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Newspaper Page Text. . . ',. - r -n , THE SITSDAY OREGOXIAX, rORTJLAND, OCTOBER 10. 1909. ; . (fejinttatt rORtLAXO. ORiCiOX. Entered at Portland. Oregon. Postofflce aj ecoud-Clasa Matter. BubecrUjUoa Bate InTsrlmblT la Adrmnce. r KU ) Dally. Sunday Included, one year. JS! V-iiiy. Sunday Included. ix months...... " laliy. Sunday Included, three monthl... - lai:y. Sunday included, one month I)ui;y. without Sunday, one year.. J ' " D-aliy. without Sunday. 1k months a o Iiellv. without Sunday, three month!.... i-'O Dailv. without Sunday, one month . Weekly, one year ' ?" Sunday, one year Sunday and weekly, one year (By Carrier.) Dally. Funday Included, one year Dally. Sunday Included, one month How to Result Send postofflce money order express order or peraonal cheek on jour local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. Give postofflce Ad drew in full, including county and state. 1'oatuge Kate 10 to 14 pattern. 1 rent: 10 to 23 r-aea. 2 cental 30 to 40 pages. centa; 4 to 80 pages. centa. ' Foreign postage coMe ratea. - Ka-tern UuelneiM Office The B. C. Beck wit h Special Arency New Tork. rooms -B Tribune building. Chicago, rooms 510-311 Triune building. - POBTLAVD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1008. SHIP SUBSIDY EXPOSED. Mr. Robert Dollar, owner of the Collar line of steamships operating out of Pacific Coast ports, has Just supplied the San Kranclsco Commer cial News with the most valuable and Interesting communication that has yet appeared on the American ship problem. There Is nothing theoretical or academic about Mr. Dollar's views on American shipping, and in the ar ticle referred to he confines his ef forts to presentation of the bare facts. Even a superficial glance over Mr. Dollar's figures, which are all taken from his regular ledprer accounts, ex plains why this country cannot do busi ness on the hiffh seas, in competition uit'n other nations. The British steamship Hazel Dollar, a vessel of 72! tons dead weight' capacity, cost Mr. Dollar $200,000. and the best bid he could 'get from an American yard was. $430,000. J The American steamer Stanley Dol lar cost $184,000 to build, and Amer ican builders now want $220,000 to duplicate the vessel. At the same time a Scotch-firm offers to build a dupli cate of the Stanley Dollar Sur $100, S00. Thus in the case of the Hazel Dollar, the vessel would have "cost over $200,000 more if Mr. Dol lar had bought the vessel from an American builder. On this extra cost interest would have run during the life of the vessel. The higher salaries pnid the officers on the American ships are of less Importance, amount ing to but $263 per month. An extra engineer, three oilers and two water tenders, whlch our Government In sists must be carried on American vessels, are not employed on the for eign vessels of the Dollar line, and on this item there is a saving of about $7C00 per year. Perhaps the most striking feature of Mr. Dollar's exhibit is the state ment of cost of operation for one year of the British steamer Hazel Dollar and the American steamer Grace Dol lar. The latter is a diminutive coaster of but 2S9 tons net register, and her annual operating expenses were $23, 574.55. The Hazel Dollar Is a big freighter of 35S2 tons rust register, and her operating expenses for the same period were J24.006.05. " Mr. Dollar is now negotiating for a cargo steamer of 8000 tons dead weight ca pacity, and has a price of $223,000 from a Scotch firm, while a Pacific Coast firm of builders put In a bid of $5 60,000 for the vessel. These figures refute the shopworn argument that the cost of an American vessel is only 25 per cent to 30 per cent more than that of the foreign vessels, and show quite effectively the impossibility of granting a subsidy large enough to offset the" enormous advantage which the foreigners have in the original cost of the vessel. An excellent suggestion as to how we can secure a merchant marine in short order is found in Mr. Dollar's statement: "There ot-o over 1,000,000 gross tons of ships owned by Ameri can citizens that are compelled to fly the flags of foreign nations, thereby increasing their tonnage with what rightfully belongs to thus country." Plain facts of this nature may not pre vent the subsidy steal, but they will serve to Intensify the feeling against the men who are-boosting it. FILIPDfO INDEPENDENCE FAB OFr. Our namby-pamby citizens who have - been dreaming fondly of Philippine In dependence, doubtless will be rudely shocked they ought to be awakened by the following statement of Moro Favagery in the report of Colonel R. W. Hnyt. of the Twenty-fifth United States Infantry, formerly commanding officer of the Department of Mindanao: The Mores have no conception of repre eer.tative government or the meaning of In dependence, having no worln their lan guage to give It expression. "We have not yet built up a state nor reached the ma?s ;f the people In any general uplifting move ment. The little red sehoolhouse haa tleen started, but Instruction languishes for want e? trained teachers, or the desire of .the natives to profit by or appreciate the ad lantages of education. The mailed fist Is the first law of the land peace would be Impossible without the a-tual presence of troops for this country Is neither, ready for nor has It ever known any other form of government. The clvll mllltary government. In which the governor controls the armed forcea. Is Indispensable now and will be for generations to come. A purely civil government la quite Impossi ble, and at the pre.--.-ent time would carry with tt untold misery and safferlng. Uncle Sam, then, is destined to stay in the Islands many generations t come, perhaps always. Colonel Hoyt's charge of self-government Incapacity may be held by some persons to apply only to the southern Islands of the group. But. really, all of the Filipinos need the strong'arm of the American Government to restrain semi-barbarous or turbulent elements of their pop ulation, that would seize any oppor tunity to prey upon the best inhabi tants of the archipolago. ' America's government Is the very best the world could give the Filipinos, better than the Filipinos could make for themselves. Philippine independ ence is a catch-phrase in America, de signed to cater to a class of citizens who wish to cut loose from the islands and to others who are hostile to the existing Administration's policies this means Ropsevelt's on general princi ples of opposition. These citizens of ' America have filled Filipinos with false ideas of their future: they made it doubly hard for the United States to establish its authority and their speech is a fomenter of Filipino discontent. It is natural for Filipinos not to know when they are well off, but this simply disproves their readiness for self-government. Happily the inde pendence fallacy is not so widespread In America nor in the islands as it used to be. We may say to, ourselves - i 1 that the Filipinos ought ome day tp be independent, but that really doesn't i mean anything at all practical nor defi nite. We .simply flatter ourselves with the thought that we are trying to give a childish, savage people a "square deal." ,' PLAINTS IX'fOKTLANlk Complaint goes up against the $1 a month minimum charge of the Port land Gas Company. The complaint will avail nothing. The City Council has no authority to regulate gas rates, and has no control of the gas com pany's street franchise, through which control the city could limit rates and prescribe service. The franchise was granted by tbe State Legislature near ly half a century ago, and is beyond the reach of the City Council. Three years ago The x Oregonian urged the Legislature to confer on the Portland Council power to control or terminate thi old . franchise. This paper was not supported In that con tention by the Multnomah Legislators at Salem. A majority of them fought the change and set themselves against the interests of their constituents. Had they viewed the matter as pro testing gas consumers now view it, the Council of this city could now. apply a. remedy promptly. The Legislators who served their constituents thus shabbily returned home and to ob livion, so that none of them can be held to account. ' The Oregonian has been quite con tent since that time. It has paid its bills monthly like other gas consum ers, and continues to do so with the same good will. It cannot help finding some little satisfaction, however, in this early vindication of the plan it urged in behalf of the people, upon an unwilling Legislature. Next time it will be up, to the displeased citizens who protest the bills to "go to the front" and wrestle with their law makers. VACCINATION IN COl'KT. Among other silly people in the City of Seattle Is a man named McFadden. He opposes vaccination as a preventive of smallpox. With men like McFad den the long experience of the human race counts for nothing in compari son with a buzzing theory which they have nebulously swept together in their empty heads. . Before vaccina tion became common smallpox slew people by the hundred thousand in every country of the world. It was one of the -most fearful of all the many plagues which visited mankind. Scarcely an individual escaped an at tack of the disease, and those whom it did not kill it left hideous to look upon. Xo correct manner of life, no hygienic precautions availed In the slightest degrjee to protect a person against it, for smallpox is one of those diseases which act by contagious poi son and the poison is Just as deadly to a healthy body as to the most sickly. It is quite as foolish to say that a wholesome regimen will ward off smallpox as to say- that it would be an antidote to a dose of ar senic. . Since vaccination became common smallpox has fallen from Its evil emi nence as one of the most deadly plagues In the world. For those who have not secured immunity it Is, of course. Just as lethal as it ever was, but for vaccinated patients it is noth ing worse than a slight Indisposition. Since science has almost extirpated the plague of smallpox, there is an opportunity for cranks and fanatics to begin their usual pranks, and they, have- been swift to seize upon it. They make the triumph of science a, ground for accusation. They notice the fact that smallpox is no longer a deadly disease, and reproach physicians for using the same measures to keep it harmless which have been so effectual lh mitigating its ravages. Every in formed man knows that if vaccination were to go out of use today there would be a world-wide epidemic of smallpox within a few years, and yet the fact- that there Is so little fatal smallpox is made a ground for argu ing that we ought to abandon the very thing which keeps it under control. It is as if the Dutch should say, "Behoid how secure we are from the ravages 6t the ocean. Its waves have notfswept ever the land for a hundred yeafs or more. Let us therefore make haste to throw down our dikes." There is not a single sensible argu ment against vaccination, but there are two or three which present a de ceptive appearance of good sense. Very likely McFadden, the Seattle champion of anti-vaccination, has fallen a victim to them. Like other school officials who have a proper care for the welfare of the children com mitted to their charge, the Seattle di rectors require public school pupils to be vaccinated. McFadden resisted the regulation ' and took his . cause into court. He met there the usual fate of those who erppose corporal punish ment, these who uphold high school fraternities and those who fight vac cination. First the Superior Court of King County decided against him and then the Supreme Court of the state did the same thing. Both tribunals take the ground that the health of the community is more important than the vagaries of any crank. Among the chimerical arguments which- misled Mr. McFadden into making an assault upon tfie safety of his children was this one, we have no doubt that com pulsory vaccination is an impairment of his personal liberty. Nothing is more irrational. . If the anti-vaccination crank endan gered himself and no one else- every body would say to him, "Indulge your folly, by all means, and the sootier it takes you out of the world the better for people of sense." But, unhappily, the anti-vaccination fiend endangers others a great deal more than heNloes himself. He Is all too likely to be come a radiant center of Infection, spreading the germs of death far and wide, and while he may himself re cover.whls victims may perish by the hundred. Hefice vaccination Is not a matter which concerns his personal liberty alone. If he claims the right to make himself a disease-spreading nuisance, other people have the right to protect themselves against him, and since compulsory vaccination is known to be an effectual and harmless protec tive, the best thing to do is to catch him and vaccinate him whether he likes H or not. Just as the shepherd dips a sheep into the disinfecting vat in spite of Its bleats. It is better for that particular sheep and immensely better for the whole flock. One of the most common outcries against vaccination asserts that it in jects a noisome poison Into the system, which is worse than the disease it tries to prevent. Only those could say this who know very little about smallpox. The disease In Its true virulence haa now become so rare that many honest people fancy it to be a trivial indispo sition. The "noisome poison" which vaccination injects into the system is precisely the same -substance which nature herself produces in a patient's veins when he has an attack of small pox, and she produces It In her efforts to cure him. If she succeeds and the patient recovers, the substance' re mains in his blood and makes him Im mune thenceforth. All that vaccina tion does is to supply this immunizing substance for us without t$ie necessity of our undergoing an attack of small pox. It Is not a poison and It is not an atom more nauseous than a hun dred other constituents of our blood. Lo ked at normally, it is a wholesome and beneficent invention of nature to; sate our lives. Nothing but the mor bid imagination of those who have permitted their sentimentality to run away with their wita could make it out to be either harmful or disgusting. To be sure. It comes from the veins of a cow, but so does milk; and If It be added that the. vaccine serum is ob tained from a sick cow, we are con strained to reply that the kindly beast has lost her health. In a good cause. She has sacrificed it for a little while in order that we might k"eep ours per manently. It is a boundless pity that the opponents of vaccination could not be lnduud to employ their tre mendous energy for the benefit of mankind instead of using it to spread disease and death. i ' MILK FARCE OB TRAGEDY? A '"t of women Inhabit Portland who have -cast off the responsibility, not fcnly of feeding, their offspring In the fcanitary way nature planned, but alsojthat of Inspecting the milk which comes from the wet-nurse cows in the dairies. These women rely on do nothing officers of government to look after the food of their infants. No wonder babies die. This exemplifies the common ten dency of the day to depend on gov ernment to do for the individual as much as possible, and on the individ ual to do for himself as little as he can. Individual responsibility, wanes in accordance with this habit, in morals and religion and thrift as well bj in government. This habit is at the bottom of much of today's "misconduct arid crime. If it is true that bad milk is killing a larger percentage of In fants in- Portland than ever before, this fault Is to blame here, too. Even further than thiarrms the common idea that the individual should do little for himself. There are loud calls for free nurseries, free hospitals, free luncheon for school children, free medical treatment, free textbooks and a vast number of other things free, including free milk in spection. Many mothers need inspec tion of their baby's nursing bottles. The mother who trusts an Inspector to vouch for the food that enters her baby's stomach is a queer make-up of maternal negligence or laziness or credulity, or all three combined. Tet there are many of her in Portland. They must be told by an inspector that there Is filth In the milk, although they are sharper endowed than he, or ought to be, to detect dirt or the need of a chemical or bacteriological examination." Meanwhile the health officers are at war with each other, and telling tales of one another's inefficiency. They know all about the .farce or tragedy. They ought to. They have long been acting the parts. THE PERFECTED RACE. Whether the dominant factor In human history has been Intelligence or brute force is a question which may be discussed at almost any length without coming to an infallible conclu sion. Dr. Caleb Saleeby, as quoted in the "Literary Digest," valorously main tains that mind has always prevailed over matter. Even when military rule was most open and. undisguised, he asserts.. It was not muscular force after all that ruled but methodical disci pline, which is. of course, the fruit of intelligence.. Dr. Saleeby Is a British physician who has written an import ant book on "Parenthood and Race Culture." He believes that the human race Is evolving into a more spiritual condition, where the 'body will be com pletely subordinate to the mind. In order to lay a good foundation for his argument, he perhaps exaggerates a little the part which the intelligence has played in history. Still there is much to bear him out. If we look back to the Middle" Ages, the time when intelligence played probably the most insignificant part it has ever 'assumed in human affairs, and the slavery of the world to mater ialistic superstition was most abject, we shall find Europe in continual dread of Invading hordes from Asia. The mind, being in. servitude to the body, was inadequate to devise means of defense and, consequently, the .Ori ental tribes barely missed extirpating Christianity" from the world. For many decades, Christendom dwelt in slavish fear of Huns, Mongols and Turks, simply because It had abdicated the right to think. Now that we have resumed our birthright of intellectual liberty, at least in part, we are not especially afraid of the Oriental peo ples. Comparatively, they are Just as numerous as they were In the Middle Ages but we know very well that their multitudes would avail nothing against the disciplined Intelligence of the Western world. Many inventions like gunpowder, steam navigation and the airship have, tended to make strength count for less and less in warfare and to exalt the role of gumption. Nobody dreams that an army, composed -of six-foot athletes would have the slight 'est advantage over one of dwarfs, If the latter were better armed and dis ciplined and particularly if Its troops were better fed. The great command ers of history have .not been remark able for bodily prowess, except in primitive times. Some of the most efficient military leaders have been Invalids. This was true of William of Orange, who cleared the Stuart rub bish out of England. He probably exercised more lasting influence on the course of civilization .than Alexan der of Macedon did, but everybody knows' that he was sick half the time. It is folly, therefore, to deny that intelligence, has played a great part In history, perhaps a leading part, though that may be questioned. If It had really dominated human affairs It would be more In evidence today than it is, one would Imagine. Looked at from ths point of view of candid philosophy, civilization is almost as much of a hddge podge now as It was a thousand years ago. The best we can say for it is that it Is full of be ginnings and aspirations, as the medi evalists say of the dark ages. Accord ing to them, that hideous perlo.d was the happiest and best we have ever lived through, because it contained the terms of better thinrs. lust as one may say a Jail is the most delightful place in the world because a man expects sometime to get cut of it. The germs may have existed in the dark ages, even as the germs of all animal life were probably Inherent in the first animated atoi that began to squirm on the shore of the silent sea billions of ears ago, but it would have re quired a great deal of search to find them. The aspirations and beginnings are a good deal more in evidence today than they were wfien the theologians had Roger Bacon in Jail. Moreover we have accumulated a vast amount of the material bases of welfare, if only we can ever learn how to Use them. At present we know Just about as much of the art of applying our treas ures to promote human happiness as a Fiji. Islander does of Beethoven's sonatas, but we can mend our deflcl ences by the lessons of experience and that is where we have an advantage over the Fijian. . . Dr. Saleeby, in his excellent book, undertakes to apply some of the les sons of experience,, to the problem of producing a - perfected race of men. Naturally, his first thought is to use the same common sense' in mating human parents as we do In seeking better strains of animal life. It is a hopeless task to think of eliminating deformity and disease, from the world so long as people are permitted to propagate their defects at their own will and pleasure. A person who passes a bodily or mental ailment on to the next generation is the worst kind of criminal, but so abject are we under the sway of superstition that we dare not try to hinder him from doing it. While this state of things endures, perhaps It Is Just as well not to say much about the dominance of Intelligence In oiir affairs. Dr. Saleeby would rot only restrict marriage to people who show some semblance of mental and physical -fitness for it, but he would take pains to keep children alive after they are born. At present, when a human being has been brought into the world, our solicitude for his welfare - largely ceases. His mother may starve to death while, she is in childbed. That does not 'disturb us. The new inhabitant of the world may be poisoned with infected milk, or slain by typhoid, or taught to be a criminal, or initiated by tjie depraved into ways of vice. All those things are insignificant. The main and, in deed, the only Important thing Is to get the Infant born. Then the devil may do his worst with him for all we care. The race suicide which comes from the annual slaughter of young children Is ten times as dread ful as that which prevents the birth of superfluous population. If min isters of the gospel would stop preach ing the duty of bringing children Into the world and help us discover -how to keep those we already have on this side the. dark river, they would be vastly more useful, than they are. There is not the slightest danger that too few infanta will be born. Nature looks out for that matter quite as efficiently as the case requires. But how to keep them" alive and. healthy is a problem whose solution nature leaves entirely to us. And behold what a mess we have made of It. THE DEMOX LOVE. y There is a pleasing lilt and swing to that oft-repeated but not thoroughly-corroborated statement, '"Tis love that makes the world go round." It Is a tribute to that powerful influence that has made Its presence, felt witti appalling force through all history. But, with due consideration for what this "most terrible and also most gen erous of .the passions"- haa accom plished, it has been such a fruitful source of Ntrouble since the days of Delilah and Samson, of Mark Antony and Cleopatra, that tbe familiar quo tation might pjoperly be paraphrased to read, " 'Tis love that makes the world go wrong." The extent of the woe and misery, anguish and death, which this ' overpowering passion leaves in its wake Is dally reflected in the news columns of the papers. Take yesterday's Oregonian, or example. Down on the Arizona desert, Willie Boy, a Piute Indian --who loved neither wisely nor well, is making hta last stand before forfeiting his own worthless life to the sadly outraged law. Willie Boy loved an Indian maiden so much that he killed her father'ln an effort to capture the girl. Laer the Indian lover, in violation of the usual, code, murdered the girl with whom he wasj Infatuated. If is a far cry from the Arixona desert to the -beautiful Seine, but in the column adjoining that which tells of the clos ing tragedy in Willie Boy's career is the story of the suicide of a beautiful artist's model In Rollebols, France, who had been Jilted by her sweet heart. In the local columns of the same paper was the story of the trial of a woman whose blind, unreasoning love for a-husband who was about to forsake her had caused her to murder him. From Berlin was a cable an nouncing the murder of a Countess and" the suicide of the murderer a young man who had been violently In love with her. . Not all of these frequent tragedies end In death. There are tragedies of life that are worse than those of death, and love figures there as else where, for a Hoquiam dispatch ex plains the mysterious disappearance of the master of a sailing vessel, re cently arrived from Australia, as due to his falling in love with an Aus tralian barmaid and remaining with her In preference to returning to his wife -and children in this country. Items of this nature are so common that, they attract but little attention, and yet there are hearts that are breaking as the result of this misdi rected feeling. Moralists will tell us that Willie Boy was only a degraded Indian, and that the poor French model was a silly lit tle fool. .And yet most of these vic tims who are ensnared in the meshes of the awful, mysterious influence are not as bad at heart as i their . deeds would Indicate. -As Coleridge wrote: All thoughts, all passions, all delight. Whatever stirs this -mortal frame, AU are but ministers of love. And feed his sacred flame. Willie Boy's ancestors felt this In fluence and came out of their caves, or out . of the tree tops, and, with stone axes or clubs, fought and mur dered Just as the twentieth century unwise but ardent lovers fight and kill in response to the same impulse. It is a world-old weakness over which mortal man has never entirely gained ascendancy, and perhaps never will. Goethe did not particularize, but he undoubtedly had love In mind when he wrote: "The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahlab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety con sists In keeping them asleep. If they wake, we are lost." . While so much Irresponsibility, Ig norance and vice remain in the wrld. It Is no wonder that a tender influ ence, when directed by self-control, so often -becomes a madman's mania. The only remedies can be the teach ing of personal responsibility and self control and the Golden Rule from the cradle to the grave. 1 Too much of our sentimental training these days, alas! defeats these stern, grim lessons. A man who deserted a wife and six children in Oklahoma to run away with a school teacher "affinity" com plains, "Politics did it." Nearly every day we hear, "Liquor did it." Our lack of steadfastness and personal strength comes fcom shiftless char-acter-buUdlng. It is, indeed, a diffi cult situation, with so many irrespon sible parents breeding their kind throughout the land. COLLIER'S CONSISTENCY. Shakespeare, whose insight cm. the weaknesses and failings of human na ture has stood the test of time fairly weU, once wrote: "The evil that men do lives after them; the good. Is oft in terred with their bones." "Old Cap" Collier's Weekly regards the matter from a different standpoint, and insists that "the important good men do lives after them; the fleeting evil is Interred with their bones." , The excuse for this reversal of Mark Antony's funeral ora tion is a belated and fulsome acknowl edgment of fhe real merits of the late Edward H. Harriman. Nowhat the railroad king Is beyond the reach of all criticism, Collier's,, which during his life had difficulty in finding terms sufficiently severe to apply to him, has suddenly realized that he was really a great man. In a highly -laudatory sketch it assures us that Mr. Harriman was "one of the most powerful men of the present generation, and probably the most powerful railroad captain who ever lived." We are assured that "he never wrecked any property which he got hold of. and his ability in putting roads on a sound and paying basis was what made investors so anxious to put their money in property controlled by him, and this confidence was a large part of his power." Collier's candidly admits that Mr. Harriman saved the Erie road last year, and that It .was his intention to do for it what he had done for the Union Pacific, the recon struction of which was "his greatest achievement." This same Mr. Harri man who In life was berated by Col lier's for everything from ward politics In San Franoisco to lack of finesse In contributing to Mr. Roosevelt's cam paign, is now regarded by Collier's as a man who "thouglit in vast figures, thought creatively and saw the future as vividly as the-p resent. He would incur any cost to increase the tain load, to get more traffic behind the engine, for that also was fundamental, and for such great ideas Edward Har riman will be respected when his head strong speculations have been forgot ten." This , post-mortem inconsistency la all the more noticeable In comparison with the straightforward language In which some of Harrlman's enemies commented on his death. The New Tork Journal of Commerce, while less abusive and vindictive in its ante-mortem criticism of Harriman than Col lier's, remained admirably consistent, and in a notice appearing the morning following his death said: "The few men who dared to thwart him, no mat ter how Iriendly their earlier relations may have been, were crushed without' a twinge of conscience"; and "the Har riman methods the brooking of no opposition, 'the vicious destruction of those who would not sell their 'man hood to him, the annexation of one huge railroad after another, the ma-' nlpula,tlon of stock market quotations by means of stockholders' money these were methods reminiscent of the days when pirates swept the seven seas, when might was right," etc. The post-mortem opinion of this thoroughly consistent enemy of Mr. Harriman was summed up in the terse statement: "America's future has not been beclouded by Edward H. Harrl man's death." Consistency of any kind, however, in a Journal like Collier's is as rare as a snake in Ireland. SUBJUGATION OF THE NOSE. "We are told that all life, animal and vegetable, " must adjust itself to the conditions of its environment or per ish. There is proof of this in the rocks; fn the marshes; xip the plains, where are found the fossil remains of animals that could not adjust their necessities to meet the changing con ditions of the earth and somlghty as they were they perished from a world grown fatally inhospitable to them. " This fact as applied to man and the automobile, in its various phases, gives room for wide speculation. Will an appalled and menaced humanity afoot learn to take care of itself in the presence of the automobile, or -will It perish miserably under the conditions that this all-pervading presence im poses? At present it looks as if the automobile has the best of the conten tion, and that if the public, including a large portion of those who ride, cannot talie care of itself in this en croaching presence, so much the worse for It. There was a time. It -will be recalled, when chief among the objections raised against the automobile, was the stench that followed a blue streak In Its wake. Women were sickened by it and men, accustomed to the vile reek' of tobacco, .ranging all the way from the slckish sweet smell of the cigarette to the stench of the rank ,brierwood pipe, declared that this newly-launched stench was positively unbearable. ButVthe reek has been persistent and now we hear compara tively little about It. Have, then, the human olfactories adjusted themselves to meet this condition? Have they become so accustomed to a vitiated atmosphere that the blue streak, fol lowing in the wal of the automobile, alone testifies to thay ruction that .is going on within It? - But a short time ago we heard a good deal about the efforts that manu facturers of autorrfobiles were making to eliminate this smell from the pro cess of running their machines. At present, little Is said about this erst while disagreeable feature of motor ing. This leads to the conclusion that a triumph has been scored over the human nose and that already that organ has become Inured to the smell of gasoline In process of combustion as, groaning and hissing, it resolves It self Into smoke and stench and, in this form and essence, makes good its es cape Into the atmosphere. No longer do offended nostrils snort their disgust as the automobile, bray ing harsh discordance on the air and leaving a trail of smoke aid stench, whizzes by. No longer is voiced the demand that manufacturers devise some means for deodorizatlon of the machine. This fact admits ot but nno rnnrluBlnn. The human nose haa become Inured to the smell, has be come harmonized, so' to speak, with conditions against which, for many moons, it was In active revolt. For more than a dozen years it has been freely stated . that the United States had reached . it3 maximum wheat production, and was drifting toward the ranks of Importing coun tries. Since this prediction first gained circulation, California, with a record of more than 60,000,000 bushels of wheat, has been practically eliminated from the ranks of wheat-producing states, and is now an Importer of wheat from neighboring states. But new wheat terryory Is coming in so rapidly that it is still a matter of doubt whetheTr we have reached the maximum production. Montana, a state which has never been regarded as a grain state, this year has large quantities of both wheat and oats for shipment, anJ It is stated by reliable men that there are single counties in the state whloh will eventually yield more han .6,000,000 bushels of wheat per year. Prices will have,vof course, considerable effect on the nxitter, but this country Is still some years distant from being an importer of wheat- Robert Strahorn, the .man of mys tery, who has built more miles of rail road and spent more money for ter minals and other facilities without dis closing where the money came from than any other industrial captain that ever appeared in the Pacific North west, has purchased the townslte of Hanford and 60,000 acres adjoniing It. Before the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul reached the Pacific Coast, the management bought Immense tracts of timber, thus assuring the road of some lumber traffic when it was ready for business. , Mr. Strahorn seems to be working on similar lines. Sixty thou sand acres of productive irrigated land will turn off no small amount of rail traffic. It is hardly probable, how ever, that MrStrahorn's friends, who are supplying the, millions which the North Coast is spending in the North west, will be satisfies with the returns from a garden patch. There is more remunerative traffic originating in Portland (Or.) terrftoryl - A Portland man, reluming from the Seattle Fair, says the display of fruit at the Oregon building does not do justice to Oregon fruit. Specifically he declares that there Is a better display on Front street any day In the week for common market purposes, than that made at our State building In Se attle. This Is a sample of perfunctory service,- that Is" given by officials, who have an assured pull on a state appro priation. It Is much easier to make a pretense of exploiting the products and fesources of the state than a purpose ful, bonsclentious effort in that line. And since the salaries are assured, what's the use? The explosion at the Extension mine of the Wellington Coal Company, in British Columbia, by which thirty-two lives were lost a few days ago, Is sup posed to have been caused by the miners, who fired their shots without inspection by a shot-lighter, as re quired by law. Familiarity with dan ger breeds carelessness or Indifference, a fact to .which many colliery disas ters are due. The men take the risk ninety-nine times, perhaps, with lm 'punity. The one hundredth time causes death in the shaft and wailing at the pit's mouth. , The horse show was a brilliant pageant of feminine style and charm. That's why it was so successful. The livestock show, a little while before, confined Itself to horses, cattle, sheep and hogs. Had it given the women a chance to out shine these beautiful creations of na ture, it would, have ended with a big surplus in its treasury, and Mr. Weh rung would now have his money. The managers of the horse show and the livestock show should put their heads together. Dispatches' tell of a boy in Indiana who playpd the piano thirty-six hours without stopping. Strange to say (though owing, perhaps, to his tender years), he escaped arrest, and has not thus far been indicted as a disturber of the public peace. Despite the Vv-rdict by the Twelfth International Congress on Alcoholism, that whuiky is not a medicine, the con viction among many Americans that it is an efficacious If not the only rem edy for snakebite will not be shaken. Dr. Dyott's theme at the First Con gregational Church tonight Is:. "Op portunities in Oregon." If he more than touches the various phases, he will keep his audience up until long after reasonable bedtime. While a tour of the Tosemite .Valley gives the President surcease of ban quets and speechmaking, It Is not without drawbacks. He can't get the score from Pittsburg by Innings. It may be assumed that William Randolph Hearst, before he consented to be a candidate, received assurance of support from Editor Brisbane. That will help some. Multnomah County to the fore! Look out for the horticultural and ag ricultural display that will be on at" Gresham this week, beginning Wednesday. There is complaint that the chap lain of the Nebraska Penitentiary is a Mormon. This does not come from the Inmates, who should be most con cerned. ' Requisition of $48,000,000 Is made for canal work next year. The deeper the boys in the Panama Zone dig down, the more Uncle Sam. has to dig up. Gain in postoffice receipts for the last quarter at all the county seats in Oregon shows that the entire state is keeping step with Portland, or vice versa. , . For further evidence of growing prosperity, see Bradstreef s and Dun's summary and the table of bank clear ings for last week. After two years' absence, that irre pressible old nuisance. Car Shortage, has got into the news columns again. Will Mr. Hearst accept the nomina tion? Why, certainly. What a fool ish question! Hearst's candidacy injeqts more than local interest into New York City politics, TOPICAL VERSE Superior Methods. Were I managing the show Let me tell you what I'd do: I, would engineer thlnga so Human Joya would not be few. Neither should they be on oall Mainly then for tha elite, But should open be to all Parquet, box and gallery seat. Were I running everything There'a no reasonable doubt All the seasons should be Spring, Winter should ba put to rout; Trouble should not got a chance. No, not in a hundred years, To Intrude upon romance With Its horrid doubta and teara. Were I running things awhile I should work with might and mala. Put the rollers under guile. Free the world from grief and pain. With these skidded out of sight. Far from homes and haunts of men. Sweetness, happiness and light Should come to their own again. Chicago Newm. The Fall. Vacation time la dona for good, The wheels are turning round; On every side the busy hum Of work days brlnj;s its sound. Past are the Idle lounging days. Past time of play and jokos, The days ara growing very short. And so axe folks. These first Fall days are not so bright. When year of work begins. And often we must pay the cost Of lazv Summer sins. The playtime it Is lth us still ' In thought, If not in view ; But kaves are turning in the woods. In ledgers, too. Baltimore American. Hoping for the Beet. Willie's gone awny to college, but we're hoping for the best; They win tie knots In his trousers end - sew up his coat and vest ; They will hase him to a fraazle, they will throw him In a well. And they'll proudly ostracize him If he aver dares to tell. Tbey will teach him lota of hablte we have warned him he should shun: They will press him into football and they'll break his bones for fun; They'll convince him that his studlea are of no account at all, And despise him If he doesn't mix in every silly brawl. He will have to learn that prexy le unworthy of respect, And become a noise ruffian to be one of tlta elect; They'll endeavor to persuade him that the oourse Is all a Jest Willie's gone away to college, but we're hoping for the bost. Chicago Record-Herald. Moeaia l'oeitry. I only knew ahe came and went Lowell Like troutlets In a pool; Hood She was a phantom of de light Wordsworth And I wa like a fooL Eastman "One kiss, dear maid." I said, and sighed Coleridge "Out of those lips unshorn." Longfellow She shook her ringlets ' round her head. Stoddard And aughed la merry scorn. Tennyson Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, Tennyson you hear them, oh my heart? . Alice Cary Tis twelve at night, by the Castle clock, Coleridge Beloved, we must part! Alice Cary "Come back I come backr' he cried In grief, Campbell "My eyej are dim with tears; Bayard Taylor Hw shall I live through all the days. Mrs. Osgood All through a hundred years?" T. FT Perry Twae In the prime of Summer-time, Hood She blessed me with her h.and; , Hoyt We strayed together, deeply blest. Mn Edward Into the Dreaming' land Cornwall The lauglflng bridal roses blow, Patmore To dress her dark brown hair Bayard Taylor No maiden may with her compare, -Brallaford Most beautiful, most rare! Read. I clasped It on her sweet cold hand. Browning The precious golden link; Smith I calmed her fears and she was calm. Coleridge "Drink, pretty creature. . drink!" Wordsworth And so I won my Gene- vl,ve, Coleridge And walked In Para dise: Henrey The fairest thing that ever Krew Wordsworth Atween me and the akies Osfcood. skies. Boston lrarcript. The April Child. There Is a baby 'cross th' way That came one rainy April day. An' 'cause It Is a April child Its cryin' drives th' neighbors wild. That's what my mother says to me It makes her nervous as can bel Thre goes that child." she used to . I wish Its folks would move away. But prettv soon there came a day When it was ijulet 'ornss th way. It seemed so very nlce--u know. Cause we had all been! bothered so. But when I looked at ma an sert. 'My ain't it still'." she turned her head And' I could see her blue eys fill: The child." she said. "Is very ill. Then all at once I wished that I Could hear again th' baby cry; But though I stood an' stood aronna. I couldn't ketch th' leastest sound. An' then wo heard a squeaky cry. An' ma hugged me I wonder why! An' wisen th' baby raised a yell We bcjfh cried out, "She s gettln well! Cleveland Plain Dealer, Autumnal Verse. The Autumn odor's In the air Nay, nay, not that of jotting leave. Nor harvest - odors rich and rare, Nor bonfire odor which so grieves The Autumn odor's In the air, I find It not In open fields. But indoors where its bliss It yields Th moth ball odor's everywhere. Boston Travellers II In Limit. There isn't any puzzle That the human mind has planned So hard he cannot do It In a Jiffy and offhand. Tha tricks of the magicians. He can do them all himself. And the others has Invented Simply pat them on the shelf. He makes an egg stand endwise. And stacks four billiard balls In the center of the table. And the top ow never falls. He knows the mystic features Of the numbers, nine and seven, And can write eloven thousand 'Leven hundred and eleven. He works the mental problem Of the two geese and a half, . And the theorem binominal Just simply makti him laugh. He dopes it out by calculus About tho fox and dog. And to calculate eclipses Is like rolling oft a log. But here's a stunt he cannot de However hard he tries: To back his wife around toward the light. , make hvir stand still, and along up about the middle of the back of he prineesR gown, where she can't reach them overhand or underhand, connect up those Threo pesky hooks and eyes. New Tork Sun. Lit t la Economies. Economies are current which Are even practiced by the rich. When they'd recoup From losses into which they're drawn, They vry often feast upon Terrapin soup. The rich man only deems It sport To take in sail when he la short Of ready cash. He often lives on frugal fare A-nd bids tho thrifty cheX prepare Venison hash. JilxnH .f.