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It has been violated throughout. Xo political party Is to be judged merely by any "declaration of princi ples1' which it may make, or which may be made for it. It is to 'be judged by its whole course and history. Jef ferson's declaration In the light of the history of the party he founded, is worthless. The party has been carried away repeatedly by its extreme or an archistic elements. It has contained many able and patriotic men. But It breaks away continually from their leadership. It contains a mass that hates the restraints of actual and posi tive knowledge, and feels that liberty consists in freedom, license and power to do - what it pleases, regardless of knowledge or of the experience of time. This mass often gets control of the I-arty, as It did in ISM, when It threw, experience and knowledge to the winds and nominated Bryan, or fn 1860, when it imagined that human slavery was a principle founded in nature and in right principles of social, industrial and moral economy; or away back in the beginning of parties, when it fo mented and promoted the whisky re bellion. It is not merely in its con cepts of personal liberty, tout more even In those of social liberty, that the Democratic party commits errors, falls into banalities, makes a fool of Itself and will continue to do so. Carried away by worship of the false gods of state sovereignty, of slavery ?nd of secession, its Southern wing, the vital force of the party from Its beginning, refused acquiescence In Jef ferson's high principle of "obedience to the will of the majority," and plunged the country into civil war. Repudiat ing Jefferson's principle of "honest payment of our debts and sacred pres ervation of the public faith." it tried to repudiate the National debt by insist ing on "payment" of it in multiplied promises to pay; and a little later it followed this by an endeavor, through the exercise of an ignorant and bar baric liberty, to overthrow in our coun try the established monetary standard -f the civilized world conceiving that this was the method of "freedom for labor," and of "deliverance from the tyranny of values." A Democrat we speak of the major ity, who like to assert their power and turn down their sane men, like Cleve land and Olney and Watterson and Vllns Is a man in ignorant and violent rebellion against principles and condi tions necessary for the conservation and progress of political, industrial 'social order. He Is safe and sane at Intervals, but only after he has been whipped and whipped again, and finds that his fatuous purposes can have no acceptance or success. But then, after jr while, he comes out with a fresh lot of "principles," more or less vagarious or dangerous, out of which It "becomes necessary that he be whipped again. But he has his uses. He furnishes the terrible yet necessary political exam ples. The wheat market In Chicago scored a gain of over 3 cents per bushel yes terday, an advance fully as sensational as the heavy decline of last week. This advance was not due to the manlpula- tlon of the American Society of Equity, nor to any other factor of great conse quence in this country, but was in re sponse to a sharp advance in Europe. As has been frequently demonstrated by the unusually large visible and in visible supplies in this country, It would toe extremely difficult to work up much of a bull market in the United States without liberal support from Europe. The condition of crops In many portions of the Old World Is very far below the average, and it now seems a certainty that Europe will be obliged to draw heavily on this country for supplies, although it should not tie forgotten that the price at which these supplies can be secured will be a large factor in governing the volumeof business. ONE BANK'S FOLLY. The Oregonian does not assume to say now who is responsible for the wrecking of the Oregon Savings & Trust Company's ibank in this city; but it has no hesitancy in declaring what did it. There was no excuse or Justi fication for the failure. The bank was obliged to close its doors through grave mismanagement, in a time of great prosperity and of deserved public con fidence in the stability of our local banks. The transaction, or series of transactions, through which approxi mately $1,300,000 of the bank's funds the depositors' money was diverted into a single channel and Invested in securities of one concern, or of several related concerns, is subject of grave suspicion. Why it was done can for the present be only surmised. That it was, in its most favorable aspect, banking finance of the most amazing and unwarrantable kind, is pat ent to the most casual observa tion. This Is not to say that the Home Telephone bonds are not good. The bonds of the Portland company are known to be good. Very likely the Omaha bonds, which were so attractive to the bank management, are or may become all right. We hope so,, for the sake of the thousands of Portland de positors whose all had, without their knowledge or sanction, been put into a speculation in a city two thousand miles from Portland, and into similar enterprises elsewhere. No bank, con ducted with prudence and honesty, can Invest more than a moderate share of Its funds in any single commercial se curity. When a rule of banking so obviously reasonable, safe and sane is violated, there is a plain breach of trust. In this instance there has been a scheme of financiering carried out on a scale without a parallel in the banking history of the West. In the censure which will follow the disastrous results of this strange financial folly, the di rectors, whose duty it was to direct, ought to come in for their share, and not alone the cashier, who seems to have been primarily accountable, or the president, who for some reason not easily understandable or excusable ap . -ars not to have appreciated his sol emn responsibilities. No man who is handling vast sums of money for a salary should be placed in a position where It is possible for him to make such enormous loans without the sanc tion of the directors. The failure again calls 'attention to the vital necessity for an efficient banking law and an efficient State Bank Examiner. The Oregon state law. is not yet in effect. Here was a bank which In a remarkably brief period had accumulated deposits of $2,400,000. It came into existence and had an oppor tunity to secure a permanent foothold during the most prosperous period that Portland and Oregon have ever known. The' universal prosperity of the people is strikingly shown in the large number of depositors, and In connection with the failure there is not a single element of a "panicky" nature. And yet the bank failed. It stands out as an iso lated and independent example of what kind of finance is possible when every body has money. As for the general financial situa ton In Portland, It is on a perfectly se cure basis. There Is no reason for pub lic uneasiness, and there Is none. The banks of Portland have the public's Implicit confidence. THE NEW OREGON! AN8. Fourteen thousand people were brought to Oregon by the Harriman lines while the colonist rates were in effect last Spring, and, according to the predictions of the men who have so cleverly managed the work, the num ber coming this Fall will be still greater. It would, of course, be unrea sonable to assume that all of these peo ple remained in the state, but there is plenty of evidence In every city, town and hamlet In the Pacific Northwest that several thousand, of them are still with us. Among those who have re mained the majority have Immediately become active immigration agents on their own account, and no small share of the crowd which will come next month will have received invitations from those who have gained their knowledge of Oregon by actual experi ence. Thanks to a beneficent provi dence, them, are only a few things In this world of which Oregon stands in need, and the greatest of these is ener getic men and women; with or without capital. If they come with capital they will find a thousand opportunities for profit able investment, and. If they come without It, they will find an equal number of opportunities to dispose of their labor at the highest average wages that are paid for the same kind of work, for which help is needed here. It may not be much of an Inducement for a certain class of immigrants to learn that butter Is hovering around $1 per roll, and wood $6 per cord and still mounting In price; but it will be quite attractive news to those who are com ing to make butter and chop cordwood, and in both of these particular lines we are woefully shorthanded. The Fall rush of immigrants will ar rive in time to witness the harvesting and marketing of the finest wheat crop produced anywhere in the United States this year. It does not matter much what part of the United States they come from, they will find that the drought, the rain, heat, cold, the green bug, the chinch bug or some other det rimental factor In the growing of wheat east of the Rocky Mountains has been reducing or totally eliminat ing the profits of the farmers. This rush -of newcomers will, of course, find a few failures here as in every other part of the earth Inhabited by man. They will find the usual crowd in the plaza blocks making a valiant effort to prove that the world owes them a liv ing, and it is not overstating a fact to say that they can come nearer to col lecting that debt without work here in Oregon than In any other country in the universe. They will also find a few of the unfortunate farmers who never seem to make a success at anything and are ever pursued by hard luck; but the percentage of failures as compared with the successes in any and all lines is so much smaller in Oregon than elsewhere that they are hardly notice able. The Harriman system has been sub jected to much harsh criticism for its failure to provide Oregon with much needed transportation facilities in the central and eastern part of the state, but it is certainly entitled to great credit for the remarkable work it has accomplished in showing so many thousand new people the finest state on earth. Perhaps these rapidly in creasing numbers may become suffl- iclently impressive to hasten the rail Voad development which has been so long neglected. Mr. Harriman still owes something to these newcomers after bringing them here. Some of them might wish to locate in Central Oregon, where land is still cheap and plentiful, but they will hardly care to locate there if they must cart their products 200 miles in order to reach the nearest railroad statiqn. GHOSTS AND IMMORTALITY. A thoughtful reader of The Oregonian has sent us some reflections upon psy chical research and immortality. He does not write for publication, but he will probably not object to our making an excerpt here and there from his letter, which is well worth considera tion and comment. Referring to a re cent article In The Oregonian on psy chical research, our correspondent asks "How do you know that belief In im mortality came from the hope that God is just?" We do not know it; nor do we imag ine for an instant that the belief arose in that way. What we said was that the hope of God's justice Is, at present, our sole rational ground for. faith in Immortality. The origin of the faith is another matter. It was not necessar ily rational. Very likely the notion of an immaterial part surviving death arose from a primitive attempt to ex plain death. At the moment of disso lution a most impressive change oc curred. Something seemed to escape from the body. What was it? The hypothesis of an invisible spirit, not entirely distinct from the breath, was the natural answer. We find a notable trace of this hypothesis in Genesis, where it is said that Adam became a living soul when the breath of life was breathed into his nostrils. The iden tity of the breath with the vital princi ple, ox spirit, Is there clearly assumed. The belief that an invisible entity left the body at death would logically lead men to apprehend that it might sometimes be seen. Perhaps ghosts really have been seen; but whether they have or not makes no difference with their popular evidential value. An illusion Is Just as convincing as a reality so long as one believes In it. The belief In ghosts strengthened the belief in immortality, from which it arose. Our psychical researches stand toward the problem precisely as primi tive man did. He argued that if the splrltsurvived death it ought to show itself now and then; and he was con vinced 'that It did so. The psychical researchers make the same argument, somewhat more elaborately. Probably the argument ie sound. Its invincible persistence is striking, to say the least for it. But suppose we are forced ul timately to concede that ghosts never do appear, that the supposed com munications from the other world are all illusion. What then? Must we abandon the faith in immortality? What foundation will remain for It other than the hope that God Is Just? Our correspondent seems to think this hope rather Insecure; but is he pre pared to assert that God is unjust? If he is not, he must admit that the ethi cal' argument for Immortality has tre mendous force. NORMALS ON NORMAL BASIS. While the newly adopted policy of the Normal School Board . of Regents will be embarrassing to the Drain and Monmouth normals, it is in line with good business principles and will tend toward solution of the normal school problem. At Its meeting in July the board announced its purpose to operate all the normals, provided funds should be supplied from private sources for the Monmouth and Drain institutions. This policy contemplated that the per sons who furnished the funds or who had unpaid claims against either of these schools would present claims to the next Legislature and would have at least the silent approval of the board of regents in their demand for repayment. Under that plan the board of regents would create an obligation which the state could not honorably refuse to pay and which beyond ques tion would be paid. Had that policy been pursued the four normals would be operated as they have In the past, though appropriations had been refused for two of them. The new pol'cy, announced at the meeting of the board last Tuesday,' ex pressly provides against the creation of any obligation, legal or moral, and yet leaves the way clear for the operation of the Drain anJl Monmouth normals if those interested care' to pay the ex pense. The board will accept dona tions of funds and use them in mainte nance of the institutions, but the dona tions must come with the express un derstanding and agreement that no claim for repayment will be made to the state or the Legislature. The do nation must be absolute, and not in the nature of a loan, or the institutions will not be operated. This is by no means a settlement of the normal school question, for In any event we still have four institutions known as state normal schools, though two of them are without state support for this biennial term. The whole ques tion of the number and location of state normals remains to perplex the next Legislature, unless It shall be de cided by initiative at the next general election. The sttuation when the Leg islature meets in 1909 will be less com plex, for the reason that there will be no deficiency appropriation to be made for Monmouth and Drain, and a gen eral policy will have been established of creating no debt where the Legis lature has authorized none and has made no provision for payment. " The trouble in the past has been that the normal schools ran the Legislature, so far as it was to their Interest to do bo. Members from normal school coun ties combined to promote their local interests, and when by that means money had been procured, the schools spent as much of it as they could and some of them padded their student rolls in order to lay the foundation for demands for larger appropriations at the next cession. As one of the presi dents frankly admitted, young people were induced to come to the school and take instruction in shorthand and a kindred subject. In order that their names might be placed upon the roll and the statistics swelled to larger pro- I portions. By such practices state funds which they were appropriated in pur suance of an apparent policy of getting all the money possible from the treas ury and then finding a way to spend it. The theory existed that each section of the state Is entitled to a share of the public funds and that local interests should control the expenditure of the money. The creation of one board of regents for the control of all 'the normals has paved the way for a good business management, and there are indications that results are likely to be accom- pllshed in this direction. The board I has adopted a uniform course of study, uniform rules and regulations, and has ' determined that the work of the insti tutions shall be limited to the making of teachers, as was originally Intended when the institutions were made state normals-. Presumably there will be no more padding of student rolls and the appropriations will be measured by the needs of the Institutions. Philadelphia has taken up the mat ter of steamships to New Orleans, and is asking Mr. Harriman, to establish a line to the Pennsylvania seaport. In the appeal that is being made it is set forth that in existing conditions the traffic from the South is forced through the port of New York alone, and that It could be handled to better advan tage if Philadelphia were given a share of the business. As the Jurisdic tion of Mr. Schwerin does not extend to the Atlantic Coast, there is a fair prospect that Philadelphia will be suc cessful. Out here on the Pacific, Port land has been urging a division of business on exactly similar lines, but with only a mild, degree of success. Mr. Schwerin has not succeeded in holding the Oriental business at San Francisco, but he has succeeded in driving much of it from Portland to Puget Sound ports.' Advices from Tangier yesterday said that El Merani, an uncle of the Sultan, had been angered toy the tone of a let ter he had received from Ralsuli and had advanced to within eight miles of the outlaw's position and that a fight was imminent. In his letter Raisull taunted El Merani by telling him" that he had been sent out by the Sultan to fight, not to remain inactive. Up to date the greatest difficulty encountered by any of the pursuers of Ralsuli has been in getting close enough to the famous outlaw to show anything that bore any semblance to a fight. Aside from the killing done by the French troops, there has been hardly enough bloodshed In this outlaw-chasing affair to take it out of the comic opera class. Reports from Monmouth show that the friends of the normal at that place will provide funds upon the conditions named by the board, and that the insti tution will be operated during the com ing year. Since Drain has a. smaller constituency. It may be more difficult for that institution to continue as a state normal. Neither of them can be maintained in such a manner as to place upon the state any obligation to reimburse those who supply the money for the expenses. This leaves the mat ter where the Legislature left it, and no action that the board will take will give the normals a stronger claim than they already had. The soaking rain which swept over the Northwest a short time ago extin guished some of the forest fires that had sprung up in the slashings, but a few days of sunshine, together with the carelesness of hunters and thOBe who are engaged in burning slashings will start the "smudge" again and there will be the usual loss of timber. Ai large fire was reported near Gales Creek yesterday, and over in Washing ton several have been reported within the past week. All of this may help the price of sawlogs at some future date, but Is somewhat expensive on the present holders of timber. Plainly, the Portland Clearing House Association could not come to the res cue of the Oregon Savings and. Trust Company. The primary cause of the failure was that the bank undertook to underwrite on a very large scale the Independent telephone bonds. The Clearing House could have made its support effective only by underwriting the trust company's schemes. This the Clearing House had no business to do. If it wa3 bad banking policy for the trust company, it was worse for the associated Portland banks. Their busi ness is not promotion. In the following paragraph the Omaha Bee voices the sentiment of the great corn belt: "Crop reports, rail road earnings and unabated activity in every line of produce, merchandise and manufacture, form a line of lnforma tory reading for the American public that has a greater influence than all gloom radiating from disappointed Wall-street gamblers." And it proba bly reflects the opinion of the whole country with the exception of preda tory and lawbreaklng trusts. South Carolina doesn't seem to have much- confidence in the reformatory effect of her neighboring state's new prohibition law, as witness this lurid prediction toy the Charleston News and Courier: ' "Georgia Is looking forward to a December drunk of proportions unprecedented and unparalleled In glory." Dr. Cottel's estimate that 300 babies are poisoned in Portland every year by contaminated milk Is conservative. Milk inspection is needed here, and needed badly. In what other city, for example, would milkmen be permitted to bottle milk on the street in a cloud of dust, filth and disease germs? Pnpsldent Moore's knowledge of his bank's affairs seems to be as vague as John D.'s acquaintance with Standard Oil. It is pertinent to inquire again what bank presidents and directors are appointed for. Mr. Bryan has been ditched four times on the way to Rockford and twice on the way to Washington. Be ing used to vicissitudes, he is not easily discouraged. . Mr. Bryan was caught this week In a railroad wreck for the fourth time and escaped with as little damage as he sustained in ths noted wreck of 1896 and 1900. Japan announces an International ex position for 1912. Here is our opportu nity to send the Pacific fleet without giving offense. This would be an appropriate and very profitable season to supplant crip pled wire communication by telepathy. COULDN'T MAKE FARMING PAY Grorer Cleveland's Neighbors at Prince ton Talk Abont Htm. Princeton (N. J.) Correspondence. The barber under the First National Bank building, who shaved me upon my arrival here, fell to talking in a free and easy manner about his fellow-townsman, urover Cleveland. ' "We don't see much of Grover around here." said the tonsorial artist. "He has a law office up In Boston and he Is there practicing law nearly all the time. Looks like pretty much of a come-down for an ex-President of the United States to be drummin' up a law '.usiness, but Grover knows all the law there is in tne United States and then some, and, if he wants to swell his corpulent fortune that way, I reckon it's nobody's business but his own." This veracious tale about what Mr. Cleveland Is doing is about on a par with hundreds of other stories that one hears from the town gossips of Princeton. Aside from a few of the ex-President's Intimate friends, who are chiefly digni taries of the university circle, the people here know as little concerning his per sonal affairs as do the people of Indian apolis. They get most of their Informa tion about Mr. Cleveland and his doings from the metropolitan newspapers, and then guess at the rest. The ex-President is a rich man hojw rich nobody knows. It is stated by every body to whom I talked here that he Is a millionaire at least, and by some his wealth was estimated as high as $3,000,000. He has no holdings here except his resi dence property, but he has extensive real estate Investments in New York and Buf falo. The principal part of his fortune, however. Is In stocks. He Is supposed to have friends In New York who are in a position to pick Judicious Investments and who look after his interests. The ex-President is not In the business of shearing lambs, and he will have noth ing to do with speculative transactions that are the least bit shady, but when ever there Is money to be made by le gitimate investments In stocks he is not averse to taking a hand. Mr. Cleveland was a farmer. Just for a little while, but he soon found that farm lng Is not his long suit. A few years ago he bought a farm of 100 acres east of Princeton, thinking that he would keep some cows and get his family supply of dairy products at first hand It was a los ing proposition from the start. As was to be expected, everybooy Imposed on him. In the first place, not being a good judge of soil, he bought a farm that was cold and wet and of small v..lue, although he paid a round price for it. Mr. Cleveland soon discovered, that he could not afford to be a farmer. He sold hiB farm, and now he Is buying his eggs, butter and poultry in the open market and saving money. Although the ex-President Is seen very little in Princeton, he Is extremely demo cratic in his dress and demeanor when he appears in public. He relegateu his silk hat to everlasting oblivloi. when he left the White House. In the Winter he wears a "slouch" hat, and In the Summer he prefers straw headgear. He dresses for comfort and not for style. Glln Monster Kills Rattlesnake. Chicago ?Cews. Dr. James B. Bullitt, of Louisville, writes of a gila monster and a rattlesnake: "A two years' residence in Arizona made me quite familiar with both of these reptiles: for a good part of the time I had one of the former tied to the leg of my office table by a string. In his native habitat the monster Is credited with being the enemy of the rattlesnake and is said to kill him. Chancing to have both rep tiles on hand at the same time. I put them in a large box together and awaited results. "The rattler coiled in one end of the box; the monster would waddle up to him, root under his coils with his nose and finally nip down on a coll near the tall. The rattler would then spring to the other end of the box and recoil. After this had happened a number of times the monster finally succeeded In seizing the snake by the neck. Just back of the head. "He held a firm grip until the snake was choked to death. The monster sick ened and died a couple of days afterward. On removing his skin I found two punc tured wounds on his back, evidently the result of the snake's having struck him once." Near aa Rockefeller Guard. New York World. A reporter for the World was driven to the home of John u. Rockefeller, Jr.. at Pocantico Hills, 'me carriage drove up to the front door and the reporter alighted and was about to ring the front door bell. But before he could put his purpose Into execution a big, dangerous looking negro, armed with a repeating rifle, advanced hurriedly down the drive, and the following colloquy took place: "What are you doing?" "I am going to ring the bell." "Who do you want to see?" "Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. This is his house, is Jt not?" "Yes; but what do you want to see him. for? Where do you come from, and who are you, anyway?" During this conversation the negro held the rifle ostentatiously displayed. The negro peremptorily forbade the re porter to ring the bell, adding that Mr. Rockefeller did not want to see him, and marching to the horse's head, with brusqueness ordered the reporter to get into the carriage and to at once leave the premises, x'he reporter got Into the carriage, which was driven on, escorted several yards by the negro and his rifle. Down Mountain Side on a I, oar. Wllkesbarre Dispatch to New York Sun. Benjamin Golder. a lumberman of North Mountain, had a thrilling ride down the mountain side on a log. The log started at the top of the slide and carried him with it. He managed to get astride, and feared to Jump oft, because of the danger of being crushed. The slide Inclines about 80 degrees, and the log sped downward at frightful speed. The branches of the trees whipped Golder with such force that his clothes were torn to shreds. Near the bottom a big branch swept him from the log like a feather. He was picked up un conscious and badly bruised, but will re cover. - , e NEWSPAPER WAIFS. Popperlelgh Your new twins are Just alike, aren't they? . Do they do everything at the same tlme--feed, eleep,. wake, and o forth? Qulverfull (wearily) Everything but sleep. They have a relay system on that. Cleveland Leader. "What wu the trouble between Flossie and the stage manager?" "She wanted all the limelight." "What did he give her?" "A lemcm." Indianapolis News. "So," said her indulgent father, young Mr. Nervey wants to take you away from me " "Oh. yes. replied the dear girl, "hut be says he'll bring me back after the wedding Journey. He has decided that we shall board with you." Philadelphia Press. "Do you care," she asked, " If I eat green onions?" "No," he replied, "why should I?" Then she began to tell her friends that she wouldn't marry him, "even If he were the last man on earth." Chicago Record Herald. "You laughed right In the midst of the ceremony," said the groom, reproachfully. "Well." responded the bride, "that ridic ulous minister made me promise to obey you, and it struck me as too funny." Phil adelphia Public Ledger. "What a pity you are engaged 5"$oung, my dear," said the maid who was beginning to carry weight for age. "You will never know what fun It Is to refuse a man." No: I suppose not," rejoined the fair debutante, "but you can't imagine how much fun there is In accepting one." Chi cago News. NATURE FAKERS ARE HIT AGAIN Mr. Eoosevelt Again Declares That Their 'Tacts Are Not Tacts but Are Pure Inventions." Theodore Roosevelt has a signed article on "Nature Fakers" In the September Issue of Everybody's Magazine. It Is preceded by a symposium of various scientists support ing the ldeae advanced by the President last June and expressed with even more force in the present article. Following are extracts from the Presi dent's stratght-from-the-shoulder compli ments to Mr. Long: The modern "nature faker" is, of course, an object of derision to every scientist worthy of the name,, to every real lover of the wilderness, to every faunal natu ralist, to every true hunter or nature lover. But it is .evident that he com pletely deceives many good people who are wholly ignorant of wild life. Some times he draws on his own imagination for his fictions; sometimes he gets them second-hand from Irresponsible guides or rappers or Indians. In the wilderness, as elsewhere, there are . some persons who do not regard the truth;' and these are the very per sons who most delight to fill credulous strangers with lmpossilble stories of wild beasts. As for Indians, they live In a world of mysticism, and they often ascribe supernatural traits to the animals they know. Just as the men of the Middle Ages, with almost the same childlike faith, cred ited the marvels told of the unicorn, the basilisk, the roc. and the cockatrice. m Of all these "nature fakers." the most reckless and least responsible Is Mr. Long; but there are others who run him close in the "yellow journalism of the woods," as John Burroughs has aptly called it..- It would take a volume merely to catalogue the cornier absurdities with which the books of these writers are filled. There is no need of discussing their theories; the point Is that their alleged "facts" are not facts at all. but fancies. Their most striking stories are not merely distortions of facts, but pure inventions; and not only are they Inventions, but they are inventions by men who know so little of the subject concerning which they write, and who to Ignorance add such utter recklessness, that they are not even able to distinguish between what is possible, however wildly improbable, and mechanical impossibilities. Be It remem bered that I am not speaking of ordi nary mistakes, of ordinary errors of ob servation, of differences of interpretation and opinion; I am dealing only with de liberate invention, deliberate perversion of fact. It is not probable that the writers in question have even so much aa seen some of the animals which they minutely de scribe. They certainly do not know the first thdng about their habits, nor even about their physical structure. Judging from the internal evidence of their books, I should gravely doubt if they had ever seen a wild wolf or a wild lynx. The wolves and lynxes and other animals which they describe are full brothers of the wild beasts that appear in "Uncle Remus" and "Reynard the Fox," and de serve the same serious consideration from the zoological standpoint. Certain of their wolves appear as gifted with all the philosophy, the self-restraint, and the BISHOP POTTER'S SEVERE MOOD. Arraigns Church Because of Inactivity la Behalf of Masses. Chautauqua Dispatch In New York Times. "There Is no more righteous arraign ment of the church of our time than its indifference to the social conditions of the classes made up of less-favored men and women down in the gutter. The church has Justly been severely criticised, for its lack of Interest in the mental, moral and physical upbuilding of the masses." said Bishop Henry C. Potter, addressing the Chautauqua Assembly. "In our ecclesiastical relations we have been intimidated from translating our relations to the world into human sym pathy for fear of dropping Into what has been called the Institutional church, but if an Institutional church be the means of bringing the church Into profound sympathy with human life, then the founder of our religion Instituted the in stitutional church. "The church should take active steps to cure the physical and mental as well as the religious Ills of the people. The church's neglect of this vital work can not be remedied too soon. It has neg lected its most Important function. "The great cause of our social unrest is that monstrous profusion and extrava gance which I am inclined to consider the worst note In our American civiliza tion. Ostentatious wealth cannot be too scathingly condemned. "I become more and more convinced that the impatience of the masses comes more from the abuse of wealth than from any other cause. Is it any wonder that the average worker in the tenements be comes wrought up at what he considers the great injustice of society when he sees wealth spent lavishly around him, while he struggles In misery? "The modern workman Is most inflam mable material for social unrest. The wonder. Is not that we have produced such results, but that results are not worse." Ft-ve Miles on Water-Cycle. Itfiaca Dispatch In New York Sun. Five miles down Cayuga Lake on a water bicycle was the record established by Jose Antonio Ostes, a Mexican stu dent at Cornell University. He Invited several girls to take a ride, and the most daring traveled 200 feet in safety. The bicycle consists of a frame in the shape of a delta built on two large water snoes five feet long. In the rear of the contrivance there Is an elght-bladed paddle wheel, propelled by two pedals which move a small sprocket, and this In turn moves a long chain, which causes the wheels to revolve. UNCLE SAM: "NOW, REALLY WANT TO III. keen intelligence of, say, Marcus Aurellus. together with the lofty philanthropy of a modern altruist; though unfortunately they are hampered by a wholly' erron eous view of caribou anatomy. Like the White Queen in "Through ths Looking Glass," these writers can easily believe three impossible things before breakfast; and they do not mind in the least if the Impossibilities are mutually contradictory. Thus, one story relates how a wolf with one bite reaches the heart of a bull caribou, or a moose, or a horse a feat which, of course, haB been mechanically impossible of performance by any land carnivore since the death of the last saber-toothed tiger. But the next story will cheerfully describe a contest between the wolf and a lynx or a bulldog, in which the latter survives 20 slashing bites. Now, of course, a wolf that could bite Into the heart of a horse would swallow a bulldog or a lynx like a pill. It Is half amusing and half exasperating to think that there should be excellent persons to whom it is necessary to ex plain that books stuffed with such stories, in which the stories are stated as facts, are preposterous in their worthlessness. These worthy persons vividly call to mind Professor Lounsbury's comment on "the infinite capacity of the human brain to withstand the introduction of knowledge." The books in question contain no state ment which a serious and truth-loving student of nature can accept, save state ments which have already long been known as established by trustworthy writer3. The fables they contain bear the same relation to real natural history that Barnum's famous artificial mermaid bore to real fish and real mammals. No ma nwho has really studied nature in a spirit of seeking the truth, whether he be big or little, can have any controversy with these writers; It would be as ab surd as to expect some genuine student of anthropology or archeology to enter into a controversy with the clumsy fab ricators of the Cardiff Giant. Their books carry their own refutation; and affidavits In support of the statements they con tain are as worthless as the similar affi davits once solemnly Issued to show that the Cardiff "giant" was a petrified pre Adamite man. There is now no more ex cuse for being deceived by their stories than for being still in doubt about the silly Cardiff hoax. Men of this stamp will necessarily arise, from time to time, some in one walk of life, some In another. Our quarrel is not with these men. but with those who give them their chance. We who be lieve In the study of nature feel that a real knowledge and appreciation of wild things, of trees, flowers, birds, and of the grim and crafty creatures of the wilderness, give an added beauty and health to life. Therefore we abhor de liberate or reckless untruth in this study as much as in any other; and therefore we feel that a grave wrong Js committed by all who, holding a position that en titles them to respect, yet condone and encourage such untruth. JAP HEEL ON SLOW COREA. Subject Nation Blind to Progress and Loaea Freedom. PhiladelpJ.'f ess. With the summary ppresslon of the shreds of popular res tnce in Seoul, the last effort at Indettj jence in Corea passes away. : On Its peninsula, Just the size and shape of Florida to a few square .miles, the Corean people has kept its soft, separate race-loving life for centuries. Corea gave Japan its first knowledge of pottery and of bronze, of building and of painting, and the influence of the early Corean examples can still be traced in Japanese earthenware in our shops. Some stray Aryan thread wove itself into Corean origins and an occa sional light-haired family still sur vives fn an upper class, luxurious, cor rupt and inefficient. For a generation, since it was opened, Corea had the chance to learn from the West. It neglected its opportunity. It kept to the old pleasant paths. Effi cient Japan, the new policeman of East Asia, who has mastered the lesson of the West, has collared the older land and "run it In." Some street fights may come. Some blood may be shed. But Corea will remain under the heel of the more powerful land. Yet this is the day when the lesser lands are coming to their own. Fin land has recovered its liberties. Bo hemia has a new control of its affairs. Croatia is successfully resisting the at tempt to put the Hungarian tongue on state railroads. Norway has recovered its Independence. The French Midi, If it has failed in revolt, never had a more individual life. Catalonia makes itself felt anew in Spain, The Al banians in Eplrus are detaching them selves from nationalities about. Ire land sees a revival of Erse life, its Ideals, Its tongue and letters. The Trnnsvaal and Orange Free State are successfully maintaining their autono my under the British flag. The world movement toward great power, in progress for a century, be gins to see its reaction; but the new impulse to preserve the separate life of the "little people" comes too late for uorea. Hla Baaeleas Money Dream. Philadelphia. Pa:. Dispatch. Attorney Julian C. Walker, of Wilming ton, Del., dreamed that he had found a large sum of money. Hurrying home, he discovered that he had lost a pocket book containing X15 and valuable papers. MR. BONAPARTE, DO YOU KILL THAT GOOSE?" -From the New York Mall.