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Peetase Rates 10 to 14 pages. 1 cent: IS to 20 pases. 2 canta: SO to 44 paces. canta; 40 to 00 pages, 4 cents. Foreign j-oat- ace ooudm ratea. Eastern Business OfBee Tito a. G Bock' with Special Aaency New Tork. roome 4S- 40 Tribune building. Chicago, room 610-611 iriauae ouiiaing. PORTLAND. SUNDAY. SEPT. IS. ISO. THE TEIENCIES OF A PARTY. A great truth Mr. Bryan Is telling; In his recent speeches. "Parties," be declares, "are not to be measured by the things actually done, but by their tendencies." It is a test that ai ways has been insisted on by The Oregonian; but It has often been de rided by Mr. Bryan's partisans In Ore ron, and elsewhere, too. Many and many a time, when uttered by The Oregonian, It has called forth a cry of rage from the non-partisan Demo cratic oracles hereabout. "There is nothing in the history or tendency of parties by which to Judge them" ihey exclaim; "ma are not dealing with the past, but with the present and future. The 'tendency argument Is Sothing but hide-bound partylsm." But Mr. Bryan is right in his state ment. Twice has he been beaten be cause of adverse Judgment on the his tory, the course and tendency of his party; and It is the main argument against him and his party still. For, between the Republican and Demo- sratic platforms of the present year there is scarcely a single appreciable difference. "If," says the New York Times, "the two were cut up, para graph by paragraph, and well shaken together In Mr. Bryan's hat, no man on earth who had not previously read them, no matter how intimately famll lar he might be with present Demo cratic and Republican policies, would be able to restore the two documents in their separate textual integrity.' Tet there is a profound difference between the parties. It Is to be found in their historic characters, In their constant tendencies, which have ap peared In all their acts, attempted or performed accentuated at the present time by the contrast between the tem per and temperament of the candl dates. Spite of all appearances of sim llarity, the parties and the candidates are at opposite poles. Mr. Taft repre sents one system of politics, one theory of government; Mr. Bryan another. The two have been In conflict from the very beginning of our composite or federal system. They antedate even the Revolution and our National In dependence. One of them Is for strong, vigorous and efficient central government; the other stands for a loose non-national democracy iso lated centers of local government, such as exist in our Southern States today, and in the city of New York, where Tammany sets up a barrier against both state and National con trol. This distinction of parties never will be lost. The party that calls it self Democratic never can be National. It always will be sectional and local. will oppose a. Navy; will condemn ex pansion, and will continue to insist on abandonment of our Islands In the Pa- clflc and Atlantic. Its notions of finance, with sliver as the basis of money and measure of values, corres pond with the general character. Within the memory of living men It has favored the dissolution of the Union, and its controlling element has waged a war to effect It. Its right des ignation Is the party of Little Ameri cans. It has. Indeed, at one time and an other, contained contradictory forces within itself, which make occasional counter currents, as eddies here and there run against the stream; but the general course remains the same; that Is to say, opposition to strong, vigor ous and efficient government, and a disposition to promote and support local and anti-national policies. From its Jeffersonlan constitution this ts Its necessary character. It is the source of all its errors from the time it took up the championship of slavery and accepted the doctrine of National dis integration as the proper application and enforcement of its state-sovereignty principles. Upon these ideas and their consequences it still holds one third of the states of the Union In a Democratic party confederacy, and, basing Its efforts and its power on this sura foundation. It cultivates what ever combinations of local political in terest or occasional unrest that It may find In other states, and essays to tie the whole up together, for the pur poses of a quadrennial election. It appeals to every ism and to every form of dissatisfaction in the land, but drops one after another upon de feat, and Invents new expedients for fresh efforts. The Ideas and purposes It has proclaimed In its platforms these fifty years would have been ut terly ruinous, could they have been carried out. Its present platform la, however, only an assimilation of what it has attempted to gather in from the efforts and measures of the Roose velt Administration; yet. the party is the same party as of yore, and Its "tendencies" are the same, because its character ts the same. It Is in capable of the adoption or the execu tion of any effective National policy, because it is a non-national party. All for the present, then. Is summed up In this: Taft represents the party of nationality; Bryan the non-national party. This Is the basis of all minor divisions, and Is none the less real be cause minor divisions for the present obscure It. Bernard Pape, whose death oo curred at his home on the East Bids Tuesday morning, was a German American of the thrifty industrial type. He accumulated during the years of his active endeavor a compe tence for his age. He brought up a large family of sons and daughters, passed the closing years of his long life "in peace among bis own," and went to his final rest respected and honored by the associates of many years of his long life. The simple achievements of such a life are within the reach of all who pay the price In industry and good citizenship. IT 18 A HMflK STORY. Mr. Chamberlain was not the choice, and is not the choice, of a majority of the people of Oregon for Senator. He only was preferred in the circum stances, to Mr. Cake, who had no bust ness In it, and whose "butting In was resented by thousands of voters; not because they had objection to Mr Cake on personal grounds, but because they didn't deem him the proper man for the position. Moreover, It was known that he was nominated In the primary by the votes of Democrats, who Intended to vote against him, and did vote against him in the election. The hundreds and thousands of Re publicans who voted for Chamberlain dldn t vote for him because he was their "choice." He was not their choice, in any sense. They knew well his personal unfitness, and knew more over that he was, and is, an enemy In politics of all that they desire. But they wished to emphasize their disap proval of the methods that bring for ward such men as Cake and Bourne as the representative statesmen of their party. But Chamberlain neither was nor is. In any sense, their choice They wanted to rebuke the whole scheme of this cheap and dishonest business; and they reflected, moreover. that It was the duty of the members of the Legislature, under their sworn obligation to the Constitution to elect the Senator, and concluded they would pass It up to them. This is all of It, sung In short metre. What's the use of beating about the bush? A SEATTLE SUICIDE. Not long ago there was an account In the papers of a Seattle boy who committed suicide to escarpe going to school. Before taking his exit from the world he wrote a letter to his mother which showed not a little skill In composition and gave other Indies tlons that the youth had enjoyed care ful nurture. He said in the letter that he could not endure the terrible thought of entering school and min gling with th-5 rough crowd of boys whom he would meet there, and, since. his mother had decided that he must. he turned to suicide as the only es cape. .The discipline in the family was surely stricter than one commonly sees nowadays. If It had not been so. this extraordinary boy would have re lied upon cajoling his fond mamma or practicing that easy deceit which is so effectual when children wish to es cape obedience. He might have Imi tated the little girl in Baltimore who on her first morning at school fell up stairs and so Injured her delicate physique that she was never able to go again. The news reports gave no account of the family of this unfortunate boy, but one can easily imagine its main circumstances. He had a most af fectionate mother who loved to dress his hair in pretty curls, to ornament him with a wide white collar to his Jacket and broad cuffs to his sleeves. She forbade him to play In the dirt lest he stain his immaculate knicker bockers, or to run about In the sun shine for fear he might ruin the deli cate, dollish pink of his cheeks. He had never heard an improper word in his life. His English, as his letter shows, was frightfully correct. Fight ing he had been taught to abhor. Rough play was ungentlemanly. It is not difficult to believe that the wretched boy had been brought up as nearly as possible In imitation of Lit tle Lord Fauntleroy, the most deeply Immoral child character ever Invented. The boy pickpockets In "Oliver Twist" were models of virtue compared with Mrs. Burnett's Infantile monster. Nor Is the task of picturing the father of the Seattle suicide very difficult. He m correct in all his habits, a mem ber of the Unitarian Church, a deep student of Browning and much in the habit of quoting Emerson at the breakfast table. His evenings he reg ularly spent reading aloud to his wife and son from a history of Grecian art In four large volumes. He was a thin, slim man, if the term can be thus ap plied, with a pale. Intellectual face. In reading the dally paper he always skipped the baseball news and scowled In disgust when the headlines an nounced a prizefight. The acute reader has already dis cerned that this poor Seattle boy was a double victim, first of too much love and second of too much culture. He was a sort of hothouse plant, and the result of all the coddling, fussing and modeling he received was simply to unfit him for life. He must have pos sessed an extraordinary mind. Prob ably he would have made a great man if he had had a pair of sensible par ents. The greatest misfortune that can happen to a boy is to be born the only child In a cultured family. If his father and mother are too poor or too busy to pay much attention to him, he may escape some of the 111 conse quences of such a birth, but woe to the wretched child If they possess the means and leisure to devote them selves entirely to his bringing up. About the worst thing in the world for boy who has passed out of baby hood Is the exclusive devotion of a loving mother. Her incidental atten tions morning and night after he has been away from her during the day are well enough, but, If she can keep him in her clutches all the time, he might as well be preserved In a bar rel of molasses for all the good that will ever come of htm. She will make doll baby of him. If she possibly can, and the chances are that if she sets resolutely about It she can. The wise custom of the English is to hustle their boys away from home into a public school at an early age. They believe that the rough and tumble of school life Is healthy for the urchins. Even a little bullying and tyranny from their mates is not thought to be very harmful to British youths. Ex perience shows that this custom is a good one, for Englishmen have been a sturdy race hundreds of years and their stock shows no signs of dying out. We can hardly say the same of our older American stock. In a gene ration or two, unless things greatly al ter, there will be nothing left of it except as it mingles with sturdier breeds. Our original Anglo-Saxon population, as It is called, seems to present a case of arrested develop ment. It flourished mightily for while after It was transplanted in the United States and then it began to pine. Perhaps the climate had some thing to do with its precocity and , early sterility. Perhaps In New Eng land it was worn out prematurely by the ' over-ctrenuous struggle with na ture. Perhaps the mad race for wealth has exhausted Its vigor; but, for whatever " reason, alt observers agree that It is headed toward extinc tion. The little Seattle boy who killed himself because he was afraid to go to school presents an example of some of our National tendencies car ried to their logical consequences. He was a product of that Impatience which can not wait for natural pro cesses but must force everything pre maturely. He could not play, he could not fight, he could not be one among comrades. In short he did not know how to live as a boy. . A HABD CASK. . The letter from Prairie City which The Oregonian printed yesterday was written by a person who sincerely be lieves that Mr. H. P. Chambers has been wronged by the state veterinary surgeon. He permits a kind heart to lead his Judgment astray, but he Is not the only man m the world who does so, and he has a much better excuse than those who bewail the destruction of diseased orchards. - Mr. Chambers owned some glandered horses which were shot by the veterinary surgeon. It appears that the animals were his sole property and that his family has been reduced to want by their loss. The case is a hard one. It Is much harder than that of a shiftless farmer whose diseased trees are cut down be cause by ordinary industry the trees can be completely protected, while no precautions will always protect horses from glanders. Still the question remains Just where it did before. Fundamentally It is the same question, whether we are talking of trees or horses or tuber culous cows or scabby sheep. Which must yield, the Individual or the pub lic? Whose welfare Is more impor tant, that of one family or that of a whole state? If Mr. Chambers' glan dered team were permitted to go from place to place hauling freight, which was his business, every horse along his route would soon be Infected with this terribly dangerous and incurable disease. Not only would the money loss to the community be great, but human life would also be sacrificed, for glanders attacks men as well as horses. Honce, much as Mr. Cham bers is to be commiserated. The Ore gonian must contend that the veteri nary surgeon did only his plain duty when he shot the horses, and every good citizen ought to commend him for it. Nor Is It admissible that the state ought to compensate Mr. Cham bers. To make his case an excep tional one would not be right under the law, while, if compensation were granted as a rule. It would encourage carelessness and heap unbearable bur dens upon the public. The Oregonian suggests that Mr. Chambers' misfor tune presents his neighbors with a beautiful opportunity to exercise their generosity. A KAY OF COMFORT. Margherlta, the Italian Queen Dow ager, does' not relish the approaching union of tha royal Duke of the Abruzzi with Miss Elkins, daughter of the Prince of West Virginia. The Dowager says she objects because tha Americans are pretty certain to sneer at the Duke and Intimate that he loves Miss Elkins, not for herself alone, but for her father's broad pieces of yellow gold; and the American sneers are something that Margherlta can not abide. They are too keen and cutting, and alas, all too likely to be true. But the Duka declares It is Miss Elkins he loves and not her cash and he swears by all the gods that he would wed her Just the same were she but a dairy maid and her papa a Yankee farmer who worked a team of horses Instead of a million men. It is -barely possible that the royal Duke overestimates the disinterested ness of his passlbn. He has seen a good many dairy maids In his brief span of existence and some of them must have been as lovable as Miss Elkins, but his heart was never taken captive until he met her In her radiant sumptuousness. It is therefore legitimate to guess that the sumptu ousness had something to do with the enklndlement of the fires of Cupid in his manly breast. But let us give Abruzzi the benefit of the doubt. As noblemen go he is a manly sort of a young chap who has had his share of bold adventure and hardy sport. As soon as her father became a multi-millionaire it was fairly certain that Miss Elkins would bestow her riches on some European of lofty lineage and we ought to be thankful that she has chosen a man instead of a scrofulous simulacrum. These International mar riages are gradually saddling upon the country the evils of absentee landlord ism in an . exacerbated form, but there seems to be no way to put a stop to them short of imprisoning the infatuated heiresses. Since that can not be done, we must e'en get such consolation as we can out of the selec tion of a wholesome young, man, like the Duke of the Abruzzi by a girl be longing to a class who do not usually choose half so wisely. A CUBIOfJS DILEMMA. Commenting on the repeal of the commodity clause in the Hepburn act, the Springfield Republican takes' sub stantially the same view of the situa tion as that expressed by The Orego nian the other day. The commodity clause forbids railroads to own coal lands and transport coal in compe tition with other mlneowners. It was repealed, the reader will remember, by two Federal Judges In Pennsyl vania, who decided that it violated the fourteenth amendment to the Consti tution of the United States. The Re publican remarks that the railroads have acquired their coal lands in di rect violation of the Constitution of Pennsylvania, but this, of course, makes no difference. The Interpreta tion of the law by some Judges seems to be that any and every violation of the constitutions by a railroad is perfectly proper, while any and every attempt to control the railroad is a highly Improper violation. The Republican raises the same point which The Oregonian suggested. Since the. attempt to force the rail roads to sell their coal lands is con fiscatory. It is no more permissible to a state than to Congress. Hence there is no way to put a stop to the trans portation of their own products by which the carriers ruin their com petitors and monopolize the business of the country. If Judges Gray and Dallas,' who made this momentous de cision, should be sustained by the Su- preme Court, then in one important . i . it .3 ti i particular the railroads will have es caped from control. They will have set oft one large area where neither the state nor the Federal power can interfere with their conduct. To this area Judges from time to time will probably add new tracts. It will in crease constantly and never diminish until we shall again have complete anarchy in transportation and all of Mr. Roosevelt's work will be undone. Will the people be willing to begin anew the struggle to regulate trans portation along the same old lines or will they be tempted to try something more radical? TRATS" rx THE SCHOOLS. The household ruled by children la a place where Incipient anarchy Is nurtured, a place withal shunned by Judicious, orderly people. The school ruled by pupils Is such a household on a larger, more aggressive and more anarchistic scale. Every ultimate pur- Aie. .-n.uvn man- la ilofoalBfl k such a home and such a school. The first lesson In government Is that of cheerful submission to" proper author ity. The first lesson in anarchy is de fiance to the -duly constituted author ity of home and schooL All evidence, from whatever source, has shown that insubordination has followed the In troduction of "frats" into secondary schools, and especially Into the public high schools. They inculcate the Idea of a privileged class, which is dis tinctly at variance with the free school purpose and intent. They encourage snobbery and favoritism, beget olan nlshness, discriminate against merit as the basis of school honors, and, as is shown by present conditions in Chi cago, they defy control. A precept in the - old-fashioned bringing up of children declared that a child was never too old to spank until he was old enough to behave himself m accordance with wholesome family rules and regulations. Nor was this precept confined to home rule In the days, in which children were gov erned and responsible men and useful women were produced. It extended to the school and worked therein the habit of obedience that later was made manifest In respect for law and due regard , for properly constituted au thority. It is not a matter of surprise that the educational authorities of Chicago, having been confronted by adolescent impudence in the effort to purge the high schools of that city of the "frat" evil, are driven to the opinion that lay ing on the shingle in the good old way that proved efficacious in the days of our forefathers In quelling Juvenile in subordination, is the thing needed to bring these parlous boys to a realizing sense of the fact that as long as they go to school they are under authority and not, as they arrogantly declare, "their own men." A TRAVELER'S TALK. Great anxiety concerning Sven He din, the intrepid Swedish explorer of Tibet, was felt by his friendB In Eu rope when some months passed with out knowledge of his whereabouts. There seems, however, to have been no ground for this concern, for, when he closed his remarkable series of ex plorations covering a term of two years in that forbidden land, he wrote home that he was going north to spend last Winter in the highland district of Ladakh, Western Cashmere, and it was known that Leh, where he proposed to go into Winter quarters, 11,250 feet above the sea level, can have no possible communication with the outside world during the long sea son of snows. The world has heard from him now at Simla, British India, and, as it had a right to expect, it has heard much that is Interesting and even startling concerning that vast region over which silence has heretofore held dumb and mysterious sway. From the outline of Dr. Hedln's work that has reached the outside world, he will bring with him some of the richest results of geographical ex ploration that has ever rewarded the efforts of the pioneer explorer. From his notebooks and cartographic ma terials it -will be possible to chart more than half of the two large white spaces on our maps of Western Tibet, definitely and Intelligently.' His great est discovery In this heretofore un known region is a mighty range of mountains extending west and north west from Lake Tengrl to Northern India. Through this discovery the long mysterious sources of the Brama- putra, Indus and SutleJ Rivers have been disclosed. A traveler's tale. Indeed, is the out line given by Dr. Hedin of his Winter Journey through the deep snowdrifts of the Niu Chen range. These moun tains have long been known at their eastern limit, but until now there was no evidence that they, with their many precipitous offshoots, stretch for over 800 miles parallel with the Himalayas. As yet but a general outline of the discoveries of the great explorer has been given. The truth probably Is that, like many other explorers while in the field of discovery. Dr. Hedin was far too busy in directing his course, taking notes for future-elaboration and devising ways and means to protect the lives of himself and his companions in the great. Inhospitable solitudes, to give time or thought to sifting and arranging the facts of his findings. THE IMPERFECT AEROPLANE, Aerial navigation, which has been making long strides forward within the past few months, received a severe check in the deplorable tragedy at Fort Myer, Thursday. Skeptics who have never been willing to admit that a machine heavier than air could be successfully operated above the earth will see in the accident a vindication of their Judgment. But there are many others throughout the world whose faith in the ultimata success of the aeroplane, or some other form of flying machine, will not be shaken by the unfortunate disaster that cost one life and came so near to removing from life the master mind In the sci ence of aerial - navigation. The dis aster calls attention to the one promi nent and ever-present feature of dan ger that is missing from other forms of navigation or locomotion. At sea, when the propeller becomes detached, the ship can either sail into port or at the worst can drift around without endangering the lives of her passengers nntil she is picked up by a passing vessel. On the railroad, de moralization of the propelling power through a broken cylinder head or other disability to the engine is sel dom attended by loss of life. The train, like the ship, is brought to a I stop and the passengers, slightly ln- ! it.. .4 commoded, but generally uninjured are transferred to another train or with a rescuing engine continue the Journey. With the flying machine, however, all of the appliances and safeguards that have been perfected have failed to keep it afloat after the propelling power was withdrawn. In this respect the wonderful Inven tion of the Wright brothers possesses J no merits of consequence that were not mentioned . in the old story of Darius Green's flying machine. As a writer In the Saturday Evening Post expresses It "A man in an aeroplane Is like a cyclist on a tight rope with out a pole or a parasol. Let him stop and he falls." The breaking of a pro peller on Mr. Wright's airship did not stop the machine, as there still re mained in operation a second propel ler. But the unstable, fitful nature of the. element in which the aeroplane was floating with the breaking of one propeller caused such a sudden shift In the center of gravity that the neces- aJ balan . keep the machine afloat was an Impossibility. To main tain his equilibrium the aviator Is obliged to drive his machine at high speed, and this speed makes disaster certain If a break occurs In the deli cately adjusted machinery. There have been a great many fail ures and fatalities through experimen tation in aerial navigation, and there will probably be many more before the successful machine Is finally evolved out of the accumulated study and experiments of hundreds of aero nauts. We are living, however, in an age of miracles, and a casual glance backward for a few years before the phonograph, the telephone, electric light and, perhaps greatest of all won ders, the wireless telegraph, came into use, Is pretty certain to suggest the thought that, after all, human In genu lty would not be eclipsing Its present accomplishments If it should hit on a perfect solution of the problem of the flying machine. , SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS. As the season of the Equinox ap proaches, that steadfast pillar, Mr. Jo seph G. Cannon, Is likely to be much beaten upon by storms. A double method of attack is being practiced upon him. He is assailed not only in his own little principality of Danville, 111., but also, and perhaps more seri ously. In tha districts of those Con gressmen who are his stanchest friends and most obedient lackeys. In Dan ville Mr. Gompers pours forth a flood of more or less effective oratory against Uncle Joe, but the unterrlfled old standpatter affects to despise Gom pers and all his tirades. One can imagine that the labor leader will not accomplish much in the Danville neighborhood against Mr. Cannon, who has long been its pride and Joy and the only reason any man on earth had to know there was such a town in existence. , But In the house of his friends Mr. Cannon, the serene and imperturbable, has a more formidable foe. He has been so indiscreet as to incur the hos tility, of the Methodist Church. From olden time the Methodists have been one of the bulwarks of the Re publican party. As a rule these brethren hate the devil best and a Democrat next best, though Demo cratic Methodist preachers are not un known and some of them are powers before the throne of grace. Mr. Can non's offense consists In aiding and abetting his little private and confi dential committee on Judiciary to smother the bill which was to forbid the shipment of liquor Into prohibition states. Your good Methodist believes in prohibition. He prays for it, and Mr. Cannon is making the unhappy discovery that he has come at last to the point where he is willing to vote for it. All this is of evil augury for Uncle Joe, though it may not defeat him. A majority of 10,000 Is hard to overcome. But regard, If you please, the more Insidious wiles which are being prac ticed upon him. There is a systematic effort to accomplish his defeat when he comes up for re-election as Speaker of the House. Some Representatives have openly declared against him. Others would so declare if they were not afraid to do It. But In numerous places their courage is receiving an ef fective stimulus. The Methodists in Kansas and other states are demand ing a pledge from prospective Con gressmen to the purport that they will vote against Mr. Cannon. His warm est supporters are losing their seats. Adam Bede, of Minnesota, ts one of them who has Just passed into the maw of pitiless oblivion. Jenkins, of Wisconsin, is another sacrifice to the general feeling that Mr. Cannon is an unbearable incubus upon the progres sive civilization of the country. Ho Is opposed to every good measure that appears in Congress, and in favor of every bad one. His tyrannical rule in the House is without a precedent in the history of legislative bodies. He has said that any Representative can rise at any time and demand his depo sition as a question of the "highest privilege," but this is nonsense. In the first place, Mr. Cannon permits no body to address tha House without his previous permission. In the second place, he keeps the members In such abject terror that they would as soon think of attacking a roaring lion as their beloved Speaker. To be sure, the basis of his tyranny is illusory. Any member who should defy him and appeal to his constituents with a frank statement of the facts would be sup ported in his rebellion, even at the cost of a public building or two. But re bellion Is a harsh remedy. It is bet ter to put an end to Mr. Cannon's reign, and there Is good hope that this will be done next Spring. FARMERS AND FARMERS. That was a pleasing picture which the Washington Herald painted repre senting the American farmer driving to town behind a team of spanking bays and seldom at work In his fields. It was the more pleasant to look upon because, though a little extravagant, It iwas, relatively speaking, true to life. The time when the American farmer was hard at work from day light till dark is past. The modern farmer is a worker, but not a drudge. He still must plow' his fields, sow his grain and harvest his crops, but he uses modern machinery, does the work in much less time and realizes larger net returns. This is said of the repre sentative farmer. There are still those who adhere to antiquated methods, re tain shiftless habits, and waste time. Such as these may be seen on . the road to town, but not behind a team of spanking bays. More likely they will be slowly dragging along in a wobbly wagon whose wheels do not "track" and whose weather-worn spokes are scarcely more prominent than the ribs of the drowsy horses which seem about to drop out of the ragged harness, j patched with old boot tops and baling wire. . There are some farmers many of them who can spend much of their time in town. But they have first con structed fences secure enough so they know the cattle will not get out of the pasture into the corn field. They have practiced a system of rotation of crops until they have got rid of the weeds and have restored fertility. They have given up the notion that one cow Is as good as another. They know which cows pay a profit on their feed, and they soon get rid of those which entail a net expense.- They have wind-mills to pump -water for the house and Darn and power saws to prepare tne year s fuel. They provide shelter for stock and keep their machinery protected from the weather. They don't patron ize the transient agent, but buy from the established dealer who will be there when they want -a guaranty made good. They read Agricultural Experiment Station bulletins Instead of the harangues of calamity-howling demagogues. When there is work to be done they crowd the work instead of letting it crowd them. They don't booze, they don't gamble, they don't buy gold bricks. There are farmers and farmers. The height prescribed by the build ing limit. has so often been reached and surpassed in forming the world renowned "sky line" that a life insur ance building now planned, that will rear Its head full 909 feet above the pavement. Is received without protest or surprise. Gothamltes and their as tonished visitors gazed open-mouthed -and not without fear, and trembling at the first steel skeletoned sky-scraper of nine stories that was built a score of years ago. They now take its successor of thirty-eight stories as a matter, of course, with some wonder, it Is true, but without apprehension of danger from a horrible collapse. Engineer ing skill has shown the practicability of building one hundred and fifty stories over a third of a mile into the air. Beyond this point the thickness of the walls for the lower stories, re quired by the building code will be prohibitive. Of course if it comes to that and metallurgical researches de velop a still higher elasticity and ultimate resistance sufficient to stand the strain, a revision of the building code to meet the situation will not be difficult. The stiffer, lighter and more elastic materials available will be deemed ample to insure the risk. The discipline of the rockplle never seems so appropriate or so efficacious as when It becomes the portion of the professional "masher." The fellow who poses on street corners, maneu vering for the attention of young women and girls, or who lies in wait In the vicinity of theaters or places of neighborhood festivities for the purpose of thrusting himself upon women or girls, who are without male escort, is so thoroughly despicable in character that no penalty other than that of breaking rocks for decent peo ple to walk on fits his case. A re vival of the publlo stocks or of the ducking stool would be a good thing as supplemental to a rockplle sen tence for human cattle of the herd and brand to which he belongs. Such measures might be relied upon to be at once penalty and cure for his specific malady. Portland Day, Wednesday, at the Pacific National Fair and Livestock Show will be a great event, but it will have to be a great one to excel Port land Day, or even Salem Day, at the State Fair. . There is a movement afoot to have Portland merchants close their stores Wednesday after noon. Why not? Would Mr. Bryan be Just as Indig nant If those steel trust magnates were to tender their support to him and not to Mr. Taft? We know how much outraged Bryan Is over the fact that he finds in his camp those other exemplary , citizens, Tom Taggart, Roger Sullivan, Charles F. Murphy and C. N. Haskell. Senator Foraker, the valiant cham pion of equal rights for the colored brother, was the aforesaid colored brother's candidate for President of the. United States. He would have been nominated by the Chicago con vention if he had only had about 500 votes to add to his baker's dozen. Then what ? Tut, tut. Brother Stone. Why get Into a row with' a Socialist agitator over the merits of the Y. M. C. A. What says tha good book about turn ing the other cheek? Just think of the great advantages in trouble of this kind of turning a cheek of Stone. Senator Bailey, too, explained that his relations with the Waters-Pierce Oil Company were as an attorney and "had nothing to do with his course as a public man." But the public couldn't see it. The public is so strangely unreasonable. There are a few freaks that Mr. Hearst forgot to mention. There is the porcupine and also the cuttlefish. They have certain wonderful qualities that ought to commend them to a veteran engaged in a battle of quills and Ink. Mrs. Louise Powell-Stevens has ob tained her divorce at last. Meanwhile Stevens had married another woman. There is, or ought to be a penalty for bigamy in Oregon. Or is Stevens pre paring to deny his latest marriage? At this writing Mr. Taft has noth ing to say about those little Standard Oil donations to his friend. Senator Foraker. But there is a lot that he might say. Perhaps he will. This is the week of the Pacific National Fair and Livestock Show, at Portland. It will be a good one. It will have to be to live up to that name. Bryan people say "there is no silver question now." No; because they were utterly beaten on silver in 1896 and again In 1900. What we want in Portland this week Is State Fair weather, if last week's weather was State Fair weather. Well, good-bye, Joey B. Take care of yourself. You always did. i POTPOURRI BY NANCY LEE. Adversity is a file upon which roost of us sharpen our wits. . e e Those who love themselves have few rivals. They say money talks, frequently say good-by. Well, it does "Swell." Bill Jones was a common sort of man. just en everyday, ornery, "also ran"; jn, wife took in washing and his girl I "worked out," An(j nis only son was a lazy lout. I gut ono aay old Bill got an inside tip Gn a garter buckle that wouldn't slip. Which he capitalized for a million or so And began to accumulate scads of dough. Now the Joneses "belong," as you all should know; And they havo a house that's a holy show; With its towers and gables, pillars and bays. Renaissance and recherehs in many ways. These latter they can't pronounoe or spell. So they compromise by calling It "swell." i They have portraits like Van Dyke used to make. And a foreign title for daughter's sake; They have motors and yachts and many things That a quick rush of gold to the head always brings. Old Bill's at a Bade for the cure of his gout, While terrapin's making mother stout. Young Bill's down at Newport with the Vanderwllt boys, Where his clothes and his turnouts ara ' delirious Joys. I Now this little romance of the "vul garly rich" Leads up to the moral the sense of which Is. if you would get it and get it quick, Young man, bear in mind there's many a slip; Invent something to stop them, and get rich on my tip. a e e Show me the man who takes a eold bath every morning and who hasnt bragged about it. e a e If sad news is to be broken, why not select a stuttering man; he could break it much more gradually. e a e Optimism is a good thing until it becomes so chronic that it makes pessi mists of those you meet. a e a The happiest way' of working for one's self is to do things for others, e e e Natural History. Tommy Mary, do you know why cow wears a bell around her neck? Mary Of course I know why a cow. r wears a bell round her neck. That's the way she lets her little calf know when dinner's ready. e e e A Domestic Romance. A small lad. sleeping with his mother, awakened at midnight request ing his mater to tell him a fairy tale, whereupon she remarked: "Go to sleep, my dear, it's too late." After a period of silence the child once again piped out in a shrill, child ish treble, "Oh, mamma, please, please tell me a fairy tale." "Well, my dear,", said the mother, "it's 2 o'clock now. Wait a moment, father will be in presently and tell us both one." . A married man can never be truth fully said to suffer in silence. o e e All the world loves a lover, but mors frequently sympathizes with him. e e e The Help Problem. . Mr. Environs Talk about the scarcity of servants, my wife and I havo to drink champagne for breakfast. Brown How's that? Environs Well, our new cook insists upon serving it for breakfast, and we haven't the nerve to upbraid her. e e a It's a wise man that knows his own affinity. a a A Youthful Lexicographer. Definition of pessimist One who sees things what are. Optimist One who sees things what ain't. e e a . With Bryan and Kern And money to burn. We'll grease the toboggan And not give a dern. So let Billy Hearst Do his very worst. With his League that Is greased With money accurst. a e. To please a woman a shoemaker should advertise shoes which are large inside and small outside. Bryan's Evasion on Money Question. Yakima Republic. The money question, says Bryan, has settled Itself. The discovery of vast amounts of gold gave the people what was needed more circulating medium and hence there is no need of the free coinage of silver, as there was a dozen years ago. By this statement Bryan shows that he is an artful dodger. He never advocated more silver because the country needed more money, but be cause the mine-owners wanted a mar ket for their silver and beceause the' country ought to have cheaper money; The financial question was not settled by the discovery of gold. It was settled when the people decided against the dishonest dollar, and in favor of the dol lar worth 100 cents. Bryan maintained always, as the populists maintained, that the "stamp of the Government" gave the coin its value. If he was right, the Increased gold supply could have nothing to do with the question. Everybody knows now that the country did not need more money in 1896, but needed only td be rid of the pestiferous assailant of the country's honcr. When Bryan was de- feated, and this class of "leaders" went out of business, the money of the coun try came forth from Kfl hiding places and prosperity returned. Bryan is as dis honest in his discussions of the money question now as he was in 1898. "Cnlmmle Fadden " Enters Politics. Baltimore News. E. B. Townsend ("Chimmle Fadden")' is being proposed by the Democrats of Montclair, N. J., for Congress front this district. Mr. Townsend has never taken active interest in local political affairs.
