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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (June 13, 1911)
TIIE MORXIXG OREGOXIAX. TUESDAY. JUE 13. 1911. (Hie (Dmrmumt rOTLA-HD. ORKOOS. Zartr at rortla-eV. OnfM. p-ajtafftca a a-"a3-.".aaa aCetlar. Suascrtptiaa s-ataa lavarlahl' tB A4-B 'FT If Alt) P'-. oriaT laele'ad. aa 'C? I,a .- tnfl.T f-"tw1a. Ml aaaalS J X a:-r. i: lartu t-ra mor.tyia... l tohlSiaUl. in. --ar. tai.r. -itrtaut AutOa. oaa matt n-oain. wm. . yar. ........ .. -. ie. ae-e -r aa.ias 4 eal-. m4 ar. . . P-.n. fiaa'av latwl. aa. w . tavir ;aa la-lad-d. sah . . .tt H- t W.mII ni r-.T.- "? tl r np-M. arse far --.si eaaaa yar la-a; talk. 'm;e. com ca-raarr era at it mix).' --aa. t'. -aaKafT'.ee e4:-aa la fill. lo-l4i e-oJH BL1- i.-e. 3 rant.. ta o paa-aa. c-a'. l n aaaea, Beaia. f - a aa -la, aa j " rata. Sai-ra nailai.a Offl Tarra A Co- a .Na Tra. HraaaaMa. aal.aJe. Ca- " m romx.vi. Ttr.nT. t. ti. ritnr.U-MVE ARK BIT t. Tlv. paopl romplalnt acalnst tha c'r.itxl :alr r na : a i that it baa cs.l rpr-,ntailve body. But th. crlllrtsm Is no longrr U round ad. for It l Just now blnrlr to b a r-pre-ar tativs body. Ta. alacrity trd -ruhu!am with which th. 8na tor snort or th.rn r-spoad to In daman.la of thctr constltu-nt. or hat thcr tan a to tx lha at-ml-arnta and (l-r- of Ihalr constltu-nv. In th lrn portaat matter of t" radian rort-prwit-. ia a mArt portntoua alien of tr tun'. N-t KrAihi:r,B Sar.ator la Cirtr h fuiri.l'J th- olJ-fash-Jon t llal or th p-rtirt Konator br taktn-t ih Na't.n' lr nj not th tr Tt-r of rciprH-lt) : ort a So at -r ria faltrd to r--nl lmmdlat IT aaj o:r!:-!oaJy to tho rlamor of th p.'-! h'' elrrtrcl him farnii- or tha it vkntn, or tho lum. b--rniro. r the tl-rirrmrrj that h look cut r.rt fr thlr trtrrt. and ioni:jr for th Ntin". It U an Imcnuiv. apvctacW. a ala-nifWani and lr.trn. tia ln. td-nt in thr ir.;rr-a of th ina.ril th sol a rp- r.rntactvf cirnrurDt that rrprt vntiL pat tha arctlonal a.i-r.-t ot th ar.at pllrttal olu!lon of "onerr ha.1 ei txf"rto rl--arly prrrnt4 It- arlf. !--nator Porah. of Idaho, who ha rontU tioo and tha abilltr to npr thrm alouantlr and cofrntty. afford tha tio! rant amplo of tha Sen ator a ho contra to the racu of tho asttat.d and datrraard farmrr by d-tUri-c that ha ltl part company with tha Prt'Ient orr r-lprocIty. Senator Borah, lika th othr pro frraatva. Ions fondly chartfhad tho loaa l l'a of tha tariff aa tha corravt and certain aolutloa or ttta many Ilia and abuaaa of hl(ti protection; but. alo Ilka tha other prralTe. or moat of them, ha d!rTer that the Iowa idea la a theory and not a con 1 -no. and ha refuara to take tha Drat practical atep toward putting It Into affe.-t. Tha farmer of Idaho, or uch f the farmera aa hava mada them wUes heard from tha huatinu and In the gran aad through tha local pa pers, are now the objreta of Mr. lu.rih'a tender aoltrltude; not tha wuiimfn of Idaho, nor tha farmera or cor.-umera ft the country at la rice, nor any other of tha common Intrreata of I the people, s-o crorf a man aa Borah eucht to hare had tha count an.! Independence to emulate the II-ln-trlou precedent of many another Senator of other da who found In the prejudice or misinformation or , la-noranc of any cla of conatituenta aa Incentive to an enllftitened ekpoal tln of the truth and a brare etate men of a Seoator"e duty to hlmaelf. h'. :at and bla country. Put Mr. Porah preent attitude t atrtctly In , .-n r J with the latter-day irira that ' a Senator ahould repreaent the people i who i-r.t htm there: and It la clear that no Senator hereafter will ha tha temerity to ha-ard an opinion or a ume a poattlon that be fjnrte w.'Tl be objectimabl at home and there fore Jeopardise hi proapect of re-e!-tton. Pot Senator Porah 1 not alone In hi application of the brake to the rocra'.e machine In It nrcraaary momentum toaard a lower t art IT. Sen. ator Cummin. tennior La Follette. Senator Smith tMlchlcan. Senator Clapp. anl other dltlnr-lhd ment of the Inur;ent cltvle haa found It expedient to force! and l nore the fart that the Payne-Aldrlch tariff mde the ftrat yawnlr.c breach bear a Ihrra and the Taft Adminl' tratloa. Te rre!Jent wa a tand p::er. a reactionary, a foe to proc reaa and a creature of B ( Pu-lnea. n-ratH he In-lated that a hllh-pro-tectixe tariff a espre-eed In the laj ne-AUruh blil waa the proper po!!cy; they were pretrreaalvea. friend of t&e peer! and enrmle pf the ln trreet becauae they Irt .ied that the tariff be Io-red and that the Iowa jflea a tariff that properly equal! ' tue coat of rr,-'-',u,n - l,-m' and asr"d hae corrrete embodiment thrwiO true tariff revision. Kow the rre:dr.t take a eir-c'e atrp toward re::.-a!!on of the pntfeaalTe IdeaL and th-y promptly abandon the Ideal aal the President, almoat In a body. It wo'i! ! r.-t b Ju.t to bUme !l!orah. Cu-nrr.tr and the rt. Ty ra-rot help It. Tbrv are Ju: a re l i. tr.: to commit poiitloa: -ulvlJ a the n-.ot confirmed ar.d h-ne!.-. tar.i; ::er. They know, or at Icajt Ikay fear, that their couatltuenta are nat f-'r Canadian re--!prc-ci;v. It fol low thJt the prudent ar.d la-U-al ccar-a l f'T them to repre-ent their ror.::turnt. The fni'.ed S-atc J-.n-are t lr;!-ed twcomlr rr ren!atlve. tiu twrikT rt.i. TRiar. If there are any of the Alnt!r Tlr ruea wiilch the benerolent Pteel Trnt ha not practiced d urine It kinder career. Mr. Gary. II prealdaat. doe not know of them. It ha aoucht to establish to monopoly. It haa kept the pal.c we'.farw conetantly In mind. ..-neit-ne to the r.:e-t of Ita own financial profit. I: ha not accepted rebff en when they were offered ry t.e tempter In the form of a rail road ant. Above a!l. It ha been watchfu; oer the tr.tfrea! of It m plfre. a Thi revrd. a Mr. Oary unfolded It 13 tr;e Cor.rrevi'or.i! committee, mi" he pleased the- te?!emen. h.:a It co:d nr-f'r hare failed to eac.'e their aatontehment. Such con ;jnt Tlrtue I rare Indeed an where on arth particularly rare In tru!. Home of the eommltta mav have felt ."ft- a-jrl"!n of a HiiM flit through ttre.r tauarta when Mr. Oary roh o toelinfly of the aollcltode of ht top-is fr the r-oMe welfare. They wondered, per ha pa. why It la that the Btel Tru-t haa been aelllrve tl rati In Meik-o and other foreign land for 1:4 a tin while American have had to pay IJI for them. In fact, why Is It that the one conplcuou effect of our protective system Is to forca we American to pay our trusts mora for their crxxis than they coat to for eigners? Cnncedicc that Mr. Gary's testimony must be takea In a Pickwickian sense for the moil part, it Is atlll true that the Steel Trust has pent a great deal of thought and money for the good of Its employe and also that It ha been repaid with Inirratltude. This Is sad. but there Im reason for It. to ejuot a famous phraae. The Steel Trust ha tried to lift lt raployea up In the good old feudal way. Now. It as one of the disappointing charac teristics of men that they refuse to e lifted up. They will rise by their own efforts sometime, but not by the ef fort of a feudal patron. This potr.ta out the fundamental error which the excellent Steel Trust ha committed In dealing with It workmen. It ha forgotten tnat they are free men and must either rise by their own effort or remain In tha mlra. The beat thing Mr. Gary or any other, employer can do for hi men is to pay them generous waga and then leave them alone to work out their own salvation. HKOTHKK (CHRtiOTTS, LETTrK- Rer. Mr. Ehrgott. pastor of the Ea-t Sid Baptist Church, appears to have some apprehension that all the lessons of the recent municipal election may not have been duly Impressed on tho Mayor-elecl. The brother therefore addresses a letter to Mr. Kushlight In which, pewklng for hlmaelf and hi congregation, he says thst "It Is our expectation that promptly aM without need! delay you will ue your o' n.laj powers to aubmlt to the people the adoption of the commission form of government." That progressive East Side congre gation fairly represents the desire and the aaplrations of the whole people of Portland. The public hopes to hnve the commission government promptly and without nee-Dews delay. Mayor Rushlight ought to he In u uncertainty about It. We take It that be Is not. for certain Of his friends Mr. Kellaher. Mr. Rlesland and others are buy with their plan to get up a charter that will doubtless rertVct the Keltaher-Rleaiand Ideal of local gov ernment. Vet we shall not Judge hastily. It may be. and w trust will be. a better document than tha active sponsor-hip of the men who have In volved the public ntlftles project In present defeat and who urged the ri diculous antlllon-dollar paving plant scheme would Justify the public In looking for. The people of Portland will have ample opportunity to com pare It with the charter to be framed by the excellent commission appointed by Mayor lmon. The decision ought to be on the respective merits of tha rival documents. We aha.! look for an early reply to Prother Ehrgott'a letter. It should satisfy the anxiety of the East Sid church and the curiosity of the pub lic. It will be easy for a Mayor who meana business to write such a letter to a public that knows what It wants. TBOtTStM or "JIM" SVITH. Although ex-Senator -Jim" Smith of New Jersey he weep whenever he ea the "n" Is making a bitter fight to prevent Governor Wilson from rapturing the tate delegation to tha DemecTStlc National Convention, he la handicapped by the fact that WlUon has changed the rule of the game. Under a lirw of which vVllaon aecored the passage, delegate to National convention will hereafter be elected by direct primary, at which the peo ple will be allowed to express their preference for President. Smith was a highly auccessful boss under the old rules, which provided for nomlnatlona by a convention domi nated by the boaa. Rut It la hard work to teach an old dog new trick, and he will hardly be as successful under the new rule, at which Wllaon ha proved hlmceif an adept. Smith thlnke WlUon "played It low down" on him using his money and his organization to secure the Gov ernorship and then turn against him. Wilson's view la that, being the party candidate, he had a right to the sup port of the party organisation, but that doe not aatlsfy Smith. He peev ishly replies that the rain Is not played that way and that. If Wilson did not Intend to play It as It always had been played, he should have eaid so. Whereupon Wilson smiles, aa one who says: "W hat are you going to do about lr Smith est about showing Wilson what he Is going to do about It. but he finds himself called upon to rlay a new game, largely of Wll- i son's own lavsntlon. at which Smith I Is a novice. How can be. who has buncoed ths 1 voters again and again, stump the ' state with any success against an ur i bane college professor who Insists on earning out platform promises and the verdict or direct primaries. ah old-style politician haa no show against a msn like thst. thi nor.rm TomT. Mr. Lettlce Jsne Reynolds, the old est of a family of nine children who. I with the'r parents, joined tne -v nu ' man Immigration" and crossed th cotrtlr.ent In 1J4J fcy the primitive methods then In vogue, died at her I T- 1 1 lf.ll. r n -..-.a I A There I more than the record of a lor.g and active life, covering the pe riod of eventful year first on the far frontier then on the Western rergs of civl'.lxatlon and finally In a popuioua. cultivated community. In the brief account of th passing of thi graclou woman at the age of SI. A child of It year, "the oldest of a family of cine." Lettlce Jane Dtllican. with the other members of her fam ily. Including ;he brave mother of nine small children, headed by the Intrepid father, plunged Into a trackless wilder ness slrty-nlne jears ago. seeking they knew not what. Not pioneer con dition urely. since the start In this Ins'.snce was made from Arkansas, where the nine children were born. At thai time the conditloca In that state were crude enough to aatlafy the strongest, most unreasoning desire for frontier life. The dsnger Involved In uch a Jour ney st su.-h a time, to a helpless family were truly arpaiilng. The Indians along the route, so slowly and wearily traversed, might or might rot prove hostile; certainly they and th entire country that was passed over wer gravely Inhospitable to auch an under taking. Sickness might or might not overtake th little band, bat th prob abilities In thi direction were grava Indeed, and during the long months of the Journey snelther medical attendance nor ordinary care of the lck wa pos sible. . These considerations, together with the fact that after traversing a danger haunted wilderness of many hundred of miles, a danger-haunted hom awaited the family, should have given the responsible head pause In this du bious undertaking. It would hav done so. no doubt, had the adventurous pioneer been aware of the real and great magnitude of the force to be met - and overcome. Ignorance of these conditions stood this pioneer and many -who followed in his train in closely succeeding years In the atead of courage. Courage rose to meet the ex. -ancles of danger and alckness. of privation and death, when they cam, as com they frequently did. but this courage was the aftermath of the ad venture, nut it Inspiration. Looking back from the sunset slope of life, men and women who were the young children of the ox-team Immi gration era are lost In wonder at the hardihood of their forbears In plung ing with them Into the trackless wil derness of the long ago. And though, aa In duty bound and by filial love constrained, they assess this hardihood as courage and contemplate it with admiration akin to awe. few or them Indeed would care or dare, under the lure of similar conditions, to follow the example of these -boldest of pio neers. Interpreted by the light of ex perience and lifelong observation, th story or the Pacific Coast pioneer, th beginnings of which ar laid In the ox team era. la more than wonderful It Is astounding. TH A-OMATB TtyVTKU The towel that can stand alone U one of th traditions of the printing office. Now comes the hotel towel that can walk. The Kansas Stat Board of Health Is discoverer of the moving powers of thla familiar friend, the roller towel. Of coarse, w always knew that this faithful attendant upon country hotel, bark norch and kitchen ablutions per formed under proper manipulation many evolutions per mlntuc. but who ever suspected that, after having made divers and sundry of these evolutions, the roller towel was. aa It were. In stinct with life? Vet this the experts of the Kansas Board of Health affirm to b the fact, and they are going on In the most coldblooded way to count and classify the germs that are re sponsible for this miracle of towel walking. But for the proof they adduce In the horned, thousand-legged and other wise fearsome-looking germs which ar disclosed by th microscope as th moving fore on th animate towel, we would be tempted to clasa these bug hunters with the nature-fa krrs and scout the atory aa a libel upon an old friend. With these grewsom proofs Im pending, however. It behooves every body to accept the story and shun the roller towel of the country hotel even as the public drtnklng-cup la shunned, and acknowledge another debt to the bu-y bacteriologist. MISTAKES l DIRKCT laWJl.aUATIOX. Our own Jonathan la again to the front boasting of the Infallibility of the Oregon application of the Initia tive and referendum. He does not al low mere facts to stand In the way. In a letter to G. W. P. Hunt, president of the Arizona Constitutional Conven tion, he says: The setlaa of yaur people wa guided larselr ay th azparlence of th people of Orecon. who have aow enjoyad popular governm-nt for e!M year. Ton wora wt In following euch guidance, for la th past elsht years th pooP'e of Orosoa hav voted upon a total of oistr-tour measure ub ntiltad to popular vote and bava not mad a anuria ralatasa; whtla they have In numer ous 1 naturae secured advanced le-lslatloa whtrh they coola not Mouri from the Leg islature and have dafeated a aumbar of unwlas acta paaaed by th Legislature. - Not a alngl mistake! - How about the rival Columbia River fishing bills, both of which war adopted, and which tied up the Industry so com pletely that both parties to the con troversy , appealed to the Legislature? That body, despised of the Bourn crowd, passed a bill which cut the tangle, satisfied the demands of both factions and put th fishing Industry on a living basis. At the Isst election an Initiative bill was passed which forbade all fishing In Rogue River, except with hook and Una. Th bill put out of business a cannery which desired only to pack kinds of salmon not desired by anglers, who promoted the bill. The Legislature amended the Initiative bill by passing a measure which gave each party what It wanted and left everybody satisfied. The cannery could have been operated, and the fish sought by the anglers would have been protected. But Governor West, be lieving any bill passed by the Initiative to be sacred from th unholy hands of th Legislature, vetoed tha amend ment. Then there v. as the single tax amendment. It looked so Innocent Just a little bill to repeal th poll tnx. Everybody waa In favor of that. He would pay protective tariff tax to the Steel Trut. the Woolen Trust and various other trust, but pay poll tax never. The peopl voted it with a whoop and found when tt was too lata that they had repealed a tax that did not exist and had opened the way for the Imposition of the single tax on th state, county by county. There were other mistake, but these will suffice to show how Mr. Bourne' en thusiasm has blinded hlra to facta. But the mischief Is not limited to bills passed under th initiative and referen dum. It even extend to bill which wer affirmed by the rferndum and to btl'.l aa to which It la now proposed to Invoke the referendum. In 190 the general appropriation bill, carry ing appropriation for all stat office and Institutions, was voted upon after being held up since February. 1901. During the Intervening time improve ment waa stopped at all stat Institu tion and many thousanda of dollars were paid In Interest on warrants Is aued for the unavoidable expen of carrying on th atate government. It ia "now proposed to invoke the referendum against the appropriation for the State University and. whether the appropriations are eventually sus tained or not. Improvement will b suspended until the vote Is taken, and additional expense will be Incurred. This mischief may result In race or the fact that the referendum petitions ar derp'.y tainted with forgery. Rightly applied, the Initiative and referendum are good means of en forcing the passage of good lawi and of killing bad laws. Aa applied under th Bourne free and easy system, they ar oftert pernicious In the extrema. In Judging of them. It la essential to distinguish between the principle In volved and th Bourne method of ap plying it. The Tobacco Trust, condemned to die. Is second only to the Standard OH Company In high dividend These grew from 39.3 to 2.5 per cent by stages tn ' th last Ave yeau-s. Hard times da hot affect It. for when Us sales of good cigur shrink, those of cheap cigars, chewing and smoking tobacco expand these being the hard times smokes. The trust controls only IS per cent of the clpar business, but has 7 per cent of the smoking and chewing tobacco trade, and 82 per cent of the little cigars and cigarettes. In the ten years from 1900 to 1909 the American consumption of smok ing and chewing tobacco and snuff haa Increased from 300.000.000 to 4S1. 000.000 pounds, of cigars from 5,6(5. 000.000 to 8.667.000.000. of little cigars from 10.000.000 to 1.043.000.000. and of cigarettes from S.tSt.OOO.OOO to 6, 835.000.00 The criticism on the big fee which was paid John W. Foster for settle ment of the Ward claim against China recalls on of the moat interesting; characters the United States contribut ed to h -story. Frederick T. Ward was an American adventurer in China when the TaJ Ping rebellion broke out. He took a contract from the Chinese government to raise an army to sup press the rebellion. He fought and won some desperate battles and wa In a fair way to complete a good, workmanlike Job when he was killed In action. The work was taken up and finished by Charles George Gor don, the Englishman, who thereby ac quired fame and th sobrrquet "Chi nese Gordon." Ward's success in or ganizing an army out of the miscel laneous material at hand wes consid ered a work of genius. The Eugene Guard I "tired of turning the other cheek" to enemies of the State University. "This taik about the necessity of kow-towing to Inveterate enemies and seeking to placate them with oft phrases Is the veriest drivel." cries the Guard. It would seem that a great row among the educational Institutions of the Mate is Imminent If the sangttlnsry advice of the Eugene paper Is fol lowed. To what end? To what good? Where will the Slate UalverIty ben efit? Will the Guard' policy of fight ing the other Institutions make friends for the University? The only hope of the University la tho good will an-1 friendliness of the state. Fight? Fight what? Fight whom? H. O. Havemeyer waa alwaya known aa a close-mouthed man. but his secretlveness waa not supposed to have gone the length or keeping stock holders or the sugar trust in the dark about Its affairs. When the New Eng land stockholders inquired Into the business they were surprised to find the president of the trust was only a small bolder and that they held the majority. They then took control. The underweighing frauds, for which Havemeyer escaped Indictment" by dying, may have been one reason for secrecy. Governor Dix Is determined thst the New York Assembly shall not dodge a vote on the Income tax amendment, which has already passed the Senate. If he cannot Induce the Judiciary committee, which is disposed to kill It. to report the resolution., he will call an extra aesslon to consider It. The Tammany legislators will be on the horns of a dilemma If they vote for Income tax. they lose th ravor of th Interests; It they vote against It. they loss votes. But will Dix stand firm ? If the people of Oregon are laboring under any Impression that they alone know Senator Bourne, and that he has successfully bamboozled and hood winked all others, they have but to read the very interesting and suffi ciently accurate article on Bourne, re printed from the New York Globe to day. It Is by the Globe's Washington correspondent. H can aee a thing or two. The increased use or typewriters Is accompanied by a decline in the art of penmanship. Another handicap is the method of teaching writing In the schools, with change from one to an other system. The general standard of handwriting a century or two ago waa better than that which prevails today as reference to old books of rec ord will show. Waldorf Astor will be In his element entertaining the bigwigs or the Brit ish Empire. If the old furbuyer who founded the Astor family could ap pear at Cliveden there would be an Interesting meeting. Would Waldorf be more embarrassed by the appear ance of his ancestor than John Jacob would be by that of his descendant? In consequence of the Kansas hunt for germs the public roller towel of the country hotel Is likely to go the way of th public drinking cup. The human body must be a tough article to have withstood the attacks of all th germs the doctors are "discovering. A poll of the newspaper editors of the Wet. North and Southwest, made by the Chicago Tribune, shows 3113 out of 4S03 in favor of Canadian reci procity. That Is probably about the proportion for the voter In general. Governor Harmon warns the gradu ate that the mad race Tor wealth men aces the legal profession. That, how ever, will not deter the veriest tyro from bringing suit In a Justice court to collect any old claim. An all-around athlete leads the graduating class at West Point, and breaks the dread fetish that athletics r. fatal to acholarshlD. It Is a Dlt5" he goes into the engineers' Instead of I th fighting room. Mrs. Nation's will makes Initial pro vision for a horn for drunkards' wives and children, but an institution of that character is barely practicable, for women of that kind are -usually too proud to enter it. When a man contemplates the Junk his w-ife stores In cellar and attic he has kindly feeling for the Government that sells a 13.000.000 war vessel for a few thousand dollars. Broilers said to be affected with tuberculosis are on the local market and it may be so. but a chicken of the broiler size la rather young to hav a developed case. BUI Byrd Is a common criminal, not a desperado like Harry Tracey. : EASTER 51 COIVCEPTIOX OF BOURSE 1 Writer la w Vark Fapatr Deplete Oregoa Senator aa Fickle. New York Globe. If Jonathan Bourne were not a rich man and a Senator, he would the original wonder boy as a preas agent. When It comes to devising fresh and original waya la whloh to keep his name on th first page he makes other publicity pushers seem as quiet as a small boy In the Jam closet. His lat est announcement Is that he Is to make a "speechless" campaign for re-election . in Oregon, Just to find out whether the people were Joking when they elected him to the Senate In 1907. Considering that there Is a state pri mary law in Oregon and that he won his last nomination by a margin of 421 vote that has some vslue as a space grabber. Oregon papers are due to comment widely upon that plan though most of them will likely admit that between now and 1913 Bourne may change his mind. That seems to be one of the best things he does. He is a small man, with the foot of a cat and the softly twittering- voice of a meadowlark. If one may Judge by performance, his chief atrbltion Is to cuddle ut to the rran In power. He learned tennl In order to play with President Roosevelt, and originated the Roosevelt Third Term League, which made some little stir for a time. He paid $1000 to a Western Judfte for. the bet essay on "Why Roosevelt Should Be Renomi nated" though that was a matter of business, for it was good booming ma terial for a magazine In which he waa Interested and he led a delegation of Roosevelt rooters to Chicago, who were still at work on the very day that W. H. Taft came home a winner.. Then he learned golf, told President Taft it had been a dreadful mlBtake. and for a time It looked as though he might be a member of the Taft kitchen cabinet. Having been the most radical Senator conversationally of all radical Sen ators he switched and became the lieutenant of Senator Aldrichs boy scouts. With Senator Crane, of Massa chusetts, he would canvass the Senate to find out whether a given Aldrich proposition would go through, and if not what mean must be used to make it go through. Aldrich did the think ing and Bourne the running. More re cently he again saw1 an error in his ways, criticised President Tsft severe ly for what he called the use of the Federal patronage In making sure of a renomlnstlon. and organized the Pro gressive Republican League, the pur pose of which is presumably to defeat President Taft's rcnominatlon ir pos sible. Hence the conclusion that because Senator Bourne says today that he will not make a speech during his 1913 campaign, tomorrow he may engage a hallful of stenographers and go to turning out burning words by the hod for use on the hustings. Bourne Is a small man physically, so neat In his dress that sometimes he Is almost gaudy. One of his most ad mired Summer turn-outs is of thin, white material, with a claret-colored tie and a wide Panama with a claret band. He talks freely, and is not much of a speech maker, but usually man ages to get material in his speeches which calls for comment. The greater part of his financial Interests are in the East, although he has been a resi dent of Oregon since 1878. The sup position ha always been that he has continued his inherited Investments in the protected manufactures of New England, but he has never admitted more than his presidency of the Bourne Mills at Bonrne, Mass. He has been a great traveler, has visited almost every country on the globe, and in spite of his soft and pleasing address Is about as astute a political boss as has been sprouted in the fertile soil of the West. In an effort to prevent th re-election of Senator Mitchell he once organized an enjoyment league which numbered a quorum of the Oregon House of Rep resentatives. Not enough members got to the House to organize that body throughout the session, and Mitchell was not re-elected. Bourne's choice, ex-Senator Corbett, was appointed to fill the vacancy by the Governor of the state, but the Senate committee re fused him admission, while Bourne was later cleared of charges preferred be fore that Bar Association of the state. Partly on that account Oregon now has a state primary law, which makes it practically mandatory upon the Legislature to elect the man getting the largest number of votes to the Senate. Bousne.Just crept through In a primary fight in which he Is credited with having spent 8100,000. after being defeated In 1904 at an estimated cost of 850,000. He was borne in New Bedford. Mass., In 1866, was prepared for college In private schools, and left Harvard a year before he should have graduated to go around the world. He was wrecked In a full-rigged ship off the China coast, and the Bhlp was sacked end burned by -pirates. That trip landed him in Portland, Oregon, where he studied law, but after a year of practice at the bar preferred to en ter business. He Is classed as one of the rich men of the Senate, and has served several terms In the Oregon Legislature and ss a delegate to vari ous National conventions. Every now and then he visits Oregon. A Sample of Engllah Love. Answers. London. The stars twinkled as only stars oan twinkle. The moonbeams beamed as only the moonbeams can beam. The lovers sat and throbbed thrllllngly as only lovers can sit and throb tbrill ingly. Suddenly, as a night owl snored above, them, his overflowing soul flowed over. "Muriel," he exclaimed, waking the night owl from Its slumbers, "I cannot understand what you see in me to love!" The night owl booted in disgust, and went to sleep again. Even Muriel, as her soft eyes dwelt upon the planet Venus, looked a little disappointed. But she knew he was too earnest to be fishing for a compliment, and she pressed his hand as she dreamily re plied: "Dear Artie! That's what they all ay." Loadoa Strand Shutter Is Tfo More. London Chroniole. A writer describes tie forenoon Sun day Strand and Fleet street as "a shut tered desert" and doubtless he is quite satisfied with the phrase. But is it accurate? .How many shuttered win dows does he think he would see In these thoroughfares on a Sunday or at any other time when the shops are shut? As a matter of fact the shutter ha gone from Central London, and is rapidly passing even from the suburbs. At what date did the shutter begin to disappear.? It was a fitting of all shops as late as the '80a The worst the modern shop show on Sundays Is the blind. And most shops present the weekday temptation with a closed door. Fattest Htsa Up a Bit. Toledo Blade. "So you have your new little brother?" asked the visitor. "Well, dearie, will you eell him to me? I'll give you a dollar for every ounce ho weighs." "No, I won't," answered the angel child. "Dear loyal little sister!" beamed the visitor. "And why not?" "Because." answered the tiny tot, with a quivering lip, "because he only weigh six pounds. Come back next month and Til see if we can t make a deaf Timely Tales of the Day Marriage license records at the Court bouse show that the old superstitions of the supposed ill-luck of Friday and the 13th day of the month are still popu lar. Friday is always a light day at the desk of the marirage license clerk. : The 13th day of the month is also notice able by the few licenses thst are re corded for the day, and when Friday and the 13th of the month tall on the same day, more than four or five licenses are seldom made of record. Even attorneys show their distaste for Friday, and it is frequently noticeable that they will endeavor to hunt up flimsy excuses to prevent having a case go to trial on that day. An attorney recently Died a divorce complaint for a woman client. After the tiling clerk had recorded on the back of the complaint the date of filing, he observed the date and remarked: "This is the 13th. Isn't ItT That woman is certainly out of luck, for she was married on the 13th day of the month, and now her divorce is filed on the 13th." But, in spite of the combination of thlrteens.' the woman was successful in getting her divorce, which was granted to her on a Friday. Little Thaddeus Is an East Side boy. who likes uncooked young green peas. These tld-bits he devours with relish direct from the pods, in whutever quan tities are obtainable. His weakness for young green peas recently came near getting him into trouble, as it led him to petty larceny. Passing a small grocery near his home, the youngster spied a basket of peas, and, seeing that no one was looking, he grabbed a fistful and toddled hur riedly off. Reaching home with his plunder, he was about to sit down and leisurely enjoy himself, when his mother discovered him with the goods on, and demanded to know where he got the peas. "I taked 'em fum B'own's "tore," ex plained the youngster, nibbling a pea appreciatively. "Thaddeus," said the mother sternly, "you take those peas right back to Mr. Brown, and when you give them back to him, you tell him you are a thief." Thaddeus obediently got up and started back towartts the store, but he must have been exceedingly busy en route, for it was-a handful of empty pea hulls that he handed to the grocer. "Hey, Misser B'own," he said, "take 'em. I'm a fief:" That there is distinctive character written in the chlrography of hotel reg isters Is pretty generally admitted by men who have the time and patience to make these carelessly scrawled signa tures a study, and Al Short, the Seattle boniface, tells this one along that line: "We had a day clerk at our house for some time Who prided himself on being able to tell by looking at a signature in. the register whether the owner was young or old, fat or lean, man or woman, and It Is a fact that he didn't guess so far wrong In a vast majority of cases. "One day a man who had lost an arm came to the hotel, and he bad a rubber hand fitted to the stump. Strange to say, Instead of signing his name with his left hand, he put the pen between the fingers of his false hand and wrote a fairly good signature with it. We thought sure we had Fred, because we felt surely there could be no distin guishing character in the penmanship of a rubber hand, so when Fred came on shift, we passed the word around among the old guard that frequented the hotel, and put it up to him to describe the writer of the signature in question. " 'That's easy,' replied Fred carelessly. The fellow Is about 45 years old, weighs about 165. medium height, wears dark mustache and his hair Is slightly gray.' "Well, that knocked us off our pins, for the description tallied to the dot. "A few bouts later we discovered Fred and the one-armed man taking a drink together at the bar. Afterwards we found out that the stranger and Fred were from the same town back East, and Fred merely recognized the name and the rest was easy." "Well, if here isn't my old friend Seneca Flxit,".said a citizen in Police Court the other day, slapping Attorney Fout on the back. "That sounds, to me - like an insult, Beneea," commented a bystander. "Oh, this fellow Is a comrade of mine in the Spanish War Veterans," replied Fouts, "and I take it like an uncle of mine who fought in the Civil War. "My uncle was one of those little, well knit, quiet fellows, very modest, but a most surprising scrapper when he got started. One day he and I were together when I met a fellow who had fought In the Philippines, whom I urged to Join our camp. As we walked away, my uncle said: " 'Every veteran ought to Join his order. I remember quite Well, after the Civil War, I licked several old com rades, not knowing that they had been in the war. Now, if they had worn the button, we wouldn't have had any trouble." At a recent meeting of the Board of County Commissioners a discussion was had with reference to the progress of the work upon the new Courthouse. Con siderable adverse comment was made on. the slowness of the work and the inter minable length of time it apparently would take to complete the structure. Commissioner Lightner took exception to the statements made and argued that the County Court had been diligent in every matter within its power to secure a rapid completion of the Courthouse. "Why, gentlemen," he said, "there has been many a building constructed that has taken a longer time than will be taken by the Multnomah County Court house. The records are full of such in cidents." Just at this moment County Physician Geary, with a twinkle in his eye, re marked: "That's a fact. I know it was the case with Solomon' Temple." A Chamois Trail In the Alp. Harper's Weekly. An Interesting sight Is to be seen each day at noon at Grlndewald In the Alps, when there Is a rush of visitors to the telescopes to observe "chamois trail." Promptly each day, at the hour men tioned, there may be seen a herd of from twenty to thirty chamois passing in Indian file up the yawning abysses of the pFacipitous Jlettenberg rocks, sep arating two glaciers, the male animals leading the way, the king of the herd keeping twenty yards . in advance and on the watch. . At the bottom of the Mettenberg, where the slor, Is freed from snow, the chamois find a meager subsistenco when their usual feeding grounds are under snow. The chamois descend, on telr feeding grounds at dawn, when there Is little likelihood of avalanches, and return to their haunts at an hour when avalanches have al ready fallen and the danger is past. Bobby and the New Baby. Harper- Weekly. We'm got a new toy up four house. It ain't no bigger nex a mouse. Its eye i blue, like sister's doll. An it 'a no more hair 'n a billiard balL It makes uch facei. ye never saw Their like In all your life before. He's soft and squashy as a rat. An' seems to love to sing and chat. Though so far. far as 1 have heard, "Goo-gab" 's bis one and only word. He aays It ninety times a flay. Though what tt means I cannot say. So far I think ifa mighty queer They do not like to let me near. ' An" when I've ast to take him out They holler. No!" My, how they hout! But Paw and Maw, they do a pile Of playin' with bun all tbe while. I hope some tlma tho day will come When 1 can play round with him soma, For 'f all the. toys I ever see He Is the beet of all that be. Tou'd almost think, to hear him squeal. That he wa really, really real! Advertising Talks Br WlUiaxm C KinUaatw Mr. T. D. StucGresor a very able ad vertising man addressed the New Jer sey Savings Bank Association at New ark on May -17th, on the subject of "Savings Bank Advertisings" He got right at the meat of things by saying that the reasons commonly jriven why savings banks do not advertise are the following: AVe do nut need to advertise bwtiue oar is the only BaT.iisa bank in the co mm unity, and we will get all tne bm lnrM there ia anyway, or ' "We do not need to advertise because of the fact that the bank, baa a large, handsome, dlstiovtlve and centrally lo cated baildinK, so that everybody In tbe town knows where the bank Is and what It stands for in the conununlty or "Advert Ulna; is not die nil led for a bank." On this subject Mr. MacGregor said that it would not be dignified to ad vertise a bank like a patent medicine is ordinarily advertised; but there is dignity in a strong, sensible appeal to a man to be industrious and systematic In providing for bis own future and that of those dependent upon him. "The best copy for savings bank ad vertising." Mr. MacGregor continued, "should contain a lot of what newspa per editors call 'hnman interest.' "It Is copy that strikes a responsive chord in the heart as well as in the mind of the reader. The advertise ments must be convincing. "The .savings bank has more right to expect satisfactory results from adver tising because of the great number of people to whom it appeal?. Every one who earns more than enough money for the bare necessities of life la a pos sible saving bank depositor, and prac tically every one reads newspapers, therefore the best medium for savings bank ndverttsinx; is the newspaper." If savings banks but realized how they could increase their business by advertising intelligently there would not be one in the country that wouldn't advertise, and dignity and ethics would be cast to the winds. (To be continued.) Country Town Sayings by Ed Howe (Copyrisht, 1911, by Georg-e Matthew Adams) ' I have aa Idea a baby becomes as tired of beins; kissed as a parrot becomes of being asked the .question: "Polly want a cracker?" Many a man who will not break into your house, will Impose on you-. and lie about you. The cold, chilly facts are that people are not very loyal to anyone. If you hear people criticise others, that's what they do to you. There is such a thins; as friendship, but people seldom die for the sentiment And It is probable that your friends are as faithful to you as you are to them. Juat how much Army officers do for their country has not Leen decided; but it cannot be successfully denied that they do a good deal for society. The amount of your fortune is always exaggerated, so that stories that you are stingy will go better. How people love money I - And how they abuse others for loving it! People "talk" about a married woman with regret. They prefer to praise her, and tell how patient she Is, and how she is neglected by her husband. If I expect anyone at 5 o'clock, if he would please me let him appear at 4:30; I am very impatient. Say a good thing about a man, and ha will usually try to live up to it. Away down deep in his heart, every man believes the women regard him a dear. Half a Century Ago From The Oregonlan, June 13, 186L We learn from Washington, in a com munication from thence, dated April 22, that Captain Magnadier, who is to go In charge of the expedition to protect overland emigration, has Anally received marching orders. . Tho new collector for Astoria, Mr. William L. Adams, received his commis sion by last mail. He has given bonds in the sum of aoO.OuO, and leaves thla morning to enter upon his duties. A roll is in circulation, with 50 or 60 names attached, for the purpose of forming a military company to be called the "Old Jefferson Guard." They in tend reporting themselves to the Commander-in-Chief of the United States for active duty, If required. The dally stages are unable to make as good time as they have heretofore. The Incessant rains within the last two weeks have put the roads in bad condi tion for travel. The London Times says that the Brit ish government might as well offer medi ation to a hurricane as to parties in, America. The Overadvertlsed Chameleon. Harper's Weekly. It is popularly supposed that ths chameleon possesses the power of as suming all the colors of the rainbow, but, as a matter of fact, its capabilities in that line are somewhat restricted, in asmuch as' certain colors are quite be yond its attainment. The chameleon can, however, pass through a series of yellows, grays, greens and browns until it reaches a color almost black; and, unlike the leopard, tho chameleon can and does change Its spots. The chief causes of these rapid changes are an ger, excitement, fear, heat and cold. In the full blaze of the Summer sun, the chameleon takes on a blackish hue, with pale, pinkish yellow spots and a central stripe. Tbe Party Line Gets Into Actios. Puck. "Hello! Is this Bender's? "No." "It is Ludlows'?" "No. it's " "Is it Harklys'?" "No. This is " "Is it Pendergasts'?" "No, it isn't. This Is " "Is It Hallo ways'?" "Xo. Let me talk! This is Jame- "Goodl Just who C wanted to tallt to!" Taking; "o Medical Chance. Winchester (Va.) Herald. "Of course." the surgeon said who had operated for appendicitis, "thers will be a scar." "That's all right," replied the pa tient. "Leave any kind of a mark you like that - will prevent some strange doctor from coming along and oper- ating again."
