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PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 5, 190.
A MATTER OF BUSINESS.
, -J. TV. IVey, calling on President
Roosevelt, tells him that Oregon and
"Washington will each roll up a major
ity of 30,000 for the Republican ticket
There is some reason to believe this is
true; but there are obstacles in the
way. In the State of "Washington there
is a notable Republican defection on
the state ticket. Democrats claim the
state and the result for Governor is in
doubt This defection will cost the Re
publican party some strength in the
legislature and it will cost It some
votes on the National ticket Yet the
majority for Roosevelt and Fairbanks
will undoubtedly range somewhere be
tween 20,000 and 35,000. It may fall as
low as 20,000 and it may reach as high
as 35,000.
Mr. Iveys prediction Is of greatest
interest, however, for Oregon; for there
will be no 30,000 Republican majority,
or 25,000, if the election is allowed to
take its course without energetic ef
fort to get the vote out. In 1900 the
.State of "Washington cast 107,524 votes
and the State of Oregon cast 84,195
votes. The total vote of Oregon in 1902
was S0.69S, and of "Washington was 91,
66L In "Washington this Fall there is
an exciting contest over Btate and local
issues, and a full vote will be polled.
In Oregon there Is no state or county
election to interest the people. In 1900
at the Presidential election we cast
84,000 votes, but in the state election
eighteen months later the contest on
state and local issues brought out 90,000
votes. If there should be some such
discrepancy this year, the total of 93,000
votes cast last June might dwindle to
87,000.
How will it look If Washington re
turns a total vote of 125,000, with a
Republican majority of 35,000, and Ore
gon returns a total vote of 85,000, with
a Republican majority of only 20,000?
This vote, if we, are to make a respect
able showing compared with our sister
state, must be got out Left to Itself,
it will not materialize. This is a mat
ter we would urge upon influential and
wide-awake citizens in every part of
the state regardless of party. Every
possible plan should be formed to get
the vote out It is important for our
material welfare that the total vote is
as large as Washington's. It is a mat
ter of dollars and cents. Let every one
strive to get voters to the polls No
vember S, regardless of party. Get out
the votes and the Republican majority
will take care of itself.
AN EPIDEMIC OF SUICIDE.
The pistol has popped, the- carbolic
acid bottle has been tipped, the strych
nine powder has been shaken out and
the rudely Improvised hangman's rope
has been stretched upon numerous oc
casions with deadly effect in various
sections of the state within the past
few days. This sudden breaking out of
the epidemic of suicide is the more
remarkable in that ideal Autumn
weather has prevailed throughout all
of the region visited, thus disproving,
or at least throwing doubt upon, the
assumption that depressing atmos
pherlcal conditions bring about an epl
demlc of this character. All ages, both
sexes and various conditions In life
have been represented by the victims.
Among them was an old man of In
ventive genius; a young man scarcely
more than a boy who decided that life
was not worth the living because the
girl he loved did not reciprocate his pas
sion; a young girl who grew desperate
because neither she nor the boy she
loved best were old enough to marry;
the son of a wealthy farmer and a man
in dire poverty. Murder and attempted
murder were features of some of the
cases jealousy here showing its hand.
Love, elder sister of the green-eyed
monster, was the moving cause in oth
ers, and despondency came in others
to nurse the germs Implanted by "hard
luck."
There is nothing new in this present
ment either in cause or effect All are
but incidents in a -story as old as hu
manlty darkened now by human pas
sion and now brooded over by human
weakness or misfortune. It Is remark
able only because all things In Nature
and in .general conditions of living at
this time conEpire to cheerfulness of
spirit, to hope and to the promise of
generous fruition for earnest endeavor.
In the dull and dreary days of Winter,
when work stops and poverty pinches,
we are told that an epidemic of suicide
is likely to break out But t appears
from late events that suicide, like
death from natural causes, claims all
seasons for its own.
Frank H. Lamb, of Eoqulam, writing
In -the Talisman, suggests the establlsh-
uiit of jl "balance-wheel for Industry'
by employing: oa the land men laid off
by corporations in times of depression.
IT a system could be devised whereby
the suggestion might have practical ef
fect, it would no doubt remove the
cause of the depression, but the dlfii
cultles In the way of such -realization
are very great.
UVtSQ LANGUAGE IN THE MAKING.
How the language is affected by mod
ern mechanical devices is the subject
of an essay by Robert Lincoln O'Brien
in the Atlantic Monthly. .The Influence
of shorthand, the typewriter and teleg
raphy upon composition is treated by
Mr. O'Brien in an interesting manner,
and he concludes with a brief refer
ence to the newspaper "head," which, if
it does little in forming style, has great
Influence utfbn the choice of words.
The chief effect of shorthand, as point
ed out by Mr. O'Brien, is to hring con
ventional phrases Into even more fre
quent use than is the case without me
chanical assistance. Abbreviations for
all the commoner words and phrases
render them easier of writing than
shorter but unusual words. By the use
of the typewriter, dictation has come
into vogue, and dictation means a dif
fuse style. The writer says, or should
say, all that he means In a sentence;
the speaker amends, amplifies and ex
plains his statements so readily that
compression and exactness are of much
less consequence in his case.
To telegraphy Mr. O'Brien, devotes
the greater part of his essay. His con
clusions regarding Its effect on style
may be summed up by saying that a
writer preparing matter lor the wire
will U6e long words, separate his sen
tences so that they punctuate them
selves, and will generally prefer con
ventional phrases to those displaying
originality. In the transmission of
long words there is less likelihood of
error, and the same reason accounts
for the use of time-honored phrases
that are familiar to sender and receiver.
As regards punctuation, Mr. O'Brien's
conclusions arc just No business man
would think of so wording an Important
telegram that the meaning would be
In any way dependent upon a comma or
a capital -letter. A good business tele
gram, where a code Is not used, should
be Intelligible were It written Without
the use of a single capital letter or
punctuation mark. Less and less, how
ever, this becomes true of press teleg
raphy, which is the more important in
Its effect upon the general public, as
style Is ultimately dependent upon the
vulgar speech.
To the topic of newspaper heads Mr.
O'Brien devotes but little space, al
though they affect every reader, and by
reason of their prominence have an
especially strong influence upon the less
educated. The only result of, the head
that Mr. O'Brien notes Is the reten
tion of some short words that might
otherwise die out Words like "wed"
and "sans," he mentions, are very pop
ular with head-writers, and he further
says that the head-writer has a sort of
poetic license. That Is precisely the
difficulty. If license Is taken without
discretion, the language is "Jarred," to
use one of the short words invaluable
In heads. "Slav" is a godsend to the
man preparing war telegrams for his
paper. The word fits in so readily that
It is used of men from Turkestan and
men from Manchuria, so that its mean
ing is likely to expand presently as
much as Anglo-Saxon has done since
its first use. "Suicides," as a verb, la
likely to And Its way into headlines
eventually, for the harassed editor finds
it more graphic than "kills self or
''Smith a suicide," his best substitutes.
"Jap" for "Japanese" has found its way
since the war began into many newspa
pers that before regarded it with
Swift's dislike Tor "mob" as an impu
dent curtailment
Another poetic feature of the modern
head is its Inevitable exaggeration. The
poet's mistress Is as clear as the sun
at noonday, and the head-writer's story
must be the most startling ever writ
ten. A trade dispute over the price
of bolocna Is a "sausajre war." and
mllltantmetaphors supply apt heads for
almost every competition from chess to
politics. It was a poetic mind of this
nature that conceived the first "race
with death" head, which is now almost
conventional. Nearly every newspaper
In the country headed the story of the
Letters' Journey to Lady jCurzon's bed
side with this phrase. Another effect of
the newspaper head is to give the
stamp of print to new words in gen
eral currency. "Graft" for example,
attained its present respectable eml
nence largely through headline adver
tlslng. Not that this Is a bad quality.
for If a word be unworthy it will soon
lose its circulation, and will be seen no
more in headlines, which at once re
flect and influence the mode of the hour.
On the whole, it must be admitted that
any wrenching given the language by
the newspaper heads is more than offset
by their services to the busy reader,
who has but to glance at a paper like
the London Times, for example, to ap
predate the full value of the concise
and illuminating captions which he is
given in most American papers.
INOCULATING THE GROUND.
To the Century Magazine for Octo
ber Gilbert H. Grosvenor contributes an
article, setting forth in detail a most
remarkable discovery in scientific ag
riculture. It promises to add untold
millions to the wealth of our American
farmers. Dr. George T.- Moore, In
charge of the laboratory of plant phys
lology, United States Department of
Agriculture, following the lead of
German scientist who got on to the
wrong road, made the discovery which
has now passed far beyond the eX'
perimental stage. It Is this: By the
cultivation of bacteria, there Is restored
to the soil In extraordinary quantity
the essential element of plant food,
nitrogen, which all grains require.
Drain the soil of its plant food and it
becomes barren. These bacteria more
than restore the loss, and at a cost or
less than one cent an acre.
Here is the basis of the discovery;
Free nitrogen forms seven-tenths of the
atmosphere. Tap this sea of nitrogen
and use It and you can fertilize the
whole earth and keep It rich. Profes
sor Nobbe, of Germany, captured a tiny
germ, invisible to the naked eye, which
takes the nitrogen from the air and
puts It Into the earth, and Dr. Moore
developed the germ to do service for
mankind. The agency which this germ
employs Is any leguminous plant peas,
beans, clover, alfalfa, lupin, vetch, etc
These germs have been named nitro
gen-fixing bacteria.
Examine the roots of a healthy bean
or clover plant and you will see a num
ber of rounded bulbs, called nodules, or
tubercules, on the roots, which look as
If diseased or bitten by worms or in
sects. All legumes have these tuber
cles. It was noticed by -scientists that
plants with good-sized tubercules
flourished, while ib.ce with, verr .small
ones looked starved and withered, and
they concluded that there must be a
connection between tubercles and vig
orous plant life. Examination of a dis
sected bulb under the microscope re-
ealed it to be packed with bacteria;
further Investigation showed that these
bacteria were incessantly absorbing
free nitrogen from the air and con
verting it Into forms suitable for the
plant's digestion.
Professor Nobbe isolated the nitro
gen-fixing bacteria, bred and colonized
the germs and put them on the market
Overlooking one factor, he failed to de
velop a permanent type. Dr. Moore,
pursuing the laboratory work in an
other direction, corrected his predeces
sor's error and succeeded In developing
a permanent type of bacteria with five
or -ten times more power to fix free J
nitrogen than the original germs had
possessed. Legumes Inoculated with
the bacteria developed great tubercles
and grew to great size even in the
poorest soil. This remarKanie state
ment is made by the author of the ar
ticle: "The nitrogen-fixing power of
the bacteria developed by Dr. Moore is
so extraordinary that seeds soaked in
the solution will sprout and produce
luxuriant plants in quartz sand, which
has been previously ignited to a red
heat In order to drive out all nitrates."
Dr. Moore patented his discovery, but
deeded the patent to the Department of
Agriculture In trust for the American
people. He next experimented with
plans for distributing the bacteria and
found that by using some absorbent,
like cotton, a small piece of which will
soak up millions of the organlsmB, and
then by allowing these cultures to dry1,
the bacteria can be sent to any part of
the world and yet arrive in perfect con
dition. The Government mails to ap
plicants the Inoculating material free of
charge, with Instructions for using It
so simple that a boy could hardly go
wrong. A cake sufficient to Inoculate
seeds for one to four acres costs the
department four cents. Different cul
tures are sent for different crops.
And the results. They read like the
story of "Jack a-ad the Bean Stalk."
The figures which follow are taken
from crops on a farm in Maryland
where In exactly the same soil inocu
lated seeds of the hairy vetch and seeds
not inoculated were planted side by
side; patch not inoculated, 5S1 pountfds;
inocuiatea paten, 4501 pounds an in
crease of more than eight times. Crim
son clover under similar conditions
yielded: Uninoculated, 372 pounds; In
oculated, 6292 pounds an Increase of
nearly twenty times.
But there are even other wonders.
The same bacteria that increase the
harvest of beans, clover or alfalfa ten
fold empower the plant to leave many
times more nitrogen In the soil; In other
words, make the soil many times more
fertile for the next cereal crop in ro
tation. For example, crimson clover,
not Inoculated, added to one acre of
land 4.3 pounds of nitrogen; the same
quantity. Inoculated, added to one acre
of precisely similar land 143.7 pounds of
nitrogen, an Increase of 33 times'.
The Century's article 13 well worth
universal reading. Its accuracy cannot
be questioned. Illustrations of plants
cultivated from Inoculated seeds fur
nish competent testimony. If half that
is promised shall be realized, the result
In dollars to the agriculturists of Amer
ica can scarcely be computed. If he is
a benefactor who makes two blades of
grass grow where one grew before,
what designation is high enough for
Dr. Moore?
THE FACTS ABOUT LYNCHING.
George P. Upton, -associate editor of
the Chicago Tribune, presents in a re
cent number of the Independent facts
and statistics about lynching which
cover the years from 18S5 to 1903. It Is
somewhat appalling to note that since
the year first named 2875 persons have
been lynched in the United 'States. Of
these, 376 took place In the Northern
States. Of the Pacific Coast States,
California contributed 33, Washington
16 and Oregon 10; Indiana and Kansas
broke even with 3S to the discredit of
each, as did also Wyoming, Nebraska
and California, each recording 33 mur
ders by mobs. We think the figures for
Oregon are exaggerated; certainly
within the past ten years there has
been but one or at most two lynchlngs
In this state. If the statistician has
added a few at a hazard, his whole
work is called in question.
In the South's tremendous balance of
2499, Mississippi leads off with 293,
Texas following closely with 272. The
only states in which lynchlngs have not
occurred during this period are Massa
chusetts, New Hampshire, "Vermont,
Rhode Island and Utah, though Con
nectlcut Delaware and New Jersey
have each furnished a single exam
pie. The results as shown by geo
graphical divisions are as follows:
South, 2449; West, 302; Pacific Slope. 63;
East, 11. Thus It will be seen that.
notwithstanding the South has more
than six limes as many lynchlngs as
the rest of the country, the evil Is not
local or sectional. The mania for mob
murder has manifested Itself in every
state save five, while in Indiana, Kan
sas, Illinois and Delaware mobs have
been as cruel and savage in their meth
ods as in the m6st remote and Ignorant
sections of the black belt To this ex
tent, says Mr. Upton, lynching is not
merely a disgrace of the South. It is a
blot upon American civilization a Na
tlonal, not a sectional, evil.
Nor has lynching even In a majority
of cases resulted from the so-called
"usual cause." Research has disclosed
seventy-three distinct reasons for the
2499 examples of mob cruelty and fury
in the South. Many of these reasons
are serious, most of them unjustifiable,
some of them grotesque. Criminal as
sault-is not the "usual cause," since of
the total number since 188?, 1099 have
been lynched for murder. Adding to
the former those lynched for attempted
alleged and suspected criminal assault
and for the double crime of criminal as
sault and murder, the total Is 702 as
comDared with 1277 cases In which mur
der was dlreclly or indirectly charged
against the victims. The assertion
therefore, that lynching Is the summary
punishment for a single crime Is not
only misleading but dishonest If any
crime is to be called the "usual" crime,
it Is that of murder. Startling as it
may seem, says Mr. Upton, "statistics
will show that murder Is the National
crime."
. Prominent among the causes for
which men have been lynched are
theft, burglary and robbery, for which
326 persons were murdered by mob3.
For arson 105 were summarily dealt
with; on account of race prejudice, 94
134 men were lynched for unknown
reasons, while 17 suffered death becaus
they were unpopular In their neighbor'
hoods. Ten victims were found to be
Innocent when It was too late. The re
mainlng causes concisely stated are
LSbmder. miscegenation, informing,
drunkenness, fraud, voodoolsm, viola
tion of contract resisting arre3t elope
ment, train-wrecking, poisoning stock,
refusing to give evidence, political ani
mosity, disobedience of quarantine reg
ulations, passing counterfeit money, in
troducing smallpox, concealing crim
inals, cutting levees, kidnaping, gam
bling, testifying against whites, Incest,
seduction, and forcing a child to steal.
It Is conceded that at the beginning
of the lynching period under considera
tion murder and criminal assault were
tne "usual" causes, for at that time
other offenses we're In most communi
ties taken into court The variety of
causes that have grown upon this per
nicious root show how insidiously the
evil has progressed. Many and indeed
most of these offenders would have
been properly dealt with by the courts.
How rapidly this evil, when not op
posed, tends to barbarize is further
shown by the exceptionally cruel lynch-
lngs that have occurrsd In Northern
communities during the last two years.
This careful observer notes, however,
an encouraging trend of public senti
ment against this monstrous evil. He
believes that lynching Is decreasing and
that while, In a country so large as
this and with such a heterogeneous pop
ulation, it may never be possible to
stamp the evil out completely, it is pos
sible to make It an exceptional crime.
He finds an encouraging note In the
fact that 123 persons have been, legally
executed this year, seventy-elcht of
them In the South. Five years ago
nearly every one of these seventy-eight
would have been lynched. This review
of facts about lynching concludes with
the following significant words: "Wher
ever the law works promptly and the
authorities are energetic and. resolute
In its enforcement, lynchlngs decrease
and legal executions Increase." There
is a lesson in this presentment tha!t no
community, however, staid and law
abiding can afford to Ignore.
Oregon's wonderful resources have
never before been presented to the
world In such an effective manner as
during this year. - The news of our big
crops and big prices has been heralded
to the ends of the earth, and vast good
Is sure to result for the state as a
whole. The capture of the first Drize
at the World's Fair by Mr. Ladd's cat
tle added another to the long string of
Oregon's agricultural trophies, and the
shipment from the state of millions of
bushels of Oregon wheat to the East
has also been a new factor In our great
ness. Now comes George A. Dorrls.
of Eugene, with the final returns on the
yield of his hopyard for four consecu
tive years, and another world's record
rests with the Webfoot State. As has
been stated, conditions were not alto
gether favorable for the hop crop this
year, but Mr. Dorrls secured an aver
age of 2100 pounds per acre, compared
with 2800 pounds last year, 2450 pounds
in 1902 and 2250 In 1901, an average of
2400 pounds per acre for four consecu
tive years. This Is said to be the best
showing ever made by a large hopfleld.
and as a Eugene paper remarks, "If a
better showing Is made It will be mad?
In the State of Oregon."
G. H. Southard, president of the
Franklin Trust Company, and C. M.
Jcsup, president of the Eastern Trust
Company, are quoted in the New York
Herald as convinced the Republican
National ticket will be elected. Mr.
Southard thinks David B. Hill's dec
laration that he will retire from politics
January 1 was for use "until after elec
tion day only," and that one of the
strongest objections to Judge Parker
among 'the business men is the convic
tion that If Judge Parker be elected Mr.
Hill will be his Secretary of State and
a controlling factor In his administra
tion. Mr. Jesup bases his belief that
Judge Parker will be defeated on the
Idea that he is regarded as "unsafe"
in business circles. Speaking on this
point, he said:
Nothing could produce to great uneasiness
In business circles as the election ot the Demo
cratic candidate by a party which denounces
protection and displays over its tree silver rec
ord only the half .hearted assertion Of. its candi
date that he regards the gold standard as
irrevocably established."
Taken in connection with similar ut
terances from other leading business
men, these expressions must be regard
ed as significant
Managers of both big parties, fore
casting the result In November, admit
that New York is a doubtful state.
Except In a great crisis, as In 1896 or
its sequel In 1900, New York Is always
doubtful. Odell carried the state two
years ago by less than 10,000. In flgur
ing on the result next month no ac
count seems to have been taken of the
probable complexion of the new foreign
vote that has been added in the past
four years. Immigrants to the number
of nearly two and a half millions have
come to this country since 1900, as
against 1,173,000 from 1896 to 1900. A
large percentage have become residents
of Greater New York and have taken
out their "first papers." It is likely
that the multitudes from Southern Eu
rope will Incline to the Democratic
rather than the Republican party, but
fortunately New York State Is not in
dispensable to Republican success.
In sentencing a young man to serve a
term of four years in the penitentiary
for robbery Judge McBride said a few
days ago that crimes of this kind, com
mitted by young men, are becoming
altogether too common. In order to
give young men a warning of what they
may expect he gave the convicted man
within one year of the, full penalty.
Judge 'McBride Is right A little more
talk of this kind will do more good than
agitation in favor of changing the name
of the Reform School to State Indus
trial School. When a young man of
mature judgment deliberately seeks a
life of crime In preference to a life of
honorable work, it Is well to make of
him an example that will start other
young men a-thlnking.
Mr. Bryan advises any laboring man
who Is satisfied with present conditions
to vote the Republican ticket He de
nounces the St Louis platform for
omitting a money plank. Ho declares
that he stands for every doctrine he
has advocated. And yet there are Dem
ocrats who believe Mr. Bryan Is try
ing to make votes for Judge Parker.
Private Secretary to the President,
Secretary of the Department of Labor
and Commerce, Chairman of the Re
publican National Committee, and now
to be Postmaster-General, George B.
Cortelyou'a advancement In public ser
vice Is without a parallel In recent
years.
I believe is organisation et wage-earBex-s.
OrganUattoa to M at the law et r
I TTTm.i Immt P .If
PROBLEM OP JUVENILE CRIME.
New London. Conn., Telegraph.
Some of those who are seeking to solve
the problem of the cause and prevention
of Juvenile crime, may get o valuable hint
from the letter of a far northwestern ob
server to the Portland Oreganlan. He flat
footedly declares that If boys and girls
boys and girls under 21, he puts It were
not allowed on the streets unattended
after 8 o'clock Juvenile crime and youthful
criminals would be practically unknown.
Tho changes have been pretty thor
oughly rung on the practicality and advis
ability of the curfew regulation, which is
practically what his idea Involves. It has
been recommended and condemned1, ad
opted and repealed, In one community
after another until the general sentiment
la that In Itself It is of little value In our
present times. But the Importance of the
Portlanders suggestion Is in Its reminder
of the fact that It Is In these hours ot
darkness that " mischief breeds among
those who are on the streets. The plain
problem Is how to keep young people off
the streets at these hours. And the diffi
culty or the problem lies chiefly in the
need of persuasion rather than force for
Its solution. Young people must be- kept
In not because they must but because
they want to stay in.
The key of the solution lies In the home.
If home Is the best and pleasantest spot
In the world, as It may and should be,
wild horses will not drag young people
away from It in the evening except on
special occasions. But If the father goes
off to club or lodge or perhaps nowhere
In particular except to loaf, he must ex
pect his boys, and very likely hl3 girls,
to follow his example. It Is his business
to stay at home and help his wife make it
a pleasant place for the children to remain
in. Unless ho does this his prohibitions
against going out in the evening will
prove, as through generations past they
have done, only keen Incentives to young
people to break away from restraint In
one way or another and go just as far In
the wrong direction as possible. This is
the secret of the whole matter, and the
sooner It Is thoroughly appreciated the
better oft society will be.
Senator Hoar's Declaration of Faith.
I have no faith in fatalism, in destiny.
In blind force. I believe in God, the liv
ing God. I believe In the American peo
ple, who do not bow the neck or bend
the knee to any otber, and who desire
no other to'bow the neck or bend the knee
to them. I believe that the God who
created this world has ordained that his
children may work out their own sal
vation, and that his nations may work
out their own salvation by obedience to
his laws,, without any dictation or coer
cion from any other. I believe that lib
erty good government, free institutions,
cannot be given by any one people to
any other, but must be wrought out for
each by itself, slowly, painfully, in "the
process of years or centuries, as the oak
adds ring to ring. I believe that a re
public is greater than an empire. I be
lieve that the moral law and the golden
rule are for nations as well as for Indi
viduals. I believe In George Washington,
not In Napoleon Bonaparte; in the Whigs
of the Revolutionary day. not In the To
ries; In Chatham Burke and Sam Adams,
not in Dr. Johnson or Lord North. I
believe that the North star, abiding In its
place, Is a greater Influence In tho uni
verse than any comet or meteor. I be
lieve that the United States, when Wil
liam McKInley was Inaugurated, was
greater world power than Rome In the
height of her glory, or even England,
with her 400,000,000 vassals. I believe
whatever clouds may darken the horizon
that the world Is growing better; that to
day Is better than yesterday, and tomor
row will be better than today.
Don Juan, Etc.
Chicago Tribune.
George Bernard Shaw's new Don Juan
play has already started a lot of talk
about Byron's "Don Huan." Byron did
his beat to prevent this. He rhymed Ju'an
with "new one" and with "true one."
"But he has shared the fate t the other
English poets, who for years and years,
and almost for centuries and centuries.
rhymed Cadiz with "ladles." They had
annexed Cadiz and had Anglicized It
Their descendants have hauled down the
flag. Cadiz again belongs to tho foreigner.
It la called "Cahdeeth." Fortunately wo do
not yet say: "Charge; Munchen, chargo,
with all thy chivalry."
We do, however, say "Don Kehote."
And we shall probably go on to saying
that a project Is "kehotlc."
Which leads to this general rule for cul
ture: "Take all foreign words that have
been Anglicized and translate them back
Into their original languages." Versailles,
tor instance, oecame so completely Angn
cized that In the mouth of the most fas
tidlous English scholar It rhymed with
palls. To acquire culture, make It rhyme
with pie.
Then, some day, the exquisitely .cultured
man will come who will remember that
York Is simply an Anglicized corruption
of the name which the Romans gave the
town, and who will, therefore, talk of tak
ing the train for Itew Eboracum.
Window Glass a Novelty In Japan.
Harold Bolce, In Booklovers.
Some of the Institutions on Japanese
trains are peculiar to that country. One
of these Is a smear of paint across the
windows of third-class carriages. This Is
made necessary because thousands of na
tive travelers In Japan, accustomed only
to paper walls for letting In light have
no knowledge of glass. Its utter trans
parency leads them to believe that the
wmaow is simpiy a noie in tne siae or tne
car. With painful results, many native
passengers have stupidly attempted to
stick their heads through the glass.
For a long time ambulances from re
ceiving hospitals had to meet nearly every
train arriving In Japanese cities, and
hence the streak of paint as a warning
to the Oriental farmer from the back
country that there is something more
than atmosphere in the window. The
square of paint 'takes its place with the
"Don't-blow-out-the-gas" signs In Anglo-
Saxon hotels.
Paternalism in the Army.
Philadelphia Ledger.
General Corbln IS so much pleased with
thft reorganization of tne Army upon the
German model, which has brought him
from thfe office desk to a higher command.
that he would like to extend the German
military methods Btlll further and give the
War Department paternal charge ovef the
nersonal affairs of Army men. particular-
ly he advocates the German rule that an
officer may not marry without official
consent which la always conditioned upon
a satisfactory financial provision. .The
Army does not it is true, offer the great
est advantages for matrimony. But when
a yountr officer who wants to marry is
obliged to consider the dot which his wife
will bring him and to submit his pro:
nects to the consideration of the Secretary
of War, the United States Army will nojt
he altered for the Better. They are get
ting very. tired of this kind of paternalism
In Germany.
A Stolen State Line Mark.
i Chicago Tribune.
The Lake Michigan end of tho state line
between Indiana and Illinois has been
lost or stolen, and the police of two states
are hunting for It The mark for years
has been a stone at One Hundred 'and
Eighth street and Indianapolis avenue.
On one side was cut the word "Indiana
and one the other "Illinois." .
The stone was 4 feet long and 2 feet
high, V feet projecting above the ground.
Not only has It been removed, but the
hnln from which it was taken has been
filled, so no one- can tell exactly where if
stood. The police believe some bouse
holder, more thrifty than honest has im
bedded the stone in the foundation of a
residence or used it as a base for a lawn
flower pot
The next boundary stone la five wiles
inland, and a survey will have to be sade
from that point before th plac for a aw
Lake Michigan, ta&rk can be wtabUMMd.
PROHIBITIOjUN GEORGIA.
Augusta Chronicle.
The Chronicle Is pleased to see that
the Ministerial Alliance of Augusta has
at last come squarely out for high license.
as the best solution of the liquor problem
for this. city.. Our only regret is that some
such action was not taken a year or more
ago, when the Chronicle brought this
matter to the attention ot our city au
thorities. Had the Chronicle received the
co-operation of the local ministers and
other good citizens at that time, the local
liquor license would. In all probability.
have been already Increased, and. Instead
of 100 saloons running in Augusta during
the next 12 months, there would be, per
haps, not moro than 40 or 50. ,
The city might also have been saved
from the harmful, effects of the constant
adtatlon that has beea kept up, in cer
tain quarters, since that time. In other
words, the high-license system would
now be an accomplished fact and many
of the evils that have been constantly
complained of fully eradicated ere now.
But It is better late than never, and
we snail not witnnoia run commenda
tion of Monday's action on the part of
the Ministerial Alliance merely because
It was not taken sooner. We are too
much gratified to know that these earnest
workers for the good of humanity have
now accepted a rational, middle-ground
on which to work out certain needed re
forms lor this city.
The only difference of opinion there
Is
none at all In our purpose between
the Ministerial Alliance and the Chronicle
that now exists Is as to the amount at
which the license should be fixed. The
ministers ask that, the license be made
$1000, while the Chronicle believes that
it would be better for all concerned to
make the -license $500 at the outset and
gradually work it up to the $1000 basis.
We contend that this plan would in
volve less hardships for property-owners
and the business Interests of the city,
while at the same time lessening, the
danger from blind tigers. For It must be
borne in mind that a license that is
virtually prohibitory means blind tigers
and we frankly consider a $1000 license
at the outset as being practically prohib
itory, though we believe It can be and
should be attained In time. The best sen
timent of this community demands the
high-license system and the strictest reg
ulations for the liquor traffic.
That being accomplished, we repeat the
suggestion made In these columns
that the constant agitation that has
been carried on In this city against
everything and anything that does not
happen to meet with the individual ap
probation of this man or that should
cease. For the vory good reason that it
doing more to injure Augusta than
manv of the thing3 complained of. We
repeat that Augusta Is neither worse nor
better than other cities of equal size.
and there is absolutely no sense In hold
ing her up to the outside' world as a
community of loose morals and lax ad
ministration.
Parker and Pensions.
A Washington dispatch to the New York
Tribune says Representative Sulloway, of
New Hampshire, chairman of the Com
mittee on Invalid Pensions, and a legis
lative veteran whom tho House regards
as one of Its leading authorities on pension
laws, said today, when his attention was
called to Judge Parker's criticism of pen
sion order No. 78: .
The right to issue that pension order is, un
der the law, as clear and indisputable as is
the declaration of the Constitution of the
United States There never was any reason
to doubt the right or the propriety ot such
an executive order, and no man can point to
any statue with which it ta in conflict.
Cleveland issued the same kind ot an order.
which granted a pension to veterans who had
reached the age of seventy-five years, five years
after David said In the Psalms, a man had bet-
tir be dead. President McKInley reduced the
age limit to sixty-five years, and the authority
of neither was ever questioned;
President Roosevelt went still further and
made the age of 2 the minimum at which
a veteran ot the Civil War was entitled to a
pension for presumptive disability. It was
just 38 years after the Mexican War when
these soldiers' were pensioned at $S a month.
Just 30 years after the close of the Civil War
President Roosevelt's 'order went Into effect.
Experience in the Pension Bureau has proved
that when a soldier has arrived at the age of
62 years he Is disabled from the performance
of manual labor to the extent of 50 per cent.
As the maximum pension under the act of 1S90
was only $12, at 63 the pensioner is entitled
to $6. The examination of claimants for
pensions since the beginning of the Civil War
has cost the Government approximately $23,-
000.000. and not only that, but It subjected
the claimants to expenses In traveling and
otherwise which frequently, because of their
physical condition and poverty, substantially
barred the proving ot the claims.
The order of President Roosevelt was a
righteous and patriotic one, which an over
whelming majority of the people of the coun
try must cordially Indorse.
Intentions All Right, Anyhow.
Chicago Tribune.
"Been away on a vacation, have
you?" said Mr. Maklnbrakes, shaking
him cordially by the hand. "Be George,
Pm glad. Not glad you went away, of
course, for x haan t missed you
though certainly I had but you know
how it is when a fellow gets kind o'
tired of his home, and thinks almost
any change will be a relief and yet
that isn t exactly the idea, either, for
a home's a home, be it ever so so
and I can sympathize with you, you
know, In In wanting to get away
from well, I hope you had a good
time, anyway, even if you didn't say.
do you know you're getting a boll on
the end of your nbse?"
Sixty Kinds of Destroying Insects.
Philadelphia Record.
A French woman, who Is a lover of
books and Is willing to spend money to
see them preserved, offered a prize two
years ago for the best work on the in
sects that injure them and the best way
of exterminating the pests.
The- prize has just been awarded to C.
V. Houlbert, whose es3ay. It Is said,. Is
the best that was ever written on the
subject He finds that there are 60 species
of insects that Injure book3, the worst
being the minute specimen cauea tne
anoblum and its near allies. The so-
called "death watch" belongs to this fam
ily. Fumigation is the means that he sug
gests a3 the be3t for exterminating tnem.
Not Likely to Be Humble.
London Spectator.
In a short time the Japanese fleet may
be made the strongest on the Faclflo, and
even as It Is the current of action of the
European powers toward the states of the
North Pacific will be abruptly arrested.
Who Is to seize the eastern archipelago,
now the object of so many ambitions. If
Japan remarks i "No, that Is part of my
reversionary heritage"? Who Is' to dictate
to China If Japan antagonizes Frenchmen,
who say that Indo-Chlna Is in danger from
Toklo? Japan, once at peace, with her en
ereetic trading powers, will produce
great merchant fleet and regard the Pa
cific, as we think, as her own waterway.
A Common Thought.
Henry Tlmrod. .
Somewhere on this, earthly planet
In the dust of flowers that be.
In the dewdrop. in the sunshine.
Sleeps a solemn day for me.
At this wakeful hour of midnight
I behold It dawn in. mist. .
And I hear a sound of sobbing
Through the darkness hist! oh, hiotl
In a dim. and musky, chamber,.
I am breathing lite away;
Seme one draws a curtain softly.
And I watch the broadening day.
As it purples In the xenith.
Ar It brightes on the lawn.
There's a husk, of dbmtb. aboat m.
Awl a whU$r: "Ha It go&"
- NOTE ANDC0MMENT.
The pheasant is not usually regard
ed, as a plucky bird, yet it dies game.
Of course there Is a remedy for war
just one and it Is to stop fighting
and not begin again.
Hold-ups at a dollar a hold-up will
never make a robber be hailed as a
Napoleon of Finance.
Eggs cost 20 cents apiece In Port
Arthur, so they are not likely to be U3ed
as missiles against the Japs.
When there are highwaymen about
one hears a sood deal of a "carnival of
crime." Ever hear ot a carnival of
virtue?
The elderly Brooklyn man who has eaten
nothing but grass tor flvo weeks claims to
be gaining in strength every day and pre
sumably every meal. But what's he going
to do for rations when tho snow and the
slush hide his provender frpm viewT Albany
Times Union.
Eat hay, of course. Brooklyn Kagle.
Cheaper ju?t now to try old straw
hats.
In the Boston Museum is a love-letter
written on a brick, which was sent to
an Egyptian Princess 3500 years ago.
When an engagement was broken, oft
in those days and the young man came
to ask for his letter's back, what de
light the girl must have had in throwing-
them in his face.
The treaty between Thibet and Eng
land, says the New York Evening Sun,
was written on an enormous sheet of
paper, as the Thibetans, for supersti
tious reasons, objected to signing any
document that occupied moro than, one
sheet
The least-superstitious Thibetan
might be excused for seeing a bad
omen in signing the treaty at all.
When the Toledo (111.) Argus says
that "F. G. Holsapple homed with his
wife Sunday," it adds a new signflcance
to a verb that is now usually applied
to carrier pigeons. The wonder is
that, we have not had it sooner, for it
Is much easier to say "Mr. Holsapple
homed Sunday," than "Mr. Holsapple
Sundayed at home." As between two
elegant expressions, the shorter Is to
be preferred.
i
An advertisement from the London
Express:
Sonny Come home, immediately. Father
still unemployed and imbecile. We are trying
to get him Into the War Office. MOTHER.
The "agony columns" of the London
papers .are frequently patronized by the
jocular cockney, but it 'is very seldom
that he manages to be satirical with
such success as the writer of the ad
vertisement above.
Reddfng paid a graceful tribute to
Senator Fairbanks by arousing him
from sleep with the thunders of a brass
band. What could be more delightful
than to hear, first thing in the morn
ing, a good strenuous chunk of rag- '
time snorted out by a big trombone?
Senator Fairbanks is not human if he
can ever forget the kind attention
shown him by Redding citizens, whose
greeting, while merely polite upon the
surface, probably hinted of Republican
harmony. ,
When things happen to be unusually
dull lh San Francisco Bay or in Tacoma
harbor, along comes a 'nan-eating
shark" subsidized in all fprobablUty
by the Chamber of Commerce and
gets a San Francisco or Tacoma date
line in- the papers. The latest appear
ance of the man-eater was in Cali
fornia waters, where it became en
tangled in the net of a fisherman, who
probably was ignorant of the shark's
official position and tried to kill It
Seattle doesn't need the shark, because
Bhe can always send out a notice that
she has cleared any steamer from Ta
coma that has dropped Into Elliott Bay
on its way to China.
Nothing is more difficult that to find
suitable epitaphs for one's enemies
or friends If swear-words are barred.
The following extract from the Pall
Mall Gazette show how a woman strug
gled with the difficulty:
"I cannot swear, I have, an ulcerated throat.
and I am wearing a mustard plaster. I am
far too ill to swear." eald Mrs. Watkln. when
charged at Slough, yesterday, with using
improper language. Mrs. Watkln admitted
that she had called her husband a blear eyed
Kaffir, a Bashl-Bazouk, a Bulgarian, atrocity,
an ulgy monkey, a baboon, and, says tho
reporter, "every other animal in the Zoo."
"Bulgarian atrocity" has a fine,
mouth-filling sound, and "blear-eyed
Kaffir" is ingenious, but "baboon" and
"ugly monkey" are quite commonplace.
What with atrocities, Kaffirs, and
Bashl-Bazouks, the London Zoo must
have a flno collection of animals.
The bath Is exalted in these days, and
it 13 rare to find any person bold
enough to decry it. The Augusta
Chronicle, however, moved by the story
of one McCann, declares that "bathing,
like all other things. Is excellent In
moderation, but not in excess," and
quotes sympathetically the Northern
editor who ran a paragraph saying,
"The first frost of tha season today.
No more bathing for this child until
next Summer." But to return to Mc
Cann. Going to visit a friend, ho had
a hot bath in the hotel at 1:30 A. M.
and a cold bath at 8:30. Arriving at
his friends a few hours later, he joined
the family in a swim in their private
baths, and at 5 P. JL was Induced to
have a dip In the surf. Theu, as told
by the Baltimore Sun
There wa3 a lull In diversions and Mr.
McCann had almost forgotten his woes in tha
enjoyment of the evening, when at 11:30
o'clock Just as he was laying oft his coat
there was a tap at his bedroom door and th
valet stepped noiselessly In. "Would tha
gentleman bo pleased to have hi bath pre
pared before retiring?" 'Til ba d d If I'll
take another bath to please anybodyl' returned
the gentleman under hta breath and rolled
into bed. r
WEX. J.
OUT OF THE GINGER JAR.
She-I was a fool to marry you. He I
suppose so, hut I'm not willing that you
should bear all the blame. I asked, you
to. Town Topics.
"Going with any particular girl nowv
Chumpley?" "Yes, too infernally particular.
She has refused na. on an average at three
times a week since January 1." Detroit Free
Press.
"I hope when we are married you won't
be towing that poodle along-tho street"
growled the suitor. "Of course not," respond
ed the pretty irl sweetly. 'Tm gad to
hear It." '"No, I'll let you tow It." Chi
cago News.
"The Sultan is an inquisitive fellow." "Oa
the contrary, I should think." "Welt he's
always doing things to get our Navy to
come around where he can rubber at it
from the palace windows." Clacisaatl Commercial-Tribune.
Aunt Jaae I wonder why it is that yonr
father always ImUU upon a frcat at at
the musical comedy shows at the thatr.
He tells me his hearing la as good as It aver
N1H I know, but aw bI head
vroul lock, out e place aaywacr 1m. at
the bhmwv Boaton. Traa script.