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TIEDAT. 4TT.T tS, ItlU riUXHLBITlOX IX TEXAS. The vote In Ttui on state-wide pro hibition last Saturday closed a cam paign that had been In more or leas active prorreaa for several year. Tha prohibition Issue entered Into the ses sions of the Legislature of 10. with the result that an adrtaorr rHe was requested la the primaries of Julr. 110. as to whether the succeeding Legislature should aubrnlt a constltu tior.al amendment on tha subject. Tha people declared their desire for sub mission of tha amendment by 100.009 majority. It was a peculiarity of tha situation, however, that the Democrats In the same primary nominated for Coventor Colonel Oecar B. Colquitt, who. though a Methodist and a total abstainer, was an opponent of state wide prohibition. Colonel Colquitt, like many others who condemn the saloon, believes that prohibition forced on a community that does not desire It will not b ef fectual. Rather he Is a devotee of lo el option. The subsequent Demo cratic state convention declared for prohibition, while tha Republican con. ventlon declared for local option, with the reeult that rock-ribbed. Demo cratic Texas elected a local-option itroor ca a prohibition party-platform. Put Governor Colquitt signed the submission bin and then promptly too it the stump In opposition to It. The heat of the campaign haa been Il lustrated by a threat of expulsion of the Governor from the Methodist Church and Ms receipt of letters threatening personal violence. Texas now has county and precinct )ocat option, and. according to the Anti-Saloon League Tear Book, ap proximately 3.000.000 of Texas J.J. $00 Inhabitants are living In dry terri tory. These figures and the history f the campaign Indicate very clearly that state-wide prohibition was pro posed as a means of forcing prohibi tion on. one-fourth the population which did not want prohibition and would not vote It on themselves al though they had open opportunity to !o so. A plan was proposed which time and again has proved Impractica ble In its workings and has developed into a promoter of illicit dealing In the worst and most harmful grades of In toxicating liquor. If Texas had gone Ury. It would have been by such a narrow margin that a repetition of the anarchic conditions prevalent In other prohibition states could have been ex pected. Blind tigers and bootleggers would have flourished In the aale of vile liquor, and those who desire good liquor would have swelled tha express companlrs receipts by buying It from other states. A prohibition victory by a small majority Is as bad as defeat, for there Is not enough weight of pub lic opinion behind the law to enforce It. Failure of prohibition, as Is now Indicated, will leave Texas with the same local-option law It has had and permit piecemeal prohibition until it extends throughout tha state. If public sentiment In wet territory should ever turn that war. Failure of prohibition In Texas will perhaps also prove a blow to the amendment In Maine which Is resub mitted f6r approval or rejection by the people on September 12. after having been a part of the constitution for fifty years. UD SHOW MOIEXO'T. Two years ago there was held In C'hl-sgo. practically under the aus pices of the Chicago Tribune, a dis play of the products of the soli, the exhibition being entitled the United Htates Land and Irrigation Exhibition, which name has for convenience been shortened to Land Show. The event Was repeated last Fall, and ao suc cessful was It both In displays and the number of visitors hat It has now become an annual and almost a Na tional event, the dates for this year being from November II to Decem ber . In addition to the Chicago show, there will be several others of the same nature, as follows: National Land and Irrigation Exposition. Pitts t"irg. October 12 to October I; Omaha Land Show (Western Land Products Exhibit). Omaha. October 1 to October 25: American Land and Irrigation Exhibition. New Tork City. November J to November 12. and shows of more or less note at St. Taut or Minneapolis. Denver and other places In the West. At the Chicago show last Fall thers were nearly half a million visitors, and the dUp'ayt were second to none ever arranged In this country. These displays wr moet!y arranged by or for the railways, and upon these roads fell the most of the expense. But so great were the benefits that this year nearly every railway of the West will have exhibits In ail of the shows men tinned above, and perhaps others that nay be announecd later. The name chosen by these shows seems a handicap. The words "land show" do not carry to the mind the 'act that such an exhibition Is of the products of the land, and for this reason these shows seem to come fsr short of attracting as many visitors s they would If every reader of the Itteratura sent out or reports pub l.jihed could understatnd that the hows had on display all sorts of rroducts of the soil from all parts tiT the country. It Is understood that the railway Tines running through Oregon have tken space in all of the shows men tioned and arrangements are being made to gather exhibits from the vari ous states of the Northwest, and It Is hoped Oregon will be represented by a fine display of fruits, veegtables and rereals. from the humid as well ss from the dry farming and Irrigated sections: The New Tork Legislature lias appropriated $10,000 for a display at the show In New York City, and the nearby states will probably have fine displays. So It will be necessary for the West to get up as fine exhibits as possible. We have no money for such purpose In our public treasuries, so we must depend upon the various communities to rt the exhibits to gether for the railways, and the rail ways will see that spsce 1 provided and tha products transported without charge. This matter should be taken up at once by the various communities snd the result mada known to the Port land Commercial Club, which In turn will consult with the railway officials. It may not be expedient to attempt to cover all of the shows. Indeed, there Is some friction between the various managements, hence a con flict In dates. But Oregon should have the beat exhibits that can be put together for the Omaha, New Tork and Chicago shows. Thees dates are too late to bring any of the exhibits to the attention of the colonists of this Fall, the colonist date being September 15 to October 15, but the seed sown will surely bear fruit at later dates. BACK OF DEFEAT FOT VOICB. The storm which greeted Premier Asqulth In the British House of Com mons when hs essayed to speak on the veto bill may be regarded as the final outburst of rage from the defeated Tories. They profess to be the model of gentlemen, but when, cornered in a fight for their dear class privileges they can be as blackguardly as any mob of London eoetermongers. Their fury must have) been gratifying to the Liberals, for it was an admission of defeat. There- hava been many such scenes v. i.fnn.iiniu life of the House of Commons. There was the struggle between Parliament and King Charles In 141-3. In which Pym led the popu lar forces and was Impeached for so doing. There' were the struggle caused by the plots In the reign .of Charles II and by ths expulsion of James and the adoption of the bill of rights In 18S. There was uproar due to the attempted expulsion of Wilkes In 1774. There was tumult when the first reform bill was passed In 18S2t and when Disraeli sprang to the front as leader of the Tories In 1S4 on the adoption of free trade by Peel. When the Irish Nationalists resorted to .fili bustering In 181 against bill for sup pression of crime In Ireland and some of them were suspended, they refused to move and were thrown out by main force. Though the House of Commons Is ordinarily a decorous body, the native savage breaks out there as elsewhere when passion Is aroused. roe acxxttajicb or rkoi lation. Persons who believe that the public service corporations can learn noth ing from experience might change tnslr minds If they would take the trouble to compare the present atU ture of these companies toward public regulation with that of ten years ago. We used to hear in those good old times that It was the "right of every corporation to run Its own business to suit itself." The affairs of the company were Its private concern ex clusively, and If the public ventured to look into them It was an imperti nent Intruder to be hustled out as roughly as possible, and If it could not be hustled out then tho next best thing was to deceive It. This was emphatically the course which the Standard Oil Company pur sued. Everything it did was done In secret. It made no reports, kept all Its business as secret from the stock holders as from the public and exist ed as a close oligarchy caring for no body and hated by all. The Sugar Trust was perhaps even more con temptuous of the public and its rights of Interference. This corpora tion not only Insisted upon "running Its own business to suit itself," but it also undertook, most considerately no doubt, to run a large part of the pub lic business, such as the making of laws, collection of customs and so on. Now what a change. The bead of the great Steel Trust frankly tells the public that he believes In thorough going regulation of his business by the Oovernment. Nor Is that all. He declares that he thinks the Govern ment ought to fix the prices at which the product of the Steel Trust should be sold. This Is regulation with a vengeance, and If It were carried out irirtiv it would not differ very per ceptibly from public ownership. The report of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company affords another shining example of the ameliorating Influence of experience upon the feel ings of the public utility companies toward the public This company la a holding and operating concern which attends to all the lesser cor porations included In the mammoth nn vat em. It candidly declares Its policy to be "to acquire and merge into the Bell system all opposition companies when It can be done legally and with the acquiescence of the public." This consideration for the publlo .nfnn la another note in the cor poration symphony which one hears with unmlngleo satisraciion. u comfort to find that In corporation .... ih nubile la no longer a mere sheep which U expected to lie per fectly dumb nerore tne snearers, oui that Its wishes are to be held of some account. The report gives us to understand that the process of combination among the minor companies will go j on until one of two object ha been attained. Either the whole telephone business of the country will be merged under a single head, or else the United States will be divided up Into sections each with Its own Independent organ isation, but In no section wlll there be more than one company. Thus, if the report is to be trusted, we must take our choice between a National monopoly and a sectional monopoly. We cannot discern any very striking advantages In the sectional scheme, Colncldently with the development of monopoly, the report promises us the development of Oovernment regula tion. Not the slightest disposition Is shown to shirk the latter. On the one hand we are told that "These corpor ate organisation and combinations have become a permanent part of our business machinery: the public would not. if It could, abolish them." On the other hand, we read that "Public control of publlo service corporations by permanent commissions has come to stay. Control or regulation through such a body has many ad vantages over that exercised through regular legislative bodies or com mittees." Evidently we hsve traveled far from the situation where the com panies felt obliged to resist the public service commissions by every device the Ingenuity of their lawyers could hit upon. Time was when the cor porations argued that the Legislature had no right to delegate its authority to commissions. Now the commission is welcomed as, upon the whole, more desirable than the legislature acting directly. The corporations have dis covered that they were more fright ened than hurt by public regulation. For a time they "were able to exist and do as they pleased in secret, but they could not do It always. Public opinion was necessarily outraged by such performances, and, as the Bell system assure us, "In all lands. In all times, public opinion has had control at the last word." It is the ruler in the long run and safety lies In conciliating it. The wsy to keep on good terms with the puouo In this country Is to have no secrets from It and deal honestly with It. The American people do not want to rob anybody any more than they want to be robbed. Fair play between all parties will pay best In the end and It Is pleasant to learn that our great corporations are finding it out. The Bell system wishes public regulation to go to the length of assuring fair service to the public, fair returns to the companies and a strict oversight of financial matters, such as stock Is sues. Of course with decent public regulation there would be an end of the watered-etock scandal. GETTING C8ED TO RECIPROCITY. Many farmer feel toward reciproc ity very much as a man does who 1 about to step under a cold shower. He shiver and shrinks, but after all he knows that it is good for him. .and when onoe the drops strike hi back It is pleasant. All sorts of terrible things are predicted from the agree ment with Canada. We are told that It will fatten the trusts and ahave the farmer's Income down to the last penny. But that Is all nonsense. No far mer will ever lose a nickel by the operation' of reciprocity. It Is an ex cellent thing that the effects, bad or good, must now be faced so that here after we shall not be compelled to discuss the subject as a pure theory. In a few months we can begin to point to results. Wi shall then ask the prophet of evil. "Where are those terrible consequences you had so much to tell about." There will be no terrible consequenoes. Nothing but good will flow from reciprocity, and part of the good. In fact the very best part. Is not much discussed as yet. The loss by the farmers of their "protection" will help more than anything else possibly could to relieve the country of the Incubus of the ex orbitant tariff taxea. When the farmers find that they can live and flourish without the help of contributions extorted from other people they will naturally ask why the Steel Trust and the Wool Trust and the Coal Trust and all the other Infant Industrie cannot do the same thing. The feeling of their own ex uhran atrensth when left to them selves, will convince them that other persons. Individuals ana corporations, are also a great deal strong-er than they think they are. The opinion will spread abroad that we can all stand alone and do business without rob bing one another to build up profits. The adoption of reciprocity, means In the end a farmer vote opposed to extortionate protection. What could be better for the country oth morally and financially? What could be of happier omen for the future? The preliminary shudder is on us now and It will last for a month or two. Then ..- K.th win ha In full Drocess and we shall wonder why we dreaded It. i eCIENTTFIC MANAGEMENT. Scientific management ha become Ik. nMort of debate between man agers of industrial plant and labor ..ninn rririau The Century Magazine sums up the opposing views of the subject. It quotes james uuncmi, ... r.r.Mnt f the American Federation of Labor, as declaring "that it meant simply 'speeding up , tnai iaa ( . .,,n(li at first would be blood- money; that the system would turn normal laborers Into specialists, con demned to monotonous tasks month after month, until they were driven to the verge of Insanity. They mould be worn out. healtn ana kh8i n,,A foil, dlschars-o would follow. and new men would take their places." On this, the Century comments. This view, aa must appear from any ln- . ... . i .. h avatffm ItBoir. IS Iron... 'o rie... and whnlV .rr.... Ma It. a.numpllon of the effect of aclentlflo marianem-nt on tha worVmen. The arror la ino.4.1. loo. bjr tha tetlroony of thoa by i i ,nnil,l In Bavin motion wnom ii i. - -- - . i uaulcaa motion lha By-tern eavaa oc- arhea. Bora mucies. traan. " hausilon. Bavins labor cannot exhaust tha laborer any mora than saving money ean tihiuit the purse. OIarln as Is la bort error In respect to tha facts. Its blunder In theory 4a yet mr deplorable. What It amounta o is that orsanued labor puts Its VSto on inv a .. - -- - methoda of work, which, aa Mr. Brandela outs 11. by "removlns the obstacles whlcn annoy and ehaut tha workman" would result in lars-r iirmucuu . ik nA m .i n . v Wmrm la a penaiiur vi mww ..... reform that. If Its apostles may b be lieved, would save la tne Industries of this country nunarrm oi miniwu" bor forbids Its adoption. It means real economic aln. Labor deereps that econom ic waste ahsil continue. Whyt Avowedly MtCSUN oi laoor i r - " -. " . " - ' " . i . ni ,K K ml th. moat D" r :ti p m' vw " ' " - - --- efftrlent men. tha unskillful and the in competent thereby bains doomed to unem ployment. The Viurnose of scientific manage ment ia r.i mr. Inst motion and sddIv It to production. It would save the time spent by the plumber In going back to the shop for his tools and use that time In doing userul work. it would destroy the delusion which oc cupies the minds of many workmen lha' thav must make their 1ob last as long ss possible, for they cannot tell how long It win be Detore tney win anothor Thov fall to realize that the better, quicker and cheaper a Job Is the sooner anotner win De ouim li able. If a man puts up a building es timated to cost $100,000 and through good, efficient work get It done for 195.000 and saves two w-eek In the tima of rnnjtriirtion. that is sR ad vertisement for the contractor and his workmen which quickly gets them an- nfliar intv Tha araln In both contractor and workmen by the new Job is much greater than ir tney naa spun out tne first Job for another month and made It cost $5000 more. Instead of 15000 less, than the estimate. The obstacle to sclentiflo manage ment are due hnlh to emDlover and w.orkman. The disposition of the em ployer has been almost universally until within tha Inat sreneratlon. and too frequently still Is, to absorb all the profits of increased efficiency among hia nrAtkman. Thla h a bred amonft the workmen a disposition to "soldier," to Increase lost motion, to waste ma terial, to oppose piece work as a device a Aya anaaillna nn only tn hs fol lowed by a reduction in wages propor tioned to ine increasea earnings ouo tf tha lnrroncAri arteerl. A reneral feel ing of suspicion among workmen fol- I lowed upon every proposition that -a. e.m tha amniovar. Where a permanent force of work men Is employed in an industry, the surest preventive of strikes and the beat producer of efficiency I a per manent sliding scale of wages based on tho selling price of the product. One of the proudest men who ever lived was a steel manufacturer who had operated his plant for twenty years under such a scale and had never had a strike. When a new question arose requiring the price to be agreed upon. the. management called the scale committee Into con ference and the matter was settled. That firm had scientific management because it secured the co-operation of Its workmen. The first requisite for this was mutual confidence. Several changes will be necessary before scientific management can be generally established. First Is mutual confidence In place of mutual suspi cion. The labor unions have been armies In a state of constant readiness for war and have been driven to seek numerical strength in preference to quality. The inefficient men In their ranks know they are worth less than the efficient, and force the efficient to demand a uniform scale under which all are paid a deadly average. The employer says he would pay the effi cient man all he Is worth which is above the scale if he were not com pelled to pay the Inefficient more than he Is worth. Thus the union's suspi cion of the employer weighs down Its best members with the load of Its worst and blocks the way to economy In operation. If they would only believe It, the efficient members of any union, pro vided they are In the majority, could secure all the wag-es they are worth and make the employer a sincere friend of the union from selfish mo tives. Many more unions than now recognize the advantages In the prac tice need to Insist on efficiency as a qualification for membership, shut out all the Inefficient and base their scale on what a man can do under economic management. The union card would then become a certificate of efficiency and the nonunion man would work only in second or third-rate shops. The union shops would undersell the non union because of their better manage ment, and yet would pay higher wages. When work was scarce, the union men would first get Jobs. The Century truly says: Merit, ability and efficiency will not lon continue to be unequally yoked with msdlocrltv and Incompetence. There will ba two kinds of labor unions. The hlsher wane always In view of those who know that they can earn It will powerfully move them to break the thrall laid upon them be this short-sighted policy of organized labor. A death from cholera In Boston In crease the prospect of a panic. The infection seems to come from Naples, where by-!ene Is unknown and pov erty universal. Queer, Is It not, that social misery in Italy should threaten America with a cholera epidemic? It Is queer, perhaps, but Inevitable. Long ago a great economist wrote that no man llveth unto himself and no man dieth unto himself. "Repairs to Goddess of Liberty" may become a regular item In the expenses of the Army in New Tork. Even though made of bronie, the fair lady shows the wear and tear of time, as do other fair ladles who have graced less lofty pedestal. The Na tion should gladly bear the expense, lest neglect of the symbol be taken to imply neglect of the thing sirnlfled. It 1 a pity that nobody asked the name of the fisherman who went to the rescue of the sinking; steamer Samson last Saturday. Fame ought not to overlook him, nor should his deed be forgotten. The Carnegie hero prizes are for such as he. Are heroes so common among us that we forget to honor them, or Is gratitude at ebb tide during the dog days? Notice should be sent the Mexican liberal that the time limit has been called on Mexican revolutions, the curtain has been rung down and Haytl now holds the stage. Interest In one revolution cannot be sustained over six months and the gentlemen with names like our favorlto brands of cigars are requested to subside. Any person who ha money enough can start a revolution nowadays. The discharged warriors of the Mexican revolution are about to transfer their energies to Portugal. There are enough soldiers of fortune on the market to keep one revolution going constantly. Thia w&ther will breed forest fires am mnkv atmosDhere. and the rains will follow to clear the air. All of which Is according to the .programme of Nature. Why grumble? ft-. a ova a bfl tlma to X 119 UUB V." J " bring Presidential booms into the sun light, especially when tney are so tvoo-ii. o rar field's. The heat Is too fierce and they wilt and die. rt ...mild he Interestinr to know how many straw votes have been con firmed by the actual result. 8o many of them depend on the selection of the straws. v. . T.tAn h Alomttira iiM. sor, "winds up his long career In office with a sentence of eight years In San tuenun. ici znuy jvune " be ambitious to get into politics. i The dissension - among the 'British Unionists appears to hinge on 'the araaiar nueatlon whether it is better to have the Lords shot or hanged. n Hn. r,t "wet" state will re ceive the hearty approval of the pro hibitionists, mat is ine state wnera water Is put on the land. Beginning to harvest a banner crop of wheat, oats and barley, the Inland Empire has no time to listen to croak ers and agitators. No Tarty seems to be Immune from the muckrake. It even strike the Portland socialists. Twenty cents offered for 1909 hops means that any old crop Ms worth money this year. If Chief Slover wants to keep down the Sunday lid, he should keep down the mercury. -ft i-Q a warm in dear old London. too, especially around the House of Commons. Tjt nohorlv deride the south -wind and Us kindred from the southwest quarter. Gleanings of the Day James J. Walsh, in Harper's, reminds the world that the Irish brogue is much like the English of Shakespeare's day. The belief Is that the pronunciation of the sixteenth century has survived in Ireland, but died out In England. Says the Springfield Republican: Similar survivals are found to a limited ex tent In the rural speech of New England, and It Is well known that Canadian French prezervea not a few archalo traits. Just as French, and still more Spanish and Portu guese, reflect an older type of Latin than Italian. Colonies are apt to be conserva tive. Several attampta hava been made In England to secure a performance of Shake apeara In the reconstructed English of Shakespeare's day, but tha proposal of such lines as 'Oh ma prophetic sowl, me ooncle," has been rather staggering. On the same principle the short "a" in "can't," as pronounced in America, may have been a survival of the pro nunciation which the rilgrim fathers brought from England, while the long "a" used in England may have been a French importation in the days of the Stuarts, who filled their courts with Frenchmen. Courts, capitals and fash ionable society are far more apt to modify a language than the general mass of the people. One has but to go to a remote section of England to hear Anglo-Saxon words which have sur vived there for centuries after they have become obsolete in popnlous cen ters Infant mortality during the recent hot spell in New Tork has not been so great during the last hot spell as in former years. This is due to the in creasing efficiency of the publlo and private efforts made to help save ba bies. The New Tork Diet Kitchen As boclatlon has mora than doubled the work done a year ago. There are now nine kitchens, which provide for more than 1100 babies and mothers, besides consumptives, which brings the total number cared for up to 2230. The Now Tork Health Department also teaches child hygiene to the "little mothers," nurses visit tenements and teach moth ers how to care for children and many milk stations have been established. A united effort is being made to keep the babies alive. The United States Brewers' Associa tion, in a circular letter to the news papers, Implies that prohibition hurts tbe beer trade but helps . the whisky trade. It shows that In the year end ing June 30, 1911. the sales of fermented liquors were 3,180,993 barrels against 59.4IX.11S In the preceding year, an in crease of 6-21 per cent. The Internal revenue receipts from the tax on dis tilled liquors were 146,9TB,T3S for the year ending June 30, 1911. against (139, 0&S.951.t0 in the preceding year, an in crease of 5.66 por cent. These figures in dicate the sale of 1S3.61J.4S7 gallons of distilled 'spirits in the year ending June SO, 1911. Tha recent report of the Interstate Com merce Commission indicates that 20,000,000 gallons of whisky are being shipped into Prohibition territory annually, which prob ably accounts for much of the Increase In tha ontpnt of the distilled spirits. No doubt a good deal of bottled beer Is going into "dry"' territory, but It Is not enough to offset the loss of the draft-beer saloon trade. The beer business Is mainly a city buslneem, and m ood times a steady in crease may be counted upon. As a business barometer, tha beer sales are almost un failing. The Increase In the beer aales showa that tbe country is prosperous and that labor Is In fairly good demand. The inference is that, when prohibi tion forces a man to get his stimulant secretly or to have it shipped from another state, he buys It in the con centrated form of whisky containing 50 per cent alcohol rather than the more diluted form of beer containing 3 to 4 per cent alcohol. Even the most rabid prohibitionist will admit that a drink containing 4 per cent alcohol Is less In jurious than one containing 50 per cent. Prohibition is. then, aggravating drunk enness Instead of checking It. Success of the system of' hiring out convicts to the oountles as road-builders Is heralded by the Atlanta Constitution. There are 111 counties In Georgia work ing convicts on the roads, and of the result the Constitution says: If any American state is hesitating over the advlHablllty of using her criminals in the creation of highways. Georgia's experi ence ought to prove the deciding factor. Every county has taken convicts, kept them properly, undergone the slight first expense, laid out a definite construction plan and stuck to It has proUted In a ratio that may be only guessed. The counties that have been most active and used most Sray matter have gained the larger divl nds In enhanced land values. Increase of desirable population, enhancement of edu cational, religious and social activities and general development Following up the work under his Immediate Jurisdiction for the more rigid enforcement of the National banking law. Controller Murray has Bent a circular . to all the clearing houses In the United States suggesting thorough examination by them of all the banks In their district More than half the clearing-houses have replied agreeing to appoint examiners and the acceptance of his suggestion is ex pected to be practically unanimous. This may be the means of making the banks watch one another and stop any dangerous business before it has gone far. THE ROXDEli OF RECIPROCITY Insurgency hath surged, and then re surged, , Mid myriad speeches, spouted, roared and splurged, (Annotated with bracketed applause) By the belligerent makers of the laws; Nevertheless we see (What is it?) Reciprocity. ... Great barricades against the bill were built. Parties were rent, and scrapping, hilt to hilt. Cracker-box prophets prophesied, to . boot. That Bill was getting off on the wrong foot; Nevertheless we' see. Finally, Reciprocity. Serene and confident sat mighty Bill, Letting opponents buck against his will, Til 'neath persiBtent pressure brought to bear. Pulverized, squelched, they melted Into air. And. yielding finally Voted for Reciprocity. Baffled opponents query now Indeed, "Upon what meat doth this, our Wil liam, feed. That while to throw him down we lay In wait. He slipped one over on us, and grew great? For lo. Vox Populi, Belauds his Reciprocity." Dean Collins. July 24, 1911. RT7I.E9 POR THE TJSE OF OtmS. Writer Proposes Plan to Prevent Hunt ing Fatalities In the Woods. PORTLAND, July 24. (To the- Edi tor.) The recent horrible blunder, not an accident, by which a Seattle man shot his hunting companion twice and was about to shoot him a third time, demands attention to laws that mean something against the use of guns. Here were two men, one a prominent lawyer, the other a prominent Superior Judge. They went Into the woods and counseled each other against accident. Then by a shocking blunder the worst occurred. What Is needed is a oode of rules, and these should be supplied every person who buys a license. They should be pasted on the gun stock and also printed on the back of the license, and they should be read to the person buy ing the license at the time of its pur chase, and he should be required to answer certain questions propounded therein. The writer sent, two years ago. a set of rules, and proposed to a member of the Legislature that they be en acted into law. He got the promise only of attention, but no results .This plan would make It a criminal offense for any person to be found at large with a gun without this code of rules, and the first rule should be, "Never permit a gun to be pointed toward yourself or anybody else." I say neverl Some people cannot get this rule Into their skulls, with a blow from a beetle. The great cause of gun accidents Is lack of discipline lack of bringing up, to be plain about it. It is always found that the major number of acci dents come from a class of half-bred people. The law should meet these people and attempt to make them un derstand what "yes" and "no" mean, for they are people who have neve? found out. A second rule should be that it Is a state's prison offense to shoot at any object without knowing by sight what it may be. A burglar could be re quired to throw up his hands, or any one else, lnstanter. This would apply to a case of that kind. To say that we cannot meet this case By laws Is to say no one is safe at home or afield, for the simplest illustration shows too late how "it all happened." A man starts early in the morning or evening to the river bank. He sits se cluded In some place, watching for game ducks, or what not. An undisci plined ignoramus comes along In, say, ten minutes, see something move. Im agines It might be a rchinosceros, shoots two or three times and kills a man more valuable to the world than a dozen like himself. Any disciplined hunter may be com paratively safe to use a gun, but he must be exposed to the untutored un less we reach this class by some good "scary" laws. A. B. HOLLO WAY. More Abont tbe Water Situation. PORTLAND, July 24. (To the Ed itor.) While all of the Portland resi dents believe that there Is no city In the country Its equal, there are evils that slip in unnoticed and are hard to cure. The water situation In Portland at present is unjust and works hard ships on the small user that should be eliminated. Being all free and equal in this city the expense of using water should be so conditioned that each man pays a Just price for what he uses, no more and no less. The present status of unmetered water shows that an equalization of payment is Impossible; that many families are paying for Just water enough for their household the same price that many others are paying for an Immense amount of water for all purposes, even to waste. The condition put on the residents of the city of certain hours for sprink ling lawns 5 to 8 A. M. is all wrong. As a matter of fact, every man who has any pride in his posies and lawn and there are many In Portland gets up at 6'o'clock to water his grass and flowers. What is the result? With everyone trying to water their lawns at these particular hours there isn't enough water to drown a grasshopper and no one gets any benefit and the beautiful lawns and flowers of our Rose City wither and die by misman agement. No one Is foolish enough to wish to jeopardize the property of the city In case of fire by using water that Is necessary for fire-fighting purposes, but it appears to the writer that the first aid to the lawns during this water shortage Is to district the city and have a morning and evening sprinkling time. In this manner the presurre would be sufficient so that some benefit would accrue to the man who is paying a big price for his water for sprinkling pur poses. The injustice of the flat rate sys tem is also shown when a rooming house with 71 rooms, with running water In every room, four baths and six toilets, pays about S7.50 per month for all this water service and the man with a home with two faucets, bath and toilet pays 13 per month. Get your algebra and figure out the percentage of overcharge on the small user and more especially when he Is limited as to hours for his sprinkling and then doesn't get enough pressure to wet his whistle. A RESIDENT. What's Doing tn Oregon Country. Independence Enterprise. rr.i . Aftftft n r ram nf 1 ill i a within A radius of six miles of Independence, wnlcn will prouueo luia yew, ,& an well, 25,000 to 80,000 bales, which, from the present Indications, will sell for about $1,700,000. There will be paid out here lor neip uu,uuu, n mo of workers. Jefferson Review. Portland has raised -something over 60 cents toward a $10,000 fund for the erection of a monument to the memory of her ex-Fire Chief, David Campbell. The full amount should have been raised in a few hours. Weston Leader. The Deader is growing desperately tired of a certain coarse and ribald Joke that greets its weekly appearance; but to evolve anything new seems to be beyond the mental capacity of the alleged wits. . Blue Mountain American. George Brewln sued Ed Welch in the Justice Court at Prairie City last week. The amount involved was $1.75. Brewln thot h ffavp that amount to Welch to buy grub with and he failed to account for either the gurb or coin. W W Wood appeared for plaintiff and J E. Marks for defendant. A Jury heard the evidence and disagreed, ana an other Jury was called and heard the evidence and they disagreed. Then the parties got together and agreed to each pay half the costs and quit. The par ties were in about $100 each. And they say Justice don't amount to much. The chances are if the parties of the aot.or. had not been represented with pretty good lawyers they would have tried H again, then appealed to the Circuit Court, and from there gone to the Su preme Court, and after ab;ut six years get a long-winded opinion by the Su preme Court giving the boys a new start by ordering a new trial in the Circuit Court, Burdens of the Rich. Popular Magazine. John D. Rockefeller has been toldiby his physicians that he must play golf, exercise frequently, and get a lot of fresh air if he wants to prolong his life. J. Pierpont Morgan has been In formed by the doctors that, in order to live, he must take no exercise what ever. The rumor is that Morgan paid the larger fee for the orders he got. Advertising Talks By William C Freemam. The Kevranee (111.) Boiler Company Is doing some very effective, Intelligent advertising in newspapers. Time was when a boiler company (if It did any advertising at all) would confine Its publicity to trade publica tions and circular letters to possible purchasers. But in these days the moat effective medium of publicity ta the dally news paper, and manufacturers of all com modities are beginning to realize this fact. The advertising copy put out by the Kewanee Boiler Company is directed to people who rent houses, apartments or offices. It sets forth the merits of the Kewanee boiler In a plain, matter-of-fact, understandable way, and sug gests the advisability of investigating the boiler room before signing a lease. The distribution of garbage is a seri ous matter in all municipalities, as garbage is a great disease breeder. The Kewanee Boiler Co. treats on this subject In some of Its advertising tells how necessary it is for health that all garbage be disposed of quickly and thoroughly the effect It has on the death rate, particularly among babies; and then Incidentally calls the readers' attention to the garbage burn er It manufactures, its good points, etc-, and gives reasons why it should be Installed. Advertising of this character, mak ing a direct appeal to all the people through the dally newspapers, will sell anything from boilers, tanks and gar bage burners down to a paper of pins. The Kewanee Company use no techni calities in their advertising copy it Is not written over the people's heads; and their whole campaign Illustrates the effectiveness of plain statements of fact, In language that everybody can nnderatand. (To be continued.) Country Town Sayings by Ed Howe (Copyright, 1911. by Qaorga M-s.ttb.ew Adame.) When a man Is punished for WTong dolng, he usually claims he was an in nocent bystander. Don't tell a good story, even though you know one; Its narration will re mind your hearers of a bad one. A man was abusing a doctor. "He couldn't squeeze a boll for me," the man said. It la always funny to hear a man attempt to say nice things about his opposition; it is nearly as funny as to see a stingy man try to be liberal. "I am becoming mighty tired of it,' you often hear people say. But what can the poor wretches do? I have noticed that merchants who live over their store usually do wolL I admire a man with a little enthusi asm. Plague take a man who Is cold and lifeless as a mackerel after it has been in brine two or three years. Which would you rather be, a pall bearer or a Juryman? I have often wondered if the man who takes up the collections at church, puts in anything himself. After the average man reaches thirty, he gives up hoping for an easy time, and gets aown to wurn. Half a Century Ago (From The Oregonlan, July 25, 1861.) Sand Springs, July 19. The pony with dates to July 20 arrived here at half past 8 o'clock this even'ng, bring ing advices for the Sacramento Union. (Hero follows dispatches of the Civil War.) Hardly a day passes that we do not hear compla-nts made by teamsters and other travelers who have had occasion to paes over the bridges on the road south of this city. The attention of the proper authorities has been repeatedly called to their dangerous condition: but up to the present time the evil has not been remedied. Thirty-two thousand dollars In gold was shipped on tho steamer Cortos for San Francisco. It was mostly In bars. The duet had been assayed and run Into bars at the assaying office of Q. Cother Rogin in this city. There was an examination of the students of the Willamette Institute at Salem last week. The results were greatly creditable to the students and the institution. The first overland mail should reach Sacramento on the 17th or 18th. Brad's Bit o' Verse (Copyright by W. D. Meng-) The men of the land of Shinar toiled In the clay and slime, with never a thought of the glory that dwell In the heights sublime; busy with soil snd furnace, content with their sordid gain, their eyes were never uplifted from the stretch of the level plain. But the builders of dreams looked higher; for in mortar and mud and soil they could read a mystic meaning apart from the drudge of toll. And they said. "We will build a city, and Its tower will reach the sky; we will mount to heaven's portals and taste of the power on high." Baffled, confused and scattered, their tower to ruins fell; but they of the heavenly dreaming knew they had builded well. They had caught a radiant vision unseen on the plains below a promise to all the ages, a fire of diviner glow. And the sons of the men of Shinar toll on the plain today, with never a thought that rises above the slime and the clay. Busy with sordid gaining, content with the things that he, they scoff at the radiant visions and the thoughts that make men free. But the sons of the dreaming builders, oft cursed by the great world's ban, still pierce the clouds of the future with dreams of a better plan. They are the men who venture to sail uncharted seas: they are the men of the vanguard in the march of the centuries; they are the seers and dreamers, scattered and downward hurled, yet flaunting their truth-wrought banners in the face of a hostile world. And because they have seen the vision, and because they have dared to climb, thelr's is the laurel of dared to climb, theirs is the laurel of time. The Best Play In English. William Winter In the Century. Viewed exclusively as a dramatic fabric, "Othello" is not only the best of Shakespeare's plays but the besl play in the English language. No story could be more simple, direct, fluent and elementally tragic, but with what mar velous skill the poet has told it, with what ingenuity of invention, with what vibrant vitality of continuous action, with what ample and superb drawing of character, what prodigious volume of feeling, what tumult of surging and conflicting passion, and what perlao tlon of poetic stylel