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-trtt: MORNING OREGOmy, TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1909. 8 PORTLAND. ORKGON. Entered at Portland. Oregon. Postofflce " Eecaad-Clajs Matter. Subscription Ratet Invariably ill Adrance- (By Mall Dally. Susdar Included. n year. .... " IaJIy, Sunday included, six months t)ally. Sunday included, three monthf... Daily. Sunday Included, nna month -J3 Pally, without Sunriav. one yea-- ft" I"l.y. without Sunday, six months 8 2S Daily, without Sunday, three months. L5 Dally, without Sunday, one month on Weekly, one year on Eunday. one year 2 50 Sunday and weekly, one year i SO (By Carrier.) Dally. Sunday Included, one year 00 Daily. Sunday included, one mor.th T5 Haw to RemitSend postofflce money order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stampa, coin or currency are at the senders risk. t;rve potorrire ad dress in fu!l. including county and state. roetace Rates 10 in 14 pases. 1 cent; 11 to paces. 2 cente; SO to 40 page. 3 centa; 46 to 6 paces. 4 centa Foreign postage double rntes Eastern Boslneea Office The S. C. Beck wl'h Special Arency New York, rooms 4S 50 Tribune building. Chicago, rooms 310-512 Tribune building. WRILAXD. TUESDAY, ACCCST 10. 1I9. LDl'CATION FOR CITIZENSHIP. They, s&ys Burke, who do not look backward to their ancestors for In struction and example, never will look forward to the welfare of their pos terity. It Is one of the profoundest statements ever made about our social, political and national life. Our ancestors. Indeed, didn't "know It all." But the results of their ex perience should be our inheritance and our wisdom. v7e are what we are, because of the experience that has descended to us through them. To put It largely, yet specifically, and In concrete form: We are the heirs of political institutions; of forms of government through which the people bear rule; of social Institutions, modified by times and conditions and places and climates and circumstances of Infinite variety. Yet It is only by study of the original conditions, so far as we can ascertain them, and of the course and progress since, that we can obtain any accurate knowledge of the conditions in which e live now.- The history of the main element or body of our people the Teutonic ele ment begins with the Roman writers Caesar and Tacitus first of all. English institutions are those of Ger many and Scandinavia, modified later by the Norman-French Invasion of England. Our American Institutions are the direct offshoot or outgrowth of these antecedents. Our own Con stitution Is colored throughout by po litical Ideas of British origin, and is In reality a version of the British or Eng lish Constitution, as presented to the observer In America 120 years ago. So It continues with little change to this time. An article In a newspaper on such a subject must be briefest of state ments. But there Is a purpose Just now. The utilitarian who confines himself to the materialism of his own time always Insists that learning of this kind is mere rubbish. It is admitted. Indeed, that all cannot profit directly by It. Yet our schools must not. can not. Ignore It. Now we come to the question whether it Is worth while to persist In our schools In study of the outlines of the -history, which must be studied and understood, if we would know what the basis of our po litical and social life Is today In other words, so we may learn and hold the principles which underlie and have guided the whole. Of the remote beginnings of these principles we have no certain knowl edge. Our ancestors were illiterate bar barians. They had established man ners, customs, habits and constitutions of political and social life, but no liter ature. The study of them begins when a literate people came In con tact with them. Therefore, we begin to study the English and American constitutions in Caesar and Tacitus. He who writes a history of our Insti tutional life goes back to English prec edents: he who writes the history of the English constitution goes back to the record that has survived In Cae sar's Commentaries and In the Ger manta of Tacitus. Tnere are side lights from other authors, but these are first of all. Now, of course, all our youth can not study the "origins." Many have no Inclination. Many more are in capable of so large a conception of the sources and course of history. But they never will have much actual knowledge of the political and social world they live in. They are likely to be "blown about by every wind of doctrine." But the fact that this study Is not for all does not render It the less use ful and necessary- How far the State is to go In pressing this line of study and the linguistic and literary study that lies behind it. Is a ques tion not now to be answered. But the independent academies and col leges must Include It or there will be no reason for them to exist. Yet. of course. It Is not all. Studies In mod ern, scientific knowledge must have high place, and even first place, be cause they open the way to the prac tical business of life. But knowledge of man In his relations to political life, and to the state of which he is a mem ber where we are In our political life, how we got here and how we should make use of the experience of former times for our guidance :never will be obtained without the primary instruc tion and the disposition to pursue the Inquiry. This knowledge constitutes a sort of aristocracy In democratic life, and democracy must be willing to use It and to be guided by its own best or It will have but a hard time and get many setbacks. The education of the citizen for citizenship is the problem of de mocracy. The agitator and small demagogue Is the enemy of this ef fort, and therefore the enemy of de mocracy. He is unwilling to admit he passionately refuses to admit that one man's knowledge, experience or advice Is worth more than that of another. - It Is on this basis that he wishes to abolish representative government and representative Insti tutions and to refuse the assembly or convention or conference as a guide to political or party action. rRonccTs of evil kebit ei. Predictions of failure of the fruit crop in Oregon, which were frequent two months ago, have come to naught. The Oregon apple has become one of the staple of commerce, and it will be In full supply, any deficiency In quantity being more than made good in the size and fine coloring of the fruit. Peach trees, which were re ported killed by the unusual severity of the weather in January, rallied bravely and an. ample supply to meet Hho demands Of a widening market la now assured. Prunes will be abun dant, and a full supply of pears is as sured by the heavily laden trees of hundreds of orchards. The promise in horticulture is only another rebuke added to the many that the productiveness of Oregon soil has given to the prophet of disas ter In past years. The hay crop, it is true, was damaged to some extent by unusual rains in June and July., but these same rains proved of inestima ble value to the root crops which sup plement hay In feeding farm stock. The rains also kept the pastures green and brought other forage crops for ward, so that the loss from the short hay crop will not be seriously felt. These are merely evidences of the fine balances effected by Nature in ad Justing effects of climatic irregularities. They go to show the utter folly of pre dicting crop shortage because the an nual rainfall was not up to normal in May. or for the reason that the cold wave that swept the entire country in January paid frigid compliments In passing, or that a dry Spring was fol lowed by a cool and showery Summer. All of these things happened and may happen again, but this does not mili tate against the fact that conditions have been sufficiently favorable to pro duce growing weather and insure an abundant yield from field, orchard and garden. YOC MAY IMAGINE. A big lot of railroads and a lot of big railroads are getting into the Ore gon country, or are on the way here. Oregon is as large as New York and Pennsylvania together; it has a vast amount and variety of untouched re sources, yet has no more population than Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, or Erie County, New York. Yet its agricultural possibilities are immense; the timber and minerals beyond cal culation. Oregon, moreover, is a maritime state, and ocean commerce is at her door. Now, if the bars of exclusion are to be broken down and we believe they are, at last new and great develop ment, of which the beginning now ap pears, will soon be in the full rush of tide throughout Oregon. There Is more than one great railroad system that might be the supporter of that operation undertaken In Deschutes Canyon which competes with the Har riman effort. What if it should be the Burlington? The Milwaukee has built its line across the continent. May not the Burlington, an equally strong road, do the same? The relation of the Bur lington to the Hill Interests Is well known, What If the Burlington should be the agent or factor of this promotion in Oregon against the Harrlman roads? The Burlington, for its own sake, may wish to get Into the great tim ber regions of the West. Penetration of Idaho and Oregon it may deem its chance or opportunity. Its resources are not Inferior to those of any of Its great competitors. It has access to but little timber. It may want It. Now, The Oreg'onian has no in formation that would be received as testimony even In a Municipal Court. But the guessing is good all over Oregon these times. Here, however, is not even a guess. It Is a mere con jecture, or scarcely that. But there are parties out, peering for a new way through the mountains of Montana and Idaho, south of the Milwaukee road, and working towards Oregon, with possible deflection In the direction of Lewiston. Suppose these Burling ton people, and suppose the Burling ton road. Is to- come Into Oregon and continue to California. Well? ' There's no soothsayer yet to unfold these mysteries. But there is an ef fort in Eastern Oregon of sufficient magnitude to indicate a force of no small proportions behind It. Ex pede Herculem. EAST FINANCIAL SITUATION. With crop-moving season already under way, there does jiot seem to be much tendency to make customary withdrawals from New York, and the figures presented by the weekly bank statement last Saturday were of stu pendous proportions. The clearing house banks showed deposits of $1. 430.651.000, and other banking and trust companies, not reporting through the clearing-house, held deposits of $1,412,812,000, a grand total of $2. 843,461,000. an amount almost too great for the grasp of the ordinary mind. There was a decrease of more than $8,000,000 in the surplus ' re serve, but the association banks still held about $26,000,000 more cash than Is required under the 25 per cent re serve rule. The loan Items on the statement of the clearlng-hose banks, as well as the trust companies and banks not reporting through the clearing-house, are at record proportions, the aggregate for New York being $2,563,915,000. While the West is annually becom ing more independent of the East, and is this year in better condition than ever to finance Its own crops, it Is gratifying to note that the East Is so well provided with money, for it is on the East that the West is dependent for a market for such a large propor tion of the heavy crop now being har vested. A "tight" money market may cause the East to be reluctant about advancing money to the West for crop moving purposes If the crop is being moved to a foreign country, but there are several hundred millions that the East must send West to pay for wheat, corn and other products actually need ed for consumption among the non producers of the East. Paradoxical as it may seem, the re cent material decrease in the net value of our agricultural products will prove highly beneficial to the country at large. This Is because the decrease was due to much heavier crops than had been expected earlier in the sea son. A small crop and big prices may in a few individual cases be highly beneficial, but, considered from a "greatest - good - to -the-greatest-num-ber" standpoint, the big crop at fair prices is much preferable. Its advan tages to the consumer are obvious, and to a large number of varied in dustries between the producer and the consumer It is of great value. Most of the millons that have been stricken from the price of wheat and corn since the crop outlook improved will be made up by the Increased yield, and still more millions will be dis tributed through all of the various branches of railroad operation and maintenance. The owners of the rail roads, even In most prosperous times, receive but a small percentage of the gross receipts, but the purchasing power of an army of trained men, car and locomotive builders and repairers, coal miners and other direct and Indi rect attaches of the railroad service is greatly enhanced by a good crop, as compared with a poor one. In the "West the banks are well pre pared to handle this big crop, and while we are not in need of Eastern money for crop-moving purposes, it Is pleasing to note that the East is well supplied and thus in a position to buy freely as the crops come on the mar ket. Our foreign trade is reaching great proportions, but it is the home market that takes up. the bulk of our $8,000,000,000 crop of agricultural products. NO MAGIC IN TARIFF. Already the song Deglns that we shall have prosperity as a consequence of the revised tariff. Now, in fact, there has been very little revision. In several directions small reductions have been made, but neither singly nor In a bunch wlH they materially af fect the course of Industry. There will be prosperity. It has been gain ing ground a year, or ever since the panic of 1907 had run its course or worn itself out. Hadn't the tariff been touched the conditions would be Just what they actually are now, for the changes have not been consider able enough to produce real effect on production, industry or business. But for political reasons an essay, in the name of revision, had to be made. It was unnecessary if noth ing more was to be done than has been done yet the President and his party were committed to a promise of a special session and revision, and the engagement was to be kept. The pro ceeding has probably done more harm than good, for It has caused disturb ance and rise of prices,- which have not yet settled to normal conditions. Tradespeople, having the excuse that they didn't know how they were to come out under the new tariff, put up prices in all or nearly all lines, yet the Administration was committed to downward revision. A like grab game is always played when the tariff is to be revised. There is growing prosperity, but this revision of the tariff, nominal rather than real. Is not the cause of it. The yet undeveloped powers of a great continent, receiving new stimulation from human energy exerted In all di rections, cannot but result In a new period of activity and prosperity, which will continue till another finan cial Jar, produced by abuses of specu lation and credit, shall paralyze again. PANAMA CANAL AND BONDS. Bonds must be sold for completion of the Panama Canal. Much of the money thus far expended has been paid from the revenues of the coun try. But the revenues are not equal to the large and Increasing drafts which the work requires, and bonds to the additional amount of $290,569, 900 have been authorized. This will carry the debt on account of the canal up to $375,200,900, and few believe the canal can be completed even for this sum. Cost of any great work ex ecuted by the Government always ex ceeds largely all preliminary esti mates. The same Is very likely to be true in private undertakings, but to less extent. Public money can't be used as economically as private money can. Without being asked by the workers on the canal, the eight hour system was ordered by the Gov ernment, because it was demanded by Northern labor unions, none of whose members, however, will go to the Isthmus to work. First estimates of the cost of the canal were $138,000,000. But even this vast sum proves but a bagatelle. Only excavation thus far has been at tempted, and the enormous expendi tures for masonry and locks, which will greatly exceed cost of excavation. Is yet to come. Indeed, the costly parts of the work will not be reached yet for a considerable time. The new bonds 'are to draw 3- per cent, but are not to be sold In a lump. They will be offered only as money may be needed. These bonds cannot be used as a basis for National bank circulation. A 2 per cent bond, it Is asserted, might have been sold, if such use had been authorized, but this Is doubtful, since the profit in the bank circulation Is a variable and uncertain quantity. But perhaps a 3 per cent bond may sell at a premium. LANDSEEKERS WILL LABOR. Since the Government first opened its lottery layout for the Indian lands In the vicinity of Spokane, Coeur d'Alene and Missoula, it has been very difficult to foresee a result that would be other than detrimental to the coun try. The Individual who enters any kind of a game of chance and gets "trimmed," as is usually the case, re tires from the game with a grouch not only against the dealer behind the table, but against the locality wherein the game is operated. This feeling of resentment and anger under such cir cumstances is, of course, illogical, but It is natural., and hundreds and thou sands of deluded victims who spent nearly all they possessed in taking a chance in the land lottery will Jour ney back to the East "nursing their wrath to keep it warm" until they get a chance to swing the hammer not against our good, old tTncle Sam who ran the bunco game, but against the entire Western country, of which the diminutive reservations were a very in significant portion. - Fortunately for the West, however, there la no evil from which it Is im possible to extract some good, and within the past few days a new feat ure of the land ' rush has developed. Thousands of the deluded victims who Journeyed West expecting to secure a fine farm by merely registering before a notary public have wandered out Into the wheat fields of the Inland Em pire and are now helping to take care of what promises to be the largest crop ever harvested in the Pacific North west. These men are not only receiv ing good wages and thus recouping their lottery losses, but their presence at this time is of great value to the farmers, who in nearly every big-crop year in the past have suffered some loss through inability to secure help when it was needed. This harvest work will last for several weeks, and as it neaxs the end there will be a re newed demand for labor in the many railroad construction enterprises In the three states. There will also be employment for a large force of men in loading this wheat on board ship at either Port land or Puget Sound. The Puget Sound rate for this work is the mini mum for the Pacific Coast, but even at that figure common labor Is paid from $2.75 to $4 per day. and with a small amount of overtime the men who load the grain aboard ship not Infrequently make $5 per day. These wages can hardly fail to be attractive to the grainhandlers and stevedores, who are accustomed to working in the Lake ports for lees than half the amount paid for the same class of work in the Pacific Northwest. The influx of a few thousand of the disap pointed landseekers will be o material assistance in settling this vexatious waterfront labor problem, and with wages the same at Portland as at Pu get Sound there will be more of this class of work In Portland than in any previous season. In providing an in creased labor supply lor tne norin west the land lottery is successful. In every other respect It is a failure. China has made reply to Japan's recent ' announcement of immediate construction of the Antung-Mukden Railroad. In the smooth, suave. Ori ental way China asks that the work be suspended in order that negotiations may be continued. Japan, with less suavity but with more twentieth-century enterprise, firmly replies that work and negotiations can proceed simultaneously. This seems to be one of the cases where the "ways that are dark and tricks that are vain," in an effort to stave off the inevitable, are ineffectual. China, with either the moral or financial support of Great Britain, could receive plenty of time for continuation of negotiations. When the British support rests with Japan, as it does in this cas, there seems to be no other course open than grace fully to back down and permit Japan to proceed with its raroad. The falls of "Beautiful Willamette" are no longer grand or inspiring. They have been taken over from the control of Nature, and harnessed to the car of civilization, and the voice of their ex ultation has dwindled into a whimper ing monotone. This, we say point ing to the electric lights that blaze and the cars that are moved by the transmuted power of the falls this is progress, this Is development. Yet noting all this and acknowledging its truth, those of us who knew the falls of the Willamette as they were a third or a half century ago can hardly exult in their present subdued appearance, even though we feel and know that these waters have become useful and profitable to the community, where be fore they were but the wild exponents of wasted energy and of riotous, un tamed power. Why not build one Jail at once, big enough for both city and county Jail? What's the use of all this expense for two Jails? Put In a Jail on the top floor of the new Courthouse, big enough for both county and city. And deny the luxuries of a roof garden. A Jail needn't be the most luxurious place in the city. Moreover, escape from the seventh or eighth story of a properly constructed building will be attended with some difficulty. An other advantage would be that the reek from the Jail on the top floor of a tall building would exhale towards the stars. A n emergepcy hospital would be an excellent refuge for four or five city employes, at steady salaries. They might have a case that needed atten tion, once or twice a year; might not. But they could pull their salaries with regularity and keep the emergency hospital in order, if they weren't too lazy. If the city will hold automo biles In order It Is not likely to need an emergency hospital for many years. Hospitals are necessary; and the city has many of them. But what Is called an emergency hospital is al ways merely a graft. Harney Valley wheat land is turn ing off forty bushels per acre, which would be considered a very satisfac tory showing In many regions where railroads have been running for half a century. As the average yield in the United States is less than fifteen bush, els per acre. It is apparent that the long-neglected region of Central Ore gon is fully equal to anything that has been claimed for It. Roses of Portland have come into the second blooming of the season; August rivals June in the beauty, bril liancy and fragrance of the display. Parks and gardens are aglow with color. Annuals flower bravely In beds and borders, giving hint of ma turity to the Summer's charms and all combining to make Portland a beauty spot In a setting of emerald. Punxsutawney, Pa., got on the front page of the newspapers yesterday. The Incident responsible for the prom inence was a surgical operation by which some false teetn swallowed by a man while drinking were forced down into his stomach and removed. A man wearing false teeth should be careful about pronouncing the name of a town like Punxsutawney. The auto should be a harmless ma chine, but It Is a machine of a kind that prompts and stimulates the in stinct of ill-regulated persons to abuse it. All this sort are riding for a set back. Let them mind that. Some body will go to the Penitentiary pretty soon, or very likely to the gal lows. These abuses will not be tol erated forever. It Is the firm opinion of The Orego nlan that the city ought at this time to purchase land for two more small parks, both on the East Side; one at Hawthorne Springs, the other In the Ladd tract on Base Line road, oppo site Sunnyside. Both are well situ ated, and the opportunity to buy in as suitable localities will not occur again. Croakers to the contrary notwith standing. Oregon Is going to have four fifths of a banner apple crop this year. But how in the world is the average city man to save enough out of his vacation expenses to buy a box for Thanksgiving day and another for Christmas? Before another homicide is added to Portland's automobile score, three things should be remembered by men at the wheel: Don't get drunk; don't drive von the wrong side of the road; don't turn corners fast. It never rains but It pours; and we are to have two railroads through Deschutes Canyon Into Middle Oregon if one of them doesn't quit. Which? Is Harriman to be backed out of the canyon? Now is the time for a parting gaze at the Madison-street bridge. Pity 'tis that Portland couldn't take a last look a year ago. And the sad reflection is that for everybody who won a prize in the land lottery there are several hundred los ers. Surely the active press agents of Messrs. Jeffries and Johnson are earning their big salaries. We hear no protest from the hab itues of the City Jail against removal to City Hall neighborhoaj GRILLS HARRIMAN AND FIELD. Chlcaso Professor Crltldaea Dead Mer chant Prince and the Railway Kin a:. Chautauqua Special to Chicago Tribune. Professor Charles Zueblin, formerly of the University of Chicago, at the Chautauqua Assembly tonight declared that the late Marshall Field was an ex ample of a man overspecialized in busi ness and deficient in culture. Then he asserted the United States should pay E. H. Harriman $1,000,000 a year to run all the railroads. "A wonderful man was Marshall Field," said the sociologist. "He built up one of the greatest businesses in the world. And yet this business genius made the most pernicious will ever made. It is not only foolish, but dan gerous the greatest invitation to anarchy he could have made. "Mr. Field made only a few benefac tions, which aro now hampering the City of Chicago as they have hampered the University of Chicago in the past. "Then he left his enormous fortune to his little grandsons a few millions at a time to be doled out to them in the course of about 50 years. Although dead, he insists on controlling his store and his wealth for 50 years. He couldn't take it with him, and so he ties it up and stays with it In person. "What is the effect of this on his grandsons? Why, nothing but a miracle can save those grandsons from damna tion. "It would be profitable for the United States Government to pay Mr. Harriman a salary of $1,000,000 a year or so and give him a free hand to run the rail roads of the country as he pleased for the good of the country. He could do it well, as he has shown by his success in running them for himself. "Emphatically, however, the Govern ment should insist that he keep his hands off the finances of the country. In the railroad world he is a genius, but -in the financial world he is a pest. "Harriman is a kind of financial pres tidigitator. He is the kind of man to take $50,000,000 in one hand, transfer it to the other hand, when, lo and be hold, there Is $100,000,000 in the other hand. It is wonderful and, unfortu nately, true. He is one of the over specialized business men who disre gards the public morals men of force who are violators of law." AEDAC1TY OF JESUS' SPEECH. It Wu Hla Boldness That Gave Him Resistless Power. MILTON, Or., Aug. 7. To the Ed itor.) Apropos of a recent discussion In The Oregonian of the rank of Jesus of Nazareth, the following suggestions are offered: What is to be thought of the venturesome nature of the sayings of the Man of Galilee? He said: "I am the light of the world." "I am the good shepherd." "I am the vine." "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." "I am the bread of life; he that cometh to me shall never hunger." Has any other man than Jesus spoke so audaciously? This boldness is unac counted for, If Jesus were not above the natural level of the world's people. Be cause I accept his divinity I am not startled by this audacity. What is to be thoi.ght of the vitality he put into his words? The golden rule is found elsewhere than In the mouth of Jesus, but as he announced It, he gave to It a note the ages hear; in fine, he lived the law of love. He loved others better than himself, hence the splendid waste of his death, illustrative, of self-sacrifice, the noblest thing on earth. Before ex-President Eliot has fin ished his course for the new education he becomes a prophet in announcing a new religion. What headway would those barren Intellectualities and life less ethics have made with paganism? What grafters would they turn Into honest men? What comfort would they carry where coffins enter? Answer! Jesus spoke with authority the Ser mon on the Mount, and currents of life stream in upon us more and more as we listen, and we find the true evolu tion by finding the way and walking in It now and forever. What Is to be thought of the indifference of Jesus with reference to the future? It's the human to be concerned for the success ful outcome of plan and toil. But Jesus was never so composed as, when dying upon the cross,- he uttered his cry of triumph:. "It is finished." To manu facture such a record is a greater miracle than to be what the record declares it to be. If Jesus be divine it matters not that others are human, for he lights the hill tops with sunlight, and wo see the trail. The nations en throning Jesus of Nazareth are the sheep of time and take the right. B. J. HOADLEY. This Goose la Thirty-six Years Old. Flint, N. Y., Dispatch to the New York Herald. This isn't the goose that laid the golden egg, but It's the oldest goose in the United States, according to Its owner, Mrs. A. C. Johnson, of this city. "The goose is 36 years old and more," says Mrs. Johnson, in relating the story of her feathered pet. "One morning in April, 1873, when I went out in the yard, I found a young gosling half burled in the snow. Evidently the bird was one of a flock of wild geese flying overhead, and during the night had become tired and worn out, dropping to the ground. I picked him up, took him into the house, fed him, and ever since then he has remained with me. I gave him the name of Baby." The old goose is known to every child in the neighborhood. He will follow his mistress about the streets whenever she will allow him to do so, and Is a pet of many people. A few weeks ago the old goose was caught under the hoofs of a horse and it was thought for a time that the bird would die. His feet were crushed, but he recovered, and still man ages to waddle about cheerfully. Man Quits Country for Hla Dog. Detroit, Mich., Dispatch to the New York World. Arraigned for allowing his dog to run at large on the streets without an official tag on its collar, John Barkowski said: "I'll take him over to Windsor, Ontario, arid go there and live with him." He said he was opposed to buying a brass sign to hang on its neck. When the Judge warned him that it will be necessary for him to purchase, John declared that it means a change in his country for him. Judge Phelan pleaded with John to stick to the United' States, but the latter insisted that he must give his beast a square deal. . "Pig la Pigs" to Board of Health. Wilmington, Del., Dispatch. No pigs, educated or otherwise, will be allowed to remain in the limits of this city by the local Board of Health, and action has been taken in that respect. The board received complaint that a woman residing in South Wilmington was the owner of two pigs, and a policeman was sent to make an Investigation. He re turned with the information that the pigs were educated ones, and were being kept by the woman until she could dispose of them to a showman. The board decided that pigs are pigs, whether possessing an education or Just common everyday hogs. Pioneer Motor Trip Through Arabia. , London Vogue. Arabia has for the first time been trav ersed by a motor car. The party consisted of an Englishman, David Forbes; his English driver, an Assyrian mechanic, a Baghdadi cook, a:id an Arab guide, the car carrying in addition to her passen gers a supply of tinned foods, an allow ance of bedding for each, and 50 gallons of 'petrol in a specially built tank. CLACKAMAS NOT A POOR COVTNTY Mr. Chapman Telia How Much New Ter ritory Should Be Given Multnomah. PORTLAND. Aug. 9. (To the Editor.) I see that Mr. Wemme is stirring up quite aa agitation in regard to setting off part of Clackamas County Into Mult nomah, so that a good road can be built to Mount Hood. Now, there Is no man in Portland, and I might say in the State of Oregon, whose opinion on the road question I would con sider ahead of Mr. Wemme's. In fact, I have 'a great admiration for Mr. Wemme in every way, and as to putting part of Clackamas County in Multnomah, I am in perfect accord with him. During a residence in Clackamas County of almost a lifetime, I have always advocated put ting all of that part of Clackamas County lying north of the Clackamas River into Multnomah, as almost universally the In- ( terests ot tne residents or mat section are in Portland. It would be a great sav ing in many ways for them to have their seat of government here, but the ex ception I want to take to Mr. Wemme's speech at Welch's when he says Clack amas is a poor county. Clackamas is anything but a poor county. Considering the bridges and roads it has to keep up. there is no county in the state, outside of Multnomah, that begins to compare with it. Clackamas County taxpayers have spent many hundreds of thousands of dol lars on their roads in the past 15 years, and have many miles of the finest kind of Improved roads, and their debt is very small. So Clackamas cannot, or should not, be called a poor county. Chunks have been taken off old Clacka mas for a great many years, as I under stand The Dalles was at one time in Clackamas County. I fully expect that the time will come when Oregon City will be about all there is left. However, I am heartily in accord with Mr. Wemme, ex cepting on one point but let us make the Clackamas River the line. That would still leave a large county, as the Clacka mas County line is at Aurora on the south. E. C. CHAPMAN. EXIT THE PEACH-BASKET HAT. But Help! Woman Gives V a Worse Terror In the New Russian Turban. New York Cor. Washington (D. C.) Post. The death knell of the peach-basket hat has been sounded, and there Is com ing Into fashion from Paris the toque russe. Into the tomb of fashion will go with the peach-basket hat all the rats and puffs now decorating the heads of women. But dear man need not shout with Joy because of the demise of the peach-basket hat. This new Russian toque or turban will obstruct the view almost as much as the style of last year. It will set a foot and a half high on a woman's head, the brim will half cover the ears, and will fall in the back to the shoul ders of the wearer. It Is somewhat on the style of the Cossack hat, and has a resemblance to the tall fur hat of the Hussars. This new style In headgear is becom ing the rage in Paris. The toque and the turban are made of fur of all kinds. The height of a foot and a half Is at tained by the addition of an aigrette, which sticks up like a young tree. This new style, which is expected to become the rage In this country, was brought out first by the Russian opera in Paris. Mme. Rejane, playing in "L'Imperatrice," wore the turban, and Ime. Sorel had on a toque in "La Re vontre." Immediately the Innovation spread, and the cold weather in Paris has allowed the wearing of this fur headgear. The Indiana Experience. New York Sun. For all those citizens and there are many of them who are considering the question of direct primaries, not in the spirit of a baseball game or a prize-fight, but simply and wholly as a question of political philosophy and civil government, there is a significant message in the re cantation of the Indianapolis News which we reprint in another column. (The ar ticle referred to has been reprinted by The Oregonian.) To any one familiar with the newspapers of the Nation the mere mention of the name of this inde pendent, intelligent and serious journal gives to its testimony peculiar weight. The News advocated direct primaries; to its advocacy was due in no smali part the passage of such legislation in the In diana Legislature. The legislation has had practical test, and now, mindful of its responsibility for the enactment, the News comes forward frankly and with admirable courage to confess Its previous error. The direct primary to suhpena the ex perience of other states has failed a lot to succeed at most only a little. Out of all the experiment and failure there may ultimately come a success beyond the dreams of the most sanguine but there is as yet nothing to indicate that such a success is to come. The weight of evi dence on the contrary, is all the other way. Seattle Beaten for Speed. New York Tribune. Seattle has recently boasted. In connec tion with its Exposition, that it held the world's record in the matter of harvest ing, grinding and using wheat. At the Exposition wheat was cut, threshed, ground and baked into bread in 20 mlnr utes. A correspondent to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat says, however, that that is slow time. He cites the case of a man in Carroll County, Mo., who in 1878 cut and threshed wheat, conveyed it 40 rods to mill, ground it into flour and cooked it into griddle cakes all within 3 minutes and 65 seconds from the time of beginning the cutting of the grain, and into well baked biscuits in 4 minutes and 37 sec onds. Colored Troops. Toronto Mail and Empire. Vermont used to be one of the staunch est supporters of the negro's cause, and at the time of the Civil War no section of the country was more ferocious with Southern sympathizers. Times have changed, however, and the former cham pion of the negro is now Indignant be cause a colored regiment of cavalry has been quartered in Burlington. No doubt the old-time love of the black man will return as soon as he is moved a few hundred miles away. And All the Other Necessaries. Success. t An evangelist was exhorting nil hearers to flee from wrath to come. "I warn you,' he thundered, "that 'there will be weeping, and walling, and gnashing of teeth!' " At this moment an old woman in the gallery stood up. "Sir," she shouted, "I have no teeth." "Madam," returned the evangelist, severely, "teeth will be provided." Not "Bleeding; Kansas" Now. Kansas City Star. The assessed valuation of property in Kansas this year exceeds $2,500,000,000. Who would have thought, a while ago, that Kansas would some day be richer than Rockefeller, Morgan, Carnegie, the Goulds and the Vanderbilts all put to gether? Modern Advertising. Detroit News. The "Kansas merchant who adver tises, "I want eggs and I want them bad." may not be getting the kind he wanted, but he is getting a lot of breezy paragraphs from the boys who do the funny business for the news papers. The Executive Backbone. Nashville American. Taft's backbone is not exactly in the chocolate eclairo class. BOURNE, LUMBER AND GOLF. A Tale That Relates How Bourne Didn't Do It. Washington Report In New Tork Com mercial 'Advertiser. The case of the Hon. Jonathan Bourne, Senator from Oregon, is a peculiarly sad one In these latter days of tariff fixing. To understand this case fully It is need ful to go back to the days last Spring before the Chicago copventlon. when Senator Bourne was encouraging the puh lic to write essay.3 cit the second elec tive term business. Much was heard of how Mr. Roosevelt would he recreint to the call of duty if he failed to respond to the uprising of the people. Sir. Taft was all right, but . Then Mr. Talt got the nomination, and it is a nialtor of record that about the first Senior to solidify himself down at Hot Sprincs was Jonathan Bourne. Everybody marvelled at the suddenness of the conversion which was finally ascribed to the fact that Jonathan plays poll, and the further fact that Mr. Taft was hunting for con genial company on the links. Ever since then Senator Bourne has diligently basked in the light of the White House smile and played golf sev eral times a week with the White House occupant. It might have been supposed that if any one at the Capitol had a "pull" with the President it was the Oregon Senator. Not alone did he play golf with the President, but he went to the aeroplane tests with 1:1m. and took frequent occasions to praise Mr. Taft as a great acid good man with a firm and unyielding sort of backbone. Well, it proved true, all right. Along came the lumber tariff. A scheme was afoot to get $1.50 lumber. The President Issued his ultimatum. Mr. Bourne was one of those on whom the ultimatum landed amidships. Golf to the contrary notwithstanding, his efforts to prevent $1.26 lumber and to keep the President from having his way were of no avail. For some hours Senator Bourne was as busy in behalf of the $1.50 lumber as if he had been playing a match game of golf. But it was no use. He had to give way; along with the other friends of the high lumber tariff. It's a sad case, as remarked. But it seems golf and lum ber have no known relationship. EFFECT OF MUSIC ON MEN'S HAIR. Wind Instruments Produce Baldness) String Instruments Luxuriant Growth. Washington Herald. "Music is a blessing to the bald-headed man," said Fred Kirchner, of Los Angeles, whose hobby is music and who is somewhat of a wag. He remarked: "Science In the form of music has now to come to the aid of the bald. String music, including the piano, we are told by an authority, Is favorable to the growth of the hair, while wind instruments are destructive to it. Look at Paderewskl. Hasn't he some hair? And what about Ysaye and Kubelik. Go back to Paganlnl and Rubinstein and Liszt. Did you ever see a violinist or a ' piano virtuoso who hadn't a fine head of hair? "On the other hand, look over any orchestra or brass band, if you can catch it with its hat off. Did you ever see a flute player or a cornetlst or a trombone operator who wasn't either bald or nearly so? An attempt to ex plain the alleged difference is made by assumlrg that the powerful vibrations of the wind Instruments drive the blood out of the scalp, while the strings awaken a sympathetic quiver in the skin and hair which has an effect like vibratory massage. How do you like this logic?" Chamberlain in Baker County. Baker City Herald. The popularity of Georgs Chamber lain, junior senator of Oregon, has fallen many points since the tariff fight in Congress began. He will return to the state now the extraordinary session has closed, a much weaker man than when he entered the Senate, which was only a few weeks ago. In Baker County the strongest criti cism is heard from strong Democrats. There has even been intimations that Chamberlain sold out his constituency. We believe this conclusion is hardly well founded for Chamberlain has not been in the Senate long enough to get onto the ropes sufficiently to jus tify him bartering and trading, even if he were inclined to do so. The Senator's attitude on the tariff bill; his allegiance to the Aldrlch wing; his firm stand against the people; his final vote repudiating his former atti tude all go to show that he is com posed of just what the Herald has al ways claimed for him namely, a weak man playing to the popular sentiment, lacking In statesmanship, in ability and In brain power. If he were to run for office soon, there is every reason to believe he would not poll one-third the strength he did at the last campaign in this country. Political Effect of the Tariff Bill. Louisville Courier-Journal. The country is disappointed at fhis out come of the extra session, and many a member of the present Congress will ba justly made a victim of that disappoint ment. The Republicans will suffer se verely; would that the Democrats were in better position to profit by the short comings of their adversaries. That they will profit to some extent will be due to the fact, not that they are Democrats, but that they are adversaries of the Re publicans. For the country is indebted but little more to the Democrats in the present Congress than to the Republicans for relief from the burdens of a tariff for subsidy; the truth being that the bill as it went to conference was a product of Democrats, as well as Republicans, and that several of its worst features could not have been Incorporated in it except for the votes of Democrats, especially of Democrats in the Senate. And a still fur ther and humlliatingly significant truth being that the chorus of opposition to the bill that is now going up from the Democrats in Congress is based upon the complaint, not that it is a highly pro tective measure, but that it makes an un fair division of the protection swag! Eyes That Are Opened. Indianapolis News. Our recent discussion of the direct pri mary has apparently excited a consider able degree of Interest. The fact seems to be that the greatest friends of the sys tem are those who never held an election under it. That was true in Indiana. AT THE GRAVE OF KEATS. Eden phlllpotts In Westminster Gazette. Where silver swathe of newly fallen hay Fling- up their Incense to the Roman sun; Where violets spread their dusky leaves and run In a aim ripple, and a glittering- bay Lifts overhead his living wreath; where day Burns fierce upon his endless night and none Can whisper to him of the thing he won. Love-starved young Keats hath cast his gift of clay. And atill the little marble makes a moan Under the scented ahado; one nightingale With many a meek and mourning monotone Throbs of his sorrow; sings how oft men fail And leave their dearest llght-brlngera alone To shine unseen and all unfriended pale. II Oh, leave the lyre upon his humble stone. The rest erase; If Keats were come again The ouickest. he. to blot thi cry of pain. The first to take a sorrowing world s atone. Tie not the high magistral way to moan When a mean present leaps and sweeps amain Athwart the prophets' visions; not one groan . t. Escapes their souls and IlngerB not one stain. They answer to their Ideals; their rood Outshines all flare and glare of futile marts. They stand beside their altars while the flood Ephemeral rolls on and roars and parts. It shall not chill a poet's golden blood: It cannot drown the masters' mighty hearts.