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Coldfleld, Nev. Louie Follln; C. 25. Hunter. Eureka. Cal. Call-Chronicle Agency; Eu reka News Co. PORTLAND, SATURDAY. JAN. 85. 1908. 'A SUMMARY. THUS FAR. The testimony developed, thus far In the prosecution of Hall and Maya by Heney has this meaning;, viz.; Hall, Fulton and Brownell were playing for advantages in politics, and Steiwer, Mays and others were playing for protection of themselves from the consequences of their un lawful transactions in public lands. In this second side of it Brownell was concerned also. Steiwer's testimony is very direct, as. far as it goes. He had a voto in the Legislature to -e angled for; and over him was the shadow of prosecu tion, which might be either civil or criminal. Naturally he would" use his position as a member of the Legis lature, having a vote for United States Senator, to protect himself as far as he could. Brownell also was a member of the Legislature, under similar shadow, and likewise, was playing for protection. Also, he wanted to be District Attorney, in place of Hall; but Hall held the cudgel of these accusations over htm, on the one hand, and on the other a promise of friendship and protection. If he would yield. But Fulton was pledged to Brownell, and it had to be "ar ranged." Many letters passed between the various parties, some of which have been brought forth, and it is believed others will be. Steiwer testified that Fulton had endeavored to induce Hall to bring a civil suit Instead of a crim inal prosecution, and that Fulton had written to him (Steiwer) a letter to this effect: which letter Fulton sub sequently asked Steiwer to return to him, which he did. Following these negotiations between the various parties. Hall filed a civil suit, which, however, never was concluded. This is a simple, though analytical summary of the testimony thus far presented. It la a tangled skein, dif ficult to follow; but The Oregonlan will offer no comment till the whole shall have been concluded. It is sup posed there will be much more docu mentary evidence submitted; for,' if a case is to be made out It must be Bald It is by no means yet complete. Much of the testimony relates to political operations conducted by the various parties, but the charge against the defendants is that they failed in their official duty in that they did not prosecute men who had unlawfully enclosed public land. The testimony as to political matters is introduced for the purpose of show ing why they did not. The alleged conspiracy lies In all these circum stances.' ROSES XN THE PARK BLOCKS. Of' course, to plant the park blocks to roses, in a burst of enthusiasm, to care for them one year and then neglect them forever afterward, would be regrettable. If roses are planted In park blocks, or anywhere else, thev must be watered, fertilized, pruned and plucked; and these tasks must be repeated year after year "lth unceasing diligence or the bushes be come an eyesore instead of an orna ment. The number of bushes planted In the park blocks should consequent ly be accurately proportioned to the means, the permanent means, of car ing for them. Whether more than the three blocks which the park board has set aside for this purpose could be satisfactorily looked after next year la a question for the experts to answer. One thing is certain. The people living by the parks will not take care -of the roses. They might do so spas modically. In fits of enthusiasm; but not as a dally, inexorable task. If the roses are cared for it must be by people who are paid for It. Hence they will be neglected unless funds are provided. ' In the opinion of The Oregonian these funds could be secured without serious difficulty. No more beautiful ornament could be placed In the park blocks than hedges and beds of roses properly looked after. Nothing could be imagined more attractive to tour ists. To be sure the primary purpose of these blocks is to secure breathing places for adults and especially for children. With this purpose nothing should be permitted to interfere. The larger part of the area in every block should be planted to grass and kept in healthy turf. But we apprehend that long rose hedges with here and there a great bed ' of bloom such as one,, may see in the State park at SaTem, would not spoil the blocks as breathing places and playgrounds. It seems more likely that they would be an improvement. Park blocks become ugly places to look upon unless they are treated somewhat formally and kept with a certain neatness. They are notso suitable . for playgrounds as other areas, especially reserved for the pur pose, may be made. The best prac tice is to purchase tracts which are not part of the street and open them freely to the children. ' The Ore gonian hopes that the authorities may see their way to : encourage the planting of abundant roses in most of the park blocks. TOWTN'O THROUGH THE STRAITS. - The Straits of Magellan, for which the Pacific squadron is now heading, were discovered in 1520, and although the distance through the straits from ocean to ocean is but 300 miles and there Is an immense saving of time over that lost by the route around Cape Horn, very few sailing vessels attempt the passage. In the centuries since Magellan sailed through to the Pacific the sea in the vicinity of Cape Horn has levied a fearful toll on shipping and on human life, but, strange as it may seem, not until the present age of steam on the ocean, has there been any definite plan for aiding sailing vessels to make use of the straits. It was announced in Monday's Oregonian that a company had been formed in Denmark to place a number of tug boats in the straits and tow sailing vessels through from ocean to ocean In about 38 hours. As it now requires from two weeks to two months for a vessel to beat around the Horn it Is apparent that a great saving can be effected. It Is not only the saving In time that will be considered, but there will also be a great saving in the cost of . insur ance, for it Is stated that an average of -ten ships and approximately 300 men are lost every year in attempting to round the Horn. The project Is one of more than passing Interest to Portland and other North Pacific ports, for the North Pacific grain trade now gives employment to a larger fleet of sailing vessels round the Horn than from any other port on earth. These vessels quite natur ally at times encounter heavy weather In other parts of the ocean, but good weather in that storm-haunted region is so rare that it is the exception and not the rule. By towing through the passage the average time of the voy age to European porta would be ma terially shortened, the insurance risk would be smaller and in consequence there would be a saving through lower rates. In connection with the coming pas sage of Admiral Evans' fleet through the straits, it is interesting to note that Magellan, after his discovery, pushed on to the far east and discov ered the Philippines, now an Ameri can outpost that may be visited by the white squadron which la steaming down the Atlantic. Magellan was killed by Filipinos, but one of his ves sels continued the voyage and finally reached Europe by way of Cape of Good Hope, completing the first voy age around the world. WASTEFUL ECONOMY. Chairman Tawney of the appro priation committee is predicting a great deficit in the next fiscal year unless rigid economy Is practiced In making appropriations. While he does not specify where the pruning knife ought to be applied. It seems quite clear that there will be no river and harbor appropriations this ses sion. From the standpoint of econ omy, the failure to pass a river and harbor bill providing for the proj ects of unquestioned merit, would be a "penny wise and pound foolish" policy. There are a great many river improvements already under way which would be materially damaged by the failure to provide funds suffi cient to prevent the stoppage of work. Two years ago we had a good illus tration of the expensive folly of halt ing a partly completed project for want of funds with which to continue work on the Columbia river jetty. Prior to the work being placed on a continuing contract basis funds had been doled out In Insufficient amounts to warrant expeditious and econ omical rushing of the work, and when the appropriation was exhausted the work already performed was damaged to the extent of several hundred thousand dollars. The natural and presumably correct assumption re garding river and harbor appropria tions is that they are made as an in vestment on which millions of people will profit Jn the way of improved transportation facilities. It of course follows that with millions tied up In these Investments, pending their com pletion there is a heavy interest loss in addition to the depreciation in the unfinished work. The Government, according to Mr. Tawney, is so hard up financially that there will be no money available for continuing many river and harbor improvements. The recent financial stringency found many private individuals and cor porations in much the same predica ment, but the prevalence of cold hard business rules prevented any stoppage of work on projects as far along, as most of the Government work that will be affected by the non-passage of a river and harbor bill. If the Covernment would only ex ercise a little more business sense In many of Its transactions there would be less need of retrenchment on proj ects of unquestioned merit. It is per haps difficult to determine where this reform should begin in order to elimi nate these periodical deficits without working Injury to the service, but there are numerous opportunities where the waste of Government money is so glaring and Inexcusable that it cannot bp overlooked. Notable among these is the employment of an army of special agents in all de partments of the Government. They travel round the world collecting in formation which should be supplied by regular consuls and regularly ap pointed officials who in most cases are like the special agent holding the job as payment for political services, and who rarely succeed in discover ing anything of value until months after the people interested therein have secured the information from private sources. Everything that Mr. Bristow, who has just returned from Panama, has reported was known to the business world six months ago, and his recom mendation that the Government es tablish ' a steamship line to Panama would cost millions if carried out, with no return for the investment. Our Government builds at Atlantic yards drydocks and lightships for the Pacific because there is a saving of 5 per cent, and then expends near ly as much as the original cost in get ting them out where they are needed and where the Pacific yards would deliver them free. The agricultural department is clogged with theorists and faddists who, at enormous ex pense, "discover" durum wheat and similar experimental evils. Last year this department, at great expense, "discovered" that a certain species of red wheat could be grown in Kansas and recommended that it be sowed, only to learn when the. expensive booklet - conveying the information had appeared, that the Kansas farm ers had made a specialty of that par ticular kind of wheat, for more than ten years. A culling out of this departmental dead timber and the interment of a portion of the army of special agents and foreign consuls who have not yet learned that they are dead, would re sult In a great saving and an improve ment In the service. PTT5TJC SCHOOL, HERESY. The National Society for the Pro motion of Industrial Education has adopted a programme which can suc ceed only in part with the American people. Most thoughtful citizens will agree that trade and academic, or literary education ought to be com bined from the age, of four up to seventeen. It would be well also to extend the. limit of compulsory schooling to eighteen years. But the American people will never consent to permit school teachers "to sort children according,, to their destina tion," nor "to abolish the idea of ab solute democracy in the ' public schools." . - This astonishing scheme seems to have the approval of President Eliot, Mr. Henry L. Pritchett and President James W. "Van Cleve of the National Manufacturers' Association; but. in fluential as they are In educational circles, they will find that a public hostility exists to any project of this character which they can never over come. The crowning merit of the public schools ' Is their absolute democracy. They have many defects and faults, but this single transcendent virtue outweighs them all. It is the democ racy of the schools that has founded them in the affections of the people. It is the one argument for their ex istence and support which is unas sailable. Destroy the absolute democ racy of the schools and you destroy the schools. The United States will not tolerate a system of schools where class distinctions are the basis of instruction, where the child of the rich man' receives education of one sort and the child of the poor man something different, each according to the station In life where the Lord has placed him. , It Industrial teaching is good for the poor boy and girl iff Is also good for the rich ones. If It is not good for all It is good for none. Every child in 'the public schools should receive the same instruction as every other child until the time comes when nature indicates clearly the parting of the ways. When that time comes then the children should be grouped according to their aptitudes, not according to the wealth and so cial standing of their parents. The moment the class, or caste, idea is commingled with the propaganda of industrial education the cause has suffered its death blow. President Eliot and Mr. Van Cleve can serve the propaganda best by letting it alone. EDWARD ' ALEXANDER M ACDOWEIX. The last hope that Edward Alex ander MacDowell might recover the use of his fine faculties and add to the noble list of his artistic achieve ments is finally extinguished by his death. Still a young man, only 46 years old, he expired last Thursday night in New York, where he was born, after living for the last three years under the cloud of a nervous disease. The period of his productive career was comparatively brief; but it was long enough for him to at tain secure recognition as the first of American musical composers, and a fame which is not limited to his native land. He is accepted in Europe as the peer of Grieg, and his works are played wherever good music . is loved. . . MacDowell was born on December 18, 1861. It is not recorded by his biographers that he showed anything of that precocity which has marked many youthful composers. Mozart was an artist while he was still a baby. Hoffman, one of .the best pianists of our day, was a youthful prodigy. Most distinguished musi cians,, perhaps, have given early signs of genius. Except great mathematical power there Is no gift which mani fests itself earlier or more decisively, while ot all the capacities of the human intellect none seems to pass so readily by heredity as musical ability. Almost all the famous com posers have come from families where music was cultivated for gen erations. Of no - other species of eminence can the same be said. In fact most men of genius are either sterile or their progeny is apt to be both Intellectually and morally de fective. We know little of MacDowell's an cestry except that, like Grieg, he was of Scotch descent. It remains for more complete biographies than have yet been published to tell of hia par ents and earliest "education, but his family must have perceived what he was born for because they put him to the study of music with the best teachers in New York while he was still a boy. Madame Teresa Carreno was among them, and to her Mac Dowell, . in recognition of his Intel lectual debt, dedicated his second piano concerto. When he was fifteen he went to Paris to study in the con servatory, where he remained three years, going then to Germany. Here he studied first at Wiesbaden, then at Frankfort. At the latter place Raff was his teacher jn composition. " Raff recognized MacDowell's genius and advanced his interests in every way. It was from him that . Mac Dowell's art took Its decided turn toward romanticism, forsaking the forms and technique of the classic masters. In 1881 Raff was able to have - his pupil appointed piano teacher at the conservatory of Darm stadt, and a year later he Introduced MacDowell to the distinguished Liszt, who was charmed with his art and secured him an opportunity to play his first piano suite before the Ger man Musical Union. The perform ance was received with enthusiasm. This ovor.t established MacDowell's standing in the world of music. He gave concerts, in Europe for the next three years and then settled in Wies baden, where he taught and - com posed until his return to America in 1889. , He lived first in Boston, but later went to New York. His musical pre eminence was everywhere acknowl edged by his countrymen, and various honors were conferred upon) him. Princeton Univer sity made him a Doctor of Music, a distinction better worth having since the degree had never been granted before by that institu tion. In 1896 MacDowell was ap pointed professor of music at Colum bia Uniyersity. A gift of $150,000 had been received by the unirersity to found the chair, with' the under standing that MacDowell should be its first occupant; but he was 111 at ease in academic fetters and resigned in ' 1904, not long before he was stricken down by the nervous attack from which he never recovered. As a concert pianist, MacDowell was always pleasing to the public. This was fortunate for him in more1 than one way. It not only replen ished his pocket, never too well filled. but, what was more important, it en abled him to make his own works known to a wide audience. These works rank among the greatest musi cal productions of our time. They Include piano concertos, sonatas, musical poems and some of the finest songs eStant. Much of his music is descriptive; some .of it develops themes indigenous to America; but they are taken from Indian, not negro melodies. MacDowell said that he saw little worth in the artistic products of slavery. Portland has two pure food labora tories, maintained by the State, and the Department of Agriculture is giv ing it a third. There are also two fine private laboratories, for chemical and bacteriological examinations in this city. Wlth all this supply of pure food apparatus there seems Httle use of the City Council's spending $5000 to establish another laboratory. Why not employ the examining ma chinery of the State Board of Health or of the State Dairy and Food Commissioner, for each of which the State and this means Portland has spent and Is spending big sums of money? This new scheme for a $5000 city laboratory will fasten a perpetual graft on taxpayers for the benefit of . more ' officeholders. What Portland needs at present, more than anything else, U the matter of pure food, is a ban n filthy markets. rigorously enforced. Most impurities in food come from dirty shops and dirty dealers. "A resolute market in spector will do more for the food sup ply than two or three more chemists. The Council would better save the city's money. ' The Oregon City Enterprise offers this gentle insinuation: Why Is The Oregonian so bitter against the appointment of Chris SchuebelT la his known honesty likely to stand in the way or the acquittal of some land-grabbing friend In or around The Oregonian oft ice? Well, now! Have you heard of any one in or about The Oregonian office who has ever had anything to do with land-grabbing? Anybody in or j about The Oregonian office who has even made a filing on any tract of land, under any one of the land acts? But haven't you, and every one of you, continually denounced The Oregonian for Its exposures of Mitchell, Hermann, Williamson, Brownell, et id omne genus, and de clared that its course was simply one of malevolence towards the honored men of Oregon? Go to and here supply the missing words. As for Chris Schuebel, he Is nothing. A populist, sllverite and supporter of Bryan one of the bitter enemies of the Republican party in every trying time. The timber of the remaining forest districts in our Southern States is go ing fast. A circular from the Bureau of Forestry says that the Southern Appalachian mountains have been nearly stripped not more than 15 per cent of the original timber re maining. The bulletin adds: "The lumbermen are going over the land for the third time. First they took only the prime oak and poplar saw timber. Next they took the oajes that were suited for barrel staves. ' Now they are after whatever merchant able trees are left, such as birch, chestnut and gum." It Is clear that all the timber of Oregon and of the whole West will be wanted before the lapse of many years. A Royal Commission has recently reported on the state of Ireland. It finds that the number of nativep who have left- the country mostly for America since 1851 has been 4,028, 589. In 1841 the population of Ire land was 8,175,124. It is now' 4,386, 035. Seventy-five per cent of the emigrants were between 15 and 35 the flower of the people. Ireland is one of the most attractive coun tries of the world and the causes of the emigration have been almost wholly economic- excessive rents and absentee landlordism. Even a receptive candidate like Governor Hughes may, without vio lating the amenities of National poli tics, take an . active Interest In the contest. The Japanese yen., of which we hear so much in telegraphic accounts of the financial condition of Japan, is" worth about 49 cents of our money. Interest in the Denver convention is necessarily limited to the name of the man with the bar'l who shall be selected as running mate. Received and read , here in balmy midwinter, the reports of the Eastern blizzard sound like news from an other world. Two' Portland problems that refuse to be solved; A fender that will fend and a crematory that won't offend. DECLINE) IX MILITIA STRENGTH. Indifference of Lawmakers to the Value of Clttaea Soldiers. Boston Transcript. A German military specialist thinks that barring the high professional training of our Regular Army officers the united States has not much to boast of In the way of military or ganization. He particularly condemns the militia as likely to be found a broken reed in time of trouble. and doubts if it would yield more than 25.000 men fit for service on a sudden call. This Is doubtless an absurd un derestimate of the condition of our 106,000 Ideational Guardsmen, but nev ertheless we should not blind ourselves to the fact that It is becoming dif ficult to keep the militia of the United States as a whole up to its exceed ingly moderate aggregate. The House committee on the mllltla recently made a report which bears very Impressively on the subject. The tables accompany ing It demonstrate that the 'militia of the United States has undergone a loss of 10 per cent in numbers in the last four years. In 1903 its aggregate was 116,547 officers and men; in 1907, 105, 213. . A part of this loss may be attributed to the disbandment or reformation of organizations pronounced Inefficient by the Inspecting officers, but other causes must have been at work, for the diminution In some states indicates either a disinclination to militia serv ice among their people or indifference to the force among their lawmakers. Alabama, for example, in four years suffered a loss of 1122, Georgia 1939, Mississippi 1068, South Carolina 1922 and Texas 1097. Altogether thirty-four states and territories reported their mllltla smaller In 1907 than in 190$. Only one state, Pennsylvania, added more than five hundred men to its mlUtla during that period. But four states Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Ida ho and South Dakota have brought their militia into complete accord with the requirements of the Dick law. The others are either working or waiting. When we realize that some states appropriate so little for the support of the militia that the officers and men practically carry on the service at their own expense, we have more evidence of the indifference of lawmakers to the value of citizen soldiers. In only eleven states so far as the Congres sional committee can ascertain was the latest militia appropriation in excess of $100,000. Even a state or the popu lation and resources of Alabama deemed $20,000 enough; Texas gave $32,000; and Mississippi but $10,000. Massachusetts and New York together appropriated almost one-third of the $4,941,899, which apparently was the total of the sums spent by the states oC-the Union in support of their mili tary establishments. Here are some facts and figures to which the Na tional Guard Congress may well ad dress Itself as indicating that many of the states must make larger contribu tions than at present to justify in creased Federal aid. It would seem that the cultivation of the civic spirit which is reflected in a well organized militia is a function which this Con gress should take upon itself as a mat ter of the first importance. Sheriff Ends Co-operative Scheme. Topeka Journal. Another socialistic dream of the maintenance of the practical equality of man in material things has been shattered this time at Coaldale In Pennsylvania, a small mining town where a co-operative experiment has been in progress for a few years. After the miners' strike of 1902 socialistic ideas obtained considerable vogue In the mining regions. In this particular town, it seems, the Socialists came Into complete power, both political and other, and social and economic life was duly rearranged on the socialistic plan, with a co-operative newspaper, a co operative store and all the rest of that sort of thing. For a time, as is usual In all such cases, all went well. This little corner of the world seemedreally made over into ideal form. But now, as Is also usual in such cases, the pretty bubble burst and a sheriff is in pos session of the Joint property. ' The trouble was, of course, in the dissen sions that arose from the unwilling ness of the-more ambitious members of the community to submit" to the con ditions of equality. They could not sit still and see the indolent enjoying the fruits of their labors. There ia no need to point out a moral. There is only one and it Is self-evident. Our New System. Woodburn Independent. ' The initiative is a good thing in so far as it secures the enactment of some good laws that seemingly cannot be se cured through the Legislature, "yet it must be admitted that many who vote on initiative bills do so regardless of the fitness of the act. It Is the duty of every voter to read caretully, over and over again, any bill or proposed constitutional amendment before rendering his opinion at the polls. He must first learn the fact that he is one of a large legislative body empowered to enact laws and amend the Constitution, then to be 'as painstaking and as honest as he expects and demands a member of the State Legislature should be. Statement No. 1 Is but a side issue. The main object of the direct primary was thsV nomination, by the people, of candidates for ofTIce, who are. if popular enough, elected by the people. Statement No. 1 refers to united states oenators, who are chosen at the primary or state election, but elected by the legislature. We believe In the Legislature, if it be Republican, heeding the voice of the ma jority of Republicans at the direct pri mary. Those who have a contrary opin ion are working In the interest e'f George B. Chamberlain's candidacy for the United States Senate. Ho "Followed Copy." Portchester Record. Mrs. Marble, after the death of her husband, went to Mr. Stone (a dealer In headstones), and consulted him in refer ence to an inscription. She said: "Put on it: To my dearest husband, and it there be any room left, 'we shall meet in heaven.' " Entering the cemetery and going to her husband's grave, she noticed the head stone, and quickly rushed to see how he had engraved it The poor old widow's heart beat with pain when she read the following on the headstone: "To my dearest husband, and If there be any room left, we shall meet in heaven." Ole Oleson Perplexed. Detroit Free Press. Bay Ylmlni. Arm glad to hear Ton yonson'a in the race; . . A son of Svaden. gude an' dear. Ay bat he'll vln the place. Ay"d las: to see heem mak' a -win. An' at the White House visit: The Svadea will put Yon Tonson in. But which Ton Tonson la It? Ay know Ton Tonson yumplng logs. Yon Tonson milking 'cows; Ay know Yon Tonson training dogs. Ton Tonson making . house. Ay know Ton Tonson, railroad rack, - On heem ay mik wan. visit; Of Yonsons ay know wan big pack, O, which Ton Tonson la It? In Stockholm. Copenhagen, too. Are Yonsons bay the score; Bay Ylminy, Ay tell yo'u true. In Minnesota more. Ton Tonaona. coppers on the beat, Svada servant girls they visit; So many Tonsons Ay have meet, O. which Ton Tonson Is It? , You bat Ton Tonson gat ma vote. Ay know heem gude an' true: Ton Tonsondeckhand on the boat. Or captlng of the crew. Yon Tonson, milking cows, maybe, Ay don't care: Ay won't miss it; It makes no deeference to me. Which Yonny Tonson la U. THRIFT' OF ITALIAN LABORERS. Save More Money Than Other Indus trial Workers of the Same CI as a. Omaha Bee. t Statistics Just published by the Bureau of Labor at Washington, D. C, furnish a striking illustration of the thrift of Italian laborers in, this country and also an effec tive refutation ot the stories recently sent from Rome to the effect that the distress among the poor in that city and in other parts of Italy is due largely to the return of so many empty-handed workingmen from the United States. The bulletin shows that the Italians who seek employment in this country are the most saving of all workmen and send back to their homes In money orders alone, something rrke $32,000,000 a year, or about $1 per capita for the population of Italy. This amount Is largely Increased by the money carried in person by the re turning worklngmen, so that the Italians returning to Italy after a season or two in this country are a marked source of revenue to that country, rather than a burden. In preparing Its data the Bureau of Labor made extensive inquiry into the wages, cost of living and other expenses of Italians in this country. The result shows that the average Italian workman. in railroad or other construction work, earned, in 1906, about $40 a month, while he confined his cost of living. Including rent, fuel, food, clothing and sundries to less than $10 a month, leaving a net saving each month of about $30. According to- records of the Postoffice Department for 1906. the total amount of money orders sent to foreign countries was in excess of $62,000,000. and of this more than $32,000,000 went to Italy. Statistics show that the Italian laborers save more money at the same wage rate than any other class of laborers. - PUSHING THE CANDIDATE. The Administration's Work for Taft and Asralnst Hughrt. - New York Evening Post. We are now getting daily lessons In civil-service reform from the White House, which ought to attract National attention. The appointment of Taft workers to Postoftices in Ohio, and of the totally unfit George W. Wan maker as appraiser of this port, is now followed by the President's refusal to reappoint a good Hughes man as Col lector of Customs at Plattsburg. It would be the easiest thing in the world to pick out of Mr. Roosevelt's reform writings passages of eager de nunciation of the man who could do things like that; but of what use would It be? The President is de termined to have his way, and his characteristic belief that everything he does is proper and from the best of motives makes it Impossible for him to recognize any Inconsistency in any of his actions. Time was when "Lou" Payn was held by Mr. Roosevelt to be unworthy of the regard of an honest "Governor in any respect. Hence "Lou" Payn was removed from office as In surance Commissioner. Testerday he explained his second appearance at the White House in two days on the ground that he "came to get some thing and was successful," landing a friend in a place as engineer on the Panama Canal. Now, all this may be harmless enough; but Mr. Roosevelt's best friends ought to regret it, for it instantly gives color to rumors that .he is even willing to stoop to use "Lou" Payn to defeat Hughes' nomina tion. Literary Knock la Missouri. Springfield (Mo.) Leader. Thomas M. Johnson, of Osceola, has picked out ten poems which he says are the noblest in the English language. He flatters the vanity of the "intellectuals" by making a list of poems that are angel's food. The last man who read Mil ton's "Comus" because he liked It was killed by Georgia Crackers at the first battle of Bull's Run. The men who have gone crazy from trying to understand Emerson's "Brahma" are now costing the citizens of New England clearing-house checks that they can ill afford to send to the treasurer of the foolish house. Placing Shelley's "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" on t:.e list was nothing but a foxy attempt to stand in with the young lady teachers, a piece of Platonlo af fection for a bunch of good-lookers. Sew Construction" Is Probable. Baltimore Sun, Dem. I At Cooper Union last Friday Secretary Taft spoke of the inability of Congress to enact an income tax under the Con stitution as construed at present. The Government, he said, might be placed -at serious disadvantage because of Inability to obtain revenue from this source. But the Secretary suggested a way out of the difficulty. He said: "In such a case I think there would be either an amend ment of the Constitution or a new con struction of the Constitution." These are startling words, and they might al most be characterized as "sinister," for Secretary Taft does not speak as a mere politician, but with the weight of one who retired only a few years ago from the Federal bench. A Tale of the Flood. From Puck. ' Hearing of a rising river at the head waters of the Euphrates, with a falling barometer and Indications of a flood in the valley, the Pithecanthropus changed his mind and frankly admitted it to Noah. His manner was that of a chas tened and softened person. "You monkeyed too long," said the Patriarch. "We gave you a chance to come In with us, and you wouldn't take It. Now we have arranged for all the stock we care about trylpg to float." The general liquidation which followed had the usual effect upon all but the In siders. Housing American Embassies. Boston Herald. The efftort to be made by Congressman Perkins to secure an appropriation to provide proper ihomes for American em bassies in European capitals is deserving of better treatment than It Is likely to get at the hands of the present Congress. Federal buildings in unheard-of villages given in barter for Congressional popu larity might well be withheld until the Nation's Ambassadors to foreign govern ments have been provided with quarters which have some relation to the dignity of their missions. A FEW SQUIBS. "Can she take high C?" "Jfot without knocking off some of the bars." Life. "Is Jim selfish?" "Well, they say he has never given his ego cause for a moment's Jealousy." Puck. Mrs. Knlcker Does Bridget know her place? Mrs. Bocker Yes. she knows one that pays a dollar more Harper's Bazar. Mother George, I don't hear you men tion daddy In your prayers. Teddy (from the bed) It's all right, mother, I'll see to that. Punch. "So you think you could buy me a .id sell me?" "Well, I don't know about the latter part of the proposition." Louisville Courier-Journal. "Say, Tommy, you want to get a piece sewed on to thess pants. They're too short." "hort, nothln'! I got Into them too far that's what's the matter." Judges "t received your Majesty's message," said the new missionary. "Did I understand you would do me the, honor to call upon me and dine tomorrow?" "Almost correct." replied the cannibal chief, "I said I would call and dine upon you tomorrow." Phila delphia Press. "Do you think It would ba advisable for you to make speechea In your own be half?" "No," answered Senator Sorghum. "It Is better to bava some one else do -your talking for you. Then if something is said which displeases, you can join the popular disapproval." Washington Star. sr- . . i 1- J'iaTi x ri t-tna A certain rich citizen in St. Louis'. Mo., who has made his money by purchasing I weak railroads. Judiciously "watering" tne block, ana selling it at a profit of at least 100 per cent, likes to be refrred to as a collector of rare books and portraits. He. also pretends to be on familiar terms with the more prominent aut.iors. and habitually speaks of them by their first names. One evening this plutocrat gave a din ner to. several of his newly-rich male friends, and after cafe noir and cigars the company adjourned to the lihrary. where the host passed around several of his literary treasures for Inspection. One of the books was Caesar's "Commen taries of the Gallic War." The plutocrat thought he heard smothered laughter, but wasn't sure. But the men were too rich to quarrel with. When Caesar's book came back to hirg. he was astonished to find this inscription neatly written in pencil on the fly leaf:- "To Mr. Blank. From his old chum and schoolmate, Julius Caesar." Not very far from New Tork City it a sanitarium famous as a rest cure, and some literary people make it a local Mecca. One evening a colony of book writers at least they said they were ar rived In a .body and it was said that they all seemed to belong to the followers of Booth Tarklngton. They began to own the place and loudly discussed with each other plots for short stories, worried over rhymes, and wondered about the most telling ideas calculated to touch the hearts of publishers. The regular gueWe of the sanitarium began to get tired of so much book talk, but there was no ces sation. One ordinary American at last announced that he could stand it no longer. , ' "I'm goin' away," said he. struggling with his overcoat, "to ming.e again with some plain folks who haven't.'" "Haven't what?"" asked one author, in nocently. "Haven't written books or stories all ready to send away to an anxiously wait ing publisher!' . Apropos of discount In buying books, A. S. Swanson. representative of one of the big publishing houses, toki this ex perience to friends at Washington, D. C. : "Mark Twain recently stated to me that he went into the sales department of the publishing house J represent, and being attracted by a particular book asked the price. . " "Four dollars," said the clerk. " "Weil, now,' said Mr. Clemens, "I am a newspaper writer. Don't I get a dis count for that?" "Certainly, replied the obliging clerk. " T am also a magazine writer. Do I get something off for that?" " 'Yes.' said the clerk, you get a dis count for that. " 'I am also an author. Don't I come in on the author's discount?" " 'Yes, sir, you get the author's dis count.' " 'In addition. said Mr. Clemens, T am a stockholder in this house. Does that entitle me to something oftT " 'Yes, sir," the clerk returned. " 'Now,' continued Mr. Clemens, 'I would like to state that I am Samuel Clemens. Does that fact entitle me to another rake-off? " 'It does.' said the clerk after a mo ment's hesitation. " 'That's good.' replied the author; now how much do I owe you?' " 'We owe you 80 cents, said the clerk." ,. When writing, Sir Gilbert Parker, the novelist, lives in an old "stone cottage once used by John O'Gaunt as a hunting lodge. It has low ceilings and latticed windows, and the arms of O'Gaunt still decorate the hearth as in the dayrlof the Black -Prince. Sir Gilbert contributes a notable article to the North American Review on "Blction, Its Place in the Na tional Life." In it he says: "A book is a personality, though the .author may hide behind what he writes." Joseph Vance's new novel. "Somehow Good," will be published next month. In it, the author no longer writes of Lon don in the '50s, but nas an up-to-date setting for his story. Paul Elmore More will" publish a new volume of Shelburne Essays, including studies of Dickens, Mrs. Gaskell, Phillip Freneau and the Longfellow Centenary. Percy Mackaye is lecturing this month on "The Drama of i-emocracy," at Co lumbia, Harvard, Yale and Chicago Uni versities. Jack London is nothing U not sensa tional and keenly alive to the possibili ties of free advertising. The publishers who are now awaiting "copy" from him have just issued a statement in which they fear that London and his party are lost somewhere tn the Pacific ocean. The sea-roamers are now more than a month overdue at Tahiti of the Society Islands, for which place they sailed from Hilo. Hawaii, October 27. It now appears that the gas engine of the Snark was not working very well when the party left Hawaii. But trust London. He will turn up soon, with a new novel written during his enforced rest. Lord Cromer has chosen for his book, "Modern Egypt," three mottoes. The flrut is Napoleon's well-known dictum, "Egypt Is the most important country in thu world;" the second a quotation from Aulus Gellius concerning the man of ac tion as- his own historian; Thucydides supplies the third and longest. It is the majestic description of his own historical methods: "I determined to write the his tory of wnat was actually done in the war not by casual information or my own Imagination, but on the evidence of what I saw myself, and in other matters after the most accurate inquiry into each de tail." Recent necrology Includes James Kydal Randall, .whose title to fame is that ha wrote the song. 'Maryland, My Mary land," and William Livingston Alden, one of the distinguished American jour nalists of his generation. Mr. Randall also was a journalist, his chief connection having been with the Augusta Chronicle. Mr. Alden wrote leaders for the New York Times and for the World, and was the author of a dozen books popular in their day. During the latter part of his life Mr. Alden lived chiefly abroad. As part of the programme for the cele bration of the tercentenary of the birth of Milton, the British Academy suggests that "Comus," written by the poet for production at Ludlow Castle by the chil dren of the Earl of Bridgewater, be again produced. , . Tn various American newspapersserial publication has begun in their Sunday editions, simultaneously, of one novel by a distinguished American writer, Mrs. Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman, and another novel by a distinguished English writer, Max Pemberton. Readers are asked to record their decisions as to which novel is the 'better of the two, and of course the necessary coupons are provided for votes. The prize money, it is said, will be equally divided between the two authors named