ti PORTLAND. OlflSGON. jj H O Tl CI l , SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25. 1905. , .. ... ..: (aatV ! f " THE OREGON. DAILY . ' AN C. a. JACX10 Published vary evening (except .. i.v ,,i - .- MASSACHUSETTS AND "TVT ASSACTruSETTS SHOEf I f fl - - want free hide;' They w- incessantly.; Dn the -free-, hide issue uotigias, a Democrat, was elected governor last year, and Whit pcy, a plutocratic nominal Democrat, came near being elected lieutenant-governor this .'year.-V Massachusetts also wants reciprocity with Canada. so that. it can get free or slightly taxed lumber from the nearby wood of. Canada, k The tariff reformers of Massachusetts are on the right track, partly at jeast, but they are so. front merely local and utterly selfish motive.;, They 'want free trade in what will help, them, and high protectjon in whatever else the country i ' interested in. Massa chusetts' tariff reform ideas and efforts are now, as they have always, been, entirely provincial and Jocal, wholly and narrowly selfish. While demanding free hides and a 10 per cent duty on sole leather, the Massachusetts, tariff reformers would howl with-indignity and rage if is were proposed to put leather, and shoes on the .free list -or 10 per cent schedule.- It wants the ox to quit goring Massachusetts, .but hurrah with glee and exuberant partisan-patriotism whenever the Grand Old Pattjr ox gores the rest of the country for the benefit of Massachusetts, Massachusetts tariff reformers must remember that the . ... high protection system is one of "reciprocal rapine,", and they must submit to their share of the goring and bleed ing prectstfV?IHr' w.-vir ..; ,"' -r.- The cattlemen of J.he,, west, for example, can't see, while. they, are tariff-robbed on shoes and nearly evry ether manufactured thing they buy, why they should not have'Tptotection' for hides nor has anybody yet arisen to explain why they should not unless to say that the beef trust and not the cattle-raiser get all the benefit of f uch orotection which is true. In jact, as almost every- . body knows and all honest and lntelligent"mett acknowl edge, high protection of Tinf ant industries' grown to mammoth proportions is kept up wholly for the benem of the trusts and big combines; and if a breach is made in the hide length-of-fence there will lengths all around the corral. , '.""' ' Nearly 40 years ago a noted ', doctrinaire, . David A . Wells, argued with great fervor and a multiplicity of fig tires that the tariff on hides was-the only or chief ob stacle to 'the revival of American exports in leather and manufactures thereof. .Living in Boston, he could -not see the western cattle ra'hges; he considered everything west of the Allegheny mountains a desert Finally, ow ing to New England agitation, hides were put on the free list in 1883, although .before that date an export ' jtradef $8,000,000 a year in manufactures of hides had growskup to contradict the New Englanders' figures and ibeoriea.. The McKinley . . bill New England being solidly Republican ImPlBbmilliiig fryingkept hides on the free list, and this policy waa ap ' parently justified in the' fact that our exports of leather and manufactures, thereof grew to . over $19,000,000 in 18971. - The Dingley bill of .that year put hides back on - - the dutiable list, since which our Massachusetts, friends ought to show that their manufactured exports had fallen " off; but lo, the official figures show that iri 1904 wc ex ported boots and shoes and sole and upper leathers to the-valneof almost -$34XXyX)0thejnErease injexports having been much larger since the duty on hides was re stored than during the preceding free trade period.- ;v- '. If thia be an argument for a high duty on hides, make the most oOLJhough. w lon'eonstrtie 4-thts-wajf - but.ihjr8e facts and figures should be sufficient to-confound the. Bostonese piut6cratwho ar a hewlinj .foriree hides, and "would howl ten times louder if anybody pro- frrr maniifirrt""'' "f "reciprocal rapine, everybody who takes , must .ve. The trouble with it is that everybody wants td take a good deal more than he gives.' And the Massachusetts hog apparently wants the whole trough. ' ' . t If Lawson gets control of all the companies, perhaps we can get our nothing, and get a premium thrown r THE BALLOT FOR WOMEN. T iJAPPENS TO "BEariinconttovertible-factthat Ked many goad weisn daw't want ta write snrt don't want their sister women. women wanted to Vote, and insisted would at once grant them that right Tfrirnil u inilttnTmply he irrrsistihlr; fnr.i after ,gU, rrrtJyJjjndJhxinjr?XL'rniJll,tnr 'nsurnce investigation, most men in most matters do as their mothers, wives, sisters', 'grandmothers, daughters, ' granddaughters, sweethearts, female cousins and the rest of women' with whom they come in contact desire. , Men have to do so, and don't resist This is' one of the results and a good Value in' Little Things. ' ' . From the Chicago JournaL - From waste paper alone one railroad - last year realised ss.oon. . ' Pins, pens, nails, old brooms, bottles, tin cans and worn-out machinery of all sorts are .gathered up slong the route by all - the' , railway : companies snd . turned into money.- Even the sehes are sold or utilised for improving the road bed. ' U- Theae thlags- seem, smalt, to command ., the attention of aricb railway com- pany. p But Jt must be remembered that ' the - railway company is rich largely because it looks after the little things. - The arestest corporations in the world , are not. above taking care of the frao. - tioiie of pennies. " " -., ..The railway scrap heap of the eoun r - ' try last year reached the value of fl, ' XbS.OOO moat respectable sum of ' money, notwithstanding it came from -, ptpfced-trp pins and' paper, old nails and ' . .old broom. ( '. : . . Wants forms one of the moat vital 1 questions in economies, not alone for railroads and big manufacturing plants, . , but for every household. very 'greatu'm'' to"DerSd''ln,ii'ii' ' saving 'of waste in a hounahold. And yet the usual waits of any home la relatively far greater than that ef. a railroad. ., . .. , We think It mean and miserly to look ,'. after the Utile .things. And for that reason, mors than. for any other, human . Ufa Is earaed with poverty and pauper ism. - . . - .. . ; ' ' There is less meanness in a pear man's saving a penny than In a rich man's aavlng a solllm. . s .. .'.. Five-Tbousand aj Year, From the Sclo Newsvr ' In less than one month congress will be in sesnlon. One would think that Senator Mitchell" and Congressmen .Wil liamson and Hermann would feel a little s. .bit conscience-smitten when they re retve a salary check for services -not rendered, when other senators snd rep resentatives are performing their con stitutional dm lea Bui aoroe people are somewhat thick-skinned, and a little thing like that, not earning their salary1, tinea not bother them In the least. All '.- three of . these, men are lawyers, and lawyers (some of them) srs'not trou bled with onsclentlous scruples ' any- ' .way, ... . . ' ... . f INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER' :' ' .. - ' ' PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHINO CO. Sunday), and every Sunday morning at - ,, ' streets, roruana, urcgon. . FREE HIDES. MANUFACTURERS clamor for free tide! lot and don't want - It is just 'about made to move. ..GOOD ion to support the these are especially needed or desired. In thisway it Ontario in the not good roads; from what a Canadian be attacks on other can certainly do. ifor the purpose vincial government tu consider able-fat-4 end-but -litt lea not the subject of It is time that Give the; happy and tell them that VTHE disreputable, dirty .r.t.- .4 'J? '-' ,big life' insurance' lives insured for in. ' . K i... It has long been marneq upon, mat Judge ' Cam to vote. If all the and the same thing upon voting,! men well aa in the police or privilege. Such other city. And burn, ere long. - A newspaper run personal grudges is : James B. D0I te Take a Hand. " s From the New York Herald, Interest in ths Mutual Life's aelf -In vestigation has been' increased by the announcement that James B. Dill. Judge of New Jersey's court of errors and appeals, has been, chosen as counsel for ths committee which Is to probe the af falra of the company. Several men whose close relatione with. Insurance af fairs make their opinions weighty ..said recently that with Mr. Dill directing the investigation there would -probably be aome - very Interesting facts . put . Into the committee's report. ' Mr. Dill's antagonism to the business methods of the Kqultable JUIfe led him to make a careful study of the subject. Surprise waa expressed at the appoint ment of Mr. Dill, but it was learned that he is a eioae friend of Stuyvesant Flah, who has been chosen as the third mem ber of the Investigating committee. Mr. Fish insisted when he sccepted that ha should hsve the privilege of naming the Lopunsel to ths committee, -r- . -..-....- T r A Bachelor's Disappointment. J'lUIII Mm Walliwa raws. . ws are sorry to chronicle the sad evenrthat befell one of pur bachelors. A prominent bachelor on leaving thla part for the' harvest fields of Kit-adjoining state informed his many friends that he Intended to return this fall a happy benedict. A widow, with sev eral children wss to win the lucky prise of a husband and that the woods which hitherto -wars'-all - silence - and gloom would resound to . the happy laughter of children's voices. He bed several of his bachelor friends green with envy ever his pen picture of his future happynife. Well, he haa Just returned with the sad news that Cupid had played him false and hla widow had married another, fellow..-.'. .The Proud American., From the Newark New. The man le boasting. . He says America produces enough food to feed the whole world. Having spoken hs goes to the market And psys 4( cents for a piece of beef stesk aa big as your hand. -. And II cents for a peck of potatoes." ' And wslks home because he has spent II hla msnev J ' v . It is wrong to boast JOURNAL rto, r. ciiioix The I Journal Building .Fifth and Yamhill ..... ; one of civilization. More, it is the very highest and best adducible evidence of alleged civilisation. , . So if Women" Were united in their demand for the bal lot, mea would1 at once throw up their hands and sur render. But the dea r" women -can't.agree, and so we "mere men" take to the woods, and go fishing. A lot of good, worthy, 'every wise excellent and admirable women better creatures by far than we "mere men" demand the ballot Well, we are about to vote unani mously, to give it to them when a-lot-ol otfier -equally dear, lovable, wise women say they don't want the bal other women to have it. -.'Now, really. under snch circumstances, what" are we roUl to dp 'How ' happy we , could be t with ' either; were t'othe dear charmer away." ''"'' K ..':'; .: time that the "unspeakable Turk" was a .; ' ..... ROADS IN ONTARIO HAT CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED in the way y of permanent i road . building under proper '.direction and with an intelligent public opin movement a subject of general in terest in Oregon now has been recently' illustrated in the Canadian province' of Ontario where, with. what, in this country would be called state aid, 650 miles of macadam, road have been built, 'within the past two years, the province paying jne third of the cost, the proportion usually . fixd intBe state-aid taws of this country. This aid is confined to the main roads of the counties complying with the law, the system jn each case being selected, conformably, to the law, by the county officials. Naturally, however, the 'officials of adjoining countiet,work. together to build continuous roads where is expected that the whole province of distant future will be gridironed with end to end, from side to side. And province can do an American state . - "r-.- of good roads In Ontario, the pro has already appropwated $1,000,000, and has in view the appropriation, s fast as it can be used to advantage, of $2,000,000 'more. With good man agement and wisj; expenditure this will accomplish much. A recent investigation in Illinois disclosed the fact that within a short period the people of that state, oper ating by communities singly 'and independently,- had spent over $25,000,000 on roads, 'and had. only 22 miles of really good roads to show for it- Probably much the same showing could be made on investigation in most American states. Great amounts have been"" expended, ccornplishdfaJbecaJls Qh gork jcyenjf graft, was done unsystematically. the good roads movement made notice able and admirable progress, but it must "move .along right and well considered lines; .and We may perhaps learn something from, the work being carried on in Ontario.' I ; .' ; " ' : ' ' turkeys their. last fine" Sunday dinner, they will soon teed the .rich, '.' PLAGUE OF-PERJURY. i t T WGETHAmLTONaf r tlnTsoft snap. 'l!e J; 'drew many thousands a month of the insurance potteylroldcrs' moneyras a lobbying Jawyy a ocewpatioir-though it does -not appear J tfoflt tn tvraence that he really did anything. t Anyway the "Judge" had soft snap. He is in Europe for his health, and we may reasonably presume that he has been so ill that when he returns he will, not remember whether ,he ever received any money from the Macs, or if so how much, or if any, for what purpose. ' They might possibly have handed or sent him a little to put in a , local contribution plate, or. to help foreign mis sions, but, as to influencing legislation why, with hands upheld m holy horror, he never even heard of such a known, and has been frequently re- many persons perjure incmseives in slow nmaruad ths Mil Utlltl Uiy; is done almost daily in the"c1rcplt as and justices courts of .this and every we all know there was much lying, di But some trutfTiias cropped6uTlCrTanmTttKPwtI " ' ' . principally to ventilate private, and a pitiable spectacle. ' How to Cure - Discontent- ' From the Wall (Street Journal. The best remedies for the epidemic of discontent which appears so alarming to many, may be recapitulated as fol lows: . . . - ir.CIet rid of the 0se.'"r"-;':'w'''v'' ' 2. Get rid of, the grafters in high finance. - - , " - " ' " .5 . .; t. Inspire a' more wholesome respect for the law by enforcing it squally upon the rich "and poorr 1 ' 4. Establish generally a policy" of square aeaiing in nusineas. ' B. Enact laws providing for ballot re form and publicity of campaign ex penses. '.'! S. Subject all our monopolies to rigid government control so thst their meth ods shall be fair and their charges rea sonable. . I 7. Compel all companies, .'especially those engaged In Interstate business, to file the reports of their flnaaclal condi tions with . the department of com merce and labor, once or twice a year, with the provision mads te Insure hon est bookkeeping snd honest accounting. a. csiaouan leoerai regulation of rail- J . B6 rates. ' uTWsir-tip Ms.jneana-tht by moving an just causes for there will be nothing left on which the socialistic agitation may grow. Take away these Just eausss for dlssatlsfac-J tlon and there Is not snongh envy and hatred In this country to be at all dan gerous to the social order. ' Advice From a Financier. From the Columbja JMo.) Herald. -The time te borrow" money Is when you don't need It- If you have tie in your, pocket and don t need any more: borrow IS from the next man you meet Then 'repay him the next day, and he will Imagine himself under obligations to you. Then the next time you really need money-It.. WUL be easy to. get it rrom, nim. r v ' Justice aa a Time-Killer. From the Washington Post. The Interstate commerce commission haa decided a case pending between Texas cattle Shippers- en-4hCMrgo Stockyards company since 1114. The commission Is almost recklesa at times under Influence of the Drevalllna- aneed ianania epidemiCw, , t . - ' . . , .., .... . f : . SMALL CHANGE Some of his frltods think he could WbMlrlght In. ' . . - ' . '. ' ' ". - To draw ' the line between the sheep ana me aroats among the lawyera win De a delicate Job. , t . . , Tne dlsratchea not having mentioned Oovernor-tienator 1 Follette for a day or two, the rilmor that he waa going to resign the senatorshlp was utn put Into circulation.; - . When, after a generation - or two. there are no salmon In Oregon atreaina. people will wonder that their progeni tor? were such fools. ... Senatorial bees beginning te buss. Some school ' holidays'' next week. Longer holldaye a little later. Another holiday or two in February and in May." Then holiday for about a quarter of the year. The holiday business, far aa the schools are eoqeerned, is be ing overdone, t ... . - , c ' . '.e . e ; i , Murphy and Qdell eeem; .to be two ef a aina. i ,.- 1 . : People back, east are now worrying about coming coal bills, but they ought to be consoled in remembering that the mosqultoe are all frosen up. , 1 One would - suppose that Nicholas would Joyfully' welcome' the appearance of a "fa lee csar." or anybody who would take hla Job off bis hands. ' President MoCurdy has consented te have his salary cut In two, and take $76,oe Instead of 1160,000 a year, but he says nothing about refunding the 175,000 a year that he has taken beyond what he earned for many years. . ' '.....'.. i e e .. . ;., .... There may be a sea level canal. . but that it will be built on the level or otk the square is not ro be expected. ' ." , " " ' -: -;. T' Tet It Is not quite definitely under stood that funds secretly sent to Chair man J3aker will be indignantly returned. ;. A,. .. ... '. A leopard cannot change his, spots, nor a tiger his strtpea, bur-bulls can ctfnvert themselves Into bears, and vice versa, In short order. ' - ?)----. . e : . A Montana, mas won a hat that he could drink a quart of gin within certain short space of time, but the gin did a better Job than the mot it killed him. 1 A Washington county' woman Is 111 years old. - If Sarah Bernhardt ahould live tox be that old she wilt yet have time to make several farewell tours. . Llpton would find It an easy matter e-tifs-aai' American bride. . , , ' "" ; . '.; ' a", e . ' ;'.' '.i. Buy Oregon-made goods. ... , , ., e e ,, Doubtless some European statesmen would like to. administer the sultan's harem also. ... - .. ; : This la the time o' year when th mariner along the north Pacific coast keeps his weather eye peeled. , . . . Central Point children are becoming needed.. t- ' A man and hla wife are vlaltlng In Prlnevllle who were married at Victoria, British Jpolumbla, he coming for that purpoae from Noma. Alaaka, and .she from Sydney, Australia.. . Raising sorghum and making syrup therefrom promises to be a growing In' dustry in the Rogue River valley. li , . v. . .. ... . , . . . - .. . .' i ' A Fbasll man sold f Ivs mares and four colts at auction for a total of 11,040. ' ' '". - ' - " , . . .' ;-' , Bands of wild hogs are reported nu I r"."-.- - - - - - - i OREGON-SIDEUGHTS - nwiuiiB turn year un TWrMJlfes'otaeTTfigTmaf the Applegate and Williams creeks. One kanwmBeesajBllertjtfe smaller bands. They are descended from domestics ted animals that escaped- to the wooda some years sgo. but a few ,.gonera,UPijs Juiyesuffliedferthemtq revert to me primitive stale. They are aa wild as deer and fully as hard to find.. ..Though aot ordinarily aggressive, the boars are sometimes - dangerous, making a more savage fight than bears, and are more difficult to tame or do mesticate, '' ' . ' . . e , e n r The Fossil grange has been reorgan ised, wiin so members, Pendleton haa built and equipped three fine new school, buildings this year, who iv roomst - -' e Pendleton's taxable property Is about 1100,009 more than last year. Still a caramlne up the valley.' ' Probably suirar-beetB can' be sue- eessfully raised In Polk county. I I .v. . e . . - ' , ; i t . Some hopyarda will be dug up, and little care will be taken of many others. ' " . ' .' ' "r e e -. .- ' . ' Salem expects to be a motor railroad hub.--' , " v The Hudeen 1 bay and -Walla Walla river countries sre rivaling the famous Yakima valley district as a winter feed ing place.. About 4. OOOL-beef cattle are now being winter fed In the Hudson bay and Walla Walla river districts. Ths opening up. of several irrigated tracts In. that section of the country is pro viding hundreds of "tons of alfalfa, which sells for 14.10 te II per ton. A Corvallia man WUfWsj n4njf' 'gtUT la an ernpty house he owned to kill rats, etc.; a real estate agent who went In to show the houss to. a prospective tenant , says ha received 22 shot from the sun In one of his less, and now ha has sued -for 13.000 damages. I . r. , Wildcats numerous around Clover dale. but many being killed.. ' r - e .-e : ; ' The rain haa brought ducks In count less numbers alt over Tillamook county. ... " . e e ',. "'-' , . - . Houlton has nice new church build ing. . - - e e . 1 "B4ndLake""correspondence of Tilla mook , Herald: Every one ; recovering from thelrhad colds. . . . I gusss par fair-weather Is at an end, as It seems to be damp and misty. ' - A farmer near-Arrngton"har receiyod a so-horsepower traction snslne. tht will plow It acres in' a day and can he used for, cutting , and threshing grelhV as well aa plowing... .. . BUILbjNG UP 1 AUSTRALIAN DEFENSES Sydney Correspondence of -the ondon ,. Mall. - ' -' The prime minister of Australia, ft Is no -breach of confidence to state. Is resolved to mark his present term of off tee by some resolute effort to or ganlse an effective defense system f-r the commonwealth. The decision is ot more . than Australian ; i significance. After all. the most, important service that thia commonwealth could render to the empire in time pf great . war would be to hold its own snores in violate and its own ports and coaling station 1 sacred to the service of the British fleets. Thoroughly effective Australian defense meana a fertrese in stead of a weak outpost of the Anglo- Saxon forces in these seas. .Australia at present is practically de- fenseleas. General Hutton, ' who haa onlv . recently denarted. ' showed great capacity in organising the nucleus of an army, and were 'It not ror -nis in ability td'-eet on with" the civil pow- ra he mlrht have remained here to carry organisation a step' farther. Now there is a nucleus, but no army worthy of the name." Ths coast defenses are seriously undermanned, unless It Is thought that in time of war Australia can develop 'a gunner who can remain on duty 24 hours a day and never by any 'accident be shot The mounted forces in a country where almost every youth can ride and it la etiquette to chaae'a bores four miles in order to saddle him to carry you one ere a mere a peck of the population. .There arc no organised swarma of marksmen, though the bush breeds expert shots by the thousand, and the city small boy aspires of all things to own a cheap, pea rifle with which he may shoot sparrow and wlllie-wlgtalls, snd occasionally, by accident a email boy friend. Local conditions are such that almost -every man could be given enough training to make him a fair soldier. But the mili tary forces, permanent, militia and vol unteer, total a mere handful. ? In naval matters there la the same lack of organised force.. , The coaat shipping and the yachting clubs might pro-aide, a fine recruiting, ground for men-of-war's-men. But only a small fraction of tbs material offering - is turned to account V". -; -- :- - ' . Still more serious is ths fact that there Is in Australia .no factory for the manufacture of ordnance, rifles, shells - or even small arm ammunition. In Victoria one factory exists which makes up cartridges.' But the material is .mostly Imported, and the local share of, the work is little more than the loading and packing. Were war to come suddenly, Australia would have a few field guna. rifles for about one twen tieth of its possible fighting manhood and ammunition en6ug"h"Tor ctraplerof i sklrmlshea. ' - - : 1 It is the Deakln government's, ambi tion .to do something to change that The immediate proposals will probably embrace the foundation of local am munition and small arm factories: the training of school children tov fit -them. In a measure, for aervlce la the elttsen forces; the strengthening of the eoaat defenses, and. probably, the Inaugura tion OI' a local naval oeienss scneme Which will In time hive on to the coast a mosquito fleet with some power ' te stmg. Thers-Ia . a very-, strong . party in Aastrelia .declared for a ' .compulsory universal; aervlce pystem, who -argue that it la the duty of every, adult male '""1 ta ffvl fnr service in either army or . navy, , and that without . re muneration. To this party young Aua trallans-are Inclined to rally, and its vlewa will probably prevail la the near future' and give to the" commonwealth a military -organisation - patterned on that of- Swltaerland.' -a The ! "volunteer" '-system' 'has "not worked very well here. Some of the volunteer officers bays a genuine ear neatness fer .their work, but .'many find In the right te wear aV gorgeous uni form the limit to' their military Ambi tion. All sorts of "bounders" used to secur ' coramlmJflfTs, often to make Purlafl-Hh a full uniform packed In to be sported on every posslbls occasion. ' TJiere was. In one of the states, ,a notorious' instance of a gentleman with e political "purl" ar- tion of lieutenant-colonel without sub mitting to any test of soldiership. His uniform wss of wondrous' gorgeousness and he was reported to wear It even in bed. A good deal of that aort of thing was purged by General Hutton, bat he wss not able to make of the volunteers, who form ft considerable portion of our small army, anything like aa effective force. When the officers are earnest the regiments are real. Too often the officers are dilatory and. the men care less. '. :. ' . - Withal, the Australian . offers about the best raw material , in the world for a good array. He Is naturally, as a rule, more self-reliant and resourceful than ths citlsen of older lands. Mostly, he can ride and ahoot Endurance has been taught him by the droughts and ins tons, waieriess. xooaicsa sirouenes or his land. ' Discipline he In a sense lacks. He -will not obey merely because the command comes from some one In a better social position thsn himself.' .But he Is obedient to ability, and will fol low men he trusts anywhere. That should toad, with effective organisation, to a goja ciass or oincers coming forward.- j i . . . . Tha attempt to make a real Australian army will provide some interesting object , lessons In the . problems' of .de fense. ' . V Foiled by Woman's Wit : Washington Cor. Nas-Vork"Timesl"v About 7,00i-ttvi government's money wsajNSlorby the board of lady the St Louis fair to print their proceedings, though it could have been printed at the government printing office for J.00. A thousand dollars more also of the government's money wss spent for the sole purpose of hav ing the pictures of the lady managers Included In the. volume - . , . So testified Oscar J. Ricketts. ths set- ing publlt printer, todsy before the Land la committee, which is Investigat ing tne question or extravagant expendi tures in the government's printing bill. Mrs. Daniel Manning It was who suc ceeded In getting this volume Into print after Chalrmait Landls of ths house committee on printing had refused to sllow any publlo money, to be taken for the purpose. Mr. Landls did this in the Intersst of public economy. Mrs. Man ning demonstrated that It would have been more economical had he yielded, and also that a mere congressman le toyiny- op-trouble when he undertakes to foil a woman In some thlnss-ahe has set her heart on. - v- 1 ; When Mr. Landls learned that the lady manager were preparing to have their report printed, handsomely Illus trated, he' announced that he would op- poe its, publication. Thla would have klllec It In congreas. Whore Mr. Landla was unwlae was In letting hla Intensions Become known. Mrs. Manning read his announcement and decided not to give him the chance. Congress appropriated I5.0U0.0U0 fur .the use or the exposition and out of thl the exposition authorities - set aid 1100.000 for the use of the lady man agera. Mrs. Manning Waa aware tha oetween 110.000 and 116.000 of this amount remained unexpended. She ac cordingly had the book printed by private firm and paid for it out of this ju n expended balance. - Representative Perkins of New York, who is a. hlstorlsn and likes to hear about ' historical works, questioned Mr, Ricketts on the subject today. "It Waa done by a firm in Connect! cut" said Mr. Ricketts. "Including the Illustrations, the entire eoet of printing It at the government printing oftlce would have bean 11.800.TL V- Mr. Rlckatt..sald the' pictures of ths lady msnsgers were photogravures and cost about 121 aplece.i- An edition of Z.ooa volumes cost ovef fT.ooo. wttn tne illustrations. Without Illustrations he estimated the cost at 11,000. "It waa handsoms volume." he added. iK "How about the pictures of the lady msnagerar" asked Mr. Perkins. "The ladles' pictures showed up very Well," said Mr. Ricketts. M "What do you think. Mr. Hlrketts,' asked Mr. Perkins, after pondering i while. 'Would be the effect on the bulk of the printing done by the government if ladles should be elected to congreeeT" Mr. Ricketts said he did not know. POTTS; A: B.. SEES THE SUBWAY; i . From the New York Times. "'Esve me "eadllghts," panted 'Arry Potta. A. B. of H. M. S.' Drake, in front of the Park Row building late on Satur day : afternoon. Mr. Potta had Juat walked down 21 flights of stairs. . 'Save me 'eadllghts," repeated Mr. Potta . when street cleaning department clerks asked him what was the matter. Taln't yer town," explained the mar iner, acratchlng his whiskers; "It s -the wye y ve built It Daah-me binnacles. this 'ere - town don't - grew bout but hup. : -r . ' ;. . ,.- . " ' 'Arry says sne bos'n this morning, you kin go aahorean see Noo To'k, but. sonny, steer wide o -them 'lgbfalutin yachts with "upper topa like gundeck an' a gait when under steam like a bark en a big swell all flopdop.' - 'Hye, hye, sir,' saya HI. , " I ' "Qoln' ashore, I sees this 'ere town carries mors canvas than any craft ever Hi'd bleared me shillings In. hand, says Hi,' ' 'Arry, m boy, ye must go hup in stead of goln' bout' But fuat thing HI knows, HI goes down. HI goes Into the durned 'old of thl 'ere town. HI see J the crowd go down a 'ole. an', beln' a HI was dry meself, Hi follows the crowd. A" feller 'olds me btt for nickel liatf glvea me back a check. . Another feller e 'oilers "Hall aboard!' hand 'fore I tum bles, to the gams I was en train hand goln' like Hold 'Arry through ths 'ole ' ""Oid-ott hold chap,- aays hi; "Hi would like to get hoot.' 'Hout says 'e with a grin, "Hout.' Me; pilot house was goln' groggy with tha swiftness of the motion. - :Hold chap MfrllL 'HI Juat com down tha 'ole for a drink. .Hi been eea aick. hand I been portslck. but, splice me Jibs, HI never were'ole-in-th-ground stetcrhandTiira-tbe wutrTy sit 'Let me hout.'. " "Next atop city 'all.'-' he says. Hand there HI gets thlnkln' Hi waa In an air ship ora submarine coat ', '" 'Dash me lamps, HI'U 'ave a nippy,' thankful like. The bartender ' throw down 'is wiper. 'Bill. 'e 'oilers, -"ere" a dub wants a nippy. ' Wot the Hearst cocktail Is thatr " -Lights o' Lelth, there hain't no place for a sailor but aloft' says Hi to meself. hand HI steers for the mainmast that building 'HI Just shin down from by the stairs. - There was a feller there in nice braid. "Hall ftaboardr ' 'oiler. "Eave there,' saya Hi. 'Are ye goln aloft or below r ' . " 'Hall the wye hup.' say . That' me,' say HL Hand HI get In the bloomln' lift . 'Eave me ead TfgTIT "Whoop I ' Hup - she ' goee. The deck give m a boost HI thought me pro pellers were goln' to bust me 'old. Me cargo seemed flamboyant bin me hin- terlor. ' . .'."Hout four,' -soya a gen t... -'Ease K Sadllght the bloomln' lift stops so sud den Hi thought me 'ead fell hoft . "Seven hout" says hanother gent, Dash m binnacles, when the stop cams III thought HI was a bird. " 'Fourteen hout'i says a feller In white clothee hand a pipe. 'Eave me 'eadllght, I feared me ead would fail hoff! .. . . ' . .'."That 'ere deok went hup and hup. Hi wants to Jump hout hand to 'oiler 'Stop the bloomln' lift! 'Hi wants to toot me siren hand shriek.- HI been on tops e' wavea hand below 'em but 'eava me 'eadllght! ' "What? HI bughter 'ave 'ollered Hout'T No, sir; Hl'se a British tar. HI sticks hit Yesslr, Hi stick hit. but Arry Potts ' walked down from haloft Yesair, 'a didn't sign, on for the -return Vy'g.".;-i--v:--r-,.--T---.- - ... , , ,aiSsisesii-seJawssiiaw!MI r, i The Guggenheim Family. - From the Banker and Tradesman. -To the many who have read frequent newspaper references to American smelt ing and "he Guggenheim" and what would happen if American smelting and tha Ouggenhslms '. and some other in terests sot toa-ether. and how fortunate it would be for the shareholders in the 'other Interests" if such a coming to gether occurred. It will be Interesting to know Just who "the Ouggenhelms" are, A New York newspaper tell the story, and aays; , ' "Ths member of . the Ouggenhjblm family, -who are believed In Wall street to own an actual majority of tha shsres Of ths 1100.000.000 American Smelting a Refining company, are an example of a real 'happy family.' There are seven brothers, eact of whom possess a grsat fortune of hla own, and the aggregate wealth of the family runs Into ths very many millions. These seven brothers work together in complete harmonv. For all practical purposes In a bualneaa way they can bs reckoned -with as one inda. vidua!;.- It recalls the situation with the Rothschilds of Europe ta a smaller and mors uniform scaler Ths Onggenhelms dominate the great smelting company, Whose stock has mada a senaational ad vance of nearly 100 point in a little over II months. Daniel Guggenheim is both preslde'nt ef the company and chairman of tne board, and. leaao GuggenitelnV I the; treasurer of the company. These two and three other ' brothers - ere di rector." - Why Oraft Orew. From the Rochester Herald.- " The fct I that graft cannot be eliml'-f nated' in. any other way tlian by Inde pendent, voting. It is a aystem which ha grown out of the habit of hide bound jTartlsanshlp. ' FREE TEXT BOOKS PRO AND CON 1 : Sy-i -ii.ii mu n-"i i"-l. I i From the School , Board Journal." ' The free text book question has been a mooted one for many years, and many argument for and against tb ytcm have been advanced from tlm to time.. Personally. 1 have not had the opportu nity to inspect its practical workings, hence cannot apeak, from experience, so what I shall aay on the subject has been gleaned from pedagogical litera ture and from the reports ot state su perintendents of states having the free text book system and from what , my own Judgment may, .dictate. - . :. . , The argument usually given In favor of thesyatern a re , VI rut That H is more -economical In that the parenta of dif ferent families need not neeesaarily pur chase a different text i book' for .each child passing successively through ths -aame grade, aa the same book can be used by aeveral children, thereby ma terially diminishing the per capita num ber of books to be purchased. ons-: quently the aggregate expenae to the district Is diminished. Again, that tha state er district will be able to purchase books at wholesale ratea. thereby re ducing the per capita expense, and thst book companies will gladly furnish books at a reduction, owing to the fact that the state or district is a responsible party and that fewer losses will be. In curred. -. v .,.. Second The free text book system tends greatly to make school work more efficient as it enables the teacher-to . have all pupils supplied at ,onee with the -needful and necessary books.' thus.'. enabling them to begin their work Im mediately. Aa it ia, they are compelled to await the action of the parenta who may neglect or may not be able to supply their children at the first More over, by having boocs for distribution at all times many more children, will attend school for. more daya In the year, making a decided gain in school econ omy. - To my mind the "better -. ef- flcleney" '. argument for Tree doors is the strongest ons that can be urged In Its favor and the one most general In . the minds of it friends for Its reten tion wherever adopted. Third That ' In. atatea not having atate uniformity, in the. adoption - ot text book used in schools the. burden rest upon the parent who change from one county to another and from one die- trlct to another, as the case may be. and probably are compelled to purchase one or more new books when the book already In the handa of the pupil will answer the purpose so tar as the child's educational progress-1 concerned. The principal argument In opposition'. to ths free text book system are in the main as follows: , First Ths school district . haa per formed every duty ' Incumbent upon it when It has provided each and every , child within its Jurisdiction school sites, schoolhouse and good teachers and all " '. I that pertatoeegKd.-Sjghoplcept books, and that It is-the duty or tne parenta to bear the burden of furnlah- ' Ing the text. book; that a. great prin ciple is violated' when the parent Is not so made to feel hi responsibility in' that be will lose Interest and fall to fully appreciate that for which he haa made no sacrifice. All ere willing to concede, however, that it la, the 'duty of the district to furnish indigent chil dren with books.! and most atatea. have made , uch t provislo'n,, by, Jeglalatlve , YmioTIii 1 . the iTOtf enilvea the child ot a sense of ownership, ons of the civic virtues that should be cul tivated early: that he will not feet the same necessity of caring for the prop-.. erty ef the district as he would of his ffitn and thrt "fit1 T-rn rrf- hi mnv retain poasesslon of and prise the high est of his possessions as a remembrance of hi happy school day. How many of us have, a book or relle In our posses sion, and how hard It would be for us to part with It May w not say that the ownership, and hsnce the possible retention, may so exert a moral in- -flueo.ee on the child that la aa great and far-reaching; that the aesthetic nature of the child is sacrificed at the time when it is the most responsive,, namely, when he has Just been promoted from one book to another, and every sense in alert in happy anticipation of that event '; Which can never;, come to him the pos se as Ion of e new book by givin- him a Ti n li muni irr mire as Isair ilnfnrl In stead of one that It a delight to the eve. - Third That tn sanitary .conditions are not observed by the eystsm of free text books, as a child is forced to use a book that may have been uaed by one r eran cleanly or ty ons amtcted by a contagious disease and 'In all proba bility transmitted by means ef the book. It Is true that in -most school where the aystem is in vogue- the books sre periodically subjected to a roasting pro cess te minimise the danger of con tagion, but many parenta admit that -there la a possibility of a germ or two which may not - have been sufficiently roasted to make them harmless Them sgain, where - the system Is general many school would entirely neglect te--fumlgate the book, . and all sanitary precautions be neglected, ' with d sadly results. T. ..;-.(. .,,-..,.....,.,:. ...,-.: Summing up the srg'umente for and agignst free text books. I em rather dis posed to be not in favor of the system ' In states having state uniformity In the selection of it text . books, but would strongly incline toward its adop tion In all cases tn which text books are adopted in any other manner. . It la only fair to aay, however, that .so far as I know no Stats or district has re turned to the old method after adopting the-fre text book system., which is a strong argument In Its favor. 4. H. ACKERMAM. Superintendent Publlo Instruction for - . ursgon. - ; - . 71 LEWIS: AND CLARK Camp at Pillar rock. - November tt.The wind waa toe hlxh to suffer us to, cross the river; but as It blew generally from the east southeast the coast-on ths north was In some de. gre sheltered . by - the highlands. We therefore set out and, keeping near th ' shore, halted for dinner In" Shallow bay. no-after oar rsacnea a. spot. near a (Pillar) rock at some distance in th river, close to our former camp of the' 7th Instant On leaving our camp seven Clatsops accompanied us In a eanoe, but after going a lew mile crossed ths bay through Intensely high waves, leaving us In admiration at th dexterity with which they threw aside each wave a it threat tned to 'come over their , canoe. , Th evening was cloudy. , i "- -, . Falae Art Factoriea. "v'V-'.r. La VI Illuatre, pari. -1. There, ar in Paria. regular -farttofiee for the manufacture of false objects ef srt faotoriea which employ a large num- T' ber ' ef persoae-and -wh(H are always busy. Th manufacture ef spurious pic ture I ths largest branch. One factory .. turned out la six months 1000 false MlllOt .... ., "v , . '