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T42 Market atreet. Europe Office No. S Recent trt. -W., London- FOR TLAN D. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8. MR. BOl1LT9 DEFEAT. If It shall transpire that Harry La11 has been elected Senator by the peo ple of Oregon, no great Surprise reed be felt or expressed. He had behind him the nearly solid Democratic party. He ran in a year auspicious for Democratic success.- He was the regular primary nominee of a numer ous and confident political organiza tion. He made a vigorous and effect ive campaign. continued through many months. Above all, he was con fronted by a divided and scattered opposition, though indeed he suffered somewhat from defections and jeal ousies In his own following. Mr. . Bourne has been decisively beaten. The Oregonian refrains from any harsher comment on the Inde fensible and Improper position as sumed by Mr. Bourne toward his con stituency than the statement that the primary has vindicated Itself In his emphatic rejection, and that the re sult Is precisely as It should be if men are to be held accountable for vio lating their personal pledges and their public faith. The people do not think the Oregon system is the property of any person or group of persons, whether they pose falsely as a "popu lar government" club or not. Mr. Selling made a remarkable showing In the circumstances. He suffered from the widespread and dis astrous disorganization of his own party and the defections to other can didates of support that ought to have gone to him and ordinarily would have been united behind him. But with Mr. Bourne appealing for sup port as an independent, on the impli cation that he was still a Republican, and Mr. Clark drawing numbers of Progressives, the forces that ought to have combined on a single candidate in opposition to the candidate of the Democratic party were split In three. That Mr. Selling outdistanced all his competitors except Mr. Lane Is due' to the fact that he had fairly won the Republican nomination, and that he had personal elements of strength possessed by no other. Mr. Selling has in his many years of residence in Oregon won a position of popular favor for his high personal attributes and for his straightforward political record. He was undoubtedly the strongest man the regular Repub licans could have put . up. That he was the victim of unfortunate political conditions is no fault of his, or of the men who gave him their loyal sup port. Withal, the public Is to be congratu lated on every account that the Bourne episode in Oregon is at an end. A ROUT 16.000 GENERALS. The Progressives of Oregon formed a new party, but they do not believe In It very much themselves. Not very much. They rolled up a grand total of 10.000 to 15,000 votes In the state for the Progressive candidates, and elected nobody anywhere in. Oregon, except Lafferty. They are entitled to Lafferty, who had a Republican nom ination, it is true, but who proudly proclaims himself a Progressive. Colonel Roosevelt will have In Ore gon about 33,000 votes. It seems, therefore, that he is about three times as strong as his party. The straight Republican vote on state offices will be about 75,000 In round numbers. The Republican party has not been killed, only scotched a little. Its chief trouble is that it has not been run by Republicans. But the Bull Moose party is about the right size for an army made up entirely of gen erals. BRITONS SUMMONED TO ARMS. Lord Roberts has made the Balkan war the occasion of another solemn warning to England to prepare for war on pain of a defeat at the hands of Germany as crushing as that which France suffered in 1870. He tells his countrymen that "war will take place the Instant the German forces are, by superiority from even- point of view, as certain of victory as, anything In human calculation can be." He says that England has lost command of every sea except one the North Sea and . that her supremacy there is a matter of dispute. He tells his countrymen that by war and conquest the British Empire was built up and by the same means it must be main tained; that a nation in arms is the empire's sole bulwark. This warning is particularly 'Sig nificant at a time when the armies of Bulgaria and Servia are at the gates of Constantinople, w-ith the thinly veiled support of Russia, which stands ready to take from them the spoils they have won. At this time, too, Aus tria" chafes at the restraint which olds her back from grasping a share of the Turkish heritage, while Ger many eggs Austria on. At such a time all Europe may become embroiled in war, and the nation which is most ready is the one most likely to come out victorious and to gather in the plunder in the shape of rich territories for her citizens and capitalists to de velop and exploit. Only by being ready can England insure herself against being the loser. The appropriateness of this warning to the position of the British Empire reminds us how close together are the nations of Europe, how many rivalries and unsolved problems afford causes of friction, and how easily that fric tion may light the spark which will cause a conflagration. By contrast It reminds us how weare strengthened by our isolation, cut off by an ocean on each side from the old world and Its quarrels. But we must remember that this isolation has been im ' measurably diminished by the greater ease and swiftness of communication, which are due to steam and electricity. Though in a less degree than old world countries, we too must be pre pared, for our unreadiness .will be a standing Invitation to some nation to attack us when it is ready. That peace-loving nation longest enjoj-s peace which is best prepared for war. and that peace-loving nation which leaves its shores Inadequately de fended is first involved in war. WHY KEP1XKT PORTLAND, Or., Nov. 6. (To the Editor.) Please accept the congratulation of one citlx'n on th effective manner In which The Oreconlano a Republican paper, has aeelsted In electing a Democratic pre! dent. Also on th manner In which It baa dem onstrated that a reat newspaper, more often than otherwise, does not represent the sentiment of the people, but of one mas. ' the editor. No doubt every voter would like to adopt your view of the situation as expressed In your editorial on the "Election of Wilson. If he could forget what actually occurred, following each of the two last Democratic National victories. , B. F. P. The Oregonian declines to predict National disaster as a result of a Democratic victory. It declines to be unhappy over the outcome in Nation or in sjate. It declines t shut its eyes to- the abounding prosperity of the whole country, the splendid op timism of its people, the fine outlook for internal and export trade, and theJ secure position of the United States in all its international relations. The war is over. The Democratic party is no ass not now. At least we refuse to think so. It seems to be alive to Its duties, responsibilities and opportunities. It will do Its best. Angels could do no more. Why re pine? . The country Is safe, the people reign, and the hard times were over and gone long ago. EX-SENATOR WILSON. The sudden passing of John Lock wood Wilson, amid the hurly-burly of National and state elections, brings acutely to the mind a sense of the im portant part played in public af fairs in Washington state. Mr. Wil son had been a factor and in a certain way an Issue in Washington for a great many years. tr wiimn ram to Washington Territory from Indiana about 1882, as t Korlpml office-holder. He brougnt with him a personal knowledge of the men. interests and dramatic nistory ui a o-roaf nrntp saturated with the mem ories and sentiments "of the Civil War. He became at once an innu endo in Waxhlnsrton. and was the state's first Representative In Congress. It is interesting to recau mat ne De feated for the Republican nomination the late Supreme Justice, R. O. Dun bar. In 1S95 he was elected unitea States Senator and he served his state capably and honestly. Mr. Wilson in his political career nvc ril v made enemies: but it w-as the penalty of success in a state with unsettled political conditions, and with political parties having mam mon onH mnnv fAtinns contending for B.n.ni1ann Q n 1 A3 rl Amh I T). He W88 outspoken, aggressive and fearless. If he was lacking In diplomacy, ne sureij nnMDHiul raniinr an d truth and loy alty; and he had definite opinions and the power to express tnem rorceiuiiy and clearly. He had ideals and he Hiro nr in thim. He had convictions and he never compromised with them. He had friends, ana ne Kept tnem. Mr Wilson acaulred the beame Post-Intelligencer about thirteen years ago, and had been us proprietor ever n.a Rut hU neiwsnaDer career was incidental to his public record, or rather supplemental thereto, ior u is true that of late years he had utterly arlthdrawn frnm tiers onal Darticlpatlon in politics. His death In a marked way is a milestone In wasnington nis tory. ' MORE OF THE WEST POLICY. . Pmhahlv IT WOU Id be better for all concerned to accept quietly the ver dict of the people for capital pumsn mii and nprmit the law to take its course against the five unfortunate men fated to die at Salem. $ut Ijov "ernor" West finds it expedient to in dulge in needless sarcasm iowa.ru me people of the state, by remarking that "Friday the thirteenth of De .amhor shrill Id be a red-letter day for many of those who favor capital pun ishment. . The Governor might alleviate the horror of a wholesale execution by naming other dates, less suggestive of the hoodoo. But probably he will not. for he says also: "I am sorry the seating capacity in the death chamber is so limited, for we will undoubtedly be obliged to tnrn awav many who have been look ing forward Jto this event." There is nothing in tne arrange ment on fur njj nnnears. to prevent the Governor staging another scene such as occurred at the dramatic and mocK heroic reprieve of Webb, ana aistri fl uting hit of a hangman's rope among all who attend as well as all who can not. A wholesale reprieve and another ..hiit rf relolelne among the U L .V . ...... . d . gratified convicts "would be strictly in line with the ceieoraiea west priauu policy. ' ' ILLITERACY OJf THE DECREASE. Census figures on. illiteracy show imnrnvement in 1910. as com pared with 1900. Not only are educa tional facilities increasing, but they are more used as each year passes, and each generation shows a smaller proportion of Illiteracy than the pre ceding generation. This proportion Is always least for children of school age, that Is, between 10 and 14 years. The total number of illiterate chil dren between these ages in 1910 was 370,120, of whom 144,659 -were wnite, 218,355 negroes and 7106 Indian, Chi n.cA and JaDanese. The percentage among native white children has de creased from 3.5 to 1.8; among ne groes from 80.1 to 18.9, and in the aggregate from 7.2 to 4.1. There is a smaller proportion of il literates among the native whites of foreign parentage than among those of native parentage, the percentage of the former being .t, a decrease uui .9 in 10 years, and of the latter class o o o rianronsa from 4.4. The propor tion among foreign whites is some what higher, but has decreased from 5.6 to 3.5. Th. hte-hr rjercentage of native white illiterates of native parentage, as ' compared with those of foreign parentage, is due in pan to tne mu centration of foreign population in the cities, but chiefly to the high ra tio of illiteracy In the South, al though there is great improvement In that section. Thus the percentage for both white and black is .4 In New England and the Middle Atlantic States, .3 in the East North Central, .6 in the West North Central, 3.4 in the Mountain, and .5 in the Pacific States, but In the South Atlantic divi sion it is 5, in the East South Central 5.8, and In the West South Central 4.1 per cent for native whites of na TIIE MORNING tive parentage alone. In the South ern divisions , the ratios for native whites of native parentage are as low as ,8 for th; South Atlantic and .9 for the East South Central, but rise to 11.2 for the West South Central divi sion. Among foreign whites the ratios are much higher, being 5.3, 11.4 and 34.6 for the three Southern divisions respectively. Negro illiteracy contri butes to the generally bad showing for the South, and the aggregate ratios for the three divisions are 10, 10.7 and 9.4 respectively. The Pacific States measure up well with those of the East and Central West, with only .1 per cent of illiter ates among native white children of native parentage, .2 among native whites of foreign parentage, 2.5 among foreign wTiites, and .6 among negroes, a percentage for the total of .5, there being decreases all along the line in the last ten years. An encouraging sign is that the ratio In the two easterly divisions of the South has been cut in two In the last ten years, and among the native whites of native parentage in the third division, but the amount of illiteracy among the foreign-born in that divi sion is abnormally large and shows little diminution. PANAMA CANAL EQUIPMENT. Many visions of future usefulness for the Panama Canal equipment are dispelled by the cold facts and figures contained In Colonel Goethals' report and in comments thereon by Isham Randolph, chief engineer of the Chi cago drainage board. A large part of the equipment will be needed on the Isthmus for maintenance of the canal, and. the remainder is 111 adapted for use In deepening the Mississippi River, as suggested by Colonel Roose velt, but m-uch of it would e valuable In constructing a Government ' rail road, harbors and docks in Alaska and in river and harbor work on our several coasts. .' Colonel Goethals. in his report for 1911. schedules 8981 dump cars, 242 five-foot gauge locomotives,: 92 steam shovels, 25 spreaders, 27 unloaders, 10 track shifters and 17 pile drivers, besides a Job lot of smaller machinery. After providing for the needs of the Panama Canal and railroad, there will be left about 160 large American mogul engines, weighing, with tender, 105 to 117 tons each, la excellent con dition, available for sale, and more than 1500 steel dump cars, from 16 to 22 tons each. The wooden cars will not bear transportation intact to the United States, but the metal parts can be used in rebuilding cars. All his material would be of great value in building and equipping a railroad In Alaska. As to floating equipment, there are 20 dredges, besides tugs, launches and barges. Of the dredges two are sea going and could be used In general harbor improvement when not re quired in maintaining the harbors of Panama and Colon. Three are dipper and seven are pipe-line dredges, some of which could be used In Columbia River work, though several with their attendant tugs and barges must re main on the isthmus to maintain the canal. The seven old French and Bel gian ladder dredges are pronounced by Colonel Goethals not worth trans portation to the United States. The expectation of those, who hoped that completion of the canal would release a yast amount of equip ment for river and harbor work will thus falj far short of realization, but when the worn-out ..machinery has been "scrapped" and provision has been made for the needs of the canal, a considerable quantity will remain available. It behooves our delegation in Congress to see that the needs of Oregon rivers and harbors are given proper consideration. A KINDLY VISITOR. Claude Casimlr-Perler, the French President's son, Is a shrewd young man. Most Europeans who visit the United States find much to blame and little to praise. Toung Casimir-Perier finds much to praise and nothing to blame, at any rate nothing of impor tance. He does not like our sleeping cars, but since we are all of the same opinion, this will not injure his rep utation as a diplomat. Everything else he has seen or heard here either in this Journey or in the one he made a year or two ago wins his admiration and often his affection. He Is partic ularly delighted with our lack of hy pocrisy. In which respect he compares the people of the United States flat teringly with those of England' and Germany. ""Hypocrisy," exclaims the rising young diplomat, "Is the chief of social" sins." The same doctrine was enunciated many years ago in a fasci nating song about Captain Kidd which the fascinating Rosina Vokes used to sing before she passed td a better world. "No matter what you do if you are only frank and open about It," says M. Casimir-Perier. "No matter what you do If youn heart be true." sang Rosina Vokes. In obedience to this comfortable precept Captain Kldd committed all sorts of enormities on the high seas, but inasmuch as his "heart was true to Poll," his consci ence was always easy.' The eyes of a diplomat are proverbi ally under excellent discipline. Those of M. Casimlr-Perler appear to be es pecially docile. He'seems to have seen nothing which it would be disagree able to us to let a foreigner discern. The humiliating fact Is that Ameri cans are quite as hypocritical as the English or Germans, and so are the French. Our neighbors manifest this engaging quality In one form and we In another. That is all the difference. When a Frenchman goes to confes sion and conforms in other respects to a creed which he does not believe, he exhibits one form of hypocrisy. When an Englishman swindles his neighbors all the week and makes a great parade of piety on Sunday he exhibits another, but at bottom there is not much to choose between them. M. Casimlr Perler was displeased to see the front door of a London hotel bar closed on Sunday with all the forms of holiness, while the back door stood wide open for anybody to enter who wished. He compares America very favorably with England in this respect. Evidently he cannot recognize a back door in New York or Chicago. The French count It a merit to themselves that they Indulge openly in some notorious forms of vice. They accuse the Brit ish and . Germans of doing the same things, only under an external pre tense of virtue. Our visitor greatly prefers the method of his countrymen. We do not. He forgets that there is a hypocrisy of vice as well as of virtue. It is Just as contemptible for one rake to cry out "Come and admire me, be cause I parade my sins openly," as it Is for another to claim praise because he hides them. The right way, it seems to us, is not to admire a rake at all, either for the frankness with which he may expose his misdeeds or the cunning with which he hides them. Besides his real or pretended admi OREGONIAN, FRIDAY. ration for our National frankness, which is an original discovery of his, M. Casimir-Perier has much to say in praise of the American railroads. .The berths in the sleeping cars displease him, as they,, do everybody who has ever made his painful way into and out of them, but everything else takes his fancy. He even has a word of laudation for the immense land grants which have' made industrial despots of some of our railroad mag nates. "Europe," he tells us, "does not properly appreciate the power of American railroad companies." No wonder. America is Just learning to appreciate it with mingled emotions. M. Casimir-Perier assumes as .a matter of course that the greater Eu ropean powers will interfere In the Balkan troubles at the moment when their interest demands it and prob ably wrest from the allied mountain eers the fruit of their victories. This Is an old European practice which will not be readily abandoned. Russia and Austria have both fixed their eyes greedily oh Constantinople. ' Each country expects to seize it when the favorable moment comes and neither of them would consent to the erection of a great Christian power in the Balkan peninsula. Their game is to keep the region broken up into numer ous more or less openly hostile princi palities until the favorable moment comes to pounce down and devour them piecemeal. War between Eng land and Germany would be Russia's heaven-sent ppportnnlty to . acconi niinh h onclntit ambition to acquire Constantinople. In a way the progress of the present trouDie is sausiactory to French vanity because their of ficers have trained the Bulgarian and Servian troops for warfare, while the Turks have been under German dis cipline. The allies are also using French artillery.. These facts enable M. Casimir-Perier to contemplate with some complacency the probable Issue of the next war between Ger many and his native land. There Is ground for- encouragement in the statistics of illiteracy Just is sued by the Federal Census Bureau. In the decade from 1900 to 1910 the percentage of illiteracy for the whole country declined exactly 3 per cent, from 10.7 to 7.7. The percentage of illiterate "white children went down to 1.7 In the same period. It is the ne groes, and not the "ignorant foreign ers." who retard the progress of liter acy in the United States. The per centage of blacks who cannot read and write is 18.9. The tale of the fly family's sins Is long and growing. Typhoid fever, diphtheria and dysenjery have long been laid up against it. Now, accord ing to the Journal' of the American Medical Association, we must proba bly add infantile paralysis to the list. Charity compels one to concede, how ever, that the stable fly, and not the house fly. Is the guilty party In this case. When horses disappear from cities the stable fly will go with them and there may be no more infantile paralysis. How far the strength of the Pro gressive party is due to Roosevelt's personality may be Judged to some extent, though not exactly, by the dif ference between his vote and that of the next highest candidate on his tifiTAt In the different states. No doubt Roosevelt ran far ahead of can didates for Governor and Senator in many instances. The excess is some nuinn nf hli nersonal strength, but that no doubt contributed many votes to his associates. . ' - - ."" It Is said that the quotas of Western students in the big Eastern universi ties are falling oft proportionally. The numbers afe still large, but they do not keep pace with those from the At lantic Coast region. The trouble -is t,at tvi Western state universities are providing an education which attracts the young men of that section, it may not be better than they can obtain at Yale and Harvard, but it suits them better. Hence they prefer it. The American Federation of Labor will best serve tha interests of wbrk ingmen by refusing to organize a political party Just now or at any nm Members of organized labor are most independent in politics and refuse to be driven or to take dictation. ' a Rronklvn man agreed to invite his mother-in-law to spend the Winter with him If Wilson met defeat. That's carrying it too far, even on. a safe bet. Mmlur of election boards serving at night should receive double pay and be taken from tne ranns oi ac countants or like classes. Money would be saved by the county. ' General Miles wants the Roosevelt trnrriA trail troDhies thrown out. The throwing out process will not be lim ited to Roosevelt game tropnies. Old Grove Johnson knows more of r,niitira thAn ton Hiram. The fact is. the wily warrior always could antici pate the Jump of the cat. i v Government scientists are unable to locate a violent earthquake recorded on the seismograph at Washington. We know what It was. mii Genie boasts 250 pairs of shoes and- says no actress should have less. None too many for a Western Darn- storming tour. A Los Angeles candidate died while returns showing his defeat were coming in. TAiere are many to envy him. Nothing can Jar the equanimity of o ft man President Taft issued a Thanksgiving proclamation yesterday. rioiatr n the count makes one hope for the voting maculae, which, like the cash register, tames as n i u. As far as can be learned, the pro posal to put the State Printer on a flat salary failed In every precinct. An Ahnrdeen man went home in a barrel to pay off a bet on Teddy. A thimble ought to have sufficed. T'lx v v.nriia An trial last Spring. won again on the retrial forced on them by the senior Senator. GeneraLMiles evidently now regards the Colonel as entirely down and out. Onvprnor-elect Haines, of Idaho, owes much to Paul Clagstone. Of course. Uncle Joe Cannon had right of way on the toboggan. Back to the Outlook office! Dee-feated! NOVEMBER 8. 1913. JIAHRIAGB UPHELD BY HUSBAND He Thlnka Wedded Life I . the Only One. PORTLAND, Or.. Nov. 7. (To the Editor.) I have been amused at some, indignant at others and I heartily con cur In a few of the opinions expressed in The Oregonian in regard to the "bachelor girl" question. This Is a problem that, with a few exceptions, adjusts itself. As to the woman who, at the age or 30 to 35, finds herself unmarried, not be cause of lack of suitable suitors nor the desire for a husband and a home, through duty to her parents, sisters, or brothers," she has my deepest sym pathy providing, of course, it is ac ceptable. But as to the woman of the same age, the selfish, vain, giddy, butterfly flirt, who bestows her affections on any Tom, Dick or Harry that crosses her path, or the woman who is a man hater, why it Is a waste of time to pity her. Treat her with silent contempt. She is where she properly belongs unmarried for to make a success of married life, the parties that engage in it must exercise good Judgment in the selection of their mate and at the same time realize fully that in taking the marriage vows they are under the most solemn, sacred obligation taken by man or woman in this life.- These correspondents signing them selves "Married Women," who have found the sea of matrimony stormy and troublesome after three or four ven tures, are the exception to the rule. Let us take, for example, the instinct that Nature, or the Great Creator, has given every true womanly woman. Is there anything In this wide, wide world that can compare with mother-love? Have you ever taken the kittens from the mother cat, placed them a few feet away from her and watched er take each one tenderly by the nape ot the neck and hurry it back to the place she has provided for her young? Have you watched the birds carry straws, bits of mud, make their nests, and when the young have arrived, fly away for a few minutes, and return with worms for her hungry, open mouthed babies? Or, have you seen an old hen with her brood of chicks around her. cluck, cluck, and scratch for food for them, and even show fight if anyone Intrudes upon her domestic duties? One of the most thrilling pictures Captain Klienschmidt had in his re markable collection from the far Artie regions was one where his crew was hunting Polar bear. A mother and cub were spied on a cake of ice and the cub was lassoed. The mother, which had been in full flight, instantly turned, making straight for the ship and put up one of the most ferocious attacks Imaginable, until her offspring was. released. This only goes to show that the greatest thing In the world Is the love for children. One more question to the man or wo man who is a bachelor by choice: How, in the name of common sense, are we to exercise this maternal instinct if not married? It Is not necessary for me to say that I am a happy married man, have a loving wife, and two as fine. Joyful, shouting, noisy kiddies as ever were spanked. HUSBAND. TEACH THE GIRLS HOW TO COOK Advantage I One of TJtmot Import ance, Say Writer. ALBANY, Or.. Nov. 7. (To the Edi tor. Some soace has been given In recent issues of The Oregonian to the rlnmpsttc accomDlishments or the daughters of the rich, for which they have received a great aeai oi praise. It occurs to me that these cnuaren of fortune are not alone in their lik ing for housework and ability to per form it when I remember two young girls of my acquaintance, aged 11 ana 12 years, whose mother will never need to work at night on poor "Mrs. Smith's" fare of cream puffs and straw berries, so long as these same girls are at home. That is, if she should ever be compelled to earn the family bread. At present she is busy bringing up a family of six, and firm in the de termination that when her daughters go to homes of their-own they shall be able to prepare nourishing food and serve it in a tempting manner, some thing she had to learn from ofttimes bitter experience, during here early married life, after years spent in the schoolroom, first as pupil, later as teacher. The two older girls mentioned above are already skillful cooks, being able not only to cook meats and vegetables of different kinds, but also are good bread, biscuit and pie makers. During a recent Illness of their mother they took over all the housework for two weeks, rising early to give their father a hot breakfast of cereal, meat or eggs, coffee, hot biscuit, butter and Jelly before he went to work, and having a good supper , ready when he returned in the evening, besides caring for their mother and the four younger children and doing the housework dur ing the day, even canning tomatoes as they ripened, so they should not be wasted. A Sunday dinner which they cooked of stewed chicken and gravy, mashed potatoes, cabbage salad, bread and butter, canned cherries and black berry pie would have been beyond their mother's ability at 20, yet they pre pared everything. Even the butter was of their own churning. They are as proud of their cooking as of their standing at school, for one is In the sixth, the other in the seventh grade and stand high In their classes. The younger has expressed her inten tion of erftering the domestic science course at O. A C. when she finishes High School. Knowing what this mother has accomplished In training her daughters, I can find no excuse for any girl of 15 or over not being able to prepare a simple meal and the "Mrs. Smiths should get busy and prove to their daughters that the most beautiful faces are those that are slightly flushed by a close ac quaintance with the family cookstove. MRS. C. E. JOHNSON. Cosmic Ether. PORTLAND, Nov. 6. (To the Edi tor.) Is the existence of ether (cosmic ether), as a 'real substance, filling all space, a positive fact? Can it be proven? Is it a fluid.-gaseous, or solid? Has it weight? What are its chemical qualities? Is it a transmitter of light and heat? Has it anything to do with our mod ern wireless telegraphy? I know what Hertz, Heckel and some others have to say about ether, but I guess I'm stupid. C. E. CLINE. Question in Hlsjh Finance. Harper's Bazar. "Well, dear," said the young husband to his bride. "I'll make out the deposit slip in your name, and all you have to . . . . T 1 . . V. ttanV" " V 1. " 0.0 IS LO IH&e It lu luo ' ahn rosronded. "but suppose I want to draw out some money some day, how will they know which is my money s Duration of a Courtship. Judge. "Yes, I was once engaged to a Duke." "Anrl what obstacle came between two loving hearts?" "Oh nothing in particular. He Just let the option expire." - Thirst la the Stock. Baltimore American. Ti that what Is extremely reprehensible in the city is highly com mendable in the country." "What's that?" "Watering the stock." Dining In Installment. Bystander, wsirer Well. sir. how did you find the beef In that stew? Diner-rOn! I haDDened io shift a potato and well. there it was. TAKING CARE : OF TUBERCULOSIS Establishment of Model Farm for Pa tient Is SaKsTested. HOOD RIVER. Or, Nov. 7. (To the Editor.) Now that the tuberculosis question has been brought more forci bly before the people in the form of a tuberculosis day, let us stop to con sider the best methods of fighting this white plague. I would like to offer a few suggestions aa they have come to ma. Each state should buy a large tract of land of 200 or 300 acres In Its most Isolated section, where It would be high and dry a good part of the year. Special care should be used in selection of a locality which offers those cli matic conditions most Inimical to the disease. Those suffering from the disease should be divided in such a manner as to offer the best conditions for the re covery of each class of patients. Thirty or 40 should be placed In each colony or camp, in tents, with a central din ing enf conducted on the , cafeteria plan, thus lessening the general ex pense by allowing each one to wait upon himself. This would . give each patient the privilege of catering to him self. One camp should be for those in a less advanced stage who may have gone Into a slight decline from continued colds, unchecked, until the system has no power of resistance. These need only rest, change of climate with out door life, wholesome food, and strict segregation from those who have the disease in a more aggravated form. This Is the class for whom the efforts put forth would be most effectual. Many a clerk, jshop girl or young man could be saved and made useful in life if they had been taught In such a place how to care for themselves, how to help others and how to prevent the spread of germs. Another camp should be for the less hopeful, many of whom no doubt could be helped if not cured. These two classes could assist upon the farm with light work, helping to produce their own necessaries, vegetables, fruits, but ter, etc. Arousing their Interest In the place, they would be more contented and. made to feel that they, too, were bearing some of the burdens of life. A couple of hours' work each day would be a good appetizer and a stimulant for the circulation. Let milk, eggs and every form of farm product be raised on the place, so that the patient may be supplied abundantly with the most nourishing food. A pure water supply is necessary, also. v Then comes the next class which has reached the incurable stage for which there is no hope but a merciful release. They should be segregated from the other classes, so that they might have no depressing Influence Upon the others. They should be made as comrortaoie and happy as kindness and thought could do for them. The rule of segre gation should be so strict that it could not be violated except by special per mission, granted only in case of the patient desiring to leave for his own home, where he should be compelled to stay within his own grounds. Here they should be under the control of a board of health or similar autnoruy, which, at proner intervals, would fum igate and do everything possible to orevent the snread or tne disease. vnen death comes, these officers should see that everything previously used By the patient is burned and not sold, as is often done at present, to the second hand dealers, thence to be aistrioutea among the poor, where it forms a not herl in which the srerms may multiply Patients of this class should never be allowed in rooming-houses or crowded places. Now comes one of the greatest prob lems and hardest to solve. I. e.. the control of the traveler surrering rrom tuberculosis. We should have laws passed and enforced to prevent patients in the later stages from traveling in public conveyances except when it Is necessary to move tnem io iae iaic farm. It Is criminal for a physician to advise a patient to leave home when he is Incurable, if home conditions are such that he can be made comfortable. It is a common thing for'a patient to die while traveling or soon after reach ing his destination. In many sucll cases his bedding is used the following night by some unsuspecting traveler, rnnstint vlarllance should be exercised in regard to expectoration. Some rail roads fumigate fairly well, but even so. they cannot entirely do away with the evil when tuberculosis patients are shut up with their fellow passengers for sev eral days at a time. It Is not fair for one state to send tuberculosis patients to another state. Let each state maintain Its own farm. Let every one In need of help be wel (.nm.rl. Let each one pay as he Is able. If the state would buy the land, no doubt the tuberculosis society wouia noaumo thn obligation for improve ments. Our motto should be, "The greatest gooa to tne Biea.ici. wuiuxj-.. MRS. ALMA L. HOWE. WIVES SHOULD NOT WORK OUT Charge Made That They Take Support From Slnele Women. PORTLAND. Oct. IS. (To the Edi tor.) The oregonian recently pnui ...i.l. Kv Mrs. Marv Austin, in which Bhe upheld the right of a mar ried woman to work. Does she for a moment stop to think tnat every mar- ,! wnTnan whn work Is. Of COUrSe helping to support her husband and taking the preaa ana Duner oui vl iuc mouth of a single woman? That's Just what they are doing. A married - ka. v,r ittRVind to denend on while the girl who Is single only her work. Little chance for her when the married woman can be upheld In taking a position. That and low salaries help to send girls on the downward path. It Is not Just for a business man to employ married wo men and there snouio. do a nw pmto t . An., nnrnnratlnn Arm or indl- vidual employing married women. That would make a state law to protect unmarnea warning women. t ,v.A onartmpjit stores! telephone offices, etc., they employ married wo men, thus keeping unmarnea women out of a position. They work for less, the most of them are working to get extra money to buy clothes, to dress beyoml tneir station in me. in one department store I know a wo man who was employed there at 340 a month, a married woman. Her husband was employed by one of the railroads - i . 1Kn nr 1300 a month. She used her salary to buy clothes. He spent perhaps more tnan sne me making himself a Jolly good fellow Knv nr srteniiln? the monev dining out with some other woman. When a woman marries it sureiy is her place at home, if Its only one room. A man should be man enough not to marry unless he can support his wife without her having to go out to work. Governor West Is making lots of i .. i .. r .onlnr nnr thA rptflllcrrlt uuiaa oui'ul district from Portland. There would not be so many women oi tne unoer world if they could get positions now held by married women. Girls in the stores are not paid enough for their work. - Why?- Because married wo men work cheaper and of course can dress better than a girl who has to . -.v. rant hnaM nnd dress on the same amount paid to a married woman. That Is tne reason au many su go wrong. In. one department store a ,i n.A. o o-ott f n cr 80. Hia wifA Hum wajnci . ' o a is getting J30, doing chamber work at a hotel. She Is keeping a girl out . . . l . -r .nil It isn't risrhti Th An Governor West wonders why girls go Wrong. XI no win -i J c Vaoo au our business men cannot employ mar- : j n c-nrVirt h pi ti sunnort their ncu WV1I5, " r ' husbands) he will have less trouble with the lower ciass. Let everyone get busy and make It . . .... i . . kaln tViA ti' nrVin tr wry tneir 'inwuw " " . and down the married woman who Is taking the worK oDmarrieu women nan girls should have. Half a Century Ago From Th Oregonian of Kovamber 8, 1862. Washington. Oct. 31. It is believed that the pirate Alabama is now on the track of the Asplnwall steamers for the purpose of intercepting the treasure sbipped to New York. Tha mountaineer says th new mine on Boise River are about 350 miles from Walla Walla. The route follows the old emigrant trail across Malheur River and down 1 to Snake River; across Snake River to the mouth of Payette, up Payette 75 miles and thence across the mountains in an easterly direction to the diggings. Grimes Creek Is the richest portion yet discovered. The largest prospect yet obtained is about an ounce to the pan. Captain Hatch fell on Thursday even ing last about 35 feet from the top of Mr. Harvey's mill building, which la in course of erection at Oregon City. He fell upon a solid pile- of rocks and is dangerously hurt The Portland Mtlwauki'e Mac adamized Road Company have tiled articles of incorporation in the County Clerk's office; capital stock, $50,000. The company proposes to locate the road on the west bank of the Willam ette, crossing at Milwaukie. New York, Nov. 1. Steamer Ma tanzas, from New Orleans, has arrived. She reports the capture of Sabine Pass by an expedition under Captain Crocker. Cairo, Nov. 1. We have a rumor by way of Corinth that Mobile is ours. The report, was brought In by rebel prisoners, captured by our scouts. Halifax, Nov. 1. The Arabia, from Liverpool on the 18th has arrived. It was reported that Confederate priva teers were In the Mediterranean and had captured a dozen Federal vessels. The report may have arisen from th destruction of whaling vessels by the Alabama. DESIRABLE WIFE HARD TO FIMJ Bachelor, After Long urt Surrenders io HI Fate. PORTLAND, Nov. 7. (To tha Edi tor.) The cartoon in The Oregonian, "Wanted, More Old-Fashioned Mothers.'' is the best and most-needed crtoir since the days when the late Homer Davenport used to draw for the tem perance cause long before he got Into newspaper work. That cartoon tells the story as 1 have seen it in both the business and home life, and as I have watched and studied girls and women for the past 15 years. I have wanted to marry many times, and I have plenty of money and prop erty to give a good home and take care of a good, sensible girl whose head is not filled full of cheap shows, paint, clothes, money and Joy rides. I want a wife In every sense of the word. One that at least knows how to boll water and make a bed to start with. But when I speak of this they all say, "Oh. you don't want a wife; you want a cook and a housekeeper." So, if the women want to know why there are over 60 millionaire bachelors in Wash ington City alone, and why bachelors are on the increase fast and thick all over the United States, and why I have at last given up, at the age of nearly 40 (although I only look 25, as I do not use liquor or tobacco), why, that is the reason, coupled with this new mannish women fad. Real men want real women. The opposite sex, when fully and finely de veloped In all fine qualities and nat ural desire to fulfill her true mission here on earth as outlined by the Cre ator, . Is then most attractive to ths male sex, and she will have no trouble in securing a husband and provider. It seems I cannot meet this one, so have at last given up and have re signed myself to the life of a bachelor living In a hotel with distant years of emptiness in old age staring me In the face. Hen naturally want a home. Wom en nowadays, it seems, do not as a gen eral rule. Women are doing as much. If not more, to break up or prevent a home nowadays as men do. Women make the baohelors, because they do not try to develop themselves and ex cel In their sphere as strongly as man does In his. BACHELOR. Deadly Parallel I Drawn. Lipplncott's. "There's no doubt about my getting In," said the newly-arrived shade to St. Peter. "Here's a newspaper clipping of the eulogy the minister delivered at my funeral." "Take this," returned St. Peter, handing the clipping to tha re cording angel, "and compare It with his past performances." Temper and Teething Time. Detroit (Mich.) Free Press. "Say, mamma, isn't papa cross to night?" "Yes, my dear. Very." "He couldn't be crosser if he was teething. could he, mamma?" Material In a Hnbnd. - Rlrmlntrham (Ala.) Age-Herald. "Gertrude says she is going to make a man out of Tilbury when she marries him." "Poor girl I I'm afraid she will run short of material." SPECIAL SUNDAY FEATURES Operations of the Parcels Post An illustrated page article on the new system of parcels distri bution which will be in effect by the first of the year. . Reindeer Meat It is to be our meat supply of the future. ' A page is given to interesting ex periments conducted by the Uni ted States Government in Alaska. Feeding London An illustrated account of the system whereby the millions of the world's me tropolis are supplied with food and drink. , Woman in Modern Society Professor Earl Barnes writes a keen analysis of woman, the home, matrimony and modern social conditions. Men Cooks It is recorded that man has invaded not only the kitchen but the cooking schools as well. Special culinary courses are overcrowded by male pupils. Lily Langtry's Memoirs Fa mous beauty tells of interesting incidents in her life and quotes number of maxims. Mme. Bernhardt Another half page of note and comment on mat ters of current interest to women, written by the great actress. Two Short Stories, Complete. MANY OTHER FEATURES Order today from your newsdealer. 1