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ALLOWANCE FOR INCREASED CON
SUMPTION. It is highly probable that much of
our dislocations of markets may be at
tributed to inadequate recognition of
the growing capacity of the people, es
pecially the people of the United States,
to absorb the products of the soil.
Herein must be found one reason why
exports of wheat are so continuously
disappointing to growing and prosper
ing communities like California. Cot
ton seems likely to furnish another ex
ample. Not long ago one-of the. officers
of the British Cotton-Growing Associa
tion in a public review of the experi
ments In cotton-raising in Africa and
elsewhere made the statement that
West Africa offered immense possibili
ties for successful cotton-growing, and
asserted that there was no reason why
that region should not produce 20,000,000
bal9s of cotton.
Now 20,000,000 bales of cotton would
certainly make a factor no't to be dis
regarded In the world's market; and If
that production were to be .realized
next year, this statement would afford
some grounds for apprehension among
the growers of American cotton. But
It was qualified by the remark that the
development of this region would' be
slow and that if five years hence
1,000,000 bales were produced in that
region it would be doing more than
well. At this rate it would take 100
years to reach the limit of productive
ness. While this period must be con
siderably shortened, if there Is ever any
persistent attempt to develop the area,
it is not likely that the maximum could
be reached, all things considered, in less
than thirty years.
Meanwhile every one uses more cot
ton each year. In 1894, for example,
the United States used 16.45 pounds of
cotton per capita, with a population of
67,000,000; now we use 24.64 pounds per
capita with a population of 80,000,000.
Take the comparison another way. In
the five-year period 1884-89 the average
consumption of cotton was 8,444,000
bales a year, and the average price
about 9.75 cents. In the five-year
period 1899-1904 the average consump
tion was 13,965,000 bales, and the aver
age price about 9.68 cents. In other
words, there was an Increase in con
sumption in fifteen years of 5,521,000
bales, or of over 65 per cent. If -that
percentage of Increase in consumption
were maintained the consumption of
cotton would demand an even greater
additional supply at the end of thirty
years than the 20,000,000 bales from
"West Africa. If the Increase in con
sumption were only 5,500,000 bales in
' fifteen years, the "West African supply
would more than take care of the de
mand. The overtaking of demand by supply
is one of those bogles which perennially
rise only to be dispelled. "We are con
stantly being warned of vast tracts of
wheat areas, in Canada or South Amer
ica or Siberia, whose product will put
the American farmer out of business;
but neither the export statistics of our
wheatgrowing regions nor the price of
wheat at Liverpool or Chicago reveal
any such gloomy situation, near or re
mote. Perhaps we are in luck, on the
whole, to keep ahead of the Malthusian
terror, which will involve us some day
in approximate starvation. New sources
of cotton or wheat are not likely to
arise faster than the old fields are
given over to more profitable crops or
else consumption has overtaken supply.
A SIN OF OMISSION.
It was found necessary yesterday to
dismiss the pupils of the High School
until such time as 'the heating plant
now being put in the building is com
pleted. How long this will take it is
not possible to say. Perhaps one day,
more likely a week, will elapse before
order comes out of the noise and con
fusion and discomfort now prevailing
in some parts of the building and genial
warmtn succeeds uie emu tnat per
vades the classrooms.
The unprepared condition at the High
School" building as disclosed by this
dismissal Is surprising. A vacation of
nearly three months preceded the open
ing of the school. This heating plant
was decided upon weeks ago. The con
tract was no doubt let in ample time
to secure the completion of the work
before September 12, the day fixed for
opening the schools. Yet here we find.
at the beginning of the second week of
the term, the work in a state so unfin
ished as to make it practically impossl
ble to hold school In the building.
The public cannot suppose that this,
loss of time and general disarrange
ment of the school schedule Is due to
lack of forethought on the part of the
School Board. There has been dllatorl
ness, certainly, somewhere, or the work
would have been completed In time.
Perhaps too great leniency has been
shown to the contractors, who as a
class have to be spurred to promptness
in carrying out their obligations by im
pending penalties for delay. Perhaps
the trouble originated in the plumbers'
shops, where trouble is almost con
stantly brewing, the public as usual
being the victims of the discomfort and
loss that results. "Whatever the cause,
the effect is clearly discernible. A large
corps of teachers drawing pay for
which, In the nature of things, they can
give no equivalent; hundreds of pupils
losing schedule time which they must
make up later by cramming or lose
utterly by skipping or skimming over
the work, and an example of dllatorl
ness in the discharge of obligations
from which the schools, df all places,
should be exempt.
A sentiment that often fell from the
gray goosequlll of the teacher in a for
mer generation, upon the home-made
copy-book of the pupil of the village
school, was expressed in these words:
"Procrastination Is the thief of time."
This statement was absolutely unqual
ified. It Is the one thing for "which no
excuse Is accepted in private business
transactions. It should be as rigidly
ruled out of public business, by finan
cial penalty the only force that It
dreads.
NEAR TO NATURE'S HEART.
All good citizens rejoice in the move
ment of urban population back to the
soil. They who have failed in the
stress of city life go to the country to
begin over again in quiet, humble ways,
as their grandfathers did; while others,
not failures, but "tired with toiling and
moiling in the crowded hives of men,""
find in rural life that respite from the
rush and fever of the town which the
poet had in mind when In an inspired
moment he wrote:
I would from the city's rule and law.
Its fashions and forms cut loose.
And go where the strawberry grows' on Its
straw.
And the Gooseberry grows on its goose;
Where tho catnip tree is climbed by the cat,
As she reaches for her pray.
The guileless and unsuspecting rat
On the rattan bush at play;
Where the cow on the fragrant cowslip feeds
When the dew on her dewlap lies.
And the dog to the waving dogwood speeds,
And the 'bull to the bullrush files.
The case of the hired man on Lee
Hummell's farm, near Pendleton, how
ever, reminds us that there are draw
backs even to rural life and that no lot
Is altogether free from care. The hired
man. it will be recalled by the consci
entious reader of the Northwest news,
went out in the early morning to sep
arate a calf from its fond mother so
that the cow could be driven to pasture
for the day, and the calf kept in the
corral until evening, after the cows
were milked, when it, with other calves,
equally hungry, frolicsome and original
In their notions of deportment, would
be turned In to enjoy such nutriment as
the maternal breast had succeeded In
withholding from the hired man.
It Is a pleasant picture of rural life
pleasant, that Is, to all beholders, but
not. If truth must be told, to the chief
actor. It is nice for the farmer to have
hired men to whom he can assign the
always interesting tasks of feeding the
pigs, cleaning out the stable, currying
the horses and separating the cow from
the calf. "When one considers the Infi
nite variety of sensations that assail
the eyes, ears and nose of the hired
man on such occasions, one is in shape
to pity Mr. Hummell's hired man,
whose early morning stunt was rudely
Interrupted by the aforesaid cow, for
she seized him by the horns, hurled him
to the earth and then executed a buck-
and-wing" dance upon his prostrate
form until Mr. Hummell himself
emerged from the house and extricated
the hired man from the strenuous and
sanguinary, scene.
As memory scans the past, no Insti
tution of farm life stands out so worthy
of recommendation to the nerve-shat
tered city-dweller for complete extirpa
tion of ennui as the cow. Nature has
armed her at both ends and all four
corners with weapons of offense and
defense, which she uses with a dex
terity and effect that would put a
Japanese gunner to the blush. The per
sonal habits of the cow are also unique
and unconventional. Her 'omnlverous
appetite has evolved the "second stom
ach" with Its cud, and In her youth she
masticates the week's wash or a new
Easter hat with all the deftness and
eclat of a greyhound pup.
The cow's versatility Is also, attested
by .her well-developed sense of humor,
which no one will deny her who has In
short-legged youth accompanied her at
the rear end of a lariat rope over hill
and dale to the nearest watering-trough
on a hot Summer af ternoon. Take her
all In all. Old Bossy will be missed
when gasoline and storage battery have,
ushered in the cowless age. We do not
wish to stir up trouble In the country,
but the Hummell episode moves us to
suggest that when farm labor is at
length organized the first rule of the
chapel should be one requiring every
man who keeps a cow to do the calf
separating act with his own hands.
HARLEQUIN ON A TOMB.
To the sufferers by the Iroquois fire,
and to all who recall with any vividness
the dreadful tragedy, the dreadful
crime indeed, which wrapped Chicago
as in a pall last Christmas time and
wrung the sympathetic heart of the civ
Uized world, it will seem Incredible that
that somber pile on Randolph street,
fronted like a tomb and over Its en
trance a savage face In keeping with
Its Indian name and story, of carnage
and Immolation, has been opened to
vaudeville:
It Is probably too much to hope that
this triumph of commercialism over de
cency can be revoked. The matter has
been before the authorities of Chicago
for months, and doubtless every re
source that sentiment could avail of
has been brought to bear. The build
ing and fire ordinances have been com
plied with; those responsible for the
holocaust have been before the courts,
The building Is suited to nothing but
theatrical purposes, and the present
management may have done nothing to
be punished for.
We may be reminded, moreover, that
notnmg in me way or atonement or
penalty now can restore the dead to
the bereaved home, light to the sight
less eyes, or remove the blot upon Chi
cago's fame. There Is sometimes a
slavish devotion -to the memory of the
dead which, carried to extremes, Im
pairs the happiness of the living. Such
was Queen Victoria's accentuated grief
over the Prince Consort. Such Is many,
a mother's despondency over a dead or
outcast child, Indulged with an aban
don which slights her duty to the re-
mainlng ones. It is a severe rule, but
laid down by the gentlest of teachers,
"Let the dead bury their dead." The
line between the decorous and the un
seemly is hard to draw in matters of
the beart.
But the opening of the Iroquois, es
pecially to vaudeville, is an affront to
every humane and- tender feeling of the
heart It Is hard to see how any actor
or actress, with 'that awful tragedy
fresh in mind, can make merry over
the scene where nine short months ago
a holiday matinee was turned into a
funeral pyre; where kind, sweet women
were cruelly burned to death and Inno
cent children were trampled under foot
until their little frames became a mass
of unrecognizable flesh. One would
fancy that the shrieks of the doomed
victlmscould be heard above the strains
of the orchestra and that from the bal
cony where so many merry-makers
went down In agonizing struggles to
rise no more the sound of laughter
would never rise for painted comedi
enne or blackface monologue. In with
holding patronage, the amusement
going public can enforce the mandate
of decency which timorous officials
have nullified.
IT ENDURETH ALL THINGS.
It is probable that the Japanese ap
peal for leniency in popular judgment
because of high-handed treatment of
correspondents was not needed. The
forbearance of correspondents and pub
lic alike with Japanese rigor in these
and other respects has been, indeed,
one of the wonderful things in this war,
and it Is the more remarkable ecause
of the contrary course of the Russians.
It could not have been expected that
the more democratic power would es
tablish a prohibitive censorship and
forbid correspondents any facilities
whatever, while the most autocratic
of the great powers would unbosom
Itself with conscientious frankness to
the newsgatherers of all nations. This
result was largely brought about by the
clever diplomacy of Melville B. Stone,
the General Manager of the Associated
Press.
In fact, the only complaint we have
heard about the whole matter is the
complaint that so much news from
Russian sources, embodying the Rus
sian point of view, has appeared In the
press dispatches and so little from
Japan. It Is needless to say that if the
censorship imposed by Japan had been
put into effect by Russia, civilization
would have risen up in loud and bitter
protest against the yranny of the Czar.
"What Is now borne with meekness and
even with tacit if not outspoken com
mendation from Japan would have been
deemed unspeakable infamy If proposed
by Russia.
All of which may show us the power
of sentiment. Whether a nation at war
owes any duty whatever to the world
at large in the way of giving out In
formation would be an Interesting
question, but fortunately It Is one that
need not be discussed. Mankind is so
ruled by sentiment, that is, by Its loves
and prejudices, that it embraces with
out question or debate the proposition
that in the case of Russia the disclos
ure of its military progress, purposes,
hopes, fears and disappointments is no
more than we have the right to expect
as a matter of course, while in the case
of Japan the most galling restrictions
are accepted as the natural prerogative
of a nation at war.
Fame, like a wayward girl, will still be coy
To those who woo her with too slavish knees;
But makes surrender to some thoughtless boy.
And dotes the more upon a heart at ease.
Thus wrote Keats upon one aspect
of popular favor. It fits this war. Rus
sia has done everything possible to
please the world that dislikes her, but
it spurns her even upon slavish knees,
while It fawns upon Japan, who Is too
busy at work to be bothered with re
porters. Is human nature, then, essen
tially -feminine? Perhaps so; and yet
perhaps what we call feminine is not
the peculiar quality of the gentler sex.
We have all seen the wayward girl
whose heart goes out to one who has
never caused her anything but sorrow,
and closes to another who gives her all
self-denying service and devotion; but
is this a distinctly feminine attribute?
There are men who weary of a too fond
mistress and run with eager desire after
the indifferent, only stimulated the
more by every neglect or affront.
The real lesson Is, however, that he
who has won regard by constancy and
justice will not be put in peril of it
from the exigencies of difficult times.
A generation's display of nobility and
enlightenment on the part of Japan has
endeared her to humanity so that it is
In the mood to forgive her for any
slight or Inconvenience now; and no
geniality at St. Petersburg today can
wipe out the repugnance stamped upon
the mind by Siberia, Poland. Finland
and Kishinef.
RUNNING AN EMPIRE.
When a "Retiring Member" gives to
such an excellent review as the Na
tional his "Impressions of the House of
Commons," the reader might naturally
expect some observations upon the
prominent figures of Parliament, the
manner of conducting the nation's
business, and the efforts of the retiring
member himself to help along the work
of government However, the reader Is
dls&busedof this Idea on reading the
first sentence of the "Impressions," in
which he is told that two of the hap
piest days in the life of an ordinary
Member of Parliament are the day
when he first enters the House and the
day on which he leaves it for good,
"knowing that he is once more a free
man, and no longer subject to what In
the course of a few years has become
simple drudgery." Indeed, the only Im
presslons received by the Retiring
Member In the House of Commons, so
far as his article discloses, were of dis
comfort and dullness. Tradition and
associations can have jio influence upon
the man who enters Parliament only to
find that no proper provisions have
been made for his physical comfort
and that even luxuries are lacking.
Here Is the plaint of the Retiring Mem-
ber on this point:
Tho fallacy that the House of Commons is
the best club In London is probably exploded
by this time. It would be difficult to Imagine
any place much less like a club.. No self-re
specting club would endure the members'
smoking-room for a week. In the Winter, un
less there is anything of particular Interest
on In the House, it Is too crowded for members
to be able to find seats. In the Summer it la
Insufferably hot and stuffy, and all the year
round it Is unwholesomely draughty. No club
would stand the food which Is served to mem
bers of the House of Commons. Still less
would any club stand the House of Commons
waiters. The permanent servants are excel
lent, courteous, civil and obliging. But the
large number of members who have to lunch
and dine at the House very frequently renders
it Impossible to keep enough good permanent
servants to attend to every one, and the re
suits are, to say the least, uncomfortable.
It is sad to contemplate the ambitious
lawmaker barred, from the studious
quiet of the smoking-room by a crowd
of members shirking a speech by Gib- i
son Bowles, perhaps. And even the
terrace, the delightful walk overlook
ing the Thames, is "spoiled for Mem
bers by the swarms of ladies who take
possession every afternoon during the
Spring and Summer months." Refuge
may be found In the libraries, but there
smoiung is xorbidden, and the ordinary
member cannot work when he may not
smoke. It is of passing interest to note
that chess, "as played In the House of
Commons smoking-room, seems to be
the noisiest game in the world except
football." Nor Is the Member's cup yet
full. By being on hand early andat-
tendlng prayers, he manages to hold a
seat, and then so long as the debate Is
dull he Is fairly comfortable, but let
the debate grow lively and the Inrush
of Members, crowds the early bird very
uncomfortably. Life for the "ordinary"
Member is truly a sad affair. The
House meets at 2 P. M., a very Incon
venient time, if the Member has pri
vate business to transact during the
afternoon. The time of adjournment
In the evening is calculated to make
the Member late for dinner. ThenFrl-
day is the earliest day in the week
without a night sitting, so that there
are "four long consecutive sittings
every week." Sad, indeed. The rules
of the House do Indeed appear to have
been framed with too little considera
tion for the ordinary Member's lunch
eon and dinner, and with too much at
tention to the work of Parliament.
And now that the Retiring Member
has told of the discomforts of serving
one's country In her legislative ha?ls.
does he touch upon happier phases of
the parliamentary life? Not he, for the
next paragraph begins by saying that
nothing will leave a deeper impression
on the mind of the Member when he
has finally retired from the HouEe of
Commons than the deadly dullness of
the place. He walks about for hours,
waiting for a division which may or
may not come. In the Winter he is
disturbed by the "everlasting clatter of
the chessmen." In the Summer he Is
worried by the chatter of the ladies on
the terrace. All Is vexation of spirit.
and the only consolation for a Retiring
Member is that "he will have seen how
laws are made, though he may see that
the machinery for their manufacture is
very clumsy, awkward and slow . . .
and he may see that any business run
on the same lines must inevitably go
bankrupt In six months." It might be
added that he will also have had the
satisfaction of showing his devotion to
the national service by enduring a
crowded smoking-room, poor fare and
Inefficient waiters.
It is gratifying to know that the
Commercial Club Is already moving in
the matter of a reception to Senators
Fairbanks and Dolllver, something on
the lines It so handsomely carried out
in connection with the visit of Secre
tary Shaw. It is probable that this will
be our only remaining opportunity this
year to greet and show courtesy to men
of such eminence and especially to one
of the exalted station which Mr. Fair
banks expects soon to assume. The
Commercial Club will make no mis
take If It does the gracious thing by
the next Vice-President of the United
States and perhaps the next President
after Roosevelt. We shall take It for
granted that the club will maintain the
high standard it has already set In this
as In other matters, by which It has so
greatly enhanced the fame of Portland
for energy and for doing things in just
the right way.
"From this moment," says the New
Tork World, "there should be infused
into the campaign the energy of con
vlctlon, of resolve and of confidence.
There are In Indiana, in Illinois and In
Wisconsin, where the fight should be
hotly pressed, fifty-five electoral votes.
Nearly two million and a half voter3
will go to the polls In these three
doubtful states. Chairman Taggart,
who understands the local conditions,
would do his party and his country a
great service by taking personal com
mand of the party forces In these
states, leaving New York, New Jersey
and Connecticut to the management of
men more familiar with conditions In
the East" This is a fairly explicit
condemnation of what has so far been
done In the Democratic campaign.
The wider world hears with a shud
der that fierce fighting bas been re
sumed before Port Arthur. The strenu
oua effort, the terrible suffering, the
wholesale slaughter, that are Implied in
this simple announcement are beyond
computation practically beyond the
utmost stretch of human imagination.
The stress would seem to be greater
than any nation could long endure, yet
after months of it neither side has
abated one jot of Its determination or
of its fury in battle. Though the end
may be near, Its beginning Is not yet
In sight.
The survey of the ceded lands of the
Crow and Flathead Indian reservations
Is awaited with great impatience by In
tending settlers, and surveyors anxious
to secure the contract from the Gov
ernment for the work. Under the most
favorable conditions the survey can
hardly be completed before the Fall of
1905, which means that the formal open
ing of these lands and the rush of the
land-hungry Incident thereto will be
delayed for some months.
THE RECORD IS THE GUARANTEE,
It Is difficult to find out from the utter
ances of our opponents what are the real
Issues upon which they propose to wage this
campaign. It Is not unfair to say that,
having abandoned most of the principles
upon which they have insisted during: tho
last eight years, they now seem at a loss,
both as to what it is that they really be
lieve and as to how firmly they shall assert
their belief In anything. We do not have
to gncsg at our own convictions, and then
correct the guess if it seems unpopular.
The principles which wo profess are those
in which we believe with heart and soul
and strength .. . . Tho policies wo have
pursued are those which we earnestly bold
as essential to the National welfare and
repute. ... We intend in the future
to carry on the Government in the some
way that we have carried it on in the post.
President Roosevelt.
Worm Turns.
Atchison Globe.
No one Is surprised that (it has hap
pened at last. An Atchison woman
who works down town from 7:30 till 6
was going home last evening, hot and
tired, with her attire showing the soil
of a hard day's work. A girl she had
never liked anyway sat on a porch she
passed, dressed In white, and looking
as cool and pretty as any angel that
had just floated down. "You look
hot," she called to the girl who works
In a moment the girl who works had
rushed through the gate up the steps
to the porch, and In a frenzy had
scratched the face of the cool and
pretty angel, and had torn her dress to
I shreds. Then she passed on, feeling
better.
PARKfR 'AND THE COMMON LAW.
New Tork Tribune.
President Roosevelt completely de
molishes his opponent's trust remedy
programme which when first promul
gated was hailed as the Inspired utter
ance of the great Judge who, while
others were plunging about for specta
cular cures, had been drinking deep
at the well of English law, pure and
undented. In his speech of acceptance
Judgo Parker said:
The growth of monopoly, of which
complaint Is justly made, cannot be laid
at the doors of the courts of this coun
try. The decisions of the Supreme
Court of the United States, the Court
of Appeals of this State and the courts
of last resort In many other States
warrant the assertion that the. com
mon law as developed affords a com
plete legal remedy against monopolies.
This discovery was evl tence of a
Daniel come to judgment, and we
were all bid to note the difference be
tween a rough rider and a judicial
minded stateman whoMcnew the right
way to proceed in harmony with the
good old traditions of law and order.
But that eulogy is rudely interrupted
by Information that the learned Judge
did not know what he was talking
about. As President Roosevelt says in
his letter:
There is no common law of the
United States. Its rules can be en
forced only by the State courts and
officers. No federal court or officer
could take any action whatever under
them. It was this fact, coupled witn
the Inability of the States to control
trusts and monopolies which led to the
passage of the federal statutes known
as the Sherman Anti-Trust act and the
Interstate Commerce act; and It is only
through the exercise of the powers
conferred by these acts and by the sta
tutes of tho last Congress supplement
ing them that the national govern
ment acquires any jurisdiction over tho
subject.
That is perfectly true. We are cred
ibly informed that a Democratic lawyer
who noticed Judge Parker's blunder
called his attention to it, and the Judge
admitted that he had been wrong. At
any rate, he now knows it, and must
realize that his methods of "trust bust
ing" are in need of revision.
Of course, this is not a mistake- which
is dlscredable to Judgo Parker. It was
an error which. any man might have
made whose thought had been centred
for years on New York law, and who
really knew nothing about tho larger
subject which he was suddenly called
unon to Illuminate with his wisdom. It
would not be discreditable to the man
ager of a horsecar lino suddenly called
to run a' four track railroad to think
the block signals were unnecessary,
and that the engineers could see each
other and keep out of each other's way.
The incident, however, does give
some indication or -Juage cancer s
equipment to deal with tho great pro
blems of the federal government. Ho
evidently has not studied them. His
ideas of federal law are hazy, his pro
gramme Is a matter of mere guesswork,
and that ln'Hno of his own profession,
where his deliverances are received
with a presumption of soundness even
by his opponents. If after weeks of
thought In the preparation of a speech
he has such loose notions about the
possibilities of Jaw in relation to one
of the greatest problems of the nation.
how much real ability to dcaj with oth
er things outside of the narrow range
of his experience can be assumed for
him?
FAVORABLE VIEW OF MRS. EDDY
Lawrence, Mass., Telegram.
The formal (dedication of the new
Christian Science temple at Concord,
N. H;, the gift of Mrs. Eddy, calls at
tention in a pointed way to this won
derful woman. No matter what one
may believe about Christian Science,
no person of intelligence can fail to
realize that this woman is one of tho
most remarkable personages of the
20th century.
Any personality which can command
such a following as Mrs. Eddy has
gathered under tho banner of Christian
Science, Is certainly in a marked de
gree extraordinary. How has this
wonderful woman succeeded In estab
lishing so vigorous and so splendidly
enthusiastic a body of religious work
ers? What Is It tha causes the Chris
tlan Scientists to devoto themselves
and their resources so unreservedly to
the cause? What new element has been
injected Into the religious life that
produces such remarkable results? Tho
skeptlo will scoff at the idea that Mrs,
Eddy has any supernatural powers,
Yet it cannot but be admitted that in
the work she has accomplished and
tho power that she exerts, she is easily
the foremost woman of her generation,
Where is there another woman who
can number among her devoted adhe
rents so many earnest followers? It
would be preposterous to believe that
these hundreds of thousands of lntelll
gent, and many of them educated peo
pie were simply dupes.
Rather Is it reasonable to believe
that Mrs. Eddy has succeeded In pre
scntlng the eternal truths In a way
that has attracted man and women
to her. She is now the head of a great
and growing church, whose members
believe her to be Inspired. Were she
anything but what it 'is claimed for
her, her position would be appallng.
Her responsibility must be tremen
dous, and the demands upon her so
great, that life would be burdensome
Indeed, were she hypocritically at
tempting to play a part. Measured by
its success. Christian Science must em
body tho living truth, and Mrs. Eddy
through her remarkable personality,
as the head of this growing sect, has
shown qualities of leadership which
stamp her as one of the greatest char
ac'.ers of the age.
Misery Loves Company.
London Daily Mail.
While strolling one afternoon on the
deck of a steamer a certain bishop ob
served a couple of particularly seasick
Individuals. The woman was reclining in
a big steamer chair and exhibited all tho
signs of that utter despair and Indifference
to life common to such sufferers. At her
feet crouched a man, apparently Just as
111 as the lady herself.
His head was In the woman's lap. Tho
unhappy, couplo presented such a woe.
begone appearance that the good bishop
inquired whether he could render her any
assistance.
The lady shook her head sadly, mur
muring, "No, thank you."
"I am very sorry," added the bishop,
Then after a moment s pause, he asked
"Then perhaps I can be of service to your
husband.
The wretched woman, without so much
as moving her head, gave an Indifferent
glance In the direction of the man, whose
head was In her lap, and in a tone that
betrayed not the least Interest In her
unfortunate colleague in misery, she re
plied faintly: "He Isn't my husband,
I don't know who who he Is."
Expert on the War.
Atchison Globe.
"I see," said an Atchison man who
insists upon talking about it, "that
what-you-may-call-hlm is In flight, and
that man whose name begins with
O-somethlng Is In hot pursuit.
thought when they left Lang-erlang,
something would happen.
Effect of Moon.
Atchison Globe.
At least a half dozen young men
took girls out walking last night and
returned engaged. This is always the
result when there is a perfect moon
surrounded by a few little white
clouds looking like dabs of cottage
Ucheese.
MAXIMS OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT
"When the weather is good for crops it le
good for weeds.
Our place as a Nation is and must bo with
the nations that have left indelibly their im
press on the centuries.
No other citizens deserve so well of tho Re
public as the veterans, tho survivors of those
who saved the Union.
"We have passed that stage of National de
velopment when depreciaUon of other peoples
Is felt as a tribute to our own.
Publicity can do no harm to tho honest cor
poration; and wo need not be overtender about
sparing the dishonest corporation.
Tho voice of the weakling or the craven
counts for nothing when he clamors for peace;
but the voice of the Just man armed is potent.
I do not think, so far as I know, that I
have ever promised beforehand anything I did
not mako a strong effort to make good after
ward. m v m
But virtue by itself is not enough, or any
thing like enough. Strength must ber added
o it. and the determination to use that
strength.
we desire tho peace which comes as of right
to the just man armed; not the peace granted
on terms of ignominy to the craven and the
weakling.
The very existence of unreasoning hostility
to wealth should make us all the more careful
in seeing that wealth docs nothing to justify
such hostility.
No one can too strongly Insist upon the
elementary fact that you cannot build tho
superstructure of public virtue savo on pri
vate virtue.
It Is no use to preach if you do not act de
cently yourself. You must feel that the most
effectlvo way In which you can preach Is by
your practice.
We do not wish to discourage enterprise.
Wo do not desire to destroy corporations; we
do desire to put them fully at the service or
the state and people.
A rnnn of trrea.t wealth Who does not U30
that wealth decently 13, in a peculiar sense, a
menaco to the community, and so Is the man
who does not use his Intellect aright.
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Tt Rhnnlr! he as much tho aim Of thOSO Who
seek for social betterment to rid the business
world of crimes of cunning as to na ine ea
tire body pollUo of crimes of violence.
Tf rfnmnirrwnips or icrnorant enthusiasts who
aro misled by demagogues couia succeea in
destroying wealth, they would, of course, sim
ply work the ruin of the entire community.
T PTiwet von to bo strong. I would not ro-
n,rt vnu it von wero not. I do not want to
see Christianity professed only by weaklings;
I want to see it a moving spirit among men
of strength.
a mnn who is cood enouch to shed his blood
fnr thn pnuntrv Is trood enough to bo given a
square deal afterward. More than that, no
man Is entitled to, and less than tnat, no man
shall have.
t hivn heard the millionaire say. "I have had
tn work nil mv life to make money, let my boy
spend it." It would be better for tho boy never
to have been bom than to be brougnt up on
that principle.
RvArvthinir that tends to deaden individual
initiative Is to be avoided, and unless In a
riven mm there Is soma very evident gain
which will flow from state or municipal owner.
ship. It should not be adopted.
Thn man who bv swindling or wrong-doing
acquires great wealth for himself at the ex
pense of his fellow, stands as low morally as
anv nredatory mediaeval nobleman, and is a
more dangerous member or society.
t heilovn that we are now. at the outset of
th twrn tleth century, face to face with great
world problems; that we cannot neip piaymg
h rvfirt nf a. mit woria Dower: mat an
can decide la whether we will play it weu or in.
Tt,, win he fluctuations from time to time
In our prosperity, but it will continue to grow
Just so long as we Keep up mis nign averaBo
of individual citizenship and permit It to work
out its own salvation under proper economic
legislation.
The Corset In Politics.
Now York Globe.
"Democrats are said to be disturbed over
the prospect of the Republicans raising a
corset Issue among the feminine voters of
Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and laano.
Chairman Cortelyou's literary bureau
started the corset agitation as a political
Issue today by issuing a printed state
ment by W. A. Marble, executive officer of
a corset company, declaring that protec
tion has given the women better corsets
than they used to have. Tho patriotism
of tho fair voters is appealed to along tho
beautiful lines of tho corset. Says tho
corset man:
"Fifteen years ago tho value of import
ed corsets was about $2,000,000. Today it Is
less than $400,000, while we manufacturer
more than $12,000,000 worth. This chango
has been made by tho tariff. Formerly
most of our corsets wero of the cheaper
grades, retailing for a dollar, the better
grades being imported from Belgium,
France and Germany. The tariff has en
abled American manufacturers to produce
a better quality of corset.
"Wo now retail corsets at $2 and $2.50
each which are equal or superior to those
wo formerly Imported. They aro superior
because they aro adapted to American
waists. We can also adopt foreign styles
when we approve them, but they no longer
control the fashion."
One Democrat said he would bet the
corset issue was sprung to boom Tim
Woodruff for Governor.
"You know Tim's figure always has been
tho subject of suspicion," said he. "But
as long as they confine the agitation to
their own ranks we don't care. It wouldn't
be quite fair, though, to sendithat docu
ment to the Rocky Mountain States, espe
cially where the Mormons are."
Cost of Rare Elements.
Engineering and Mining Journal.
Boron In powder made by the Moissan
process in Germany is worth $142.80 per
kilogram (2.2 pounds); germanium, fused
by electrolysis, sells at $59.50 per gram;
lanthanum In bales, $9.04 per gram; tel
lurium, $100.10 and $107.10 per kilogram, and
uranium, $190.40 per kilogram, and zirco
nium, $95.20 per kilogram. Most of the
rare metals are used In the laboratory for
experimental purposes, but a few, like
iridium, quoted at $9.52 and $10.71 per 10
grams In Germany; osmium, $17.14 per 10
grams; magnesium, commercial (94 and
97 per cent), $2.75 per pound In New
York; molybdenum, commercial, $4.05 and
$5.66 per kilogram in Germany, and tung
Bten powder, S8 cents per pound In New
York, find employment as an Individual
metal or as alloys for special manufac
tures. There Is an Increasing market,
however, for the nitrates, especially ce
rium, 510 per- pound, and thorium, $4.50
per pound, which are utilized In the man
ufacture of Incandescent gaslight man
tels. Radium and polonium, recent dis
coveries, have a purely speculative value.
Romance.
Atchison Globe.
Today, when there was no girl or
moonlight around, a certain Atchison
man sat down and looked his Romance
in the face. He found that he had
asked a girl to let him support her for
the balance of her life, and he gets
only $30 a month, and can't support
himself without aid of his father.
A Social Tragedy.
S. W. Gillllan In Baltimore American.
She first put on a dark blue dress.
Then changed It for a purple one;
Then changed again, in her distress.
To one 'twlxt chestnut-bay and dun;
And yet once more she made a change
And put a pale pink rigging on.
Her husband growled things strong and stranss
His patience was completely gone.
They went to call upon eome friends
That she was anxious to Impress
'Tls ever thus when woman spends
A lot of time upon her dress.
This time her plan succeeded not
In stunning folks, for, oh, alas!
Her hostess said: "It's quite too hot
To think of turning up the gas."
NOTE ASDCOMMENT.
Spread of Education In U. S.
fAoDroxlmate Fimires.)
1S50.... 2 men injured in class scraps.
1875 86
1805 (2597 "
( 20 men killed in football games.
1903 ...6960 men seriously injured In cane
rushes, tank scraps, etc.
1903 . C57 killed and wounded at foot-
hall.
The straw hat lingers on the head of
Autumn.
The Fall
Is here, but where's Port
Arthur?
"Before Day" clubs in the South will
cause white people to be after dark.
There should be some ghostly visitants
at the coronation of King Peter in Bel
grade.
Now that the chorus girls of New York
are for Parker, his campaign must be in
good shape.
The bargain" craze has now reached
meals. .Macys advertises "lunch, 29c' In
the New York papers.
According to the St. Joseph Gazette,
Kuropatkia reported that It was Orloft
with him at Llao Yang.
Vanity Fair says that the million rou
bles placed in a bank by the -Czar for hi3
Infant son Is known as "The Fresh Heir
Fund."
They did something at Monument the
other day that couldn't be done at Chl-cagc-they
spotted a robber by his bis:
footprints.
Tho Russian cruiser Isumrud made 24
knot3 on her trial trip. She should bo
able to score some glorious victories, as
none of the Japanese ships could live with
her in a race.
No wonder the "gentleman" who trav
eled over Russia to observe conditions
found that there was no danger of an Im
mediate uprising. War has always been
the autocrats' besf preventative of re
bellion. Mis3 Elizabpth White, the arch-milliner
of the United States, declares that tho
Fall belt is to bo "dippy," in fact the
"dippler" the better. Most milliners' con
traptions look dippy, anyhow, but thte 13
the first tlmo we ever heard one admit it.
Among tho "Help Wanted" ads of an
Iowa paper appears ono crying for a "red
headed stenographer, one who does not
wear long skirts or uso perfumes." 'Pears
to us tho common or garden male stenog
rapher would fill the bill so far as the
last two conditions are concerned.
Ton missionaries havo been murdered
in New Guinea becauso they tried to en
force monogamy. The sensible natives
evidently foresaw that with but one wife
to bo supported, she would soon demand
the Investment of the surplus cowrie
shells or cocoanuts in clothes, and in time
pave tho way for millinery openings.
Harry and Charlie, aged 5 and 3 respective
ly, havo just been seated at the table for din
ner. Harry see3 thero is but one orange on
the table, and Immediately sets up a walling
that brings his mother to the ecenc. "Why.
Harry, what aro you crying for?" she asked.
"Because there isn't any orango for Charlie."
London Chronicle.
Now if T. R. had any tears, he might
shed them because there was no orange
for A. B. P.
That robust theological beliefs are still
held by the dour Presbyterians is Indicated
by this anecdote from the Scotsman:
A Rosshire gamekeeper, a great light in one
of the kirks, was asked tho difference between
tho Free and tho United Free churches. "Give
me tho actual difference In a simple form,"
the Inquirer requested, after a long lecture
from the gamekeeper. "Well, air," said John,
"if you want it plainly, it is this, we'll all be
saved, and they'll all bo damned."
It was a lunatic, arrested while trying
to force his way into the President's
rooms, that declared he had died six
years before in Jersey City and had gone
to heaven in an automobile. Sheer lunacy
this. In the first place. It is doubtful II
persons from Jersey City would be al
lowed Into tho celestial hotel, and in the
second place, it Is a cinch that no one
could get through the gates In an auto
mobile. The old saying about going tc
h on horseback has t)ecn altered now
adays to fit the gasoline route.
Oregon Is not the only place with a de
velopment league. In tho sweetly-named
burg of Menominee, Mich., the young
women have formed a "silk stocking
club," not with tho Idea of stimulating
the trado in dry goods, but to advertise
the town. Each member of the club is
solemnly pledged to wear at all timea
black silk stockings and Oxford shoes.
Around the ankles of the stockings this
sentence Is to be embroidered In whita
silk:
Menominee is a good town.
This plan appears to have the Aral
requisite of a good ad that it shall at
tract the attention.
Texas boys are thus advised by thi
Wylle Rustler:
Boys,' when you go to see your best girl,
don't always send up your card first. Just
drop In some tlmo unexpectedly, and If you
find her in the kitchen with her sleeves rolled
up, helping her mother, she'll do; get In your
work Just as quick as you can; talk business
to her. But If you find her in the parlor play
ing the piano, upstairs asleep, or in the ham
mock reading a novel, go slow, talk nonsens
and be careful. When you take a wife see tc
it that she is just as handy at the cookstov
as she Is at the piano.
And this moves the Dallas News to give
tho Texas girls a hint, or two, which tha
News admits will be wasted, for love and
reason are not akin and are just as bittei
enemies as if they were:
Girls, when your best beau proposes do not
say "yes" right away. Hold him off a few
months and utilize the time in looking into htt
habittj. Learn how much he spends upon him
self, and what proportion of his earnings goes
to his worn-out old dad. Find out all you cac
about him, and then give him his answer In
accordance with his deserts. If you do this
but you will not.
WEX. J.
OUT OF THE GINGER JAR.
Little Willie What Is a cannibal, pa? Pa
One who loves his fellow-man, my son. Ex.
She You looked so sheepish when you pro
posed to me. Ho And you looked so wolCsl
when you accepted me. Jester.
"How does that candidate strike you?'
"That's the funny thing about him," answere
Senator Sorghum. "He hasn't struck me foi
anything as yet." Washington Star.
Brown I have just discovered what it is thai
destroys a man's memory completely. Green
What is it alcohol or tobacco? Brown Nei
ther; It's doing him a favor. Chicago Xews.
"Tes, Just as soon as the parson starts hli
sermon he stops all the electric fans." "Whafi
that for?" "He knows that the hum is mucl
too soothing on a warm day." Cleveland Plals
Dealer.
De Soto had j'ust discovered the Mississippi
"If I call It 'Father of Waters.' " he mused
"I mustn't let it bound Kentucky." Later
however, he compromised on Just a few mllea
Chicago Journal.
Mozart was publishing his overtures. "I hai
t6 make them to the cook, anyway," he ex
plained, "and I thought the public might aj
well hear them, too." Thus, Indeed, are th
mainsprings of genius exposed to our unde-p
standing. Harper's Bazar
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