TITE BTOItTOXG OKEGOXTA, TTTESDAT, DECKSIBER g. 1911. 10 rOKTUM), ORKGOX. rtr4 at ftrtlul OiM. W11" Facoaa-Claaa alattar. (BT UAH.) .. taalmtad. CM KW Saadar IsoluiSxi. moatha lat.T. WIIDOUI B4BU4f . v.'aalr. ana jraar ir"; uadar. ui yaar . J-rj aunaas aAil VMt, ona Tr (BT CARRIER.) aj;. uadar Included, ona meatl Haw t Jlamlt Sana Poatofflea r. azpraaa ordar or paraonal abockoa jrour loaal bask. un;a cola or eurrwjor ar at tne anidar-a run. Olva poatoOica adOraaa la fu.l. laeiudins county axd alata. rootaca BaUa 10 to J Pl 1 "'i..? to 2a saaa. aaata 0 to ft paaaa. e"' ft to tu pesaa. a casta. JToraisa poetasa. daubla rata. Zaafara Baatnna Offlraa Vtto CcwiB lla nmw Tor, brauwkk buiidlas. CM ca se. atar buhdias. Carapaaa OOTca No. I Baaat streot. a. W, London. , FOsVTxjbJTD, TTX&DAT. M cooroREsa. Congress win be expected, at the raxlon -which opened yeaterday, to get down to business with measures ur gently needed. The Democrs.Uo lead er In the House will have bo excuse tor Inaction. They know what kind of measures on the trusts, the tariff. Alaska and the Panama Canal can pass the Senate and secure the ap proval of the President. If. despite this knowledge. they pass bills through the House which they know are doomed to defeat in the Senate or to veto by the President, they will stand convicted of denying- the coun try the remedial legislation it needs In order to play politics. The present situation Is a practical vindication of President Taffa sound Judgment In calling- the extra session last Spring. It was said then that he was simply giving the Democrats an opportunity to pass buncombe legis lation. Everybody knew that the Democrats would take the first op portunity to make this use of their newly-gained power. They did as they were expected to do. and their bun combe tariff bills "went Into the waste basket. The preliminary sparring is now over and the Democrats fully understand where the President stands. If they have any real dispo sition to pass needed bills they can do so with the knowledge that any measure which approximately re sponds to the public demand will re ceive the President's approval. If they renew the attempt to pass pop gun tariff bills, they will only Invite the veto and be Injured In the eyes of the public by their denial of urgent reforms and their palpable efforts to play politics. There Is no excuse for the Demo crats to plead that they and the Pres ident are so radically at variance that It Is hopeless to attempt an agree ment. They are practically agreed that the anti-trust law must stand and should be supplemented by legislation for Federal supervision of corpora tions. Those who would urge the passage of a bill repealing the Inser tion In the law of the word "unreason, able" by the Supreme Court will have the ground cut from under them by the President's expected recommenda tion that a supplementary law be paued defining exactly what acts are lawful and what are unlawful under the Sherman law. Differences may arise as to the form and degree of Federal supervision, but they are ca pable of being reconciled. Federal incorporation has been put forward by the President and has been pro posed again and again by the Demo cratic Senator Newlands. Some Demo crats may object that it will Impair state rights, but provisions can be In serted In the bill to meet this objec tion. The President has repeatedly shown that he can rise above party considerations and approve a bill which makes a measurable advance In the right direction, even though it emanate from the opposite party. Any failure to act on the trusts will therefore be laid to the door of the Democrats. It may safely be assumed that the reports of the Tariff Board on wool and cotton will be found to Justify considerable reductions in duties with out running counter to Republican principles. The Democrats know Chat, If they pass bills which accord with the announced principles of the President, he will approve those bills. If they Insist on reducing the wool evnd cotton duties to a purely revenue tasls. they know by experience that the veto Is sure. They will then stand convicted of denying the people any relief from excessive duties by holding out for the utmost they think they should have rather than accept what they can got. If the Tariff Board should report on the metal schedule, the Democrats will have an opportunity of making a revision downward which the President will accept. If the Democrats should at tempt to revise any schedules on which the board has not reported, they will bo wasting time and be sim ply playing politics. Now that the House committee which has been investigating Alaskan affairs has admitted that Secretary Fisher's programme la satisfactory. there Is no excuse for longer delay In passing the bills which are urgently needed to carry out that programme. Mr. Fisher's plan of action shuts out all possibility of monopoly, which the Democrats profess to dread. Then let them pass bills for the leasing of coal and oil land, the development of a Oovernnvsnt coal mine and the con struction of a Government railroad. There Is no excuse for party lines to be drawn on that question. So with the Panama Canal. While the logical courM would be to pass a free-ship bill which would insure the American merchant marine enough vessels for both foreign and coast wise trade, we know that such a meas ure might not meet the approval of the President. Then why not do the next best thing by allowing coastwise vessels the free u.e of tho canal, fix ing a low rate of tolls for foreign going ships, and. if It can be found to accord with the treaty with Britain, as Secretary Stlmson contends, rebate part or all of the tolls to American foreign-going ships? The question of free ships can then be fought out at future sessions. If the measures passed by adopting the course outlined do not go as far as the Democrats wish, they can tell the people they got all that a Repub lican President would concede and the voters next November will . decide whether the President was right or (. Ui fee rsaay. t snae Jths Jaiiy. Saadar looiu5l. i moatha.... Lalir. aualar Included. tlr meoths.. a." I'al.y. luadar lncloda-1. :.- -n-nth.... .i Lai.y. without Sunday. , , rrr. vlluul mindly, i mouina ;? IU. without Suada. thraa month.. -' Issue. But if nothing la done, the Democrats must shoulder all the re sponsibility. . THE GEMTXJ5 ART OF DBCXJVTNa. The Oregonlan reprints today from the Philadelphia North American, an other tried -and-true Roosevelt voice, the full text of the ex-Presidenf s most recent authorized expression on his candidacy for the Presidency. Some persons may by inclined to say that the way to decline U to decline: but they are wrong. There is art In de clining as there la In politics, or gov ernment, or literature, or sculpture, or advertising. General Sherman once said that he was not a-candidate for the Presidency; If he were nominated he would not accept; if he were never theless elected, he would decline to serve; If he were given the Presidency on a gold platter, he would reject the Presidency and keep the platter. . Gen eral Sherman was a rough-and-ready old soldier who talked as he fired straight. Both these admirable qual ities Colonel Roosevelt also has, and can use. Obviously Colonel Roosevelt has not burned his bridges behind him. Gen eral Sherman's earnest purpose was to efface himself, and he succeeded. Colonel Roosevelt hss never yet mas tered any method of self-effacement. But the Indirect denial was ade quate. It Is remarkable how the Roosevelt talk has subsided. Colonel Roosevelt's position Is clear enough. He has no purpose now of being a candidate. Why should he say that he will never be a candidate? Unlike General Sherman, he has been Pres ident; and. unlike General Sherman, he knows that he Is big enough for the Job. and that the people may sometime want him to take It again. Why should Colonel Roosevelt say more? It Is enough. He is not a candidate. He will tolerate no cam paign for him, no setting up of dele gations, no interference with others, no use of his name or prestige that 4.n a full and fair field to others. He Is In nobody's way. He will not be In anybody's way: Has anyone the light to demand more? But how can Colonel Roosevelt help what may happen If it insists on happening in spite of his perfectly cor rect and perfectly Independent atti tude? TUB AGE LIMIT. The organization of an "antl-45-yeai-age-llmlt" society in Chicago will strike many persona as a very de sirable movement. Every salaried man, and particularly every wage earner, who feels himself verging toward the time of the sere and yel low leaf naturally grows more or less anxious about the perpetuity of his Job. What will become of him when he has passed the limit which employers may have fixed for retirement? It Is all very well to tell him to imitate the Industrious and frugal and lay up for the Winter In the time of the har vest, but for too many men the har vest Is exceedingly spare at best and provision for the future means star vation in the present. Dr. Osier Is said to have been guilty of setting forty or forty-five years as the age at which a man loses his best usefulness and ought to be shelved. The celebrated physician denies hav ing; said anything of the kind, but of course that makes no difference. Give a dog a bad name and It is pretty sure to stick. And. after all. there Is too much truth in the assumption to be pleasant. Most of us do begin to de cline a little In energy and effective ness between forty and fifty. Those who do not are exceptions to an almost universal rule. 4nms- however, rrow more sprightly to the end of their days, no matter how long they live. No douht ir we were all as careful of our health as we should be there would be no such thing as "dotage." Daniel Defoe, the author of "Robinson Crusoe," wrote books steadily up to the end of his long life, and his last works are as bright and entertaining as his first. There is no record that any really first-class mind deteriorated much up to the '708 or '80s, unless it was at tacked by disease. Those who feel the disintegrating effects of age first miA wnnmt BM th men Vbfl AbUSA their physical frames in youth and middle life, ir nature naa mtenaea mai we lav nfT work at fortv she would have provided that we should also stop eating at that age and caused thick hair to grow on our dooiw so n i not wear clothes. Evi- ji.fiti d mtrntui la that we shall work as long as we live, and unless we thwart her plans ehe provides the ca pacity for it- As my aays so enaii thy strength be." CARXEGIaTS 11 GREAT MIX. Arulrnw ("Arnecie'a list of twenty- one world-movers betrays a narrow ness of view which Is surprising in a man who Is generally credited with nvarkeA freedom from prejudice. It evinces a bias for the material things of life produced by great invention and ignores the great movements of thnnrht which have been the means of the world's progress. The inventors to whom modern industry is aue, es pecially those associated with iron, steel and railroads, take first place, to be followed by discoverers in medi cine. Only one statesman Abraham Lincoln Is in the list, for. though Franklin is included, he is classed as an inventor, not as a statesman. There are but two poets, Shakespeare and Burns. The Inventor of gunpowder is omit ted, perhaps because his invention Is an Implement of that warfare which Mr. Carnegie abhors. But he forgets that gunpowder was the forerunner of dynamite, which has been the means of tunneling through moun tains and under rivers and of wresting the metals and fuel from the earth. Is not the Inventor of the aeroplane worthy of mention? Why are the dis coverers of the disease germ and of radium omitted? Adam Smith, the father of political economy, and his great successors are considered of no moment. Darwin, the discoverer of the principle of evolution, and all the great writers on geology, astronomy and other sciences are excluded from Mr. Carnegie's catalogue. Not a sin gle historian or writer of fiction Is tt-cluded. The explorers who have pioneered the way for civilization are treated as of no consequence, with the solitary exception of Columbus. Soldiers and statesmen are swept to one side as of no Influence on the world's movement, the exceptions be ing Franklin and Lincoln. But for Cromwell, both soldier and statesman, where might English liberty have been and what would have been the effect on American liberty? Was not George Washington, also both soldier and statesman, worthy a place In Mr Carnegie's hall of fame? Despot insula wk JS'aeiees ssevsa Mts world to some slight extent, and, though his fame as a soldier Is great est, he made the code Napoleon and created the present French system of roads and canals. The French revo lution shook the civilized world, but Its leaders are ignored. Mr. Carne gie's peace principles forbid him to recognize that war contributes to hu man progress. Otherewlse he would realize that the Dutch rebellion and the destruction of the Spanish armada crippled Spanish tyranny and made religious liberty possible. He would also realize that the Thirty Tears War secured religious liberty to Ger many and made possible the rise of Prussia and the union of Germany in the empire. Without that union modern Industrial Germany would have been still in the future. Has religion had no part in the world movement? It would seem that Luther, Calvin, Knox, Wesley, Xavler. Newman, Priestley, have had some part in the making of the modern world. Mr. Carnegie's list of great men la eloquent of his limitations. He Is a Scotchman, therefore he gives Scotch men a first place. He is a captain of Industry, therefore inventors loom big in his opinion. He Is a steel manu facturer, therefore Inventors of the processes of steelmaklng lead among the Inventors. His fortune was made In America, therefore Columbus U given a place of honor. He Is a hu manitarian, therefore he gives places to discoverers in medicine and to the emancipator of slaves. But he can find room for but two leaders in lit erature. He Ignores prose writers of all kinds, printers, sculptors, dram atists, except Shakespeare, aoldiers, statesmen, lawyers, preachers, scien tists aonnnmlats. exDlorers. Had we not known who made this list, it would have proved that It was made by a Scotch steel manufacturer who late In life had turned his energies to philanthropy. MORNd'O BHOFFESO. Everv year- as the holidays ap proach there goes up an Insistent de mand by the press for early shopping for the Christmas and New Year trade, but it is very doubtful if the laggards are hurried to any apprecia ble extent. But there is one. phase of the situa tion that calls for more mention than the early shopping movement as gen erally understood, and that la that the intending purchasers should start on their rounds earlier in the day. The manager of one of Portland's largest department stores a day or two ago said that for more than two hours every morning, or from 8 to 10 o'clock, there were nearly as many clerks as customers In his store, and not until after 11 o'clock was there anything like a rush of customers. This Is undoubtedly true to a greater or less extent in all of our large stores. If shoppers would get started on their rounds by 8 o'clock it would be a great benefit to the overworked clerks, and would give the customers a far better opportunity to make their selections. CHAPXAIX BACEK-S KEJOIVDEB. With the amiable "desire of Chap lain Bauer to create a world In which there shall be no incentive to crime we can all sympathize. Such a world never yet has been seen, by human eyes at any rate, but of course it does not follow that it never will be. Even those who fear that Chaplain Bauer's aspirations are somewhat ineffectual wUl not withhold a tribute of admira tion for his zeal. It Is something for a man who has spent a good deal of time among criminals, as he has, to retain an ardent faith in the possibili ties of reform In murderers and thieves. We would not say a word to dim his fervor, but we must still in sist that in these matters society is the primary party in interest and that Its welfare Is first of all to be consid ered. Should that welfare demand the sacrifice of the lives of a dozen murderers, or a thousand, we should feel oH!?ed to say that our voice is for their death. In the letter which The Oregonlan prints this morning Mr. Bauer reiter ates his belief that "society is some what responsible for murder because we have put too cheap an estimate upon human life." In order to show Just how cheap this estimate is, he proceeds to cite the slaughters done by corporations which refuse to install safety devices. "We create an atmos phere of murder," he adds, "when we take the lion's share of the products of wealth and starve to death the un der man. We are partners in murder when we allow drug sharks to sell hop' to boys and girls and weakened men and women." with a good deal more of the same kind of talk. We dare say no thoughtful person would think of denying this. But what of it? Does the fact that we are sadly careless of human life argue that we ought to allow murderers to go un punished? Is solicitude for life best shown by permitting murderers to go on killing or by putting an end to their career? Shall we defend life more effectually by allowing all mur derers, little and big, to go free or by subjecting all without exception to the penalties they deserve? What Is the best way to attain to that uni formity of punishment and Justice which Mr. Bauer no doubt really de sires even If his words do sound otherwise? Shall we reach it soonest by abandoning the little we have gained In the restraint of crime or by pushing that little steadily forward until we have mastered the entire problem? Because we cannot yet bring all the big thieves to speedy Justice, shall we let all the little ones go free? Would it not be better to punish the little ones with inflexible rigor and forge onward after the big ones as fast as we can? Mr. Bauer should not forget that many of the crimes which figure so largely in his imagination are comparatively new. They have arisen from the circum stances of the Industrial revolution, from the progress of science and In vention. The problem of dealing with them has confronted society suddenly. The situation Is so novel that It has bewildered the conservative powers of mankind. Time will be required to deal with it adequately. But Mr. Bauer is not disposed to grant any time for this purpose, if we understand his letter correctly. He is so impressed by the failure of the state to handle this new problem punctually that he would sjt down In despair and cease doing anything with the old problems which are tolerably familiar to us. A great many novel kinds of big thieves have appeared all at once in the world. Therefore, ar gues Mr. Bauer with amiable but as tonishing logic, we must let the little ones go unmolested in their thieving. Murder manifests Itself today in a bunUf 4 terms yn&aaxa, et ba the, e , ginning of the last century. Therefore we ought to stop trying to punish the old, familiar type of murder. Of course Mr. Bauer does not say this in so many words. In fact, he does not admit that he means anything of the kind, but If he does not, then what does he mean? What Is the point of all his eloquent arraignment of social conditions If he does not Intend that they shall excuse the criminal? In so far as these conditions make for crime they certainly relieve the crim inal of his responsibility, and in so far as he Is not responsible Mr. Bauer seems to argue that he ought not to be punished. In our opinion he ought to be pun ished for his crime whether he Is re-" sponsible for It or not. Naturally we would exoept Insane persons from this rule, but not anybody else who has reached years of accountability. To our minds the question is not so muoh one of responsibility as ex pediency. The fundamental consider ation Is the good of society. If the welfare of mankind demands the ex tinction of an Individual, then he ought to perish. Even if he Is inno cent he ought to perish. On what other ground do we send Innocent men to die on the battlefield? The general welfare is the supreme con cern of the human race and any other interest Is as nothing when opposed to It. Now there is not the slightest doubt that the welfare of society re quires that men who have committed certain crimes should be put out of the world. What Induced them to do their deeds, or what circumstances combined to blight and degrade their moral natures Is not of any conse quence In this connection. The all Important fact Is that, for whatever reason, they are unfit to live. We may Indeed pity them. "Pity thee? So I do. I pity the dumb victim at the altar. But does the robed priest for his pity falter?" The situation Is tragic to the last degree and mourn ful beyond words, but it is a real situation and must be faced. Guilty as society may be, it must not submit to dissolution. The hopeless progeny of evil conditions must perish for the common good and the penitence of the world for its share in their guilt will best be shown by reforming the circumstances which produced them. Of course everybody will interpret Emma Goldman's recent experience by his own standards. Some will say she has risen In the world. Others will say that President Eliot's grand son has stepped down a peg or two. In any event, the young man excited a sensation by taking Emma to dinner and that counts for something. Po lice interference used to net her a good many dollars. Now that the btuecoats have ceased to give her free advertisement, she naturally turns to other devices. The Illinois man who won his sweet, heart by shooting her followed a good old custom. Formerly the ardent suitor knocked down his favorite maiden with a club and carried her to his tent. Shooting is less painful- and disfiguring and indicates growth in civilization. While we do not com mend the Illinois method of courtship, we think it Is preferable to obstinate old bachelordom.' W. H. Galvani In a Portland pulpit preaching peace is not an anomaly, but an Idiosyncrasy, for once upon a time Brother Galvani was an Oregon delegate to an International peace gathering and started the biggest kind of a row, in which he won, of course. Colonization of a school district with orphans in order to provide a Job for a teacher Is a novelty. This may do as a temporary measure, but the district should secure permanent colonists with families or good pros pects of families. If the Mexicans wish to engage in the incubation of revolutions, let them do it on their own territory. We can raise enough disturbance our selves to keep us awake without the aid of our neighbors. The man who locks a door leading to the fire escape of a crowded hotel may be compared for stupidity to the man who hides his gun so carefully that he cannot find It when the bur glar calls. The session of Congress would not be so long If Champ Clark would not take his title literally and would re member that the function of a Speaker Is not to speak. When the average woman encoun ters a burglar she Is a bundle of nerves and collapses, but Mrs. Cora Phillips is a bundle of nerve and gives chase. Charlei J. Berg. 78 years young, who challenges any man over 70 to a battle with fists. Is the original old sport. The girl whom her suitor has to fill with bullets In order to convince her of his love and who then accepts that kind of a man la a new type. Exports of hemp from the Philip pines are Increasing, but none of It is used In Oregon for the historfa pur pose of eliminating the unfit. Why Is there not a big prizefight Just now for a change of subject? Even the assembling of Congress Is Insufficient. Mr. Carnegie's list of twenty-one is short one world-mover, the discoverer of the cross of gold and crown of thorns. Link Steffens and Larry Sullivan are a team in which alliteration's art ful aid has a grip on the muckrake. If there was anything left undone to Influence the result today In Los Angeles, it is beyond political ken. The best fowls in Oregon were not eaten last week. They are showing themselves proudly this week. The needs of the helpless widows and orphans, victims of the confes sors, must not be overlooked. He may quit and resign and let go as he will, but the smell of coal oil will hang round him still. All Rockefeller and oil Jokes and near Jokes must now go into the dis card. This is a good time for Labor to clean house. Many more confessions are due and costing. FCTTIJJQ A WAT THE FRESIDENCT i What a Roosevelt Paper Has to Bar for Colonel Roosevelt. Philadelphia North Amerioan. Theodore Roosevelt's recent editorial In the Outlook upon the trust question has led to deductions so false and to political discussions " so unfortunate that it seems expedient for an accu rate and authoritative statement to be made regarding his position, particu larly toward the campaign of 1912. Such a statement can be made better perhaps by the North American than by any other agency, t Just one year ago Colonel Roosevelt confided, to this newspaper his views touching the use of his name as a re ceptive candidate for the Republican nomination and his first purpose In re lation thereto. There were ample reasons for his expression. Ever since his return from abroad there had been a growth in pub 11 o Interest regarding his attitude to ward the President. At that time In fluential Eastern papers were proclaim ing that Colonel Roosevelt was ac tually pledged to support Mr. Taft for renomlnatlon, and were intimating that news of this arrangement emanated from - the White House itself. Many National leaders accepted these state ments as facts. Indorsement of the Taft Administration in the New Tork Republican platform was hailed as proof that Roosevelt was committed to the Taft candidacy. It was this assertion which Colonel Roosevelt disposed of in his confidences to the North American; and as sug gestions or his own candidacy natur ally followed he disposed of them also. He declared most emphatically that be had not pledged his support to Mr. Taft privately or publicly in set terms or even by implication. He declared he would not support any man for the nomination In 1612 neither Mr. Taft nor any one else. As to a statement that the President believed he would have, Roosevelfs support. Colenel Roosevelt said that Mr. Taft could not possibly believe anything of the kind; that. In fact, Mr. Taft knew that he had no such assurance, and that neither Mr. Taft nor any one else had one particle of ground for such opinion. As to the persistent suggestions that he had designs upon the nomination himself. Colonel Roosevelt was equally emphatic and explicit. At that time and on subsequent occasions more than once in our presence Colonel Roosevelt received tenders of support from men of wide political influence, men who will control delegates In the conven tions. Some of these men were pro gressives, others were "near" pro gressives, several were of reactionary sympathies. To each and every pro posal Colonel Roosevelt replied sub stantially as stated above and added with equal emphasis and forceful sin cerity that be was not in the remotest sense a candidate for the nomination and that he declined and deplored all such suggestions as were being made to him. He went further. To those who had had close relations with him he said in effect: "If you are a true friend of mine you will drop this once and for all; you will not only quit yourself, but you will discourage your friends and do all you can to stop this futile talk; you will believe what I have said so often, that I am not a candi date and earnestly desire that all such suggestions should cease. Colonel Roosevelt said substantially this not once but many times, and, as stated, on several occasions in our presence. Those who have been In close touch with Colonel Roosevelt since the pub lication of his Outlook article have likewise been surprised not only at the extent of the sentiment for him but at its manifestations in circles that a few months ago were bitterly hostile to Roosevelt, or at least strongly pro Taft. To set at rest these baseless notions It can be said that no more than three days ago Colonel Roosevelt expressed himself to the North American exactly as he had done a year ago and exactly as he has frequently and on all occa sions since. And because of the per sistence of unwarranted reports and deductions he agreed that an authori tative statement of his oft-expressed purpose should be printed by this paper. This utterance, therefore, is not new, but It is positive. Colonel Roosevelt will not support any man for the nomination in 1912, neither Taft nor anyone else. He never gave Mr. Taft any pledge or offer of support, nor did Mr. Taft ever have such an Impression. As to himself. Colonel Roosevelt Is not a candidate, nor has be been at any time. He has repeatedly discouraged sug gestions of this character' not only from sincere friends but from poten tial political leaders, who for one rea son or another desire to use his name, and he has emphatically refused pledges of active support, even de livery of delegatea He says, and wishes the statement to be accepted at its full value In its clear and 'unequivocal -meaning, that he desires talk of his supposed can didacy to cease. t A Man Defies Daddy Time. 1 J TtjkolA Father Time was in a bad humor. He twirled his hour glass recklessly and swung his scythe In a vicious fashion. "Confound him!" he cried. "What's the matter, daddy?" a play ful zephyr asked as it frolicked by his side. Time looked at the zephyr. "Did you see that man I passed a few moments ;ago?" "Yea, daddy." "He defies me." "But he's quite gray, daddy." "Yes. yes." "And his face Is wrinkled, and his back is bent, and his hands tremble." "Yes, yes, but he defies me." "How, daddy V He twisted his forelock savegely. "I can whiten his hair, confound him, and wrinkle his face, and bend his back, and set his nerves to trembling, but I can't reach his heart!" And he tore at his beard, and stamped along so angrily that his sandals left little puffs of yellow dust behind them. No Bagpipe Playing oa Sunday. - London Chronicle. We get a curious glimpse of the va riety of things that were barred on Sun days in stricter days in an entry of excommunication cases presented to the Consistory Court of Arches of Dur ham one day In the Seventeenth Cen tury. "Bambrough, May 21, presented Thomas Anderson, of Swlnhoe, for play ing on a bagpipe before a bridegroom on a Sunday, and not frequenting the church and for not receiving the holy sacrament. . - . Elizabeth Mills, for scolding, and drying fish on the Lord's day." The Female of the Specfea. Milwaukee Sentinel. , (Not by R. Kipling.) When a woman boards a streetcar, men retreat from her In fear; Strong men tremble in their terror when they see her drawing near; For the hatpins that she carries make the bravest of them quail Tea, the female of the speoles is more deadly haa Aha mala. CHAPLAIN BAUER OX CRIMINALS More Discussion of the State's Respon sibility for dime. SALEM, Or Deo. 4. (To the Editor.) In The Oregonlan Saturday, with a caption, "As to Responsibility," you make comments on my Thanksgiving address given in Temple Beth Israel. Tour quotations from my words are all right so far as they go, but they do not go far enough. Tour conclusions, stated and implied, are satisfactory from a logical standpoint, granting the premises, but these premises are wrong because you only had part of what I said. As often occurs when one seeks to meet an argument from a partially reported discourse, one only finds him self afield of the truth because he was wrongly directed. I was trying to make a plea 'for Jus tice for the criminal. From my obser vation too few today have undertaken this cause, and for what reason it Is hard to understand. I did say in no uncertain words that the criminal was responsible for his crime, and said to my auditors, as they will remember, that this side of the case was the only one that I ever presented to the boys In the Penitentiary. For the first time through the pages of Tho Oregonlan today and yesterday will they learn that I have presented the other side of the responsibility which ought to be borne by society. While I have presented this message of responsibility often to the prisoner s, I have a similar message of the re sponsibility for those without the prison walla This is an Important phrase of our thinking in order to deal considerately and honestly with the prisoner as well as to get our own bearings in relation to crime. Of course. If the prisoner is alone respon sible, we can well insist that he endure hunger and cold for himself and worse things for his family, and will hav to compose himself uncomplainingly as he feels the heel of prejudice' grinding upon his soul. If, on the other hand, "you and I" that is, society have had some part in this man's crime, in this man's calamity, in the loss of his repu tation, it may be that we would have a different opinion of him and would feel differently in seeking to help him In his great need. In truth, you and I are debtors to Greek and Barbarian bond and free. We are responsible for crime and crim inals, and surely no student of social conditions will deny this statement. Let me here repeat in substance what I said on Thanksgiving day, that you and I are our brother's keeper, and we have made a poor out of it, with the result tha this uncared-for brother landed In prison. We are accessories of crimes against property, of the crime of murder, of the crime of moral degeneracy. Let me illustrate: We are creators of public sentiment in what we call "thrifty business," where getting some thing for nothing seems to be a per vading principle. With this .motive business men are robbing the unsus pecting public; predatory Interests with cold cash are holding up Legislatures; farmers are committing, adulteration when lard Is cheaper than butter. You and I are in the mad rush to get the drop on the other fellow. We are cre ating a criminal social atmosphere; we are instigators of crime against prop erty. Many men outside of the prison walls are as guilty as those within of breaking the command. "Thou shalt not steal. " When it comes to the violating of law this distinction occurs, that the majority go unpunished, the blcr criml nal escapes being caught and-the little fellow lands behind the bars. To Bay that society Is responsible for crlm nal sentiment that pervades the air and sends many a weak brother to prison is to put It mildly, but never theless truly. If tho man without a criminal proclivity in his mind was the first to cast a stone at the boy sent up for the theft of a siwrar bowl, he might, with a Just rebuke from the offended party, go home and sin no more. I can equally affirm that society is somewhat responsible for murder be cause we have put too cheap an esti mate upon human life. The criminal, of course, Is responsible for this great est of crimes, but we are, nevertheless, co-partners in this crime when we try to hide our conscience in a corporation that kills and malms life, refusing to install safety devices for the preserva tion of human life. We create an at mosphere of murder when we take the lion's share of the product of wealth and starve to death the under man. We are partners in murder when we allow drug sharks to sell "hop" to the boys and girls and weakened men and women. We are accessories before the fact when we enter into the booze busi ness for the sake of a paltry bit of gold, when we know that this curse has a paramount part to play in nine tenths of our murders. There is a story that an Indian secured two bits for his toothless mother-in-law and six bits for his own son because he did not know the value of human life in dol lars and cents. With all our enlighten ment we cannot boast a much higher appreciation of life when we are en gaged in so many pursuits where life is squandered and have so many so cial conditions where human life has but little value. I think I am safe in saying that "you and I" have some part In crime and criminals, and it is ab solutely right that we become conacloua of It, that we may be more sympa thetic with our brother in crime who has landed behind the bars. . Now, Just a word about sympathy. I agree with The Oregonlan that we have no use for "purveyors of senti mental slop" in our prison work. If people were better Informed as to what is being done in our State Penitentiary there would be no occasion for an ac cusation of this kind in our treatment of prisoners. Those who accuse Gov ernor West of sentimentality or the Parole Board of weakness in this line are not acquainted with the facts. Those who think mothers' tears are the only prerequisites of pardon or parole ought to know that out oi 7t applica tions to the Parole Board at its last meeting, only two pardons and 12 pa roles were recommended. We are too liable to err on the side of no sym pathy rather than a genuine kind of feeling that will give every man a taste of brotherhood and help him to turn from his criminal career and make a man of himself. We need enough sym pathy to keep back the kick that sends a man down the road to hell, and enough of sentimentality that is manly enough to stoop to help the man who Is down. Surely we are agreed that two things are quite essential to the solution of crime. One is the reiormauon or ine criminal, the other is the reformation of society outside of the prison. The former will be accomplished by the speedy apprehension of the criminal. conviction, a wnoiesome amount oi punishment, regeneration of ideals. teaching the untaugnt a traae ana giv ing one chance after another until the criminal has proven bis ability to stand alone. The latter will come to pass when we are honest and brave enough to recognize that we are responsible for public opinion that Is leading men the downward way, and when we have become conscious that in our crowding up so close to lawlessness we are liable to shove some neipiess man over me brink Into the abyss of criminal career. We must stop pushing the wrong way. We must sanely and honestly do our part to keep from Injuring the weaker brother who may oe iiaDie to commit, crime. PHILIP E. BAUER, Chaplain ana police umoer. Half a Century Ago (From Tha Oregonlan of December 8. 1861.) The Pacific brought us Eastern news to the 27th. The news is generally favorable. The Confederate govern ment is removed to Nashville. The cap ture of Slidell and Mason Is approved by all our people and no complaint has yet been made by Lord Lyons- Ken tucky is bravely standing up to the Union. She has sent into the field her full quota of troops under the call of 600,000. Price and McCulloch are again marching into Missouri, and it is said that Hunter, wiah a large force, is ready to meet them. Parson Brownlow is at head of 8000 troops in Western Virginia. The. Union movement in North Carolina is disheartening to the rebels. The Richmond Whig says that it sees nothing in the future but dis order and defeat. The flotilla on the Western waters Is ready for service. Pensacola, the Navy Yard and the rebel forts adjacent have been taken by the blockading force and Warrington burnt. This was done without assistance from the great fleet on the way to the Gulf. Great panic exists in Charleston, Sa vannah, Memphis and Mobile in appre hension of attack from Federal forces, and many of the Inhabitants have put up their goods and prepared to leave. J. W. Knight writes from the Uma tilla Reservation that there Is quite an excitement about the Powder River mines, and that several trains have gone out there, and others will go as soon as the weather will permit. A heavy fall of snow and rain has raised the streams to an unusual height east of the mountains. The Mountain eer says that on Monday "the bridge over the Deschutes, with the keeper's dwelling-house, stable and outhouses, were all carried away. Loss, 110,000." The Walla Walla Statesman says that new mines have been found on the north fork of the Clearwater, which bid fair to rival those of Salmon River in richness. When Beauregard's forces evacuated Munson's Hill, they poisoned their meats with strychnine. The fact was discovered and the wholesale poisoning of our troops prevented. The spirit of secesslonlsm approached to the in fernal. The river Is higher at the present time than ever before known to the oldest residents. Several frame houses and a large quantity of flour (sup posed to come from the wreck of the Island and McLoughlin mills at Ore gon City) were seen floating down yesterday. A barn, containing a large quantity of hay, was also seen. Cap tain Turnbull, of the Vancouver, In forms us that, while coming up yester day, a pilothouse was observed going down; it is supposed to have belonged to soma of the upper Willamette steam ers. The greatest loss Instanced by any of our citizens yesterday was the sweeping away of the wharf recently erected between Washington and Al der streets. The structure measured 260 feet in length by 90 wide. It went off with a crash about noon. Loss be tween $8000 and J9000, which mostly falls on Messrs. Hull, Masters, Shipley, King-sley and Spencer. Portions of Coffin's wharf and the rear portico of the Bank Exchange Saloon were also carried away. At Oregon City, after the bridge which spanned the channel separating the Island mills had been carried away, the family of A. J. Chap man was rescued by persona who went to them in a small boat. In consequence of the danger to the new building In which the Postofflce is located, Mr. Davis has wisely re moved the office temporarily to the second story of Seymour and Joynt's brick bulldlne-. Front street. Conntry Town Sayings by Ed Howe The little girl who practices four hours a day on the piano is entitled to a good deal of credit she doesn't get from the neighbors. Some people have the absurd notion that unless they are always talking, they are considered dull. It is said that if you swallow a single seed In eating a watermelon, you will have fits. Nothing In it; a boy can swallow ever seed in a watermelon, and the rind and the vine, and never mind it. When I meet a girl with a very odd and romantic name, I always wonder what her name was before she began fooling with It. Send a boy for a drink of water for a guest, and he will bring It In a tin dipper; send a girl, and she will bring It In the best glass in the house. What causes some women to look so weary two or three years after they marry? Is it their husbands, or their health? Nothing hurts a boy's feelings so much as to act smart In the presence of a girl who is staying all night with his sister, and then get whipped for it in her presence. A woman is enthuslastlo over being married; not over tho man she is to marry. Do not hope that your victims will keep quiet; there are no faithful vic tims. More women are looking for an op portunity to elope from men than to elope with them. The Ideal Architect and Home. - Cleveland Plain Dealer. "As I understand it," said the archi tect, "you want me to build a typical modern apartment building." "That's it," said the builder. "Hard wood floors, mahogany finishing, gas grates, tiled bathrooms and all that: you know, make It swell." "Sure. I see. Good appearanoe. Big living room? Yes. Platerail in the dining-room, and alcove for sideboard? I get It. Spacious front hall? Uh-huh." "You've got the idea exactly." "And about half the entire space is to be given to the living room and li brary. Three-fourths of what Is left goes to the dlnlns-room and kitchen. What's left over is to be divided up into bedrooms?" "Fine! You are the ideal architect the one I've been looking fori" A Call for Conservation. Boston Globe. The "nrofessor" at the high school in Kansas City who has figured out that 13,000,000 feet of lumber Is thrown Into waste paper baskets every year by per sons who discard partly usea ieaa pen cils, begs them to be more economical and so help in the conservation of our forests, may be urplng us next to save our discarded toothpicks and burnt matches to use for kindling wood. A Good Little Sermon for Today. Chicago Record Herald. Edgar A. Guest, of the Detroit Free Press, has published a book of verses entitled "Just Glad Things," in which he makes this excellent observation: "It's all right to leave your grouch, at home, but It's much better never to take it there." Why have long sermons when so much can be put into a short one? Her Little Boy's Request. Detroit Free Press. "Mamma." "Yes, my dear." "The next time you get married will you please marry a policeman?" i