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HAJUfOX. BRTAX AXO WALL rTKHT. Lieutenant-Governor Nichols, of Ohio. Is a brave man. who haa under taken a tough Job. II U endeavoring to give the people of the Paclflo Northwest a true picture of Judion Harmon. Governor of Ohio and can didate for the Presidency of the United States. The Democrats of this coun try see Harmon through Bryin'i eyes aad the Republicans view hlra through Wall street's ees. Mr. Nichols would have them regard him with the friendly vision of Ohio. Ohio has a fairly accurate notion of the kind of material that makes a fit Presidential candidate, as the record shows, but the unsophisticated Har mon emissary will learn that the Northwest Democracy long ago gave over the office of selecting Its Pres idential candidate to Nebraska, and has not yet trot over the habit. The Oregon Democrats will do pret ty nearly what Mr. Bryan tells them to do. Bryan has fastened the stigma of Wall street on Harmon. It will be Interesting to hear from Mr. Nich ols how he would take It off. Not that It Is deserved, for It Is not. or that Harmon haa solicited the favor of Wall street, for he has not. But the opinion has been carefully stimulated from some quarter that Wall street Is preparing to get behind Mr. Harmon. We know aome things from Lleu-tenant-Oovernor Nichols about Mr. Harmon, and we repeat them because It Is fair that the general Judgment of Ohio's latest favorite son should not be formed either la Interested and preju diced Nebraska or by prejudiced and Interested Wall street. Lieutenant Oovernor Nichols tells us that Gover nor Harmon procured the enactment In Ohio of an Income tax law; direct election of United 8tates Senators modeled on the Oregon plan; a work men's compensation act; a nine-hour day for women; an increase In rail road assessment from 1150.000.000 to t300.000.000. and a great variety of other things for the common benefit. In Ohio they will tell you that Gov ernor Harmon Is progressive. Inde pendent, wise and capable. No cor poration and no man owns him. In Nebraska they do not like Harmon because he belongs to a numerous class of Democrats, never enthusiastic about M-to-1 and never stamped with the Bryan O. K. Wall street Is In clined to regard him with approval, we fancy because Colonel Roosevelt looks upon him with vehement and outspoken disapproval. Lieutenant Oovernor Nichols says nothing about It; but we suspect that If he explained It at all he would say that the schism between Colonel Roosevelt and Mr. Harmon dates from the time when Mr. Harmon, as special attorney of the United States Department of Justice. Investigating the Santa Fe rebate cases, strongly recommended the put ting tn Jail of Paul Morton, former vice-president of the Santa Fe and then a Cabinet officer of the Rooje relt government. President Roose velt g t pretty choleric about this sur print eg. unexpected and undesired In vasion of hts own official family, and refused. Special Attorney Harmon then withdrew from the Government service. As we have Intimated. It is possible Just bare!y possible that the Walt street fondness for Mr. Har mon Is based on the Kosevelt anttpa for him. manifested last year when the ex-PraaUdent Journeyed ail the way to Ohio and opposed on the plat form his re-election. It may appear a trir.e ungracious to recall It, but Harmon was re-elected by over 100.- 00 votes. The twegon Democracy will greet Lieutenant-Governor Nichols politely, and pass him along cheerfully. What does the Oregon Democracy want with a candidate who might be elected through Ms ability to get votes where any Presidential candidate must have votes to win In New York and New England T winr rARxivo AvrvucK is low. There are two sides to Secretary Wilson's picture of the prosperity of the agricultural Industry in the United States. On tells In grand totals of the billions represented by the farmers lands, buildings, stock and crops. The other shows that '"the average net Income of the better class of farmers In the United States is not more than Hi a month 1100 a year . after the farmer has paid his help, the cost of raising aad marketing his crops and the Interest on the capital Invested la his farm, or land rent. If he la a renter. " There is her a dis crepancy as wtde as a barn door which needs explanation. While the price of everything the farmer pro duces ta going op from year to year, the average fanner of the better class only clears tit a month no more thaa be could earn as a laborer. The explanation seems to 11 in that word "averaga." That word lumps the laay. Ignorant, blundering, un progressive farmer, who puts in the same) crop year after year on til his soli ta exhausted, who keeps scrub stock, who leaves hts implements out tn the rain, who keeps do accounts It lumps such a man with the edu cated, scientific, progressive farmer who atadlaa his soil, diversifies) his crops, breeds np his stock, nses ma chinery wherever economy requires, studies the markets and gets the high, est price they afford for his products and keepe account of every dollar re ceived and paid as would any other business man. The type of man first mentioned Is no more a farmer, properly speaking, thaa a nil re blacksmith who was a good all aroand mechanlo and built a rough and ready automobile would be an automobile manufacturer. The two types of farmers should no more be Included In one general average than should the blacksmith be counted as a manufacturer In statistics of the automobile industry. Farmers who farm as science dictates and keep a record of their business are making money; farmers of the other class ought to be working for them, for they are committing a crime against the land by their attempt at farm leg it. Even when a man farms well, he often blunders through keeping ac counts. One man In New York State told Government agents he was mak ing $1600 a year profit and was as tounded when they convinced htm be was only clearing Ma year. He could not tell from what source his profit came. He might be sinking In one place profits made la another, but he did not know It. Amid all the cry for small farms, there la danger that division of farms may be overdone. Diversified fanning in most cases requires the breeding of stock and that business cannot be profitably conducted with other branches of farming on 10 acres. There Is a tendency on the one hand for farms to be subdivided and on the other for cattle-raising to be con ducted on the farm Instead of the range. Thus the back-to-the-farm movement Is Indirectly helping to raise the price of meat. It would be better If the small farms of the "mosaback" farmers above described could be bought np and consolidated by a scientific farmer with brains and capital. Better and more economical farming would reeult and the moss back" would get as good a living In wages as he would working for him self at tii a month. rtH Or ONE AND FLESH Or ANOTHER. Mr. Fels may not be able to carry out his philanthropic plan of doubling Oregon's land tax by the simple expe dient of enforcing the single tax; but he Is surely In earnest. To prove It, he gives $25,000 per annum to a mis sionary fund. We will not call It 'boodle." for boodle Is a harsh word and Is properly taboo In these purified days under the Oregon system. In the old days the unthinking and the un discriminating would have called It boodle and rejoiced over Its timely ap pearance and Judicious distribution. But now we know better. It Is not boodle. It Is good money from a good man spent for a good purpose. So we think some of us. Others do not. But while there may be doubts about the Fels 115.000 per annum fund doing good, there Is no question that it makes a lot of people feed good very good, indeed. All money, taint ed or untainted. In the pockets of the deserving Jingles alike. But why should a lobbyist before the Legislature at Salem be required by law to disclose his employment on pains of imprisonment, and a lobby ist paid lobbyist before the people be Jmmune from the same requirement of law? Why should not the people know all about the Fels fund. Its dis tribution and Its beneficiaries? Why should not the people know whether It Is true that Mr. ITRen gets 15500 per year. Dr. Eggleston 11200 per year. Mr. Crldge 1600 per year, Mr. Hlmes tiOO per year, and others various amounts to promote single tax legislation before the people? Why should there be a corrupt practices act requiring publicity for candidates and no corrupt practices act requiring publicity for initiative lobbyists and boosters? Why? WHY BfM.VBfs WAITS. Why Is it that for a year or more before a Presidential election business tn the United States slackens up and everybody begins to await the result of the election and does nothing which Is not Immediately necessary? It is not so in other countries. Elec tions there naturally distract atten tion from business to some extent, but business transactions do not depend on the result of the election as they do with ul Why can we not adjust affairs In such a manner that the vic tory of one party or the other at the polls will not affect the regular course of the Nstlon's Industries? -The answer is that the political Is sues on which National elections are fought Involve fundamental business questions. In one of his recent speeches President Taft named four such Issues with which his Adminis tration has dealt or has yet to deal and some, at least, of which will still be before the country at the next elec tion. These are railroad regulation, ahlch relates to the price to be paid for transportation; trusts, which in volve the question whether business Is to be done under the competitive or monopoly system; the tariff, which affects the price to be paid for almost every product of the country; bank ing and currency, which affects' the whole financial system of the Nation. Thus the whole business organization of the country Is In the melting pot. Mr. Taft has made a good begin ning at the settlement of these ques tions, but If he is to complete the work he will need another terra with a Congress working In harmony with him. He has placed Federal control of railroads on a firm basis and has only to secure the passage of a law limiting stock and bond Issues In order to complete a code covering all essential points. The only cause for uncertainty Is the manner In which the Interstate Commerce CommUu-lon will exercise its enlarged powers and the Commerce Court will Interpret the law. The railroads should be able to forecast the action of the commission with enough accuracy to avoid serious derangement of their affairs by any decision It may make. The Supreme Court decisions on trusts and the President's announcement thst he In tends to enforce the law In the light of those decisions Is adequate notice to the trusts that they must dissolve. Wall street might as well cease Its lamentations, consider that question settled and conform to the law. There may be some disturbance during the process of re-organlxatlon. but It will be principally among those gentle men who deal tn what Lawson calls "made dollars." There remain the tariff and money questions to settle. The President has put tariff legislation on the right track by M policy of getting the facts through the Tariff Board and applying that knowledge In schedule revision. He will give Congress an opportunity to deal Intelligently with wool and cotton at the next session. If Congress would dispose of those two schedules. It would give other In dustries an Idea of what they might expect in the way of tariff revision. Let It then make the Tariff Bosrd permanent and give it more funds; then several schedules might be dis posed of under the new plan at each session. Once drive the fact into the heads of manufacturers that the tariff was actually being revised according to a fixed policy, which" had come to stay, and there would be no more un certainty except such as they made themselves by trying to change the Dollcr. A currency system which will main tain a reasonablv even supply of money the country over, without al tentative periods of feast and famine, will be reported by the National Monetary Commission in December. Its main principles are sound, though It will no doubt cause much contro versy. If these principles are adopted the money question should be settled and a chronic source of business dis turbance removed. The settlement of these four ques tionsor even a beginning at the set tlement of the last two which gives a fair Indication of the general lines on which the settlement will be made will remove any excuse for tying up bus! ness the year before a Presidential election. Lengthening of the term to six or eight years, with a veto on sec ond terms, has been proposed and would have the merit f allowing a President time to work out a line of policy and show Its results, but It would be only a palliative. The only cure for a disease is to remove the cause. In this case the cause Is the keeping in a fusltlve state laws vitally affecting business. There Is a general movement to take business out of poll tic. The way to do so In National affairs Is to settle and settle on sound principles those political questions which affect business. OKADCATM AS TEACHERS, Of the sixty-eight young men and women who took their degrees at Eugene last Spring it is reported that thirty are now doing educational work of one sort or another. Some are tArh1nr. some sure aunerlntendents of ' schools, some are county supervisors. By running through the published list of these thirty names It will be found that about twenty-five of them belong to women. This fact Indicates that the grade of women teachers In the Oregon schools Is being raised by the help of the State University. It Is performing the work of a normal school in this respect and probably doing It better than an ordinary nor mal school could. Still It must not be forgotten that these university graduates do not ac cept the humbler educational positions. They go to the towns, not to the coun try. The rural schools must take their teachers from any available source and often they are not the best. No matter how industriously the univer sity may turn out graduates, a nor mal school Is still needed for the coun try teachers, upon whom the great majority of the children must depend for their education, such as It Is. It Is an Interesting fact that almost half of last year's graduates from the State University have chosen educa tion for their career. The total num ber was sixty-eight, the number who are concerned with the public schools In some capacity is thirty. The rea son for this Is a matter of pure specu latlon. It cannot be because teaching pays hotter than other professions Law, medicine, theology all bring more honor and fully as much remu neratlon, but the university graduates seem to prefer the modest, but highly useful, work of the teacher. No doubt there Is something in the instruction they receive which Inclines them to labor for human values rath er than for fame and wealth. Unfor tunately there are no statistics which tell whether or not It Is the ablest graduates) from the university who en ter the educational field, nor Is there any way to find out how long' they pursue their noble but unremunera tlve calling. Lincoln's CREEi. A clergyman residing In Washing ton City, the Reverend John Wesley Hill, has taken the trouble to prepare and circulate a pamphlet to prove that Abraham Lincoln was an orthodox Christian. This appears to us to be a work of supererogation. Inasmuch as Lincoln did Justly, loved mercy and walked humbly with hts God, he was a truly religious man according to the standards or the Bible, and that 1s enough to satisfy any reasonable per son. Rut it does not satisfy Mr. Hill. He sets about proving that Lincoln accept ed the formal theology of the churches. We are told In this pamphlet that Lin coln "recognized the presence and of fice of the Holy Spirit In the world," that he had "confidence In the Bible as the Word of God," that he "revered the Sabbath and enforced respect for it In the army," and so on. Some of the historical incidents upon which Mr. Hill bases his theory strike one as being extremely Interesting products of the mythopoetic faculty. For example he gives an account of a sudden illumination which came to Lincoln at a campmeetlng when It was Impressed upon him. no doubt miracu lously, that he was destined to take "an important part In the struggle against slavery" Before that time, we are given to understand, he had no Intimation that there was a great work ahead of him. Like Paul of Tarsus, he received insight all at once and by a supernatural process. Then there Is an account of a statement which Lin coln Is said to have made to a Mr. Bateman. secretary of education for Illinois, Just before the election of 1880. This statement contains some singular passages, from which we se lect one. "I know I am right because I know that liberty is right, for Christ teaches it and Christ Is God. Doug las doesn't care whether slavery Is vot ed up or down, but God cares and humanity carea and I care." Not a word of this sounds at all like Lincoln, and the last clause, in which he is supposed to put himself on a level with the deity Is startling. We know from many authentic sources that Lincoln was ostensibly not so much concerned in 1860 to put slavery down, as he was to maintain the Union. It Is interesting, therefore, to glean this bit of his genuine inner sen timent from Mr. Bateman. who en joyed the distinction of being the only person in the world to whom It was confided. In another place Mr. Hill recounts a conversation between President Lin coln and General Sickles which re minds one of a devout washerwoman talking with a district visitor in a tract. General Sickles arfked Lincoln why he was not alarmed Just before the battle of Gettysburg. This was his reply. "Now, General, since you have asked me. I guess I will have to tell you. I went Into my room, locked the door, got down upon my knees and said. 'O Lord God. I have done abso lutely everything I can and now you must help.' And God told me that he would give me Gettysburg and I be- lleved him." It is difficult to Imagine Lincoln fallen Into a condition of mind such as this would signify. Still Dr. Hill Is not a man whoso previous' career necessarily inspires distrust. To be sure he has been chaplain for the Pennsylvania Senate and is "wide ly known as a civic and political speaker," but It does not Inevitably follow that he cannot tell the truth. Turning away from these dubious materials, we may take It for granted without any particular proof that Lin coln believed In God and. In a general way chose the "larger hope" for mankind. Like almost every man of surpassing greatness, he was a prag rnatlst in his conception of the gov ernment of the world. A theory which worked well in practice he took for true. The belief In God has upon the whole acted as a sustaining force In history. It has comforted the warrior for righteousness and upheld the mar- tyr at the stake. Without It who could endure to live nobly and who would dare to die for a forlorn cause? Lincoln was a Christian in the sense that good men are Christians. Little as he cared for the formal theology which seems so attractive to men like Mr. Hill, he clung with all steadfast ness to the vital precepts of the man of Galilee, which have been the rule by which men of light have guided their Uvea In every age. There la. In fact, a religion ' which belongs to no age and comes from no particular country. At the bottom of It ilea that trust In the moral sanity of. the unl- verse which keeps us from despair. Its creed Is Justice between man and man. Its inspiration is tne nope mai the world can be made a goodly dwell ing place by human effort and Its com fort Is the faith that there is a power, greater than man, which makes for righteousness. That Lincoln accepted this religion there is not a particle of doubt. That he would have welcomed the theology which Mr. Hill ascribes to him is In credible. Lincoln belonged to the old est church In the world, the one In which Socrates and Cato were succes sors to the prophet Mlcah. Boethelua and Chaucer Joined it some centuries and cnaucer joined it some cemunra later and they were followed by Rab- elals, Montaigne and Benjamin Frank- lln. It Is a church which relies on deeds more than words and cares more for human welfare than for abstract n,.im Wi vnnr that T.lnpnln in one of its worthiest members and we do not believe that his fame would bo enhanced If it could be proved that he belonged to any other. The shipment of Clark County prunes to Europe Is nothing mora than the return of an old favor. France has been shipping prunes to the United States for many years. They come packed in neat little boxes, stuffed with walnut meats and In divers other delectable forms. The presumption 1s that Clark County prunes do not admit of such refined treatment. If they do, why is it not applied to them? In crude products there is comparatively little profit. Wealth comes from labor Ingeniously applied. Senator Stephenson probably fan cied that he could do the country $107,000 worth of good in the Senate, His mistake was a natural one, but Its consequences have been unfortunate. What the Senate needs Is not so much big bank accounts as big brains. The supposition that a man who could make money was necessarily qualified to make laws has not justified Itself in practice and Mr. Stephenson has contributed as much as anybody to discredit It. It does not speak very well for lo cal missionary zeal that prisoners In the Jail who want to read the Bible have to steal a copy: There ought to be at least a New Testament In every oelL If the cells accommodate several prisoners there ought to be several' Bibles, one for each man. In our opinion there Is no taste which a man in Jail can more profitably gratify than one for reading the Scriptures. Secretary Fisher's defense of his coal land policy against the attack of Representative Mondell Is convincing and Is all the more welcome because Mondell has been the most persistent enemy of National land law reform. He has done as much Injury to the development of the West at one ex treme of opinion as Plnchot has done at the other. Drugs and liquors are said to have been the cause of suicide In Seattle of an Aberdeen doctor. Drugs and liquors are twin roots of much trouble. Similarly so are the common pins, which a bright schoolboy once said saved the lives of many people by not being swallowed. President Taft probably made more friends by frankly expressing his dis agreement with the resolutions of the Public Land Convention at Denver than he would have made by truck ling to his audience. Above all. the American people like a man who speaks out openly McCabe and Dunlap get a taste of the condign punishment they had pre pared for Wiley and the detection of Impure food will now be unhampered. The equivalent of Napoleon's "whiff of grapeshot" played havoc with the Portuguese monarchists at Oporto and strengthened the young republic. By becoming secretary of the Rail road Commission Corey promises not to run against Olcott. The game has Its consolations. Where was Southern chivalry when a Virginia Sheriff held a woman pris oner before him as a shield against a fusillade ? Strikebreakers in Louisville refuse to work when fed fried chicken, and it Is not stated they are colored men, either. - The "monarchists" In Mexico are planning revolt, and the real thing in Portugal is ready to battle for Manuel. Three millions will be needed to run thls-clty, with the usual trimmings and chasers. Battling Nelson would withdraw, only he never knows when he Is "licked." The comet Is not the only thing In this universe whose head Is mostly gas. The man who would "beat up" hired girl shows temerity. the Senator Stephenson was "easy.' Gleanings of the Day The oft-repeated advloe to young men to get back to the farm has In spired Judge John E. Humphries, the perennial candidate In the State of Washington to ask:. "Whose farm shall they taker' He -says that an Eastern farmhand earning 110 to J20 a month and board for six months of the year In the East cannot hope to acquire a homestead which will cost 12000. The Centralis News. Examiner 'aptly re plies that 10 or SO acres thoroughly cultivated will give greater returns than ISO acres partly cultivated, and that hundreds of chances exist for them ' In Southwestern Washington. It calls attention to the logged-on! lands, which can be bought at low cost. In small i tracts and on easy payments. A man trained to farming can make a farm I out of such land and need not take any other man's farm. The requisites are j soma skill, a great deal of Industry and perseverance and a little cash. It is estimated that about 290,000 Americans went abroad this year and spent about $200,000,000 besides what , they spent for Jewelry, clothing and other articles. An American resident In Paris estimates that fully $100,000, 000 a year Is spent by Americans in that city alone for Jewelry and gowns. The total of these two sums Is shown . BT tne Qreater Baltimore committee, J now lrranging for the ."See America , Flrst.. convention, which Is to be held . th t . Novembar. to exceed the cost of running the municipal gov ernments of the 16 largest cities In the United States. The purpose of the convention Is to Induce Americans to recognize the superior beauties of their own country by seeing it first and when they do go abroad, to proclaim Its attractions In such a way that this country will soon be filled with a flood of foreign tourists. A New York farmer who imagined that he was clearing $1500 a year and . - - the living expenses of himself and his family, and bought an automobile on i the strength of it. had his comfortable ' Illusion cruelly dispelled by agents of j the Farm Management Burfeau of the I DeDartment of Agriculture. A bulletin of the department says: It developed that his farm represented an Investment of 115.000. When the agents be gan to figure up the debts and credits the farmer'! eyes began to open. He nad not taken into account the Interest of his $15 000 capital In making his f l&OO net profits. He hadn't figured on the profit and loss column a score of little things that should hRve been taken account of. By the time the arents finished they convinced the farmer that his net profits each year, after deduct ing all expenses and only 5 per cent Interest on the capital Invested, amounted to Just 18 per rear. . Ha had taken half of what he supposed were his net profits for a year and bought the automobile. Instead, he was buying It out of his, legitimate Interest on his farm Investment, out of money that would have come to him without hard work, planning or worrying by merely putting his farm Into good securities. Dr. Cole of Alzey, It Is said, owns but three acres of land, and he devotes the most of It to bee raising and sells from $1,600 to $2,000 worth of honey a year, says the Henderson, Ky., Gleaner. He found that the wild cu cumber was a great honey producer. He noticed the bees about the blos soms and found that their honey In creased and was of a superior quality. This wild cucumber Is very prominent in river bottom land and comes up after the corn Is laid by. It has al ways been considered by the farmers as a pesky weed that had no virtues but to torment the human flesh with a burr that will get In clothes and work clear in to the bone. It is now evident to 'many that the honey from bees on river bottom farms is of better quality than that raised on hill land. Dr. Cole believes he has found the reason for this and that It lies in the fact that the wild cucumber Is a great honey producer. The honor of being most devoted to alcohollo drinks Is passed from the South to New York City by the Louis ville Courier-Journal, which ruthlessly smashes popular visions of Southern conviviality and hospitality In this style: According to a prominent minister in New York there is one saloon for each sixty votes In the metropolis. The figures will surprise the South. In fiction the Southerner is always redolent of mint Julep and his nose la a whisky-blossom indicating of his constant Indulgence In alcoholic bev erages. His home is a glorified barroom. The art of mixing his favorite tipple is as prominent among the accomplishments of the women of his establishment as playing the piano or making beaten biscuit, waf fles or sally lunn. The Southerner of fact is temperate. As often as not there are cobwebs over the tnouth of hla decanter, although they are supposed to be found only over the cork of his wine bottles. The mint that growa In the spring branch Is often drawn upon chiefly to make an appe tising sauce for roast lamb. -Eating and drinking tntemperately are vices more wide ly distributed In New York thaa in Ken tucky, or elsewhere In the South. There is small choice between the two kinds of per nicious Indulgence from a moral point. of view when they are not combined, and as a rule they are combined. If It Is true that there are as many saloons In New York as tba minister says there are, his field of endeavor is a good one In which to find material for temperance lectures, if a fruitless one on which to labor In that cause. 6uch conditions, from the point of view of the people of temperate Kentucky, are depressing, even appalling. New York seems afloat in drink and destined to sink In Iniquity. Dr. Wiley says dead horses sent to Germany return in the form of im ported frankfurters. All Kentuckians love horseflesh, but it is a sentiment and not an appetite. Pass the home made sausage, please, remarks the Louisville Courier-Journal. Chang Chlen and other wealthy Chin amen are organizing a company to take people from the overpopulated famine districts of China and colonize them In Manchuria. They will be em ployed as laborers In growing wheat, corn, cotton and beans, and a beginning at raising cattle to be Imported from the United States and Australia will be made. . A' large American retail clothing store has been opened In Berlin, and consular reports Indicate that there may be good openings In other Ger man cities. American firms who seek German trade waste much of the money they spend on advertising by Indulging in exaggeration, in the opinion of William C Teichmann, United States Consul at Stettin. As regards surgical supplies in particular, he says: "It would find a readier hearing If couched in lan guage which would Impress the pro fessional man." The German doctor is not impressed by strings of superla tives, but by plain facts. Many Amer ican firms also waste money when they print catalogue and price lists for the German market In English. If they cannot spend a little more money on having these things translated Into German, they might as well save It all. Stars and Star-Makers By Leone Cass Barr. Maro Klaw, the New York theatrical manager, was expected to arrive in Portland last evening from Seattle, where he was in attendance at the opening of the Klaw & Erlanger Theater, the Metropolitan, last Monday evening. Mr. Klaw is accompanied by his son Alonso. and while their visit has had for its primary object the opening of the new theater, the two are going to stop off In Portland. San Fran cisco, Los Angeles and spend some time In the Grand Canyon in order that young Klaw, who Is an artist by profession, may view the country. Fol lowing his Coast trip Mr. Klaw will return to New York and remain there for a number of months, while Mr. Erlanger goes to London to put on "The Pink Lady" with Frank Daniels In the leading comedy role. y The day before Mr. Klaw left New York he calfed upon Charles Frohman, who is still suffering from a rheumatic attack that has stuck with him for al most a year. "I wish I could take that Coast trip with you," Mr. Frohman said t wistfully to Mr. Klaw. "I made the acquaintance of that part of the world more than 30 years ago in the capacity of a young advance man. I spent 45 weeks traveling about the Coast, and I've always had a big hankering to get back there again." Speaking of his new Seattle theater Mr. Klaw said: I have looked over the new Metro politan and am delighted with it. Its cost will run from $250,000 to $300,000. We hold It on a forty-seven-year lease at thle time. The theater is built of solid concrete, and Is, of course, abso lutely unburnable. I am told that its Insurance rato Is the lowest on any building in Seattle. George J. Mackenzie will be the per manent manager of the Metropolitan. We hope to Be able to Keep tne nuuse open all next Summer with . traveling attractions, and after this first sea son 1 feel sure that there will not be a single dark nigrht at the Metropolitan during any month of the year. The first production that Klaw & Erlanger, In conjunction with C. B. Jefferson, ever sent to Seattle was "The Soudan," in the Fall of 1893. That was a big production for those days and, by the way. it was this very play that gave rise "to the lasting friendship between our firm and Al Hayman. That was the time of the silver panic, and many New York managers were canceling the Coast tours of their companies. Al Hayman, then conducting the Baldwin In San Francisco, appealed to ue not to desert him and we wired back that we would keep "The Soudan" going so long as we had a dollar left. By giving him our shows then we tided him over a disastrous season, and the friendship thus formed led to our formation, three years later, of the theatrical syndicate, together with Nixon st Zimmerman and Mr. Frohman. Calvin Heilig of the Heilig Theater went to Seattle to attend the opening of the Metropolitan. ' e The Cort, the new San Francisco theater Is this week housing "Alias Jimmy Valentine." with H. B. Warner In the titular role. Paul Armstrong wrote the play. Which Is an adaptation of O. Henry's story "A Retrieved Reformation." The engagement begun last Sunday evening and continues for a fortnight then the company comes to Portland. The Cort, which Is Just ' off Market street on Ellis, backs right up against the rear of the Orpheum Theater, on O'Farrell street. It has only been open a few weeks "Baby Mine" doing the house warming act in a two-weeks' engage ment prior to opening here. Records of the box office show that "Baby Mine" brought In over $33,000 while it played San Francisco, which makes more ma terial for the press agent's stories. "Miss Nobody from Starland," the musical comedy In which we heard Olive Vail, a former Tlvoli chorus girl. In her present role as a leading wo man, went directly from Portland to the Cort. where It played one week. Following the "Alias Jimmy Valentine" engagement at the Cort. Gertrude Hoff man and her "Season of Russian Bal lets" will dance several million miles in a two week stay. By the way, it is during the present week that the members of the "Alias Jimmy 14th of February" company are going to produce their remarkable play for the convicts at the San Quentin prison. All of the prisoners, with the exception of eight very bad boys, are to be permitted to witness the play, which will be an al fresco affair, e e In the construction of the new Alca zar stock theater In San Francisco the contractors are well up to their time limits and the play house is ex pected to be ready for occupancy- early in December. e That obstetrical farce "Baby Mine" served to introduce the new asbestos drop curtain of the Grand Theater in Salem to theatergoers. The event was recorded along with the dramatic criti cism of the play thusly: All the members of the company con tributed to the evening's fun in euch a way as to wring from the audience continuous laughter. The new asbestos drop curtain was used for the first time last night. On it is a beautiful scene entitled "On the Santiam," in which the rushing stream is seen with Its rocky ehore backed by timht, nnH with the mountains in the I rear. It is a beautiful piece of work and a splendid addition to tne lurnisn ings of the Grand. e At the Columbia Theater In San Francisco this week "The Country Boy" Is playing. Edgar Selwyn, the author of he comedy, Is known up and down the Coast as a former reporter on various publications. His claim to at tention, other than his success as a playwright is that he Is the husband of Margaret Mayo, who also draws royalties way up into seven figures for plays she has written. see Nance O'Neil is appearing In her latest play, "The Lily In which David Belasco sent her out last season as an almost not quite star. She is pre senting the play now In stock at the Alcazar Theater In San Francisco, owned and managed by Belasco and Mayer. The notes on all of Miss O'Neill's billing reads, "By special ar rangement with David Belasco," so Its not probable that the play will be given out for general stock, but enly as an accommodation from Brother Dave to Brother Fred. The time is ripe for some far-seeing person to nab Nellie Lane, the "comely" Siletz Indian woman, who Is "living happily" with her 14th husband. Nellie Is eligible for vaudeville, if not for the legitimate. "Bright Eyes." the musical comedy by Joseph M. Gaites, is headed Port land way, via Spokane and Seattle. Tomorrow and Saturday it plays Spo kane. Florence Holbrook and Cecil Lean, a regular Mike Donlin-Mabel Hite arrangement, are In the principal roles. Country Town Sayings by Ed Howe I have about concluded that the only thins; to do with a fool Is to keep out of his way as much as possible. The oftener you say "No," the better you'll get along. . It may he true that a little girl plays a piano well, considering her age, and the number of lessons she has taken; but her playing is not music The great effects In everything are produced by patient practice; by the masters; by the professionals. I see it predicted that within a com paratively short time poetry will disap pear. I am glad of it. Poetry is the language of those who wish for things they cannot accomplish. Poetry la written about things that do not exist, and a thing that does not exist is not important. As soon as a fight fairly starts, both sides begin to think of a settlement. If a perfectly honest man should find old Rockefeller's pocket-book in the road, how much would he take before sending it back? If you think Walt Whitman was a great man, I wish you would some time take a day off, and make'lt clear to me. If you want to get a big day's work out of a man, hire a loafer. But he'll only work one day. Whisky Is a fool, and the fact Is late ly being generally admitted, by the adoption of prohibitory laws. Why should not other foolish notions be ad mitted? Whisky drinking is not the only fool notion from which weak men should be saved by their neighbors who are stronger. It is as easy to be unfair as it is im portant that you should not be. Half a Century Ago From The Oregonian Oct. 8. 1861. The steamer Julia brought down $25, 000 in gold dust, through Tracy & Co., besides a quantity In the hands of pas sengers. We learn by this arrival that the four Indians who were arrested some time since for the murder of Mr. Briggs and son, near Barlow's Gate, were tried and convicted for the of fense In the Wasco County Circuit Court, and Judge Walte sentenced them to be hung on the 8th day of Novem ber next. The ferryboat, under the manage ment of the Robert Ladd, has been do ing brisk business during the days of the State Fair. We noticed that the proprietors, with commendable liber ality, only charged half price for fer riage f those who visited the fall! grounds. The illness of ex-Preeldent Buchanan Is said to have been caused by sheer exhaustion. He dally receives letters by the bushel, full of bitter denuncia-i tion. A Money Grab of Consress. Ohio State Journal. A Congressman Is paid 20 cents a mile out of the public treasury every time he makes a trip to or from Wash ington, D. CX, to attend to his business, and yet the trip costs him only 3 cents a mile. Why Is this shameful grab at the Treasury made? It Is simply fol lowing an old custom that started many years ago, when it might have cost 20 cents a mile to go to and from Wash ington. There was reason for It then, but there Is no reason for it now, and so there is 17 cents a mile that Is in the nature of graft. Of course, there is a law for It, but that doesn't make the grab moral. One can graft by law as well as by grand larceny. This Is one of the cases. Why a Congressman , who gets $7500 a year would want to charge the people 20 cents for what he pays 3 cents la not the real question, but why the people should let him. If It Is not dishonest, it la unjust. All such things weaken the Integrity of, the public service. Brother Parsons' Exoneration. Portland, Oct 4. (To the Editor.)! It Is with great pleasure that I note the complete exoneration of the Rev. John Parsons, of Fairbanks, Alaska, from numerous ungrounded charges. The person who could conjure up some thing against one who was held In such high esteem by all classes was malicious Indeed. No one occupying his position could do more for those In dire distress. Hla hand was out to all, regardless of oc cupation or morals. It was Brother Parsons who turned his church into a free reading room day and night that the young people might have some place to go aside from the ever tempt ing saloon and dance hall. His weekly church sociables during the long, cold winter of 1905 and 1906, with the ther mometer steady at 74 degrees below zero, will not soon be forgotten by the "Sourdoughs." I am, with his congregation, "solidly for him." C. C G. Dr. Wlthycombe Asks Light On Glnsemje OREGON EXPERIMENT STATION, Corvallis, Oct. 3. (To the Editor.) At fairly regular intervals articles ap pear in the papers relating to the enor. mous profits made in growing ginseng. All of the fabulous returns, however, seem to be for seeds and plants to es tablish new gardens. Ginseng has been gTOwn In this state for about 10 years. Won't some Ore gon grower kindly give ns a positive statement of facts and figures as to the financial returns-from the production of roots from a given area, which were sold for actual consumption and not for planting n'ew gardens? The writer is frank to confess that he has regarded the growing of ginseng as being considerable of a humbug, somewhat similar to Alaska and Miracle wheat. JAMES WITHY CO MB El Auto Driving Never "Concise." CARSON, Wash., Oct. 3. '(To the Editor.) Is It permissible to use the word "concise" In speaking of driving an automobile; that is. in speaking of the drivers' method or manner of run ning the machine? Will you please etate whether or not It would be con sidered good English? Would It come directly within the meaning of the word or would It be used with an Im plied sense?. SUBSCRIBER. The word "concise" Is used In quali fying style of writing or speaking. We can Imagine no implied meaning that would make "concise" good English in describing a chauffeur's manner of driving a car. Blaster Tart's Tight Trousers. Knoxvllle Sentinel. When President Taft was 7 years old his mother bought him a pair of short duck trousers. The first time they were washed they shrank badly. The boy was fat, but his mother wedged him Into the trousers against his pro test. He went out to play, but in a few minutes returned. "Mamma," he said, "I can't wear these pants; they are too tight Why, mamma, they are tighter than my skin." "Oh, no; they're not, Billy." replied his mother. "Nothing could be tighter than your skin." "Well, all the same, these pants are, I can sit down In my skin, but I can't In these pants." i