10 ttte aioRxryo QREGoyuy. ttedxesday, September 20, 1911. ' A oiil.i.:iM Mit.r. (BT M1IU) D!y. tBIadd. o T J?t ji:y. jad&r laeindl. aim moetht. D:.y. SuaJy inelulH3. br month. 2 ti y. without gjrrfay. ais t':tT. without Pje4y. tbn ,r month. -'JJ w-kir. rw fj tun?. m. j. yr ..-. ?T r-Ur. tipfM nW or poroooal roar tocal task ip. oi or urr-y - . - . - anil aUtt. . . . . . . ,a w la saa-aa, a cm lb. im v r - o l u ptH 4 lull Tort. gm paataie ioa rata. Tainan naaiaiaa OfflrM V rr Cmk- .N.w tor. Vniuwl solldls. CM nasw. Illiw tulldlas. Enrapeaa. OffVa No. I Kegest street, . rOTCTLAJT. vTEDNE&DAT. BUY. . ll- TATT AS E'CXT OF TKISTW. la these, days, when the persistent violator of the Slurmu) antl-tru.' t law are, constantly dinning Into ll people an tbat the competitive sya tmm la pLjd out and that rreat com binations which choke competition n In the line of prognea. It r frechlnf Co read auch a downright defease of competition as the speech of President Taft at Detroit. He frankly informs such men as George W. Perkins that all men who organ ise monopolies are lawbreakers and win be treated as such by his Admin istration; tbat the alternative of com petition Is not private monopoly, but public monopoly, which Is socialism. He states his policy on this subject In these few epigrammatic sentences: We did M sloTif with eomptlrlon; we ran st aline tta It. Wa did rt alone withoai moeope' T ' wa ran get aionf with out It; an. I lh bualn'-M ma of tnta country m'it aquir tharnMlvra to tl aacaMltr f:ttnr fftat or a mut procaed to atata eodallam tM tmi Covtrnainl wlia powar to rue every easlneaa. The trusts have existed so ions; and grown eo great in deflanre of law that they claim a prescriptive right to violate law. Thry have harped, so Imc on the economic waste of com petition that they have dulled the people's perception of the still greater economic wa.ate of monopoly- When some particularly heinous crime has been committed by or In the name of a trnst a crime such as monopoly always tempts human nature to com mit champions of the system seek to ward off its effects by talking of good and bad trusts. Their own trust is always one of the good one. Some such declaration as Mr. Taft's was needed to bring us back to first prin ciple, to remind the trusts and every body else that the competitive system is the iritrm for conducting trade which the law of this country recog nises: that men who create monopo lies are outlaws and will be treated as such. That Mr. Taft la In earnest Is proved by his statemrnt that the Attorney-General Is lnveatljrattng all trusts and will have brought them all Into court before Mr. Taft's term as President ezplrra The competitive system Is founded on human nature, on the law of the tnrvlval of the fittest which Is at the root of all human progress. It brourht the rare from the era of wapplng Jarkkntves to the era of steam and electricity. The trust sys tem Is founded on the survival of the unfit as well as the fit. It forces the fit to drag the unfit along with him. to adjust his pate to that of the un fit. It removes the Incentive to effort at excellence. It wastes energy and make the consumer pay for It. Where It effects economy. It absorbs the saving Itself. Trusts are founded In crime. The first great trust, the Standard OH Company, has a history made up of a series of crimes condoned by col lusive or supine governors, legisla tors, proaecutors and Judges. Trusts were tnde possible by legislatures which, either IntentlonsIIy or blindly, passed laws allowing one corporation to hold the stock of another corpora tion. Py this means corporations may be linked together In an endless chain, rueh as the Standard Oil Company and American Tacco Company were bi f're- the Supreme Court cut them apart, end such as the National City' fompany Is a device by which the even nrn who are said to control Ihe wealth of the country may absorb ton'rol of the banks of every city. The Government Is earnestly and relent lesjir at work to break up the trusts which state corporation laws have fostered In defiance of Federal law. Mr. Taft hopes to have them all up for sentence within the next eighteen months. It remains for the states to prevent the growth of a new crop by passing laws forbidding one corporation to hold stock In an other corporation. Then competition may revive and the spectre of social 1m be laid. JTTICC GsVOASWTTfl BXTIMTrnXXT. By Judge Grosecup'a retirement the Federal bench will lose an able Jurist and perhaps the country will rain a powerful thinker upon economic sub jects, lie wl'.l resign, he says, not be cause be wishes to run for an elective efflce. but because he wishes for greater freedom of thought and action than Is supposed to be seemly la a Judge. Ky most lawyers a seat on the PedersJ bench Is deemed so desirable that they are ready to sacrifice all other ambitions when it Is attainable. We do not believe there Is a lawyer In the country, except poeslbly Judge Proas cup, who would not gladly give sp his practice, however lucrative, to become a Justice of the Supreme Court. Money weighs very lightly against fame and position in such cases. Mr. Grosscup has already made a reputation as a writer on eco nomic toplca It may be that be will continue his reeerche In this direc tion, la his remarks upon announc ing his intended retirement he seems to Indicate something of the sort. The settlement of our great Issues, be says, will in the future be made by the court of public opinion, and not by the courts of law. These Issues) are mainly economic, and It would be a laudable ambition on Judge Gross cup's part to seek to have a hand In eecldlng them by Ms writings. Bis remark that the Presidential election of next year "wl'.l be the last along the old lines" Is Interesting. He must mean that the olJ political par tie will disappear and cew ones be formed. What will be the new grounds Of party division? It Is easy to guess what Judge Orosscup thinks about t&is from. t.a tenor of some of Ms articles which have been published In the msgaxlnes. He has Intimated more than once that the great prob lem of the future Is to secure equita ble distribution of the products of In dustry. There are two theories as to the proper method of bringing this about. The one relies on competi tion, the other on co-operailon. WiU these words be the battle cries of our new political parties 7 BEHOLD A MIRACLE. The miracle of the Rushlight re rime has been that Manley crema tory. The thlck-and-thln News (of ficial Rushlight orgnn) says It Is all right and the glad tidings will also soon be spread through the columns of the Olve-Rushllght-a-Chance Jour nal (unofficial Rushlight organ). It has been a wonderful achievement transforming a foul, fetid, clumsy and expensive Job Into the perfect mechanism w now behold. It has all been done by the simple process of changing the Journalistic point of view. Under the Simon ad ministration these rival organs for the affections and favor of the pre- ent Mayor could find nothing too se- . vera to say about the Manley Incin erator and the bunco game Mayor i Simon and Manley were perpetrating i on the public. Now those awful , smells have disappeared, garbage Is being scientifically consumed, the cost is practically oown to the con tract fig-urea and everything is love ly. The way is being deftly pre pared for final acceptance of the Incinerator. The imagination stands appalled at any thought of the outburst of red Ink and black adjectives that would have occurred If Mayor Simon had had the temerity to give Manley a chance with a view of final accept ance of the Incinerator If It should meet all testa TTITTXO TO SHIFT TTTT. ItUMK, Governor West does not get from the members of the Legislature an enthusiastic response to his offer to call a special session to consider road bills, on condition that they serve the state gratuitously and that they keep hands off those precious vetoes. The Query arise as to how much expecta tion the Governor ever had that any self-respecting legislator would ac cede to his presumptuous suggestions and Just how far he was moved by a purpose to shift the responsibility of no road legislation to the Legislature. The status of the good roads move ment today Is that the Legislature passed several road bills and the Gov ernor vetoed them. Now If the Leg islature shall decline to accept the terms Imposed by the Governor as everybody knew Its members would that body would be put In the way of blocking rojd legislation. Fine po litical strategy. Indeed, for thus the Legislature would be put In a deep hole by the sagacious Governor. Put ting a President, or Congress, or a Legislature, in a hole Is quite fash ionable nowadays. Hut If It is worth the state's while to have the Legislature meet now to consider good roads; If good roads are Indispensable and cannot wait; If the movement Is delayed or blocked by failure of necessary legislation; If the state Is losing money and pres tige through inaction; If the public has made up Its mind to have first class roads, and to begin now It Is hardly becoming to the state to hig gle and haggle over a plcayunlsh pro posal to the Legislature that It per form Its usual function without Its constitutional pay. xrj rum xueb koi snrxnTHRirT. R. L. Borden, the Canadian Con servative leader, has been bitten by the Plnchot bug. Her Is the evi dence: With pmfooji4 tnsltht and clear vlaton. ha has made tba mamorable declaration that, tf Canada aoeapta tbts eompact, aha caa nevar baroroe a part of. that sraat Im perial eominarctai land which, as ha antici pated, will raaoh from Exis.and around the world to Ensiand asala. we muat make our choleo botwaoa. reoiproelty wtthta tba am plra and reciprocity with tha t'nltad Ftataa. And let oa never forgot that Canada cannot beenme flacally and commerolaUr a part es Important part of the Hrltua empire, Does not that sound like an extract from one of Plnchot's high-flown speeches? He Is terribly worried lest future generations will have nothing to eat. no clothes to wear, no material to build houses, nothing to give light. In fact, he Imagines that they will die like flics and only a miserable rem nant will roam over this continent, raked, hungry, homeless, relapsed Into savagery. Borden is worried about the same things, but he Is much more worried lest he will not become Pre mier of Canada. tl Is a tolerably sound axiom that what has happened will happen again. What has happened Is this: Long be fore timber In Eastern States became too scarce and costly to burn as fuel, coal was discovered. When people began to complain of the high cost of coal gas, other kinds of gas were dis covered. Then came petroleum, which gave brighter tight to the remotest community. Next came electricity, which checked the propensity of the oil monopoly to raise prices. Then water power was developed to gener ate electricity for power, thus en abling us to do without ooai at 'any stage of the process. When the Eastern States had so much timber that they regarded It as a nuisance, they used what was neces sary for building and fuel and de stroyed the rest. That seems like waste, but which was the greater waste to let timber they did not need grow on land they needed for farm ing or to destroy the timber and put la crops? Timber grew scarce, but brick and stone took Its place, and now concrete is supplanting them. The lesson Is obvious. As each nat ural material grows scarcer and more costly, man Is Inspired to seek a sub stitute and he has always found It. It has always been better than the ma terial it supplanted. Just as electricity 1 better than coal otl or gas Is better than the tallow candle. The exhaus tion of the primitive resources of a country Is an incentive to discovery mnA Invention and majcea for nrosraaa. If the pioneers had not cleared away ! the forests, the people of the Middle West might still have been living In log cabins, coal might not have been discovered there, brick might not have been made, building stone not quar ried and wild beasts would have come out of the forests to devour and tram ple the crops. . Natural law conserves our resources by stimulating the use of something better or cheaper. It will do so In future generations as It has In the past. Thee la no occasion to worry so much about future generation Future generation will be Just as much smarter than the present gener ation as the present generation Is smarter than past gvnerailons. , We should not be spendthrift and wan tonly waste our resources; neither need we be miserly on account of our children. They will be better able to take care of themselves than we are to take care of ourselves. A COXJfEXDABLX EFFORT. There seems to be some hope at last that Portland wfil break away from the miserable prudery which Is responsible for so much sin and suf fering In both sexes. The meeUng at the T. M. C. A. auditorium Monday night was attended by a large, number of responsible citizens and the vari ous speeches were admirably free from that shamefaced reserve which often makes discussions of social sub jects almost worthless. Certainly the time has come for plain speaklg, and we are glad that bur physicians and ministers have made up their minds to tell the dUagreeabl truth about the consequences of Improper sexual conduct. It la because of" weaJrmlnded prud ery and nothing else that boys and girl are kept In Ignorance of these matters. Perfiaps we ought rather to say that those who ought to Instruct them try to keep them ignorant. In re ality they learn fast enough, but the knowledge comes from the worst pos sible sources and Is Imparted In such a way as to make vice attractive. -areni who Imagine that their little boys and girls can be prevented from know ing anything about delicate subjects make a terrible mistake. They can not be prevented. But It la easily pos sible to teach the facta In such a way that they will make for health and seif-re.tpect Instead of making for dis ease and vice, and this Is what the new movement will help to bring about. The pride which the modern world takes In its prudery will appear ab surd to more enlightened age. No body can assign any sensible reason why the most Important truths of life should be left to evil companions to teach our youth. Nobody can men tion any benefit which comes from keeping our young people Ignorant of the consequences of social sins, while the Injury la Incalculable. Many people make the blunder of thinking that silence concerning sex ual evil Is the same as Innocence. "Keep the hateful subject quiet and all Is wen," seem to be their maxim of conduct. The painful fact Is that silence means ruinous vice and wide spreading disease. The campaign for better social morals through more sensible education which ha been un dertaken by our responsible citizen deserves the hearty support of every body who cares for the welfare of the young and the happiness of the home. It Is, In reality, an effort to rescue so ciety from It most threatening dan ger. IK WE SEFJ A TA'DncO A KMT? The Scrtbners have Just published a history of the Revolutionary War by Francis Vinton Greene, who I, a graduate of the Untied States Military Academy and was Major-General of Volunteers In the war with Spain. Thsl book, which Is In one volume. Is to be followed by two more, and the author hopes within their com pass to Include the entire military history of the country. Naturally General Greene cannot expect his work to be very popular. It will appeal for the most part to those who delight In the detail of battle and the strategy of campaigns. To other It Is likely to make dry reading. The author la one among the many military men who write history with a purpose. His desire Is to prove that It Is wasteful and dangerous to wage war with undisciplined troops. In his opinion this country ought to keep up a large military establish ment In order to avoid the disaster which have almost uniformly befallen u at the outbreak of our war. The Spanish War wa an exception to the rule, as the author admits, since In this contest our forces) easily disposed of their enemies on land and es, but General Greene explain the triumph by reminding us that we had a well organised mllltl from which to pro cure volunteer and a substantial nucleus from the regular Army. We have not been accustomed to regard the land operations of the United State troops during the Span ish War as especially glorious. Our armies greatly outnumbered the en emy's, but In spit of that they were o badly supplied with food and hel ter that thousands of men perished needlessly. If the other belligerent had been a power with half our re sources the result might have been very different from what It was. Still the fact remains that organization, such a It was. played a part In the war and no doubt saved our troops from disasters like Bull Run and Ball's Bluff, which disheartened the country t the beglnlng of the Civil War. Whether It 1 more comforting to know that the troop are perish ing of typhoid fever and poisonous food ths,n by the enemy bullets may perhaps be a question, but whatever comfort there Is in such knowledge the country enjoyed to the .full dur ing the Cuban campaign. Wo gather from the trend of hi remarks that General Greene would like to see this country keep up a standing army of about the same magnitude as Germany. The ex pense of such a military establish ment would, of course, be heavy, but on the other hand It cost a good deal to lose half a dozen battles at the outbreak of a war through the Inefficiency of undisciplined militia. It costs, too, to pay men bounties for enlisting and our bills for pensions are not Inconsiderable. Upon the whole, no doubt, it would be quite as cheap for us to maintain a standing army equal to Germany's as to fight our casual wars by our usual nap hazard methods. This 1 obvious enough, but the I question whether we ought to have a large standing army or not Is hardly one of expense alone. Other consid eration must be taken Into account. American statesmen have always be lieved that there 1 more or less dan ,n renubllran Institutions from a standing army, especially from one kept up In time of peace. It offers a tempting Instrument to ambitious politicians who may wish to make themselves more powerful than the law allows, while Its method of dls clpltn are so different from those of civil life that It Is not likely to be the best school of citizenship. Gen eral Greene lumps together objection of this sort to a standing army under the name of "prejudice," but It seem to us to be something more than that. Antipathy to large bodies of regu lar troops In time of peace has been evolved from the experience of the Anglo-Saxon stock and is probably well founded. General Greene says It 1 to be traced back to the atxuggie i wkk the Stuart kings, but that 1 hardly accurate. Those monarch never possessed much of an army, except In wartime. If they. had. his tory would have taken a very differ ent . turn., British and American statesmen derive their objections to great perpetual military establish ment from the general trend of hu man affairs In all ages. Uniform ex perience show that when a powerful army exists ready for use, occasion for using H are likely to be sought. If they are not found abroad they will be found at home. General Greene reminds us that a large army Is needed to guard the country against foreign Invasion. Upon this subject he reiterates the teachings of Hobson and other mili tary enthusiasts who point out how easily a foreign foe could descend upon our unprotected shores. He says that a European army could cross the Atlantic In ten days, coming in vessels each of which would trans port 6000 men, and land almost any where along the Atlantic coast. Such statements are purely academic and unreliable. It would take a fleet of twenty such vessels to carry 100.000 men. Having landed their first in stallment, they must return to Eu rope for more, since 100,000 men would not be a drop In the bucket if a serious Invasion were intended. Twen ty day at least must elapse before another detachment could be landed, and In the meantime what would happen to the first one? Washington talked much more wisely upon this subjyt than our modern militarists. He said in his farewell address that "if wS remain united we may defy material injury from external annojance. Belliger ent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us prov ocation; when we may choose peace or war a our interest guided by Jus tice shalf counsel." The President's answer to those who accuse him of using patronage for political ends is not only a denial, but a wish to be rid of all petty patronage and to devote his attention to larger matters. The Idea of weighting down the head of a nation of ninety million with the appointment of a horde of postmasters, internal revenue collec tors and customs collectors Is absurd. The recommendation of candidates for such offices also diverts the attention of Senators and Representatives from legislation and stirs up petty local quarrels which send many an able public servant Into retirement. The extension of the civil service law to cover such offices would prevent many heartburnings, such as afflict Senators La Follette and Bourne, and would prevent such ill feeling from affecting the action of either President or Con gressmen on matters of real National Import, To accept 'high office in Russia is almost equivalent to deferred suicide. The revolutionists had to try three times before the "got" Stolypin. but he forfeited his life to his fidelity to the Czar. Every year the list of po lfilcal assasMnatlons grows longer and the precaution needed to protect the lives of the Czar and his highest offi cials are so great that their freedom of movement Is cramped until it Is liTtle better than prison liberties. This Is the price paid for maintain ing a despotism. An empty rifle is a good, a weapon as a man needs when his antagonist thinks it 1 loaded. The saloon man who drove away three burglars with a gun which -would not shoot knew more practical psychology than a good many professors. If he were Inclined to philosophize .he would soon dis cover that many pretentious institu tions are like his empty rifle. They serve every purpose admirably so long as nobody finds out that they are empty. "Seek the woman,," say the French when anything goes wrong. New York has done so in regard to the de preciation of Gould stocks and has found her In the person of the chorus girl whom Frank Gould married and whom his brother snubbed. Thi girl's pretty face gets the blame for blocking a big railroad deal, cutting the value of stocks In two and setting one of the richest families in thi country by the ears. It ought to gratify her vanity. State Forester Elliott rightly Judge that the time to guard against forest fires Is during the wet season. By burning the slashings now he will de stroy food for fires which would oth erwise start next Summer. A fatality seems to pursue the avia tor who compete for the Hearst prize. It was easier for Vedrine to cross the Pyrenees and fight an eagle In the air than It la for Rodgers to get out of New York State. A vegetarian and a beefeater are walking across the continent to deter mine the werlts of those diets. Here 1 opportunity for a dark horse fed on hog meat to beat both. Everybody 1 giving the smoker a wallop. A revenue collector ha ruled that clgarmaker connot smoke un taxed stock, thus depriving him of a time-honored privilege. Joy 1 never unalloyed. Simulta neously with the news that Maine has gone wet by a majority of twenty six, the convivial learn that the price of beer la raised. The new editor of the livestock pa per at the North Portland yards is of the gentler sex and In Us columns all the bull are gentlemen and the cow are real ladles. Let everybody write to the Navy De partment asking that the Oregon lead the procession through the Panama Canal. The department wishes to test public, opinion. Yields of $100 an acre from alfalfa field of Malheur show what a produc tive empire that county will become when Its fertile sagebrush land is re clalmeS. A punishment fit for a man who makes hi mother's affection an ob ject on which to play a practical Joke Is hard to find. Grapes are plentiful and cheap. Just In time to enliven the dull season in operations for appendicitis. Chicago has begun work on another canal to make water run uphill. The only Joy ride some people can get is In the patrol wagon. T GIRD STILL KEPT 1 uiui-iu .unji-u! iJ nri ,1 D C T I i I II Whan thn Kaoirare lama Kaelr Tacoma Attorney Hunt Custodian of Convent Maid In Valn- TACOMA, Wash, Sept. . (Special.) Another chapter was added tonight to the fight for the custody of Marjory Rleman, the l-year-old Visitation Con vent girl, when for six hours the Sher iff's deputies scoured the city trying to find the girl and Charles A. Read, probation officer, into whose custody Marjory was temporarily placed by the Superior Court Monday. Armed with court orders citing Read to appear for contempt and ordering him to give the girl temporarily Into the custodv of Mrs. Frank H. Kelly. j wife of the attorney for Marjory's j mother. Mrs. Portus Magnuson, of Val- ces, Alasxa, xne anerm a iubu n " Kelley hunted from S o'clock today un til about 9:30 tonight and had aban doned the search when Read volun tarily appeared. Judge Chapman today granted a change of venue lnv the case, to Judge Clifford's court, and from the latter Mrs. Magnusen's lawyer got an order placing the girl temporarily in his wife's care, pending formal hearing tomorrow night. Probation Officer Read was found at the Girls' Parental School by Kelley and told by telephone of the court order, but declined to take verbal service. Kelley got an automobile and proceeded to the Par ental School, only to learn that Read had departed In another automobile with Marjory and Miss L. M. Hargraves, an advertising solicitor, of Seattle, Wash. .Read was not to be found at home or anywhere else. Then when the search had been abandoned Read ap peared and late tonight Kelley . and Mrs, Magnuson got Marjory at Read's home and took her to Kelley's. Tdmorrow Read will have to explain to the court. He says he was called out of town "very suddenly" and friends say he is not in contempt, as he was not regularly served, with Judge Clifford's order. YAMHILL SHOWS FINE POULTRY Seven Hundred Fowls Cackle Coun ty' Praises at Fair. jrMIXNVILLE. Or.. Sept. 19. (Spe cial.) Many of the schools of the county have handsomely arranged ex hibits at the Yamhill County fair which opened today. Outside of the school exhibits there Is a good gen eral exhibit in which poultry occupies chief place. There are more than 700 Yamhill County fowls entered In com petitive displays, some of them holding medals won at larger fairs. The seronaut who dropped from his big balloon ten rods from where he ascended saved himself by heroic ma neuvering, from a ducking in the mill pond of the Star Milling Company. Tomorrow there will be a demonstra tion in horticulture and dairying, under the auspices of the Oregon Agricultural College. In the afternoon will be held the baby show. MADISOX FUNERAL FRIDAY Taft Sympathizes With Family of Kansas Statesman. DODGE CITY, Kan, Sept. 19. Hun dreds of telegrams of condolence were received today by relatives of Repre sentative Kdmond H. Madison, who died suddenly at his home here yester day. They came from political friends among the insurgent Republicans, from "regular" Republicans, from Democrats and from personal friends throughout the United States. Among them waa a message of sympathy to Mrs. Madison from President Taft, It was decided today to hold the funeral at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon. The Congressional committee to at tend the funeral was completed today. The House committee named by Speak er Clark Included the entire Kansas delegation. Besides Senator Curtis and Brlstow, of Kansas, the Senate committee Included Senator Dixon, ot Montana. HAYTT REBEL HEAD IS DEAD General Antonio Firm In, Who Would Be) President, Is No More. ST. THOMAS. D. W. I, Sept. 19. General Antonio Flrmln, who deserted his post as Haytian Minister at. Lon don to help overthrow President Simon, ot Haytl, died here today. Firmin led one of the two revolutionary parties and was a candidate for the Presidency in succession to Simon. However, Gen eral Leconte, the other revolutionary chief, was the first to reach Port au Prince after the success of the revolu tion had been assured, and assumed the Presidency before Flrmln could muster sufficient strength to give him a fighting chanoe at the capital. SNARE FOR RATS IS EATEN San Francisco Tramp Poisoned by Gulping Prepared Bait. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 19. Destitute and hungry, William Murphy entered a local grocery store hoping to purloin something to eat. The proprietor was called to wait on a customer and Mur phy seized the opportunity to wolf down two sandwiches he found on the counter. He was seized with convulsions a few minutes later and was taken to the emergency hospital where it was found he was suffering from arsenlo poison ing. The sandwiches he had eaten had been prepared to bait a rat trap. Mur phy probably will recover. 18 SIGNATURES IX ONE MOVE Standard Oil Officer Use Patent Pen on Certificate. NEW YORK. Sept 19. Officer of the Standard OH Company are putting in some long days this week, signing the numerous certificates which repre sent the segregation of the 88 subsldr larles into separate companies. The shares In the new companies, total about 200,000, and the signing is done by means of a device which signs 18 certificates at a time. The certificates are clasped in a frame, which is slid before the writer, who Inscribes his signature on a blank, 17 other pens at the same time writing his name. Elma Resident Burled Here. The body of William J. Combs, who died and was buried at Elma, Wash, April 22, was brought to Portland, Tuesday, September 12, by his daugh ter, Mra Pauline Whorton, of Lake view, and placed In a permanent rest ing place in the Rivervlew Cemetery. Mr. Combs was 66 years old and had been a resident of Elma for a little more than a year. - He is survived by three daughters. Miss Pearl Combs, of Boise: Sirs. Pauline Whorton, of Lake view, and Mra C. L. Klein, of 4 23 Morrison street, Portland; He was a Mason, and the burial services were conducted under the auspices of that order. Girl to Sins; by Sign Language. VANCOUVER, Wash, Sept 19. (Spe cial.) At a laying of the cornerstone at the girls' dormitory of the State School for the Deaf tomorrow, a chorus of girls dressed In red, white and blue will sing "America" In the sign lan guage. David a. Prescott, grand mas ter of the Washington Masons, will lay the cornerstone. Educators Present " at Banquet at Monmouth Assembly. MONMOUTH, Or, Sept. 19. (Spe cial.) In celebration of the opening of the State Normal School here yester day, a dinner Vas given tonight in the assembly room of the school at which prominent educators from different parts of the state were present. President Ackerman, of the Normal SchooL in an address following the banquet, declared that the proper func tions of the normal school is to set the standard for the training- of teach ers for the public schools and that it would be the aim of the Monmouth in stitution, first to see that the quality of the work carried on was of the best and that attention to increasing the attendance would come later. Other persons present, who gave ad dresses, were: E. D. Ressler, ex-presl-dent of the Monmouth Normal School: E. Hofer, of the Board of Regents: M. A. Miller, representing Governor West: Assistant School Superintendent Carl ton, representing State School Superin tendent of . Public Instruction A Mer man, and President Kerr, of the Ore gon Agricultural College, Corvallis. The reopening of the Oregon Normal School this week is marked by the most favorable auspices, considering the lapse of two years since the sohool has been in operation. More than 100 students have enrolled for the openine term, with every indication that this number will be more than doubled by the midyear. Today was devoted to the reception of visitors and the welcome to friends of the school as arranged by the Mon mouth Commercial Club, acting with the faculty of the school. Committees met the trains and took the visitors to the grounds, where dinner was served in the campus grove, after Which all were invited to the assembly-room, and an appropriate programme was given. . SELFISH CHURCHES 'SCORED Hood River Pastor Says Snch Organ izations Are Hindrance. HOOD RIVER, Or, Sept. 19. (Spe cial. In a sermon delivered at the Heights Baptist Church of this city last night. Rev. James B, Hargreaves, pastor, scored the churches that, for their own perpetuity, endeavor to have their congregations adopt set re ligious creeds and dogmas. "The church which works for the kingdom of God, or, in other words, for the general well being of the com munity, is, on account, of Its very na ture, the most effective religious or ganization," said Rev. Mr. Hargreaves. "On the other hand, the church which works for Its own perpetuity is one of the worst hindrances in modern life. Until a readjustment of organized Christianity, through federation or some such method, its worked out, many of the churches, in the smaller towns especially, must of necessity be long to the latter class and be prob lem producers rather than problem solvers." HIRED GIRL GETS $30,000 Court Rules for Woman Who Says Rich Man Is Father of Child, OROVILLE, Cal., Sept. 19. (Special.) The flnal chapter in the Jones-Bruce case, that attracted wide attention in Colusa, Oakland and Chico more than a year ago, has Just been written in the Superior Court here. Papers were filed showing the.t the satisfaction of a 130,000 Judgment against J. Morris Jones of Colusa had been obtained by Miss Maggie Bruce, formerly of Chlco but now of Spokane, uash. The Bruce girl was employed as a domestio in the home of Jones. Later she was taken to Oakland by Jones, remaining there some time. After wards she returned there and secured possession of an Infant she asserted she was the mother of, which Jones had placed in the keeping of a family there. The mother of Jones and the mother of the girl helped her get the child. Jones Is a man of family and Is wealthy. TAX REBATE IS APPROVED Valuation of O.-W. R- & N. In Wash ington Indorsed by Commission. OLYMPIA, Wash, Sept. 19. (Spe cial.) In an opinion to the State Board of Tax Commissioners, W. V. Tanner, Attorney-General, rules that the O.-W. R. & N. Railroad Is entitled to secure its 3 per cent rebateon the 1910 taxes. The company appealed from the Tax Commission value of its road and secured a Supreme Court opinion to the effect that the Public Service Commission value rules Instead of that fixed by the Tax Commission. The company had tendered the lower amount to the various County Treas urers, who declined to accept, and this order was legal and entitles the com pany to claim the rebate now, holds Attorney-General Tanner. BIG COUGAR INVADES PIGPEN Residents Near Husum Search in Vain for Hencoop Prowler. HUSUM, Wash, Sept 19 (Special.) A large cougar was seen Saturday by Mrs. Anna Mathews on her ranch three miles northwest of here. The cougar was about to enter a pig pen when discovered, but walked slowly back to the woods and dlsappeaared. The appearance of a cougar In that neighborhood accounts for the myste rious disappearance of numerous tur keys and chickens from the ranch of William McCready within the past week. MED FORD HOTEL IS OPENED Modern Structure Has 100 Rooms. Citizens Attend Banquet. MEDFORD, Or, Sept 19. (Special.) The new Medford Hotel was opened tonight with a banquet attended by more than 200 of Medford's leading citizens. The building is furnished in an artistic manner and there are 100 rooms, equipped with modern conven iences. The hotel has been opened under favorable auspices and will assist in the further upbuilding of Medford and n.e Rogue River Valley. Frantic Horse Throws Drivers. E. A. Siebel, staying at the Portland Hotel, and E. Lawlor, of 34 Fifteenth street North, narrowly escaped injury when a rented horse, which they were driving, became frightened and ran away last night The horse flung the buggy into the curb, throwing the oc cupants out Contact with the iron edge of the curbstone cut the tendons of the horse's hind legs and Patrolman Manrlng shot It T Patrolman Reported Drunk. - n.nigt1nn nutrolman. was jjtt vn, i- w - reported drunk last night when the roll of second mgni rju?i " wm. - - . . mnvA hr Cantain Keller nis auir wo J 7 : ----- who will file charges against Davis. payja UVeS at I09 fi-Hai JJVUTLCOUUJ street North I uucu uit vwuo vault voto By Dean Collins. (Apologies to Walt Whitman.) My voice box is still out of commission. My mudbespattered Sunday regalia Are still at the cleaners. But in my deep soul I care Less than the proverbial "Continental. For Sunday my eager- eye Saw Portland hop onto the, roof, Glommlng the pulchritudinous pennant The Hooligans earstwhile had. I bought four clgcars and a ticket With two bones and 30 seeds I had separated from the Jeans of a rooter. Who backed Hogan's gang in the early session. Packed was the grand stand. Packed were the bleachers. Packed was the field about the dia mond. With all the fans, bugs, nuts and rooters That .Inhabit the Rose City, And also St. Johns And outlying districts. I sat on my heel In a mud puddle, Glad for even that chance. I am not long on the official patter Where with trained sharks of the dia mond Dope out its mljrhty events. I am but a simple mutt Who. was filled with a deep desire to see The Bave.rs cop out the festive goat Of the bunch of Southerners. My unskilled tongue cannot chant How Peckinpaugh doubled and Kuhn Rapped out a hit, so the shortstop Put In the plate for the Beavers The initial dent of his brogan. AIL that I know is that I Gleefully kicked my companion under the ear, While he caved In my dicer. When we saw. Ryan ramble over the plate. Deciding the score. Thus through the game I assisted 11,000 lunatics To bust big holes in the atmosphere With their remarks about the game. Rending each other's raiment or pound ing The back of the man In front Till he nearly croaked But apparently didn't care. Bingles flew free and all those thing were pulled off, That help a game to unhinge the human reason With gloating Joy. It ought to take several bushels ot bronchial tablets To patch up the various windpipes That had to express, when we knew That Portland was back again On the Penultimate Perch, A flood of deep feeling That would have been some Job For a herd of steam whistles And similar noise producers To do adequate Justice toward. Portland. September IS. Conntry Town Sayings by Ed Howe (Copyright, 1811. by Oaorge Matthew Adama) Barkeepers keep more men down than hard times. A wife should either quit complain- ing, or leave him, and show that sht can get along better without him. When a woman buys a delicate plecs of china or cut glass, her husband wants to bet the children will break it within a week. What has become of the old-fashioned man who gave his children board and clothes, but who thought that giving them spending money was helping them go to the devil? When you are guilty of a mean trick, ever remark how. sneaking it makes you feel? Take good care of your affairs, and you, will be surprised how well the world, your country, your state and your city will do. When a man Is fatally sick, I have noticed that his family worries more about his temporal affairs than about bis spiritual welfare. Poor and rich people have very funny notions of each other. After you have been sick a few days. It looks mighty cheerful outside. The man who marries against his will, because the woman Is more cun ning than he is, never makes a good husband. Half a Century Ago : -ru- n,.,nnl9n Sent. '20. IStil. Messrs. Couch and Flanders have placed five gas lamps on their wharf. These will be a great convenience on dark nights when people wish to go on board or leave the steamers. Gentle men you have done a good thing. Potatoes are worth more by the bushel in " Oregon City than apples. Some farmers are thinking of working up their surplus fruit into vinegar. M. T. Turner, late editor of the Arl sonlan, offered his derringers for sale on retiring from the control of that Journal, "they being of no further use to the present owner." Since then the poor fellow has been murdered while unarmed. He parted with hia pistols too soon. t A special meeting of the legal voters of school district No. 1 of Multnomah County was held at the schoolhousa on Wednesday evening. Director Fail ing took the chair, A report from the directors was read setting forth the estimated cost of building a fenoe around the schoolhouse block and leveling the grounds, also for under pinning the schoolhouse and for build ing a woodshed: also showing the estimated cost of defraying the ex penses of the school for the ensuing y-ar an of which amounted in the aggregate to ,3,486.20. Tax levies to provide the necessary funds were au thorized. Arlaona Indians Know the Law. Arizona Republican. The recent preliminary examination at Mesa of several Indians implicated In a conspiracy to forge, brought out that they were familiar with their rights under the law. While they had told the officers all that was really en, Vi-m in Irnnw and had neceBsur . . even furnished a written statement setting forth their accompnsnmenis, t... nf the Peace at Mesa directed one of them to take the stand. Without waiting for tne aavice 01 coun . . . j .i ( ..tfinff that ha could not sei no ucwiutu, o ; - be compelled to say anything that would tena to incrmuimto that anything that he- might utter would certainly have such a tendency. Society Separation Is Arranged. Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Did the Gildeys have much trouble arranging their separation T" "No. At least, not until they reached e child. They have but one child, you iow." "How about the dogs?" "That was easy. They had two dogs." "I see. Well, what did they dor' "Why. Glldey suddenly developed a streak Ik or generosity, no look mo caiiu let his wife have both dogs." and A