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Wheatley. 83 Stevenson; Hotel fit. Francis News Stand. Washington. D. C. Ebbltt House News Stand. PORTLAND, THURSDAY, NOV. Q, 1904. THE LIQUOR QUESTION IN OREGON. Oregon is not, will not be, a prohibi tion state. Strong: as the majority was on Tuesday against prohibition in the state at large, it would have been still stronger but for the subtlety and cun ning of -the act under which the vote was taken. Great numbers who oppose county prohibition voted for it in their own precincts sure that it wouldn't carry in the county anyway, yet desir ous of enforcing "prohibition in the dis tricts where they dwell. Under this Juggle the only way they could make a majority in "their own precincts was by voting prohibition for the entire county. Thus, the vote recorded for prohibition was doubled in Multnomah, and largely increased elsewhere. Even so, the aggregate majority in the state against it is very large. Pre cincts that have carried prohibition didn't need It, because in very few if any of them have liquors been sold heretofore. The old Jaw was an excel lent prohibitory act, for all localities outside incorporated cities and towns; for only upon petition of a majority of the electors could liquors he sold In such precincts, and the so-called local option act will oppose no added obstacle against illegal selling. For prohibition in any precinct rests on the majority, and will be no more effective through a majority secured under the new method than under the old; and it will always be more difficult to secure a majority for sale of liquors by open and public petition than against It by secret ballot In a few counties Ave or six prohibi tion has carried as a county measure as in Yamhill and Benton with the re sult, as so often foretold by The Ore gonlan, of trying to for.ee prohibition through the vote of the country pre cincts, where no liquors are sold be cause none are wanted, on the incor porated towns, where the people al ready had trie right of local prohibition when they chose to exercise It The whole matter, formerly simple, under conditions that had existed from the first In Oregon, is in a muddle now. And of course the law enacted last June cannot remain, in its present form. Consideration will have to be given to amendment of it on a reasonable basis, which will provide for local op tion in fact, by abolishing the coercive power that certain localities are tempt ed to assume, under the innovation of the June law, over others. While The Oregonian believes fully that it would be better to abolish this law wholly and to re-enact the old one, on the petition, system, yet it would not advise this, and out of deference to those who are committed to an Indeterminate thing which they call local option, and for which they suppose the new act stands, The Oregonian would suggest amend ment only; which nevertheless should provide for a true local option, so the elector, if he wish, could vote for pro hibition in his own resident district without being compelled in order to do so to cast his vote upon a scheme of forcing prohibition on others. This will be true local option. It would extend the right to call for a vote in any pre cinct of an incorporated town, as well as in country districts; which some might deem a gain. But county prohi bition should be cut out of the act and The Oregonian does not doubt that It will -be, or that a great majority of the people of the state will approve such amendment To the June law, as it stands, the country will not yield Its approval, be cause the act is neither reasonable nor fair. It was prepared with a subtle and deceptive purpose; men have chuckled over the artifice, craft and guile successfully employed In pushing it on a mass of voters who didn't take the trouble to examine it. Ever since its adoption there has been in these quarters, a sort of Mephistophellan glee over it Legislation produced in such ways, in such spirit, and for purposes distinctly and confessedly unfair so that it turns out to be radically differ ent from what the electors supposed and expected cannot stand without elimination at least of the tricky and unconscionable parts of it More than National prestige. National honor is involved in the issue between Russia and Great Britain that an ar bitration commission will in a few weeks be called upon to investigate. The Russian fleet has been accused of firing upon an unarmed fleet of English fishing-boats, for no better reason than that the officers of the Russian fleet were, either panic-stricken or stupidly ignorant Russia responds that the lire was directed at a real enemy in the form of Japanese torpedo-boats that had taken shelter among the fisher men's craft and attacked the Russian fleet It is regarded as a great triumph of the universal peace idea that war upon this contention has been averted and that The Hague tribunal will In due time render a decision in the prem ises" that both nations are pledged to accept Great Britain and Russia, says the Outlook, have not in all their -nls-tory furnished a finer exhibition of true national greatness than in this pacific settlement of what easily might have been a great and terrible war. This may be true, but underlying it Is the fact that the question is one that can be settled by Inquiry. THE EDDY AND THE STREAM. There remains one paramount Demo crat in the United States. This Demo crat paramount is "William 'Jennings Bryan. He has become rich himself, through the agitation which he has led during the last ten years; but he was, is and remains the leader of all who envy the accumulations of those who by Industry, self-denial or fortune have gathered something together. The immortal author of Don Quixote makes Sancho Fanza say that he has observed that the human race Is .divided between the Haves and the Have-nots. In the Democratic party of our country and our day" an effort has been made by the Haves, of the Belmont-Roths-chlld-Havemeyer group, to control the votes of the Have-nots. It has failed. This leaves the Democratic party to those who controlled It in 1896 and again in 1900; it returns the party to their control. . To understand this division of parties read Cicero andSallust There is noth ing new under the sun. The Demo cratic party of our country," In its con stituent elements, consists of those who are against the -class who own prop erty and do business. Only on this basis, under a leader like Bryan, can its masses be marshaled for an effort The Parker episode was merely an eddy running for the moment against the stream. THE DEFEAT OF TURNER. One of the most satisfactory results of the election is the defeat of George Turner, In "Washington. Turner is a "shifty" politician, always on the look out for some scheme which he thinks may win with advantage to himself. He has a kind of ability; yet as sincer ity is no part of his equipment, he is weak and makes failures. He under stood the money question well enough; yet became a prophet of the silver lunacy because he conceived that was the way to the throne of politics in his state. "With the collapse of the craze on which he had bullded he got a heavy and thumping fall, .from which he has attempted to recover by working up a fictitious railroad issue in his state. Another satisfactory result of the de feat of Turner is the discomfiture of the Spokane Spokesman-Review. This pa per Is the most Important news journal of Eastern "Washington. It is published in a fine and rapidly growing city. Spo kane is a wonder, and it ought to have a newspaper that represents Its high thought and leading purposes. But it hasn't It never occurs to the Spokane Spokesman-Review that anybody who participates In politics can be actuated by high principle and purpose, based on wide survey of history, truth and ex perience. Its whole thought is postu lated on cheap expedients of the time employed for shallow objects and tem porary success. The paper can recover itself, and The Oregonian really wishes It max But George Turner cannot Of ell the cheap and nasty little fights against plain judgment and common sense that have been made in recent years and since the collapse of the silver craze, this anti railway fight In "Washington has been about the most Irrational. "Washington Is a state that owes everything (except Its scurvy politicians) to the railroads. They have made it what it is, and with out them'it would still be nothing. They are serving it well, at moderate rates, and they want only fair treatment At tacked by unscrupulous politicians and newspapers, they naturally will retail ate. "Why shouldn't they? CHANGING FOREIGN TRADE; September statistics of the Depart ment of Commerce and Labor show an Increase in value of agricultural ex ports of more than $14,000,000 over the figures for September, 1503. This heavy Increase is somewhat surprising, In the face of the very heavy decrease in the value of the breadstuffs exported, and is largely due to an increase of nearly 100 per cent In the value of cotton ex ports as compared with those for Sep tember, 1903, when the total was but' 521,207,811, compared with $43,747,925 this year. The total value of all agricul tural products exported for the nine months ending September 30, 1904, was $502,417,678, compared with $566,282,378 for the same period last year. It Is gratifying to learn that nearly all of this shortage is offset by a heavy in crease in exports of manufactured ar ticles. The total exports of manufactured products was $365,570,242, compared with $311,640,626 for the same period last year. It is probable that the increase in do mestic manufactured goods which were sent abroad may have had some bear ing on the shortage in breadstuff ex ports. Every additional laborer that can be utilized in the work of convert ing our raw material into a manufac tured product becomes a consumer of agricultural products, and the home market for such products is accordingly widened. The course of the wheat mar ket in this country this season undoubt edly reflects the vastly improved con ditions of the American consumer over those of the foreigner. It has been a noticeable fact for many years that high-priced wheat in Europe materially curtails the consumptive demand, but the experience of the current season shows that high prices have not served to check the demand, and the American workmen who have assisted in turning out the Increased quantities of manu factured products would, if forced to it, undoubtedly stand even higher prices. Iron and steel and their products have been Important factors in swelling the total of the manufactured products not only for September, but for the nine months ending Septemberi30. There was an Increase of,$4,D00,000Tor Septem ber, and for the nine months the totals ran up to more than $92,000,000, com pared with $72,714,000 for the same period last year, and 773,356,000 for the first nine months of 1902. An even greater increase. was noted in copper and articles manufactured from copper? "While It Is quite plain that exports of breadstuffs this year are far below the average of recent years, and much lower than It is reasonable to expect they will be next year, the country as a whole could view with equanimity the shortage so long as there was a corre sponding gain In the manufactured products and American consumers were financially able to pay the increased price at home which has prevented the grain being shipped abroad. The Pacific Northwest has for sale this year a larger surplus of wheat in proportion to the size of the crop than Is in evidence anywhere else In the United States. It is bringing good prices from the buyers and consumers in the manufacturing centers of the East and Southeast, and the home mar ket has been possible, simply through the widening of our manufactuing trade. Oregon, "Washington and Idaho will be still more fortunate when we have a sufficient number of manufac turing enterprises at home to supply a market for our agricultural products, and thus save the expensive freight tolls which they now bear in reaching the consumer. HOW TO' CONVERSE. Protests without number have been made and are being made against the carelessness shown by the majority of people in their every-day speech. Lazi ness is the root of the matter. Slang is used because It Is too much trouble to think of a good equivalent word, for It Is only by effort that a good vocabulary can be acquired. Certain words are given a general meaning of praise or blame, arid are then used for the whole range of such meanings. "Awful," "elegant," "dreadful" are examples. And strange combinations of words are used without any sense of their incon gruity. An illustrated paper lately showed a lanky youth In - football clothes by the side of a girl. "How do you feel?" asked the girl. "RIppllngly fit" was the response. Every one cannot shine In conversa tion, but every one with more or less trouble can converse In an intelligible manner, without necessarily endeavor ing to abandon slang, which Is an ad mirable seasoning but a poor dish. Miss Jordan, professor of English literature In Smith College, has written a book on "Correct Speaking and "Writing," and in it she gives a number of hints to her readers on what should be avoid ed In conversation. From her position In a college for women. Miss Jordan must be an authority on the faults- of the girl of today In this respect, not that the girl is any worse than ner brother. "Under no circumstances," says Miss Jordan, " 'gush, 'enthuse, or 'spout,' or 'talk down.' Avoid exagger ation of thought or expression, worn our or misapplied terms, like 'grand,' 'elegant' and the phrases of the day, like 'attractive.' Avoid slang, abbrevi ation, legal terms, phrases whose mean ing is not clearly understood, and coined words." The advice is good, but, like most good advice, it will be approved and neglected. The girl of the day and her brother' will continue to say that this Is "terribly nice" and that Is "horribly dull," and "beastly hungry" will not be unheard In the land. As to Miss Jor dan's advice to "speak only when there' seems to be a fair chance of something to say," one fears that Its general ac ceptance would silence, besides a large number of college youths, so many of the Nation's orators that the pent-up eloquence would reach such a pressure that p. fatal explosion would eventually shatter the country- TO AID WORN-OUT LANDS. The California legislature at the coming session will be asked for an appropriation to be used in Investigat ing the wheat situation In our neigh boring state. The agricultural depart ment of the California State University is already conducting experiments with a view to improving the variety of wheat sown, and it Is expected that with the state aid which it Is hoped to secure some method will be discovered for improving the quality of the wheat Investigations are also being conduct ed by the California wheat men for the purpose of checking the steady decrease in the 'production of the cereal. There has been a decrease In the yield from 800,000 tons In 1901 to less than half that amount last year. Climatic conditions have been in a measure responsible for this alarming shrinkage in the yield, but there Is also a belief that poor farming has contrib uted In no small measure to the unfor tunate condition which now exists. Such a heavy toll has. been levied on the land for many years that It Is prob able that In many localities there has been almost utter exhaustion of the properties which are essential to the healthy growth of the wheat plant The situation has become a serious one for the millers, and during the cereal year ending June 20, 1904, they were obliged to ..import more than 70,000 tons from Oregon and "Washington. This was more than one-fourth of the total amount ground, and toe millers were forced to Import it for mixing purposes in order tq bring the quality of their flour up to a standard where it could be sold. The experience which the California wheatgrowers are now undergoing Is I not dissimilar to that which confronts wheatgrowers In some portions of the "Willamette Valley. It simply demon strates that It Is Impossible, to take crop after crop from' the land without doing something to replenish its wasted vitality. Summer fallowing offers some opportunity for recuperation, and land which Is off er&d this periodical rest will continue to produce for a long term of years. Even by this method there is a drain on the soil that must be met with applications which will return to it the material for the ingredients which are necessary for the production of wheat Rotation of crops has proved quite ef fective in the "Willamette Valley, but the farmers in that garden spot of the "West have most of them discovered that there are other crops that are so much more profitable than wheat that the problem of Inducing their wheat lands to recuperate Is no longer bothering them. This will probably be the ulti mate result of "poor wheat crops" in California, and the same expenditure that Js necessary to replenish the land for wheat will put It In condition for more profitable crops. Russia, India and the Argentine are producing such enormous and rapidly increasing crops of cheap wheat that our high-priced Pa cific Coast land will soon be unable to meet such competition, and when the worn-out fields are again placed In shape for production It should be for a more profitable crop than wheat The American citizens who, purchased the wreck of the British ship Cypro mene and expended, over $40,000 In re pairing her have made application for American registry for the craft If they meet with similar experience to that encountered "by the Americans who put the Pyrenees, Kenllworth. Annie John son and a number cf other fine forelgn- bullt ships under the American flag, there is trouble ahead for them. It Is a slow method for building up a mer chant marine to be obliged to wait until a foreign ship Is wrecked before she can fly the Stars and Stripes, but it seems to be the popular plan at this time. Were it otherwise, the grafters in search of a subsidy or a discriminating duty would be left without an argument In their favor. Meanwhile Germany, France, Great Britain and other sea powers can buy new ships wherever they And them and give them "natural ization" papers without the necessity of their being wrecked, Dull Indeed is the man who finds cause for wonder why the merchant marine of other countries grows so much faster than our own. State Representative Thomas F. Cur ley and Alderman James M. Curley, both of Boston correct, decorous old Boston, where the blood Is always of an Indigo hue have been convicted arid sent to Jail for Impersonating others at a civil service, examination. This Is bad, very-bad; but the case becomes still worse when we are Informed that between the Imposition of the first sen tence and the final one, after an unsuc cessful appeal to the Supreme Court, Thomas Curley was renominated for the State Legislature. It gave that fren zied financier,- Thomas Lawson, the chills when Gas Addlcks and his gold bricks proved that most of the ancient and aristocratic Idols of Boston were of a very common grade of clay, and now It Is proved to the world that even Bos ton politicians have been tarred with the same stick that has left black marks on legislative candidates In other parts of the world. If these dreadful exposures continue, historic Beanvllle will soon lose the reputation she has long held for Irreproachable conduct and mental acumen of a high order. Now that the President has an nounced his no-third-term policy, the duty will Immediately devolve upon the Democratic journals to find a suitable Republican candidate for 1908. Mr. Fairbanks may expect to learn that he has already begun to lay his plans with that great object In view, and Mr. Root, Mr. Lodge, Mr. Hay, Mr. Spooner, Mr. LaFolIette, Mr. Beverldge, Mr. Deneen and other Republicans will discover that their secret machinations will not escape the vigilant eye of an interested and penetrating press. BFyan will, of course, take the reins of Democracy, and there will be nothing for the New Tork "World, New York Times and Brooklyn Eagle to do but settle the vex atious problem of leadership for the Re publicans. Nobody wanted Parker, not even the Democrats. -The Bryan people, discred ited by two defeats, perforce turned party control over to Hill and Belmont, in the expectation that something would be done to renovate and restore the party in the East They knew that nothing could be done In the "West, and they didn't try, nor even want to try. But Hill and Belmont fell down in New York worse than Bryan did; and Parker failed In the "West because the rank and file of Democracy preferred any body Roosevelt, Debs, "Watson or Swal lowto him. It is again Bryan's day in court . The showing made by Judge Parker In Oregon was pitiful. He has some what over 2000 votes in Multnomah County, and not much over 15,000 In Oregon. In the whole history of the state no candidate of a leading party has been more completely deserted. What is. the reason? It is that the real Demo crats didn't want him, resented his nomination, remained away from the polls, or voted for Roosevelt or for Debs. The Oregon Democracy Is for Bryan through and through, and Demo crats who' are not for him are mere Imitations. In the face -of great Republican ma jorities, Douglas, Dem., has been elect ed Governor of Massachusetts; Berge, Dem., of Nebraska; Toole, Dem., of Montana; Adams, Dem.,. dt Colorado; Folk, Dem., of Missouri; Johnson, Dem., of Minnesota. The belief that the dom inant party In a Presidential year helps candidates on a state ticket Is fiction. In almost every state Republican candi dates for Governor ran far behind Roosevelt. "Why? The voter without fixed party ties was simply manifest ing his independence. Rural free delivery Is being gradually extended to the more populous country districts of the state. Two routes lately established In Clackamas County will do away with the postoffices at Beaver Creek, Highland, Clarkes and Spring water, and the star route to Meadow brook. A total of 175 families will be served by these routes, promptly, eco nomically and with, in the aggregate, great saving of time. Twenty thousand Democrats in Ore gon did not vote. It was a repetition, on a larger scale, comparable with the growth of the state, of the election of 1872, when Greeley was the Democratic candidate for the Presidency, and one half the Democrats of Oregon remained at home. No candidate for the President of any political party ever before carried a solid North; none ever had so many votes in the electoral colleges, after a contest; and none ever had so great a popular vote. The "sporty" gentlemen who wagered large sums of money on Candidate Tunier because -he. "couldn't be beaten" are not so sure of some things as they were two days since. Mr. Steve Bailey, of Seattle, wagered $20,000 or. more on the election of Tur ner. Mr. Bailey is In an excellent con dition today to understand precisely how Judge Parker feels. So Chairman Alex Sweek, of the Democratic State Committee, was firmly of the opinion that Oregon would not give Roosevelt more than 15,000? Ah, well-a-day! "There should be no Presidency by purchase," howl the Eastern Demo cratic papers Just at hand. There wasn't There seems to be something incon gruous in the name of Swallow as the candidate of the Prohibition party. Judge Parker now realisea the sad consequences to a leadership that Tom Taggart's a political party. It wasn't an election; Jtigfc a sort of National ratification meeting: - Et tu, Xteouri! T. R. A PERSONAL SKETCH. Lyman Abbott in the Outlook. Mr. Roosevelt Is, without any exception, the most outspoken man I have ever known. It would not be true to say that he wears his heart upon his sleeve, for this would give the impression of an emo tional man whose acts and utterances are the product of his impulses. But it might be said that he carries his mind upon his sleeve. He Is naturally without re serves and absolutely without conceal ments. He can be silent though he Is not often so; but he cannot veil his mean ing In ambiguous phrases, nor appear to be what he Is not My first impression was that his outspokenness would prove fatal to his political ambitions; but a somewhat careful observation has con vinced me that between the childlike can dor of Mr. Roosevelt and the sphynxllke silence of Mr. McKinley there is no safe middle ground. No one but his most In timate advisers knew what Mr. McKinley thought; every one who Is admitted to an half hour's conference with Mr. Roose velt knows what he thinks. The safe guarding of the one lay in his .almost impenetrable reserve; the popularity of the other Is partly due to the fact that he treats every man as a friend worthy of his confidence. A wish which he thought It right to entertain he did not think It undignified to acknowledge. He has neither the inclination nor the -ability to dissemble. He always Is what he seems to be. "With this transparency of nature is coupled an extraordinary quickness of mental action. His mind Is more rapid In its ordinary processes than that of any other man I have ever personally known. If the reader of this article has ever seen an expert bookkeeper run his eye down a column of four figures and write the result at the foot with unerring accuracy and without hesitation he may form some Idea of what I mean by quickness of men tal action. Mr. Roosevelt has so often been called Impulsive that I presume those who have never known, him will regard with incredulity this expression of my conviction that he is not impulsive. Such, however. Is my conviction. It Is the celer ity of his mental processes, the unhesi tating confidence he feels in the result and the quickness of his action upon his conclusions, which, combined, have given, him the reputation of impulsiveness. But in truth he no more acts upon Impulse In his political decisions than the bookkeeper acts upon guess when he puts down the sum at the foot of his column. Deliber ation and Judgment generally go together, but not always; Mr. Roosevelt Is not a deliberate mar but he acts habitually on Judgment not on Impulse. He settled very early In his political career that he would be a Republican, and that he would maintain his independence In his party, not by going out of it This Involved a second principle, when he was invested with appointing power, namely, that he would consult with the recognized leaders of his party, simply because they were Its recognized leaders, but would never appoint to office a man whom they recommended If he had good reason to doubt the candidate's character and com petency. These two principles led him to consult with both Mr. Piatt and Mr. Odell when ho was Governor of New York, and with Mr. Burton, of Kansas, and Mr. Quay, of Pennsylvania, when he became President No a coffins at him as having abjured his principles because he con sulted with these party leaders had any effect upon him; and as little. was he af fected by the threatened opposition of these party leaders when he refused to be guided by their advice because he thought their nominees unworthy of his accept ance. I think this principle of political action Is sound; that in a country gov erned by parties the executive must con sult with representatives of his party, whether he would have chosen them to represent the party or not "With this habit of going to the heart of events is the habit of going to the heart of men. Mr. Roosevelt measures men by their character, and their char acter by Its essentials. That he does not measure men by their clothes, or their wealth, or their family, or even by their culture, is not remarkable; there are a great many Americans who do not "What Is remarkable is his disregard of the su perficial vices, and his hatred of those that are essential. Roughness of language and demeanor does not repel him; for faults Into which a man is hurried by some sud den temptation he has great charity; but meanness, greed, disloyalty and false pre tense he abhors with a vigorous abhor rence. And to take an office under pre tense of serving the country and use tho office for the purpose of robbing the coun try is In his thought the meanest kind of disloyalty. For that he has no tolerance. Mr. Roosevelt Is both an Idealist and an opportunist an Idealist In his ends, an opportunist In his methods. He has little respect for the reformer who disre gards the facts of life and expects to re form the world by a resolution. But he has less for the man who has no ambition to leave the world better than he finds It His Indomitable energy and his courage have given him. In certain quarters, the reputation of having a combative temper ament and being a lover of war, and have made some men, who have not studied his character, unable to understand how Mr. John Hay could characterize him as a lover and maker of peace. Mr. Roose velt has the temperament which leads him to enjoy overcoming obstacles. An easy life would be no joy to him. In 1200 he .would have been a Crusader: In 1700 a colonist; in 1800 a pioneer. "With him, to see danger and difficulty Is to covet the privilege of facing the one and endeavoring to overcome the other. He could not easily remain a passive spec tator of a righteous war. He believes In the Bibllcan aphorism, "First pure, then peaceable;" and as long as the impurity exists he is eager to make war'agalnst it But he loves not fighting for the fighting's sake. I should say it is equally true that he does not love peace for peace's sake. He Is a lover of life. And as long as there is a country to be saved, a humanity to be helped, a truth to be taught a life to be enlarged and enriched, and obstacles to be overcome in tho world's work, so long he will be seen somewhere In the front, if not as a leader, then as a follower; If not as "a master builder, then as a brick car rier, ambitious only, certainly chiefly, for an opportunity to do the hardest work, confront the greatest difficulty and be wherever there Is the greatest danger. Ballade ef the Be'iemlenne. Sunset." ' No conventional rut treads she; Brooms and brushes and needles, or Stoves and dishes and pani ah, me! To her spirit brine anguish sore. . Art (and similar stunts galore) Does her hungering soul pursue; 'TIs the watchword upon her door She's bohem-l-an through and through. No conventional garb dons she; Guardrul ever what others wora Wondrous laces and scarfs that we Never, never have seen before! Precious volumes of mystic lore. Stains and fishnets and Incense, too, Mark the sum of her sanctum's store She's bohem-l-an through and through. No conventional vlvant, she: Spotless Jlnen and things but bore In the thought of a dish so free 'Mid the charm of a sawdust .floor I Ah. the privileged souls that soar From earth's paltries to fancy's blue! TIs. amusingly simple, for She's bohem-l-aTSMhrouga and through' t IENVOI. In a surfeit of verse mare, Naught tbere'd be to attic hre-ta Save what I've naeatloaed thrice be: he's tMBca-I-as thraush aaA tbcgk. ' THE NEW SAYINGS OF JESDSi Brooklyn Eagle. At the weekly prayer meeting the Rev. Dr. H. P. Dewey, la the- lecture-room of the Church of the Pilgrims, talked on tho "New Sayings of Jesus," as found in a fragment of a lost gospel from Oxyrhyn chus. He referred to the finding of the first new sayings of Jesus, some seven years ago, by two learned doctors df Ox ford, England Grenthel and Hunt, at Ox yrhynchus. "There Is but one saying of Christ in the four gospels," said Dr. Dewey. "It is one of the most signiflcent of all the Mas ter's words. It Is found In one of Paul's epistles and is familiar to all the world as the expression. It Is more blessed to give than to receive. " This stray saying, Dr. Dewey said, might be one of many that Were lost to gospel writers. He was not going to prove that the sayings found by the Oxford doc tors were the genuine word of Christ he declared, but was Intent on showing their agreement with his accredited sayings. He described the original find at Oxyrhynchus &3 a bound volume gotten up in an ele gant manner, the sayings being discon nected, as If jotted down from time to time, as they occurred to the transcriber. Six years later the samo Oxford men re turned to the place where this "logia" was found and were fortunate In discovering another fragment This later collection was inscribed on a single page of papyrus, and unlike the first discovered, was in a connected form, the sayings being marked numerically. Dr. Dewey read the intro duction and first two of the sayings and found points of similarity between them and passages of Scripture to which he re ferred. The new sayings quoted by the minister were as follows: "These are the (wonderful?) words which Jesus the living (Lord) spake. . . . to and Thomas, and he said unto (them). Every one that hearkens to these words shall never taste of death. "Jesus saith: Let not him who seeks . . . cease until he finds, and when he finds he shall be astonished; astonished ne shall reach the kingdom, and having reached the kingdom he shall rest "Jesus sal tli (Ye ask? who are those) that draw us (to the kingdom, if) the kingdom Is in Heaven? . . . the fowls of the air, and all the beasts that are un der the earth or upon the earth, and the fishes of the sea (these are they which draw) you, and the kingdom of Heaven is within you: and whoever shall know himself shall find it (Strive therefore?) to. know yourselves, and ye shall be aware that ye are tho sons of the (Almighty?) Father; (and?) ye shall know that yo are in (the city of God), and ye are (the city?). OUR CAMPAIGN. FAIRNESS. Speakers of All Parties Get a Respect ful Hearing. Nothing like our treatment of public speakers exists In America, writes Syd ney Brooks in the London Mail. I some times wish It did. The bigger the bore the more courteous and attentive seems to be the hearing ho receives. I remember that during the campaign of 1S96 some Yale boys foregathered at one of Mr. Bryan's meetings and success fully competed even with his resonant voice. Nothing was more amazing to me, even In that amazing campaign, than the instant condemnation of these frolicsome undergraduates by public opinion every where and by newspapers of every clas3 and of every shade of political sympathy. If further proof of American orderli ness be needed It may be found in then- political parades. X took part in one at the end of the campaign of 189 S in which 120,000 New Yorkers marched five miles over Broadway cobblestones to testify to their faith in Mr. McKinley. "We all carried the Stars and Stripes, and were decorated as to hat and button hole and coat with fantastic "goldbugs" and yellow ribbons and badges and por traits of tho Republican candidates. Not an Inch of our persons but spoke of an tagonism to Bryan and all his works. And yet, though we marched between not less than a million spectators, many thou sands of whom must have had not tho slightest sympathy with tho objects of the demonstration, not a single one of them ventured by so much as a jeer to Interrupt our progress. He Had Slurred Her Looks. Cincinnati Enquirer. During Secretary Paul Morton's recent visit to the League Island navy-yard. In Philadelphia, a certain officer, pointing to two launches that rode side by side, said: "See, Mr. Secretary, how beautiful that launch Is, and how sturdy Is the other." Secretary Morton smiled. "To compliment and compare a couple of launches in that way," he said, "Is safe enough. It would never do, however, to treat a couple of ladles so. "There was a young man who -once went to a dinner party,, where he was seated between a noted beauty and a noted poet ess. Looking to right1 and left, he said, naturally enough: "Am I not lucky to be placed between beauty and talent?' "The poetess did not like the young man's remark, and she said, haughtily: " 'Not so very lucky, for you possess neither the one nor the other. " The Leaning Tower. Cincinnati Enquirer. Barney Oldfleld, the crack automobllist Is fond of pictures, particularly of etch ings. He said the other day: "The best etching I have Is one of the leaning tower of Pisa. This etching hangs over my writing desk. "Looking up one morning I noticed that the picture hung crooked. I straightened it and resumed my work. "The next day the picture was again crooked, and the next day, and the next Finally, happening to be in the room while the maid was cleaning, I saw her deliberately take hold of the straight hung picture and tip It to one side. ' " 'Maria,' I said 'that picture of the tower look how crooked you have hung if ' v 'I have to hang the picture crooked,' said Maria, 'to make the tower hang straight' " Could Not Stand fie Suspense. Chicago Journal. "Winston Churchill recently told a little story of his boyhood In St Louis. "When I first entered school," he said, "I was a very small chap. Indeed. School seemed to me a wonderful experience, and I expected all sorts of marvelous and strange things to happen there. "The first day it looked as though my expectation was to De gratified, for the teacher said: " "Now, children, I want you to be very still so still that you "can hear a pin droD.' "A, pin drop! I had never heard that sound , before. Everybody was intensely suenc lor aooui. a, minute, xnen. I shout ed, excitedly: i , " 'Let her drop'!' " By-Low, By-Low. " Sunset., Hero's the way she sang to me. By-low, by-Iowe v As she held me on her knee, - , Long, long ago. Oh. the years between are long And their haunting specters throng, Tet I hear her olden song: By-low, by-lovr. I have wearied on the way. By-low, by-low - . " And- the sunset Is by gray, Well I know, well I know. Yet my mother, through the stress Comes your song, my heart' to bless; Comes your song, like a caress; By-low, by-low. - Bold me, mother, as of old, . Sy-l-ew. by-lofr 11' yur sosff oZ lore untold ' IH ad ftew, ebb and flow; Xo!4 we t jojir loving 'breast I am fora aad fain would rest ate tlM sc ot soae the best: Jsy-icw, by-lw. NOTE AND COMMENT Stoessel, too, stands pat Now for the Baltic Fleet again. Nothing singular about Roosevelt's plu rality. Vfe hope none of the Prohls In the dry counties celebrated victory with a jag. The Independent Vote will decide. Brooklyn- Eagle. It helped. Now that the atmosphere has been cleared of politics, the airship will have a better chance. Even If the Igorrote baby born at St Louis grows up In this country It won't wear trousers. It Isn't that kind of a baby.- Elated by Republican success, some waggish person wrote on one of the "Weather Bureau cards, "Four years more of good weather." It's tough on the Russians to have to fight 'mid snow and ice, but what really chills them is a poem directed at them by laurel-crowned A. Austin. Brazil proceeds with her negotiations for a nice, large, new navy. Probably she thinks the fine, large ocean at her front door looks kind of like a vacant lot Even if young Mr. Shaw did marry a chorus girl, why should the yellow press editorialize so extensively on the subject? It's more or les3 tho young man's, own affair, The late King George of Saxony left 52 landed estates and $30,000,000. Thl3 proves that he had means enough to move In royal circles, even If he couldn't afford to train with the Newport crowd. The "Washington Post has discovered a poem called The Battle of the Kegs," In which Is described the action of a Brit ish fleet in Philadelphia during Revolu tionary times. The ships engaged In bat tle with a fleet of kegs that had been ac cidentally set adrift in the river, and scared the Admiral as they advanced In battle formation. Rojestvensky evidently was not the first Publishers have taken lately to an nouncing a change of title about nearly every book they publish. "The title of 'The Stage From the Pulpit by the scholarly Dr. Julius Caesar "Lombross Dingbat has been changed to 'Bad To matoes and the Actor.' Sock & Soakem. the enterprising publishers, announce that the change will not delay the, pub lication." It is not a bad way of boosting, but it Is being rather overdone at pres ent New York Is having a fuss over" the placing pf advertisements in the Subway. The ornamental tiles are being covered with advice to buy Puffkin's Sauce and Stlckle's Pickles, and New York's esthetic people, who for some reason or other are always the readiest letter writers of the public, are making a fine old howl. Those people can's sympathize with the advertising agent, whose heart breaks to contemplate a vast blank ex panse of ornamental tiling. There is poetry in the air of California. Editors edit with lyric abandon." The poet who runs the La. Junta Republican, for example, tells, what time .of year "it is in these lovely words: "There is a "sound like the knell of Summer. The leaf Is stained with the dye of the ruthless artist and the Autumn suns and the frosts, mingling, make a thousand hues and colors. Oh! voice of the winds, we hear thy whispers among the boughs, like unto the swish of the scythe as It cuts the grass; and so falleth our loved ones, and we whisper our sorrow as the breeze of the Autumn makes dirge for the Summer." At last the Stoessel stories are begin ning to come In. Tho schoolmaster who spanked him has not yet been heard from, but others are hard at work. The latest Is from a friend of Stoessel's and is sent out from Port Arthur by the con venient means of a Chinese refugee and a mine-proof Junk. An artillery officer of excellent reputation, it Is said, was found one day sCaggering about Pollchwan, drunk. Stoessel waited, until the offi cer was sober, and then "lectured him severely." A few days later, "when the bombardment was un usually hot," he ordered the offender to sit upon the most exposed .part of the fort, with a bottle of cham pagne and a tumbler In his hands. "For two hours the wretched man sat thus continues the story, "with shells bursting all around him. His agony was at last ended by a shell which mertlfully burst within a few yards of him and blew him to pieces." Great stuff. Just the way a commander would chose to fortify the resolution of his officers and men. WEX J." OUT OF THE GINGER JAR. v, Medical Professor What's the most advanced stage of kleptomania? Student High finance. Town, Topics. Mrs. Dearborn Did you eay that lady and gentleman were distantly related? Mrs. "Wa bash Yes, they're divorced. Yonkers States mas. "What did your property" In swamphurst cost your "Four dollars a foot." "What'U you sell for?" "Oh. ril let It go at ?2 a gallon." Philadelphia Press. Mrs. Tufty Didn't Mrs. Green leave her card? The New Maid Yes'm. she left It an I had to chase her two blocks to give It back. ttirher. Philadelphia Inquirer. Eunice Actually. Uncle George, I haven't anything fit to wear. Uncle George Yes, I've noticed that all your gowns are In the height of fashion, Boston Transcript Jlggs Every time I go along "this - road at night I am etartled by, the apparition of a Jackass. Jaggs You ain't the only man that gets frightened at hla own shadow. Chicago Journal. Flora What do you think of higher education for women? Dora Not much. I've taken six courses In higher mathematics, and . I. can't yet figure out how to make George-propose. Detroit Free Press. Aunt Hetty Ob, yes; those swell folks dress for lunch an then dress again for dinner. Uncle Hiram They do? Well. Td be satis fled to eat In the camoid clothes pervlded X had a brand-hew appetite. Puck. . "Why did the congregation hurry out so sud denly after tho benediction?" "The sexton makes them leave their umbrellas In the vesti bule, and those who get out late haven't much of a choice." Cleveland Plain Dealer. McFlub Why can't Bllklns get along with his wife? Qfteth Well, you see, he's her fifth husband, while she's only his fourth wife,, and she takes advantage of her position to start an argument on every proposition that cosaea along. Houston Chronicle. "I hear you were disappointed In the- town meeting's orator. I suppose your coaqilalnt was that he didn't rise to the occasioa." "No; my complaint wasn't that he didn't rice to the occasion, but that he seecd disinclined ver to sit down again." Philadelphia Press. Lady And you cooked tor- Mr. and. Mrs. De Jones for two Tears, yott aj ? Applicant TIs. ma'am. lady Why did yo ta"e theatt' Ap plicant Oi didn't lava Utiss, Mk-'am; tfey wor af the? lavia' sv. TV TMtk v tWnt oi4 av 'dycpJfftte. saa'aa. Chicago Ody If sua.