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FNtag-e Rate 12 to 1G pages. 1 cent; 18 ' ihb; o- to pages, ij cents Gi to bu pages, 4 cents; 1,2 to 7o pages, i .eni, o to j pages. t cents. .Foreign postage, double rates. Katern Bun1h-hs Office Verrea & Conk n, Brunswick building. New York; Verree olCB uu.ij.uing, cnicago; Sau J-OKTLAND, SUNDAY, NOV. 1 MR, RIPLEr OJf SUCCESS. Success prescriptions for guidance of young and ambitious men have never Deen wanting. Whole libraries have been filled with them. Correspondence scnoois are devoted to preparing strug. sung workers for greater heights of .iKtiiiirient. .Hardly a successful man uui nas come forward with volumin us advice to those below him, for It appears to be a pleasant diversion among those qualified to speak. But xi in aouottui if any successful man has eaid so much on the subject in so few rwords as lately fell from- the lips of President Ripley, of the Santa Fe railway system. A man of few words, lie consolidated his success views into a. single phrase, which struggling young men would do well to memorize fum take to heart. matce your employers' interests your own, and work hard." That was ne way Mr. Ripley put it- That, he Bays, has been his motto throurh Sorty-eight years as a hired man, dur ing which time he has risen frm Understrapper at a few dollars a weolr ito dean of railway presidents at a , salary larger- than is paid the Presi dent of the United States. He has made his employers' interests his own ana he has worked hard. If he had pwned the concerns into which he has Wirected his life's energy, he could not Slave given more serious and more laithful service, which explains why he is head of the system, while some of the men who set out with him in the upward race are still at the bot tom. When his employers wanted a nan who was on the job and who Could be depended upon to look after their best Interests, they advanced fftipley. Now he runs the system for them and they merely draw the divi dends. Many a brilliant man has cursed late and the eternal unfairness of things because men less capable than Bie were moved forward over his head. Many a man of excellent abilities has rone into the sulks because apparent plodders were promoted while his tal ents were unrecognized. Advance ment of a plodder is not unusual. S-'or is the reason for that anomaly liard to find. The plodder may show a greater degree of de pendability and energy. The bright man often relies on his superior wit to tide him over perplexing problems. He solves them with more speed than accuracy, in many cases. The plod der knows he must rely upon hard, patient toil, and he seeks no royal road to consummation of his task. His work is less rapid, but more cer tain. Of course if the bright man likewise possesses the virtues of pa tience and energy he rises swiftly. Such a man does not taste of the acrid i Bitterness of failure. He does not Buffer the mortification of seeing other men advanced over him. Clock-watching and doing work in the easiest possible way have com pensations in the present hour only. No man who is guilty of such prac tices is building for the future. The employer may give no evidence of dis satisfaction, may be wholly satisfied win me work as it is being done. Thus the man who is giving only in different service, who is performing just enough work to hold his job, may fail to see the need for greater efforts. But he fails to reckon with that momentous day when the em ployer is face to face with the neces sity of awarding an important post to one of his men. If the post is im portant, favoritism cannot -be prac ticed. Favoritism has no place in the real work of the world. So the wise employer, whether individual or corpo ration head, must carefully estimate the virtues of his subordinates. It is In this hour that the man of worth comes in for recognition and the chair farmer gets his just deserts. Inasmuch as these are the hours that make or break a man, that lead Jiim to success or failure, they are the Jiours that must be worked for and waited for. Eternal efficiency is the price of advancement, and eternal effi ciency means eternal application and Serious, earnest efforts. In the Army ihe officer merely follows his numbers wp according to seniority, but in the Industrial army, with which most of us are concerned, his advancement is dependent entirely upon his worth. lAdvancement may prove slow. Years may elapse without a single step be ing taken in the battle of life. Then opportunity appears and the man who has patiently equipped himself to meet ..this opportunity moves forward to a ihigher rung on the ladder of success. Mr. Ripley's case is typical. He had Ho thought of railway work until he Sot a job with an Eastern line, which offered him a better wage than he was receiving as a store clerk. Start ing in as a freight solicitor, he was not satisfied with meeting the require ments of that post. He studied the freight business in its every phase curing nis leisure hours, as well as during office hours, and in eleven years he had progressed to a point where he was able to go to the Bur lington line as general freight agent. Again he was not satisfied with his field. He directed his dissatisfaction into the channels of hard work rather than of vacuous discontent, and in another ten years he had become third vice-president of a Western road. After five years in this capacity his great opportunity came to him. He ws prepared to meet it. Going to the all but disrupted Santa Fe as receiver, lie gained an opportunity to try his hand at rehabilitation, with results that put him in the very front ranks of railroad men. It Is not difficult to picture for Mr. Ripley an entirely different sort of a career. Had he been satisfied with his comfortable job in the freight de partment, he would have been there yet. Doubtless he would have been receiving a comfortable' wage. But he would not have been a success in tvi true sense of the world. It would be interesting to hear from Mr. Ripley's lips how many4righter men he passed on the upward trail. He is not an especially brilliant man himself.' Very likely some of those who have been distanced in the race would plead that Mr. Ripley had an exceptional oppor tunity. But he was ready for that opportunity and made the most of it. He might not have succeeded !n un raveling the Santa Fe'a tangled skein and carrying that great problem to complete success had there not been before him that motto which he has just expressed: "Make your employ ers" interests your . own, and work hard." CHOPS AND TOMATO SAUCE. When the simple-hearted Mr. Pick wick was defending a breach of prom ise suit instituted by his landlady it will be recalled that telling evidence against him consisted of two notes which he had dispatched to the es timate Mrs. Bardell. One read as follows: Garraway's. 12 o'clock. Dear Mrs. B -uops ana tomato sauce. Tours, Pickwick. The other: ir Mrs. b.: i shall not be home till ..wuuwunr. iow coach. Don't trouble auuui me warming pan. Pickwick. According to leading counsel, Ser e jjuiui, iney were not open fervent, eloquent epistles, breathinj nothing but the eloquence of affec nui.iie attacnment, but covert, sly, unaernanaea communications, letters to be viewed with a cautious and sus picious eye. Dickens' satires on the foibles of the law and other institutions were i.een ana, much to his honor. nftn effective in obtaining needed reforms. But human nature has not changed. There is always a Buzfuz to seize udoh some extraneous, inapplicable incident ana twist it to his advantage. A newspaper specimen of the type nas in its own mind discovered some ing sly, covert, underhand in th ceedings of the recent water-power conference. With all the warmth of a lawyer employed to discover some thing where nothing exists, it dis- cards plain and certain expressions 01 tne adopted resolutions and duces triumphantly something nkin to warming pans. The value claimed Dy tne Portland Railwav T.ie-ht x. jriwer company for its private water puwer possessions. It appears, has some mysterious bearing on the con clusions of the water-power confer ence. w nat that bearing is nohorlv -. unucraiana except the local Buz fuz. The water-power conference res uiuuons discussed only the kind of puDllc control that should be exer cised over public proDertv. an rt. clared that the state should control us own. Tne private holdings nt on eaiaonsneo company are no more in volved than chops and tomato sauce. it may be profitable to be sillv on an important issue, but we doubt it. WHERE JITNEYS ARE REGULATED. Of Interest to Portland and other cities which have been wrestline- with the problem of jitney regulation is the ";uun or tne JMew York Public Serv ice Commission. Acting under a law requiring that jitney men must ob tain a certificate of convenience and necessity, the commission acted on an application ' to operate six routes in New Rochelle. Holding that its duty is to protect established public utilities from unnecessary - competi tion, but that the public is entitled to some choice except where it would lead to ruinous competition, the com mission approved four routes and dis approved two. The principles laid down were so applied that the four routes follow tne same streets as streetcars only for such short distances as are nec essary to give access to the raiirnnri depot, otherwise they are not paral lel to or close to carlines. The two rejected routes were parallel to and on the same streets as carlines. The franchise given by the city and ap proved by the commission requires that buses seat 10 to 17 persons, to be of the prepayment type, have pneu matic tires and have seats for all passengers. Fare is five cents, chil dren and policemen and firemen in uniform to be carried free. Buses are to run every 20 minutes from 6-30 A. M. to 1:30 P. M. Three per cent of the gross earnings is to be paid to the city and the franchise runs for ten years. Bond must be given to the city. In contrast with the happy-go-lucky practice of letting any person run, any kind of car anywhere he pleases vand on any schedule or no schedule, which is the net result of Portland's struggle with the jitney problem, the New York plan treats the jitney as a transportation system subject to as full regulation as any other. THE LINE OF LEAST RESISTANCE. Do your boys show a propensity for Nick Carter and Diamond Dick, by all means indulge them in this perverse taste for blood and thunder literature. It is far better than forcing upon them some accepted standard work of fic tion which may not please their im mature fancies. Such, at least, is the contention of Dr. George D. Strayer, of the Teachers' College, Columbia University, and he has delivered the advice to a gathering of teachers who are to apply the suggestion if they see fit to agree with the doctor. Boys get fun out of the nickel thriller-,. Dr. Strayer persists, which they may not experience in reading more sub stantial classes of literature. He says: "It is better that a boy should read Diamond Dick stories for the fun he gets out of them than that he should become disgusted with reading alto gether through having to read nothing but literature too far in adVance of his comprehension." It is really to be regretted that th learned doctor did not go farther into the subject of boy culture, on which he has such expansive and invigorat ing views. No doubt he would advise that boys be excused from any chores which might not happen to please their sluggish dispositions, that they be relieved from any duties or obliga tions which might prove irksome. If the boy has to be forced from bed in the morning in order to reach school on time, then such a practice should be stopped. It might breed a discon tent with school in the youthful soul if his slumber is disturbed morning after morning. Far better than that would baythe expediency of permitting him to finish his sleep. If life could be brought to follow the line of least resistance, then all might reasonably agree with Dr. Strayer. But unfortunately, life per sists in following rough and rugged trails to reach a successful and profit able conclusion. In reading, as in all other things, mortals must struggle against a primitive perverseness which, did we permit, would carry us Into the Diamond Dick realms for our THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAy, PORTLAND. NOVEMBER literature, and Into Jesse James pur- uius ior our livelihood. We must continually avoid this line of least re sistance. More important than at any other time in life is observance of this hard and fast rule in youth when habits . are formed and char acter fashioned. The regents at Co lumbia should enlighten the doctor on that point or else provide him with a Maxim silencer. ERADICATING PROFESSIONALISM. Professionalism and other defects in intercollegiate sports have come in for more or less adverse comment. Professionalism in most of its ramifi cations 'has been eliminated from the uljuiU) 01 nigner in.ctitlltlnna learning, and so miioh -...,.. i been made in the matter of reforming sur,e1" be feIt D" tne lumber industry. 11 . Olftltn Knilrlttiiv mill a. a intercollegiate sports that fewer com nlainta -. v. , .1 . . ' ncaiu as tne seasons come and go., It is therefore somewhat surprising to hear from Dean Small, "i tne university of Chicag-o, that omuHier Daseoall is a joke as an oh. Ld.cie to intercollegiate games A recent moral lesson presented by -Kiie 13 tne Dest answer to the sug scauo.i. xt appears that five- Tale men had been playing baseball inrougn the vacation period with Long Island club, receiving free board and room for their services. Thev ac cepted no pay, and thought they were ",uuu"b irom any charge of profes- ,u"4"sm tnat might be based uu tne ground that they en gaged in athletics -for a valu dole consideration." When the idea was presented to them that they had been guilty of a technical breach of the rules they sought to remove every k.iih, ui sucn construction by set- uT ineir Doard and room. But .....a am not satisfy the universitv au thonties. When advised of thi ntti tude the five young meni voluntarily --. Lucir amomon to play in intprpnllaf,i-itA . . . lo.lo tuuLtsui. inere were no protests or squabblings over the matter. The best interests of Yale were taken to heart and the young ditcu memseives rather than vBiiiui tne smallest blot to stain th lale athletic escutcheon Such is the spirit that belongs to ic.nn vi intercollegiate athletics iaie has set a standard which all who "avc nut tne same hie-h Irieoi i.. cl,nlj 1 . l ouuuiu nasten to adont if t- Small has concluded that Summer baseball is a . joke and its taint of ticoaiuiiaiisra a matter tn Ke at, he should acquaint himself with w.c i..uuent at Yale and take the les son to heart. PROSPERITY BECOMES GENERAL Reports from every branch nf i.qI. ness show a broadening of the basis of prosperity to cover all industries. improvement began with large . r 1 ",s" Prices and then ex tended to those industries which pro duce war material. It is now emhran. ing other industries not connected with the war. The mr.n,. ,i; from sales of agricultural products and livestock at war prices an sale of war munitions is being spent 1.1 iH lrom which the nervous lack hlirtCOHfldKnCe Preva"mg.a year ago c-K.q , -"-.- . vtuouk are . . . 1. iu larger quantities in purely domestic trade, activity among manu factories increases, and, as a Chicago write. l. -t 0 - " ew lorx ivenine- Pnst says, "there seems to be a general de- h k "luve aneaa and forget the n.iu misgivings of the past." i V e Deen holding wheat I. t . pe 01 ODtanmg last year's high prices, for they are well equipped financially to wait. This policy has held wheat shipments for October be low the usual figures, hut it spread the movement over, a longer period, to the great convenience of the railroads. The cotton growers whn were calling for Government help a year ago, have produced a smaller crop at less cost through enforced economy and are receiving a price so much higher than last year's as to uus lne reduction in quantity. The result la - - . i-ju vApsiiision 01 Dusiness activity in the South and the an nouncement that "the .South has now fairly joined in the ' movement of ""ciican industrial revival" TV.4. 1 , " traoe is so prosperous that prices are now level with the w tne upward movement in 1912 -ii mills nave pnntroi. ...c.i uuiuut six months ahead. An ticinatino- hiphai. i ... jjin.cs, uiey limit the 01 output they sell in advance. Predictions that the war will be fol lowed by wholesale dumping of bel ligerent nations' products ir. ,, ., 1 markets do not find much creriit cause alarm in Pittsburg. The ex planation given is that the railroads are the most insistent ,f,i.i, lnac tnesr Prosperity is not cnietly due to the war; also that neu tral countries will buv steel ,.. they can borrow cheap money, which "in ue in tne united States, not in England, or Germany. Domestic k,. ers also will want steel, and farmers in particular have money to pay for Demand for steel amone- raiirarie may be ascribed to their traffic boom This has caused a shortage of cars to carry the vast bulk of export grain and merchandise to the Atlantic sea board. The Eastern trunk li , suffered "the worst rnnmtin freight that has existed since the tie up in the Autumn of 19ns- v. . New York Post, and "one Eastern company refused to handle any more export business until that on hand was cleaned up." This traffic boom ex tends through the West and South- an me lines in that section be ing short of cars. Traffic promises to remain active, now that it has started and the railroads realize the need of more cars, engines, terminal facilities and track improvements. This railroad revival shows its re sults in gains in earnings. For 478 roads August showed a gain of nearly 2 per cent in gross and 11 per cent in net earnings. Roads which make weekly reports showed a gain of 4 3 per cent in gross earnings for the first two weeks of October. Following upon these favorable re ports came activity in railroad stocks ..I . an street, a slump in war stocks due to peace rumors turned atten tion to railroads. The latter hold their value, although every upward move causes a flood of foreign selling which is said to be at the rate of Jl. 000,000 a day and to have aggre gated $600,000,000 this year.- The market is thus favorable for sale of new securities for the purchase of new equipment and for construction of new lines and improvements. With farmers and munition manufacturers piling up money in the banks, and with money in Chicago going begging for 3 to 4 per cent interest, conditions are favorable for new security issues. This abundance of capital promises to continue, for the favorable trade balance grows so fast that the Anglo French loan has failed to stiffen ex change more than temporarily. Ex ports from New York on October 25 were $21,000,000, though for the en tire fourth week of October in the years 1910, 1911, 1912 and 1913 they ' ""Bu only irom 116,600,000 to $ 000.000. The total for the third week in October from the country's twelve greatest ports was $98,700,000. or 125.000,000 more than any previous week. At this rate James J. Hill's prediction of a $2,000,000,000 balance for 1915 wUl easily be realized. This increase in export trade is by no means all due to sales of war mu nitions. Industries which produce other commodities have benefited by the withdrawal of skilled workmen to the armies of Europe and several new industries have been created In this country by the war. nevivm 01 railroad activity will and building will take a spurt and consume much of Oregon's chief prod uct in the Spring. The revival will reach the Pacific Coast last, but it will surely get here. THE RACE OF CITIES. Competition for fourth place among American cities has been intensified by the Census Bureau's estimates of population on July 1, 1915. St. Louis held that place in 1910 and still holds it, but by so small an excess of popu lation that Cleveland, which stood sixth in 1910, has asked for a recount and has raised $12,000 to pay the cost, while St. Louis has made like applica tion and offers to bear the expense. Boston, which stands fifth, awaits the result in the hope that St. Loui will be set below her and that Cleveland will not step up. Then the New Eng land port would gain fourth place without a struggle. St. Louis and Boston had been growing at about equal pace until 1910, the former city having a lead of 16,4 44 in that year, but in 1912 Bos ton annexed Hyde Park with 15,507 people and this year's estimate places St. Louis only S49 ahead. The growth within their old limits has been neck and neck, Boston having gained not quite 110,000 and St. Louis not quite 112,000 between 1900 and 1910 st Louis has the advantage of a larger municipal area, 61.37 square miles to Boston's 51 square miles, but Boston's apparent growth is restricted hv the reluctance of other municinaiitie niLnin tne metropolitan area to con solidate. Within a radius of ten miles l f tYta ... . , ....c iiuoLuii omienouse is 40 per -cnt 01 tne population of Massachu setts, which Is, to all intents, a part of fusion and is included in it for wate sewer and park oumoses. Cleveland is one of the moat roniiv siumiig cities in tne country, owing to development of the steel, ore, coal and lake shipping industries and t n mnrw factories in other lines. Its hopes of '"K ootn Bi. Louis and Boston are based on its gain of 179,000 in popu lation between 1900 and 1910. This left it 110,000 behind Boston, but this year's estimate added more than 106,- uusura, nowever, gained 75.000 and St. Louis gained 58,000, so that eacn is aoout 88.000 ahead of ri. land. The latter city is gaining so rapidly on its rivals that it may over take one or both of them in ten years unless they put on a spurt. Their- , of growth is shown by the following lauie. Citv. . St. Louis. . Boston. . . . 1900. 1910. 1915. 070.238 687.629 745.KSS S0.S2 670,585 745 13!) 3S1.768 560.663 656.975 Cleveland. Baltimore also is hornmln iUi-maj lest Pittsburg and Detroit push her uvwi irom seventh to eighth or ninth nlana v. .1 ....... 1 . . . . . . ' Dccna autnoniy to annex ner suDurbs. Plttsburtr has ann.d Allegheny and other suburbs and is Browing iast as the steel, trlaas at, eieciricai industries grow. Detroit aiso nas experienced mat pmaiuinn inrougn manufacture of automobiles and almost rivals Cleveland in rate of increase in population. The close race among tnese tnree cities is shown by xuuuwuig taDie: City. iflM Baltimore 50S.D57 Ptttsburer --.1 mo 1910. 1913. 3n8,4K3 584.60A Detroit -. .". 285)704 t..03 571. S4 465,766 554.717 Although the newer cities have. greater facility of annexing suburbs than those of the Atlantic Coast, where interests and associations have grown up about separate mnnicinaii- ties, they have further advantages They are close to sources of raw ma terial ior manufacture and on the elites nave Inland navigation. The growth of such cities as Cleveland and Detroit is a result of the westward movement of the population center As the Pacific Coast and lnier.mn..n. tain states fill up when immigration comes directly to the west coast from Europe, the center of population will gradually travel towards the geo graphical center of the country. DISSECTING A PORTRAIT. New York is somewhat wrought ud over an action which has been brought by Henry Huntington against a well-known firm of art dealers. Even in that city of lavish events a suit involving $100,000 paid for a sin gle painting creates considerable stir, for if there is any one thing that ap peals to the esthetic soul of New York it is a scandal having to do with some eminent social light and his expensive nouuies. Jtiuntington is an agreeable person with considerable money and a penchant for art treasures. This last- named attribute he acquired unaided, although there are evidences that he requires assistance if he would avoid the pitfalls that are laid by designing artisans for wealthy and unsophisti cated American connoisseurs. Huntington s DrinciDal activities it the present time center about the tajik of securing the return of $100,000 which he says was taken from him under false pretenses. He bought a Romney. "The Portrait of Two Ti dies," for the price named, and now he is advised by obliginsr urt that the work is bogus. Not Romney, but some ingenious dauber who could imi tate but not create, is credited with execution of Huntington's Romney. The art dealers, of course, stand their ground and declare that the painting is bona fide. They show that Hunt ington had an ample array of exDerts pass uopn the canvas before he wrote his check In six figures covering its purchase price. So they absolutely refuse to take the painting back or to refund a single penny of Hunting ton's money. , Naturally, the outcome of this in teresting suit will depend - upon the bulk of expert testimony. Without doubt Mr. Huntington will be able to prove by his experts that Romney did not paint the canvas. The art "firm, on the other hand, will be able to show that the work reveals all the stampmarks of Romney genuineness. It is said that Mr. Huntington bases his claim on the fact that the can vas purports to represent a society matron of Romney's time, together with her sister, whereas the Hunting ton picture shows no resemblance to those worthy ladies. But when the experts get through 14. 1915. it is doubtful if Judge and jury will be any the wiser. Proving that a paint ing Is or isn't a genuine Romney is a difficult task, so long as the Imitation is cleverly executed. It might be easier with one of the old Dutch or Italian masters, or even with the, deeper artists of the English school. Yet whoever buys a Romney does so at his peril, for Romney's is a style that lends itself Teadily to simulation by the clever rogues who haunt Pa risian garrets or who did before the French started drafting for the war. George Romney was an energetic worker and a prolific producer. When he first emerged from poverty and gained a following, his lust for busi ness was so strong that he used to ply his brushes from early morn until midnight. Six sittings in a single day were not uncommon in the heyday of this budding genius. Furthermore, his paintings went for a few pounds sterling each and were scattered to the four winds. But Romney was an artist in the fullest sense of the word. Some way or other he has distanced his erst while enemy. Sir Joshua Reynolds, In popular esteem, and possibly has a wider popularity than his other main contemporary, Gainsborough. But, putting aside the secrets of his suc cess and power for a moment. It must be admitted that this ingenious son of a carpenter had many crudities in his technique. He was a good draftsman and an agreeable colorist, but his knowledge of anatomy was defective and he frequently indulged in florid flesh tints and harsh contours. His palette gave none of those warm keyed pigments of Reynolds and Gainsborough, nor was he provided with a depth which permitted him to gauge the significance of an object or of nature. He got no farther than the external, although in this In en hancing the beauty of woman, in re senting the simplicity of little chil dren he was in a class oult hv v,i self. Such an artist is a 1ov and a vnM mine at once for the clever imitator. The bouI which an artist Hft.j the genius to peer beneath the surface 01 tnings might put into a canvas nre- sents difficulties insurmountable for me imitator. The fraud wnM he .. mm 01 detection. But not so with the painter of externals, unless he had mastered the golden secret or tViA Venetians and produced a mastery of vTi .-, wn,cn could not be followed """"icy nao never so much as miempieo, and the analysis of ni. ments will give no clew in the Hunt ington trial. Another Romney fallibility which will aid the defendant art dealers in their case is the Romney absence of characterization. His women have a sameness. You who have seen one real Romney have seen many. She . ..reaiure or well-penciled eye meiting eyes, warm, soft, curved lips. In common with a whole colony of portrait painters from Boti celli to Burne-Jones. he seems to have been haunted by one face. The same "a.,, ,r lrait, marks our own Wenzel, with whose illustrations near ly every one is familiar. Gibson is a victim of the same habit to a marked degree. .5?tUr,an'' the Hntington Romney will be found to have these attributes. They lend themselves to ready Imita- 1..U11. Clever rogues who can fool connoisseurs with bogus Louis Qua .eD mprairiea and the -worm-eaten panels of the Italian masters would find mere child's nlav In n.u. a Homnjtir . ' . . . , ft ana innes were suc cessfully imitated in their lifetime T Sidney Cooper once rennrtert ih.t t going over a purported collection of his works he found more than 200 of his paintings which he had never painted. So how can Romnev Kn. escape? The only hope of Hunting ton s experts is that they will be able mm evidence in the brush work .Naturally, the imitator cannot simu late the spontaneity of the painter's orusn strokes. But such refinements y 1 suffice to impress the .u.irj ijpe or stolid judge and Jury. .1,, .. eIy enouh that Huntington "... ,.ve to regret that he doubted the painting. Had he not raised the portrait of Two Ladles" might have stood unchallenged . contribution to Romnev's to Rightfully so, perhaps. ine business of Kingmaker is r.ot a success in the United States. The tZ J 0 sooner firmly . installed than he becomes lndenendent in ., attitude toward his maker, and the latter proceeds to r..,n 1,1 j ..I the "Perience of Roosevelt ".m xaii. ana it is now that of Bryan with Wilson. Klnirs ha .1. been inclined to turn on their makers, who try then to unmake them. That was the case with Kino- ith -...) and Warwick. But Bryan should not 'i6 irarBKK'g finish. Tt rlQl tl i y, --.-..vjk.o uiaL uarranza solnlera were the principal offenders in the .. ...s Americans at Agua Prieta, villa s troops were much mor-e siderate of American interests, despite the fact that American sympathy was directed against them. But no mat ter. A blundering mess has been made of the whole Mexican problem by the present Administration and we must look to the not distant future .ui a uennue and efficient policy. threats that firing on Americans would involve retaliation In kind by American troops, no such drastic ac tion was taken, despite the casualties Ul 1 HZft-ft mnrlA a-ain. "ua B'"e or tne international hnj. ary. The American officers knew bet ter than to violate the fundamental vu.iiipies or Wilson dlnlomarv tc-k. the bluff fails quit. Prini-a T .. i v j.ue.uw Bars rue wo ...uoi continue ana that Germans in fight to a finish. Inasmuch a the allies take the same view of th. mat ter, mere is an excellent prospect of . ii.i-.-up oeiore tne thing is over. Orozco's confession ma v . Huerta to spend a longterm in an American prison, but that would not satisfy Carranza. Nothing but the ex dictator's life would gratify his venge- Aith Thanksgiving day on the hori zon we can be thankful, at least, that things aren't a lot worse than they are In the world. Oregon will return from the San Francisco fair loaded with honors. It is the state which excels in many things. With a majority of only 671 In Kentucky, Democrats tremble for their control of that state next year. Commissioner Riggs, of the Philip pine Islands, could not endure Bryan ism in practical operation.. Lament of the Indian Chlpf SlolaktB. Krlrnd mt Wkltva la Earljr Day. Monrna Loaa of Klrkli That Civilisation Canard. Chief Sluiskin. swarthy leader of the Yakima Indians when that and other tribes were pursuing an eventful and picturesque career in the Pacific North west, late in his interesting life has told a story. It is typically an Indian story, but It was told with a grandeur of sentiment and stoical repression of emotion to a reporter for the Tacoma Ledger, and it chronicled the first as cent up Mount Tacoma (Rainier) by white men. This ascent was made by General Hazzard Stevens, son of Isaac L Stevens. Governor of Washington In territorial days, and P. B. Van Trump, in 170. when Chief Sluiskin in all his primitive glorr still held reign over the historic Yakimas. It was a mountain climb that the white men no doubt long remembered, and it was filled with offices of kind ness lavished on them by Chief Sluis kin, against the warnings and admoni tions of his followers and chteftlans of other tribes who feared the white men had come of no good intention. That ascent up Mount Rainier was the fore runner of the heavy influx of settlers and tourists which came in time to mark the history of that corner of the Pacific Northwest; an Influx which was to drive Indians and game before it and change in many respects the conditions of the firtt Americans who had gradu ally been driven toward the Pacific Ocean by the encroachment of civiliza tion. Sluiskin was a gallant chieftain then, almost half a century ago. He had never tolfi his story until a few days ago when, shorn of his reigning glory, the last of the Yakimas being few and far between, and poverty having re placed his affluence of earlier days, he told It In justification of a claim, in defence of identity, in settlement of a controversy, and in chagrined attitude over a chastisement, fancied or real, at the hands of agents of "the Great Father." - In the doorway of his modest ranch home near Parker, Wash., Sluiskin. now wrinkled and bent, little lookinsr thj chieftain who had dined in state in fashionable hotels in the East with Colonel Roosevelt and others, sat as he talked to Miss Seoster Anton. He spoke or General Stevens lovingly, as "Ste vens' boy." because Stevens had be come a treat friend of his. Mr. Van xrump he referred to as "Boston Man. and singularly enough, it was with the knowledge that Van Trump at this late day seems to doubt that the Sluiskin of Parker, Wash., was the Chief Sluls kin of 1870 who guided them through tne rich game haunts of Mount Tacom Sluiskin recalled how. when he ruled over rich hunting lands unmolested, he led the white men up the fascinating neignts or tne great mountain, but his story was tuned, in tragedy, because today it reminds him more keenly of tne "devastation" of civilization; of the steadily Diminishing rights of the In dian and of the narrow and rocky do main that had replaced the unlimited lands of half a century ago. On that rugged trail in 1870 Sluiskin and his white friends saw deer and other fleet game dancing in abundance over the crags and peaks, and salmon glistened like gems In the laughing waters of the vast almost virgin do main. It was the game and abundance that made the Yakimas happy and made it a land of plenty for Sluiskin. But today these things are no more and he told of ushering the white men to his dominions with a poignancy of grief over the fate of his vanishing race that was touching and convinc ing. Then the game was his and free. Today it was not. He has the "white paper" which gave to him and his tribe game and fishing rights forever, but the "white paper" has brought black days. Ha has been told he must not hunt and fish at will. The law has taken his lands r.nd his game, and his sport, too. The "white paper" is no longer good. True, he says, the law has given ' him his "eighty acres of rock" to farm, but "I have hunted all my life over the lands of my fathers. Can I farm now?" he asks. Sluiskin's memory extends back even to the time of the signing of . the Stevens treaty, writes Miss Anton in her interesting narrative. "It was many snows ago." says Sluiskin drear ily. "Perhaps as many as 60 snows ago. I am old now and cannot count it back. They signed the treaty in the Valley of the Walla Walla. The blankets which were given to the Indians were stretched out for 200 yards. It was there 1 met Stevens' boy, and there 1 saw the treaty which said we should hunt in the hills and fish in the waters of the Columbia forever. But it is white man's law and what is that? It changes as the wlna. I wish we lived once more under the Indians' law and had the game again. I saw the treaty signed. They gave the Indians some of the money for the land, but they did not give them all. They have some of the Indians' money yet lots of money which belongs to the Indians." - When the white explorers and game seekers came the country was rich. Chief Sluiskin says. In his own ap pealing way. directly asking nothing, but indirectly asking much, he pictures' the destitution of his race now. "They (the whlto men) have driven the game away ana now tney drive us, too," he laments. But, still he stays on his eignty acres of rock." occasional! v ro Ing to Washington to ask for the tarrtv justice for him and the few remaining louowers. The day Sluiskin rehearsed his story Boomy one for him and his household. The capture of several of nis range horses, for whose recovery he would have to pay $58. which he did not have, had din tressed him. He grieved over the altercation he had had recently with rangers of the National rara. wnc sought to Interfere with hi. nunting. ' Sluiskin has coma to fear the white man. not with active resistance, as his iouower3 long ago advised, but with an almost dogged resignation to fate. nis teaiures were firm as he told ho 50 years ago, then a healthy buck of .u ou.iimers. ne lea starvlhe whlixm.. and showed the few, at first, over the way, wnicn, later, the manv were to trespass and drive him from his natural home. He told the story with the one hope that it might be instrumental in restoring rights to htm and those of his r wno snail live after him. Tio. doubtedly his story is a contribution to history, but It Is as fraught with tr.-- edy as it is fragrant with memories. Her Huaband'a Israaie. Boston Transcript. "Why did she leave her husband?" He lost all his money." "How?" -i.. spent it." Gleams Through the Mist By Deaa Colltna. The Land Saow'a Laat Week.' The stac at eve had drunk his fill Of products from the vat. and atlll. And atlll was coins pretty fair. With no thought of bis midnight lair. When there before the tavern door agape Went rambling down the street a shining shape, A- sandwich man, whose ample board pro claimed The Land Show, with Its pumpkin, corn and grape. There is an ancient mariner. Who stoppeth one of three; "By thy long beard." exclaimed the Stag, "Now wherefore stopst thou me? "The suds are set. the guests are met. And I can hear them cry: , Oh. go and drag the Jolly Stag Inside and make him buy.' "But as the foaming schooners "gan to slide Across, a voice outside the tavern cried: There Is a Land Show down the street a bit. So wherefore by the blazoned bar abide T ' He holds him with his glittering eye. He cannot choose but hear: "Come to the Show and I will buy A 1916 beer. "A beer that can with logic absolute The arguments of all the dry. confute. Because It Is so shy of alcohol That the per cent one scarcely can compute." At that the Stag, profoundly By the nine gods he swore That he'd forsake the tavern And linger there no more. By the nine gods he swore It. And in the twilight glow . The ancient mariner and he Walked arm In arm. In childish glee. To the Land Products Show. "Sir," said the Courteous Office Bov, and stopped them on the street, "could I but Join you In your joy, my fortune were complete." "Come on," they said with cordial grin. The C. O. B. was taken in; and as adown the street they went, his eye upon the Stag he bent, and said; "I very well can see the show will profit you and me, but 'twill be use less,' I infer, for this here ancient mari ner." "How so?" they asked, and he replied: "It is a Land Show there inside, and that's no place, unless I err, for any ancient mariner." ' Fifteen men jumped onto his chest. (Yo-ho-ho and a loganberry rlckey) At the ancient mariner's behest. (Yo-ho-ho and a loganberry rlckey) And they Jumped upon him in fiendish glae And at every Jump they hollered. Wheal We won't take that from the C. O. B." (Yo-ho-ho and a loganberry rlckey). And then they wandered to and fro, through alcoves, aisles and wings they saw the manufacturers all demonstrat ing things, with all their skill and all their might; they told how life might be made bright and everything on earth set right by various goods displayed in sight. And as they clamored to the crowd the burden of their lay unto the Stag did ring aloud and sounded much this way: BlgR-eat show west of St. Paul This is our new folding table This Is the best chance of all Why, that stuffs stouter' than cable This Is our new folding table Look at that mutt over there Why, that stuff's stouter than cable Guaranteed savior of hair Look at that mutt over there Sample of salad ? Yes. madam Guaranteed savior of hair That guy sure acts like he had 'era Sample of salad there, madam This Is the N'ever-wear tire That guy aure looks like he had 'em Hey. hang that rug a bit higher This is the Never-wear tire Go tell your troubles to Bateham Hey, hang that rug a bit higher Don't steer me to 'em. I hate 'em Go tell your troubles to Bateham All wool and all guaranteed Don't steer me to 'em. 1 hate 'em This bread Is made from hemp seed All wool and guaranteed Where in the deuce ia Al Black? This bread is made from hemp seed Who pinned that thing on my back? Where In the deuce is AI Black? Cider, fresh Hood River cider Who pinned that thing on my back? Simple! A baby could guide 'er Cider, fresh Hood River cider Now, sir, this stump-pulling truck Simple! A baby could guide 'er Where did you pick up that duck? Now, sir, this stump-pulling truck Hurry, boys, there cornea the band Where did you pick up that duck? Now. If you want tater land Hurry, boys, here comes the band This Is the best chance of all Now, if you want tater land Biggest show west of St. Paul. And through the corn show then they went and saw the riDeneri ears. and they were quite delighted with the corn booth shown by Farmer Smith, with corn stalks piled in tiers. And they did cast enraptured gaze on Gale's booth full of flame tokays. and paused to talk of everything with Asahel, the tater king, and begged an apple, perfume-laden, from the booth run by Mrs. Braden, and several Dears and prunes for lunch they got. from Meachem and his bunch. And so they wandered on for Quite a spell, and all went merry as a marriage bell. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Me nasn-t got It In his head Before this week shall pass to go And take In the Land Producta Show? If such there be. go mark him well And send him round and I will tell The thrilling story, by his leave. About the Jolly stag at eve. Who left his wonted revelry And wandered out that Show to see. And found to his intense delight It was a darned good show all right. Wkere to Find Good Mate. PORTLAND, Nov. 6. (To the Edi tor.) From time to time The Orego nlan has published letters from the "Unlucky Grabbaggers." and I can see no reason for their hard luck stories. If these unhappy persons would Join a church or church club, or become in terested enough in Sunday schools to associate with this class of people, I believe they would experience no dif ficulty or embarrassment matrimoni ally. In this way one would not only -be helping himself, but he would be a unit In God's army for the betterment of his fellow beings, and thua accom plish a twofold service. B. C. LEWIS. Ia Game of Pitch. BARLOW, Or., Nov. 5 (To the Edi tor.) In a game of pitch or cinch A has eight and bids three and makes high, low, game, and B has ten and makes the Jack and 11 is counted the game. Who would be the winner? Bidder goes out '