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10 THE MORNING OHEGOXIAX, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 16, 1910. Je-90tmtan roirrLAxr. OREGON. T.-tri at rwllrad. Or coo. Foatsfflea as Fxcod-ClaM Mattar. rtabac-rtpttoat -Ift-rmrlabl-r la Ad-raa. (BT M Att). r' ' v. Jwtfif tnrlud4. no Tr .... Ivr. Fcn-liT lnrlud1. tc mnlh . Ii!v. un4ar tn.-Iuld. thra mntb !'. Snntimv Included on moBlh. "Pally, vl'hout Fundiv. on Tr..... .e . . 2 . .11 Pt'y. without ftunisr. m month 2S "Tal'v. without Sunday, throo month.. 1-? Tll WltKiiHl CnHaw nna month. ... ' Ir. ooa your v J J fiuDdar and wk''r. on year, o (Br tarrr). T."t. f jn'aT InrluiW. yr -J Dai: v. Ejndar. Included, on month How to HmII Snd Pootoffleo monT Mr. t rrM ordT or pron ehorlc oo vur local bonk. stamp, com or etirrr oro at th -ndr- nan. Ol Pnatotrira ddrvaa la f u i 1. In-ndlnc county and atota. fnas Ratoa 10 to 14 Pa- 1 rant: 1' to 3 pace. I rant: 0 to o oar. cant: n to oft pas. 4 coata. rc.tlia pat CffoM rata. r.mmtnn RiaitM ofnro Vrro C I'n lor. Rmnawlc bulldln. Chl taro. M-r bulMln. ronTi.An. iriiuv. sr.rT. t. a rRonnxNi change. To many persons th result of the Maine election lit strongly Indicative of a sweeping Democratic victory in the November elections. The success f Mr. Koss In Massachusetts, who veithrew- a large Republican major ity, the disaster to Mr. Aldridgo In New York and the reduced Republl in majority in Vermont point In the nm direction. The Democratic New York World fairly goes wild with de light over th prospect and shouts Its anticipations In tor.es that can be heard thousands of miles. 'The size f the Democratic victory." It declares, "will be f taggenng." Perhaps It will. The victory -will certainly be perplex ing, no matter what Its size happens to be. Jut what the country can expec in the way of benefit from a Demo rratic regime is difficult to Imagine In what respect would Champ Clark be preferable to Cannon as Speaker He Is utterly barren of Ideas," hid hound In his political theories, blind to the trend of the times and preju diced against popular legislation. Few men doubt that if he were Speaker h would play the game of politics very much an Cannon did. If the old rule f the House promised partisan aj vantage he would do his best to hav them retained. The Democratic party Is barren r intelligence. It has no programme no platform. On the subject of the tariff It Is hopelessly divided. Re garding the control of corporations it stands in an Indefensible position Mr. Bryan's notion that the trust tan be destroyed Is widely popula among his party men. hut every stu dent of the subject knows that It Is impracticable. What the Democrats would do to give us better Govern ment is as much a mystery to them selves as It Is o the rest of the tountry. They leave us all In the dark because they are in the dark . themselves. The Nation Is perfectly well aware ff the aridity of Democratic leader ship and In turning to that party It expresses resentment rather than con fidence. The resentment la directed against the party which has been In power. The lack of confidence In the party which receives power Is mini est everywhere. Why then make the change? Because it Is supposed that ly turning out one set of rascals and putting In another, some Important political lesson Is taught. What the lesson Is nobody seems able to tell exactly, but no doubt the Maine elec' torate is thoroughly convinced that It lias done a noble pedagogic duty. ' Since the Civil War the Democratic party has been entrusted with power J:o and then, not often certainly, but ften enough to show how Incapable Jt Is. In the South its control has been continuous for many years. what has It done there to Indicate that it favors progressive Ideas? After fifty years of Democratic rule the South is wedded to sectional protec tlonism. It is involved deeply in the scandal of child labor. In many sec tions w here Democratic majorities are invariable peonage Is practiced. The infamous system of leasing convicts to private contractors obtains with the accompaniment of the abhorrent chain gang. It is In the Democratic South that the hookworm has become a menace to the health of the people for lack of simple sanitary decency, There, too. Intelligent negroes have been disfranchised while vicious white men are permitted to vote. The right of suffrage Is severed utterly from rharacter and Intelligence and made a matter of the complexion. Could anything be more Idiotic? Still it Is typical of the Democratic party which Is intensely medieval in its entire spirit. It understands nothing of the Interests or desires of the country and would care nothing about them if Jt did understand. When the Democrats had an op portunity to revise the tariff under Cleveland and put their beautiful free trade theories into practice, what did they do? They perpetrated a fraudulent revision which their Pres ident denounced as a piece of "perfidy and 'dishonor." Is there any reason to expect that they would make a bet ter or more honest Job of it should they try again? What men of light and leading can the Democrats point to among their leaders? What man of the whole caboodle enjoys the con fidence of the Nation? There is Bryan to be sure, but the people have shown three times over what they think of him. There Is Bailey with his brilliant tint of iridescent oil. There is the respectable Mr. Kolk of Mibsouri. Whom among them would the Nation trust to supervise a re vision of the tariff? The fact of the matter is that the great popular leaders of the day are all Republicans. Many of them are not In harmony with the older lead ers of their party, but they hold to Republican doctrines and without ex ception they stand by the last Na tional platform. If the tariff Is to be revised the country wants the Job done by men who will follow out the plan of attending to the schedules separately after full Information has been acquired. This Is a Republican Idea. The Democratic doctrine. If there is such a thing, looks to a sweep, lng move toward free trade. This would mean another revision by deals and swindles. Still the country Is going Demo cratic this Kail If Maine is a true sign of the times. The people are tired of Beelzebub and sc they turn to Belial for comfort. In Maine at last they have hot yet thought of seeking out candidates who belong to the school neither of Beelzebub nor Belial, but In other parts of the coun try the elections may tell a different story. the logic or coon no arm. Judce U. R. Webster, secretary of the Oregon Good Roads Association. Is authority for the statement that the entlme elate seems to have awakened to the Importance of (rood public high ways. In his view "Oregon Is now paving the way for one of the best public road system In the Union." Vis Ions of old corduroy roads, of mud hub deep on the level and ruts of unknown dpth on one side or the other: of floundering horses, straining harness and creaking, groaning wagons. Jog ging along over country roads In the strenuous effort required to get half a load of farm supplies to market over a ten-mile stretch about the holiday sea son, are conjured up by this an nouncement. We are glad to know that roads-of this class have been supplanted In some sections of the state by good highways, passable at all seasons to farmers' wagons and automobiles alike. We will be glad further to chronicle at any time and for any dis trict of the state the extension of the public road system which Judge, 'Yeb- eter so confidently extols. It Is. moreover, refreshing to nolo one system or public utility that es chews politics In the accepted mean lng of that term In this era of the po litical blatherskite, but holds to a safe and cane public policy. Good roads are for the people. And we are told every day and many times a day that what the people want they can have. Ergo, if the people of Oregon want good roads, let them go to It. They need good roads In their 'business if ever people did. ZETTBIJX BAD UTK. There never was an Inventor who had worse luck than Count Zeppelin It seems as if every accident that could possibly happen to his Ill-fated balloons had happened, but It would be a mistake to think so. The next one will fall a victim to some new calamity, following the bad example of the previous six. The motto "Try try again." Is singularly -applicable to his case, though It is by no means certain that "if perseverance doth appear, he will conquer, never fear." He has already persevered as much as can be reasonably expected from a mere mortal, and the signs of con quest are still very dim. His repeated accidents convince one that no dirigible will ever be reason ably safe from the unexpected until the entire list of possible contingencies has been exhausted. The contrivance Is so novel and at the same time so complex that there Is every oppor tunity for the unforeseen to edge Its way in. So far as steam engines are concerned, mechanics know all about them. They have been tested In all Imaginable circumstances. Their weaknesses have thus been discovered and gradually eliminated. When they were new ther suffered as many accidents as the dirigible balloon. One by one the chances for break age. explosion and fire m the make' up of the dirigible will be tabulated Men will be educated to remember exactly what and where they are and In that way provision will be made against them. From one point of view the continual misfortunes which pursue Count Zeppelin are matter for thankfulness, since each one teaches a new lesson about the detects or His airship. It In a great deal better to let the accidents occur one after an other In the experimental stage than to wait until some vessel starts out with a load of passengers and then set the fireworks going. It is not to be expected that the conquest of the air will be perfected without many failures and some loss of life. We have witnessed both, but for all that the art of aviation has advanced far ther In ten years than navigation did In Its first ten centuries. As men rise to higher things on their dead selves, so human achievement advances to its goal by way of failures. lOI.E WOMEN AND IRINK. Dr. Anna Wells Bloomer, of New- York, has come out -against 'small apartments and restaurant dinners. The former make housekeeping too easy. The latter encourage the con sumption of ardent spirits besides ab sorbing rapidly what money the head of the family possesses. Probably both sections of this Impeachment must be partially confessed. House keeping everywhere is a great deal less toilsome than it was in the days of yore. Spinning, weaving, and to large extent sewing, have been turned over to machinery. The house wife once attended to them herself. A new contrivance banishes the dear old broom wherever electricity Is available and everybody knows how many things are now bought in ready- cooked parcels which were once the product of the home kitchen. In cities the delicatessen shop thrives on the decay of the cook stove. All this naturally leaves vast sections of va cant time on the hands of the eman cipated housekeeper. What is to be done with it? Dr. Bloomer assever ates that most of it is spent in gam bling, drinking and lounging about he counters of luxurious stores. She may be right. One can hardly expect a woman who has no work on hand to sleep all day and all night. I She must have some occupation, and I If nothing better offers she may I take to gambling and drink. An I idle brain Is the devil's work-I shop, and an idle hand is his fa- I vorlte tool. Some women seek to mploy the time which the migration of the old-fashioned industries has left without occupation In politics and religion. But their more ethereal sisters tell them that if they make speeches or vote they will be unsexed. while in the churches St. Paul is quot- d at their heads. "Let women keep ilence in church, he wrote so many ears ago that it is holy now even If It was foolish in the first place. It is trifle silly. Is it not. to expect women to pass their lives in utter vacancy? They must do something with their energies and If the useful is closed to them they will turn to the bane ful. Such is human nature. Ulti mately the surplus of feminine labor power will find a profitable outlet. In the meantime we must not be too badly scared If It pours into little eccentricities of conduct. Dr. Wells Bloomer is probably mis taken In thinking that it costs more to dine at restaurants than to prepare,! meals at home. The family kitchen I one of the most wasteful devices on earth. To cook a single dinner It ! ses fire sufficient for a hundred. The material purchased for it is nec essarily In small lots, which are paid for at retail rates. The human labor J necessary to cook one meal would cook a dozen Just as well. It seems to follow, therefore, that any ordi nary family would save money by abandoning its kitchen and resorting to a restaurant. No doubt the temp tation to drink wine with meals Is greater in public than In private. Such habits are -matters of fashion largely. Possibly Dr. Wells Bloomer would wish to revise her remarks If she should give the subject .more study. RAILROADS' COLOSSAL FIorRES. The railroads of the country" enjoyed a bllllon-dollar year In 1909. their net earnings for that period amounting In exact figures to $1,018,041,837. a gain of more than $100,000,000 over the previous year. As a rule, statistics are dry reading, but those which ap pear In the 1910 edition of Poor's Manual of Railroads are so bewilder ing In their Immensity that they show as nothing else can show the tremen dous part which the railroads play In the business life of the Nation. We learn, for example, that the 238.356 miles of railroad under operation in 1909 had a capital stock of eight bil lions and a bonded debt of nine bil lions. During the year they carried 024.423.075 passengers and 1 .! 35.2 1 . 800 tons of freight. There was a de crease of more than 70.000.000 In the number of pavenge'rs carried, but they were carried farther than in the preceding year, the passenger train miles numbering 100,000,000 more than in 1908. The average revenue per passenger mile decreased from 1.964 In 1908 to 1.934 in 1909. and there was an Increase in the freight earnings from 0.737 In 1908 to 0.757 last year. It Is In presenting the mileage flg ures in detail that the report makes the heaviest draft on mathematics, for we observe that the number of passengers carried one mile was 29. 96. 162.391. while there were 227,198, 932.735 tons of freight moved a mile. There wag an increase of 6.310 miles In new road during the year, the larg est Increase since 1888. when 6.900 miles were added to the total. Thq overwhelming Importance of tha freight traffic as compared with the passenger business Is shown In the gross receipts of $578,243,601 for pas sengers and $1,720,863,413 for freight earnings. The retrenchment policy which was Inaugurated to meet the shrinking business following the 1907 panic was reflected In operating expenses 66.09 per cent of the earnings, compared with 70.17 per cent in 1908. This per- centagn Is the smallest that has been recorded In the past ten, years, and Is in a considerable degree due to Im proved tracks and equipment that ad mit of great economies in operation. The expenditure by which these econ omies were made possible is also- re flected In the Increased capital stock and bonded debt. The total capitali zation per mile In 1909 was $75,905. compared with $62,268 ten years ago. when the era, of Improvement in trackage and equipment began. ThP extensive railroad projects under way this year will undoubtedly result In substantial Increases In all depart ments of the great Industry. ovEB-rnxsr.BVEn alahka. The Immensity of Alaska and Its re sources Is strikingly shown in a report Just issued by the forestry department. This report, which Is the work of As sistant Forester R. S. Kellogg. Is de. voted to the forests of the great north land, and shows about 100,000,000 acres of forest or wooded land. Of this Mr, Kellogg classes 20.000.000 acres as saw timber and su.uuo.uuu acres as chiefly fuel timber. Mr. Kel ogg's views on conservation of Alaska's timber resources are much at variance with those of the Pinchot fad dists. In regard to the saw timber he states: "It should be manufactured into the most suitable forms and sold wherever It best can be marketed Natural Carriers, so far unsurmounted prevent It from being of benefit to the Interior, where the need Is greatest and the price highest. The annual growth of the coast forests is far in excess of the local needs, and unless methods of utilization are developed which will re sult In the export of forest products these forests cannot be handled rightly." Timber" resources of this magnitude are alone sufficient to attract eapttal and Induce development if tho Govern, ment were more liberal in Its policy, Even in the fuel timber belt and along the mild south coast, where the warm currents of the ocean temper the winds so that the Winters are less severe than those of Connecticut, there are wonderful possibilities for agriculture. There Is an abundance of moisture and the soil is marvelously rich. L'nder existing conditions, however, settlers will be few and far between, for. In the words of the New York Sun. "It Is obvious that capital 'will not Interest Itself In remote Alaska unless the de vclopment of Its resources is permitted on a liberal scale and the law extends protection to Investors. There must be much money sunk before even a fair return Is assured. The miner will pass and the farmers will flock in when the way is made easy." With these vast Alaskan forests so thoroughly conserved that neither la bor nor capital has any opportunity to make them of the - slightest use to mankind, they are an easy prey to for- et fires, which, are started by hunters and prospectors in many cases as a smudge to keep away mosquitoes, and with nothing to prevent their spread the annual loss from this source Is very heavy. It is estimated that in the Fairbanks district alone ten times as much timber is destroyed annually as Is used. This unfortunate condition will continue until Alaska Is given a form of government adapted to its I needs. It is regrettable that this vast treasure-house should remain practi cally tenanlless at a time when the en tlme civilized world is seeking a little more elbow room, and when even Alaska, with mountains of coal and forests of Illimitable extent, is com pelled to Import coal and lumber. As an example of Pinchot conservation. the Alaskan situation Is interesting in the extreme. For all that, it is hard on the handful of Alaskans who are desirous of company and capital. The power of public sentiment was shown when the management of the pure food show, now in progress In this city, was forced to cancel the ar rangement whereby a white girl was to marry a Chinaman at the Armory this evening. A spectacle of this kind would would be shocking to a sense of public decency, whatever the setting arranged for it. Such a marriage is under social and racial ban, and should either be ignored or openly reprobated by any community as con- trary to all of the legitimate intents and purposes of marriage. It prom ises neither the upbuilding of a home nor the establishment of a family that will be a possible social, political or economic asset to the commonwealth. nor yet a factor in the happiness of the Individuals who enter Into it. The record of all such marriages as far as they have become known Is that of humiliation, ostracism and personal unhappiness. Public sentiment cannot In all cases prevent such marriages, but it can at least withhold Its sanc tion from them. This Is what has been done In this case. The Chinaman will probably claim his mistaken bride. but the public will not recognize the marriage. Copenhagen reports regarding the discovery of the North Pole, or any thing in connection therewith, for ob vious reasons will be received with less confidence than would have greeted them a year ago. For that reason the report that John R. Bradley, financial backer of Cook, the alleged discoverer of the North Pole, Is now on his way to Etah to recover Cook's records wiH be received with the customary grain of salt. The steamer which brings this Information from Greenland to Copenhagen also has a report from two missionaries "who say that the Es kimos who accompanied Cook Insist that the explorer reached the North Pole, as he claims, prior to Its discov ery by Peary. The chences for Cook to prove that he was not th greatest faker of the century are remote In deed. If, however, a miracle should happen In the far north and deliver to Cook records by which he could estab lish his claim. Copenhagen scientific stock would soar far above par. The "mlstaken-for-a-deer" season 1n Southern Oregon Is full two weeks late this year. for. It was not until Septem ber 14 that the first fatality was re ported. Of course Southern Oregon has no monopoly of this class of man slaughter, but that section of the country always seems to score first and most frequently. The alarming fre quency of these killings offers a field for speculation as to whether deer are scarce or plenty in that part of the state. The fact that so many men are killed might naturally lead to the belief that there are more hunters than deer. Viewed from another standpoint. the numerous Inquests which ar$ nec essary during the deer season might also mean that there were so many deer as to attract the many hunters. One phase of the problem Is exception ally clear,' and that Ib that a great many Southern Oregon hunters have the habit of shooting first and distln- gtilslhng a man from a deer after wards. The American Indian has made his last raid, the trainrobbers and bad gun men of the West are also rapidly becoming an extinct species. Down In the sunny South, ' however, there still remains a type of murderous, uncivil ized outlaw that is fully as great a disgrace to American civilization as anv of the other nesta that have cursed the country with their presence. This Southern blot on the escutcheon Is the cowardly, barn-burning, woman-whip ping, murderous night-rider. Ken tucky seems to be the most unfortu nate of the states. Infested by these un hanged outlaws. In Bracken County a farmer had his barn burned for no other reason than that he had last Summer permitted the state militia to camp on his farm. It Is a waste of money to send funds to the heathen In darkest Africa and other isolated parts of the world so long as we have night-riders on American soil. Professor Horner, of the State Agri cultural College, Is doing good service In presenting the names and contribu tions of Oregon writers to the public. His lecture on "Oregon Literature," given at Hawthorne Tabernacle Wednesday evening, was pleasing and Informatory, though many names known to the reading public of the Pacific Northwest as representing pio neer literature were omitted tn his necessarily brief summary. We are yet too close to the lives and efforts of these early writer to do them full Justice. It la in the line of justice. nevertheless and loyalty as well mat seeKS at tnis time to Dnng tne ei- I forts of even some of these early writ- ers of Oregon to the attention of the public that knew them not personally. Further evidence of how Inexpensive It Is to run for office under the direct primary Is offered by "Dick" Ferris, of California, who was nominated for Lieutenant-Governor. His bill was only J5400. Coffee will probably cost the con sumer 35 per cent more this Winter, because the Brazilian crop Is short. This will increase the use of many substitutes, to the betterment of the user's health. , Use of the Devil's Slide In Weber's Canyon as an accessory In its Initiatory ceremony by a great fraternity gives touch of realism that beats coming down Mount Hood In a dish pan. While Mr. Roosevelt Is urging untty elsewhere, he might throw a little ad vice into Multnomah County, where the splitters have sharpened their tomahawks. Americans who migrated to Canada and forswore allegiance should not be troubled In swearing back. Their punishment is already ample. Health Officer Wheeler's school in spectors are already looking for con tagious diseases. They cannot beat the fine comb In finding them. It Is a. pity the board that finds the North Dakota poorly designed was not in action when work began on the battleship. Some members of election boards who take a 15-cent handout ordinar ily want a 50-cent dinner on election day. Another deerhunter has killed his friend by mistake. By and by some men will take their wives on these trips. With six teams in the interscholas- tlc League, Portland's real football season may be considered well started. Candidates who inject religion and fraternity into their campaigns always get the worst. At this distance it appears that the President is a trlflle late stepping in to stop the fight. FINISHED FOR BAD BROTHERS. F-aatrrn View of tbe Insult to IVeateni Governor at St. Paul, New York Times. Colonel Roosevelt said things at the Conservation Congress at St. Paul Tuesday that decided the Western Gov ernors present to pack their grips and start for their home capitals. The crowd howled approval while the Colonel Ditched Into them on the issue of state control of water power. "If it were not for the special Interests." he said, "you would never have heard of the question of state as against Na tional control." The Governors of the West were de nied a proper hearing. They and their plea were condemned beforehand. Yet in the "West the people rule, if any where. They pass and enforce good laws. They elect strong Governors. The "Northwestern Idea" concerns 11 states which contain the Federal pub lic lands, and the forests, mineral wealth, and water powers therein. Hitherto the United states has held them, not as a perpetual proprietor, but as trustee for' future holders in fee simple under the sovereignty and the taxing power of the states that pro tect them. Mr. Roosevelt's plan would make the Federal Government the re cipient forever of Income from 144,000, 000 acres of forest, from one-third of the country's coal, and the largest owner of oil and gas lands and of the power sttea on 135 rivers in these 11 states. Suppose the states of this L'nion were 48 sons, inheriting a property when they become of age statehood, an regular settlement on public land. Thirty-seven, let us say, receive their great heritage free and clear. The re maining 11 sons, having fulfilled some of the necessary conditions and show ing themselves able and willing to ful fill the others, demand their Inherit ance from their avuncular guardian. Uncle Sam replies: "No. I shall ket-p your Inheritance forever. Your broth era did not appreciate their share. They wasted murn of It, they did not con serve it. they let wicked monopolists get much of it. they have been prodigal snd dissipated and careless. Now I will take your share, not for you 11, but for the whole family. Your brothers have treated their inheritance badly, now you must divide with them." To which the 11 brothers, feeling the decision to be unjust, respond: "If you wish honestly that this property be conserved and protected, if you are not simply greedy of its revenues, give it over to our rightful pse. Examine our acts Haws), not our brothers' acts, and learn from them whether we will han die It properly. We have profited by the warning of bad examples, we have already established safeguards. Let the property and Its revenues come to us for our upbuilding, not to be divided among our prodigal brothers, excepting as they come to us and Join with us in developing it. Let it be for our ad vancement, power, prosperity, and in dependence." VOTERS NOW UNDERSTAND IT. Assembly Has Strengthened Basic Prin ciple of the Primary Law. Grants Pass Observer. During the past year, when the Ob server was advocating the holding of J-cepuDllcan assemblies to correct the abases Introduced Into the primary law by Democrats, it took occasion to fre quently assure Its readers that the assemblies would in no way affect the I ol le people proviaea oy me primary law. Probably every voter in Josephine County now realizes that that assurance was absolutely correct. In stead of in any way weakening the peo ple's privileges, the action of the Re publican assemblies has. in fact, added Increased Interest to the primary law among voters and candidates, and has greatly strengthened the basic prin ciple of the law. which is that politi cal candidates should be nominated by popular vote. The rn-erit of that prin ciple has been definitely accepted by the Kepublican party in Oregon. Here In Josephine County there is much activity in the local campaign. There are three Republican candidates for the office of County Judge, and two or three for most of the other county ottices. or course, this is bad Repub lican politics, but it demonstrates to the people that every man who desires an office can submit hta name at the pri mary election, and be judged unon bv the voters. The Republican assemblies have in a way affected this privilege, notwithstanding the baseless denounc- lngs of Democrats and Populists. The sole and only object of the assem blies is to select the best men avail able In the Republican party who would consent to be candidates for the various public offices. These selected candi dates. Just as all other candidates, must submit to the Judgment of the voters. and as to other candidates there is this difference only, that the candidates of I tne assembly are recommended bv reputable body of citizens to be capable nnH HAaifoKia --kn. ., h V.Hr;r. Z"lZ.t',r w . ....... .un.t.-, nole u reroromenoa- I tion but their own. Some College Humor. A new German professor in sC trirl's college, wishing to detain one of the students, said: "Oh. Miss . mav I noiri you a minute after class?" i ne same proressor, attending as spectator for the first time one of the girls dances, remarked: "How charm ing the young ladles look in their low- necked nightgowns!" This advice was given by one of the students to her mates: "Girls, take all courses you can with the men pro fessors, for the women of the faculty try to find how much you know, and the men try to show off how much they know." The wife of one of the professors warned him as he went off to offi ciate at a funeral one rainy day: "Now. John, don't stand with your bare head on the damp ground; you'll surely catch cold. Flommfrlei Eliminated. Batlimore Sun. There have been few of his prede cessors In the Presidential office, and perhaps not one unless it be Lincoln, who have possessed in equal degree with President Taft that quality of in tellect that penetrates straight to what is of essential Importance in consider ing a public question, eliminating in the process the mere flummeries with -hlch lesser minds always encumber Important subjects. Folly to Do So. Catholic Standard and Times. Mr. Church Whew! how it's raining. Lend-me your umbrella, dear. I've got to run over to the vestry meeting. Mrs. Church But why not use that umbrella you've been carrying all the week Mr. Church What! to the vestry meeting? Why. that s where I got It. Girl's Superiority. Boston Globe. A man sometimes finds himself in trouble because he has two girls on his hands at one time, but nobody ever yet saw the men come fast enough to rattle a girl. Knew What Was Coming. Houston Post. "I've often marveled at your brilli ancy, your aptness at repartee, your " "If it's more than $5, old man, I can't do a thing for you. I'm nearly broke myself." Posthumoua Fame. Pittsburg Post. Seven towns of Homer bragged that used to try to- have him "vagged." WAXTEDl A NATIONAL, HYMN. Reaaona for Displacing; "America" and "Th Star Spangled Banner." Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. General Horatio C. King writes a very eenslble letter to the New York Herald reviving the question as to the making of a National hymn, the words ard music of which shall be American. "My Oountrv. Tie of T'hee" and the "Star EpanKled Banner" he dismisses as un American, both tunes oeing tngusii the one "God Save the King" and the other an "Ode to Anacreon, " written by the English composer. Dr. Samuel Arnold, about the year 1S02. "The Star Spangled Banner." he points out, more over, embraces so much of the gamut as to be impracticable for the uncultivated voice. "What the country neeae." Gen eral King continues.1 "is a mastery. dignified hymn wedded to an original tune; a fine choral such as the Kussian national hymn, the tune to be simple. and in a small compass (less than an octave), so that everybody can sing It as they now sing 'America' to the Eng lish choral." The suggestion is added that a National competition miprht achieve the desired result, with the neces sary proviso that the judges shall be restricted in their decision so that the words shall be worthy of the great subject and the music dignified, melodic and easily within the capacity of the untutored singer. This idea is a rational one, for after all, the assumption that a National hymn must be evolved, like the folk songs, out of the heart of the people. and cannot be made to order Is not Justified by historical facts. The Rus sian national hymn, than which there is none finer, was not a spontaneous evolution. It was ordered by the czar, as he would order a case of wine or a new uniform, and the majestic words and sonorous music were prepared, de livered and paid for on the spot. The czar knew that he had at his command a capable poet and a capable com poser and he felt satisfied that he had only to call for an Immortal hymn and his wish would be fulfilled with neat ness and despatch. The matter of securing an American hymn may, then, be regarded as de pending on the presence in the country of just such men as the Russian ruler had at his beck and call when a Rus sian hymn was needed. If General King or any other authority can point to a poet and a musician that fill the bill, the laborious resort to a competition should be needless. WORKS FOR NATIONAL UNITY'. Every Vncatlonlst Get Away From His Limited Horizon. Christian Herald. One great result of the vacation sys tem is that it broadens the horizon of people who would get all their knowledge of other parts of the coun try from books, and one short trip is worth several volumes. The people in the East like to go inland, and a larpe majority of sojourners by the sea come from homes In the interior, and with personal acquaintance sectionalism seems childish and un-American. Prob ably nothing else has done so much to break up selfish local pride as the shifting of the Summer traveller from place to place, and the discovery that there are people worth knowing on the other side of what was formerly their limited horizon. The vacationist In his trips from one state to another has been unconsciously playing a political role as an agent of National unification, for in small and Isolated communities, where tne people stay year in and year out, the seeker for recreation comes, bringing with him some of the spirit of the outside world. Both natives and tour ists are benefited by personal acquaint ance and exchange of opinions and Ideas. The vacationist also plays an Important part In International re'a- tlons. The constant ebb and now or tourist traffic across the Canadian bor der is undoubtedly one of the main reasons for the very cordial relations now existing between the two coun tries. Words of the Wise. Prejudice Is the child of ignorance. Hazlitt. The present Is the living sum total of the whole past. Carlyle. Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck. Samuel Smiles. There Is no better sign oi a orave man than a hard hand. Shakespeare. Destinv bears us to our lot, and des- tlnv Is perhaps our own will. Disraeli Life is not so snort nut mat mere Is always time enough lor courtesy. Emrson. A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most complete prayer. T.Assinf. Obedience is not truly penormea oy the bodv of him whose heart is aissat lsfied. Saadl. Th rarest feeling mat ever iigui human face is the contentment or a linvinBr soul. Beecher. tar nrecepts: To break off cus . ' . , - iif-. to m,-i(tata toms; to uiiaiko uu on youth: to do nothing against ones genius. Hawthorne. Noah's Llsrht Catch Explained. London Sketch. Minister And how did Noah spend his time in the ark? Small boy Fishln'. Minister A vera reasonable sugges tion mv laddie. maii Rov (euaraeniyi dui ho n-niilrlna. catch muckle. Minister (surprised) v nai mases ia think tnat? small Rov fknowlngly) Because, ye see, he had only two wir-r-ms. Savages and the Courts. From an article by Theodore Roosevelt in the Review of Reviews, faep tember. 1896. Furthermore, the Chicago convention attacked the Supreme Court! Again this represents a species of atavism that is, of recurrence to the ways of thought of remote barbarian ancestors. Savages do not like an Independent and nnrlirht Judiciary. They want tne Judge to decide their way, and if he does not they -want to oeneau unu. Willful Waete of Waters. New York Sun. The Grand Young Man was making a speech at the St. Paul congress. He began to "pay a tribute" to the Hon. Gifford Pinchot. Gifford. an easy weeper, wept- Jimmy Garilela wept. Beveridge wept. The delegates wept. The audience wept. Everybody wept. A strange way of conserving water sites. Her Preference. Kansas City Journal. 'How would you like to go to the theater tomorrow night? asKed t..e young man who had just been intro- duced. In an automobile," answered the girl. Sound Plausible. Charleston News and Courier. Perhaps the high cost of living Is due to the fact that there are 6,000,000 peo ple in New York, living on the rest of the country. Unprofitable Employment. Galveston News. Probably there is no more unprofit able employment on earth than that of counting the buttons down a wom an's back. Where T. R- Stands Pat. Philadelphia North American. Anyway. Roosevelt stands pat on the first pages of the newspapers. LIFE'S SUNNY SIDE The conductor of a Western freight train saw a tramp stealing a ride on one of the forward cars. He told a brakeman in the caboose to go up and put the man off at the next stop When the braekman approached the tramp, the latter waved a big revolver and told him to keep away. "Did you get rid of him?" the con ductor asked the brakeman, when the train was under motion again. "I hadn't the heart," was the reply. 'He turned out to be an old school friend of mine." 'i ll take care of him." said the con ductor, as he started over the tops of the cars. After the train had made another stop and gone on, the brakeman came into the caboose and said to the con ductor: "Well, is he off?" "No; he turned out to he an old school friend of mine, loo." Every body's Magazine. Dr. Miner Lee Bates, president of Hiram College, enlivened, in a rerent address at Hiram, O., a knotty etymo logical problem with a story. "We must, dogdo our problem as the hoy did." said Dr. Bates. "A teacher, you see, was having a great deal of difficulty in making clear to a boy the meaning of tho word "recuperate. "'Now-.' said the teacher, 'your father is a hard worker. Isn't he?' "'Yes. sir. he Is said tho boy. " "And when he gets home at night he's dead tired, is lie not?' '"Yes, sir, he is.' said the hoy. " "Then.' pursued the teacher, 'sine it's night, and he's dead tired, and work's over, what does he do?' "Why," said the boy. "that's what mother wants to know.'" Washington Star. There was a. benefit performance for the Actor's Fund given in Washington last Spring, and Sir Charles Wyndham. the veteran English player, volunteered. His part was to make a short speech telling how the funds realized were to be applied. Two song-and-dancc girls from one of the cheaper theaters came from their dressing-room, and stopped to await their call. One of them thought she would see what, was going on. so she peeked out on the stage. "Who's on now?" her companion asked. "Oh." said the other girl, "it's an old man doing a monologue. He's been on 10 minutes, and hasn't .iad a laugh 1" LIppincott's.' An embarrassing incident happened in a Southern town a tew days ago which came near severing the friend ship of a dozen years. Mrs. Smith, anxious to know if there was any change in the condition of a neighbo- who had been quite ill for several days. said to her little son: "Run over, dear, and see how old Mrs. Corbett is." The child darted from the room and was absent only a few minutes when he rushed up to his mother, with a puzzeled expression playing over his face, and blurted out: "'Mamma, she said it is none of your business." "Why, dear, what did you say to her?" "I just told her that mamma wanted to know how old she was." National Monthly. "It's curious to observe," says a Maryland man. "the manner in which many illiterate persons prosper. I once had business that used to take me at intervals to a certain place on the Eastern shore. On one occasion 1 went into a store there, the proprietor of which could neither read nor write. While I was there a man came in evidently a regular customer. ' "I owe you some money, don't I ' he inquired. "The storekeeper went to the door and turned it around so that tho back was visible. " 'Yes,' said he, "you owe for a cheese." '"Cheese!" exclaimed the customer. I don'e owe you for any cheese!" 'The storekeeper gave another look at the door. "You're right,' said he. "It's a grind stone. I didn't see the dot in the mid dle.' " Lippincott's. Ed. Howe's Philosophy. Atchison Globe. Some people are courteous only to strangers. What a busy man is compelled to neglect would keep a lazy man em ployed. The funniest jute hair the girls are. wearing is the kind that shoots out a long way Tehind. There are all kinds of tastes in t is world, including people who enjoy the Illustrated song at a. moving picture show. Have you noted how cordial and pleasant a hostess can be when her Summer guest announces that she will depart the following day? We know the laziest and most worth less man In the world; still, he knows how everything should be done he"s always criticising busy, capable men. and saying they don't do things right. Another Slam. Pittsburg Post. "I suppose you mado some discover ies on your trip." "Yes; I found there really is a town called Oshkosh. I always thought that was just a minstrel joke." FEATURES IN THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN JIRST DAYS IN A PRIMARY ROOM A Portland idyl in prose by a new writer who knows the child's heart, also the mother's, likewise the teacher's. Every parent will recognize the truthfulness of the scenes together with the pathos and the humor in them. PLANTING AND GROWING PERFECT ROSES Some practical points which in clude spraying and pruning. by Rev. Spencer S. Sulliger, of Van couver, Wash., who recently re turned from England with newlv acquired information on the sub ject. MASTERING THE DREADED TYPHOID Vaccination of 12,000 men in the United Staites Army has re duced the death rate 90 per cent. ORDER EARLY FROM YOUR NEWSDEALER.