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PORTLAND. SUNDAY, OCTOBER SO. 10M.
PUBLIC DUTIES.
Certain thinkers who deal with the
origin of the moral sentiments hold that
moral obligations are deduced or devel
oped chiefly from the needs of members
of ttie human family In their various
relations with each other, social and
civil. The necessity of the intervention
of supernatural sanction is not ques
tioned; yet there is a materialistic code
of morality which is very largely the
basis of social order. Toward the end
of the eighteenth century Buchner, a
German author, wrote on this subject:
""What we term the moral sense arose
from social instincts and habits which,
under pain of extinction, are developed
in every society of men and animals.
Morality depends on sociability, and
varies with the peculiar conditions of
each particular association. Man is es
sentially a social animal, and to be
regarded, apart from society, merely as
a wild beast, it is plain that the needs
of the community must impose on him
certain restrictions and directions that
in time will pass into a settled code of
morals."
A still wider statement of the origin
and necessity of these duties and obli
gations of human beings arising from
their social relations is presented in
Haeckel's well-known book, "The Rid
dle of the Universe." "Modern Sci
ence," he says, "shows that the feeling
of duty rests on the solid ground of
social Instinct, as we find It in all social
animals. It regards as the highest aim
of all morality the establishment of a
sound harmony between egoism and al
truism, between self-love and love of
one's neighbor." From this the writer
proceeds to. say that, "If a man desire
to have the advantage of living in an
organized community he has to consult
not only his own fortune, but that also
of the society and of the 'neighbors'
who form the society. He must realize
that its prosperity Is his own prosper
ity, and that it cannot suffer without
his own injury. This fundamental law
of society Is so simple and so inevitable
that one cannot understand how it can
be contradicted in theory and practice;
and yet that is done today and has been
done for thousands of years."
In this short statement by the great
exponent of monistic philosophy there is
a powerful sermon for every commu
nity, and particularly for communities
like our own, where there is strong need
of all kinds of co-operative effort, yet
weak performance of many obligations,
and in many instances disposition to
shirk them. The members of every
community owe a great deal to the
community they live In, yet many are
unwilling to meet their portion of the
common obligations. All our people
wanted the Lewis and Clark Centennial
Exposition, but there were relatively
few who would subscribe money for it.
The majority expected others to do it.
"Vast numbers of things are to be done
for the betterment of conditions in
Portland; but the sense of moral obliga
tion in many is too weak to make them
do their part.
There Is manifest improvement, how
ever; but much growth, moral, civil and
social, is yet necessary In this com
munlty. before a true sense of the ob
ligations of its members to the social
organization, through which, mainly,
those things that are necessary to
progress in the larger way, can be ac
compllshed. "Weak performance of du
ties imposed by the social structure
upon the associated individuals has al
ways been the drawback here; probably
no more so than In many other com
munltles, but still a handicap to our
social evolution and progress. Every
man's first duty is to his family, which
includes himself. But a necessary bal
ance to this personal Interest Is an al
trulstic sense which keeps his obliga
tions to society before him; teaching,
moreover, that the Interests of society
are really his own. For a concrete il
lustration, don't expect your neighbor.
or a small particular district, to bear
more than a fair proportion of the
heavy cost of the. bridges over SulH
van's Gulch. It is a study to place such
work on an equitable basis; but it ought
to be done.
"Willamette Valley farmers realize
"What's in a name" when they learn
that Hood River apples are selling for
double the price paid for "Valley apples
of practically the same quality. So
many "Valley orchards have been ne
glected that the fruit has become"
wormy or blemished In some other way,
end the consequence Is that the repu
tation of all tfc fruit suffers. Trees
have been better cared for in the Hood
River country and the growers take
pride In putting only the best fruit on
the market. The "Willamette Valley has
produced, and is now producing as good
apples as are grown at Hood River, and
the valley growers should see to it
that the reputation of their fruit Is
maintained. Keep your own trees in
good condition and, if possible. Induce
or compel your neighbor to do like
wise.
NEW YORK AND CHICAGO.
The result of a Presidential election
may depend on the votes of the great
cities of New Tork and Chicago. The
first returns we get are from those cit
ies, and by the time one-third of the
vote of each is counted it can be told
unless It be an extremely close contest
what the result is.
These cities exercise an influence con
siderably greater than their own vote.
For the influence of each extends Into
the surrounding country. The City of
New York carries an Influence into New
Jersey and Connecticut, and the City of
Chicago carries an influence into Indi
ana and "Wisconsin.
The registration of the two cities fur
nishes points of Interest. That of New
Tork aggregates 6SS.S03. It exceeds
that of 1900 by 48,162. The Sun says
that the registration of this year Is
proof that the "apathy" so much talked
about does not exist. The registration
shows that there will be a very full
vote In the City of New Tork.
The Democratic majority is expected
to run from 100,000 to 120,000. No one
supposes that it can possibly exceed the
latter figure. But the "up-state" ma
jority for Roosevelt is estimated at 150,-
000, and It may be greater. It much
exceeded this for McKinley in 1900.
Here Is the basis of figures on which
It is reckoned that Roosevelt will carry
New Tork: The city Is not expected to
give Parker more than 100,000 plurality,
or at utmost 120,000. The up-state vote
Is figured at not less than 150,000 plur
ality for Roosevelt. These calcula
tions may disappoint, but there Is much
confidence in them.
The registration of Chicago is some
what less than that of 1S00. The total
is 403,811. McKinley carried Cook
County, which includes the City of Chi
cago, by nearly 20,000. This year there
is little Democratic effort, and It Is not
doubted that Chicago will vote for
Roosevelt by 20.000 or more. But the
State of Illinois, outside Chicago, will
give him 50,000.
Republicans could lose the State of
New Tork and win. Democrats could
not. It Is amusing to note the claim of
the Democratic managers to all the
states that have been figured as doubt
ful; and their claim that Illinois, Ohio
and California are "doubtful."
The Oregonian thinks Roosevelt will
be elected. It doesn't pretend to be
sure of It, but it believes the probabil
ity lies strongly that way.
ILL-PLANNED STREETS.
In expending over $75,000,000 for her
subway, New Tork City Is paying one
penalty for early neglect In laying out
streets that run north and south the
length of Manhattan Island. These are
too far apart, and the cross-town
streets, upon which travel is compara
tively light, are too close together.
"While the subway will relieve the con
gestion for the present, New Torkers
are already asking themselves what
they are going to do for the future.
Elevated roads and tunnels serve folk
In transit but afford no relief for teams
in the roadway or pedestrians on the
sidewalk. There isn't enough earth's
surface. Skyscrapers whose day occu
pants number thousands upon thous
ands, when they empty their tenants
at the same hour each evening produce
a congestion that no device ran relieve.
New Tork needs and always will need
two streets lengthwise of the town
where only one exists now.
Portland, too. Is beginning to feel the
Inconvenience of Ill-planned streets.
though coming generations will never
be able to charge the city's founders
with having laid out too few thorough
fares. "Within fifteen years the tide of
travel has changed from north and
south to east and west. Many hours
in the day Morrison and "Washington
streets are overcrowded. "With double-
track street railways, there is not
enough room foe vehicles, and a truck
backed up at the curb not only stops
street-car traffic but all teams on one
side of the roadway as well. True, it Is
only 200 feet to the next parallel street,
and the time will come when teamsters
for convenience will keep away from
streets occupied by car lines except in
necessity.
For public safety there will soon be
need for policemen at every corner of
"Washington and Morrison, from Third
to Sixth, to regulate Intersecting travel
and prevent jams. Even now there are
certain hours in the afternoon when
six-foot men could thus be profitably
employed. In rainy weather hoisted
umbrellas add to the congestion and
obstruct vision; therefore blue-coated
guides and protectors will serve a good
purpose. It is almost certain that po
licemen will be needed at the corners
mentioned to handle the crowds of
strangers next Summer at the Lewis
and Clark Fair.
CRIERS OF VANITY.
Every little while, as the Philistine of
East Aurora might remark, it becomes
fashionable to view with alarm and to
deplore the decadence of well, of
everything under the sun. As the griz
zled Admiral cries, on seeing the young
sters of his earlier days appointed to
commands, "the service is going to the
dogs." It is a short cut to fame or to
notoriety, which Is much the same
thing in these newspaper days. Mrs.
Gertrude Atherton lately came Into the
public eye on the strength of a lament
over the bourgeois quality of American
literature. "With great forethought Mrs.
Atherton did not ask "Is American lit
erature bourgeois?" but "Why Is Amer
ican literature bourgeois?" Having
thus assumed a condition, she was
ready to frame theories to fit it. Simi
larly the literary lights of England have
been assailed, so that the Sketch is
moved to remark that a sure road to
magazine renown is provided by an at
tack on the English novel.
The drama, is coming in for the same
pummelling just at present Critics
point the finger of contemptuous pity
at the American playwright, and de
clare the stage to be a dreary desert.
Over here the decadence deplored so
earnestly Is being exploited only In the
drama and In literature. In England
it is more general Kipling's "flanneled
fools" and "nuddled oats" brought him
public attention when pointing with
pride would have left him In oblivion.
Since then he has Issued periodic pro
tests against almost everything in his
country, and with such success that Al
fred Austin the Rojestvensky of po
etry, has been stirred into emulation.
The Laureate takes to the lecture
platform to express his views. He as
serts that children have no manners,
and that education unfits many for
their careers In life. He declares that
the gospel of "get on In the world" is
a dangerous doctrine. He laments that
boys and girls no longer read Gibbon's
"Decline and Fall" or Lockhart's "Life
of Scott," although they are acquaint
ed with novels of the "most revolting
character." As for the stage, it has
nothing beyond "Jingling and Indelicate
pirouetting." And then the Laureate
ends .up with the proclamation that he
la not a pessimist.
When Alfred Austin emerges from the
"garden that he loves" and enters into
bustling every-day life, he becomes be
wildered. Roses, old authors and the
making of rhymes are excellent recrea
tions, but poor things to put one in the
mood for appreciating commoner
things. The changing drama and the
changing literature of the day are un
justly compared with the masterpieces
of the past, with the result that all of
the present is condemned. Fortunately
these gloomy moods soon pass. The
clouds disappear, and the public turns
from the Jeremiahs to the prophets of
better things.
LOVERS' LANTERNS.
Now that the air begins to bite
shrewdly, the moon, from time imme
morial the .lover's lantern. Is displaced
by the less romantic but indispensable
gas Jet. The roses have faded from the
trellis and the porch is too bleak for
Cupid, whose habitual costume of a
bow and arrow is not proof against the
chill of the season, so loving hearts
must commune within doors. Romeo,
with pardonable exaggeration, declared
of Juliet that
Her eyes in' heaven
Would through the airy region stream so bright
That birds would zing and think it were not
sight.
This was all very well for the rhap
sody of a young lover, bue unfortunate
ly In real life eyes, be they never so
bright, arc of no avail as substitutes
or gas, and this leads to one phase of
the eternal struggle between youth and
age. Romeo, sighing to the balcony,
was Jn peril of his life from Papa Capu
let, and there are hundreds of Inartic
ulate Romeos today In peril from the
toe of a. paternal boot. Aucassln would
have his Nlcolette despite the remon
strance of the noble lord his father;
Romeo would have his Juliet though
her father and his were old enemies;
and young Thaw marries his chorus
girl in the face of all protests from
Pittsburg friends and relatives. Age
would be cautious; youth is headlong.
Age weighs this consideration and that;
youth thinks of nothing but love. When
the MercutlOB have gone to their
truckle-beds and the Capulets are snor
ing in their four-posters, the Romeos
are running up gas bills for the Juliets'
fathers, now that the moon, as we have
said, is temporarily forsaken. And
should the father upstairs wake long
enough to hear an echo of the cooing
downstairs, he dqesnot find it melodi
ous, although youtKvcrles:
How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by
night.
Like softest music to attending ears!
Lovers' tongues sounded not silver
sweet to Nathan Greenhouse, of New
Tork, for instance, when young men
would call upon his beautiful daugh
ter Regina. Instead they sounded
tin-can harsh. Regina has made an
affidavit. In the divorce suit insti
tuted by her mother, that Papa
Greenhouse grew uneasy the moment
he heard the doorbell. As she asked
her caller to be seated, she declares,
papa could be heard saying "Oh, that's
So-and-So; can't he find another place
where there's light and warmth?" At 9
o'clock papa would lean over the stairs
and begin to chant monotonously, "Re
gina, It's late." If the young man did
not budge, papa, came down and turned
off the gas. Let Regina continue the
story in her own way:
Turning oft the gas usually discourages me.
but it I persist in entertaining altar he turns
oS the gas he rolls hla bed Into the parlor
and prepares to undress. This is too much for
any one, and I have to bid my caller good
night.
Age, age; saving gas and spreading
sorrow. Is it strange that youth should
be in eternal revolt, or that gas com
ponies should look with favor upon the
young?
MEN WHO WORKED LATE IN LIFE.
Since the tendency of modem life, or
specifically of modern business meth
ods, is to push men in middle Hfje aside
to make place for young men, it may
be worth while to take a backward
glance for the purpose of determining
whether this tendency is justified by the
achievement of the past It is true that
railroad business and the great busi
ness of transmuting iron Into steel and
steel into the thews of war and the
sinews of progress In the arts of peace
has no past The history of these en
terprises as now pushed and controlled
is written upon the records of a quar
ter of a century, and has been read
by the schoolboy of the present genera
tion from day to day as a part of his
equipment in the knowledge of men and
affairs. Having practically no past
those who control these two lines of
endeavor are making an experiment or
establishing a precedent, as results will
In the next decade or two determine.
But in the world of letters, of invent
lve genius, of statesmanship, of poll
tics and of law, many grand old men
figure as leading lights and guiding
forces. It is not a question of years.
but of capability; not of time, but of
mental development and intellectual
grasp, in which old men figure con
spicuously in the past
William Matthews, In a late number
of the Saturday Evenlnlg Post, asserts
that mental power helps to keep the
body strong and to preserve it from de
cay, adding: "The longest-lived men
and women have been, as a rule, those
who have attained great moral and
mental development They have lived
on the higher plane, in a serene region
above the jar, tumult and fret that
weaken most lives."
But the simple fact of living' amounts
to little. It is with the achievement
of long lives that we have to do. As
cited by Longfellow:
Cato learned Greek at eighty, Sophocles
Wrote bis grand Oedipus, and 8lmonldes
Bore off the prize of verse from his compeers.
When each had numbered more than four
score years.
Mr. Matthews cites that Thomas
Hobbes- was 63 when he put forth his
evil claim to- be remembered in "The
Leviathan." Very late In life he en
tered upon the study of pure mathe
matics and engaged in vehement con
troversies about the quadrature of a
circle. He wrote at S4 a Latin poem on
his own life, and at 87 translations in
verse of the Ulad and the Odyssey, and
hia-history of the civil wars in England
was written probably after he had
passed 90. He died at 93.
John Dryden was 70 when he com
pleted his copies of Chaucer, a cripple
in his limbs, but conscious of no mental
decay except that his memory hatt
weakened a falling that was counter
balanced by a marked improvement in
his Judgment
Other familiar examples of active
mental powers in extreme age are the
English poets James Montgomery, who
reached 82, and Rogers, 92; Colley Cib-
ber, the actor and dramatist who con
tinued active until his death at 86; Will
iam Hutton, the bookseller, who consid
ered himself a young man at 82 an es
timate which he verified by walking
forty-two miles in a day. On his 90th
birthday he walked ten miles. He died
two years later.
Herbert Spencer, though never of ro
bust physical frame, was one of the
deepest thinkers and hardest workers of
his century, and recently died at the
age of 83. Some of the most fiery lyrics
of Victor Hugo were written at the age
of 82.
In the scientific world John Dalton,
the famous author of the atomic theory,
lived to be 78 an active student to the
last Humboldt, statesman, diplomat
philologist, scientist tolled to the end
and died in his 90th year. Of political
leaders, Bismarck, Gladstone, John Ad
ams and Louis Kossuth stand as exam
ples of longevity joined with active
mental powers and continued physical
vigor.
How far the gulf stream of our youth may flow
Into the Arctic region of our lives.
No place may be found In the strenu
ous occupations of modern life for the
man who Is past middle age. The en
gines of Industry and of commerce run
ning at high and every year higher
pressure may grind youth beneath their
wheels and eliminate middle life from
the record of man's working years. But
upon the record of the past shines a
multitude of names that represent
mental activity and physical vgor suf
ficient to support it, at four-score and
ten years.
PIPES TO GO DEEPER.
Ten years ago, when the first Bull
Run pipe line was laid In the bed of
the Willamette River, it was to be un
disturbed for a long time. Deep-draft
shipping was not expected to move up
the harbor above the bridges, at least
not soon. The opinion of the old Water
Committee and shipping men was that
the natural direction for the growth of
the port was down stream, where it
would not be hampered by bridges or
ferries and where the channel was bet
ter suited to big ships.
That opinion has been confirmed in
large measure, but not wholly, for It
now seems necessary to lower the pipe
lines in the near future so that heavy
vessels may have free access to that
part of the port
In most cities commerce expands
down stream. This general rule we
have seen apply here, In the extension
of wharves, warehouses and sawmills
below the city. When the lower harbor
was too narrow we have seen the port
resort to the district about St Johns,
where the drydock has become a new
center of activity.
But above the three bridges deeper
and deeper ships have been going for
cargoes, chiefly to the two big sawmills
which are Important units In Portland's
industrial activity. The interests of
that part of the harbor are convinced
that their channel must be deepened.
They are right, and at no far distant
day the city will be obliged to put down
Its pipes. When the two pipe lines were
laid, ten and six years ago, they could
have bean sunk five or six feet further
at small extra expense, but the outlay
was deemed unnecessary. Portland's
habit of outgrowing its improvements is
not new, however. Perhaps ten years
hence we shall find the new Morrison
bridge behind the times, too.
VACCINATION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN.
As often as the public schools open In
the Fall the question of making vacci
nation a condition of allowing children
to register as pupils of these great dem
ocratic institutions is agitated. The lo
cal school boards of most, if not all,
large cities make this Imperative, and,
though parents have from time to time
protested against the rule as arbitrary
and dangerous to the general health of
the child, the principle of the greatest
good to the greatest number has gen
erally prevailed, even when appeal has
been made to the courts In the Interest
of parental authority.
A case" has just been decided by the
New Tork Court of Appeals In which
the constitutionality of the statute
making yaccfnatlon compulsory under
certain conditions was upheld as In ac
cordance with the legitimate police
power of the state. The Brooklyn
Eagle congratulates the public, first on
the pertinacity of the Brooklyn citizen
who demurred to the law as unconstitu
tional, since by pushing and losing the
case he settled a long-debated question;
and again, In that the decision of the
court makes it possible, to ward off an
epidemic of smallpox through making
the vaccination of the children of the
public schools compulsory.
This case was fought determinedly
upon both sides. Arguments of anti
vaccination organizations were patient
ly heard. It was declared that vaccina
tlon does not prevent smallpox, and
that the operation practically amounts
to an assault But the records were
against the first contention, and the
latter, since the alleged assault is made
in behalf of the public weal, was de
clared untenable.
The danger In the home of omitting
vaccination is cited by the -Chicago
Inter Ocean of a recent date In the
removal of a little daughter of a promi
nent citizen of that city to the Isolation
hospital suffering from smallpox. The
child was not robust and was unable to
run about and play with other children.
She had not been out of her father's
home for some time. In such a home,
surrounded by every comfort it was
naturally supposed that she was safe
from such a disease. She was unvac-
clnated the only member of the family
not thus protected and she was
stricken, while all of the others were im
mune. At least if any others -have the
disease. It will be in a mild form.
One may dislike vaccination, says the
Inter Ocean; one may argue against it
indefinitely and may find many satis
factory reasons against it Tet the fact
remains that it does give practical
safety from smallpox.
The rule requiring pupils of the pub
He schools of this city to be vaccinated
is still In force, but there is reason to
believe that it is disregarded or evaded
in many cases.. When the "smallpox
scare" that visits every community at
irregular Intervals, and, though never
expected. Is likely to come at any time,
makes Its presence suddenly known
there will be a sudden awakening upon
thk matter. In the frantic rush to get
vaccinated there is more or les3 dan
ger, since It Is not always possible to
exercise the care which prudent physi
cians deem necessary in attending to a
multitude of emergency calls. In this
case as In all others, the prudent man
foreseeth the evil and hldeth himself.
ONE SEOE OF A PICTURE.
To the November number of Scrib-
ner"s Magazine, Thomas Nelson Page,
who knows as well as any present-day
writer lowly life in the South, contrib
utes an article on "The Old-Time Ne
gro." Taking the best white folk and
the best darkies of the best section of
Virginia as types, he has created a
charming pastoral idyl of slave life half
a century ago. He writes with evident
sincerity of what he himself saw and
felt, but he Ignores entirely the condi
tions of master and slave at the same
period in other Southern States which
Harriet Beecher Stowe saw and de
scribed. Still, It Is worth while for
young people to read Mr. Page's article
to get a happy view of slavery In con
trast with "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
Evidently Mr. Page Is using the old-
time darky, whom the young whites
respected and their masters trusted, as
an object-lesson through which to bring
about better relations. between the dom
inant race and the subservient He
criticises the so-called educated "Afro-
Americans" who presume to look down
pn this notable development of their
race, and adds: "They do not consider
that large numbers of this class held
positions cf responsibility and trust
which they discharged with a fidelity
and success that Is the strongest proof
of the potentiality of the race. They
do not reckon that warm friendship
which existed between mas'ter and ser
vant, and which more than any other
one thing gives promise of future and
abiding friendship between the races
when left to settle their relations with
out outside interference."
One interesting chapter is devoted to
the division of labor on a large planta
tion and the grading of slaves from the
"cornfield niggers," who were in the
lowest class, to the butler and the
housekeeper, who were highest in au
thority. Mr. Page's memory furnishes
any number of happy illustrations of
Ideal service. He declares that no ser
vants or retainers of any race ever
Identified themselves more fully with
their masters. The relation was rather
that of -retainers than slaves. It began
in the Infancy of both master and ser
vant, grew with their strength and con
tinued through life. "No Southerner,"
says Mr. Page, "whatever his feeling
of antagonism may be to the negro
race, ever meets an old negro man or
woman without that feeling -rising in
his breast which one experiences when
he meets some old friend of his youth
on whom time has laid his chastening
hand."
With this optimistic view Mr. Page
closes his very entertaining article:
None of us knows what relation the future
may. produce between the two races In the
South, but possibly when the eelf-rlghteoua
shall be fewer than they are now and the
teachings which have estranged the races shall
become more sane the great Anglo-Saxon race.
which Is dominant, and the negro race, which
Is amiable, if not subservient, will adjus
their differences more In accordance with the
laws which must eventually prevail, and the
old feeling of kindliness, which teems, under
the stress of antagonism, to be dying away,
will once more reassert Itself.
Which is a sentimental dream. That
old feeling of kindliness was one of the
happiest phases of slavery. It was
based on affection between owner and
owned. What little' remains dates back
at least to the late '50s. With the in
stitution of slavery dead these forty
years, there can be no new growth com
parable with the old. On free soil there
can never be a new generation of the
old-time negro.
The East Oregonian, published at
Pendleton, has this statement:
Notwithstanding the solemn protestations of
The Oregonian that its hands are clean of
Fair funds so far, and that its exchequer ex
pects no replenishing from the Fair advertls
Ing, yet the East Oregonian is assured on evl
dence sufficient to satisfy It, that such is not
the case, but that on the contrary, both The
Oregonian and Telegram are to be given a
first dip at a munificent advertising fund. In
return for the advertising and special editions
being circulated from time to time.
This is a most absolute, unqualified,
Intentional, deliberate and infernal lie.
The East Oregonian has no "evidence"
to support its statement; no Informa
tion on which it might base such an al
legation as It makes. The Oregonian
gave the exact truth in Its statement
published a few days ago. Only a
newspaper contemptibly corrupt and
wanting to be bought by somebody or
anybody, for anything, would make
such statement as we have reprinted
from the East Oregonian. Let us say
once more that neither The Oregonian
nor the Telegram has had any return,
pay or compensation for advertising
the Fair; that neither is to have any;
that their whole work for the Fair thus
far has been done without pay, to the
amount even of a nickel, and that it
will be continued to the end of the
Fair on the same principle or basis.
And specifically let us say that nothing
has been paid or will be paid by the
Fair management to The Oregonian or
to The Telegram for special editions.
What is the matter with, these scoun
drelly little scrub sheets throughout
Oregon that take such delight in revela
tlon of their own characters as slan
derers, defamers and liars?
"He urge people to boycott The Or
egonian. They will boycott him
sooner." The Oregonian said this yes
terday in Its notice of Brother Raders
raid. It ought to have added, however,
that there Is never a boycott of any
thing or anybody in Oregon. If there
Is any state where the soil and atmos
phere are especially inhospitable to
boycott that state Is Oregon. The cry
"Boycott The Oregonian!" has been
raised a hundred times. It is always the
shout of the blatant sciolist when his
knuckles are rapped. But The Oregon
ian never asks anybody to boycott him.
In Oregon we boycott neither goods,
men nor opinions.
Some enterprising young men who are
looking for an opportunity to make
money next year during the Lewis
and Clark Fair would very likely find
It profitable to engage in the mounting
of Chinese pheasants. These beautiful
game birds are unknown in the East
and they are the admiration of all who
see them. Either a fully mounted bird,
in a lifelike pose, or a mounted skin.
suitable for hanging on the wall, would
make a souvenir wnlch thousands of
visitors at the Fair -vf ould be eager to
procure to take home with them. This
is the open season and hundreds of
pheasants are being killed and their
plumage thrown away. Next Spring
the season will be closed, and it will be
too late to get bird skins for mounting
purposes. It might also be remarked
that the sale of a. large- aumber cf
mounted Chinese pheasants to Eastern
States would serve to aid In advertis
ing this state. Every one who should
see one of these beautiful birds would
inquire where It came from, and the
owner would soon be telling of the won
ders or this comparatively new and un
developed state. The Chinese pheasant
in this country, an Orecon bird, and
nothing could make a more appropriate
souvenir of a visit to this state. Peo
ple who have gone from here to St
Louis have found nothing that they
coum bring back with them except ar
ticles that might as easily have been
secured in Chicago, Buffalo or Charles
ton. Let us provide our visitors with
souvenirs which cannot be procured any
place else.
According to statistics, the smallest
proportion of divorces are secured by
farmers or farmers' wives. A vounsr
lady who aspires to be an "undlvorcer
aoie girl" might therefore do well to
spend her Summer vacations or Christ
mas holidays visiting In the country.
inis in all seriousness. Though hard
work Is too often the portion of the
farmer's" wife, there are few of those
conditions and events which break up
the family. Husbands stay at home
evenings, there are no temptations to
extravagance or riotous living, and
husband and wife work together for the
welfare of the home. In the city there
are too many families that have no
homes. They have stonointr-nlaces in
which they may live as long as they
pay the rent. Their friendships depend
largely upon the amount of money they
can spend. There are ever-present In
fluences which tend to draw husband
and wife apart and make each dissatls-
nea with the other. Perhaps, after alL
little more work and a little les3
worry, a little more backache and a
little less heartache, a little slower life
and z little longer life are best in the
end.
In his biennial report the Sunerin-
tendent of the Oregon Penitentiary lays
stress upon a fact, patent to the most
casual observer, that youthful con
victs in that institution, doing time for
more trivial offenses, should be kept
entirely separate from the hardened
criminals. Under present conditions
there 13 no way to provide for this seg
regation. It is safe to say that of the
ten boys under 18 years of ace who
have been convicted of larceny and
other petty offenses and sent to the
Penitentiary within the past year, as
reported by Superintendent James.
every one will, at the close of his short
term, be released to further prey upon
the public. Their associations in prison
all tend toward this result The sug
gestions made by the superintendent
looking to a reform in this matter are
worthy the careful consideration of
practical philanthropists, and In due
time of the Legislature.
The coal mine disaster at Terclo.
Colo., has in It all of the elements of
death and horror that are InseDarable
from such disasters. Not one of the en
tire shift, supposed to comprise between
sixty and seventy men. escaped from
the mine. The only consolation to rel
atives in such cases is that death came
so swiftly as to forbid the possibility
of suffering. As is usual, the majority
of those in the mine were foreismers.
and the presumption Is that few of
them left families. Names are "not
given, the miners beine simnlv known
by numbers, the system being similar
to that employed In prisons.
Appeal is made by the management of
the Baby Home for funds to complete
their building now under roof. It has
been wisely resolved not to finish the
structure unless it can be paid for.
Without Income from endowment funds
and without state aid, except for a
short period, this Institution for fif
teen years has carried on its good work,
depending wholly on a generous public
for financial support. Its labor of love
is well known in this community,
which needs only a reminder once more
to contribute toward filling an empty
coffer.
Oregon adopts local option prohibition
and then takes first prize for hops at St
Louis. Disciples of the one idea gird
themselves to expel the hop beverage
and disciples of the other prepare to
plant as many hop roots as the soil
will hold. Meanwhile a pound of hops
Is worth 30 cents. All this Is taking
place In one year, yea,. In less than a
half year.
A lecturer in the Pasteur Institute In
London declares that sour milk is a
healthful drink because the milk con
tains microbes which destroy the mi
crobes in a diseased digestive system,
Soon we shall have a sour milk cure
fad, with sellers of milk guaranteeing
that their product contains the- neoes
sary microbes.
When the ordinary man offers to
stake his life on anything he does not
expect to be taken up. Probably Law-
son and Helnze wager their millions In
the same general way.
The Japanese have not made it
"pleasant" for Kuropatkin for several
days, but the General probably feels no
regrets.
A Quiet Criticism.
Astoria Herald.
The W. C. T. U. of Portland some-
tunes euphoniously styled the "Women's
Continuous Talking Union," have passed
a number of resolutions calculated to re
model the plans of government In ac
cordance with their ideas. Among these
resolutions is one condemning all news
papers and magazines which publish
liquor advertisements."
That will settle the newspaper business,
But suppose the newspapers condemn all
organizations that have been accorded
free advertising? But nearly every mem
ber of the W. C. T. U. will continue to
take and read newspapers that publish
liquor advertisements. The Oregonian
and all general newspapers publish them,
and nine-tenths of the members read The
Oregonian. Publishing a newspaper is a
business proposition and the publlshe;
relies for his support upon his advertls
ins patronage. If he relied upon the
churches and kindred organizations for
advertising support he would have to sus
pend publication. The W. C. T. U. are
right In their opposition to the liquor
business, but they ought to be consistent
It don't look exactly right to condemn
a business and send little boys and .girls
into saloons to sell tickets for church en
tertalnments and fairs.
To the Barberlnl Bees.
Jlar&a. Gilbert Dickinson, in the Century.
Emblazoned high upon the canoptea
Above St. Peter's sanctified repoae.
Hiving 'mid papal tombs in crested shows.
Swarming' on pillar and on haughty frieze.
Cluster the proud old Barberlnl bees;
Who live on Incense- and forget the rose.
Aa they forget their brotherhood with those
Dear tumble .buzzy fellows overseas.
Oh, ten me. little tollers, do ye faint
Never for lowly beds of mignonette,
Or mountain paths with gipsy flowers set?
What heaey lur! In porphyry and paint.
Or what content In Summer days like these
For vain temsrtal Sartorial bees?
NOTE AND COMMENT.
Rojestvensky is 'Russia's- live wire.
Even Nature perpetrates outrages " in
Colorado.
Premier Balfour's golf club turned out
to ba the big stick.
Alexieff Is on the way home. "See the
Conquering Hero Goes."
A great deal hinges on election day.
Many hinges off tomorrow.
It wasn't the Peerless Athletic Club,
after all. The police peered.
Some don't- need vindication, some
achieve vindication and some have vindi
cation thrust upon them. Tyner must be
by himself in a fourth class.
General -Stoessel thinks that he will die
in Port Arthur. In the meantime" he la
using every means to make sure that
the fortress will be no dishonorable grave.
Enls Dodge, of Oreeon CItv. Is belnff
sued for divorce by his wife on the ground
that he has been drunk for 27 years. It
certainly does seem an undue prolonga
tion oz tne honeymoon.
A Democratic landslide Is assured, and
it's a cinch that there will be a Repub
lican landslide. In fact according to of
ficial statements, no matter how you
ote, you'll be one of an overwhelming
majority.
It Is not easy to see .how humanitarians
reconcile themselves to the advocacy of
a whlpplng-post for wife-beaters. Woman
is more capable of enduring suffering
than man, and the lash would be sura
to hurt its victims terribly.
In New Westminster the Conservative
candidate la suing a man for slander be
cause the defendant called him an atheist
W uat a trifle to make a fuss over at elec
tion time. Atheist is almost compliment
ary In comparison with what most candi
dates are called, especially in Canada.
The word "anent" has sprung Into sud
den popularity. Scarcely a dispatch but
drags It in somewhere or another, and
there Is hardly a column is most newspa
pers wherein it doe3 not appear at least
once. These fashions in words are as curi
ous in their way as fashions in cloths.
The Argus takes a rise out of the city
fathers of Seattle by saying that "ac
cording to the P.-I. nine were killed re
cently In an explosion at Council City.
At first glance it looked like 'City Coun
cil.' Wouldn't it have been awful to have
had nine men gathered in by the Great
Reaper, not only before they have had
time to 'repent of their sins, but, in fact
while they were committing them?"
There Is no doubt that most appoint
ments to the diplomatic service should
be made from the ranks of the country's
editors, who simply exude diplomacy.
"What could be more tactful, for Instance,
than the Sheridan Sun's line, under news
from the surrounding country, "By our
Assistant Editors"? That qualifies a man
for Paris right away, especially If he
himself has to edit the work of his as
sistant editors.
Even In such an Old-World country as
Hungary It seem3 that the virus of bargain-hunting
has found Its way into the
blood of the women- In Budapest recent
ly an oil merchant was arrested on the
charge of imprisoning hl3 wife, who had
cried to passers-by -from behind an iron
grating. The merchant admitted cag
ing up his wife, but Justified his action
by declaring that otherwise she would
have ruined him by purchasing all kinds
of so-called bargains in the stores. It
was his custom to let his wife out for a
run on Sunday afternoons when all the
stores were closed. This was drastic ac
tion on the part of the merchant but we
do not doubt that there are one or two
husbands In Portland who would emulate
him if they dared. On the other hand,
there is probably not a woman in town
incapable of sympathizing with her Hun
garian sister, gazlqg wistfully through
the bar3 at the tall stores that shelter so
many marked-down pieces.
"Craw craw," which sounds like a Cen
tral African term of endearment Is the
name of a new disease brought on by
kissing. So prevalent is craw craw in
Chicago that the Board of Health has is
sued a bulletin telling the public what
precautions should be taken if kissing
must be done. Among the recommenda
tions are. "Keep the lips perfectly clean,"
and "Wash the lips before kissing with a
solution of boraclc acid." Great Can't
you Imagine young Jack Evanston saying
goodnight to Lizzie Hydepark, "I must go
now, Lizzie; I've forgotten my boraclc
acid." "O, Jack, don't hurry. Just by
accident I happen to have a bottle In
my pocket" What Is the kiss coming to,
anyway? It used to be compounded of
moon, to make it light; shade, to make
it dork; ardor, to make it quick; coyness,
to make it slow; and forge tfulness of
aught else, to make it the success it was.
Today the kiss seems to be made up of
caution, coldness and boraclc acid. 'Tla
a sad world.
A Grant's Pass congregation, it Is re
ported, objects to a minister because hla
sermons ore too long, about an hour or,
so. Tabloid sermons are the thing today.
Like tabloid drugs, they ore disagreeable
things to be swallowed as quickly as pos
sible and with the least fuss. The good,
old days when a powerful sermon was
such a good thing that the listeners felt
disappointed unless it lasted two or three
hours ore gone- It Is barely possible now
adays to stand three hours of comic op
era, but tven that is asking too much of
the public Recently an English clergy
man denounced flirting In church, quite
ignoring the fact that some diversion
must be found if services are not limited
to 15 minutes. A solo by an operatic
singer moderates the tedium now and
then, but one can't afford to sit still
for on hour to hear one solo. Another
cause of the present unpopularity of
churches Is the neglect to charge an ad
mission, fee. If seats were $L50 25 cents
In the gallery it is more than likely that
there would be larger crowds than at
present. WEXFORD JONES.
Beavers In Washington County:
Forest Grove Times.
The Oregonian has had two or threo
articles recently in regard to a colony
of beavers that has been discovered at
some unrevealed place "not 20 miles from
Portland," and writes them up as if they
were the lost remnants of a fast disap
pearing race. They are not numerous,
but there Is still a flourishing colony of
them within half an hour's walk of For
est Grove, and a -islt to their haunt3
one of the pleasant days this week shows
that they have been repairing their dam
and getting ready for Winter Just as their,
ancestors have 4oae aaeh Tall fer