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Editorial Page of TEe Journal ( TUESDAY, NOVEMBER II, ItOL PORTLAND. OREGON, THE OREGON DAILY AN C ft. JACKMM OFFICIAL A p.EAL MAN'S TASK. FHERE IS a feeling that however I president may have appeared betore trie nomina tion and. during the campaign that he is not quite so rigid a standpatter as he has been assumed to be. For this reason some credence i given to the rumor that he proposes to call a special session of con gress immediately after the close of the short session on March A Mr. Roosevelt cannot fail to feel that the greatest popular and electoral vote ever given a can didate had in it something more than a tribute to 'party; that the result was largely a tribute to him, not pre cisely for what he has done, but for what it wt ex- fwsrirH he would do. The moment presidency on his own account he is his own man as rttver before, not an heir, so to speak, as he now is, but an executive in his own proper person, honestly won on his own merits. His position will therefore be profoundly strong not alone before the country, but before the managing men of his party whose power heretofore has been supreme and who were strong . enough to curb amy tendency toward radicalism, so called, which even Mte president himself might be inclined to exhibit. I Of his own volition he has now placed behind him any ambition in the line of presidential succession. Without thatdistraction he is for the first time in a po sition to consider the future with a cool head, totally uninfluenced by strictly personal considerations. It 'i a position which any honest and patriotic man would delight to occupy. It raises him above reprisals. There lit nothing further that he wants from the selfish lead ers or the still more selfish interests which have- ex ploited the country through the tariff. He may calmly view the outlook; he may reason out the degree to which a worse than war tariff has dislocated the relations of the masses of the people to the government; he may find, if he will, that under that tariff a very small part of the population had say 99 per cent of the people completely at its mercy. Reasoning out these things as he undoubtedly has already done, he may be in a . position to act with rigor and firmness. . Whatever may be true of others it is not at all likely that President Roosevelt is under any delusions as to the significance of the recent election. He, least of all persons, is likely to ascribe that -remarkable result to the party's stand-pat policy. There are others, how ever, not necessarily because they believe it to be true but because they want to believe it, who will ascribe party success to that very source. The contract which the president has before him is one that will call for the highest and best exhibition of his powers. But what will be the outcome? It is inconceivable that the pro tected interests will willingly forego the advantages which they already possess. If the pressure is .suf ficiently strong they will apparently accede to changes but the actual changes which such as these are inclined to make are not at all likely to afford relief. Now it may be taken for granted that nothing short of a gen uine revision of the tariff which will afford genuine re lief will satisfy the people, and this applies quite as strongly to the Republican as the Democratic masses. These changes are essential to the integrity of the Re publican party itself. But it must not be forgotten that there are very few genuine revisionists on the Repub lican side in congress. There will be many, no matter what their pretense, who at heart will he bitterly op posed to any real concession. They were -found on both sides of the chamber during "the" Cleveland admin istration and there was little room for really honest men and reformers among them. Everybody still re members that distressing result. With the handicaps which will he put upon him, how much better will President Roosevelt be able to do? That is a question which will soon agitate the coun try. There are lively times ahead. THINK THIS OVER, BOYS. WITH THE USUAL DEDUCTIONS for good behavior, and eliminating the possibility of a pardon, young Charles W. Walton will spend the next 25 years of his life in the Oregon state penitentiary as ta penalty for holding up and robbing a car conductor, and for shooting an officer. It is a long sent once, but under existing conditions none too long. It is necessary not only that he be punished, but that his punishment should be sufficiently severe to serve as a warning and deterrent to other youths who have started out or who are tempted to start out on a crim inal career. Years ago the usual sentence in such cases Was two or three, or not more than six or seven years, but our judges have wisety, as, we think, concluded that those mild sentences did not serve the full purpose of a malefactor's punishment, did not sufficiently protect ociety, and latterly have been imposing heavy sen tences in such cases, with' the result that such crimes are diminishing in proportion to population. A great many fast youths, boys and young men who an- viciously and criminally inclined, who dislike to Work and like bad company, who are only restrained from theft ami, robbery and assault by fear of punish ment, wilj read this sentence of young Walton's or wil WHAT "SJTAJrO VAT" 1 From the Baltimore News. Do old-time Democrats, or even old time Republicans Republicans who re member Oarfleld or Sherman, aay refcl itc. what the "stand-pat" doctrine means? Do they realise Into what position Its adoption puts the Republican party? Do they realise :hQpeclal significance It acquires in view of some very recent Republican hlatory euch as that of the "Iowa Idea," and that' of Mr. Roosevelt's own pronouncements on the tariff in the earlier period of his presidency T It la fworth while to aay a few words about these things, on the eve of election day. tip to a com para, tlvely recent time. It was the position of most of the weighty leaders of the Republican party that the protective tariff was a provision for the building up of American Industries; a provision to be applied In such degree as might, from time to time, seem neces sary or desirable from the atandpolnt of the broad general Interests of the na tion, gome regarded It, doubtleaa, as of a permanent character, because they fait that the need of It was likely to be permanent: others, like Mr. Oarfleld, ex pressly declared that they stood for a policy of protection directed toward ulti mate free trade; It will make some young Republicans gasp, no doubt, to be told that Mr. Oarfleld, while one of the foremost leaders of hie party, was an honorary member of the Oobden club, and, so far as we know, so continued to . the time of his death. His position on the tariff, to be sure, waa exceptional; hut whet was net exceptional was the view that the tariff waa normally sub ject to change, end especially to lower ing whenever It was shown that the public Interest no longer justified the ex isting rate. This waa not only not ex c pt tenet, hut was the undisputed posi tion of practical I r all responsible leaders of the Rep.rbltcen party, geese twenty years ago, however, It INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO. ) and every Sunday morning at streets, Portland. Oregon PAPER OF TMI CITY OF PORTLAND complaisant th prison bars, to come not only better, but Thus, we may case, by prompt convictions. THE NATIONAL GRANGE. he assumes the THE JOURNAL bids the National Grange a hearty welcome to Portland, to Oregon, and to the country will he a new thing under the sun to nearly all the delegates from the region east of the continental divide. We are sure that our great natural resources and the actual accomplishments of the- people of Ore gon anfj Washington will appeal strongly to the visitors from other states. Our people desire to be known for what they are an,d for their achievements and tneir prospects. So The Journal is more than safe in wel coming the Patrons of Husbandry to Portland and the two big states which lie beside the Columbia. The wel come is freely given. It will be received in the right spirit. Fifteen ears ago the National Grange met in Cali fornia Its only visit till now to the Pacific coast. Then the grangers were received with open hands and hearts by all classes of California people. A few of those who attended the California meeting, will be with us during the session in this have no reason, or unfavorable to Oregon and Washington. Portland and the Patrons of Husbandry of Oregon and Washington will treat their visitors right, making their stay pleasant while it lasts, and their visit one to be remembered for many years. sentative body, it ization of half a million members, and is the unofficial representative of the great farming industry of the United. States. Composed of its thirteen officers, its executive committee, two official representatives from each state- where the grange has established itself strongly, and a body of honorary members consisting of the past officers and former representatives, the National Grange is not impressive because of numbers; but its strong men and accomplished women speak for num bers and represent the power of a compact and well disciplined organization that has been influential for good in this country for nearly forty years. Long may it flourish to be a blessing to farmers and their in dustry! INVESTMENTS IN PORTLAND. 1IV1V- - - . V .. J . f - Sweeney is a vary wealthy man. as wealth go es out in this comparatively new country, and he is also a shrewd, active, fore-sighted business man. He haa a good deal of money to invest, and desires to invest some of it in real estate, the safest sort of an investment, one in which every chance of serious loss is eliminated. So he 4ooks about for the best city in this Pacific north west region in which to make large investments, and he decides, as several other capitalists have done re cently, on Portland. Mr. Sweeney's home is in Spokane, a wonderfully good, progressive and -rapidly growing in land city, where he also has much property. He likes Spokane all right, and knows that it has a splendid fu ture, but he wishes to place some of his wealth in a still larger city, in the best of the large cities, in the one that in his Judgment is going to be the greatest of Pa cific coast cities, and he decide on Portland. Mr. Sweeney knows Seattle and Tacoma well, of course, and likes them, and is proud of them as the largest cities of his state; very likely he has investments in them also: but he could not overlook Portland; in this strong, safe basket he will his golden eggs. His recent investments here amount to more than half a million dollars, and in a year or two his holdings here, including improvements, will amount to more than a million. Portland welcomes Mr. Sweeney, and men like him, who thus show their confidence in its future. Such men do not invest millions In a city without being pretty sure of that city's future. They have studied it, and their iudirment in such that such investments are made will do Portland good in two ways; it will attract other capitalists to this city, and it will arouse a greater degree of confidence and activity on the part of our home capitalists whose faith in the city is thus confirmed. tecame evident that an Insidious hut pervasive change had come about. The possession of a tariff schedule favoring any particular Interest came to be re garded as a vested light by that Inter est. Not only so, but the doctrine grew up -among the protected Interests that "air Injury to one Is the concern of alt;" In other words, that, when the privileges of any one Interest ware threatened with diminution, all the others must bring pressure to bear to prevent this from being done. It Is under this sys tem that we have lived since UtJ. the year In which the protracted attempt to reform the tariff "within the party" came to an Ignominious close In tha de feat of the recommendatlona of the fa mous tariff commission. But It was not until two or three years ago that the policy of this Iron -elite combination of the protected Interests was translated out of the undefined domain of practice Into the explicit language of avowed political doctrine For this Is what "stand pat" means. It means hold on to all you havs got, gentlemen; the Republi can party will not let the clamor of theorists and reformers, whether Re publican or Democrat, interfere with your prerogatives. Arid . the stamping out of the "Iowa Idea," and the subsid ence of Mr. Roosevelt's liberal tariff proclivities testify to the completeness of the stand-patters' hold on the party. Win nine Vrtesa for Work at Be. From the Bangor News. One of the smartest old women In this part of Maine Is Mrs. Philip Hubbard, of Palmyra. Mrs. Hubbard Is snd is tha oldest member of the grange in the state. At the recent cattle show and fair Mrs. Hubbard received several first premiums for srtlcles of fancy work which she made herself. In addition to assuring in the housework, she rinds time to do considerable plain and fancy sewing. JOURNAL JNO. P. CARROLL The Journal Building, Fifth hear of it; such youths will talk it over among them selves; and perhaps conclude that a criminal career doesn't pay. Twenty-five years at hard labor behind out if one lives so long, a middle aged or elderly man, an ex-convict, forgotten by the world, and that-is a cold world when he emerges into it again! No, surely it doesn't pay. An honest life is far easier, after all. reasonably suppose many youths of imperfect morals will ruminate, with the result that they will desist from following young Walton's example, as they might have done if he had been but lightly punished. Long sentences in such cases are best, are necessary, but they should always be preceded, as in his great northwest. This city and the surrounding city. It is to be hoped that they will even excuse, for making comparisons Though the National Grange itself is a small reprc represents a strong and growing organ ORTLAND is to be congratulated on the invest ments made and the improvements to be made mr U Mr PViarl,-s Swffnfv nf Snok.me. Mr. deposit a considerable proportion of a matter is unerring. The very fact From the London Saturday Review. We cannot find any evidence that the bureaucracy or the csar or any real controlling force In Ruaalan life Is tired of ths wer. The military party la bit terly hostile to any arrangement with Japan previous to sn acknowledgment of defeat by that power, and the mill tary party In Russia counts for a great deal more than It does In any other country In Europe, hardly excepting Germany. Bo long as the csar, the bureaucrats and ths military show no desire to stop the war wa may safely assume that all speculstlon ss to terms of peace Is pure ly futile. What haa happened to Russia so far IS really only what happened to ourselves In the earlier stages of the Transvaal war. Mke ourselves, they made too light of their enemy, their arrangements were grossly defsetlve, ss wars our own, and they now nnd them selves faced with the necessity of mak ing efforts which they did not anticipate at first. OXRXi J Philadelphia Dispatch to N. T. Run Having successfully paswsd an exam ination before the local United States steamship Inspectors, Miss Jsne Mor gan, daughter of Randall Morgan, is now entitled to rank as a "master mar iner," and to command, not only her father's stesm yscht, but even sn ocean liner, should she so desire. She Is one of the five women In the world to gain thla distinction. Miss Morgan can command her fath er's yacht Waturua. The yacht la at Cramps' shlpyarda, being nut of commis sion, but It Is expected that '"Captain" Morgan will direct the craft whan it comes out of Its winter quarters. It was the ambition to command the Wa turus that prompted Miss Morgan to qualify as a master. , , i j- Small Change Only sue weeks mora, girls. Can Watson out-talk Bryan T A doubtful city Port Arthur. Still good weather to Improve. Think of Addlcka aa .a country saver No. Mr. Cortelyoa won't publish noth- Esopus. Esopus? that name? Them as haa gets, for Instance. Where did ws hear There's John Hall. Hasn't J. Henri Watterson recovered conaclousnesa yet? Couldn't ths president be Induced to visit our fslr, too? Have some nice Oregon fall raspber ries or strawberries. Now wljl Dowle try to establish tflon In Washington City? The Republican party now haa a very long string of rope. Will there be an appropriation for ths Improvement of Salt river? The more the president hears of the returns, the more he is de-llghted. It should always be remembered in connection with gambling that It la a le gal crime Parker says he will never run for office again. Debs Isn't saying a word nor Swallow. Another corner on turkeys will send many people to ths hotels and restaur ants for dinner. Uncle Adlal Stevenson is now glad that they did not nominate him for vice president again. Tea, Roosevelt Is stronger than his perty. but the party doesn't seem to need any beef tea. Orover Cleveland chuckles to himself when he thinks how wise he wee to refuse a nomination. Men go to saloons because they want to drink; they do not want to drink be cause there are saloons. No weather that la likely to come will stop improvements In Portland. They go right on winter snd summsr. Alton B. Parker ana D-Cedy Merrick might form a taw partnership Doubt less they would get some business. Some eastern Oregon weather sharp predlcta a terrific storm on Thanksgiv ing. Well, let er come; we can stand it. and still be thankful. Oregon Sidelights Price of Nswberg property le ad vancing and considerable Is changing ban da Will much of the population of the dry counties move Into the wet counties? From every part of Oregon come re ports of more crops sown this fall than ever before. 1 81 let 1 Bay Item In Sheridan Sun: Rain Is ths topic of the day at the present writing. Albany Democrat: Don't worry. Linn county will have an all right exhibit at the Lewis and Clark fair. A new kind of grass that grows 10 feet high and with stalks as big aa lead pencils near the ground, grows In Morrow county. There haa been sn average run of Sllverslde salmon on Coos bay, while Coqullle, Umpqua and Sluslaw had a much larger run than usual. A Sclo man had a young and valuable horse that appeared to be ailing, waa told he had worms, and that tobacco juice would kill them. It did; also the horse. , Our school haa 110 scholars on the roll. Rather too many for one teacher to manage successfully. West Salem Item In Dallas Itemlser. Well, we should think so. The pastor of the Oerman Lutheran church In Medfqrd publicly announced that young couples must quit "spoon ing" therein evenings, or he will pub lish names. Cruel man! Forest Q rove man killed, tl wild In one day. Ha used an auto matic shotgun, shooting five times, and aa one big flock came alone; he fired all five shots st It. killing 16 geeee aa the result of the five shots. Ths others were killed one snd two at a shot. Port Orford Tribune: A couple of Holy Rollers havs been proselyting at Florae creek, but from what we hear their work will be cut short by energetic action of the people. It is reported that they will visit Port Orford, and signs indicate that the boys will give them a hot old time when they do ar rive. A Washington county man married a widow snd deeded her his farm. On some pretext she got rid of him and sent for a male friend to eoms and run the ranch The husband returned, slept all night with the Interloper, who the next morning shot and wounded him. and Is now In jail. Moral: He ware of vldders of some kinds. Anyway, don't deed them your farm. Over 1.000.000 Chinook eggs have been taken In. ths Coos river hatchery and the superintendent has no doubt that he can easily get . 000. 000 eggs, which la the capacity of the hatchery. He has made preparations to fertilise sev eral million more eggs than this num ber, and will take cars of them out side of ths hatchery. The Coos river hatchery has proved to be ens' of the most successful In the state. Medford Mall: That "a merciful man Is merciful to his beast" was exempli fied on our streets Tuesday. A family of Immigrants In two wagons passed through. The first waaron contained tha usual household Articles, children, etc . while the second waa mainly oc cupied by two cows, riding In apparent comfort. A contrivance had been fixed up at 'the -rear of ths wagon creating an Incline plane up which the sntmsls doubtless were led each morning, after .tamping for the night. Holds tke Key to $2,000,000,000 O. Z. Newmeyer In Chlcag-o Tribune. The largest financial power in ths world greater than all the magic eords "Standard Oil" stand for msy he said to center about a young man of . whose control of a nominal value of 151.000 of stock In a single corpora tion dominates" Intsreats which affect f 2.000,000,000 worth of Invested capital. Not even John D. Rockefeller, Jr.. whose weekly exposition of biblical texts continue to Interest the secular and religious world, may be named In this connection. As a matter of fact, the atrongest financial power in the world, apringlng virtually from a slngls center, Is that which hsrks back to the owner of 51 000 worth out of the $100,000 capital stock of the Equitable Life Assurance society, which not only controls the issi.ooo.ooo of assets of that company but represents controlling Investments In banks and trusts and safe deposit companies having $90,000,000 of capital and surplus, snd which. In connection with the Mutual Life Insurance com pany of New York, forme a financial combination of banks and allied Institu tions which represent a money power aggregating no leaa than t2.000.000.000. It has not been generally realised that the Bqulteble-Morgan-Mutual Life stood for so much in the financial world, but least of all has It been appreciated that ths pivot or fulcrum on which such a combination rested wss the controlling Interest In the Equitable Life, a com pany with only 1 100,000 capital stock, with $181,000,000 of sssets, and an an nual Income of $71,000,000, and which, after paying 7 per cent Interest on its capital stock, with necessary costs of operations, additions to surplus and the like, turns over its surplus to policy holders. It was only last week that 14 shares of Equitable stock were offered for sals at public auction In New Tork and were bought In by the owners at $3,000 bid. $0 times the per value. As the stock pays only 7 per cent, the return at 13,- 000 for a Jjoo share would be only one fifth of one per cent. It would be hard to guesa what would be bid for a centre! of the Equitable Life when all It represents Is considered. Not long ago Its vice-president. James H. Hyde, son of the founder, was said to have been offered $15,000,000 tor his $61,000 of the capital stock Rumor went so fsr as to sttribute the offer to both Standard Oil and Oatse interests. Public curlosltv Inauiraa what It la that makes this $51,000 of Equitable Life stock worth so much more than that sum and who It Is and who are the business associates on whom rests the ponderous weight of a responsibility which hss to do with the operations of fully $$,000,600,000 of capital. The reply. In brief, to that the Euulta- ble forma a most important link in a chain of financial Institutions, banks, trust companies, safe deposit snd title guarantee companies, with a total of $$0,000,000 of capital and surplus. Its relation with the Mutual Life In surance company of New York, of which Richard A. MeCurdy to the head, are especially close, and with It controls the National Bank of Commerce of New York, one of ths two lsrgest banks In the country, of which Valentine P. Sny der to the president, and which has cap ital, aurplua, and deposits amounting to $180,000,000. Those two Insurance com panies end the National Bank of Com merce form the center of a financial web Of banks and trust companies at va rious cities which has assets and de posits of more than a billion dollars. Then there are the Intimate relations sustained with the First National bank of New York and Ita affiliations, the bank of which George F. Baker is presi dent, tne so-calted "Morgan bank." All of those great banks and the First National of Chloago, of which James B. Forgan la president, havs whst may be called interchangeable directorates. ana tnc Equitable or Equitable officials own stock In all of them. In the Mor gan First National bank is found New York Life Insurance company Influence as well, so that the two groups may be regarded as having an Influence over fully $2,000,000,000 worth of Invested capital. In which a dominating Inspira tion goes back to that $51,000, nominal value, the controlling Interest of the Equitable, owned by James H. Hyde, one of the vice-presidents of the society and eon of Its founder. According to published records. Mr. Hyde Is a member of the board of direc tors of nearly 60 well known financial Institutions, among them, aside from some of those already mentioned, the Mercantile Trust, Equitable Tryst. Law yers' Title Insurance and Lawyers' Mort gage company of New York, the Com mercial Trust and Franklin National of Philadelphia; Mercantile Safe Deposit of New York, the Security Safe Deposit of Boston and Missouri Safe Deposit of St Louis. These with the Mercantile Trust company. United States Mortgage Trust compsny snd Fifth Avenue Trust company of New York, the Central Realty and Bond company. Fidelity Trust and Olrard Trust company of Philadelphia, and the Fidelity Trust company and Union National bank of Newark; the Union County Trust com pany of Elisabeth and the Essex County Trust company of East Orange, are In cluded In the Bqultable-Mutuel-Bank of Commerce groups. In addition to which must be Included the First National (Morgan-Baker) affiliations, the First National of Chicago; Chase, Liberty and Astor National of New York; tha Man hattan Trust company of New York, and the New York Life Insurance com pany. Not only do the $51,000 which control the Equitable Life dictate its career, but follow on through other great cor porations to an extent which makes it, the possession of Jamss H. Hyde, a mainspring In what has been called tha biggest financial combination In tha world. If nothing else celled attention to James H. Hyde, the foregoing story of ths potentialities he holds In his hands would do so. It Is well known that he Is the son of his father, the founder of the Equitable Life Assurance society, that hs Inherited the controlling Interest In Its capital, and that he was naturally made vice-president of the society, and thit either the Standard Oil people or the Oetss crowd, or both, tried to buy his Equitable stock for $15,000,000. $00 times Its nominal value, and that he ap preciated the responsibility of his posi tion well enough to Ignore the proposi tion. And all this Is told of a young man of 28. a Harvard graduate of the class of '98. who la unmarried and haa a fad for coaching and all that pertains to French history, literature, snd whatever else Interests France and ths French people In whst may be inferred to be his own account' of himself, Mr. Hyde, he who Indirectly wields a wider financial Influ ence, perhaps, than all thst John D. Rockefeller stsads for, begins by de scribing himself asvan ex-prssldent of the Federation of the Alliance Fran calae for ths United States, and a hol der of the coveted red ribbon of the 4 French Legion of Honor, after which fWloWt a' list of his memberships in nearly half a hundred corporate direc torates and la half as many fashionable clubs. . Tke Play A '"symphony" orchestra with a piano, which takes ths place of a dosen instru ments. Is. of course, not a symphony orcheetre. At the same time Pletro Marino and his It musicians gave Port land a better concert than It deserved, a mere handful of the city's music folk being out ,to hear him. ' The young conductor himself to a pleasure. In appearance he resembles Moaart at t. Mualc Is written all over him. He plays the first violin while conducting. This would be inexcusable In a real symphony orchestra, but In this Instance the leader gives the 1 re pression that he could not possibly get apy pleasure out of the evening unless he held an Instrument in his arms He la bathed 1b lyric sentiment. It was a rare pleasure to find In him not only a finished technique, but a muslclanly soulfulneas that had much mors to do with the ovation he received than the mere quality of nimble fingering. His solos Included the mammoth, intermina ble second concerto of WIenlawskl. which was brilliantly executed, although the performer worked against the disad vantage of a piano too far removed from his Instrument. The orchestra's work was notable for precision. The Instrumentation Is not the finest in the world. Ths reed sec tion la weak and the brass cannot for a moment cope wtth the strings, which wers displayed gloriously rn the Sextette from "Lucia," ah encore. Which reminds me that Marino's encores were even more enjoyable than his fixed program, although the latter was selected with rare good taste Ths only time the or chestra faltered last evening waa In the "Pilgrim's Chorus." . But then "Tann hauaer." waa never Intended for that number of Instruments, and nobody could expect unreasonable things. Miss Pauline Sherwood, the soprano of the evening, gave Chamlnade's "Song of "Summer," and was heartily encored. Her middle reglstsr Is soft as velvet, while some of her upper tones are Just a trifle metallic But never displeasing waa the young women's work. She ap peared to be somewhat embarraaesd when a huge bunch of flowers went over to her and she made a move as though to pass them to Marino, who quietly as sured her that they were not intended for him. Marino's engagement waa for the one night only. RACE WHITNEY. 2 , . A ROY AX, I The great Interest taken in stamp eol - lectins- by the Prince of Wales, who possesses a collection valued at some thing like 120,000, is well known. Con crete testimony to his royal highness' enthusiasm for the hobby Is to be found in k little hook entitled "The Postage Stamps of Great Britain." by Mr. Fred J. Melville, which ja just printed In London. In. this book a paper by the Prince of Wales. "Notes on the Postal Ad hesive Issues of the United Kingdom During the Present Reign," is printed en an appendix. Hie royal highness com mences by explaining that as ths changes In the postal issues of the mother country made necessary by the accession of King Edward have now been completed, the present would seem a convenient time to edmptle the history of the stamps issued by the home au thorities during the present reign. Trials were made with three quarter fece and quarter face portraits of the king from photographs, hs says; bat his majesty chose a portrait" executed In l0f by Herr Em 11 Fuchs. Mr. Fuchs prepared a special drawing of ths por trait, if or which the king waa pleased to erant a sitting. Ths frame and fborder designs were prepared by Messrs. I n , w d r?. 1 ...... t. .. ..(-- I .. ue is nuc m w.,. uimc, m. . . m .in structions, and from a sketch furnished by him. The original skstch and the border were, then photographed and ths two prints placed together, a fresh photo graphic Impression being taken of the whole. This was submitted to the king, and was approved by him. The original, with the king's written approval, is now in ths prince's stamp collection. Temporary copper platee were made to show ths effect, and at this stage the queen suggested an improvement, which was effected by reducing the width of the wreath design. Ths prince explains why the little books of stamps recently Issued are frequently found with Inverted wster marks. It seems that to facilitate the binding of ths stamps Into books, half the stamps on a sheet were printed. upside down. "I do not. of course, claim for these notes ths importance of a philatelic pa per," says ths prince In conclusion," "but as alt ths information and dstes given may be relied upon aa authentic, I hope that they 'may be of use In saving s future historian of ths stamps of this country a not inconsiderable amount of research and trouble" rOLI AJTO MO From the Chicago Trlbuns. Just honesty. That's all. A psrfectly simple proposition. A child could see it But it took a big man to work It. Just honesty. Thou shslt not steal. When Moses ssld It , It was already old. When Folk said it. it was still new. It runs through autocracy, aristocracy, de mocracy, and all other forms of govern ment, and If It doesn't vivify them they ars deed. The election In Missouri went to the roots of life Just honesty. Why should a man who believes In It be reviled as a revolution ist? . Beceuse the business msn who were advancing their Interests In Mis souri by bribery regarded any change aa a revolution. They wanted no change. Thsy were conservatives. Folk wanted a big change. He was a radical. There was no telling how far he might go. If he objected to having business intsr eats control the legislature by bribery he might object to having 'them control It by discrimination In freight rates. He might get flightier and flightier till hs was as Insans ss La Follette. Meanwhile hs gives no Indication of having anything In mind except -honesty. Honesty hss elected him Demo cratic governor of Missouri. The Chl csgo Tribune (Rep.) Is vsry glad. OAXTXM TO MM aVCTAIaTXS From ths Baker City Democrat The prediction made a few days ago by The Oregon Journal of Portland, that General Manager E. E. Catvln of the O. RAN. Co. was 'tod valuable a man to be lost to Oregon, Is confirmed by pri vate advices received In Baker City, and which have given much satisfaction to business men here. Mr. Celvln Is a broad-minded, experienced and success ful railroad and general business msn. Hs has only been In charge of ths Ore gon road since last April, but hea shown his ability In many instances, and his work haa dons much toward the develop ment of the latent resources of the state. To send him away now, It Is realised, w.ould be an Injury to ths northwest end to the Harriman Interests, no matter hew much they may need a good man at Ban Franclaco. Love's Responsibility (Br Ella Wheeler Wlleox.) (Oapyright, ISM, by W. B. Hearst.) Hew easily we say the word; hew lit tle we realise what love demands of us. Unless we always keep In mind the high est good and the individual rights of the oreaturee human or animal we claim to love, then we have no understanding or the word. mere ere scores, yee. thousands, of men who believe they love women, dogs ana norses. The truth Is they love to own them. But they do not love them enouzh to consider their rights, their needs, and their happiness their best good. Love meane care, consideration, fore sight, tendernees and firmness. It to not love which tots a child persist In wrong or selfish habits, rather than to make It unhappy by correcting those habits. It to not love which allows a child to gratify every selfish desire and appetite. How often do we hear neonle aav. "I love children; I love animals." How rarely do we see that love fully expressed in the treatment of either. Affection, admiration, pride oh. yes; but not the careful consideration of the Individual needs which real love in cludes. A woman loved her children and bought a canary bird for their pleasure. The entire family went away for a visit and forgot to leave any provision for the care of the bird. It died of starva tion and -loneliness before their return. Wherever there to s caged bird there Is usually more or less neglect of Its comfort. Soiled cages, lack of sunshine, lack of fresh wster, lack of attention (which birds as well as human beings miss), one, or all of these things, may be found wherever there to a feathered household pet. Women who pride themselves upon their love of horses end their excellent horsemanship are selfishly thoughtless In their treatment of the animate. Two drives behind supposedly well-cared for horses were ruined for the writer by the indifference of the woman owner to the evident discomfort of the gentle, willing creatures. Investigation in one case proved that a galled shoulder caused ths nervousness of ths animal, and In the other cage a displaced portion of the harness had rendered every step a misery. Women ere proverbially merciless in the speed and work they require of a horse Women who pray for the heathen and who sigh for the conversion of ths Uwkole world allow their children to be Impertinent to servants and to acquire selfish and exacting habits which help to keep back the progress of the human race. Thla la the worst kind of cruelty to the child. Women who believe themselves to be Ideal mothers shadow the lives of thstr children by giving way to their nerves and continually talking about their dls- Women sigh for the wide fields of (use fulness when there Is an unused margin about the spheres thsy occupy. It to a farmer who longs for more land to cul tivate, while half his domain to going to weeds. Thla to woman's century: Let her use it In doing first the duty nearest end doing It well. It is greater achieve ment to create happy home than to create an epic. It la a greater achievement to mould a beautiful character for a child than to mould immortal forma In statuary. Tou, air, assure tne you love your Do you tell her so? Do you talk to her about the thlnga in which she Is Interested? Do you take her out with you for recreation, and do you try. to give hey the pleasures end the friend ships which will held to keep her m touch with he world? ' Or do you simply pay her bills and ex pect her to find hspplness in religion and her children? Have you a dog or a horse? Is your horse tied in a dark stall where no light enters, and do you use an over-draw check, and Is he docked? , Thsn do not tell me you love horses you only love the benefit thsy bring you. Is your dog shut In en apart ment slone day after day without companionship oia exercise? If so, the only way you can prove your love for him Is to find him a good home In the country and give him away to some one where he can be properly and humanely cared for, Self-sacrifice Is one form of love. And you, msdam. with your great love for your children and your pets, do you hurry your little toddling child along at our side, while you nearly pull Its arm from the shoulder, and do you tor ture It with starched clothing-, and do vou l't Its tender eyes face the glare of the sfm while you wheel It through the streets? That Is not love Has your bird a foot of space and a soiled cage to make Its life miserable? Before you talk about loving anything or anybody find out what the word means. From the New York American. The vexed litigation over the greet es tate of ths Countess de Castellane. for merly Miss Anna Oould, whose husband has been said for years to have $4,700, 000 of unpaid debts on his hsnds, wss the subject again recently of a court de cision. Justice Lacombe signed sn order authorising Oeotwe J. Oould and Miss Hslen Oould, receivers of the 00 unless Income to pay certain lawyers srn an nual sum for their services. In the legal affairs of the countess. These payments are to go back to February 7, 101, end ere to reimburse the attorneys for thslr work. John F. Dillon is to recelve$l,600 a yearrCoUdsrt Bros. $8,000, Coudert Freres of Paris $$,60q. and Charles A. Oardiner of New York $t,000 a year. This Is merely another chapter of the sensational story of the estate which has been vitiated by the specteeular extrava gances of Count Bonl, the cost of whose household has been computed at more than $l,000,000va year. The countess' fortune Is generally figured at $18,000, 000 income, eetate end all but such were the inroads made by the French man that the Oould family wss com pelled to take charge of It so thst the countess would not become a bankrupt A peculiar development of the sense of hearing has been discovered as being the result of ths use of the telephone. Moat people when using the instrument hold the receiver to the -left ear be cause It comes more natural to adjast the mouthpiece with the right hand. So It happens that from an extensive use of the telephone the hearing of the left ear is sharpened at . the expense the right. In the majority of eases the difference between the two is not very great, but In some persons It Is alarm lngly so. The sensitive nerves sre So Irritated by the sound coming directly on them, and In a tone which la strange, that It sets up a reaction which haa a cumulative effect and up sets them