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Ebbltt House, Penn sylvania avenue. rORTXAXn. 81XDAV, MAY . 1908. MR. GARKIEIJJ'8 MICKRAKE. Mr. Oarfleld has used the muckrake upon the Standard Oil Company to bet ter purpose than he did upon the Beef Trust. It is to be hoped that he has not scattered immunity around too freely during; the operation. His report shows that Mr. Rockefeller's company enjoye discriminations and rebates from the railroads to an extent even greater than was commonly supposed. The disregard for law on both sides has been flagrant, persistent and almost open. This throws a beautiful Illumination upon the assertion of so many railroad presidents that, there are no more re bates, and of many Senators, particu larly Mr. Foraker, to the same purport. Perhaps these sentlemen were not aware how extensively the practice was poing on, and, apraln, perhaps they were. Of course, Mr. Aldrlch, whose conduct In the Senate Js so unselfish and so uniformly directed, by a high seiipe of public uVuty, knew nothing about It. We must not take too much stock In the statement so commonly made that tli railroads desire to see the practice. "f rebating stopped. The railroads are largely owned by the persons who en J.y the profits' of the rebates. At any rate, the practice has not stopped. The present laws have proved utterly inef ficient to control or even much diminish It. It goes on very much, the same as If there were no law 'at all. This ds re vealed by Mr. Garfield's report. To discover his facts, It Is understood, he has resorted to those' "detective" meth ods wivcb he so disastrously forbore to use In the case of the packers. There Is one and only one method to use with criminals, whether rich or poor, hlph or low, and that Is to seek the evidence for their mivuleeds wherever and how ever It can be found. A man who will commit a crime will lie to conceal It, no matter If he le as rich and pious as Mr. Rockefeller, and the law must approach him on the supposition that be will de ceive If he has a chance. Mr. Archbold, replying for Mr. Rogers and for the Standard Oil to Mr. Gar field's charges, assumes a strange tone. That he should plead Innocence is nat uriil all criminals do so when they are caught. But he does more than this. il poses as a critic of the motives of the President of the United States. He seems to think himself a more import nnt personage than the first magistrate of the greatest Nation in the world, and talks as if some sacrilege had been committed by accusing him and his corporation of crime. Undoubtedly the Immunity which the Standard Oil Com pany hu enjoyed throughout Its long course of robbery and corruption has made Mr. Archbold, Mr. Rogers and all the rest of its officials feel that they are exempt from the penalties of the law, that . they are superior to the courts and the officers of the Government; but it is carrying this notion rather far for Mr. Archbold to assume that he is in a position to put on lofty, patronising and critical airs with the President. Pos sibly, as Mr. Archbold says, the Presi dent has used the Standard Oil Com pany for an object-lesson. If that was his purpose, he could not have chosen a more terrible one or one which exem plifies more fearfully the results of en trusting the lives and fortunes of the American people to the unrestrained and lawless greed of corporations. That the Standard Oil Company has of late years carried on its predatory op erations within the limits of the Jaw is perhaps true, though there is much evi dence to the contrary, but for him to speak of fairness, frankness and can dor, as he does,. In relation to its con duct Is to insult the intelligence of the public. The Standard Oil Company has been a destructive .and corrupting force in the Nation from the time of its origin. Its career has been one long defiance of common morality. Pitiless, ' uri- wciupuioua aim utterly treacnerous, us trail runs through the history of the ;.t generation like a smear of filth on a picture by Raphael. Mr. Archbold finds it difficult, he says, to differentiate, between Mr. Roosevelt the President and Mr. Roose-. veil the individual. His problem has now become still more complex and difficult, for he Is about to have an ex perience with Mr. Roosevelt, ex wutor of the law. The active head of the Standard OH Company, brought at last to the bar of justice, takes a light and jesting- tone as if it were a matter of little Importance. He rails at the President, be laujrhs'at the law: tie uneers at the maesty of the people. He Is mud with vanity, drunken with Ui wine of poaver. Great as he Is. the I.t can reach him. Mighty as the corporation may be which he controls, . the law which gave it life can destroy" it. The American people have made up their " minds upon- this subject. They are determined that Standard Oil and all- the other arrogant combinations of unscrupulous -wealth shall submit to the law. Nor will the Nation be satis fled with that treacherous, wriggling, slippery submission which Mr. Arch bold and Mr. Rogers impudently call frankeiess and fairness. The subjection? must be open and complete. ' Nothing else will suffice. . . . ... Among the people of the country there, is but one voice concerning Mr. Roose velt's investigation of Standard Oil through the Commissioner of Corpora-. tions. It is heartily approved by every body, not In -hatred,, malice or envy,' but In an eager desire for ' justice too long delayed. The Nation is tired of being exploited for the benefit of greedy trusts and it is resolutely bent upon finding relief. The flippant sophistries of Mr 'Rogers. and, Mr. Archbold will not alter this purpose in the least ex cept to make it more inflexible;, their sneers at Mr. Roosevelt will have no effect except to increase the confidence of the 'Nation in Its chief magistrate. IX DEFENSE OF DR. IBAPSKV. Discussing the case of Dr. Crapsey, whose trial for heresy has excited a good deal of interest all over the coun try, The Jyew York Evening Post reaches a conclusion with which we cannot agree. The. Post holds that-if a minister's "divergence from accepted doctrine be such that he cannot stand up and repeat the prescribed creeds without intellectual stultification and moral ignominy," then he should resign his pulpit. He cannot go. on repeating a creed, The Post declares, when to do so Is of the essence of falsehood. This, of course, is undeniable, and it seems to be precisely the case of Dr. Crapsey. He has said publicly that he does not believe In the miraculous conception of Jesus. Nevertheless the creed of his church contains the formula, "I believe in Jesus Christ who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the -virgin Mary," and so on; and this creed Dr. Crapsey recites in concert with his con gregation week after week. In his church service he seems to astiert that he does believe the very thing which he has said publicly that he does not believe. The Evening Post thinks that this is moral stultification and of the essence of falsehood. Stated in this way it cannot be de nied that the case again6t Dr. Crapsey looks black, and perhaps there is no other way to state it. We think, how ever, that It 18 not in reality as black as it looks. We believe that after can did reflectioa upon the matter an un prejudiced mind mu3t admit that Dr. Crapsey may do all that he is charged with doing and still remain entirely clear, both of moral stultification and of falsehood. To come at once to the gist of our defence for him, let us sup pose that an austerely pious spinster should sit by at bedtime and hear a mother recite the adventures of Little Red Riding Hood to her children. The spinster would be shocked. Grave moral problems would arise in her mind-. When the children have said their prayers and are safely tucked up in bed, the two ladies return to the parlor and the spinster begins her reformatory attack upon the mother's soul. "Do you believe that story?" she inquires. Cer tainly not. "Yet you tell it to those unhappy infants with all the solemnity and earnestness of absolute belief." Yes. "Madam," the spinster then ad jures her in an awful tone, "every time you recite Little Red Riding Hood to your children you stultify yourself morally; you are guilty of falsehood. You should at once resign your sacred office of motherhood, and let somebody take your place who will tell the truth." In this humble apologue of ours the mother is Dr. Crapsey and the spinster is The Evening Post. It "is not lying Xo recite a fairy tale for the delight of r-hildren, no matter if one utterly dis believes it. Why not? There are sev eral reasons. In the first place it is a trivial question whether the events nar rated really took place or not. De minimis non curat lex. The law pays no attention to trifles, and this is quite as true of the moral as of the civil law. Again, the mother tells the story, in the full certainty that her children's minds will presently develop Into a correct perception of the non-reality of Kittle Red Riding Hood's adventures, while their early pleasure in the- tale and the ethical truth it Involves will remain with them as a permanent treasure. Similarly, although Dr. Crapsey denies the historical reality of the myth about the birth of Jesus, he may continue to recite it in all seriousness for the edi fication of himself and his congregation. That his purpose in reciting it is not to deceive is perfectly plain, for he has declared publicly that .he thinks it a fiction. When Dr. Crapsey reads that part of the creed everylsody knows that he believes -himself to be reading a fictitious narrative. He is no more guilty of lying than he would be if he should read The Pilgrim's Progress, or Jack and the Bean Stalk to his congre gation. They perfectly understand that he is giving it to them as a-fiction and nothing else, for he has told them so publicly and Tepeatedly. How then can The' Evening Post call him a liar? One might as well call Mr. Aldrlch a liar when he says he does not represent a special predatory corporation' In the Senate. An assertion which is not ex pected to deceive anybody is not a lie, no matter how false it may be. The morality of Dr. Crapsey's posi tion is unassailable. If he should assert publicly that he did believe the creed to be historically true while in his heart he thought it a myth, we must condemn him for prevarication. But he does nothing of the kind. He proclaims everywhere in the most open manner that he takes It for a myth; and as a myth and nothing else he recites It with his congregation. For this h merits praise Instead of blame. His case is one of unbending moral consistency and frankness. Nothing could be farther from anything like stultification or de ception. His conduct is of the very essence, not of falsehood, but of ver acity. Dr. Crapsey also merits praise for an other reason. His courageous accept ance of the early Christian myths for what they really aje will be extremely beneficial to the cause of rational re ligion. The persistent effort, to force mankind to accept them as historic facts has produced a dull disgust which makes their beauty and religious mean ing repugnant to the common mind and destroys all interest in them. The pertinacious assertion of their literal truth has obliterated their deep signifi cance to the soul and annihilated their emotional value. By abandoning the arid dogma that the story of the birth of Jesus is historically true Dr. Crausev advances It to a worthy place among the great poetic treasures of the worlds He destroys it as a fetich for groveling superstition and endows it with new life as a thing of joy and beauty. He slays It as an offence to the intelligence and resurrects It as a. consolation to the soul. Shall we not all rejoice when the stories about Jesus, no longer things to Wrangle over as to when, they occurred and where, or whether they occurred at all. Shall have- become subjects for peaceful edification and pure delight? This .happy consummation-. Dr. Crapsey has brought nearer, by his frankness and courage. He is not the first man to be condemned by those who ought to praise him, nor will he be the last. r THE NEW TALK. Douglas. Hyde did not start his cru sade for revival of Gaelic any too soon. for, here is one Zemenhof, German, of course, who twenty years ago invented a language he was pleased to call Esperanto. After lying dormant so long it is taken, up by diplomatic circles in Europe s the one thing wanted for intercommunication.- : In making the 'language Zemenhof uses letters with sounds -common to all tongues, one sound to a letter and one letter to a sound. Vowels have the Latin pro nunciation. Words are not made arbi trarily, but are drawn from roots com mon to many languages. "Good" in Esperanto 1s "bona," while "bad" is "malbona," by which will be seen the idea to do away with a multiplicity of words of a common meaning. This eliminates synony.me and the wealthy kleptomaniac is all the same as com mon thief. Great, isn't it! Prefixes and suffixes differ from the English In being consistent. Gender is masculine, except when the letters "in" are injected, -which changes the sex. Just fancy! If "bovine" goes for "cow," how eas.y to speak of the gentleman at the head of the herd as "bove!" Nouns end in "o," possibly from the Italian; adjectives in "a," though how to inter ject necessary profanity is not stated. Grammar, it will be seen, is so simple as hardly -to be needed; and there are no idioms. This cult is favored by Mr. Bok, of the ladies' own, and in his latest there is extended elucidation thereof. But -to bring it home to Oregonians with a very hard bump it can be said with great or less degree of grief thai some of the faculty up at Eugene are taking it up for study. Imagine President Campbell (whose ancestors in the land of the thistle called themselves "Cawmill") trying to say "Hoot, mon!" in the jar gon; or Professor Schmidt holding up two fingers In desperation after vainly racking his gray matter for Esperanto for "zwei lager!" Or Professor Straub "making a. crack" at it and giving it up; ur protessor Dunn Oh, gracious! Stop the deal and send for Dan Mc Allen. - - IS MARS INHABITED?; That the planet Mars is inhabited, and that it is peopled by a race of h igh intel ligence and capable of vast engineering works, are propositions which Walder-1 mar Kaempffert attempts to prove In a highly interesting article contributed to the current number of "Munsey's Maga zine. He writes with confidence, does not weaken his case by introducing floubt. fortifies himself with the findings of modern astronomers, employs the ories as facts, and reaches the conclu sion that we have learned enough through the telescope to warrant the statement that life as we know it exists among the Martians. Concerning the trustworthiness of evidence on the subject, the writer de clares that no astronomical skeptic will deny that Mars has an atmosphere composed of gases similar to those which envelop our earth, and that the planet is well provided with water. Terrestrial experience has taught us that life is dependent on these two es sentials. Against the argument that the atmosphere is too thin to sustain life, Mr. Kaempffert offers the fact that our organisms were designed for this earth alone, and that tenuity of air is not conclusive proof against life adapt ed to conditions of another orb. . "That -water, the second essential of life, is not absent on Mars, we- have abundant proof in the regular melting and reformation of polar caps, com posed probably of snow or frost," says the writer. "Indeed, by far the most obvious changes which occur on the pranet are the, gradual increase and de crease of the white expanses; of the poles. Two hundred years of observa tion have made us so familiar with these expanses that we know more about Mars than we do about our own Arctic and Antarctic zones." He quotes Professor Percival Lowell and Pro fessor William H. Pickering, of Har vard, as authority for the statement that these white expanses are open polar seas. Thus p the water supply of the planet set forth: It happens that water is rather unhappily distributed on Mara' Only In the frigid sones Is It found In any appreciable amount. This Is exactly what should occur on a planet older thaji the earth by many mil lion years. - As a world ages its water sup--ply diminishes. Oceans, lakes and rivers dry up. Life, therefore, slowly disappears, and after -millenniums' the planet decays Into a gigantic dead globe. If our earth were reduced to the con dition of Mars, and we were confronted by the ever imminent water famine, all human effort would be put to the prob lem of transporting through ditches or canals the water yielded by the melting polar snows to our temperate and tor rid zones. And this, according . to Mr. Kaempf fert, is precisely what the -Martians have done. The telescopic tens has re vealed beyond reasonable doubt the ex istence of greenish and reddish areas on the surface of Mars. What these contrasting areas are is only one of the many enigmas of-an enigmatical planet. To" Professor Lowell, whose views are plausible, the red markings are deserts, unvarying in line. Professor Pickering .suggests that the greenish regions are fertile lands. - covered with vegetation, and that this vegetation, verdant in Summer, naturally becomes russet in Autumn and eventually withers. .In that theory Lowell concurs. What is more, he has advancedarguments- de claring that these greenish stains and the polar caps are laced together by just such an Irrigation system as that which would be necessary to the pres ervation of Martian life. Lowell notes this irrigation system in an intricate network of lines or stripes which were first discovered by the Italian astron omer. Schiaparelii, who called them canals. Lowell, by far the most assid uous and Indefatigable observer of Mars, has succeeded in plotting nearly 400 of these lines. For years after Schiaparelii had made his discovery astronomers refused to believe in "canals." They were put Into the cate gory of optical illusions; but last year Mr. Lapland, of the Lowell Observa tory staff, laid all doubts at rest by ac tually photographing them the most remarkable feat ever accomplished by astronomical photography. The cam era' has no illusions. Going into details about the canals, the writer says: The very manner 'in which the "canals" are distributed proclaims their arrificial origin. They proceed from some point on the greenish areas to well-defined centers In the red desert regions. They proceed. 'more-J over, not In a haphazard way. but by the stralghtest and shortest path. At that well defined center they meet other lines simi larly direct. So narrow are thev that we see them chiefly because of their great length, varying as it does from a few hun dred to several thousand miles. Some of them would extend from New York to San Francisco. The meeting of lines in many poSits Is apparently intentional and cer-( tainly unnatural; for nearly all of them run with spoke-like directness to hub-like spots. Mr. Kaempffert concludes that the Martians developed large things in en gineering, that physically they are im mensely superior to us, much larger and very much stronger, that heavy burdens here are light on Mars, because the force of . gravitation is less and things weigh correspondingly less, that one man would probably be as effective m canal work -as a steam shovel is on earth, and, despite all our boasted In tellectual ability and industrial prog ress, we are several million years be hind the Martian times. Admitting the facts and ignoring Mr. Kaempffert's strange, but interesting deductions, we on earth must be satis fled for the present with what we have. Until a future Knabenshue shall visit our celestial neighbor in his airship, or a Marconi, yet to be, establishes wire less communication through a hundred million miles of space. Mars and its people can be only a topic for romantic speculation. A feature of missionary work that appeals to practical people is that which gathers and sends to out of the way stations, as those in Alaska, where there Is school and hospital connection w ith' church work, magazines, periodi cals and books for which the owners have no further use. Such work for the Alaska mission has for some years been centralized at St. Luke's Church, San Francisco, and the annual box was packed and ready for shipment when the earthquake and fire came and church and contents, including' the book box, were destroyed. An effort has been inaugurated by the Woman's Guild of St. David's Church in this city by which it is hoped to make good this loss. Collections of books1 and maga zines for this purpose will begin this week, and it is expected that a well stored box will be on the way to good Bishop Rowe, who is in charge of Epis copal missions in Alaska, In a few days. The-- work is one that appeals to -all who realize the important part that good reading matter plays in the life of a convalescent, and the boon that such matter is to those who live in iso--lated places. The longshoreman's strike put an ef fective embargo on the commerce of Lakes Michigan and Erie during the past week. The growth of this com merce in recent years is shown by the fact that a fleet of 40 vessels was tied up at Milwaukee on the first day of the strike; that 25 ore-carrying vessels were stopped at Cleveland and that at the port of Buffalo no vessels were moving, while a total of nearly 10,000 men went ashore from the various fleets to await the outcome of the strike.. When in dustries dependent upon lake commerce for supplies are compelled to cease operations the magnitude of the strike1 will become apparent over a Wide area including vast manufacturing centers, especially of steel, iron and copper. The strike is one of those that nobody can afford a fact, that is true only In a lesser degree of all strikes. According to the American Grocer the average consumption of alcoholic beaverages in the United States mounts higher and higher each year. The in crease between 1901 and 1905 was 21 3-5 per cent. In cost it.. amounted to one eighth of the Nation's total expenditure for food. The increase in population during the period covered was 6M per cent. Still the cheerful prohibitionist reports progress from year to year, holds political conventions, nominates candidates, conducts a more or less vigorous campaign and fervidly calls upon his brethren to "stand up and be counted." -His confidence in the ulti mate triumph of his party on a plat form that forbids the manufacture and sale of intoxicating beverages, tells of a nature that is childlike and bland. Ideal "weather for building still pre vails in this section, and builders are pushing their work as rapidly as ma terial can be secured. Hundreds of resi dence buildings In this city have been enclosed during the past month, and on every hand ground is being broken for others. Flat building is extending to-w-ard the suburbs, and' neat, well finished cottages for rent are taking the place of unsightly shacks or ap pearing on lots that have served as cow pasture for years. The croaker is abroad sayiing that "building is being overdone." but the careful man of small means sees a reasonably certain return of 6 per cent on his investment in this line and is satisfied with the outlook. Louis Blumauer', whose death was recorded yesterday Showed what in- Hdustry and thrift in business will ac complish. With one year's savings he started a retail drug store, devoted himself exclusively to .it, succeeded, of course, and founded a wholesale house which from small beginnings grew to be the largest concern in the Pacific North west. He stood dn this community for progress and commercial probity. Now the Governor of Kansas is alleged! to have kissied his predecessor's wife. Which is what Old Bill "White in the Emporia Gazette would call "Hoch the Kisser!" "Although the price charged was re duced from $1.50 to $1.13 per thousand," says ex-Representative Baker of New York, "the people (in New York) found their gas bills Increasing." Thus we see that there are others. If you want to discipline an unruly dog, you can often save using the stick by letting the dog see it. England knows this, and she 'shows her battle ships to the Sultan of Turkey. Negatively the San Francisco disaster conferred one benefit on the newspaper readers of the country. It put Dowie Jn eclipse. - It cost Linn County a dollar for every vote cast at the recent primary election. which is less than some candidates used to pay. . - . - THE PESSIMIST. . .The Seattle splrit" does not seem to be ,very active in baseball circles on Puget Sound.- It may be that Seattle has become a back' number. . It is said that Sarah Bernhardt la the reincarnation of Adrienne Lecouvreur; and John Alexander Dowie claims to be Elijah himself. Without .considering these, two'iri particular, it is a curious exhibi tion of human conceit that when one first assimilates the doctrine of rebirth, he immediately assumes himself to be the later coming of some one great. The chances are that he is. instead, a subse quent edition of a four-flusher who was an object of- charity in- some one of the centuries gone by. . . One of the disagreeable , possibilities of the growing belief in the ideas of the re turn of the human eoul to earth arises when one looks at an Egyptian mummy. He may be gazing at the remains of him self. - ' ' - ' . Referring to bulldogs, the editor of Les lie's Weekly, in the last issue, . writes as follows: Ho is always ugly in his physical make up. - uglier still -In his demfnort and ugliest of all in his temper. He 1p a' monster of in gratitude, ar.d will bite the hand that feeds him as 'readily as he will the foot that kicks him. He is born with a -vinegary disposition, a mis-anthrope -by nature, and snaps and snarls -his way through the world from puppyhood to the other rnd, and Is a nuis ance to everyone except the . incomprehensible creature to whom he ' belongs. , Following this diatribe against tlie large-hearted bullpup is a story . of a young lady who does all of the .housework on a dairy farm; takes care of two chil dren, a vegetable and a flower garden, a large number of fowls; does an extensive mail-order business;, contributes .articles to several newspapers and magazines, and sends in designs for fancy work Tor the latter. All of these 'things she can do, because she eats predigested "Saw Dust" for breakfast. After that conies an account of the re cent horrors in San Francisco, including a tidal wave that swept over the lower part of town, the destruction ot the Cliff House, and a picture of Van Ness avenue with cable-cars running up , and down. The editor of Leslie's certainly needs a vacation. " .. . - There is a greater strength-giving ele ment in the various copyrighted breakfast foods than one would be led to suppose from their taste. Now, the other morn ing I ate a dish of Peptonized Grape Shot, and all the forenoon I watched a China man mow the lawn and didn't feel tired a bit. I can eat shredded cedar shingles every day for two days and never make a roaf,. but when a dyspeptic Eastern editor says that a bulldog is a misanthrope, he has made an enemy of me for life. The best friend I have is a bulldog that belongs to a family three blocks down the street. Although he doesn't wear glasses, he looks like Colonel. Roosevelt, and is .a gentleman, if ever a dog was one. - When this particular dog crawls out from under a heap of six or - seven boys who have fallen on top of 'him. In order to gef a baseball which he has grafted, " he straightens -himself out and says: "If you fellows think this is fun, I guess I can stand It;" ' Although "the genial smile which he .enerliy wears' is, sjlghtly . in-, congruous with the. contour of his face, everyone knows that it Ms genuine, and that it Is prompted, by a feeling of. .iove: knd kindness toward an mankind. What has been said of this , dog. is . true of all bulldogs. They are the kindest," 'truest,' most friendly and cordial creatures of the canine race. ' Nevertheless, tlrare are moments when a bulldog wants to be left alone. .'If, per chance, he should lie peacefully asleep, stretched, across the walk, .and feel the Impact df the foot of some two-legged -hyena who is too mean to step aside, he hastily concludes .that something has to be done. The thoroughness which which he attends to the matter in hand wins the admiration of -aft those who see his work. When tye and the thing that kicked him are pried apart, seme one is always heard earnestly vowing that he will never kick a dog again. A business man known by the name of Arthur- Richard .Rose in the locality where he makes . him home, has been thinking of his' future life. He has published a volume which he calls "A Common-Sense Hell." The gentleman is inclined to orthodoxy; but, not be lieving in the conventional hell of brimstone, he has constructed a hell to suit' himself. Arthur exhibits his common sense by carefully avoiding the annoying question, "Is Hell a con dition or a place?" He doesn't care; it's a h bad enough prospect which ever it is. One's existence in this is not forever; yet - the hell itself is eternal, as there always will be sin ners who need It. Mr. -Rose's spokes man, who Is an Imaginary si.insv in the nether regions. Is deprived of all hjs physical .atrlbutes, . yet he can think and suffer. He says: We know not even where We are in rela tion to other . part- of the universe. There Is no sun, aor moon, nor stars, nor locality' for us. We know not whether hell is. a place or a mere- stage of existence. For us it has no metea nor, bounds. For us It is Sfl wide as the universe Itself. We simply know thac we exist in company with one an other and we can communicate our thoughts to one another, but as to our future, we know no. mora for -certain, than we did when we were on earth." It is really quite a sensible hell. .. Answers to Correspondents. BENEDICT "What shall I do to my wife to make her stop annoying me the way She does? Every tir.ie I run up a window-sha'de to get a little more light, she pulls.it down again."' You wil do nothing If you are wise. Be patient, Benedict. She'? does . that in obedience to the "higher, law" the law that rules the feminine world. She is- not thinking of you at all, dear friends She is thinking that it would "look so from, the' outside." "What would p'eople . say ?"' is the supreme question that ' the ''dear, sweet things ask, as they move gently along from day to day, -Those who "say" have decreed that ' all-window-shades shall be kept half-ay down, and so it will be until something else is said. Light the gas, Benedict, if the room is dark, and let your -wife be happy in the as surance that, the strangers, who walk by, will look at the shades and have nothing to say. ' . PHILO "What is tHfc meaning of the phrase, "pernicious verbosities,' when used in reference to the works of Her bert Spencer?" It Indicates that Her bert bad so much to say, and so little time to think, that he occasionally ma ' mistake. . M. B. WELLS. U. S. SUPREME COURT ON DIVORCE Careful Analysis of a Recent Important Decision The) South Dakota -Method I Now Under the Ban How All Divorce Litigants Are Affected The Supreme Court of the TTnlted States, at Washington. r. C. on the 15th day of April, 1906. handed down a decision in the case of Haddock vs. Haddock which, in the space of. three weeks, has become as famous as the Dred Scott decision, and in the mind of the dissenting Justices it will have as momentous effect, as the famous ante-bellum decision With reference to a different, though not less important, form of liberty. - . . . By .way of preface it may be premised that on June 4. 1S6S. John W. Haddock and Harriet Haddock were married in the City, of New York, and separated upon the same day, without consummation of the marriage, and have, never lived to gether since. A short while after the wedding, the husband left the State of New York., and, after some wandering, finally settled in the Slate of Connecticut in 1877. where, in 1S81. he obtained a di vorce from his wife, Harriet HaddocK, on the. ground of desertion. In the Superior Court of Litchfield County. Connecticut. He remarried the following year :in Con necticut. Thirty-one years after the orig inal marriage,, to wit. in June. m3, the original wife. Harriet Haddock, com menced an action for a separation in the Supreme Court of the City and State of New .York, after the fashion approved by the late act of the- Oregon Legislature with reference to forcing a husband to support his. wife while they are separate and apart. Mrs. Haddock In this pro ceeding -obtained personal service upon the husband. That is to say, the husband was at that time within the City and State of New York. The husband set up in his answer as a defense the Connecti cut divorce of 1881, but upon the trial the New York court refused to recognize the Connecticut divorce upon the ground and for the reason that, while domiciled In Litchfield County, Connecticut, the hus band had not obtained personal service upon the wife, who was then domiciled in New York, and who had ever since the original marriage in 1868 been domiciled in the last-named place. ,is view is now sustained by the Supreme Court- of the United Stales. The theory of the New York court was that since it recog nized only one ground of divorce, to wit, adultery, and. as to its citizens living there, one spouse could sue the other only for that ground, and neither of them could seek another domicile or place of residence and by a weaker and 'more eas ily proven ground of divorce obtain a sep aration and divorce for a cause or reason which would not have been recognized In the original state. As Justice White, of the United States Supreme Court, aptly says, to assume this state of the ktw to be correct, it v would make New York, which recognizes but one ground of di vorce, adopt the laws of the State of Connecticut, or of the State of Washing ton, which allows divorces upon the hazy and gossamer complaint of divorce known as incompatibility of temper: a cause which Is good or trivial according to the view of the particular Judge who hears the case. Carrying this theory to Its full est extent, that state which made" it eas iest to obtain a divorce -would, by forcing other states to accept Its decrees of vorce, legislate for those states, notwith standing the fact that citizens of the lat ter states domiciled therein would be re fused divorce on the very grounds allowed by the liberal commonwealths. A wife or husband tiring .of the other spouse i,n the State of New York, which allows divorce on one ground, and, by following the lines of least resistance, so journing -for a sufficient length , of time, to wit, 90 days, six months or a year, in Connecticut. South Dakota or the State of Washington, may obtain, a divorce upon the elastic ground of nonsupport in South Dakota, incompatibility of temper. e.8--ia- Connecticut; or-,ust simply because the ijudge: thought - they - could not , live happ'ib together and should be divorced, as- hi the State of Washington, - , : Fhw State of New York has consistently maintained its-position, fer a-number of, years past, -and to lawyers. weU versed in matters of divorce, separation and prop erty rights of husband and wife, the Had dock decisi'on is by no means a surprise so far as it concerns the State of New York. ' . ' In 1901 (67 App. Dlv.. 437, Starbuck vs. Starbuck), . the Supreme Count of New York went so far as to hold that where a man and woman were. married in the State of Massachusetts, or which state the woman was then a resident, move to the- State of New York, and the wife subsequently leaves the hus band and returns to the State of Mas sachusetts, and after remaining there six years, obtains in that state a decree of .divorce from her husband on the ground of cruelty (a ground not recog nized in New York), such decree of divorce would not deprive the wife of a right to dower in the property situ ated in the State of New York; all this, notwithstanding the husband had, sup posing the Massachusetts divorce to be effective, in that state, subsequently contracted a second . marriage in the State of Pennsylvania. It will be noted that the New York courts hold steadfastly to the view that no other state can grant a divorce against a citizen of New York upon any other ground not recognized by the :State of New York.. The Supreme Court of the IN THE OREGON COUNTRY. Sunday Baseball. ' The Dalles Chronicle. There is always- something doing with the young people, and there are worse things'" they might be doing than playing baseball or going on an excursion on Sun day. These are things the Sabbatarian should think over and be as charitable as possible, remembering that the temper and the spirit -will be reflected. Youth looks not upon the world through - the glasses of the gray, and his soul's salva tion worries him not. Bring the boy lup broad of shoulder and broad of mind, and he will work out his own salvation with credit to humanity and glory to divinity. Stick a Pin There Some Day. Central Point Herald. It has sometimes been -said of Central Point in the past thak the place is not even on the map. THaVs nothing. There was a time "In the past when Chicago was not oh the map. but a few enterpris ing, wide-awake people got together there and proceeded to put it on the map in big, red letters. Let's ge: together, neighbors. and put Central Point on the map. It will help the looks of the map, and will not hurt Central Point a bit. . Prophecy by I-MIosofical Flagg. St.; Helens Mist. We still have on hand for free distribu tion a number of packages of Govern ment garden seeds with the frank'of that sterling Democrat and good citizen, John M. Gearin. Better get some and pre serve the frank, as they are positively the last Mr. Gearin will send out. Put Him Out of Misery. . r Walla Walla Union. It wa most appropriate that a humane officer should killed Outlaw Smith. : Wise Fido. ' Washington D. C.) Star. -I heard ray Polly's mother say to her "I don't see where your memory can be, The things I say to you go In one ear - And out the other one. It seems to ma." And so when Polly talks to me I lift 1 One ear to hear my mistress speak, and ; then I- always leave the other hanging down ' To keep the words from slipping out again. ; United States, however, takes the view. -( in the Haddock case, that no' other i stte can determine the marital status j of a citizen of the State of New York I residing therein. a j In a proceeding of. divorce under t;ii I decision, brought by the plaintiff who j leaves that state and obtains a resr- dence In a foreign state for the purpose of obtaining a divorce, it is not aliso i lute so far as the defendant alone Is j concerned unless. one or a combination: i of one or more of three conditions arise: Flint I aliens the defendant la prr i aoanlly served wlthla the state -la which the plaintiff hsi rrmavH ,r re aide. Hnd In which the actios la begun. Second L'nlrsa the defendant ap pears by attorney la (be last-named state. Third I'slm Ithla la m srenaary naaunifitlon. sa a reault of the Haddock, case I the cause, of salt arises la the last-anmed atate. The writer of this article assumes a fourth ground, to-wit: That where both 1 parties are married and domiciled ill the state where the mnrrlagre i con summated, and where both-the plain tiff and the defendant leave that state for separate and different states and the marriage domicile is broken then xiiu in iiiiii ' t, j , nie niuiici i put hi large and either party may maintain a suit for- any ground allowed in the state of their domicile or place of res idence. In the case of Haddock vs. Haddock, the Supreme Court of the Wnlted States does not annul the divorce obtained by the action in the State of Connecticut, but simply holds that If Haddock's ap pearance In the State of New York sub jects him to the laws of that state with reference to being liable to the support of the wife whom he deserted in that state, his divorce In Connecticut pro tects him as against any criminal act in remarrying, and If he owns prop-, erty only In the State of Connecticut and never leaves that state or aroes Inrn anv Btla hut- 1, a Klnl. . York, his property and personal rlg-ht are protected under and by virtue of his divorce decree in Connecticut. The ultimate analysis of this decision of the Haddock case simply holds that a state may, as was held by the Supreme Court of the United States in the famous case of Pennoyer vs. Neff, determine th status of its own citizens, whether or not they are married or single. , As for ex ample, the State of Oregon has a right to say that A. .Is an unmarried woman as to any rights she may have in the State of Oregon, and as to any criminal charges against her if she- should remar ry, but that as against her husband, who lives in the State of New York. It Is for the New York courts to say whether or not in New York her marriage In Oregon Is to be recognized as Valid or not. to the extent as to whether or not it compiled with the laws of New York aa to the grounds of divorce, and as to whether or not the defendant husband was personally served in the State of Oregon, or appeared by attorney therein. In short, the law Is that the divorce is correct and proper and lawful as to the plaintiff In Oregon, but may or may not be as to the defendant in New York, according as to whether or not he was personally served, appeared by at torney on - the one hand, or was served only by publication of summons on the other. The Haddock decision does not in any way annul the divorce so far as the poFl- tion of the spouse Is concerned m th state where the divorce was taken, nor does it bastardize any children by reason of a subsequent marria'ge. The trouble. If any trouble arises, will come when the" question of the division of property arises In the state where the defendant lives or lived. r-:In fine, parties are admonished II they .cleslre to obtain a decree of divorce hot ;ohly with, reference to the criminal point5", of view, but a3 to the property rights', that they should obtain, personal service upon the defendant, or cause him to make appearance by attorney or stipu lation' in the case. " It puts the quietus upon the hurried sojourn to accommodat ing states like South Dakota, or Connec ticut, but in no wise curtails the rights of an injured party from obtaining a -decree of divorce ' against a wrongdoing marital partner. In particular it puts a stop to the dis satisfied wife or husband leaving the "home state," adopting a temporary resi dence in South Dakota. Vvashlngton- or some convenient commonwealth, obtain ing a divorce upon an equally convenient cause of suit by service upon the defend ant by publication, and then returning to the home state, with expectation that the home state will give fu- faith and credit to the. divorce obtained in the foreign jurisdiction upon a grourfd not recognized at home. While the divorcee remains in the place where the divorce Is obtained, or goes into some state other than the domicile of the defendant, the divorce will be considered good as to any remar riage, birth of children or property right In any state except w..ere the defendant Is domiciled, or state holding as New York does. This seerps to be the general result of the case of Haddock vs. Had dock.' JOHN F. 'LOGAN. CONTRAST OF DIAY AND CASTRO Brooklyn ' Standard-Union. It would be the greatest of misfortunes if President Diaz were to terminate his long and distinguished service as chief magistrate of Mexico. He found his coun try in ruins. He has built up a nation. He found his country incapable of self-government.- For a whole generation he has striven with the devotion of a true patriot and the wisdom of a great states man to fit the people for self-government, never relaxing for a moment the reins of the benevolent despotism which has made a continuity in this course possible. The Mexican people have been edu cated, have been raised to a higher stand ard of living, have been urged to assimi late whatever Was seemed best for them In our civilization, and have been trained in the forms of representative govern ment. Diaz will never resign. He wilt never be defeated at the polls. Th longer he lives the better will the people of Mexico be fitted to, carry on as their own business the business of the Repub lic. And Diaz is a pure-blooded Mexican Indian. Castro's despotism appears to have had Castro as the chief object of its benevo lence. Like many another South Amer ican President, he came, into power through revolution, and personal aggran dizement seems to have been the motive of his rule rather than the aggrandize ment of Venezuela. He has involved his country in many useless disputes with foreign powers. He has failed to ad vance her material interests at home or abroad, and now retires rather than face a conflict with France. discredit Ad. wealthy, and, if the cables are to be be lieved, with the purpose of resuming power when the storm shall have blown over. Should this retirement become per manent, there will be no regret in the family of nations, and possibly not In Venezuela either, except among his ad herents and supporters. The Poor Orphan. Terrell Love in L.ipIncott'. He's never known a mother's care. He's had no one to love him. No shelter from the stormy air, . No Pa to push and nhove him; No lofty, grand old family tree To make his heart-throb quicken Oh, pity, pity such n he. The incubator chicken.