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THE MORNINB OKEGONIAN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 190?. SfBStRIPTIOX HATES. IN VARIABLY IN ADVANCED (By Mall.) Pally. Sunday Included, one year. .18.00 . 4 25 . 2.25 .. .75 . 8.00 ,. 3.25 .. 1.75 . .0 . 2.50 . 1.50 . 3.50 Dally, Sunday Included, six months.. Ually, Sunday included, three months Daily, Sunday Included, one month... Daily, without Sunday, one year Daily, without Sunday, alx months... Dally, without Sunday, three months. Dally, without Sunday, one month Sunday, one year Weekly, one year (Issued Thursday). Sunday and Weekly, one year BY CAKKIER. Dally. Sunday Included, one year...... Daily. Sunday Included, one month.... 9.00 .75 HOW TO- REMIT Send postofflce money order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. Olve postofflce ad dress in full. Including- county and state. POSTAGE RATES. Entered at Portland. Oregon, aH Second-Class Matter. 10 to 14 I'e i lfl to 28 Panes Postofflce 1 cent ' " " 2 cents .1 cents no to l-n - --,. 40 to (Hi Tanes cents Foreign postage, double rates. IMItlRTANT The postal laws are strict. Newspapers on which postage li not fully prepaid are not forwarded to destination. EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICE. ') to 44 Pnges.. The S. C. Berkwlth Special AK'licy York, roonia cago. rooms jvt-r.n Tribune building. Chl- S10-512 Tribune building. KEPT OX SALE. . f'hlcaco Auditorium Annex, Postofflce News Co.. 178 Dearborn st. St. Paul, Minn. N. St. Marie. Commercial Station. , Denver Hamilton & Kendrlck. -j Seventeenth street; Pratt Book Store, lil Fifteenth street; H. P- Hansen. S. Rtc Kansns t'lty. Mo. Blcksecker Cigar V.O., Ninth and 'Walnut; Yoma News (o Minneapolis M. J. Cavanaugh. Third. Cleveland, O. James Pushaw, 50 South 307 Su- perior street. Washington. I). C Ebbltt House, Penn- svlvania avenue. Philadelphia, Pa, Ryan's Theater Ticket cfflce; Penn News Co. 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Cal. O.ll-Chronlcle Agency Norfolk. Vs. American . News Co. 1 Pine Bench. V.-eW. A. Cosgrove. B. PORTLAND, FRIDAY, AUG. 30, 1907. THE HISTORICAL METHOD. The following, signed "A Reader," whom we take to be a Roman Catholic Father, appears on the editor's table: As often as the editorial writer deals with Holy Scripture and its exegesis he seems to lose all his wits. In his recent editorial, "Something Better." he proves that the poor fellow never read Holy Scripture. '"The God of the Jews was a local deity." Nonsense! Read the Psalms, read the prophets, etc. "Domini est terra et plenltudo ejus." "orbis terrenus et universa terra, etc.." "Omaes gentcs quasi non sunt coram lllo." etc., etc. It Is aggravating to have a child talk as a doctor. He should keep his ignorance and grow fat on it by himself. I love to read your paper. It is a splendid paper, but don't allow children to write such nonsense. We wish to treat the critic with en tire respect, yet must say it is plain that his method of exposition is the one of the olden time, which entirely ig nores the method and r&sufts of mod ern scholarship, employed in the inter pretation of the Scriptures, Jewish and Christian. Such exegetes or expounders do not see we may say refuse to see that there is more than one concep tion of Deity in the body of literature known as Holy Scripture. Yet it Is perfectly clear and is acknowledged by the scholarship of the world, that every difference exists between the conception of God in the older parts of the Jewish Scriptures and the later conception by the prophets of Israel. The one was an exclusive tribal God, narrow, partial, tierce, bloody, inexorable; the other, the God of all mankind, who deals justly and impartially with all, and in whose handj is the moral government of the world. Between these opposite concep tions in Israel .centuries intervened during which immense changes took place in ideas and concepts of the peo ple of Israel, due largely to the change in their relations with the nations that surrounded them. A more exalted idea of Deity was one consequence. In con trast with the narrow anthropomorph ism of the earlier times it appears in the great prophets, in certain of the psalms, and here and there in the his torical books, wherein the old and the new are mixed, through repeated re dactions. It is a large subject; for the method is not confined to Scriptural exegesis but is a method that covers the whole Held of literary and historical research and interpretation. .The body of literature known as the books of the Old and New Testaments are to be Interpreted by the universal canons of Hterary and historical criti clsni. Approximate dates of different portions, even in the same books and, chapters, are to be ascertained better by comparative study of different situa tions and circumstances In the history of a people than in any other way; for thus the differing and varying ideas may be assigned to their own times. v e may depend that the ideas of earlier and later Israel were not more the same than were the earlier and later ideas of Rome. And the same canon is good for all history and all times. The church, we know, inter prets what it calls sacred history to suit itself; in which, however, the various branches of the church can by .no means agree. But the rational. literary, philosophic and scientific interpretation of history, now established on Indissoluble founda tions, is quite another thing. To place a certain portion of human history in A, class by Itself, and call it "sacred history," .claiming for the church, or for any branch of it, an exclusive right to interpret that portion of history and to impose its Interpretation on the world, is a process which, if not wholly obsolete, no longer has power among men. According to a scientific journal, Ger many has learned y experiment that deep-sea fish can be acclimated in fresh water. This is indeed good news. Commisslonef Van Dusen has now the opportunity to immortalize himself by planting in the Clackamas, Rogue, San 'tl.'im, Deschutes and Umatilla Riviers young sturgeon, halibut," sole, black I cod, pompano, niackerel, bluefish and ' tarpon. When these reach the travel ing stage they can find in the over abundance of suckers and carp in the Willamette ample food supply. By all means let our streams be stocked with the choicest of the ocean's inhabitants and let's have the sport of catching hem fresh before breakfast for nothing Instead of paying 15 cents a pound for stale and doubtful fish in the markets. SERVICE UNDER THE FRANCHISES. It is beyond doubt that oner of the causes why the cars have been run at so high speed on the streets of Port land Is the impatience of. the public with slower locomotion. Every passen ger wants to' "get there," though he knows there are risks. The manage ment of the streetcars is responsive to this demand. But there is something to be said on another side of the question. If the management would put on more cars, then it would not be necessary to run at so high speed. Probably, however, it would be objected that this would in crease the expenses of operation beyond the power of the , company" to pay in terest on the bonds. It might, indeed. The overcapitalization on the fran chises Is very heavy. This is a legacy to the city from the "first families," who made the city charter, fixed up the legislation, hypnotized or otherwise prevailed over the Municipal Council, capitalized on the franchises in one of the wondrous ways of frenzied finance, and then sold out the whole undertak ing for sundry millions. Imposing on It a debt that requires dangerous econo mies to support and shuts the peo ple ' out from advantages that their franchises should have procured for them. But the present company bought with full notice of the methods by which all this was done. The. Oregonlan dinned it incessantly. The city had been most outrageously swindled, through a capi talization increased to a figure several times in excess of . the actual cost of the property. It was inflated to a bulk which it was supposed a five-cent fare, by close economies and meager service. could be made to carry, and our rich malefactors" put the money in their pockets. , Portland, in return for its franchises. should have the best of service, and a targe and steady cash Income besides. It is not to be forgotten to what par-; ties the city owes, primarily, the pres ent situation. There should be no ill will towards the purchasers; yet it is not to be forgotten that they were fully apprised of the situation and circum stances, as well as of the protest, be fore the purchase was made. Nobody wants them to be losers; yet the people feel that since they get no income from tne trancmses tney are entitled to rea sonably safe and satisfactory service. Meantime they have a. right also to execrate the "plungers of high finance" who put them into this hole. And, the gas service of the city, capitalized on a franchise claimed to be perpetual, yet paying nothing to the city, while fur nishing gas of poor quality at high prices, is another of their achievements. First families come high. THE STANDPATTER. Many a man who has been proud to proclaim himself a "standpatter" will be scrambling one of these days to get on the tariff revision bandwagon. The standpat policy has never been a wise one in "politics or anything else. Per fection has never been reached in any thing human, and, if tariffs are de clared to be imperfect, there is no oc casion to raise the cry of treachery to the Republican party. Deity may well proclaim itself the same yesterday, to day and forever, but the man or party that announces a purpose to consider no change is in a fair way to be left far behind in the world's progress. There are standpatters in otlfer lines than cpolitics. The old farmer who sent his boy to mill with a sack of corn, placing the corn in one end of the sack and a stone in the other, to balance the load over the horse's back, was a standpatter. That's the way his father did. The dairyman who. keeps his herd of scrub cows because he has prospered with them is a standpatter. and he thinks he has ample argument to justify his refusal to grade up to a higher standard. The lawyer who keeps his nose between the leaves of musts' volumes of precedents is a standpatter, and he looks upon the at torney who follows reason instead of precedent as an enemy of established government. The preacher who reads only his Bible and takes everything lit erallythe lake of fire, the three days In the belly of the whale, the creation of earth in seven days is a standpatter ana tnose wno cutter from him are heretics. The newspaper publisher who prints his paper on an old hand press Is a standpatter, as also is the. mer chant who refuses to advertise and the miser who keeps his hoard In a tin ket tie. The standpatter In politics Is by no means, alone, but one would think he would not be proud of his company. PICTURE POSTALS. The tendency of the great rank and file of the American people to pursue an Idea until It becomes a fad, and make a fad a nuisance, is witnessed in the ex treme to which picture postal cards has been pushed. Conceived in the leglti mate and laudable purpose of bringing absent friends in touch with the beau ties of a distant landscape, or of the advantages that one section offers over another for Homebuilding, for business or for special industry, the picture" pos tal has grown into, a fad, a craze, and has at last come to be a menace .of in decency, of which the local authorities and the Postal Department have been forced to take cognizance. The limit having been reached, the flippant frenzy that has found expres sion in the picture postal may now be expected to abate and these wretched caricatures of everything under the sun be withdrawn from sale and excluded from the malls. There are, however, picture postals that will remain bits of scenic beauty that are worth preserv ing; glimpses of .places of more .or less grandeur and renown visited by tour ists and sent as souvenirs to stay-at-homes; a corner of a heavily laden or chard or hopyard; the old home in min iature, with "mother" a dim figure on the porch, and a thousand and one other objects that give at least a passing pleasure to the recipient, will linger to demonstrate still that the Idea, upon which this fad was basad was both le gitimate and clever. It has often been demonstrated that there is but a single step from gross caricature to bald indecency. It is not surprising that th'is step has been taken In the hot pursuit of the picture postal fad. After some tons of highly colored, caricatured and indecently let tered cardboard and leather of the reg ulation postal size have been fed to fur naces, or otherwise destroyed by offl- cial order, the legitimate picture postal may be expected, to resume its original place as a convenient medium of adver tisement, remembrance or communica tion. The avalanche of these cards that has -fairly swamped the mails and wearied and disgusted the public can not be stopped too soon. It is gratify ing to note that preliminary measures looking to this end have- been taken In this city. GENEKAL GREELY AND THE ARMY CANTEEN. In the annual report of Major-General Greely is given an opinion of the Army canteen, from the viewpoint of the sol dier in close touch with garrison life, and of the commander who has an in tenee.and abiding interest in the per sonnel of the Army and the moral as well as the physical welfare of the common soldier. Having made a sys tematic and extensive examination of the causes of desertion, and of minor but still grave delinquencies in the ranks, General Greely has been led to the belief that small pay and the abo lition of the Army canteen are chiefly responsible for these disquieting facts and conditions. It is idle to dispute or to minimize as trifling the facts that 'deal with this latter subject. When it Is stated that fully 80 per cent of all offenses com mitted by enlisted men that call for military and civil discipline are due to the unregulated saloons that have sprung up around Army posts since the canteen was abolished, the mistake that was made in abolishing It is plain.' General Greely is himself a man of avowed temperance principles and hab its, yet he knows, by what he has seen of the effects of attempting to make soldiers total abstainers by compulsion that this effort is ill advised. That it has proved disastrous, the conditions that prevail and the scandals due to unrestricted dramshops in close prox imity to' the Army posts of the coun try sufficiently attest. The testimony submitted -in this report in regard to the canteen as a promoter of discipline, sobriety, good health and general good conduct Is in line with that of mili tary commanders throughout the coun try. Upon the deleterious' effects of the abolition of , the canteen on enlisted men all are agreed. That tne -restoration of the canteen would toe of benefit to ithe Army morally and physically is beyond reasonable doubt. Upon this showing Congress should without un necessary delay restore it and thus cor rect the mistake that was made when. urged by an organization that works upon "the principle that temperance is a thing of law instead of inclination and habit, the post canteen was abolished. The facts in the premises have been carefully ascertained and succinctly submitted by men who are in a posi tion to know whereof they speak. Not only Is the consensus of opinion among military men, including post chaplains, in favor of the restoration of the can teen, but the civilians of post towns and vicinities favor its restoration as a matter of public peace and safety, since of all elements of menace to a community a drunken and debauched soldiery is the most dreaded. It is, of course, and properly so, from the standpoint of the benefit that the Army will derive therefrom that Gen eral Greely and other military men recommend restoration of the canteen. There are, however, other considera tions, both of an individual and pub lie nature that as strongly urge its restoration. It is not conceivable, therefore, that Congress will long defer favorable action upon this recommen dation. THE EFFECTIVE BIRTH RATE. An official In the statist's office In Mel-bourne, seeking to reconcile the de creasing birth' rate Of Australia with the steady growth in the native adult population, has brought out cleverly the difference between a total and an effective birth rate. He has instituted comparisons between the vital statis tics) of the various European countries and those of New South Wales, with the result that places the effectjve birth rate of Australia very high. The findings of his investigation are given in the following table: Total "Effective" birth- blrth- i rate. rate. Norway :io.2 . 2.1.0 Prussia 3(5.4 New South Wales 27.4 21.9 England and Wales 29.2 20.6 Belgium 2S.J 20.2 Switzerland 2S.H 1.7 Austria 37.(1 1D.7 Sweden 2H.8 l.l Italy 33. A IS. 6 Spain 34 8 17.3 Fiance 22.0 15.1 It will be seen that, while third from the bottom on the total 'birth rate. New South Wales is third from the top on the "effective" birth rate, being only surpassed In the relative number of children brought to maturity by Prus sia and Norway. It need scarcely be urged that It is the "effective" birth rate that really counts. From the viewpoint of the economist, the states man and the soldier, children that .die before reaching maturity are a waste of human energy. As summed up by the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, "they afford no return on the invest ment embodied In them; those who come to effective life are the ones to be considered." . , The vitality of the modern. German Empire is demonstrated In the remark able exhibit made by Prussia in the above table. It shows a combination of racial vigor and brawn with the knowledge that makes the most, of the recuperative forces of the Nation in protecting child life and thus making a high birth rate effective. Let us have done with the senseless clamor about race suicide until we have learned to conserve the child life of the Nation In a- way that will make the total and ef fective birth rate more nearly equal. WALL STREET IS LEARNING. ,f The New York stock market -seems to be rallying from Its protracted depres sion, and there is a growing disposition on the part of many leading financiers to cease bewailing the unpleasant situ ation which their own folly assisted in creating and to lend a hand toward im proving matters. The emphatic refusal of the President to bear the blame for the stringency in Wall street seems to have been accepted with- a better grace than might have been expected, and. while there is an element among the lawbreaking corporation men that would like to fasten the odium for their own shortcomings on the Administra tion, others have taken a new tack and are helping to strengthen the situation A most sensible view of the matter is presented by Mr. Jacob Schiff, a close business associate of Harriman. who in an fnterview at Bar Harbor, Mich, few days ago said: To blame the Federal administration for the difficulties in which we find ourselves. is both thoughtless and unjust. Even If the excesses which the great prosperity of re cent years has had in Its wake had been permitted to continue . unchecked. . before long a situation would have developed prob ably far- more difficult and serious than the crisis through which we are now pass ing. This view of the situation carries with It' special weight from the fact that it was given by the financial part ner of one of the men whom the Presi dent . has pursued more relentlessly than any other. But Mr. Schift is too intelligent to resort to any petty sub terfuges. He states that the crisis through which we are now passing is the result of tremendous railroad. In dustrial and commercial development that has required the use of capital largely in excess of our ability to sup ply It. The strain thus produced has been intensified by the wholesale gam bling and stock-watering epidemic which has been raging in Wall street for the past two or three years. But even were the efforts of the Ad ministration wholly, responsible for the temporary stringency, the country in the end would be a gainer by the at tempt to correct the great evils which have run unchecked for so long. The President seems to have made his po sition quite clear, and, now that it is understood that there will be strict ad herence to the policies which have been clearly outlined, there will toe less ap prehension or uncertainty and business will soon adjust itself to the changed conditions. The late Charles Cardinell, a pioneer of this city, lately deceased, will long be held In remembrance by a number of people now middle-aged, who In their youth were his- pupils in dancing. His love for the music to which he taught them to step In the old days was at tested by the tenderness with which, in his will, he spoke of three cherished violins a Stradlvarius, a Cremona and aSteiner in devising them to his heirs. Of all Inanimate things, the instrument that, under skillful touch, produces melodious, sounds is 'dearest to the hearts of those who are able to inter pret and enjoy music. That an aged musician should feel a tender affection for his violin is not strange; it would be strange Indeed if he did not so re gard what had been to him the means of pure and true enjoyment, not only during his active years, but throughout the declining years of his life. The boatman loses his boat, the scholar his books, the reverent man the old homestead, Tjut the essence of affection for things Inanimate is distilled by and through the old musical instrument that has ripened with the ripennig years of its owner, and proved a never- failing source of solace or pleasure. Debauching Indians has long been a pursuit followed upon the frontiers of civilization by degraded white men. The Government, thro.ugh the Indian Bureau, has made and is making hon est and strenuous effort to stop the abuse of savages by the offscourings of civilization, but with only partial sue cess. To succeed in this attempt it will be necessary to eliminate the squaw man, the moonshiner and the unlicensed purveyor of liquor from the problem and to eliminate these factors it will be necessary to take such degenerates wherever found and execute them with out unnecessary delay proceedings not at present contemplated. The' latest story of outrage against Indians comes from Western Alaska, where a special agent of the Department of the Interior found abuses of so grave a nature as to demand the prompt interference of the police and judicial officers of the Government. St. Petersburg advices announce the retirement from official life of Count Witte, once the most powerful adviser of the Czar and one of Russia's most famous diplomats. Count Witte has retired to accept a directorship In the Bank of Russia, and has thus vastly improved his chances for dying a nat ural death. The red record of Russian anarchists and liberators contains so many names of men who stood high in official life before they were laid low by bombs that it is something remarkable that the Czar can find a , sufficient num ber" of helmsmen to assist him in steer ing the ship of state, and incidentally to become the target for bombs and pistol bullets. The American agent of the Trans-Si- Derian nanroao nas arranged for a special car to convey Secretary Taft from Vladivostok to St. Petersburg, This is not due to the size of the Sec retary, but to his Importance in other directions, and there is accordingly not much likelihood or the line getting Into trouble with the Siberian Railroad Commissioners, If such there be. The Umatilla Indians will share in the advantages of a good crop and high prices for wheat by receiving approxi mately $50,000 as rental from the pale faces who have been farming the land Any fears of the protracted withdrawal of this money from circulation will not be expressed by those 'who are at all familiar with the habits of the red man on a reservation. James J. Hill is one of the rare cap tains of Industry who, when he looks at Wall treet, doesn't take his eyes off the great- West. Speaking of the pres ent stringency he says: "I. don't view the situation with any alarm." Neither does the country which furnishes the Hill lines with traffic. It must have warmed the cockles of James Bryce's heart to receive an ova tion from so distinguished a body as the American Bar Association. If the British Arhbassador were ten years younger, there would be danger of de sire for naturalization. "This is all the fault of a woman," wailed a man who was arrested recent ly In this city for swindling. It Is thus that the. plea by which Father Adam sought to evade Individual responsibil ity for wrong-doing comes ringing down the ages. Gamblers will be interested to learn that telegraph Instruments have been Installed at the much-discussed pool room In Spokane. Here in Portland-, we learn, it takes something besides keys In order to insure prompt commu nication. At this distance, sympathy goes out to Stuyvesant Fish in his argument with the president of the Illinois Cen tral; also felicitations. Stockholders of the Illinois Central will be relieved when they learn that a quorum of directors was present at a meeting in dog days. The much-detested prune is at last having Its Inning, with 6 cents as a top price. That Is J30 a ton better than the price of last year. GOVERNOR HUGHES AND HIS BOOM If the People "Want Him for President, They Will CH Him. Brooklyn Eagle (Ind. Dem.). The Albany correspondent of the Herald says that the Republican politicians who are advancing a movement for the nom ination of Governor Hughes for the Presidency are in . despair. They have succeeded in constructing a good-sized "boom" for the Governor. And yet the Governor will do nothing. . He is on the eve of making a tour through the state. They have learned that he will have nothing to say on politics; that he will take care to make no expressions that will indicate that he is even "a receptive candidate." He will ignore poli tics. He is, therefore, a puzzle to them and to all politicians. There are some who would like to fight Hughes' Presidential aspirations. But how are they to light aspirations when there are no aspirations to antagonize? These politicians should not be dis turbed. By this time they should know that the Hughes way is not to be a candidate for a nomination. If the people want him for an office he will respond to a demand for his services. But that demand must be so clearly made that there will be no mistake about its mean ing. It must not be a whisper, nor must it be uttered behind a door. In the mean time he will do nothing to create the de mand nor give encouragement to an ef fort to create one. These are the Hughes politics. They are quite simple, and can be understood by everyDody except tne politicians. TAKES MORE MONEY FOR BUSINESS Attitude of the . Country's) Bank t o ward the Commercial Worl'l. Philadelphia Inquirer-. The unquestioned fact is that in spite of the volume of money In the country it is exceedingly difficult to borrow it for the needs of business. What the average man Is most interested In is the state of trade throughout the country. Do the ordinary currents of business reflect the conditions at the speculative centers: lo answer this question a Chicago bank sent out queries to 30,000 business men and cor porations all over- the country, ana tne answers are important. The replies are practically unanimous In saying that business is not only good at present, but that orders are cofning in sufficient to indicate more than a normal trade this Fall. The only complaint is the lack of money to carry on business In some centers, but the banks are in nearly all cases refusing loans for speculative purposes and aiding the commercial world as far as possible. Stiu tnere is not money enough, and the reason Is not far to seek. There Is scarcely a business house in the country that does not require more money to do business now than it did a few vears aco. The cost of materials for manufacture is increasing rapidly, wages are higher, and of course more money is required to do tne same amount of business based on the same actual rjroduct. But In nearly every case the product Is much enlarged. The man, firm or corporation which could get along with borrowing $50,000 must now have nearer J100.000 and may make no greater nrotit. That Is where the shoe pincnes. More business to do and less money to borrow. It would be the same if there were no Wall street and no speculation. With every decline In confidence there Is a loss In credit and over 95 per cent of business is done on credit. THE SOUTHERN REPUBLICAN VOTE Ham Influentlnl Representation In Na tional Party Conventional. New York Press. In his sneech at Lexington, Ky., Sec retary Taft remarked that If under the influence of President Kooseveit some of the Southern states "could be led into the Republican column In accordance with the real sympathies of the voters of those states it would be the crowning glory of his administration." What more -can the Republican party do for the Southern states than it al ready has done? For many years it has magnanimously but foolishly permitted the solid South to exert a large and some times a controlling Influence upon the nomination of Republican candidates for President and Vice-President. Although the nominees have been Northern men. a Republican voter in such states as Mis sissippi and Louisana has had two or three or four times more representation in the National Convention of the 'party than the Republican voter in New York. Pennsylvania . always casts her elec toral college vote for the candidates of the Republican party. Georgia never does. Yet each Republican voter in Georgia has more to say about the choice of the party's National nominees than 1 each Pennsylvania voter has. Tamping; at the State Fair. Oregon State Fair Publicity Bureau. One of the pleasant features of the Oregon State Fair has always been the camping life In the oak grove just out side the -fair grounds. The number of campers annually would form a good sized community. The tented city is marked off into streets, and lots, which are furnished free of charge, must be reserved before the fair. Albert Tozler. the "mayor" of the tented city, who has superintended this department for many years, has recently returned from an Eastern trip, and is I making arrangements with prospective campers now. rie siatea mat. aw camp ing sites had already been spoken for. As there are accommodations for only 1200 tents, all persons intending to take this delightful outing should apply to Mr. Tozier at once for space All the sites along the two main "-'streets" are al ready taken, and little signs, announcing that "this place Is reserved by Mr. ," are seen nailed to almost every tree. There is an abundance of good water on the grounds, and a grocery store close at hand. Wagons from the Salem dealers also visit the grounds daily. There are enough stalls for the horses, although this year Mr. Tozier says that one stall must be made to serve- for two animals in order to accommodate everybody. Mr. Tozier also notifies the campers that they will have to buy their firewood this year. There will be persons on the grounds with wood for sale. Mark Twain and the Nobel Prize. Boston Transcript. The anticipated distribution of the Nobel prizes, which public rumor has sent out, seems a little premature In August, since the awards are not due until December, and It will hardly be profitable to congratulate Rudyard Kip ling or condole with Mark lwaln on the gain or loss of the literary feature In the list before that date. Perhaps neither will get It. It Is the Swedish Academy that makes the award, and It Is not probable that It is making public Its In tentions at this early date. It might be restrained from giving it to the Ameri can by the fact that one of the prizes came to this country last year. Of course, It will be governed by its own standards. A popular verdict at the pres ent time would undoubtedly give it to Mark Twain. Of course it would be In this country and If distinguished atten tions count he would get the votes In Great Britain. It would not be alto gether a question of nigh water mark that would decide it. Mark Twain has grown and broadened and mellowed in literary service while counting his more recent years and their output, hardly as much can be said for Kipling. If staying power is one of the values to be considered Mark Twain is entitled to a very high percentage. But Swedish standards may differ radically from American or British standards. ETS BY LILIAN TINGLE. Among the fruits newly come in this week are Cassava melons, which have something In common with both water melons and muskmelons and cost 25 cents to 35 cents each: ground cherries, at 15 cents to 20 cents per pound, which make delicious jelly, besides being good either alone or tn a fruit salad; Oregon straw berries at 40 cents per box: fresh pine apples, small but good, costing about 30 cents each: nectarines. 16 cents to 20 cents per dozen; flgs. both white and black. 15 cents and 20 cents per dozen; very fine mountain blueberries at 20 cents per pound; fresh cocoanuts. 10 cents each, fine for curry, for iambolava and for salad, as well as for the usual sweet dishes. Grapes are very plentiful. Thompson seedless and Sultana grapes are 10 cents per pound or 40 cents per box. Tokay and Malaga grapes are particularly good. Plums of various kinds cost about 20 cents per basket. There are quantities of Damson plums, and a few blue Damsons at 5 cents per pound. I saw some par ticularly fine red Hungarian prunes that would be splendid for preserving, and some good Italian prunes, too. The early v.rawford peaches a"re practically over. but later varieties are seen at 75 cents to n.2,1 per box. Pears cost $2 per box. but I did not see any particularly fine ones. Oregon watermelons are in, the prices being about the same as last eek. There was a very good supply of nice tomatoes at about 75 cents per box. Even if you do not care to can tomatoes in the ordinary way, it is well worth while to lay in a store of home-made tomato con serve, which rpay form the foundation of many soups and sauces in the Winter and will make highly palatable dishes out of simple Inexpensive foods such as rice, beans, spagettl and cornmeal. To mato conserve has the additional virtue of requiring a smaller outlay for cans; since it is not only more concentrated, but can be satisfactorily kept In odd bottles If the supply of Jars is running low. All kinds of pickling material are com ing in: cucumbers, small chillies. Spanish red peppers, both round and long, green tomatoes, small onions. red cabbage cauliflower and bean? for "mixed pickles." English style, and for "picka 1111." It is a good time to make chutnees and chow-chows and other things that are not specially digestible or wholesome, but are decidedly useful on occasion as long as they are not fed to young and delicate children. Many wise housekeepers who do not put up many pickles make a practice at this season of canning vegetable combi nations with sauce, all ready to serve, against the day of haste or of unexpected guests. Such vegetable entries are quite different from the usual canned vege tables, and are very welcome when there is no such variety to choose from as at present. Evergreen corn, peas, beans, celery cauliflower, cabtae. Summer squash, turnips, beets. ctrict. onions green and dry. egg-plant, s.c"t potato's, cucum bers. tomatoes, lettuce and green peppers surely offer a wide choice both for hot dishes and for salads and yet I heard one unhappy-looking woman complain ing that she coi'Id not find anything she wanted! Poultry prices are about the same; chickens. IS to 20 cents; old fowls, 12-2 to 20 cents: ducks. 18 to 20 c-nts: Eastern turkeys, 25 to 28 cents: geese 15 cents. The close time for salmon began on August 26. so that only salmon from Washington Is seen. It is close time for sturgeon also. I saw some particularly fine halibut at 10 to 12 cents with the bones, or 25 cents rolled. Striped bass costs' 25 cents, and black bass 30 cents. Smelt, catfish, fresh herring, rock cod. black cod. ling cod and sole are to be had at prices ranging from 10 cents to 15 cents. Crabs, too. are coming In again and cost 15 to 30 cents each. DESERTIONS FROM THE I". S. ARMY No Canteen and Other Cauaea Induce Men to Qnlt. ' New York Sun. In his report dealing with desertions from the Army Major-General A. W. Greely gives ten causes. As long ago as 1883 General W. T. Sherman thought it was sufficient to give one. He said that the day was past when a soldier was content to live In dugouts on weighed and measured rations of bread, meat, potatoes and a "gill of whiskey a day." while the farmer, mechanic and laboring man had a good house and a table provided with ' plain food without stint.- General Sherman was speaking of the soldier on post and frontier duty. The soldier in garrison has quarters, but he is often cramped and he shares them with others. His rations are about the same as they were in 18S3, although he can add to them out of his savings. His whiskey that is to say, the canteen has been taken from him. Concerning the closing of the canteens General George B. Loud, of Massachusetts, said the other day: I believe that when the W. C. T. t". brought about the abolition of the canteen It pretty nearly wiped out all the great good It had done for years against the liquor evil. General Sherman's one cause of de sertion looms larger than ever in these fat days of a two-dollar wage for the unskilled laborer and from four to six dollars for the mechanic. As for the farmhand, he is asking from $1.75 to J2 a day and "keep" in New England. General Sherman's first great cause, to which he did not add, we Identify in the first cause of desertion given by General Greely: "Small pay, especially for non commlssloned officers, and high wages in civil life." Among others which stand out sharply in his list are: lack of can teen, excessive amount of non-military work, probable immunity from punish ment for desertion, hardships incurred THE PRESIDENT'S IN THE MAGAZINE SECTION OF THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN CROSSING THE GORGE OF THE KLICKITAT Full-papc illustration in col ors of a beautiful scene .on the Columbia River & Northern Railroad. HEATING HOUSES WITH SAWMILL WASTE An experienced engineer points out that' the cost, of warming Portland in Winter can be re duced one-half if the task is undertaken by the municipality. WILD ANIMALS AT THE-CITY PARK Every child who has visited the park this season will be de lighted with a page picturing the creatures confined there. FINANCIAL FRAUDS ARE EXPOSED Signed article byGeorpe B.Cor telyou, Secretary of the Treas ury, on ret-rich-quick schemes that fleece the unwary. THREE HUNDRED YEARS ON AMERICAN SOIL How the Episcopal Church of the United States will celebrate its tercentenary next October. AMERICAN TRILBY IN REAL LIFE Brief biography of Bessie Ab bott, prima donna of the Metro politan Opera Company, who can sing only under her sister's influence. AS JAPANESE TEA COMES FROM FIELD Annie Laura Miller tells how the leaves are tired and colored for American use. ARMY OF MEN ON THE NORTH-BANK ROAD Prodigious work now in hand to finish the line to Vancouver bv November 15. WOMEN CAN STOP DOCKING OF HORSES Homer Davenport makes an appeal to the fair sex to cor rect a fashionable cruelty. BEHIND THE SCENES WITH THE KHEDIVE Frank G. Carpenter has an interview with the ruler of Egypt, who has only one wife. ORDER FROM YOUR NEWS DEALER TODAY during long practice marches, isolation of certain posts and consequent lack of amusements. AMERICA'S. SUBSIDY TO LONDOX Visitor, 60,04)0 to 80.000, Spend $7,500,. OOO Thin Season. London Cable to New York Sun. A dismally wet Summer and save for a very brief period a dull season have had in the eyes of Londoners one redeeming feature. It has been a record American season. Estimates of the number of Americans who vave visited London since May vary from BO.OOO to 80,000. In the old days when the Londan season lasted till the end of July business in the West Bnd was practically stagnant until society returned. Nowadays, as compensation for the earlier close of the season proper, American visitors make a second season from which everybody benefits from the Pond-street diamond merchant to the hansom cabby. One writer calculates that Americans this year .have spent $7,5DO,OnO in London. At one of the largest hotels which has housed 6(!00 Americans since March, the average bill has been 1250. There are at least five hotels which can give similar figures, and assuming that the average American spends besides J125 In London, which is not an extravagant estimate, tha writer reaches his total which as the re sult of his investigations he apportions as follows: Spent in hotels and boarding- . houses J2.5OD.0OI Tailors mono Haberdashers 75,000 Hatters 50,000 Jewelers l.OOO.OoO Antiques 1,750.000 Furniture H.ono Praperies I,000.0u0 Dressmakers 750,000 Cabmen 25.000 Motors and carriages 55.000 Theaters v 60.000 Music halls 60.000 Tobacconists 30,000 Total S7.500.OOO "REASSURANCE" Prom the "W-whlnstoo Star.