TTfTi MORXIXG OREGOIAN, TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1910. 8 FORTXAXD. OIEOW. Eccud-CUN Jliatr. fcubUoa Wat larmrlBfaly la Adrmac. (BT MA.IL- Pa!.. Ftrndny Included, ona yar J r-iiy. Sunday lnclud4. ix nonihi.... lmlly. Sunday Included. thra month. . z. ii. Sunday Included, cna monia.... !T rftily. without funiiy. one- year-...-.- J-w rai:y. without Sunday. ! montM.... f T..- . . as..-... h mmthl... X. 5 Iily without Sunday. a mntl-. . - - ttindar. cna year Sunday and weaaiy. one year.... . s. 1. Ia!!y, Panfay Included, on year.... Hnr t KVailt snd Poitofrie """"'J order, nrrcn oro,r or ptmMi -' - your local bank, stamp, cola or currency ar at th KSlfl rlik. tii -."'--addr In full. including county and etate. - . . .a FHtaf, Kate 1 to 1 ptf to 23 par,. 2 rntf; 10 to 40 d. 3 cant, an to 66 pax. c.ota. roraisn post coubl rata. Ea.tera Balaa OnTe The 8. C. wllfi Special Ag.ncy Tors, to Tribuna bui:lin. Chicago, room oiu- 412 Trtbun bulMlng. PORTLAND. TTESDAY. AXQ. la. ' IKE MOVES O FINGER. The extent of the changes which, Prudent Taft is likely to make In his Cabinet and polities may easily be overestimated by- anxious or eager prophets. If the report from Beverly were all credible, there la to be a complete revolution. Mr. Taft will surround himself with a new et of adviser, and If he doe not openly Join the insurgent It will be only to save appearances that he will refrain. At heart he will be with them. So runs the gossip; but like all gossip It has probably erected a huge and not very substantial structure on a slight foundation. It Is to be expected that as time passes there will be changes In Mr. Taft's Cabinet. Most Presidents have found It expedient to select new advisers in the course of their Administrations. In Mr. Taft' case this has become doubly desir able on account of the warfare which has been waged against some of the Cabinet member, and in particular against Mr. BalUnger. Without en tering again into the merits of this unhappy controversy. It Is sufficient for our present purpose to remark that the Secretary of the Interior has suffered severely in the public estima tion, we think entirely without war rant. Tet It Is there that his political usefulness to the Administration has been generally impaired, and his con tinuance In the Cabinet would unques tionably weaken the Republican party. The methods which have been used to blacken Mr. Balllngcr's public character may have been -bad or good. To discuss that matter Is aside from our intent at this moment. The point is that they have been used and they have been effectual. They have been especially effectual in the Middle West, which has been for many years the heart and soul of the Republican party. "Ballingerlsm" has cut a gTeat figure In the nominating campaigns In Iowa and Kansas. It is certain to cut a gTeat figure in Wisconsin. Min nesota and other populous states of the Mississippi Valley. Even if the people have been misled upon this subject, nevertheless their convictions are too deep-seated to be changed now. The prattle that a Democratic vic tory this Kail would do the Republi can party gnd may be dismissed as visionary- Those who say such a thing simply show that their frac tional rancor has outrun their polit ical sense. Were a clean Democratic victory the only disaster to be dreaded the outlook would be discouraging enough, but in reality there is danger of an Increased Democratic minority together with an Increased coterie of insurgents. If this should happen the rest of Mr. Taffs Administration would be occupied with an envenomed strife between two Republican fac tions each hating the other more bit terly with every day" struggle. Nat urally the Democrats would play them off against each other with more or less shrewdness. It would not re quire much shrewdness to manage matters In such a way that nothing could be done in Congress. Mr. Taft's good Intentions would all be paralyzed and at the close of his Ad ministration he would appear before the people with nothing more to his credit than what he has already ac complished. This Is considerable, but In the course of two years of furious factional wrangling It might be forgotten. Mr. Taft began his Administration with a publicly-expressed desire for party solidarity. He has tried one method of attaining it and, as every candid person must admit, he has failed. The Republican party la rent today as it never was before, and in taking measures to heal its wounds Mr. Taft is only carrying out his or iginal intent with the modifications which time has proved to be wise. Me seems not to have foreseen how re pugnant his intimacy with Mr. Aid rich would be to the country. Aid rich has played a part In winning the insurgent victories in the West. Ills connection with the rubber trust and the alleged manipulation of the tariff to benefit that combination have been exploited pitilessly. Me has explained the affair with more or less success but the mischief has been done. Perhaps it would have b.-en done even If the story of the rubber Intrigue had not come out, for Mr. Aldiich does not enjoy the respect or the good will of his coun trymen. He represents a type of statesmanship which they do not ap prove. The country felt misgivings hen Mr. Taft took the Senator from Rhode Iiland for his Intimate coun sellor and many things which have happened since have confirmed the public distrust. It can hardly be de nied that the President is likely to strengthen his hold on the voters by turning elsewhere for advice. The third man whom It is said that the President will dismiss from his close association is Mr. Cannon. It looks a good deal like turning an old warhorse out to shift for himself after many battles, but when all la said, a party cannot exist without votes, and the fact stares the Presi dent in the face that Mr. Cannon drives votes away instead of winning them. His presence in Kansas prob ably helped the Insurgents. He has been greatly maligned, as all men must be who hold high office for many years, but the people regard him as their enemy and It la unavoid able that soma of his odium should smirch the President unless he breaks off the alliance. It Is clear, therefore, that even if the reports about Mr. Taft's new plans are substantially true they in dicate no radical change in his policies or ideaia. He has always appreciated the necessity for party harmony, and he is simply taking the measures necessary to secure It under new con dition. It is a wise statesman who can adapt hia conduct to the times. As Emerson remarks in one of his essays, it is only fools and the dead who never change. THK ARGCSfrXT THIS AND NOW. It would doubtless be a good thing to put the saloons out of business and send them to hell, where Rev. Billy Sunday says they belong, and where doubtless many of them do be long. But It cannot be done by vio lent and vulgar denunciation of the newspapers or by extravagant dec lamation about the traffic itself. Is It practical, or moral, or sensible, to abolish the saloon merely to substi tute a worse evil and immeasurably worse liquor In bootlegging, in speak easies and in the numerous illicit and criminal ways in which the traf fic is in many places carried on under prohibition? The practical question that con fronts the people of Oregon Is as to whether they desire to impose on the people of the state prohibition that will not prohibit. The march of county prohibition . has . come ' to a standstill. Novr it . is proposed to Include the remainder 'of the state, known to be opposed to prohibition, in one general law that will defeat and overrule the sentiment prevailing there and make "dry, territory out of territory that will vote "wet." Can prohibition be enforced in Multnomah County? No. Why not let Multnomah County, then, settle the problem for Itself? Refnsal to grant this privilege or right to Mult nomah is utter and avowed abandon ment of the entire argument for local option. The people who were behind county option six years ago. on the ground that every county should be permitted to determine the question of prohibition for itself, are now ac tively supporting state-wide prohibi tion, on the ground that no county should be permitted to settle this question for itself. THK CRIMEA? WAR. The recent death of Florence Night ingale recalls the European war. of which she was the real heroine. The laurels of the commanders may be tarnished by the lapse of over fifty years and their very names forgotten. The halo of reverence, of supreme trust and love will never be dimmed from the figure of the chief woman nurse, whose very shadow, as she passed through the miles of beds at the great Scutari Hospital, was said to still the groans of the wounded soldiers, and to soothe the restless into sleep. For thirty-eight years after the cannon of Waterloo. Europe had been at peace. In England the passing of Napoleon had killed the sense of de pendence on the nation's army. The price was being psld for the great Napoleonic wars. The whole nation had other things to think of than her scarlet-coated regiments. Military stores ran down, magazines were not refilled, recruiting languished, the old weapons were still retained. The nation seemed to deserve the title of "shopkeepers" that Napoleon gave It. Tet it was the English people, rather than the Queen's ministers. who insisted on taking a leading part In the Crimean War. The Czar Nich olas of Russia waa heading the never ceasing movement of his people to expansion southwards, and had in view the conquest of Constantinople his Southern capital. But all other European nations held to the 'balance of power," and the worship of that deity allowed of no one nation disturbing it by aggression on the territories of another. The Cxar knew the risk of England's opposition, but waa misled by the peace-loving symp toms above referred to. France was in the grasp of Louis Napoleon, who. on December 2, 1852, by the coup d'etat that Victor Hugo has described, grasped the supreme power, and seated himself as Emperor of the French on the throne of his mighty uncle. That scheming politician made the English alliance the corner stone of his foreign policy. To draw it tighter by a foreign war. with Eng land as his associate, would distract the attention of the French people from his recent coup, and also would give him entrance into the inner cir cle of European royalty. The en croachments of Russia gave him the excuse. The Cxar Nicholas also had to mask his purpose of invasion. His pretexts were two In number: First, to insist on the retention by the Greek, or really Russian, monks of their guar dianship and control of tho holy places in Palestine the church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Holy Church at Bethlehem, the sacred Manger, and the tomb of the Virgin Mary. Keys to the doors of all were claimed by the Latin, or Roman Catholic monks, who looked to France as their chief protector. The clash be tween the monks was referred to Constantinople to be settled by the advisers of the Sultan, the lord para mount of the soil of Palestine. The dispute was settled mainly by English influence before either party had called in its armies. The Sultan was in a hard place. To -one party or the other he was bound to give offence. To France, with its ally England In the background, the Turks awarded the prize. And the Russian had one text on which a re ligious war could be preached to all his people. Tet another card the Russian Em peror held. As heftd of the Russian Church, he claimed supreme protec torate over all who held the faith of the Greek church, regardless of their nationality. So his pretensions covered the right of appeal to him by all the ten or twelve million Greek church subjects of the Sultan. The Sublime Porte, the Sultan's ministers, calmly but most determinedly refused to yield. The Cxar had this second pre tence for warlike taction. Of Rus sian troops 120.000 crossed the fron tier and seized the Danubian prov inces, which paid tribute to the Sul tan, and the Russian fleet from Sebas topol was ordered into the Black Sea and southward to the Bosphorus. France and England took up the cause of their allies the Turks, but hesitated to engage in actual war. At this Juncture, on November 10. 1853. six Russian first-rate men-of-war In the Black Sea. and some smaller craft, got news of five Turkish frigates, one 1 sloop, one steamer and some trans- 1 ports, at ancnor in tne xtay or fcilnop i on the Danubian Coast. Bearing down on them the Russians opened fire, and in a short time sank S000 Turks in the depths of the Black Sea. To Eng land the horror of this act added to its fore as av challenge to the allies of Turkey. The nation, almost to a man, insisted on the war, and the English force of over 30,000 men, ana a French force of 40,000, were landed on the 'western shores of the Black Sea. The transfer of the armies to the Crimea, the siege of Sebastopo! and the destruction of the Russian fleet followed. Both French and Eng Ilsh armies were poorly equipped in deed for the severities of a Crimean Winter. The English sick and wounded from the great battles of the Alma,' Inker-man. the Tchernaya, and the siege itself, were shipped to the great hospitals at Scutari. Confusion and misery reigned among those thousands of sufferers. The news raised In England a tu mult of sympathy, like that which marked the worst stages of our Civil War. Money was poured out with a lavish hand. With many others, Florence Nightingale volunteered for service, and at the head of her -Dana of nurses landed at Scutari In Novem ber. 1854. UnUl after Sebaatopol fell In May of 1S55. her mission of mercy lasted, and the deeds of that lady chief and her noble company of nurses form a bright page in the recent history of the English race. The French Emperor hurried the Enoilsh ministry through the diplo matic stages, but further efforts of diplomacy were thrown to the winds when, roused to a passion of vengeful sympathy, the English people heard the news of Sinope. Prussia and Austria were moving avith deliberate steps, and the hurried action of France and Ens-land left them standing on the brink of war, but not adventuring Into Its stern necessities, GOING FORWARD. August, the month in which mid summer dullness la supposed to reach its height, has apparently forgotten its place on the calendar. In the first thirteen days of this dull month the value of the building permits reached a total of more than 11,200,000, the highest figure ever reached in a sim ilar period In this city. Real estate transfers for the same period were about 8900.000. With Portland building permits for the year to date already reaching nearly. 811.000.0)0. and four of the best months of the year remaining, the prospects for a new record In this branch of Industry are exceedingly bright. The most satisfactory fea ture of this record-breaking growth is that for every new building con structed there Is a waiting tenant. The only thing that can check the forward movement in Portland would be an embargo on the thousands of new settlers that are pouring Into this country to make new homes and grow up with the country- THE PAJARO VALLEY SHOW. Did you ever hear of Watsonville? Probably not. There never has been any particular reason heretofore why anybody should hear of It, but this Fall a change has come over the spirit of the slumberous town and It Is going to have an apple show. An enthusiastic boomer of Watsonville has written to The Oregonian to set forth the glories of the place. He fatuously believes that Watsonville apples are superior to those of Ore gon. The town lies In Pajaro Valley In California. We know all about Pajaro Valley. It Is one of those for saken spots where rrthlng grows but sand and conceit wll.i here and there a spindling fruit tree which is pain fullr kept alive by emptying the dish water at its roots. The Pajaro Val leyltes think their poor little Imita tion apples are the best in the world merely because they never have been blessed with the sight of the real thing. Could they once gaze on the rubicund splendor of a Hood River Spltzenberg or a Rogue River Tellow Newtown or a Tamhlll County Jona than they would have nothing more to say. " But alas, it Is their sad mis fortune to dwell all their lives In Watsonville and see nothing better than those poor little things the peo ple down there call apples. However, the enterprise of Watson ville In trying to hold a show is com mendable. We hope the affair will be a success, but of course we have our forebodings. Visitors will prob ably be present who have been In Oregon and seen what an apple really Is and naturally they will be inclined to make disagreeable remarks as they stroll around the show. We warn the Pajaro Valleyltee that they will need some Christian resignation to enable them to listen patiently to the comparisons which will be made. It would be wiser for them to cpend their mcney in a little trip to Hood River or Medford to learn how a per fect apple looks than to try to get up a show this Fall, but naturally it will do no good to tell them so. We do hope, however, that they will take pity on their visitors and send to Oregon for a few boxes of fruit that Is fruit to make the show interesting. When the Pajaro Valley people talk about their apples being the best in the world we cannot help thinking of the Calmuck Tartars who will eat no butter unless it is rancid. IMPROVED FINANCIAL SITTJATIOX. The ' steady conservation of bank ing resources, which has been quietly in progress throughout the country for many weeks, is reflected in much healthier bank statements than were published a few ' months ago. The statement of the clearing-house banks of Now York for the week end ing last Saturday showed a surplus re serve of more than 850,000,000. .There was an increase of 826,000,000 in de posits, while loans Increased but 816, 000,000. There are a number of con tributing causes to this "slowing down" process which has enabled the banks to strengthen their position, but the principal Influence has been the certainty of much smaller grain crops than were harvested last year. The bankers have probably decided that a curtailment of loans would result In decreasing purchases of automo biles and other luxuries which have been in enormous demand for the past two years. Another beneficial effect of this con servation of capital is noted in a check on stock speculation. The more money needed in the West for crop moving purposes the less there will be available for margins in stock speculation. In the East there has been some complaint over refusal of the banks to extend credit facilities even on first-class mercantile paper, but thus far most of th Western banks have been comparatively easy with their customers. There is a good foreign demand for our groin and prices continue at a level that will to a large extent offset the short age in the yield as compared with the average for a term of rears- The ef fect of the rich, man's panic which swept over the United States three years ago Is not yet forgotten, and as many of the causes, such as over speculation In wtocks, over-buying of wildcat real estate, over-construction and over-building in some of the cit ies, had already begun to appear, the halt was called before there was mucn dancer. The country is too prosperous and is creating new wealth too rapidly to admit of any financial disturbance of consequence, if ordinary caution is exercised. In the Pacific Northwest the situation is much more favorable than It is in the East. The banks have been preparing for an emer gency for months. With the demand for crop-moving purposes upon them there is plenty of money for all legiti mate demands, although there is nothing available for wildcat BChemes. Several years of good crops have en abled the country banks to accumu late resources which are of material aid in easing the strain on the city banks at crop-moving time, and each year sees a lessening of this class of business. With the country banks taking care of an Increasing portion of the crop, the city banks are en abled to use their funds elsewhere. Good crops and high prices are not the only Influences that have in creased the available supply of cash in Oregon in the past few years. An enormous amount of new capital has been brought into the state for tim ber and farm lands and for invest ment In manufacturing and railroad enterprises. This new money has gone far toward placing Oregon banking Institutions In an impregnable posi tion. Whisky !s the primary cause of a large amount or crime, ana crime makes plenty of work for the officers of the law. Occasionally however, whisky comes to the assistance of the officers, and by loosening the tongue of the consumer enables leaden shod Justice to get in her fine work. Thomas Gerbrick. train-wrecker and bad man, might still be breathing the air of freedom had he steered clear of the demon rum. As it was, Thomai filled up on North End whisky, and while in a maudlin condition babbled about a train-wreck in which he was one of the assistants. This whisky talk fell on the alert ear of Sheriff Stevens, and under the pressure of further encouragement Gerbrick made a full confession and is now headed East in charge of an officer to suf fer tho penalty for his crime. If Gerbrick lives out hia sentence he ought to sign the pledge. The time will probably come when the rainfall of Winter will be prop erly conserved and distributed In Ir rigable sections of the Willamette Valley. Pastures, gardens and po tato fields up and down the valley make parche'd protest against the vainglorious boast that irrigation Is not necessary to the full frultfulness of this productive region. There are sections today as dry as dust, and as brown as stubble, that could be made a living green by the proper conser vation and distribution of the annual rainfall. The dryest of all dry seasons, so far as the record goes, was broken by a slight rainfall beginning In this city yesterday forenoon. For fifty four full days the Willamette Valley and a wide section north of the Co lumbia River in the State of Wash ington were without a trace of rain. Yet three months hence we will probably hear as usual from tire some Jokesmlths the familiar story that "it rains thirteen months of the year 'in Oregon." Of course it is interesting, not to say important, to know that one man pitched 117 balls in a game while the opposing twlrler sent 111 over or near the plate; but an intelligent-reading public Is entitled to be Informed also the exact distance each pitcher's arm traveled while he was "winding up." You can't publish too many details. Eastern Oregon Is In the Congres sional district that C. J. Reed wishes to represent. He announces that he will support the Roosevelt policies. A lot of folk t'other sldo of the Cas cades will demand a declaration on the subject of conservation; Pinchot lsm won't do for them. All Portland knows pretty well about the city's building Industry. For- comparisons with other Pacific Coast cities, read the record for the past seven months in the American Contractor. It was published in The Oregonian yesterday. The Rockefellers, about to hold a family reunion, can trace the name as far back as the ninth century. It was about that time the foundations were laid in subterranean channels for the family fortune. Whi man nrA offering: to beln the Yakima Indians get some water- rights on their reservation. By ana by the aborigines will have all the rights and tho white men all the water. When the lieutenants of the "live wire" army approach you today to buy tickets for the livestock . show, don't start something. Buy as many as you can afford, and let it go at that. ; Shooting a husband to reform his drinking habit is a harsh remedy, sometimes, effective. What' blame should be given the woman who tries It? Though British born, Florence Nightingale deserves a niche - in the Hall of Fame of every nation in Christendom. The young Rogue River girl who killed a wildcat with a club iwlll have a harmonious household, once she gets It, Is it' possible that Taft Is going to put all the leaders at the last ses sion of Congress Into the Down and Out Club? Owing to the high cost of living, second and third-rate fighters now demand purses of 8100.000. As with bank clearings, so with baseball. Portland is at the summit of the percentage column. ( Before the campaign is over, C J. Reed will need his sense of humor to sustain him. Somehow, one way or another. these livers in loose relations get into public view, . . , SAND FOR ASPHALT STREETS. gaa-gestlra Mate to Prevent Horses Slipping; In Wet Weather. PORTLAND, Aug. 15. (To the Ed itor.) If the Humane Society xf Port land never does anything more than accomplialt the sanding of the streets hare in the Autumn and Winter, it will have dona a grand, good work. As a veterinary surgeon of long experience, I wish to state that no one realizes the Incalculable injury that is done a horse by falling, especially on these murderous streets. People ' who doubt this, should stop for a moment whan a horse is in trouble on a slippery street either from rain or ice and see how tenae every muscle is; see how he trembles for fear he will falli note his aversion and fear about getting up, tor he knows that he will fall again and again. I have seen a horse fall three times in on block. Think what that means to an animal weighing 1200 or 1500 pounds or more. In addition he Is being forced to hold several tona of weight, Man would not permit auch a condition to exist five minutes for him self. Then why. I ask, for the patient creatures that serve him faithfully? I hope The Oregonian will start a crusade for the sanding of the streets. It la the only thing that will ever make for safety for the horse, and for the comfort of the men and women who are forced to see this unnecessary form of cruelty and suffering every hour of the day in wet weather, as well as In the wintry season. I have recently returned from South ern California, and noted with Interest that a light coat of sand is sprinkled over the atraeta there to prevent the slippery condition cauaed by the falling blossoms of pepper trees. I am told that in Paris a light cost of sand Is put on the streets the moment rain falls, and one rarely sees a horse fall there. In Rochester, N. Y., the Board of Public Works Includes in its yearly ap propriation sufficient money to provide sand for the streets In the Winter sea son. In, Rhode Island the highway de partment attends to this matter, and has hundreds of loads of fine gravel prepared and ready for distribution. In a recent article in The Oregonian It was suggested that there would be objections made to sanding the streets because this would add to the dirt. The weight of the sand would prevent any dust from rising, and what could be cleaner than sand? It would only be necessary to put a very thin coat on the streets. Let us hope the City Council of Port land will pass the necessary ordinance Immediately and try the experiment of sanding our streets for the next eight months. Conditions will be worse this Fall and Winter than ever before, on account of the miles of additional asphalt that have been laid. B. N. G. A BALLINGER ALLY SPEAKS OUT If the Secretary Goes, This Writer Would Prefer Democracy In 1912. PORTLAND, Aug. 15. (To the Ed itor.) Dispatches from Washington, D. C Insist that Secretary of the In terior Ballinger is to be forced out of President Taft's Cabinet "for the gooa of the party." This is a rather peculiar phrase, and it is difficult to under stand its meaning. ' , The President and all the members of his Cabinet, as well as all regular Republicans whose opinions are worth anything, agree that Mr. Ballinger is an able and honest man: that he has done no wrong, and has performed the duties of his office efficiently and ac cording to law. If such a man must be dismissed "for the good of the party," then the party must be in a bad way, and it is high time that we who have been supporting It with our influence and our votes ever since we were able to cast a vote, should endeavor to find out what is the matter with It Mr. Taft is an able, honest, and most loveable man. It is said he la not a eood oolltlcian. This may be the case, although I have seen no evidence of It so far. If he shall consent to tne ais- mlssal of the Secretary of the In terior I will be compelled to revise my estimate of him. If Mr. Bellinger is to be thrown over as a sacrifice to the wolvea of insurgency and socialism, then I. for one, would welcome a Demo cratic National Administration in 1912 although I have voted steadfastly with the .Republican party for the past 22 years. A party that finds an able and honest publlo official "a heavy burden to carry," should be laid tip for repairs. There is something wrong with it. P. G. G. SOAP-BOX ORATORS ARB NOISY. Writer Wishes Chapman Square Kept Free From Monthy Socialists. PORTLAND, Aug. 15. (To the Edi tor.) How often, oh, how often do peo ple on a Sunday, take a stroll In the di rection of Chapman Square, and there under the stately trees, listen to the many expoudera of present-day so cial problems, whose varied philosophy makes even Solomon in all his glory, fade Into insignificance, whencompared with these .Sunday orators! Any who have not attended these weekly gather ings are urged to do so before the sea son ends and the rain descends In tor rents to chill the hopes of them who would usher in "a new order of things." How long, I ask. Is Chapman Square to be a debating center Instead of a Park where one can rest his weary bones in peace? Here, the one who would rest and be refreshed, had best seek new fields for thought. I am in favor of "free spech," It being one of the prerogatives of the United States Constitution, but insist upon said "free speech" being held either in suitable halls or public streets, and not In public parks where one naturally expects to find at least In a measure, rest. GEORGE S. WORK, Nation of Rich Women. New York Cor. Kansas City Star. The announcement that the estate of Edward H. Harrlman, who died Sep tember 8, 1909. amounts to 871,000,000 makes secure the position of his widow as the richest woman in America. This country probably has the most remark able list of wealthy women of any land In the world. The following is a list of wealthy woman, with their estimated fortunes: Nam Amount. M's. Mary W. Harrlman $71,000,000 Mri Frick "penflald 60,000 000 Mis Helen Miller Gould 2S-2lfi-222 Mr. O H. P. Belmont S.OnO.000 Mric. Oliver IHn - "'MS Mr. H. H. Roger . S'SS'SSj Mr. Daniel 8. Lamont 5.000.000 Mi. Archibald C. Thompon T.000.0O1 Mr. Maraball r ieia - -Mr. Morrla K. Jesup ... Mr. T. Ancela Ecully ... Mr. William B. Leeds... Xr. James Henry Bmlth. . I ll.nr n ThltVC ..... . 4.O0B.000 ..... 9.000.000 12.OUO.000 io.ooo.ooo S.000.000 10,000,000 Ur. Vada. Van Valkenburg 8.000.000 la Politic. New York Sun. nicker What are the parties do ing? Bocker The Democrats deplore, the insurgents explore, and the standpat ters implore. Want to Kara the Money. Washington Herald. Alfred Austin has written another poem. Alfred deserves credit for one thine, anyway he will not accept that laureate's salary without attempting to earn It. Sore as Taxes. Charleston News and Courier. " One thing is certain, and that is Roosevelt, POrtTLATIOX TREBLED I?f BO YEARS. Wonderful Growth of the United States Since 1880. New York World. Exact figures of the population of the United States as ascertained by the cen sus of 1910 will not be given out until Autumn. The unofficial estimate, which Is, in fact, a close official approximation, lends Interest to the following table show ing the country's growth sines the first enumeration: 1790 - I.93.214 1800 - S.30S.4S3 1S10 .- 7.23H.8S1 1630 9.S33.S23 ISM 12.S96.020 1840 .-..17,069,458 1S50 : JM91.876 1860 31.4M.321 1S70 38,568,371 1SS0 50.166,783 1890 82,62,2S0 1900 , 78.303,387 1810 (unofficial) 90.000.000 Thus In 120 years the population has been multiplied almost by 23. and in 50 1 years almost by three. We now have an average of about 29 inhabitants to the square mile, although there are many states and territories in which there is a square mile of room for every two or three persona. Ten years ago Rhode Island bad 407 people to the square mile and Massachusetts MS. As showing that even these old and comparatively small states are not too crowded for comfort, it may be said that, based upon the esti mated population of Greater New York, there are now about 15,000 people to the square mile In this city. In 1790 the Northwest Territory had Just been organized. Both Illinois and Ohio, states created in that region, now have many more inhabitants than were then to be found in tho whole country. The population of these states added to that of the other three Michigan, In diana and Wisconsin Is now greater than that of the United States at the census of 184a Yet there were men calling themselves far-sighted who only a hun dred years ago predicted that the North west Territory waa destined for all time to be the home only of wild beasts and wilder men. Since I860 the center of pop ulation has been moving westward in what waa once the Northwest Territory. Even more doleful prophecies were made as to the fate of the Louisiana ter ritory, out of which have been formed states that now have a population nearly three times as large as that of all the states In 1810. Missouri alone has more people than were enumerated at the first National census in 1790. As many people now live west of the Mississippi River as were found in the entire country by the census-takers of 1850, and Oklahoma, figuring now for the third time only in a census, has more Inhabitants than all New England possessed In 1820, while Texas has at least three times as many. To come nearer home. New York City, embracing but 828 square miles, now has almost as many inhabitants as were re turned by the National census of 1800, and great as are many of the states of the Union, only two of them, Pennsylva nia and Illinois, have more people than are to be found in this one splendid municipality. A wonderful country; a wonderful city! When Hannibal Made History- Boston Traveler. Hannibal and his staff were pacing merrily over the Alps on their faith ful war elephants. Suddenly a man with a tin badge and chin whiskers rushed Into the roadway and held up his hand. "You stop right where you be!" ha cried. " "Why should I stop?" thundered the great Carthagenlan as his mahout hooked the elephant's ear. "You're exceedin' the speed limit." re plied the man with the star. "An' I'm a duly appointed Constable, by heck." Hannibal was so overcome by his amusing holdup that he tossed a bag of gazoolians to the officer and laugh- Later on, however, his indignation uppercut his sense of humor, and ho proceeded to slam the life out of the Roman consuls and their picked vet erans, forcing the lighting to the very gate of shuddering Rome. Fair Lillian's Striking; "Paper." Chicago Tribune. "Of course, I don't know how my play will turn out, but as far as bill boards and three-sheet go, I think I shall have the most amazing advertise ment of the year," says Miss Lillian Russell. " "Lillian Russell, "In Search of a Sinner" " that ought to make the public sit up. don't you think? I'm not going to have any Bo-and-So presents or prepositions or things to take away from that bold announcement. They can take it or leave it. Just as they like, but my billboards are going to say, "Lillian Russell, "In Search of a Sinner" 'no more and no less." Inspiration In Dreams. London Chronicle. Coleridge must be added to the list of authors who have found inspiration in dreams, for he himself, has told us that he composed over 200 lines of "Kubla Khan" during a sleep of three hours. On awakening he wrote down the fragment now existing, but the in terruption of a visitor banished the rest from his mind. The first idea of "The Ancient Mariner," too, was suggested to the poet by a dream of his friend Crulkshank. And Kipling's "Greatest Story in the World" was but the half remembered dream of a common-place young man. Well, T. R. Onee Held It Down. Milwaukee News. What with the cocktail yarns about Mr. Fairbanks and the stories told about Sunny Jim Sherman to Senator Gore, it seems that the Vice-Presidential office is becoming a pretty strenu ous Job ' Champ Clark' Imagination. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Champ Clark gives a long list of the great things the Democratic party will do If restored to power. Mr. Clark has an - Imagination so powerful that ho makes the millennium look like a short order. THE DYING CHRISTIAN TO HIS SOUL. This ode was partly suggested" by the following lines, written by the Emperor Adrian: Adriaoi Morientis Ad Animam Suam. Antmula, vaeula, blandula, Hoap Comesciue Corporis, Quae nunc abibia in loca. Pallldula, rlgida, nudula? NC ut aolea, dabia J oca- Podo's lines were composed at the re quest of Steele, who wrote: "This is to desire of you that you would please to make an ode as of a cheerful, dying spirit; that Is to say, the Emperor Adrian"s animula vagula put into two or three stanzas for music." Pope replied wth the three stanzas below, and says to Steele In a letter, "You have it, as Cow lev calls It. warm from the brain. It came to me the first moment I waked this morning. Vital spark of heavenly flame. Quit, oh quit thl mortal frame! Trembling, hoping, lingering, flylne. Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Cease, fond Natnr, cease thy strife. And let me languish into Ufa, Hark! they whisper: angala nay, ' Bister spirit, come away. What is this absorb ma quite, - Steal mr sen, shut my sight. Drown my spirit, draws my breath? TeU me, my aoui, can tnia do om . The world recedes; It disappears; Heaven open on my eye; my ears With ound seraphic ring; Lend, lend your wings! I mount! 1 flyl O smve! vhar, I thy victory t O daath! wnere 1 thy Udz 1 . , , . . .- LIFE'S SUNNY SIDE Down on the West Sid there's a long shore saloon where they set up a huge schooner for 5 cents. When o'clock blows, the place is thronged by the thirsty, fortifying themselves for the long walk home. One night a huge Irishman, in a red flannel shirt, open at his brawny chest and rolled up over swelling biceps, stood in the crowd and tapped a nickel on the bar. Just as the barkeeper set out the schooner the swing door burst open and a little Irishman rushed in, flung his coat on the floor, threw his hat beside it, and. Jumping on them, yelled in a high voice quivering with rage: Which one oi yez Deal up poor rat Murphy?" The big Irishman In the red shirt tapped his chest. " 'Twas me!" he bel lowed, hoarsely. The little Irishman whirled around. "Gee!" he piped. "Ye did him up foine." Lippincott's. William M. Fogerty has a story about a good old Irish woman whose son was about to start for a trip around the world. She had watched him prosper with pride. To her h waa a great man. In her fond vision she could see all sorts of terrible tidings coming to him, but she held her peace until he had started for the journey. Then she began to cry. A neighbor tried to console her, but to no avail. "I'm afraid he hasn't the money to get back," said the mother, weeping. "He's got the money to go round the world all right, but how will he ever get back?" Cart Bchurs was dining one night with a man who had written a book of poems, so called, and who was pleased with hlm- elf- ... The poet was discoursing on the time worn topic of politics and of the men who take office. "I consider politics and politicians be neath my notice," he said. "I do not care for office. I wouldn't be a Senator or Cabinet officer, and I doubt if I could be tempted by the offer of the Presidency. For the matter of that, I would rather be known as a third-rate poet than as a first rate statesman." "Well, aren't you?" Schurz shouted at him. Saturday Evening Post. A group of Scotch lawyers were met convlvially at an Ayrshire inn one cold evening last December. The conversation turned upon pronunciations. "Now, I," said one of the barristers, "always say neether, while John, here, says nyether. What do you say. Bandy?" The hot tipple had made Sandy doze, and at the sudden question he aroused and replied, "I? Oh, I say whusky." Lippincott's. To Impress on young children Just what should and what should not be done and why Is among the most trying problems of parents, as evidenced by the recent experience of a West Philadelphia mother. Last Sunday she asked her small son, aged S, to carry a chair for her from the dining-room to the parlor. He started off willingly, but In the hall hetripped and fell. Amid the crash could be heard the boy giving vent to utterances that would have done credit to a pirate of ancient days. The mother was taken by surprise and was greatly shocked. She gave the boy a long and serious talk on, the subject of profanity. This appar ently did not make the right impression, for when she concluded the boy added to his discomfiture by exclaiming. "I am sorry I swore, mamma, but I forgot it was Sunday." Philadelphia Record. Composition on Grass. Chicago Post Grass grows upon the face of the earth much as whiskers grow upon the face of a man. - However, grass is always green, and no one ever wears green whiskers ex cept a ElapstlcK comedian. However, again, there Is red grass and gray grass and brown grass and yellow grass and blue grass, which proves there are exceptions to all rules. ' ' For all that, however,-grass does not grow Galway style, nor a la burnside. nor In a mustache and goatee. Grass is eaten by cows. When cut and baled it is called baled hay and is fed to condensed-milk cows. Grass is removed from the lawn by means of the neighbors' children or a lawn mover. Lawn mowers are pushed by young men who are studying for the ministry. No other men have the sturdy moral nature to run a lawn mower. Immediately after cutting the grass these young men collect for It. Taking collection Is part of ministerial training. Grass is also very profitable to sign painters, as It enables them to dispose of placards ordering people to) keep off of It. Ed Howe' Philosophy. Atchison Globe. The surest way to get out of diffi- culty is before you get in. Company always gets the boy of the: family Into trouble. Everyone believes everyone else ia either extravagant or stingy. Hair does not make the woman, par ticularly if ft is Jute hair. A mother is occasionally satisfactory to the children, but their father; never Is. There is certain work in your career? that you must do yourself, or It won't be done. Why are you so indignant because people talk about matters that do not concern them? You do it. You all know that a family horse, well treated, will become lazier and lazier. But you needn't laugh at the family horse; we all do the same thing. Blind Students on Bicycle Trips. Chicago News. Students at the Royal Normal Col lege for the Blind at Upper Norwood, England, make a unique sight a they go through the streets of Norwood on their cycle trips. They ride on a cycle which is perfectly safe for the blind. The professor in charge rides on the . i ,t flnus tTiA RtfiRrinr. Lonl Lamington, an authority on athletics. rides with the students irequentiy. ie i.. int.gtol In them and is doina all he can to help them mentally and phy sically ' i Lucky. Puck. The Black Hole of Calcutta laughed gratifiedly. ' "Lucky for me," it chuckled, "that I got in among the classic horrors be fore the facilities for dressing in the upper berth of a sieeping-car were perfected, otherwise I should be no. where. , Boys and Dogs. Chicago Record-Herald. -When two dogs meet for the first time each at once begins to consider the other's probable ability as a fighter. In some respects dogs are much like boys. Something About to Be Doing. , September Smart Set "Why does he let his wife venture out alone in his motor car?" "He's anxious to see what will hap pen when two unmanageable things come together." Changeful. Washington Star. "Has Bllggins a pleasant disposU tion?" "It all depends on whether he is sell ing you something or coming around tol collect for It," j