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Wheatley; Oak land News Stand; Hale News Co. Goldfield, Nev. Louie Polltn. Eoreka, Cal. Call-Chronicle Agency. Norfolk, Vs.-Potts & Roeder; Amtrlcaa News Co. Pine Beach, Ta. W. A. Cosgrove. PORTLAND, MONDAY. AlG. 10, 1907. MORE STATE RIGHTS. Governor Hanly, of Indiana, thinks that the Federal Government is Inclined to infringe upon the rights of the states by legislation. So he said the other day in a Chautauqua lecture -at Elk hart. His fears are groundless. There has been much recent complaint of such, infringement, but it has not coma from the states. It has come from law ' less corporations which . raised the senseless cry of state rights to ward voff Federal legislation directed against their privilege to plunder. No state has even hinted of tin infringement upon its rights by the President and Congress for the last fifty years. But half the states in the Union have complained, and bitterly, too, that their laws have been violated and their rights contemned. by the inferior Fed eral judges. The chances are that the states know best who has wronged them, if they Jiave been wronged. It . is amusing to see how eager the rogues are to secure to the states rights which they do not want and to forbid them the rights that they do want. Congressman Jenkins, of Wisconsin, easy that the attitude of North Carolina, in the late difficulty with Judge Pritch ard, was defiance of the Nation and that "it is humiliating that the Nation has, to some extent, surrendered." North Carolina did not defy the Nation. It defied an unscrupulous railroad com pany backed by an unconstitutional in junction issued by a judge of meager discretion. The Nation did not surren der, but the railroad, did; and the event may not be without its lesson to other railroads, with their retinues of Con gressmen and judges. It is an excellent thing for them all to understand that the American people are determined to be governed by law, and not by the arbitrary will of any individual, no matter whether he calls himself a king, a trust magnate or a judge. In passing it is well to note that North Carolina has not. questioned the authority of the Supreme Court, though 'Mr. Jenkins implies the con trary. It3 .whole struggle has been to bring the controversy speedily before that tribunal. The amount of twaddle uttered on both sides of the state rights question by persons too lazy to inform themselves of the facts or too preju diced to tell the truth is amazing. -The position of North Carolina in- its late difficulty is thoroughly understood by the American people, and it has their approval, though they care nothing for the doctrinaire's theoretical -"state rights." INCREASED COST OF MILK. . When and where is the present movement further to Increase the price of food and other life's necessities going to stop? Every wage-earner In the Pa cific Northwest has been asking this question the past five years. In Port land, where dairymen announce an ad vance of 20 per cent in milk to take ef fect two weeks hence, new. cause for prevalent -discontent is offered. No legal remedy suggests itself, though it is possible that the new anti trust ordinance passed by 'the City Council last week may be made to ap ply in this case. If not, the Council will render the city a-valuable service by supplementing the work of the State Dairy Commissioner in enforcing most rigid inspection of a food so vital to Infants and children. Better quality i is partial compensation for -greater cost, s ' The milk trust, like the fuel trust, - has raised prices simply because it is powerful ' enough by combination to make the higher rates stick. No one . of common sense will maintain that it costs 20 per cent more to produce and deliver milk than it did six months ago, or that there is not much larger profit now at $2.50 per quart per month than , there was four years ago at $1.50. ; It seems that the meat trust has : - reached the maximum limit; at least the price all along the line has been fixed irrespective of season, supply and demand, but what Is to be said of but ter and eggs in this land of plenty, boosted nigh to midwinter prices, with steadily upward tendency? And Sum , mer apples selling for as much as standard fruit that will keep six months? And nearly all fruits out of the average man's reach and vegeta bles at retail 100 to 500 per cent above the cost of production? The middlemen in chorus with the growers answer: "The people can't help themselves; sock it to 'em." And this is the gist of the whole mat ter. The additional tax on milk to be levied September 1 and collected monthly thereafter emphasizes a situa tion from which escape is difficult If not impossible. Meantime those of lim ited incomes can only surmise whence the next attack on their purse will come. Then they will ask again, when is the increasing price of food going to stop? The perfectly plain answer is, so long as the public will stand for It, and keeps on buying. UQCEDATIOX BCN RIOT. Any extraordinary circumstance. In which the physical safety of man is involved, generally brings on a panic wherein ordinarily safe and sane men lose their heads, and not infrequently plunge wildly to destruction. They leap from moderate danger on a sink ing boat to certain death in the sea, or dash to death from a burning building long before the last opportunity for saving them has vanished. By reason of this unfortunate trait nearly every disaster is attended by a greater loss of life than Is warranted by the nature of the event. It Is the development of this extreme nervousness and panicky feeling on other lines, that is responsi ble for the present financial stringency in the East. The causes which started this stringency are many, those most prominent at this time being the hostil ities between the Government and the lav-breaking corporations, the unwar ranted inflation of securities and the enormous industrial expansion through out the land. Ordinarily the latter would hardly be regarded as an un favorable factor in the financial situa tion, but at this time the business in many quarters has outgrown the money resources needed- to finance it. Within the past week, this strained situation has been intensified by the telegraphers' strike, which has serious ly interfered with all kinds of business. And yet, despite these unfavorable con ditions, and the fact that Wall Street has a good large portion of retribution due for past recklessness in stock spec ulation and inflation, there are indica tions that liquidation has gone too far. The hysterical holders of securities In their nervousness have aided the pen dulum In swinging farther downward than actual conditions demanded. The stock market lacks support, and good stable securities have suffered along with the bad ones under this persistent hammering of short sellers. If buying and selling stocks could be conducted as a separate and distinct branch of our commercial business, general-trade might not suffer by these occasional periods of financial hysteria; but all business is dependent on ample bank ing facilities and adequate financial support. There are ' thousands and tens of thousands of legitimate holders of all kinds of railroad and industrial stocks that were bought and held for purely investment purposes. Millions of shares of these stocks are held by the banks throughout the United States as collateral for loans, and, as the de mands of business crowd the limits of the banks' ability to suppIyHhem, these loans on stocks are called and the" owners are not infrequently forced to sell. If the bulk of the holdings of any particular stock is in strong hands, support is forthcoming, and the heavy declines arrested; but, whenever pan icky conditions arise, there appears the hysterical element which by frenzied selling aids in forcing prices far below the actual values. Money is tight in the East because there is now lying idle in the treasury an enormous surplus which has been collected from the people In the way of excessive tariff duties on foreign goods. American tourists visiting Europe in the first half of the current year have spent another $100,000,000,, which of course must be deducted from the bal ance of trade that stands in our favor, so long as we are selling Europe more goods than we are buying from her. But even with this squandering of money abroad and keeping it locked up in the treasury at home the wealth of our country is Increasing so rapidly that the present stringency can be only temporary and will undoubtedly be confined to . limited portions of the country. The West could perhaps use more money to advantage in some lines, but by the time the settlements are made for the enormous output of grain, lumber, fruit, stock, hops and other commodities of which we make a specialty, there will be more money in the country than ever before. Condi tions in the Northwest are not at air favorable for hard times, ' and the threatened trouble In the East will have no material effect here. PROGRESS IN CONSULAR REFORM. Reform in the Consular Service seems to be making some headway, 'and there are grounds for hope that the Govern ment may yet succeed in getting as In telligent and capable a force of foreign Consuls a3 the men whom any first class commercial institution would In sist on having as foreign representa tives. As evidence that the time Is passing when political influence is con sidered the only tangible qualification for a foreign Consul, It is noted that, in a recent examination by the State Department of fifty-two applicants but twelve succeeded in getting their names on the eligible list. The Government has not yet reached the point In its disturbance of the sacred political pull where the bars are thrown down and applications welcomed from all aspir ants who may think they are qualified to represent this country In a foreign land. The "eligible" material must still be selected from candidates who are. named by the Senators and Repre sentatives and the apportionment is made according to population. While the new system has certainly eliminated from the contest forty-odd applicants for political favor, the fact that such Incompetents were given the opportunity, shows quite clearly that the distributors of these favors were not very discriminating or at least were over-careful about offending the district leader or the ward boss. The fact that it now requires any qualifica tion other than a political pull to se cure a foreign Consulate shows that we are making progress, but there is still room for improvement'. There should be no limitation on the number or residence of the applicants. So long as the system gives Senators or Representatives selection of these ap plicants, the field for selection is certain to be restricted, and some good men will never have an opportunity to dem onstrate by examination their true worth. There might be a number of admir able subjects for Consular honors in some xt the apportionment districts, but, unless they stood in favor with the political boss, they would have no op portunity to demonstrate their fitness before an examining board. To secure for the service men of as high a grade of intelligence and business capacity as is demanded by private commercial institutions, it may be necessary for the Government to pay a higher scale of salaries. Still it is highly probable that even the present salaries would bring out better men, providing they were given the opportunity to compete for the positions. CONFISCATION. Lively fear is expressed in many quarters lest the 2-cent passenger rate laws passed last Winter by many Leg islatures confiscate the incomes of rail road stockholders. Whether they will or not is a question which experience alone can decide. Reduced fares often increase traffic so greatly that a profit appears where a deficit was expected. It is reported that this has already happened to the Union Pacific road un der the 2-cent law In Nebraska. While the question of confiscation from this cause is pending, it might be well enough to take account of some others which have been active for a long time and which rob the stockhold ers of enormous sums. One of these is the express graft. The express compa nies are officered and controlled for the most part by railroad officials and di rectors. The business which they do properly belongs to the railroad cor porations and Its very large profits should go to the railroad stockholders. They do not, however. They are di verted to the grafting officials who thus betray their trust and confiscate the property of those whom they are sup posed to serve. In all other countries but America the express business is done by the railroad companies. The result is cheaper service to the public and larger dividends to the stockholders. Why is it not in order for somebody to sue out an injunction forbidding the" express companies to pursue their pol icy of confiscation further? Railroad stockholders are also robbed by the private car companies and by the sleeping-car monopolies. All the business which these greedy cormorants have devoured belongs legitimately to the railroad corporations. They are parasites living and Waxing fat on profits which belong to the "widows and orphans" who own railroad stock. They suck the blood of the transporta tion business, which pines like a lousy steer while they grow sleek. With the graft of these parasitic cor porations cut off, railroad rates might be reduced to a fair level, both for freight and passengers, without unrea sonably lowering the Incomes of stock holders. Why do we hear nothing about this great and urgently needed reform from those erudite economists who display such deep solicitude for the welfare of railroad investments in other directions? INTERNAL COMBUSTION. It is said by experts that the internal combustion engine bids fair to displace the coal-buming 6team engine in man ufactures and transportation. It is also said that the change would save some $200,000,000 of the annual sum now spent for coal, to say nothing of the cleanliness and comfort which would accrue to city dwellers and travelers. The Internal combustion engine makes no smoke and produces little odor. It leaves behind no trail of foul gas and irritating cinders, while, according to the accounts, it develops power more economically than any of Its predeces sors. For fuel It may use either gaso line or alcohol, or indeed any other sub stance which is transformed into a combustible gas at comparatively low temperatures. The gas, once gener ated, is mixed with air, and the active power comes from the explosion of the mixture. The force of the explosion propels the piston much on the same principle as the expansion of steam. Of course if one is in a situation to em ploy gas already " generated he can make still further savings. The en gine may be connected directly witfi city mains when these are available; otherwise gas must be generated as it is needed. Internal combustion engines have al ready been introduced upon all trains entering New York from the North. "Within a few years," says The Inde pendent editorially, "there will be no coal-burning locomotives engaged in the passenger service between New Tork and either Boston or Albany. Of course the innovation, as soon as its practicability and economy are as sured, .will rapidly extend. We shall1 have gasoline trains running between New Tork and Chicago and it requires but little stretch of the imagination to see them running smoothly and smoke lessly upon the transcontinental roads. The common belief, which prevailed a few years ago, that electricity would be the motive power of the future seems to have been mistaken. In pro ducing electric energy a large fraction of the potential value of the fuel is wasted and scientists entertain little hope that this difficulty can ever be remedied to any great extent. It - is this unavoidable waste, combined with the difficulties of electric transmission, which makes electric light so compara tively costly. Of course where water power is available, as it is almost everywhere In Oregon, electricity may compete successfully with the Internal combustion engine, but not elsewhere. It has been proposed toy far-seeing economists that states like Oregon, which have been .providentially en dowed with abundant water-power, should reserve it to the public under the sovereign right of eminent domain, instead of permitting it to be grabbed by private interests. This would serve to keep the price of gasoline within decent limits as Its use extends with the adoption of the Internal com bustion engine. The law permitting the unrestricted manufacture of de natured alcohol will tend to the same beneficent end. Having foolishly al lowed the sources of gasoline to be monopolized by a trust we must now resort to such partial remedies as we can devise. ' In this connection the enormous value appears of the President's efforts to preserve for public benefit such fragments of our national coal deposits as have not been forever lost. The probable future of this coal is, not to be consumed in furnaces and locomo tives, but to be transformed into gas for Internal combustion engines. The saving would of course be twofold. Not only would the present waste in smoke and so on be eliminated, but there would be an enormous economy in transportation. Nobody knows ac curately as yet how far gas can be transported in pipes. But It seems likely that in a future not very remote coal will be made into gas at the mines and the product will be piped to con sumers, perhaps hundreds of miles away. Perhaps in this way the pipe lines of the Standard Oil Company may be put to a still better use than the transportation of petroleum. There Is a waste even in burning petroleum by the common method. Part of it goes up in smoke. It would be better first to generate gas from it. According to all accounts the internal combustion engine, which has secured the triumph of the automobile, is slow ly but surely effecting a transforma tion in industry not less striking than that which was accomplished by the steam engine. . . . The announcement that the old Amer ican ship Henry Vlllard has been char tered to load Australian coal for this market is turning suddenly a leaf from the past. It may be. hoped that the old craft, whose' name recalls memories of the boom here of a quarter of a century ago, with its attendant features of "last-spike driving" on the Northern Pacific, the foundation building of the Portland Hotel, which for years ,was known as the "Villard ruins"; the be stowal of funds for the erection of Vil lard Hall in connection with the State University at Eugene, etc., etc., will prove seaworthy and bring her cargo safely into port at a time when coal is needed. When a vessel drawing twenty-one feet of water gets hard aground in the Columbia River while vessels drawing twenty-four feet pass up and down without delay or difficulty, the trouble is not chargeable to the condition of the channel. For this reason the grounding of the French bark "Vin cennes, a few miles below Portland, should be rigidly investigated and the blame for the trouble fixed. The Port of Portland has spent a large sum of money deepening the river and the ad vantages accruing from this work, should not be negatived by, the care lessness of the men handling the ships. Rainier Beach, a portion of King County, and in consequence eligible to admission to Seattle's city limits, was "taken in" Saturday by a majority of 33 out of 350 votes cast. The numerical strength of the latest addition, as in dicated by the vote, would seem to warrant Seattle in increasing her popu lation figures by about. 35,000". Sno qualmie and Eunumclaw ,are still out side the Seattle city limits, and It is believed that Vashon Island will es cape for another year at least. Poor old 'Frisco is certainly getting more than her share of trouble. With the horror of the earthquake not yet forgotten, came the disgraceful graft exposures, and for months the work of reconstruction has been hampered by labor troubles. "Now comes the bu bonic plague. Fortunately a city that has been nerved up to survive the earthquake and fire and the Schmitz regime, can regard this latest afflic tion as only moderate: Newest use of the automobile, ac cording to a French scientist, is to cure anaemia. .. For this discovery he is richly entitled to an honorarium from foreign as well as American motorcar makers. So far as the public is con cerned the novel remedy is not an un mixed blessing; auto rides tend to anaemia of the purse. A couple In Illinois were married in a lion's cage a few days ago. If the affair had been pulled off in Pittsburg, or even New York, It might have at tracted more attention. The divorce records of those two asylums for matri monial misfits are sufficiently .terrify ing ,to require courage of a high order on the part of the victims. In line with active twentieth-century reform, Portland Lodge, Ancient Or der of Hibernians, has adopted a reso lution against "treating" in saloons. If every secret organization In the land should make and carry out a similar resolve, ninety per cent Of the whisky evil will be removed. Among the various causes that have been mentioned as contributing to the advance In the price of milk, it might be noted that the water board Is insist ing on -the use of meters by some con sumers where it is believed more water is used than Is absolutely necessary. It was an oversight of the Pacific Coast lumbermen not to invite Hill and Harrlman to the banquet Saturday night. In any economic contention, the defendants ought to be permitted to get the plaintiffs' side at first hand. Mr. Bryan, too, lets the Japanese know that we are not hunting trouble with anybody. All they have to do is to behave themselves and not get mad when some of our hoodlums don't do ditto. Tom Richardson should be made an active member at the meeting of the State Press Association. . His optimis tic letters do duty in desiccated form on many editorial pages In Oregon. There is really no excuse for James town. Some of those F. F. V. Ex position promoters ought to have come out here two years ago, and learned how to run a fair. While the Jamestown Fair may not go into the hands of a receiver, Secre tary Cortelyou is going to send a man there to receive the gate receipts. The appearance of the comet Just at this Juncture would seem to Indicate that some Irreverent striker had pulled out a plug from the solar system. Secretary Taft may confidently fig ure on an "audience" of 80,000,000 for his scheduled speech tonight, provided the wires are working. ; A hundred years since Fulton first split the waters of the Hudson! Real ly, it doesn't seem so long ago, but time does fly. Let us hope that Taf t's speech at Co lumbus tonight will not be too heavy for the crirpled press wires to carry. The report the Portland Gas Com pany makes to its stockholders will be different. ' - " . Portland won yesterday. Well, Port land can't lose every day. MAINTAINING POLITICAL PARTIES. Call From Eastern Oregon for Repub lican State Convention. - Harney County News. If the intention of the primary law is to destroy political party organization, then It was conceived in fraud and born of in iquity, for It declares upon its face the very opposite. Not only that, but if its effect Is found to be a destruction of polit ical party organization. It should be con sidered a menace to our form of govern ment and an Instrument for its ultimate destruction, for we firmly believe the safety and perpetuation of our republican form of government will depend upon well-balanced party organization, with declarations and platforms indicating the policies to be pursued in National affairs. A party organization, to mean anything, must have harmony of purpose permeat ing all its parts; must be based upon cer tain principles by which a large majority of its members are cemented in a common belief. This rule governs lrr every organ ization in which humanity is Joined whether for business, for -pleasure, for fraternity, for religion or for any other mutual purpose. All such organizations have their annual, biennial or other peri odical conference, convention, synod or conclave, at which the business and rules of action thereof are discussed, consid ered, altered or amended as occasion may require, and without such meetings the organization would soon go to pieces. The Democratic party In Oregon recog nized the wisdom and necessity of such convention and conference, though its, gathering was in no sense representative, but was composed of Its few dictators; yet its prophets raise ( their hands -in holy horror of the thought or suggestion of a Republican 'convention. Why? Is it feared that the result would be a recementing of the scattered forces, a gathering back of the men who have been led astray the past few year's, and a consequent disap pearance of all hope for -future Demo cratic success? Most certainly! The anxiety of Democracy for the public good is measured entirely by its greed for of fice, and nothing is worthy of approval Which denies that greed, nor is there any thing unworthy which tends to satisfy it. The Republicans of Oregon, as members of one family, must awaken to the situ ation and take an account of stock. A state convention should be field, as thor oughly representative as possible, for the purpose of agreeing upon a declaration of principles, strongly courageous upon all questions of state and National policy, honest, candid and unequivocal, and let the test of each man's candidacy before the primaries in all parts of the state be his loyalty to those principles. Good for Any Color. Portland Advocate, Colored. There is a Just cause for some of the complaints which are being registered by some of the employes against some of our race. Too many of them cannot be depended upon, for they are untrust worthy and unreliable. The above are some of the charges brought against them, which in many cases are true. The habit of working two or three days in a week, and one or two wetks in a month ought to be cut out, and learn the habit of sticking to your work. This must be done if we wish to check the rapidly growing sentiment in favor of the Chinese and Japanese as domestics, janitors and porters. We do not mean to say that there are not among us reliable. Indus trious and steady workers,, but never theless, it is a fact that there are quite a few who are too indolent and lazy to work for a living, and Is a source of much trouble and annoyance and tends to keep those who would go upwards from advancing. Livestock In Ilnbbltvllle. The Dalles Optimist. Hogs likewise do well hear. In factTt is a grate country for hogs. They are our most valluable assett. They run at large and keep the streets clean and live off of what fokes throws away. We now have two hogs in town, not to mention some, of the kind with only two legs, what live mostly on perscrlptlons. But evvery town has them so that Is not news to enny one. And other live stock does well here, especially dogs. We have some 40 dogs in town, and they are all doing well, being always helthy with plenty of flees onto em. We don't gess enny dog ewer reely prospered without flees, and as our dogs has more flees than enny other dogs why our dogs prospers more than enny other dogs. Ministerial Mishap. McMinnville Telephone-Register. Rev. Mr. Williams met wHh quite a mishap last Wednesday morning as he started to the "train -with his suitcase snugly packed with fresh eggs, when in some unknown way the case received a Jolt that caused a mixture of eggs, clothing, reading matter, etc. As the train was not on time Mr. Williams soon got things straightened out and went on his way rejoicing. Vegetarians. Louisville Courler-J-urnal. The vegetarians who are booming Mr. Lafollette because he eats flaked oats for breakfast ought to know that Early Bird Cannon takes a slug of sour mashed corn every morning before he thinks of breakfast. Celebrates Her 101st Birthday. Pittsburg Dispatch. Mrs. Elizabeth Shoemocker, who lives on a farm near Sabula, Pa., celebrated her 101st birthday by receiving a large number of friends. Her health is good. One Record In Catching; Bass. Pittsburg Dispatch. David Clark,-of Easton, Pa., Bays he caught a bass In the Delaware River that was 19H inches long and weighed 4V4 pounds. Death in A Baseball Throw. ' Philadelphia Record. Dr. Manvllle Phillips, a physician, was struck over the heart while playing base ball at Erie, Pa., and Instantly killed. s t Subway Ballads. The great subway system of New York Is a thing of interest to more people than the denizens of that city; tor everybody who visits New York has occasion to use the subway. The press of the - city teems continually with complaints about It, which some times take the form of ballads. Here Is one from the , Evening Mall: I remember, I remember, Tbe subway's primal plans. And how the blue prints said the air Would sootf be cooled by fans; They never came a wink too soon In fact, as I recall The ventilation of the place, . They did not come at all. ' I remember, I remember. The tales they used to tell; The pipe dreams of the trolley cars, Th' Utopia of the L, How Belmont said the sub. express Would be the one best bet. With "Seats for every one," his cry But we are standing yet. I remember, I remember. How troubles were to end. How all the transit evils were Immejitly to mend. ' It was a childish Ignorance But now 'tis little joy To know I'm Just as far from Harlem As when I was a boy. SAINT-GAUDENS LIFE AND WORK What One American Genius Believed In Sculpture. New York Evening Post. Saint-Gaudens' death brings no fuller recognition than had been shown in his lifetime of the fact that he was as fine an example of the pure artistic genius as America has yet produced. Medals have been given him at art ex hibitions as In a classby himself; and they but expressed the opinion of the judicious. Curious analysts of the flower of genius have speculated on what he owed to his mixed Fre-nch and Irish descent. Much, undoubtedly; but he owed more to the capacity for taking infinite pains. Saint-Gaudens' work in heroic por traiturein a sense is his most impor tant. In it he met and mastered tech nical problems on a large scale, and made it express to a degree unequalled in American art a noble and profoundly historical spirit - His Deacon Chapin Is, of course, as. Indeed, Is his portrait of Governor Randall, an Imaginary por trait. Yet his "Deacon" is at once the effigy of an individual and the symbol of a sect It remains our greatest artistic expression of Puritanism. In his five great monuments to heroes of the Civil War, Saint-Gaudens faced the even more difficult problem of convey ing through actual portraits of great men the spirit of the- historical move ment in which they lived and acted. With actual portraiture he faced, too, the problem of the artistic and heroic treatment of modern dress; and the masterly generalization which neither evades nor emphasizes the costume in the statue of Lincoln, gives the meas ure of his 'success in this respect. The masterpiece of this group of Saint Gaudens' work is the equestrian statue of Sherman; and the Lincoln, though a less cor plicated artistic problem, can hardly be called second in simple directness and nobility-of ex pression. These monuments of the Civil War epitomize the spirit of that struggle through single human figures dramatically, profoundly and compre hensively, with complete freedom from anything like rhetoric or sentimental ity, and with an energy of Inspiration that makes it impossible -j think of them with the thousands of banal statues to soldiers which take the Joy of living out of our parks. The statue of Sherman is considered by a well known artist and critic as the third greatest equestrian statue in the world. Saint-Gaudens derived from . the Renaissance, but in no imitative way. He appropriated the means and forms of the sculpture of that period because they lent themselves more completely to the expression of his special modern American spirit. He saw personalities and their historical significance from an individual point of view. He pos sessed nobility of imagination and per fecton of technical equipment to a de gree unrivalled among American sculp tors. What he lacks. If one compares him with the greatest. Is spontaniety. His manner, though without eccentric ity indeed In regard to eccentricity the leaning is the other way impresses one as a learned, though completely individualized style, and one can detect the style at times apart from the sub ject. It is never quite free from self consclousness it adapts the subject to itself. But the style, w;lth all Its learning. Is always consonant with the exalted spirit of the work. The self consciousness Is never the self-consciousness of rhetoric. No taint of af fection mars the nobility and sim plicity, however Involved, of the ap peal. The naturalness is thought out, but for all that It gives the most au thentic, manly and individual expres sion of noble themes that American sculpture possesses. Lord Eldon's Apology. London Tit-Bits. When John Scott (Lord Bldon) was at the bar he was remarkable for the sang froid with which he treated the Judges. On one occasion a junior counsel, on hearing their lordships give judgment against his client, exclaimed that "he was surprised at such a decision." This was construed into contempt of court, and he was ordered to attend at the court next morning. Fearful of the con sequences, he consulted his friend John Scott, who told him to be perfectly at ease, for he would apologize for him in a way that would avert any unpleasant result. Accordingly, when the name of the delinquent was called, 7ohn rose and coolly addressed the assembled tribunal; "I am very sorry, my Lorus, mat my young friend has so far forgotten him self as to treat your honorable Lench with disrespect. He Is extremely peni tent, and you wilkindly ascribe his un intentional insult to ignorance. You must see at once that it did originate in that. He said he was surprised at the decision of your lordships. Now, if he had not been very Ignorant of what takes place at this court every day had he known you but half as long as I have he would not be surprised, at any thing you did." Prices Are Illsrh at Carlsbad. Carlsbad Cable Dispatch in New York Herald. Following the Influx of many visitors, here, Carlsbad Is lauded as a beautiful place and great health center, but, say the visitors, Carlsbad merchants, shop keepers and doctors ought not to kill the goose that lays such lovely golden eggs during two short months of the year. A very well known American, who comes here every year, said: "We Americans are willing to pay fair prices, even high prices, but we ought not to be robbed. That many of us may be able to pay an exorbitant price Is no reason why we should pay it. If Carlsbad's shopkeepers and tradesmen of all kinds continue their present meth ods, they will injure Carlsbad's good name and drive people away." VACATION DAYS THE WANING OF BRYANISM. Observations of Varying; Interest From 'Differing; Points of View. Binghamton Press. ; The tone of the Southern press is dis tinctly unfriendly to Mr. Bryan. Many newspapers still support him, but many also seem to have turned from the once popular Idol. It Is strange to note the reasons given by some of the Southern newspapers for refusing to support Mr. Bryan. Mr. Bryan's abandonment of the Government ownership issue has caused him to be called a wabbler. The very newspapers which criticised him for advocating Gov ernment ownership now criticise him for letting go of that issue. They are ap parently willing to find fault with him whatever he does. Mr. Bryan, is unfortunate in that he has too many injudicious friends. His enemies cannot hurt him very much, but he has friends who persist in doinpr things which make him appear to take back water. It Is almost as easy to be killed, politically speaking, by your friends as by your enemies sometimes -easier. Washington Post. The outcome of the Mississippi contest is somewhat signiflcent In its relation to the National Democratic situation. It verifies to some extent the opinions of Senator Bacon and other Southerners who believe that conservatism and not radicalism should rule the party and select its nominee for President, Mr. Wil liams is not an enthusiastic Bryan sup porter, while Governor Vardaman was as frjintlc in his championship o Bryan as he was in all other directions. The Senator elect from Mississippi will wield great influence in the next Democratic National convention, not only because of his new position, but through his ac quaintance with Southern leaders. His word may determine the character of the platform, and it may even decide the fate of Mr. Bryan. In this respect, as well as In respect to the Democratic attitude in the Senate, Democrats throughout the country will rejoice that Mississippi has chosen the way of conservatism and old fashioned Democracy. Louisville Courier-Journal. Scarcely a year ago to be exact, August 30, 1906 Mr. .Bryan on his return from a tour around the world made a notable speech at Madison Square Garden in New York City. In that speech he elaborated a plan for the Governmental ownership of the railways. Thoughtful Democrats, who had hoped to behold once more a united party and to hall a leader risen at last to the majesty of his opportunity, stood aghast. Can Mr. Bfyan now think that breaking of ground so new and strange, in point of fact so revolutionary and startling, a wise thing for him to have done? Can he believe that It increased his popularity and added to his avail ability? Blse why, after ten months of consideration and reflection, must he qualify the declaration made with such elaboration and defiance by telling us that "there is no desire anywhere to make Government ownership an issue in 1908." when neither he nor the party can escape that fatal speech of 1906? Philadelphia Record. If there be any way out of the wilder ness where the Democratic party now finds Itself clipped and' entangled, the Democracy of the South must guide us where to find It. An Odd "Ad." Washington Star. ' Nothing succeeds like' perseverance," said Mark Twain at a dinner. "When the luck seems most against us, then we should work and hope hardest of all. In moments of discouragement, let us re member my old friend, Henry Plumley, of Virginia City. "Henry Plumley ran a collar factory. Times' were reputed to be hard with him. When his factory, which was very heavily Insured, burned down there was every Indication that he had. set the place on "tire himself In order - get the insur ance money, 'Virginia city was the soul of honor in those days. Shocked beyond words, it rose en masse, seizeu Henry Plumley, pot a halter around his neck and lynched him. "But he did not die. The snerlft ar rived and Cut him down In time. He was tried and found guilty and served a term In Jail. "On his release you wouldn't have thought that he'd return to Virginia City again, eh? He did, though. Ha came back, reopened his collar factory and prospered. "What gave him his tcp.rt was the odd advertisement with which he announced bis leturn to business among us. Pre ceded by a brass band, Henry, in a great gilt chariot, burst upon our streets. He sat on a kind of golden throne, a:.d he "held on a crimson cushion in his lap, an old,, old collar. Above the collar, on a crim son banner, waved this inscription in huge letters of gold: " 'This is the collar '.re wore when wa were lynched. It save- our life. Be wise In time and use no other. t a.. retailers, 10 cents apiece, three for a quarter.' " Happiness for Klamath. Klamath Falls Express. Henry Smith, the blind merchant of Keno, was made happy by the receipt of the news that his blind wife had given birth to a girl baby on August 3 at a hospital In Portland. The baby can see all right. A Summer School. , New Yprk Sun. Our first parents had just tasted of the tree of knowledge. "No," they cried, "these garden spots with lecture courses are no good." They permanently soured on Chautau quas. ON THE WIRE ll -From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. A