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Europcom OCOce Mo. xteseat etreet a W. LoadoD. FOBTLAXD, FRIDAY. ACGCST !. 1U. j M'NAB 13 VINDICATED. Thanks to Mr. McXab, Maury j Diggs has not escaped conviction of hi crime. The nature of tha defense j shows that, had not Mr. McXab forced ; the haad of the Attorney-General and caused a prompt trial by exposing the !: scheme for delay and its motives. Jus. '. tice might have been defeated. The testimony for the defense re- veals the naked skeleton of a. skillful ! "frame-up" which was- already in ' course of preparation. The attempt :: to coach Marsha Warrington in a per. jured story of the elopement was the ' first step in working; out this scheme. The testimony of Diggs" father and of : Judge Hughes tended to complete the structure. Doubtless the elder Diggs stormed a good deal about his son's misdeeds, but the young reprobate had committed like offenses before and had gone scot free. The father had ; not caused his prosecution then; what - reason was there to believe that he I would do so on this occasion? But every circumstance waa so exaggerated and twisted as to create an appearance of design to escape prosecution, and the finishing touch was put to the story by Diggs" charge that he took Miss Warrington with him at her own ' urgent request. After having ae ' bauched the girl and ruined her life, i he tried to make her the scapegoat. I Diggs- defense was badly construct ed and Ineffective because he had not time to fit together neatly all parts of i his fictitious version of the escapade. With more time he might have ; coached his witnesses so carefully and I skillfully as to build up a plausible i story which might have raised doubts j in the minds of the Jury. He might ! -have reached the girl and induced her I to testify as he wished. Every day gained iwould have Improved his I chances of escaping punishment. Hence the anxiety of the elder Caminettl to f procure delay, for both prisoners were j in the same boat; they must sink or I swim together. By consenting to de ; lay. Attorney-General McReynolda 1 was. therefore, knowingly or careless ( ly, aiding a scheme" to defeat Justice j toy perjury. By his public protest Mr. ! McXab foiled the scheme and ensured that a young profligate should meet I the fate he richly deserved. Had Diggs' story been true, it would have proved that, when offered the choice between two courses of action, he chose the worse. He could have ' broken off his association with the I ' girl and made what amends were la !'5 his power. He chose to cap his vil ' lainoiis actions by an elopement which "i spread the notoriety of the girl's shame I from Sacramento to the whole states of California and Jevada and finally -K to the whole country. He could have i drawn back, but he chose to go on. 1 ; On his own admission, he is a persist. ! ent offender, caring; not whom he j ; drags down or to what depths of deg h radatlon. Had there been in him one ; spark of manhood, he would have en ij d savored to shield the girl he had ! ' wronged, not have tried to hide behind hr. The verdict In this case gives all ; such men as Diggs and Caminetti and : the prosecuting officers of the Gov . ernment to understand that the white V slave law .means Just what it says. " The Attorney-General has undertaken ,. to distinguish between violations or the law which should and those which should not be prosecuted. He has 1 issued instructions to District Attor : neys which he explains thus: ' The distinction drawn by the Attoraey- ' oencral In hla instructions to District At- ' tornsys Is eloar. Unless It Is shown that i tha accussd has bosn aasaa-ad tn oom- : msreialised vice and has been making ; profit out ot hla Tiolation of the white I alave act. District Aiiornrva are nut to onus i the matter to the attention ot the (rand j Jury. In deg&nse of this distinction, which , probably explains the reluctance to prosecute Diggs and Caminetti, it is : explained that Representative Mann 1 in his report on the bill and in his speech in the House, waa careful to point out that the act was intended solely to strike at the commercial traf fic in girls and not at private immor- t " allty. It was held that the states should be left to deal with the latter j class of cases. But the act Itself draws ; no such distinction. As quoted by ' Judge Van Fleet, 'it, applies to "any j person who shall knowingly transport i in interstate commerce any woman ! or girl for the purpose of prostitution ! or debauchery or for any other lm j moral purpose." The Supreme Court ! has held that the law covers cases of immorality, not merely cases of com mercialized vice. The order of the Attorney-General quoted above was issued long before i the Dlggs-Camlnettl case came up and was excused on the ground that Federal Juries refuse to apply the law to the cases which that official would 1 ! exclude and that the law was in dan ger of breakdown. But it is no part cf the Attorney-General's duty to de cide which offenders agalnsi a law shall and which shall i;ot be pr ise- j . cuted. His assumption of such author. ', ity is a dangerous precedent, all the I more so because it furnished a pretext to confer a favor on a political asso ciate. Styling woman the uneasy sex, the r. New York Commercial cites a few ex- J ample. One is of a woman who has obtained a license to drive a cab. An. i other woman asked separation from her husband because he had old-fash- t ioned ideas that the stork should visit the family periodically and because he j attended to his medical practice to the L tieglect of her. As he testified that his wife had cost him $11,000 more than f his income during four years, she ' j' seems to have been the cause of his j neglect. In contrast with this woman i is one who asked the town of Babylon, L. I., to lease a tract of land to her for the erection of a home for expectant mothers. Tet another example is a French woman who makes her living by her ugliness and who will put a ring in her nose to enhance her on attractlveness. All goes to show that it takes all kinds of women as well as all kinds of men to make a world. When women get a chance to edit newspapers they may regale us with a catalogue of male freaks to show man to be the uneasy sex. - sriNiii.Ess wrLOMAcv. The policy of peaceful mediation In Mexico has railed, or will certainly fail. It is strange that President Wil son or Secretary Bryan, knowing Mex ico, could have had any hope that it would succeed. Tet the President is Justified it la Imperative that he should exhaust every possible diplo matic method of solving the Mexican problem before intervention or a re sort to arms. But he has handicapped his own policy by-making it clear that there will be no forcible pacification of Mexico, no armed repression, no military aggression, nothing but moral suasion. The wonder is that President Huerta permitted Private Emissary Lind to enter Mexico. - Mexico is either our business or it Is not our business. In the present turbulent situation there is no middle" course.- If it is our . business to set up or tear down the domestic concerns of Mexico, we must be prepared to use all the power of government, through military coercion, to vindi cate our policy. If it is not our busi ness, but only Mexico's business, who is the Mexican President, we have no recourse but to recognize Huerta, If Mexico wants a murderer for Presi dent, that is what Mexico deserves. President Wilson has put himself In a position where he must go forward or go backward. He must either pacify or abandon Mexico. If ha had mader it clear at the outset that he was determined at any cost to restore peace, peace would now be possible, and very likely would be assured. But having plainly disavowed our purpose to intervene and having embarked on a career of spineless diplomacy, he leaves Mexico worse off than he found It. qcrxonc. Brother McPherson should persevere In his long-distance efforts in Gov ernor Sulzer'g behalf. The Governor is not past praying for, though Tam many is. There appears to be no real doubt about the nature of the Gover nor's Wall-street, operations, and Brother McPherson'a appeal to the throne of grace is about the only way out for Sulser. Brother Lawson, too, from his re treat in the sheltering sagebrush of Central Oregon, rushes to the rescue of the more or less prostrate ftw York Governor, and wants to spend a mil lion or more to trim the Tammany tiger's claws. Or cut off its head, or something like that. Very well. It is worth the investment of Brother Law son's money. Let him rurnlsh the mil. lion and Brother McPherson will pro vide the prayer. The combination would easily be too much for Tam many. But what have Tammany's bitter el forts to disgrace Sulzer got to do with the actual question of his guilt or in nocence? We guess Sulzer would have been a good enough Governor for Tammany If he had obeyed Tam many; but the question is not Tam many's motives and actions, but Sul zer's fitness to be the executive of a great state. Sulzer cannot plead the baby act and say his wife is to blame for using certain campaign funds for Wall-street speculation. He indorsed the checks; and Mrs. Sulzer is not on trial. The admitted facts are that funds contributed to the Sulzer campaign were diverted by him to private uses. Probably he intended to pay them back; but that is what your embeziler of trust funds always intends. It was criminal to take them, whether or not he Intended to put them back, or did put them back. It Is not material to the issue whether Wall-street margins were bought, or stocks were pur chased outright. Sulzer cuts a sorry figure in this business. The outcome does not sur prise persons who knew him. Brother McPherson and Brother Lawson ought to be encouraged to Join their forces of money and prayer to crush Tam many; but they have no special call to rescue Sulzer from the tiger's maw. DOES COMPENSATION INCREASE ACCI DENTS? Whatever of accuracy there may be in the assumption expressed in Mr. James Cassidy's letter to The Ore- gonian today on the Washington com- pensation law, the evil he believes he has discovered need not be antici pated in the compensation law of Ore. gon. Mr. Cassidy believes the large in crease in number of industrial acci dents reported in Washington last year was due to failure of employers to provide adequate safeguards and that this dereliction was indue'ed by the state compensation law. The workmen prefer safety to compensation. There fore, in his opinion, the Oregon law should be voted down on referendum. But in the very particular that Mr. Cassidy .believes the Washington law has operated detrimentally, the Oregon law was safeguarded by the Commis sion which drafted it. Whereas- in Washington the payment for injuries caused by neglect of one employer to provide every safety device is taxed against. all the employers In his par ticular classification, in Oregon the individual employer is in effect pen alized. Repetition of accidents among the workmen of any employer oper ate to raise that employer's rate of payment to the general compensation fund. In Oregon it will be to the em plover's interest to provide against ac cidents. He cannot take refugn amontt a large number of employers -whose premiums rise or fall alike. In any event, there was not enough information in the figures taken from the Washington report and printed in The Oregonian to justify Mr. Cassi dy's assumption. . Mr. Cassidy is a Washingtonian, and with all due re gard to his sincerity, it may be said that an employer might upon as good ground assert that the increase in re ported accidents came from malinger ing and that therefore the employers ought not to desire compensation. It Is not likely that the increase came in large part either from employers' care lessness or workmen's deceptions. The figures cited were not percentages. Gross number of accidents Is affected bv the number of men employed and by the number of months in the year which are covered by employment Moreover,, one serious disaster in a given industry may materially increase the monthly average for a year. In one of the Industries street rail ways in which accidents showed a larg gain, greater lack; of safeguards than In the preceding year could hard ly have been the cause. Street rail ways pay out far more for injuries to passengers than for accidents to em ployes., The patrons, who run almost as great risk as employes, outnumber the latter many times over. It is il logical to assume that because a rail way company has been provided with an easier means of meeting its liabil ity to employes it will involve them in greater risks when those risks will apply to patrons for whose safety the company is also responsible. A definite conclusion as to the ef fect of compensation laws upon the number of industrial accidents will not be reached in one or two years. It will be attained, too, only after deep and careful research. A few figures taken from a lengthy report do not provide sufficient basis for rejecting the principle. ' CONCERNING FASTS.. It may be ouspected that tfiore is a hygienic as well as a religious motive underlying the fondness of ail the de nominations for fasts. It is confessed by everybody that abstinence from food benefits the soul. The wise un derstand that it benefits the body, too. " The pious Mohammedan who goes without solid food for a month at a certain time of the year fortifies hla health while he pleases Allah. No doubt Elijah grew in physical strength as much as in the spiritual graces during his fast in the wilderness. The Fletcherites have taught us that the Biblical accounts of abstinence are en. tirely credible. They have equaled and surpassed anything recorded of the scriptural heroes and their sage leader assures the world that no evil has befallen them. Fletcher gives an account of a sixty-day fast, during the whole of which the patient went about his dally tasks with unabated energy. But most of us need not think of emulating such achievements. They are the deeds of heroes and prophets. If the ordinary individual fasts twenty or thirty days his conscience ought to.be appeased. Perhaps a full half of our bodily ills arise from overeating. A great many persons have experienced the refreshment, the revival of health and energy caused by omitting a meal. The cold and scant' New England sup per Would have been a good thing if the dinners of that section had not been cooked so wretchedly. The European habit of eating a slight breakfast might well be imitated in America. If we limited the first meal of the day to a roll and a cup of weak tea the health of the Nation would improve. Our lunches are also too heavy. The best lunch consists of a slice or two of bacon with eggs or some other simple tare, r-ie ana rich meats in the middle of the day are open invitations to disease. Even dinner would be better for pruning both at the beginning and the end. Dessert ought to be omitted and. half the usual, courses dropped. Stomach worship is the worst form of idolatry in this age. As a rule the man who eats least is the healthiest and able to do the most work In a day without excessive fatigue. MAKING THE WORLD PERFECT. J The old issue between heredity and environment has been revived this Summer. Which of the two factors is the more efficient in making us what we are? The Jews, as usual, are cited by both sides. They are an ancient race who have passed through many vicissitudes. . They are reasonably long-lived, enjoy as good - health as other people and have produced more thin their nhsrA of sreniuses in the arts and sciences. Although a German Jew differs in marked particulars trom the Russian type and Dotn 01 mem f.nm fenrlm0iu nf the race found in other countries, still there Is an un mistakable racial standard to wmcn thtf all ivinfarm and which has sur vived for many centuries without sub stantial change. In mental and physical traits tney are so unlike other races that it Is aainm Aiffir.iilt to rftcoftrnize them. Shall we attribute their excellent bio- logical standing to their heredity or to their environment? Thia question is Mai,nM,ii hv Dr. J. Snowman in the current number of the London Jewish Review. TTntn vrv recant times the Euro- nun Jews have not lived in the most favorable surroundings. Frequently their quarters in the various ghettos were as bad as possible. If they had nn Vlmii ramnrkablv tenacious of life they might have perished utterly. But since they were tenacious, it is liKeiy .nn..v. that fhAft had environment Improved them by killing off the weak lings. Those who survived possessed vigor enough to thrive under the most deplorable conditions and whehever life opened decent "opportunities to them they were found to have a sur plus of energy which carried them to the prise in almost every species of competition. The vitality wnlcn Barely suiricea to keep them healthy in the ghettos gave them great surplus stores to draw upon whenever they escaped to a bet ter environment. It "would seem, therefore, as far as the Jews are con cerned, that heredity has been more potent than environment in determin ing their racial destiny. . And yet this will not be quite certain until we have seen how they endure the stress of modern urban civilization, with its noise and worry and incessant tension of the nerves. ' ,. ' That it la not without an effect upon them is conceded by Dr. Snowman. He finds that nervous disorders are more frequent than formerly among the T&..-. ant arrnnrtta for it bv the DrSS- sure of city life. Degeneration of the nervous system is sure to De io;iowea In the long run by physical disorders, so that it may be. feared that the Jew. Ish race is in some danger or .sinking to a lower biological level than lt has Malntcifmit inthA RHSL In tilifl" TC spect it is not exceptional. Evary oth er civilized people seems, to be men aced by we same pent i c t Dr. Snowman draws comfort from h A ..nnaManatlnn thai the Jewish ail ments can be traced to the effect of the environment. The race is sound at the core and may regain Its ancient vgor, it . v.. hoan lost bv imDrovinsT its living conditions. Whether the same remedy will surnce to redeem irae wreoks and. ruins of other . races is .mki.maHc' Mendel's laws assure us that congenital defects which appear. in both parents are mainemaucauy certain to be transmitted to their chil- T thta ! an. no no&sibie im provement of surroundings will rid the world of the insane ana criminal as long as marriage is unrestricted. Idiots rill h.Mt Irilnta until the end of time. This rule has proved itself infallible in the palace' also In the slum. , And yet it is inexcusable, to over iaaI. th. Amlnnm fart that social rnn dltions are constantly recruiting the numbers of the criminal and detective. Society, as Shelley put ft long ago, makes new criminals every day and then punishes them for being what they are. It manufactures mental and physical wrecks without much thought of the consequences and soothes its uneasy conscience by building asylums and falling into occasional spasms of charity. Of course, these things are very fine in their way, . but,, as most students of conditions agree, they do not go to the bottom of the trouble. Two great social campaigns are under way which boldly profess to attack the causes and not merely the symptoms of our biological degeneracy. One army marches, under the eugenic banner. The other aims its guns at the environ, ment. Eugenics would clear the world of defectives and criminals by pre venting their propagation. Those whose heredity cannot be relied upon to pro duce desirable "offspring are to be de prived of marriage 'privileges; per haps some of them are to be im prisoned or sterilized. The other par. ty would so improve living conditions that everybody could pass through the world comfortably, even if he were a little -defective or inclined to pick pockets. The theory is. that miscon duct would be eliminated by eliminat ing temptation and natural selection would of Itself extirpate defectives If society ceased to recruit them. Obviously there: is truth in both these contentions. The-sounder chil dren are lnrjrilnd and body when they are born the better fitted they are to' meet the requirements of existence. And the more hygienic we make our surroundings the better work we can do and the more normal lives we shall be likely to lead. There ought to b no strike between those who. depend upon heredity for race improvement and those who seek it through a bet ter environment. The world has sadly neglected both factors and probably the desired end cannot be attained without allowing to each all tha effect of which it is capable. - The problem of producing a happy human race in a world of peace and justice has al ways baffled those who tried to solve it, but it by no means follows that no solution will ever be found. The most impressive certainty about the busi ness n these times is that nothing worth while will be effected without the co-operation of the- best thought and effort from all quarters.. They that sow the wind must expect to reap the whirlwind. The male offi cials who so blithely undertake to censor women's clothes are laying up trouble for themselves in the day when female officials shall return the com pliment. Trousers are the most im modest garments ever Invented. It is only custom that prevents our blush ing at the sight of them. No doubt our first woman Mayor will awake to their enormity and the consequences may be imagined. The acquirement of a?new editor by the Century Magazine is hot so excit ing asa Mexican revolution, but there are eome who think it is not less im portant, i The Century has been a weighty factor in American civilization and the man who sucoeeds Holland, Gilder and Johnson has a great tradi tion to sustain and a great field for his ambition. The new editor's name is Robert Sterling Yard. The country wishes him well. Improved agricultural education In Sweden has demonstrated its value by cheaklng emigration. Better crops bring immediate prosperity to Euro pean, farmers because their markets are near ana never oversuppiiea. American farmers must not only pro duce crops, but must afterward over coma the handicap of distant and glut, ted markets. This trouble will natur ally diminish yas population grows. Law-abiding people this side of the border must admire the way the Cana dians administer the laws. All the presidents of the miners' unions on Vancouver Island and as many mem bers 8s can be caught are held on charge of riot in connection with re cent strikes. The Canadians show lit tle fear of the possibilities tn dynamite. Fate Is hard, yet kind, to the news- paper man. None was seriously hurt when a carload of them turned over early yesterday morning in Los An geles. It was not a Joy ride. They were going home f,rom Work. Jour, nalists might have been killed, but these were the real article and so es caped. The name accepted for the Portland, Eugene & Eastern Is "Willamette Val ley Line," which is mere geographical nomenclature rather than strikingly distinctive or catchy. Fifty hours' work a week Is being urged for working women. - The soci ety woman. Of course, will continue to toll sixteen hours a day. Finding of an anclent.carving In an Idaho excavation reminds us that many civilizations lie forgotten under our feet. " The Sullivan's Gulch train robbers must have been amateurs. Profession als would have been -caught before this. - ' -' .. ' , Tariff tinkering does not ' affect fleeces in Wall street.. Sale of a seat in the Stock Exchange brought $4S,- 000. . The Governor of Oklahoma, like the ordinary star, shows great fear of his understudy,- the Lieutenant-Governor. In Kansas the mercury, has bvn above 100 for twenty days. - Later it will be below twenty for 100 days.- With Rev. Mr. McPherson praying for his downfall, how Tammany must tremble. - . It would appear that a' Lieutenant Governor is a good deal of a nuisance. - A noted Los Angeles racer has quit the game.. That's cheating the Reaper. Attorney's Tees la a'$4IO case were S00. Why give the client so much? Having- learned that insolence, goes unrebuked.t Huerta goes the limit. New Hampshire will not tolerate Thaw. No other state should. : Fashion roay, yet provide the rock pile with a few' lady cooks. Congress grows restive' under this temporizing with Mexico. .. . , To-Thaw and his kind the law is a mere game to be beaten. . - - .Is there no policeman with courage to make the first pinch? - y Let the fate of .Diggs serve as a stern warning. T Life's Sunny Side Mrs. Helen .P. Longstreet, widow of the famous soldier, said at Gettysburg, apropos of an oration that had failed: "The windy, spread-eagie oratory of the past is dead, thank'goodness. Such oratory reminds me of the boy who said: "'Pa, what is a brilliant conversa tionalist?" " 'A brilliant conversationalist, . my son." replied the old man, "is' the woman who frets tha first start." " Philadelphia Record. - . 'a e a ' A farmer, : in great 'need, of extra hands at baying time, finally asked SI Warren, who was accounted the town fool, if be could help him out. ' , "Whatil ye pay?" asked SL , '. "I'll pay what you're worth," an swered the farmer. .-" ' SI scratched his head a minute, then announced decisively: . ' "1 11 be darned if Til work for that!" Everybodys Magazine. -( . -. '-. a f. -1 On the last night of the season the skating rink was crowded. It seemed as though the young folks hated to end the amusement. Suddenly in the midst of the crush a man dropped to his knees and groped aboirt .the Icy sur face. One akater barely vmissed the nose' of the recumbent man; another steered clear of him with- difficulty, but another, less fortunate, fell right across him. A.t that an attendant hur ried -up and ' inquired what 'was the matter. ' . . - - ,vrve dropped ' a piece . of chewing gom," replied the searcher, J ""The Ideal You're up"sottlng all these people for a piece bf hewlng gum; I never heard of -such' a thing," ex claimed the attendant, "GetvUp at once." . : - "I dorit" care a hang about the gum," safd the man, "but I want my teeth." Cincinnati Enquirer. . ' a a V' . The young rector of an Episcopal Church in Alabama, an Englishman, by the way, was asked recently to offi ciate at the wedding of a negro couple on a nearby plantation. He consented, but thought he would beforehand learn something about the contracting .par ties, so he said to the plbspectlve groom: Have you ever been, married be fore T" . "Yes, sir," said the negrOv The alacrity of the response "put a crimp" in the rector, so to speak, and he asked with some uneasiness: "Your wire is dead, la ahe not?" "Naw, sab.," waa tha unexpected re ply. "sn In Norf Callna." "Why did she leave you T then asked the rector, '- "I can't exzactly tell you, sah." said the negro. "Yuh see, I wus erway from home at de tiriio, an' I ain't been back dere since." Houston Post. e They were talking about the won derful sayings Of the sons Of the Em erald Isle at a Washington club re cently, when Senator Charles E. Town send, ot Michigan, recalled an Incident that happened In Detroit. ' Some time since, the Senator said, a party named Pat returned to Detroit after an absence that bad extended over several months. One of the first to meest him was his friend Mike, who naturally began to question him as to where he had been. "Share. Molke, an Ol have been down In Tlxls," answered Pat, "an" it's m sllf thot's znolghty glad, to be back agin." "Faith, an is thot so?" replied Mike, with a thoughtful expression. "An' phat's the matter wld TlxisT" "Everything is the. matter wld It," was the prompt response ot Pat. "Down where Oi worruked the t'ermometer marruked wan hundred an' sixteen de grays in the shade." "Begorra, an' phat of thot, Pat," quickly rejoined Mike, "they didn't make yes worruk in the shade, did they?" Philadelphia Telegraph. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbllt. in his apartment on tha top floor of the Vanderbllt Hotel, in New York, talked about the London Horse Chow, where, as usual, he had carried off the hon ors. "A feature of tha show." he said, "was the magnificent riding of certain Arab chiefs. These chiefs gave a din ner one evening, ail .Arab dinner, and they ate the first course kous-kous with their fingers. "An Englishman asked for. a fork for his kous-kous. When it was brought to him a young chief said: " 'I beg your pardon, but I don't see how you can bear to eat with a fork.' " T," the Englishman replied, "was about to remark that I didn't see how you could bear to eat with your fin gers." " 'But my fingers,' said the Arab, "are clean clean. I know it. I see to it myself. But you. sir. how can you feel sure about the cleanness of your fork?"" New York Sun. a - "Women are so impulsive," said a man tho other day. "I was awakened from a sound sleep one morning by my wife crying in an excited manner, Henry. Henry, come quick 1" I sprang from bed and ran to the head of the stairs and at ones smelled smoke. Then I shouted, 'Take the baby, run to the corner and turn in an alarm 1' I scram bled back to the room and snatched up some clothes, thinking I'd put them on later. Then I grabbed little Elizabeth, who was sleeping with me, under my arm and dashed downstairs. 'Where Is ltr I exclaimed, running here and there to locate the Ore. Behold, my wife was sitting in tho dining-room with the baby in her lap as calm as could be, with nothing out of the usual except a' smile of Joy .on her face. , "'Why don't you get out of here? Do you- wantf to be burned silver I shouted. . . " Why. Henry. -what-in the world .is the matter with you? Are you crazy J " 'No, I'm not orasy. I want to know wnere lac iiro is. - Tire! , inert is no nre. Bam iqd. . "What tlid you yell fire for,- thea? " 1 didn't.' . - : "Well, what In thunder is it then?" "'Why, Charlotte has a tooth!" ' "Goodness! VI thought the house was on Ore!' '-v' ""How stupid!', remarked my wife, coolly, as she placed the baby- in her high chair and started or the kitchen. 'Why don't you put Elizabeth down? Do you Intend to carry her under your arrh-.all day? And you bad better get dressed. too. Breakfast . is almost ready.' " Kansas City Star. . .. j At a recent -social session in Mount Holly. Surrogate Joseph Huff, of that place, told of an incident which con vincingly demonstrates - that soma kicks are eminently Justified, says the Philadelphia Telegraph. In a certain section of Jersey, so ran the story of the surrogate. ere Is a village grocery store, where, besides salt and prunes, even thing may be purchased from, a collar for a pet rhinoceros to a sprocket wheel for a pianola. Together with this the gro cery store is the local postofflce. A few days ago a farmer entered the store with aoxnething on his mind, and after taking a fresh chew of tobacco to fortify himself, be leisurely ap proached the' counter. ' - "Look here, David. ", he complalnlngly remarked, addressing the proprietor. "I ain't klckln" none, but hain't ther some way that ye kin kind o" separate yer grocery bizness so that they won't mix aulte so much?" "There you go complainln" agMn.-i Joshua!" responded the grocery man. "What's achin' you this time?" "No' hard feelin's. David," rejoined Ciicle Josh, "but t'other day I got some postage stamps here jes' arter Jake smith n-nt two- rallons o' lie. an' every darned one o' them tasted o' iroeno." COMPENSATION; 'LAW - DISCTSSEIJ. Wagalastoa's laereaae la - Accldeata lader Syateaa Alarms Mr. Caaaldy. ' PORTLAND, Aug. 19. (To the Edi tor.) I have read with deep interest the report of Tho Oregonlan's corre spondent from Olympla on "Workmen's Compensation Law is Issue In the Poli tlca or the State of Waahington." There is much food for reflection for the Ore gon Voter In this article. The great value of your Olympla correspondent's article lies in this, and I quota the cor respondent's own language: "A remark able feature of the report is the state ment that during the last seven months more than twice as many accidents have Occurred per month as there were during the first year's experience under the Act." : In Clasa S3, Fish Canneriea, there were during the first year, the report states, thi accidenta par month. Now there are 6 3-7. In Class 14. Street Railways, the rate per month has jump, ed from 12 to 2 4-5. while 'the log ging class accidents have increased from 25 1-3 per month to S 6-li. The logging class has proved the most deadly. Out of T80 accidents 5 per cent, were fatalities and an additional 10 per cant, resulted in permanent disabili ties, the report shows. The Bureau -states - that "there is much to . indicates an indictment due-to John Barleycorn as a considerable fac tor in the number of accidents. It would be well worth an effort on the tart of the employers to banish all li quor from their works. - All the safety applances in the world will not prevent a man from getting injured, whose mind is occupied with his next spree instead of his work." ' .t Think of this, men and women, our brothers, our sisters when in November next you cast your ballots on whether "Oregon's Compensation Law" shall stand or fall.- -Under "Compensation" twice and mors as many" accidents have occurred in the first seven months ot the second year of the marking of the Washington compensation Act as there were during the first year of Its opera tion. . It would Indeed ba Instructive if we could from official figures show the Im mense increase of accidents during the first year of ,. the Washington law's workings over the year preceding their compensation . law going into effect; but. unfortunately, official figures are not at band, but while official figures are not at band, those of us who work on skyscrapers, those who work in the fisheries and In the logging camps know that the increase since Compen sation" went into effect is very greatly in excess of what it was before ther was an "Compensation law" la that state. The report of the "Bureau of Inspection on the Industrial Insurance Department" says that this increase Is largely due to "booze." to "John Bar leycorn," to use the exact language of the report But; is this honest? Does anyone imagine that In the second year of the "Compensation law" that drunkness has Increased twice as much among work Ingmen to what It was under tha first year of the 'Act, or that it has increased twice as much and more since the "Compensation law" went into effect, to what It was before there was any com pensation law in the Stats of Washing ton? No sane man would so reason. The reason, and the sole reason why accidents have more than doubled In Washington since "Compensation" went into effect is that the safeguards, the protection, tha looking after the work, men which the law Imposed npon the employer before "Compensation" went Into effect, the employer feels that he Is now under no obligation to perform Why should be look after tha safety of his workmen when he contributes to the insurance fund, whereby his workmen may be compensated in case of perma nent injury, or hi wife and children may receive a pittance In case he is killed outright. I do not minimize the great evils of the drink habit referred to by the "Bu reau" in it' report, but I do so hope that the statement made in it is not true that the workmen were made drunken by the procurement and con nivance of the mployera. No. this is a slander upon tha employer. No em ployer ever ' aided in making his em ploye drunk. This reason is a. mere pretext, a subterfuge, to hide the true reason, viz.: the taking from the em ployer the responsibility of looking af ter his workman's safety. Your correspondent's letter, however. sheds a flood of light upon the report of the "Bureau." He Informs us that Mr. L. D. McArdle, a mortal enemy to every act to protect the workmen, and who opposed every effort to Improve the "Compensation Law" or wasning ton, prepared this report, though it bears the name of the "Bureau." "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau!" Let me voice once for all the stand we take upon "personal injuries" and "Compensation." We do not want com pensation. We do not want to be killed. maimed or Injured. W e want the pro rtectlon which the Employer's Liability Act of Oregon gives us. We want the employer to safeguard in every way the safety of his men. Alter we are killed. It is some, but not much consolation for us to know that our wives and children will get 33000 or 34000; after we are maimed or permanently Injured and thrown to the scrap heap it Is small comfort to have a pittance doled out to ua from weeek to week or month to month. We do not want to be killed! We do not want to be injured! Men and women of Oregon, may I ask you to take page of the Oregonian, of Sunday, August 1?, 1813, and cut from it the article from the corres pondent at Olympla, headed "Work men's Law Is Issue in Politics." Read it every Sunday morning from now un. til the November special election which shall determine tha fate of the Orego; Compensation Law, which means much to us; and may I further ask you to read in connection with this article. the entire fifth chapter of Bt Jams'! epistle. Then If you think you can vote for "Compensation," you do so with full knowledge of th facts; but you will not. We are all children of a common Father, though we may differ in many things, our common and and home is the same. You will not vote to dimin ish more than twofold -those of our ranks who are forced to work at hazar dous callings. JAMES CASSIDY. Who in collaboration with C. E. S..Wood. prepared and drafted the Employer's Liability Law of Oregon. Number 330. Sparrow Poass ta Baa. PORTLAND. Aug. 20. (To the Edi tor.) Seeing the account of Warren H. Sprangler, of MAntclair. N. J., catch ing a bass with a live mouse in it belly, "i wish to ay thia has nothing over Oregon. M. S. Magee, D. A! Reese and L. Bmrth, three bricklayers work ing at Dayton. Or., -went. -fishing in the Yamhill Kiver on Wednesday, Aug. W, and caught a three-pound baas which, when opened, had a full-grown SDarrow Inside. It - was dead, but Lperbap ,' wouid have been .all v if recovered sooner. iney naa not thought much of it "until seeing, the item of Mr. Sprangler's experience. FISHERMAN. Why Do the Mem Ear a pet PORTLAND. Aug. 20. (To the Edi tor.) I read an account of the arrest of one Rosie Thompson lor being in "a South' Portland house." It seems Strang that th -poor wayward girls must be persecuted and th men who run after such girls can go scot free. Why doesn't the law look, after some Of thes married men. who sneak around after such girls and run them in onca In a while? MRS. E. - CLARK. Street Baadlt la Seared. . Life. -Street Bandit (to Professor) If you move you are a dead man. "You'r wrong, mr man. If I move, it will show that I am alive. You should be more careful In the nse ot your words." Twenty-five Years Aga From The Oreconian of August IS. list, Washington, Aug. 21. The Senate refused to ratify the fisheries treaty by a vote of T to 30. Spokane Falls, W. T., Aug. 21. The Chronicle. Democratic organ, has an editorial advocating the nomination of J. J. Browne, of Spokane, for Con gress by the Democrats. Atlanta. Ga, Aug. 21. A heavy rain storm deterred many people from go ing to the Georgia Chautauqua today to hear Hon. William McKinley speak on protection. The coasting steamer Alliance, owned by a Portland company, has now ben making regular trips between this city and Shoalwater Bay, Gray's Harbor and Tillamook for about six weeks, and the business is no longer a hazardous ven ture, but is an assured success. '' Sells Brothers' great three-ring circus will parade this forenoon and every lady and child la town will be on hand. -The Presidential campan may be said to have fully opened In Oregon. Monday the Republican State Central Committee began active work. Yester day the Democratic State Central Com mittal opened its headquarters in Ma sonlo Hall. Charles T. Smith, manager of E. J. Bowen's wholesale seed store, died at St. Vincent's Hospital last evening. Mr. J. Frank Watson Is down from the Keystone mine. Baker County. He brought down 150 ounces of gold and says they have lately shipped $8000 worth. Th Harrison & Morton Flambeau Club met last night. Th following or. fleers were chosen: Captain L, C Far rar; first lieutenant, C. D. Lownsdale; second lieutenan F. C. Newton; first sergeant. A. W. Witherell; second ser geant. A. W. Newklrk; secretary and treasurer. C. D. Lownsdale. A uniform was adopted; consisting of nickel hel met, blue coat, leather legglns and flambeaus. The funeral ot the lata Judge W. T. Trimble took place from the Catholic Cathedral yesterday morning. Th pall bearers were: Hon. Raleigh Stott, Hon. J. K. Kelly, Judg Julius C. Moreland, Judge John Catlln and Judge C. B. Bel linger. Mrs. A. B. Plllabury and son, went down to the seaeide yesterday. Half a Century Ago From The Oregonian of Augaat ti. 184. New York, Aug. 15. A. letter from Winchester, Tenzu, says: Fugitives from conscription say every male citizen capable of bearing arms has been forced into th rebel service and carried off. New York, Aug. 15. A telegram from Niagara Falls says that Vallandigham leaves there for Quebec.. Yreka, Aug. It. A fight took place last night between H. K. White, editor of the Union, and R. Nixon, publisher of the Journal. Nixon assaulted White with a club. White struck him four or five times with a knife, and would have killed him but for the Interfer ence of a bystander. Yesterday afternoon Eldrldge Tib betta, about It years of age, was drowned while bathing in the river near th upper sawmill. , The Dalles steamer brought down a large number ot passengers from th upper country last evening, most of whom appeared to be well supplied with . tha wherewithal to make the mar go. E. J. Northrup Jt Co. have just re ceived a large number of improved apple-pearers. This evening the drama of "The Ide of St. Tropes, or Lannay, the Poisoner," will be performed. His Idea af a Good Job. Everybody's. Two Irishmen were comparing notes about politics. Jobs, hard times and the like, when Pat O'Rourke, a third one, joined in the discussion. "Sure and I'm satisfied with things," said Pat. 'Tve a pache of a job." "Is that so?" said the others. "And what might ye be doin'?" "I'm pulling down th Episcopal church," replied Pat, "and I'm gettin' paid for it." Parrot Tkat la a Salat. London Bystander. VjUD LUI1.I.I vu, - -' u a. bwvi mean, I hope he doesn't use dreadful language. Dealer 'E's a saint, lady; sings 'ymns beautiful. I 'ad soma par rots wot used to swear something aw ful, but, if you'll believe me, this 'ere bird converted the lot. Many Features of Inter est in Magazine Section of The Sunday Oregonian ,Type of Modern Skyscraper Rising in Portland Full page picture showing progress of lay ing steel on a new Portland building. Comes High, to Keep a King Enormous sum that George V and his establishment cost Great Britain. Should You Never Have Mar ried? Laura Jean Libbey says no man deficient in domestio and paternal qualities can make a success of matrimony. Enter the Oyster. Scientists rnake a study of the food qual ities of the succulent bivalve. ' Sea Serpents Are a Reality and Not a Myth. Strange crea tures live in unexplored three fourths of the earth. Colonel Eoosevelt's Own Story of His Life. Another chapter on the days of his work as Po lice Commissioner. ' Plain John Lind. A charac ter sketch of President Wilson's unofficial representative in battle-torn republic. Noted Beauties Are Slaves of Superstition. Parisian celebri ties hold endless strange obses sions. America Has $1,000,000,000 Invested in Mexico. ilore than 50,000 persons are interested in neighboring republic. Romance of Ragtime as Told by Girl Behind Music Counter. Most of the popular song hits are written by unknown per . sons and sre sold cheap to men who publish them.