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THE MORNING "OREGONIAN, 'TUESDAY, DECEMBER SO, 1913. 8 (Eft (Dmnmtnn J-ORTUUTO, OREGOX. Intmd at Port land. Orccon. PoBoflo ai sccoad-claaa mattar. SabeerlpUaa Haisa Invariably tB A40 - - . ". ..a. mnr, cgMr bcimm, r i j Oslly. Fndll Included. MBontfll JIT Delljr. bandar Included. thra moaths ... belly. Btindar Incladad, ana moat bally! wlthoat Sunday! sis months ' Daily, without Sunday, tnraa months ... Daily, wllhoat Sunday, ohsoiu "Ji . , Sunday, on yaar IWIWtJ KIM WW ly. M J ' Pally, guna'ay included, ana yaar ....... ru.ii " i i . . .4 ma manCh ..... an oe aiuj m-. . r or your tmr. azpraaa ordar or paraonal cbck local bank. Stamps, cola or curraDcy addraaa at aandsra rUK. u sender's rlaa. Gle po"';'" ah lull. iaciaiB am - w.r. n to 1 a paaea, 1 cant IS to .2 pa.se. 1 eanta; M ta 48 pa"-. j so to so uiu. 4 cants; 81 to ' canta. a eanta; 7 to i pace can la. ioraian poat. C couaia niM Eaatara Business Offlraa Vsrrae Conk- Ha, Maw Tor. Brunawlck bonding, caao. Btagar buUdlnf- fcaa FraaKtsr Olllri R. J. BldwaU 12 alarkst atraeC CBM Co, rORTLAXD, TCXSDAT. DEC. , 1,1J" FAMII.I TROUBLES. Cherche- la femrae," the old mix- i . .-i i.ii.ih. fhcr ia trouble In the family, which, being translated. means "look for the woman," since there Is sure to be one at the bottom of It. The records of the Chicago do mestic relations tribunal do not ex actly harmonize with this sage coun sel. According to them we ought to oim-H tnr all manner of things be fore we begin to think of the trouble- making woman. The maligned motn. i. innr wtir. fivurAa an flendlshlv In ong and story is accountable for no more than S per cent or me cases 01 domestic Infelicity which have come before the court for adjustment. To be sure, the father-in-law has a still better record. He has bred discord In but one case out of a hundred. To am nnvlifita and almanac humorists, mothers-in-law made about all the trouble there was in the world. It is comforting to learn, authorita tively that they are not nearly so black as they have been painted. Lazi ness again accounts for an astonish ingly small number of family rows, no more than 3 per cent. Of course It la the husband's laziness that is in question. We can, Imagine no court so impolite as to publish statistics about lazy women, if such, creatures exist. At first one is at a loss to account for the trifling proportion of infe licity that marital laziness causes. A husband who loafs all day, leaning up against lamp posts in sunny weather and baking his feet in the oven of wintry afternoons, ought by good rights to try his wife's patience be yond all bearing. And so he does, almost, but not Quite. There are re deeming graces about most lazy men. Parasitic creatures they doubtless are, living on the hard-earned pennies wrung by their patient wives from the wash tub and the scrubbing brush, but after all there is something to say for them. A lazy man Is usually a good-natured man and such Is the character of woman that she will put up with almost any amount of impost. Uon from her spouse if he gives her an occasional kind word. Nay, she will smile when he" beats her if she can look forward to a love pat or two to compensate for the blows. It is therefore comprehensible how laziness and shlftlessness, common as they are and bitterly exasperating, do not often break up families. A good-for-nothing man commonly has the luck to marry a hard-working woman, who, while she despises him, nevertheless manages to love him. He descends in the family scale to the position of a useless but kindly dog whom the wom an feeds and shelters because he does not often bite her. The overtowering cause of family trouble Is drunkenness, not the wife's, but the husband's. This vice trans forms the lazy ne'er-do-weel into a malignant brute, who not only fails to provide for his family, but treats them, with active cruelty. He tears up his wife's Sunday gown out of pure fiendlshness, pawns the children's shoes, tips the table over and breaks the dishes and makes himself general ly unbearable. A drunken husband squanders his own earnings and those of the rest of the family, too. The wife washes", the oldest girl makes fancy flowers, the little boya sell newspapers, all that father may have money fpr the saloon. Their pennies go down his insatiable gullet with such disheartening regularity that patience finally wears out and the family re bels. Then In Chicago the trouble is exposed in the Domestic Relations Court and the benevolent Judge seeks to pour oil on the waters. Oil, how ever, cannot do much good as 'long as the husband clings to his cups. Between drink and family comfort there is an irrepressible fight, A man who swallows up his wife's earnings in the form of grog cannot expect her to love him. The fateful record of the court show that drink is ac countable for 4S per cent of all the cases of domestic trouble that come before it. This Is a terrible indictment of the habits of a large number of married men. It is an equally terrible Indictment of our municipal manage ment, which permits lives to be " wrecked and poverty created at such a monstrous rate. Surely personal liberty has been stretched as far as It ought to be when it produces results cf this kind In quantities so porten tous. The traditional practice of sending drunken husbands to Jail has -never given satisfactory results. The Jail habit Is quickly acquired and the man returns to his cups undeterred by the ten or twenty or thirty days which he knows he must expect after his spree. Fines are still less satisfactory. Im prisonment merely deprives the fam ily of the father's earnings, such as they may be. A fine sets wife and children at work to satisfy the unintel ligent demand of the law. They must all toll a little harder than before in order to keep father out of Jail. A more rational policy has often been suggested by civic workers. They sub stantially agree that the true policy is to keep drunkards confined but not In idleness. They should be made to work and their earnings should be turned over to their families. Noth ing Is more wholesome for a habitual tippler than regular work. Nothing could be more pleasing to his dis tressed family than a weekly contri bution to the budget. So here is a case where Justice and humanity run on lines precisely parallel. More encouraging than any actual results thus far attained in the Chi cago Domestic Court Is the fact that at laat our municipal authorities are waking up to the necessity of study ing family troubles seriously. They are not a Joke. They are not mere harassing worries which can be shoved out of sight and forgotten. They strike at the very roots of or- i gaslzed society. From all sides we hear constant praises of the family and we are told over and over in many keys that civilization is built upon it. But it is only lately that we have be gun to take effective measures to keep the family from going to destruction. 8WIARIMO OFF. There is something so attractive In starting the new year with a clean sheet that thousands try it. Generally speaking, however, those who have the moral stamina to eschew bad habits wait for no more auspicious time than the present moment. Intent to swear off with the new year is too often a fine excuse for over indul gence. "Why not go the limit in the remaining few hours of wickedness is the thought? Conscience is soothed where ordinarily excesses would arouse its voice, for is not one about to sprout wings and soar with the pure of heart and clean of body? There is small hope for those who face the new year in this frame of mind. They merely give promise of supplying more paving material for a certain undesirable locality. Tet we would not discourage anybody, no matter what his state of mind or his weakness of will power, to forego the popular practice of the season. Three days of abstemiousness is better than none at all for the habit-ridden re solver. Nor is the New Tear resolution the sole prerogative of those addicted to vicious or overpowering practices. In trospection will reveal to every person some fault that can be destroyed or minimized by firm resolve. The end of the year is as good a time for bal ancing the books of conscience as it is for balancing the books of trade. It Is as proper a day as any for a new start on the road of high endeavor. PHILOSOPHY AND OPTIMISM. The ideal picture of aa ex-President Is of a contented citizen in re tirement, with ambition behind him and with a spirit of Impartial and philosophical Interest in the sayings and doings of all others and in the movements of the times. Not all ex Presldents have this easy conception of their duties, but more than one has had. Mr. Taft, for example, is an admirable example of what an ex President ought to be so admirable that one is tempted to say that his four years in the White House were only a trying-out experience for his real place In the American regard. He Is far more acceptable as an ex-President than as President. Mr. Taft appears frequently before the public and he speaks with good Judgment alwa fa and usually with hu mor and taste. The other day he made an address before the Brooklyn Y. M. C. A. and some of his remarks are rescued by the Brooklyn Eagle from the routine of the news report. He said: Whca dear old Yale offered m a refuge and an opportunity to talk to someone I aelxed it. for all the talkers are not in the present Administration. Vv'a Americana don't nave to be told we are a treat paople; we admit it. If we oould only set a machine that would alve us food rovernment, foolproof. And we tnink It posainie or every man wno puts Ms hand on the helm tor the flrat time. But finally wa come to the con elusion that wa can't lift ouraal.es by our bootstraps. If I eould act what I have learned by hard experience Into the heada of those boys at Tale. I could reform the world. Wa are sufferlns today from a lack of respect for authority. People won't accept experience. They are foolishly trying- te reach a dead level of happiness. But it Isn't solng to last. I'm aa optimist. It is a rare gift to be an optimist. Mr. Taft is greatly favored in his happy spiritual endowment. He is to be envied. The country needs more optimists say about 80.000,000. RAILROAD MIDDLEMEN. An Interesting paradox in geogra phy and transportation is given In an article published in the Chicago Record-Herald. Here it is: nidniT and Auckland are almost on the other aide of the slobe. ret so far aa fraiaht rates on small shipments of caneral mar nhanriia are concerned, they ara closer to Chlcaro than are San Francisco and other Pacific Coast porta. It sounds uu a, --pipe dream." but any export forwarding acency can supply a diagram showing how it works out. For instance, a Chicago manufacturer ships a small consignment a lass-than- carload lot to a New aeaiana customer. Transportation to Auckland will cost him about 13 60 per 100 pounds. If ha made the same snipment to can rraneiaco or muy other Paciflo Coast port, his freight by the first-class rata would be aooui ij.eu per 100 pounda In other words, the manufacturer can send his produat from Chicago through Van couver or San Francisco to porta of call 7000 miles out In the Paciflo for about 11 per 100 pounda less tnaa It would oost him to ship them merely to San Francisco or Vancouver. The explanation is simple and it has to do with the ingenuity of the oft- despised mlddlernan. The railroad freight rate on less-than-carload ship ments is much higher than the car load rate. Likewise on ocean ship ments there is higher rate on small consignments. Forwarding agencies in Chicago collect small packages for foreign trade) and for Coast trade, too, for that mattercombine them Into carload lots, then when customs regulations permit combine foreign shipments under one bill of lading. deduct their own commission and save the individual small shipper 60 per cent or more on his freight bill. The middleman in this instance on the face of things confers a favor on shipper and consumer. But, as Is true of many other middlemen, . it ought to be possible to dispense with his services to the further advantage of those now aided. The original foun dation of railroad rates was one of favoritism toward the large shipper and in spite of state and Government regulation we have not wholly ria ourselves of Inconsistencies. The in genious middleman points, a way to circumvent them to his own profit and the railroad looks on complacently. If there is profit for an intermediary in consolidating freight shipments it would seem that the railroads them selves could derive a similar profit from the same practice. Such over head expenses as are now due to du plication would thereby be eliminated and under proper administration would revert to the shipper's ad vantage. If the railroads would take over the opportunities independent enterprise has seized, including operation in fact of the express business instead of through controlled companies, which exact their own profit above trans portation, charges, it might be possible to restore railroad finances to a sounder basis without the sought-for increase in rates. Formal introductions are going out of style. They may disappear al most any day and then if you are at a ball or a tea you may go boldly up to anybody you happen to fancy and proceed as if you had been friends from childhood. The fact that two Darsons are at the same social gath ering vouches for both of them. The change of fashion will entail some inconveniences, but, upon the whole. it is sensible. Introductions are a nuisance. RADIUM AXD CANCER. Those who have read Dr. Howard ctaMav' Mcint mnmzlnA article on the radium treatment for cancer must r1 that it nromlaes ereat results. While the learned aujhor is careful to Impress upon the public the fact that an early surgical operation is au wava rloairable. ha also describes the encouraging effects of radium when it is properly applied. By radium emanations a cancerous growth is al most certain to be checked. Often it will be eradicated. One reason why Dr. Kelley does not urge all cancer sufferers to seek ra dium treatment is the scarcity of the element. It Is so rare ana expensive that only an exceptionally fortunate d there can hoDe to avail himself of its power. Hence, even If it were absolutely proved that radium could cure every case or can cer In the world matters must remain ariniit na thiv arA. Onlv a few pa tients could receive treatment unless th-annniv warA anormouslv increased in some manner.' Dr. Kelley, who has well grounded faith in the efficacy of radium to cure cancers, nas miuaiea a scheme to obtain the element in considerable quantities. In company with another physician, anH with anma oooist&nce from the United States Government, he is plan ning to extract radium on a compara tivAiv lnr?A rfl.lA from derjoalts in the West. The carnotlte ore found In PimlnT Vallev. Colorado, will be the source of supply. Since the same rock will also yield uranium and va rnxMum tha vtrAfiion of radium will be Inexpensive and the enterprise mjght be made to furnish a great profit. It is said, however, that Dr. Kelley and his colleague are not seeking fi nancial advantage. xneir principal n,tmna la tn ATtrort a mnnlv of ra dium sufficient to treat every case of cancer in the country which Is likely to be benefited by the emanations. The quantity needed is not so large as one might suppose, it is said mat v grams would be sufficient for all the United States east of Chicago. More over the m nations can be collected In water or upon steel points and are then Just as emcacious ior a lew aays as if they came directly from the ele ment. From all this we may believe that there is good hope ahead for suf ferers from cancer. THE SILVER LINING . During the last few months there has been a slackening up in the great manufacturing industries of the coun try, both East and West Steel and Iron mills have been running at less than capacity; New England textile mills receive new orders of so small volume that they continue to run full time on old orders only. On the Pa-r-ifin Coast the shingle mills of Wash ington are closed and lumber mills are either closed or producing less than their capacity in both Oregon and Washington. The wool industry la de pressed and growers are studying whathop thev shall readjust their busi- Loesa to new conditions or sell their flocks and quit Railroads are mailing fear improvements or extensions and are buying so few cars and engines that the Baldwin liooomotlve Works, for example, has laid off several thou sand men. Building has slackened and few new enterprises Involving large construction are being undertaken. There are two opposing explanations of this condition, forming the extremes of opinion, with various intermediate views which are modifications of these two. The one is that industry has been struck a staggering blow by the new tariff and cannot recover until pro tection is restored to somewhere near the point at which the Dingley act placed it This view is taken by some .n,,fa.ttpAiM who havA fed fat on ex cessive protection and by their politi cal spokesmen, sucn as ex-cyea-aci Cannon, Representative Mann and tciiHnm nrn a Thev talk of bread lines, souphouses, smokeless factory stacks and unempioyea mousanaa. They talked In this strain at the re cent meeting of the Republican Na tional Committee and said that their party needed no other issue on which to go before the people than the .dis astrous effects of the Underwood tariff. At the other extreme are those who see in the slackened speed of industry nothing but a conspiracy of manu facturers deprived of protection and of politicians who have- been driven nmr-a anri nolitical leadership. They discern a design to create ar tificial hard times ana mereoy co erce the people into restoring the standpatters to control of the Re publican party and restoring that party to power under such con trol. They see manufacturers delib erately suffering a present loss In or der to gain swollen profits hereafter. They look at the ebb and flow of trade .oltt(rnJ anartacles and Can see only a political motive in every movement which does not oireciiy con firm their economic theories. We must look for the truth between these extremes. Both are proved to be exaggerations of what are at the most but contributing causes when we extend our survey 'beyond the borders of this republic. There has been a like slackening of industry, a like ex tra caution among investors, a like tightening of the purse strings in Can ada and Europe, as well as the United States. Sir Robert Balfour tells the Times that he does not think there is in this country "any serious depres sion or that hard times are to be feared." He says such depression as there is Is world-wide and much more noticeable In other countries than here, and so could not have been caused by anything done at Washing ton. What he says agrees with the re ports of business conditions abroad which have been published in New Tork papers. The world-wide causes of business depression have been the destruction of capital by the Balkan wars, the ex n.nUi,,, nn war nreDarations by the great powers during the Balkan crisis and the accumulation or money in me European treasuries In anticipation of extension of the war to the great pow ers. The last of these causes has been removed, but recovery from the for- miter 4a e-radual aa new capital is created to replace that destroyed. There have rouowea me imancing w the Balkan States, which is still in ... atuV tha French armv loan of 1260.000.000, which is expected to draw hidden money from French stockings. Simultaneously with these causes of depression and stringency has come the offering on the London market of a much larger volume of corporate securities than could be ab sorbed. These influences have naturally been felt less In this country than in Europe, but to them we have added troubles of our own. These arise from the necessity of readjusting our indus tries to the new tariff and from uncer tainty as to the final shape which the currency bill would take and as to the policy of the Government toward the trusts. Even the most, earnest de fenders of the new tariff cannot deny that manufacturers require a little time to adjust their business to a measure which so vitally affects cost of production and markets. They nat urally slow up, review the situation and look ahead before going on at full speed. Bankers have moved cautious, ly until they knew what demands the new currency system would make and ahat advantages it would afford. Cor porations have not been able to mar ket new securities because the policy of the Government towards big busi ness had not taken concrete shape, ex cept perhaps in the minds of the President and his advisers. These conditions are gradually changing and they change decidedly for the better. Only the old guard Imagines that the people will again consent to disturbance of the tariff until the present law has been given a fair trial. The rest of the people be lieve that industry can live under the Underwood schedules, despite their glaring defects. Passage of the cur rency bill has been welcomed by bank ers and business men alike as a means of enlarging credit within safe limits and of preventing panics, and the opening of the regional banks is looked forward to with confidence and hope. The voluntary surrender of the telephone trust to the Government and the latter"s postponement of proceed ings against the New Haven Road upon the tatter's announced readiness to comply with all its demands evince a conciliatory spirit on the part of both Government and big business which promises to render the new anti-trust bills mainly confirmation of accomplished facts. Instead of long and bitterly contested suits against the trusts we may look for their prompt reorganization within the law, of their own free will under a Gov ernmental policy which so staunch a defender of corporations as the New Tork Times calls "conservative and Just, considerate of all interests in volved." Thus the readjustment of business to new conditions of a pompetitive tariff, emancipated credit and re stored domestic competition have al ready advanced far, with the mini mum of friction and with the maxi mum of speed consistent with sound ness and permanence. That adjust ment to the new tariff is' well along we can Judge from the latest reports that there Is a marked improvement in thA iiAn and atAi trade the barom eter of industry and that copper has "turned the corner." Adjustment to the new banking system and to the anti-trust law is going smoothly. We can safely disregard the alarms of the calamity howlerg and look for busi ness to revive with a spurt all the stronger for the period of stagnation through which it has passed. The huge motor truck, heavily la den, that travels at the rate of 15 miles an hour through city streets is a formidable object to encounter. That rate of speed, reduoed to com prehensive comparison, is about five blocks a minute or twice as fast as a man -on hnn nil f of the wav. When It meets a streetcar, which is always on its own, rlghf-or-way, sometnins must give, and It is not the truck. Amnna- tha alunlfieant facts of the year now closing we must not overlook the printing of S,ouu.uuu ciDies anu . viiKlaa What nthar book can show a like record? Those who hope -nM Aha . V, a Ttnnlr nf RnfllcS los ing its power in the world may well contemplate mis item, xi is ui mom. ..-i, i- ntttirirAn aa miirh aa formei VIMOU J - ly, but Its teachings are still the dom inant factor in civilization. tv. Prlnn of Wled is to be King of Albania and will take a squadron of German lancers with him as a Doay guard. . The Albanians will probably rii-iva nui-ov the canker of a long peace by taking pot shots at the lancers from behind rocks. .Tnis. spon may prove so interesting that the tribes will cease to fight each other. Investigation of the Tammany hag man nan PPflflhAll the nolnt where Dis trict Attorney Whitman and Governor Glynn are rivals in the hunt for the man highest up. was It tor tnis mat "Rn" Mnrnhv deDosed Governor SuL zer? His labors seem only to have put a more efficient pursuer on nis trail. ' Some person, taking pity on poor old John D. Rockefeller, has presented hi -uHth twelve dozen fresh eggs. The old gentleman must feel quite pros perous ana may incune to iuu. n mnrtaie who scratch together the price of one egg of doubtful age. f New Tork suffragists plan another v.11,. tn Aihnnv and the world asks why they don't go in May or June. Perhaps because they prefer mud to dust, shivers to perspirauon. xnu militant suffragist loves to be con trary. ti, a xrntpr wagon aeroplane will do At.a innn-thA-innn stunt January 1 and travel upside down January 2 with John Barleycorn in aisguise at. uw steering wheel. TT-T 1ma V, PAWnP.d U f 10111 thS vy ueu - . - i -an nf holidav expenditures we shall find ourselves in the fire of politics. tm . T-kairo and Food Commission er does not soon lose his zeal, many will quit eating many things they like. a vnrv ohnreh is an old stable. That's the kind of a structure In which the Christian religion ongmateu. n...v ,t.. TomniAi faclnr famine. Mr. Hearst may let the Tellow Peril rest in peace this winter. a ir i.an 'ariai-st force of 4000 has nine Generals. Must be modeled after a Kentucky platoon. t. i. nk Aim. that the frayed-out ends of roads in the city limits were taken care of. a.j .han ort-rAAtnar and auto col lide it is now the car that Is thrown off the track. that the telegraph has about outlived Its usefulness. wrld!ntrs fell off greatly in 1913. But Just wait till leap year. rha wratAi- wasron will be a New Tear's Joke at Copperfleld. umi occupied a pulpit Sunday. He should remain there. j GREAT TERRITOHY INTERESTED. Deepamtiia; sf Colombia 't for Port land's Sole Benefit. PORTLAND,' Dec Z9. (To the Edi tor.) Portland being a seaport city whose shipping has assumed large proportions, the question of deeper waterways necessarily becomes a lead ing and interesting one. Changed conditions coming with the early completion of the Panama Canal will demand safer and the most modern harbor facilities If we are to share the Immense international ocean traffic that is soon to be established on our shores. The recent declaration of 86 steamship lines, both foreign and do mestic, to establish routes to Pacific Coast points is self evident and notice that world-wide interest is being taken in our big Panama enterprise. The geographical and natural ad vantages of Oregon are such that a vary crude conception can only be had of the commanding position that our state will occupy and the wide activi ties and prominence that will be given by the presence of so great a fleet f ocean carriers on our shores. The evolution in marine architecture is one of the wonders of the age. As we compare the tonnage of the ship ping of the world today with that of former periods we find a marked dif ference. Each succeeding year adds greatly to the ever-increasing and gigantic proportions of sea goers. In the earlier history of Portland. many and dangerous obstructions were encountered by the vessels plying to and from this city. The lnnumer able sand bars, submerged logs, the crooked and ever-changing channel, were a constant menace to the ship ping of this port One of the best arguments in favor of a deep waterway to the sea is the fact that the British steamship Algoa recently sailed from this port with a cargo of 10.000 tons. The people of Portland are fast com ing to -realize the commercial and stragetio advantages of a 40-foot chan nel to the sea. This may sound vision ary and seem Impracticable and many Individuals will be doubtful of the plan. But Btop and think of the progress and the splendid work ac compllshed by our Port of Portland by dredging operations in a small way. The Port of Portland was created by our State Legislature to take up the work of deepening and Improving the channel from Portland to the sea, and much can be said of the success In this direction. Supreme right and authority over our navigable waterways is vested tn the Federal Government The Port of Portland has been authorized and per mitted to have subordinate control of our rivers. This Institution is a separ ate and distinct branch of our govern, ment it is granted, arbitrary, self-per petuating and tax-levying powers. It is maintained and supported by a spe clal tax levied against the people of Multnomah County. The deepening of the river is not merely a Portland project. It is an In terstate project It is the initial step and the beginning of a public and maratlme undertaking which will give Oregon international prestige and place the Columbia River in the class as one of the first seaports In the world. The result of the operations of the Port of Portland have been effective and the splendid work speaks for it self. But we must progress. We must have a greater and better Port of Portland. We must have strong and active Federal co-operation. Hence, while making no attempt to censure the Federal Government for delays and limited appropriations, the interests of Oregon and the great In land Empire go hand in hand with the furtherance and completion or this deep river plan. E. VERBTEEG. Aa to Fnuk James. PORTLAND, Deo. 28. (To the Edi tor.) (1) Did Frank James,, the Mis souri ex-outlaw, serve a penitentiary sentence when he gave himself up? (3) Has this same James been in this city within the past five years? A SUBSCRIBER. (1) Frank James was sentenced to a nfinitentiarv term for murder, follow ing his surrender, but was paroled by Governor Crittenden, on an agreement made, it is said, before the outlaw sur rendered, that he should not have to serve time. (2) As far as Portland officers know, Frank James has not been in Port land in the last five years. It was re ported from Spokane last Winter that James was In the Coeur d'Alene moun tains trying to regain his health, but this rumor was not verified. KNELL OF THE OLD YEAR. A tide of strange thoughts whose waves rush fast. As an echo rolls back from the past. With a mournful swell, Like a funeral bell. As it sounds the knell Of the death to tell. Of brief moments, that circled at last The year that murmurs I am of the past Like a shadowy wreath of faint smoke. To my fancy its mystic voice spoke, Like the sobbing sigh Of a storm Just nigh. Ere its rage swells high. Neath the frowning sky. As 'tis caught In a cave of the sea, Weirdly whispers, O list unto me. As I first caught earth in my embrace What conflicting thoughts surged through thy race, Some cried with alarm, A foe! fraught with .harm. Part gaze A in a charm. Of Joy bright and warm. Others still and unmoved, did appear. Untouched either by hope or by fear. To the hapless whose cruel unrest I seemed naught but an agonized test To them, what was worse. Than new lease of a curse. That did them Immerse, Doomed longer to nurse. My offspring, months, gloomy, defect ive, Looming ghastly through misery's per spective. Happy souls hailed my coming a Joy Of pure gold, without any alloy. Each feature expressed, Though already blest With how keen a zest Earth's Joys were caressed. To their vision bright forms twelve did kiss. From their lives every feeling but bliss. But those, seeming indifferent cold, What a world of despair lay untold. Deep hid in the heart A keen rankling dart Enough oft the smart Soul and body to part. Seem dead to the world they dwell in. Ice on the surface, fierce fire within. But I wafted them on with my wing. Where I, too, must succumb to my King, Resistless my flight Not grief's blackest night Nor joy's brightest light Despair's hopeless blight Could retard for one moment the spell That ends in the last breath of fare well. Oil, farewell, like the sob of a moan. Melted Into that awful unknown, I stood by the brink, 'Twas mortal to shrink, I saw the year sink. And could not but think That past present and future must sing. We're but slaves of the "Almighty King." P. F. ROSENTHAL. Twenty-five Years Ago From Tha Orezonian of Dpc SO. Walla Walla, Dec, 29. Evidence was presented before Justice Whitman ae-ainst six parties acmised of mali ciously driving stock on the tracK. ot the O. R. & N. in the big cut near Touchet nivmnt, rtAA eo. A mass meeting last evening elected delegates to the atatnhonrt convention at r.uensourK aa u,(a. T It Mnvnan Pflntain William McMicken, Judge M. A. Root Secretary N. H. Owlngs, General K. .. u erien, t x. r,Vav p t RaiiI. Thomas H. Cavanaugh, George D. Shannon, and Patrick Dolan. Astoria, Dec 29. S. Schlussel, of thla cltv. for many years engaged in the clothing business, died this morn lng In his 64th year. Rt TTalana Or. Dan. 29. Dr. Cliff reports two cases of varioloid in Jhe lamny ot tioua owasei. Secretary Strubla, of the Oregon lin ing out lithographed photographs o Portland ror aiBtriDution in uia aau road offices of the East About a week ago Bam L, Simpson stepped on a rusty nail, which pene trated one side of his foot The In jured member swelled and became very painful. The evangelist D. L. Moody, leaves for Salem next Tuesday. Christmas eve the friends of the Taylor-street Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday school presented Hon orable John F. Caples with a massive and beautiful gold-headed cane. The O. R. & N. Company has deter mined to build a new Bteamer for traf fics on the Willamette. The Multnomah Streetcar Company has taken up the old turntable on the north extremity of their First-street line and are replacing It with a new one. There Is! but little doubt that by next June Mount Tabor will have a railway. Half a Century Ago From The Oreeonlan of Dec do, 1868. E. P. Fitzgerald has lately returned from Boise and furnishes us with the latest news from that quarter. There Is so little security for life in the basin that the question of forming a vigilance committee has been seriously debated. Pack trains continue to leave Umatilla for the Boise country. The ruling rate of freight is 40 cents per pound, and It is, freely offered at that Samuel Bunton, of Wa'.la Walla, who tad been in the Beaverhuaa mines dur ing the past season, lately arrived at Salt Lake and on uecemDer i was stabbed to death by Jason Luce, an ex press driver on the Bannock route. Captain John F. Noble has been ac quitted of the charges preferred against him and ordered to De restored to qui The rebels are reduced to making brandy out of persimmons. At the Masonic Hall Monday evening a magnificent gold-headed manzanlta cane and a Templar's Jewel were pre- , T. .. . Maetl, C1 XJ T.awla who had Just vacated the Oriental chair of Willamette L,odge, no. a. rne omcers elect of the two lodges were Installed by M. W. John McCraken, grand master, and an oration was delivered by P. G. At Amory .ttoioroo. Wells, Fargo & Company shipped on tho San Francisco steamer last evening J175.000; Allen & Lewis, 120,000; tx. w. Corbett 2000. n is TXTniiArnn tha laasAA and mana- am, nf Aha WUlnmattA Theater, left on the steamer for San Francisco to bring up some greater auracuuna. Tnaanh fitfrt whrl ft ETA. Of WiberB & .qtrnwhrirlirA. hoot and shoe dealers, left on the steamer for a trip to the East Cadets at West Point. ARLINGTON, Or., Deo. 26. (To the Editor.) Please tell me who the cadet at West Point Is from our district at the present time? How, when and by whom was he appointed? ZARA SNELL. Each Senatorial and Congressional district is entitled to have one cadet at the. academy. There are 40 appoint ments at large specially conferred by the President At present whenever a cadet has finished three years of bis course his successor may be admitted. Nominations are made after competi tive examination or direct by the Rep resentative. Appointments are made made one year in advance. For further information write to the Representa tive of the Congressional district at Washington, D. C In this instance the Representative Is N. J. Sinnott. - -x " Buffalo tn Oregon Country, OREGON CITY, Or., Dec 28. (To the Editor.) "A famine threatens the Up per Missouri," was the news brought from Montana by the steamer Yellow stone in 1832. "The buffalo have dis appeared!" "The nerds cnaaea so reienuessiy on the Missouri were struggling through tha Bitter Root Mountains, to appear in vast throngs on the plains or Idaho" Quoted from "The Conquest, page 428. Like causes undoubtedly induced like effects at other times. EVA EMERY DYE. Paste for Photographs. PORTLAND. Dec 28. (To the Edi tor.) Please give me a formula for making paste or glue to be used for mounting pictures on glass., u. u. J. From 'any dealer In photo supplies a prepared paste can be obtained that will prove more satisfactory than home preparations. Hospital Is Church EnterprlaeA McMINNVILLE, Or., Dec 27. (To the Editor.) What church does Bishop Scaddinc represent? what society con ducts the Good Samaritan institution? ELDER M. J. CARMICHAEL. 1. Protestant Episcopal Church. 2. The Good Samaritan Hospital is conducted under the auspices of the Protestant Episcopal churches of the Diocese of Oregon. Charity in Kentucky. TYEE, Or., Dec. 26. (To the Editor.) Please tell me if a mother living in Kentucky with a helpless husband and five children under 14 years can ob tain a pension, or if she can't, is there any way to help them, as they are starving? MRS. J. R. CLAYTON. Public measures for relief in such oases are local laws, and The Oregonlan cannot supply information as to Ken tucky statutes. Where to Get Information. PORTLAND, Dec 28. (To the Edi tor.) Please state when did our mod ern calendar of days, months and years come Into use? And by whom formu lated and printed in present form? SCHOOL BOY READER. References on - the subject may be consulted at the Public Library or the Information may be found In any large dictionary. OREGONIAN ANNUAL- Big Edition to Be Issued January 1, 1914, a Complete Review of State's Progress. AH features of the year's de velopment in Oregon will bo in eluded in The Oregonian Annual. The number will be complete in every particular. No phase of ad vancement in Portland or in the state will be neglected. For many . years thei Annual has been pre eminent in its field, and the forth coming issue is fully up to the high mark established. Its text is con cise, reliable and authoritative and its pictoral pages have not been surpassed. Some of the many in teresting features are here out lined: Preparing for the World's Ships Xever before has the great Co lumbia River Basin, with its area of 250,000 square miles, been so aroused to the necessity of prepar ing for a greater ocean commerce. Just what has been done toward deepening the river, not only to Portland, but to give direct ship ping to Eastern Oregon, Eastern Washington and Idaho, is related. Men of the different sections write of the particular interest their lo calities have in the Northwest's wonderful waterway. Uncle Sam's millions are making of the Colum bia one of the world's finest har bors; but there is much to accom plish and Oregon will do her share. Effect of the Panama Canal This is a problem in which the Pacific Northwest is vitally inter ' ested. What advantages will Ore gon and Washington gain in mar keting their lumber, grain, fruit and other products! What is the out look for immigration and what will be the character of the people we must assimilate t These questions will be answered by men who have made a careful study ot the situ ation. American Consuls Will Contribute So far as the Pacific Coast is concerned, no more interesting articles have been written than those prepared especially for the Annual by American Consuls abroad. They deal with, commerce and emigration to the Pacific Coast which will follow the completion of the canal, and are written at first hand by men who know conditions in the leading foreign ports. The writers will include Consuls-General at Liverpool, Hamburg, Bordeaux, Havre, Vienna, Copenhagen and Christiania. Portland's Harbor Needs Portland is fully alive to tha necessity of preparing for greater ocean commerce, exemplified by the coming in 1913 of two new Oriental steamship lines and the present or ganization of an Alaskan service, as well as the promise of many ad ditional carriers when the canal is open. The Annual will have a full page drawing of Portland's present harbor. Pictorial Portland Section i One entire section of 16 pages will be devoted to Portland pictures. It will contain full-page photo graphs of the seven largest build ings erected in 1913, and other pages in which the city's principal business blocks will be grouped in new and striking style. There will be a remarkable two-page drawing of the central business section, which required two months' work by an Oregonian artist. This sec tion will show some of the results of Portland's building expenditure of more than $80,000,000 during the past five years. Oregon Industries Progressing The agricultural and other indus tries of the state at large will not be overlooked. Text and pictures will call attention to gains made along many lines. Such subjects as good roads, including the Pacific Highway and the Columbia Eiver Highway, and important new leg islation will be covered. Pmcrmsit of Oregon Counties Summarized There will be a brief, definite summary of development from each Oregon county. These reviews will give the output of various com modities, price of land, new indus tries established, railroads built and similar information. Pictures of buildings erected in Oregon cities in ' 1913 will accompany thU synopsis. Results of New City Charter Mayor Albee and the Commis sioners will tell of results of Port land's new commission charter. All phases of the city's material and social advancement will be reported. Special Staff of Writers More than 80 prominent men of Oregon and Washington will write articles for the Annual. Every sub ject will be handled by a con tributor who is particularly well qualified to write on that topic The Annual will also contain the usual reliable and complete statistical re view of the year. ORDER THE ANNUAL NOW An order blank for this edition will be found in today's paper. In Portland the Annual will be sold on the streets and at news stands, in green wrapper ready for mailing.