TTTE MOTTXTXG OREGOXIAN. TTEPyESPAT. yOTKMBEIt 15. 1011. to fje (Drf trmrian FORTLAXD. OBXOOX. Inlanl at Portland. Ol naa. reatatnoe as lMoBd-C.ua Halter. ubaoriBUaa fcaiee Invariably t Aevsaee. CBT JAII- rally. vMnoer tnelld4. Oil year. . !? tally. Busdav Included, manias.... la::r. Bandar aclu;l. tnree mania.. SJJ Llly. Busaev Ualudtd. ene mania. ... -T La:.v. attAtgt Suala. or yr. .... f-e tel.v. without luDdr, o.a m'-nlHe..... l'.:r. nntaeut BjnJav, tnree mual&s... J.TJ I'ailr. vltnont Bundaj. eoa BOBla -je Weealv aaa year .......... IJJ u4ar nTTsi. ,BV 7eaY '"..." M CBT CAJUUXB.) Dery, Beneey Include, ana year. AJJ tai.v. lanflai Included, lu monts..... - How to sVemlt a tad Pcatoffloe Biaaor eedae. expreae erder ar personal aback rw lecal bask, gtsmpe, aola ar eurrency aro at tne aoador'a riaa. Ola etofnce addreae ta full, lAeladlas eamnty and elate, leelae sTelee 10 ta 14 pu '1 caat: l la II aaoa. 1 cental Be ta au peaee, t ooata: 40 ta au paee. 4 earns. "oei- saeiase doa b a rata. . laewera iTeeaneee OfUnia TeTre Cene Ua Mow Tern, rtraaawlaa kvUdlas. Ca- aak. aioar Btiuaisak rOBTLAlrD, WKZVXnAT. KOY. 1. 111. TO VXZCTTOXS AS POUTICAI. ITBAWI A review of the comment of tha newspapers la to states wher the a taction skirmishes of last work aver fought conflrmj the conclusion of Tha Oregoctan that tha general result baa but slight bearing on the National campaign of next year, and that, ao far aa It haa any ruch bearing, neither party haa any real advantage. The gains of one party In one state are offset by thoee of the other party In Another etate. The average voter thought It would not make much dllTeernce to hla party which way he voted, and there fore the Independent took delight In aiming A blow at the party In control. The conteat In Masnachuaette waa fought more nearly on National lssuea than that tn any other etate, for the Republican machine made the tariff the Issue, and. while It Adopted a plank favoring schedule revision down, ward, which, the Boston Tranacrlpt says, "was enoach to hare eared the party If that section had been empha sised d uric a' the campaign." the aame paper aaya: "Not A single Republican orator or organ of the party took tip thla note. Their war cry wee. 'Mwa rhuaetta mllla will cloee if the Demo cratlo tartlT prevail' and thla war cry rang from every atump. But Foaa waa popular both on account of hla person ality and the meaeuree he adTocated or vetoed, while Frothlngham waa han dicapped, to quote the Lowell Courler Cltlsen. by being "a wholly uninspir ing And sron-magnetlc candidate and the colossal Imbecility which made the taiiff A paramount laaue." The Maaaachoaetta reanlt la Attrfb otad by the epiinjrneld RepubUcAn to the aame cnuse eelectlon of the tariff aa the laaue and ecrueee rrealdent Taft of a part In the blunder by aay lnc that Democratlo tariff rerlalon would Imperil Maaaachuaetta Indua trle. It aaya: Tha anawar at dlauoniarttre. Tt aaaaaa, yr proaldoal. that Maaaacbuaatta aaa aa ng-r be mavad 1 1 auob aa appaal Fa vlaloa of the tariff waa earning: and aow tt ta eotnloa mora eur:jr Lbaa htor tola alartloa waa itevmor rMT TlctorT will atlll farthar iartaa tha tjemecrate of the aouatrf and Inrraeae tbolr coofljoaoa la tbolr ability ta p ae a Drarrl Boat yoar at tha bead of tha Nation. The ln maluply Uat the ropabile la paaolaa through the Taxloua ataee of a aoUtKal rarolullaa. On the other band, the Chicago Record-Herald aaya of the Maaeachu eette reault that Xhe Independent, thouchtful obeerrer will aee In It no "rebuke to Taft.' nor A TtndtcAtlon for the political tActlca And method of Mr. Foaa. who haa loot thouaanda of rotea tn the manufacturing: dlatrlcta, where he waa particularly atronc when he ran for Conrreae and later for Gov ernor aa a champion of reciprocity arid irenulne tariff rerlalon"; that Maaaa chuaetta knowa that Taft la alncerely for rT talon, an J that "what areAtly helped Foaa waa the reactionary eplrtt and tone of the Lodse-made platform a-lTen rrothlnsham by the atAndpat Republican convention." The Chlcaa-o Tr'.bune, After aummlnc up the reeulta. aAya: Any attempt ta naa aaa roturna a trie ba. for a rackonlag In Natloral po I'tca would ba futtla la nr!y every Important elo.-uoa thora waa aa Iaue of put!ta and public doconey. The votora appUod tbalr raaaoa ta U. It admlta, however, that the re-eleo-tlon of Foea "cornea more nearly hav ln National lrnporlAnce than the re cult, of any other election In the Eoat, nnlees It were the failure of Governor Wllaon. of New Jereoy. to retain a rVmocratlo Lepti'lature. The reault Indlcatra a peravnal victory aa much aa It doea one of political principles." The Washlrrton Post f!n!a that the reeulta had "little, if any. bearing- upon National heme or National flcurea." It contlnuea: aan ef National ataa waa aa any tl.-'hot. 'o ram:a!n waa fought out rn tirtr aa National !ue, Flat and lt!(fi-r,-al quoottona. ium an4 d' tar wra tnvnlTod to m.-ti an aatrnt aa to tnako It tmpvoible ta d:-ora lo attitud vt any ta - oactloa of tio country oa mttt.r of fo,'tioa tho rtopub.t-an a--l r-moratlo por'.ioa ta tha fcrti;eumlcc National etrug-I-a. The reault of the lec1a!atlve election In New Jersey la held to be next In Importance to Foes aucceaa In MaaaA rhusetta. The New Tork Times aa of It: In Hew Jora-y t"So aee etrrlena fa.-t la tbat Ownov vi:n haa fai:d to ho 1 r'.a caa etato. Ilia campaign fr tha Kroal dontlaj aomnat.--n. tt la b-:teved. baa m-t wtth a go"4 da: of au-caaa, llut ha baa lnat bla awn a'ato of N(o Joraor It la alwara a bal tMng. a vary bad thing, for aa eaWrani ta tao t!coot bonora h-a party ran botow ta liae tno conn4an-a an 3 tna rnaJorTiy a'l r of hla homo people at tha l.c eettoa prtor to to Nattonai Convon tta If tjwrrof tn:sta'e rrw prtnolplaa are eaatl. and If tha ad'nlnlalratMa la auo eoaatul. ha e:cht to bate booa ab.a ta hold Now Jervey t the Lmocracy. Aa to the reault tn general It aaya: tt may ba oai1 t3at tha popple did art by trtr voto on Turkey air-lbt'. any uncon tro:'ablo an,hiutrn f jr l;rr'l-aa po.t -'-a or for tha ItvpuMlcaa AJiT.iniatrauoa. Nor da wa dtarora any evl.1nre tbat a vanlict cf aprrt'val of "prograaaiva pollclaa baa bean rendered. The Brooklyn Harle fa!7a to aee that the outcome In New Jersey la A blow to Wilson. attrlbuUr. the Republican victory "laraviy to the fiercely bitter feellrr between the Governor'a admir ers and the Smith machinist. But even thla la not ceceeaarlly a blow to the Governor." It adda: Ta q-jeefjow ta etllt epoa wltetber the emttft man can make ai:y bead agal at toe WUn toarn for rrootdant. Tba rMBrfl aaat to favor the theory that tboy wi.l t the dvatsn go to tha Governor by dofanlt. ant t&at their fight will bo ma1e In NaMonar rcavontlon throurh l-aJra In athar atataa with whom Ja&aa amlto. Jr., baa kaot la aloao taweb, MarylAnd's election of A Repub can Governor la hailed aa a ml(hty victory" by the Baltimore American, also aa a vote of confidence In the Re publican party, and that paper av the new government In the state "must be a grovernment cf the people, by the people and for the people." It a!o rejoice In a rebuke to "the domination of a corrupt crranlratlon." The Fan aaya Maryland la atlll lemocratlc. "and the reault of the election la not only a rebuke to the Democratic organise Hon. but A warning to the Republican manAg-era." It alao a&ya: Tba a. action eat-ree notice noon the Dera ecratla etty orgnnlxeUoa that the Domo arauo party will not aocapt its dictation and laadorohlp. Mr. Oo.dat,ororgb. haa baaa elected 0v ernor af Mary lane, but enr by Ivmocxatlo aid. aotlve or paaalva. Thara ware not enough Republlcane la the atata to elect him. Vaxy liamocrmfo either voted for him or rafuaed ta vote against aim and ha has bean ejected. TmmmAnya lose of tbe New Tork AeeemDly. Its defeat In Brooklyn and Its narrow escape from defeat In Man hattan And the Bronx la Interpreted by the New Tork papers In harmony with their prejudice. The Tribune aaya: Ttiat ta tha city's answer to Murphy scandalous manlpu.atloa of tha Leg:a.ature, ta hla attempt to lam tba ripper chart or through at A.hany. to tha ahocalng trefflo of h.e political agocts In Judicial nomlna tlona and to bis Cap rival ef the Prooklytt Democratto organisation of Its Independent aiatas and bla reduction of It to vaaaaiaga. Tba people have r1ea te expreee tbalr In dignation at tba Tammany baaa and hi methods as they have se,dom done before. The World aakai "6 hail Murphy eoat the PreatdencyT" and says: The eejteeme of Taeeday election la da eidd:y favorab.a ta tba elaotlon of a omo craUc Praaidont aacapt In New Tork. Here Vlr. Taft can find b:a brlgbteat ray of comfort- How can a Iamo -ratio Proeldant be eieeted without Now Tork e forty-Ove aloe toral rotee? Wa do not aay that It Is Im coaatble, but It la vary improbable. and Tammany domination la a burden that on,y a landallde can overcome. Demooratlo lan d -alldaa la prealdentlal year are few and far between. To leave the Democratto party of Now Tork ta the handa af Murphy and Tammany la to Invite defeat aad disaster la lfcll . What do tha Damaarats ef thla atata pre poae to do asoat It? Are they willing that Murphy ahould eost the DemocrmUo party the i'realdonoyT The Sun says that this year the electors "have demonstrated plainly that the association of Hon. William Randolph Hearst with the Hon. Theo dore Roosevelt'e agenta haa not made Murphy by comparison Intolerable." It Adde: The defeat ef the to el en e-mnty ticket reroala the familiar fact tbat a ma jority ef tblo electorate endurea a etupld boee mora patiently than aaif-convlrira bypocrttaa and boMa the practlalr.g pollU-c-an leaa odious lhaa the profeaaioaal re former. The Indianapolis Btar sums up the general reault thua: The out noma, aa between the partlea. Is a drawn battle, as tbe Hapubllcan papera aay. tbe rroaident haa reason to be an-couraa-d by tba reault In New Tork. Mary land and New Jateey. As the p-mo-ratte ? opera eav. ha must be diaeppolnted with lie nawa from Kentucky, ublo and Maeaa chueatte. Tbe fact that In ataeaachu aatte tha root of the ticket a. acted la KepubMran and tbat Oovarr.or Foaa hlmatU raelvd many tnouaahda fewer votaa than last tin.-, abacas somewhat tbe force of the verdict tn that atata We should aay that Ken tucky la aafe'y Iemocratte fur 113. and that New Tork, New Jereey and Maryland are doubtful. nun nuitrtM jceax ho crabtxs Being unable to decide between two propoeed commlasion charters, the City of Eugene haa determined that It would have no commlasion charter, and haa rejected both. A single charter proposal might not Indeed have carried. The returns shed very little light on that more or leaa Inter esting apeculatlon. But It Is certain that the citizen who deemed a change advisable were unable to agree on any commission plan, and the old order triumphs. "Why do not yon people escape from thla Insane asylum T" aaked A visitor once of an Ipmete, "There are no guarda here and the doors are open, and every facility for getting out la afforded." "We've thought of that," waa the response. "But some want to go out of the doors, some out of the windows, others up over the roof, oth ers by the fire escape, and still others down through the cellar. We all want to go, but ainc we can't agree how why, here we are," So there the peo ple of Eugene are and there the people of Portland will be, and remain. If they Insist on the ret-nowhere, stand atXll plan of fighting It all out between several charter proposala There are three charters to be sub mitted In February. They are (1) the regular official" charter adapting the present charter provlalona to the com missalon government; and (1) the vol unteer cltisens charter making several radical departures from the present charter; and (J) ths socialist charier paralysing the police power and dedi cating the streets to the mob. That Is a fine bouquet of charters. The voter who supports No. 1 will doubtloss writ "no" against the two others; and ao with the advocates of No. 1 and No. t. Reinforced by the large body of citizens who want no commtslon charter, there Is A definite And practically certain prospect for difest of alL There are entirely too many charter cooka A xrw coMa-i srrT or ixtttrk-t. Community of Interest was a stock phrase In this country a few yeara ago. but It was then used In relation to combinations of rallroada Hut there la A community of Interest be tween the farmer and the railroad, which la brought out In forcible atyle tn two addreaaes delivered In North Dakota recently by Howard Elliott, president of the Northern Pacific Rnilway. Mr. Elliott laye before the farmers the facts about the railroad, the farm and tbe atore In auch term as bring home to hla hearers some simple truths which have been ob scured In recent years of railroad baiting. The comparative earnings of one mile of branch railroad costing IJO. 000 and of a country store form on Illustration. In order to earn 7 per cent on Its cost above expense of op eration, maintenance and taxes, thla mile of railroad must earn S00 to 4800 A year, but will do well if It earn 110 a day or $1110 a year. Com pared with thla, a hardware More In North Pakota, with a $30,000 stock, earned 10 per cent net in 1910. a dry goods firm SO per cent and two smaller stores, each with a stock not exceeding $10,000. made 4S and C5 per cent respectively. Statistics for the whole country, compiled from Government reports for the year 1S05, ehowed that the average net profit on capital lnveeted In manufacturing were IS. 01 per cent; In agriculture I.I per cent, after allowing 7 per cent Interest on Invested capital; In rail roading 4.4( per cent. Mr. Elliott expreased the same Idea In Another way by. saying that to produce $1 of net returns It required lf.fl of capt tal Invested in manufactures, tt.ii of capital In the case of agriculture and $21.40 In the case of railroads. The branch railroad la built largely on hope that the development of Its tributary country will In a few years make It A paying Investment. In the meantime the main line and the older branches whih have already become eelf-suatalnlng carry It along by mak ing up " denctt. Oregon may well take a hint from these f .gurea This state needs branch railroads more than any other In the West. It has Just begun to get wh it It need, but the state will not le fully opened up until the construction of such rosds has gone on for several yeara Branchoa cannot be secured un less the state and all Its people pur- I sue liberal policy towards the rall- roaua. Xjb mem iroi wbuiwi , " they may maintain rates which will allow them a fair profit on their In vestment and that the Railroad Com mission will devote Its energies rather to the removal of Inequalities than to lashing reductions. The .railroads then will be able to secure the neces sary capital for the extensions which the state so earnestly desires. How quickly the farmers profit by tho construction of a nsw railroad Is Illustrated by Mr. Elliott by pointing to a new branch of hla road Into Het tinger County. N. D.. which was opened A few months ago. The value of land increased from $1 to IS an acre before the railroad to it to $25 after Its oompletlon. Similar benefits will accrue to Oregon from the aame cause. TRI COCWXXO 1XOOD OT EOnOKAJfTS. Should President Oompers' forecast be realized and 500.000 Immigrants a year land from Europe on the Pacific Coast after the Panama Canal la opened, this section of the oouctry will be called upon to face A condition sim ilar to that which confronted the At lantlo Coast In the middle of the nine teenth century. That aectlon has been hampered with A glut of labor for which it could not provide the partic ular form of employment to which It waa trained. In consequence we find farmers, fruitgrowers and market gar deners from Southern Europe who might restore the fertility of the wast ed lnnd of New England and other Eastern states, learning, after they have reached manhood, to build rail roads, sub way a dig dltchea and foun dations, mine coal and Iron. Had there been any adequate system of distributing this flood of new labor and putting It where It would do the most good that la, at trades to which It waa trained and In sections which needed development, many evil might have been avoided. The sweat shop would not have become . fixed fact In New Tork and Philadelphia Industry, Ths padrone could not ao easily have held banda of Italians tn semi-servitude. Hosts of Poles, Slavs and Bohemians have been put to work In mlnee where they have blown up themselves and many others through sheer Ignorance. Had those men been put to work on Western farms, they would have carried development of the country far beyond the point It has now reached and would have been A valuable addition to the citizenship of the country. That the Paclflo may not repeat the blunders of the Atlantio Coast, the Immigrants whose coming Mr. Com pere foresees and which any man can foreses should be taken In hand At landing by men employed by the De velopment League and who speak their own language. These men should as certain their trade and direct them to the place and the man. If possible, where they can work at that trade. Men trained in the orcharda of Europe ahould be sent to the orchards of Ore gon, and ao with other trades. Above all. Immigrants should be discouraged from settling at the port of debarka tion unless their trade la auch aa can only Le followed there. Portland wants no such slums and tenement districts as disfigure the Atlantic Coast cities. It Is not too early to begin organis ing for the distribution of Immigrants, for In little more than eighteen months they will begin to arrive. iKtou) BO'N'rrrs views. ' To Americana Arnold Bennett's opin ions on authors And literature have at leaat the merit of sin gularity. He says they are com mon enough across the water, but on this side we have been taught to look upon Scott. Thackeray and Dickens aa about the brightest stars that ever rose In the heaven of books. Arnold Bennett condemns all three of them on the ground that they were "sentimentalists." though he mitigates his sentence by doling out a little faint praise before be gets through. "Scott turned fiction away from Its natural chn::::M." which is realism, he says, but still Mr. Bennett accords to the author of "Waverly" the merit, such as it may be, of "creating the art of landscape In literature. Scott invent ed It as far as the novel Is concerned, and of course that Is a great thing." We concur In the opinion that It is A great thing to depict a landscape with words, but we cannot conceive how Mr. Bennett obtained the notion that Sir Walter Invented it. "Tom Jones" hue some perfect landscapea Nbthing could be better done, for Instance, than the description of the wilderness In which the hermit's hut was situated whom Tom rescued from the robbers. What msy have misled Mr. Bennott is the patent fact that Fielding can paint a landscape with two or three strokes cf the brush so that It is in delibly tmprfssed on the Imagination. Perhaps Scott really was the firs: to revel in wordy labyrinths In the vain effort to make lcavea and tree trunks eland out rf the printed page. We do rot rumler this attempt araeig Scott's merits, though he had plunty of others which Mr. Bennett seems not to have retired. He is himself "some pumpkins" m a novelit, if one may resort to a classlo New England phrase. Nobody in our day writes more Interesting books or portrays character with A livelier grace. It surprises one, therefore, to read Mr. Bennett's depreciatory remarks about Scott's women. He aaya they aro all alike and all almpletona. For our part we think otherwise. Nor can we accept Mr. Bennett's Judgment, quoted In the Literary Di gest, that Scott had but little influence on the Continent. Somewhat grudging ly he allows that tbe British genius formed the method of the great Du mas and his contemporaries, but there, Mr. Bennett thinks, Scott's Influence stopped. Even If it did stop there, certainly It was worth while, but that Is not the case. Scott had as much or more Influence on German than on French literature. Ooethe, who was his devoted reader and admirer, names him as the foremost literary man of hla time. He waa widely read In Ger many Just at the moment when Ger man literary ldeaa were taking shape and his powerful personality may still be traced In- the literature of the Fatherland, which la Innately roman tic and could not be "realistic" to save its soul. To be sure, there is plenty of rvalUm In the modern German drama and fiction, but even such A play as "The Joy of Living" fairly bubbles over with romance. Between the realism of Ibsen and that of Haupt mnnn the difference is too great to measure, though both are go'od. But Mr. I5onnett admires' Thackeray still !- than he docs Scott, if one may speak of differences among in finitely smnll quantities. He rates th auhor of "Vanity Fair" below Dick ens, who, says Mr. Bennett, wa "very much hla euperlor." One of the blowa at Thackeray la distressingly cruel, in asmuch aa It la aimed at a point where he never haa been thought to need any defence. Everybody concedes that Dickens "has no style," but It is oomraonly believed that Thackeray was a master in that department, Mr. Bennett boldly lumps him In with Dickens and says neither of them had anv. Many have suspected heretofore that Thackeray's style was belauded a J little more than it deserved, but no- ( body has uad the courage to come oat openly and aay what he thought. Hence Mr. Bennett'a Judgment will conduce to frankness even If it is wrong. What one respectable author has said others may at least permit themselves to repeat without shame. Thackeray's style Is a palpable imita tion of Fielding's, and perhaps the Im itation might be better done. Fielding relates everything Jestingly and with & In r tlrn i,nnn man anrl thinffS not too deeply hidden. To him human I nature, though always lovable, needs J many uluki auiu iioiuou, muwum Thackeray tried to assume the same Jesting attitude 'toward the world and the conduct of his characters. And sometimes he succeeded, but not aiwaya His Jests now And then turn out to be little better than scurrility, while his efforts to pursue the difficult path of witty tenderness sometimes lead him Into the swamp of sentimentality, os Mr. Bennett truly says. In this path Fielding's foot never slipped and he always knew exactly where it was tak ing him. Read his alluring descrip tions of Sophia and the models upon which Thackeray fashioned his para graphs pn women are manifest, but the pupil never rivaled his master. Of course Mr. Bennett does not mean that Dickens was any more a master of style than Thackeray was. The truth of the matter Is that Dickens' English Is common to the last degree, but he waa not an Imitator, we may say thus much for him. If his style was a poor thing it was at least his own. But his "superiority" lay in other directions. With all his proneness to "draw it strong" in his characters and descrip tion. Dickens was at bottom a realist In the fine Ibsenlan sense of drawing his water from the deep wells of hu manity. He is often mawkish, but sel dom sentimental. We mean by this that he does not write falsehood for the sake of making a pretty page in his book. Sentimentality does not mean the mere effort to make one's readers weep. It means an effort to make them comfortable by concealing undeniable truths, and of this crime Dickens never was guilty. One W. L. Houser, who subscribes himself as chairman of the Republi can progressive campaign committee, Introduces himself to the notice of the people of the Northwest by wiring from Washington an elaborate denial of a recent news dispatch from the J Washington news Dureau or ina vjre gonian, printed November 7, which gave detailed account of the method by which Senator Bourne had been cold shouldered out of the La Follette campaign management. At the same time Mr. Medlll McCormtck wires from Chicago that It is not so. The La Fol lette managers have never dreamed of doing so shocking A thing. No, never. "I believe," says the trusting McCor mlck, "In Senator Bourne's absolute sincerity and progressive republican ism." He is due for a rude awaken ing when Senator Bourne, as usual, passes on and bestows the burden of his ardent affections on some other candidate. Wired last night that both Houser and McCormlck had . . simul taneously repudiated his statement, the Washington correspondent of The Oregonlan responded: Medlll MeCormtek evidently rants one way Eiivately and the oppealte for publication, undoubtedly Bourne, through fa Follette. procured both dan lata. Will wire statement star. Exactly. It is characteristic of Bourne to force the two principals .to the front to do the talking for him on penalty, likely enough, of Instant repudiation of La Follette. The pro cured protests of Bourne's newest voices are worth very little attention. Why do we like to look at the bat tered tin bucket In which a hero has boiled his coffee?. Why do we gaze fondly on his yellow slicker, his hob nailed shoes, his rough and muddy blanketsf Heaven knows, but the crowd at tle corner of Morrison and ' Sixth, streets proves that we do. There they stand looking all day at the relics Just the same outnt as any woodsman uses, and yet it Is not the same. It helped a hero do his work and thereby became worshipful. There Is something enviably hardy In a man's conscience who can enjoy a house made gay with stolen holly. The woods of Oregon and Washington are full of Oregon grape, which Is almost as pretty as holly and can be come by honestly. Still, there are people who prefer to steal their holiday decora tiona rather than take a healthy tramp through the woods to gather them. There is no disputing about tastes, but thla one strikes ua as a little odd. Canadians are not so slow, after all, and all the brightest have not come across the border. Their latest propo sition is to harness the rapids of the St, Lawrence with $100,000,000 capi tal and sell energy. By and by, if Champ Clark only will cease, that will be a grand "American" concern. An ex-Governor of New Hampshire, only 77, is on a honeymoon tour with a youthful bride, formerly his book keeper. It takes A smart woman to draw a capital prize in that land of feminine prodigality. Judge Morrow was undoubtedly hu morous when he sent a bad-check man to the rockplle for six months rather than expos him to contamination In A state prison sentence. One must look abroad for th real thing in frenzied finance. For exam ple, there is the Bank of Burma, which has failed, with nearly four millions of deposits. Piittlra; the safecrackers to build safes looks like facilitating their op erations when they resume business after a period of enforced retirement. Being before the publlo will not sera so greet fun to Miss Mabel Tay lor If the muckrakera begin paying her their malodorous attentions. What matter if next year levy be a little more. This is a big city and paying taxes is a patriotic duty. So is spending the money. LA'Follette crowds the Colonel off the record bench In use of the personal pronoun la a current magazine. EASTEIt OREGON VOICE FOR TAFT Editor Davey Telia Way Ho saonleT Be Re-EUeeted. Harney County Newa There never was a better sign of desire to be fair and honest with a publlo official than the declaration of so many real progressive Republicans of their Intention to support President Taft for renomlnatlon. It indicates that though men may differ with the Presi dent on the detail of party manage ment, they are ready to reoognlae the wisdom of his general polloy In up holding the laws and advocating the class of legislation that is beet calcu lated to safeguard the business In terests of the entire Nation. No progressive Republican who Is not actuated by motives of faotional poli tical advantage can find fault with the position of President Taft on the great questions of the day. . In the matter of conservation of the natural resource he takes a reason able and moderate ground, advocating the proteotion of such resources for the benefit of the entire people, but not locking them up from the present generation; giving the people of this age and opportunity to use and develop them under proper restrictions and re? ilevlng the consuming publlo from the heavy tribute that would otherwise have to be paid to the private Interests and oorporatlons which have ownership of such a large part of those resources and could hold the people at their mercy If they could close the door to further development for some yeara In the matter of tariff legislation he has held that while reductions should be made In order to relieve the con sumer from unjust burdens, these re ductions should be based upon statisti cal Information and equitable adjust ment, with the protection principle maintained and no Industry aaorlfloed. This Is a Just and courageous stand to take and should appeal to every cltlsen who desires a fair deal and the maintenance of American prosperity. In the matter of promoting uni versal peace and eliminating as far as possible the dreadful consequenoe of war. President Taft haa challenged the admiration of the civilized world and there la no brighter gem In the diadem of thla republic than the Jewel1 of "peace on earth" which Mr. Taft Is molding for lt. In the matter of sustaining and en forcing the laws for the protection of the people against the avarice of big corporations. President Taft has taken a position of unswerving courage and determination which should appeal with lrrestable force to every citizen In the common walka of life and give them a pride In chief executive who dares to do what he believes right in the faoe of powers that are almost Illimitable In tbelr Influence for his po litical injury, whose propaganda is con stantly at work with shrewd attacks to weaken his Influence and discredit his efforts in the hope of either driving him from his purpose or driving him from the White House. In the application of the land laws, the Administration of President Taft the past two years haa been particular ly favorable to the settler, cutting off the army of scalp-hunting sleuths who for A time assumed that every settler was a thief and a perjurer. And now the policy la helpful and reasonable to all who are showing good faith and to give them every encouragement In home building. These are a few of the reasons why the fair minded progressives are giving their support to President Taft for re nomlnatlon and recognize In him the only man for whose election next year the Republican party can entertain any hope. With Mr. Taft aa the standard bearer, those facts and many othera of similar import will be developed and made plain before the publlo and the Nation la not going to reject such a man for one who Is untried, uncer tain or dangerous. Wkrn Gen, Miles SnmBdered. Popular Magazine. It was a bright Spring morning, and while the buds burst into bloom and the birds sang their songs. It did not seem possible that there should be on the earth any spirit of conflict or hos tility. A big automobile drew up In front of a pretty residence In the su burbs of Washington, and out of the machine sprang a tall, military-looking, whlte-mustached man, who walked up on the porch and rang the doorbell viciously. When an old lady answered the summons, the soldierly-looking man said. In a stern voice: "Madam. I have come to get my dog." "Your dog Is not here," replied the old lady. "Tbat dog you see In the yard belongs to ma I have raised him from a puppy." . m The visitor snorted ln'dlsdaln, turned on his heel, and went away: but the next day he drew up before the house In his carriage. As he stepped to the ground, he was followed by a black setter dog. As on the day before, he rsng the bell and waa answered by the old lady. "Madam." he said, even more sternly than before, "I have oome to get my dog. This dog here with me Is a brother of the dog In your yard, and I want no denial of the fact that some body has stolen a dog from me." The old lady explained that the dog in her yard had been given to her by a friend, and that General Nelson A Mlles had. In the first place, presented the pet to her friend. "Well," surrendered the visitor, "I guess you are right." "Who are you, anyway?" asked the old lady. ' "I. madam." responded the military looking man. "am General 'NelBon A. Miles," and he strode away without making any further comment on the incident. M train Goes Before a War. London Chronicle. How do statesmen get themselves into the frame of mind to declare war? According to a popular German story the method In Bismarck's case In 1868 was one that would hardly be sus pected. His subordinate Kendell was an expert pianist and, as Sir Mount stuart Grant Duff puts it, "used, it is said, to fulfill toward him the func tion which David fulfilled toward Saul." On one evening Bismarck was unusually moody and Kendell sur passed himself at the piano. "Thank you, my dear Kendell," said Bismarck, finally, "you have aoothed me and done me so much good; my mind la made up. We shall declare war against Aus tria." Microphone as Water Finder. Baltimore American. The microphone, in a modified form. Is being used successfully by a French Inventor to find springs of water and they have been located aa far as E0 feet underground. It la expected that the instrument will be of much value to miners, prospectors and others In similar occupations, as well as in lo cating victims of mine accidents. A tube Is thrust into the ground a few feet and the Improved microphone at tached to the upper end, when noise mads by, flowing or XaUing water Is plainly beard. TWO MAIDENS AFTER UFSBAXDS If Tew De ot Want One, Way. Ton May Have Her Bister. NEW TORK. Nov. 5. (To the Edi tor.) I do not know what The Ore gonlan will think of this unusual com munication, but trust that the spirit In which it la written will be under stood, . My sister and I have been orphans for many years. We were born In Savannah, Oa, but were carefully edu cated In Boston, Mass. I have been employed In the City of New Tork with a business concern for three years In the capacity of stenographer and clerk at a salary of $75 per month, and it Is probable that I shall remain here the rest of my life at the same salary. All the young men whom I have met and who have asked me to marry them are all clerks, aome of them not re ceiving as large a salary, and with no hope of ever being independent of their positions or their own master in the least sense of the word. They all like cheap, city life, the cheap pleasures and narrow views, ths kind of views that every single person seems to have. They have never been anywhere out side of thla city and never seem to want to know anything different. Ths cheaper and flashier and more extrava gantly the young women dress, the more these men like it, and books and domesticity they do not seem to have any time for. I am 26 years old next March, plump and healthy, reddish brown hair, brown eyes, five feet five Inches tall. I think that I ought to have a husband and protector, but I can never reconcile myself to accepting the thin, pale faced, tired, cruel and weak men I see all around me every day, and live in the city besides. I should like to have a husband who could take care of ma Instead of my looking out for him, one who Is a real man, owns his house or ranch, is not physically or mentally afraid of worried about facing life, and haa In him tbe character and strength which comes first In winning the respect and devotion of good women. Besides my salary, I have a small Income from a cottage in the suburbs which I purchased, hoping to be able to permit my sister to live in the coun try, but the high gas rates, water rates and extreme taxes made life such a burden that we had to live In the city to keep out of debt. I would gladly sell this house and go out to the west ern country. If I could feel sure of safety and an honorable mode of liv ing. I will be glad to give you as refer ences my employer and my father's lawyer, and the names of those who know me socially. If you know of any one who wants a wife and helpmate, who Is an honorable gentleman at heart, and, above all, his own master. I shall be pleased to correspond with such an one, and send my picture, but I do not like to do this unless the editor writes me that it will be in good handa I should also like a husband for my sister. She is slender and fair1 very different from me in every way but much sweeter. KATHER1NB MARSTON READ. 640 W. One Hundred and Fifty-eighth street Half a Century Ago From Tbe Oregonlan. November 15. 1SGI. (From our Correspondent.) The Dalles, Nov. 10. We took a free gratis walk upon that ticklish specimen of art and monopoly, the wooden railway around the portage, and finally found ourselves safe upon the Idaho, where we found the gentlemanly captain, the good cook and the "devil of a fellow," who does the clerk. Kraggs fits the bill and won't deny the items. I expect the clerk of the Idaho Is honest. No doubt of It, In fact. But the Carrie Ladd has a clerk who will do to bet on, for I heard him declare that, since the company had been a little unfor tunate on the upper river, he had given them full half of the earnings of tha boat. They have added Powder River to Salmon River and nobody can exag gerate the stories that are true.For tunes have been made. I heard a let ter from Vic Trevltt read, which is in teresting and reliable. A ha,lf day's work of two men cleaned up two and onevhalf pounds avoirdupois weight of gold. One claim has paid $6000 in four days. A young man from Portland, who had taken up heavy amounts of goods some time since, which many expected would ruin him, had become rich by the turn of affairs. Another, who left The Dalles six weeks since, had cleared $30,000 and everything was true and more besides. An assay of a specimen of silver ore brought from the Blue Mountains by Thomas Carter, Esq., it is said, yields a handsome per cent of stiver. The lead is reported to be very extensive. We notice that In accordance with our suggestions the other day In re gard to the building of sewers, sev eral of our property holders have al ready commenced the good work In front of their premises. The (Victoria) Colonist of the 6th, says: "Three Frenchmen (miners) ar rived here on Monday on the Otter from Cariboo, who give an extraordi nary account of the gold taken from their claim. Five of their partners and there were eight In all, remain dur ing the Winter at Cariboo. The sum taken out was $105,000. The three who arrived brought down the bags to back up their assertions. Thistledown aa Nature's Parachutes, Sclentlflo American. Careful examination has been made of the heads of Canada thistledowns In order to determine their effective ness as parachutes carrying the seeds of the plant to great distances through the air. The results of this examina tion are quite remarkable. Calculation shows that a thistledown starting from an elevation of 20 feet in still air would require two-thirds of a minute to reach the ground. With a wind blowing 20 miles an hour it would be carried on the average about a fifth of a mile. The total surface exposed to the air in an average this tledown Is, on account of the great number of hairlets. a little more than one-third of a square foot. Another well-known and very beau tiful example of nature's parachutes Is furnished by the light silken threads with the aid of which the little gossa mer spider makes long aerial voyages. Anti-Plumage la Germany. , Indianapolis Newa Making mention of the "fashion defying women of America," who waged war on plumage decorations. Professor Schillings has appealed to the German women, through the Sud deutsche Monatshlft, to wear no mil linery which Includes plumes or feath ers of any kind. The responses Indors ing the call came more quickly than Schillings expected they would, and the first published list of "prominent women who will not decorate them selves with feathers" includes the names of the Queen of Wurtemberg, the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz, the Crown Princess of Sach-sen-Meiningen. the Princess Eitel Frl'Hlrlch, of Prussia; the Princess Au gusts Victoria, of Hohenzollern; the Prlnoess of Sachaen-Meiningen: the Princess Maria Alexandria, of Reuse, and tha Baroness Hildburg. N. NITTS ON MERCY By Deaa Colllaa, Nesclus Nltts, who In Punklndorf Sta tion. Waa held as a shark by the whole population. Without even budging an inch from ' hi station. Cut short with his ruld a black bug's aviation. Then spake upon convicts and safe fabrication: "I Iowa there's delight In the ranks of them men Thar locked In San Quentln for seven or ten; Sence wardens decided upon the crea tlon, Fer oonvlota, of somo useful, light oo" cupatlon; And now them pore chaps that the prison bonds chafes Will be put to work with a-buildin' of safes. "Them men that the law has long pes-i tered and druv. May now turn their bands to a labor of love, A-forgln' the plates and the levers and crank Fer doors to the vault of our Na tional banks. ' Who knows but they may frame the deep combination To lock iip the wealth e'en of Punkln dorf Station? x "The hand that , got pinohed for a-plckln' of locks Shall turn to build many a heavy strong box; And If business is good, convict safes, it appears. Should fair flood the country in halt dozen years; All polished and furbished, from rivet to knob. By men who Is adepts, fer shore,, at the Job. "The laborln' convicts should sing and rejoice. Assured that each safe knows Its own master's voice. And knowin' there's several hundred of sech A-layln' around to respond to their tech, In banks and in groe'ry stores all through the Nation And maybe some even in Punklndorf . Station. "Jest think what delight should flow over the soul Of the safe-makln' convict, while swirt seasons roll. As he frames up the safes, and he merr rily sings, T shore hope some big bank will fancy my things, ,,. Fer I don't want no lean safe lyln about When. year after next, this here place Jets me out.' "We shore grows more merciful every But thisl's the merclflest yet, I should When "prisons provides fer their in mates, the best Of chances wherewith they can feather their nest. And 'lows them, though locked up. to freely engage ,, In layln' up somethin' agin' their old Portland. November ! Country Town Sayings by Ed Howe) . . !.-, Iinnila with a little von he nearly always gives you a very hard grip, to show that while he r8 small he has great physical strength. Talk about some men being poor at relating, an anecdote;, did you ever hear a woman try H? If a girl singer Is pretty good. It hurts her feelings If you praise Melba in iaT rtresence. Know why widows are so attractive? Life insurance. The neighbors are mad at a woman, about half the time because she does not whip her children more. The longer a marriage is put. off, the less probability that It will ever occur. , : This is the way your friend usually von when a controversy comes up in which you are Interested, he give you the worst of it. to show that he is a Square Man. Another surprising thing is the man ner in which a popular young mans, drops out of the social wunu " . marries. Every three years, A new play ap pears based on a little, meek husband, and a big bossy wife. People never have as good a time on a "big day" as they expect. Cash Prizes For Articles on "How We Won Oar Home" The Portland Realty Board in vites the homeowners of Port land and vicinity to enter an essay contest for the best articles on the general topic, "How We Won' Onr Home," and offers the following prizes each week: First prize, $25. Second prize, $10. Third prize, $5. The articles should deal with actual, concrete personal expe riences of home-winning and home-building, setting forth, step by step, the progress toward the achievement, from the time of making the first payment on a lot or acreage to the realization of the ambition. Articles will appear in The Sunday Oregonian. Photographs are desirable,, but will not be considered in award ing prizes. The right is reserved of running in The Sunday Ore gonian stories not awarded prizes. The following 6imple directions should be observed: 1. Articles should not be more1 than 500 words in length. 2. The writer should be a bona fide homeowner, or the member of a home-owner's family. 3. Write on one side of paper only. ' 4. Sign writer's correct name and address. . 5. Mail articles to City Editor of The Oregonian.