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TOE MOKXIXG OnEGOXIAX, TTEPyESPAY, OCTOBER 11, 1911. 10 roK-ruiro. OKTCOX. tof4 at Portland. Onioa. PeatoTaoe read-Oaea jtfattsr. eBacripuoa H-.-- In Tar-ably I AdTMC (BI X.11U rlT. f-smder -n.-lu.l-l. on Tr 'IS? Iai;y. Sunday la-lu-l"i. ri montu ... JJ ri.r. i'ji)ir Included, tare montai. . J Illy. FjndAf tnclutad. one month.... La.. j. without Puntlt. on ysar. ....... Jmi f. wuhout KiiBilar, sis month"..... C? I-ai:y. viout Sunday, three ontM.. . X-a..r. wltouvt Suaday. eme ssootJe. . - Weekly, one year 21 Sanaay. mnm ymr tuM and Wsakly. one yssJT. ........ IBT CARRIEB.) rl'y. fusd-sT Inciad-'d. !! year Jjmlir. Sea-lay Included, on natttk Mmmt to Beenlt tWnd posf-tace maoer eed-r. prM urdtr or parsoaal caeca 7 oar local bank. etunM eo-n or currency era bi taa es-ader a ri-a. tilve poetofnce 41na la full, including eounty and state. Paotaso Bam 10 to 1 paee. X cent; IS to 1 aaaaa. 1 rlM; IO H to paeee. S rents: 4 la a- pas--. 4 mu. Finlii postage S-mb.e rata. SasH.e) llHm OfltoM Varra a- C-nh-Ba Kaw lor. Krauakk kui.d-.aa. ChJ oa. sceser aulidlaa. lino omia K Jtaaaat atraot. S. W. London. rOHTLA-TD. WtD.MM lI. OCTOBtt li. ntKMDEXT TAJT. President Taft will receive a um welcome from tha Cltr of Portland. Both the character of the inu and the dlrnltr of the office which ha hold tntrit recognition, and tt will bo g-rren la abounding measure. Tho President of tho United Btate la not only tha moat powerful executive In tho world, but he la in a singular sens tho representative of the peo pie. Coitfrmmtn represent their dis tricts and Senators their states. Broad aa they mar be In their Intentions, It la unavoidable that their views should be narrowed by thef lnteresta for which they have been choaen to a rite, r. But the President stand for no aectlon and apeaka for no apeclal Interest. Ills voice, while he occu pies his exalted station, la the voice of the American people. More and mora aa time passes tho public In clines to look to the President to plead the cause of the masses, to champion general rights which might be overlooked In the clash of diverse Interests and to redress wrongs which are Impregnable to the attacks of private Individuals. Tha President Is not only Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of tha United Rates, but he also dis poses of moral forces which are more potent than ships and soldiers. What tha President demands he obtains, if he has the will of the people to up hold him. and what he opposes can not sucroed. Through him the pur pose of tha Nation gnta swiftly and directly to Its aim. No man In the world has such opportunities to achieve great results aa the Presi dent of tha United States. When he speaks the nations listen. When he arts the course of history may be changed. To Mr. Tart K has been given to Impress hla thought upon the Ufa of tha country in many different direc tions. It was his good fortune to take of Hce at the critical moment when tha politics of tha country was merg ing Into economics. The great Issues of his Administration pertain to the betterment of the conditions of hu man Ufa. to the conservation of our vital and material resource, to the modernization of the courts, to the distribution of the products of indus try, and he la prepared by the natural habits of his mind as well aa by edu cation to deal with all the subjects In a broad and statesmanlike man ner. Hla profound scholarship In the law. hla experience aa a Judge, the great executive positions which he held before he became President, and above all. his predisposition to go to the bottom of every question before he makes up his mind about It. fit him most happily for the difficulties of hla position. Tha chancing aspects of oar civilisation demand unusual aptitudes In the President who has to deal with them, and Mr. Taft has shown the precise qualities which the exigencies of the times require. Looking back over the years of his Administration. It Is astonishing to sea how much has been accomplished by his quiet and deliberate methods. Of course the successful prosecution of the great monopolies which have threatened the welfare of the country strikes the popular Imagination most powerfully. In fact, what Mr. Taft haa done In that single particular would be sufficient credit for an ad ministration, but aft it all It Is only a solitary Item In a long list. No doubt future historians will dwell with emphatic commendation upon hla labors for universal peace. To a degree unusual In a man who haa dealt with the administration of mili tary affairs. Mr. Taft dislikes war. He Is not only theoretically a man of peace, but In the course of his Presidency he ha lost no opportunity to promote International good will and lessen the chances for bloodshed. Arbitration enjoys far better stand ing In the world today than It did when he was Inaugurated, and. even If the treaties he has negotiated should not be finally adopted In the form he has chosen, still those who take up the work hereafter mi:i find their task lightened by his efforts. Mr. Taft will be remembered forever as one of the pioneer champions of International Justice in place of the rule of might. With hint the ultima ratio of monarch would not bo can non but righteousness, and he haa brought the day appreciably nearer when his vision will become law. Of course It Is too soon to appre ciate at their full value the services which Mr. Taft has rendered to the American people In bettering our do mes tic conditions. The establishment ef postal savings banks was effected ' with, mat noeence or pomp wnicu characterises all he does, but the ef fect of this innovation will be pro foundly beneficial. It la hla purpose, as the country well knows, to com plete the reform by Installing a par cels post whW h will go farther to ameliorate the conditions of rural l'fe than volumes of exhortation. Mr. Taft haa done many other things which help make gnoj his title to be called "the people's representative.' Ills vigorous enforcement of the pure food law Is one cf them. He appre ciates better than any other President we have ever had the Importance of conserving the Nation's health. The people recognize the unselfish energy with which PresMent Tuft haa devot ed himself to their welfare, and they axe glad of the opportunity which his trip gives them te show their grati tude. The old saying that democra cies axe heartless haa no application to the American people. Their feel ings are warm anj they en.ny an oc casion to express them. The enthu siasm which has greeted the Preat- 'dent at every stage of his Journey tes tifies to aa intelligent appreciation of his great services. The plain citi zens understand him. What he has already done for the country and what he plans to do In the future appeal to the imagination of the majwes. The splendid welcome which meets him everywhere reveals the popular estimate of his services. TKB raaUSt BCr AGAjr. John E. Lathrop. who first gave publicity to the notorious "Dlck-to-DIck" forgery, haa been trying to bolster up the fabric of falsehood he haa woven about Controller Bay by denying or distorting the facta he dis covered there on his recent visit to Alaska in company with Secretary Fisher. He found on personal Inspec tion that the facts did not sustain the PInchot theories. He therefore changed the facts by means of his unblushing mendscity to fit the theories. Oorernor Clark, of Alaska him self a newspaper man of proved In tegrity Is supported by every rep utable Alaskan In denouncing the articles which Lathrop haa been writ ing about Alaska as false. Lathrop says there was a conspiracy among members of Mr. nsnera party to mis represent Controller Bay. The Gov ernor says this statement Is a plain lie and that the walk of seven miles through rain and wind was made necessary by a storm on the so-called bay. not taken for health or amuse ment. He adda: When wa finished that hard math Is tha storm. I think thare wee notxxly la tha party who was sot willing that Controller liar should be monopollisd It anybody wanted to moaoeollae lu I sotlce. koarayar. that only Sao ecroe of tbaaa aaore laoda have baaa atakad an that lre are still llioo Bi-raa lafl. which anybody may hare tor tha sskir.a and the coat of tha recording fraa. Nobody seems to want this valuable land. Tba pity si It ill k that Alaska haa to auftsr berauae a parson who recently haa TlaKed tha territory at a time whaa tha publlo Is aaaar for information about tha country, eomas bark and altera auch outrafaoua and malicious falaehooas about It. Lathrop also falsely stated that Alaskans axe pleased with the Gov ernment cable tolls to Alaska, which are 190 per cent higher than those charged by the telegraph and cable companies In the United States or between the United States and Eu rope. Alaskans consider the tolls extortionate and cite them aa one of the atrongeat arguments against Gov ernment ownership and operation of Alaska coal mines and ' railroads, which Is advocated by tho extreme conservatlonlsta If a cause la to be Judged by the character of lta advocates and the weapons they use. then the cause of PInchot conservation stands utterly condemned. Lathrop, Plnchofs press agent, first caused the publication of the Dlck-to-DIck forgery In the Port land Journal. Then Miss Abbott pub lished It In the Philadelphia North American. Lathrop undoubtedly knew tha Dlck-to-DIck letter was bogus. It Is such a man that PInchot chooses as his press agent to write the facts about Alaska. Hla conduct In that country la consistent with his cont'- In Washington. COatwjhtlOEa ralRCHtU). The State of Washington will not soon find a man possessing the legal acumen, grasp of Intricate problems, honesty of purpose and rapacity for work of II. A. Falrchlld. who will be wUllng to devote those talents to the state st the salary paid a member of the Public Service Commission. Mr. Kalrchild'a death removes probably the strongest figure In Washington state administration circles, a figure strong In a way that waa not generally anticipated when he waa first appoint ed to the Railway Commission by Governor Mead. Mr. Fair-child's unusual ability as a lawyer was recognised by his associates of the bar, but his earlier career In Belllngham had disclosed a tendency to place the Im portance of politics above that of his legal practice. His appointment to state onice was originally a political reward, and there waa no small expec tation that he would shine brightest aa a politician. But the work he un dertook appealed more to his sterling mental qualities than to his political Incllnatons. The cloak of the politi cian was dropped and the real man was revealed. It was the transition of convention manipulator Into states man. He gave actual.' honest, con tinuous, painstaking service that over threw the previous concepts of the man and brought to him the major credit for the high standard of era clcncy attained by the Washington Railway Commission. Hla work was conspicuously recognlied by retention In ottlcs during a change of admin istration, and later by appointment as chairman of the Public Service Com mission by a Governor who owed him l.vs than nothing as politics are meas ured. TROl BLKit OF TUB TOO'O TVRK8. The Toung Turks have had a run of misfortune since they gained con trol of the Turkish government In 10. For a year after the crafty Abdul Ilamld had ostensibly surren dered to them, they were kept busy foiling his Intrigues and keeping their heads on their ehouldera When he finally threw off the mask and at tempted to annul the constitution, they had to besiege and take the capital, depose and Imprison the Sul tan and set a new sovereign on the throne. At last they were firmly en trenched In power. But In the very hour of triumph their troubles began. The massacre of Christians at Adana and vicinity was the worst In recent Turkish his tory and the world was curious to see whether the conduct of the Young Turks would square with their pro fessions of devotion to civil and re ligious liberty. If they did not pun ish aome of the guilty officials, they would lose the sympathy of Europe and especially England. If they pun ished too severely, they would pro voke a Mohammedan revolt. They met the difficulty skilfully by Impos ing moderate penalties on the most ruiity. They next had to face a renewed outbreak of the chronic rebellion In Arabia and were compelled to hurry troops thither only to see them de feated repeatedly. Crete attempted once more to annex herself to Greece and a movement to send Turkish troops to the island was vetoed by the powers, which sgaln restored the shadow of Turkish sovereignty with out the substance. Albania haa again been In revolt and haa recently been eubdued after a costly war. The gov ernment has been cramped by lack cf funds, the delusion prevailing among the people that the triumrh of the louug Turks meant relief from all taxation, and has been com pelled to borrow. Amid all these difficulties the Toung Turks have been exerting themselves to develop the resources of the empire and bring k up to date. They have given concessions to for eign capitalists for the construction of roads, railroads, street railways, electric light and power plants, devel opment of mines and other enter prises, both In European and Asiatic Turkey. Tripoli, being a detached province, has not shared In this de velopment, but Its turn would have come. At this point, when they are etrlv- j Ing to Inspire the mixed population mixed both as to rsce ana religion with a sentiment of loyalty to the empire and to Inaugurate a new pol icy of maintaining the territorial In tegrity of the empire. In contrast with the policy of the old regime, which allowed one province after another to be lost, the attack of Italy on Tripoli must be most mortifying. In a few more years the Toung Turks' policy of development rqlght have been ex tended to Tripoli and Justified their rule over the country. A few more years and the Turkish navy, by which alone the province could have been defended, would have been strength ened to the point of equality with . that of Italy. But Italy seizes the country while circumstances favor her and the man whom the Toung Turks choose for Foreign Minister tells them there Is nothing to do but cede Tripoli. Democracy seems to have come to Turkey too late to save It from dls memt cr;nent. With Tripoli lost and Crete as good as lost, she will have no non-contiguoua territory except a few Islands In the Aegean Sea, and the whole tendency of European pol icy Is to push her gradually out of Europe and make her purely an Asiatic power. A 8AIJS of butt AT JO coat. The 4000 or S00O buffalo coats which the United States Government has for sale are survivors from the good old d.ts when the Indian and the principal means of his subsistence roamed together over the plains. Now the Indians are herded on reser vations and the buffalo haa Just about vanished from the world. There are a few droves on private estates here and there and the Government has some In the National parks, but the multitudinous herds which formerly flowed like living rivers across the plains are gone forever. Persons who are not yet rery old can remember well enough a time when buffalo coats were common. It was also usual In those days to sport buffalo "sleigh robes." No other cov ering was so warm and comfortable on a Winter night when a man went sleigh riding with his best girl. Now we suppose It would be Impossible to procure a buffalo robe for love or money, but It Is found that the same purpose Is subserved pretty well by other contrivances. Men still take their best girls sleigh riding and they manage by hook or crook to keep warm, no matter how frosty the night may be. ' It Is the fashion to lament over the disappearance of the buffalo and no doubt their slaughter was carried on wantonly and foolishly. But there Is consolation In the thought that the sheep and cattle which took their places on the rang were fully as use ful If not quite so picturesque. The wool on a sheep's back Is not directly available for a robe, but -when woven It makes a better one than the buffalo could provide, while as far as eating goes, there Is no comparison between a tough old buffalo and a succulent steer. The lamentations which we hear over the destruction of wild game are more pathetic than Important. Farm ers as a rule would be glad If there were not a pheasant or a fish In the country. The game subsists on his crops and is finally shot by a city sportsman. If the farmer molests It he Is fined. A flock of tame chickens Is not so romantic as a flock of wild pheasants, but It Is far more profit able. m HOW TO ATTRACT CAPITAU Two alternative policies for Alaska are proposed by President Taft and Glfford PInchot. Both appear to have the same general plan, for both favor leasing the coal land, but their poli cies radically differ because their point of view differs. Mr. Taft, In deciding on the terms of lease, lays stress on the development of Alaska's resources: Mr. PInchot lays stress on their conservation. Mr. Taft says we must attract capital: Mr. PInchot says In effect that we must dictate terms to capital. When an attempt Is made to dictate to capital, capital retires Into its shell and lets the dictator go right on dictating to the atmosphere. Capital Is a good deal like the don key In the fable. Hold a nice carrot In the shape of a good profit within an Inch or two of Its nose and one can coax It along; hit It with a club and It will plant Its four feet firmly on the ground and will not budge an Inch. Mr. Taffs bait la the carrot, Mr. Plnchofs the club. It Is a trite saying that capital Is timid, but. like most broad generali zations, this Is not true. Some capital Is timid, but some Is very daring. In fact, capital partakes of the charac teristics of Its owner. Capital that seeks investments In bonds Is scared off by a alight defect In the proceed ings leading up to a bond Issue. Cap ital that seeks Investments In mines will put 110.000 to $50,000 Into each one of half a dozen prospects on the chance that one of them will prove a bonanza. It will build a railroad through a practically uninhabited country and operate It at a loss for years, confident that settlers will come, develop the country and make traffic which will In time pay divi dends. The capital which dug the Sues Canal and the Pacific railroads and which attempted to dig the Panama Canal before the United States bought It, was daring. The capital which built the Copper River Railroad was daring. It took great risks In the hope of great prof Its. The risks It took entitle It to the profits. It built a railroad through a wild, mountainous, Arctic country, where Ice and enow and rushing tor rents threatened it with destruction. In the hope that gold, copper and coal mines would be developed and make traffic for It. The capital which de velops the Alaska coal fields will be equally daring, for It will have to face new problems In geology, min ing, transportation and - marketing, it is matter of history that the pio neer in any new field of investment usually falls: he spends his money In ehowlng others how to succeed. The men who develop Alaska coal mines should be givn liberal terms of lease, for without tha great re ward they will not take the great risks. As In course of years the prob lems are solved and the risks reduced, the Government's share of the re ward should be Increased and the miner's diminished. But the Alas kans should be treated as. were the pioneers of the West, and men who are doing a good work for the Nation, not with the suspicious eye of a PInchot, as men who need watching lest -they steal something. Mr. Jackson would have the public to understand that he was misquoted by The Oregonlan when he disputed with Mr. ITRen the credit for the pa ternity of the single tax In Oregon. Well, hardly. A few years ago the late Congressman Cushman. of Wash ington, was discussing with Bourke Cockran, also a Congressman, the In teresting subject of oratory. "Toil axe a great orator, Bourke," remarked Cushman, who was a Judge of ora tors, being himself one. "Thank you." replied Mr. Cockran; "but I am not ashamed to tell you that half the time when I get up to peak I do not know what I am going to ay." "Same here," replied the Wash ington Demosthenes, "same here; and I don't mind tefting you also that when I sit down I never know what I did say." Which veracious tale would appear to be quite applicable to the case of Orator Jackson, one of the fathers of single tax In Oregon. It has often been said that the phil osophy, or science, or cult, known as "spiritualism" Is at a standstill; that it has not gained an Inch on the road of progress slnco the rapping and table-tipping days and demonstrations of the Fox sisters; that Its demon strations take those who come to it, seeking, up against a blank wall which they cannot scale and leaves them there. This estimate seems to be disproved by the action of the Na tional Spiritualists' Association, now In session at St. Louis, since spirit rapplngs. dancing tables and other material manifestations have been barred from the meetings. This looks like there may be something do ing in the domain of the occult that does ' not seek recognition through cheap, vulgar and transparent tricks. In the matter of holding the bridge draws open for unseemly Intervals Just at supper time some of the boat men are bearl&g down heavily on their theoretical rights. It has usual ly happened that a man who claims his theoretical right to the limit ends by losing It altogether. The inertia of the Government permits a few pig headed captains to make nuisances of themselves for a while, but that sort of thing cannot last. In the long run Justice is bound to make its way even Into the brain of a War Department official. Mr. Fairbanks, formerly Vice-President, knows more about a good many things than he does about history, If we may Judge by what he said to the Methodists at Toronto. "A people cannot rise higher than lta woman hood rises," was the remark to which we refer. The ancient Romans rose a good deal higher than their "woman hood," and so did the Greeks. In fact. It has always been the rule for part of a nation to rise by trampling on the rest of It. Some modern agi tators are trying to change this rule. The proposed new library building will not be any too large for Portland and Multnomah County. An entire block for it looks rather large In com parison with the secluded little nook yhere the library now stands, but books and reading-rooms require a good deal of space. The administra tion of the public library Is above all praise. The work it does and the dif ficulties It surmounts are Incredible, but of course It could do much more useful work If It had to waste less en ergy overcoming unnecessary difficul ties. Contemporaneous with the passing of the stagecoach In Central Oregon and the arrival of the first railroad train In Bend comes the announce ment of the first railroad train to Til lamook. Each marks the fulfillment of hope long deferred. The patient pioneer, sitting dreamily at his win dow as one or the other of these trains passes by. may well exclaim: "Old things have passed away; behold all'thlngs have become new." Germany continues to dig deep wa terways connecting the Interior with the coast, also connecting Interior points, while American waterways are comparatively unimproved and unused. A new canal connecting Berlin and Stettin Is to be finished by the Fall of 1S12 and will float vessels of 660 tons. It Is expected that traffic now going from Hamburg by the River Elbe will be diverted to the new route. The American Humane Convention will not come to Portland year after next. Portland Is not quite ready for It. A teamster who beat a mule to death with a chain was given thirty days on the rockpile yesterday. We need more missionary work for a while. Enforcement of laws against bet ting Is given as the reason for removal of a large breeding farm from Ken tucky to Australia. Tet the time will come when the horse will be raced without the element of gamble. Home conveniences In yards sur rounding railroad shops have been developed by strike exigencies. This Is one of the things that was un dreamed of when the prophet declared that there Is nothing new under the sun. The latest great automobile meet Is on near Spartanburg. S. C. Ten ma chines loaded with lynch-law adher ents are chasing the Sheriffs auto to secure a victim. All records will be broken. Science Is making progress. Two Frenchmen have found a way to make whisky from bananas. Look for a boom In the off-colored republics to the south. Game wardens are preparing a campaign of pernicious activity and the wise man will eat chicken and let it go at that. What is a spiritualist convention without spooks, and how are the spir its to be excluded? The fool man watching the parade Is expected to shout: "Hullo, Bill!" Mr. Beals. in courtesy to his big boss, promises fair weather. Gleanings of the Day There Is only one right way to hold a cigar; that la If the smoker has an especially easy chair in which he Is liable to fall asleep while enjoying the fragrant weed. John H. Starbuck told about It at a recent meeting of opticians In Springfleld. Masa, accord ing to Popular Mechanics. If one holds a cigar between the first snd second fingers, the act of falling asleep will Invariably cause the hold to b-corns relaxed and the cigar will drop from the fingers, to the Immi nent danger of the clothes or the car pet. That is how not to do It. But if the seductive roll be held between the second and third fingers, the cigar would still be found safely grasped In the hand, even if the sleeper did not wake up until the "morning after." While the quality of doctors Is im proving, the quantity is decreasing, ac cording to a report made to the-American Medical Association. For the year ending June 30, 1911, there were 19. 786 students studying medicine In the United States, the lowest number since 1900, and 1740 less than In 1909. Of these 18,414 were In the regular col leges, 890 In the homeopathic colleges, 433 In the eclectic and 49 In the physio-medical colleges. The graduates numbered 4173. a lower number than was graduated in 1890. Of these grad uates the "regular" colleges had 4006. the homeopathio 151, the eclectic 110, the physio-medical ' five. The number of colleges now Is 120. of which 101 are regular," 12 homeopathic and seven eclecltc. There was a decrease In the number of women students. It Is shown that In the 11 months preceding June of this year 68,000,000 was given for new buildings, endowments, teaching hospitals and medical research In con nection with medical schools. This amount does not Include IS, 820.000 given by Jcbn D. Rockefeller for med ical research work at the Rockefeller Institute. The war on middlemen, begun In In dianapolis by the Mayor's purchase of potatoes wholesale and sale of them retail at a price which broke the cor ner, has become general and has as sumed the form of a general co-operative movement. The Pacific railroad employes have started a co-operative buying society; the postofflce employes will combine to buy 1500 bushels of potatoes, and the Typographical Un'on has called on all wageworkers to Join In co-operative buying of all manner of things. The Mayor continues to buy potatoes by the carload, and the News advises the people to try co-operation in 'buying coal as well as food. By trying- to ahut the farmers out of the city market, the commission men seem to have worked their own ruin. Attorney-General Wlckersham Is now the target of those who assail the Ad ministration, The New York Evening Post has a Washington dispatch In which It mentions his opinion on the National City Bank In conflict with that of Secretary MacVeagh as the lat est of his offenses. His attempt to read the Insurgents out of the Repub lican party In the midst of the Bal llnger controversy Is held forth as a blunder, and his recommendation of condign punishment for Dr. Wiley is another. Now the' bank case will re quire straightening out. Friends of the President are said to pronounce Wlck ersham the worst politician In the Cabinet, though his record In his de partment and In ' the courts Is given the highest praise. They attribute his mistakes to lack of co-operation be tween his and other departments, to his unfamlllarity with public and po litical life and to the wide discretion President Taft allows his Cabinet offi cers. This story emanates from anti- Administration sources. Wlckersham pooh-poohs the so-called row with Mac Veagh as a mild difference of opinion on a point of law; the President says the Attorney-General's condemnation of Wiley was based on incomplete data, and therefore cleans him of blame. The recent assault of the New York papers on the enforcement o'f the anti trust law probably Is the last word in an attempt to drive the most suc cessful of "trust-busters' out of the Cabinet. Wlckersham sits tight, says he will not resign and ' continues the good work on which he has embarked. A hitherto unexplored section of Brazil has been penetrated by Dr. Henry E. Crampton. of the department of zoology In Columbia University, and also the head of the bureau of Inverte brate zoology of the American Museum of Natural History. He reached the foot of Mount Roralma and learned of the murder, by Indian followers of Chief Jeremiah at Kamavla-Wong, near the foot of Mount Roralma, of Elder Davis, an American missionary, as the penalty of preaching against polygamy. Dr. Crampton said: Entartng Kamavla-Wonir, I found the town ruled by a chief known aa Jeremiah. Not only did Jeremiah rule the town, but ha waa a man of influence lu tha surround ing country. Deelrlng to visit the chief and talk with tiim about tha country, I mada several efforts to so to hla house, but each time aome follower would ba In Juat the right place to Intercept me. Tha In terceptor would treat ma kindly, but he aaw to It that I did not ret within Jera mlah'a abode. When I sot back to Brltlah territory, my Indian guides told ma why I waa not permitted to enter tha hut. They aid that Elder Davla had been shot with a poisoned arrow, hla throat cut and the body dragged through the town to the chief's house, within which It la auppoaed to have been burled. I did not find out whether he was killed by tha men or by the women. The Indian guides said that they con cealed the fact of Davis' murder from Dr. Crampton while he was at Kamavla Wong. for If he had ever penetrated Into Jeremiah's cabin and found out the truth, be would have been mur dered. British Guiana is sending an expedition to the scene to learn the facta. Hats that button behind are the latest thing for women. George Henry Smith, known as Farmer Smith, but who might better be known as Mil liner Smith, ordered the town milliner of Cedar Grove, near Caldwell, N. J., to build a hat of this kind for his wife and half the women of the town ordered hats In the same style. All Saints' Church was crowded the J following Sunday morning, and practl- 1 cally every woman who attended the service wore a new hat. The head coverings worn were of all shapes, colors and styles of trimming, but In one point they were strikingly similar. Each hat instead of being attached to the head by a combination of long daggers, was held In place by three large buttons on the back; YOUNG persons who are recent graduates from high schools and colleges often think that th"e u no easier way to earn their living than to write books or contribute stories to magazines. In a recent magazine article the question was asked if the literary game is worth the while, seeing that a prominent but young American novelist came out in a Interview stat ing that he was glad he did not have to depend on the selling powers of his stories for his dally bread, as his in come from the sale of his literary pro ductions averaged about 61200 per year. In this connection. It Is apropos to quote from an article written by Francis Gribble in the last number of the Fortnightly Review, on Theophlle Gautler." The latter was recognized in his day, and a recent one at that, as one of the most accomplished masters of French prose, a renowned dramatlo crltio and book reviewer, and talented writer of travel books, yet it seems that his income was always meager. It is stated that Gautler s average earnings over a period of 15 years were less than $1500 a year, slightly over $28 a week. Once Gautier's sister wrote from St. Peters burg appealing for money, and he wrote to her as follows: My only, regret is that I am so poor and can only send you io amall a turn. I am responsible for you to our dead father and mother, and. aa long aa I live, you ahall always have what there waa no need for me to promise to give you. since you knew, without my making the promise, that I should keep it until my dying day. . . . You know how disillusioned I am. how disgusted with men and things. I only live for the sake of those I love, for, person- ii i nri inn... find anv pleasure In life. Art. pictures, theaters, booka no longer amuse me. They ara only euojecie iu 1.1 about, over and over sgaln. Pray do not mAA to th.M troubles with such phrases as those with whloh one of your letters terminate. If you do. 1 shall. 11a down beside tha wall and die. ... I aa very melancholy November 1, thinking of those who have been taken from us. It was nearly dark at mid-day. The sky waa yellow, the ground was covered with snow, and I was so far- from my country, alone in my bedroom In an inn, trying to write an article which would not come, and on which depended the bread for many months, great and small. I applied the spur: but iv mind was like a worn-out horse which would rather be flogged and die in the shafts than take the trouble to get up ...in Anti vt T wrote mv feullleton. and It turned out to ba quite a good one. I did the same thing on the Sunday on which our mother died that was now 1 paid mo ex penses of her funeral. see Dorothy Senior, in "The Gay King: Charles II, His Court and Times." has given most frank and graphic pictures r ,ka . . riioBntrtn Af the. Stuart Kings who ever cursed England by pretenaing to rule it- luiujco uumco tic life, so far as women are concerned, after he became King, is shown to be so bad that it has to be treated with a chloride of lime bath. It is more pleasing to turn to the record of the days when Charles was an exile and was young and unspoiled: r Whilst at Breda Charlea had honestly fallen In love with his cousin Sophie, daugh ter or xne wueen ui imjjibiui. " the dashing Prince Rupert. They used to walk together on tne puduc nroraeuaun j evening, and Charlea. who was rapidly los ing hla shyness, mada the most of his op portunities. Princess Sophie was a frank, natural girl, and might have influenced blm for good had she cared for him. But she liked him only as a cousin, and when he told her made reckless by propinquity and the beauty of the night that she was love lier than Lucy Walter (a nameless woman) In his eyes, she took fright and precipitately retired Indoors, leaving him to finish his evening promenade alone. The next night she. with a saa laca oi romance, i"cu I corn on her foot aa an excuse for not walk ing with hlra as usual. tier moiner w angry, but the Princess remained firm, and stuck to her guns and her corn. eee- "Beasley's Christmas Party," a book 1 T . V. rTa.lrlnirtnil I Ct a Yl Tl All T iel VJf DVUIU J "T ...... .u . for immediate publication In a new form. The dook, wnicn nas oeeu can the American Christmas Carol, is the .. . r V, ... ' a hard nnlltlpinn WAS Ltll J VM. li' " 1 " " ' 1' " softened by companionship with an imaginative cnppiea ooy. ia"i lngton has Just returned to this coun- . . A raolra hla hnmA for the. Winter at Princeton, N. J., of which university he is an aiumnus. a a "Tommy's Money: Adventures in New York and Elsewhere," Is a new book for young readers, by John R. CoryelL The story which gives the book its title tells the adventures of a boy left alone in New York with 8100 In his pocket and how he spent it. Other tales of school and circus life have been Included. a a a "I can't dramatize this book." "Why not?" "The story has no action to speak of." "Hold on. You have grot hold of the wrong book. This is the Patent Office report." Louisville Courier-Journal. a a a Eugene Field, sad of countenance and ready of tongue, once strayed Into a New York restaurant, says the Richmond Times-Dispatch, and seated himself for luncheon. A voluble waiter came and said, "Coffee, tea, chocolate, milk, ham-an'-eggs, beef steak, mutton chop, fishballs, hash'n beans and some more to the same purpose. Field looked at him long and sadly and at last replied: "Oh, friend. I want none of these things. All I ask is an orange and a few kind words." a a a Not only the politics of Northern Africa, and particularly of Tripoli, but the country, the life, the people, the commercial situation and its possi bilities, are described by Charles W. Furlong in his recent book, "The Gate way to the Sahara." The book has 88 full-page Illustrations, four of them in color together with many maps and drawings. Its publishers claim for Mr Furlong's book the distinc tion of being the only serious study on Tripoli. Henry Frowde announces these volumes on art and archaeology In his list of Oxford books for the Fall: "Historical Portraits, 1600-1700." chosen by Emery Walker,. lives by H. B Butler and C. R. L. Fletcher, with introduction by C. F. Bell; "A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon," by Vincent A. Smith; "Bronze Age Pot tery of Great Britain and Ireland," by John Abercromby, with upwards of 100 collotype plates; "Byzantine Art and Archaeology." by O. M. Dalton, with 457 Illustrations; "Christian Antiqui ties In the Nile "Valley." by Somers Clarke; "Military Architecture in Eng land " by A. Hamilton Thompson, and "The Church of St. Mary. Cholsey, Berks," by F. J. Cole, with 23 plates, a a a William Archer's "The Life. Trial and Death of Francisco Ferrer" is in preparation. ' "Hosting of Heroes," a volume of verse, by Eleanor R. Cox. dealing with the heroic period of Ireland's history. Is promised soon. "The Mansion," a new book by Dr. Van Dyke, is announced. It is the story of a dream an allegory spirit ual truth condensed into fiction, satisfying: the reader and stirring his conscience. A rich man, whose charities have been ostentations, be lieves that they have earned him a mansion in heaven. In a vision he is shown that it Is the little deeds of kindness.' done with no thought of re ward, which form the real material of our future dwellings. WELCOME TO TAFT By Dean CollLna. Fling now the gates of the city wide. And lift the shout of acclaim. And let the voice of our greeting Re-echo the leader's name: Let the sound of our cheering ' - Roll like the sea, round his way For we are hosts to our Nation's chief. Who comes as our guest today. Lines of calling, or party or creed. Fade for the time away. By hospitality's common bond. We are Joined as one today; We are the sons of Oregon. Pearl of the proud Northwest, Who rise with a common voice today To welcome the city's guest. And we fling the gates of the city wide. Lifting the shout of acclaim; And In the sound of our greeting. Re-echoes the leader's name. With single heart and with common voice, ' By one and all is expressed. The warm, strong welcome of Portland Unto her honored guest. Portland. October 10. Country Town Sayings by Ed Howe Ever notice how funny you feel when a man winks at you mysteriously, and you don't understand the signifi cance of it? How often are you guilty of acta which can have no other object or re sult than mischief? Many men who do not wantonly kick dumb animals, wan tonly kick sensitive human beings. It must have occurred to most close observers that what Is generally known as "nerve" is showing a rapid growth in the United States; people are now boldly doing many things generally condemned a few years ago. People like to get even with the water company by turning on the spigot, and letting water waste into the sewer. A man once lived In my neighborhood who It was decided, would be better off lnr the insane asylum. He was a very active man, and full of schemes far ahead of the people. I happened to be in the courtroom when he was brought in and first told that people thought him crazy. I never saw quite so much astonishment as he displayed when told that the charge against him was Insanity. "What!" he said "me crazyl Why, I know more than the rest of you." I suppose we all have that notion, more or less. I never ask bachelors or widowers why they do not get married, or say I know someone exactly suited to their needs. Why a man doesn't get mar ried is as much a private affair as why he doesn't make more money. People always demand more than is coming to them; don't Imagine that you will be able to hold out any part of what Is fairly due them. Just when the people will reform, ' after centuries of earnest appeal, I don't know. And I don't care much; I'm getting along all right, and so are you, probably. -The best literature of today Is not very good; It Is simply the best we have. There is often an unfairness In re form work quite as pronounced as the unfairness the reformers complain of. Half a Century Ago Prom The Oregonlan. October 11, 1861. The steamer Pacific sailed yester day. Colonel Nesmlth, Senator for Oregon, with his family, were passen gers. Captain G. W. staples, long and favorably known here as commander of ocean steamers, was about to make his last trip to San Francisco as com mander of the Pacific, having received the commission of Commander in the United States Navy. A National salute of 13 guns was fired in compliment to Senator Nesmith and a Commodore's salute of seven guns in compliment to Captain Staples. The Mountaineer says: "These four companies and a detachment of 100 men, acting as an escort to Lieutenant Mullan's road party, comprise all the Federal troops east of the Cascade Mountains and these are under orders to report at San Francisco, whence. It is understood, they will immediately be ordered to the East. Seventy-two thousand dollars In gold dust was shipped yesterday per steam er Pacific; besides, we understand that a party of six men from the mines, passengers on the steamer, had over $100,000 in dust. Real Thing in Bear Fights. Lakevlew Examiner. Captain Dewitt, farmer of Doyle and W. C. Clark had an exciting experi ence with three grizzly bears Satur day, ten miles from that place when they unexpectedly came upon the bears while crawling through the brush.- The largest bear, mouth open, ad r.ti. orent iirvon the men and the other animals followed likewise. Dewitt aimed at the foremost animal, towering some eight feet, upright but only wounded It. The men ran, with the animals after them. The thick brush hampered the animals and both men fired simultaneously seventy feet away. The shots brought two of the beasts to a stand, one dead and the other wounded. A battle followed near the top of a precipice, where one bear fell to the bottom, some 200 feet, and the last was dispatched with a knife in the hands of Clark. i Church Membership of Worla. MERRILL, Or, Oct. 9. (To the Edi tor.) Is the number of Catholic com municants throughout the world great er or less than that of the Protestant churches and, as compared with the latter, is the former losing ground? A CONSTANT READER. According to estimates by M. Four nler de Flaix. the followers of the Catholic churches in the world num ber 230,866,533, of Protestant churches 143.237.625. The Oregonlan has no In formation as to comparative gains in membership throughout the world. In the United States, census statist'es i Pathnlli. o-alna in Tnmhrshl n re ported in 1906 to be 93.5 over those reported in iu. rrotestani gains ior the same period were 44.8 per cent, i , A Fly Paradise Is Opened Up. Cleveland Plain Dealer. First Housefly Howdy, old pal? What sort of a season have you had? Second Fly Much the same as usual. Didn't take any outing this year. I'm at my old quarters in the livery stable. First Fly Pretty dun. i snouia say. I've been In clover. That's right. If there ever was a fly Eden I xouna It. Listen. No screens, baldheaded owner, baldheaded baby, flypaper easy to eat and three fat women who couldn't swat an elephant. I'm going back there next Summer. Flower Seed and Chickens. ExchaJge. mot.nireivr And so your neighbor Is a real phllanthroylst i-. .ii,...- Von T-Ta timicrht flu worth of flower saeds for my chick ens tnis cprme. i