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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