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J L SI PLAIN SPEECH.
A Democratic partisan organ puts
forth this statement, to wit:
There are continual insinuations in The
Oregonlan that if the situation were re
versed the Democratic Statement No. 1
members of the Legislature would not elect
a Republican who had received the largest
popular vote to the Senate. . . . But
whence have these evil counsellors any
authority for this assumption? Since when
has it become an acknowledged fact that
Democrats were run !n an entirely different
iporal mold from Republicans? How was
It discovered that because a man classed
himself as a Democrat he thereby sepa
rated himself from truth and honor and
became a man whose pledge could not be
relied upon? What grcund have these
editors for saying that Senators Smith of
Umatilla. Miller of Linn. Coshow. Mulit
and the other Democratic members and
other men like them If such had been
elected, would as a matter of course break
their promise to the people and refuse to
do the particular thing that they had agreed
to do?
-O, bosh, and bosh, and bosh! The
Democratic party is known to the
country as the pro-slavery-secession-'
Confederate - anti-National - repudia
. tion - free - silver - solid -South party;
narrow, bitter, spiteful; opposed to
the spirit of National expansion that
has taken possession of the Panama
Isthmus and holds the Philippine
Islands; and the solid South today is
the emphatic protest of the Demo
cratic party against the course of the
history of the country these fifty
years.
"Truth and honor" are titily rela
tive terms, over which men will dis
pute for shallow party reasons. The
Confederate Government, the Demo
cratic party, the Solid South, repu
diation of the National debt and the
rl(khdmpnt 1 1 f t Vi .1 tii.mm' f tha
country to the silver basis, have
always stood for "truth and honor."
But the whole question is whether
:hs course of one party or of another
in the United States these fifty years
has been the better one for the coun
try, and whether now we are to reject
the one and adopt the other. The
Oregonlan has had some hesitation
to admit that it has been wholly
wrong. However, there are so many
Republicans who don't know, and
think the Democratic party all right,
that The Oregonian admits the defeat.
There is no Republican party in Ore
gon. A party is to be judged by the
. course it adopts and pursues when it
is combative, belligerent, and feels
Its power; not by the course it at
, tempts when, after it has been
whinnprl It trios tr snpak hark int,i
ravor ana power.
But there are many, calling them
selves Republicans, who are easily
beguiled. The Oregonian is not, so
it goes its own course, free from the
trammels of party, but telling the
absolute truth as it is written in the
history of the country.
Nobody who knows the Democratic
party, who has been acquainted,
through experience with its purposes
these fifty years, or with the vehe
mence and purpose with which it has
pursued them, can imagine for one
moment that it would relinquish any
advantage it might gain through the
simplicity, credulity or milk-sopperry
of its opponents. But it find men
who call themselves Republicans
willing to give up the fight. Why
should it not take advantage of the
situation?
Doubtless The Oregonian has been
In error, because it has opposed these
fifty years the pro-slavery-secession-C'onfederate-anti-National,
repudia-Mon-free-silver-solid-South
party and
doubts now whether we ought to sur
render the Pacific islands, control of
the Panama Isthmus and our future
In the commerce of the Pacific. All
Democrats, and great numbers who
tall themselves Republicans, seem
to think so. And so many who
call themselves Republicans appear
to think so that The Oregonian, for
the present, feels that it can do
nothing.
They who don't know that the
Democratic party will do anything to
win don't know the Democratic party.
What has not the solid South these
fifty years done in the effort to win?
What has not the Northern Demo
cratic party, banking on the solid
South, as it still. banks on it, done, or
what omitted, in the effort to win?
But then. Since the Republican
party of Oregon has completely sur
rendered, and has decided to do
nothing more. The Oregonian will
simply go it alone. It can't make any
effective political effort, but it can
still say some things. When a party
deserts all its Ideals, principles and
purposes, as the Republican party of
Oregon has done, who will further
march under its banner? We know
what Governor t'hamberlain and Mr.
Bryan stand for: but we don't know
what the Republican party of Ore
gon stands for except the aberra
tions of such men as U'Ren and
Bourne.
Herein you see the reasons why it
is highly probable that Bryan will
carry Oregon.
Nothing has happened in this coun
try, these fifty years, has there, to
give you an idea of the character and
tendency and purposes of parties?
Nor in the fifty years that next pre
ceded these fifty years? We are now
to set up in business in our own ac
count, without regard to the experi
ence or work of our ancestors. Gen
erations of men are merely the flies
of a Summer.
The Oregonian has been accus
tomed to think and to believe there
was difference vital, fundamental
difference between the Republican
and Democratic parties. But when it
is decided there is none, when Repub
licans admit there is none, and vote
accordingly, why, then one may as
well devote his mind to real prob
lems, such as that of biogenesis, or
whether the opinion of astronomers
as to the position of the stars of the
Great Dipper in the northern sky will
be the same two hundred thousand
years hence as now.
ENCOFR AGING CROP OUTLOOK. y
Neither the fear of further depres
sion of stocks, a continued scarcity, of
money, or the uncertainties of a
Presidential election can interfere
with the natural workings of the
most powerful influence in our indus
trial situation. .That influence is the
enormously valuable crop which is
about to be turned off the American
farms. New wheat is already pour
ing into the warehouses of the South
and Southwest, a fortnight later har
vest will be on throughout the great
Winter wheat belt of the West and
Northwest, and within a month it will
begin in the Pacific Northwest. In
many localities throughout the Amer
ican wheat states, the danger point
has been passed and in practically all
of the others, the time in which
damage may occur is becoming very
short. The great corn crop of the
country is coming along under ideal
conditions and the same is true of
oats and barley. This is a condition
that has never existed in any pre
vious year following a violent finan
cial disturbance.
Compared wijh conditions for 1894,
the year following the big panic of
1893, theshowlng Is strikingly favor
able. The wheat crop of 1894 was
but 460,000, 0(T0 bushels and the ex
port price was about 67 cents per
bushel. The wheat crop for 1908 is
now practicalfy certain to exceed
750,000,000 bushels and the export
price is hovering around 90 cents per
bushel. The corn crop for 1894 was
but 1,200,000,000 bushels and the ex
port price averaged 45 cents. This
year's acreage and condition on Juno
1 indicated a crop .of nearly 3,000,
000,000 bushels and the price in Chi
cago is better than 65 cents per
bushel. The . oats crop shows prom
ise of exceeding any ever harvested
in the country and the price shows
the same proportionate gains that are
noticeable in wheat and corn.
This hopeful harvest outlook is
doing more to restore confidence and
to hasten the, return of normal con
ditions, than can ever be accom
plished by manipulation of the stock
market. When the price of stocks
began rising, under the careful guid
ance and aid of the Wall street
manipulators, general business failed
to respond to the seemingly encour
aging signs. There was no increase
in the forces at the factories and no
disposition on the part of merchants
to stock up with goods. , But with
the assurance of a good crop and
high prices, there has come a revival
in industrial circles. The movement
has not yet assumed great propor
tions, but it is getting under way and
Its influence is spreading. With a
record crop of wheat, corn and oats
and a shortage throughout the rest
of the world, it will be a very diffi
cult matter to retard the recovery
from last October's nightmare.
The Pacific Northwest is in ex
ceptionally good condition to take
advantage of these Improved condi
tions, for the excellent crops this
year are following a record crop at
high prices last year, the Pacific
Northwest being about the only part
of the United States where a large
crop was harvested a year ago. Un
less there, is some unexpected and
unusually severe obstacles arising in
thes meantime, it now seems certain
that the country will be booming
along on a wave of prosperity, as soon
as the crop is harvested.
MERIT, NOT POLITICS.
The Yamhill County Court has ap
pointed Millard O. Lownsdale fruit
inspector for that county. A Me
Minnville dispatch conveying the
information says that "Mr. Lowns
dale accepted the appointment
against his own wishes and only at
the earnct solicitation of the State
Board of Agriculture." The dis
patch further quotes Mr. Lownsdale
as saying: "Before I commence my
official .work I wish to give notice to
the people of Yamhill County that
there will be no two meanings to the
orders I will issue, and no evasion
of such orders will be countenanced."
Yamhill County- is to be congratu
lated on securing the services of such
a fruit expert as Mr. Lownsdale for
the important office of fruit inspec
tor, for the gentleman is not only
letter perfect in his knowledge of the
business, but he can be relied upon
to insist on strict obedience of all
demands he may make on the fruit
growers. Unfortunately for old Yamhill and
the State of Oregon, the position of
Mr. Lownsdale on Statement No. 1
is not fully set forth and unless his
views on that subject are satisfactory,
it may yet be necessary to work the
recall on him. To be sure, Mr.
Lownsdale accepted the position
"against his own wishes," but how
are we to know that in so doing he
has not deprjved some pronounced
Statement No. 1 man of a job?
There are always so many self
seeking politicians scrambling for
anything that looks like an "offis"
that men of the Lownsdale type
usually are unavailable. And yet
it Is refreshing to read that occa
sionally politicians are caught off
their guard, and a man of this type
can be secured for a public office.
Our entire social, political and econ
omic system would be greatly im
proved if we could more -frequently
steal marches on the cheap politi
cians, and secure more Millard
Lownsdales "against their wishes"
to serve the public.
AMERICAN ENGLISH.
Fortunate is the man or the maga
Eine that is easily pleased. To this
profound reflection we are moved by
the perusal of a paragraph In last
week's Outlook which expresses rap
ture altogether out of proportion to
the exciting cause, so it seems to us.
The occasion of the Outlook's trans
ports is an opinion from Dr. Walter H.
Skeat, a distinguished British etymolo
gist, to the purport that Americans
speak as good English as the English
themselves. For this opinion Dr. Ab
bott's magazine thinks Professor Skeat
ought to receive a Carnegie medal.
Doubtless it took some courage for
him to say what he did. But if it is
true, he did no more than his duty as
a professor In Cambridge University.
Professors ought to tell the truth and
take the consequences, be they what
they may, nor should they expect any
reward for doing their duty except the
approval of an admiring conscience.
This admiration must be all the more
welcome, inasmuch as the occasions
for it are so comparatively rare. If
Dr. Skeat's remark was not true, he
ought to be punished for making it,
not rewarded.
But is it true? Is our English as
good as the Britons'? Before one
could rationally undertake to answer
this inquiry he would have to decide
what he meant by Britons' English,
for they speak a great many varieties
of, the language and their dialects dif
fer widely from one another. One kind
of English is spoken in Ireland, an
other in Wales and three or four others
in Scotland. But this is not the worst of
the tale, for in England itself the na
tive of Yorkshire can scarcely under
stand the man from Cornwall or Som
ersetshire, while all of them are unin
telligible to the Londoner, who has a
debased rigmarole of his own, as the
reader of Kipling well knows. Any
untraveled person who wishes to know
what some kinds of English speech
look like in print may turn to Tenny
son's poems, where the Northern Far
mer tries to express himself. The re
sult is amazing, and to some, we fear,
painful. But of course Dr. Skeat had
in mind the speech of educated Eng
lishmen, which is much like that of
Scots and Irishmen, though not by any
means the same. No American of
discernment has any difficulty in tell
ing a Scotchman by his utterance, no
matter how well educated he may be,
and the same may be said of Irish
men, though more emphatically. Eng
lishmen have always delighted to rail
at Americans for our bad manner of
speech. They tell us we are given
over to all sorts of linguistic sins, a
nasal drawl, a slovenly enunciation of
vowels, a slipshod elision of conso
nants and entire syllables; and the ac
cusation must have some grounds, for
newspapers like the Chicago Record
Herald have been known to print tran
scripts from the conversation of shop
girls which was almost as unintelligi
ble as Kipling's cockney dialect. Still
shopgirls do not really represent the
educated class in this country.
In France the best speech is heard
on the stage, and other people feel
confident that their enunciation is
good when it is like that of Bernhardt
and Coquelin. Can we say as much in
the United States? Who would think
of modeling his speech upon that of
our popular actors? Do not they slur
and slobber and mouth their conso
nants as badly as any of the rest of
us? In this respect actresses are even
worse than actors. The average fe
male upon the stage cannot be under
stood without the most painful atten
tion. One lias to construct most of
her lines from fragments of the con
text. Henry James, the novelist, has
been publishing lately in a magazine
some " discourses upon our horrible
American speech, directed especially
to the reformation of women, which
everybody ought to read if he is able.
Not everybody will be able, for Henry
James' English is a language apart
which requires special Intellectual
gifts to be understood. It would be
a patriotic labor to translate his arti
cles into ordinary speech for the mul
titude to peruse, for they contain a
great deal of good sense and sound
criticism.
But bad as our speech is, it has one
advantage over that of the British. It
is essentially the same from Oregon to
Maine and from Texas to Minnesota:
The Westerner makes his "r's" prom
inent and the Southerner obscures
them. The Yankee speaks through
his nose and the Baltimorean enunci
ates with a luscious drawl supposed
to be aristocratic, but put them all
together in a big conventin hall and
not one of them" has the slightest diffi
culty in understanding all the rest If
they do not make too much nise.
Why this essential uniformity of
speech in a country so large and so
diversified as the United States? Our
migratory habits have something to do
with it. The railroads have some
thing. But the principal cause is the
common school. The school is an
alembic in which differences of race,
color, speech, religion and prejudice
are fused and mingled into a common
Americanism. Since the primary pur
pose of language is to be understood,
we believe this advantage to be a very
great one. If it requires the sacrifice
of some superficial elegancies, we im
agine they are well compensated by
the gain in uniformity. It is to the
schoolma'am armed with Webster's
dictionary that we owe our National
homogeneity of speech, and it is not
the least of our debts to her. When the
British have developed a system of
common schools comparable in num
ber, freedom and efficiency with our
own, then, and not before, we may
speak of an "English" language with
some deflnlteness of meaning. At
present, "English" means only the lan
guage of certain eminent writers of
Great Britain, but it bears little rele
vancy to the speech of the common
people.
The Japanese problem in Canada
is now approaching a crisis. The
Canadian government has notified
the Japanese government that the
limit of 400 laborers per year has
already been reached, and that no
more of the Mikado's laboring sub
jects will be admitted until January
1, 1909. According to the Canadian
figures, the number agreed on had
been exceeded at the end of May by
more than 200, with more arriving.
Japan, through its Consul, of course
denies that the limit has been
reached, when the students and tour
ists, who are exempt, are considered.
The great difficulty in both Canada
and the United States Hes in distin
guishing between laborers and stu
dents and tourists. It is no uncom
mon sight to see a Japanese laboring
with culinary utensils in one hand
and a spelling book in the other. The
question naturally arises: Is he a
student or a laborer? We trust that
our Canadian cousins will emerge
from the difficulty with as good grace
as was shown by the Americans when
Canada was sneering at us over the
San Francisco trouble last Winter.
The San Francisco shipowners are
planning another wage reduction,
and, quite naturally, the sailor 'men
are preparing to resist the cut. The
reason given by the shipowners for
the lower schedule, is their inability
to secure good freights. Lumber
freights have declined more than 50
per cent in the past year, and even
at the low rates now quoted, there
Is insufficient business to keep tha
vessels moving. It would seem, from
a casual view of the matter, that
supply and demand would settle this
strike in reasonably short order. Of
course, the dear public, that pays the
bills, has little or no concern in the
matter, so long as there is more work
for men and vessels than can be
handled, but with a surplus of labor
and tonnage, there may be a slight
chance for those who pay the bills,
to yet receive a concession.
The cruiser Colorado was lost at
the entrance to Puget Sound, accord
ing to fake news reports published In
Portland yesterday morning, but
readers of the reliable news in The
Oregonian were spared the sensa
tional jolt. The Oregonian told that
the cruiser Colorado was detained
by fog off Dungeness, anchored in 29
fathoms. When the fog lifted Sun
day she passed Port Townsend at 1
P. M., accompanied by the Pennsyl
vania, bound for Bremerton. The
real news, the true news, you find in
The Oregonian. There are no fakers
among those who serve news to this
paper. This episode exemplifies
again the superior news organization
and facilities of The Oregonian.
A man who has political views
which he strongly believes will, trust
a neighbor of opposite political prin
ciples in everything but politics. They
will be good neighbors as neighborli
ness goes; but opposing each other in
politics, they never will be close
friends, because they know that poli
tics may, and probably will, toring
them to cross bayonets with each
other. It remains true, as it was in
the time of Cicero, that similarity of
political opinions is the only basis of
sure agreement among men. It may
be called irrational. But it is a fact,
nevertheless. Everybody knows it.
Caleb Powers, after four trials, in
two of which he was sentenced to
death, is at last a free man. That
the temperature of the Southern
blood that has made Kentucky
famous has not undergone any rad
ical change is quite apparent in the
fact that two men were murdered
over a discussion of the pardon, be
fore it had been granted 24 hours.
Kentucky has never been famous as
a land .of the strenuous life, but for
sudden death and furious politics,
the Blue Grass State is almost in a
class by itself.
Pendleton boasts having surpassed
Baker City in postoffice business,
which event is set forth as an evi
dence that the former town Is lead
ing the latter. As this is just after
election, it might be well to com
pare the two towns as to candidates
for office In order, that it may be de
termined how much of the postoffice
business is due to the mailing of cam
paign literature. Baker might, get to
the front again by developing more
candidates.
Farmers . voted - Eastern Oregon
"dry" because their "hands" go to
town and get drunk on Saturday
night and do not return to work till
Tuesday or later, if at all. Now It
will be up to those same farmers to
find a way to keep their employes
from getting liquor from drugstores
and blind pigs. If the farmers have
the District Attorney, the Sheriff and
the Judge and, incidentally, the
jurymen, on their side, they may find
conditions better than before.
Mr. H. C. Campbell, now School
Director, has been asked to stand for
re-election. He has filled the position
most acceptably. Yet it is a position
that no one wants to fill, unless will
ing to sacrifice his time and give his
labor for service ot the public. It is
said another Mr. Campbell is offered
as a candidate. But H.' C. Campbell
Is the man whom the voters should
bear in mind.
It Is too bad that we must wait
until after the National election in
November , before starting the guber
natorial fight of 1910. But those
who wish may pass the time whet
ting their knives. y
The next matter to worry our local
politicians will be election of Mayor
next year. Of course, the Presidential
election next November concerns the
local patriots not nearly so much as
that for Mayor.
It will soon be over and then Mr.
Bourne' can take a much-needed rest.
Fortunately for him, fighting if out
on his chosen line does not take all
Summer. The convention is but a
few ' days off."
After the convention is over, Mr.
Bourne might have his man Friday
in Oregon draft a National direct
primary law that will Insure the suc
cess of his political ideas in the
future.
THE OLD GFARD IX JOURNALISM
A Salute to Noted Editors Throughout
the Nation.
Baltimore American.
In the Washington Herald of Sunday
was an article occupying, most of a page
tha run r.im rA nf Arkerican Journal
ism. The word old was used In a purely )
complimentary sense, indicating numbers
of years, but not age. No good editor
really begins to get old until he passes 95.
We find that the editor of the Amerl-
I can is given a position of honor in the
list, and we read the tribute with our
usual blushes. What impresses us most
is the prospect that the article invites is
the swiftness of time and the value of
being interested in one's work. The 40
years have gone by like a succession of
pleasant holidays, and there remains a
feeling of freshness and enthusiasm that
makes the thought of getting out tomor
row's issue just as keenly the supreme
duty of the hour as it was when we re
ceived 3 cents for four pages of newspa
per. If a man takes his labors as editor
and publisher in the right spirit, looking
at the sunshine of life and trying each
day to add to the world's stock of cheer
fulness, he finds that his inkwell is a
fountain of youth.
And we are obliged to the Herald for
proving this fact in its interesting article.
Let us look at the familiar faces. Here
Is General Charles H. Taylor, the wonder
ful young man of the great Boston Globe.
We knew Taylor way back in the snlad
days at Port Hudson, where he was
wounded because he wanted to get ahead
of everybody else a trait he kent on
showing as an editor. He enlisted when
he was 16. and when he went into jour
nalism after the war he worked for $2 a
week. We fear he Is a millionaire now,
but we forgive him. Here is the fine,
strong face of Captain Henry King, edi
tor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, a
capital journalist; and we remember that
he served all through the war and never
knew the meaning of anything but duty
and hard work. Our friend. Alden J.
Blethen, of the Seattle Times, has a face
like that of a bishop. We remember very
w.ell when fire and other disasters over
took Biothen and timid people said he was
done for. That was about a dozen years
ago. Today he is in the millionaire class,
and he is as effective as any young re
porter on his staff. Another old friend is
General H. G. Otis, whom we particularly
appreciate beeaus we have both been
through two wars, which are pretty use
ful preliminary training for journalism. It
is hard to think of Otis being Vi. But
what does that signify? He ought to ba
good for 30 years yet. Then here is our
very dear old friend. Harvey W. Scott, of
The Portland Oregonian, a paper that
stands for everything that is influential
and substantial in the state and along the
Pacific Coast. He made it. and today he
is its soul and its moving force. Of
course, he ever-delightful Colonel Henry
Watterson must cap this little climax.
The almanac shows he is 68. but there Is
more work In him, more freshness, more
eloquence, more progress than in any
youngster on the Louisville Courier-Journal.
If we look for the secret of the Old
Guard's vitality, we find it easily. There,
is no rust on any of them. They imi
tate their newspapers they are born new
every day. They drink from the world's
perennial spring of interest and exert in
each day's tasks the best they have in
mind, soul and estate. We have no pa
tience with those who look upon news
paper work as a drain upon life. It is
the finest possible tonic to health develop
ment, and those who put their all into it
live in the big meaning of the word and
laugh at the idea of ever retiring.
We salute the Old Guard!
LITTLE GIN KILLS BIG BEAR
Hunter With .32 Cart riders Bat; Crlx
aly In Water After Eight Shots.
Vancouver (B. C.) World.
To kill a big grizzly hear, weighing
nearly S00 pounds with a .32-caliber revol
ver la something that few men accomplish
and very few would care to attempt. Yet
that is the unusual feat which Dr. A. Mc
Kay Jordan, the well-known oculist, re
cently accomplished while visiting some
mining claims he Is interested in near
Jedway.
Dr. Jordan, who has Just returned from
a three weeks' visit to mining properties
on Queen Charlotte Island, is having the
skin of the bear dressed by a local taxi
dermist. The eight small bullet-holes in
the skin are In themselves proof of his
unique experience. Of course, it is very
doubtful if the bear would ever have been
bagged had he not been caught in the
water and practically at the mercyof Dr.
Jordan and his friends. .
They were taking a load of supplies to
a new camp in a small boat, and while
passing through a channel between two
islands, which are only a couple of yards
wide, came upon tue bear swimming
across the channel. They headed him off
from the shore, despite the animal's angry
snarls. Dr. Jordan was the only one of
the party who had anything In the shape
of a firearm, and that was only a revol
ver with .32 short cartridges. He emptied
one load of these at the half-immersed
bear, but the bullets had little effect ex
cept to glance off the hard skull and make
the animal redouble his efforts to get
away from his pursuers and reach shore.
Dr. Jordan and his companions got
closer to the bear with their boat, and In
the meanwhile the revolver was loaded
up again. Two more shots were sent into
the animal at short range and finally one,
right over the temple, fired froni a dis
tance of loss than ten feet, did the trick.
The bear doubled up as the bullet crashed
into his brain. The bear was so heavy
that the four men In the boat were unable
to drag him on board, and the carcass
was towed ashore to be skinned and
cut up.
Number of Delegate At Convention.
Kennebec Journal.
Some people have wondered why it Is
that there will be 1002 delegates for the
Denver convention and only 992 at the
Chicago convention, since the representa
tion in both is based upon the representa
tion of the various states in Congress.
The explanation is found in the fact that
the Democrats allowed six delegates each
to the District of Columbia. Hawaii and
Porto Rico, to which the Republicans al
lowed only two delegates each, while the
Republicans allowed two delegates to the
Philippines, which will not be represented
at all in the Democratic convention.
Enigmatical, Yrt Plain.
Blue Mountain American.
How proud Oregon will feel Little
Jonathan. Jr.. the eenior Senator, and
anyone who knows anything at all
about his ability knows he will never
be a Senator to attain any prominence
or prestige, and George E. Chamber
lain. Democratic Senator, of the minor
ity party. Yes, Indeed, honey; we'll get
those several nice appropriations for
the improvement of the Columbia, etc.,
with such a combination in the United
States Senate.
Oh! To Be a Boy Again, in June,
Providence (R. I.) Journal.
Wiliie and Jimmy Brlggs, Frankie
Green and Joe Thomas were ap
proached by a representative of the
Journal yesterday afternoon at "th'
ole fishln" hole" and asked whether
they thought that Taft would be nom
inated on the first, ballot. Jimmy
Briggs. speaking for the bunch, said:
"Gee, mister, we don't know nothin'
about It, but we've got 17 shiners in
this hat and my brother, Willie, got
his leg bit by a eel."
Uarnlng-Needle Yearn In Girl's Body.
Cin?itiu.iti Inquirer.
A darning needle was removed from
the ankle of Miss Fannie Inskeek, of
East Liberty, O., and a phyRician said
she probably swallowed the needle
when she was a child.
DISGIISED POLITICIAS. AT SEA
David B. Hill s and Thomas F. Ryan'a
.Talk Cornea by Wlreleaa.
Washington (D. C.) Star.
Slightly disguised in traveling caps and
other sea togs, two men, going In oppo
site directions, paced up and down the
promenade of an ocean liner, casting hur
ried glances at each other as they met
and parsed. Finally, as they approached J
on one or the laps, one or them stoppeo.
smiled and held out his hand.
"I have made you out at last." he said.
"This Is Mr. Hill David B. Hill. I saw
it announced recently that you were going
abroad."
"Yes. And this is Mr. Ryan Thomas
F. Ryan. Your plans also were pub
lished." "How long shall you be absent, Mr.
Hill?"
"Several months. My itinerary is sub
ject to change. And my progress is likely
to be slow. . This Is my first venture out
of America, and I know no lingo but my
own. And you, Mr. Ryan?"
"I, too. am counting on several months.
I have no hard-nnd-fast date for return.
We shall both miss the Denver conven
tion. Mr. Hill."
"Yes. But the loss is quite supportable.
Do you find it so?
"I have suffered more on other accounts.
My friends down In Virginia wanted me
to go, but the proposition was not to my
fancy. Were you urged to go?"
"Not to my recollection. I am quite out
of the calculation now. . The boys seem
both able and disposed to get along with
out me these days."
"What Is your guess about the conven
tion?" "I didn't know there was room but for
one. It will be Bryan, don't you think?"
"Yes, I think so. He seems to have hyp
notized the party. You will get ba.-k in
time to take part In the campaign. Shall
you do so?"
"I shall probably be speechless during
the whole of it."
"But If the party should recover its rea
son and make a different nomination?"
"That, too. would render me speechless.
I doubt if I should recover from my sur
prise In time to aid the nominee. Do you
sea anything that suggests a return of
reason to the party?"
"No. Rut I'm a religious man and be
lieve In miracles. I don't count even the
Democratic party as past the hope of re
covery." "If you get back in time. Mr. Ryan?"
"Oil, well it matters little as to where I
may be. I could cable my contribution
from Europe,"
"But you haven't decided on the cable?"
"Not yet."
"Shall you see Mr. Croker while awav,
Mr. Hill?"
"I have no engagement with him. and
meeting him will not be essential to the
pleasure of my trip. Tne sea is rough
today, Mr. Ryan."
"Yes, I'm, coming to believe there's no
smooth sailing for a Democrat any
where." PROHIBITION AND DEMOCRACY
With a Statement of What Southern
Prohibition In.
New York World (Dem.)
Henry Watterson says, "Nobody can
be a Democrat and a Prohibitionist."
If the venerable principles of Democ
racy mean anything, nobody can at the
same time advocate personal liberty
and then undertake to dictate what
some other man shall or shall not
drink.
A man'can be a Democrat and a total
abstainer. He can be a Democrat and
smoke or not smoke. But he cannot
without casting aside the fundamental
Jeffer8onian principles undertake to
regulate by law another man'e habits
or morals, any more than another
uian'a religion or tastes.
In the Southern States, where Pro
hibition has been adopted, it is en
forced chiefly as against negroes and
not against white men. On the theory
that the negro belongs to an inferior
race, whose duty it Is to labor In so
briety to build up the white men's civ
ilization. Prohibition can be enforced
on economic grounds, disregarding its
moral aspect and leaving the white
man to do as he pleases.
The system of white men's clubs,
original packages by express and drug
store saloons enables the white men to
regulate the negroes' hablte without
changing their own. somewhat as they
regulate the diet and work of the
horses and mules which are no more
indispensable on a Southern plantation
than is negro labor.
This is Southern Prohibition.
Taft and Grant.
Corvallis Times.
If Mr. Taft be nominated, which
seems certain, much will be heard of
his speech at General Grant's tomb.
The incident is used now by Republi
can friends of his opponents for the
nomination In the hope of weakening
Mr. Taft. It will be used later by his
Democratic opponents for similar pur
poses. It is a Just Judgment to say of
the incident, that while it may have
been a violation of the proprieties, it
is not a matter of vital concern.
The reputation of General Grant has
not been harmed by it. The fact that
he won where others had failed, the
fact that he converted retreating ar
mies into attacking armies, the fart
that he came out of the wilderness and
gave deliverance to the wavering and
beaten Federal forces when nobody
else could do it. places General Grant's
renown upon a foundation so secure
that it matters not if In his youth or
at any other time he drank whole rivers
of whisky. That he did drink in his
earlier manhood, and that it wag s be
setting sin with him, is common knowl
edge. The fact, however, that by sheer
force of superior will, he put aside the
habit and spent his maturer man
hood and declining years In tem
perance. Is a magnificent testimo
nial to the character of the man. If it
does anything, it adds to the luster that
surrounds his name. It Is a living ap
peal to young men. if they have been
foolish enough to acquire the wretched
habit, to put It away with the assur
ance that good will come out of iha
change. Thus. Mr. Taft did no violence
to the reputation of the silent comman
der, but the reference he rhade to the
dead chieftain's youthful sina holds out
hope to any of our young men who
may for the moment be victims of dis
solute habits.
Theories That Boomernnred.
Chlrtiiw Kveninr Post.
"My hearers," said the lecturer.
"The way to brlnu up hshles
Is to shun all the ways that were,
Avoiding 'Ifs' nnd 'maybes
A child should not be rocked to sleep;
This practice," said the speaker,
"Is one from which much woe we reap
It makes the child's brain weaker."
A hearer asked: "They rocked you, sir?"
"Well yes," replied the lecturer.
"Resuming." he observed again,
"An Infant cannot flourish
If fed on candy now and then
Such trash can never nourish.
In later vears we'll surely fee
The working cause is ruthless.
The child that eats the stuff will b
A homely man, and toothless."
One asked: "Did you eat candy, sir?"
"Well yes," replied the lecturer.
"Mv friends." he now resumed his speech,
"When children still are growinr
They should have books that only teach
Good things they should be knowing.
The fairy tales are idle rot
The standard should "be higher;
The child will be. as like as not.
A cunning, crafty liar."
Another asked: "You read them, sir?"
VVell yes." replied the lecturer.
"Now. in conclusion." he declared.
"A child should not be punished;
From spankings It may well be spared
If It Is well admonished.
A child that's whipped for doing wrong
Resents, but does not fear It.
And soon or late will have a strong
And cruel,, wicked spirit."
A hearer asked: "They spsnked you, sir?"
well yes," replied the lecturer.
THE MAN FOR VICE-PRESIDENT
Mention of Secretary Cortelyoir Name
Looked On With Dinfnvor.
Kansas City Star.
The report that the President and Sec
retary Taft look with favor on the can
didacy of Secretary Corfelyou for the
Vice-Presidency discredits itself. ' It
scarcely calls for the denials that come
from Washington, D. C. The objections
to Mr. Cortelyou are only such as would
occur to any progressive Republican.
They are not peculiar to the President
or to Mr. Taft.
Mr. Cortelyou has heen plainly identi
fied with the Interests that tied the hands
of Congress and hampered the Roos?velt
administration. He is not in political
sympathy with Mr. Taft. who is to head
the ticket and stands by the Roosevelt
policies. To say nothing of other con
siderations' that mlsht be urged against
Mr. Cortelyou. these far outweigh any
and all that might be urged in his favor.
The National convention will be con
trolled by men who believe in the Roose
velt administration and in Secretary Taft
and his declarations. It would be worse
than folly for the convention to make
a compromise ticket. The candidate for
the Vice-Presidency should he in abso
lute and unmistakable harmony with the
nominee for the Presidency. Differences
of policy between the candidates should
not be permitted to stand as a tempta
tion to some irresponsible person who
might wish a change in the administra
tion. Five Presidents have died In office,
three of them by assassination, and have
been succeeded by Vice-Presidents. The
first consideration In selecting a man for
second place should be his fitness foe
first place.
Of all the men suggested for the sec
ond place on the Taft ticket. Senator
Dolliver. of Iowa, Is the best qualified,
personally, sectionally and politically. He
has large capacity, fine training. Is in
harmony with progressive Rppuhllcanlsm
and would give the ticket strength where
it will need it most in a contest with
Mr. Bryan. With Mr. Dolliver elected as
Vice-President the country would know
that there would be no change in the ad
ministration's policies should he he called
upon to serve all or a part of Mr. Taft's
term.
T A FT AND GOOD TIMES COMING
Business World Looklne Forward to an
Era of Promise antl Hope.
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Taft will receive the nomination, and.
though the consequence of another
campaign of Bryani.sni are beginning t'
dawn, with greater force upon the
South, it is not apparent how Bryan
can be prevented from being chosen
as Taft's ' opponent. The first stage
of those causes of unrest to the busi
ness world in National politics has
thus been passed, because the general
belief is that if Bryan is opposed to
Taft the election of Taft will be as
sured. The prospect of Taft as President
brings no alarm. He and the President
will have the power to go as far in
making a radical or progressive plat
form as they wish: but by general
consent. Taft. on nearly any platform
which is not repugnant to common
sense, will be welcomed as a harbor of
refuge and a port of safety.
Taft will be a reformer, no doubt,
and every good citizen wants re'orni as
long as there is any need of reforma
tion that is to say, until the earth
ceases to revolve; but his life, hi:; rec
ord, his reputation for balance and
sanity are pledges that no man neurl
fear that lie will hazard 1 lie fate of
his country on an Impulse or excite the
land to such a frenzy of fear that it
will become sick when it is in sound
health.
The era of Taft is now almost uni
versally regarded in the business world
as an era of promise and hope. Good
crops come to the aid of politics; the
stocks of all commodities and products
are low; the manufacturers are think
ing of meeting that di manrl which ix
uuro to come, and when the tide of
confidence, of industry ami trade seis
strongly toward the flood the wheels
will revolve, the mills will hum, anil
in an incredibly short time the man
who tries to recall the black blight of
the past Winter will be regarded us
the garrulous oldest inhabitant so re
mote will the time seem.
Surgeon Grafts) New Leg; on Dps
Chicago Dispatch to New York Herald.
Transplanting of segments of veins,
arteries and organs, and even success
fully grafting on a limb in place of a
missing member, were described by Or.
Alexis Carrel, of New York, at the
meeting of the section of surgery and
anatomy of the annual convention of
the American Medical Association at
Orchestra Hall. Dr. Carrel described a
successful operation, in which the
thigh of a fresh cadaver of one dog
had been substituted for the corre
sponding member of another. Within
a few weeks ttie dog was frisking
about as lively as ever on its adopted
limb. "Lymph glands of the neck, to
gether with the ear and parts of tha
scalj). have been successfully trans
planted." said Dr. Carrel, "and in at
least one case a spleen has been suc
cessfully extirpated and replanted. Jt
has also been shown that if a segment
of an artery from a man or a dog Is
transplanted Into a dog or a cat the
result may be excellent. When tho.
segment of a vein is transplanted into
an artery the vein adapts itself gen
erally to its arterial function."
Dream of Being; Shot Coinen True.
Marion (Ind.) Dispatch to Indianapolis
News.
Albert Shirley, night watchman at tho
Keller chair factory, had a dream ful
filled Saturday nlKht when the calf of
one of his legs was pierced by a rille hall.
Twenty years ago Shirley dreamed hi
would be wounded by being shot. The
dream worried him for eome time, aud
he never forgot it. Albert Landis, Hi
acquaintance, went to the factory Satnr-.
day night to shoot rats. The 22-callber
target rifle Ijindis was handling was ac
cidentally discharged, and the ball passed
through one of Shirley's legs. The lops
of much blood resulted, but Shirley will
recover. He Is very positive the accident
was the fulfillment of his dream of SO
years ago.
Bring: Two-Ton Piece of Coral.
New York Press.
What Is believed to be the largest and
most valuable piece of coral ever gath
ered for any institution In the world lias
just been brought hero by Cnptnln
Joshua Slocum in the Spray, the lo-ton
yacht in which he formerly sailed alone
around the world. The piece of coral,
which weighs almost two tons, is the
property of the American Museum of
Natural History. It was found by Dr.
B. El Dahlgren, who spent several months
off the coast of Andros Island exploring
reefs, gathering coral, and getting photo
graphs for tha museum.
Wife la Made to Skip the Rope.
New Haven Dispatch to New York Trees.
Mrs. John Guy. of Meriden, Ct . tes
tified In the Superior Court that her'hus
band compelled her to jump a rope in
the attic to reduce her weight. Crack
ing a whip threateningly he amused him
self, she said, while she skipped the rope
till she barely had strength to stand.
"He believed with Stanford White that
there is nothing so loathsome as a fat
woman," said she. "and I had to dance
when he shouted at me to do 60."
The Wind Maiden.
Arthur Gulterman In Smart Set.
Her lips, like roses emncarled:
Gave forlh a rill of iRiighter:
fine brought the Joy of the world
Of this, and that hereafter.
So free that magical art
Would scarce avail to hind her.
She danced right into my heart
And locked the door behind her!