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TU CLXAJt IMSt'E.
The people of Portland should un
derstand clearly the situation that con
froots them and rmnttN It In all Its
knclM, shades and bearings before they
relter their will at toraorro i elec
tta a. There ought to be no i!lu.lona
about the Issue; there ahould be no
de. eptlon about the gravity of the ean
tt. The Oregonlaa believes that It
la between the force that make for
rler and progress en the one hand
nd the farces that make for disorder
and stagnation and license on the
other hand. We do not at all accuse
the main body of Mr. Rushlight's fol
loalnf of having lees respect for law.
cr leas conscience, honesty and patriot
Ism. or a less sincere desire to hare In
tegrity. Intelligence and competency
In public office than the element arc
Ins the election of Mr. Simon. Not at
at). We mean that the Impulse behind
Mr. Rushlight's candidacy comes from
sources antagonistic to the natural and
orderly development of the moral and
material welfare of the city. The In
spiration for Mr. Simon's candidacy ta
an anxious and sincere purpose of the
home-making, bualneas-conserring and
rhun-hgolng classes of the city to keep
Portland on a high plane of material
activity and social decency. There la a
rh-ir division In this contest between
the people who would direct the des
tiny of Portland for Its own sake and
the people who would exploit Portland
for their sake. The first are mainly
for Mr. Simon: the second are mainly
for Mr. Rushlight.
The Oregon lan does not pretend to
have any belief that we shall have an
Ideal government through Mayor Si
mon. It does declare Its confidence In
Major Simon's Intention and ability to
give to Portland an efficient and re
spectable administration. What we
snail have la the ensuing two years in
Portland If Mr. Simon shall be re
elected may be fairly determined from
what we have tiad and seen In tike past
two years, though It la fair to assume.
In view of Mayor Simon's undivided
devotion to his duties and his certain
effort to steer a clear course, that
there will be a higher degree of effi
ciency and growth and a greater meas
ure of public satisfaction. It may bo
freely acknowledged that Mr. Simon
has made mistakes. It la his special
misfortune that they appear to have
been solely In those features of his ad
ministration that are constantly within
the public view. If Mayor Simon has
a decided weakness. It la In his un
failing loyalty to men who have been
honored with his confidence. If the
Mayor had a greater facility for turn
ing his back upon sutne men who court
his favor and declare and demonstrate
their personal allegiance to him. he
arould not have become Involved In
some of the embarrassments that have
led to criticLoma of his conduct of the
mayoralty. It Is admirable that one
should believe la his friends and
should make sacrlflcee for thrm; but
It la not always good policy. Tet who
will say that a Mayor that Is certain
to keep a promise If be once makes It
is not vastly more deserving than a
Mayor who la ready to make any
promise to anboly for his own advan
tage and to break It immediately If
there should be excuse or emergency?
The public cannot fall to be Im
pressed by the fact that Mr. Rushlight
has surrounded himself by counsellors
who are mainly concerned about pro
moting their own ends. His campaign
has been carried forward entirely on a
basis of practical politics and of per
sonal results. He has not appealed to
the sober and respectable classes of
1 ha community. He has trafficked
with the sordid, the mercenary, the
law swatting: be baa maJe his appeal
to class feeling and class prejudice. He
will not be the Mayor of the whole
people. He will be the Mayor of a
part of the people: Indeed, a very few
of the people. He will make up his
official boards of the men who have
done moat for Rushlight and for the
Kasaflgnt machine. He will trad fa
vors with otber men who are looking
out In politics for themselves. He 111
help those who have helped him. He
will help Bourne. He will help the
City Hall ring. He will atrike hands
vttn the twenty-four-hour-a-day poli
ticians who make up the Courthouse
trsachlne. lie will manipulate the po
tic for his owa ends. He will handle
the firemen. If he can. He will push
along the political element of the labor
unions. He will deal with tke saloon
keepers, the street contractors, the
ewer trust, the private detectives, the
emissaries of the redtlght district and
the like. All these may reasonably ex
pect aa attentive and appreciative
.hearing at the City HalL Meanwhile
there will be very little consideration
for great public works prosecuted sole
ly for the benefit of the public Every,
thing done by the Rushlight adminis
tration will be done with reference to
Its effect on the Rushlight fortunes.
There will be weakness, vacillation and
dependent e la Use Mayor's c&air.
There ought to be firmness, courage,
capability and Independence.
Mayor Simon has made good as
Mayor. He has neglected nothing. He
has made every decision and embarked
on every undertaking with the sole
view to the public benefit- There can
be. and there has been, no taint or
suspicion of an ulterior motive about
any public action. If any one believed
early In his administration that he bad
an ulterior political ambition. It disap
peared quite soon from the public
mind. He bad not. He has not. He
will do the beet he can In his future
administration as he has done In his
past administration. He ought to be
elected. He certainly should be pre
ferred by the people of Portland to his
chief opponent.
-Ol OLD rAMlUABli."
The Medical Journal Is of the opin
ion that the reason why tuberculosis,
typhoid fever, pneumonia and other
communicable diseases are still life In
our centers of civilization Is that they
re old. familiar diseases that have
hung on to the skirts of progress In
medical and sanitary science all along
the way. If they were new diseases
the Government would rise In its
might and suppress them. Just as It
suppressed yellow fever and malaria
when brought In contact with them In
the effort to assist Cuba and to dig
the Panama Canal.
As an economic evil these diseases,
especially the two first-named, have
reached enormous proportions In the
I'nlted States. They take toll not only
In lives of Inestimable value in a com.
merclal and industrial sense, but In
suffering and in waste that annually
reduces thousands of families from
moderate affluence to the sharp pinch
of poverty.
The Government has proved Its ef
ficiency In dealing with and stamping
out yellow fever and in destroying the
source of malarial fevers. But "our
old familiars" unbidden and dreaded
guests are yet entertained helplessly
to the sad and wasteful end In thou
sands of stricken household. In sim
ple phrase, "we are used to them." .
THE HTVDY or HHAkfrltkr.
The bent place to study Shakespeare
Is at the theater. His plays were
written for the stage. The author
cared little for any publication beyond
what the actors afforded. They are
excellent reading, to be sure, but that
Is one of the happy accidents which
attend the course of genius. The poet
never Intended It. He was throwing
largess to the world and gave more
than he knew. Shakespeare was ar
dent for fame, but he did not expect
to win it by his plays. He trusted to
the short poems and sonnets to carry
his name down the ages, not to the
dramas. These he reconstructed from
older plays and wandering tales, and
no doubt he expected some future
dramatist to work over his produc
tions and adapt them as he had done
for his predecessors. He built for
eternity, but he did not know it. He
never dreamed that he waa producing
work so nearly perfect that no other
hand would dare to touch It lest the
excellence be marred.
In a sense the saying is true that
Shakespeare was not for an age, but
for all time. The beauty of his plays
Is so great that centuries cannot essen
tially obscure It- His lines overflow
with that Indefinable quality of style
which is called "poetic-" No man
before or since Shakespeare bad It In
the same degree. Wordsworth pos
sessed It now and then, but not as a
rule. Shelley had a great deal more
of It. Long passages of his poems are
pure poetry In the elusive, ethereal
manner which came natural to Shakes
peare and which he exhibits as care
lessly as flowers shed their perfume.
This supernatural glow hovering over
language and Illuminating thought Is
so marked throughout the plays of
Shakespeare that tt affords a test by
which ere can separate what he bor
rowed from what his own genius pro
duced. Between the truly Shakes
pearean lines In "Henry VIII." for ex
ample, and those coming from other
sources, the difference is aa notable as
that between lead and gold. No espe
cial critical gift Is required to per
ceive It.
But Shakespeare was not for alt
time In the sense that he had com
passed all thought or solved all prob
lems. So far as human sympathy goes
he had very obvious limitations, and It
at an da to reason that In social philoso
phy and science he belonged to his
own age. and not to ours. He makes
no parade of medieval science, like
Dante, but his mind was bred upon It.
In so far as It eras bred at all. and It
comes out In unsuspected places In the
plays. Theology was Infinitely less Im
portant to him than It waa to the great
Florentine poet, but still tt waa some
thing, and It would be absurd to say
that In this field Shakespeare had ad.
ranced a single step beyond his own
generation. What was commonly be
lieved he accepted without a particle
of dissent. A Protestant In intelli
gence, he was Catholic In the form of
his Imagery, and clung to the older
faith seemingly by natural taste, but
In reality theology did not Interest
him. It has seldom Interested poets.
Milton made much of It, as Dante did.
but neither of these great poets Im
proved his erork by his speculations
uopn the substance of creeds. Shakes
peare Is less of a theologian than the
Greek tragedians. Aeschylus made the
current theology of his time the soul
of his tragedies. Later dramatists
did not go quite so far. but with all
of them the gods were extremely Im
portant factors in the play. Shakes
peare goes almost to the other ex
treme. He scarcely invokes the supernat
ural at all. To be sure, there are the
witches In "Macbeth' and the ghost In
Hamlet," but they are extraneous
and non-essential. The witches are
lovoked much aa a modern playwright
employs stage thunder and lightning,
merely to give the proper emotional
tone to what Is going on. The knock
ing at the gate In "Macbeth" has more
awe-Inspiring power than the witches,
with all their paraphernalia and elab
orate ceremonial. The ghost In "Ham.
let" Is shamelessly spectacular. He Is
oratorical and didactic to a degree
that sadly impairs his genuineness. It
Is doubtful If Shakespeare himself be
lieved In his objectivity. In our opin
ion the poet knew that he was purely
subjective, and brought . him forth
from the prison where he was doomed
to fast In fires simply to show how Ill
balanced was the mind of his dilatory
hero.
In his neglect of the supernatural
Shakespeare was a man of the twenti
eth century, but la human sympathy
he belonged to Dante's age or Indeed
to patrician Rome. To his mind the.
common people are a base. Ill-smelling
mob who are contemptible be
cause they have to earn their living by
labor. This has always been the aris
tocratic notion of human affairs, and
Shakespeare was Intensely aristocratic
and feudal. He loves the pomp and
circumstance of feudal combat. He
dwells delightedly on the splendor of
feudal pride and feels all Its scorn for
the lowly. There Is no reason to doubt
that Shakespeare expressed his own
social bias when he drew the character
of Coriolanus. His mobs are aa Tile
as Swift's Tahoos. His peasants are
Invariably silly or indecent. His
clowns are only bright when they are
court fools. Touchstone says that
those who have enjoyed the advantage
of associating with the great have
much to answer for. It has so bright
ened their wit that they cannot help
flouting the base. Shakespeare could
perhaps have helped casting contume
ly upon the humble, but he never did
refrain. In this particular he was
neither modern nor Christian. He be
longed to the pagan world from which"
Europe was In hto day Just emerging,
so far as human sympathy was con
cerned. KtkX CALX. OX REIT. BU CANS.
Not one word has any one heard
from Rushlight, or from any of the
phonographic voices of Rushllghtism,
asking support for the so-called Re
publican nominee because he is a
Republican. Of course exception
should be made of the Republican city
central committee which, in the
absence of a full quorum, has been
persuaded to raise a feeble cry for
Rushlight In the absence of a .full
quorum.
Rushlight does not even pretend to
be the candidate of the Republican
party. He merely got the nomination
from the Republican primary. He la
not In tune with the Republican party,
and he knows it and the party knows
It. He Is in complete accord with ele
ments and classes and factions of in
dustrial and political discord that
would put an everlasting end to the
Republican party by any means If
they could:-and he knows It and they
know It. Therefore, we see them stick
ing together with a harmony of pur
pose and mutuality of understanding
that are obvious to all, and that can
deceive no one. Their plans, their
schemes, their sentiments, their mo
tives, their actions are at utter vari
ance with the principles, the -record,
the hopes, and the prospects of, the
Republican party. Rushlight will not
dare to run the risk of alienating the
main body of his support by saying
one word for the Republican party, or
pledging himself in any way to pro
mote Its welfare, i Not a syllable; not
a half a syllable.
The few "regular" Republicans who
are for Rushlight, then, because he
has the Republican nomination, are
being sadly misled. They are sure of
a rude awakening. Rushlight a Re
publican? Faugh! The Rushlight
following Republican? Humbug. He
and the crowd with .him would steer
the Republican party straight to dis
aster. THE AJtEBICAX DEBT TO 1MCKKNS.
The centenary of Charles Dickens
will occur next year. February 7. 11.
A scheme organlxed by the Strand
Magaalne provides opportunity for all
admirers of the author of David Cop
perfied to buy a "Dickens stamp" at
the price of one penny in England and
two cents in America to paste In each
volume of Dickens that they possess,
toe proceeds of the sale to go to the
living heirs of Dickens, who. through
no fault of their own. are in needy cir
cumstances. Incidentally, this sale
will disclose the relative number of
Dickens' admirers In England and the
United States.
While the people of this country had
little cause to admire the great novel
ist, after his visit In 1842, and the
stinging criticisms upon the American
people that fell from his pen. the bit
terness that rollowed the publication
of "Martin Chuxxlewlt" and "American
Notes" has long since passed away, to
be replaced by genuine admiration for
the genius of the great novelist. When
next year, says the Boston Transcript,
"the outpouring" of allegiance and grat
itude is reckoned up. calculation will
sadly have gone astray If the American
contribution (through the purchase of
these stamps) Is not found to be far
and away larger than that of Eng
land." This, If true, will not symbolise- a
recognised duty on the part of Amer
icans to recoup the wasted fortunes of
the living heirs of Charles Dickens.
It will rather attest by the presence of
one of these centennial stamps In each
volume that they possess of his works
the pleasure that his writings have
given to Americans and the value of
the lessors In humanity and charity.
In Justice and devotion to human obli
gations that his wonderful gift as a
delineator of character and existing
conditions disclosed.
The debt of America to Dickens
has long and often been commented
upon across the water. This debt was
supposed to have been Incurred by the
reproduction of Dickens' works here
without the protection to the author
which International copyright has
since provided. There was In Dickens
time no such protection riven In
America to English authors. Any debt
Incurred tn this way was later can
celed In large part, at least, by the
enthusiasm engendered and the money
(aggregating some fSO.000). which
Dickens received for a course of seventy-sis
readings which he gave in
the larger American cltlea on his sec
ond visit to the Cnlted States.
Ills heirs are. as the heirs of any
other man. end should be. able to
make their own way In the world, fully
compensated for their part in the fame
of Dickens In the fact that they are his
nearest of kin. and that thereby some
of the reflected light of a great genius
shines upon them.
WUEKB aeXK-ABJiBOATlON 1 FTTII-E.
The testimony In a divorce case,
heard before Judge Kavanaugh a few
days ago. shows again what experience
and observation have so many times
attested the utter folly of the young
woman who marries a profligate In
the hope and belief that she can re
form him. The story Is a familiar one.
The recital to which reference Is made
but adds a new chapter to an
oft-told tale, true details of which dif
fer chiefly In the names and In some
minor Incidents of the experiment.
Here W a woman whose blind devo
tion led her to marry a man who
stood in the shadow of the penitenti
ary on a charge of grand larceny, so
that, as his wife, she would not be re
quired to testify against him: who
lived a quiet life of industry during his
all-too-brief Incarceration upon the
proven charge, and who after his dis
charge worked faithfully to make a
Til stasia n t ri rtm m fo.- him This devotion
be rewarded by bringing to their home
his disreputable associates: by Induc
ing her to visit roadhouses and drive
with him and them;' by keeping the
company of disreputable women, and
finally by applying' for a divorce from
lier because of habits and associates
that she. had Joined under bis guid
ance. Notwithstanding all of this and
much more, she evidently clings to the
idea that she can reform her profligate
husband by further self-abaaement.
since (the divorce that he sought be
ing denied) she approached him with
the outstretched hand of amity and
forgivenness. and was promptly
snubbed for her pains by the profligate
who coolly turned his back: upon her,
deaf to her sad soliloquy; "Ha will
not speak to me."
"A beaten spaniel's fondness not so
strange." " .
. WKEBE TO PLACE XOCK TO."
, Twentyyodd measures go before the
voters of Portland tomorrow for their
action. It is too many. Some of them
are highly Important. Tet the public
has no alternative but to decide them.
The voter who Is In doubt ought to
VOTE NO.
Some of these measures are fraught
with vital consequence to Portland,
and ought to have had more discussion
than they have had, so that the public
could have full light. But in the mul
titude of matters for public action
momentous Issues are obscured or loss
their relative Importance. It Is a seri
ous matter to vote large bond issues,
such as are proposed; but a mistake in
mere money ' may not be Irreparable.
The determination of a definite policy
in great public Improvements or tha
definition of the people's attitude to
ward private Industry and the public
service corporations Is of vital concern
to all. Several measures before the
public ought, therefore, to be rejected,
because some of them are clearly
wrong and because others are of
doubtful expediency and may do great
harm. Among these measures are:
No-seat-no-rlde ordinance ' (117
No).
: Rlesland's Fake Public Service Com
mission (13 J No).
Zlegler Waterfront Vacation Or
dinance (137 No).
Kellaher's 11.000,000 Paving Plant
Scheme (13S No.)
Ellis' Bunco Competitive Paving
Project (141 No).
These measures are extreme, vision
ary, vicious and vexatious. The voter
should vote NO on all. of them.
FESTIVALS' AS D GAMKS.
Holiday occasions like Portland's
Rose Festival seem to arise from an
Innate disposition of mankind. All
4eoples have them in one form or an
other. Many cities have holidays pe
culiar to themselves, some of which
are extremely ancient, and many of
them are celebrated with beautiful
ceremonies. Some festivals are almost
world-wide. These are the ones which
cluster about the Winter solstice, the
birth of Spring, the season of relaxa
tion after planting Is over, and the
time of the harvest. Their names
vary In different countries, but their
origin is identical everywhere and the
manner of their commemoration Is
alike.
Our Rose Festival Is purely secular
In Its intent. It Is an occasion of pub
lic rejoicing, a time of innocent hap
piness, and nothing more. But many
of the great holidays of the world,
most of them probably, are more or
less Intimately connected with religion.
In the Christian world, for example,
Christmas hi connected with the birth
of the Savior. Among the older na
tions from whom we have Inherited it
the day waa sacred to the sun, whose
return from remote wanderings It her
alded. ,
The Easter holidays, which to us
bring memories of the resurrection of
the Savior, meant in the ancient world
the return of Spring, which was to
those primitive peoples a species of
resurrection. They invented gods for
the rejuvenescence of the world and
gave them a history which befitted the
reappearance of flowers and the plant
ing of seed. Thus in the rites of Asia
Minor Adonis waa slain every year at
about the time of the vernal equinox,
and was made to rise again ceremoni
ally with great pomp and rejoicing.
The carnival which Is celebrated with
so much beauty and rejoicing In some
of the Italian cities is a survival from
the ancient Roman Saturnalia, whose
license it sometimes perpetuates. The
Saturnalia were celebrated at about
the middle of December, being a spe
cies of harvest festival In honor of
Saturn, who Invented agriculture. The
carnival comes somewhat later In the
year, but there Is no doubt about Its
ancestry.
In America we have few religious
festivals compared with some other
countries. Those of Russia occupy,
taken together, nearly half the year,
and seriously Interfere with productive
Industry. Here we have only Christ
mas, Easter and Thanksgiving. It
hardly suits the American taste to
speak of Sunday as a secular holiday,
though It Is made one In most parts of
Europe. These rare religious festivals,
together with a few occasions like the
Fourth of July and Washington's
birthday, make up the total of our
times for National rejoicing, and It to
agree j by most social philosophers
that we ought to have more of them.
Our people Incline too much to gravity.
They wear the burdens of life too con
tinuously. We laugh Infrequently and
give ourselves up to unstinted enjoy
ment reluctantly. In these xespects we
should do better to Imitate the modern
Italians and the ancient Greeks, who
took life far more gaily than Ameri
cans do.
No doubt the most famous festival
occasion In the world was the cele
bration of the Olympic games in the
little State of Ells. In the northern part
of the Grecian Peloponnesus. It came
round once In four years and was
taken so much to heart by all the
Hellenic peoples that they reckoned
time by It. The Interval between two
consecutive celebrations of the games
was an "Olympiad," and events were
so many Olympiads apart. The exer
cises at the Olympic games were ex
tremely various. There were foot
races for the. common people, horse
and chariot races for the wealthy, who
could afford the training and equip
ment, boxing, wrestling, gorgeous sac
rifices to the gods, and sometimes
great literary performances. Herod
otus published his "History" by read
ing It to assembled Hellas at the Olym
pic games.
In these national festivals the
Greeks aimed to permit nothing base
or mercenary. Tha contestants had
to prove that they were free-born, of
gooa mural i;ubikici, " 1 "
pelled to swear on the sacred altars
that they would employ no uniair
rn. 'win The victors were re
garded as civic heroes. Their statues
were set up in the sacred grove at
Olympla. xne great t-inuar
wmmemnrate their trlumDh by an ode
If he were paid the proper fee. and .on
coming back home tneir rejoicing
countrymen would sometimes breach
the city wall to let the victor through.
This symbolized, of course, that with
a champion so mignty insiae, me iowu
.lla waa nunarflilollA- We dare Say
athletic games will some time be add
ed to the attractions or our ose r ea
UvaL The Greeks had the marked advan
tage over us that their processions on
festival occasions always had a defi
nite destination the temple of some
god where sacrifices were to be offered.
With us the procession Is an end In It
self, and it is therefore much more dif
ficult for us to make it satisfactory In
all respects. A festival without mag
nificent processions would be poor in
deed. The Panathenalc procession at
Athens furnished Phidias his theme
for the most excellent series of sculp
tures that were ever executed, that on
the frieze, of the Parthenon. The Pan
athenalc festival occurred at about the
same time of the year as our Rose
Festival, not far from the Summer sol
stice. It included athletics by the
young men. performances at the the
ater, and. to cap the climax, that mar
velous procession to offer sacrifice in
the temple of the Pythian Apollo,
whose Incomparable beauty the genius
of Phidias has fixed in divine marble.
In this procession all the people of
Athens took part. Even the women,
who usually lived In seclusion, now
came forth, and, attended by servitors
who sheltered them from the rays of
the sun. marched decorously clad.
How grandly the young men must
have played their part on horseback
and afoot we can see from the sculp
tures. It was at the Athenian festl
tlval In honor of Dlonysius that dram
atists contended for the prise in the
theater and presented those tragedies
which have remained unrivalled to the
present day
KHALI. WE HAVE AS AUDITORIUM?
The yearly demonstration which Is
made by the meeting of the Pioneers'
Association of the great need of an
auditorium In this city will be given
again in a few' days, when large num
bers of our gray-haired state-builders
will meet here in social reunion.
These venerable guests men and
women will, as usual, be required to
go from plai?e to place here for the
public exercises, there for the ban
o nH tha festival of the camD fire.
the fatigue Incident to so much Jost
ling about sadly marring the pleasure
of the reunion. The Indian War Vet
erans, too-a yearly dwindling host
have great difficulty in securing a hall
In which to meet that is adequate to
their purpose.
The condition which Is thus repre
sented should not be allowed" to con
tinue. Simply stated, Portland needs
and should have an auditorium in
which to entertain suitably the com
mercial, fraternal, industrial, social
and political conventions which It In
vites to come and partake of its hos
pitality. The Armory Is but a bare,
unsightly place at best useful for the
purpose for which It. was built, , but
wholly unsuited to convention pur
poses. It must Inevitably soon become
sacred to memory. -
Before this time, so plainly fore
shadowed by the rapid growth and in
creasing importance of the city fully
arrives an auditorium should be built
with the special purpose In view that
is Indicated by its name and which, as
yet, no building in the city has risen to
meet. The demand is specific and in
sistent, and shou'd ' no longer be
Ignored.
Tint A NTI -SPITTING ORDINANCE.
Just at this Juncture, when citizens
of Portland are being urged on every
hand to "clean up" In the Interest of
public health and civic pride, it may
not be amiss to remind the Police De
partment that there is a city ordinance
against spitting in; public places. This
ordinance Is violated upon every street
corner In the business sections of the
city constantly and disgustingly. Speak
to a policeman about it and he will
blandly answer that he has not seen
any man spit on the street. Of course,
with the evidence, written In filth at
almost every corner, of the violation
of this ordinance, he will not attempt
to say that It Is not utterly disregard
ed. He simply takes refuge in the
subterfuge that ho did not witness the
violation of the anti-spitting ordi
nance, therefore he can no nothing
about it.
Now we all know that none are so
blind as those who will not see. Tet
even these can sometimes be made
to see.
It Is idle to say that It cannot be
stopped. It can be, should be and It
may be added It must be stopped be
fore Portland becomes In the full
sense of the term a civilized city, a
progressive city and a city beautiful.
It Is not the business of the police
alone to see that this wholesome or
dinance is obeyed. If the policeman
on the filthy beat- does not see the of
fender commit this offense against
law, order and health and therefore
cannot arrest him, let someone else
make complaint of this infraction of
the law and see that the spltter taken
in the act Is haled before the Munic
ipal Court, with evidence that will in
sure conviction and penalty.
THE TRAIL OF TUB PIONEER.
David B. Rinehart, who died in
Baker last Thursday afternoon, saw,
nearly forty years In advance of the
market for Oregon apples, the grand
possibilities of Eastern Oregon in sup
plying this demand when it should
come. He began the development of
orchard lands soon after his arrival
in Baker County In 1862 and by per
sistent. Intelligent Industry, he had
for several years enjoyed literally the
fruits of his hands and lands. One of
the last acts of his successful horti
cultural and business career was the
consummation of a deal with Chicago
capitalists whereby the Rinehart Or
chard Company was formed. In this
company his large orchard property
In Grant County, now under -development,
was merged. Time at length
placed an arbitrary limit upon his en
deavor, but not until his long lease of
four score and two years was ended
and success had Justified his fore
sight and crowned his labors. His life
was an example to those who are will
ing to labor and to wait for the full
fruition of enterprise and endeavor,
meanwhile taking legitimate toll of
Industry in the enjoyment of what is
termed the "comforts of life."
There Is this fact in favor of those
who follow the trail blazed by this
and other pioneers in the wide field
of Oregon's development, vix., what
these men had to learn by the slow
processes of experience is the imme
diate possession of their followers.
What with agricultural colleges and
experiment stations dotting the land;
demonstration trains making the tour
of the state every few months in the
Interest of agriculture, horticulture,
dairying and poultry farming; far
mers" Institutes and short courses in
Instruction in all these lines arranged
to suit the seasons of leisure on the
farm; lodges of Patrons of Husbandry
ln every rural community supplying
the social and educational links so
long missing in the chain of rural life,
and a clamorous market at their very
doors, the young men who engage in
farming, fruitraising and dairying in
Oregon now and hereafter will find
the way to success, which the pioneers
paved by the slow processes of ex
perience and - of waiting, relatively
smooth and easy for willing feet.
David Rinehart and his companions
In the development of Eastern Ore
gon wilds has passed are passing1
but they have left indelible footprints
upon trie wide sage plains and fertile
valleys of the great Inland Empire,
the solitudes of which they Invaded,
boldly and with determination, in. the
years ' when even the oldest settle
ments of the Pacific Northwest were
As usual the salmon run in the
Columbia is "short" only tn the esti
mate made by the wiseacres of the
salmon packing business. When gill
netters in the lower harbor ' pull in
after a day's work with 600 pounds
of fine fish to the boat the catch can
hardly be bewailed as "short." How
ever, the price will doubtless be raised
and kept up in accordance with the
statement that the run is slack, the
proof to the contrary being persis
tently ignored.
Large fortunes have been made in
the salmon industry by men who have
made this bluff of scarcity of fish early
in the season, and stuck to it in the
face of conclusive evidence to the con
trary. It Is a feature of this business.
There died recently at Blackpool,
England, Dr. W. H. Crocker, founder
of the "Anti-Treating League. An
effort looking to moderation in drink
ing, that, carried to its logical se
quence, would be widely effective in
carrying out the sanguine man's abil
ity to "drink or let it alone" according
to his own will and pleasure. "Pay
only for youT own drinks," was the
good doctor's motto, "and the con
sumption of alcoholic beverages will
be reduced to a temperance basis."
It is superfluous to add to this suc
cinct statement. It has the indorse
ment both of experience and observa
tion In every city and hamlet in the
land.
The Rushlight News quotes ex-Mayor
Harry Lane, in declining appoint
ment as a member of the Charter
Board Commission, as saying: "I do
not intend that Simon shall use my
name as a tool with which to coerce
votes away from the people's candi
date, A. G. Rushlight." The Orego
nian is authorized by Dr. Lane to say
for him that ho has .been- falsely
quoted. He made no such statement.
He has taken no part in the contest
between Rushlight and Simon. He has
kept his hands off. He declined the
Charter Board appointment because of
other engagements. That is all.
The Municipal Association, made up
of about four people, who oppose
everything and propose nothing prac
ticable to help anybody falls down in
whatever it tries to do, and exists
mainly to exploit its own fancies and
prejudices has a statement opposing
Mayor Simon. It was to be expected.
Evidently the Municipal Association
wants Rushlight, for the defeat of Si
mon means Rushlight. Pursuit - of
such tactics accounts for the entire
loss of public confidence in the Munic
ipal Association.
The population of Portland does not
live now in the narrow area between
the river. Seventh, Glisan and Jeffer
son streets. No more. The sentiment
of the city is not made in the cigar
stores, the saloons and the barber
shops. The people who rule Portland
live at home and say little until elec
tion day. They will be heard from
Monday. This downtown gossip
amounts to nothing. As goes the Ten
derloin, so does not go Portland.
Councilman Belding is anxious. He
is a Republican nominee, too. He ap
peals for support in the name of the
Grand Old Party. But the Grand Old
Party is tired of giving its votes to
Councilmen who do nothing for it but
are always looking out for another
party the party of the first part. In
Beldlng's case.
The foundation of a teachers' retir
ing fund Is an enterprise worthy of all
praise. How much better would It
have been had Mrs. Harriman given
her millions for this purpose instead
of carrying coals to Newcastle by en
dowing another university. , Fashion
works as much evil in the realm of do
nations as it does upon women's bod
ies. If Secretary of State Olcott continues
the agitation for moving State Printer
Duntway on the basis of needing more
room in the Capitol, the people will
believe him and favor a big appropria
tion for an addition. Perhaps that is
all there is in the matter.
This Nation may yet have to go to
war to demonstrate the superiority of
rivals who would be head of the Army.
In the meantime, Major-General Wood
holds the place and is able to make it
known to subordinates.
A canvass of Oregon editors by a
Chicago paper shows 63 for reciproc
ity; 13 against, and 595 non-committal.
The chrysanthemums must be
awaiting a tip.
This is a good day for the spell
binders to consider the command:
"Thou 6halt not bear false witness."
A few buildings are conspicuous by
the absence of decorations. There is
yet time for even the most dilatory.
Sarah Bernhardt has enjoyed fulfill
ment of the acme of human desire by
riding in the cab of a locomotive.
Eastern Oregon sheepmen fear they
wlll lose free range. Well, there is
always a demand for mutton.
Prosperity is abounding in interior
Oregon cities, and Eugene is in line
with a fourth bank.
Scraps and Jingles
Leone Case Baer.
BT LEONE CASS BAER.
A Portland Mrs. Noveau Riche. who
has lately returned from abroad, is ex
hibiting a necklace which she says was
originally made for the Duke of Buck
ingham who gave it to Anne of Aus-r
tria. "They are so terribly stylish," she
says, "so I got one for me and one for
each of my three daughters."
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Burglars In Albany removed a safe
weighing half a ton, using rugs and
pads to deaden the noise so as not to
disturb the sleeping watchman. Those
who-sneer at the criminal class might
Journey far before finding another such
example of kindly consideration for
others.
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The Marconi system Is like a ground
less quarrel words over nothing, as It
were.
' a a
Many a father prevents his children
from acquiring knowledge by making it
a rule that they must not touch his
books unless they wash their hands.
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Young housekeeper writes to ask
how to test eggs. I have found the fol
lowing to be highly successful. "Wash
each egg carefully and throw it Into a
bucket of fresh water. If it sinks to
the bottom and breaks it is a good egg.
Of light meters there are many.
But the lightest ones I wot
Are those contraptions known as'
"A quarter in the slot."
. I want to know If that bill for the
suppression of street cries, that some
one is trying to get enacted, will apply
to stray cats and dogs?
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It was a Portland child who said that
"the food of the gods is nectarines and
ammonia."
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Husbands of excessively fat ladies
have a great deal to appear thankful
for.
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Woman told the judge that her dn
band was so tender-hearted he couldn't
even beat the carpets.
Young doctor says that his practice
Is getting larger his patient gained
two pounds last week.
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Man who writes advertisements for a
sausage concern refers to his literary
efforts as doggerel.
The most absent-minded woman on
record is that one who sat up one even
ing until after 2 o'clock trying to re
member that she had come home early
to get a good night's rest.
Miss Calamity Step-and-fetch-it, the
cultured and charming lady poet of
Kalama. writes that a Portland fortune
teller has bilked her out of 60 cents. It
seems that Miss Calamity wrote to the
psychic one to ask why it is that the
motif for her sweetest songs and
grandest poems comes to her only when
she Is occupied in the pleasant pastime
of washing her face. The fortune teller
replied that it is because the mind is
clearer in the morning, and more recep
tive to poetic impressions. Miss Calam
ity says she can't see what all this lias
to do with the matter, as she only
washes her face before retiring at
night.
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What has become of the old-fashioned
mother with the cup of molasses
and sulphur?
The inevitable and to-be-expected af
termath of the Sothern-Marlowe visit
has happened. Every cue is varleting
and what hoing! and I pray theeing all
over the place. .
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Can you picture the helpless fury of
that wife who found a diary kept by
her husband before he married her, only
to realize that it was written in cipher
and she couldn't read a word of It?
Modern Mrs. Malaprop wants to know
if this Cora Nation, who is attracting
so much attention In England just now
is any relative of the Carrie Nation,
who used to do a little attracting of her
own over here a few years ago.
a
Actress in a musical comedy was rep
rimanded because she played the third
act before the second. As the author
said, no one in the audience noticed It,
but such things show poor management.
a a
I know a woman who is so delight
fully Imaginative and sentimental that
she's always going down to the morgue
to see If any of her rejected suitors has
made way with himself.
Half a Century Ago
From The Oregonlan, June 4, 1861.
The people of Waldo Hills are all
for the Union. On the 1st Inst, they
raised a pole and flag at Silverton.
Messrs. Hatton, Stephens, Colby, Dun
bar and Allen addressed the' meeting.
Tall flagstaffs have been erected at
Montlcello and Astoria, and Star
Spangled Banners - are flying from
them. Pole raisings are taking plaee
all over the state.
Old Massachusetts had six regiments
on the march In five days.
The last pony brought news that
Stephen A. Douglas was dangerously
ill at Chicago. We hope the account Is
exaggerated.
Die 'or Oil on Hla I.ann.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
George Westinghouse has erected a
huge -all-steel tower on the lawn sur
rounding the millionaire's mansion for
a test which, he says, will startle the
world. The cone-shaped affair towers
above the conservatories, flower beds
and the score or more mansions
in Pittsburg's most exclusive
residence community. For more
than a year a portion of the
ground near the home has been spout
ing salt water on the spot where, 32
yearfi ago, one of the richest wells in
Western Pennsylvania gave forth its
profitable yield. Nineteen years ago
Mr. Westinghouse plugged the well,
and since that time has given it no at
tention. But now he hopes to revive
an oil well in his own lawn.
Cabinet Officers and Salartea.
PORTLAND, May 26. (To the Edi
tor.) Kindly give the names of the
present Cabinet. The World's Almanac
of 1911 gives the salary of the Secre
tary of State as $8000. Is this a mis
take? E- R-
The only changes in the Cabinet
since the publication of the work
mentioned have been the succeeding
of Mr. Balllnger. Secretary of the In
terior, by W. P. Fisher and of Mr.
Dickinson. Secretary of War, by H.
L. Stimson. The Secretary of State
receives $8000. The increase was not
given this office in order that Mr.
Knox, who as Senator voted for the
bill, misht legally. accept the post.