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It Is denied, Indeed, that there are any new "plural marriages," but cohabitation under old ones, to an extent, continues. Such TiHtriarchs as Joseoh Smith and other leadinc- lights of Mormonism do not deny it. The obstacles to anti-bigamy lawt. in such a society, are very numerous In- deed insuperable for the present. Time is required for change of manners and customs, in such a situation. Through the early Mormon, period everything in Utah was in the hands of the Church. During the life of Brigham Toung the hierarchy practically controlled the whole administration of civil affairs, and even influenced, and effectively In fluenced, whatever military rule was attempted. But this power was much reduced under the efforts of the terri torial government directed by the United States; and when Utah was ad mitted as a state the distinct condition was made that there should be no more polygamy, no more "plural marriages." Leading Mormons, however, have al ways claimed polygamy as a tenet of their religion, and have been loath to give it up. At first it was a "revela tion" for in all times men have been able to get such revelations as lhej' desired. But now th younger ones are obtaining a new revelation, which su persedes the old one, with them. The tendency marks a distinct decline of polygamy and points the way to its ul- timate extinction. But there is difficulty In obtaining proof of these polygamous connections; and it always must be so. The general law as to these connections reaulres that two or more actual marriages shall be proved. General reputation of mar riage is not enough. When the grocer or dry goods dealer sues the husband on a bill of goods ordered by his wife. evidence that the parties are married Is sufficient on that point. Not so on a criminal trial. There, the actual mar riage must be proved; and the false or fraudulent marriage, besides the legal one. On this the Mormon polygamlsts have "stood off" all attempts to secure proofs and convictions. Nevertheless, it cannot be doubted that polygamy In Utah, and elsewhere among Mormon populations, is in course of extinction, The social forces in operation against it, with their constantly growing In fluences, are more powerful than all statutes, actual or possible. Polygamy could be practiced largely among the Mormons so long as they were an iso lated community; but It has been de clining, ever since they were brought into quick and active communication and closer contact with the outer and larger world. Through the case of Sen ator Smoot who is not a polygamlstr more attention has been brought to bear on this subject during a year past than it deserves. Polygamy is virtually dead, and in a little longer time will be actually so. In Washington City, and in Utah and Idaho, there has been un necessary concern about it chiefly the work of politicians in want of an "is- sue," and of sensation-mongers in need of something to talk about. In fact. however, polygamy is doomed, and within a few years we shall hear the last of it. Eastern Oregon has an in creasing Mormon population, but we believe no polygamlsts among them. A LIBRARY BUILDING FOR PACIFIC UNIVERSITY. Interest in the Carnegie library bene factions has taken local color from the announcement that Mr. Carnegie pro poses to give 520,000 for a library build ing at Forest Grove as a home for the library of Pacific University, on condi tion that the friends of the university will raise a like amount as an endow ment fund, by means of which the li brary may properly be maintained. The first $500 to this conditional fund has been subscribed, and, the outlook for securing the amount is felt to be good. . While we may criticise the library scheme of Mr, Carnegie, as it has been pushed in various places as the fad of a benevolent man, who has acquired through business sagacity or financial sharp practice more money than he really knows what to do with, our hearts must warm somewhat at this proposal to house properly a library the collection of which represents the painstaking- endeavor and scholarly de votion to Pacific University of men whose names have passed into the edu cational annals of the state as repre sentative of the highest qualities of cit izenship. Through such endeavor and devotion this university has secured a collection - . ... . . , , of valuable books numbering some 14,000 volumes. Auxiliary to the work of some of our most devoted, educators, this library has laid a shaping hand upon the development of the young manhood and young womanhood that have gone out through Its doors to the wide activities of life. From this point of view alone this library has earned a substantial, suitable and beautiful home. Its present quarters are too small to properly supply Its needs. If, therefore, it shall come to pass that through the generosity of Mr. Carnegie It shall be permanently and properly housed; and further that its mainte nance shall be insured by the gener osity of its friends, by duplicating the gift for building purposes, it will not be seemly to look the gift horse In the mouth or to criticise as misplaced the effort to make the gift available. RATE PROBLEM SOLVED. The prolonged dispute between the North Pacific Coast Jobbers and the railroads seems to have been settled In a manner apparently satisfactory to both partfes to the controversy. Read justment of what is known as com modity rates will again admit the Coast Jobbers to interior points on terms war ranted by the advantage of location at tidewater. The readjustment agreed on will not deprive Spokane or Interior points of any of the advantages to wh'ich they are rightfully entitled, and In some classes of merchandise they will probably continue to do business in territory that will be classed with the special field of the Coast jobber. Among other developments growing out of this contest was the discovery that the .Jobbers at interior points In Oregon and "Washington were not the ones of whom the Coast Jobbers stood In fear, but instead it Is the big Eastern concerns at St. Paul, Minneapolis, Chi cago and Duluth who have long been watching this territory grow and have already taken occasional advantage of the liberal freight rates. Adoption of the new tariff will probably check these sorties, at least until a change in other conditions warrants more readjusting. In a new country and the Pacific Coast is still "new" there Is a con stant change in economic and indus trial conditions which necessitates cor responding changes in the freight tar iffs of the roads serving the country. Not so very many years ago no line of business In Oregon would have profited by a high freight rate on certain classes of canned goods put up in the East, tut today a fairly high freight rate is almost a necessity to enable the Coast manners to compete successfully with the Eastern men engaged in the same business. The Pacific Coast Is gradu ally working into manufacturing In dustries, and it Is much to our advan tage that such Is the case. As distrib uting agents for many lines of manu factured goods which are not made on the Coast, our jobbers, however, must 00 prepared to expect some competition from points farther East The task of making a freight tariff which will prove satisfactory to all lo calities is such a mammoth and compli cated undertaking that it Is not to be wondered at that the railroads are con tlnually under fire at some point on the systems. The case which has lust been settled was not one where the changes asked by the Coast Jobbers would seri ously affect the railroad earnings either for better or worse. The point at issue was alleged discrimination in favor of distributors at interior points, and against men in the same line of busl ness at Coast points. This dlscrlmina tlon, as disclosed at the recent "meet ings, grew out of the elaborate system of "commodity rates," which, during a number of years, had at intervals been established for some special reason, and "were apparently maintained, in some cases at least, for no other reason than .the fact that they had once been estab ashed. It was not made clear that the rail roads were reaping any additional rev enue from the maintenance of these rates, and they were apparently not averse to clearing their schedules of some of them and proceeding bv less complicated methods to satisfy the de mands of the shippers. The satisfac tlon expressed by the shippers would seem to warrant the belief that the new schedule will meet requirements for an Indefinite period. Necessity of further changes will arise, however, as changes occur in other conditions. Completion of the Panama Canal, or even inde pendent operation of the Panama Rail road, may have a marked effect on the situation, especially so far as it con cerns neavy mercnanaise tnat can stand the sea voyage. HINTS TO THE BENEVOLENT. A need that has been singularly neg lected by men who have ample means to bestow, and who do bestow such means without stint in benevolent en terprises, is that of homes for conva lescents in all of our large cities. Pa tients are turned out of hospitals when too weak to work because their beds are needed. There are few places to which they can go. Here is certainly a wide opening for the bestowal of the surplus money of men who are at heart benevolent. The poor convalescent, Just able to be about. needs a quiet retreat in which to regain his strength for the active duties of life, much more than the bookish man needs a quiet retreat In which to read. with a choice of books within reach of his hand. The one Is a necessity the other a luxury. In this connection it may not be out of place to speak again of a need in this city for homeless consumptives who have passed into the final stage of that disease and have only to wait the end. The Open-Air Sanatorium Is deal ing merclfuly with a large number of sufferers from this disease who are re garded as curable. It Is doing a great and beneficent work, but, in, the nature of things, It cannot receive those who have passed into a hopeless stage, .nor yet those who, though still In the early stages, have not means to pay their way among the tent-dwellers. For the first of these classes, who arc among the most pitiable creatures in the world, a retreat to which they. can retire and await the end in such comfort as Is possible, is required. For the latter I class an enlargement of the means and scope of the Open-Air Sanatorium is necessary. The man who has money to donate to benevolent objects must look far before finding more worthy institutions than these to establish and endow. And when In addition to this the need of homeB in large cities, for convalescents who are without money but who only need rest and care for a few weeks to become self-supporting, is presented, there is clearly no reason why a man of millions should submit his gifts to the snubs of the self-aesessed righteous by offering them to the support of for eign missions. Our men of wealth are not niggardly when It comes to dona tions. But they are sometimes woe fully lacking in discernment. WHERE LIES THE FUTURE? Some days ago, when the list of speeches at the Jefferson day banquet in New York was made public, the Sun asked, What humorist is responsible for asking the Hon. Alton B. Parker to speak on "The Future of the Demo cratic Party"? The question was per tinent, and brought out the irony of having the principal mourner at the Democratic funeral address the ban queters on the corpse's future. L.ast night was the thirteenth of the month, but that did not deter Mr. Par ker from carrying out his part of the programme, and in a long address, marked with legal fear of saying any thing in an unqualified manner, he dealt with the future of the Democratic party, applauding, as some one has ex pressly said, the great future which lies behind the party and referring now and then to the future which lies In front. In dealing, with the future which lies behind the party, Mr. Parker was at his best. "We meet," said he, 'after a defeat which was easy to fore see and predict." If "Is" were substi tuted for "was," in the sentence, Its meaning would be more clearly ex pressed, for almost anyone can now foresee and predict the future of ISOi That defeat wa's "emphasized! by the reckless and unprecedented expenditure of money, and by demagogic appeals to Interests as wide apart as the poles," expenditure and appeals, of course, be ing part of the Republican campaign soiejj. Jtmt wny warm over the funeral baked meats? Time files in the affairs of business; in politics it covers an age in a flash, and the cries of the laBt cam palgn are as obsolete as those of a cen tury before. Coming to topics of the day, Mr. Par ker says: "When new problems are to be met ... It Is now thought neces sary to devise new ways, ... so the proper way for a government to do things is by Interference or meddling. . . It is applied unceasingly to states until It Is now insisted that the General Government must tax and manage all corporations, must oversee insurance and trust companies, and must either own the railroads or die tate to their owners the minutest de tails of their business. It is thought necessary to Interfere with capital on the -one hand and with labor on the other." Such meddling must torture the souls of all who hear and cheer this spokesman of the Democracy. The harrowing thing about it is that the meddling is being done by the other party, and so much does this work upon Democratic feelings that the Trusts, the monsters spelled with a big T. ac tually gain sympathy. "My own recent experience in politics," says Mr. Pa: ker, euphemistically, "does not Incline me to favor overmuch the management of some great corporations." Too bad Belmont does not head them all. "But no student or observer of economic con ditions," continues Mr. Parker, "can question either the logical development or the necessity of corporations, any more than he can ignore their exist ence. . . . We have only to look about us to see that the great majority of corporations are managed with as much honesty as we are accustomed to see in mundane affairs." And is this the Octopus? As to the future which lies before the party "much idle talk is indulged in," says Mr. Parker, "about the organiza tlon or the reorganization of the Demo cratlc parly. This is to forget two things. The first is, that, when a party has an Idea and a policy which makes appeal to half the people, they will not be long In getting together to promote this idea and this policy." Unfortu nately the idea and the policy are not disclosed, but any one who may care to try for a prize packet containing them will not be turned away. "We shall not reject, tne man wno nas Deen a Populist or a Socialist. We can even welcome the man who had set up his little Republican annex." There Is thus hope for all, but application must be made early, for, as Mr. Parker epi grammatically, if obscurely, remarks, "while we like the Prodigal Son, our herd of fatted calves is not Infinite in number." The idea and the policy in a pok call for customers. None will be re fused, as has been announced. Social ist, Populist, even Republican let 'em all come- Reorganization is a vain dream, despite the talk of the distin guished person to whom Mr. Parker al ludes as "an honest and patriotic man, who was and Is perhaps the most per suaslve political orator known to our history." The remarks of this persua slve political orator will be awaited with interest, and something may also be expected from the editor of Tom Watson's Magazine. SPECULATION IN WATER BIGHTS It is either somewhat late or a little too early to be excited over the steps taken by a well-known gentleman from Colorado to claim rights over every lit tle creek In the neighborhood of Port land. No doubt It is great testimony to his faith in spread of the metropolitan city or tne :sortnwest .racinc over a couple of hundred square miles, rather more than less. The City of Portland is reasonably well provided with the best water In the world for many a year to come frbnf Bull Run. This supply Is guarded from the avaricious longings of our Colorado visitor by the" act passed at the recent legislative session. With the possible and practicable ex tension of the existing system for household purposes over every district within the wide area of the city and its addition's, it is perhaps safe to allow the Colorado gentleman time to develop his plans somewhat further, before "arous ing the public to frustrate" the same, as Colonel Hawkins suggests. While Mr. Lafc Pence and his un named supporters confine themselves to complying with the law In posting no tices on every little creeK wnere, in Summer time, a few pailsful of water trickle down, and In Winter a muddy stream fills its narrow bed, "the public" can look on. When they proceed with greac energy to tne maKing out or a variety of maps and blue prints, show ing provisions, for the supply of house holds yet unborn, in districts still cov ered with primeval brush, and deposit ing the same with county officers for the information of Colonel Hawkins and all others Interested, even yet we4 decline to be "aroused." Still farther, when the fields of the surrounding country are invaded by Mr. Pence and his myrmidons, and stakes are set, and excavation commences, it may be left to owners to secure payment of due compensation, and we shall still possess our souls in peace for these reasons: First, because the limits of the water rights these speculators are to gain are determined by the capacity of the ditches they dig (and the digging ca pacity even of a Colorado prospector muet be limited somewhere and some- ! when). Second because the law pro vides that within six months after the alarming notices are set actual work on every claim must be begun and contin uously followed, on the basis of the maps and plans filed. Third because. If the ditches are not used for any one year, after they are flnjshed, all rights to them vanish, and Colonel Hawkins, or any otQer public-spintea citizen., may take up the enterprise, In order of priority. So there are several chances left for the public, even If a good deal of Colo rado money follows that spent for no tices, and maps and the commencement of worlw Whatever mischief was to be done has been started and arranged for as the law so far permits. .The cockatrice egg 'has been laid. When it will be hatched and what sort of venomous beast will emerge time will show. It behooves Colonel Hawkins to remain on the watch. A plan for "birth insurance" has In vaded the state. Perhaps It Is all right in a business sense to put a premium upon births, but to the Intelligent man or woman who regards parentage as a sacred and responsible trust such stim ulus to reproduction must be revolting. Commercialism has assumed broad pro portions in recent years. But when It invades the domestic realm and offers financial inducement for increasing the number of children, it is time to call a halt. Children born under such a stim ulus can hardly be expected to fill a place In life that would not better have remained vacant. Loose talk on race suicide has developed in unthinking minds a feeling that to bring children Into the world is In Itself an act highly meritorious. Sensible people regret this as tending to lower the standard, al ready too low, of parental responsibil ity. A birth, premium Is a bold and open step in the same direction, and one that self-respecting men and women will be slow to take. Admiral Kempff, who Is here inspect ing the steamboat Inspection service, does not send a- brass band ahead of him when he goes out to And steam- boatmen violating the laws. When a man gets out before 6 A. M. and hustles around the water front in quest of de linquents or delinquencies, he is cer talnly attending to business. Thus far his search has apparently revealed the fact that the local Inspectors have been keeplnga pretty close watch on the men and boats In their jurisdiction. Messrs. Edwards and Fuller have at times in curred the oispleasure of steamboat owners by their strict adherence to rules, but there have been no aclcdents of consequence during their adminis tration, and if Admiral Kempff has dis covered any shortcomings in the serv ice they have escaped public notice. The strike in Chicago is characteristic in methods and brutality of many of its predecessors in .that city. Mayor Dunne has thus far been unable to ef feet an adjustment of differences be tween the Arm of Montgomery. Ward & Co. and the striking teamsters. The effort of the Arm to move its freight is harassed and blocked In all possible ways, nonunion drivers are pulled from their wagons and beaten, traces are cut and teams turned adrift, and life Is often Imperiled by the furyof the mob. All of this and much more Is enacted on the business streets of a great me tropolis, and the end is not in sight. It is the struggle of the open shop against the restrictions of labor unions which It will take more than one battle of- the .contending forces to decide. 'Deaths from the plague in India dur lng the first three months of the present year represent a total comparable up to that time to the deaths in the Russo- Japanese war. Mr. Broderlck, British Secretary of State for India, places this number from January 1 to March 11 a 304,899. No -effective means has yet been devised for stopping the ravages of the disease. British rule has done much for India, but it still has much to do. In this day of medical skill and sanitary science a mortality so sweeping as this ought not to be possible. If any well-to-do citizen of the East ern States fails to see the Lewis and Clark Exposition, it will not be the fault of the railroads. They have conceded a one-fare rate plus $1 for the round trip from the Atlantic seaboard and all Eastern territory to Chicago. From that city to Portland the rate will be $50. More could not in reason be asked or expected by the Fair management. The railroads are doing their full part If the crowds do not come. It will be because they cannot be attracted Portland at any price. to The 13-year-old Montana boy who shot his father does not go Into ab struse psychological reasons for his act "When asked why he kept shooting after his father had fallen -wounded, the boy replied simply, "Because he wasn' dead yet." What to do with a child capable of such cool brutality Is an In soluble problem "Quality, not quantity," In the matter of children is to be the cry of the Na tional Council of Women. Since quaF- lty Is just as likely to go with quantity as otherwise, the slogan Is a little lack Ing In logic. Bellingham will not have the services of the Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman, "but his subordinate will presumably provide "something equally as good." Tabular comparisons of Rojestven sky's and Togo's strength cannot show In figures the most Important factor of all the Japanese spirit. Edward Atkinson says a woman, can dress on $65 per year. She can. But she won't. On the; surface 'Russia is not doing "much with her submarines. NOTE AXD COMMENT. If the Russian, sailors have practiced shooting at the empty bottles they threw overboard, they should be able to make Togo, sit up. Cheer up, faint heart; bock is coming. Bellingham can't afford ?5000 worth .of revival. Rockefeller might be Induced to make up the deficiency. In Alton B. Parker's lexicon, "Theo dore Roosevelt" is "the executive author ity." Hurricanes blowing in Tahiti, tornadoes blowing In Madagascar, and roses blow ing In Oregon. The wants "birth to do insurance company" that business In Oregon what docs it insure against?-twins? A .prize-fighter of some renown is re ported to be suffering from a disordered brain. This seems to establish definitely that prize-fighters do have brains. Couldn t Portland's cop-eating cougar be caved for the President? Nan Patterson is awaiting her cue. Corporation lawyers can persuade them selves of almost anything, but the mem bers of the Canal Commission are just as ingenious In argument. To employ labor ers at Panama more than eight- hours a day la considered essential, so behold tho Commissioners argue that the United States exercises control of the zone for administrative purposes, but Panama re tains the sovereignty, and therefore any- bothersome American laws about contract labor do not apply. Almost as many people leave the rock- pilo as the Union Depot. "Hands off of Morocco," says- the Washington Post in an impassioned ed itorial. Is it possible that we have all this time been mistaken in our estimate of the Irrl gon (Oregon) Irrigator. In the latest Issue appears this paragraph: "The very next man who takes the sign on front of the Irrigator building for a saloon sign and comes in and asks for a Tom Collins or a gin fizz or a cocktail, or even straight whisky, will meet a sudden and awful death." And all the time we have been taking the Irrigator for an ortran of the irrigation Interests. Later dispatches from the scat of war are not so enlivening. However, we read that "the President is constantly surpris ing the experienced plainsmen." We have grudge against the correspondent for withholding particulars. It is difficult to kill a cat. at the beat of times. How many mewins: and scratch ing beasts have been tied up in sacks, weighted with bricks, and thrown into ponds, rivers or seas, only to reappear at the family fireside? How many have been chopped In twain, only to reappear, united, and .scratch at the kitchen-door? Even when the cat is made captive it is no easy job to end her lives, and when one attempts to kill her, as It were, on the run, disaster is Invited. To chase poor pussy with a club is but to upset tables and chairs, and smash the crockery over looked by Olga. To fire futile shot after futile shot is to be pinched, as a Portland man has discovered. Hfs cat still flour ishes, and he is stared in the face by the possibility of a fine for discarging fire arms in the city limits. It is far better to cultivate your cat's friendship and to work on its better feellng3 than to rule by terror. A saucer of milk is more ef fective than an automatic pistol, and a piece of fish will accomplish more than a club. W. J. Bryan's latest appearance was in a "musical spectacular piece." But a step more to musical comedy. The people, by keeping away from the hunting grounds, are giving the President a square deal, and yet he is going to write a magazine article. "A garter snake two feet long," says the York correspondent of the Philadel phia Record, "created havoc in the Seitz- vllle school and caused the girls to spring to the tops of the desks while the boys were dispatching it" Funny the sex to wnich a garter snake should be most useful should run away from It. "Finally one of the men kicked the girl and told her to get out." The sentence Is from an account of a little social affair In New York, where men carry deference to women to almost absurd lengths. Some vegetarians are so strict that thoy won't eat horse-radish. Rojestvensky will have the sympathy of every boy who has been sent out to get a rod of suitable size. It's mighty tough to have to look for something. one doesn't want to find. The Walla Walla Statesman heads the story' of the murder of a Bellingham meat marKet owner "A Butcher Butch ered." President Baer. of the Philadelphia & Reading, famous for his divine-right be lief, has been telling how unhappy a col Hery owner is. "The public wants cheap fuel, the miner wants high wages, and the owner wants, a reasonable profit," says Baer, and to be happy In such a conflict of opposing wishes -he holds Impossible. If the public would only be so sweetly reasonable as to want dear fuel, and the miner to agitate for low wages, then the owner might have a mild pleasure in life, WEX J Did You Ever Wonder? Cincinnati Enquirer. Why a baby carriage Isn't known as cry cycle? Why it is so much easier to be wrong than it Is to be President? Why so many of our coming men seem to be handicapped from the start? Why some people manage to talk, great deal without saying anything? Why the company that Issues the map has the only curvcless railroad thereon? Why a girl seldom objects when young man steals something from under her nose? Why the average man Invariably makes a fool of himself every time he tries to act up? Why men are nearly always embar rassed when they propose either finan daily or otherwise? Why so man" men who are anxious to work when sick are just as anxious to avoid It when well? Why some men are not as black as they are painted and some are not as white as they are whitewasned? On Day and Night Shifts, Brooklyn Union. . If there are really two President Roo3e velts, the Indications are that both are going to work full time during the next four years.. . RELIGIOUS REVIVALS, OLD AND NEW How Far May the Emotions Be Worked Upon "With Beneflcinl "Effect to the Individual Education and Its Effect on the Church. Professor F. M. Davenport, In The Outlook. THERE is a growing- conviction among thoughtful people in Amer ica that the typical religious revival has had its day. The great crises of awakening in the ISth and 19th centu ries have lent aid and comfort to a human proneness toward intermittency of spiritual Interest. They have accen tuated the seemingly rhythmical tran sition of populations from the tropical to the glacial in the religious life. The revival Is fundamentally a form of Im pulsive social action. It has never been at the root a movement of delibera tion, of intelligent volition, but of feeling, of imagination, of Imitation, of social pressure. The extraordinary emphasis of the skillful revival preach er upon the surrender of the will at the climax of emotional appeal has led to an extraordinary amount of conversion by suggestion, which has too frequent ly never advanced beyond that stage of uncanny human Influence. In spite of the great number of genuine changes of moral nature which have taken place as the result of the great revivals. It Is becoming clear that very many persons have been spiritually injured in the process, and that there is a grave social danger in the wholesale emotionaliza- tlon and hypnotization of weak or rc calcitrant wills. Tho man who yields unquestionlngly and uncritically to im passioned appeal In the crisis hour of his religious life will do it in the crisis hour of his political life, and that Is the vice of democracy. We are especially interested in a new evangelism in the United States be cause we have many highly impulsive and emotional elements In our popu lation. It is true that the growth of knowledge through public education. the enormously increased facilities of communication, the sense of security, the measure of well-being, indeed, the very struggle and competition of mod ern life, have, on the whole, trans formed beneficently the primitive emo tional .nature of a large number of our people. The average native-born citi zen In the highly organized centers of population has developed an intelli gence, a self-control, that makes him far less suggestible, less Imitative, less liable to be swept away by great gusts of passion or emotion. In individual cases the reaction is too violent, and prosperity and enlightenment have be gotten the lust of the flesh and tho pride of life. But In the main It is not so. Forthe mass of the people the new life social is begetting a new life men tal, and eventually will beget, let U3 hope, a new life ethical and spiritual. But in nothing does the change more quickly appear than in the growth of calm and disciplined habits in religion Any attempt to maintain on a wide scale the extravagantly emotional methods of other days breaks down ut terly and Inevitably in the midst of town and city life. Thero Is' no problem which confronts the people of the United States into the solution of which a right religious method does not enter as an important factor. The great mass of wage-earners in this country need a form of spiritual training which shall help to develop in them a better poise of mind loan they now possess. The cause of labor is invariably set back when its programme is carried out by hasty and impulsive action. Now and then strategic strike Is a powerful influence in the direction of better wages, a bet ter organization, and remedial legis lation. But it success invariably fol lows upon rational methods, upon pas alon kept in control. The economic as well as. the moral and religious future of the wage-earning classes depends upon their capacity for deliberation For Ill-advised and emotional action they have capacity in plenty. It is well known that lynching in the. South is carried on largely by the Ignorant and baser elements of the white population. It Is also well known that a chief method of religious influ ence and training of the black man and the Ignorant white man alike Js Im pulsive and femotional revivalism, it ODD BITS OF OREGON LIFE. Rumor Exposes Mrs. Pringle's Plans Pittsburg Corr. Rainier Gazeete. Dame Rumor says Mrs. Will Prlngle has purchased an Incubator and is going to raise toothsome broilers for the visi tors to the Lewis and Clark Fair this Summer. Chance for a Revival of Learning. Aberdeen Bulletin. Thee Is a sign on First street which reads: Lundry uun hear. A notice In Jeff Garman's store window announces that the "lady who one the Prize." etc. A tailor sign on F street reads: Clean- lng men's pants and pressing ladles." A sign on Wishkah street reads: "Poeple New and Second Hand Furni ture Store." The Busy Hum of industry. Freewater Times. So many improvements are going on c.ther side of The Times office that we can hardly keep track of them. Mr. Kuebler has built a rabbit fence around his yard. Mr. Fletcher has erected a chicken domicile and Mr. Eastlack has changed his mind. Mr. Fletcher Is also hauling his posts away from our back yard that we had figured on using for wood. How Mamma's Secret Was Kept. Prlraeville Journal. Two diminutive specimens of humanity thrust their heads up to the postofflce window yesterday morning and Inquired for the mail. Mrs. Summers handed tho larger of the two a long package. "Let's see It," said the smaller urchin, as he made a. grab for the parcel. "Nit," said the other, " you don't get a look in on this, it's mamma's new corset and she don't want anyone to know she's got it." The End of Partisan Politics? New York Sun. The President's speeches in the Southwest bubble with personal happi ness, sparkle with original thought and overflow with unselfish effort to make nis fellow citizens cheerful and at the same time to Instruct them. Nothing, however, that Mr. Roose velt has uttered since he left Wash ington Inspires more Interest than those passages in which he indicates his be lief that the Issues of partisan politics are of infinitely less Importance than the questions concerning which party lines are not drawn, or should not be drawn. Questions of social organization and population, for example; questions of foreign policy; questions of government In Its relations to business; questions of political economy; questions of good citizenship and the individual's duties to the community; questions of Federal enterprise In the way of National Im provements Intended for the benefit of all alike: and so on. Indeed, In a broad and philosophical application of the President's theory, as advanced by him at Louisville and elsewhere, what public issue might not be eliminated, by common consent, from partisan politics as the term is at present understood? What question, save perhaps that of the offices and who shall occupy them? Is a dangerous situation, and deserves the earnest consideration of the eccle siastical statesmen of all denomina tions that work in the South. The last thing that the superstitious and im pulsive negro race needs Is a stirring of the emotions. That is easy and meaningless. What they need Is a strict religious discipline that will keep their passions in check and build them up in chastity, industry and in tegrity. Tne whites in the feud belt are not suffering from an absence of reli gion, but from the wrong kind. Their preachers arc great "soul savers." but they lack the practical wisdom to build up thoir emotionalized converts into anything that approaches a higher life. We cannot have among us too much of the right kind of emotion. Senti ment whieh is deep and true and held In leash of tho reason is as valuable an asset for the Nation as for the in dividual. But there is no virtue wheh a free people needs so much as rational self-restraint. The flhect-anchor of per manent liberty In a democracy Is mod eration of mind. And the church most powerfully contributes to this end which strives to be a real center of oooial control. In the main it has been that In the past, and well deserves the gratitude of every lover of his coun try. But the work of restraint in the Nation is by no means accomplished. The subliminal consciousness of prim itive man still slumbers in our popu lation. "The jungle Is wtil and the cub fee Is small. Let him think and be still." The days of the emotional satmped ing of a community are slowly passing away in religion Just as they arc in polltcs. As the voting population grow more rational, the manner of appeal of the political parties Is changing. Torchlight processions and "spellbind ers count for less, and the sober con sideration of candidates and principles through tno medium of newspaper dis cussion counts for more. There Is also an immense amount of careful per sonal work done with now voters, man to man, face to face, eye to eye. Out ward political enthusiasm may not be so great, but actual political thinking and public judgment were never so strong in America. And yet in politics great meetings still have a value. And they may have In religion. In a refined and rationalized, form. The crowd Is natively a primtlve thing. But there Is no reason why It may not be employed by high-minded, leaders as an instrument of helpful ness and Inspiration. And in this form it will still serve the new evangelism. The emotion of the crowd will give the Kfip of reality to spiritual teaching. It will melt the ice of indifference and leaven the soul-life of multitudes. But there will be, I believe, far less use of the revival meeting as a crass, coercive instrument for overriding the will and overwhelming the reason of the indi vidual man. The influence of public religious gatherings will be more Indi rect, more unobtrusive. It will be rec ognized that hypnotization and forced choices weaken the soul, and thero will be no attempt to press to decision in so great a matter under the spell of ex cltfimont and contagion and sugges tion. The earnest preaching of great truths in their modern light, a straight forward appeal to the intellect and con science of men. liberalism attuned to faith and spiritual service, a passionate devotion to the highest ethical ideals In the face of the materialistic Ktandardn of a commercial age. a social rather than an individualistic church that shall pet men on work for the king dom of heaven, the spiritual vlviflcatlon of the multitude this Is the pro gramme of the new evangelism. The converts may be few. Tney may bo many. They will be measured, not by the capacity of the preacher for ad ministrative hypnotism, but rather hr the capacity for unselfish friendship of every Cnristian man and woman. For tho influence upon the world of grow ing men in our time is to be more and more the indefinable and tho unobtru sive influence of personal character. ESSAYS OF LITTLE BOBBIE. Milwaukee Sentinel. BOOKKEEPERS, bookkeepers Is men that started that way and ain't got nun enuff to change thare job. In the morning thay come to the office before thare bo3S. and thay take the books and look to see how much the boss has got coming to him and the moar they sec the bettor they feel, I doant know why beekaus thay only git thare saim salary anyway. my uncle is a bookkeeper, he gits ten a week and that lots of munny for him beokaus he aJnt got a Pa say3 doanf. ao much nn honkk.npr thv , doant go much on bookkeepers thay wud rather have bookmakers. I wudent care to be a bookkeeper bee kaus I cant flgger vary good but I wud like to be a circus actor and turn sum mersets & I bet thay wud pay me moar munny than if I was addin 2 & 2. British Bathing Fallacy. London Chronicle. One of the earliest Impressions of an American in London is that Englishmen regard a bath as a luxury, and not as a matter of course a luxury to bs paid for. At the hotel he has landed in he must pay 50 cents for a warm bath. And his con clusion is that the Englishman, la spite of his traditional tub. Is not a clean man. He cannot afford to be clean in a London hotel. Two warm baths a day. That Is the? American's average. One dollar. He has a wife and a son and daughter. Four dol lars. Reckon out the expense and you will find that this man must pay about $1,500 a year to keep himself and his family clean. The American visitor has figured out that at least 12 calls on that bath are made every day. Forty-five hun dred dollars a year profit from a bath room that certainly did not cost $1500 In the building. "Skunt." Charlotte N. C. Observer. Tou have had crope, roke and drug, and what's the matter with skunt? A young lady a few years ago visited this part of the country who had never seen turpentine worked before and when sh returned to her home told them that the pine trees down here were "skunt" up to the limb. The Norsk Nightingale. W. F. Kirk in Milwaukee Sentinel. To ban, or not to ban dis har ban qvestion; Ef it ban nobler for a common geezer To stand for all dis crazy heartache tongs Or else to yump in river, or in lak. To stand, to yump, to drown dis har ban tuff! To tenk dat ven you push yure head in under Yu ant com up again to tak gude breath 'u ant com op at all. Ay tal yu dis: Ef fallers knew yust vat dis game vould be. Ef ve could tal var ve ban apt to. go After ve die, val. maybe ve ant 'fraid. But ven ve tenk about all dis sulphur laks, And all dese little yiggers dey call imps. Tumping around and yabblng yu vlth forks. Val, den ve say It ant no use . to die Until our time ban com.