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Eastern Bostoew OffU- Tho 8. C. Becfc vlth Spe.-lal Agen.-y New York, rooms 4B 5 Trtlmna butUUng. Chicago, rooms Gio-on Tribune building. PORTLAND. SATUKDAY, OCT. IS. 190. CKOHGB HENNAS OJf IB. COOK. Among the moet Incisive criticisms of Dr. Cook's narrative of his Journey to the Pole is an article in the latest number of The Outlook (New York), by George Kennan, the noted traveler and author. Though he does not pro nounce In a positive manner against the authenticity of Cook's claims, he discusses the subject in a way that throws grave doubts upon them. Mr. Kennan's essay is an analysis and ex amination of Dr. Cook's statement about his food supply and his means and methods of transportation. The reader draws the conclusion from this inquirv that Cook's narrative is highly Improbable, it not absolutely incredible and impossible. Cook's supply of food for his party of three men and twenty six dogs Kennan shows could not have sufficed, nor half sufficed, to support life in his party in so rigorous a climate during the period required. Cook's own statement is used as( a basis. The food supply that Cook carried was ten hundred and eighteen pounds. It would have amounted to seven ounces per day (eighty days) per capita. Of pemmican the supply was SOU pounds, and the ration of the men was composed mainly, and of the dogs wholly, of that food substance. "Now how long a time." asks Kennan. "will 800 pounds of pemmican keep three men and twenty-six dogs In working condition, provided sixteen of the twenty-six dogs die at irregular Inter vals, of starvation, leaving ten to bo fed throughout?" In his examination of Dr. Cook's narrative, Mr. Kennan finds the test wholly in the pemmican supply. Of this food Cook says that each man and each dog received one pound dally; and beyond Helberg Island, distant thirty-one days from the Pole, there was no game. Kennan's calculation, made from Cook's reported Itinerary, making average allowance for what was saved by death of numbers of the dogs, shows that the food could not have lasted beyond forty-two days; and even so, the supply was so meager that according to Cook's report more than one-half of his dogs starved to death. The dead dogs. Indeed, furnished some food; but it Is known that a dog does not die of starvation till be has used three-fifths of his tissue. What was left, of course, was mostly skele ton, skin and muscles wholly deprived of fat and affording very little nutri ment. The starved dog could be equal, Mr. Kennan says, to no more than five pounds of pemmican. The conclusion is that Cook's party, with the surviving dogs, could not possibly have undergone the Journey on the amount of food reported. For, after making all allowances, the moat liberal calculation would give for the time no more than eight ounces of pemmi can or its equivalent per day, for men and dogs; and "no man and no dog ever has lived and worked for twelve weeks. In polar conditions, in temper atures ranging from forty to sixty de grees below sero, on so meager supply of food: and if we may believe the physiologists. It never can be done." It Is evident that Kennan Is thor oughly incredulous as to Cook's story. Manifestly he does not believe that Cook reached the Pole. A personal letter from Kennan accompanies his article to The Outlook; in which he says: "Many millions of people in America seem to think that the really Important feature of this North Pole row la Peary's losing his temper and saying unpleasant things about his rival. It doesn't strike me so at all. Ills personal behavior, historically, and In its bearing upon society at large, is a matter of no consequence what ever. But such is not the case with Cook's claim to priority in the discov ery of the Pole. Ills truthfulnesa or untruthfulness is a question of great historical importance, and his attempt to deceive the world If he has made such an attempt will be followed by all sorts of deplorable consequences." Kennan's experience as a traveler and his reputation as an author, to gether with his long study and accu rate knowledge of the narratives of all Arctic travelers, most certainly en title his opinions and conclusions to consideration. His article will shake' faith In Dr. Cook's claims more than anything else that has yet appeared. It is worth while to get The Outlook of October 18. and read It. DOCTORS A.M) DIET. Surely the editor of the Nw York Medical Journal, when he took his pen In hand to ridicule the food reformers, forsook the counsels of discretion. His wit is poignant and some of his satire Is almost brutally truthful, but the re ply to It all Is pretty obvious, though perhaps not quite fair. The universal American dyspeprta is a source of rev enue to the doctors which they are re luctant to lose. It has been caused by Improper food, gluttony and bad habits of eating. It can only be cured by removing Its causes. The reformers have often been ignorant and foolish In recommending changes of diet, but they are not so foolish as those who advise us to continue the practices which have made us ill. Undoubtedly the. Fletcherltes, for ex ample, go to a wild extreme in coun seling everybody to chew upon food until it evaporates, so to speak; but It is far wiser to chew too long upon a morsel thanto gulp it down in a solid lump, as our American habit has been. Nobody has ever been injured by "Flctcherlzing." Thousands have lost health and happiness by bolting their 'food. So it is with the gospel of ab stemiousness at meals and a fast now and then. The Medical Journal thinks this is all nonsense. "Eat what you like and all you can get down," is the editor's advice substantially. He may be right. Still it Is the unanimous tes timony of those who eat abstemiously that they feel more cheerful, can stand more hard work end sleep better than they ever did in their days of unregen erate gluttony. One may venture to predict that the doctors cannot check the food reform by railing at it. but they may possibly diminish the respect of the public for their advice. J 1ST ONCE MORE. Says the Bourne-Chamberlain or gan: "In creating a supreme court, the state Constitution, article VII, de clares that the number of Justices shall not 'exceed seven.' " This Is misrepre sentation, intended to mislead; there fore, positively false. The Constitution, as adopted, declared that "the supreme court shall consist of four Justices"; who were to he the same as the district or circuit Justices, which number never should exceed seven; but when the population of the state should reach 200,000, the Legislature might pro vide for the election of supreme and circuit Judges in distinct classes, "one of which classes shall consist of three Justices of the supreme court," etc. This limits the number of Justices of the separate supreme court to three. Chamberlain's argument to the con trary Is a most pitiful Juggle, rank with absurdity and insincerity. The fact that a case was decided a while ago against The Oregonian by the supreme court has no relation whatever to this constitutional dis cussion. It was a case of small impor tance, not e-en worth public mention. But since it Is harped on by one and another. The Oregonian will say that the parties In the case were not dealt with on equal basis; since the Court holding against The Oregonian, laid down the queer doctrine that though the contract wasn't binding on one side it was enforceable on the other. But miscarriages of Justice are very com mon, and The Oregonian is well aware that it nust accept its share of them. Tint lh nerann nl matter, the argu- mentum ad hominem, doesn't belong to a discussion or tnis Kina. it na ""t been started by this newspaper. PLUMS AND FEItSlMMONS. With so many vessels steaming away rmm Pliant Sound in ballast for Port land, where they are taking on wheat cargoes, the Tacoma MrlDune nas, tem nnrarilv at least, abandoned Its attacks on the Columbia River. Just at pres ent it seems to be confronted witn a. far more serious menace than the Co lumbia River. With a violent outbreak of upper-case, type it is calling on Ta coma to stand by her guns and prevent cicnttio from annexing everything worth having in the City of Destiny. The cause of the outbreak is said to-De the proposed transfer of Northern Pa cific main line division headquarters from Tacoma to Seattle. The Com mercial Club of Tacoma has appointed a committee of five to investigate the matter, and the Tribune is certain that this committee 'wlll make history." "It will make known," says the Trib une, "whether Tacoma is to share with Seattle eat at the first table, or to take cold victuals at second table when Seattle has completed Its meal." It has been but a comparatively short time since any Intimation that Tacoma was strictly a protege of the Northern Pacific Railroad would have been re ceived with great indignation. Tacoma was desirous that the rest of the world should appreciate that it was the one city -f the world that was destined to become great by reason of its fine loca tion and the loud noise of some of Its inhabitants, unaided by the railroad Influence which is sometimes a neces sity. In city-building. .Now note the change as it appears in the Tribune: Tacoma wants to remain on friendly terma with the Northern Pacific Tacoma under stands that tha Northern Pacific has In the past been responsible for the very exist ence of Tacoma. But Tacoma Is no longer a village. It wants to know what Its parent means to do tor It, If tho big boy over at tha other aide of Puget Sound Seattle la to bava all the plums and Tacoma all tha green persimmons. This anxiety seems doubly strange when It 4s recalled that a few weeks ago the Tribune was arguing with great solemnity that Seattle would never-amount to much as a railroad town because It was 42 miles farther away than Tacoma from the Columbia River. At that time the Tribune had it all figured out to its own satisfaction that the North Bank road had been constructed expressly for the purpose of hauling wheat past Portland to Pu get Sound. There Is one feature of this trouble over the allotment of plums and persimmons for which we are grateful. So long as the Tacoma hammer Is swung against Seattle It Is not disturbing Portland with its rever berations. A STRAINED SITUATION. Despite a considerable decline in some stocks which Wall street had overboomed. the market yesterday dis played much less nervousness than might have been expected to follow the numerous heavy advances .in the English bank rate. This failure of Wall street to run when Threadneedle street becomes frightened would seem to Indicate lessening power on the part of Londorr-to rule the financial world. It would also indicate that not all of the lessons of the panic two years ago have been forgotten, and that precau tion had been taken to prevent any un necessary hysteria over the rapidly tightening strain in t,he foreign money markets. This lessening of the prestige of the Bank of England may be ex plained by the enormous Increase of the wealth of our own country. There are many In Portland besides thf; old est Inhabitants who can remember when this city was largely at the mercy of San Francisco when funds were needed. San Francisco In turn sneezed when ever New York took snuff, and New York was dependent on the whims of the "Old Lady of Threadneedle street." There still exists a strong bond of financial sympathy between the money centers of the now and the old world, but It Is no .longer vftal to our exist ence. We have plenty of money and plenty of collateral In this country, but as yet we have not devised a plan by which our gold reserve can be protect ed or by which some degree of flexibil ity can be Imparted to our currency system. In that feature is the weak point where may be felt the present strain in Europe. A few weeks ago the New York market was glutted with cheap money, which enabled the Wall street gamblers to force stocks up to a point far beyond their Intrinsic value. Now, with England bidding for gold and crop-moving demands heavy, the reserves havs run down to very low THE MOltNIXG OREGONIAN. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 33, 1909. ebb and money rates have advanced to a point where legitimate business as well as stock gambling is feeling the effect.' Unless there is something worse than yesterday's break in the stock market, we .will have demonstrated that we are no longer as dependent on England as we have been in the past. It will not, however, be demonstrated that conditions in this country are as good as are warranted by our great "wealth. Financial legislation that will tend to remove the "feast-or-famine" characteristics of our money market is badly needed. . TNTO WHOSE POCKETS? The grand Jury inquiry into the affairs of the old Oregon Trust is belated; but it is nevertheless reveal ing some highly interesting and in structive things. General suspicion has in more than one particular de veloped Into actual knowledge, or at least Into definite testimony from some who ought to know. For example, we find the mysterious Oolden Eagle transaction fully ex plained by the declaration of Mr. Nate Simorl, who was attorney for the un speakable Gus Lowit, that Cashier Cooper Morris was a partner in Low-it's concern. The Golden Eagle was thus enabled to establish a credit for something like Si 00,000 with the Oregon Trust, with assets of about half that amount. Here was a Cx-irc-inal betrayal of trust by Morris for his own benefit and profit that ought not to be overlooked by the grand Jury. Overlooking for the present the sys tematic doctoring of the bank's books, the disappearance in a night of $50,000 in money, the Pacific & Eastern Rail road deal, the shameful Order of Washington affair, and the promotion by Moore of the Board of Trade build ing scheme, it would be worth while for the grand Jury to uncover, if It can, the reasons why the Oregon Trust in vested more than $1, 000, 000 of its de positors' money in telephone bonds bonds that had no established market value, but were readily purchased by the Oregon Trust at prices near par. In Its most favorable aspect it would be extraordinary for this bank, or any bank, or any investor, to make so heavy a purchase at high prices of se curities having no certain or known value. In any other aspect it was in famous that the money of depositors should without their knowledge be poured Into this bottomless hole. It Is inconceivable that It was throughout an honest transaction. It can be ex plained only on the ground that there was something in it for somebody. Who got the rake-off? A BLOW TO TAMMANY. It has often been stated that Tam many's political success In New York depends on repeaters, false registration and intimidation at the polls. Few de cent people question the fact, but proof of it has not been available in past years, and Tammany has been able to disconcert Its accusers by demanding evidence which they could not produce. The operation of the identification tests required by the new election laws has come to their aid now. It has brought out facts which demonstrate the charge of fraud so clearly that it takes a good deal of Impudence to deny it any longer. Since the new law went into effect the registration In the districts con trolled by Tammany has steadily fallen off, though the population re mains about the same. In one district, between 1906 and 1908, the number of Tammany names on the roll mysteri ously decreased from 2118, to 816. In another It went down from 2029 to 617. Evidently the names which have been dropped were those, of dead men, non-residents and so on, whom the re peaters have been In the habit of Im personating at the polls. The entire loss to Tammany reaches some 20,000 votes. Recalling the slender majority by which McClellan went in, this is a pretty serious matter for Judge Gay nor. Perhaps the one fact of an hon est registration will Insure his defeat this Fall, and It may put an end to the power of Tammany forever, though very likely that Is too much to hope for. ADVERTISING OREGON. Reports come from the interior of Oregon that there is a disposition among members of commercial bodies to "let up" for a season In the matter ofjadvertising. Two arguments are of fered in support of this attitude: First, that the great Immigration movement toward Oregon which set In three years ago will continue unabated on its own momentum; second, that the Pa cific railroads for their own benefit will keep up sufficient publicity. It is a mistaken notion that public Interest aroused by advertising can be maintained uninterruptedly except by more advertising anij continued adver tising. Every person or corporation that has gone into publicity to promo'te business will confirm this statement. It applies not only to the selling of wares, mechanical Inventions, exposi tions and amusements of every form, but also to community advertising and with greater force. Judicious adver tising always brings results. These days you can't get along without it. Last year's advertising Isn't effective for this year. On the score of publicity, Oregon has no fault to find with the railroads centering here. They do their share; but they are Interested also In other states that need development. This is particularly true of the Harriman lines, which do more directly for Oregon in the way of publicity than either of their competitors. Two railroads have employed every art to attract Immi grants to California, yet it may be doubted whether their effort is com parable in results to the .exceptionally successful publicity work of a hundred or more cities, counties and towns that were well organized. We need in Oregon to extenrT'this community organization. Membership of commercial bodies should be made to Include every man that wants to see his town make progress. The best way to build up a town is to bring more people into the country that supports the town. And about the only way you can get these people Is to adver tise. Oregon can't afford to stand still now. -. ' It has been more than a year since the attention of Representative Hum phrey was called to a glaring mis statement he was making regarding freight rates on sailing ships. Despite the demands that he prove his wild statements, he is again quoted, this time in the San Francisco Examiner, as saying that "there is a combination of sailing vessels with fines fixed upon the tonnage of any vessel that carries freight for less than the combination rate. In some Instances this combina tion raised rates more than 400 per cent." As Representative Humphrey has already been Informed, the only sailing-ship combination of any Im portance that ever existed is the Inter national Sailing-Ship Owners' Union. This union has fixed a minimum rate of 27s 6d per ton. and it has never varied since the union was formed, five years ago. So plentiful is tonnage that It Is difficult for union ships to secure charters at that rate." An advance of 400 per cent would mean that the for mer rate was $1.32 per ton from Coast ports to Europe. Will Mr. Humphrey kindly advise when that rate was in effect? Also, who Is suffering by the grain being carried 14.000 miles in these union ships at $6.60 per ton of 2240 pounds? The big bank failure in Oklahoma may prove to have been one of those blessings in disguise we sometimes hear of. About the time this early experiment with a guaranty law reached its climax a committee from the Wisconsin Legislature visited Ok lahoma for the purpose of studying the new law. The failure enabled tho pom mittee to view the entire proceeding from cause to effect, and as a result one of the members stated that "the committee maintained an impartial at titude and obtained all the testimony it could on both sides of the question. My opinion that a deposit guaranty law is wrong in principle and would work out badly in practice was more than Justified by the situation in Okla homa City." By the timely visit of the committee the Badger State has been spared the mistake of having a sim ilar law Inflicted on that state, and crooked bankers who expect to thrive at the expense of those who are honest will find no widening flel,d for their op erations. The address of Professor Horner, of the chair of history and political sci ence of the Oregon State Agricultural College, on the "Early Literature of Oregon," delivered yesterday afternoon under the auspices of the Portland Woman's Club, was both entertaining and instructive. The names of Sam L. Simpson, Joaquin Miller, Colonel E. D. Baker, Judge George H. Williams, Eva Emery Dye, Ella Hlgginson, Edwin Markham and many others whose names are known in the song and story of our early days, were mentioned, and selections from the writings of some of them were given in appreciative tones to an appreciative audience. The his tory of our early literature is yet to be compiled, and relatively few of our citizens are familiar with many of its stirring events. Anything tending to awaken Interest in this phase of our development is of more than passing Interest. Professor Horner brought re search to his task and eloquence and enthusiasm to the delivery of his ad dress. Since Senator Chamberlain, erst while Governor, has been brought into the discussion about the Supreme Court, it may be Baid, as it should be said, that Mr. Chamberlain has no pur pose or principles in the least incon sistent with his profession as a politi cian and with his desire to hold office The same may be said of Senator Bourne. The two are perfectly in ac cord. Each is a Democrat, each is a Republican for politics and office only. The Juggle of politics is the profession of each. Yet it must be ad mitted that.Chamberlain is more near ly a -representative of Oregon than Bourne. Yet never was a state so mis represented in the Senate. A series of upsets and contretemps has produced the strangest results, which, however, will be righted presently. The assem bly, and the knife plunged .Into the holy statement, will do it. Both .will be employed. Keep the eye on the process and await the result. The tuberculous cow has her uses. She causes the appointment of a vast number of official persons to inspect her and her product, to discourse on the subject in words they don't under stand, to pull their salaries out of the treasury and to denounce each other as humbugs since they can't agree on things which none of them knows any thing about. This is "science." There Is no result but a war of words. Per haps we have not official quack-salvers enough. Tacoma and Pierce County Republi cans are said to be getting over their pique at Judge McCredle, who defeated Mr. Ashton for the Congressional nom ination. It would not be wise for Ta coma to defeat McCredie because Clark County is on the Columbia River. Clark and other river counties might some day retaliate by beating a Tacoma candidate because Tacoma is on Puget Sound. There are politicians, professing to be Republicans, who realize that their only chance to do their work is through statement one and the Dem ocratic vote. These may as well go over wholly and at once to the Dem ocratic party. No quarter will be given them by Republicans. Right here will be' the line of division be tween parties In Oregon. Dr. Cook thinks it will take two months to get his proofs ready for sub mission. Well, if conversation should lag, we can bring up one live topic at Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. Jim Jeffries is ready, he says, to "knock the nigger's head off." But the "nigger" may object. The only sure way for Jeffries is to take a can non into the ring with him. Nursery stocks of the state are again depleted, and Missouri is once mofe a source of supply. But that is all the Missouri apple tree needs transplant ing. In telling of sensational achieve ments, Roosevelt Is In a safer position than two North Pole explorers. He had witnesses and a boy with a kodak. Cashier Cooper Morris a partner of Gus Lowit, of Golden Eagle fame. That explains one rotten loan. There were others. The dividing line on parties in Ore gon will be on assembly or conven tion, and on Statement One. This is not Roosevelt's first experi ence with a savage tiger. As a young man he fought Tammany. Not such a fine thing, after all, being a bank director. Ask a few Portland men who know. Dr. Long, if he dare, may now say something about Roosevelt as a nature faker. THIS IS TUB WARNING. No Quarter to lie Given to State ment" Tricksters. Oregon Observer, Grants Pass. The state election Is a little more than a year distant, and In a few months politi cal affairs will be moving a little. As a result of the primary law experiment the Republican party Is about upon the rocks, and to save a wreck, tha earnest members of the party throughout the state are unit ing for a definite purpose, and that Is to correct the evils that go with promiscu ous primary nominations!, together with that feature known aa Statement No. 1. Just how strong the reunited Republicans will be next year la not clear yet, but they wlll bo strong enough, to defeat any can didate of their party who make himself objectionable to them. They have no In tention of Interfering with tho primary law, but they are of set purpose to op pose any Republican candidate who takes a position inimical to the party welfare. They hold, in fact, that a good Democrat is better than a bad Republican, and any alleged candidate of the latter party who pledges himself to Statement No. 1 must count upon the solid vote of reunited Re publicans against htm. In the political battles, the two princi pal parties manifest but little kindness toward each other, but otherwise there is no 111 will between them. There neces sarily is a measure of mutual respect and if it should come about that the po litical fakes that have been imposed upon Oregon should result In the overthrow of the Republican party, the accession of the Democratic party to the control of affairs would be more acceptable to Republicans in general than the success of any other party. Which means, that if Republicans are required to choose between objection able nominees of their own party and reputable nominees of the Democratic par ty, the latter will have the preference. There is a reviving power within the Re publican ranks that all prudent aspirants for political office will do well to heed. RBPTBUCASS OJf RIGHT TRACK. Assembly Proper Place to Keep Party Together. The Dalles Optimist. The Republicans of the state are sure ly on the right track in agreeing to call a convention assembly or whatever we choose to call it, as a sort of steer ing committee to let the Republican vot ers of Oregon know for whom the party as a whole Is going to stand at the pri maries. We must be right for the reason that the Democratic papers, and Democratic howlers, are all crying treason, although they last year virtually did the same thing. The trouble in the past has-been that the leaders of our party have been scared almost senseless at the Demo cratic cry of treason against the direct primary law. The cry will be used with renewed vigor, if we do as is proposed by calling a convention, but it is all buncombe. The rank and file of our party are not fools. They will not fol low the Democratic lead if we mark out a course of our own. The Republicans of the state want to vote right, and will if given any encouragement to do so. Last year they did not know how to vote. They were like a lot of duck hunt ers going out In the dark shooting up in the air hoping to bag something, but they only wasted their ammunition while along came one hunter and by taking aim at his quarry he got his game. " Let us cease shooting in the dark, cease voting at random; become a united party and give the Democrats short shrift. We are assured of a convention for next year. The louder the Democratic cry agalhst it the stronger should be the Republican sentiment for It, for it should be a cardinal rule of our party to oppose the enemy at all points and on all occasions, for they never have been right and never will be at least until it is too late for an issue to be pertinent or essential. Rare Old Coin Bring; High Price. New York cor. Baltimore News. A five-dollar gold piece of private man ufacture brought $140 at the auction of coins held at the Elder auction rooms. This coin was made in 1852 by the assay ing firm of Wass, Molltor & Co.. and is the first specimen that, has been offered for sale in many years. Wass. Molitor & Co. put so much value in- their gold coins that they took away from the official United States assay office nearly all of Its business. The coin was Intrinsically worth $5.04. It Is due to the value in excess of face that the coin Is now so scarce, the majority of them having been remelted years ago. A gold dollar, dated 1S60, struck at the Dahlonega mint of Georgia, brought Jf5, and a four-dollar piece, dated 1ST9, brought $51. Two specimens of the octagonal flrty dollar piece of California, dated, respect ively, 1851 and 1852, brought $160 and $115. Political Patter Down to Date. New York Sun. Political patter is usually deceitful above all things, and a political platform mere wind and foam. It is the more sur prise to find in this campaign In this town a -syllabus of principles crystal clear, in nocent of evasion, appealing to every patriotic heart: Allblbo. alabeho, alababo, Blbo. bum. olaf, baze, Gimmel. dalet, Boom, bah, Rah, Hoo, Bah. This is what the committee on resolu tions has long looked for. No municipal canvass can narrow to Itself these sub lime, these sacred sentiments. They be long to the country. They express the beliefs, the hopes, the yearnings of mil lions. The statesman who makes them his own will be sure of an enthusiastic, of a fanatical following, and will have done much for the science of government DIdnt Want to Miss Anything. Outlook. A bank teller was asked by a woman for a new envelope for her bank book. It wag pawed out, and the lady behind, noting that her own envelope was a trifle dingy, also asked for a fresh one. The third woman said, "Me, too," or words to that effect, and so it went down the line. When the teller's patience and his stock of envelopes threatened to give out he, determined to call a halt. A fastidiously dressed lady appeared at the window, holding out a prefeetly gloved hand. "I should like one, too, please," said she. "One what, madam?" asked the teller. The lady flushed and began to look oon fused. "Why." she stammered, "what the other ladles had." Airtight Compartments In Balloons. Paris Cor. Kansas City Star. As a result of the accident to the French dirigible balloon. Republique, in which four officers were killed, -the War De partment h'as decided to introduce a sys tem of several gastlght compartments In future military balloons somewhat like the water-tight divisions of a vessel, to In sure a gradual descent if one compart ment Is pierced, and to equip the dirigi bles with wooden propellers. The Repub lique fell from a height of 500 feet, Sep tember 25, when the envelope suddenly collapsed. An examination disclosed that the axle of the right propeller had snapped, permitting a blade of the pro peller to pierce the envelope, releasing the gas. THE ROOSEVELT HUNT I AFRICA Journey Through a Blsr Zoological Gar- deni Briton and Boer as Chnms. Theodore Roosevelt in Scrlbner's Mag azine for November. It is hard for one-who has not him self seen It to realize the Immense quantities of game to be found on the Kapltl Plains and Athl Plains and the hills that bound them. The common game of the plains, the animals ot which I saw most while rt Kltanga and In the neighborhood, ' were the zebra, wildebeest, hartebeest Grant's gazelle and "TninmlfH" or Thompson's gazelle; the gobra, and the hartebeest. usually known by the Bwahlli name of kongonl, being by far the most plenti ful. Then there wore impalla, moun tain reedbuek, duyker, steinburk and diminutive dlkdik.. As we traveled and hunted we were hardly ever out of sight of game, and on Pease's farm It self there were many thousand head; and so there were on Hlatter'n, If wealthy men who desire aport of the most varied and Interesting kind would purchase farms like these they could get, for much less money, many times the Interest and enjoyment a deer-forest or grouse-moor can afford. Unless there was something special on, like a lion or rhinoceros hunt, I usually rode off, followed only by my sals and gun-bearers. I cannot de scribe the beauty and the unceasing Interest of these rides, through the teeming herds of game. It was like re tracing the steps of time for 60 or 70 years, and being back in the days of Cornwallis Harrlj and Gordon Cum mlng, in the palmy times of the giant fauna of South Africa big game. On Pease's own farm one dayi I passed through scores of kerds of the beauti ful and wonderful wild creatures I have spoken of above; all told, there were several thousands of them. With the exception of the wildebeest, most qf them were not shy, and I could have taken scores of shots at a distance of a couple of hundred yards or there about. Of course, I did not shoot at anything unless we were out of meat or needed the skin for the collection; and when we took the skin we almost always took the meat too, for the por ters, although they had their rations of rice, depended for much of their wellbelng on our success with the rifle, e It was pleasant to see the good terms on which Boer and Briton met. Many of the Engilsh settlers whose guest I was, or with whom I hunted the Hills, Captain Slatter, Heatley, Judd had fought through the Soth African war; and so had all the Boers I met. The latter had been for the most part mem bers of various particularly hard-fighting commandos; when the war closed they felt very bitterly, and wished to avoid living under the British flag. Some moved west and some east; those I met were among the many hundreds, indeed thousands, who traveled north ward a few overland, most of them by water to German East Africa, But in the part in which they happened to settle they were decimated by fever, and their stock perished of cattle sick ness; and most of them had again moved nortnward, and once more found themselves under the British flag. They were being treated precisely on an equality with the British settlers, and every well-wisher to his kind, and above all every well-wisher to Africa, must hope that the men who In South Africa bought so valiantly against one another, each for the right as he saw it, will speedily grow into a compan ionship of mutual respect, regard and consideration such as that which, for our inestimable good fortune, now knits closely together in our own land the men who wore the blve and the men who wore the gray and their de scendants. There could be no better and manllet people than those, both English and Dutch, who are at this moment en gaged in the great and difficult task of adding East Africa to the domain of civilization; their work is bound to be hard enough anyhow; and It would be a lamentable calamity to render it more difficult by keeping alive a. bitterness which has lost all point and Justifica tion, or by failing to reoognize the fundamental virtues, the fundamental characteristics, in which the men of the two stocks are in reality so much alike. W hat to Do In an Emergency. Harper's Weekly. Extracts From First Aid to Everybody on All Occasions, by Carlyle Smith. When a man rushes into your office hur riedly and says: "By Jingo, Dawson, I hate to speak of it, but I need $500 like the very old dick ens today!" Answer What a singular coincidence, Blnks; I do too! When the lovely young maiden at the seaside to whom you have been paying court all Summer shakes her head vio lently and says: "No, Mr. Blithers, I cannot imagine any circumstances under which I could be In duced to marry you." Answer Thanks, Miss Jones this is a great relief. I was afraid you had mis construed my attentions and, of. course, desired to live up to my implied obliga tions. When you run face to face with your tailor upon the street and he turns a cold, beady eye upon you and says: "Excuse me, Air. Bump, but wlit have you to say about my little bill?" Answer I don't think I have met your little Bill, Mr. Snipperton. Indeed, I didn't know you had any children at all. While he Is recovering from this. Jump into a taxi and proceed to break the speed laws. Why They Are Bachelors. PORTLAND, Or., Oct. 22. (To the Ed itor.) In The Oregonian Wednesday, there was a protest against the plan to establish a home for the bachelors of the community. Your position on the sub ject does not seem to be well taken. The assumption that a number of good wo men are leading lonely lives because these same bachelors have been remiss in a civic duty, is without foundation. The facts are. that these social outcasts are bachelors because no self-respecting wo man has found It in her heart to marry one of them. Any means that would con duce to the amelioration of their present state of wretchedness, ought to meet the approbation of those who desire the good of their fellows. By all means let the bachelors have their club house, or any thing else that would render their exist ence less unhappy. They would certainly clutter the wood-shed. ELIZABETH VERMILYE. Lessons From French Waterways. Cleveland Plain Dealer. The capital of France, an Inland city, is the nation's chief port, because the nation understands how to make its natural waterways serve it and how to construct new artificial waterways to supplement the others. Paris is the center of a canal system that extends to many parts of the republic, a great market for slow freight by water and the recipient of great com mercial prosperity because the French people understand, what Americans do not as yet, that water transportation pays. The same Intelligent treatment of Ameri can waterways, natural and artificial, would develop a system rivaling or ex celling that of France. We have the streams, the cities and the means for de veloping one to contribute to the prosper ity of the other. And there are encour aging indications that the people of the United States are coming to understand I T.i'fcnnnvSiclel l I Al rr . . - Some years ago Frank A. Munsey, the magazine man, hired a private secretary. Speaker Reed dropped in to call on Mr. Munsey. who was an old friend of nls. Tho secretary said that Mr. Munsey was engaged. ...... a -All right," said Reed. "I'll wait. At the end of half an hour Munsey s door opened and the publisher appeared show ing his caller out. . Seeing the Speaker, he grasped his hand and dragged him into his office. An hour later, when Reed had gone, Mr. Munsey called his secretary. Look here. Blork." he said; 'what do you mean by letting Speaker Reed wait unannounced half an hour?" "Wa-wa-wath that Mr. Reedr "It certainly was." "Why. I thought it wath the Rev. Dr. John Hall." said the secretary. ' "Dr. Hall has been dead two years, an swered Munsey, severely. "I know It," replied the secretary; "thath why I thought it was tho very peculiar." Success. K ess "Cortlandt Field Bishop, the automo hlllst and aeronaut, sends from Paris a funny automobile yarn." said a member of the Aero Club of New York. "An American tourist, the story goes, went to Germany In his car to see the last army maneuvers. He was Impressed with what be saw. and especially with the brigade of motor ambulances, motor baggage wagons and so forth. "As the tourist watched the maneuvers from a seat under a tree the axle of a motor ambulance broke. Instantly the man leaped out, ran Into the village, re turned in a Jiffy with a new axle, fixed it in place with wonderful mechanical skill, and teuf-teuftcd off again almost aa good as new. " There's efficiency.' said the American tourist. "There's (Jerman efficiency for you. No matter what breaks., there's a stock at hand to supply the needed part from.' "And, praising the remarkable example of German efficiency lie had just wit nessed, the tourist returned to the village and ordered up his car, to find he couldn't use It, as an axle was missing." Washington Star. e e Speaking of table etiquette some time since. General E. Burd Grubb told a story about a man who was justified in eating pie with a knife. Smith was standing In a hotel lobby one day, according to the General, talking to Jones, when the con versation turned to a dinner that had been given at the home of a mutual acquaintance named Brown. "You should have seen Barton," re marked Jones, referring to one of the guests. "I thought he had better table manners. When his pie was served he actually ate It with a knife." "I don't blame him for that," was the startling reply of Smith. "You don't blame him?" repeated Jones in amazement "No," smilingly rejoined Smith. "I have eaten pie at Brown's myself, and It is a wonder to me that Barton didn't take an ax." Philadelphia Telegraph. Here is a card of thanks that actually appeared In a newspaper: "I wish to return thanks to my mcny friends for their kind ness during the sickness and death of my beloved wife, Marie. I also wlBh to thank Rev. Mr. Gibbons; especially. Undertaker HIbbs for the efficient way in which he handled the corpse, and tried to make the scene a pleasant one. I also thank my many friends for encouraging me In my furniture business. I think I have shown them that I can furnish the article In my line as cheap as can be purchased In the East" Exchange. e An ambitious hunter brought two lame fingers that had been caught under the hammer, to Dr. Goucher for treatment the other day. "Doc," he asked anxious ly, as he was leaving, "when this paw of mine heals will I be able to play the piano?" "Certainly you will," the doctor assured him. "Well, then, you're a won der. Doc. I never could before." Mc Minnlvllle Telephone-Register. For once the American had discovered something British that was better than anything that could be produced "across the pond." His discovery was a fine col lie dog, and he at once tried to induce its owner, an old shepherd, to sell It. "Wad ye be takin' him to America?" inquired the old Scot. "Yes. I guess so," said the Yankee. "I thought as muckle," said the shep herd. "I couldna palrt wi' Jock." But while they sat and chatted an Eng lish tourist came up, and to him the shep herd sold the collie for much leas than the American had offered. "You told me you wouldn't sell him," said the Yankee when the purchaser had departed, i "Na," replied the Scot; "I said I oouldna palrt wi' him. Jock'll be back in a day or so, but he couldna swim the Atlantic." Ladles' Home Journal. Tho Work of Two Policemen's" dabs. New York Tribune. Lots of persona In New York and else where have long looked upon the New York policeman as a well-paid man In an easy Job. Be that as it may. It remained for an erratic typesetter and a sleepy proofreader to make out that "the finest" have clerks to assist them. Describing a small fire uptown recently the types made one newspaper say that "with his clerk" a patrolman broke open a door and res cued a suffocating family. Policemen's clubs have been called many things, but until this item appeared they had never been assigned to clerical, duty. Inspector Alexander Williams, fondling his locust one night, remarked to a Tribune man: "There's more law real law in that than In a whole book of Court of Appeals de cisions." Epitaph of a Wlae Roman Matron. "Society and Politics in Ancient Rome." "Stranger, what I have to say is quickly told; stop and read it to the end. Here is the unbeautiful tomb of a beautiful wo man. Claudia was the name her parents gave her. Her husband she loved with her whole heart Two eons she bore; of them the' one she leaves on earth, the other she burled beneath the sod. Charm ing in discourse, gentle in mien, she kept the house, she made the wool. I have fin ished. Go thy way." When Old Asa- Cornea. Harper's. If God grant me old age, I would see soma thlncs finished; some outworn: Some stone prepared for builder yet un born. Nor would I be the sated, weary saga Who sees no strange new wonder In each morn. And with me there on what men call tha - shelf Crowd memories from which I cull tha best And live old strifes, old klsea, soma old Jest ; For If I be no burden to myself I shall be less a burden to tha reaC If God grant me old age. I'll love the record writ in whitened hair. Til read each wrinkle wrought by patient care. As oft as one would scan a treasured page. Knowing by heart each sentence graven there. I'd have you know life's evil and life's good. And gaza out calmly, sweetly on it all Berene with hope, whatever may befall ; As though a love-strong spirit ever stood With arm about you waiting any call. If God grant us old age, I'd have us very lenient toward our kind. Letting our waning senses first grow blind Toward alna that youthful zealots can en gage. While we hug closer all the good we And. I'd have us worldly foolish, heaven wise. Bach lending each frail succor to with stand. Ungrudging, ev'ry mortal day's demands While fear-fed lovers gaze In our old ayes. And go forth bold and glad and hand In band.