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rORTLAXP. THURSDAY. JULY 15, 1909.
SOME fiENERAL PRINCIPLES.
It is not art easy thing: for a man to
separate himself from the thought and
activity and purpose of the community
in which he lives, and to pursue an iso
lated, disconnected and selfish part. He
can't do it indeed; and if he tries it
he will only reduce himself to a cipher
or stumbling block. The community
. will get on somehow, for it must; but
if it have many members of this kind
it will be dull, heavy and unprogres
sive. Man in Isolation is of little conse
quence, next to nothing. Ills asso
ciation with others, the inspiration he
receives from others, draw out his
own powers. "The state," to this day,
as Plato conceived it. remains "a pro
duct of mind." Out of the action and
interaction of cu. rents of mind, affect,
ed and even directed by variant views
or opinions, comes the whole progress
of man. of society, of the human race.
We want what Burke described as
"that action and counter action, which
in the natural and political world,
from the reciprocal struggle of dis
cordant powers, draws out the har
mony of the universe." The. most iso
lated man cannot separate himself
from the situation he lives in. If such
Isolation were general, or could be
general, it would be the negation of
-civilization.
I So much for generalization. It
ynlght be pursued without end. What
Js in mind now i3 application of the
.main fact or principle to a particular
feature or circumstance of our local
situation.
I "Best is water of all things," ex
claims Pindar, In the opening of one of
.hi most splendid odes. It might be
sung now again and forever with all
the force it carried five and twenty
centuries ago. Portland has incom
parable water. It la the chief delight
of the city, on the one hand, and basis
of general utility on the other. We
are able to get this water supply
through municipal organization.
Now. however, we have a. class of
, citizens who wish to insist that the
rates they pay for water should not
exceed that rate which, as they cal-
. culate It, is merely the cost of de
livery to the Individual or to the fam
ily. But this is not the basis on
which the city is founded, nor its water
supply. An opinion seems' to be com
mon that the "meter rate" should be
closely applied and enforced. That
would do, if the meter rate were high
enough. But it Is so low that it cuts
down the city's income -from water,
and reduces the fund necessary for ex
tension of supply fco newer parts of the
city. The fact is that older parts of
the city must pay something towards
extension of water supply to hewer
parts, or the growth of the city will
be checked; and if the restriction
should be enforced to its limit, the city
. would cease to grow altogether. The
owner of property who pays for pav
ing the street, or for putting in the,
sidewalk and sewer, doesn't pay out
his money for himself alone. He pays
it for others, as well as for himself."
The water rate must always be
higher than the rate merely necessary
to maintain the system as it is. Mains
must be extended into the outer or
suburban districts, and the dwellers
closer in must pay rates for water that
wUl help to meet the expense. Hence
U is that a f ity especially a city at
; Portland's present stage of growth
cannot hold down the water rate to the
closely calculated cost of delivery un
der present conditions to those already
supplied. The meter system, there
fore, while faultlessly sound upon the
abstract argument of requiring each
household to pay for what it gets and
no more, la not wholly applicable to
present conditions. If the building
of the city were completed it would
be different, of course. But there are
few citizens of Portland, it may be
supposed, who would like to admit
that they live In a "finished" city.
Water supply is the only municipal
function thus far attempted by the
i City of Portland, on a large scale.
' This is because It Is easiest of all.
Water is of universal need. It is the
' simplest of municipal undertakings,
. because nature does most of the work!
Water is nature's supply, and it will
flow, according to its law, wherever
a channel is made for it. No other
undertaking for supply of a public's
want can be so well managed under
: public administration. But even here,
. the unselfishness of the citizen, his
desire for civic improvement and
municipal growthmust be called Into
action, for general helpfulness. He
mustn't Insist on figuring down the
rate for water to himself at lowest
cost, without regard to the wants or
situation of others. Never could we
build a city In that way.
Of course, however, this principle of
mutuality or reciprocity must not be
carried too far. It may run to excess
or extremes, and the result may be a
general bankruptcy. On the one hand
the man must not carry hlmsf out
to his logical conclusions and become
. a concentrated essence of himself. On
the other, he must not or should not
surrender all his power of Initiative
and all his individuality to any civic
theory that runs into state socialism.
.The golden mean has always been
safest, both for the individual life and
for the collective life of the com
munity. Specifically now, as to water meters.
It Is said that many householders are
able, by economizing the use of water,
to reduce their rate. It is well for
every one who can to do so to make
saving here, as elsewhere. But is the
meter rate, in the circumstances, high
enough? The total revenue should be
sufficient to supply considerable sums
for maintenance. Improvements and
extensions. This alwnvs hetnfn
has been the policy of the city; and it
should be, indeed must be, the policy
of every progressive city. It is neces
sary, in every department of organized
government. Men who never go to law
in all their lives pay taxes all their
lives for support of courts wherein the
causes of other persons are tried out.
These things, one and all, are parts of
the system of a progressive civilization.
The native tribes of America paid no
taxes. They found their own water,
and were at no charge for courts,
lights, bridges or improvement of
streets. But man in civilized society
must pay or help pay for a lot of things
in whfch, from an exclusive point of
view, he may not be able to see that
he has any direct participation.
Thus It is that man, if he wishes to
live in civilized society, must accept
the consequences, or some of them.
Doubtless he may live the life of a re
cluse, without property. In rags and
filth and squalor, if he chooses, and
there are some such, happily few.
Most prefer to live In association with
their fellow men. and they should be
willing to pay for it, not for privilege
but to do their proper share of the
work and to get their proper share
of the result. This is the civic spirit.
, which is rising and growing in our
age as never before.
SQUEEZING THE SHORTS.
July wheat advanced 7 cents per
bushel in Chicago yesterday, and the
single carload that was received in the
Windy City was of about as much use
in staying the advance as Mrs. Parting
ton's broom in sweeping back the
waves of the Atlantic. The cause of
this remarkable advance was an at
tempt on the part of men who had
sold their wheat "short" to cover
their losses. These shorts began their
bearish tactics early In the year, and
for weeks they had everything their
own way. With implicit confidence in
Secretary Wilson's March crop report,
which showed an ample supply of
wheat to fill all demands until new
wheat was plentiful, these speculators
continued to sell short right up to ap
pearance of .the July report.
This report, unfortunately for the
speculators, showed that Secretary
Wilson had run for cover, and Inad
vertently dropped from 40,000,000 to
45,000,000 bushels of wheat that
should have remained from the 143,
000,000 bushels which hp reported in
farmers' hands on March 1. Since ap
pearance of the report, the shorts have
been buying wheat and endeavoring to
protect themselves. Unless the hold
ers of their contracts see fit to ex
tend mercy to them, it is within the
range of possibilities that the fire
works may blaze higher than ever be
fore the July option expires. In both
the May and the July options, the spec
ulators who make a business of de
pressing the market, have had a u
taste of the danger attendant on sell
ing something which they do not
possess.
SHIP SUBSIDY . IN PRACTICE.
Twenty-seven out of a total of 38
grain ships, en route -and listed for
Portland, are under the French flag.
It is a larger percentage of French
vessels than has ever appeared on the
en route list. A few of these vessels
are to bring cargoes, or part cargoes,
which British, German and Belgium
exporters are shipping to Portland
from Antwerp, Hamburg arid United
Kingdom ports, but most of the. vessels
are making the long voyage out from
Europe to Portland in ballast.
There is nothing philanthropic in
this proceeding, for the French ship
owner does not love the German, Bel-
Lium or English exporter nor the Ore
gon wheat shipper for whom he car
ries freight at less than cost. This
big fleet is sent out here because it
enables the vessels to sail over the
longest ocean route In the world, there
by covering a mileage which .entitles
them to a greater subsidy than could
be earned on any other voyage. :
Their presence in larger numbers
than usual this season is accounted for
by the coming expiration of the term
for which the French government will
pay a subsidy which has proved so
valuable to the Oregon wheat growers.
For many of these vessels, this will be
the last trip under a subsidy, and it is
accordingly highly essential that they
employ the greatest possible number
of miles. The French taxpayers will
hardly' regret disappearance from the
ocean of these bounty-earners, but the
freight shippers who have profited by
their presence for the past ten years
will miss them. They will also be
missed by those who wish to offer
indisputable evidence of the utter
worthlessness of a ship subsidy as a
means of promoting trade for the na
tion that pays it.
FREK MST SUSPENDED.
The Sunday Tacoma Tribune devotes
about four columns of "its editorial
page to an exhaustive review of the
transportation problem in the Pacific
Northwest. The Tribune has appar
ently accepted the Columbia River
lines as the great highways over which
the vast commerce of the Columbia
basin will pass on its way to the high
seas. Two plus two iseem to equal
four all right when we" consider the
Tribune argument as to why Tacoma
is better located, than Seattle for han
dling North Bank traffic. When, how
ever, we make a close study of the
Tribune's argument that. Tacoma has
advantages over Portland for handling
this traffic, we seem to be expected to
believe that two plus two equals six
or eight.
Taking for its text the Astoria suit
for common-point rates,, the Tribune,
after its customary "knock" at the Co
lumbia River, points out that there is
a distance of 100 miles between Port
land and Astoria over which the rail
roads would be expected to haul
freight for nothing. It quite truth
fully sfates that "It takes money to run
railroads, and they cannot put Astoria
or any other town on the free list."
Continuing, the Tribune says: :
The principle la the same in reference to
the rival ports of the Sound', the 'dif
ference In the two , situations of Portland
and Astoria, on the one hand, and Tapoma
and Seattle, on the other, being only one of
degree due to the difference of mileage In
the two cases. In one case, it is sought to
compel the railroads to -perform service of
transporting freight 1 miles without com
pensation; In-the other it Is expected that
they will do the service 40 miles without
compensation or even reimbursement of mere
actual outlay, which alone would be 12
cents per ton. In neither case Is the money
available to pay for the sorvlce. In neither
Is the service necessary. in neither will
It be performed.
This statement of the situation, so
far as it goes, is quite clear, and the
deductions are natural and logical.
Thus far two plus two certainly equal
four In the Tribune office. But the
freight under discussion all originates
"up stream" from Portland. Coming
out over the water-level grades of the
Columbia Jiver Hues, it can get
THE MORNING
neither to Astoria, Tacoma nor Seattle
witnoui passing Portland and imposing
an unnecessary haul on the railroads.
The Tribune regards the additional
100-mile haul past Portland to Astoria
as an unnecessary burden, and it re
gards the 40-mile haul past Tacoma
to Seattle in the same light. It is
strangely silent as to the 145-mile haul
between Portland and Tacoma. It is
here that two plus two must certainly
equal six or eight, for the Tribune of
fers no solution of the mystery as to
how freight can be transported 145
miles for nothing.
The truth of the matter is that, as
soon as the railroad situation shall
become settled, there will be no "free
lists" even at Tacoma and Seattle,
but all railroads will turn their
freight over to the ocean carriers at
the point where the two first meet.
That point for the trade of the Colum
bia basin will be at Portland, where
ocean tonnage can always be secured
at as low rates as on Puget Sound
Pending readjustment of the rate
problem that must come with changed
conditions, there may be a moderate
volume of wheat hauled to Tacoma
for the milling concerns. Eventually
however, this business will be reduced
to small proportions, the free list will
be abolished, and, in response to in
flexible economic laws, the traffic of
the interior will take ship at Port
land, the commerical metropolis of
the Pacific Northwest, and the point
where the transfer from, rail to ship
can be easiest made.
THE CONSERVATION CONGRESS.
If Mr. James J. Hill does not make
the best speech of all those to be de
livered at the National Conservation
Congress in Seattle, he will not miss it
far. Nobody of late years has talked
with greater common sense or more
adequate knowledge upon the prob
lem of keeping alive the goose that has
laid golden eggs for us and our fore
fathers than he. The National Con
servation Congress wllfSebate on the
26th, 27th and 2Sth of next August
how to get the utmost enjoyment out
of the gifts of Providence to the coun
try without destroying them.
We have our rights in the forests,
the water powers and the mines, but
after all it is but a life interest that
belongs to us. We have no right to
waste or destroy. It is rational and
patriotic to believe that the United
States is a nation which has thousands
of years of history before it. Part of
our task is to manage the resources of
the country in such a way that the
existence of our successors here shall
be as full and happy as our own. If
we do our duty we shall pass on the
bounty of nature to our descendants
unimpaired.
It is not pleasant to think that some
future generation will be born which
will find here not firclad slopes but
desolate precipices and barren rocks
such as the traveler sees upon what
were once the verdant hills of Pales
tine. Still, that is what the land is
coming to If the process of desolation
is not checked in time and the work
of restoration begun. It is well to be
optimistic, but facts are facts. To as
sert that our forests will last forever
will not make them do it. Active
work is necessary and the National
Conservation Congress will consider
what that work ought to be.
ON WALKING.
It seems now as if Edward Payson
Weston would reach his destination at
Sart Francisco four days late. The
wonder is that he should reach it at
all. He is 70 years old, an age at
which many men think they are en
titled to sit in the chimney corner and
nurse their grouches and rheumatism.
He began his trip in the middle of
March, a time of the year when the
weather is tempestuous and the roads
bad everywhere. But in spite of his
age and other hindrances' of all sorts,
the dauntless pedestrian has held
SteadilV On his COIirso and now V, a oc.
the goal only a little way ahead of him.
xiaa ne oeen four months late instead
of four days his walk across the conti
nent would still be a remarkable feat.
It would have been even more re
markable had he undertaken It from
less worldly motives. The aged Mr.
Weston is clearly in love with fame
and seeks by imposing an unheard of
task upon his legs to win the applause
of his fellow-men. The motive is. not
unworthy, but there are higher ones.
Fame is the spur which Weston's clear
spirit beguiles to scorn repose and
tramp laborious miles. Had he been
a philosopher Instead of a dead game
sport, he would have set himself a less
killing task and enjoyed It a great
deiS more.
When one is 70 years old it ought to
be permitted him to give over the de
sire to make records. In fact, at any
stage of our earthly career making
records is a futile occupation. The
love of doing something nobody else
has done spoils many a promising va
cation. The ambition to go faster or
farther than anybody else deprives us
of leisure and all the serene Joys which
dwell with contemplation and a mind
at ease. Nobody's mind can be at ease
when he Is in a hurry. Nobody can
thoroughly enjoy himself on foot un
less in his subconscious soul he Is
lulled by the thought tMat he is not go
ing anywhere and it matters not when
he gets there. If he never gets there
at all It is Just as well. That Is the
pleasantest traveling, says Henry Van
Dyke most wisely, where every stage
of the trip is part of the destination.
The loveliest journeys are those we
take merely to be going. To follow
a plan subtracts something from the
pure delight of free adventure. To
have a fixed destination which one
must reach by nightfall turns Joy Into
toil. The only happy travelers are
those to whom every green spot by
the roadside is a part of the promised
land and every brook an affluent of
the river of the water of life.
"Afoot and llghthearted I take to
the open road, healthy, free, the world
before me, the long, brown path be
fore me leading wherever I choose.
Henceforth I ask not good fortune, I
am good fortune. Henceforth I whim
per no more, postpone no more, need
nothing. . Strong and content I travel
the open road." Thus sings, or
yawps, good old Walt Whitman. He
knew what he was talking about, did
he not? Is .there any pleasure equal
to walking If your shoes do not pinch
and your clothes do not chafe and
your muscles are hard? Pinching shoes
will turn Uie most romantic road on
earth Into linked torment. -Even that
divine trail from Seaside to Elk Creek,
full of all delight as it Is and thrilling
at every turn with wild adventure, has
been, made purgatorial before now by
a harsh shirt collar extravasatlng the
neck. Walt Whitman knew far better
than to begin his tramps In the early
morning. Those be fools who sing of
the Joy of rising with the lark and
harking forth upon the hillside and
dewy mead. The dew will soak your
shoes through, and ' blister your feet.
OREGOMAX, THURSDAY.
while the spider webs and bugs and
other besetments of the hillside are
never so fatal to one's religion as Just
at sunrise. Morning is the time for
sleep. The dame of fashion slumbers
through the noxious forenoon to pre
serve her beauty. Likewise the pedes
trian who cares for the welfare of his
soul and body will keep his bed until
the dew Is dry and the dire mosquitoes
which haunt the rising sun have been
withered by his 10 o'clock radiance.
All the sages and most of the saints
agree that the best time in the fore
noon to walk Is from 10 o'clock till
about a quarter to 12. This affords
the traveler abundant leisure. He can
sew on a button. He can take plenty
of time for breakfast. He need not
Interrupt the matutinal slumbers of
the family where he has put up for the
night. He will come to dinner not too
tired to enjoy his meal and yet with
an appetite earned by honest toil. No
other appetite is worth a fig. Away
with the fictitious hunger which is
born or cocktails. There is none gen
uine but that engendered by weary
legs and well stretched lungs. To put
the case briefly, the hot part of the day
is the best time for walking. The pe
destrian sweats more to be sure under
the burning eye.of the meridian sun,
but, on the other hand, he dries off
faster and it is the evaporation of pers
piration which keeps a man cool when
he is out of doors. The languid city
dude, lolling in the shade of a spread
ing oak Is not half bo comfortable as
the hayhand shedding rivers of sweat
in the open field. A man keeps cool of
a Summer day on the same principle
as a porus water Jug. At eventide the
day's Journey ought to be finished so
that the traveler can hie him to his
inn with a clear conscience and take
his ease in the low late light of the
afternoon. It is no time then for toil
ing and moiling over a weary road.
Twilight is the hour for meditation, to
dwell on the adventures of the day, to
dream of delectable paths untrod
Walk from 10 o'clock till 4 and sleep
and loaf the rest of the day and night.
Such is the rule of the pedestrian who
truly knows the Joys of his art and cul
tivates them wisely.
The Astorian (newspaper) is worry
ing greatly over what it terms "the
certainty of the advance in rates of
marine insurance" on account of the
abolishment of compulsory pilotage.
No one in Portland has heard any
thing about this advance in rates of
marine insurance except the rumors
that have drifted up from the mouth
of the river where marine insurance
is neither bought nor sold. It may
not have occurred to the Astorian that
compulsory pilotage was abolished in
order that a greater degree of protec
tion could be given shipping property.
The testimony given by one of the bar
pilots at Salem last Winter as to the
personal habits and conduct of some
of the pilots who operated on the bar
under compulsory pilotage offered an
excellent reason for changing the sys
tem and substituting one that will not
permit a drunken man to take charge
of a vessel. Puget Sound has no com
pulsory pilotage, but a very efficient
pilotage service Is maintained:
The steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der
Grosse, which arrived In New York
yesterday brought among other pass
engers three French counts, and it is
somewhat remarkable to note that
none of them came over to look for
an American heiress. Instead, they
are starting west to engage in mining
operations. If more of the foreign no
bility, when they get hungry at home,
would come over here and go to work,
they might not find it a difficult mat
ter to attract female Americans with
sense as well as dollars.
One person out of every fifteen will
have a chance to draw a farm worth
having at the Government lottery
which takes place In the Indian reser
vations in Idaho, Montana and Wash
ington this week. A fifteen to one
chance will not appeal much to most
gamblers for the percentage in favor
of the faro banker player is very much
greater.
It seems that' Judge McCredie Is
narrowed down to a choice of wear
ing a gown, resigning or having the
law put on him by the Governor.
In this between season dullness, Port
land modistes make specially low
rates, and it may be just as well for
the Vancouver jurist to come over
and be measured.
Prince Suleyman Effendi, a brother
of the Sultan of Turkey, died at Con
stantinople yesterday of heart failure.
A great many members of the royal
families in all parts of the world have
been afflicted with "heart failure," and
if it is accompanied with political com
plications it is generally fatal.
Commissioner W. K. Newell has
stated several Important facts rela
tive to the apple Industry in Oregon.
He might have added that first-class
apples pay a good profit when sold
for 75 cents a box. Last Fall culls
sold for more.
Just consider for a moment the
sorry predicament of the Chicago pub
lic. The newspapers will not print
the unprintable details of the Gingles
woman's testimony, and only a few
favored auditors are admitted to the
courtroom.
If we understand the weather
man's defense, he cannot help it if It
rains In Summer, or even If It doesn't
rain. It is all in the hands of Provi
dence, or was until that most honest
and prayerful Salem editor asserted
himself.
Portland is not alone in looking
awry at its ball team. The Long
Creek paper thinks "some of the
boys could have played better if some
one had hung a blue dress in the
field."
An Illinois woman has paid $525 for
a cat in London. There are many pre
cincts In London where she could have
bought a regiment of people for that
price.
- Should there be a vacant niche in
the American Hall of Fame, applica
tion for tenancy ought to be made at
once by the friends of conqueror Wol
gast. One by one the landmarks disap
pear. ' The stage station named Hog
Flat, in Grant County, has been
changed to Mountain "Home.
It has become quite obvious to the
City Council that in Mayor Simon we
have a Mayor who Mayors all the
time.
If this isn't good harvest weather,
what would you' call it? -
JULY 15, 1900.
CHAFFIiVG ROOSEVELT IX SONGS
Entertalnera In British East Africa
Take Liberties With ex-President.
Nairobi Cor. Chicago Tribune.
Colonel Roosevelt heard his prowess
as a llonkiller told in song and sketch
at the entertainment given on Saturday
night by the "Nairobi Follies," which
Mr. Roosevelt and his son Kermit at
tended as the guests of F. J. Jackson,
acting governor, as an evening's di
version after dining at government
house.
The topical songs dealing with Mr.
Roosevelt were a feature of the oc
casion and at each allusion made to
himself Colonel Roosevelt's laugh rang
out above the applause and laughter
of the rest of the audience.
The song describing Colonel Roose
velt's lion hunting was sung by Miss
Shooter in the course of a sketch en
titled "A Tale of the Chase.". It ran
as follows:
"FEUS LEO."
A Hon lurked In his lonely lair.
As African lions do,
For he liked to be where he could get a
share
Of a nice little buck with a slice of luck.
In our wonderful nature zoo.
His large inside he nightly fed with zebra
or hartbecst Instead.
"There Isn't a scrap of doubt." said he.
This diet's exceedingly good for me.
For I grow fat.- fat. fatter:
What on earth does it mat. mat. matter
If the way that I creep, on the beasts in
their sleep.
Makes the poor things scat, scat, scatter?"
He hunted game In the moonshine bright, '
With never a thought of harm.
But he got quite a fright when there hove
In sight
Teddy armed to the teeth with a knife and
sheath.
And a rifle beneath his arm.
The Colonel plugged him with a laugh.
While Kermit took his photograph.
Bald he: "'Those Wall street bovs would cry
If they knew how near I'd been to die;
O, this country's bull. bull, bully:
I've enjoyed it full. full, fully.
For It euchres the best they can show In
the West,
That's so wild and wool, wool, wooiy."
Another song entitled "B. E. A."
(British East Africa), recounted some
of Mr. Roosevelt's experiences in the
colony as follows:
(With apoloBies""to "Kipling.)
At the port of Killndlni.
Looking eastward 'cross the main.
We welcomed Teddy Roosevelt,
As we hope to do again.
And the rain It fell In torrents.
And the world seemed far from gay:
But we did our best to greet him la
Our way in B. E. A.
He traveled up the railway.
And he said the sights were grand.
And he also said. "That's bully."
As we well can understand:
For the game Is here In thousands.
And It's here we'd have him stay;
Just to see giraffes and rhinos
Near the rail in. B. E. A.
We heard of hand-fed Hons.
And of rhinos on the chain;
How- he bravely faced all dangers.
And deadly beasts has slain;
fctlll. we've nothing heard but rumors.
That s the truth we must confess;
e have no truthful story.
He Bhut out all the press.
Tes, he shut out all the press.
A" ne left 'nerr there to guess;
They raved, and growled, and grumbled.
Ihey were left In such a mess
But that's all passed, done with.
or they were not far awav.
And their new is scattered ' broadcast
Over all the world today;
ftill. he sent in news one Tuesday.
It Is nice to be polite;
But the New York papers had it
the previous Sunday night.
O! It really was a frost
And one finds It to his cost-
If he tries to balk the press men
He is very often lost.
Finest Example Known of New Gothic.
London Daily News.
All Saints' Church. Margaret street,
where jubilee services are being held
replaced Margaret Chapel, which was
the first London stronghold of the Ox
ford Tractarians. It is said to be the
most costly parish church in Great
Britain, and was built chiefly at the
expense of Beresford Hope, who seri
ously impoverished himself by a pas
sion for erecting beautiful churches
Dr. Pusey before he became a recluse
delivered some of his most stirring dis
courses in this church, including his
famous sermon on "Dives and Lazarus."
Mr. Gladstone at one time frequently
attended the services of All Saints',
Margaret street, and so. when Princess
of Wales, did Queen Alexandra, The
church, which was designed" by Butter
field, is held by architectural experts to
be among the finest examples of new
Gothic in existence. It compelled the
admiration of Ruskin. who wrote: "In
general proportion of parts, in refine
ment and piquancy of mouldings; above
all. In force and grace of floral orna
ment. ... it challenges fearless
comparison with the noblest work of
any time."
Woman Kills Coyote.
Roseburg News.
From Special Game Warden Hodson
it is learned there Is certainly one
farmer's wife In this county who knows
how to use a rifle.' When on Sugar
Pine Mountain, with an eye out for vlo,
lators of the game law, on the 1st Inst.,
he heard a shot, and looking in the di
rection from which the report came, he
saw a woman shooting. Turning to
ward the point where she had the gun
pointed, he saw a dead sheep and near
it a dying coyote. The lady was the
wife of Joseph West, and she told the
rest of the story. Hearing the sheep
running, she saw the coyote pull down
and kill one of their sheep. Grabbing
her husband's rifle, she got out of the
house in time to see the coyote catch
another, and then she opened fire on
the brute. She hit it at the second
discharge of the gun. killing it at onco,
afcd that was all there was to it.
Pessimistic Paragraphs.
Chicago News. . '
It gives us a terrific jolt every time
we hear our friends praise our enemies.
It will soon be the open season for
teaching the Summer girl to swim all
over again.
Although people realize that they
can't live forever, dying Is the last
thing they want to do.
Most of the people who want to get
out of the matrimonial frying pan do so
because they want to get in it again.
A woman's Idea of economy In shop
ping depends on whether she is buying
things for herself or for her husband.
About the meanest thing one woman
can say of another woman's appear
ance Is that she looks as if she had
dressed while running to a fire.
What Washington Did.
Washington Star.
While other cities talked about sav
in life and property on Independence
day, Washington did it. There was lust
one way to do It, and that was to en
force the law against the burning of
powder and the firing of pistols within
the fire limits. That was done, and the
public was warned In advance, so there
was no misunderstanding and no disap
pointment. The lid was clamped on so
tight that even the firemen were al
lowed a part holiday.
What Washington did other cities can
do. This example should be followed
everywhere. The annual saving In life,
in fire damages, in doctors" hills, and in
money heretofore squandered on sense
less noise-making contrivances will be
enormous.
His Little Joke.;
London Globe.
Marshall P. Wilder, the American
humorist, now on a visit to England,
says: "The other day I. was standing
in front of the Coliseum when two
young women came . out. One of them
said:- 'Lizzie, don't you think the
acoustics are awful in there?" Said the
other: "Why. I didn't smell anything." "
It was too bad of those young women
to palm off an old Punch joke on the
unsuspecting visitor like that.
Great Riches for American Farmers
C07rCror0 a.1 wl'i"' w -X.OOO,0O0 Bushels. Yielding to the C.row
rTL... . i.5O0,0O0.000 Wheat Crop L.rge and Price. Hl;h, and Other
Grains in Proportion Look Ont for a Most Prosperous Year.
For the first time on record this coun
try promises to produce a corn crop in
excess of 3.000.000.000 bushels, and the
price is sufficiently high to bring the
value of the crop to the farmer well above
H.600.000.000. Eastern statisticians have
been making estimates on the probable
outturn of the cereals and the money they
will place In circulation. The Chicago
Tribune. In a summary .,of the situation,
estimates the value of the wheat, corn,
barley, oats and rye crops as follows:
9 l,55.ooo.ooo
heat 623.ooo.ooo
i;1' 4j2.oooooo
J?1"1' li5.000.Ofrf)
K'e . Sl.600.GnO
These figures are based on the farmer
receiving 60 cents per bushel for corn, 90
cents for wheat, 40 cents for oats, 70
cents for rye and 50 cents for barley. In
view of the present quotations, these fig
ures may be regarded as very conserva
tive. Despite the shortage reported in Win
ter wheat, the Spring wheat crop prom
ises to make up the shortage. The sta
tistician of the New Pork Produce Ex
change has reduced the percentage fig
ures of the July crop reports to the stand
ard of bushels, with the following re
sults: Indicated Harvest's 1909.
July.
moo
400.704.00O
27.871.000
Harvest
of 1 008.
437.O0S.0O0
30.34U.Ct00
Winter wheat
Bushels
Acreage
Spring wheat
Bushels
Acreage
Total wheat
Bushels
Acreage .........
Corn
2S3.796.000
JS.301.0OO
226.694.0"00
17.20S.000
663.500.000
46,262.000
664. 604,000
47.S57.000
Bushels 3.161. 174.00O 2.668.651.000
Acreage 100.006.006" 101.7SS.OO0
Oats
Bushels O62.0S3.0OO 807.156 000
Acreage 32.422,000 32,344.000
Rye
Bushels 31.028.000 31.851.000
Acreage 1.933.000 1.948.000
Barley
Bushels 1S3.723.000 166 756.0OO
Acreage 6.SS1.00O 6,646,000
The Produce Exchange figures are pre
pared by the "new" method of tlguring
acreage and condition into bushels. That
Is to say. the value given a condition of
100" is what the average "July" condi
tions have indicated in bushels per acre
In final crop returns during the past five
seasons. The old method of figuring was
to compile the value of a bushel per acre
on the average showing 'of a five-year con
dition "at harvest." The new method,
therefore, takes cognizance of the fact that
August is usually a month of deterioration
in the grain crops. , -
The wheat crop as forecasted by the
foregoing figures will compare with the
Government's figures on former crops as
follows:
WARNING TO AMERICAN PEOPLE
Episcopalian Bishop Says It Will Be a
Miracle If We Escape Rome's Fate.
New York Sun.'
John the Baptist newer preached a
more scathing evangelistic, sermon in
the wilderness than did the Rt. Rev.
Charles D. Williams, bishop of Michi
gan, at St. Bartholomew's Church. Madi
son avenue and Forty-fourth street,
against the American people.
"I shall venture to mention some
things," he said, "wherein Americans
commit the sins against which John the
Baptist and Jesus Christ preached. One
thing is that of our wealth. We are
more crudely and crassly materialistic
than any other people on earth. We
cannot tell the difference between big
ness and greatness. Bigness Is mate
rial; you can measure It with a tape.
Greatness is spiritual; It is that which
God alone can measure. We call New
York and Chicago great cities. , Are
they? They are big. monstrously big;
but have they the civic conscience that
is necessary to greatness? Compare
them with Athens of old, with some of
the small cities of Europe of the pres
ent day where real problems of human
ity are being worked out.
"As a people we are big, in land we
are big. in energy we are big; but in
any of these are we great? What are
our National ideals? Have we any? I
fear we have not. We are so individ
ualistic that the Nation has hardly an
existence. The state seems to exist to
take care of persons, especially rich
persons. Congress is just now spend
ing Its time looking after particular in
terests. It Is the Individual, and If he
Is cared for, the devil can take the gen
eral public. We have no social solidar
ity. It Is material wealth that is pro
ducing public and private Ills. If we,
as a people and Nation, escape the doom
of others who have gone over the read
it will be because a miracle is per
formed In our behalf.
"We are inhumane. We care little
for art, fof sentiment or for anything
that cultivates humanity. We have a
horror of being called sentimental. Our
universities teach trades, not the higher
life. We turn out graduates fitted to
get rich, and when they get rich they
don't know how to use, much less en
Joy, their money. We are inhuman.
We see railroads kill thousands each
year and say nothing. In the protec
tion of life and property we are away
behind the nations of Europe. In laws
protecting women and children, espe
cially those who labor, we are classed
with barbarians. On this very point
two nations cannot be put on the honor
roll. Those nations are Russia and
the United States. The Yankee In Eu
rope is often more shrewd than honest,
and when we happen along behind him
and hear of his tricks we are apt to
laugh rather than to blush with shame
as we ought to do."
Concluding, the bishop said that he
saw signs of improvement and that he
believed that if Christian people would
support prophets who dare to tell the
truth, and if the people would stop in
their mad rush for wealth long enough
to consider whither they and the Nation
are going America might not know the
fate of Israel and of Rome.
New Theory About Hydrophobia.
Philadelphia Dispatch to N. Y. World.
At the University of Pennsylvania ex
periments are now being conducted that
point to an entirely new theory regard
ing the cause of hydrophobia.
Dr. Charles W. Dulles said recently:
"Myself and some of my colleagues at
the university are at work on the cause
of rabies In dogs and of hydrophobia in
man along entirely new lines, and if the
results bear out the new theory, almost
every accepted Idea on the subject will
virtually be swept away.
"An Italian scientist by the name of
Negri, who has for years made a study
of hydrophobia, has projected the new
theory, and we are now looking for
what we call the "Negri bodies' in the
brain cells. It Is not a germ theory,
and if we locate the 'Negri bodies" we
will at least reach a satisfactory work
ing hypothesis ot this mysterious dis
ease and be able to go ahead with
definite treatment in a rational man
ner." It Held the Governor Awhile.
Rochester (N. Y.) Herald.
Theodore Hallam, one of Kentucky's
most able lawyers, wag often provoked
to exasperation by the play his friends
made on his name. Hallam had borne
allusions without end to the "Middle
Ages." "Constitutional Law" and the
rest of it. when one day in Washington
he was Introduced to Governor Hogg,
of Texas.
"Hallam? Hallam?" the Governor
queried. "Are you the original?"
"No. Governor Hogg," replied Hallam.
"Are you?"
Total Wheat Acreage and Yields
Area,
acres.
. .46.262.0OA
.47. ."-ST 1VO
. 45.21 l.OOO
.47.2S.I.SJ9
.47.S54.070
. 44.074. S75
. 40.464. 9rt7
.46.202.424
-4H.SH5.514
.42.405.3H5
' . 52.5SS.574
.44.055.17S
.3H.45.0')rt
-34.61S.646
.34. 047.32
Crop.
bush.
66:.5n..O00
664 6' I J 00
034.l7.0't
735 ?60 OTO
Estimated. lOOO
Wheat harvest.
Wheat harvest.
Wheat harvest
Wheat harvest.
Wheat harvest.
Wheat harvest.
Wheat harvest
Wheat harvest."
Wheat harvest.
Wheat harvest.
Wheat harvest
Wheat harvest
Wheat harvest.
Wheat harvest.
loos
1917
10O6
1HOS
10O4
10O3
10H2
10O1
10O0
ison
isos
1SS7
1S06
1S93
6!-tJ.'.7'..4S9J
5 5 -J
0H.5I7
it SX5
6S7.
r. 06:t.n3
74S 46'V21 S
522.22..50S
65V5S 1.252
675. 14S 70S
f:;o.l4!.16S
427.6S4.S46
467.102.047
Census Bureau.
The corn acreage and vield for a num
ber of years Is as follows:
, Area. Bushels.
Estimated. 1303. . . .1O0.0K6 ooo S 161 174 0OO
t-orn harvest. 1005. .ioi.7SS.ooo 2 66 651 0iM
Corn harvest. 1007.. 09.031. OOO 2 SO 3"o ooo
Corn harv est. 10O6. . 06.737 5 'v7 416 o:ll
Corn harvest. 10O5.. 94.011.x6O 2 707 90:! 510
Corn harvest. 1904.. 02.231. 5a 2 467 4SO OS4
Corn harvest. 190:1. . SS.9i.oo. "44 176'o5
Corn harvest. 10O2.. 94.04.1.Y.13 2.V'S 64S 313
Corn harvest. 1901.. 91.340.H2S l'.V2:,'51'!l
Corn harvest. lOOO. . S3. 320 S7 lO.Vlo" 314
Corn harvest. 1S99. . 94. 016. 911 a' 663' 440 1 70
Corn harvest. 1S9S.. 77.721. 7SI 1024184 660
Corn harvest. 1S97. . S0.095 O.M 1 90" 067 0S3
Corn harvest. 1S06. . SI .027 156 ' "S:'s7x'l6S
Corn harvest. 1S95. . S2.07S.830 '"'Tsi l is 5
Corn harvest. 1S94.. 62.5S2.269 l212'77d'052
The New York Journal of Commerce. In.
commenting on the prospects for the two
leading cereals, says:
.T.'S returns indicate a Winter wheat yield
of 410.000.000. bushels and almost 255.00O OOO
bushels of Spring wheat, or prpctlcallv the
same total as was actually produced' last
year. This, however. Is not quite enough,
when It is remembered that the Increase
12.000.000 bushels, more wheat each vear.
Tor home consumption. It Is deeply regret
table that our farmers could not raica
,00.000,000 bushels of wheat this vear. for
not only are prices much too hish for the
general welfare, but the dupplles left over
from last year are extremely liuht it was
the paucity of old supplies that sent wheat
prices upward after the publication of the
report. A pleasing feature was the Im
provement in condition from June to Julv
whereas usually the Winter wheat crop
goes back a point or thereabouts in that
period.
No qualifying phrases need bo used in
discussing the corn crop. The area of
fully 109,000.000 acres Is far abeve expecta
tions, and constitutes a new high record
The July condition and resultant yields
during the last five years indicate a har
3.163.O0O.00O bushels, against 2.668,
000000 last year, so that even should In
jurious Influences arise a crop of three bll
I.Vn.J""1',helB ''ould be possible. The value,
or this crop cannot well be overestimated.
Not only does it enrich the farmer more than
any other two crops combined, but It sun
S1S "Je .ral'roads with an enormous vol
im . ?C tra,ric- I'nfortunately, foreign,
countries do not aply to us for anv larce
Fo1 ty ,of..thl s". o that it is not
Important item in our trade balances. The
oat crop figure; out at 066.00O.00O bushe's
against only 907.000,000 bushel, last, yea"
fhepesslmlM. aTrd " 'nt for
STATES OPPOSED TO INCOME TAX
Nineteen Are Pla-ured Either In the
Doubtful or Hostile Column.
Washington Dispatch to N. Y. Herald.
Will the Income tax ever become a
law through the amendment of the
Constitution by the 35 states whose
assent is necessary?
This Is a question which is being
discussed gravely here, and the nega
tive answer of most of thoso who have
looked Into the matter was responsible)
for the unanimous vote given the reso
lution In the Senate on Monday.
Even the most enthusiastic support
ers of the income tax are not intoxi
cated by hope that two-thirds of the
state Legislatures will take favorable
action. Getting down to cold figures,
no one can see at this time a safe
majority for the adoption of. the
amendment. To obtain ratification the
amendment, as already stated, must
carry 35 states. Twelve states reject
ing It will kill it. . By not acting either
affirmatively or negatively, a few states
may prevent the necessary three
fourths majority.
The states which at this '".time are.
regarded as reasonably sure to adopt
the proposed amendment are:
Arkansas.
Colorado.
Georgia.
Idaho.
Indiana. "
Iowa.
Kansas.
Kentucky.
Michigan.
Minnesota.
Mississippi.
Missouri.
Montana.
Nebraska.
Nevada.
North Carolina.
North Xakota.
Oklahoma.
Oregon.
South Carolina,
South Dakota
Tennessee. Texan.
Virginia.
Washington.
Wisconsin.
Wyoming.
In this list ahe 27 states, or eight
less than the number required to adopt
the amendment.
In the doubtful column are placed
the following states:
Alabama. Inlsiana.
Florida. West. Virginia.
Illinois. Ohio.
California. . New York, -
"L'tah, Maryland.
In the doubtful group are 10 states,
and in the third group of states those
which are regarded by reason of domi
nating influences to be reasonably sura
to reject the amendment are the fol
lowing nine states:
Maine, Connecticut.
New Hampshire. Rhode Island.
Vermont. Pennsylvania.
Massachusetts, New Jersey.
Delawai e.
The latter group, it will be noticed,
embraces all of New England. The
casual observer will be Inclined to be
lieve some of these states to be at least
doubtful, but It Is the purpose here
merely to give the. views of persona
who are very much interested in the
matter and who have already studied
and analyzed the situation, and they
place New England among the hostiles.
An Effective Hit.
Senator Borah of Idaho made a hit
the other day against Senator Lodge
of Massachusetts. Lodge was giving
his support to the corporation tax. But
Borah drew from the Congressional
Record a speech made by Lodge in 1S98.
showing what the Massachusetts Sen
ator thought at that time of this form
of taxation, viz:
The object, as I take It. of the proposed,
tax on banks and corporations Is to place
a tax upon those wicked persons wlvi have
made or saved money and who are popularly
supposed to be gathered together In cor
porations. . . . The states and munic
ipalities must get their money somewhere.
If the National Government takes trom them
one field of taxation after another, they
are forced back mure and more to the com
paratively narrow ground of real estate, and
it seems to me that this Is a very serious
objection to the whole scheme of taxing
banks and corporations. There is another
point about this amendment, and that is the
extreme injustice, as rt appears to me, with
w-hich taxes are imposed. We tax corpora
tions, but we do not tax a partnership.
We propose to tax men for ' priv
ileges which we do not confer and relieve
other men doing. perhaps. the same busi
ness and with a larger profit because they
do business In the name of a partnership,
and .not a corporation. The corporation, as
a rule, Is made up of many persons with
small interests, whereas the great partner
ships are made up. as a rule, of .one or
two or three persons, and yet '-.by this
amendment the partnerships are exempted,
and the corporations are taxed.
Railroad Costs 5S.OOO.OOO a Mire.
The Tauren Railroad, the new Alpine
line connecting Gastein and Spittal, was
officially opened by Emperor Francis
Joseph In the presence of a large gath
ering of the Austrian Archdukes, the
ministers of the empire, members of
parliament and the public. So great
were the engineering dif f iculties that
had to be overcome in the construction
of the line that, although it is only 30
miles long, it cost 62.500.000. Eight
years were required for the completion
of the Tauren tunnel. The railroad
greatly shortens the distance between
Central Europe and the Adriatic,