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THE OREGON - DAILY JOURNAt, PORTLAND. WEDNESDAY
MAY -17,911;;;'
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INDEPKKCRNT NEWSPAPER.
a I. JACKSON.
.PabHanar
machetes. The creature is nociur-
nal, and was therefore only trapped
at night.
To soma it is strange that a man
should willingly bury himself In
from mailing her.i judges, and oo1comoitndmeBM.t'irtberV,:liV4el
Wbiib4 wry rnhn ;! HSlVnuiu 'tropical forests, at the mercy of wild
log. Fifth iid Yimulil atif . rof"'""' aauvo guruus, pioi-u jo.ivt. uu
. ... r'M Portland. Or..
Car tniiwmlulon through lb nulla " i
r ItM ma tier.
hkh, a-sobi.
thc nurabara.
various other fevers, for- many
months, and feel hlmnrlf very well
rewarded by catching a few rat-like
creatures whose only merit is that
no one ever saw them before. Yet
the travelers' tales of such as W. H
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every imrary, ana are eaeny rmvu
so bespeaking the general inter
est in tho few dark regions of the
earth still unexplored
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Tho Ingenuity of man was
first exeniswl In the construc
tion of weapons. There wers
pi en did DamnscuR blades when
plowing was done with a crooked
tick. Ther were complete
stilts of armor on backs that
never felt a shirt. The world
waa full of Inventions to de
stroy life before there was any
to prolong It or make It en
durable. Murder was always a
science medloine Is not one yet
Tho destroyers hare always been
honored. The useful always
been despised. IngereoH.
T
THEY BELOXQ TS THE REAR
"I
BELIEVE every officer of the
American Federation of Labor
from the president down in
tends the destruction of our
, system of rovernment. Such was
the declaration by President Kirby
In the convention of the Manufac
turers Association at New York yes
terday. Many equally intemperate
utterances appeared In his speech.
Men of the Kirby type ought to
be sent to the rear. They are a
paramount blunder. Their Inflam
matory speeches are almost infinite
ly harmful to the cause they are try
ing to serve.
The strife between organized cap
ital on one side and organized labor
on the other is bad enougb without
shaving firebrands thrown In to light
up the smoldering flames. The fire
eating Mr. Kirby In deliberately try
ing and convicting the accused men
at Los Angeles before they are heard
In court Is guilty of exactly the
thing tbat'ihecharges against oth
ers.' He ignores the court, ignores
the law and returns a personal ver
dict of guilty as charged before the
Indicted men have even faced a con
stitutional jury.
' The differences between labor and
capital ' will never be settled by
blatherskites. It Is as culpable
for an employer, to be frantic as for
a labor leader to be frenzied in his
speeches. The Issue between the
two factions 1$ an issue for men re
- quiring for treatment the authority
and sagacity of cool-headed sanity.
The place for the blunderbuss states
: men la, either faction la In the rear
rank ( .and their proper . function
loud and' prolonged silence.
ACOMA HAD A recall election
yesterday, and may have an
other soon. If Tacomans have
not managed to keep things hot
in the old town lately, it has not
been for lack of booths and ballot
ing. The record to date runs like
this:
April 4 Special election to recall
Mayor Fawrett. Three candidates,
no majority.
April 18 Special election, Faw-
cett ousted, Seymour In.
May 2 Special election to recall
four city commissioners, no result
May 1 Special election to finish
up with the commissioners.
Four special elections wtchin six
weeks, and each a hummer as to
campaign fireworks is "going some."
In Its possibility of further corking
times there yet remains a long list
of unrecalled officialdom, and If any
official bats an eye or crooks a fin
ger, the ready recall Is handy.
Besides, after the whole list has
been disciplined, it will be easy
enougb to begin at the top
again and turn the rascals out. A
special election about every ten days
Is thus made possible and between
earning a living and going to the
polls the Tacoma citizen is as bupy
as a prize exhorter at a colored camp
meeting.
.It makes stirring times for the
multitude, but it Is hard on the Ta
coma official. He knows that he
must walk in the straight and nar
row path, or somebody will start
something. Today he may be In the
full flush of official life, but tomor
row, alas, he may face the gay re
call. Tacoma has got Its stride, and
Its voice Is for war.
And the star spangled banner.
Oh, long may It wave,
O'er the land of the free
And the home of the brave.
method of preventing New Mexico
from amending ' her constitution as
he chooses. ,In other words, con
gress Is attempting to dictate the
legislation of . these atates to con
form to the ideas of congress and of
President Taft, for It 1a Taft who obT
Jects most strenuously to recall of
Judges;
Oregon's constitution permits the
recall of Judges, and so do the con
stitutions of other atates. Neither
congress nor the president has a
plan to put Oregon and these other
states out of the union. '.Why, then,
should they keep out new' state that
by vote of the people adopt identical
provisions T
Roosevelt says that while he diee
not personally approve of the recall
of judges, he believes each state
should be allowed to decide for it
self whether or not Its Judges may
be recalled. Congress and the pres
ident might consult the ex-presl
dent's remarks with profit.
to have "thou ehalt not steal" made
to read "thou ' shalt not steal an
'ijndue' amount," the Job; canA be
taken care of by the federal sipfeme
court. . .
Letters Frpm tLe People
CQMIENTA BRIEF
A POPULAR BOND IS8TJB
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WHO KNOWS r
A'
MADERO
L'
EADERSHIP OF a Mexican rev
olutlon Is not without Its per
plexities. It is almost as perl
Ions as official life n Tacoma
Looking down Into the cold muzzle
of a revolver In Juarez Is about an
even experience with looking down
, Into he muzzle of a loaded recall
In the Paget Sound city.
Madero did not Intend to attack
. " Juarex. He realized the danger of
International complications through
fighting along the border line. But
- - twme- of" bis hotheaded t followers
v: forced his hand, and the assault and
capture resulted.
Nor was capture of the city the
end of his troubles. The episode of
Orozco demanding the execution of
Navarro, of Madero folding the cap
tive federalist from Orozco and bis
band, and the subsequent delivery
of Navarro by Madero into El Paso
as a means of saving the federal gen
eral's life are further particulars in
the mutinous behavior of revolu
tlonary soldiery, v
The self restraint and sagacity of
Madero have been made apparent.
He has the elements of leadership,
but is confronted with a mutinous
and disobedient following. In case
of ultimate revolutionary success,
he would have use for all his pow
ers l&Jsha effort to control the forces
his leadership has set In motion.
ANOTHER MISSING LINK
THIS TIME THE human race has
nothing to do with it. It Is an
animal the size of a big rat,
Just discovered In the interior
. mountain forests in the hinterland
of Venezuela. It has several pe-
cullar values. First. It Is the only
marsupial animal, except tlo opos
aum, on the American continents.
Next, It was believed to be extinct
only one bone and scraps of skin
being stored In some museum. Laet
ly, that, from Its relation with other
families of animals in South Ameri
ca on the one side and Australia on
' the other. It supports the theory that
; In dark1' ages long past those two
conunenu were connecter m one
. continuous area.
- Tha discoverer Is Mr. W. H. Os
?i good, assistant curator In zoology In
the .Field' Museum In Chicago. He
brought .back the skins of ten spec-
imentvilvbich, as soon as mounted,
, will be one of the chief treasures of
I the museum.
Tr seen re these, and other specl-
mens, Mr. Osgood left, with one as
sistant, on December St. 1910, and
FTER TJIE CITY election will
portiana resouna witn nowis
over the selection for council
men? Will the voting be de
sultory, and the experience, of the
late primaries be repeated? Will
there be sobs and sighs all over the
city with tearing of hair and gnash
ing of teeth?
Is government in thlrf lty to be
at the city hall? Or in the offices
of public service corporations? Or
by those who have been v.-ont to
whisper in the ears of Portland
councilmen?
Is there to be a side allowance to
councilmen for each yard of paving
laid? Is the conduct of public af
fairs to be on a basis of help
ing the private business of coun
cilmen or on a basis that will be
most effective for the benefit of all
the people?
Is there anybody who can tell
where we are now, and where we
are to be arter election t ib
there - -anybody- who-- can- tell- - -us
whether we are to have the same
old goings-on In the council cham
ber or whether there la to be a
change?
Is there to be a continuation of
the present form of Portland's gov
ernment, or are we to make changes
In the system so that culpability will
be located, and officials held re
sponsible for their public acts? Are
we to continue to permit council
men to hide behind the charter, the
mayor to hide behind the council,
and all to hide behind one another
until nobody knows ' where or on
whom to lay the blame? Are we to
perpetuate a government In which
the official right hand never knows
what the official left hand Is doing?
It Is less than three weeks until
the city election. It is high time for
men to begin to consider seriously
It Is to fare with us In Port
in scatters of government.
we do our duty, at the ballot
or will we stay " at home and
pour out our souls In bleatlngs afterwards?
HE GOVERNMENT asks for
pubMo bids for the $50,000,
000 Panama bonds that are
to be dated June 1, bearing
3 per cent Interest. It is stated that
bids of small amounts will have the
preference over bidders of large
sums, who have, on previous occa
sions, monopolized the Issues.
The government of the French re
public followed this plan In placing
subscriptions for the German indem
nity at the close of the Franco-Prussian
war. Subscriptions for as low
as 100 francs, or about 120, were
received. The savings of French
peasants, stored In stockings and
other hiding places, poured Into the
Issuing banks to an undreamed of
sum, and the credit of the nation
was saved. The same course has
been adopted on subsequent occa
sions, and a large proportion of the
national debt of France has been
thus refunded.
The British government recently
announced a similar Intention, ap
plicable to the Immense amount of
government stocks issued to pay the
expense of the Boer war.
The American Government In
making this popular Issue runs no
risk, as the methods previously fol
lowed for selling the Panama bonds
will still be at Its disposal If the re
sponse of the small Investor shall be
Insufficient.
French experience has been that
the nation profits greatly by the
wide distribution of its securttles.l live
Solid interest in national affairs Is
one outgrowth, with a public opin
ion, spread far and wide in favor of
peace, and a restraining Influence
on the disposition towards Jingoism
and provocation in times of any dif
ference with, .other powers. .These
small sum bondholders are' very
loath to see fluctuating or descend
ing markets for the securities they
hold.
Limitation of American bond is
sues to sums of fluOO, and multiples
of it, serves no good purpose except
to economize In treasury bookkeep
ing. Probabilities are strong that
higher prices and a steadier market
for the bonds of less denominations
will overset that triflirig drawback.
SURE CTRE FOR DANDELIONS
The Self-Effacing Grandmother.
To the Editor of The Journal Some
one very charmingly bemoaned "tho
disappearance of the Childhood Idol that
Embodied tho Best Tralta of woman
hood," in last Sunday's JournAL. and
pictured the "Idol" of many, yot never
once reaching the real sweetness, neat
neaa, patience and love I knew.
Now will the same writer deooribo
the process that made that humble,
sweet deposition f However, grand
father didn't always dlo and , leave
grandmother for the children.
Will the writer describe "grandfather"
aa he was. with that little foolish look
ing fringe of whlakers bordering his
lower Jaw, and tobaoccT spit trickling
down the corners of his mouth, or blub
bering over thelower lip, and streaming
down that little ditch that once might
have been a dimple, with the many over
bearing, disgusting, self-assurances (as
they appear to me now) whloh "father"
always exhibited; for U was he who did
most of the talking for the family,
"father" owned sll the property, everi If
"mother" did bring a dowry that started
It; "father" was always the visitor,
"mother" had to stay at home to look
after the chickens and the little garden,
and Keep the house warm.
Of course. It was dear old grandma
who welcomed us at the open door, so
lovingly, and It was she who stood on
the porch and waved her fat, brown,
ragged-nailed hand and smiled aa no
other ever smiled at us as we left, oven
iwatohing as the train left the depot and
r.i . . . . . m
new past, me vacant ioib in ironi 01
the house, to wave another goodbye.
What a dear, sweet picture!
To be sure, grandpa went-to the depot
with us, but Oh dear! If I could have
only known then what self-assertion
meant to a woman, I assure ynu I should
have' tried to inspire that feeling In her,
and she the dear sweet grandma, would
have put on her little bonnet and gone
along too.
Grandpa did all the marketing and
buyingdown to a spool of thread, all
the selling, too, from the products off
thf old home place to the extra eggs
lard by the hens In the little back yard.
Yea, I guess all of us know the sweet
picture of grandma, but If we take the
trouble to analyze the life behind It, we
will find all self-assertion was plucked
from her life long, long before; first,
by the dominant young husband and
later by grown sons, and still sadder,
perhaps by thoughtless daughters grown
used to think it only natural.
That's what makes patience read
about the slaves, the more they were
restrained and kept back out of Ufa,
the more sweet and patient , they be
came. Now while grandpa no longer appears
like Horace Greely, and stamps around
with a quivering cane at SO years of age,
yet grandma must not change, must not
be progressive, and live a fresher and
younger and more Interested life and
to a better age (they are living
longer, we are told) because the dear
little children will lose ,such a sweet
picture of the wonderful embodiment of
the "Best Tralta of Womanhood" the
cap, the Isolated, sunken-down seat In a
certain cosy corner, the patlenee, humil
ity, and servile devotion.
Well Not not for me. With the same
argument we might be driven to hoops,
wasp-waisia ana norso cars.
Instead of admiring, I pity such
grandmas of today, and hate myself
with a hate I can't explain because I
did not see it all in time to save my
dear grandmothers tha same humiliat
ing, servile, seir-efraclng lives.
All they needed was encouragement,
that's why we have the grandmother
of today. MRS. H. L. HUGHES.
' . SMALlr CHANCE V",?"
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' Portland, needing a "sun, will appar-
Much depends on the personnel of
mai cnarier commission to os appoint-
eo-;oy Mayor uunon. T , . ,y ..-
. Binoe Hltoheoek has. eliminated , a
deficit the publlo Is likely to demand
mai no go aneaa ana proauea a sur
plus, :,M.
i, ; v' 'V"-." ,
iDoubtlesa' ther KavriaVlM M.T Rhal
don's motion for a confessional, where
people can tell their troubles, has long
era ims oeen aeconaea oy tne police
'Presidential candidates of every name
ana oraer win spena a row moments
each day In silent prayer that Taft
may ret this Mexican trouble settled
oeroro March , mi.
There la In New Tork an aviator who
Is planning tv trip to the Pacific coast
And one there was a circus poster
man who made a picture of an elephant
standing up on ita tall.
"Factory pies" might bo introduced In
Germany with profit, reports an . Am
erican consul. Exported they Would bo
Just about the age of bean porridge
hot, bean porridge cold, bean porridge
in the pot nine days old.
,
While suffragists are reading up on
Iceland.-following the announcement of
the granting of suffrage to women there,
they should ask for "Letters From High
Latltudea," by Lord Dufferln. Nothing
more thrilling In the city library.
Victor Berber's plan to abolish tho
senate should have brought out that
old reliable word 'bicameral." Or Is
it to be understood that tho traditional
horror of a legislature of ono house Is
felt and feared no1 more?
Discovery of Herod's palace has set
certain ruminants to moralizing upon
me lime wnen some arcnaeoiogist shall
ppade up the ruins of the White House.
But not so. Civilization is even sweep
ing Deck over the east-
tay this time.
OREGON BIDELiaiT-3 1 ,
' ltedmond expeots to be lighting with
electricity Dy August x.
' 6rent Pass: boosters are lined tip for
a federal building campaign. -.'
Bend oltisens en May 4 oelebrated tho
eighth anniversary of the founding Of
the town., .fi - . ' V- .;."V...;. u "y,-i
Uncading a Grct
'.si,. ' -i. y
Fourteen contractors are busy figur
ing their estimates on the new Slan
fleld sohool building. ; ' . , i
Railway opening day and first cir
cus day combined brought 4000 people
together at Madras last Thursday.
The graduates of Lebanon high school
will present. "The - Price of Money.". In
four acts, on the night of May 28. .-
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Under improvement club auspices an
Ice cream parlor has been opened at
Woodvllle. The profits will bo used1 in
Improving the town,
The sixteenth annual reunion of tho
Oregon Pioneers association or uma-
tuia county will be held at Weston
Friday and Saturday May 31 and 17.
Pilot Rock has lust voted to annex
a large tract, thereby Increasing the as
sessable valuation or tne city sus.oou.
It Is now proposed -to vote waterworks
bonds. '
Coos Bav Harbor: A raker In linens Is
reported workln his way through Coos
county. At Eureka-he impersonated a
customs offloer and swindled many peo
ple with shoddy goods. - '
Charles A. Rexroad has boon elected
InolDal of the Weston schools to auo-
ceedj. E.. Keefe Jr.. who goes to Pen
dleton. Mr. Rexroad has for two years
been pastor of tho Methodist otraroh at
Milton.
-
Weston Leader: Rev. Ezra B. Crooks,
the vaunier 'son of Rev. J. D. Crooks.
pastor of the Methodist ohurch at Wes
ton, has just been elected to a professor-
Kin In Ik aiH.11n.fltnhlrftat AenakFtmAflt Af
na it will tno mormweeiern university ai u.yn
I ton. 111.
SEVEN ROMANTIC AMERICANS
James ; Bowie.
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Will
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ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO
S
HERE 18 AM unfailing cure for
dandelions on the lawn. To
exterminate the plant, grasp It
firmly at the point where It
emerges from the ground, offer a
silent prayer, and pull steadily up
ward... Should the, .root, break- off
five or six Inches In the ground, wait
patiently a day or two, remaining
constantly in a prayerful mood, and
you will probably have a chance to
tackle it again. '
To make success doubly sure on
the second attempt, carefully refrain
from the use of all words resem
bling profanity. Before grasping
the weed for a last and deadly pull,
moisten the hand carefully with the
tongue and take a deep breath.
Also, be Insistent that your wife
remain in the basement prudently
out of sight and out of mind, so she
will not Interfere with foolish and
confusing directions at the psycho
logical moment. It Is also for the
safety of the hbusebold'to have her
beyond reach of the explosion to fol
low. In case the second attempt
should end in failure.
When all Is finally ready, exert
pressure on the weed about a quar
ter of an Inch above the ground,
gradually Increasing the Intensity
until something yields, keeping all
profane and worldly thoughts care
fully out of the mind. If the weed
breaks a second time, send for a gar
dener, or sell the fiacer" '
Woodrow Wilson In the West.
!' From the Detroit News.
In Denver the great auditorium" was
jammed when the scholar in politics
rose to speak, and the cheering that
greeted him was the- more significant
because it lacked the prearrangemenl
I of convention huzzaing. The churches
abandoned their Sunday evening ser
vices, the pastors directing their con
gregations to go listen to Woodrow
Wilson's sermon on free government.
Two of the most Influential news
papers in Missouri, the St. Louis Re
public and the Kansas City Star, have
nailed, the tVllson.flag to. the mast head
without regard to party. When lie ap
peared at the banquet of the Knife and
Fork club, the governor of New Jersey
was honored by the largest assemblage
in the history of even that organization,
famous for Us dinners. He proposed
to speak ' not more than half an hour.
Before he concluded his address he haot
used up an hour and 10 minutes, and
his auditors were crying to him to go
on.
"If he had been willing or able to
talk all night," reported the correspond
ent of the Now Tork. Evening Post,
"they would have stayed to listen."
Principally because, It Is suspected,
Woodrow Wilson has something to say.
colonel James Bowls won his spurs
and a reputation to be classed among
the list of romantltc Immortals In the
early part of the last century by his
efforts In behalf of Texans in then- at
tempt to secure their Independence.
Bowie, with "Davy" Crockett and
other Americans, constituted the party.
tnat cut tneir way into the Alamo to
meet a tragio death at the hands of
Santa Anna and the Invading Mexloans,
Very little is known of the arly life
of Bowie. Like many others In this
section of the south, he was a back
woods soldier of fortune, whose chief
claim to fame today Is his having In
vented the dagger pointed, .'knife that
bears his name, and his bravery in the
defense of the 'Alamo. At the begin
ning of the Texan struggle for liberty,
he settled In that state, and took an
active part In assisting to make It a
republic. At the time the future "Lone
Star Stats" was Mexican territory. He
was one of the American pioneers the
coming of which was very much . re
sented by the Mexicans.
Bowie was a born leader. Ho fought
so valiantly in the battles of San Saba,
Nacogdoches - and Conception that he
won for himself the rank of colonel. He
was In command at the celebrated
"Grass Fight ' In -18S5. The prowess
uiat had enabled him to fashion -
deadly weapon from an old file, which
had been considered useless, helped him
now In shaping, raw frontiersmen Into
efficient soldiers, and In modeling .'the
rough hewn destinies of Texas.
When Bowls and his comrades made
their entrance to the assistance of the
brave party who were defending the
Alamo, they knew well that they were
throwing away their lives. Yet none of
them turned back. They all died, loyal
to America and to their brothers-Inarms.
Tho brave deeds that they accom
plished that day did more than any
thing else, even In spite of the sacri
fice they made, to . thoroughly arouse
the Texans against Santa Anna, and
to pave the way for the future state's
freedom from the Mexican yoke.
Tho Alamo, In spite of the peaceful
purpose of its original building, ha
been made strong enough to resist any
attack except from artillery. Built In
1744, It was the last of a line of Fran
ciscan missions established along tho
San Antonio river for the conversion- of I
the wild Indians. Tho mission, at the
time of the Texas uprising, had been
abandoned, so far as Its original pur
pose was concerned, and was converted
into a rude fort fqr military purposes.
Bowie was wounded In the leg as
the Mexicans foroed their way into the
lnclosure. Although suffering severely,
he braced himself against a wall and
fired into the ranks, of advancing foes
until bis ammunition was exhausted.
Then gripping his famous knife, he
crowled forward on all fours and flung
himself at the nearest Mexican. Stab
bing and slashing, ho fought on, heed
less of his own wounds, as long as
breath remained. His body riddled with
bullets, is reported to have been found
after the battle lying in the center of a
ring of 13 dead Mexicans, all killed :
by the fearful strokes of bis deadly
"bowle knife."
There Is an Interesting history con
nected witn the Invention of this knife.
Upon an occasion, when Bowie was yet
a young man, he witnessed a auet on
the sandbar along the Mississippi river
near Natchez. The quarrel had not
been confined solely to the duellists,
but all tho friends of the two persons
engaged entered into tha struggle, one
against the other. Bowie was present
and having some time earlier lost his
hunting knife he had ground down the
end of an old file to a sharp point,
sharpened one of Its edges, and fitted
a rude handle into it. xnis was tne
only weapon available when tha free
fight began. As the two factions
clashed Bowie was wounded by a pistol
shot But thla wound did not check
his onward rush. He drove bis home
made knife Into his assailant, killing
him at a single blow. In that im
promptu battle six men were killed and
15 Wounded.' a goodly share of tho
casualties being the result of Bowie's
strange knife. Tho weapon and Its
owner suddenly found himself famous.
and exact models of the knife wore made
by a Philadelphia hardware man, who
at once found so many customers for
them that he made a fortune. Thus theft
celebrated bowle knife came into use.
The backwoodsman, who had fashioned
It from a file declared: "In a Strong
man's hands It Is better than any pistol."
t' From- the New Yoii WorlJUv
- Tho .signing, yesterday ; of .the new
Anglo-Chinese t agreement for . tha. ex
tinction of the opium, trgrflo, was a long
step .toward higher standards of, infer,
national morality. ' It. means . a . deeper
deference to 'enlightened, publlo opin
Ion, a' better China and" a. better tng-
iavsA?.y.',t;.H ,VvV; M$: v i
Y Tha onlum noon fa eafctlV afnil cheanlr
raised i both in China 'and in British,
India. ' Chinese statesmen have long re,
alised'that the use of ODlura was !-,
bauchlng their people, and. in the f-f
fort to keep the abuse at a -minimum
the raising of tho poppy was long ago
forbldderw -But that did little good
when, mors than a hundred years ago
the British East India company -.began
introducing opium Into China from Hint
dustan. Year after year there was con
tinual protest, until in 18 the southern
mandarins seised and destroyed 20,28$
chests of Indian opium.' . ' .
in the next year the opium war wits
Great Britain began, which exacted an
indemnity for destroying the opium and
fastened the. traffic upon China' for a
long lifetime. Again in 1860. after the
smaller, war of tho Peiho forts, the Opi
um Importations were legalized ' by
treaty of peaces and this was Britain's
own doing In every sense, for she had
taken over the East India company
after ths Sepoy mutiny. From that day
to this tho trafflo has constantly been
kept alive, against tho protest of China,
by British statesmen who knew well
how grave was their offense, (Imply
to gain a little revenue for IndlaVAnd
from China, thanks to this cynical Brit
ish potloy, tho vlos has spread to Sins
spore, to Manila, to Vanoouver. to San
Francisco, to ,New York around ths
world. r .... 4
In ths great awakening In China
whloh followed the Japanese war ths
anti-opium crusade has been takes up
with fresh vigor by tho Imperial and
local arovernmanta. bv tha schools, by
the press and by a great national soci-y 'i
ety. Thousands of acres of popples arsV
yearly uprooted' and every effort la be
ing made to limit the vloe to the passing
generation. Four years ago tha British
government agreed to a gradual reduc
tion of Indian exportatlons If at. the
end of 110 it was apparent that the
Chinese government had dons Its 'own
part to lessen the evil. " j
Yesterday's agreement ' settles that
point China has prohibited interstate,
commerce in opium for the akedf ths
more populous provinces where the vloe
can be better controlled, and has raised
to 0 years the age llmtt beyond which
habitual users are Indulged to continue.
If it were not for the hopeless case of
these ord men the importation might
better stop st once; but the British
have an excuse for the gradual extinc
tion of the trafflo in the fact that only
the "tapering off of consumption is at
tempted by China.
It is creditable to thejiberal govern
ment that In the midst of Its vast pro
jects for the regeneration of Britain It
self It has found the time and the means
and the courage and the awakened
sense of justloe to heed China's call for
help.
Tomorrow Francis Marlon.
The joke of it all is that as, soon
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aMauwi av7 a u vi m Jmoii una iiew jueiicu are au-
mltted as states they t may at once
amend their constitutions to include'
the provisions that congress now
bars. Once Inside the union there
will be no way to prevent Arizona
lie had to reach the region whore
tbe'caenoleates lives by establishing
fcts camp on" a mountain in Vene
Stiola,' 7 and theace . chitting, the
way . through dense1 f cjrests with
TATESME3N, or near-Btatesmen,
cornflMmoa An strAnro th n rra
The cdmmltteeon territories of ! them
the house of representatives
furnishes an example. It Is horri
fied by the constitutions of the pro
posed' new states of Arizona and
New Mexico, and proposes to tell
the people of those territories how
they can be restored to grace.
Arizona is to be required to elim
inate the recall of Judges from, her
constitution, and New Mexico must
make her constitution easier to
amend. This is the dictum of Mr.
Flood's committee. To mako these
changes, the people of Arizona and
New Mex'Ico must shoulder the ex
pense of a new election, with the
threat of rejection of their claims
to statehood if they do not yield to
this Implied coercion. .
Along with his other telegrams to
has Lawyer Dunlway wired
eastern bond buyers that the cir
cuit court has enjoined the bring
ing of further vexatious litigation
against the Broadway bridge?
A Los Angeles woman who left
home 10 years ago to buy an Easter
hat has Just returned. No one will
be deluded Into the belief that she
spent all this time in, getting hut
one hat. '
The newest cause of divorce is
that of a Chicago woman who com
plains that her tuiBtfand had the
habit of being shaved by women
barbers. What are the poor men
to do?
If Queen Mary really insists on ta
booing decollete gowns, face rougo,
lip salves, hobble skirts and big hats,
will not some of our. American
guests find all the flavor gone from
the coronation?
There Is talk of revising the Ten
Give the Bill a Show.
From the Oregon City Courier.
An effort Is being made In Portland
for a referendum petition to hold up
the Malarkey public service commission
bill and substitute for It a local meas
ure providing for the appointment of
three commissioners at a salary of $5000
each, and an Indefinite amount for
clerks, Inspectors, travelng expenses,
etc. ,
The Malarkey bill has the Indorsement
of the best authorities In the state, and
It would seem that a trial should at
least be given the measure--a trial
which would soon show up Its weak or
strong points. If weak. It can easily
be remedied; If strong. It Is all the peo
ple want . ' .
There was opposition to the bill dur- i
trig the legislative assembly by a bunch
of Portland would-be higher-ups, who
endeavored to secure the passage of a
bill that would permit each city to reg
ulate corporations according to Its own
dictum, which was defeated, and now
thla effort to refer the Malarkey bill
is merely the cropping out of that sore
spot by those who were Interested in
the defeat of the bill. The Courier be
lieves that when the people are ap
proached for signatures' thtt considera
tion will be given the mat'.er and that
people will think twice before they per
mit their names to be used as a' deter
ment against public needs. The Ma
larkey bill provides for the just handling
of all public utilities. Is well gotten up,
places the adjustment of corporation
matters in the hands of the railway
commission, where It belongs, and where
It will receive the wisest attention with
the least expense to the people of the
mirrtniMnf t v. whnrai All tai nnw rir,, t
nently equipped for the proper handling lis probably the greatest living author
of such matters. - llty on the customs of the Hopl la
dltmu, among whom he. has lived-for
museum that at some time was not de
ceived by the wiles of the forger or
orcoked dealer? The Louvre, on the
advice of eminent experts paid $40,000
for the famous tiara of Saltaphernes,
only to discover later to Ita discom
fiture that tha gold crown was the
work of a living Russian artisan and
that the Scythian king never existed.
Herr Bode, director of the Berlin mu
seum, one of the greatest living experts,
has been tricked several times with Imi
tation Greek medals, terra cottas and
bronzes. When he bought the wax bust
by an obscure Victorian artist as a work
of Leonardo da Vinci he was the vic
tim of his own zeal.
The rich collector, ever keen for
soma new treasure, is. divided between
the fear of being duped and the fear
of missing a real prike. Counterfeit
antiques, counterfeit old masters, coun
terfeit mediaeval manuscripts, await
him at every turn In Europe, and even
If he' dabbles In modern American
paintings he may be led astray by
clever Imitations. It Is a game of wits
and skill and knowledge, and If the
millionaire collector is anything of a
sportsman the chances qf making a mis
play or of being taken in by fraud
should add to the seat of the game.
, Message the Cliff Dwellers Left.
(Ffm the Louisville Courier-Journal.)
Dr. Walter Fewkes of the Smith
sonian Institution, who has engaged
in the work, of restoring the cliff dwell
ings of the Mesa Verde National Park
during, the' last few years, has made
Interesting discoveries., -There are sev
eral rock inscriptions near the cliff
dwellings, most of which scientists
agree are religious symbols. Others
are totems, while still others appear to
be mere soribblings. The walls of some1
of the rooms in the cliff dwellings are
covered with a thin wash of yellow
sand, well adapted for paintings of a
symbolic or "decorative character.
Some of the morar"decbratlons have
been uncovered In the process of re
storing the buildings. The colors, red,
yellow .and white, were evidently, put
on . with the hands, Impressions of
which can be found in several cases.
Among the designs used are triangular
figures. on the upper margins of the
dadoes and pedestals of the ceremon
ial rooms, or klva. Br, Fewkes: who
the frequently proposed half-cent pleoe.
Coins smaller than one cent have not
generally proved popular in Western
Europe. . The farthing Is only seen in
London when some enterprising shop
advertises prices ending in three-fourths
of a penny and sends out for a bag of
new farthings to make change. The
French centime is little used, the "sou."
which equals one cent and the British
ha'penny, being the smallest common
coin. In Italy beggars throw the little
"centesiml" Into the river to keep them
out of circulation; the common "soldo"
again is our cent. .
Thrifty GermanV lands, with their
"pfennlge" and "heller," glye us abont
our nearest example of coins less than a
cent in actual use; but If one wants a
whole handful of coins for five cents he
should go further and get la. Bulgaria
twenty-flve"stotlnkls," in Turkey fortyi
live -paras,- m Portugal fifty "rels" or
In China about eighty "cash" with holes
In the middle to string them together
ios.. sareKeeping.
It Is odd that the proposal for a frac
tional coin should come from west of
the" Mississippi. Not so long age the
fiye cent piece was the smallest coin
current over a large part of our western
country. .' ' - -
European and American Ways. '
' From ths Aflantlo Magazine. .
In the Krupp Steel Works at Essen,
work Is begun at t a. m.; breakfast Is
from t to 8:15; dinner 12 to 1:30 p. m.;
tea, 4 to 4:16; close at 8 p. m., making
a total of 12 hours, minus two hours for
meals. In the cutlery works at Sollngen
the time allowed for breakfast and tea
Is longer for women and youthful work
ers than tor grown men, giving two or
three hours leas of work In the week.
Note the time required for meals; It Is
as characteristic of the Germans as In
difference to meals and hurry are of our
people. American workmen. In the Iron
and textile Industries usually Work
about 66 hours a week, except In tho
southern cotton mills, where they often
work 62 hours a week. There is a move
ment on the part of the legislature to
reduce by statute the number of hours
of work a day to eight As a rule, the
only interval allowed here is for dinner,
and that Is generally no mors than half
or three-quarters of an hour. In some
American shops, at moments of unusual
pressure, 'no interval Is allowed at all
the men work at machines during their
dinner period and eat their dinner as
best they oan. Tha machinery runs con
tinuously with two shifts of workers,
and this Is the secret of the great pro
duction of the Amerloan steel mills in
particular, and of the eXoesslvely high
wages earned in them. Respeot for meal
time belongs to Europeans.
Candy for Soldier ..and Civilian.
From ths Christian Herald. ' f t
Pure candy Is good for children. Pure
sugar is good for grown people. Ot
course there are exceptions to every
rale. If the doctor prescribes a diet
and orders a patient to refrain from
sweets the patient is bound to obey his
adviser. What is the use of calling a
physician and paying hlra for sugges
tions if the latter are treated with In
difference? People in ordinary health
need not be afraid, to gratify an appe
tite which craves sweots. Those whs
have looked into tho matter have been
telling us lately that soldiers on tha
march hold out better if they have ra
tions of sugar than if their food omits
this useful commodity.! A fondness for
sugar Is often a defense against the use
of alcohollo stimulants Ths Inebriate
does not care very, muoh about puis
sweets. :
Forgery as a Fine Art.
From the New York World.
. Both patriotism and personalities fig
ure In the controversy started by a Ger
mc.n expert over the genuineness of an
illuminated 'manuscript that brought a
big price at tho Hoe library sale. Some
of the mors sensitive dlspataats seem
to imagine that the honor of the Ameri
can nation Is Involved and are in favor
of Immediate hostilities. , ,
Was there-ever a great collector or
several years, finds that those Indiana
use similar figures, though reversed- in
form, and call them butterfly and rain
cloud symbols. -.- '
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( The Indivisible Cent. .
From the-New York Wprld. r
As a device for making change where
prices' are stated In fractions of a cent
the coinage of a)H cent piece proposed
in tho . bill of Representative Sheppard
of Ttxas may bo less Impracticable than
Which Way?
. From Colliers'. .
If you are a Republican would you
like to be able to say, at the polls,
whom you want as the Republican can
didate for ths presidency, whether Taft,
br Roosevelt, or La Foriette, instead of
having the candidate named for you by
the bosses? If you are a Democrat,
would you. like the same opportunity to
choose among Wilson, Harmon, Clark,
or any one else? Voters in Oregon will
have that privilege; It is one. of the
features of Oregon's popular form of
government. Nebraska has lately
adopted the same law; all the other
states ought to. Especially would the
southern states benefit by this provis
ion; It would enable the self respecting
voters of the south to destroy -forever
those, agencies which have been a scan
dal ever since reconstruction days, and
which Mr. -Taft Is now Using to accom
plish his nominatfbn; the Republican
federal maohlnes. - ' ,
. Wheels Within Wheels,
AFrom the San Francisco Chronlcle.M
wm? means should be devised of de
priving transportation companies of all
Interest: in the 'express business , other
than that which grows out of the rela-!
tlon Of carrier and patron. It should bo t
made impossible for transportation com
panies to drive trafflo to the more ex
pensive express systems by, compelling
carriers to give tha same efficient ser
vice which the express company ex
tend. The wheels within wheels now
In the machine should be thrown out of
gear and ths people glven'a fair Show.
. Discretion.
From the Yonkere Statesman.
Bill And you asked the father for
his daughter's hand in marriage?
Jill Yes; last night.
"What did he sayr
"He was Vary angry."
"And what did you dor
"I treated him as I would a kink."
"How sor
"Why. I backed out of his presence."
Tne Happy Ostricn
(Contributed to The Journal by tValt Maaoa,
tbe famoua Kanaaa poet. Hit proie-pocma arc
regular feature of thla column In The Dallr
Journal). ' ,,
t saw the ostrich eating tin cans and
broken glass, and lengths of canvas
sheeting, and coal a,nd chunks of brass.
I called a keeper to me, and said; "This
Jit Ml . , - ."I I.. , ..... .
iuwi win mc; ... uom oe depressed ortk'vi
gloomy,", the keeper made reply. 'That tM
bird," he said, while seating himsslf
upon, a bench, "is happiest when eat
ing a brick or monkey wrench. And yet
you see him frolic as happy as a steer,
he never has the colic, and never shads
a tear. Came Nature has designed him
to live on bricks and wood, and It would
surely,,- grind him to tackle breakfast
foud. I know his health Is lasting "I
know be feels all right, while he for
junk and casting retains his appetite.
These moments are .the ' Saddest ; when
strangWs come 'along; I always fear
some faddist Will loom up In the throng,
and urge that cassowary to live on
shtedded hay, and "boneless huckleberry .
and mild denatured Whey. There'll be no
trouble brewing? Inside that critter's
crop .until I i see blm chewing "some
faddist's fancy chop. I hold," remarked
tha keeper, "that blrda and beasts and
men will dodge the grim " old reaper
and live as long agahvTr they "devour
the fodder for which they are "designed;
so let that bird eat solder and rocks
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Ocvrg Matthew A da ma.
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