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About The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 17, 1910)
t ' -v 1 . f . v FAT p s ....... MmiiM t i h journal " r,d 1 b aili ill trceln. I'orUaud, Or. I n, T'fl t-i ptitofflr at Portland, Or.. fir .. .,i.Ki..Q Uiroush the mall aa mcow-cmm Jt-.Ml.3 Mfiin, fit.-; n'u?, !1 5-;rimcnt c-aciiKl by th on 5 .,11 .. ... wt..,. Anartmpnt Tail Rhm int. i-Ar r-f i-?j inprriTicivn l UP'R.ICVTATTVE. H-r.nJmln Kentnir Co., Branawirie BalMlnr, J-Wifia a ww,,Nw. - 1007-08 Borca , Snber1:rifm Terma bf mall or to any adJraaa . la ttia mum Statoa, canaaa or . ' ' ' DAILY. " ''-' Ore rear... .....5 00 I On month. ......I .80 Oat rear... .....82 50 I On month. $ . DAILY AND SUNDAY. . Cm year.. .. .,..87.50 I Ona month I .88 . ft- That Is the est government which teaches ua to go vara ouf- elves Goethe. , , , -S SOMEBODY fAYS 1 ARMOUR Informs us that there Is to bea decrease In the cost of foodstuffs, fie says the reduction' Is caused by the large corn crop. - . It will take more than a large corn crop to reduce the living cost to a reasonable .level. ;.:;- It is not ra 'foodstuffs alone that there Is" In flation. It Is not even the price that ' the larmer - and- producer ' receives that " accounts' for all the high cost of foodstuffs. Even with the. great est production In history and with 'surpluses in almost every line we have been confronted with the high est prices in aU time. ' ' The truth is that every .known agency Is in conspiracy against the consumer. From needles and hair pins to threshing machines and from a horse shoe nail to a pile driver or a Corliss engine there is combina tion .for restraint of trade; and,' the fixing of prices,, -There Is eyen per sistent report that foodstuffs ere de stroyed -in order to make away with . . j M' - . li.t M .-1-.-. - I - .. xoe surplus ana , uuiu ; up prices. There Is printed story and public statement that , there, are not only great big trusts but thousands of lit- , tie ones that are as effective In hold ing pp the life cost as is Standard " Oil In fixing the prices of gasoline. Nor; Is this riot, of big and little trusts this carnival of combination, all with" which the 'consumer, has to struggle.-. He Is contributing from his earnings for stupendous expendi tures of government. 'In every branch ;of every governmenf there are extravagant totals The govern ment of the United States spent $3, 800,000.000 la, four ypars, , and Its aggregate is constantly mounting higher and higher. 1 1ts cost tor one presidential administration' la more than the value of a whole year's crop of ' wheat, corn, oats, barley, rice, hay and half . a " dozen other great staples." ' . Somebody has to pay this huge governmental total. Somebody has to pay for the " warshlpB, cannon, colonels and captains which make tip 72 per cent of the national ex penditure. ' If anybody thinks this vast ex pendituro is not a factor in the high cost of living will he please explain where the money comes from and who pays It? If this taxation does not count in the cost of living,; what does? The money has to come out of somebody's pocket. Somebody has to earn Jt Most of it represents money, withdrawn from productive industry,? . " . We are a poor, puny people, If we admit that taxation has nothing to do with the cost of living. . Ours is a feeble statesmanship it it insists that we shall be able to tax our- pelves rich, or decrease the life cost by increasing taxes. - ... OUT OF CATASTROPHE ' AN FRANCISCO'S fund for the a. proposea jranama-racinc expo- al sltlpn In 1815 aggregates the extraordinary sum of 117.600. 000. It was raised to that figure Tuesday at a special election at which' an : Issue of. $5,000,000 "of bonds was . voted for the nurnoae The sentiment for the, undertaking was so strong that but tew scattered votes were cast against it The incident emnhasizea th nln did progresslveness of San Francisco. This enormous expenditure la by a city that was,' but recently ' la the throes or catastrophe. It was stricken and paralysed city bt ruins and debris, devastated by earth quake and fire. . Even Its survival was for a time called In question because of the prevalence and peril of earth anakea But.'as it tested by calamity and suffering, a new city has been built on the ruins of the old,. Catastrophe has been turned into nrestiee. and the potentiality, of the new metrop olis la far greater than was that of the city that was destroyed. It IS as if fate had ordered a new deal ana destruction worked out a new destiny. , ,The $17,600,000 for her exposition Is' example . of the, power and impulse that militant San Fran ciscans have brought out of their ruins. '!'", , From such a financial backing, the Panama-Pacific exposition is car- mm o aeveiop mio a spienaixi event The forces that assemble such 'an expenditure are equally certain to apply the other factors to make the f xpoeltiofl an afrair of transcendant liclFllliHUfS Thft Vltintrv anil V.n world will he tracted by Us pre tensions, and there will be a gather ing of nations and peoples such as the coast' has not seen. It 111 be an enlsode marktnar revolutionary change In the. system ? tranppwtatlon,ndsr'etichwtll l a theme to attract Interest as It has never been attracted before. ' It is anolher event imposing ton IVrt land. the ddiy of having her hou-3 la order, to be viewed by those who are coming to see what the Panama canal Is to mean to the land of the setting sun. , T11E Y. M. C. A. IN rORTIlXD BOUT sixty Portland men as A sembled . at theJ Y, M. C. .A. f headquarters, at thenew bulM- Ing on Sixth street on Tuesday evening, by Invitation of the authorl UesV ' Many callings were repre sented in tact the heads of the In dustries of the city, financiers doctors,'- lawyers, Journalists, , phtlan yiroplsta and others, faced each other at the tables set Inthe audi torium, generally set apart for other purposes, Not many , Introductions were requlred-all were ,citizen of Portland and.-' generally knew each other, i But the remarkable point was that not a word on recent issues docks, bridges, boulevards rail roads, elections, parties or politics was heard, " ';'v Probably all had ' given towards the . erection T of ,. the 'building. but many, to their loss be it spoken, had never been within tla walls before. From time to time the Y M, C. A has ; circulated the printed, 'story ; of its . activities -reciting facts where on unexpressed but powerful appeals for wider nd fuller ' support , de pended.' But one visit to the busy htvA, one sieht of the Industries of class rooms and laboratories, of gym nasium and swimming bath, just "a short stay in the crowded restaurant, a talk with the employment bureau, which : not only seeks but provides employment for., the ' friendless or Btrahded man, a sight ot the thronged reading rooms and ot he Ubrary-r-all this was a revelation ot activities and efforts, animated by spiritual life, of 'manufacture ;of eood. citizens and good men, as one speaker wl expressed it. ; This one visit was wortn scores of articles and pounds of . print. But the .Invitation to go and see, to take any .day," any . hour ' for the im nrnmntn visit, was iireentlv reoeated r - r - r 4- ., and applies to every citizen of .Portland.- The result is Eure and cer tain. Big as it is, the Y.-.M. C; A. build ing is full to the brim. Just one short of three thousand active mem bers. Nearly seven hundred volun tary workers on classes, committees, and the, like. And Portalnd's growth insures that the demands ; for ' what the.Y. M. C. A. offers, and what no other; institution can supply, are growing with, her growth. . What are we." all ' going to do-about. It? We may as well Join in "the conclu sions of those before whom the facts werp set out in full detail on Tues day, night If ther was one present who' was noV convinced he did' not show it One Y M. C. A: bunding will jno longer suffice for. Portland. First' Alblna, then as the movement grows, as grow Jt will, other quarters ot the city where men and, boys con- gregate where they work 4 and where they play will demand to be supplied.' And, In this forward move ment Portland will only Join in, the procession where San Francisco .. and Spokane, Seattle and Tacoma, Vic torla and Vancouver, B. C., on, this Pacific coast are ."prominent- but where Buffalo and Toronto, Phila delphia, and New York, Chicago and Montreal, are! raising sums and or ganizing new, centers for the Y, M. C. A. which will bej the wonder of the world. 1 CONFIR5IATION. HE world moves. A , dlsgrun- tied minority tried tq restrict , I J the rights of the lftdlvldual in . Oregon, and failed.: The state refused to go backward. In an elec tion at San Francisco Tuesday, the citizens there, Instead- of restricting, enlarged their rights and powers. It was an election In which the people's verdict, s It has always been In Or egon, is for clean government and higher civic ideals. - ' ." ; - ' Though there were 89 'measures on the San Francisco ballot, the peo ple voted with intelligence and dis crimination.. They passed an effec tive, system of Initiative, referendum and recall. ;- They, voted to ' prohibit the printing of the party designation or the candidate on the primary bai lot They provided i for i such a chanse i the order of names on the ballot that each candidate would In turn stand at, the head ot the list They toted to elect half the officials at alternate elections, making;: the terms four years, so that the ballot would be shortened to one-half -its present Iengtlw,Therroted to give the people the. power to recall a pub- llck.servlce(;franchlse;.at,anyi time, They' . Toted dowa,af long list of measures, using the ballot with keen discrimination , for the defeat of doubtful propositions. As in Baa Francisco, so it is in Oregon;-and so everywhere. , The average citizen is amply intelligent,' and the collec tive Judgment of the average citizen Is eound.A hallot rerdlct "by the whole electorate Is, whenever the ls- ue: is squarely presented, always on the side of good 'government and exalted civic standards. ;,Hls whole Influence la thrown ''foV those things whenever and wherever the Individ ual gets a chance to express his pur pose In the ballot, box. , Those who would rob htm' of his powers ace the enemy Qf good government and the captains of a bad order. - In his Labor Day address Roose velt said: . "It is the duty not mere ly of the wage-earner put of the pub lic, to see , that, he has safe and healthy conditions under which to work.. No worker should, as 'a con dition of earning his daily bread, becompeIIert6 "rIsk":IIfeanJIInib,' or he deprived of health, or have to work in bad, and dangerous condi- wci !-, r 1 . i i;, t i i .:. itself. I!e 5 '..il 1 r-t ! - con-;; '.: I to make tl.s a r-iattr cf contract. He ought not to la . ft to V U r.' : for decent conditions. Protection where he works should be guaran teed by 'Jaw. Daring L,is working hours he should be protected against greed and carelessness la unscrupu lous and, thoughtless employers a3 his employer and ha are protected against the murderer and thief ouj slde of those hours."- A FROTBST. Hrl STREETS of a' city belong 1. to the public , and should not be vacated except for extraor ' dlnary, xeaFA- Tfceyvtbelong not ta the present ferrtratlon but to the generations that are to come af ter. " vj: SiVs-,. Several Portland councilmen , are going to resist the "vacation of 13 parts of streets sought on the east side of the river by thevO.; R & N. They regard the vacations ' is ; bad public policy; and In that contention they, are backed tip by the" best eco nomic thought on municipal We. .., Irt the particular instance, the pro posed, yacatipns give the railroad a cinch on an additional 14 blocks of Portland water, front In the heart of the east side Jtasiness'dlstrlct. It cuts' off all approach to the river from' that quarter for a distance of two thirds of a mile and leaves the railroad In complete control. '' : ',. Af'map" published Iq last night's Journal gives the public a clear Idea of what the vacations mean.' . A glahce at It shows , h o w, i block by block and street by street,' the clty water, front isgradually passing into the hands of a sftglo transportation line There is not an authority on transportation in the world but utr ters a warning against It There' is not a Waterway ,city t in' the world whose water front has been gobbled but cries out agalnst'lty.Vvv1.; The Journal Is' for a' Water front wide open to all the railroads of the country instead of to pr single line only, and It Is likely-thaf nine tenths of the people of the city are(of the same mind. - .' W'd'i - ; oil - E' ROB ABLY, SOME day,. In the future, oil in big quantity will be struck in Oregon, , Perhaps , . in -Malheur county, perhaps in PQlk'county possibly In Clatsop' orf ' 1 ' . ' m t TTTl . A. m . I tJaner or Marion, vvnero mo tar sunk oil seas lie Is a mystery, known not positively until they begin ; to spout through orifices in the earth's crust, . . f v -But many stndepts of oilfields be lieve .and assert that portions of Oregon are! underpaid with vast lakes or seas ot ol. So firm, and persist ent is this ;,f alth" that Tiundreds ot thousands of dollars have been spent la boring. It may possibly be mon ey wasted; or it may turn out, some of it, at least, to ' have been a very profitable Investment' , , ' "7 , The diggers for oil in Oregon are to be admired and, applauded. ' Such men are a benefit to the state. , Their faith and work, even If, they' Jnave not yet struck oil, are worthy ot respect . . ' . ' The hlghest vote tor a Democratic legislative candidate : in Multnomah went to ' John , Stevenson, ; He , re ceived 7717. ., He made -no v'cam palgn in his own behalf, but was an ardent supporter of the head as well as, the "tall ot the ticket'.'' The Oregonlan's support , of 'them 4seems not to nave peneiitea in votes tnese Democratic candidates Who Indulged in ; the far, cry", about a .!'one-man campaign 4 Montague told the truth and lots of It to the" Portland lawyers, when he declared that the legal pro fession should rid itself of the para sites and mercenaries, whose- shady practices and crooked methods so often dishonor It The name and traditions of the profession deserve more than is bestowed by some of its Totarles. " . . Colonel, . Roosevelt says: -. '.The fight for progressive, popular gov eminent has merely, begun and will certainly go on to a .triumphant con elusion Jn spite of initial checks and irrespective of. the personal' check or failure of - Individual leaders." Whew! Won't this make"; Wall Street madder than 'evert v - Commissioner Durand takes an other week Or so before announcing the census of Portland. Ilis Just as well. -After .the revisions, subtrac tions and Juggling to which' he has subjected the figures," nobody cares vefy much about them anyway. ' ' In the late election Kingston pre cinct . in - Linn county cast 2 9 votes. of which West .received 38. One toting place in Marlon county went unanimous for the same candidate. and; in .Republican Benton county West carried every precinct but one. , Two , hundred and. , fifty; dollars each waa.what a Waya WaJla school teacher got for a coupl of klssea. A harnessmaker took them from her without leave, , and the Jury fixed the price at $250. She sued for $2500 each. - - -. . f Consumers are waiting as batienN kly and as hopelessly for the lowered cost of living as Portlanders are' for census tlgures. v , - , . ; Making bacon must have been a part of the' business of . a Missouri farmer who has Just died worth $3, 600,000, . " Th kkks wand" cuffsoUh9. Jn Via: Uvo and "referendum by some of the lawyers at the Bar Association meet Ins; last night were mere flea. bites. are a a c 1 y e:.: . r. T ' r- errata was forced aril: : 1 ' i t d? bounce uourne t !.!::. iOut tlie iate cam paign., . Again we .pea wherein Mrs. woodcocX'wouii have Icon a super ior, campaign canagnr. The Chicago chief of police has forbidden naughty songs and sug gestive dances la the theatres. - Oth er chiefs .coul4 perve a - deserving public ty 'emulating his example, :': v Another, death" from - football Is reported;. This time It Is a 15-year-oldboy: .The new rules failed to take- all the claws out of the game. The Return to the Towns. From th Chicago Becord-IIerald. More evidence of v a return to the towns: East Chicago, Jnd.. gains 5S. par cent; Youngstown, Oto, U.t per cent; El Paso,' Texas, 148.9 per cent; Canton, 111. 63.1 per cent . ' They are not very large towns, tut they catch, the people. ;starting with 3411, East'Chicagowas able to round up ,19,09. Youngrstown. which ;raiped 84,li, now has a population of 79,668, and may boast itself an'lmportant ctty. The Increase In ,KI tfaso! wm froihi 15,908 to 39,279, which means, of course. a great transformation, and. though Can ton has but 10.453 inhabitants, Its rate Of 59.J per cent affords - a aignlflcant contrast to rural losses. ' . Tills Set Of return has n ,arflltlnnol Interest because of th distribution t the yarlous iteras-ATakea in connection with others that we have noted, w'e find the same story ttold over and over again, east and west, north sha. south. How ntuch social conditions -may have to do with the preference that M shown for urban life we cannot say, but there .can pe no doubt that.the' growth of new ln dustrles, especially otrnsriufacturtng, is exerting a, very great Influence. ' i JC'' '. ""I ""I 11111 " iSll!M.wll-i i.fcfW .j.: From the Kew ' York f WorldtV sir wmiam ; Treloar. . former l6r6 mayor. 6t . London, found many things to -like during his short visit to this country. But one thing that particu any aisrressed him wtfs an eiperience in Maine, VhevSe Was unablft to sret a cocktail In a buffet oar. "And ytu call iws a rree country," he remarked, whil grieving over the drsaster. "when a man who likes r, drink can't take one because someone else feels that ha should hot" It puxsjed him to' think whore we 'got Mi. queer ,,iyLtuii, - , r , - f ,?, j The worthy gentleman Is Unfortunate In not being familiar with the history .of this country, America.. aii 'eswctaliy New England, -owe much to their English ! Ailcrln rrVtAii vaatW aw m iiah V .tt. U W "'0 jL4.jr wvea evasao n-nvtTCH iiitioii prejudices ,and practices. 1 it Jwaa' be cause, the : early ; Puritans ,?objctf!il"tfi having, some of their private"' ai'Wts regulated by other vpeople that Vthey crossed, the Atlantic. ; By force of fthelt example" ever since," their followers hsys been busy regulating- other people's in-. vate affairs, -.','.,' It It had not been for an old notion borrowed from England, Sir William would probably.have had his cocktail In Maine, and to thai extent thqught bej' ler ot America, , . , - "eMake Travel Safe. -T. From the Detroit1 News. ' V i The latest report of the Interstate commerce commission deals - with" the number - of accidents; in which' passen gers met death or Injury on American ra,llroads.in ' the last year. The report shows that 1804 -were killed and 82,874 injured In approximately 12,000 collis ions and derailments. It is greater this year than ever, despite the fact that more and . more' railroads " are . being equipped with safety . appliances. The lmrease in the ' number of deaths' la 1909-10 over the number in 1908-09 Is 1013; In Injuries sustained, 18,484. This may not be talcn to mean a great in crease In tlie percentage of fatalities in relation 'to jthe number of passengers, carried , jaore" people traveled this last year than ever bejfoce.. More railways were, to the buelnas ef carrying passen gers.:", l.i'i'ikA' V'ii'k.i -: ..V v-.'i , - Still - the toll exacted - Is too heavy, particularly :tn the west antK south, where, are to, be found many-, railway managements- who put -profit head of safety. ' It Is the eastern., and middle Western, seetlons, where, , oompetltlon among roads Reen. that the, most 1 being flone In the way of Improving road beds, establishing block signal -systems, and. replacing the- easily destroyed type of car with" the latest all steel carriers. ' The" figures-In the' Interstate commercS commission's report look more lik the ' retnrns from a bloody battle than : from- -the accomplishment of -a peacejul Industry. - ; 4 v.-.:-'-.,. . .m.-ii ' k ,. , ' - mi 1. .1.1 .", ! Keep Playing. If youJre nttf the game and ' yeu're W189 v me ruicB, '-,.1 .,; ; - Keen olavins." " f Duck tWrough -the center and give, tt a ram" V ' ' Smash oh and crash on, you'll sqnirm through the jam.' If their trick iv a film, let your trick be n flam.v , Dont welch jupt because you've received . oni hard slam. , . Eveh If you' are down, they've net ! - counted you out- When you've rested go back at the bunch with S" shout Gt your wind, grit your teethv you're not nurt for a damn ' . 4 . - Keep playing. ' Suppose you are last, there's more laps . aneaa, - - Keen runnins. . Marty a Victory Is snatched from, defeat: While there's breath In his body, no man can' be beat - , Don't you know you've a chance to the vesy last heatt - Brace up there and put some more speed in your xeet -. It you try hard enough you'll oatoh nto the way:, . - : Chances are'that tomorrow. Is' your special nay; .- ' . Screw your courage up tight, twist soma - - 1 . . - fcftftn running :: ,' " 'Herbert- Kaufman, ' In Everybody's.' From the Boston Globe. - ' Ths election returns from the coun try at large Indicate that to the list of prospective Democratic - candidates ; for the presidency , In 1913- must be added the name of Woodrow Wilson.- He may prove a formidable competitor of the reelected Governor Harmon, -who, how ever, stands in the very center of the national stage. He will also have such worthy rivals as, Mayor Gaynor and Ex-Governor Folk. ; There lhay also be other notable aspirants, possibly Gov ernor Dlx, to say nothing of dark horses. for the convention Is two years la, the distance. , Many important things oan nappen in mat lime. .... , : . v The countiw'e dissent from President Taft's opinion that the Payne-Aldrich bill was the.best tariff bill ever nassed will give the Pemocrats decided ad vantage in 191J. s it also makes the Democratic nomination for president a pruesucn as it has not been since 1893 CI, - - -.How to Write, j ' 'Prom theiChioaso Tribune? 4 Meredith Nicholsonu-jauch-of ..whose work has figured among the "best sel lera," says lit t recent Interview: "T have always felt humble when eked for my method of work. I suppose I ought trr.iLL ci:a:,;: Lodge may be dSsloJgel. Roosevelt's silen&e is awtul. ' ; Campaign cigars are quite out of date. It is ' the season for hard winter prophets. , ' An election once in 10 years w' uld be about right, " - Watch the-women reform the state of Washington ,- 1 - ' . s; African animals ' are easy marks compared to voters. . .. , , , ft is potato dirclna time an interest ing and important event j - Now it Is the fashion to hunt deer tn automobiles. The good old days' are gone,, , Something was saved to the trend old party back east; Nick Longworth was reelected. - 1 T-etroit News; So there wasn't any flnsurgency y In Ohio, eh? Welli there were some democrats. . , , . Weston Leader: - Well, the normals may be beaten, but most of us can still go home to a square meal. China won't have a parliament till 1913.. But for a country that has wait ed some 3,009,000 years, this isn't long. .... .1 . . ; , ' "..-. ' T. Los AnVeles' Times: What has be come ef .the Teddy hears We saw one the etner car stuxiea in a Droaen win dow pane. . , . , - flt-K Paul Pioneer Press:" .Portland. Jfalne, lsv clalmlnr : the distinction of having a 'vreBiaent : witn the. shortest name, -'Afi j:k. St. Paul has several prominent politicians whose names are Mud. , ' n. ,(,,,,,'; .. - -: .''".. . - ' Burns News: No matter how the election result.. may suit, there is one cheer In which we can Jail unite, and that Is for the Portland baseball club In winning the pennant In spite of Judge Grham's decision taking three games away from them and giving them to Oakland. 'Rah for .McCredie and. his aggregation! .0. :vyf, 4 Today is the anniversary of the open tng of the Suez canal In 1869.? In those days this ship canal was considered a wonderful undertaking, and It cost an enormous amount of money, to complete, but much of the 9100,000,000-was spent in-bribes and Sxcessive discounts, , It also cost' tthe lives . of thousands : of human-, brings : In its 'digging:, The SgyptJan peasantry, or fellaheen, were obliged, by the khedlVef 'te do the. work wu,noui; remuner&iion, juvery.. xnree months ,25,9ft0 men twere drafted into tlie. canal service. None of the modern Improvewnts for the removal of bodies di. curt were Known in law, ana the tew that could have been used' to ad vantage were not so- used, and .instead of the high .power shovels now used at! Panama.- the poor Egyptians were com pelled "to dig- with their bare hands and carry vthe dirt in palm leal baskets to the dumping ground, j - The great festival that was held to day 41 , years ago. in Cairo and along the canal was the high tide, of extra vagant splendor of the reign of Ismail, The celebration of ; the event cost Jt one-fourth of the amount of money re quired in ue cuiiaing or the canau Although the water of the Mediter ranean and Red Be had met In the Sues -canal several months previous, on November 17 ' 48 ships conveyed j the khedive and his distinguished - guests through . the eanat, ; ,w -. .-, , v .'-.. -:' i The empress of the French, the un fortunate Eugenie, as the representative of. Napoleon ..III and sponsor for the proud De Lesseps, was the chief guest The emperor and empress of Austria, the prince and princess of Wales and a score of lesser royalties from ? conti nental Europe with their complement Df ambassadors, statesmen an.d celebrities. imvae up tne pary,;-v ; '-::.:-. ' ; Cairo was all but rebuilt In the prepa ration for the celebrations. Thejnar-vels1- of 'the old myths of Haro&d-al-Baschid and Akbar were materiallsed. Ndthing was too expensive for Ismail. He had . been the guest of the empress of the French at' the opera In Paris, h occurred to him that he must return the courtesy, i Music la a stranger within the gates "of Islam and there was no opera In Cairo The Splendid spend thrift ordered the erection of an opera house and decreed the - engagement of v i- . . . i - m '' r . , . wo uni , vumiwnjr oi pngeca io De found In Eusope. Hv employe, the great composer Verdi to write an opera especially for the occasion, using an Egyptian theme. - The result was the first production of "Alda"--the most magnificent nlghj of opera in the an nals of musio.: - - to have a method,, but I haven't " This is a frank and valuable confession, and young writers who are always eager to leam how the, suocesses In their line were accomplished should remember It" There is only one way to write a story arid that Is to write it Don't- bother about the way , Mr., Howells holds hi ben. or the hours which Kate Douglas Wlggln find the best for composition,' nor how the rstyle" of any author af fects hi results. If you have a story, write 1t ."David Ilarum", wa full of literary faults. .William De Morgan suc ceeds by breaking all the artistio con ventions. v.But.He; has a story to tell. That Is the thief thing, and he roes ahead and tell it- - - - ' v Prisoners tVho Farm, . , . From the.Xndon Chronicle, - -- An; fnterestinar rtport has just been issued on the; result of the investiga tions which wefe mad b3i" four of the royal commissioners on the poor law into the working (bt labor, colonies in Holland, Belgium, Germany; and Switz erland. . .: v." ' ; S" The colonies ; visited were the fre labor colonies at Frederl.cksoord,' the penal colonies at Vennhuizen lh Halland, the colonies ot benevolence In Belgium, which include the -beggars',.'? ; depot -t a Merxplaa, and the ref ugeii .colonies at Wftrtel and Hoogstracton, and to which the admission is on conviction and by a, magistrate's order; the town labor colony at Hamburg and the farm colony at Sohaferhof, -near . Hamburg; the forced; labor farm at Wltzwyl.-wlth the supplementary labor cojonyf at Nusshof, and the labor colony at Tannenhof, near Berne, r ' ' " , ' 'At Hamburg the system of relief wrfs studied as a whole and in relation to unemployment . Hamburg was selected both on the. ground of the general opin ion that Its administration of relief was careful and effective, and : because, as the center of large sea borne trade, the authorities would probably have to meet with , difficulties of want of employ ment among dock and general laborers similar to those which prevail In some English seaporU.k r''-; t :,;--M';'.;-.i: .The committe'e made inquiry also in regard to schemes of employment inaur ance, and On the dther hand it visited institution of the general type of work house and . poorhouse .at Arosterda.ua, Hamburg and Berne,. . ;, . -' Of the free labor colonies at Freder icksoord, the conrmittce, describing it as a voluntary associatlpn for placing peo- ... , 1 11 . 1 - i f r November 17 in 'in i ii." i i ,i ,M .I ' :,' 'mi, v ''''" ' i ' '" ren.1ti.as treett lo 1' Jits. . . - , , Enterprise had t dairy show. ' Eandon'ls to have, a "box factory. Falls City keeps tmrtoving steadily. Jo!vphlne votos. 6 county went dry by 11 Good chance for coal developme ih Coos county. " ''. - The surroundini? territory, - undevel oped, but which will soon come into the market through the Malheur project, will make-Val the largest city in east ern Oregon, ea.'j the Urluno. . ' Bend CuHfttln: Ff-lmorwl' and Bend workr topfther lust ) o one cogwheel with another. 1 in, I Mst six votes against the prow ,i i . .scliutes county and Bend cast six .votes In favor of it. . '. ' ,i v , t , ' '-i. '.'' Outside Investors" are beginning to turn thtr attention to Coos county coal fields and there is something doing -in the near .future In addition to the deals elreadyVinade, says - the Coquille. Sen tinet . j . - . ' 'There will be more building In Central Point during the year 1911 than ever before, and the greater part of it will be cement block work and the material will be manufactured at home, says the Herald. . -. , ' ' Meridian correspondent of -Canby Tribuno: Most everyone has been im proving their places during the. fine weather and getting tliolr Dlowlng and seeding done. There la no excuse ,for not having the fall wtrk done this, year. Newberg Graphic: Work on the new college building has progressed nicely up to this week, when It'-. has been -held up on account of the rains. The brictt work is well begun on the laBt story and with 10 to 12 days fair weather . the building will be ready for the roof. ' .' To have a team, stopped by -ahugs brown bear on the outskirts of the val ley and have him dispute with you the right pf way, -is a unique experience and one whioh befell Lem Hughes of Ferns Valley Friday evening as he was on his way to Talent, says the Mail Tribune. The bear , escaped, ,: also the man. They claim , to have seen his tracks next day,: , ,'-'; ; ?:-iv '7 Cairo was turned ' into a fairyland, and i money laeemed ', to j grow f on- Jtlie trees. The guests of the khedive were ntVtained in palaces built ; for their use, and they were given everything ths imagination of an oriental prince with a Parisian,, training could suggest And all this was to celebrate the opening of a canal which; was , constructed ; by scooping up sand with hdman hands, i The Sues canal was not new in his tory. Thirty-five centuries ,,fcefore Sotl I; i father of Rameses ; II, had , out a canal through the Isthmus of Suet, con necting the Mediterranean and the Red. seas. .But the nation decayed and the desert sands filled up the canal. Eight centuries later the Egyptian Necho at tempted to .restore the old canal,-' and a century after ; his , day the Persian Darius began ; to reconstruct It Both stopped work at the lnstanoe of magi cians, who predicted that the comple tion of the canal would spell. dlsasterto' Egypt. Three hundred years before Christ; Ptolemy Phlladelphus built a lock and dam canal across the Isthmus, which was used for many years. It was allowed to fall into decay, and in the day i, of Cleopatra It"; became - choked with aand. The' Roman engineers later dug i out and used It In - navigation. Again it was filled up, to be again re constructed by. Amrou, an Arab captain. In" A- D. To.- xlt Troon filled " up a gain and the canal project, slept until Napol eon Bonaparte came to Egypt He was dissuaded from attempting the work by the report ot an engineer, who declared that thf level of the water in one sea Was- higher - than in the other, and a connection would mean a cataclysm. Then came De Lesseps. , The- canal,' as opened in 1869, was widened and deepened to ' accommodate the largest ships of the present genera tion.. ', t' - - On November 17, 1558, Queen Eliza beth, .ascended the throne of England; the seat of government was removed to Washington in 1800, and the treaty be tween the United States and China regu lating Immigration ratified in 1880. To- day Is the birthday -of Vespasian 5 .X p.. Baron Steuben, the German friend of America during the Revolution (1730); Louis XVIH, of France (1765) s Stephen Champlain, naval Officer of the war of 1813 (1789); and David', W, Cross, -author and lawyer (1814). It is-the date of the death of Valentlan.I, Roman Emperor (375): Alain Rene le Sage, author of "Gll jeias'? 1747; Em press Catherine the- Great! of Russia (1796)'and Charlotte, aqueeiv of George III (1818). 1 - pie on the land, saysr- "It has not a It has ' been ' managed heretofore, been p able to turn town dweller into perma nent colonists, except, ii may be, in a few; instances. -But 'the colonies are good In this' way. The . colonists, It would, seem, live hard .working, -thrifty lives; v thy support themselves and their families, wholly or for, the most part;. .wey, are w oui,u vom me world; they are visited by their grown up children, who stay With them during the holidays; they have the prospect of becoming free farmers. . ,.,"; . "Tn addition to the advantages that have accrued to Individuals, the land, it should be remembered, ha been re claimed. and brought Into cultivation," . Hitchcock's New Handshake. , From St. Loul Post Dispatch. . A new high handshake, brought by Postmaster General Hitchcock on his visit to St . Louis, was his contribution to the local political situation. The handshake was for standpatters and in surgents alike,or it would have been if any Insurgent had called aU Hotel Jefferson, where the Postmaster Gen eral stopped. . ' . ; The new -shake did not make such a hit as to assure tit a long run here. But" it is possible to acquire- it, and if very many do acquire It shor.t men will see one more proof that the long pole gather the fruit: off the persimmon tree. 1 . u It takes a tall man to shake hands with Hitchcock In his new stylo, which is straight out from the shoulder, with an overhand motion, v.,, '.,';.-" ,.,;;'.,.,.' Postmaster Akin wa the first on whom Hitchcock tried it- He had to .try twice before he could make the proper upper thrust. Then he found Jujlge Nortbnl of the court of appeals, and put him through the motions. It was easy for Marshal Regenhardt a' six footer, out, Surveyor of the Port Gallenkamp and Subtreasurer Whltelaw .dodged the ordeal. ... ' - i ' " ' - '. .. ' ' ' - 'j'K Despite the rain sportsmen of' Fort Stevens are reaping a. harvest of feath ered game,- says the Astoria Budget Wild goeee in their southward flight, after passing Wastilngton's- forests and the wide stretch of , the lower Co lumbia, seem unable to resist the in ducement to rest offered bv. the sand. flats formed on the Fort Stevens side ! ot -..we. jejfc--Aney-.-sir xhaneted and are, killed by the soldiers and civilian sportsmen by the hundreds. Almost every man who' has gone out with ,a gun is bringing In the bag limit '' - '' ' ' . ''v ..-. , :.. . a::: t:o r :: cm:;.: i r. - 'J. ' . Xl 4 The srirl was rich.. the duke was riot. But oft he swore he loved the maid. Her father. earned the coin be got, The duke thought he was overpaid..';' "O, fly with me. n, beauteous sprite.", For her he'd kill himself,' he'd swear. The maiden -hugged her money tight, , ' And gave, the duke a golden stare! V By way of beating the editorial writ er to it. Tanglefoot desires. to ejaculate In stentorian tones: .."Do Your Shop Pjng Early!" ' ... ; .. Economics on an Island.' , From the Boston Globe. 1 i Even on a big atlas of Qceanlca the' n Island, of Guam is represented by only a tiny speck,' On that little Island,-80 ( miles "long and six mlJsswTne, . with ! 11,000 lnhabltants,viylng off the tracl( of. travel between the United .States' and the Orient pne of the big economic problems', tbit .vex the outside world is pressing for splutlonr-the problem of the; rivalry; between city and ;6untry. v! f Beforeth orphan island was adopted T"! oy uncje earn, the , unamtanta wero . measurably contented. They bad enough to eat euch as it was. .They had enough to wearr-such a it Was. Every family, had a ranch and lived with lit tle labor on the bounty of nature. Co coanutfl. bananas, oranges, pineapples,: bread fruit and a little imported rice--what more could vegetarian deal re T ; .But the" United States came - .and, ' started to . build a -waterworks system, , roads, sewers, government buildings , and other appurtenances of civilisation. This brought the laborers in trom the ranches. ? They cultivated a taste for " the city life of Aganai the capital, and for good hard cash, which.- they are learning to spend. In consequence agri culture is suffering,; food supplies are '; growing scarcer and the cost of living ifl rising.- ,': TO remedy thi dlfloulty' the United States department of agriculture Is try ing to teach the natives scientific farm-! ingt so that they - wlir be ,lurd back to the soil when th government Jobs are -finished. . ' , ,., " . Beajdea affording in miniature an il lustration of the world-wide - struggle between city and country, Guam like wise, presents a glaring example of the difficulty , of Introducing American . Ideas - Into a little Spanish possession that for centuries has had its own brand of civilisation. - .zy;Z :. ::. t.: "; v -m: : I., .lyj-w , Beaf Mates In Industry. , . itProm the Milwaukee Wleoonsln, ? ' An international exhibit of industrial productf of .schools fpr the deaf Is planned to be held in eonnebtion with , the convention of American Instructors hot the deaf to be held at Delavan, Wis., next summer.' Circulars bay been wide ly mailed, with, the.purpose of securing exhibits of articles In all lines of trade, domestic arts, manual training, -.etc: from schools for the. deaf In all parts of the world. . The object of such an exhibit U to bring the Industrial work of the school together,; where It ' can :' be" 'carefully viewed. 1 examined and compared by the profession as a whole, thus furnishing : an Inspiration for still better' work and higher ideals, The circular remarns: v. It Is quite evident that Tnany articles from both the home schools and those abroad., particularly', large ones, cannot be' sent for , various reasons. . Therefore lit is suggested that the photograph' plan be adopted, and photos, moaeis.or.draw lngs of such articles be sent Instead. It will also be-very appropriate , to send photographs of classes, of interiors of shops, including the barber shop, If. any;., of cooking schools and. their products, and of the farm, dairy and garden with buildings. Courses of study or exam ination papers in the various industrial and domestic arts lines would be very instructive. Statistical 'Stetements, too, In portfolio form, in regard to the dairy, farm or garden wouia ceriainiy aoa in terest and value to tne exnint .'a , t' Wisconsin lod the western .states' in , the' organization and. conduct offinstl- I tutions of charity. . he Wisconsin Btlte I Sohool for Jlte Deaf at Delavan was opened in 1852. . It cares fpr deaf mutes between- the ages Of i. and 20. and, has at presentrin the neighborhood off 300. pupils.' ' "- - , The exhibition" planned for the tlnyi of the national convention of instructed will make , that gathering unsuallyt in teresting. ' , . r - - 7 The rumpkhu' Oh, golden pumpkin, big and round. . Thanksgiving's here once more!,, r In flaky crust you Will be found.; 4 vqa nav been before.-. ' . ! '. And when I go to Grandma's I - v -Shall feast) of course, on pumpkin pie. - W not f0r !. .lone 1'im t von are "used. I know. . f 1. For as a chariot you shone , '' - A long, long time ago; , Poor Cinderella would have stayedi At home without, the coach you made And there was -Peter, Peter, too, - .' Who had a restless wife, , : He put her right inside of you, ; . f And then hadno more trif. -She must have liked It, strange to tell, "For there he kept eer very Well." t.c . ). ' 1 ' ." j ' ' ' ' " ' " ' ' . '.i, " f '. 'A'''-"- v And, golden pumpkin,' big and bright, , I quit forgot to say . How you, bs Jaek-o'-lantern, light, - , ,The children on their way ; , Qn Halloween what wojild.w do. . Without such useful things as ,yout ... --Grace McKlnstry, in Woman's .Home Companion- for November. - (Oontriboted to The Jonfnl by .Welt Maton. the fnmoni httiU poet, lut prau-iXMinis r . rogulir feature of ; this eoloma lu ihf plly r Jouraal). ,, 1 gazed upon the noble oak that threw its shadow fax and wide, and to ' the husbandman I epoke: 'That tree should , be your boast, and pride. Perchance a ." tluusand years it's stood-rft thousand years of Sun and rain the" sole survivor ot the wood that one time'-xstothed tht Verdant plaint, Before Columbu sailed! the ea, tofln Chicago and New York, the red man rested by this tree,- or slung his hammock In its fork. Since first these branches swayed; and sighed -a thousand wars have shaken thrones; a thousand kings have reigned and died, and given to the earth their bones, And cities- that werev mighty then have crumbled into, tuins fray; and dynasties, and .tribes . of y men, have, lived and laughed and passed away. Oh grim sur vivor of a- time when knight went forth, in steel- arrayed! I yet might in&one song sublime, could I but dwell ' within thy shade!" The farmer scratched bis, tollworu (headland chilled-the fervor of my soul: "I guess I'll cut It down,' be said, "they charge a maa so muh,.f pr CO&L" . 'i , f . Copyright. IfilO. ( - f jpff iiorice Mattbi Aataif. VtSilv' 1' Materialism .