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THE MORNING OREGbXTAX THTIRSD Af, OCTOBER 21, 1913. -.. -. - - ; Ir- : f PORTLAND. OREGON, "Entered at Portland. Oregon, Foatorrlce. as secona-class matter. Subscription Kates Invariably In advance. By Mali.) Tally. Sunday Included, one year .S8.00 Dal y. Sunday included, six months Dally, Sunday Included, three moathi ... 2.2o Dally. Sunday included, one monta . Daily, without riuuday. one year ........ a.Vi Dally, without Sunday, six months A. Dally, without Hundav. three montha .... 1. Dally, w Ithout Sunday, on month ...... Weekly, one vmr ............... 1 Sunday, one year .............. . li.SO Sunday and Weekly, one year ........... l H v I ' mrrif r " Dally, Sunday Included, on year. ...... &.O0 Daily, b'unday included, out month.. ... .7 ' Haw to Kemit Send costofflce money or der, express order or personal check on your torai DanK. stamps, coin or currency are i sender's risk, tilve postoffice address In lull. including county and state. Fawtaa-a Rates 12 to la paces, 1 cent; IS to H'l paces. 2 cents: S4 to 46 paces, 3 cents 50 to GO naacs. cents: 52 to 7tJ pages. I cents. 78 to U2 pages, a. cents. orelgn postace. double rates. Eastern Business Office Verree &. Conk Iln. Brunswick building. New York; Verrea a: conklln. steger building. Uhlcsgo; aau Franclaco representative, K, J. .fcHdwell. Market street. PORTLAND, THIR&DAY. OCT. 81. 1S16. WASTED ENERGY. . A considerable number of the peo ple of Portland are at present, it seems. In need of a first primer les son on. the subjects of railroad rates and movement of commodities and their bearing: on the relative customs receipts of Portland and Puget Sound The City of Astoria has had, since the day the railroad down the south bank of the river was completed to that city, the same rate that applies to Portland and Puget Sound on com modities that originate east of Denver, The gains in shipping indicated by the customs records at the Puget Sound cities have been in those com modules. " The common-rate sought by Astoria affects grain. In grain shipments Portland has held its own. The Im pression that the O.-W. R. & N. Com pany carries wheat through Portland to Puget Sound is not born out by the ' facts. A common, rate exists, but the traffic does not move. Let us repeat it. The loss In ship ping on the Columbia River has been in transcontinental business, not in grain. On transcontinental business Astoria has been on an equal rate footing with Portland and Puget Sound for twenty-five years. How the granting of a common-rate point to Astoria on grain, which still moves in normal volume through Potrland, will turn the scale has not been explained. It cannot be. , There is a general desire in Port land that Astoria may work out its : destiny untrammeled by selfish inter efts here or elsewhere. But it is clear that Portland's destiny is not to be . worked out by heeding the clamor oC uninformed newspapers or real estate men who have all at once set them selves up as traffic experts. - The rate question now in popular agitation was presented to the Inter estate Commerce Commission at a for mal hearing in 1913. Everyone inter ested, presumably, was heard. A de cision is expected at any time and it in not to be supposed that a judicial tribunal at this time would be affected ;by indorsement of or opposition to Astoria's contention on the part of commereal bodies and commercial in terests in Portland. . The object of this article therefore Is not to discredit the Astoria case but to voice a practical admonition to the numerous organized bodies in Port land now evincing an interest in the matter against overlooking the real problems that confront Columbia River commerce. ' The real impediment to Columbia irtiver commerce has been the bar at the mouth of the river. Only some thing under two years ago did the im provement on that channel become such that steamship liners could enter and depart with certainty in all wea ther. Since this improvement has been realized the time has been too short to attract the liners here. All of them were getting all of the freight they could possibly handle from the ports of call they were making. They I did not have to have a second port of call in the Northwest, with .its ad ditional port and pilotage charges, to Increase their loadings. The fundamental reasons underlying our steamship situation may be divided into two studies. One is through freight, import and export. The other is Jocal freight, import and export. On the through freight the problem is to get the large shippers and railways to agree to give vessels who give serv- ice to this port a regular offering. This problem has no relationship whatever to a common-point grain rate at As toria; in fact, there is greater con venience in operating directly to a large city. The problem of the local offerings is one of compelling the ship pers to recognize this as their prin cipal region of business, to put as much of their business on the Colum bia River direct line service as can be done within cost limits. All of these problems the Trade and Commerce Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce has been studying ever since it existed, and the old Chamber Was studying them before with an ef fort to organize the business element of the community to back up and sup port absolutely the line that was se cured for this port. in audition, these agencies have been endeavoring to secure the loca tion in Portland of productive indus tries that would provide overseas traf-IH- or manufacture raw imports for distribution throughout the interior. As to these activities the real essen tials to the growth of commerce there is now promise of a fair degree hf. successful consummation. But this work will be seriously handicapped if the whole energies of the community are to be centered upon an Issue which has no bearing on the case. and a national anti-treating law may ronow. Now that the law. is a success in Liverpool, though it failed in Tacoma, 11 may be safe to write it into the Ore gon statutes. True, the intervention of prohibition will shortly deprive the treating habit of its worst aspects. But treating is an abuse of many phases and should be attacked vigorously. It has gotten such a hold upon us that we are the victims of it in a deplor able measure and it affects us not only in an economic way but morally as well. As a promoter of insincerity me name is without a rival. How short of dishonest is the prac tice or two women on a streetcar ouib- bling over the privilege of paying the carfare? How much sincerity is there m tne insistence of a man that he be permitted to buy the dinner or theater tickets for the whole party? What moral distinction Is there between ac tually cheating a friend and delaying our pocketward movement until he has gotten out his purse and Daid the bill? .Furthermore, the really liberal and polite man always gets the worst of such transactions. He who is too hon est for subterfuge invariably foots the bill. Often he is the one of the party who can least afford the sacrifice. But custom .once established is difficult to break, and the only practicable way we can see out of this foolish vice of extravagance and misguided liberality is through an initiative measure. It is up to some of our several promoters of human welfare to launch the neces sary petitions. NOT SECESSION. One of the most nmuHnp tl.in.-n in tv, a political way. that has happened for years Is the position taken by iie Oregonian in preaching, -states rights" to the Democrats. Time was when the mention of states rights would almost cause the Ink on our big con temporary to turn rtti SaUm ni.,i Journal. There was a time when state rights meant state sovereignty, and state sovereignty meant the dissolution of tne Union. The Oregonian, then as now, in common with millions of patri otic citizens, declared the supremacy oi tne union, and denied the suprem acy of the states. The issue was deter mined by the arbitrament of a tre mendous civil war. The states lost and the Union lives. The Oregonian is pleased if it has contributed In any way to popular entertainment m a discussion over serious and even vital matter; and it rejoices over the unexpected diacoverv mat its solemn contemporary has a sense of humor. But it ought to be easier to incite a spirit of hilarity over tne remarkable reversal of the Demo cratic attitude toward the Federal Government and its centralized powers. For example, the Democratic platform of 1912 that sad and mutilated and nabby document, with none so Door to do it reverence vle-nronsw h re nounced as "usurpation" the efforts of "our opponents to deprive the states of any of the rights reserved to them and to enlarge and magnify by indi rection the powers of the Federal Gov ernment." But now, alas! the Democrats are in power at Washington and the poor states are forgotten ; for every Federal omcial, great and small, from the President down to the most menial employe, is seeking by indirection to enlarge and magnify the powers of the B'ederal Government. The Oregonian has never failed to phold the right of state r munici pality to control its own local or -do mestic concerns. That is auite a dif ferent thing from the seditious doc trine of secession and nullification. TREATING. Hearken to the glad tidings from Liverpool. The rernicious. odious and nefarious treating habit has been" es chewed, abolished, terminated, dis posed of and dispensed wlth Every one is buying his or her own. Not be- cause politeness has vanished from the good townspeople nor because prodi gality doesn't continue to flourish. It has taken the majesty of the law to break up the practice. Xot the mere writing of a statute, but the rigorous enforcement of its provisions, which" landed some scores of the sons of lib erality in the toils. The penalty pro vided has a limit of $500 attached. Report has it that those of bibulous inclinations have fallen short in their consumption by something like an equivalent of the Rnglish Channel. Some of the worst victims of the treat ing habit have actually gotten sober in the interim and, we may assume, laid by something to pay their taxes with. All in all the new law is hav ing; such a fine effect that its adontion in other cities is seriously considered I STILL MISSING: $1,000,000. Commission government has come ut triumphant under peculiar cir umstances. For example, the cost of paving has dropped 21 cents in Portland. "It is one of the many things that proves- commission gov ernment valuable for the things it as- eliminated in Portland." cries triumphant herald. But whv so modest? Let's admit that the Port land Commission is omnipresent and omnipotent. The cost of paving has ropped in all Northwest cities and in the- Last. The Portland municipal government must have done it.- Come to think of it. one can build a home or a business block cheaper now than when the last Council was in power. Wonderful: Again: "Special agents of the pub lic service and . paving, corporations used to go on the floor of the cham ber hen the Council was in session and whisper secret things into the willing ears of Coiincilmen." Do they do it now? Xay. nav. Paid lobbyists also used to go on the floor or the Legislature of Washington. Ore gon and California and whisper secret tnings into. the ears of willing Legis lators. But they do so no longer and have ceased to make public appear ance in most of the Council cham bers. Thus has the influence for good of the Portland City Commission been truly wonderful. - Of course, no credit is due to the progress in civic and po litical righteousness that has inde pendently swept the Pacific Coast. But then argument like the fore going is needed to bolster up a sys tem which promised to save the citv $1. 000, 000 a year and has gone the other way. tner aneia among more remote towns and villages. We may soon- see great autobuses bowling along the roads throughout Oregon after the manner of the old-time stage coach. The jitney may thus become the means or bringing remote rural regions into close touch with the city without the great expanse and elaborate organ ization of a railroad. The jitney's future lies only alorg lauuuat unes. it is not found in small-car competition with established street-car service. tYHEKE ARE THOSE WICKED FOWEB MEN? Quoting a dispatch to The Orego nian stating that Hugh L. Cooper, of New Tork, representing capitalists who built the Keokuk dam, would proceed with a project to invest $10,000,000 in power development on the Pend d'Orellle River if the Ferris "bill were enacted, the Journal asks: , Where are the rotund gentlemen of the sob squad who at the recent water-power conference" entertained us with those hair raising predictions that tha wicked Ferris bill would kill vater-power "development" ? Where Indeed? Are they "some where along the front" now lobbying indirectly for passage of the till with offers of large gobs of monev foe in vestment under its terms? The spook chasing Journal formerly saw in the waier--ower Conference a cmurnir. acy of the power Interests to kill the Ferris bill and to grab the power sites. It now hails and welcomes one of the power interest spokesmen an a. friend of that legislation. Surely the power men cannot be at the sum a time hnth friends and enemies of the bill. xne attitude of the Western tt on the Ferris bill is prompted by motives entirely different from th of the power interests. The Western states oppose it from a determination! to control tneir own affairs and to suf ier no encroachment nn th. v. If the bill should be made satisfactory or is now satisfactory to power men and should still infringe on the rights me --mies, opposition by the states win continue unabated FUTURE .OF THE JITNEY. What is the' future- of the jitney? That question is suggested by the fail ure of Portland to regulate it and by its persistence in the face of mathe matical proof that its owner must end in bankruptcy; also by the action of Oregon City in adopting regulations and license fees so drastic as to drive it out of business. In defiance of mathematics there are still meh who are willing to take the off chance of success, as there are men who try to. beat the unbeatable same of Wall street or roulette. The man who hns no-job but who lias i,n automobile and the price of gasoline cannot resist the temptation to pick up a few nickels in the jitney business, though he may wrack his car to pieces and so destroy his capital without ac cumulating means of buying a new car. Until business becomes so irisk that there are jobs for all, the-crop cf new recruits for the army of jitney drivers is not likely to fail. But longer-headed jitney men have begun to secure themselves ..gainst bankruptcy by substituting the ointi bus carrying twenty or thirty passen gers for the small car carrying five or six. The business may thus be put on a profitable footing. Instead, .of competing with the trolley liiie .id causing both to lp.se money,, the jitrty mey take to a populous suburb which has no electric cars and may become a feeder to the trolley. It may give the trolley company the benefits of an extension without the heavv expanse of laying track and providing cars. , As paved highways are. built ' into the country, large jitney buses are already extending their traffic far- DISPELLING OCR- DELUSIONS. Two great ' American delusions are aia Dy tne Chicago Tribune to be That with ona hanri H.H K.t.t i can lick any nation in the world and thai humanity In general la our chief concern Our preparations for National ri fense, under the influence of the war prove that one of these delusions is shaken. Our Government's treatment of Mexico should go far to cure us of otner. Xot until we saw great nations fall upon each other with the armed strength of their entire male popula tion did -we awaken to the necessity of defending ourselves. We had been listening to tne talk of ourselves as invincible and of peace as perpetual "..in e naa actually come to believi it ana to act upon it. If the attack had been made upon us by some Euro pean nation instead of by the several auuns or Europe upon one another, we might have ceased to xiKt o. ie tion. We are fortunate that the need of National self-defen strated in the case of other nations uioieaa or in our own. Having been larerelv wnunuauon of slaughter in Mavi fOr ITl fm tVion a . - -" " mu ana one-nair vn,. ru and having refused even to avenge the murder of our own citizens in that country, the less we prate about -our superior regard for humanity the bet ter. We have done e-rent ,.-,..... ..umanity, out so have other nations. "C imve aone much for Re rinm K France, Britain and Holland, though under the strain or threat of war, have '"i ineir arms, red anH ,.in, i uuiiuicusi or tnousands of Belgian refu Uir rmti ; J , . - evinijt iiu Ul our aelusirtna n. .ua. oecome wider awake to the stern facts of the world's life and mav in come less bumptious and more careful of our own security. We may also idni to ao oetter service to humanitv If we keep our eyes open to the good done by other nations as well as by ourselves and if we keen them r,r. the respects in which we have fallen short as well as to those in which we c iiaen io our duties. JEAN HENRI F.1BRE. Who has not heard of Christopher w,u,,,"i". uiecoverer or a new world? But how many have heard of Jean iieu" rapre, discoverer of a new uni verse? Fabre is dead at the advanced ut ninety-two years, the first eighty-two- of which he lived" without ni.vone Knowing very much about him and his interesting researches. In the iu .years since belated recognition was visited upon his peculiar genius his praise has been sung in many tongues. ...uus ie woria is not yet ac quainted with him. But his fame win spreao. ienn Fabre. overlooks i hl lifotimA X.f . i . , . ... . -- a. uuoy worio, will be hel in mind long after many popular mv,. ut ma nay nave perished from memory. ....t.oC rut iaia Dare was wiai oi tne insects. Under his gentle, i.ir.t.-.a scrutiny, mey ceased to .be icie crawling, pests and took on strangely grotesque or romantic - as pects. He was not content, with nti ..tiuraiisis. to subject cell and proton plasm to microscopic examinati.-in a, .a chemical test. He delved into th. iiv ana naoitations of this strange realm iie icuticeu nis observations to literature of rare- charm. "Tf T write for men of learning," he once explained, -.'who will one day try to unravel the problems of the insect mind, I. write also, I write above oil for the youthful. I want to make them love the natural hisf-irv tif others make them hate; and that is "., wiuie Keepine- str ctlv tr. th. uoiuain oi irutn, I avoid the scientific prose wnicn too often, alas se0, borrowed from some Iroouoia Idiom And so "He worked, keeping to the truth in his observations and .-nnii,- ions. but finding simple Doetio .Im pression in recording what he found. He spent his long years in the strange universe he had discovered. H in.t sight of the fretfulness of this other woria in tne weird romances and oc currences of the insect world vr viewed their wars, romances fn.i. tries, loves, hates and activities as he might have observed, the conduct nt mortals. huh inexhaustible patience resourcefulness and industrv, the old' man fairly inhabited this other realm, emerging into human guise only long enough to recount what he had noted for the delectation of his fellow mor tals. Beetles, flies, ants, weevils, scor pions, moths, even grasshoppers, claimed years of study; and their habits 'were recorded in successive volumes, the -"Souvenirs Entomolo giques." He depicted the conflicting emotions and morals of this quaint world, now telling of dire tragedies, now of wondrous gentleness and de votion. It was he who heralded atro cities" in the domain of Tachyt.-s and Ammophila. those insect mo'nstt-s who are endowed iwiUi . suck marvelous 1 instincts of cruelty that they know ex actly where to strike their quarry in order to paralyze the nerve .centers. He exposed the female scorpion, wnicn devours its mate before th iionejmoon nas waned; the con scienceless heusopsis, which nature equips with shield and blade to slay tiny brothers and sisters as they lie helpless in their trundle beds. When he has harrowed us with these terrors he leads us to observe the domestic ants in their gentle pursuits: th courtly Osmia bee patiently waiting in the cocoon until her sister is ready to emerge, and the thousand and one in u-iuents or nre among, these strange creatures, incidents which have striking similarity to our own ro- mantfc sphere. It is the Fabre interpretations that give to these tiny creatures their hold of interest. Had he not been half ooet and Kalf naturalist no doubt we should yet be observing all these phenomen in hard,, scientific phrases. The pray ing mantis, lying in wait for its prey in attitude of devotion, would remai nothing more than a diminutive insect with an elaborately technical name, its unspeakable hypocrisy and un speakable . villainy would have re mained undetected. It took the poetic imagination of Fabre to interpret and gauge the baseness of its deeds. Fabre's own story is one of hard snip and wretchedness. Born in an obscure French village of poverty- stricKen peasants, his life was a con tinual struggle against adversity. He managed to gain a fragmentary edu cation through hard work and harder knocks, after which he set about srar- dening. Early in life he acquired his ronaness for natural history, which later claimed as much of his time was not consumed by the necessity o seexing tnat which keeps bodv and soui together. The great Darwin cam across him and termed him "the in comparable observer," but it is doubt ful if few outside his Immediate surroundings knew anything about his work until ten years a.go, when the great Belgian Maeterlinck, himself an observer of bee life and lore, came upon the old man, interpreted his work and heralded him in a volume -which at once aroused universal Interest in the quaint w-orker. Thereupon the French government looked him up and saw to it that ho did not want for the actual necessities of life. His books came into a wider demand and were translated into for eign languages, including- English. Bu the simple scientist-philosopher kept to his humble lot, never deserting that grotesque universe in which he had round solace from his own world through -so many generations. Now that tie has gone, such is the value of nis works that a fickle world will awaken to realize his true worth and sing praises and appreciation Into tors that can no longer hear. Carranza appears to have profited by his defiance of and long resistance to American suggestions and mandates iSot only has the Administration re versed itself to the point of recognizing Carranza, but now is setting about giv ing him assistance. An embargo on arms leaves Carranza's enemies with out fresh supplies of munitions, so that he should be able to find martial suc cess, easy so far as armed and organ ized resistance is concerned. But if this measure is good now, why not months ago? Why the long delay of non-effective intermeddling and weak diplomatic '.interference which has served to drag Mexico. to the brink of utter ruin and multiply horrors which are an affront and outrage to civili zation? Exports of war munitions are begin nlng to move in great volume. The total for July was $43,000,000, against xi-0,100,000 in January, and J22.100. 000 in March, or more than in the two months combined. This total in cluded $6,800,000 for motor tracks. against only fQ,2Q0 in July, 1914 i,oo,ooo for firearms, against $316. 000; $9,800,000 for horses, against io3,000! $401,000 for- horseshoes. against $5900. But war munitions had barely got into.motion in that month and the volume will show immense in crease for August and Septe-mber. When to this is added the export of grain, which is now fairly begun, the balance in our favor will reach figures tnat will seem fabulous. London says Germany has lost the war. Berlin says Great Britain is beaten already. The E'rench say vie tory is certain and the Russians say mey haven't caught their second wind All of which leads us to suspect that we shall be compelled to await the true answer until the issue has been carried- somewhat farther. - In the meantime there are evidences that the fracas hasn't really gotten a good start. And just to'think that we don't know exactly, where the future first lady stands on woman's suffrage. Of course it may be that her influence will not affect National issues yet that, too, -is an uncertain quantity; The clever wife often has a greater influence on the husbirnd than that individual ever sus pects. The suffragists can be counted upon t6' interview Mrs. Gait at the earliest opportunity. The Indianapolis News tells of a South Bend couple who were married on the 13th of the month and have had thirteen children, three of whom were born on the 13th of the month. There may be an argument between advo cates and opponents of race suicide as to whether 13 was a mascot or a hoodoo in that case. Escape of interned German officers from Norfolk, Va., could have been possible only through negligence of the naval officers responsible for. their care. Their carelessness reflects on American neutrality. Khvostoff, Russian Minister of the Interior, .says Germany has lost the j war and is stalling. Nevertheless she is making some permanent improve ments in the concrete lines in Russia. Zealots who insist on one day of rest for everybody by closing every thing on that day do not go far enough. They should provide work for the six days. A great many people can go on the excursion to Mount Angel Saturday ho have little idea of the Molalla Valley and learn much. Salem thinks it wants a public mar ket, though the Capital City is a com munity where almost everybody has garden room. Having been recognized by Pan- America. General Carranza can now complacently comb his whiskers. Stars and Starmakers By Leone Csuas Baca. European War Primer Py KatJonsd Ctssiiphlcil Soder. Actress is hit by a milk wagon, says headline. Driver was possibly trying to hitch his wagon to a star. Charlotte Walker is appearing in iew xorx at the Booth Theater as leading woman with E. H. Sothern. The Play is "The Two Virtues," a com edy In four acts by Alfred Sutro. Mrs, Sothern (Julia Marlowe) has positively retired permanently she says. -Anna Held arrived from Europe on the steamer St. Louts last Thursday afternoon. Six hours later Oliver Mo rosco. who is affiliated with the Para mount Company, had obtained her sis nature to a contract for rv feature pic ture. For her labor in posing before the camera Miss Held will receive $2 000. Later on, according to Mr. Moros eo's arrangement, she v. -ll appear in a new musical play. Anna Held is one of the few promt nent stars who have not yet been seen in pictures. . Anna's daughter. Lione, has jus come a cropper in musical comedy. 6h and mother are not particularly good friends since Lione went on the stage against Anna's wishes. Lione's name is Carrera. She is a daughter by Anna Held's first marriage. And now comes Frederic McKay, erstwhile husband of Blanche Ring, and manager now for Miss Franklin and Mr. Green. He was indignant when he heard the story. "I shall, protect Miss Franklin In every way," he said, "and the treat ment which' she has been compelled to endure cannot go on. The taking away of her drawing-room was only one o many like, occurrences. One thing absolutely shall do. I'll sue the rail way company or the Pullman company, whichever was responsible for her los ins her room. I have the ticket for i in my possession. It calls for drawing room A on the train leaving Pittsburg at 12:05 A. M., October 3. The train men would not let her have It." Two other kindly souls who re not crocheting each other a Christmas tidy are William Faversham and a waiter in a hotel in Syracuse, N. Y. Mr. Faversham, while appearing in Syracuse, was breakfasting one morn lng In the grillroom of the hotel. Julie Opp, his wife, attempted to enter the room to join him, and was rudely in tercepted by the German waiter. Mr. Faversham saw his wife's predicament and Germany and England clashed again. Mr. Favrrsham'j choice of words Is reported to have been made with keen appreciation of the exigencies of the situation. The manager of the hotel upheld the waiter in his action, and Faversham, accompanied by Miss Opp and other members of the -company, immediately moved to another hostelry. A cynical actorman says in an in terview, "The woman of today is i failure to most men she is a joke." And yet most men pride themselves on being able to take a joke. Serbia is about to get hers and long way from Tipperary." 'its In Canada, Ottawa, to be exact, the native sons and daughters are ac claiming Sophie Tucker for bringing them a new patriotic classic. It hap pened this way. Sophie, who is Amer ican to ner ringer tips, had a large hunch that singers in vaudeville and in musical comedy with songs that go great in the United States frequently hare crossed the line into Canada and found their repertoire did not fit, re gardless of how inspiring the music might be.,. The Canadians are unable to work up any enthusiasm over "Star Spangled Banner" numbers, such as are written by John Philip Sousa and by he authors of "America, I Love You.' This particular song in the last three weeks - has proved a great big hit weekly In almost every theater in New York City, and presumably throughout the country. At any rate, it was in Sophie Tucker's repertoire when- she reached Montreal. Miss Tucker was sure the Canadians would like the music, and she consid erea tne words Jingly. She made up her.mlnd the song was going to stay in her repertoire and that she was going to make It a hit. The rotund come dienne accomplished both results by making a change of just one word. The way she sang the song was: "England, I Love You." see An actress has sued her husband for divorce because he stutters. Reckon she didn't notice it during the ceremony. John- Drew is ' again in New York, ready, to begin rehearsals on his new play, under the direction of Augustus Thomas. The piece is a comedy in three acts, the work of Horace An nesley Vachell. No title has .yet been given it. Mr. Drew is still under the Frohman banner. . . - Something more for us to worry bout. Famine is cutting off ostrich life In South Africa. j Walter Regan, of this Baker Players, blew In the other day' with an article e had found in a Chicago newspaper to the effect that a pastor in a church there Is putting toys in ' the pews to amuse the children. And Walter Regan gave it as his opinion that next thing ministers should do is to find some thing to amuse the grown-ups. , Klaw . & Erlanger have selected I new. play for Robert Milliard. The piece is said to have a theme which bears with the marriage of a man ith a tint of negro blood and hite woman, with offspring results that are said to give the play "at mosphere." I predict a tremendous success for that little play down below the Mason- and Dixon line. "The Save River, which forms the boundary line between Hungary and Serbia from the northwestern corner of the small Slav kingdom to the river's junction with the Danube at Belgrade, and which has again become an Im portant war frontier, is the largest right-hand tributary of the Danube." begins a statement given out today by the National Geographic Society. "The Save, in its lower course, is a slow moving, mud-bottomed stream, flowing between low banks, marshy in many of their - stretches, lined with reeds and bordered by forests. Where it forms ocroia s nortnern Boundary it Is broad, and its course sweeps in deff bends to neisraae. it rises In the Triglav hills, in Car- moia. just north at the present Austro- naiian Da t tie line about Goers and Villach. and flows east-southeastward. uiauno or 443 miles, to Its conflu ence with the Danube. It is navigable for smaller steamers as far as Sisaek. 365 miles from its mouth, though its vanaoie volume and shifting bars are a great hindrance. The river passes mrougn a rruitrui country, but one which has been but little developed. -ui us commercial , importance i tnererore. small. Moreover, the lines oi iraino here lie west and north, rather than east and south. There is. however, good hunting on the Save, and. Its reedy banks are well known among European sportsmen. "There are no cities or towns of im portance along the river's way, except Belgrade at its mouth. South of the river, into Serbia, there are only complex or mountain . groups to be found, with, here and, there, tiny vil lages cleared In the forested hills. Thia mountainous hinterland extends along mo vtnois oerman course or the river, and the rugged, broken country reaches i to tne confines or the kingdom. ine valley-way through Serbia follows the Morava River, which flows north and joins the Danube east of Belgrade. Beyond the Save River. Serbia offers lime mat is vulnerable." MOTHER, 0 MINE. When I was a babe. O nothr o' min i I tugged and nursed at your patient breast. Ana I vexed and tortured your nights oi rest, ( Yet you never complained, sweet moth- o mine. When I was" a lad. dear mother mine. I caused you sorrow and pain and woe, I was breaking your heart, for you loved me so. That you prayed , to God, O mother o' mine. When I was a man. dear mother b' mine, I lived in the shadows of shame and crime. I scoffed at a Heaven, I wallowed in slime, Yet you failed me not. O mother a- mine. Twenty-five Years Ago years, good mother ' And In later mine. When, wounded and bleeding and ready to die, I crept to your side with a cowardly cry. Then what did you do, sweet mother o mine ? You healed my wounds, you gave me strength. You cleansed my soul with a moth er's tears. Though it shortened your life by a score of years. That s what you did. O mother o' mine. Now I'm old and ' feeble and almost blind, And I'm waiting for Death with hi kindly hand. To Hruftle" me along to that blessed land ji tioo, ana to you. sweet mother o mine. JACK WOLF. From The Oregonian of October 1. 1980. St. Paul Oct- 20. General Henrv Hastings Sibley, the first Governor of Alinnesota. and the only Democrat who has ever held that office, is dying of paralysis. He is 80 years old. Manitou Springs. Colo.. Oct. 20 The first locomotive of the Manitou Pike's Peak Railroad reached the summit of Pike a Peak Sunday noon, October 19 and the last spike was driven this morning. Berlin, Oct. 20 The North German Gazette appeals to England not to en danger the monarchy of the Iberian Peninsula by too exacting demands on Portugal. Louisville. Oct. 20. World's cham pionship game. Louisville 7. Brooklyn 7. called at the end of the eighth on ac count of darkness. The new closed Winter rervice on cars ordered for the Washinertnn- Btreet line are cominur to han of the 10 ordered from the East were at the terminal grounds yesterday. They are finished in mahogany and plate glass and will be very comforta ble in stormy days and cold weather. The company has a number more com ing from California. Cars cost $5000 apiece. . . . JUT1 Gove- f the Portland Sraeltlntr & Refining Works, started last night lor the Coeur d'Alene mining district to purchase ores. The works will be put in operation as soon as the supplies arrive. Four large roasting furnaces have been added to the plant recentlv and it is now the most expensive and complete west of the Rockies. Cairo, Oct. 20. On Saturday the first vessel to leave this port with a clean bill of health since the outbreak of cholera sailed for Jeddah. Half a Century Ago Naval Advisory Board. ' MONMOUTH. Or., Oct. 19.(To the Editor.) Can you tell me whether Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and the other members of the Naval Advisory Board are to receive a salary or other compensation for their services? I have failed to find this in the papers. W. C. HOPPER. The members of the board receive no compensation. Thomas W'. La n son's Address. PORTLAND. Oct. 20. (To the Ed itor.) Will The Oregonian kindly tell me, so soon as possible, the present ad dress of Thomas W. Laweon, also the location of his Oregon or Washington ranch. v MRS. ANNA WILSON. Mr. Lawson's office address Is 33 State street. Boston. Mass. His Oregon ranch is located near Frinevilie, Xew Resrintratlon Law. SEASIDE. Or.. Oct: 19. fTo the Ed itor.) (1) Has a naturalized citizen o this country the right to vote in the coming election (county election) if he nas not naa tne opportunity to rests ter, anc nave the election judges the right to let him vote, providing he can get tnree freeholders to swear him in (Z) Must a man produce his citizen ship paper when registering? In case tne paper nas - not been received yet would not written statement that bearer was admitted, a citizen a few days ago and signed by the County Clerk, be sufficient- proof to enable sucn a new-made citizen to register and vote? Is not a note signed by the County Clerk himself and specifying tnat tne bearer of said note was ad mitted a citizen of the United States of America on October 16, 1915, Just as gooa a document as the real citizen ship paper, at least until such a time when the citizensnlp paper is received Dy tne person? (S) if the citizenship pacer can be produced "a day or twe after a-eeristrn- tion closes, can then anything be done to restore the person his chance to vote at the coming elections? T. H. G. (1) The law of 1915 provides for reg istration at the polls on day of elec tion, out the voter is required to Re tire the affidavits of two freeholders who are personally acquainted with im and his qualifications as an elector. If foreign born he must produce evi dence of naturalization. Provided however, that in counties having more than 100,000 inhabitants the affidavit of six freeholders is required, and it ocs not constitute a permanent reg stration, as is the case in the smaller ountles. ' (2) As we. read the law a certificate from the-Clerk of the Court where the naturalization papers are to be Issued is sufficient evidence of admission to citizenship. (3) The answer to the first question covers this one. Samuel Case oat ladian Commission. NEWPORT, Or.. Oct. 18. (To the Editor.) In The Sunday Oregonian mention is made of the commissions appointed to treat with . Captain Jack during the Modoc wars. The author fails to mention Samuel Case, who was one of the commission and rerused to go to the Lava Bed interview with Jack; he had no confidence in his promises. Canby. Meacham and Thomas did and they paid dearly for It. Samuel Case at the time of his ap pointment was the sub-agent at Ya hatch Agency and afterwards 'was the owner of the Newport townsite. R. A. BEN8ELL. aCXriminatlonafor Osteopaths. CASTLE ROCK. Or, Oct. 19. (To the Editor.) Do the osteopaths have to pass the medical examination before the State Board of Medical .Examiners to practice in the State of Oregon? SUBSCRIBER. An osteopath must pass an examina tion in some subjects and must receive a license from the State Medical Board before he can practice In the state. Dr. Harry F. McKay, Portland, is president of the bard. From Tha Oresonian of Octobnc 21. 15. The recent action of the Government in releasing Stephens, Campbell and other rebels on parole is preparatory, we presume, to an ultimate pardon. The grandson of Lafayette Is now In this country. September 14 he was present at a political meeting In Bos ton. The property in Virginia of James A. Seddon. late rebel Secretary of War. has been libeled for confiscation. Major-General Sir George Brown, ona of the injlish heroes of the Crimean war. died reeontly. He was born In 1790, entered the army in ltOS. was woundud at Talavara. was present In America at tho battle ot Bladcnsburg and the capture of Washington and at the time of his death was commander in Ireland. Charles Bsrrett. news, book, periodi cal and stationery dealer. has our thanks for valuable favors. O.v his shelves are to be found an abundance of literary food. There 's crettv loud talk arming tha city concerning the insolence ot a cer tain eiass or vagabonds running at large In the streets or Portland, prowl ing about dwellings and makinsr night hideous, nnd the police will be called upon to do their utmost In the matter of bringing to justice any person whom tney may find at large within the city after certain hours at nixht nr ana. piclouslv m the dtvtime unlpse utii-h. can give a good account of themselves. The treasurer of Ohio is a defaulter in the sum of $66,000. Ha has been ar rested by order of the Governor and his trial will soon come off. His name is George Volney Dorsey. Several per sons have declined to accept the posl-r tion thus made vacant and the state treasury is closed until a successor to Mr. Dorsey can be secured. PI.AX FOR SELLING l.AM GRANT Eronomleal Way of Con vertlns; Timber Value Into Improvements. ROW RIVER. Or., Oft. 18. (To the) Editor.) Why not let the Government, state or railroad sell these grant lands to actual settlers and instead of adding a small army to the already overgrown Forestry Service, let the settlers classify the lands themselves? There Is not enough timber on any of these claims to anywhere near pay for clearing them and If the timber is sold separately very little of the stump land will ever be cleared. So let anyone buy 160 acres at $i.50 per acre, 10 per cent down, 10 years to pay balance in. His or her first move will be of course to sell the timber for as much as can be got. Let this money he deposited with the local banker, to be drawn ori by the settler as he makes Improve ments and shows good faith, the judges of this to be his neighbors Instead of some expert from Washington who knows nothing of the proposition a brush rancher is up against. The railroad could handle the selling part for a fraction of the expense that the state or Government could and the local bankers would handle the Inspec tion part for the use of the money and pay 3 or 4 per cent besides. In event any land is not sold In 18 years, sell the timber to highest bidder and reforest as cut over. FRANK M INTYRE. ' Sturdy Commoi Folk. PORTLAND. Oct. 20. (To the Edi. tor.) The following extract from a state paper concerning the English people, written 1515, may at the pres ent time be worth reading: in tne productions of the land men are industrious, dealing fairly and justly with each other; for they are a sturdy high-hearted race, sound In body ana spirit, abundantly furnished with the thews and sinews which under the great shins of beef, their common diet, are the wonder of the age. wnat common folk in all this world may compare with them In riches. freedom, liberty, welfare and all pros perity? What common folk Is so mighty, so strong in the field as the commoi folk of England? 'No disparity of force makes tha Englishmen shrink from enemies when ever they can meet them. . Again and again, a few thousand of them have carried dismay into the hearts of their foes. Four hundred of their young men. whoform a volunteer corps, have been for years the terror of Normandy. Their great physical power they owe to th profuse abundance in which they live, and to the soldier's training in which every man was bred from childhood." v hich Is better, the above tvoe of sturdy manhood, or the mollycoddle sort now advocated In Portland by a bunch of bogy-seeing pacifists? C. E. CLINE. Definition of a Philosopher. Chicago Daily News. Johnny Papa, wliat is a "philoso pher"? Pa A man with a good liver, heart. I stomach and bank account. Make ThU Paper Pay, Mr. Dealer Mr. Dealer, you can often make the small, sura you pay for thia newspaper yield you large profits. SUidy the advertising. See what the other storekeepers are doing and saying. Above all else, watch the manu facturer's newspaper advertising;. If you see an article advertised that Is in your stock make up your mind it is a good time to push it. Show It In the window. Talk about it and reap tha sales and profits from ths newspaper advertising.