- THE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, SEPTE3IBER 13, 1910.
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Pr. 1. Ti. Vltyon marie a ucgetive
remark on Sunday right at the Uni
tarian Church nhPti ho sabl that thP
nng Summer vacation for unem
ployed arte) undirected h.ldren Is not
an unmixed good. Thp iwtarl of
bo's ly the hundred prvarilng the
-ity street poking whom or what
ihy m;v" devour and expending their
surplus energy on all jrts of mls
ihtrf 1 not edifying. In a perfect
worM no boy ami not many girl
would be permitted to paw the Sum
mer months In town. They would on
ent out to abide with the meadow
larks and pick daisies on the sheep
trimmed hillside. Fetter till. they
would be i;et tt work li; the dairy,
the hayftVM or the on hard, as the
t aj-e might require.
Child labor laws mail" by intelli
gent per.iiH have no reference to
work in the country. There Is noth
ing better for a human being In his
tender yf-.trs than to perform the
. humble but wholesome tasks of the
farm. To curry the horee, to milk
ilie row. even to exercise with the
antiquated bucksaw, all these things
tend to makv muscle and expand the
oraitt pan. The moft capacious In
tellects that America has produced
thus far .spent the morning of their
ears on farms. The city Is a line
place for a man to employ his wits
in but it is no place to upbuild them.
rnhapplly. the world Is far from
perfect anil it is impossible to trans
port the youth of tho town to the
fragrant fields in any large numbers.
Something must be done to make
their long vacation innocuomt even
though it is pa.-sed on pavements. Pr.
Wilson hints that a desirable substi
tute for the diversions of the farm
is a good. large playground. The
time has passed when any person of
sound sense speaks lightly of the city
playground. Most of us. have come to
the conclusion that If we are to have
a country In the future we must have
ah! bodied and intelligent citizens to
rim It. and the only way to prtcure
them U to give the boy and girl a
chance to develop normally. This re
quires play.
The human race, beginning with
the prehistoric inhabitants of the
woods who passed their days In hunt
ing for fond and their nights dream
ing among the boughs, has educated
itself by play more than by either
toil or book.. To take only one ex
nmplc where there are hundred at
hand, the child learns to speak his
mother tongue in play. Later in life
ho tries to learn Latin and Greek by
strenuous toll. It Is Instructive to
i ompare the results of the two meth
ods. But playgrounds for children
jtrovlde something more, though noth
ing better, than space, for games. They
give access to frrsh air and sunshine.
The ordinary human being stands In
mortal terror of fresh air. If he Is
traveling In the cars he seals up every
window and battens the door In order
that he may breathe the same poison
laden atmosphere throughout the
journey. At the end of It he wonders
"why he caught cold. At the lodge
every possible avenue for air to come
In is cloeed. It is the same at church.
The dwelling of the average family
Is as carefully defended against tho
life-giving air of heaven as against
typhoid fever and tuberculosis. Nay.
Infinitely more carefully, for when the
itir is shut out, there diseases are
shut in.
I e Quincy tells a horrible tale In
one of his books about a murderer
who slipped Into a house one night
Intending to slay tho entire family.
Ills first step was to lock every door
jind window en that nobody could es
ape. Then he leisurely proceeded
with his task. By excluding the at
mosphere from our houses we gave
the germs of disea.se the same advan
tage which De Qulnry's murderer ob
tained by Imprisoning the Inmates
w hom he wirhed t butcher. The
fact of the matter Is that play and
r lay-grounds are intimately connected
with the fundamental problem of the
National health, just as education lies
t the root of the National welfare.
In approving trade school Dr. Wil
K'lii astutely distinguished between
arning a living" and "living." They
are two very different things. Some
people live to eat. Some cat to live.
After all. living Is the aim of life, and
If in the struggle to earn a living we
neglect to live, what does It profit us?
Jesus raised tho same question long
before lr. Wilson. "What shall it
protit a man to gain the whole world
and lose his own soul?" Thus he put
the inquiry. Foolish exegetics makes
this question refer to losing a soul
In tophet. but It means nothing of
the sort. The Savior meant precisely
nxhat Dr. Wilson did. Of what use Is
It to spend a whole life earning a liv
ing, or making a fortune. If one finds
st the end that he has not had time
to live? So even In our trade schools
it is well not to forget that a trade
i:; a means to r. end. It is not the
first thing in life, though it Is no
doubt the most Important second
thing. A tsude Is a good horse to
ritle. but it is a horse. The genuine
human being has a winctum where
he doe not admit It.
The great majority of boys and girls
. .in not go to college. Those who can
will get the cultured part of educa
tion, and they may thank their stars
If they get anything else. The real
problem of education lies In finding
a way to teach young people who
niust earn their living how to do it
without making dull blockheads of
them. It is senseles to think of
teaching Latin and Greek In the
school for the people. The glory
and the dream must come through
some other medium) but we must find
the medium. The common man toll
ing at his humdrum trade must have
his eyes open to the light that never
was on land or sea or this country
will alnk. as Rome did. in sottish lux
ury and brutal bloodlust. Dr. Wilson
does well to speak with an ee on
Rome. Jn some respects the parallel
Is becoming pregnant.
KK(OMME'Dtl.
In many counties of Oregon reports
are that the assembly has come to be
accepted as a correct rule of action
for Republicans. In some counties no
candidates have appeared against tho
assembly candidates: and In other
counties the opposition is scattering
and obviously weak. The opposition
has its inspiration solely, in such coun
ties, in the ambitions of individuals
who have been . disappointed through
failure to get assembly recommenda
tions or through knowledge that the
assembly would not recommend them.
Where the awfmbly has been repre
sentative, as It should have been, there
is satisfaction with its work: where
there has been a great multitude of
candidates, and an Immense variety of
conflicting Interests, as in .Multnomah,
there is a contest.
But the. assembly has nowhere
sought to "nominate" candidate
nominations have heretofore been
made by conventions. These candi
dates are merely "recommended."
rnder the primary law the nssemhly
cannot do otherwise. It is not desired
or intended to do otherwise. Should
the fact that any candidate has been
recommended for nomination by a
large number of Republicans, acting
in concert, not be to hia advantage?
The primary and tho primary alone
will decide. The wholo question of
Republican candidates is now before it
for Its Judgment.
TUB KimtVC CW BT JOB.
The people ahould rule, of course;
but do they? Take the organization
of tho State Supreme Court, for ex
ample. Long thero was effort to in
crease the Supreme Court from three
to five by one device or another: but
the constitution always troublesome
n-tmn tho fiolf-nnolntofl friends of the
people have some scheme to work or
Intrigue to promote stood in tne waj.
Finally tho happy suggestion was
maHa that the neonlc. always to be
trusted, would gladly make two more
places on the bench for tried and true
irihnnrn like Judges King and Slater,
and an Initiative amendment was pre
pared and submitted in i:va. n
those two eminent non-partisan Judges
were mere "commissioners'." Rut tho
people, sad to tell, had other Ideas
about the Supreme Court. They voted
.iniin the henevolent scheme of mak
ing five Judicial Jobs out of three, over
whelmingly. To be exact, the vote on
the constitutional amendment was:
Yes. 30.243; no. 50,091.
' An adverse majority of over "0.000.
it would seem, ought ordinarily to have
koo iaii.n an n. sufficiently explicit
declaration of the people's will. Hut of
course here was an Instance wnere tne
people had been misled as to w hat was
uintt.ii hv thHr special guardians and
champions and pIaceTmakers. So a
bill was hurriedly prepared ana
Jammed through the Legislature, in
the interest of those two nonpartisan
judges thus heartlessly left out in the
cold by the people, and. being prompt
ly signcc- by the Governor, was made
law. An emergency clause having
been thoughtfully added to the law. it
became effective at once, and Governor
Chamberlain, friend of the people,
consummated this pretty political deal
by appointing King and Slater as
members of the Supreme Court.
Do .the people rule? What have
our friends who are ehouting them
eoicoa Into hronchltls about the sov
ereign people to say about this Illus
tration or the way the people are per
mitted to rule, when their desires hap
pen to be In conflict with the particu
lar game the Democratic bosses and
their Republican allies are playing?
The history of Oregon shows no
hotter illustration of systematic eva
sion of the people's will than In this
notorious case. Slater ann iving nan
in ho nrovided for at any cost, and
they were provided for through polit
ical Intrigue and manipulation; anu
now they are to be looked after fur
ther by more skillful maneuvering
through the buncombe play of "non
partisanship." H.1NCK FOB TICE SETTI-KKS.
There is a gleam of hope for the
many honest settlers who have been
denied the right to secure homes on
Government lands which have need
lessly and wrongfully been included In
forest reserves. According to Wash
ington dispatches. Secretaries Ballin
ger and Wilson have been working on
a plan for the restoration to entry of
a large amount of land which has
been included in 'the hurriedly-made
forest reserves and which can never
be of value for any other purpose
than for home-building for bona fide
settlers. Scattered through the West
in the numerous reserves which were
created at the behest of Mr. Pinchot
are millions of acres of land that are
not valuable for their timber or as
protection to the water supply. Had
these forest reserves been created
after Pinchot and Roosevelt had se
cured definite knowledge of the char
acter of the lands. It is hardly prob
able that even those enthusiastic con
servationists would have locked up
such large areas of this agricultural
land and thus deprive settlers of the
opportunity of securing homes.
An effort will now be made by the
present Administration to restore to
entry these lands that have been need
lessly withdrawn, and they will he
made available for settlement. In
order that the rights of bona fide set
tlers may be protected, homesteaders
are to have a thirty-day option on
these lands, no corporation being per
mitted to file scrip on them until the
actual settlers have had a month in
which to make their filing If they in
tend doing so. Included in some of
these hastily-made reserves are a
number of homes which settlers be
gan building years before the Pinchot
lzlng of the West began. Quite nat
urally the rights -of these squatters
who went Into the wilderness and
suffered hardship and privation in
making their homes will be protected.
Restoration of these lands will be fol
lowed by a rush from all parts of the
country, for while there is still con
siderable unoccupied Government
land outside of the reserves. It .does
not compare favorably in quality with
that which will be released by the
segregation of these lands which
should never have been Included In
the reserves.
Very likely a howl will go up from
the Plnchots iver this restoration to
entry of lands which have been locked
up in reserves. In this clamor, the
corporations controlling large areas of
land will join. Enormously wealthy
I .tiHli.ali httMine Inrrp tracts of
.Western larids of all description can
not dictate rtrices so long as the Gov
ernment is willing to sell homes to
actual settlers for the entry fee and
an insignificant price per acre. .Every
additional quarter section of land
added to a forest reserve adds a cer
tain amount to the value of the hold
ings of the big syndicates, for it re
duces ' to that extent the available
supply. There will be regret Telt by
the Plnchots and Weyerhaeuaers, but
not by the bona fide settlers w hen
the forest reserve fake is thoroughly
! understood and lands wrongfully in
cludcd in the reserves are restored for
TODAY I.N WAMIINtiTON.
. There is insurgency of a pronounced
type in Washington. It is to be made
manifest today through its effort at
the Republican primary to nominate
Representative Poindexter to be
I'll I ted States Senator. If ho shall
be successful, his victory will be
hailed everywhere as progressive
or Insurgent triumph. Tho real con
tributing catfses will be ignoreti. They
are chiefly that Polmlexter is faced
by a divided opposition and that his
own support will come in no small
part from many thousands of Demo
crats and from voters of no party
who wil". enter the Republican pri
mary for the express purpose 'of mak
ing Poindexter Republican Senatorial
nominee.
It Is an exciting contest anil it will
have momentous consequences. One
of them will be that It will be made
obvious that the Republican party
cannot control its own affrfirs. It
must leave to electors of all parties
or of no parties the selection of its
nominees anil tho direction of its
policies.
If any one is disposed to think that
the Democrats of Washington, as of
Oregon, will be content to mind their
own business and leave Republicans
to their own concerns, let him watch
the tour of today's primaries. He
will discover that the very large vote
cast for President Taft in 1 90S will
have been exceeded by the aggregate
vote of the Republican Senatorial can
didates and he will likewise note that
there Is an enormous falling off from
tho vote cast for Bryan. He may
then draw his own conclusions as to
what has happened to the Republican
party In Washington, and how it hap
pened. . ,
ROW OMMERCK t.KONf.
Portland importers are bringing' in
Japanese oak by the. shipload. The
timber is sawed Into merchantable
shape in this city and meets with a
ready sale for finishing purposes. Yes
terday a steamship which brought a
full cargo of Japanese oak to Port
land" cleared for China with a full out
ward cargo of Oregon fir. By secur
ing timber cargoes for both Inward
and outward voyages there is a con
siderable saving in freight.
A few years ago the Middle West
had great forests of oak timber which
were cleared away to make room for
farms, towns and cities. It is now
easy to see that, had Pinchot lived
earlier, this timber would still be
Standing. As the hardy frontiersmen
pushed their way out from New York
and Ohio, they might have been per
mitted to cut some of it Into sawiogs
and ship it to the i Pacific Coast, thus
Insuring return loads for the cars that
come West to get the matchless Ore
gon . fir. Unfortunately a policy of
that kind would have left the West
without any settlers or cities to sup
ply a market for Oregon fir. and
there would have been no railroads
to haul it. If there had been a market.
A CANADIAN VICTORY.
In the halcyon days of the Oregon
Steam Navigation Company it was the
custom to carry light freight by meas
urement which was computed on an
exceedingly liberal scale. Kor ex
ample, a wagon was measured from
the end of the tongue to tho tail gate
and was then "squared" on tho base
of Its highest and widest part. In
making the lu-heries award last
week, tho Hague tribunal seems to
have been guided by a similar sys
tem of measurement. Kor more than
a century the United States has
claimed the right to fish anywhere
beyond the three-mile limit, including
ba.vs. estuaries and other Indentations
that are wider than that limit. TJie
decision last week has denied this
right and tho tribunal sustains Great
Britain's contention that the three
mile limit must be computed from
lines drawn from headland to head
land. This decision is a notable triumph
for the Canadians, as It will drive the
Americans out of a great many fa
vored fishing grounds along the New
foundland Coast. These grounds must
be abandoned without anything be
ing received in return, for there are
no bays. etc.. on the American side
of the line front which we can ex
clude the Canadians. The verdict of
the Hague tribunal was not all one
way, however, for It was decided that
the United States had the right to
purchase bait on the same terms as
the Canadians and people of New
foundland, and were also exempt from
the heavy Canadian tonnage dues and
other charges which have causpd so
much trouble In the past. Great
Britain is upheld In her claims to the
right to make rules and regulations
regarding the fleet entering Canadian
ports for bait, etc., but it is provided
that these rules and regulations must
not be onerous or unfair. The United
States seems to have got the worst
of tho bargain In this decision, but
the question, is one that lias caused
so much trouble In the past and has
frequently caused bloodshed, that the
final decision will probably bo ac
cepted without much parley.
GKOWTII OF CITIES.
In another column there is pre
sented the official count of twenty-five
cities which in 1900 had a population
of more than 100,000, together with
returns from thirty cities which had
less than 100,000 ten years ago. The
percentages of Increase, taken In the
aggregate, are slightly larger than for
the decade from 1890 to 1900. The
absolute increase in the twenty-five
larger cities, officially counted, in thq
past ten years was 2,769.018, while the
increase in the same cities from 1890
to 1900 was 2.059,899.
So far as announced, Atlanta, Ga.,
shows the most- striking acceleration
of growth, the gain being 72.3 per
cent. Detroit is next with 63 per cent.
The census department In its official
circular refers to these two cities as
"remarkable." Wonder what adjec
tive the director will use when he
makes the official announcement for
six big Pacific Coast cities, including
Portland, that have been "going some"
since 1900? If 72 per cent is remark
able, what will he say to 150 or 200
per cent?
If one may Judge by figures that
have "leaked out," Los Angeles will
show the greatest percentage and tho
greatest absolute gain of any Pacific
Coast city. Seattle will probably be
second. Ten years ago the Puget
Sound city had 10.000 less population
thun Portland, while now the two cit
ies are nearly equal. If since the cen
sus of 1900 Portland had annexed
"everything in sight," as did Los An
geles and Seattle, no doubt this city
would show the greatest absolute in
crease as well as the. highest percent
age west of the Rocky Mountains.
And there are two other cities hav
ing less than 40.000 in 1900 that will
make tho census officers take notice.
These are Tacoma and Spokane, each
expected to show well above the 100.
000 mark, while Oakland, Cat., with
67.000 ten years ago. is credited with
a gain of nearly If not quite 200 per
cent. These cnsus returns are going
to be mighty fine publicity stuff for
the entire Pacific Coast. And Uncle
Sam pays the bills.
The Peninsula school building is
either safe or It is unsafe. The mat
ter is one that any competent, disin
terested architect or builder should bo
able to decide. If the reports of tho
unsafe condition of the building aro
founded upon nothing more substan
tial than parental hysteria, which may
be Justifiable In the circumstances, the
opinion of a competent inspector,
given after due Investigation, should
and no doubt would be sufficient to
dispel alarm. According to report,
the structure is unsafe owing to the
use of mortnr of inferior quality in
laying the bricks. This charge, if
true, is a serious one that fully justi
fies tho anxiety of parents whoso chil
dren attend the Teninsula School. The
defect Is one through which it might
be demonstrated to the horror of the
community that wood is not the only
unsafe material that is ured in the
construction of school houses.
The public schools of district No. 1
opened yesterday with a full corps of
teachers and more than an over-full
complement of pupils. Refreshed by
their vacation of over two months,
brown and merry, the children came
trooping in, literally in platoons. They
were received by smiling teachers in
clean and airy schoolrooms, their
census farms filled out, and, as far as
possible, their Feats assigned. Tho
first week of school is one almost en
tirely of organization, though many
of the well-trained teachers will havo
tho work well in hand and be settled
down to routine business by the mid
dle of the week. In another week nil
will be moving like clockwork and the
vacation period will already have be
come a dim and unsubstantial mem
ory. The United States, which is now
supposed to be Hearing the height of
the wheat-shipping season, for the
week ending last Friday contributed
1.511,000 bushels to the world's ship
ments. Russia and the Danube, which
a few years ago were minor factors in
supplying the demands of the world,
last week shipped 11,496,000 bushels,
and in the week previous 10,160,000
bushels. In the face of such enormous
shipments from an unexpected quar
ter, it is surprising that the markets
can be maintained at anywhere near
the prices that have prevailed since
the opening of the season. Kither
Russia must let up on these enormous
shipments or wheat prices the world
over, will weaken.
It is said that Lina Cavalieri, the
famous opera singer, and her rich
young American husband, Robert
Winthrop Chanler, after a very brief
season of wedded bliss, havo quar
reled and parted forever, she taking
his fortune for her dowry. "Poor
Bob has been duped," say his pitying
friends of the Paris American colony,
to which common sense, taking a
wide-range view, adds: "Poor Bob, to
be so easily taken in and sadly done."
A man who looks for a wife in a pro
fession in which wives are not bred,
and, after persistent pursuit, persuades
himself that he has caught one. may
excite the pity of his friends, but the
cold, calculating world has nothing
but contempt for his folly.
Yesterday's fine weather helped to
swell the total; still, a gain of 18'
per cent in the school attendance over
opening (lay last year confirms the
general estimate of Portland's grow th
the past twelvemonth. School regis
tration never lies; the children are
here.
When the Livestock Show pays ex
penses, there is small danger that It
will bo abandoned. This year's re
sults furnish firm foundation for the
hope that it will bo a permanent Port
land institution.
Yakima peachgrowers have so large
a crop they can barely give away the
fruit. Yet this will not stop growth
of the industry. It is merely a bad
year for marketing a primp article. "
A local high school boy is held for
insanity, said to be due to excessive
smoking of cigarettes. This will not
deter other misguided youth.
Registration to date indicates that
no fewer than 10,000 male adults In
Multnomah don't give a rap for tho
right of suffrage.
It is easier for a camel to go through
an eye of- a needle than for a Port
land bridge contractor trj finish his
Job on time.
So bad Is the reputation of that
Illinois. Legislature that nothing
Roosevelt could say would make it
worse.
There is danger that all the spell
binders will wear out before the actual
work of the campaign begins.
A number of live snakes are ex
hibited in a saloon window at Sump
ter. The sight Is reassuring.
Appleton. Wis., will display a 4000
pound cheese at Chicago. Now bring
on. your mice.
The way to get a thirty-foot channel
to the sea is to dig it; the sooner the
better.
Oddfellows fraternal and odd fel
lows political are gathering at Oyster
Bay.
"Maine -went" but what's the use?
Fair weather for Fair week.
MR. JULKEVS INSURGENCY.
One Constituent Thrown Doubt I pon
Ita Genuine Ounllty.
GRANTS PASS. Or.. Sept. 10. (To the
Editor.) Although an insurgent or pro
gressive Republican myself. I am op
posed to the nomination of B. F. Mul
key, the spineless wonder of Jackson
ville, fov Representative in Concross
over Mr. Wiwiey, the present inrumbent.
Mr. Mulkey is a fierce insurgent now,
to hear him tell it. He just naturally
insurges and splurges continually. He
Is so anxious to do something for his
country, and of course, in his judgment,
the best thinsr the very best, possible
thing he could do would be to replace
Mr. Hawiey in Congress.
I am not so sure of Mr. Mulkey's
brand of insurgency, however. I don't
know where he got it. It appears to bo
all right on I he surface, but when it is
stirred around a little with a stick it
doesn't seem to hold out clear to the
bottom of the barrel, and one is forced
to the conclusion that what appears to
he Insurgency on top is only a little
.scum of political something or 'nother,
and not. the real artit !e at all.
For instance, no one knows exactly
when Mulkey began to insnrne. It
probably crept into his system ami was
eating at his vitals before lie fully
realized what ailed hlrri. There be those,
however, so uncharitable as to insin
uate that he. noticing how much at
tention the bis insurgents like la, Fol-
lotte and Cummins were attracting hy
industriously pawing t ho dust up over
their backs ami bellowing p.ronnti tne
halls of Coneross. and catching the
drift of the sentiment of the Middle
West, lie took the hit in his teeth and,
with tail up and nostrils dilated, came
down the road on the dead run, a wild
eyed, full-fledged Insurgent.
Let us now proceed to examine the
Insurgents of Mr. Mulkey and deter
mine if possible if it is the real artitio
or just an overweening desire to sup
Plant Mr. Hawiey at Washington. In
the first place, one can got a sort of
tail hold on the future by squinting
hack over the past, and to get such a
line on this peerless insurgent by that
method, we will remember that out of
the fullness of their hearts and the
weakness of their judgment the trust
ing proletariat of the' First Judicial
District disfigured tho District Attor
ney's office by electing our insurging
Mulkey to it. His election lo that im
portant position gave him the appoint
ment, of an assistant prosecuting at
torney for Josephine County, and whom
did this howling insurgent appoint?
Another Insurgent like himself? No
not any. Ho appointed A. C. Hough, a
regular, an assembly man. a man who,
though a good and competent attorney,
could not by any means be considered
an insurgent. It so happened, how
ever, that the little puttering work of
the position was of such a nature that
Mr. Hough could not afford to devote
his time to it. and it was, passed on to
a younger man, J. N. Johnston. ' Here
vas a seconil choice by Mr. Mulkey,
and you would think that ills system
was so permeated with insurgency that
he would select an insurgent thus time.
No. not Mulkey. Mr. Johnston is an as
sembly man. A regular. True, he is a
capable officer, and has filled tiie po
sltion with credit to himself, but that
isn't the point here. It is a fact, politi
cal and otherwise, that birds of a
feather flock together, and the only
flocking our dear Mulkey has done so
far in his electric career has been with
regulars and assembly men.
Now to work in that tail hold on the
future. If we send this noble boy to
Congress In place of Mr. Hawiey, what
assurance have w-e that he won't do
some more flocking with the regular
old air-tight bunch there? We haven't
any. Judging by the past, it is very
likely that ho would flock around there
with any old thing or any old body-
just so said flocking boosted Mr. Mul
key a little further into the public corn
crib. Don't be deceived, my insurgent
friends, in this matter. Mr. Hawley
may be a regular party man. He has a
right to his opinions in that respect
He at least has the courage of his con
victions, and is a clean, clear-headed
hard-working member that no insur
gent can justly condemn. The position
of Representative in Congress is one of
vast importance and responsibility. Mr.
Hawiey has been there and made good.
We need him there now to carry on the
work he has been so ably doing. Do
you suppose any one would pay any at
tentlon to our little orator. if we should
send him to Washington? No, they
couldn't afford to. Time is too val
uable there. A man has to potter
around Congress a good deal before he
Is in very much demand. Strange as it
may seem, the old Government seems
to slide along from day to day without
going on the rocks, while a large num
ber of little flounders like our Insurg
Ing Mulkey are learning their business.
Don't do it, my friends. Mulkey could
do us no good during the next term.
except possibly to count as one more
Insurgent., and his brand of Insurgency
doesn t suit me at all. judging ry tne
past, he could slip out of it at a mo
ment's notice if tho chance seemed to
promise any political advantage.
The people of this jutlicial district
conferred a high honor upon Mulkey
when they elected him their Prosecut
ing Attorney. It must be said that he
has not particularly covered himself
with glory In that position. About tho
highest compliment that can be paid
him is that he is better than no Dis
trict Attorney at all. Tt Is a safe guess
that he will not be pressed to stand for
the office again. Yet he has the assur
ance to ask for tills vastly more im
portant place. What would you think
of a careless, commonplace clerk In
your store who, without showing amy
special qualifications for or interest in
his work, should suddenly demand that
you make him your general manager?
Woultl you do it? Hell, hardly. It
wouldn't be good business. Well. now.
my friends, good politics is always goud
business, aril I submit that it would
not be good politics or good business to
send this verbose little man to Con
gress in the place of our well-trained
and capable Mr. Hawiey.
OLIVER S. BROWN.
lid Howe's Philosophy.
Atchison Globe.
Anybody- can remonstrate, but only a
few can fix the trouble.
What has become of the old-fashioned
woman who went "calling"?
Some men are so good looking they
can keep it up after becoming bald. No
woman has such a record for personal
pulchritude.
A man sometimes imagines lie is won
derfully popular, when he is reallyonly
useful to those who seem attracted.
Treat a family horse well, and he
will impose on you in a perfectly
brutal manner. Everything and every,
body seems to need the whip occasion
ally, everything and everybody seems
to Impose on those who are kind to
them.
We know a boy who has two big
bolls, and who said nothing to his
mother about them. We're not that
way: when we have a boil we want our
friends to make a fuss about it. and
wonder when it will break, and say it's
a marvel we can work at all, suffering
as we do.
floral Drnmnff.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Charles Frohmnn is to make an at
tempt to secure plays of "moral value"
for Sunday night production in New
York. This will probably mean a
dramatization of the Ten Command
ments. Take It Ont of Politico.
Washington Post.
All shades of public opinion being
agreed on the question of conserving
our natural resources, no reasons exist
except mischievous ones why the mat
ter should not be allowed to drop out
of polities.
Growth of Cities From 1900 to 1910
Percentage of Increase in Population Nearly Same as Prom 1890 to 1900.
The following1 statement comprises all Census Rurrnu aiimjiifiromcnts up
to and including1 September 1. in regar'l to tiie cities in tho i'nitod States
which had in 1900 a population of 25, MOO and nio.-e om h, and shovvis for com
parison, I he popuiation in 1900 and 1X9.
The riiios are divided into two groups, naively. "Cities of over li'J.oOf
population In 1900" and "cities from 25.000 to 3 0't.O'iO population in 1900."
C ities of Over 100.000 Population in 1000.
CITIES
Aliehenv. Fa
Burtal.i. N. Y
Cincinnati, Ohio
Columbus, Ohio
rrnvT. Colorado.
Ifuroit. Michigan
Indianapolis, I ndiana
.W.sey City, N. A
Kansas City, Missouri
Mil wa tiki o. Wisconsin
Newark. N w Jersey
Npw Haviii. ,'onnectirul
New York. N. Y
F; t erpoii, Now ,Trr y
Fittshut-fr I-'t-nnsylvanla
Froviincf H iurio Island
St. I Amis. Missouri
St. Faul. M tnnrpotii
Scrn n t on. n nsyl a nia
S'Ta-iiKe, Nov- York -
ToU-rlo, Ohio
Wash i npt on. O. C
a Combined with Pittsburg, con.-us of 1 ! o.
Fstimateri population in IS'.to of the! area of prrsrnt No
New York as it i-iKird in tvto wax 1..M ri..ttt.
t Combined w!t h (inures for Allegheny.
(Hies 3.1,000 100.000 in 1900.
I -IT IKS
Akron, Ohio
Albany. Now York. .......
A tiontown. Penns Ivania. . -
Atlanta. (Jooi'Kia
Ray City. Mirhicnn
"Bay on no. Now Jitm'-v
"Bridgeport. Connect icui. . . .
Cr.mdon. N'f w Jersey
"Davenport. low n
Dos Moines. Iowa
Enst St. I .on is. Illinois. .. .
K'TTiirn. Now York
KvatiFVitlo. Indiana
Fort Wayne. Indiana
Grand Rapids, Michigan . . . .
Hartford, Connecticut
Hoboken, Nw Jersey
Hovston. Texas
Jackson. M icii ijtan
Mi.bi'o. Alabama
Pawtiicket. I.hodc Island. .
Peoria. Illinois
'I'll' I lo. Colorado
Readinp. !'-nnsy"vnma
Sacramento. California. . . .
Sapinaw, Michigan
Schenectady, Now York
Sioux i 'f ty. Iowa
South Bend, Indiana
Wnterlmry. Connecticut. .. .
Wilmington, He hi ware
Woonsookt, Kit ode Island.
Yonkers, New York
a Decrease.
GALVESTO.V-TKX lEARS AFTKK
Grent Slanrl Htm Been Wrouaht by
Modern Entilneerlms.
Baltimore Anieriian.
Thursday of tlio current week marks
the tenth anniversary of that ierrllio
gulf storm that swept the City of Gal
veston from its foundation and destroyed
the lives of 7!X people. And today this
beautiful Tcvas seaport represents one
of the greatest marvels that has ever
been wrought by modern engineering
For not only the buildings that were left
by the llXO flood h:-ve been jacked up.
so to speak, to a higher level ranging
from two to 14 feet, but what is more
remarkable, many of the tine old trees,
the flower gardens, and in one instance,
an entire city park, have been lifted from
the original foundations to the new level
that is believed to be above the high
tide storm level. More than 500 city
blocks were tilled to an average depth of
6M, feet, and the houses and other fix
tures were gradually raised to conform
to the new level.
The tilling in was by sand pumped
from the gulf. A canal was built from
the gulf to the very center of the city,
and by the lie? of large suction dredges
sand was obtained from six miles out in
the gulf, which, when repumped upon
the enclosure within the great sa wall,
soon drained and hardened. The wall
which Galveston has erected as a bar
rier against gulf storms is in itself a
wonder. This wall is 4U miles long and
17 feet high, and upon the top is a
smooth promenade boulevard 50 feet
wide. The cost of erecting the wall was
something over S2.000,X) and the cost
of lifting the foundations of the city
was about $-J.20O,O0O. The cost upon the
whole has been enormous for a city of
less than 60.000 population, but every
body who has viewed the results believes
that what has been done is well wortli
the cost.
While portions of tho trees and some
of the garden plots were raised, thous
ands of trees and hundreds of acrs of
shrubbery were destroyed. But the work
of tree planting and garden-making has
been begun with enthusiastic energy at
the new artilicial level. The gulf sand
has been topped with the good soil and
in another decade there will be a finer
tree life and a more luxurious semi
tropical bloomery than ever there was
in the. old Galveston that flourished be
fore the winds and the floods brought
devastation.
The Kulure American.
Glasgow Herald.
It is. in the meantime, probably a
more Interesting question to Inquire
i.... Ur. Hip outcome of the racial
intermixture for which the United
States provide the environment. He
commented the other day'on the signi
ficant fall of the birth rate in this
country. Tho fall i.s probably even
more pronounced in America. The New
Kngland stock, it is asserted, is disap
pearing, while a decline in the rate of
reproduction is visible among the in
comers of German and Irish extraction.
On the other hand, the fertility of Im
migrants of Latin origin is remarkable.
What is to ho the outcome? Is the
Anglo-Saxon stock to be superseded,
leaving only its language and its laws
embedded in the new civilization, which
one conceives will be Latin with a largo
Slav infusion? The question is one to
which Americans are not Indifferent.
-Shoe Day" for 'Chicago Voungstera.
Chicago Post.
The two hundred inmates of the Home
of the Friendless are anticipating the
joys which will be realized soon when
the annual "shoo day" will be celebrated
at tho institution.
Several days ago three employes of
Marshall Field & Co. visited the home
and measured the feet of all the children,
and they will put in several hours fit
ting the new shoes to the happy young
sters. The shoes are purchased from a fund
left for that purpose nearly thirty years
sgo by Mrs. Mancel Talcott. a wealthy
Chicago woman who did much for chari
ty. The shoes become the personal
property of the children, and If any of
them leave the home they take the shoes
wtth them.
Dead Game.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
"This is a drugstore, eh?"
"Can't you see it Is?"
"1 didn't feel sure. You seem to carrj
cigars, candy, gum, brushes, paints,
perfumery, oil. glass, wall paper, every
thing except drugs."
Til put in drugs, too, if I havo any
call for 'em," retorted the proprietor
with spirit.
Altered Insrredlenta.
Kansas City Journal.
"This section is much more prosper
ous." declared the Western farmer.
"Twenty years ago the, Ingredients of a
cyclone consisted of rag carpets, tin
pans and dog houses."
"And now?"
"Now the cyclones are fairly crowd
ed with grand pianos, Persian rugs and
automobiles."
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THE POWER OF VATIOVAI. MI MO
FfKlitlliK Sonar" of Xntlona Have lon
Much lo Win lelorteo.
Cleveland Leader.
Tiie' French government tihows a deep
knowledge of human nature wnen ii calls
upon it.; poets and composers to devise,
new tongs for tho army; songs that are
i b an and spirited, which have a martial,
marching appeal to them.
The lighting songs of all nations have
done much' to win them victories; cer
tainly they havo given the soldiers a
kinship that they could not have arrived
at through any other means. He.-rulis
might come from various provinces or
states. Ideas, customs, manners, their
outlook upon life, might be widely at
variance, but tho minute they began
singing the Maine songs and sinking them
together they became one.
And so far as the fighting spirit goes
there is something in the best martini
airs, irrespective of the melody a'fl
swing of them. that stiffens men's
muscles, puts courage in their heart
and steels them to nil dangers. It is
custom, perhaps, which works this
alchemy. The Irish regiment w l.ieh
could not go into action unlets the hand
played -"Garryowen" had an imitator in
our own Custer, whose favorite tune
it was and who went to his death t" it?
notes at the little I'.ig Horn.
Then there is 'The Girl I Left P,ehmd
Me." which is still the lighting air for
nrany foreign regiments, alter serving a
big purpose with ours. And as for
"Dixie" it held the South together till
the last ditcht because in some occult
way it had grown to be more, than a,
tune. It was the symbolism of tho f.nth.
the hope, the grim despair which hung
on like death till the end.
Wise men have recognized this amal
gamating, conserving power of music,
from the first. More dinners have been
rescued and held bv hymns than by th
most eloquent ot sermons, iian "t- J
and half the solidarity of college life,
would disappear if music were not such
an important unofficial part of the curri
culum. Know (he "Stars In the Drnaronf
Mary Proctor In Chicago Tribune.
Winding in and out between the stars
of the Great and Little Dipper is the
constellation of the Dragon. The tip ot
the tail lies between the pole star in
the Little Dipper and the pointers in
the Great Dipper, but much nearer the
latter and only a few degrees below the
pointers. The rest of the constellation,
outlined with faint stars, curves down
ward and around the Little Dipper,
when, with a final coil, it terminates
with the' two bright stars. Gamma and
Beta, which mark the head of tho
Dragon, or, in fac t, its eyes. Aratus, in
describing the constellations, speaks ot
the Dragon as "with eyes oblique re
torted, that askant cast gleaming fire."
Its leading star. Alpha, near the tail
of the Dragon and half way between
Mizar (the middle star in the handle of
the Great Dipper) and the lowest star
in the bow) of the Little Dipper, is
known by the name of Thuban. Four
thousand years ago It was the pole
star.
;irl Think 'Teddy" I Honor Tillr.
Denver Cor. New York World.
While Colonel Roosevelt was in
Cheyenne he stopped at the lnter-Oeoan
Hotel. Mis meals were served to him
in his rooms, and as servitor he had a
Swedish girl, who has been in this
country but a short time.
Whenever he asked the girl a ques
tion she answered "No, Teddy." or
"Yes, Teddy." to the amazement of tiie
Colonel.
Her manner was so ingenuous, how
ever, that he decided that she was in
nocent of intentional disrespect. Finally
he made inquiries and the mystery was
solved.
The girl thought that 'Teddy." which
she heard so frequently, was "some
sort of title, such as King."
He laughed heartily when he hear!
the explanation.
Europe After Pny-aK-Yoii Enter Cars.
New York Herald.
Several Continental cities, including
Paris, soon will be following New
York's example in the use of pay-as-you-enter
cars, if Duncan McDonald
succeeds in his mission.
Mr. McDonald has been invited by
the European Tramway Congress,
which meets at Brussels from Septem
ber 7 to September 11. to exhibit a
car of this type and give it a prac
tical demonstration on the streets ot
that city. Delegates from Paris will
attend the congress - for the especial
purpose of seeing this car and possibly
to ask that it be given a trial In Paris.
One-et the typo of pay-as-you-enter
cars used on the Third-avenue line in
this city will be shipped to Brussels on
board the Chicago, of the French lino.
Who In the Corporal i
Washington Post.
"Can it be that the 'old guard' is
only a- corporal's guard?" inquires the
New York Post. Perhaps but who is
the corporal?