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The muckraking bjstcrU b run It carM througb the magazines ho DowaiAji read a muckraking xcftxxslne? but it ha violently cap tured the lower house of CongTce. The House la bent on InvistiKation. Hav ing nothing eiae to do but fight the heat and wait dreajily on the Senate. It ha been seised with a desire to Investigate evrr; bdy and everything. The other day It was Controller Hay; r.ow ti l Attorney-Oenrral Wicker- haro. Nest werk It may be the Su preme Court whtch enunciated the fa mous "rule of ras-m" and thus tailed to drive Standard Utl Into the eav The Controller Duy episode w.itl soon cease to be a sensation. unlei Indeed It should take a new turn by which the niuckraker may be muckraked, which Is likely enouarh. It Is not prob able that Attome -General Wlcker- ham wUl be Impeached, or that the char aarainst hint of helping the dreaded Guesenhclms by aliowlna" certain case to lapse throuch applica tion of the statute of limitations, will be Timorously presseJ. since their spon sor Is the other Wtckershara who Is the dele)ra:e from Ala-ika that tried for a fat l"b as the Seattle counsel of the abhorred GusjireDhelma at J IS. 000 a year and was turned down. Mi'lsummer madness hits seliej the House at Washlncton. rtlnT Iemo crauc. and belxr idle and restless, end Vein desirous of.maklnfi- trouble lor the Republican administration. It nnrestigates." That is all. bOVKatXOB WTlLMtS AND TUE UW- If ail the law-jera in the country, or un a Considerable fraction of them, would live up to the standard which Governor Woodrow Wilson set for them in his address before the Ken tucky Ear Association at Lexington, we should not need to watch and pray any longer for the advent of the mil lennium. It would come tomorrow and most of onr sorrows would pass way. At any rate, that part of them which arises from ''the Insolence of of fice, the Uw delay and the spurns which patient merit from the un worthy takus" would pas away. For Governor Wllvin would have the law yers desist from the present role which they play in society and assume an en tirely different and vastly more benefi cent one. He t"ld them for one thing, that they ought to "r'llnk more of thxlr dutiea as citizens than us practi tioners." setting thtlr obligations to their neighbors as above those to their clients. This gospel must sound strange to those members of the legal frat;r nlty.who make it the prime article of their creed to do anything "whatever la order to advance the Interests of their clients. Governor W!l.n argues that the lawyer Is fitted by hi station In life to occupy the p'.ace of a st--lal friend and adviser to mankind in general. Our social structure, he sayr. Is profoundly legal, much more so than that of most other countries. At the basis of our life lies the practically unchanging Constitution, and upon that we have erected a singularly technical and scholastic fabric of precedents and po litical habits. With all these the law yer Is by his studies and activities fa miliar. He knows all thnt can be known about them, be that much or little, and hence he stands In a position to counsel everybody else and Keep ail the world out of trouble. Alas, if he would but do so. He does not. how ever. Instead of bestowing the bless ing of his counsel upon the community at large. Governor Wilson proceeds to remind us. he concentrates it upon some huge corporation which is ablo to remunerate him In proportion to his devotion. Thus the lawyer loses the social magnitude which he might pos sess and shrinks to the petty figure of the corporation's hlrci man. The lawyers of the United States might have teen the guides, philoso phers and friends of the population. Instead of that, and through their own choice, they have fallen to the humble estate of servants to accumulated capi tal and the common man Is so far from choosing them for his mentors that he buttons np h'.s pocket at the first sight cf one of them. The plain citizen la much more prone to associ ate lawyers with fee than with sage and kindly ccunseL This Is unfortu nate. Governor Wilson argues, for two principal reasons. In the first place, our methods of legal procedure are badly la need of reform, and that can come only from the lawyers them selves. As loog as they hang back, pinning their love to the discouraging old technicalities, the rest of the coun try will not be able to advance far. strive as it may. Every measure of reform which 1 adopted must pass throuch the crucible of the courts and receive the sanction of the lawyers be fore H Is really valid. Until they set their seal upon it. ink and paper are all that it amounts to. Since this Is so. it Is Immeasurably important to the country that the law yers should be men of progressive Idea. Some of them axe such, but the number of the elect is not nearly so large as Mr. Wilson would like to see it- Our courts still Indulge in the pleasure of setting Justice aside for technicalities. Crime goes unpunished because a copying cierk has left a par ticle out of sentence. The law for gets the rlsht of tie poor In favor of the pretensions of the rich. In com parison -with the ! of other coun tries Governor Wilson reminds us. ours pays sadly little attention to mere right and wren. Of course this ie true, and It ougbt to toe remedied. But althocara the evil can be cured only by tfca Uwyere. we still hear them gravely declaring- that no cure Is need ed, only th other day a great lawyer k aylTlae4 Uie ttWl&UJT ULSX Li principles of the old common Jaw were the very acme of perfection and that it was f ooiiah to wish tor anything bet ter. This, in the face of Uie fact that those rule and many of the principles have tffa long aicce abandoned la England, whece tha-y priginated. Governor Wilson further points out that the great economic problem wl..w -v ntv Mimtr munt be solved by the lawyers If they are solved at aU. This amounts to aayina- ' thalr wisdom is the saving factor In our politics, for modern politics Is nothing more than the struggle to deal adequately with economic difficulties as they arise. A Governor Wilson puts it, "Politics Is the struggle for an Institutional expression of the chang ing economic" life of society." Hap pily, in the United States it has noth ing to do with religion or science. We must finally look to the lawyers to de vise a settlement of our relations with the corporation and the mo no polio. Society will control these great poten. tatea or they wUl control society. The latter alternative is Intolerable. To . - u- U'ikiui a ira In : 'It Is abso lutely secMU7 that society should command Its Instrument ana bw dominated by them." To (escape that baneful domination w are obliged to i a th, IYurvn. but what a change the Ideals of the profession . . 111. Iw f must undergo neioro obtain our petition. ONE'S RKiHT TO KMOKC Space Is given to Mr. rattexsoo to il.. n ii.r..tiM at the abused tobaoco- . v don't know Mr. Patter son; but we know the type. He Insist on his inallennble right to De a enrontv r,,.(manre bivniiM there are other nui sances -which he Is able to see occa sionally through the ha'o or tsuu fr- ., n.,nninilr surrounds his UiUU VJI4 " " aromatic person. He wants to smoke here, when, here ana now ne pie. Just as he will assuredly smoke here after when and where toe does not II loves his wife, but he wouldn't if she smoked or chewed. He loves his children, but he trounce the life out of every one of them whom he catches enjoying a cigarette oemuu ... ,- iia la the only one In the family upon whom he has conferred the Inestimable privilege oi imama up all the rooms of their hpme. Ashes, matches, cigar stub are all over the house. When he leaves for town th neighbors know that he Is aU lax through their sense of smell. All tn contents of his pocket ax tainted or soiled with nicotine or sulphur or both. The day is measured by so many rlgar or o many pipe of to bacco. Smoking and chewing Put why prolong the agony! Every body knows this Mr. Patterson or some other like him. We drop the subject by commiserating ihe fate or all the Mrs. Pattersons the great multitude who have to live with burning volcano by day and tolerate a sleeping and lli-smelllng furnace at night. THE XEW IIEA AND TILE OLD. It la no answer to crltlclam Of the Initiative and referendum to make the old familiar demonstration of the fail ures of legislatures and the general unfitness of legislators. There are and have been cliques and Jackpots In legislatures, corruption in th lection of United tate Senators, Jokers and irneaks in legislation. Everybody knowa It, lglsUturs are made up of mere men and men are poor critter. Woodrow Wilson say the people show their distrust of legislature by limiting th time of th legislative ses sion to certain defined period Any constitution Is. and Is Intended to be. a limitation on the pow of a legis lature; but It la not easy to see how the people woild be benefited by abol ishing either constitutions or legisla tures. Te It would appear that we are driftlt La that direction and are fairly "wel' 'onj on our wy. But hyst.-W- fustian about the evils of the old dart 1- legislatures has no special pert'uenc now. The ini tiative was brought forth a a correc tive and a cure for Imperfect and dis honest method of legislation. Have they not been cured and corrected? Are we not reveling In the perfect hap piness of modern Utopia? Is not the new Oregon system perfect? If it is perfect, then legislatures are honest and efficient. If it Is not perfect, there is something yet to be done. The Initiative and referendum are undoubtedly here for good. It is wise to make them more efficient, to correct thrtr known imperfections, to get the best out of them, safeguard them, pro tect all Interests, prevent their sys tematic abuse. The Old Idea Is no longer our problern. It Is the New Idea that Is now to be made workable and practical. , VSrXKSS AVAL STATIONS. The efforts of Secretary Meyer to Induce Congress to close the New Or leans navy-yard have so agitated that city that the exchange have formed a Joint committee to combat the step. Mr. Meyer proposes to move the float ing' dry dock and machinery to Guan tanamo. and. the committee says, thus "leave the entire Gulf coast un protected save from a naval base 1600 miles from the nearest United State source of uppliea." Th committee says that Mr. Meyer's policy, if car ried out. would leave the only water outlet for per cent of the population In danger of destruction, for "In the absence of adequate protection, and especially In the absence of naval re pair facilities In the Ixxwer Missis sippi River, channel destruction In place of channel defense, would, through sheer necessity, be resorted to In time of war." The interest of Kew Orleans tn hav ing Government fund expended on a naval station In her vtcijilty ha cloud ed her reason. If the mouths of the Mississippi are not defended by forts, aa enemy would only need to block ade the channel Jn order to bottle up any -warships we might have at New Orleans and render them useless. A naval station is not fort, but a place for warships to lie for repairs, and. when It Is so liable to be bottled up. Is a standing Invitation to any enemy to put the .cork in the bottle. Whether it has a nayal station in the Mississip pi er not. the Government should for tify the entrance to the channel for the protection of commerce, and this, it Is to be presumed It would do. Admitting for the sake of argument that a naval station is useful for the defense of the MLssiMippl River, it would be far more useful at Guanta namo. free from danger of being bot tled UP. yet within easy striking dis Unce of the Mississippi' mouths. A naval siAtlon J0 miles up the Missis sippi would be far less available a a base of operation for the defense of the whole Gulf coast than on al Guantanamo, -whence a fleet could reach wlU aqual facility any point on tnaiiuif xjmuU. X th UnlteA State and MORXIXO OREGOXIAy. WEDNESDAY, Mexico, the West Indies. Central America and th .north coast Of South America. ' Mr. Meyer plan with regard to the New Orleans naval station .are a part of bis general policy of closing useless naval station which owe their exist ence only to the most shameless log rolling. The naval expenditures of Uie United States are proportionately high er than those of other nations, not so much because pay and other expenses use higher as because so much money is wasted in maintaining naval stations where no -ships vor go for repairs. While the Iopartment has been calling for more officers, many of the. offi cers are kept loafing and going rusty at the costly tributes to the influ ence of Senators and Representatives. While the friend of an adequate -navy have been fighting the extreme econ omist In Congress, much of the money pent has lea.ked iffto ratholes and ha not added even a gunboat to the Navy. Half of the naval expendi ture are made on land and this condi tion ha given rise to a demand Xor "puttimr the navy on the sea." The Navy and its equipment exist fpr the good of the Nation as a whole, and not for the purpose of being par celed among the big clUea and of welling their commerce and their heads. ' XHE BOXKIIEADED PAISTf. When Senator Bourne first Intro duced to our notice that prodigy of .-.. iho VnmDoslte cltlxen," and announced that he (th composite ciU Iten, of course) wo lnral.lbiy ngni m all hV doclHlou, -we were Inclined to take the ordinary meaning of the term and infer that the Senator's love for the common people Jad warped his Judgment. This In view of some of the result obtained in direct legislating In Oregon. We also guined the hasty lmpresion that the Senator had been delving into the philosophy of Her bert Spenoer and toad attained a mod of expression and reasoning somewhat over the head of the ordi nary individual. Senator Sutherland, of Utah, how ever, has gone further into the subject and ha cooeultjed that accurate and ever ready source of Information, the unabridged dictionary. Says Mr. Sutherland: Mr. Wabater. whose vocabulary covered tha whoitf llnaut.tlc Held, from whlrh my .uaor-d fr.T.T from Orf.in culla only tfta f.oaara. alrujt:y Introduie ttle ma"r' a waa h:t dicurr.va hallt. betwn tw0 Oliver mhollf unre:s(4l iuLJecta. n1,,r"': ln the aord Vompoalt- aa a botanuat trm. Jnna It Ihua: "Belonitlns to th ordar eotnpnaHae: taetB( lovoiuiraw licaiia at many uuU flortls. tba compari uo li not mlna. but thai of, the h-urned laxlooaraohcr ' aa. (or nmpl. the dsiay. Tha ipferh of tha Senator from Oreron had prepared u. to aarea with Mr. debater that hla "cumpoilK cltlaon" waa a "daly. but wa wen In no mood for thla ainltr OuAiiflcatloa: "bearlne Jnvoiurrata heada. After tbea rlowina. tuloslaa from tha elo quent llu of tha bt-nator to which we had btend. after thaea unqualified indorse ments reapm-tlns tha virtue, tha uuaeirUn Beaa. tha wladom ah. Xr. President, above all. th wladom of thla paragon, muet thera Cnally creep Into our hearte th foul eueplclon that after a(l the "compoeii clt laen" has aimcthlns eerloua the matter with hla head? Invoiucrate headil Horrlb.a dlrtu! The aubjact become painful. Lt ui inquire no further, but for better or wont accept this creation of the Ineplrea Intellect of our honored friend almply aa a "dale? with aa Involucrats head." and. ejoelnr the dictionary, wl'o all Us brutal and dlaturhlns biuntneee of apeech. volun tarily leave ouraelvea ehrouded In deep but merciful lanorance reapectins the exact na ture PX the affliction. , But to give the true phase to the subject, one must disregard the advice of Mr. Sutherland and delve deeper still into Mr. Webster's sea of knowl edge. What mean the ominous word "lnvolucraus?" Mr. Webster says that It may mean among other things "a formation of new bone about a se questrum In necrosis," which reduced still Xurther to every day English mean that "Involucrate" is a term applied to the new formation about a portion of bone that has rotted away. And thu we may confidently infer that when Mr. Bourne delivered his eulogy of th composite cltlcen he was referring to the boneheaded daisies of the country. CEVTKAL BANK ALMOST A FACT. The existence of the Standard Oil a a holding company for practically all the oil business of the country has only recently been declared Illegal by the Supreme Court, but the National City Bank of New York, controlled by Standard Oil men, has already ar ranged to do the very thing -which the oil men were condemned for doing. The courts have held that "the in vestment by National bank of their surplus funds in other National banks . , . Is plainly against the meaning and policy of the statute from which they derive their power, and evil con sequences would be certain to ensue If such a course of conduct were coun tenanced as lawful." Desiring to con trol a number of other banks, the City Bank Incorporated the National City Company, of which the City Bank hold the stack and to which th City Bank sells stock In other banks w hich It cannot legally hold directly, but which it think It can legally hold indi rectly through this new holding com pany. Thus th greatest bank In the United State has created the means of holding under the control of one set of men a large proportion of the money and credit of the country- A tne National City Company Is to be under the absolute and perpetual control of three trustees, who must always be officers and directors of the National City Bank, it will be seen that the National City Bank will be the real owner of all the bank stock that the new corporation may hold. This transaction brin clearly into th light th question at issue between th trusts, corporations, financiers, money kings and tne people. f.t is that the people believe that every gooi ciU ten willingly obey not only the letter but the spirit and purpose of the law. while the trust defy the Utter of the law a long a they can continue a fight In court and then -while comply ing with Its letter, defy it spirit and purpose. For that reason the people conderHli the trust as bad citizens, disbelieve what they Bay and suspect the motive of their seemingly most Innocent actions. The triu-ts are guid ed by the theory that. If the law gets In their svay, so much the worse for the Jaw: Ei Bualnee must go ahead in spUe of Legal obstacles. The theory of the people is that when the law stands In the way of the designs of Big Business. Big Business must halt. There can be no doubt In the rAlnd of any man who ha kept Informed of recent publications on the subject that. If the National City Bank should . allowed without obstruction, through its holding company, to secure control of a number of other National banks. It would not take Jong to become mas ter of the money of this country, as it is already, through Jt alliance -with J. P. Morgan, of the money of New Tork. Every man to whom the subject of a central bank ha been unseated ha shuddered ad pe-oteated, yet here we should have worse than a oentral bank. 'The City Bank tia already gathered to Itself immense power by being made reserve agent of many Other National banks. That .power Is growing and stock control of a num ber of banks will make it .growth faster. If we had -a oentral bank, though it miejht be dangerous, the Government would tUl .have much control jver .lt Over the City Bank it has no greater control than rthat given by the -National banking law. This is sufficient, if the decision above -quoted be sup plied in spirit, but to be effective it mnaf hA j.nnllAd nrornotlv or -we may find ourselves In the power of central bank under private .control, oa law xerclsed by men whose history jyroye they have no regard lor any other Interests than their own. Germany's occupation f Agadlr, sV the Atlantic coast of Morocco, is .said to be the precursor of an effort ot get possession of a good slice of Liberia to the south, and that Germany Is not inclined seriously to contest the French claims in Morocco, though willing to rc.r hnM nf something; that she -can concede .In return -for what arte .actu ally want. Liberia is under in pro tection of the United States, and If Germany attempt to take a slice of her territory, she is likely to hear .from Uncle Sam. As a solution of the race problem In this country, Liberia Is failure, and if It .should set us tangled up in the Moroccan dispute, it wlll -be more of a nuisance than ever, but the dignity of this country -would suffer if we were .to allow any encroachment. Why should the consumer pay two price for sugar in order .to insure A profit to the Louisiana planters? Thla sacrifice the many to the few with a vengeance. The sugar growers must make up their minds to share the com mon lot of agriculture and get along without a tariff. They -will be Just as well off after their scare la over. The duties accrue to the -benefit of the Sugar Trust. The producer doe not profit a jenny by them, while they strip the consumer to the bone. The producer gets for his raw sugar Just what the trust is willing to pay. Tar iff or no tariff, it Is all the same. The plea of .the drunken derelict of a rockplle to be allowed to see his wife w ho is 111 at the poor farm and to be given work about the farm ao he .can be near her, when analysed .1 not .as pathetic as appears on the .surfaoe. If this man had worked Industriously and kept sober, he would in all probability be going home each evening to .enjoy the companionship of a wife In good health instead of begging, with the ready tears of the inebriate flowing from hla -eyes, the .privilege of visiting his dying wife In the poorhouse. The ear that heroic courage would die out e,niong men were war ;to .cease does not appear to be very well grounded. The frightful end of the St. Paul factory foreman who was caught by a shaft and whirled rapidly until he -was beaten .to a pulp illus trates the Imminent peril which beset modern Industry. To face them re quires all .the courage of the soldier and perhaps more. While life remains so full of danger we need not fear that bravery will become extinct. The creation of new peers seems to offer an easy way out of trouble to the Liberal government .in England, but after all it may prove disappointing. Suppose the new peers should vote the wrong way? There is nothing .to hin der them unless they are .pledged be forehand, and such pledge are not Al ways .kept. The Influence of a title ils usually fatal to liberal opinion sooner or later. How dreadful it .would be If It should -aot sooner. No increase in the city1 water sup ply ihat will prevent shortage of water la July and August Is possible .unless the wanton waste of water is .stopped. As long as the water hogs are allowed full sway, water shortage will vex the residents of the suburban district and add to the menace of loss of property by fire. The meter is the logical rem edy for this waste. In view of the fact hat the ordinary citizen la expected to -work an extra shift to water hla lawn In the morn ing, it Is germane to inquire how many shift of men the contractors on the new Bull Run pipeline and .Mount Ta bor reservoir a,re working. ;But Xor their prooraatination we -should .have escaped this agony. The difference In degree .of Case day's crime and that of .the other .mur derer of Otllie Snyder lay in .the fact that Caseday was a Deputy Sheriff and allowed his prisoner to be lynched. However, he .has learned a lesson and will be a better live man than a .bad dead man. Another American woman is coming home as the wife of a foreign Ambas sador. Mrs. George Bakhmetleff, -whose husband will represent Russia, Is a a v,.. e Rrnnral Edward F. Beall. uaiu-11 An American wife 1 an aid to securing diplomatic appointment in the United State. . When all the lines put on four-hour train between Seattle and Pqrtland. the villager on Fuget Sound wrlll run down hero to do their .shopping and go home the same night. The female burglar 1 no more Joke, for three have been caught In a Connecticut city. Thus comes more vexation for the Summer widower. A million-dollar prune -crop in the three counties across the Columbia la not to be despised. It represent faith and teadfast purpose. The United State might send a ship load of watermelons to Hayti and let the warring natives change the trouble on their minds. John Barrett (our John) is repre senting the President at San Diego to day, and Mr. Taft will not find cause for displeasure. San Diego makes the first hit today, while San Francisco is yet to decide. One local bad-check man -took 'the right way to escape prosecution. Th relative humidity .of the loaded brewery wagon is above normal. Short waits will be overlooked at the grocers' picnic today. By and by It will be loop the loop to Seattle in four hours. JULY 19, 1911. Gleanings of the Day In some parts of Switzerland It is .M that nheeses form family heirlooms which Are sometimes handed down from one generation to Another. At Les Ormonts, In -the canton of Vaud, it is omrinmnrr .to -make .EDecial cheese for certain family feasts. They are tagged with explanatory labels and eaten sev later, at other feasts, or even at funerals. . Recently there was discovered a cheese eating rrom aaio. It was as hard as a rock and had to be -cut -with a saw. "It Is reported to have tasted good. A woman who met Mme. Sarah Bern hardt while she was on her last flying visit to New York has a theory as to the fashion in which the great actress gains power or the expression of her art, says the New Tork Times. This woman has a strong personality and is noted for her magnetism. She is also iniini to'the new-thought movement nd .to -analysis .of .the effect of per sonality .qn .personality, "it was a m-jai curious thing." she said. "I went into a room where other jjeraons were, and It waa some little .time before Mme. Bernhardt paid any attention to me. She looked at me several times In most searching fashion, then suddenly came over. She held out her hand, and, of course, -I took It. As I wore silk gloves, I could feel little thrill as our palms met. I noticed that she was in the best of spirits as I :lef t, which was In -contrast to a bit of weariness she had .shown when I bad seen her -talking -with others, and. .of course. I was more Intensely flattered. Then came a .most curious development. I had no sooner left than I felt a peculiar weariness. I could not understand what was the reason. I took taxi cab and went home, and by the -time I arrived there 1 .had a headache. I had to lie down for the rest of the afternoon, and U was next morning be fore I again felt like myself. I have been told that I have the same effect on others; that I seem to draw every ounce .of spirit they have in them. Th.,, r women friends of mine who avoid me because of this feeling. I have an idea :that while Mme. Bern hardt w as holding .my hand she turned the tables on me and drew a supply of energy that helped :her to get through the day. I wonder how many others, men and women, have had the same experience." Enforcement of the customs laws in the port .of New Tork at the bands of Collector Loeb makes a still higher record for result during the .fiscal year Just past. Collections from fines, penalties and forfeitures foot up 914.000. compared with $1,507,700 in the previous fiscal year, according to the Springfield Republioan. .Prior to the advent of Mr. Loeb In the collector's office the collections from these sources averaged only about 2,000 a year. The great ..difference affords some measure of the .volume of polite smuggling and customs frauds of -all kinds which formerly went on .under .the noses of complacent collectors. One result .of Mr. Loeb great work .in enfor ng the law may likely be to rob the high tariff .Of much influential -support. There .are not .a few who were able to dodge It for .themselves and prqtU from Its undodgeable application to others. An interesting reason is given by Sarah Gertrude 1 -meroy in the Spring field Republican why the young Prince of Wales was named David. She says: David Is not a common nam in the Brltlah royal family. nd although It 1 fh. nam. of .the patron .saint ot Wale., ru mor aay.-that there was .another reason con nd wttj. 1 Sutton. Shortly before -,h Prince Twa. bom. A retired qftioer in th. United -Stats Army and a -former yaie Proi, declared that in this " would rise up a King -who would be th lonr-expected King David come to solidify tba empire of the .Hebrew. To prove hie theory .that thla .Kin would belopg to the Brttiah royal family, he .drew up a long raalqglcal tree, giving 150 .generation trom Adam -to Queen Victoria and pointing out that 6000 year had nearly elapsed, whiou .brought near th time demanded by biblical chronology when the ancient pro phecy should be fulfilled. The late Lady Vaterford. who was -an Intimate Jrlend of the Duchess of Teck- the mother of Queen Mary wasmoch li.tere.ied In this theory and a firm believer In the descent of the royal house of JEngland irom King :Davld. It is said that It was on account of her reiterated request that the name David was bestowed u.pon the royal infant. It la also true that the -Prince Is known by thl name In the -family elrcle. .although he is always called -fcrlnca Edward by the public The German have adopted different tactic from the Italians when rich Americans buy their precious antiqui ties. J. P. Morgan bought a letter of Martin Luther to Emperor Charles y ior J25.B0O And the German press expressed annoyance, ilr. Morgan paid a visit to the Kaiser and made him a present of the costly letter. The Em peror thereupon gave Morgan .the grand cross of the Order of the Red Eagle, .which -may be said to have cost him i25.500. This Is the first Jsnown Instance of Morgan's being "done up" In a business deal, unless the return k .stolen .cone About which the I Italians -made -euch a .fuss may he counted. Th -Springfield Republican appear to think all the people on the Pacific Coast spend money .like spendthrift millionaires, for it says: The Korth .Pacrtic tatea are complaining to th Treasury Department of a -scarcity of small ooln. They are evidently oogla nlng to oonomle out .that .way. Time was when .anything teas than a dollar hod small use ln tbe .circulation. We are pretty well .to do out here, but we do not -scorn the humble nickel. General Booth la dictator over all the property of the Salvation Army, over the souls and bodies of all Its officers and soldiers: he has -laid down In trust deeds not only what they shall do and wear and drink and be lieve, but what -their successors shall do and believe for ever and ever! say a London letter to the Boston Trans cript. His words are the command ments beyond which there is no ap peal: not even to God for he claims to be the -voice of God. speaking nd the hand of God working. The papal claim is limited beside the claim of General Booth; and he can enforce .his Infallibility by economic pressure as well as spiritual condemnation. He has nominated the map who is to take up hi omnipotence when he dies. He says that he alone knows -who this man is. But ex-Commissioner Nicol say that he knows, and everybody else at headquarters knows, that ihere only one man possiDie, one luau could shoulder the task with fair hopes of carrying it out satisfactorily and thai this man Is the General's eldest son and chief f -Btaff, pramwell Booth. ONE'S RIGHT TO BE A KCISA3TCE -Otheca Are -Offensive j J5o .Why 3lay .1 Not JleT Ask This Smoker. ' PORTLAND. Or.. July -17. (To the Editor.) As a smoker of .tobacco and a consumer of alcoholic liquors, -I would respectfully -suggest that you and the Prohibitionists and Dr. Wiley do not confine your reforming energies to those two commodities, but secure the passage of laws to prevent any citizen from doing anything that Is ob jectionable ' to any other citizen Women should be forbidden -to deluge themselves with perfume; to chew gum in .public; to wear hats which in crowd ed streetcars poke themselves into their neighbor's faces; men and women should be forbidden to -emit nauseous gasoline .fumes from automobiles; autodrivers should be forbidden to blow a horn with an offensive snort -and should ;he required .to have the horn equipped to play tne most, popu lar air. to be selected :hy the initia tive, when they wish to warn .the pe destrian to hurry up or be run ;Over; auto trucks should be required Xo muf fle their engines; the Salvation Army and Socialists; the North :End .should -be compelled to eliminate itself lest It offend the churches, and the. churches should ring no bells and hold their sen-ices sotto voce lest they offend the North End; the -newsboys should have their voices trained that their raucous cries offend not the ears of the fastidious; the puff of the gasoline launch should be stilled; the baseball fan should be suppressed .as a public nuisance; the billboard advertisements should be passed upon by a civic art commission before they are allowed to be posted. As to the newspapers, so many changes would be necessary to prevent them from being offensive to any one Individual that it Is probable that by the time all the desired changes had been made they would be wiped out of existence. These are a few of the subjects to which you might -apply.your restrictive energy, but before you secure the pass age of any more laws. I would .augsest that you secure the enforcement o the laws we already have. What we need Is not more laws, but more law en forcement. When murderers are promptly .tried and hanged -when ttiej deserve it or sent to the penitentiary; when convicts are kept in prison and not turned loose on their promise to a sentimental Governor not to run away; when an honest and competent Dis trict Attorney has criminals caught ana prosecutes them; when the states old man of the sea, Food Commissioner Bailey, is thrown off the etate's back; when the Illegal local monopolies are broken up; when delinquent city con tractors are penalized; when merchants are compelled to sell honest weight and measure and to sell goods which are what they profess to be then it will be time to pass new laws, unin these weightier matters have received attention, it might be well to defer the regulation of the personal habits ana tastes of the people TOooxr 'X . ' V . rA x a ik"" Brad's Bit o Verse Just across the blue grass medder. where the crick went murmurin' by, where the daisies and the cowslips used to smile up at the sky. in -the days of blessed .memories, the days that can't come back, we built it end we .loved It our little wooden shack. It had no fancy doin's; it was kind o' rough and plain; but the harp strings of the angels never played a sweeter strain than the melody -of laughter from our healthy, strappln' boys, in the dear old .shack where love was queen and keeper of our Joys. We loved -It in the mornin', when the dew was on the flowers, and the Summer's benedic tion seemed to .bless the fleetin' hours; when the purple tinted bugles of the Mornin' glory vine was a reachln' UP toward heaven Just to catch the Joy divine. We loved it In the eyenin , when the sun had gone to sleep, .and the -shadders from the weetland come a driftin', soft and .deep; and we loved to linger near it and to look out on the night when the moon -was full of glory, and the stars was leakin' light. No wonder that we loved it, for our whole big world was there; and we built It in .the golden days when life was young and fair. We live up .in our town house now, with fixin s fine and new; but the memory .of old days keeps soakin, through And through. We keep a thinkln' to ourselves, there's somethln' that we lack. Oh, I wonder If we left it in pur little, hum blo shuck (Copyright. 19il. by W. D. Meng.) THE PKOBIiPM JNSOLTJBLE. Sometimes at night, when torrid tem .perature. Makes balmy sleep, of all things, the least sure. Tickled by -trickling streams of perspiration, A prey to the mosquitoes aggrava tion, I kick the covers from me In vex ation, And by a course of meditation deep, Seek to cajole that fickle toddess, Sleep. I count a million fancied sheep go past. But sleep is still as distant when the last Goes by, as when the first ran .sad ly bleating Athwart my brain. I count .my pulse' beating, And when naught else will send the moments fleeting, I ponder why his commissary bine Our Unole Sam should fill with rolling ' pins. Two hundred rolling pins or there about More than he needs to roll his hard tack out. Say. can It be, as Mr. Bok advises. He thinks to gild the pins of vari ous .sizes For hand-made paper weights or bridge whist prizes. Or with forget-me-nots all painted o'er. For towel racks Jn some brigadier's boudpir? Perhaps some time, he plans to have arrayed With rolling pins, a suffrage -Light Brigade; Perhapfi and while more deeply still I ponder. Saying, "Two hundred of 'em? "Why in thunder" ' The hours -flit swiftly o'er me, lost in wonder, 'Til. with Insomnia's -bonds at Jast dis solved, I sink to sleep the problem .still un solved. DEAN COLLINS. Portland, July 11. 1811. Hold Water Hose, In Sprinkling. PORTLAND, July 18. (To the Edi tor.) 'I think 1 have what might, be a timely suggestion on the sprinkling question, have seen it worked in other cities and think that it seems to be a remedy for -a great -waste of water. My suggestion is this: Allow the people to sprinkle whenever they wish and all they wish, but see to it that they use nothing attached to the hose but a nozzle. They should not set that dowgand allow it to run, but hold it in the hand while sprinkling. Any one can readily ee the point in this idea. Within one half block of my house this morning, I saw two lines of hose running one hour in one spot, and another, two and one-half hours in a econd spot. Quite often, I see one line of hose allowed to run for three hours. If these said parties were compelled to hold their water hose they would water the whole lawn in much Jess time. , E- T- Advertising Talks By WtUlajm C. Freemai The cities of Cleveland, Detroit. Buf falo. Rochester, Syracuse and Bing hamton through their associations of advertising and business men, .and their Chambers .of Commeroe, are cer tainly stirring up advertising enthu siasm and the boosting .spirit, both of which are so necessary in making com munities successful. in Binghamton on June 20 a city of 49,000 population--175 business men at tended A. meeting to hear two advertis ing talks one by F. Irving Fletcher, a young man -who has been In the busi ness only two years, but takes to it as naturally as -a .duck does to water and the other by myself. .Every .business .interest in Bingham ton was ;represented .at the meeting, which was presided over by the Mayor, John J. Irving, and the .president of the Chamber of Commerce was there Thomas B. Crary. Both are live, pro gressive men, backed up in their efforts i in behalf -of ..Bioghamton by the aln- business and advertising men of the city. It was a remarkable meeting. Only two subjects were discussed "Adver tising of tbe RlKht Kind" by the two t , -1 I'TT- ... T -- . j.lew jurK .slusaivcie tutu oun iiuus, j Binghamton- Commercially in an Honest I Way," by several local celebrities. There was a plain banquet which cost $1 a plate no liquor or wine was served there was singing hy local talent r good, .too and exhibited thoroughout the meeting there was the Jolliest, slnoerest kind of "get-toa-ether" spirit. Who can predict the results to a community where the spirit of "Boost" and the practice of the square deal predominates? Every .man wore a little banner in his coat lapel: "Buy In and boost Blnghamfon!" And every man looked as though that was his chief purpose in life. Business men who -are keen . com petitors Aat and Joked together, but when it comes to the serious business of boosting Binghamton they forget everything but their pride In their city and their desire to be of help In making; It a n-reat bualneaa-community. The Binghamton merchants have tabooed trading stamps, and the local newspapers don't permit the words "trading stamps" to appear in their columns. .All of the merchants believe In ad vertialns, and many of them advertise liberally, but not Jill of them adver tise as much as they should. At the conclusion of .the meeting men hung around the hotel corridors until the midnight hour, -discussing the events of the evening, and the opinion was pretty generally expressed that monthly gatherings of this sort will arouse the spirit of the whole com munity for a bigger, rbetter, broader Binghamton. Thus does the advertising germ wrig gle itself into the systems of business men everywhere. (To be continued.) Country Town Sayings by Ed Hows Copyright 1911. by George Matthew Adams. You hear a great deal about cheerful givers; but .did you ever know one? Don't plant fruit trees in town; they bring boys and trouble, but no fruit. There is a good deal of talk of for giving and forgetting; but people never forgive, and they never forget. An expression you frequently hear men use: "He agreed with me; I talked with him awhile, and he said I was right." When a woman says there Is nothing going on in society, she has not been invited. A man Is severly criticised if he does not provide a liberal amount of life in surance for his loved ones; but a man's loved ones sometimes neglect him with out attracting much criticism. A woman was "fussing" about the men. "If you weren't present," said a man, "I could say a good deal about women, too." I lately saw a man 80 years old going into a doctor's office. It seems to ma that when I reach 80, I shall have had enough of it. The great battles are won by the pri vates, but the captains get the credit. About 9 o'clock at night, an old fashioned man gets the stretches and prepares for bed. Half a Century Ago From The Oregonlan. July 19, 1S61. We learn from Captain Holman of the Cowlitz that the steamer Pacific on going down the Columbia River -on Thursday morning at 2 o'clock struck upon Coffin Rock an isolated rock and after proceeding about ten miles was beached upon La Du's farm on the Washington side of the river. Three valuable horses were drowned. Her cargo is a total loss. Treasure and express matter saved. Her passengers came up on the ..u-ultnomah. The steamer's stern is under water to the hurricane deck and her bow out. Coffin ock is two miles bel'W Rainier. The iarmers of California do not appear -satisfied with tbe prices paid for wheat $1.25 per 100 pounds and Withhold it from market. At the foot of .Front and Yamhill streets, near the levee, .there is a mantrap of monstrous size some ten ieet deep which it would be well for the proper authorities to close. By carelessness the window curtains in a house at Third and Washington streets caught fire night before last and for a few moments eerious con sequences were apprehended. ( -'-'j ' ( Rural Free Delivery Carriers- BEAVERTON, Or., July 18. (To the Editor.) I observe.that credit Is given j Postmaster-General Hitchcock for the rvt mrt r,r vpap In rural carriers'; salary, but the opposite Is the fact' Mr. HitchcocK. in nis zeai o-.. omv, refused to recommend any rais in the salary of the said carriers, b in nt that -f'nnirrftfts recognizlij the value of rural free delivery servl'i and the Inadequate pay or tne carrrti , ....,.- tn tha lnbar and l- tho norfiprs a raise If CIISC, . I- 1. ... - - 1 4100 per year for standard routes aid appropriated the necessary rnun-.v. 4 M. KENNEDY R. F. D. Carrier, Route NoI, Roosevelt in Aereplane. PORTLAND, July 11- (To the ftl tor.) Where, when and with wfcm ship? Tknjni-A Roosevelt rode tllce around the aviation -course at Klnjch, st Tinis. October 11, IslO. tith Aviator Arch Hoxsey. i