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He is a man of clear and firm opinions, judicious and mod erate, of even mental balance, neither eccentric nor merely sentimental. He is a good speaker, but not merely an orator; he Is a thinker, but no theor ist. He is a man of solid mental character, but never will be called a "brilliant" man which Indeed would be foreign to the character of Presi dent of the United States. He has no pet phrases, to be compared with "the crown of thorns and cross of gold." It was Mr. Taft who caused to be inserted in the platform the declara tions about the. court process known as injunction. The statement is mod erate and reasonable, for the legal process must be maintained in some form and to some extent, and this statement Is as far as the limitation of it ever can go, with safety to liberty, life and property no matter, what party is in power, or who is Presi dent. In the campaign that is to en sue discussion of the subject is not likely to be kept within the rational spirit; but after the campaign is over it will settle nearly or about on this basis of this 'deliverance no matter who is President or what party is in power. In the Eastern States Mr. Taft will be supported by all who prefer a mid dle course, between the extremes of radical innovation and of unprogres sive conservatism. This is the right course for the country. In his letter of acceptance Mr. Taft will make his position, as well as his entire person ality, clear and plain to the people of the United States. He will show the country that he Is his own man, as the phrase goes, not an echo of an other. Tou will see Mr. Taft in his letter of acceptance, which will ap pear, we may suppose, toward the end of the month of August. A TTDBIT FROM! THE PLATFORM. Those who say that the Republican platform is a chain of well-oiled plat itudes which mean nothing and were intended to mean less than nothing should read it over more carfcfully. Perhaps If they do they will discover that they are mistaken. Here is a clause, for example, which is certain ly not devoid of significance: "For their well-being means the well-being of all." The persons referred to are the "wageworkers." We are not pre pared to assert that the platform makers realized the full import of this truth when they .wrote it down. Perhaps they had heard it some where before and included It because it had a pretty sound which might possibly catch the ear and the vote of some horny-handed son of toll. But it is more than a pretty phrase. Wageworkers have "well-being" when they are able to spend a good deal of money; that is, when their wages are high. The more money they spend the more products the home market can dispose of, and the less we need to depend upon the for eign market for the sale of surplus goods. The more wage-earners spend the greater are the profits of the manufacturer who sells them goods, because the foreign freight is saved, for one thing, while also prices are higher here than they are abroad. The producer who has to sell his product in Europe must accept Euro pean prices for it, whereas if the home market will take it all he will receive American prices for the whole. It follows clearly enough that the manufacturer who tries to beat down the wages of labor is thereby trying to destroy his best market.. Wages would be at the most desirable level for both parties when the worker re ceived so much that he could con sume pretty nearly all he produced. He would then be at the maximum of efficiency constantly. It must be evi dent to everybody that a world-wide effort to beat down wafres would tend to lessen the purchasing power of the world, and that is precisely what Mr. Van Cleave and those of his way of thinking are doing. The only, method of preventing such a result would be to increase enormously the purchas ing power of the few who do not work. In other words, we must per mit a few to waste while all the rest of mankind produces, or else falling wages will ultimately destroy mar kets. Is it worth while to keep the mass of the world's population in misery by lowerin'g their wages in order that a small number of persons may enjoy the privilege of wasting without stint? Is this a desirable ideal for the human race? Is not the Ideal of the Republican platform a better one? Is it not better to pay the wage earner as much as is reasonably pos sible and let nobody waste until all equitable wants have been supplied? What good -is done to anj'body by waste? "THE ETERNAL FEMININE." It is a subject we always have, with us. Politics and ordinary contentions may divert us, now and again; but we have to deal every day and all our lives with "the woman soul," which, as the poet tells us, "leadeth us upward and on." The "psychology" of woman is the everlasting problem. Thanks to the Greeks for giving us the word.' The word from the Greek may indicate how old this "soul" problem is. It puzzled Euripides, who was set down as a woman-hater. Socrates dodged it. Virgil pauses, in the rush of his epic, to drop a line or two on it. Shakespeare offered no essay on it, for he was rapid, and always wrote as If everything he alluded . to was known to everybody; but he has in numerable touches, which show that he more than any one had pene trated the depth of the woman soul, yet was not able to pluck out the heart of Its mystery. Goethe makes it a symbol of the supreme mystery of human life. Likewise, it mystifies Scott, and it feeds now the melan cholj and now the fury, of Byron. Professor Stanley Hall, of Clark University, offers an essay on the sub' Ject, in which he attempts a solution, by the explanation that woman has two souls, perhaps more. "By her superior psychic endowment" we quote here from the New Tork World "she may love and hate, feel joy and sorrow, at the same time, while man is restricted to the indul gence of one emotion. He may be a Jekyll or Hyde in turn; woman both at once. These two souls In women, Dr. Hall says, may be strangers to each other. Perhaps they do not al ways speak. One, it is assumed, is an affinity soul and the other respects the proprieties. The professor would appear to have found a clew to soul mating which might be followed up with profit." The World follows this with a full page article by Dr. Thomas C. Shaw, lecturer on psychological medicine at St. Bartholomew's, greatest of the hospitals of London. "According to Dr. Shaw, woman's moods, her tears, her intensity, her fondness for clothes and diamonds and the general mys tery of her nature are due to the over-development of certain emotions at the expense of others. She has repressed the instinct of love and de veloped obstinacy, sympathy and jealousy. Her muscular weakness has obliged her to resort to artifice to gain her ends." Yet still, where do we find, except in woman, the last devotion to un selfish ideals of duty, to acceptance of poverty and want, to the demands of the higher affections, to the truest altruism? It will be some time yet till we get the last word on "the eter nal feminine." DOGS AVI) COWS. The master of a howling dog al ways hears sweet music In his noc turnal yelps. The owner of a pirati cal cow invariably believes that she is an angel of meekness. To his im agination she is a mirror of the bo vine virtues, and the meaner she is the brighter she shines. He is like the father of a bad schoolboy. AVhen the urchin gets punished the Infatu ated parent blames the teacher and by his fond folly helps the miserable youth to slip and slide along the broad and ample road that leads to death. Why is It that despicable boys always have fathers of the most con fiding slmpliicty? Why is it that the possessor of a freebooting cow can never be convinced that she is guilty of the slightest misdeed? Show him where sne broke through the fence last night and he will aver that the hole has always been there, he- has seen it a thousand times be fore; and this he will say -without consciousness of mendacity, although up to that day he has never been within a mile of the ravaged lot. Show him the stumps of the cabbages his destructive beast devoured and he will solemnly swear that 'the good wife boiled them for dinner the af ternoon before and that her husband ate them. This story he will main tain even if there were a hundred cabbages in the row which Bossy devastated. No tale is too monstrous for him to invent and believe if it ex cuses hiB cow. Accuse her of a sin gle one out of the myriad of her no torious crimes and you make her owner your enemy for life. Throw a brick at her and he will slander your wife. Hit her with the poker and he will murder your children. There is something uncanny In the effect which the ownership of dogs and cows produces upon a human be ing. Let a man be never so truthful, never so meek and gentle to his neighbors, let the milk of human kindness flow through his veins 6y the tubfull, the moment he acquires a cow he begins to emulate the achievement of Ananias, his aspect becomes ferocious, he floats over bloodshed and riots in 6ruelty. He undergoes these fearsomo transfor mations because otherwise he could not adequately defend his cow from the wrath of the avengers who would take the pay for their radishes and turnips out of her hide and - horns. Beware of the woman who adores a dog and the man who idolizes a cow. The one will offer you up a living sacrifice to her pet without the faint est scruple; the other swill look on calmly while Bossy devoures your garden and wrecks your home. In an ideal social organization there would ' be places in lunatic asylums for the persons of either sex who keep dogs and cows within the city limits. PORTLAND'S INDUSTRIAL AWAKENING Plans for the construction at Port land of the largest packing-house west of the Rocky Mountains have reached a point where specifications are in the hands of prospective bid ders. The 3000-acre site, valued at nearly $3,000,000, has all been se cured and is rapidly being put in or der for business, and more than 200 carloads of machinery are on the way to the city. Simultaneously with the construction of this enormous plant there will be in process of completion on the west side of the river, the larg est wheat warehouse in the world, while down at St. John another im mense structure for wheat handling is under way. These two great in dustrial projects, of course, can mean nothing else than that Portland is to be the headquarters of the grain and livestock business of the Pacific Northwest, and they show on the part of the promoters of the big en terprises a faith in Portland that au gurs well for its future. With the present facilities for mov ing the wheat crop, Portland has in a number of seasons handled more wheat than has been handled by all other North Pacific ports combined, and as the single warehouse now un der construction by the North Bank' road will practically double the facili ties of the port, it is assured beyond a doubt that Portland will this season make greater gains in the wheat trade than ever before. The partic ular advantages of this increased trade drawn to Portland by the com ing of the new railroad do not stop at the work of receiving and shipping the wheat, nor in slaughtering live stock and shipping the product, but the greater benefits lie In the jobbing trade, which always follows the route taken by the products shipped out of the country. Portland enjoys an im mense distributive trade because our shippers have made a market for the products of the territory which is reached by the railroads already ter minating here. During the coming season this territory will receive Im mense additions through the comple tion of the North Bank Railroad, the opening of the Lewiston-Riparia branch of the O. R. & N., and of the Wallowa branch of the same road. All of these lines make tributary to Portland a large area of wonderfully rich country from which this cjty has been barred in the past by lack of transportation faailities. The city- is already feeling the advance wave of this coming increase in business and active preparations for handling It are quite general. New buildings continue to rise in the warehouse dis trict and old ones are being remod eled and enlarged. The recent breath of hard times failed to check the in flow of population that began with the 1905 Fair, and, although resi dence permits for the first five months of 1908 exceeded those of the same period in 1907 by nearly 600, the de mand for modern dwellings and apartments continues unabated. "Portland as a city is also preparing to meet the changed conditions that are -coming with the Increased com mercial activity. There are under way, or authorized, more miles of street work than ever before in the history of the city, and long before present work is finished there will be more miles of new streets to be Im proved. It will require something more powerful than a Presidential election to check the movement that is now gathering headway in Port land. JUSTICK BREWER ON INJUNCTIONS. As might have been foreseen. Jus tice Brewer, of the Federal Supreme Court, is not very well pleased with the anti-injunction plank in the Na tional Republican platform. It is an exceedingly mild plank, as inoffensive as a sucking dove, but Mr. Brewer does not like it. He laments, some what fatuously; that the Injunction question has been dragged Into poll tics, as if anything under heaven that affects the lives and fortunes of men could escape being dragged into poll tics in this country. Votes have been given us for the purpose of dragging things into politics and getting them settled Justly by the prooess of argu mentative contention. To this disa greeable circumstance Judge Brewer must reconcile his soul the best he can. Probably It will be difficult for him, since his . views of the power and prestige of judges are exalted. It was he who said some time ago in a speech that the Supreme Court was above the President and: Congress, thus differing from the Constitution, which makes the three departments co-ordinate. Concerning injunctions Mr. Brewer says that "the restraining power of the equity court is worth vastly more than the punishing power of the criminal court." If this means any thing, it means that he would have the judges substitute their individual will for the law of . the land. Their will might ' in many cases be better than the law, but the race to which we belong .has struggled for many hundred years to escape from the rule of arbitrary power and it is not likely at this late day to relinquish the fruits of the struggle. The self contradiction involved in Judge Brewer's statement is. of course, evi dent. The "restraining power" of the equity court must be also a "pun ishing power" or it amounts to noth ing. All that he would accomplish If he had his way would be to substi tute one punishing power for another, the punishing power of a single Judge who would accuse, try, condemn, and sentence, for that of the ordinary law where a man is tried by a Jury. The whole gist of the injunction rage is to abolish jury trials In a certain class of cases. The uncertainty of the political sit uation was reflected in the New Tork stock market yesterday. There was heavy liquidation in the railroad list and a number of industrials also suf fered. Union Pacific suffered a loss of more than three points. Northern Pacific was also a heavy loser, and even the staid old Pennsylvania, with all of its financial troubles behind It, declined over a point. ' Wall street has been regarded as favorable to Taft, and it was expected that his nomination would be followed by a broader market. Some, if not all, of the inactivity may be traceable to the fact that the nomination of Taft had been regarded as a foregone conclu sion and that the market in previ ous rallies had discounted the effect of the actual nomination. Wall street as well as the "rest of the coun try will require a few days' time in which to get its bearlngson the situation. There are always those who must have some, fetich to worship. A while ago it was the Portland char ter. Anybody who would lay unhal lowed hands on this holy instrument was to be drawn and quartered. Tet from these same sources now goes a loud demand for amendment of the sacred charter. The new object of worship is the holy statement, or vermiform appendix, of the primary law. It is fiat burglary, as ever was committed, to call it in question. But there will be a new fetich one of these days, and the altars of the sacrosanct "statement,"- deserted by their loops of acolytes, will then be left desolate and bare. People must have fads, and one will always be superseded by another. In his speech presenting to the Na tional convention the name of La Fol lette, Henry F. Cochems said" that "the black flag and .the white are strangers to Wisconsin Republicans." Election returns will show whether there are pirates or quitters among the Republicans of the Badger State. At any rate, the expression was some thing new and is worthy of remem brance, even' here in Oregon, where loyalty to party is so well established as a political principle and where political piracy was never known. Of course! Governor Chamberlain, before our June election, was right in accord with Roosevelt. But Roosevelt now send3 a congratulatory telegram to Taft and Sherman, expressing the hope and belief that they will be elected. Since there is no difference in politics between Roosevelt and Chamberlain, or between Chamber lain and Roosevelt, we shall look with interest in Eastern newspapers foi a congratulatory telegram from Chamberlain to Taft and Sherman. The question whether Oregon Is a Republican or a Democratic state will be decided by the vote between Taft and Bryan .in November. Should Oregon prove a Republican state, a lot of "Statement Republicans," com mitted to election of a Democratic Senator in January, will realize all their embarrassment, as so-called "representatives of the people." But if Bryan should carry the state, their way. as representatives of the people, would be plain. Not only the law, but good busi ness practice, requires that" fruit growers and packers place their names and addresses upon their fruit boxes. It is necessary in order to guard against the marketing of diseased fruit, and it is worth while from an advertising standpoint. Put your name on a box of good fruit and you will be kindly remembered by every consumer of your product. Be sides, if you don't do it, you are likely to be fined. When Detective Joe Day secures an injunction to restrain the Chief of Police from reducing him to the rank of a patrolman, we begin to get a glimpse of the importance of the in junction as a means of protecting our rights and liberties. And yet the Re publican platform proposes to reduce the power of the courts to issue in junctions. . Will this send our able detective over to Bryan? Those many eminent gentlemen who declared so emphatically that Roosevelt was not sincere in declining a third term will, of course, wire their apologies at once, now that they have learned their error. Judging others by themselves, they could not deem It possible that the President would refuse a nomination which he could have had without the asking. It will be put right up to the peo ple . of Oregon in the Presidential election whether they want a Repub lican or a Democratic President, and by consequence whether they want a Democratic or Republican Senator. The vote, in- June on the Senator was merely a bunco game. The Republican National Conven tion declared in favor of a special session of Congress Immediately after the next Presidential Inauguration. Looks as if "Our George" will get a chance to give up the Governorship sooner than he anticipated. ' Salem and Stayton are to be con nected with a trolley line. Such a line, extending back into the Cascade Mountains, will go far toward solving the fuel problem for the state institu tions. Senator Bourne will support Taft but thinks It will be difficult to eleci him. When he supported Bryan he thought Bryan's election easy. At least we are safe in betting a hundred-dollar bill that Bill will be elected President. And you can take your choice between Bills. If Mr. Bryan can't find anything in the Republican platform to attack, he might call attention to the absence of a prohibition plank. Taft's other boomer In Oregon, F. W. Mulkey, of course will be recog nized as well as Senator Fulton. To make Senator Bourne's discomV fiture complete. Senator Fulton will now need to elect Taft. La Follette pledges to Taft. It is an incident of some significance and importance. Those girl graduates . lose their sweetness if they keep on studying after graduation. WANTS DUAL SALMON COMMISSION Thinks Oregon and Washington Should Join In Protective Work. DUFUR, Or., June 18. (To the Editor.) In last Saturday's Oregonlan I notice that Secretary of State Benson has as cribed a plan by which he expects to alleviate the result of the election of both the fish bills passed at our last election, by having a committee of seven prominent men of different parts of the state and the fish departments of the Government appointed to study the effect of the two bills if they should have be come a law; the conditions and facts as they exist today on the salmon question of the Columbia River and Its tribu taries; and from the information so gained, prepare a bill that would meet the requirements of all concerned and the protection and propagation of the sal mon, and have the bill introduced in the next Legislature, to become a law, if possible. I heartily Indorse Mr.' Benson's plan .and would like to add a suggestion: That the committee so appointed, if it could be possibly arranged, meet with a like committee from the State of Washing ton. What is good for Oregon Is good for Washington, in the way of the protection and propagation of the salmon of the Columbia River, and I believe that the Fish Commission of Washington. If it were invited to take a part in this work, would lend a helping hand, and enact laws through its Legislature for the wel fare of the fish Industry. The reason I suggest this plan is be cause I was a member of the last Legis lature from Wasco County and was hon ored by being appointed chairman of a committee of three from the House and two from the Senate, to meet with a like committee from the Washington Legisla ture, and we so met In the Portland Ho tel. I had the opportunity there to study facts relating to the salmon industry, and Its protection, as viewed by people In the fish business and people interested in the propagation and protection of sal mon, and from facts and conditions pre sented at this meeting, and the Interest that the Washington legislators took in the meeting. I found a strong wish that there should be some effective laws en acted as would tend to the proper protec tion of the Columbia River salmon. The committees above referred to prepared a bill which was introduced in the Oregon Legislature and passed the House with a good majority, but was defeated in the Senate. The question now Is, shall the salmon be protected or shall they become ex tinct, by their wanton destruction by the fishermen of the lower and upper river, and other rivers of the state? I say. No. Not at all. The fishermen and can perymen should be Interested alike, more than any other people, as to the protec tion of one of the greatest industries of the Northwest. But the fishermen" seem to care not for tomorrow, but look for ward only to the result and gain of to day's fishing, regardless of what the con sequences will be in the future, if such taking of the salmon Is allowed to continue. In this protection work, Oregon should take the first step forward as proposed by Mr. Benson, and appoint the commit tee at once, giving them ample time to study the conditions and facts of the question involved, and have a bill intel ligently prepared for the next Legisla ture to act upon. This done, the Legisla ture would be released from one of tho most. arduous and embarrassing proposi tions it would have to contend with. The work of the lobbyist and a great part of the opposition that Is always present would be eliminated, and such a bill would come nearer being passed than any other measure that might be pre sented under the conditions surround ing It. P. W. KNOWLES. TAFT FOR LOCAL OPTION. Defines) Hla Position on Question to Burlington Lender. Philadelphia Public Ledger. BURLINGTON. N. J.. June 9. Secre tary Taft's position on local option Is satisfactory to friends of the movement in this county. Norman B. Hoffman wrote to the Secretary of War calling his at tention to assertions of representatives of the liquor interests to the effect that Mr. Taft was opposed to the principle of local option, and that prohibition would not settle the liquor question. In his reply Mr. Taft quotes his own addresses before the Pennsylvania Bar Association and the students of Tale Uni versity. He said: "In this class of laws affecting the sale of liquors legislators have devised a method of local referendum called local option, which has worked -well because It is practical. "It may be impossible by general ref erendum for the people at large under standing to pass upon the various ques tions arising in the framing of compli cated legislation and to reach a satis factory result; but upon the simple Issue whether saloons shall be prohibited In a particular community it Is entirely easy for the local public clearly to consider the issue and decide it. When It has ex pressed Its opinion In the affirmative the question of the practical operation of tho law Is thereby removed from the dis cussion. "By a popular vote in favor of prohibi tion it Is made certain that the execu tive officers elected by that local com munity will zealously carry out the law and that Juries selected from the vicinage will do their duty as required by the statute." Pertinent Inquiry. The Dalles Optimist. Does the defeat of John Manning mean that State Treasurer Steel is not to be prosecuted?. Does it mean that Mr. Ross is to stand the brunt of the Ross-Steel deal, and the Treasurer go free? We hope not. A FEW SQUIBS. "Is your husband a Congregationalism a Presbyterian or a Swendenborgian ?" "No'm; he's a plumber." Baltimore Amer ican. David B. Hill, who holds the copyright of the I-am-a-remocrat declaration, savs the Democratic party is dead. What is David B. Hill now? Chicago Tribune. Mother "Why, Bobble, how clean your hands are." Bobble "Aren't they? But you ought to have seen 'em before I helped Bridget make the bread." Life. Landlady's son 'addicted to nickel litera ture) "Say, pardner, what's meant by 'stand by to repel boarders?' " Mr. New come (sadly eying his dessert) "Stewed prunes." Judge. "1 tell you." said Mrs. Lapsllng. "Johnny made a splendid Impression while he was speaking his piece at the school exhibition last Friday afternoon. He wo the syndi cate of all eyes." Chicago Tribune. Winning Lady (triumphantly) "I am sure none of you could guess where I learned to play bridge." Her Friendly Foe "Tou have never told me, but it was a correspondence school, waa It not?" Harv ard Lampoon. Policeman (to tenant of flat) "And yon nay the rug was stolen from your hall. Can you give me any particulars of it?" Tenant (nervously) "Oh, yes. It waa a fancy re versible rug red on one side and green on the other." Policeman (impressively) "Ah and which was the green side?" Punch. Mrs Nurltch "I told Widow Downes to send her boy to you and you'd give him a position ." Mr. Nurltch "Well. I didn't give him no position. He came with a note from her an' she said in the note: I must find employment for my boy, even If he works for a mere pittance.' The nerve of her callin ma a mere pittance!" Philadelphia Press. "As a member of Congress, his attitude waa ever statesmanlike. When the ques tion waa one which didn't matter one way or the other, and which nobody with a vote was interested in. he urged prompt ac tion." "Indeed!" "And when there was a difficult matter, not to be decided without offending somebody who was somebody, he was always ready to suggest the creation of a commission." Puck. THREATENS TO INVOKE INITIATIVE Lnless Corvallla Educates Its High School Children Apart From O. A. C. ASHLAND, Or., June 18. (To the Edi torsWithout desiring to "butt in" on the discussion of the matter of the alleged duplication of courses of study in the University of Oregon and at the Oregon Agricultural College, I do want to give my hearty indorsement to both, Messrs. Wilbur and Turner, that something should and must be done In ,the matter of forcing Corvallls to educate its own high school children, and further, for bidding the O. A. C. from receiving pupils from those towns which have high schools of their own. I know of several young people who are at the O. A. C. simply to do their high school work, expecting then to either, enter the University of Oregon or some, other college. If Corvallls does not open Its own high school, and the college ceases taking pupils from high schools, then It remains for Mr. Turner to begin his "Initiative," and if he will send me the forms I will agree to secure at least 1C00 names for him right here in Jackson county. Two-thirds of the pupils of the O. A. C. should be In some high school, and If Eugene 'Palmer is really so anxious to see the common school built up. I would suggest that the $75,000 to J100.000 that the college asks for each year for new buildings to provide for the pupils who should be In the high schools might then be applied to the common school fund, and in a few years this fund would thus be materially increased. Ashland has a normal school, but it has also a good high school. Weston has a normal, but also a high school. Salem has "Old Willamette," but a splendid high school; likewise Albany and others that could be mentioned. Wily, then, should Corvallls "sponge" on the state and the state give money to the O. A. C. for new buildings simply to educate the high school children of Corvallls and some other towns? If Cor vallls is "on to itself," and if the college can read the signs of the times, both will see that these abuses are corrected. If not, others will correct them for them, and perhaps not to their liking. As to an engineering school in Eastern Oregon, there are two sides to that ques tionalthough it does seem as though big Eastern Oregon Is entitled to more than simply a small normal school at the hands of the state. MARVELL C. BILLINGS. CALLS FOR MEN TEACHERS. English Critic Sees Harm In So Many Women Educator. Pathfinder. While one nation may be thorough ly satisfied as to the right or wrong of a thing, it is always interesting to note what another nation thinks, as it may give a better perspective. Such Is true of Individuals, and the recent ob servations on sex differences In edu cation which were made by a corre spondent for the "London Times are quite worthy of consideration. He re fers to the fact that against some 109.000 men teachers America has nearly 357,000 women in the same pro fession, and says that while it is well to have women teach the elementary classes which boys attend, the boys ought not to be Instructed at 18 years by female teachers. "Men have told me," he says, "that they now recognize that serious in jury was wrought upon them at that period of their school life when, lone ly, shy and sullen, they were left to fight through their crisis, not knowing that it was a crisis that came to all and was necessary in the development of life.. I have met few serious teach ers of either seg who did not deplore the excessive preponderance of women on the teaching staffs of secondary schools and the higher classes of ele mentary schools." He admits that Americana are sure that sexual perversion and sexual ten sion are obviated by co-education, but declares that the effect upon adolescent boys is not good. The girl of 14 who enters the high school is more mature than the boy of the same age and she excels in 'the work that requires con centration. "And," continues the writer, "as in most high schools the girls greatly outnumber the boys, the courses of study, by an inevitable pro cess of evolution, have become adapted to the special capacities of the girls. Thus, In classes taught by women, boys are taught, with girls, studies that are peculiarly suited to girls, and the boys do not have from the teacher, who is a woman, the comprehension of them selves and their moods that the girls receive. "The boys are in a minority; and, as the Irrepressible tendency to imitate tho majority asserts Itself, they be come an Inferior copy of girls, winning a girl's gentleness and sensitiveness, but not the proper strength of either sex. Tried by a woman's and by a girl's standards, the boys prove Infer ior; and when at last they enter upon their full heritage they are irreparably wounded in their dignity, and have lost the faith In themselves of which, in order to play a man's part In life, they have the utmost need. There is no greater danger to character than this." "No Harking Back." Pendleton Tribune. The Democratic paper of Portland finds fault with The Oregonlan because "It is harping on 60 years back." But why not when it seems necessary? Is Jefferson so soon forgotten? Or Jackson? Does the salvation of Man depend upon dis cussing Statement No. 1. and In the Ore gon Democratic mind are the ten com mandments to be superseded by the re call and Chamberlain's specific brand of nonpartlsanshlp? Clearing; It Up. The Dalles Optimist. A correspondent writes to ask what figure our nonpartisan Chamberlain will cut in the Senate. Why. Lord bless your poor benighted soul. Chamberlain is a Democrat, and has been since the elec tion. He was a non-partisan all right before the election, but for the next six years he will be a Democrat. Foxy grandpa! Alas, Poor Jonathan. Eugene Register. What became of that stampede for Roosevelt? It must have gotten under Taft and been squelched. Alas. Jona than, think of a Senatorial term thus far wasted in a hopeless undertaking. The Silence Cure. London Dally Mall. How swiftly runs the hypochondriac's tongue On all the various symptoms that afflict him! The ills that chiefly arise from nerves un strung t Are ail described to his unhappy victim. Who. at the close. Is called on to endure A disquisition on the latest "cure." Proud la that sufferer with the pride of kings; He. asks no more congenial employment As to the restive buttonhole he clings And rambles on with obvious enjoyment. Just as tho Ancient Mariner Impressed His grewsome tale upon the Wedding Guest. Therefore the world will hall with grateful tears The latest curse which blda ths creature, thirsting To pour his tale Into unwilling ears. To practice silence to the point of burst ing. Since he will quickly lose, beyond a doubt. The symptoms which he cannot talk about. Sweet Is the sllenra of the wild, but oh! Far sweeter. If It be not past achieving. The silence of the wretch who made us so! For thus we find a double cure relieving Not only him who now must save his breath But us, who have, been nearly bored to death.! RAILWAYS NATION MAKING. They Knit the North and South To gether After the Civil War. Leslie's Weekly. The Southern railways, more than brotherhood, knitted the North and South together after the war. Tho rail ways gave prosperity to the South by encouraging immigration and bringing in people to help do the upbuilding. Memphis 20 years ago had a population of 64,000. Today it has 102,000. The railways did it. A few years ago hundreds of places in Louisiana, like Crowley, for example, were only prairie land. The .Southern Pacific built a station at Crowley, and today that place boasts 70uo persons. Other roads did the same thing for a hundred other thriving places in the Southern gtates. The Southern Railway went into the waste places of the South and caused' towns to spring up. The Seaboard Air Line went Into the coun try of blasted hopes, and built up new industries and with them new courage. To a region of penury the Atlantic Coast Line brought plenty by puttinfi cash into circulation where no cash had been before. The Southern Railway gave the exact service necessary for the healthy development of the states through which it runs. It not only created new Industries, but itself be came the chief customer for the pro ducts of the new mills. The South needed $200,000,000 for fur ther immediate development. The Southern railways were securing that vast investment of Northern capital along their lines when the unreason ing agitation against all railroads set in and, temporarily at least, halted the southward movement of money. One hundred and six new railway en terprises were under way in the South when the politicians began using tho Southern railroads as footballs. Those , new roads were to be for the develop ments timber and mining regions and to handle "long hauls" in Texas and Oklahoma. The promoters of the en terprises have, for the moment, been frightened away. WHAT SAVED "UNCLE JOE." Lifting Machine That Long Ago Proved A Health Presrn er. Washington (D. C.) Dispatch to the Boston Herald. The secret of perpetual youth, which has permitted "Uncle Joe" Cannon to be as young as he is at 72, has ju;--t been rediscovered here by a former Senator from New Hampshire. Henry W. Blair, who is no youngster him self, having been born in 1834, and the present Speaker, were fellow-members of the House 30 years ago. Both at that time were in poor health. They suffered from indigestion and were so trail ana puny looking that each an ticipated the necessity of purchasing a bouquet to place with reverent hands upon the grave of the other. They lived in the same boarding-house in those days, and to prolong their lives entered into partnership for the pur chase of a lifting machine, which they erected in a hallway outside of their rooms, and upon which they practiced diligently night and morning, with a view to the Improvement of their phys ical beings. The other day Mr. Blair, in rummag ing around his bouse, stumbled in an attio upon the lifting apparatus long since discarded. It reminded him of the days when he and Cannon were on the verge of the grave and des paired of attaining old age. In great excitement he went down to the Capi tol, hunted up "Uncle Joe," and broke the news to him. "Joe," said he, "do you remember, way back yonder, when you and I didn't think we would live more than "I certainly do," said "Uncle Joe." "I think you were the thinnest, sick-' est man In the world, and I lived in constant fear that I would have to: buy a pair of black gloves and walk slow behind your hearse, 'Member that old lifting machine we used to have?" "'You bet I do," said Senator Blair, "and I found It this morning, just as good as new, too." "I'll be over to try my muscle in a day or two." laughed the Speaker. "It certainly was a health preserver, all right." HAS "ROOSEVELT FAMILY." Chicago Mu Prond of Hi Fifteen Living Children Chicago Record-Herald. Fifteen children that is the record as a parent which has been made by Richard Farrell, who looms in tho limelight ae the head of a regular Rooseveltlan big family, because of the visit of a school census enumerator. When the list of the Farrell children was turned in ,at headquarters at the Board of Education the officials in charge of the census proceeded to award the palm forthwith to the Far rells as being the biggest family in the list. They consist or eight boys and seven girls. Paterfamilias Farrell, surrounded by some half dozen of his progeny, ex plains that he, had thus far given six voters to the United States, as a sex tet of his sons are over 21. Two of the girls are over 21. The others or the family range from 10 to 19 years. "I suppose I've got what might be called a sure enough Roosevelt family the kind Rooseevlt urges every father to raise," said Mr. Farrell. "Well, that may be all right in theory. It undoubt edly is all right for big fellows like Roosevelt or ex-Mayor Dunne to have huge families. They ran afford the lux ury. Rockefeller, for Instance, could have had a hundred sons and nver have given a thought about the ex pense. "But for. me well, I'm an elliptical springmaker by trade, and I can tell you that it is no joke to raise 15 chil dren unless you have a mighty big in come. I think if a man is going to follow out the Roosevelt theory and have a large family he should have a large salary to start with. 1 wouldn't advise anyone with a small income to have more than a small family." Mr. Farrell is an Englishman, but ho has lived In Chicago almost continu ously since 1S63. He came here In that year and subsequently went away for about five yfars. living chiefly on the Pacific Coast. His children were all born Americans. Most of them were born In Illinois. The remainder owe natal allegiance to Missouri, Kansas and California. Detective Methods In India. Westminster (London) Gazette. A very old Indian detective trick played its part In the arrst of the Bnii"."iH youth Khurdirnm Bose. who threw the bomb which killed Mrs. and Miss Ken nedy at Mozufferpore. He was seated in the railway station at Waini, some twenty miles from the scene of the crime, and was eating a meal of rice, when two constables ap proached him. One of the constables no ticed that the youth's saliva had eeas"d to flow, apparently through fright at the sudden appearance of the policemen, and that, in spite of his nonchalant air. ha was unable to continue his meal. The constable toyed with his man for a while, and then having his suspicions confirmed, seized him before he could fire the re volver with which he was trying to shoot himself. The system of detection, it Is stated, is traditional among the Indian police. A suspected person will he placed with others, and a ijatlve inspector will mutter some gibberish" over an old four-cornered rupee. Having thus worked upon the fears of his auditors, he will give each of them a handful of rice, and instruct them to eat it as fast as they can. Tire guilty one. it Is averred, will he unable to eat, and the strike of the salivary glands is regarded as furnishing a prima facie case for arrest.