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TTTE MORNING OREGONTAX. TUESDAY. AUGUST 23. 1910. 8 rOHTlATO. OKEfiON. trnrT- at Portland. Poatoffloe as Frcaa-CIaa HVIU' SanacrlpMaa Bans Invariably r.l!T. 9-jeiiav lnelu!l. on T"'; 'J I,a: y. 8 ;r..".y lncluJ"i. 1 month.... J--J r.:lr. Fundr Included. IStH monui".. " t .ilT. Iinlir Include os " !r I .:r. w::HjuI Pund.y. on. rr------- ? r! y. l;hot Sunday. .IX month.. ... -J Ia:y. without Sunday, threa moot... .. ruir. without Sunday, on moot.... - Wilr. on. rrar... ... i- F j.d.r. on. year... ' Suaday ad Mkl. on. yr " " OlT Carr5r. rfr. ar'1y tnem14. en yr...... ' tt:r. Sunday. tacIBdaJ. on moot. How to Ktmit Stl Pot(Tlr M.r. rrM rdr or proal ih : en yr loc.l bank. timi coin r ar at th. ..ndf. ri.a. Olv. adra la foil, including county and JMM. Km 1 to P- t i ' f to 2-. e.(a. 1 cnt; 10 to 4J pl KlTl. to paa nnu roralsa pota eoabl rata. tn p7tal A'if-y X Torn, rootn" ? 5" Trsun. tsilinc Cnlcas. room o.w B:t Trlbun tulMIn PORTLAND. TVE--DAT. At'G. S3. ' ' the t.uuit axd high nurw. the United State Is In an economic situation today the like- of which It raver ha seen before. As a nation ra ar enjoying simultaneously the elation of prosperity and the pinch of bard time. There la prosperity be caase all kind of business are thriv ing. Many buildings are going up In the crtlc. Farmer receive high price for their crop. Men of enter prise are active and confident. At the iwa time, although there is a treat deal of money in circulation, it seems to 'have lost a large part of It power to !buy what wa want. A dollar la not a Hollar a It wa In the food old times. Henc there are a great many people, particularly those living on salaries, who watch the magnificent procession of prosperity passing their windows but have no ability to par tlCfste In Its blessings. From those who have something to ejl there rises a paean of gladnes fn? high prices, but from those who have to buy we hear a wall much loader and more continuous. Since there are few persons who do not find occasion now and then to buy something or other the groans rather tend to drown the shouts of Joy. As a matter of fact we are all en gaged In trying- to find out why It costs so much more to live now than It .did formerly. If we could solve the problem no doubt there would be a grand attack on the offending cause, whatever It may be, and prices would be brought down with a rush like the descent of Niagara. We have conveniently forgotten the sad epoch In the history of the country when prices were a miserably low as they now are high. In those days every body wa fwalllng for goods to cost more. It wa generally taught that there was some subtle vlrtuo In high price not only to make the desert bloom but even to elevate the moral character of the citizen. An honored president waa said to have enunciated ihe profound doctrine that "a cheap roat makes a cheap man." meaning by "coat" any article of food or wear, and" a vast majority of the people of the United States agreed with the sentiment. Now most of us are In clined to hold that It Is the dear "Vnat" which make the man cheap since the cost of the garment leave him nothing to spend upon the beau tincatlon of his souL In McKlnley's time there wa a mighty clamor for a high tariff to make living dear. Now thrre Is a mightier one for a low tariff to make It cheap. Thus is the fickleness of man Illustrated. Give the caeature what he want and Im mediately he will turn and rend you because yon did not give him the' op posite. But slowly through the muck of passion and Ignorant wrangling is permeating the salutary belief that the power of the tariff to make prices high or low Is limited. It Is not the omnipotent force for . good or evil which it was formerly " supposed to be. As one newspaper remarks, we have had good and bad time under a'l sort of tariffs and the partisan frenzy of the country has cooled down to the point where that weighty fart. 1 admitted by almost everybody. The tariff is no longer regarded as an 1,101 to be blindly worshiped or a Bend to be execrated Indiscriminately. It is looked upon a a mere piece of human legislation, largely dishonest and blundering, but with many good points after all. The country has advanced In Intel genc to the point where It Is willing that, the tariff should be studied ra tionally and modified In accordance wtih th cold facts of the case. That It Is solely responsible for the high cost of living Is too wild a fancy for mny citizen to cherish in these days of broad Information, but on the other hand It would be hard to con vince Intelligent people that It Is not partly responsible. Where the tariff enables a trust to keep out foreign competition certainly It lays a founda tion for extortionate prices. This can not he denied. THE GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC. Sir Wilfrid Laurler. the Premier of Canada, is reported to have Just met tOOD citizens of British Columbia at Prince Rupert, the newly laid-out terminus of the Grand Trunk Pacific Tlailroad. It seem that only, about hoi miles from Prince Rupert to Ed monton will complete this transconti nental road which, without blare of trumpets, has been steadily pushing Us way to the Pacific. The Pacific Coast 1 used to think cf a coast country cut off from the Interior of the continent by the gi gantic range of the Rockies. But the Grand Trunk In Its western course show no grade exceeding 1 per cent. No wonder that Sir Wilfrid Laurler should call the completion of this road the crowning dream of his long life. Mr. J. J. Hill Is not alone in foretelling a day when the wheat pro duction of North America will fail to fill the needs of the crowded East. But the Grand Trunk and the Cana dian Northern, and the side lines and extensions of the Canadian Pacific, paralleling each other across the con tinent, are opening wheat fields of Manitoba. Saskatchewan. Alberta and British Columbia on a scale which should allay those fears for many a vrar to come. It Is all another dem onstration that with great needs of the human race comes great relief. That rapid settlement will follow tlnse on the heels of these railroads cannot be doubted by any who crossed fifteen years ago the vast rpaces along which the Canadian rnade Its way. There were wllder KessMs of rolling prairie, and a sky line only broken at long Interval by the boarded cabin of the pioneer settler; and then. In this year of grace one see the wilderness converted Into wheatflelds and farm, the water-tank stations replaced by thriving towns, with the great wheat elevators filled twice or oftener each season with the golden grain. IAsTEBX OREGOX CANDIDATES. Judge Lowell, of Pendleton, has a modest and altogether laudable de sire to be Governor, and the Judge Is not without friend who are of the same mind. But there are three rea sons that cause the Judge to hesitate. These reasons are Hofer. Dimlck and Abraham. If these gentlemen could be persuaded to withdraw there would be mighty rejoicing in Eastern Oregon, for would not Umatilla have another Eastern Oregon candidate who would be pitted against the ris ing son of Gilliam T Of course Eastern Oregon never was so much In earnest In Its loud demand for a Governor for that section that It supported him at the polls with sufficient enthusiasm or unanimity to bring about hi elec tion; yet by this lovely arrangement no matter whether Umatilla is really for Lowell, or Gilliam for Bowerman. the nomine will still be in the family. But would Lowell make a stronger candidate before the people than Bowerman? If there are so-called Republican who would be happier with a Democrat for Governor than Bowerman, there are also not .a few Republicans who may fancy that the state can get along for four years somehow without the service of the Pendleton Judge. A few of them live in Umatilla, too. and they have long memorle and longer knives. Judge Lowell Is wise to stay out while Hofer. Dimlck and Abraham stay In. Whether he would be wise to get In If the Irreconcilable trio got out need not be discussed. They won't get out. I tRU-t AXD FORESTRT. The significance of the forest fires, now devastating wide sections of Idaho, Montana, Washington and Ore gon. Is appalling. Great as la the present disaster In the loss of human life, of homes, grain, stock, and so forth, the future loss 1 Incomparably greater. Homes can be rebuilt, crops will grow In a year, stock can be re placed within a relatively short space of time, but the standing timber that has been destroyed, aggregating mil lions upon millions of feet of lumber cannot be restored to our forest area for a long period of time. Much of the timber that has been destroyed is of slow growth; but a very small portion of the fire-swept area has been left in a condition fit for replanting. It Is for the most part a vast stretch of blackened and dead trees standing, or fallen, forbid ding even to Nature in conjunction with the process of restoration. The problem of dealing with these devas tated forest area with a view to their restoration is a stupendous one. It will Include the getting rid of a vast amount of charred standing timber and blackened, half-reduced trunk of gigantic trees. The propo sition can only bo worked out by slow degrees and through Intelligent understanding of prevailing condi tions. The lover of trees, the student of forestry, the enthusiast in "grow ing things." will find in the problems' that confront and are to be worked out through the Bureau of Forestry his opportunity to enroll his name in the list of his country's benefactor In" dealing with thl question First to save our forest from waste by spoliation and fire; then to restore a portion, at least, of those that have been destroyed, by assisting Nature In the slow process of reforestratlon. and hereafter to guard them from waste with redoubled vigilance thi"te the work of the Bureau of Forestry. With the devouring flame still un quenched; with mighty tree falling in battalions In all the wooded sections of the lnter-Mountaln and Pacific Coast country; with peoole fleeing from their homes and farmers aban doning their land and crop for life's sake: with troops being ordered to the relief of frenzied settler and the very skiea withholding the relief des perately hoped for the present stress is all absorbing. JXFAS AND COREA. When In the Portsmouth treaty, the "guidance, protection and control" of Corea were claimed by and entrusted to Japan, there could be but on end to what wa of necessity a . terra of experiment. ' Here wa one Oriental nntlon living the life and practicing usages centuries old court, aristoc racy and common people alike. It called Itself the Hermit Kingdom and blinked feebly when the light of the Twentieth century was turned on It. A country it U. wide enough to hold twelve million people and yet leave room for millions more, rich In un developed resources of forests, mines, and many forma of mineral wealth. Absolutely ignorant of modern science In every form, it yet practices heredi tary arts resembling those' of both China and Japan. Internal communications are In their Infancy. No commerce ha been established with the outside world, though there are hundreds of miles of seaboard, and harbors abundant. Corea is begging only to be let alone, seeking no outside adventure, offer ing to Invasion a feeble and unorgan ized resistance. Confronting them across the Pea of Japan -lay the Island Empire, teem ing with people who, after awaking from, their sleep of centuries, have In a few very. short years made their own the wisdom of the West, and were bound to find new worlds to con quer. Necessities of the Russian War brought the Japanese armies Into oc cupation ' of Corea and the greatest battles were'' fought not far from her frontier. Japanese built roads and bridges, even laid railroads, took possession of cities, policed and governed the whole country all as a necessity of war. So thoroughly was this done that when the combatants met at Ports mouth, and stood at ease on their .I,, r9i mud, ft was the simplest thing in the world that when j Japan Insisted on -staying wner sne stood In Corea with no term et for her withdrawal, she should gain that point too. Of course the usual fine line was drawn between occupation, guidance, protection and control on the one hand, and ownership on the other. But Corea was weak, was unknown ground to all the parties aronnd the convention table, except Japan. It Is so easyto be very liberal at your neighbor's cost, especially when there are so court open to him for redress, and hi cries for relief are In an unknown tongue. 6o the occupation of Corea by Japan waa legalized try the nations of the world, and th rights and feel ings of the Coreana were only dust In the balance. If a despot It may be conceded that Japan has proved a benevolent despot, according to her rights. She sent her beat man. Prince Ito, a Resident Gen eral at Beoul. While he lived hfe wore the velvet glove. .His assassination probably hastened the day for com plete absorption which has now dawned. The Immigration of Japan ese will be by hundreds of thousands. Their laws and systems of govern ment and taxation will be applied. Commerce and manufactures will flourish. Twelve millions will be added at a stroke to the population of Japan, but th development of the great Corean peninsula will be car ried through by Japanese hands and capital. Questions will arise about the open, door, but unless signs fail, they will be solved as the dominant power of the Eastern seas shall dic tate to the world. Exit the Hermit Kingdom from the world's stage. ' EXFOSCUfO THX UaWS. "It 1 unpatriotic. If not treasonable, for any citizen or publio organ ' to suggest that thla Government Is pow erless to enforce a law enacted by Its sovezign people," remarks the Rainier Review, addressing It remarks to The Oregonlan. Much depends on the law. If the law is foolish, or unreasonable, or not supported by the general sentiment of the people. It will not be enforced. The sovereign people two year ago enacted an Initiative statute requiring all members of the Legislature to vote for the "people's choice" for United Slates Senator. The lr.w is, of course, impotent. No Legislator will pay the slightest attention to It mandates; nor should he. It Is a favorite argument of our Prohibition friends that the law against murder and other crimes Is frequently violated, and that there fore It is no Indictment of Prohibi tion that It will be disregarded. "Would The Oregonlan argue," cries one, "that there should be no law against murder since there are cer tain to be murders?" This Is very trifling; . yet The Oregonlan will ex plain that there are crimes (mala in se) that the universal Judgment of society condemns and there Is no question about the necessity and jus tice of prompt and rigorous punish ment. There are other offenses made criminal solely by statute. Running a saloon and selling liquor Is not in Itself a crime. It may be made crim inal by law. Society Is not united in its purpose to suppress the saloon by enforcing the law or by punishing the saloonkeeper. Indeed, in many places, society may deem the selling of liquor a legitimate pursuit, and may resist both the enactment and enforcement of a law against it. Is It reasonable to expect that In such cases the law will be effective? THE LOVES OF THE AS TORS. The . attempt to reconcile the divorced Astor spouses Is not with out an aspect of whimsicality. In the eye of the law these people are exact ly like any other two unmarried per sons. Their former relation has been completely annulled and is the same a if It sever had been. This being true the intermediaries who are try ing to bring them together do not differ essentially from any other match makers. To be sure there Is a child, but legally this human being Is now without any parents. While John Jacob Astor and hi former wife were married of course they were the father and mother of the girl. But they are now unmarried Individuals. The former Mrs. Astor is In the eye of the law a spinster and to think of her being the mother of a child Is scandalous. John Jacob is a member of the church In good standing and inasmuch as he is a bachelor It Is highly Improper to speak as If he had a child. It follows therefore that their "little daughter Muriel" is not their daughter either legally or logically. To give her that title casts a dark cloud upon their character a upright unmarried peo ple. Since their so-called daughter; has been placed by their divorce in Topsy' enviable condition as to par ents, why not leave her there? She now has neither father nor mother. She growed and there Is an-end of the matter. It stands to reason that two parents who cared so little for their child that they could not compose their former difficulties for her sake will not be weighed down with anxiety for her welfare If they should marry again. They would be happy and make her happy perhaps for a few months and then the old story Wbuld be resumed In a second volume. The Astors have tried the experi ment of living together a man and wife and It has Jailed. The law mercifully stepped in and freed them from each other. There Is not the faintest hope that a second experi ment would turn out any more hap pily. No pretense Is made that their characters have altered for the bet ten. Each is as petty, selfish and malignant, a ever, and they would behave Just as they did before. A wise man may be fooled once but not twice by the same trick. THE C.OVKRN'MXXT'S RESrONSTBIUTT. - The Investigation of the Indian land scandal in Oklahoma has brought to light testimony that tends to place some of the responsibility on the Gov ernment. There can of course be no excuse for the bribery which was charged, nor can any reasonable ex planation be made for the attempt to dispose of . the holdings of- Indian children - at a sacrifice. By refusing to sell these Indian lands and divide the proceeds among the Indians, as It was clearly the duty of the Govern ment to do, the Government officials paved the way for Promoter McMur ray. Much of the testimony given by the Indiana waa to the effect that they voluntarily signed the contract held by McMurray for ten per cent, com mission and they also endeavored to get others to sign them. The Gov ernment has never questioned the right of the Indians to sell this land and on one pretext or another had. de clined to proceed. Tiring of the long delay, the Indians In desperation turned the matter over to McMurray, and that gentleman seems to have undertaken the task in the customary Congressional manner. The Indians were mostly satisfied, be cause, as one of them testified, he was willing to pay McMurray 1500 out of the $5000 to which he was entitled, because he preferred the 14500 while he waa living to the $5000 that would be coming to him after" he was dead, providing he had to wait for the Gov ernment to sell the lands. The pub lic will accept with the customary grain of salt the statement of Mr. McMurray that he had no desire to take the contracts, and that they were forced on him by the Indians who had waited In vain for the Gov ernment to sell the lands and get the money which they needed for devel opment and Improvement of other lands. It seems quite plain from this reasonable testimony that it was the dilatory tactics of the Government that made It possible to work up a "slush fund" of such formWable pro portions. Had the Government performed Its duty towards these Indian wards, it would have sold the oil lands In ques tion, to the syndicate that was obliged to deal through Mr. McMurray. It might even have been possible to se cure a greater sum than the $30,000, 000 generally given as the value of the lands. Nothing has yet appeared In the testimony to show that any good reason existed why the Govern ment should not have attended to the business for the Indians without un necessary delay. As previously stated, nothing can-excuse Mr. McMurray and his boodllng associates, for their al leged attempt to purchase favorable legislation. Some responsibility, however, must rest with the Government for its re fusal to act more promptly In dispos ing of the lands In question. This is not the first case where Government delay presented great opportunity for outside exploitation of projects which should never pass out of Government control or management. The Fall fruit crop In the Pacific Northwest promises to be one of great abundance. Apples lead in Ore gon, since Oregon apples have be come famous In Eastern markets. But of pears, plums, peaches and prunes there Is a plentiful yield. The qual ity of all these fruits Is excellent. This Is especially true of pears, where a specialty is made of growing them, while prunes, though not so abundant as In some former years, are of ex cellent quality. Market conditions are satisfactory on high grade fruit, but of the culls there will be an enormous surplus, unless the facilities of fruit canneries have greatly in creased since the last over-abundant yield of "orchard products In the Wil lamette Valley. It Is at this point that the farmer who has hogs to turn into his orchard Is fortunate. There is no waste in fruit that is worked over into pork, or Into getting hogs in good condition for Fall fattening. Italy Is shuddering and cringing in the presence of epldemis cholera. Con ditions in that country invite pesti lence, and when the Invitation is ac cepted. It rages with a fury and fatal ity unknown to cleaner peoples. The odors of Naples and the reeks of Rome have become proverbial. Even worso than these are the vilely un sanitary conditions that obtain in smaller, but still congested, towns of Italy. The King Is showing courage and sympathy In dealing with his dis tressed subjects. All depends upon such sanitary conditions as can be compelled and such quarantine as can be enforced. At best the scourge will claim many victims before it is sub dued. Where ignorance invites and filth nourishes pestilence it readily se cures a foothold that it Is difficult for sanitary science to break. Large increase in the population of all Eastern cities during the past ten years, as reported from day to day. Is convincing proof of accelerated urban movement all over the United States. On the Pacific Coast, there has been the same recruiting of cities from the farm, and In addition a very large im migration. No city east of the Rocky Mountains, thus far reported, shows any where near the percentage of in crease In population that the figures for Portland, Seattle, Tacoma, Spo kane and Los Angeles are certain to disclose. Except for the disaster four years ago, San Francisco also would have shown greater gain than any other city In the 300.000 class. Oh, that Katherlne Elkins were safely married to the Duke of Abruzzl or some one else; that Alice Roose velt Longworth would smoke her cig arettes in private, and that John Jacob Astor and his wife would patch up their differences or quit for good and all! With Madame Anna Gould Princes de Sagan in retirement In her nursery, and the Johnson-Jeffries prizefight In the past, the public might thus have surcease from acute anxiety for a time. Medford is certainly "going some," to use a slangy term. A local paper says "over $1,000,000 is invested In automobiles by citizens of Medford. Probably $100,000 a year is spent In operating and maintaining them all of which bears witness to the prosper ity of this section." That Is a fact. A Medford man need not mortgage his home to buy one of them. . Wnen we hear that sixty young wo men of Eastern Washington are per sonally conducted to prune orchards to earn $3 a day pieking and packing fruit under the auspices of the Young Women's Christian Association, and personally sheltered during their work, we have increased respect and admiration for that worthy institu tion. . Of course. President Taft wants to placate all factions of his party. And he might be able to do it if he could expunge hi praise of the Payne-Ald-rlch tariff. On that point, he can't create enough placidity io meet the tiemand. A New York expert says lunacy in creases with longevity. His discovery is somewhat late; For example, there was Methuselah, who was 182 when he began to raise a family, and kept at it for 782 years. Now the time Is coming when the air feels rainy, it may be remarked that "Colonel" Hofer Is too busy pray ing for votes to spend any time on the weather. If the Elkins girl really has her foot on- the bottom step of the throne, why doesn't she finish the ascent and let It go at that? A bunch of Illinois railroad men are going to learn practically that the way of the transgressor is hard. Driller at Ontario, are down 000 feet, determined to strike oil or heat. Whatever he may say, the Colonel is sure to add fury, to the storm. GIVES THE WEST ITS OWN LANDS We Are "Coaserred" torn Murh, aad tne Result la Harmful. La Grande Observer. While Poindexter of Washington says the Governors' convention at Salt Lake is not la line with proper pro cedure, there are many people who will not agree with Poindexter in this any more than they do in other matters. The Governors' meeting is a good thing for the West, and we hope a firm stand will be taken, even if it is so radical that the people of the East will sit up and take notice. The West is our home, and the man who will not advocate protection of his home is, to say the least, a peculiar man. We have too much conservation, too many laws, too many officials and too many changes of regulations rela tive to the publio domain in the West. Much as Balllnger Is hated by some, he has of late delivered a few speeches that should find a place in the heart of every Westerner. It is not right for the extreme East to dictate what shall be done with the resources of the West, any more than it is right for a lot of dishonest men to loot the . entire domain. The timber, grazing lands and other natural re sources should be for those who come West and who were raised in the West. They have a right to what profit these resources will bring without Interfer ence of a hundred regulations, which, if lived up to, would make It Impossible for a citizen to ride through a reserve without infringing on Federal law, and thereby laying himself liable to prose cution. The wood are full of special agent and school boys In the Govern ment employ. These agents frequently overstep the wide latitude given them by law and a a result some citizen who ha braved the frontier in order to live In the West, and help to make it what it is today, is brought before a Federal grand Jury charged with an of fense. The whole thing needs readjusting. When reformation sets in it becomes a disease. Like most reforms, the ex treme has been -reached, and it seems high time that the department strikes a happy medium in the matter. LATEST NOVELTY IN CHURCHES. Syracuse Ha Plana for Building With Apartments for Bachelors. Duluth News-Tribune. Rev. W. W. Dawley, of Syracuse. N. Y., formerly pastor of the First Baptist Church of this city, is now at the head of the largest Baptist congregation in the State of New York, outside of New York City, and one that is undertaking the erection of what is, perhaps, the most unique church edifice in the en tire country. It is to be an "apartment house church," a six-story structure in the heart of the Syracuse business sec tion, the first three floors of which are to be used for the church additorlum and usual assembly and class rooms and the upper three floors of which are to be bachelor apartments for young men. The basement of the novel church will contain a gymnasium and other facilities for recreation. Rev. Mr. Dawley stated that the edi fice will cost about 200,000-when com pleted and that nothing like it had ever been planned before, some of the insti tutional churches being the nearest ap proach. "The Christian world is coming to recognize more and more that the work of the church has to do with everything that Is for the uplift and improvement of human life," said he, "and we see no reason why the church we are planning will not be fully as sacred and can be dedicated to the service of God as any other. By combining two churches, we now have a membership of about 1700, and the site for the proposed church is in the civio center of the city. We esti mate that we should derive an Income of $12,000 a year from the bachelor apartments on the three upper floors, and we consider .that better than an en dowment." - TALLEST PEAK IN THE WORLD. Recent Measurements of High Moun tain of Knrakornm Range. London Dally News. I mentioned some time ago that the Indian survey had thrown doubt on the hitherto accepted figure of 29,002 feet as the height of the world's highest mountain. Mount Everest. This, how ever, did not mean that it was lower than that, but that so many things operated to prevent accuracy In the trigonometrical measurement of the summit that the height might be only 28.700 feet or as much as 23,140 feet. Until quite recently, however, either of those values would hare left Everest supreme, but a rather sensational state ment by Dr. Longstatf for the first time places Everest second to the high est mountain peak. Dr. Longstaff is a veteran Himalayan explorer, and he tells of a vast wall of peaks he discovered in the Karakoram Range, northeast of the Saltoro Pass, one of which he roughly estimated to be over 25,000 feet high. On taking observations he made its height 28.200 feet, and later from more ' favorable positions, "something like 30.000 feet." Unwilling to dethrone Everest. Dr. Longstaff, it would appear, took the lowest possible value his observations permitted, and, as he Is a most trust worthy authority where mountain heights are concerned, it is possible that this peak, which he has named Teram Kangrl. will shortly take Its place in geographies and atlases as the highest known mountain on the globe. Novel "Ad" In Marked-Down Money. Baltimore News. Howard M. Demlng, a Connecticut merchant, before closing Saturday nighf placed in the window a $1 bill which was labeled "slightly soiled, 90 cents." Another brand-new bill was labeled "A good counterfeit, 80 cents." "Fly-specked quarters" were offered for 15 cents; two-cent stamps, not gummed on the back, for one and one half cents, and one-cent stamps, "good as new," 75 cents a hundred. Monday morning, when crowds gathered at the store, the bargains were not there. But the novel "ad" served its purpose. Cotton Substitute From Wood Pulp. - Philadelphia Record. A substitute for cotton has been made from wood pulp. Cloth manufac tured from the fiber Is declared to be as serviceable as cotton cloth, and to be capable of possessing a more brilliant luster. Some of the cloth and raw material was exhibited at a cotton manufacturers' association at Rouen, France. Technical Explanation. Chicago News. Assistant Editor Where Is th fore man today? Compositor He dropped 20 feet from his aeroplane last night and pied his form. Original Kansas Insurgent. Mr. Roosevelt will have a few kind words to say for old John Brown, the original Kansas insurgent. Famous Cities of the Past. Chicago Tribune. Rome. Athens. Carthage. ' , Reno. USB OF LlftVOR ON THfi INCREASE t Imtereatlne Internal Revenue Figures on Spirits and Tobacco. Washington CorrespondenceNew York Sun. The preliminary report of the Com missioner of Internal Revenue is scarcely consoling to the drys. Th revenue from the tax on distilled spirits does not Indicate thabthe wide spread "wave" of prohibition has done much to restrict the sale of intoxi cants. The receipts from the tax on distilled spirits for the last ten years were: lni ....$lie,0IT,9S0!l0 J2-?51SS? 1912 21.13S.013;i9OT 32S t?? SS? ISfU .... 13S.810.015i 1fH9 J'SSS'SvT 105 .... lli.VJ08.313;iaiO 14S.02a.-ll The receipts for the year Just closed considerably exceed those of any pre ceding year, except 1907. Using the revenues as a guide to quantity con sumed there appears to have been an increase of about 30 per cent In the last ten years. A part of this has been In the production of spirits used as beverages, and part in distillation for commercial and scientific uses, but details yet available are Insufficient for a determination of percentages of increase for those purposes. The In dications are that a large part of it has been in the line of beverages. The reported consumption of domestic spirits, including the product of fruits as well as of grains. Is for 1900 95,851, 896 gallons, and for 1910 128,657,776. In the same time the Imports of spirits have increased from 1,705,468 gallons to 4,262.4:1 gallons. Consumption of fluids classed as fer mented liquor has increased from 39, 330.849 barrels in 1900 to 59,485,117 in 1910, 60 per cent. The average barrel content la about SO gallons. Details for 1910 are not ready, but the re turns of 1909 show a total produc tion of 56.303.407 barrels, with New York State as the producer of 12,573, 773 barrels; Pennsylvania, 7,050,262; Illinois, 5,525,473; Wisconsin (Milwau kee Included). 4.600,931; Ohio, 4,061. 730, and Missouri, 3,718,554. Compared with a domestlo production of ahut 1,800.000,000 gallons. Imports of 7,000, 000 gallons are only a drop In the bucket- The revenue from the tax on domestic fermented liquors last year was $60,572,288. The report shows the payment of $'.1,773,458 on the produc tion of 8,139,030,144 domestlo cigars, as compared with a production of 6,963, 170,381 in 1900. This indicates not only an Increase in total production and consumption of cigars, but as well an Increase of about 10 per cent in per capita consumption. More remarkable that the increase in the use of cigars has been the in creased use of cigarettes, snuff and pips and chewing tobacco. The cig arette business is the most striking of all. Ten years ago the American people smoked two cigars to one cig arette; today the number of each con sumed Is about the same. Therecord of cigarette production in 1900 sHbws the use of 2,639,899,785, while the re cord of 1910 shows 7.874,800,829 cig arettes, as compared with 8,139,030,144 cigars. We are evidently becoming a nation of cigarette smokers. The de mand for snuft has increased from 14,917,418 pounds in 1900 to 31.969,111 pounds in 1910. . The greater part of this is used in the South and the Southwest, where the habit of "dip ping" appears to be increasing. The chewers and the pipe smokers are in cluded in a single group, and their consumption of tobacco has increased from 278,977,035 pounds in 1900 to 436,608,898 pounds in 1910. The total Internal revenue from tobacco last year was $57,889,351, and the revenue from the Imported weed was not far from $25,000,000. Internal revenue re ceipts from all sources amounted to $289,728,014. This Includes the. .exefse tax on corporations, which amounted to $20,959,783 collected prior to the close of the fiscal year. A little more than $6,000,000 has been collected since that date. Comparison of the present total Internal revenue with the total of 1900 cannot be made with fairness, because of t'tie Imposition of the special war taxes, now removed. KINO GEORGE'S DISTILLERY. Whisky Made on Hta Balmoral Eatate a Gift for Crowned Heads. New York Sun. Although King George is almost a teetotaler, he Is the owner of a private distillery which produces excellent Scotch whisky. The King's distillery Is on his Scot tish estate of Balmoral. For a long time it was operated commercially by a dealer, but when the lease lapsed to the crown Queen Victoria continued its operation. Its product was not marketed but was ltept exclusively for the use of the royal family. Queen Victoria was partial to Scotch and drank it at her lunch. The whisky Is sent to Buckingham Palace, where expert cellarmen keep an eye on it while it is maturing for 15 years. After maturity casks of it are sent as gifts to the crowned heads of Europe. A Husband'a Fourteen Errors in Life. Life. To tell her how to run her club. To bank his money-ln her name. To expect her to like his female rela tives. To forget to praise her. To expect her to be grown up. -To expect to have the last word. To take her opinions too seriously. To forget that she will change her mind. To let her open his letters. To borrow her umbrella. To get mad because his bed Is not tucked In at the foot. To tell her how his mother used to cook. To hesitate to tell her where he is going and where he has been. To work for her so hard that he has no time to devote to her. Payment for HIa Time. Pittsburg Post. "I think from the implements around him that this mummy must have been an Egyptian plumber." "I wonder what he would do if we could bring him to life?" "He'd probably put in a bill for 3000 years at the usual rates per hour." ' Nothing Else to Do. Columbus Journal. About all we can do when informed that an Important new comet has been discovered in right ascension 16 hours 10 minutes, declination plus 15 degrees 20 minutes. Is to look as intelligent as possible and not say anything. - -In Line. . . Washington Star. "Have you taken any steps to dem onstrate that women are fitted for modern controversy?" 'Yes, indeed," replied Mrs. Votlngton, "we have already named a number of eligibles to a Sapphira club." Fond Regrets. Pittsburg Post. "Homeward bound, eh?" "Yes." "You seem thoughtful. Thinking about the girl you left at the beach?" "No; I was thinking about those 200 plunks." ' Applicable to Portland. Washington Star. "What form of Summer amusement pleases you most?" "Staying at home end writing to' peo ple at Summer resorts about bow cool it is In the city." Life's Sunny Side A North Carolina young man resident -In London married an English lady, and shortly after went to visit a bachelor uncle in Scotland. When uncle and nephew were over their walnuts and wine the old gentleman remarked: "Weel, Bobby, ye hae gotten a wife?" "Yes. uncle." "What can she do?" "Do! What do you mean?" "Oh, can she sew a button on yer sark, or mak' yer parritch, or do any house work?" VNot at all. uncle. The servants do all that; but I tell you what it is: one has the loveliest voice you ever heard. She's a grand singer." "Man, could ye no' hae gotten a ca naryr' Tid Bits. A Sunday passenger on a Staten Island ferryboat studied out a complaint suffi ciently important to make the Commis sioner of Docks and his assistants take notice. She hunted up a deck hand and directed his attention to the life preserv ers stored In the dock ceiling. "Just look at these things." she said. "What's the matter with "em?" he asked. "Matter?" said she. "They're dirty. They ought to be washed. If a woman with a' nice Summer dress on had to put one of those dusty things on over it it would never be fit. to .wear again." New York Sun. The case in question was a neighbor hood quarrel. One side had three wit nesses, the other side seven. The sup posedly star witness was called to the stand by the lawyer for the accused. The witness was a laboring man of hon est appearance, and after the customary questions as to his name, address, occu pation and length of residence in the olty, the lawyer, who relied on the man's testimony largely to clear the defendant, asked: "Do you know the defendant?" "Yes, sir." "You know of the trouble between Mr. A here and the defendant?" "Yes, sir." "State to the court Just what part of the trouble you saw.- "Oh, I did not see any of It," replied the witness. "My wife saw It all. She was subpenaed, but she could Vs come, go she sent me." Kansas City Star. Richard Parr, the discoverer of the sugar trust frauds, was talking in New York about the generous reward granted him by the Government. "Some folks thought I was going to get a reward of a couple of millions or so," said Mr. Parr. "They put me in the lawyer class." "The lawyer class?" said the reporter, puzzled. "Yes," said Mr. Parr, "the lawyer class. The Junior and senior partner of a law firm, you know, once put their heads to gether to draft a client's bill. " 'We've won the will contest for him, said the Junior partner, rubbing his hands. 'Suppose we charge him $200,000?' "But the senior partner frowned. " 'Go on!' he said. 'He's worth more than that "Detroit Free Press. When Baby Has Summer Complaint. Chicago Journal. As soon as a baby shows the first sign of Summer complaint stop feed ing it milk or anything else. Give it. a dose of castor oil to remove the irri tating matter that is causing the trouble. Follow this with a diet of barley water. Boil two tablespoonfuls of pearl barley in a quart of water for six hours. Then add enough boiled water to make a quart. Strain, and it is ready for use. Feed the child this instead of milk, and the odds are In favor of quick re covery. If recovery has not ' taken PISCO WltlllH Q II U Li 1 O, Dtt-ui a v - A little baby has not much strength, and a very few days' sickness will rer duce it beyond all possibility of re covery. These suggestions are made by a bulletin of the Chicago Health Depart ment. They should not be ignored by motners or iitue cmiuren. All of Us Are Servants. Washington Herald. But if they only knew It, the girls who are seeking employment would most of them be much better off in domestlo service than elsewhere. The servant's position, too, ha3 greatly im proved in recent years, and domestic service is coming to be something of a science. Yet girls will not nt them selves for it, though by so doing they could command higher wages than they get now, and could, by the quality of service they, render, dignify it. If do mestic servants could only be made to realize that we are all servants, from the President of the United States down, that fact would go a long way toward the solution of the problem. But perhaps this is too much to ex pect. The problem comes about through false notions of dignity, through false nrlde. and until these are removed by education Is seems likely that the serv ant girl problem will remain unsolved. 'Thinking Machinery Hay Rust.- Boston Herald. "We read books nowadays," said Rev. Hugh Black to the Dartmouth colr legians, "to avoid thinking. We sel dom hear a voice which Is not an echo of what some one else has said." Are we getting to be a race af plagiarists? Is it true that in these days of in surgency," of the exaltation of inde pendent action, we are neglecting the. fundamental right and privilege of thinuinp- for ourselves? There's a deal of truth in the warning. The pro gramme that most men cut out for themselves, and which they assume the wm-iri lava out for them, doesn't give them time to stop and think. They try to assimilate what others have thought -and pass off the product as their own: But few men, even those who lead, ever actually stop work, isolate them selves and think. The New Sam Francisco. San FranclscO Call. The fine architectural quality of the new city impresses the visitor, and he emphasizes the fact that we have done all this with our own money. Only an- insignificant fraction of the money used in rebuilding has been bor- froni sources outside of this- city.; The superb confidence that -San Franciscans have always had in the future of their city was never so im pressively shown as In the costly and magnificent buildings they have with their own capital erected on a pile of ruins. Today there are four times as many- class A buildings In San Fran? Cisco as there were before the Are. Steruixea Air ior x u uin --"-w Scientific American. Air for the reading-room of the Chi cago Public Library Is - purified Dy means of an ozone apparatus before be-, ing forced into the room at the rate oi 10 000 cubic feet in a minute. Not only have - tests shown the value of this, sterilized air in its effects on germs, but the humidity of the room has beeD . reduced 6 per cent. , Always Dangerous. Cleveland Plain Dealer. T told Mrs. Gadder her tongue would get her into trouble. The Brick Church people are determined to drive her out-" - "What's she been doing?" "Telling the truth about them." Little Soap and Claanllnesa in India. Indianapolis News. Only one ounce of soap a head Is annually used by the people of India.