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Editorial Page of The Journal .m. i - vJnir rwr v i mm mmm jhm lM,tbsasassssmsssSBsswwJas THE JOURNAL AM INPSrSHPaNT SBWararBB. C ft. MOHOM. UUUOXk tt. BMUlS SS MM nuvBoKi tOBSNIf APVBBTIMMO MMftWHiOTI, ,VreUs4-BaJemis SsecUl ASlllttslsg teer. WO Nimi .IiMt. New fart; eeaa tat, Cbloaso. . b tt HUM States. CsnaSa " DAILY. See rw IM OH SUNDAY. es OA I 1W ..$ At ....4 J t M ' DAILY AND SUNDAY. m year ....ST-SO I Om aaaata. Be not simply good, but good for something, Tho veau. SCARCITY OP FUEL. A GOOD MANY northwestern cities arc nearly out of fuel, ad have no prospect of se curing a supply soon, and there is consequently an increasing anxiety as to the situation in which they may soon be placed. As yet there has been no suffering nor, except in a few cases, actual inconvenience, but as winter weather comes on the situa tion will become serious in many places, particularly in the upper coun try, where the frost king holds sway more than in the region west of the Cascades. The primary cause of this general fuel famine, as everybody knows, is the lack of cars and loco motives with which to transport coal and wood from the mines and forests to centers of distribution,. and thence to more remote places. Tbe cars are busy otherwise, or locomotives to haul them are lacking. This should have been provided against Wng ago, ss well as transportation facilities for lumber and other products, and there is no good excuse for this not having been done; but some partial excuses thst are put forward are entitled to some consideration. The country generally has produced an unexpected and probably an unprecedented vol ume of crops and other products to be moved, and the railroads were not ready for this and could not procure new cars and locomotives fast enough en csecs the demand. The San Fran cisco disaster last April also added much to the difficulty on this coast. It precipitated a very unusual demand for lumber, machinery and other sup plies; and thousands of cars that reached that city or vicinity were left unloaded for many days, and even for Weeks, because of strikes and lack of belp, or for other reasons. So the railroads, while by no means blame less, are not entirely without excuse. But whatever the causes and ex cuses, the situation in many towns is decidedly unpleasant, and unless It can soon be relieved will in many cases become alarming as winter comes on. Probably sufficient ef forts will be made to avert actual and prolonged suffering in most cases, but people will be subjected to much worry and inconvenience, and very likely to largely increased prices, which due foresight on the part of the railroad companies would have obviated. It is certainly their duty to make all possible efforts to relieve the present snd prospective situation, and to take ample measures to pro vide against its recurrence. NEGLECT OF WEST COA8T. THE Railway and Marine News justly complains that although nine months have passed since the wreck of the steamer Valencia on the shore of Vancouver island, noth ing has been done by tbe government to prevent similar dire disasters. An appropriation was made for a light ship, s lifesavmg tug snd wireless telegraphy, but they hsve not been provided, although it has been demon strated that the coast adjacent to tbe entrance to the Straits of Fuca is the most dangerous on tbe west side of the continent, snd hss well earned Its designation of the "graveyard of the Pacific." Not only this particular reach of cosst, but the Pacific coast generally has been neglected by the govern ment. The Atlantic coast hss 104 life-saving stations while the Pacific ensst has only IS. While on the other side of the continent light houses are numerous, and all entrances and ap proaches to harbors sre improved and sre so ptsinly indicated that the ship msster even in s fog esn scarcely err therein. There are buoys and beacons and sirens and whistles and bells and flashlights innumerable, while in trying to enter Puget Sound, gays the Railway and Marine News. Vu can hunt around forsix days outside when tbe weather" is thick trying to find Flattery. You can in vestigate Destruction island, and run up a number of miles and hail the Umatilla lightship, and miles more test tsstea to the siren on Tatoosb, when you can hear it, and then miles more and pick up Race rocks, if yon don't bump into Carmanah;" and then the ship may suffer the fata of the Valencia, and of many others whose bones have been piled up on Van couver bland. Ships have ample guidance and assistance on the At lantic side, but the entrance to Puget sound, says the News, "has to be hunted for as a woman hunts for her pocket." So Puget sound has its troubles and drawbacks, as well as the Columbia river. The trouble is that our dele gations in congress are small and so comparatively powerless. There it all the more need, then, for their standing and pulling together. M'LOUGHLIN'S CABIN. AN ITEM in the Oregon City Star says that the old home of Dr. McLoughlin at the bead of Main street in that city ie be ing made over into a convenient and modem house. A Los 'Angeles woman, who with her husband had read Mrs. Dye's "McLoughlin and Old Oregon," visited Oregon City to view the scene of the great pioneer's labors and meet Mrs. Dye, and on seeing this particular improvement said it was "nothing less than sac rilege," and she expressed surprise that citizens there did not take steps to preserve their historic places. This is not an easy thing to do in a rapidly developing community, and commer cial interests have no sentimental side, yet it would have been pleasing to a great many people, both of this and future generations, if the old hab itation of this first unique ruler of the great Oregon county could have been preserved. It is almost half a cen tury since Dr. McLoughlin, full of years snd labors, was buried, but his wonderful work endures, and every thing connected with him and it, and that early time when he was the mast' mind in all this mighty re gion, are and will remain of interest to the people of Oregon. The odd csbin must go, though its destruction causes a sigh if not a pang of regret, but the grave at least can still and perpetually be kept greet and fra grant, as is the memory of the sturdy factor who, building better than he knew, laid the first rough-hewn cor nerstone of Oregon. Mr. Harrimen has been paying so much money to lawyers who are aid ing him in keeping the Hill roads out of this territory that he has not had anything left with which to buy roll ing stock, and as a consequence farm ers and shippers have suffered the logs of vast sums. It is the continua tion of a car shortage in connection with a tremendous increase in the net earnings of Mr. Harriman's roads that has created to much sentiment in Oregon in favor of Hill. Colonel Hofer frequently "rube it into" this or that Republican, or Re publicans generally, for allowing s Democrat to be twice elected gover nor, yet he not -seldom acknowledges that there is no fault except his poli tics to be found with the governor. Well, if he is all right what difference does his politics make? The people pay the bills, after all. Just as soon as the strikers compelled the mill owners of California to raise wages, tbe price of lumber was in creased to the point where the con sumer assumed the burden. Candidate Hughes says he is not ashamed to associate with the Demo cratic leeches and grafters who have bolted Hearst, which admission is confirmatory of Hearsf s characterisa tion of Hughes. Harriman and Hill are both to ad dress the Transmississippi congress at Kansas City next month It to hoped the services of the police will not be necessary to prevent a phys ical scrap. Judge Sears remarks that the cost of living has increased one third in a few years. If wages have not in creased proportionately, to this really an exceptionally prosperous time for workingmen? The more the merrier, think the Republicans when they hear of the organization of a new political party. As long ss the opposition votes are divided the C. O. P. is all right The Oregonian says Portland "may show 150.000 by 1910." It rather thinks the city will have that targe a population by that time, but is not very tare or desirous of it. The Carnegie hero fund commis sion found $13,000 worth of heroism to reward, a few medals being thrown T " in. At the Carnegie estimate, hero ism will never cause him to die poor. France has pasted through another "crisis," the ministry all throwing up their jobs, but this in that country to A Little Out THINGS PRINTED TO SB Epigrams bp the Late "Sam" Jonea. Jones, the famous Georgian evangelist, who died suddanly a raw weeks ago, la credited with theae epi grammatic sayings: "A preacher should be like a bear keg be should run anywhere you tap hiss." "Politicians have no more heart than a Florida alligator or a society woman. I'd Just as soon ahake a fish's tall as a society woman's kid-gloved hand." "When God gives man a good wife and 16 children or so, he' a all light; whan the devil give him a society wo- and a poodle dog, he's In a bad 'TDeath repentance Is the retreat of a coward and anlnault to God." Jd." is D. D.'tf "The only title I want It means Devil Driver.' " "Whlakey la a good thing place, but its place is hell." In Its October 25 in History. 1400 Chaucer died. 1416 Battle of A gin court. 17S6 Earl Of Peterborough, English leader In the war of the Spanish euo oeaalon, died. 1711 Extraordinary eruption Of Mt. Vesuvius. 1114 John Hancock chosen first gov- Mssssohusstts IMS Luxor obelisk erected In Paris. 1I4T American fleet under Commo dore Perry bombarded Tobaeco. 1170 Convention In Cincinnati to urge tbe removal of the national capi tal from Washington to some point west. 18SI Pierre Puvls de Chavannes, mural painter, died In Paris. ltei Qreat loss of life and property by eruption of Santa Maria, Guatemala. 1S04 General Kuropatkln appointed commander-in-chief of Russian army. Seems Inexplicable. It is singular how- three states, Penn sylvania, Masaachusetta and Maryland, continue to furnish the bulk of the attorney-generals of the United Statea. When Mr. Moody came to the office, he succeeded Mr. Knox Of Pennsylvania, and when Mr. Moody retires next win ter he will be followed by Mr. Bona parte of Maryland. Since the founda tion of the srovernroent in 1789. these three atatss have furnished 20 of the 41 attorney-general. Pennsylvania supplying- eight, Massachusetts sevsn and Maryland five. Maryland's number will be Increased to six whsn Mr. Bonaparte arrives. States like New Tork and Ohio havs furnished only three each. The hold which the three states re ferred to have upon this office, and have had alwaya. seems Inexplicable. Quitter's Birthday. Archibald Clavsrtng Ounter, author and playwright, was born In Liverpool. England. Oettober 16, 1647. He came to America as a young man and studied in the school of mines In Ban Francisco. not so much to get excited about as the resignation of a constable in this. Letters From People Portland, Oct IS. To the Editor of Tbe Journal Referring to the grain handlers' strike, as Allen Lewis have been brought Into It I have thought it proper enough, as president of this company, to ask you to publish this communication. Primarily, 1 believe In labor unions, but only when Intelligently and fairly managed; otherwise they are oostly to oil and profitable to none. As representing the owner of Colum bia deck No. 1, I personally have never had for years anything to do with hir ing, discharging or paying tbe men who worked on the dock; and the men at work; I understand, all knew that the Inoome from the dock aStrne from a tonnage rental, and that their employer was net tbe owner of the dock. How ever, on account of outstanding con tracts, tor a time, I was obliged to take a personal Interest after tne strike was started. As It resulted, matters were put Into such shape that contracts wore satisfied, and ths owner of the dock, by .leasing It outright was freed from any responsibility, which at the best would not have been rightly placed. Allen A Lewis, who have no interest whatsoever la the dock, and in fast never had any Interest since the deck was built bars been boycotted by the Federated Trades on their published statement that this company controlled the Northwestern Warehouae company, a company which has been doing busi ness here for tbe past six or seven years a false statement, and a matter In which aay of the labor leeders could have been enlightened had they desired. Their action was taken, however, with out one of them ever having met or talked to me about It How fair thie la any reader can determine. Coming again on fairness It Is Inter esting to note that the Portland Flour ing Mills company, who through its working company was actively engaged la the strike, has not been boycotted. The main question Involved In the be ginning was whether Portland should pay 11 1-2 per cent mora wages than Tseome. No city (of which the man are S part, as much as their employers) can stand such a differential and live in oom petition. I ask to have this published, so that the men who are conservative, and there ars many such in the unions, will In tbe future exert their influence to see, on all matters that- come up that relate to strikes, that fairness Is inherent in their demands. Tours truly, L A LEWIS. Loved Happily Ever After. A curious little romance Was wrapped up in a wedding ceremony which took place at Havre yesterday. Borne weeks ago a Savoyard emigrant in New Tork received a letter from his fiancee at home stating that he Intended to kill herself because her parents wsnted her to marry another man. The Savoyard, whose name ta Cente narl, took the first available ahlp home. d hiring Bis Intention of shooting him self en bis sweetheart's grave should she have carried out her threat. On the voyage, however, he met a fellow-countrywoman, who was. return ing home with a comfortable little for- Us They fell in love with each other rand on arriving at Havre were promptly BBSJI I HIM Cenienarl'e happiness was unmixed with remorse, for awaiting him at Havre he found a letter stating that his nances, instead of carrying out her threat to kill herself, had married the "other man,'- aad was satiated that she ths rtsht choice. of the Common AD WHILE YOU WAIT. He was for a time a etvtl engineer for the Central Paclfle railroad and later worked as a chemist U the California assay office. In ltfl he became a stock-broker in Ban Francisco. The work which made Mr. Ounter famous was hie novel, "Mr. Barnes of New Tork." Others of hi books that are well known are "Mr.- Potter or Texas. and "Miss Nobody of Nowhere." Tbe suecessful play. "Prince Karl," Is also from his pen. Short Suggestions. From tbe Chicago News. If a man lets hla tudsment direct him he is accused of betas a quitter. If he bucks It he's a fool. People sometimes stir ud a lot of trouble by telling the truth when it would be policy to aay nothing. The average doctor would die of star vation If his patients bad bo more con fidence in him than be has In himself The wife of a man who plays the rsces never baa to waste any time fig uring on what she will do with tbe money he wins. The gtrle of a country town never forgive a young man of their set If be disgraces himself by marrying an out-of-town girl. The Worlds Doctors. There are 12I.IS4 medical doctors In tbe wtorld. Of these there are In Eu rope 161.UI. distributed as follows: In England 14,967. in Germany 12,616, In Russia 21.48. in France 20,146 and In Italy 11,146. In England the proportion of doctors Is 71 to 100,000 of tbe popu lation. In France It Is 61 and in Tur key 18. In Brussels the proportion Is 141 to 10.000.000 of tbe population. In Madrid 109. In Budapest ill, in Chrls tlanla ill, In Vienna 140, in Berlin 111. In London lit. In Athens lit. In Parla 111. In New Tork 74 and in Constanti nople 16. . The Height of Waves. The authorities at the Washington hydrographlo bursau have endeavored to ascertain the also of the Atlantic waves From careful observations they learn that In height the waves usually average about 10 feet, but In rough weather they attain from 40 to 48 feet. j In storms they are often from 604 to w , iwi lung, aim conunuo to movr about 10 or 11 seconds, while the long eat yet known measured half a mil and did not exhauat Itself for It see. onds. Don't Forget. Denis A. McCarthy, in New Tork Bun. The man who wins, O, honor him well. And give him the praise that's due, But don't forget the other who fell Ere ever his dreams came true; Tee, honor the man whose will pre vailed. Who baffled despair and doubt But give one thought to the man whs failed. Tbe fellow that's down and out Horse Sense In Brief. The aaylnga of the colonel In Arthur Goodrtcb's successful novel. "The Bal ance of Power." seem well-nigh Inex haustible Hers ars some of the latest gleanings from the old veteran's wis dom : "New-fangled business ss fer ss I've seen It is s Joodlclous combination of a soft smile an' a sandbag." "'Taint what a man's got In hlaself that counts; it's what he gits out o' hlaself." "Holdin' four deuces ain't any good ef ye're playln' whist." "That man Strutt's the devil. He kin paint white black till ye're color blind. He kin sling soft soap till ye're smoth ered. He kin pull ins wool over yer eyes till ye bleat like a lamb o' his own fleck. He kin lie ao that It sounds truer than all four gospels I tell ye, boy, a man with a gift o' gab like that ought to be sent to jail ftr a year every time he opens hla mouth. But he's slick. Btrutt is an' ths great American beautltude Is. 'Blessed are the slick, for they shall inherit the torth.' " "Tubh s like a whole lot o' men. Kecaon i Know hie reputation like a brother, bat I ain't never shook hands with his character." "He's so infernal nice f everybody tnet ye nev to throw up a cent to make up yer mind whether ye're his beet friend or his worst enemy." "I've lived years enough In this wick ed but eowardly wirld to know that a man thet talks 'bout them that he's knocked down er ta goln' to knock down, never haa an' never will. T bar's most alius an If in the way." "Thar's a lot o' things thet ain't right in this country, but It ain't tbe'iies thet're goln' to make 'em right. It's men with level heads like his an' level consciences like his. An' one man like him does mnrx good in tbe long run than than a dosen the'riea does harm. "Thar's only two calamities open to ye, death and marrlags Walt fer both until ye're old and philosophical." Winter Reading for Suburbanitea. HOW IT FEELS TO BE A SARDINE . By Montavllla Krr. Bound In limp cloth with leather strap back. NINETY-NINE AND MORE COMING By J. Smith Bunnyslde. A thrilling romance of adventure In tbe present day. HOW NOT TO BREATHE ON A CAR By E. B. Woodlawn, author of 'The Fat Conductor." Technical phraalng is lert out and tbe youngest strap hanger can readily grasp the valuable lessons contained In thta book. "FOR'ARD IN DB AIBLE" By Sfount Scott Tabor. Never alnce Treasure Island" has such an Interest-holding, fascinating book as this appeared. It's as exciting aa riding on a 7:10 car. DRAW BARB OR THE ROOF WHICH T By Professor Union Avenue North, LL, D., author of "The Platform Philosopher." This well known author ity on the best place to ride discusses me merits of both, propositions and points out the danger spots. MASHED PLAT A dainty little bro chure by a brilliant east side girl. Bound In crushed morocco. BONNETS OF THE STRAP By A B. Brooklyn Five little gems of verse, whose rhythm seems to sweep the reader off his feet Fare register decorations. Bound In meshed bell cord. Vote FtU Off. Congressman Julius Kahn, who used to represent the third, one of the most populous districts In Ben Fran else or now finds It ns eagerly populated. Two yea re ago the dlstrlot caat for con gressnmsp 16, lit votes, while at the present time there ere net mere than l.ooo voters. Than shouldn't Roosevelt be sleeted so that he can oversee the letting of that oontraot te dig the Panama canal I ISooks and Corners of History By Rev. Thomas a Gregory. As soon as the terms of thev treaty of Utrecht (1711) .were known. Frsnos began fortifying her one naval depot on this continent Loulsburg. ths "Gibraltar of America.'' For It years the wprk went on. Over 16.000.000 were spent. The best engineers in the world taxed thslr wits to the utmost to make the fortress impregnable, let 1771 the iona neaoe between Bng land and France cants to aa end, and the next year Governor Shirley of Mas sachusetts somehow sot hold of "one of the most audacious conceptions tnat ever entered the brain of man. The conception was none other than that of the capture of Loulsburg. On March 14, 1746, the fleet with some 4. ISO men and 11 cannon, set sail from Nsntaaket Roads, and by April 10 they were ready for bualnsss at Loulsburg. Ths irm was lareely recruited from unemployed fishermen in ths seacoaat towns of New England ana was com manded br one William PSppsrell, a Maine lumberman, who carried on. along with his lumber getting, a Urge mercantile business at his home in Kit terv. Penoerell was rich aad had iota of brain's but be waa woefully Illiterate and knew absolutely nothing snout things military. But he could fight and to the task of takins the Gibraltar of America he applied himself with dogged resolution. With his resolute New Engl aad era, he took one after another of the lines of defense, "until on tbe sixteenth of June, 1741. the great fortress actually surrendered to the assemblage of farm ers and fishermen, led by tbe lumber merchant and Pepperell had the satis faction of receiving the keys of Louls burg In his hand." v Short Essays by Bobbie. . Br William F. Kirk. Grammar Is one of my studies wich I have in skool wich my teeoher asked me to write about, it la a very nlee study at when I get older I think I will like it quite good, grammar is the study that lerns us where to put aum words A whore not to put others, it is of 1 kinds, good grammar bad grammar, good grammar Is the kind used In com pany A bad grammar Is for use In the hoam, for Instans whsn the aetor is on the stage hs says "It is she. es I live!" A when he is eetlng with, seme other men In a chop house or somewhere he says WeU If that ain't herl My Pa Is pritty good at grammar, beekaus lota of times I heer him telling Ma what words to use. one aite last week be cairn hoam the next morning A Ma aed Where was you 7 A Pa sed lay dser, you shud say Where were youT then Ma sed Well, my grammar may be bad but 1 know moar about geografy than you, it talks yon all nlte to find out even where yure hoam Is. see writing Is divided Into 1 parts, that wich we do with' a pea or pencil, that la penmanship A that wich we de with our branes. that Is basing a author, in other word the 1 elaases ef writing la Bpen- bseerlan A Shakespeerlan, there are over 1,000 or moar Bpenseerian writers In every big city, moaatly keeping books A there was never but -on Bhakespeerlsa writer, that waa the Bard of Avon. beelng a author la the hardest kind of writing, beekaus there are so many authors that If you want to writs toe you cant find e plal to set down. I s too Ilttel to be a author, so 1 do ths oth er kind of writing, making words like Cat A Rat A beelng careful to ait tbe shading jest right, the teecher says If I am careful with my penmanship when I grow up i can be a bookkeeper A have a nlee warm office to wurk in at nlte aftor my day'e work Is all done, but Pa sed to me My son, newer mind what the teeoher tells you, salve yure money A be a bookmaker instead of a book keeper. My Pa sed the dlfferna be tween a bookmaker A a bookkeeper le that the bookmaker has a nlse equal r tin box la wich he keeps ths bookkeep er's munny after the last race le ever, 1 guess I'll be a bookmaker. I haven't toald mueh about writing, but 1 heap Its snuff so I will close now A go hoam to supper. Marse Henry Talks Politics, Henry Wattersoa in Louisville Courier ' Journal. Can Hughes, if sleeted, rise above conditions snd outface and outstand tbe despotism of party 7 Can Hearst If elected, deliver the promised goods of steady work and higher wages and shorter hours, slong with s ehromo pic turing to every voter the virtues snd tbe blessings of yellow Journalism T In the south ws have but one issue the everlasting aiggsr. In the north they have but one the everlasting dol sr. Both north and south only dog-eat dog politics, tempered here snd there by Socialism calling itself Democracy, and here and there by venality calling Itself Republicanism. Was there ever such a chance for mounte banks with their quaok nostrums? For demagogues with their base end cun ning schemes? Were times ever so pro. liflc, gudgeons so plentiful? v Mr. Roosevelt If he be a Republican. Is leading a new school o, Republican ism. Mr. Bryan. If he be a Democrat la leading a new school of Democracy. In order to accept them ae leaders each party will have to readjust Itself. And Hearst If Hearst Is elected governor of New Tork he will est out to be the next Democratic nominee so-called for president of the United States. He will seek to Inveigle Mr Bryan or to bruah him aside. Thst would be ths end of Democracy. It would be the beginning of Socialism. Bstween Republicanism and Socialism the old-fashioned Democrat would And himself literally betwixt hawk and bus sard. But let us cress no bridges till ws get to them, always tioplng for trie beet Fashion Notts for Men. By Chauneey Dresser. Vests with and without -collars, will be worn from now on by most of ths sterner sex. Except when worn In the subway, they will be bu toned close up to the chin. For the football games, soon to begin, overcoats and chrysanthemums have the call, as In former years. Those who re moved their collars st the baseball games this summer wilt now be com pelled by the combined orders of Dame Fashion and Jack Frost to keep them on. A few of our most prominent book makers and barbers are wee ring lerge diamond scarfplns. By ths time the racing season Is over It Is expected that the bookmakers will hsve them all. Red cravats of various sites are being displayed In many of the Bronx and New Reehalle stores. Khaki le being affected by meny prominent foreigners In our midst. Mr. Ota Benga, spending hie vaeatlon at the Bronx soo; favors this useful material. and haa a large wardrobe of It constant BIRDSEYE VIEWS cf TIMELY TOPICS SMALL CHANGE. dean up the leaves as they fall. e e t. The world moves forward aad upward chiefly through compromise. e a The more and harder kicking the bea ter some people think oa the football All the farmers la Oregon who have work to de and want to de It are now happy. " . e e In the ease ef a strike settlsaas In many others It Is "better late t as never." e e Whenever Wall street gets Into a pinch It has to be relieved by the United States treasury. Still hop growers are wondering whs hope -are ao mueh higher In New Tork than in Oregon. mm At least Portland hss suffered ao scavengers' strike. That surely would he "something awful." 'mm A rich New Tork man has sued hla wife for divorce because she plays poker. Of course she loses. e e It le reported that Upton Is buying out ths beef trust. Perhaps he la going extensively into the beef tea business e e Bo many plutocratlo and crooked Democrats have deserted Hearst that maybe the people will tern te and eleot The' rockatie prisoners are doing some good, which Is more than can be said of a lot of men eat of Jail whs refuse te work. e e There may be regulation ef railroads by law and of the liquor traffic aad other difficult propositions, but never of the sterk. e e And still another big job for Han ay exposing official rascality In San Fran cisco. What would have become ef the country but for him? e e It Is also hinted by the Salem Journal it Malcolm Is a "free trader." In credible! Impossible! This Indeed would be "too, too much." e e Did the repetition of Initial letters have anything to do with It? The lead ing riders in the late paper chase were H. H. Herd man and L L. Lead better. e e "How many Catholics will Malcolm bring to the polls for the tleketf asks ths Western . Oregon. "How many Presbyterians or Methodists win he be sble favorably te lnfluenoer' Which queries show what some men's Idea of the principal object or having a oolleo tor of customs is mlcrophobtsta claim that mi crobes abound in whiskers, but ao far Hearst has not attacked Hughes on this ground. He msy be reserving this as his final trump card. Hughes' whis ker! alive with millions of deadly mi crobes would be a great subject for a "yellow" cartoon. Wken Missouri EXPERIMENT TRIED A statement msds by Governor Folk of Missouri ta a New Tork Interview the day following Mr. Bryan's speech at Madison Square Garden contains a brief reference to historical facta con demning public ownership and caused no little sensation. Discussing Mr. Bryan's' proposition for the taking ovsr of railway lines by the national and stats governments the governor of Mis souri said the proposition would be met with no acceptance in his stats, where the experiment had been tried and found wanting. How It was tried, how It failed, end how He failure and abandon ment tod to the beginning ef great transportation systems la Missouri de veloped by private capital make a valu able contribution te current discussion of ths topic. The experiment te a part of Missouri's history, says the Nsw Tork Times, which opposes Mr. Bryan's Ideas. Ths reason why the state made the experiment is an Interesting part of that history only because the experi ment waa not made voluntarily. Mla souri had pledged her public faith and credit in subsidising ths companlss which built ths Unas. Practical paraly sis of traffic during the civil war forced defaults of Interest payments on the railroad bonds. ess Under the terms of the char ters, whenever such dsfsult waa mads the stats was empowered to advsrtlss ths lines of the de faulting company for sale, to sell them to the highest bidder, or to become it self the proprietor under the liens . It held aa guarantor. In thla way all of the Unas became the property of the stats, with ths sxcsptlon of ths Hannl bal A St Joseph, now a part of ths Wabash system. Ths state's mode ef operation of a line wee for tne governor to appoint a general superintendent or manager. Such appointments were, of course, political. Ons of the first of such appointments was that of J. T. K. Hayward of Hanni bal aa general superintendent of what was then called the Platte County rail road. This wss very near .the close of the war, whsn the ravages- or armies had ceased, commerce waa reviving, and confidence returning. Privets capital, which foresaw the development of the weet and of transcontinental lines, or connections, was looking Into the possi bilities of ths Missouri lines for such enterprises. Traffic along these lines is Increasing rapidly. Ths heavy emi gration which ' Immediately after the cloee of tbe war set In from ths state of the middle west to Kansas, Nebraska, and Colorado paid heavy toll to them. The federal government paid annually Into their earnings many thousands of dollars for the transportation of troops, munitions and supplies, not only during ths War between the states bat for some years afterward, in dealing with Indian wars along the western and southwest ern frontiers. e e e Tst svery month showed s deficit In the flnsncee of every line except '.he Hannibal A St. Joseph. What Mr Hay- ward, who in later years developed intp a capable railroad manager or lines owned by private investors, could have dons with the Plstte Coenty road If he bad seen given a free hand it is not possible to say. Loaded down with political appointees lacking both rail read seraoeisass and natural efficiency. OJtBOON UOSLXOHTS. e e A tree tats pears. e e esriu' la'rtsin sTinlTS sal e e Drain farmers are haildtng a fee a 11.000 s tallies. e e The Globe thinks Gold Beaoh Is the eve ef s treat boom. e e The Bumpter Amertoaa snow carnival for next winter. e e The Inoome ef the postmaster Comer amountsTto t cento a day. at In Early resorts of southern Oregon ware axjuggerated. around some In te Klamath county have lota ef lets A 100 -acre apple planted en "desert Central Point wttt be A Myrtle Creek man has invented S remarkable calendar which ha will copyright and put en the market e e The day Is not far distant when eleotrle ears will encircle the Rogue river valley, says the Ashland Tidings. - o e Dairy merchants are enjoying such a rushing trade this fall that It la very difficult for them to keep supplied with ths necessary a took ef goods. A prominent Taooma who has been In Douglas county Sees a great future for that region, but says competing transportation II nee ere the great need. s e A Granta Peas man encountered on e trail a bear eating acorns He hallooed at it but K paid no attention ; he shouted again but it Ignored him. and being un armed he waRed tlU It climbed a tree after more acorns and then went on his wsy. A man without a sun can alwaya see same. e e The accommodating postmistress of McEwen will soon resign, says ths Bumpter American, because the office Is a thankless Job, and some people, who soareely ever read or receive aay malt think that the poatoffloe should provide a clerical foroe to attend to their cor respondence, keep their books and do a small banking bualnsss. .e a The Gardiner Gasette. Miss Edyth Smith editor, says: "Ws have been told that our town needs cleaning out It takes the women to clean house and by the looks of things the women will have to clsap the town, aa the men arr all afraid of hurting one snother'e feel ings end working too hard against their fellowmfen. Never was anything accom plished by sitting around and letting the dirt and filth pile up the way U Is doing here." Owned a Railroad AND FOUND WANTINQ. the road waa such a continuing burden to the state that by a legislative act of March 17, ltll, a private corporation which waa willing te take It off the hands of ths state aad extend It far enough to reach the Iowa aad Kansas Unas wss relieved of all financial liabil ity under the original charter, the state asauming ths sntirs bonded debt con tracted In Its oonai ruction, with ths in terest then accumulated aad liability for the Interest at 111 tev aoorus That thla was a good bargain for the state is beat attested In the fact that no oppo sition waa made te It The Missouri railroad condition, brief ly stated, waa that in a period of re viving commerce, territorial development and growing traffic, the ltnee in the state under political management were not making expanses, and the state, in addition to paying Interest en the bonds and making efforts to start a sinking fund for .ultimate redemption, found It self foroed, et every legislative session, to appropriate money te pey costs of operation. see In such an emergency publlo senti ment was overwhelmingly In favor of thestate getting rid of the roads to responsible parties who would under take to extend and equip them with pri vate capital, releasing the statea liens on ths lines, and assuming full liability for ths totsl amount of state bonds Issusd for railroad construction, with accrued and accruing Interest The state of publlo opinion was best revealed by Btate Benator Woerner. a Dam so ratio member of the Joint committee-appointed to lnveetlgate charges of collusion In the sales, who said. In a special report, that the state would be making a good bargain to donate ths lines to aay re sponsible parties who could extend them and operate them without cost to the taxpayers. While the lines were the property of ths stats they were not of course, su ae seed for taxation. Immediately after ths satss assessments began, snd exten sions. Improvements and betterments of all sorts have increased these assess ments steadily. This ysar the It trunk lines treverslng Missouri, sight of which are outgrowths of the llnse sold by tbe state in the sixties, ars aesesssd for M4.oe,too. It is Impossible to see how Missouri could sver hart staggered from under th debt of 111.116,140, face value and lntereet of bonds, without this source of taxation, ths lncreass of her taxable wealth through extensions of the lines, with censequent increase of population, promotion of trade, and appreolatlon of land valuee, besides hsr release from the continuing deficit caused by politi cal railroad management The manner In which tne stats wss saved from bank ruptcy, and possible repudiation. la to be traced the most clearly in the for tunes of the Atlantic Pacific, new a part of the Rook IsIsnd-'Frlseo system, through Its vicissitudes In the hsnds of the etate and the Fremont syndicate, aad Until it fell Into the stronger hands of such men ss Clinton B. Flsk, Eraatua Walla, Ben Holleday 'and Charles P. Chouteau. But that Is another story. Ths Falls City A Western railroad la now operating 14 miles, from Dallas to Black Rook. It ha added a new loco motive end 11 care thin yser end hss ordered two more locomotives and It
