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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
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Patrolman Reported Drunk.
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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."
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