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PORTLAND, THURSDAY, AUGUST 80, 1906
' 11
' MR. BRYAN.
The Princess Irene, Atlantic liner,
bearing Mr. Bryan and hl fortunes,
arrived 'at Sandy Hook yesterday. If
all goes -well, he will and In the city
today. Mr. Bryan returtia to his native
land a man who has stood before
Kings. Great "hobles have welcomed
him to their palaces; great scholars
have admitted him to the shrines of
their learned reeearchesj'great think
ers have exchanged thoughts with him.
He has studied the Institutions of Eu
rope and drawn from their merits and
defects lessons which he will hereafter
expound to his countrymen. He has
tried and condemned the ancient civ
ilization of China. He has contemplat
ed the immemorial sorrows of India
and pondered the silent mystery of the
pyramids and the Sphinx. He took
chip from San Francisco a defeated
man, bankrupt In political reputation,
discarded by his party and ignored by
his countrymen. He returns to be met
with a greeting such as nations reserve
for thoir heroes and saviors. The me
tropolis of America .makes holiday to
welcome the great commoner to his na
tive land. A political' party to whose
traditional policies and whose achieve
ments belongs a share of the glory of
our history contributes Its wealth, Its
genius and its eloquence to decorate
the man who hag twice led it to defeat,
but whose ascendant star it now hails
as the emblem of victory and the har
binger of renascent hope. '
Two years have yet to elapse before
the next Presidential election. Meas
ured by the ebb and flow of political
fortunes, this is a long time. It le long
enough for enthusiasm to wane, for ec
stacy to cool, for loyalty to yield to In
terest. Public opinion moves rapidly.
Its recessions from old standpoints are
like shifting views in a scene. Its ad
vances are like the march of an army
of pioneers invading strange lands of
promise. Has Mr. Bryan the qualities
of intellect which will attract the ad
venturous hosts of Democracy and hold
them to . his standard for two long
years? Is he a true sun In the political
heajens, or a beacon of false hope?
Mr. Bryan has Just published a book
which he wrote while in quarantine at
Suez with forty centuries looking down
upon him from the pyramids as they
looked not many decades ago upon an
other transient favorite of fortune. The
book is entitled "Letters to a Chinese
Official," and It contains, as one may
suppose, the best that Mr. Bryan can
say for the civilization which he repre
sents and which he aspires to lead. The
book, so far as his reputation goes for
grasp of social problems and power of
thought, had better never been written.
It is a Summer shower of platitudes.
The thought Is that of a -rotund and
complacent Sunday-school superintend
ent addressing a class of very young
children. Not only does Mr. Bryan fail
to solve the problems to which he ad
dresses himself, but he does not even
know how egregious'.y he has failed.
He revels in exploded formulas. He
sails placidly on a 6ea of unconscious
fallacies. His mind is a charnel-house
of dead hypotheses. He seems not to
appreciate the awful Import of the
questions which he takes up one by
one and complacently dismisses with a
thin coating of error, misunderstanding
and bad logic.
One inetancewlll suffice. Answering
the charge that Western civilization
has found the problems of drunken
ness, poverty, the social evil, the ca
lamities of vice, hitherto insoluble, Mr.
Bryan points with satisfied pride to
the homes for the aged, the insane
asylums and the hospitals as if there
were nothing more to be said. By
heee institutions the problem of evil is
solved, he thinks. Reading Tits unctu
ous Ineptitudes, one is tempted almost
to quote the exasperated writer who
said of these excellent palliative chari
ties that "they are snowballs tossed
into hell." They slss a little, but the
brimstone goes on burning all the
same.
Mr. Bryan has little apparent power
to think to the purpose on social ques
tions. His remedies are far-fetched
and impractical. His expedients savor
of superficiality. The social strains
and stresses which may rend the
world asunder In the next decade or
two eeem'to him mere surface troubles
which can be remedied by an oro
tund phrase. Nothing Illustrates the
essential shallowness of Mr. Bry
an's reasoning better than what he has
to say about the trusts. He proposes
to destroy them utterly. Now nobody
who has pondered the problem of the
trusts at all deeply believes that they
either can or ought to be destroyed.
They are social inventions of the first
importance, ranking in production and
distribution with .the power of steam
in physics. To destroy them would'"be
to rob the world of the finest product
of human Ingenuity in the realm of
economics. The rational politician
wishes to contrive a scheme to spread
the benefits of the trusts over society,
giving each unit an equitable share.
Mr. Bryan is like an 'orchardlst who
should dig up his tree of Newtown pip
pins 'because a bad boy has stolen the
fruit. A wiser husbandman would
preserve the tree and take measures to
see that the fruit went where It be
longed. Bryan's solution of the railroad prob
lem is no better. He proposes to di
vide up the Interstate lines Into sec
tions terminating at the state bound
aries and submit the complete control
of each section of the state which con
tains it. Ultimately he wishes the
state to own -it. To facilitate through
traffic he would have the Federal Gov
ernment retain the ownership of a few
trunk lines. Of the confusion which
this would introduce he seems to have
no conception. Half a hundred con
flicting systems of railroad manage
ment have no terrors for him so long
as they "would prevent what he calls
"centralization." He has no percep
tion that centralization at a state
capital differs in no detail of principle
from centralization at Washington,
while it contains new elements of big
otry, meanness and graft. Of all tyr
annies that of a petty oligarchy is the
most detestable, and if Mr. Bryan
could carry his theories into practice
each state government would become a
petty, narrow, unrestrained oligarchy.
Fortunately for the Nation, those the
ories will never go into practice. Mr.
Bryan is a bread pill which the quacks
In control of the Democratic party wish
to administer to the country to quiet
its restlessness. They will find that
the Nation has got beyond the stage
where it puts its faith either in bread
pills or in those who sell them.
JEROME AND HEARST.
It is a beautiful shifldy between Mr.
Hearst and Mr. Jerome. Which . has
the better of it at this stage it would
be hard to say, but the probable out
come will be the political death of both
combatants and the election of a Re
publican Governor for New York. It
need not be regarded as a special mis
fortune that these gentlemen speak of
each other In plain language. There
are -worse things than abusive epithets.
The lack of epithets in recent politics
has not been one of its most hopeful
features. If a man is a rascal, there Is
really no -way to communicate the fact
except by 6aying so. Whether from
cowardice or from kindness of heart,
Americans have refrained of late years
from calling thing's by their right
names in politics, and the result has
been a flourishing crop of about the
worst political scoundrels in the world.
At least our abounding charity for ras
cality has contributed to that result.
It may be rather a good thing ,for
plain language to come back into poli
tics for a while. If Mr. Hearst Is "so
cially vulgar and morally obtuse," why
should not Mr. Jerome say so? If Mr.
McClellan is a "wretched little office
thief," there is no good reason why Mr.
Hearst should conceal his knowledge of
the unhappy circumstance, nor would
he contribute to the public good by
suppressing the fact that Mr,' Jerome
is "a nervous, feeble, neurotic creature
who was elected on promises that he
never meant to keep," if it is a fact.
We infer that it is a fact, for Mr.
Hearst is an honorable man. So are
they all, all honorable men. Therefore
what they say of each other must all
be true. Being true, it ought to be
published; for is not all truth whole
some? OBJECT-LESSON IN PROTECTION.
Imitation is said to be the sincerest
flattery. If this be true, we are very
highly flattered Just at present by our
Oriental neighbors, wo are imitating
us with a protective tariff policy mod
eled on the same hard-and-fast lines as
our own. As an object-lesson calcu
lated to show us by application how
the protective tariff works when we
are holding the hot end of, the poker,
this Oriental policy is Instructive in the
extreme. It strikes home so close to
every wheatgrower on the Pacific
Coast that there can be no mistaking
its meaning or effect.' For more than
five years the large and rapidly-growing
Oriental flour trade has created
such a demand for wrheat that, instead
of the European wheat market making
the price locally. It has been governed
largely by Jthe milling demand. On ac
count of relatively lower freights to the
Orient than to Europe, and a good de
mand at high prices for bran, shorts
and mill feed, wheat for the milling
trade has commanded a liberal pre- (
mlum over the price warranted by the
Liverpool market.
Within the past two years a number
of mills, some of them quite preten
tious affairs, have been established in
China and Japan. These mills now
have an output, if they are operated to
their maximum capacity, sufficient to
reduce materially the demand for Pa
cific Coast flour. But, while the Ori
ental taste has been educated up to a
point where it calls for a large amount
of American flout, it has been a little
slow in providing a market for the offal
from the mills. This advantage of the
Pacific Coast miller has been enough of
a handicap for the Oriental to prevent
their mills becoming very serious com
petitors of American millers. Finding'
that the natural untrammeled laws of
trade were in favor of. the American
miller, Japan proceeded to protect her
infant milling Industry -with a tariff
sufficiently high to cause Pacific Coast
millers some uneasiness. China, which
now has the largest mill in the Orient,
even surpassed the Jape in liberality to
her own people. She has not only ar
ranged for the imposition of a tariff on
Imported flour, but will also Impose a
duty on wheat grown in the United
Btates.
We can 6till sell wheat to Japan, and,
for the present, it is to the advantage
of the Hongkong millers to secure
.stocks from us, but with either wheat
or flour we are at a disadvantage com
pared with the "favored nations" which
practice reciprocity. Some liberal en
gagements have already been made for
wheat to be shipped to the Oriental
mills this season, and indications are
that there will be a Considerable
amount of this business handled. The
wheat thus shipped, however, will not
be purchased on the Pacific Coast mill
ing basis, which has been such a factor
in prices in past seasons. Instead it
will be bought on the old Liverpool
basis.
The profit which enabled the Pacific
Coast miller to pay much higher prices
than were warranted by the Liverpool
market will now all "be absorbed by the
Oriental miller. If the duty as now
proposed is insufficient to protect the
Oriental mills, it will be a compara
tively easy task to increase it to" a
point where there will be great induce
ments for the Pacific Coast miller to
get out of the business. With the Pa
cific Coast wheatgrowers paying an
enormous ad valorem duty on grain
bags to protect an infant industry at
home, and being forced to sell their
wheat at a relatively lower figure than
for many years in order that an infant
industry in Japan should be protected,
we are afforded an excellent Illustra
tion of the workings of that great mod
ern system by which thousands have
been impoverished In order that a few
might become Immensely -wealthy.
DERELICT DIRECTORS.
It is a relief to learn that the Pres
byterian Church will lose nothing, or
next to nothing, by the failure of the
Real Estate Trust Company in Phila
delphia. The losses will fall, where
they belong, on the individual deposi
tors, who were lured to place their
money with Mr. Hippie by his reputa
tion for piety and his standing in the
councils of the Presbyterian Church.
The board of ministerial relief does not
lose a cent; it is the washerwomen and
day laborers -whose money is gone. I
Not only was Mr. Hippie himself a
man of exemplary piety, high in the
councils of the church, but his board
of directors was composed of eminent
financiers, church dignitaries and men
of letters. Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, the
famous novelist, was one of them.
These directors really knew nothjng
about the affairs of the -bank which
they -were supposed to control. They
did not even look at the securities
which Hippie took for his loans. Their
sole function was to lend their respect
able names and their social influence
to entice victims into Hippie's snare
and keep them contented -while he
robbed them. They did not intend to
do this, but their intention cuts no fig
ure in the result. Morally they were
Hippie's accomplices.
There ought to be some .way to make
boards of directors do their duty, but
what that way may be seems difficult
to discern. Their tendency to lull
themselves Into fatuous security while
a thief involves them in robbery and
disgrace seems Ineradicable. The in
surance directors of evil fame -were not
quite on a par with those of this hap
lessfiank, for the former -were actual
as well as moral accomplices- In the
crimes of their officials. It would seem
that the law ought' to attach financial
liability to directorships. If rich and
pious directors could be held legally
liable for such losees as Hippie has In
flicted upon his depositors, they would
be more careful to . know what was
going on in the bank or the insurance
company, or whatever It might be that
they pretended to direct.
The New York Sun recommends so
cial ostracism to punish these dereliet
tions of wealthy men, and the remedy
sounds well, but it Is out of the ques
tion. President Hadley spoke of it long
ago, but his own conduct has since be
lied the sincerity of his suggestion. As
a matter of fact, society la largely
composed of people who are in the
same boat with derelict directors, de
linquent bankers and absconding cash
iers. Mprally, society sees nothing
wrong in acts of this kind, so long as
they do not get a man into jail. It has
no standards of right and -wrong, and
can have none, for society exists, -not
to do right, but to enjoy Itself. An
agreeable thief is and always will be
socially preferable to a crusty Aris
tides. Morals have no place in high
society, and one is surprised to see
a newspaper which knows the world as
well as the Sun speaking as if it be
lieved they existed there and could be
made a reformatory power. If matters
can ibe so arranged that criminality or
negligence will hurt their pockets, di
rectors will do their duty; otherwise
not.
- PROSPERITY'S FLOOD TIDE.
The financial currents of the country
in many features bear strong sem
blance to those of the ocean. The ebb
follows the flow, and the flow follows
the ebb. When the full-moon tide re
cedes, after reaching farther inland
than usual, it leaves piled up on the
beach, at high-water mark, an assort
ment of flotsam, jetsam and derelicts
which -went a little too far when the
flood was at its height. So with the
financial tides which 6weep over the
country, catching In their eddies and
swirls human . derelicts and wreckage
cast up on the beach to remain after
the ebb sets in. Nearly all of the In
dustrial enterprises of the country are
now booming along on a flood tide of
prosperity, and, intoxicated with the
swiftness of the motion, many of
them are not keeping a very close
watch on the tide-gauge. Speculation
in Wall street has been stirred up to
a marked degree by the recent sensa
tional advances in railroad stocks.
The man who displayed no manifest
desire to buy Union Pacific at $150 or
under suddenly decides that it is
worth having at J175, and the man
whose attention -was not attracted at
175 plunges in at $185.
Perhaps the prices toward which
some of our industrial and railroad
stocks are climbing are warranted by
conditions as they now exist. It is an
other question whether they will be
warranted by conditions which may
obtain many months hence. Nearly
every big railroad in the country is
swamped with business. Some of them
are months behind in their orders for
cars, and all of them are taxing their
facilities to the limit. This phenom
enal business, of course, reflects a sim
ilar remarkable prosperity in all ave
nues of trade, -which supply traffic for
the railroads. It is on account of this
tremendous business that the various
railroad and industrial stock manipu
lators are enabled to declare dividends
and make financial showings which at
tract investment. But nothing in the
history of the past or In a critical
study of conditions as they now exist
warrants the belief that there is any
thing permanent in the present sky
rockety market for certain stocks.
The country will catch up with itself
some time, and when it does and prices
gravitate to a sane and safer level,
there is trouble in store for those who
have overinvested with the belief that
it was a permanent and not a transi
tory condition that imparted the great
value to their purchases. Even if this
tide of prosperity could be kept at the
flooding stage Indefinitely, the fancy
prices toward which some of the stocks
are soaring would not be warranted.
If the public were to become satisfied
that conditions which have brought
about the present big dividends and
high prices are permanent, there would
be an Instant and irresistible demand
for lower transportation rates, and
with the reduction of rates would tot
course follow a reduction in stock
prices and dividends.
The high rates of the Harriman
roads have been tolerated in the past,
because for years Mr. Harriman has
been spending the earnings most liber
ally in the betterment of his properties
and in placing -them in a physical con
dition where they could be operated
with economic advantage to both the
shippers and the railroad owners. Now
that the roads are nearing perfection
and are In a condition where enough
money for phenomenal dividends can
be 6pared from the betterment account,
stock prices and dividends should be
placed on a basis of reasonable profit
on the investment. That they will
eventually rest on that basis is a cer
tainty, although the present era of hys
terical finance in Wall street may
cause some trouble for the "Iambs."
The heavy tone and lower prices in the
New York stock market for the past
few days would indicate that the signs
of an approaching turn of the tide
had not escaped the attention of all of
the "drifters" on Wall street's finan
cial tide.
The British steamship Twickenham,
the latest victim of the v treacherous
waters at the entrance of Puget Sound,
has been successfully floated, and,
while the damage to the vessel will not
amount to many thousand dollars, her
sugar cargo was damaged to the extent
of about $60,000. The total bill to be
footed by the underwriters will approx
imate $100,000. As the Twickenham
was under charter to load lumber at
Portland after she had discharged her
inward cargo, the underwriters will
probably charge this loss against Port
land. The International Association of
Saillng-Ship Owners might also find in
this Incident an excuse for increasing
the differential against Portland. Of
course, accidents such as happened to
the Twickenham are unknown in the
Columbia River, but tha habit of blam
ing Portland and the Columbia River
for every marine disaster which hap
pens within a thousand miles of this
port has toecome chronic.
The MerchaAt Marine League of the
United States has hung up $1000 in
prizes for the four best es-says on "How
to Build Up Our Shipping in the For
eign Trade." In order that the stu
dents who make an attempt to win
these prizes may get off on the right
foot, the league offers to send, post
paid, an elaborate array of documents
which have been compiled by the
league for tee purpose of influencing
public sentiment in favor of a ship
subsidy. If the writers of these essays
confine themselves strictly to an ex
planation of the "best" methods for
building up our shipping In the for
eign trade, the league will get a very
poor run for Its money, There will be
nothing in these methods which will
In the slightest degree sanction or rec
ommend the subsidy system so ardent
ly sought by the bounty-Jiunters, who.
In spite of numerous repulses, are still
on the trail of tha graft with as much
eagerness as ever.
A San Francisco dispatch In yester
day's Oregonian stated that the South
ern Pacific had received advices that
Mr. Harrlman's Mexican railroad ex
tension from Guaymas to Alamos had
been completed, and the"" Cananea,
Yaqui River & Pacific line, from Ala
mos to Teplc and San Marcos, would
shortly be ready- for operation. It
would appear from this that the bull
fighters of Old Mexico are now afforded
rail transportation over the Harriman
lines. In this respect they are still
several months and perhaps years
ahead of the bullpunchers of Central
Oregon. One hardly realizes what an
isolated region we live In until we read
of the facilities enjoyed by the people
of distant lands, which, we have all
along been led to believe, were yet
hardly civilized.
The policy of drastic punishment
which was predicted as a result of the
carnival of assassination' now on in
Russia will 'not be carried out. Stoly
pin has declared against it, and wilj
continue to atfempt suppression of Il
legal acts toy old methods. The outlook,
of course; is not bright for his success,
but Russia apparently expects to draw
on her lessening supply of patriots as
rapidly as there Is necessity for their
replacing those who are removed. The
official statement of the government
quite confidently asserts that "revolu
tionists may try to destroy the work
of the government but finally they
must fail, as the government cannot
refrain from the fulfillment of reforms
simply because one statesman or an
other may be replaced." '
I
The wonderful possibilities of inten
sified farming by irrigation methods
are shown by an affidavit made by a
Spokane small farmer that he had
marketed up to, August 16, from five
eighths of an acre, dewberries which
netted him $651.45, an out-turn of ap
proximately $1000 per acre. Land in
the Irrigated districts of Spokane pos
sess no qualities superior to those of
thousands of acres of similar land all
through the Pacific Northwest, and
several generations hence, when the re
turns per acre from wheat and other
present-day crops become so insignifi
cant in comparison with those from
Intensified farming, Oregon will have a
prosperous population of several mil
lions of people.
Congressman Fordney, of Michigan,
singles out one of the land-fraud, de
fendants to declare that "while he
broke the law, he dldnl do it inten
tionally." There Is, we suppose, no
necessary connection between the Con
gressman's possession of such opinions
and his ownership of large bodies of
timber land.
President Peck, of the National Bar
Association, is much provoked at the
"shysters" and says harsh words
about them. Any member of the as
sociation would no doubt be willing to
engage his services to any one who will
employ Jiim to institute disbarment
proceedings.
The Nebraska delegation at New
York evidently fancies Itself to be a
committee to notify Mr. Bryan that he
has been nominated and elected Presi
dent of the United States.
Some way it looks different to Mr.
Bryan from the New York of 1896. As
things now stand, he can have any
thing New York has to give except Its
electoral vote.
Undoubtedly there are subjects on
which "Cap" Ormpby has no objection
to telling all he knows, truthfully; but
Mr. Heney forgot to mention any of
them to him.
Can it be that Mr. Wellman aban
doned his balloon and left -the North
Pole to its solitary fate because his
supply of hot air gave out?
Even Mr. Bryan is now convinced
that it isn't the "enemy's country."
But it's an off year.
Bryan is in New York, and the story
is long. Hot air must have room for
expansion.
Write on Hia Tomb: "Speerhmaker."
Washington (D. C.) Star.
Years have elapsed since W. J. Bryan
was known as the boy orator. Critics
of his foreign speeches do not go so far
as to intimate that his oratory as well
as his boyhood is a thing of the past.
INEBRIETY TREATED AS INSANITY
Notable Paper at Meeting; of the
British Medical Aaaoclation.
Extract from address of Dr. T. D.
Crothers, superintendent of Walnut
Lodge Hospital, Hartford, Conn. ?
The term Inebriety describes a con
dition which calls for alcohol .for its
anaesthetic effect, and in reality means
a disease of the brain for which alcohol
is a most grateful remedy. The use of
alcohol is in most, cases a symptom
of some disorder.and not, as supposed,
the cause and the theory that the ex
cessive use of spirits is a vice and
moral condition Is not true. Great in
justice and wrongs follow the efforts
to correct this evil, based on these
false theories, while a scientific study
of inebriety indicates a definite dis
ease, with distinct causes, progress,
and termination, the same as other
diseases.
Two marked symptoms of insanity
are prominent. One Is found in the
periodic drinker, who drinks to excess
for a short period, then abstains. The
drink period is practically an acute
mania, or Insane impulse, which re
sists all effortsof control. It is often
preceded by Insomnia, headaches, and
great irritability. Such persons drink
both secretly and openly, and act like
insane persons. The disease resembles
epilepsy in its sudden, convulsive
onset and the inability tp break up or
control it except by the harshest
measures.
-, jr.,ln,t
in many cases iners aio
conduct. reasoning and appearance
which the victim aoes not reauie. x-i
others there seems to be a full con
sciousness of Its coming, and extraor
dinary card' is taken to make the at
tack as light ns possible and with as
little pecuniary loss. Such patients
make elaborate preparations In busi
ness affairs, providing for their
absence, explaining that they expect to
be away on business. Many persons
suffering In this way are influential
and are burdened with cares and re
sponsibilities. They suddenly disap
pear lrom their business, secreting
themselves In, some out-of-the-way
place, drinking to great excess for
a few days or weeks, then returning.
These concealed drink storms are very
common among the business and pro
fessional men, and not Infrequently
there Is a remarkable periodicity in
the return of the drink Impulse. In
one instance the free Interval was
exactly 91 days and the drink storm
nine days. In another the interval
was 210 days and the length of the
storm about five days. Another large
class of patients are secret midnight
drinkers, who never drink at anyother
time. Often the drink paroxysm brings
out a different personality, and the
patient while drinking Is an entirely
different character In reasoning and
conduct.
Certain atmospheric and electrical
conditions seem to be active in pre
cipitating tae drink attacks. One
man only drinks at the seashore,, an
other on high elevations. One drinks
In certain climates and seasons or the
year and at no other time. Many
persons drink heavily in large cities
and are strict abstainers elsewhere.
These cases all have a marked heredity
from neurotic parents, and most of
them show defects and Irregularities
of nutrition, absence of proper sleep,
and strains and drains. Pneumonia,
apoplexy consumption and paralysis
are the common terminations.
Another form of insanity is seen
in the constant drinker, who drinks
daily in eo-called moderation, and, be
cause he is not Incapacitated, believes
that ho is benefited. Measurements by
instruments of precision and careful
studies of persons who drink regular
ly, even in so-called small quanti
ties, Indicate that they are the most
degenerate and defective of all in
ebriates, and the most positively in
sane in a general sense. Tests show
that the action of alcohol, is ac
cumulated, and both the brain and
nervous system are permanently de
ranged. The- insanity of inebriety is
a medical subject, and until the pro
fession has taught the public the facts
of this disease and the rational means
of treatment, the utmost confusion
will prevail. This Is the new army of
the Insane, developed by our civiliza
tion, and this Is the new field of prac
tice for medical men in every com
munity. It Is our duty toNlift It out
of the realm of credulity and quackery,
and bring it into the field of exact
science. Then, and only then, shall
we be able to provide exact means and
measures for its prevention and cure.
F.zra Meeker Loses One of Hla Oxen
Lincoln (Neb.) Star.
Ezra Meeker, the aged pioneer, who is
traveling from Oregon to Ohio with the
same old wagon In which he and his wife
made the trip out West in 1852. is now
in Kearney. He has had a streak of bad
luck, losing one of his best oxen, so that
he is now traveling with one ox and a
cow.
Secretary Mellor, of the State Fair
board, has a letter from Mr. Meeker, giv
ing a brief outline of his trip and the
purpose oflt.
He says:-
"After seven months of strenuous work
I have arrived here in a crippled condi
tion, having lost my fine ox. Twist, leav
ing me but one ox and a cow and my old
time wagon. On my trip. I have erected,
or provided for the erection of, 19 monu
ments to perpetuate the memory of the
Old Oregon trail, which I helped to make
in 1852, when I went to Oregon in that
year.
"I crossed the Missouri at Council
Bluffs, May 19, 1S52, traveled up the Platte
and Sweetwater to the summit of the
Rockv Mountains and thence to Puget
Bound where I have been e-ier since. I
have already retraced 1S36 miles of this
trip at the age of 76 years. I do not . con
sider this any great feat but other people
do."
Egg- of t'nlverse on III" Travel.
Chicago Chronicle.
Bchanzln, who was King of Dahomey
before the French broke his power, has
left Marseilles for Algeria. While he
was King he reigned in great splendor.
His chief title was "His Majesty Be
doazin Boaldjere Hossu Bowele, Emperor
of Dahomey, Lord of Abomey, Son of
Requin and Egg of the Universe." Ho
was guarded and waited upon by thou
sands of female adherents. Guards of
amazons were stationed outside his
apartments.
How He Knows.
Chicago Poet. "
How does I know when de day la hot.
Honey. I sits In er shady Boot
Bn notice de way dat de white man walkt
En lissen de way dat the white man talks.
Ef hit wasn't fer dat, w'y I suppose
I r-eveh would .know
But what I 'uz freezln ontil I 'tit frose
Hit's suttenly so.
Houn" dog he layin' beaide de do'.
Tail dee so feeble 'twon' wag no mo';
De leaves on de trees hangln" poWful atlll
But de white man talkln' de lit ter kill!
Ef hit waen't fer dat seems ter me
I neveh would know
De day glttln' hot e er day can be
Hlt'a auttenly so. ,
Files goes er loafln' along .de wall.
Xoddln' ter sleep till dey slip en fall;
En nothln' er movln' in all de town
But de white man runnln" erroun" en' roun".
Ef hit wasn't fer dat, de chances Is
I neveh would know
But what I 'uz freezln' en froze en frla.
Hlt'a suttenly so.
White man er cussln' erbout de heat.
White man er atompin' wld bofe hla feet
En moppln Ms face till hlt'a red as red
En dat'a how I know, dea lak I said.
Ef "nit wasn't fer dat, w'y I auppose
I neveh would know
De sky wasn't heavy wld Ice en snow
Hit's suttenly so.
CHARLES DANA OIBSON HOMESICK
Mar Abandon Hia Studies of Art In Eu
ropean Centers.
New York Commercial.
Charles Dana Gibson is homeslek, ac
cording to letters received from him by
friend in New York. When he set his
face resolutely against all temptations to
continue a black-and-white artist and
started for Europe to study the cele
brated canvases of Spain, France and
Italy, he was told that he was too In
tense an American to remain away from
Broadway for three years. He laughed
scornfully.
"Really, I shall be glad to be rid of
the uproar and dust." he declared. "Be
sides. I am tired of being identified with
one National type. Catholicity is the
true spirit a"nd cosmopolitanism the high
est Ideal In art." ,
So he sailed for Spain.
It appears that had it not been for the
protests of those who are with him he
would "have come back to the United
States a month ago, on the completion
of his Spanish tour. At. that date he
had had enough of European art gal
leries for a lifetime. Thus he has writ
ten in substance.
New York art circles are asking wheth.
er Mr. Gibson, after weakening In one
part of his programme, i likely to weak
en In another. What if he should decide
to return to black and white? Some of
his friends think it was the example of
Whistler, who began as an etcher and
then took up oils, that prompted Dana
to make his own departure after many
years of devotion to the art in which he
became famous.
As Whistler reverted in old age from
oil to etching and urged his contempora
ries to think of him and describe him as
an etcher and not a painter, it will be
interesting to note how far the analogy
will be carried in the case of Gibson.
There Is no black-and-white artist liv
ing to surpass him. Will the great paint
ings of the Old World read him the les
son of the folly of his new ambition?
Disappointment In the Hayfleld.
New York Sun.
To the Editor of the Sun Sir: This
is the damnedest haying ' weather I
ever see in over 40 years. Me and the
hired men have bene haying for the
last month and we're not half thrrugh
yet. Get up in the morning, not a
cloud in the sky. Looks like good
weather. Go up lots and cut hay all
the forenoon. By noon it clouds up
and shortly after begins to rain. It
rains all the next day. The day after
a patch of blue sky as big as the milk
house appears. We hustle up lot to
turn the hay and get it in passable
shape to come In. Then we start to
cart it in the barn. Get in one load
and it begins to rain again, and we're
a week getting in a few loads of hay,
which after it is in th.e barn is fitter
for bedding than fodder.
Talk about the cotton leaks, railroad
rebating or the packing-house scandal,
they are a mere nothing as compared
with this abominable article the
Weather Department is giving us
farmers. And to make matters still
worse ihey villainously label rainy
weather fair and fair weather rainy.
In the face of these facts it is high
time President Roosevelt appointed a
committee to Investigate the Weather
Department, and the rascals, no matter
how high up In Washington Boriety
they may be, will be lynched by a dele
gation of farmers. "
LONG ISLAND FARMER.
Rocky Point, L. I.
a Case of William the Premature f
Charlotte Observer.
The New York Sun Is entirely right
In its assertion that Mr. Bryan would
have done well to remain away until
1908.
Since the recent deelaraf ios In his
favor the Nebraska'n will be forced to
practically take the stump, and in two
years even the Democratic party is
likely to become tired of him. Had he
not gone abroad when he did, the pres
ent Bryan wave would not have rolled
out upon the beach as it has certainly
not at this time. It became apparently
so high that a number of outsiders
were drawn In to swell its volume. But
two years of Mr. Bryan as a candidate
Is a long time; it is a long time to
have to listen to anybody, and we
would not be surprised should the Ne
braskan have to fight for the nomina
tion in 1908.
The Indorsements by state conven
tions bind nobody, not even them
selves, as Mr. Bryan has himself de
clared, and they may take it all back
before the Summer of 1908.
"Uncle Joe" Buttons Are Out.
Washington (D. C.) Dispatch.
, Citizens of 2f states temporarily re
siding in' Washington, D. C-. have
signed a call for a meeting at the Rb
bltt House Thursday night to organize
to help afong "Uncle Joe" Cannon's
Presidential boom. Thousands of but
tons have been ordered for distribu
tion. The Speaker's picture will be' on
the buttons, with words attributed to
the President on the occasion of
Speaker Cannon's recent visit to Oys
ter Bay:
:" MR.' SPEAKER: :
: You Will Be the Next President. :
Rich Man's Coves Fare Well.
Newberg Graphic.
E. S. Craven has sold his second
crop of clover to Mr. McEldowney, of
Portland, the price being $9 per ton
delivered at the boat landing. The crop
is estimated at 25 tons. It is understood
that the hay is to be fed to Mr. Ladd's
fine calves.
BRYAN'S HOME-COMING
BRYAN LOSES HIS PICTVRES.
But There May Have Been Good
Reason for Loss.
New York Sun.
The loss of a bundle of portraits of
William J. Bryan taken in London has
an element of mystery In it. Perhaps a
solution may be found In what ts called
"the most striking portrait of Mr. Bryan
ever published," one of the London series.
The Bryan trousers are shocking to the
sartorial soul. Full and floppy at the
ankle, they fall in folds from the knee,
and sign of create there is none. The
coat, a statesman's frock, fits fairly well,
but has no distinction, no character. Is
too ample in the skirts, and is altogether
inadequate and disappointing. The set of
the cravat Mr. Bryan Is responsible for;
it Is without symmetry and is, besides,
painfully awry.
Mr. Bryan has one broad, nervous hand
resting on the back of a settee and the
other Is half thrust between the buttons
of his coat. He stands up straight, a
fine bulk of a man; and his expression
is consciously statesmanlike.
What will occur to an admirer of Mr.
Bryan Is that he should have a- better
tailor. His fame requires It and his
form deserves It. Where the bundle of
portraits is Scotland Yard and the em
bassies must employ all their resources to
find out. One look at the trousers in the
"most striking" picture of Mr. Bryan
should put them on the trail of the
criminal. Could he be any one else than
an artist tailor who resented the gar
ment on Mr. Bryan's legs and desired
to sec him taken in trousers that would
add to his dignity as a citizen of the
world and Its leading statesman?
Realty Declines at Classic Newport.
Newport (R. I.) Despatch.
Newport's realty is waning in com
mercial value, experts sTy, who view
with alarm the refusal of bidders to
go beyond offers of $40,000 for Lynden
hurst, the home built by J. M. Hodgson
at Bellevue avenue and Webster street.
The executors withdrew the property
fet that figure Saturday afternoon, say
ing the sum was ridiculous and totally
inadequate even to cover the cost of
the decorative work for which the
place long; has been famed. Other es
tates now on the market remain un
sold because prospective buyers want
them for practically nothing, as com
pared with, even the assessed valua
tions. At the Hodgson sale the real
estate men were well represented. The
bidding started at J5000. Mr. Cutting
making the offer. Henry C. Anthony
and Benjamin Hall, of Portsmouth,
raised the price for a time on $500 bids,
and then the jumps were J1000 each,
but none would go over a bid of J40,
000. The principal estate not being
sold, the stable property in Narragan
sett avenue was not offered.
rropliet Says Government Dies 1015.
Asbury Park (N. J.) Dispatch.
Delegates to the Watch Tower Bible
Students" convention In Asbury Park
were visibly awed by the strange
prophecy of John Edgar, of Glasgow,
Scotland, who told what was going to
happen in America between 1911 and
and 1915.
"In September of the year 1911 the
people will rise up againRt the Gov
ernment. In the year 1912 the people
will see that they have made a grave
mistake, and durlns; the time between
the years 1913 and 1914 the people will
leave the Government alone. At the
end of the year 1914, state, church and
the people will be at war with each
other. In the year 1915 the greatest
thing will come to pass the people
will again rise up against the authori
ties and the Government and this
time they will demolish all forms of
government."
How It Seems Down Sonth,
Memphis Commercial Appeal.
We feel that we owe the gentle
women of the old South an apology.
In speaking of the monument to the
Confederate women, we wrote that
they hadthe hardest of all tasks to
perform: that "they had to stay at
home and wait." This appeared in the
paper, "they had to stay at home and
wail." There could be no greater re
flection upon the Southern women than
this, and we wish to say that it was
an altogether unpardonable typograph
ical error.
Newspaper Independrnpe.
Jewell City (Kan.) Republican.
This paper does not wish to be con
sidered a party organ any more. It
does not wish to be under party obliga
tions It prefers to be known as a
newspaper that believes In Republi
can principles as set forth by President
Roosevelt and his friends a paper
that belltvea the Republican party Is
the best party there is; a paper that
will always support ' the Republican
ticket unless it thinks it has good
reasons for not doing so; but that yet
feels free to commend any good
measure other parties may advocate,
or oppose any bad measure the Repub
licans may advance: and whenever the
Platts, the Aldriches, the Burton.s,
Kelleys and railroiid interests domi
nate a convention and dictate a ticket
we want to be free to say Just what
we think about it. Our judgment will
sometimes be faulty, no doubt, but we
hope it will not he prejudiced. In
this way we believe the paper can
better serve the interests of Jewell
County people than it can as a strict
party organ that Is always expected to
be candid only when candor will not
hurt the party. We make these state
ments becatise we want only such
recognition from the Republican party
as it is willing to give to a paper
occupying this positien. .
-From the Chicago Tribune.