TIIE .MORNING OREGOMAX. W EDNESDAY, DECE3IBER 27, 1911. 10 .-fN . . fMtl- II llfVrtlttrt IT Slx'IJ V .VlVVMV,H" ' ' rORTLASD. QHrxMS. onic u Em-d at Portland. Ortioo. Tom' kuMcripiiua luiu InrUl U Aanacm. (BT MAIL.) .$s" ! L-.,:. uitriiv m-.ul-l six months ti;y. Suii1i Indu-:!. lhr- mmttta. i.. 1.2S : :: Z. i .. : t ... i.? ! .. . .. 1 .s .. 159 i Ul , bunar lnc;u'l(l. on monlo . -Lm'..y. wicnout iuBi, on- 7ar Le::r. without luntSii. tftr months. without Suouar. on tnooLtl. . W'-ki-. tut rr udr. on r Sttodj and W-aalr. oa r IBT CARRIER.) I'e'ly. Sunday Inclu'l-d. on, y-sr... ClaCa ...... ' iK - .1 nna. mnRtll. t.rw .7J w to Krroll rt-ad Potonic ni""'-' 4-t. uprm aru.r or p,nonsl h--- "T - 9:mpfc eota or " at tho a-ua-ra iia- Giv poatorr.c moar-a m fu.i inc!u'ii-r county sua amta. F-.t. r, 10 to l p 1 Vii" I'oVS'WmS.": aoub: Cm k- lla N-w York, iirujuwic buililins. Cbw- gO. Str-r bU. .Iln. . a tv-u OOU No. S Rs-nt StrMt. W, toutioll. lORTtJ..XD. 1VCI1N lDAY. IKC. 47. - ct'EsslNO. Any analysis of the Presidential alt- nation from the pen of a writer In Collier's Weekly may or may not be Taluable: but it J.i Interesting to " that that violent insurgent voice In wilderneiia of Doiitlcal woes gives it all up. so far as La Kollette is concerned Long ago It drnlded that Taft could not be re-eiectea: out mat: is ur- , prising, since other enemies of the; President, who greatly fear his election, have unu.-d n the opinion j that his cause is hopeless. But it is , Interesting ali-o to note that an im passe haa been reached in the Insur- . gent struggle between the two insur gent wings over a candidate La Fol- ! lotte who is clamorously chasing the I Presidency, and another possible can- J dldate Honsevc-lt whom the Presi dency threatens to chase. "From all of which." says Oracle Sullivan. "It is fairlv clear that bv the ISth of June (date of the National Hi-publican Con "rention ) the pressure on itoosevelt to accept the nomination is going to be pretty powerful." It is pressure ex erted almost wholly by forces that have not the nomination to give. The Bepubllcan party desires to win. It wants a candidate who can win. If Taft cannot ln. who can? If Roosevelt should be nominated by the Republicans, over the protest of the Taft element, could he win? If Roosevelt should be nominated with the con--ent of the Taft element, could he win ? Possibly somebody will attempt to answer these questions, even the sa pient Sullivan. Rosevelt is popuUr throughout the country, but we doubt if seven out of ten voters are for him. We could name several persona who are not for him and would not be. But the Kooeevelt popularity is a mighty asset for the Republican party. nevertheless. If it is the Republican party's to use. Roosevelt Is preferred by the Insurgents to La Kollette. he Is preferred by the progressives to La Kollette. and he is preferred by the regulars to Lh Kollette. If Taft should be beaten for the nomination, all hands texfrpt the diminishing I -a Fol lette group i would prefer that it be by Roosevelt. Hut Taft Is not going to be beaten by ievelt without Taft's consent H- much Is obvious, or ought to be. Being obvious to all Republicans, and the choice being Mwn Taft and La Kollette. they take Taft. We think most Republicans would even now prefer Taft to Roosevelt as President, though poiblv not as a candidate. Tlir HARVKT CAK. The ease against Nathan Harvey a p. pears to have been worked up mainly by a private detective w ho had per suaded the authorities of Clackamas County that there was a great deal more agnlnst the suspected man than appeared on the surface. Perhaps there was. But If there was It did not transpire at the preliminary examina tion. That examination, from the prosecution's standpoint, was a sorry affulr. The testimony ugainst Harvey had little relevancy, for It was Incom plete, trivial and wholly unconvincing. The case against Harvey, so far as the public knows, rests upon three main points. They are (1) that he vu on his way home from the city to Ardenwald and w:is In the vicinity of the Hill house about the time of the murd'r; 2 ) that he afterwards engaged lawyers for a large sum to defend him in case he should be ar rested: and (3) he was a natural ob ject of suspicion, since he has a doubt ful personal rceord. But Harvey also lived near Ardenwald. and he had a right to go to his home. He had a right to engage lawyers when he heard that he was likely to be arrested, though it is not easy to explain why he should have been so easily persuad ed into an agreement to pay so extra ordinary a sum (10.000) except on the theory that he was badly fright ened. The neighbors appear to be di vided as to whether H.irvcy u or Is a good citizen or not a good cltlxen. But Ls the fact that a man's reputa tion is doubtful, or th.it he la obviously ttlarmed about the prospect of his ar rest, and that he was somewhere round at the time when a murder Is supposed to have occurred. Justify his apprehension and Incarceration? These circumstances, it may be admit ted, warrant suspicion and Investiga tion: but directly against them are counter circumstances that H.irvey had lived quietly near the scene of the dreadful Hill affair for many years. and that the crime may or may not f have occurred about the time he was known to be going from the station at Ardenwald In the direction of the Hill house. The only proof Is the noise of the di :.. and the finding of a cWk In the Hill home, stopped at 12:52 on Jure . The doim were plainly dis turbed by some unusual event, and the murder probably occurred at that hour: and Harvey was In the vicinity. But these things are far from conclu- stve prool against ntm. They fall snort I of demonstrating any doctrine of ex- jlustve opportunity Sheriff Mass and his private detec tive have been too precipitate. They sprung their trap too soon, and they caught nothing. We w-ould not any that the result of the Investigation has been to vindicate Harvey completely, but we are wi'.Ur.g to say that the case Afalnst him. or anybody, as a putative murderer, has been sadly bungled. No doubt Eddie Young will do less harm as a minister than as a prize lghter. but the real question Is. "How much good will he do?" Is his mind so well stored with knowledge and re flection that he can expect to interest Intelligent congregations? He Intends to enter a theological school to provide (whatever mental furnishing he may - bt U hU decision judicious? what can he learn about life and Its problem at the seminary? The Sav- lor neVer attended a theological school. Doubtless some modern preacnerj couia nave puzzieu mm ; fine points of d'Xrtrine. but he could ' beat them savlr.s; souls. Dl EU AND ARBITRATION. In the course of his speech advocat g the arbitration treaties Colonel mark that he had seen the practice of duelling pass out of fashion within his own lifetime. He was led bythls change to inquire whether the prac tice of the duel between nations might not slim he abandoned with advantage 1 to all concerned. It was not until . . w r-M.-ti u n. ,na, toward the cloy of the C1W1 vt ar mat 1 "h American "gentleman" felt quite safe In declining to fight duel. Of ine men vi nu "cic 1 1 ' " 1 " . . Southern bravoea In connection wun tho assault on Sumner, some accepted and some deelined. but it was the lat ter who felt that public sentiment was somewhat against them. The practice of duelling was deeply Ingrained in I human nature and did not wasn out readily. Only when the common sense , waj ridlouIou9 dld ,t , become unfaJ!hionable. Men are more ! afrald of belng. la.ughei Bt than they punishment in this life or the . .. A for CoIon,., Watterson-s be 1 hat duen beteen .NMtiona will belief go tf)e wfly of the gmy cust0m between lndlv,Jual, we breathe a pious hope ,h,t he muy be right. But we cannot remembering that arbitration .,. ,,. nrt t,n treaties are very, very old and have never been particularly effectual when peoples really wanted to fight. There was a treaty of arbitration, fox example, of the widest scope between Athens and Sparta before the outbreak of the great Peloponnesiaji war. It was suppo-sed to be so deftly drawn that no case could arise which it I . ..1.1 . n.,a.a. T).t mhan 1n 1. 111 si tm t . . . ' , .. .. had Increased to the point where both cities wanted war the treaty was found to be full of loopholes and war they had. The principal benefit of arbitration treaties for a long time to come will consist In creating sentiment for peace While they will not prevent war ft two nntlons feel belligerent, they will materially help to keep that feeling from growing warm. The treatlea will make wars less frequent by chastening popular wrath and giving time for deliberation. Of course they will also be Immensely educative. OKI-HAM ASYLIMS. "it ts open to argument whether or not John Wright Hunt's bequest of 11.000.000 to found a "great orphan asvlum" in Los Ar.geles ls wise or not. Many will believe that the money could have been better ap. plied by placing orphans In homes. Big institutions are not the natural environment of children, and the poor little things more often pine than thrive within their solemn walls. Kven when they get along all right physically their minds are likely to grow warped. A child reared In an institution misses certain elements of humanity which are among the best there are. The tendency of -well-advised testators of late years has not been to duplicate the mammoth foun dations of old.-r days. Charity re ceives more liberal donations than ever, but they are used for new and no doubt for more effective purposes. Mrs. Sage might have applied her mil lions to building big schools and asy lums had she been a mere common place benefactress who was satisfied to give without taking thought. But. In asmuch as she Is Intelligent as well as generous, she put It to vastly better use. The Sage Foundation does more pood than all the orphan asylums in the world, though we would not de cry those useful Institutions. As the world grows wiser it likes less and less the notion of herding children in droves for education, feed ing or any other purpose. In order to thrive tho child must have a certain umount of room all to Itself. It needs isolation, light and air. Above all it demands the exclusive attention of some older person. Science al6ne can not, rear an Infant properly, be It never so scientific and conscientious. The growing human being needs cod dling and babying with plenty of. space for all Its exercises. A century from now one may safely prophesy there will be no big schoolhouses. Children, if they are not taught at home, will be taught by good old maids In little cottages rose-embowered and flooded with sunshine. In each cottage there will be not more than six children and there will be a good many more tools than books. THIS CA.-E OF RETKIVFR DEVLIN. Whether the attack made by Jay Bowerman on Receiver Devlin, of the Oregon Trust Sc Savings Bank, be jus tified or not, the fact that an opening for it existed emphasizes an error In the proceedings to wind up that Ill fated institution which should never be repeated. That is the appointment as receiver of a man "selected by the men who had wrecked the bank. ThU blunder was followed by another when this man was allowed to act In the duai capacity of receiver of the ruined bank and cashier of the bank to which its assets were sold. The obvious fact that men have so mismanaged a bank as to ruin it should of itself disqualify them to se lect the receiver or have any voice In liquidation of the bank by the court The State Bank Kxamlner should take ch:rge as soon as the failure occurs. A temporary receiver nominated by him or selected by the court should be appointed. From the moment of its failure the bank's ass'ts become the property of Its creditors, in whose In terest they should be administered. The depositors having a first lien, the temporary receiver should call them together for the purpose of electing a Permanent receiver and the court should not be allowed to have- any interest In transactions relating to the bank except as receiver. While there may be no reason to suspect "Mr. Devlin of any wrongful act, the fact that he was chosen for receiver by the wreckers naturaHy gave rise to suspicion that he would act In their Interest, which was in di rect conflict with the Interest of the depositors. His action In discovering and furnishing to the district attorney the evidence off which the wreckers were prosecuted clears him of suspi cion of collusion with them, but his acceptance of the office on their rec ommendation laid him open to such suspicion at the outset. If the attacks to which he has been subjected were unjust, they are due to the ambiguous position In which he placed himself by becoming the nominee of the wrreckera and afterwards by becoming the ex ecutive officer of the new bank with which he. as receiver, must transact business. M.IDKRO FIRMLY IN THE SADDLE. Surrender of General Reyea Is note worthy, both aa removing from the po litical arena one of Mexico's strongest figures and as demonstrating that the republic is not about to make indulg ence in revolutions a habit, like its neighbors farther south. This event disposes of Madero's most serious op ponent and leaves him free to stamp out the last remnants of disorder in the south. There can be no doubt that the fail ure of Reyes attempt to renew civil war waa largely due to the vigorous measures taken by the United States to enforce neutrality on the Texas bor der. But those measures could not have snuffed out the movement so eaally had Reyes enjoyed any consider able support. So many Mexicans re side on this side of the border that, if Reyes had had much following, it would have been represented north of the Rio Grande and would have been able to smuggle armed men and muni tions across the boundary in spite of all that the United State Government could have done to prevent. The boundary was well guarded during the closing months of Madero's revolution, but the patrol was powerless to stop entirely the smuggling of arms and munitions to the rebel army. The inference is plain that Reyes failed for lack of popular support, that the mass of the people are behind Madero. and that he ls firmly seated In the saddle. He has made many promises of reform and of abandon ment of the despotic methods of Diaz. Americans will watch closely. Interest ed to se 'whether he will, forget his promises as readily as . have other Spanish-American revolutionary chiefs. NEW YORK'S MALIGN INFLfENCK. It Is a sad reflection on the greatest city In the United States that one of the National parties should fear to hold Its convention there lest the at mosphere of the city should be thought to have had a malign Influ ence on the' convention's action. What Is there about New York that should cause it to be hoodooed as a conven tion city for the Democrats? Rightly or wrongly. New York has come to be regarded as the center of crooked politics and crooked business. Domination by Tammany has given it a bad name, not only among opponents of Democracy, but among Democrats from every other state. Candidates for President from other states are divided between desire for Tammany votes afnl fear that the bare fact of having those votes will inspire the be lief that they have sold out the peo ple in order to win them, and that they will. In consequence, lose In oth er states more than they gainTn New York. Democrats themselves know that Tammany rules with cynical In difference to all considerations except the aggrandizement of Tammany's leaders. They know that the country knows this and that any suspicion of truckling to Tammany Is apt to be avenged on the whole party. Side by side and In alliance with the crooked politics of Tammany ls the crooked business of New York. The sole aim of this ' business ls to get something for nothing by deceiving the people Into the belief that the nothing ls something. Its outward manifestation Is the capitalization of everything up to the blue sky and the sale of miscalled securities to repre sent that capitalization. Its results are seen in the huge, crooked corpora tions spawned In Wall street, and In the periodical collapse of such cor porations through their Inherent rot tenness. Such were the New York Street Railway Company and the to bacco trust, organized by Ryan, the steamship trust and the Ice trust or ganized by Morse. Out of this busi ness has grown that of speculation In their so-called securities. Organizers of such corporations use Tammany's political power to secure friendly and prevent adverse legislation and execu tive action. Democracy needs the votes con trolled by the alliance of Tammany and Wali street, but it dreads even suspicion of the taint coming from its influence. Hence It fears to hold its convention where this alliance rules. OOl'L FORCE. Man's mythopoelc faculty has a dis couraging habit of clothing abstract nouns with flesh and blood and then falling prostrate to adore its handi work. This ls what has happened to the word "evolution" of late years. Evolution Is the name of a process. It does nothing of itself. It merely sums up what a great many different fac tors combine to do. Apart from those factors, evolution has no existence Just as without dishes there could bo no dishwashing. And yet we have been reading an article in the New York Sun. an article making pompous pre tensions to exact science, which re peatedly speaks of evolution as if it were a living being who laid far reaching plans and carried them out with resolute purpose. Read this, for example: "Evolution constructed the human machine in such wise that It runs without the special providence of Its constructor. It ls run by law, not by the rule of thumb." Notice that Evolution fig ures here as an Intelligent "construc tor" working out a design. In other words, to the writer In the Sun It ex actly replaces the Biblical Creator working as he does and for the same ends. All that this man has to do to get back to the scientific position of Moses Is to write "Jehovah" Instead of "Evolution." His mental attitude re quires no change. In writing his arti cle for. the Sun his purpose was to at tack a new theory which has been proposed by Professor MacDonald be fore the British Association. The the ory Is extremely fascinating. It un dertakes to explain why the human embryo develops according to a fixed type. Why do we always find eyes In the front of the head and ears at the sides?. What causes the human eye to develop always into the same or gan? Why does it not, sometimes take the form of a bee's eye or become a proboscis? To some readers these questions may appear superficial at first glance, but they really go to the very bottom of things. They have perplexed philosophers in all ages and have called out answers of all degrees of Ingenuity. Aristotle tanght that matter In growing into a human being or any other animal simply filled out a "form" or matrix which was already in existence. Cut off a lizard's tall and It will grow a new one just like the old. Why? Because the pattern was not cut off with the tail and all the lizard had to do was to fill it out as a cook mould's meringues. This notion ls delightful but unscientific. It cannot be tested. Nobody can ever tell by experiment whether Aristotle's "fonns" exist or not. but the writer in j the Sun. though he Is an arrogant evo 1 lutlonist, has full faith In them under i another name. He calls the lmagl I nary patterns "heredity" Just as he sails Moses' Jehovah "Evolution." I Professor MacDonald gets farther away, from superstition. He reminds us that the eye was de veloped under the evolutionary Influ ence of light. By some fortuity a spot sensitive to light appeared on the skin. It proved useful In the struggle for existence and was therefore re tained and perfected by the abstract process called natural selection. Fi nally It was shaped Into an eye. Very well. We admit all that. But now comes the enigma. The human em bryo lives In rayless darkness from germ to birth and yet Its eyes go through the whole process of develop ment, repeating the story of evolution. And this ts done without light. A process which light began, carried on and completed, a process which ls in very particular a product of light, is duplicated step by step in the embryo with every ray of light excluded? Do you see the point? The cause is ex cluded, but the effect groes on just the same. Our evolutionist in the Sun shines triumphant here. There Is no difficulty for, him. He bridges every gulf with a polysyllable and trips over It with a smile of Joy. He explains the embryo's eye by telling us that the great god Evolution hits made it "po tential In the germ" and that it Is actually produced by that other awe- Inspiring abstract noun. Heredity. Of course this means precisely nothing. To say that the eye Is "potential the embryo" ls like saying that the universe "was predestinated from all eternity." It is only a way to conceal Ignorance. Professor MacDonald sup poses that there Is "soul" roundabout us, even as there is light and sound. Perhaps it is a species of ethereal wave motion. It acts on matter much the same as,.light does, only a great deal more rapidly. As light evolved the human eye In a million years, so "soul" evolves the embryo's eye in nine months. In fact, this soul force ls the active agent in heredity. We Imagine that it must be generalized energy In Professor MacDonald's con ceptlon. Better yet. It must be energy under the control of design. To deny that there is design apparent in evo lutlon is, of course, insane; but it may not be conscious and Intelligent. More likely It Is that impulsive virtuosity which1 Henry Bergson compares, to an artist sweeping out a perfect circle with a single motion. Colonel Watterson expresses appre hension lest Colonel Roosevelt may make himself perpetual President if he ls chosen for a third tern. The natural rivalry between Colonels bold and beautiful partly accounts .for this injurious suspicion. The rest of it may be explained, we fancy, on the ground that the favorite Roosevelt beverage ls iced buttermilk, while Colonel Watterson prefers the "rale crather." Men who drink the same tipple seldom suspect each other of sinister designs. The late Arthur F. Griffith, like many another mathematical prodigy, never did much to advance his favor ite science. He was a wonderful cal culator, but not an especially power ful thinker. Calculation is so purely mechanical that it can be done by ma chines better than by brains, but the principles of mathematics require pro found reflection. It will be interesting to watch the career of young SIdis and see whether he Is a mere "wizard cal culator" or a mathematician like Gauss and Newton. That labor unions have taken to heart the lesson ' of the McNamara case is shown by the denunciation of Haywood for advocating "direct ac tion." If the unions follow up their denunciation by expelling all such men from membership and by bring ing to Justice all who have resorted to "direct action," they will regain the friendship of many who have been alienated by the dynamiting and slug ging of recent years. Dr. Mary Walker, who has been wearing men's clothing for half a cen tury, is out with a tirade against the collar button, which she says ls the source of many ills. Somehow, when ever a man looks at a picture of Dr. Mary, he laughs. The Marcola man who took carbolic acid and died because he found his wife with another man took the easy, law-abiding way out of his difficulty. Most men. however, would take liquor and wade In. Men in general can agree with Dr. Mary Walker as to the Injurious effect of the collar button, but the Injury is done, not by the wearing of it, but by the hunt for it when It rolls under the bureau. The happiest poor man In the United States is Dr. D. K. Pearsons, who has given away a fortune, retain ing only enough to keep him in mod erate comfort for the rest of his days. Jt seems superfluous to raise the question whether evidence in a Pitts burg millionaire's divorce suit ls fit reading for the people. All precedent leads to the conclusion that it ls not. Haywood Is reported as advocating "direct action" to secure to labor its rights. Haywood would better let John McNamara revise his speeches before releasing them. The woman who has resisted temp tation to spend and saved money for the annual sales ls the envy of her neighbors and the pride of the man she "owns." The meanest man has been found. He gave the preacher a- worthless check In payment for marrying him and took good money in change. Billy Sunday and Eddie Young should convert a football player and a wrestler in order to complete a quar tet of athletic evangelists. There will no more be pictures of "me and Taft," and political publicity bureaus must work up a better bunco proposition. Analysis shows Klamath Falls water to be pure, but nothing ls said of other beverages. Colonel Watterson'a Christmas punch disagreed with him. 1 8 RN TIMIC NT AND CRIMINAL LAWS bekalla R-n-tor Advises "hnlrMiu1 off Trenpassera Against Society. CHKHALIS, Wash.. Dec. 1. (To the Editor.) The Oregonlan has a ve-ry happy faculty of dismissing any attack on the subject of capital punishmont that does not happen to coincide with Its views by calling It sentlmentalism and therefore not to be considered. The definition I would Infer from its answers to various correspondents on this subject, between sentlmentalism and practicallsm (If I may be pardoned for coining a word) is Just the ques tion whether Shylock shall have his pound of flesh or not. Legally we must admit that he is entitled to it, but is there not something in man that craves a better and softer judgment than le gality? And must it be crushed be cause in his judgment it is sentimental and not practical? Why will a weeping wife and clinging children lead a Judge to discharge a thief who has been con victed of his crime? And why will a community condone the Judge's action knowing that he has gone in the face of the law that demands the punish ment of the culprit and that a thief at liberty Is a menace to their society? Because of the presence of this higher principle. I submit that, despite the act of a criminal, the tendency of the human heart is to forgive rather than retaliate. At this season of the year which wit nesses of one who came to brlni? peaco on earth, is It wrong to lay aside the mailed glove and let those who have even sinned against us personally feel the warmth of a hand held out to bless Instead of being raised to strike? In conclusion I would like to ask a question. What will The Oregonlan do with a passage like the following;, which fell from the lips of this same Prince of Peace: "If ye from your hearts forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your heavenly father for give you your trespasses. All this may be construed as sentl mentalism. but when applied to our methods of dealing with our fellow men and our organized force for the so called protection of society, is it not worth thinking about at this season of the year? DEXHAM H. QUl.N.x. Rector Church of the Epiphany. We are afraid tho good rector has not read The Oregonlan carefully, nor been a very constant attendant at criminal trials. The Oregonlan has said very plainly that Its reason for advocating capital punishment ls not because it believes vengeance should be inflict. ed on the murderer. Nor are Judges In a habit of turning loose thieves be cause of weepins wives or clinging chil dren. Occasionally, when a family would suffer want by the Incarceration of the husband and father, the latter ls put under suspended sentence or on probation or parole. There are several terms for the same thing. The Judge does not do this in the face of the law. Oregon and many other states give the Judge this discretionary pow er. The law that permits the Judge to parole convicted culprits is a wise one. So ls the law that permits the Govern or to commute death sentences or par don or parole convicts. If a Judge should say "I shall parole every thief brought before me," he would be mak ing an announcement very like that of a Governor who declares he will commute all death sentences. If men were as omnipotent as- the Heavenly Father in reading the soul of the sin ner, there would likely be no contro versy over paroles, pardons or' commu tations. It ls our understanding that even though we may forgive the tres passers against us. the Heavenly Fath er requires repentance for our own trespasses before we can gain his for giveness. We do not Interpret Rector Qulnn's scriptural quotation to mean that if we seek to protect ourselves against further trespasses by the un repentant that fact will bar us from the heavenly gates. Prisons and gal lows are erected to protect society, not to promote vengeance. STOCK AXp ALFALFA PAY BIG. Writer Believes Klickitat County Can Learn From Kansas Expert. GOLDEN'DALE. Wash.. Dec. 26. (To the Editor.) It ls generally conceded by those who know that Mr. Coburn has done more toward promoting pros perity In Western Kansas than any other one man in that state; and this has been done largely through his teaching the value of alfalfa, how to grow, harvest and feed it. In Middle -and Western Kansas they grow dry land alfalfa, and can get about the same yields per acre as are obtained in Klickitat County, Wash ington. One lesson Mr. Coburn gave the Kansas farmer was that one acre of well-established alfalfa would pasture 10 shotes during the Summer, and make a growth of 50 pounds each. At the present price of pork. 500 pounds' gain would give $33.75 per acre for this pas ture land. With the addition of rolled wheat, barley or shorts, the pig's growth can be brought up to 200 pounds in nine or 10 months. Mr. Coburn advises the farmer to fence off the alfalfa in small lots of five or ten acres each, and change the pigs from one lot to another about every two weeks. In order to let the alfalfa plants make a good growth. This Insures good pasture, and also for the reason that alfalfa does better when not cropped top close all the sea son. All the other care necessary for alfalfa Is a thorough cultivation of the pasture each Fall, when there is mois ture enough, with a sprlngtooth or disc harrow to open up the surface soil so It will readily take moisture during the Winter and Spring, men anotner cultivation In the Spring to leave a mulch to conserve moisture will not only insure a fine, heavy growth of alfalfa, but will make the pasture clean of weeds. When a farmer can get $30 an acre our of his pasture lands each year, and feed most of his wheat at home, get ting nearly $1 a bushel for It in pork, how long do you suppose Klickitat farmers will be offering their lands for $30 and $60 an acre? Someone is go ing to awaken to these facts, and It won't be very long either. My only object in this letter Is that a few good farmers, who know an opportunity when it ie presented, may see what Klickitat County has to offer to the general farmer, and especially the one who can raise alfalfa, hogs and wheat, and a few cows If he so desires. JAMES A. DORM AN. Telephone la Made More Audible- New York Sun. A simple way of making telephone conversations more audible has been Invented by Herr Peterson, a bank manager of Nykjoblng. Denmark. On the principle that sound Is more read ily transmitted through rarifled air he has constructed an apparatus to warm the transmitter, whereby the air in It becomes thinner and the sound ls In tensified. Professor Hannover, of the Danish government telephone testing station, who has made extensive exper iments with Peterson's apparatus, says in his report that the Increase of sound obtained ls remarkable Telephone con versations between Copenhagen and Nykjoblng, a distance of some "5 miles, could be clearly followed some distance away from the instrument. The Inven tor has applied for patents in differ ent countries. ! RLI'E OUTLOOK FOR LA FOLLETTE. , Bnt This Insurgent Writer Also Pr j dicta Disaster for Tart. . i Mark Sullivan In Collier's Weekly. i If a primary election were held throughout the Nation today, only two names, Taft and La Follette, would go on the Republican ballots. Of these. La Follette would carry about 10 states I and 200 delegates: Taft w-ould carry ! about 36 states and over $00 delegates. (With equal certainty Taft would be defeated at the election, following by any one the Democrats now seem likely to name.) That is the situation today. The truth is. more than half the Re publicans don't want either La Fol lette or Taft. There are but two Re publicans who can give the Democrats a fight: one ls Hughes, the other Roose- I velt and neither ls willing to take . the nomination. Very few Republicans, very few indeed, really want Taft; the insurgents obviously don't want him some of them want La Follette and j more of them want Roosevelt; the Fed eral machines In the South don't want Taft they must pick a winner, they lose their Jobs if they don't: the power ful party officials, National committee men, and state chairmen, don't want Taft they are the party managers, they are responsible for failure or suc cess, and they want a winner; every Republican who ts himself going to run for office next year, from Senators, Governors and Congressmen down to tax collectors, hopes Taft won't, be nominated, for If the candidate for President loses, so ls the rest of the ticket likely to lose; the great party leaders, like Senator Murray Crane, of Massachusetts, for example, don't want Taft, for Crane's return to the Senate depends upon Massachusetts going Re publican so he, too, wants a winner. And yet, as things stands today, the wheels will turn and slowly grind out Taft. From all of which it is fairly clear that by the 18th of June the pres sure on Roosevelt to accept the nom ination ls going to be pretty powerful. Any person who listened to the Con gressmen, National committeemen and politicians of every degree who gath ered at Washington the first of the month, fresh from direct touch with the people In every part of this Nation, got a clear Impression that seven out of ten voters in every community. Re publican and Democratic alike, are Roosevelt men. From Ohio west, four-fifths of the Democratic rank and file are for Wil son. There are some isolated districts which are for Folk, a smaller number for Clark or Harmon, but taking the Middle and Western States as states they are overwhelmingly in favor of Wilson. Of course, to so sweeping a statement there are some exceptions. Illinois, dominated by its single large city, and without Presidential pri maries, will probably send a Harmon delegation to the convention. So will Colorado. In the South, Wilson has almost as big a lead as In the West. In New England and the East, Wilson has fully half the Democratic rank and file. If there were Nation-wide Presi dential primaries, Wilson would have a walkover. a In the East, La Follette's candidacy has made little headway. Of course there are spots In New England, and even In New York and Pennsylvania, where La Follette Republicans are nu merous and ardent, but no observer can point to a state east of Ohio where as yet La Follette supporters are suf ficiently concentrated or organized to Insure him a single delegate- This ls a pity, but It is a fact. La Follette ls suffering the usual fate of pioneers: they rarely gather the fruits of their toll. The shock of new Ideas, the dis trust that attaches to one who preaches against old dogmas and usages, .re mains long after the Idea itself has become an accepted commonplace. This curious fact exists: there are com munities where Woodrow Wilson oom mands five-sixths of the Democratio vote, but La Follette does not com mand one-third of the Republican vote. That is to say, the personal following of the pioneer ls smaller than the num ber who have embraced his ideas. Wil son Is one of those who are reaping the crop where La Follette has sowed the seed. (And Wilson was writing books and delivering college lectures opposed to all that La Follette stands for during the very years when the Wisconsin man was staking his polit ical existence upon their advocacy.) There are many other beneficiaries of La Follette's lifelong work, both Dem ocratic and Republican,' Presidential candidates. Governors, Senators and public men of lesser degree. Undoubt edly La Follette ls perfectly content that all this should be so. The future historian of the present epoch will name La Follette as Its most daring exponent and powerful leader of new political thought. If, being this, he should fail to be President, that will be the rule of American history, not its exception. BIG FLOOD CANNOT OCCUR AGAIN Writer Believes Deepened Channel in River Is Sure Safeguard, PORTLAND, Dec. 26. (To the Ed itor.) There ls one happy fact that ap parently has been overlooked that means more to Portland than any other thing. That ls that never again can Portland, even if nature acts as It did in 1894, have the flood that Portland had In June of that year. Why? Because in 1894, at low water in river only ships drawing 18 feet of water or less could pass down the river. Today, by the removing of eand bars (dams) in the river by dredging, ships drawing 27 feet pass up and down. It Is to be remembered that the flood of 1894 was caused by water that could not drain down the Colum bia River backing up on to Portland. Today, with the Increased drainage of about nine feet in the Columbia River by the removing of sand bars at differ ent parts of the river a greater volume of water can sweep on to the sea. And the water, that In 1894 backed up on Portland ' from the Columbia River, today. tnanKs to tne dredging done by the people of Portland, could not, by the law of gravity, back up again to the same height. Stop and think what an extra depth of nine feet means in carrying away in volume of water, and ihie is not all. Soon a 30-foot channel, and deeper, to the sea will be a fact, and every foot that the Columbia River is deepened means just that much less water that can back up on Portland. So, thanks to the energy of the people of Portland who taxed themselves, that larger ships might berth here, they have not alone secured the ships, but also removed the possibility of Portland's greatest calamity ever occurring again. J. WALTER SEABERG. Curfew Ordinance. PORTLAND, Dec. 24. (To the Ed itor.) Please inform me If there ls a law in exietence prohibiting minors from being on the streets after certain hours. SUBSCRIBER. A penalty of $10 is provided by cur few ordinance for any parent who per mits a child under the age of la to go upon any street, alley or public place after 8 P. M. from September 1 to Feb ruary 28, or after 9 P. M. between March 1 and August 31, unless accom panied by one or both parents or under their direction for a necessary purpose. Dnat and Tuberculosis. Philadelphia Record. Out of every thousand of those w-hose occupation calls for constant work in dusty quarters, five die of consumption, according to German official figures; whereas among those who are not ex posed to the action of dust only two out of 1000 die of the disease named. Half a Century Ago From the Oregonian of Dec 27, 1861. Between 1 and 2 o'clock on Sunday morning as a sentinel was pacing his lonely round outside the walls of Fort Lafayette, he heard the shutter of a casement unfastening and upon cau tious examination discovered that casement No. 5 had been opened. Soon after a rope was thrown out. various articles lowered in succession, fol- I lowed by a man. The rope was Just I long enough to enable the prisoner to I reach the ground. As he touched the j ground the sentinel presented his ! bayonet and bade him surrender. The man proved to be James Lowber, the I Rebel bearer of dispatches, who was recently followed by detectives from the house of his brother-in-law, Mr. Alexander Shulse, at Peeksvllle, to Crestline. Ohio, where they arrested him. Lowber begged hard to be per mitted to climb the rope again Into his apartment and attempted to bribe his captor by the offer of his gold watch and $47.50 in gold coin, which he had tied up in a bladder. If he . would al low him to do so. -Of course his pro posal was not accepted. In a public document Governor Plckins of South Carolina represents that there were 10,000 Rebel troops In that state at the date of the late In vasion. We have now from 20,000 to 25,000 at Beaufort. The Oregon Regiment The com pany at Salem were mustered into service last Monday? A full company has been mustered into serxice at Jacksonville and it ls believed three more companies will be raised south of the mountains. The Yreka Journal says that mines paying $5 to $10 a day there are de serted and that the miners are so struck with the Salmon River gold fe ver that 100-ounce diggings would not hold them. General Shields has accepted the of fice of brigadier-general and will at once proceed from San Francisco to Washington for active service. Olympia, W. T., Dec 20. -In tht House of Representatives, several bills granting ferry charters were Intro duced and referred to appropriate committee. Also a bill for the organi zation of the university built during the past year at Seattle, under the auspices of and attributable to the in domitable perseverance and untiring energy of Rev. Daniel Bagley, . presi dent of the Board of University Com missioners. An Invitation was ex tended by the president of the board. Also an act to create and organize Nez Perce County; also an act to cre ate the County of El Dorado. Olympia, Dec 22. In the House bill to divorce Mr. Thorndike, a mem ber of the House, was passed in three minutes. Capital country, Washington Territory, for men who wish to get rid of their wives. , In the Council Colonel Hubbs in troduced resolution that Legislative Assembly be requested to visit Seattle during the holidays and be present at the dedication of the University, the dedicatory address to be delivered by A. B. Mercer, Esq,, now principal of the school. In the Council a bill was Introduced by Mr. Moore of Walla, Walla and Shoshone, defining the boundaries of Shoshone County, and also a series of. resolutions pledging the people of Washington Territory to the National Government In Its efforts to put down the damnable rebellion. A letter from St. Louis of Novembei 23 says: "General McClellan's army at and near Washington, continues to increase rapidly, notwithstanding the heavy drain of troops for Coast expe ditions, and so formidable ls our Army of the Potomac and so menacing its attitude that the Rebel generals In eastern Virginia dare not permit the withdrawal of a single regiment, either for the defense of the Cotton States or to reinforce their lines in Kentucky. Large numbers of Troops have been passing through Washing ton last week. Our troops are not Idle in Washington and vicinity. The London Morning Post (Govern ment organ) of November 7 says: "The latest news from New York mentions that the Confederate Commissioners Uaaaa CI I H ,.11 nnH MflKOnl- Wllfl R Tt en route for Europe, are authorized t negotiate matters or great commercial advantage with England and France. We add also a rumor, which must nec essarily be received with much re serve, that they are authorized to place the Southern confederacy, ior a limited period, under the protection of both powers. Country Town Sayings by Ed Howe -Cn. .av.rl months vou will find the people slow to cheer, unless they have particularly good reason. Cheer ing without sufficient provocation has lately had a blow. In a lawsuit when both sides begin manufacturing testimony, both sldei are alarmed, -Craw -nan V, -, a lnnff list Of thi n STI that should be done that can't be dona Man- m man who is screaming foi help might help himself. Tn vnn nnnrenlate that one feature of morlern reform, now so popular, is that you should do twice aa much works as you have Deen aoingT Aithniie-h much attention is paid to the average Commercial Congress, it paii- hs no more authority than s negro lodge in Mississippi.. If you know a man you can't get along with, sever diplomatic relations and quit talking to him. When a thing goes wrong, and you call in an expert he says: "It ls eas ily fixed." But ever notice what a time he has fixing it? A school teacher always has a great deal to say concerning the age at which "character" is formed. Certain things cannot be done, and when a. man demands these things Im pudently and persistently, he ls worse than the man who refuses to attempt impossibilities. Allfrhtjng From Streetcars. New York Tribune. A couple of women, well-seated on a crowded streetcar, were loudly engaged in a conversation regarding women suf frage, to the delight of their fellow passengers. The two were- somewhat startled when the car passed the corner at which they wished to alight They bustled through the standing crowd, continuing their conversation mean while. "Well," remarked a man to the conductor, "there's nothing backward about women nowadays." "Watch 'em get off," said the official. They got off backward! Father's Safe Location. Lippincott's Magazine. He If I should kiss you what would happen? She I should call father. He Then I won't do It She But father's in Europe.