eeote; 0 ta u caaaa. casta. t'oraica poalago ubl rata. luaatara Baataaaa OfTlraa Torra at ConB Bn .Naw tur. Krtuualck. Bulldlaa. Cnl . '-. building. s-ORTLAAD. o-ITrKDAT. ATEIL St. MIL. TRYING TO CLOSE THE OrEX DOOR. Tekln advices report the Japanese very much angered over the discovery that lorni portion of the revenue of lianchurlan provinces has been allotted as part of the security for the four power HO.Ooo.OOO loan recently made to China. The knowledge that this on had been made was In poasesalon ef the Japanese a Ions; time ago and no special objection was raised against It. The fact that the resentment waa con. cead cntll It was discovered that the t'nlttd States and other powers Join- In- in the loan had actually .been promised or glvrn security for It Indi cates that Japan tai expected China to wripg; out of paying; It. In sued vent, accordlnc to Oriental reasoning. It would have been no crime for the foreigners to have loaned It. Tr-e Japanese press cbaractrrtze the loan as an onfrlrndly art. "since the powers holding; this security hare an opportunity to Interfere la various Questions which may arise hereafter." It Is a: so stated that "China Is severely censured for r ypothecatir.g these reve nues, disregarding- Jipan's and Russia's contentions that they have superior rltrhts In Manchuria. This unwarrant ed resentment of Japan only serves to corroborate the oft-repeated chance that Japaa and Russia were not play ing fair with the other powers In the matter of open-door policy. Neither country has ever been aranted any su perior rights In Manchuria, and. even If It bad and China saw fit to borro money on her unincumbered posses sions, the favored nation would hardly have the rlsht to prevent the loan or the provision for some kind of security. The Japanese press la endeavoring to arouse the Chinese by asserting that the loan was made for political pur poses and Inspired by a determination to bring about a partition of China. This scare Is thrown out for the pur pose of diverting the attention of China from the real danrrr that con fronts her the much greater likeli hood of Russia and Japan carving the unfortunate country for their own profit. On account of the artificially created feeling against the Japanese ta this country. It Is perhaps fortunate that some of the European powers are Interested with the United Slates In the loan. These powers are also Interested In the open door. and. while It Is undoubt edly true that Japan and Russia have been getting a little more than they re entitled to In the way of trade favors la that Held, the offense as yet has not become flagrant. If It should become so. the four-power loan asd Its security would both be attended to by a four-power navy or some other equally persuasive force. Japan and Russia have seldom been molested In the past while they were making a football of poor, decrepit old China, but, now that all countries have become parties to the open-door agreement. It must be respected. Japan has no greater rights In Manchuria than bas any other country. r-O LI TICS IN 1SiXXJCAN WAR. Emphatically as both parties deny It. th actions of both federals and rebels in the Mexican disturbance tend strongly to arouse the suspicion that they are trylns; to provoke American Intervention. They are playing a game of politics as well as war. and the game Is to bring about Intervention In such a way as to make It appear that the ther party has brouicht It about. Each declares any party a traitor which In- vltes intervention, but each party , yearns for the excuse to call the other a traitor for that very rearson. Bo lb federals and rebels have com as near as they dare to carrying the war Into the United States the rebeis by attacking border towns and the federals by shooting Into the adjoining American towns In the effort to retake their own. The federals now have the audacity to explain that they were hooting at American flllbusterrr who were snootlngat them from American territory. Mexico also complain that a large proportion of the rebel are American citizens. This Is true, and they are th beat shots aad best fighter la th rebel ranks. But If President Dies governs hi country la. such a manner a not only to provoke a large propor tion of hi own people to rebellion, b'ot to arouse many citizens of a neighbor leg country to help. General Dlas must take the blame. President Taft has done all that he could reasonably be expected to da la maintaining our neu trality, evea to the extent of mobilis ing a larger proportion of our Army on the southern boundary thaa was over before in the field during peace timea But Mexico refuses to recoa-nlx "of ficially" that there Is a rebellion. She sends her army scurrying through the country, fighting battles In which her generals profess to have killed and wounded and put to rout large bodies ef unofficial rebels: she appropriates 14.OCO.000 for extra military expenses and offers a bonus for recruit for the army: she sends official dispatches to Washington relating to battles with the rebels, yet she denies officially that there are any rebels. Thla la a relic of that old Spanish pride, which Is akin to the blindness of the ostrich. Even If the rebels were to capture Mexico City and kill Dlas in battle, his Cabinet might still Insist that It was still su preme at the capital and that Dlas was atlU officially alive. It Is extremely Improbable that th I United States will Interfere la th Mex ican quarrel, unless some outrageous act Uke th blowing up of the Maine, or some series of minor acts, should Ur th indignation of this country beyond restraiaL Even then th only object would be to inflict punishment tor ther would bo nothing to gala tn any other respect. Both factions would unite against us and would declln pitched battles and carry on guerrilla war. In which, with their knowledge of the country and the friendship of th people, they would have an Immense advantage. tVe should win In the end and then what? Who would pay the bills? If we ex pec Lad a money lndem nltv. we should fasten a debt on the Mexicans which would be a continual reminder to hate us. If we took pay ment In territory, we should be only giving support to the charge. Which would 9e made from the outset, tha our sole aim bad been aggression. We should then also be furnishing evidence In support of the charge often made In Latin America that we are the big bully of the American continent and will never cease encroaching until our dominions stretch from pole to pole- In short. If the United States should Intervene In Mexico. It will be because Mexico forces us to Intervene, either of set purpose or through some mad act. Of both these tropical people are always capable. THE RElT.KXVnrM IX ENGLAND. Th oddity about tha agitation for a wider nse of the referendum In British politic Is that It come from the con ervaUves, while the liberal oppose It. Feeling certain that they are not likely to obtain a majority in the House of Commons for a long time to come, the torles wish to give the mi nority power to call a referendum on any measure which the majority ha adopted. Thla would make Parliament nothing more than an advisory body whose decisions were always subject to a popular vote. The conservatives would gain some of the advantages of delay from It. but In the end It would destroy their party by changing Great Britain to a pure democracy. It Is more of a democracy now than some republics, but this measure would carry It much farther on the same road. Mr. Balfour, the conservative leader who u rices the new use of the refer end um. Is not famous for deep practical Insight. lie is a good metaphysician, but not much of a statesman and evi dently he does not see where his plan leads to. If he did. It Is Incredible that he would favor It. On the other hand. It Is an error to suppose that the referendum Is a nov elty In British politics. . It has been employed for centuries whenever a dif. ference of opinion arises between the two houses of Parliament, or when the ministry loses Its majority la the Com mons. On occasions of that kind the subject under dispute is referred to the neonle for their decision, if the I ministry In power obtains a majority In the election It Is taken for granted that the country support It view. If the majority goes th other way, then the measure Is lost. This device 1 not explicitly called a referendum. Eng lishmen speak of it as "going to the country." But names are of little con sequence. - The Identity of the thing itself Is unquestionable. Mr. Eaifour therefore seeks little that is new in regard to the referendum, lie merely transfers the power to call one from the majority to the minority of th House of Commons, which on its face appears unwise. As we hare said. It would In the end make Parliamen tary legislation Impossible and cause every disputed measure to be referred to the people. BORSELE.H8 ACE DEFERRED. In the number of animals sold and the prices paid at the breeders' Spring sale in this city this week 1 mora evidence that the horse business Is not suffering by the competition of the automobile. Not only waa everything old that waa offered at the meeting, but the prices paid were fully equal to, and la some cases far ahead of. those which could have been obtained before the automobile was anything more than an experiment The tremendous Increase In the number of automobiles In the country for pleasure and busi ness show that th new method of locomotion has secured a permanent and fixed place In odr transportation system. The results of the Portland horse sale, and the results here were not materially different from those in other parts of the country and show, moreover, that the Invasion of the transportation Held by the automobile hxs not been detrimental to the horse- breeding Interest When the price that are still being paid for horse for all purposes are considered It seems fortunate Indeed that the automobile came to the res cue. There has been no abandonment of the breeding fsrms and no reduction In prices. The big field the auto now fills has been carved out of new bus! nes and has developed as the country haa grown. The first railroads dis placed the packhorses. and the electrlo cars of a later era also took the place of thousands of horses, but through all of this change in transportation condl tlons the horse has held his own. He will undoubtedly continue to do so until the end of the chapter. Viewing the situation from the standpoint of pleasure as well as bust ness In other words considering the horse as a luxury as well as a neces sity there will always be a demand from those who have a feeling for the finest of the brute creation that they never can have for the noisy gasoline wagons. FOREIGN TRADE BALANCE GROWING. The March figures on domestic ex ports and those for the nine months ending with Mart-h show a decidedly healthy condition of foreign trade. Ac cording to the preliminary report of the Department of Commerce and La bor, exports of domestic breadstuffs. meat and dairy products, food animals, cotton aad mineral oil have Increased in on year from t(3i.l9.i:i for the nine months ending March 31. to 37SO.730.701. The Increase for March waa small, and for the first time this season it was not cotton that was re sponsible for It Lower prices for corn and wheat seem to have stimulated the export trade, while In March there was an Increase of nearly 12.000.000 in corn and more than 31.000.000 la wheat exports. While tha March figures showed so Increase in cotton, the total gain over laat season for the nine months Is due exclusively to that rreat staple. The large crop produced In this country sr.J a revival in manufacturing Indus tries abroad combined to bring the shipment for th season to dat up to th greatest figure on record. Lower price la this country are re flected In a alight Increase In the quan tity of Tour sent out. but a decrease In the value. The same conditions are noticeable In the exports of meat and dairy products, where th gain In value for th nine month ta lea than 11. 000.000. while the gain la quantity la large. Return en export of manu factured product are not yet at hand. but they are expected to how a slight Increase. It Is noticeable In the returns for previous months that the Increase In the exports of manufactures was much greater than the decrease In exports of breadatuffs. meats, etc. This would indicate that while our Industrial de velopment Is Improving the home mar ket for breadstuffs and meat. It will be everal year before we can use all of these products at home. Until the time arrives when these products can all find a market at home, we must ell the surplus In th European mar ket in competition with the similar products grown In other part of th world. The foreign market thus fixe the price. The "protective tariff on these products can benefit no one. A few year hence, when consumption bas overtaken production In this coun try. It will, of course, be necessary to draw on some of these other countries for supplies for oir own people. In such a case millions of consumer would' profit by the supply of cheap food from other countries where hun dred of farmers would suffer for lack of a protective tariff. It Is thus plaiii that we do not need a tariff on bread stuffs so long as we have a surplus to ship. It would be unfair to our own people to burden them with It when they have become a nation of buyers Instead of sellers. A NEW PHENOMENON. The gradual extension of Mr. J. P. Morgan's power over on financial In stirutlon after another Is conspicuous among the phenomena of our day htch future historian will Invest! gate with profound attention. The Equitable Life Assurance Society, con' cernlng whloh so much ha been heard In recent years, has just become one of his conquest. His man Is made president of the company In place of the late Paul Morton and It Immense funds will go to Increase Mr. Morgan' financial resources, which are already sufficiently large to satisfy most men. The Imagination curiously inquire where Mr. Morgan' financial conquests will end. If he lives ten years longer and continues the enterprises which he ha been carrying on lately, will any Independent concerns be left in the country, or will he be master or tnem all? Should all or most of them fall under his sway the results might be Interesting. To the modern world money la the breath of life. Our per sonal liberty, means of earning a llve llhood, elf-respect and the welfare of our families all depend Intimately upon the manner In which it is Issued and manipulated. Were It possible for one man to con trol the money of the country he would be Its ruler far more absolutely than the Csar rules Russia. The power of Nicholas Is In large part a mere show which would lose Its substance were the priesthood to desert him, or were the army to become disloyal. But the man who ha the money of the Nation in hi a-rasD need Invoke the aid of no priest or army. Powier flows to him as river seek the ea- The monetary sovereign Is a new kind ef despot whose emergence is an instructive develop ment of democ- cy. The ancient democracies had their demagogues who gained authority by eloquence or personal magnetism. In modern democracies It sometimes seem as IT the place of the demagogue were to be assumed by the money-gogue. Whether he will prove to be a power for good or merely another Instrumen tality of evil 1 a question which only the future can answer. A PHASE OF THE "SIMPLE LIFE.' A wedding on the main street of Fort Klamath, the contracting parties n horseback, was a feature of a cat tle round-up in which the bride was a pretty widow of the range. After exchanging their marriage vows, the twain, now one, turned their horses heads again toward the range and proceeded to finish the task of getting a fine bunch of cattle to market. An exemplification of the Idea of help-meet for the contingencies of life as they arise found unique expres sion In this marriage. It may be said to approach in a way the conditions In which Adam and Eve started out together, since it docs not suggest the possibility of homemaking and house keeping in the modern sense. Still It partakes of a strenuous age and has no suggestion of the simple life of our traditional "first parents in the Gar den of Eden, as portrayed by Milton: Vnder a tuft of shade that on a green Stood hinrlr.g sutt, by a fresh fountain- atda. They sat them down: and, after no more toll Of their. sre-t gardening; labor than surrlce To recommend cool Zeyphr. and make ease Mora easy, wholesome thirst and appetlta Alore grateful, to their supper-fruits they f-ll Nectarine fruits, which the compliant boughs Yielded thm. std!ong; as they sat recline I On the soft downy bank damasked with llowera. The savory iu!d they chew, end In the rind. Still as they thirsted, scoop the brimming stream. Here Indeed Is a picture of the "simple life." How strenuous by con trast do the simplest household avo cations, the most easy going existence of the present-day appear! No dishes to wash, fair daughter of Eve no sweeping or dusting or cooking to do. No potatoes to plant and hoe, stalwart son of Adam! no blood-letting in or der to furnish meat for the table no long hours devoted to business In or der to provide the household with these and a. myriad .of other things. Think of it! The savory pulp they chew, and la tha rind btiil mi tney imrstea accep me brimming stream. Not ven the aceticlsm of Thoreau, nor the cheerful philosophy of Alcott by which the simple life at "Fruit- lands" away back in th middle years of the last century, proceeded. - until abandoned by t starveling devotees. could compare with this. It is safe to say that the like of It exists only in poetry, and that not. all the arts of the disciples of aceticlsm will ever produce it outside of th most extrav agant fancy. Our romantic ranchers will not find it certainly, though they may scout the conventionalities of home and woman's sphere and all that sort of thing, and ride away together after the cattle the woman help-meet for the man; but somewhere in camp or kitchen they will sit down with zest to baked meats and steaming vege tables and bring to the feast an appe tite which .scoffs at "nectarine fruits" aa the piece de resistance, and at the beverage "scooped from the brimming stream" in the rind of the fruit. . Perhaps the ancient tree dwellers or lake, dwellers, or cave ' dwellers made some approach to the "simple life" as enjoyed (by courtesy of poetic fancy) In the Garden of Eden, but truth to tell, not even the most stren uous strlvers of a strenuous age would care to return to the simplicity which so wrought upon the imagination of Milton as to produce conditions so ut- terly devoid of human responsibility, human usefulness and human endeav or as are shown In this quaintly beau tiful word picture of human Idling an human ease and happiness "before) the fall of man." Mrs. Carrie Kersh, confederate of Webb In .the atrocious murder of Will lam Johnson in this city some months ago, is one of the few women prob ably less than a dozen in all who hav been sentenced and committed to the Oregon State Prison during the more than half century of It existence. Th first of these was a life prisoner, Charity Lamb, committed for murder in the second degree about 1S55, the victim being her husband. She was an inmate of the penitentiary when that Institution was located in thi city and was under the superintend ency of Joseph Sloan. A simple-minded creature, she fulfilled the sentence Imposed by the Court and died many year ago, leaving the woman's quar ters vacant for some time, as they have been now for' the past two years. These quarters are always - kept In readiness for the possible guest or guests, of whom there la room for three, and Mrs. Kersh will be commit ted without delay. Opportunity will be given to make herself useful, pos slbly a . rare accomplishment in her case, by running the sewing machine which is part of the equipment of the women's quarters, upon garments for the' Inmates of the prison. Stanton County, Kansas, la wlthofct a lawyer within its limits! This an nouncement should cause an exodus of briefless lawyers, of whom there is manifest plethora, from this city to the Kansan county, where a population of 1034 souls stagnate In neighborly peace and quietude for lack of somebody to stir them up in regard to their legal rights. It seems that In desperation born of monotony a murder was com mltted in this placid community a while ago and there is no one to bring the criminal to trial. Here Is an opening for a fledgling lawyer that should cause a rush to the locality designated 'equal to that of a reservation land opening. And who knows but a turh of the political roulette wheel might send an aggressive lawyer, who would rise to meet the present emergency and invade this peaceful territory to represent in Congress the district which includes Stanton County. The prospect is alluring. Official advices i celved at Salem from all parts of the state are to the effect that the prune crop waa unin jured by the recent cold snap. The state expert, W. C Tlllson, says that the Willamette Valley will produce a full crop, and he estimates the output at 30.000.000 pounds. This is cheering news, and shows that the fruit crop, like the grain crop. Is seldom ao badly damaged as first reports indicate. Thirty million pounds of prunes will sell for a large sum of money. If prunes escaped the freeze. It is proba ble that some other fruits that have been pronounced badly damaged may yet turn off good yields. The value of the fruit crop of the state runs into millions, and the difference between a big yield and a small yield, in many Lo calities means the difference between prosperity and adversity. The Camorra trial at Viterbo con tinues to offer dramatic and unusual Interest One of the prisoners created a scene yesterday by tearing. out his glass eye and hurling it to the floor, following this with a fit of sobbing and a swoon. Then, according to the cable advices, "As Exposlto collapsed, a tumult was raised; ' from the steel cages the prisoners shouted, cried and cursed." This interesting scene caused an adjournment Pictures taken in the courtroom at Viterbo show the prison ers in movable steel cages. sAs a means of restoring order the court might have these cages used as ducking stools. After an occasional ducking some of tb.e "fight" might be taken out of the cowardly wretches. There is something pathetic in the announcement of the birth of a child In prison. With a subtle handicap that In later life may beoome . a grievous burden a male Infant born In the Coun ty Jail of Clark County, Washington,' face the world. The mother of the child is urider sentence to the State Prison for a long or short term, as events may direct, for theft, and the baby will go with her to penance. The hope Is that the newly-awakened emo tion of motherhood may conduce, to conduct that will make the term a short one for the young woman and that the child will awaken to tha con sciousness of life about him under more favorable environment The outlook for a full student list- as full as can De accommodated in the beginning of the work of the Reed Institutes is bright There Is every indication that this school will be appreciated, both on account of its favorable and rational location and because of its educational scope. The mistake in locating the higher educa tional institution far from the center of opportunity will be more apparent after a school with the scope and generous endowment of a university has been - conducted in thi eity for a period. The filing of a suit for money due her from her former husband has brought the nam Amelie Rives Into the lime light again. The present generation may have forgotten Amelie. for she has had a number of followers and Imita tor who wrote and found publishers for much nastier fiction than" "The Quick or th Dead" or "Tania, th Sang- Dlgger," the erotlo masterpieces which first made Amelie famous. Compared with the works of Mary MacLalne, Eleanor Glyn and other wrtlers of as-Bestos-covered volumes, the early affu. lon ef Amelie Rive were mild anal ladylike- Ten Republicans and two Democrats want to be Councllmen from tha Sev enth, but there are still a few voters left in the ward who will not be tempt ed to vote for themselves. If those Mexican rebels and federals do not cease this disagreement on peace terms, they will be fighting yet f Criminal who can shed-Xa'.s tears when on trial must envy th Camorrlst who could shed a false eye. Senate way were not sufficiently smooth for launching the new insur gent party. The Daughters of the American Revolution Inherit the fighting spirit. Plunger Walton took his last plunge yesterday. PIZZLLNQ RIDDLE OF 8PHIXX. Idea Kot of EarratisiB Origin, bat Is Product of the ChsJdaeaa MsgL Frank C. Higglns. F. R. N. R. in letter to New York Times. Permit me to challenge the alleged assertion of Professor Relsner, of Bos ton, that the "Riddle of the Sphinx" I? solved by a fancied resemblance in either countenance or "millinery" to any Egyptian king. Neither does its proximity to any temple, pyramid, or other monument account for its salient characteristics. The Sphinx headdress is that found on the statues of numerous Egyptian kings and queens, and that because of the very ancient custom of embodying in ceremonial dress the insignia or at tributes of gods or divinity in general. I could show Prof. Relsner many in' stances where not only the character istic headdress of the Sphinx, but other features of that monument are studl' ously embodied In the poses of bVgone Egyptian rulers. The question is, there' fore, less where the Egyptian kings got these decorative features than "Where did the Sphinx get them?" and "What was the Sphinx V I am prepared to demonstrate to the satisfaction of Professor Relsner or any one else that the Sphinx Idea Is older than any recorded Egyptian ay- nasty, and that it is not, in fact, of Egyptian origin at all, but the product of the Chaldaean Magi, and more pro bably Inherited by them from the mere ancient Medea. Like all of the ancient divinities and symbolisms of divine nature, it was de rived from astronomy, and more par ticularly in this cam from the combina tion of the signs of Leo and Virgo in the zodiacal circle. This combination of two zodiacal signs .into one. possibly to express a month over which both preside, is found In many instances. For instance, where Virgo and Leo would blend Into a woman-headed Hon Vlrs-o and Libra (on the other side) would become the figure with the scales, of which our modern expression la the figure of "Justice." Sagittarius and Scorpio appear as a combined flgur on Assyrian monuments and on coins of the Seljeouk Turks. This mat ter mleht be pursued much further. The Sphinx type was adopted by the Phoenicians. Cretans, ana ueuenes generally, among whom it Is more often winged and the bead is always that of a woman. The Egyptian type, however, is the oldest of all, the proof beine aloncc a line of reasoning ana demonstration which has no bearing: upon any particular monarch having given his own countenance to a figure of the Sphinx, for which there exists absolutely no reason why he should not have done so if he wanted to. There Is a still areater "Kiaaie or me spnins, and it is older than the oldest Egyptian Pharaoh. THE DL1RY OF A POPULAR JOKE Llfa of a Laock Creator. a Observed From a British Viewpoint. London Tit-Bits. T. am born. My creator chuckles, slaps ' himself on the knee, roars, and calls his wife. Am read to the author s wife, bhe smiles, kisses him. and wants to know how much he thinks I will bring. r start on a Journey. Am read by an editor. He laughs, and reads me to the office staff. My creator gets a check and more kisses from his wife. I appear in print Thousands read me and laugh over me. The editor gets man v new subscribers. Reader tslla me on the street ana gets a cigar. Tells me again and is in vited to lunch. Newspaper copies me and also gets new subscribers. Comedian cracks me on stage tn a music hall turn and makes a hit Politician uses me in speech, claiming I happened back in his boyhood, and srets elected. Lecturer uses me on piatiorm ana gets return date. Minister works me in sermon ror il lustration and gets call to other town with hlKher salary. Am worked to death. Iweryooay everywhere uses me In season and out of season. I become a chestnut A new generation comes on, and I am forgotten. Fifty years pass by. I am resurrect ed from an attic. Am cut out and started on another Journey. He Owed It All to Bob Haines. New York Telegraph. Bob Haines, actor, is a graduate of Missouri University, at Columbia. Some years ago he was a member of James O'Neill's company playing "Monte Crlsto." Through him the O'Neill com pany obtained a date at Columbia un der the auspices of the , students. Everybody knew Bob, and therefore wanted to see the show do well. They all got out and sold tickets. Bob s fra ternlty worked especially -hard. The re- ult was that the company played to 1500 In one night The news spread around in theatrical circles that the O'Neill company had played to S1500 at Columbia, and other companies began to arrange their routes to get to the town. Some of them made long Jumps. Last Summer Haines visited Colum bia Just to spend a week with old friends. One night man stopped him on the street "Say," the man said, "were you the fellow who got James O'Neill $1500 here with the 'Monte Crlsto' company?" Yep, Haines replied. Who are you?" My name is Burke, the man re lied. "When I heard of that J1500 I umped my 'East Lynne' company 500 miles to get here. We played to $32." What are you doing here now?" Haines asked. "I'm a truck gardejier three miles out I couldn't get out of town. Now I'm doing well thanks to you." The Bibj' Face. ; Baltimore Sun. Who can fathom the fairy grace That dwells in a velvety baby face? Who can fathom the fairy glee That rings in a baby's melody? And who unravel the secret wile That aleepa In the nest of a baby's smile? Tha hungry and lingering Joy wa know When our rough face touches a babe's, and lo. We feel the touch of the velvet skin nd the warm, sweet lovellght bound , therein 1 A baby's face how can one tell Its mystic charm and its holy spell? Rough hearts go by, rude, rugged men. From the dust and crime of mart and fen; But under tba cloak of their outer din Love's hunger sleeps their souls within. And when they see a baby's face Round aad roay and sweet with grace They long, aa you and I. to press The velvet Joy of Its warm caress. How mnen It holds, how deeply lays. Within Us soft and gentle maze, T ha charm to soothe,- the charm to heal The hurt that lives s often feel! A baby's face along the way Is like a little bioom-o'-day ; And. Ilka a little flower. It brings The sweetness of a thousand springs; The balsam of the heart-made well la in tha touchstone of Ha spell! The Chieftains. Metropolitan Magazine. Not the first growth of spruce and pine. Nor the -second, nor the third. Was whnt I saw In ordered Una And what at night I heard. But often, when twilight would fold Thlr shadows in tha lake. While the sun would sink with dreams of old And a first faint star would break. I watched them coma to the water edge, -Refora their vanished raoa. Warrior Chiefs from wood and ledge And undiscovered place. I saw them stand with feathered head. Unmovlng and unmovea. The captains of a neople dead wmcn first naa lougni aaa lovea. Then In the night I heard their prayer To Him thev hold divine: And In the dawn were standing there. Hemlock ana spruce ana pine. Timely Tales of the Day Archibald Gray, newly appointed slstant general freight and passenger agent of the Great Northern, has to his credit one of the most sensational per formances as an lnfielder ever seen on , baseball field. It was in a game between teams com posed of Elks from Butte and Helena Mont, played In the latter city. There was a keg of beer on third base ae an Incentive to the baserunners, and Gray was covering the base for the Butte Elks. A runner on eecond, noticing that Gray was engrossed at the spigot, made bold attempt at a eteal. Gray had raised a foamins eluan tn hia lins whan from grandstand and bleachers there went u an Involuntary warning cry. The catche took a chance and threw the ball. Without disconnecting; himself from the beer glass, Gray threw up his free hand being an Elk, It was hie right and the ball stuck in it Enthusiasm over th play ran so high that the bases were run backward the rest of the game. B. F. Bush, the new president of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, early In his career learned the art of handline larae bodies of workmen along with the details or railroad construction, management and traffic When he was superintendent of tne assortment of short railroads in th Pacific Northwest owned by the now de funct Oregon Improvement Company, h related an incident bearing on this point which happened on a piece of new con struction n Montana. In company with a contractor he -went to look at the work of another contractor. His companion sized up the men with the eye of an expert and then said: vvhy don t you pickle your men?" "What do you mean?" "Why, they're all Swedes. They can talk together In their own language and you don't know what they are talking aoout Tney can put up a Job on you rignt under your nose and you don' know anything about it. Mix up your Swedes with Cousin Jacks,' 'Dagoes,' Irieh, Huns and Poles. Then they can't understand one another, they'll be sus picious of one another eJid they can form a combination. That'll save you whole lot of trouble." "I made a note of that," said Mr. Bush after telling the story, "and made it point never to have a gang of laborers of only one nationality, especially one that did not speak English. You not only . get the work done, quicker and better but you know what is going on among th men." George D. Howard, a real estate man In the Spalding building tells of an ex perience he had recently at Lyle In Klickitat County. He owns a tract of land up in that growing and pushing country and had occasion a few days ago to chip a box of trees over the railway to Lyle. The nursery man was unable to find anything more convenient Just at the moment of packing than coffin box to put the trees in. It had all the trade "marks of a shipment of a body to Its burial place and when the box arrived at Lyle, Mr. Howard, who had gone up on the .train to see that the trees arrived all right and were taken at once to the land to be planted, stepped off the platform and began hunting for bis box. He finally found It but noticed two young men looking at the box quite intently. One of them remarked to the other, evidently recognizing the coffin box: "Going to be a funeral In town." "Looks like It" said the other.' Mr. Howard In the meantime had gone Into the depot and obtained a bucket of water. Taking the water to the box containing the trees, he slid over the lid covering the head part and doused the entire contents of the bucket with one swing of his arms upon the trees. The young men stood amazed, grew In dfgnant and approached Howard with clenched fista. One glance Into the box turned their anger at apparent desecra tion of the dead into sheepishness, and they slipped away in silence. Police Sergeant Riley, who has charge of the West Side district on the day relief, experienced a shock recently when he went to notify the contractor on a skyscraper In the downtown section to comply with the ordinance requiring a sidewalk guard. The ordinance requires such guards to be constructed, so the public may with safety use the sidewalks beneath. On this particular occasion, the building had proceeded to the point where the frame work was up six stories. No guard was In place although brick masons were busy on the structure. When Sergeant Riley approached the contractor and 'called his attention to the ordinance, the contractor was con siderably incensed to think a policeman would have the effrontery to speak to him about it 'I know what the ordinance says, as well as you do, and better," said the contractor. "It calls for a sidewalk guard when the first floor Is finished; that means when the brick wall Is In on the first story. That building hasn't a brick laid in the first story." Sergeant Riley took a good look and found that the finst story was the only one where no brick work had been done, and retreated. Technically, tne contractor was rignt He had taken advantage of the peculiar wording of the law In order to facilitate his own work and avoid the guards, to the Inconvenience of the general public. Half a Century Ago" From The Oregonian, April 22, 1S6L A letter from Montgomery to the Baltimore 9un, dated March 17, contains the following paragraphs: "The military spirit of the south rages among all classes, and every man under 100 will prove himself to the 'manor born," In coee It Is necessary to repel the North ern Hordes that propose to Invade us. In fact we would rather have a brush In order to take the starch out of the vaunting, boasting and distantly ferocious crew who propose to coerce us. General Joe Lane's son was ap pointed Second Lieutenant In the Artil lery yesterday. This is a good appoint ment He has been a cadet at West Point for four years, and is a competent and worthy young man." General Lane Just previous to his leav ing New York for the Pacific, wrote to a friend as rollows: I am out of politics, but I shall continue to stand by the right. I will urge the Democrats of Oregon to adopt the Constitution of the Confederate States as their plat form." A pack train of 30 animals for Frazer River went up the river on the Julia on Friday morning. This tells the story. The Pacific brought up the machinery for the new steamer Tenino, now at Deschutes. When completed, she will be the third steamer upon The Dalles Lof the Columbia. The Port Townsend Register says that on the 7th Inst, the New Dungeness lighthouse was much shaken by an earthquake. Princess Pat Wine Praise In 'Art. Brooklyn Eagle. Princess Patricia of Connaught was one of the exhibitors at an amateur art show held recently In London. "The Magnolia Tree" was .the subject of one picture that received special praise from the critics. Persiflage In the Kitchen. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Sugar Spoon I'm one of those gold en spoons that get born in people's months. Rolling Fin You haven't got any thing on me in the wealth line. I'm rolling in dough all the time. Advertising Talks By William C. Freeman. Mason Britton, In the conduct of the American Machinist, takes the position, that the printing of an advertisement In that publication means to the read ers the same as a rating by Dun or Bradstreet He takes great pains to make the Advertising Columns, as well as the editorial columns. Reliable. In a recent editorial he said: "There was a time when people used circus hot-air expressions, because somebody said that Barnum said peo ple liked to be fooled. "Barnum didn't win by fooling the people. "He advertised the greatest show on earth, and he had the goods. "Honesty Is the first law of business. "Honesty is the first rule of true success. "Nowadays, exaggeration defeats its own ends. "The era of truth telling is here, if for no other reason than it costs money to be a liar. , "Just as fast as that truth comes home to the man who pays the bills, is advertising paying better. "The man who ia determined to get the best returns for money spent In advertising will never willfully pub lish an untruth. "And even if he is short-sighted enough to want to, he can't if we know It" This is the stand that should be taken by all publications who want to Bucceed. (To be continued.) Country Town Sayings by Ed Howe (Copyright, 1911, by George Matthew Adams.) When it comes to a showdown, so manv men have no money. A glance backward is the only way to. look into the future. All some city people know is whether their part of town is reached by a green or yellow car. Some people, when they hear of any thing going on. immediately besrin to eee how much fault they can find with it City storekeepers fear strikers as much as country-town storekeepers fear far mers. Every man barked el by a dog is not a thief; every man talked about by a gossip Is not guilty. Do you enjoy hearing a man roasted more than hearing a man praised? Then your heart is dirty. A brakemon was SDeakiner of the dls- said, "as the third band in a circus pa rade." No man is so much in love that he can't get over it Stirring Series On Vital Phases of Civil War Begins in TOMORROW'S OREGONIAN Actors in the great drama of the Civil War will present suc cessively 12 thrilling non-partisan articles on the Civil War that will be illustrated with actual Civil War photographs. To the Front in '61, will be the opening article. It is given a full page, the illustrations including Thomas Nast's famous painting of the old Seventh New York leaving for the front. It isn't long now until our Bible will pass its 300th birthday that is, the tercentenary of the translation and publication of "the King James version." A timely and vital article is pre sented in this connection. "Woman is to play an unusually brilliant part in the coronation of England's Monarch. Geraldine de Longville, writing from Lon don, supplies an interesting half page on this topic, with illustra tions. Farmers can cut down the high cost of living. At least that is what B. F. Yoakum, the eminent railroad man, avers, and he sup ports his views with a thoughtful interview of 2000 words. There are several individuals hereaboutts who would be Mayor of Portland. It is the most cov- ; eted of local political places. But it isn't any sinecure. Mayor Si mon is a hard-worked man. and the man who would be Mayor must set his mind to hard work. Read the half-page on .this in Sunday's magazine section. May day is at hand, and this year quaint May-day ceremonies are being revived the world over. Merry May day Ceremonies is the title of a brisk, nicely illustrated half-page. There is an excellent half-page, too. on a man in Delaware who, having a couple of millions to give away, takes the stand that good roads are more valuable than libraries. He has set out to prove his claim. Two strong short stories are provided. The Perfidy of Miss Brown is the eighth of the Peter Ruff Series. Then Prank Bailey Millard, a favorably-known writ er, presents an unusual adventure tale, "Under-Water House." . Cap Anson, in his reminiscences, is back in the United States, after his tour of the world. The susceptible Widow Wise invades Mexico and goes to a bull fight. Sambo sets off for the land of. the kangaroo, despalrinsr of the wild man's capture, and Mr. Twee Deedle takes the children into a land of strange little creatures. ALL THE NEWS OF PORT LAND, OF OREGON AND OF THE WHOLE WORLD t