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CM ffi fcte-r bul'kr J-tiRTtAMJ. HUi.vrnAT. AIGIST . TBI rllMtHf I HE IS IJST. In pursuance of a proinram which lilt evidently been agreed upon be tween the Insurgent Republican and th Democrat! the farmer"' free lint ha been voted upon In the Senate and passed. It remalna to be aeen whether the Pre4dent will veto It or not. The bill places upon the free list a large number of articles which farmers are known to use extensively, such as flour, sewing machines and ag ricultural Implements. It Is supposed to compensate thera for the losses which they will possibly stirrer through reciprocity with Canada. The reci procity agreement was allowed to pass with the private understanding be tween the Insurgents and Democrats that this free list should follow It. and now the plan Is carried out as tar as the combination can accomplish their purpose. In oar opinion Mr. Taft will veto the bill. He mill do so for two rea sons probably. Kor one thing, he does rrnt believe that reciprocity will injure the farmers and he Is willing to allow them a few months to discover that 'act for themselves. The outcry that fiaa been made against the agreement n the poor farmer's account will then lave lost about all of Its force. In the second place, the President wishes to matt for the report of the tariff commission before he permits any further reduction of duties. The commission may find that some of the articles Included In the farmers' free list are not taxed more than they ought to be. In that case, why cut down the duties? The rule adopted by the Republicans Is that the duties ought to counterbalance the lower la bor cost of some, articles In foreign countries. It seems reasonable to wait until we know something more about this cost before going ahead with tariff reductions. Mistakes are more easily corrected before they are made than afterward. If one may lapse Into a HibernlanUm. Upon these grounds Mr. Taft will probably make up his mind that It Is Just as well to wall un til next Winter before doing anything more with the tariff. There will be plenty of time between that and the next Presidential campaign to do whatever Is necessary and explain It to the country. COOS BAT AOAIM IS REfrON. Coo Bay is at last to be reunited to Oregon. That will be the effect of the construction of the Harrlman railroad from Eugene to that point, welcome announcement of mhlch Is made by General Manager O'Brien. Nature had so completely cut off this rich section from the remainder of Oregon that It had been practically annexed to California, but the railroad will restore the broken tie. Not only Coo Bay. but the Sluslaw Valley and the coast between will be brought Into direct connection mith the Willamette Valley. The new road will also be a direct extension to the coast of the frojected east-and-west trans-Oregon line which may be expected to be the next work undertaken In the develop ment of the Harrlman network which Is to cover Oregon. Among the chief advantages of this new line will be the creation of a coal jpply at the doors of Portland and i:her Willamette Valley cities. Coos Pay has well-developed mines which have long been shipping to California and recently, to a limited extent, to Portland, but their production ha been restricted by their market. They can soon produce to the limit of their rapacity and Oregon can then end Its dependence on Puget Sound. Wyoming and Australia. for coal. .The Harrlman literts also promise the development tf extensive coal fields on the Slua'aw River, which the new road will parallel. Aside from coal, the lumber, fruit and dairy Industries of the coast re gion will receive an Impetus and the tut. untouched forest and rich agri cultural country will become dotted mlth towns and farm. With Coos Bay. Sluslaw Valley and Intervening coast opened up by the new road, the long isolated Oregon coast will be as accessible as any other pitrt of the state. It is now reached by the Astoria A Columbia River road to Astoria and Seaside, the Pacific "Railway A Navigation and United Railways line to Tillamook and the jCortalli Eastern lo Taqulna, The. new Willamette r.tclflc will leave ItJtps between Florence and Taqulna en the north and between Marshfleld nnd the California line on the south, but these can be filled In by exten sions as the country develops. . A retrospect for a few years shows Mow rapidly Oregon 1 changing from an almost rallroadlesa country to one marked' with as complete a network gs any state In the L'nlon. It Is only a few years since the Astoria and Ta qulna roads mere the onlv ones which reached the coast, and the Columbia 8-iuthern and the Arlington and Con don branches were the only one w hlrh tapped Central Oregon and they only reached the edge of the In terior plateau. Coos Bay and Klamath Falls practically belonged to Califor nia and other sections had closer re lations with Idaho and Nevada than with the rest of Oregon. Klamath Fall has been reclaimed and the early completion of the Natron cut-off mill tighten the bond. Coos Bay will soon be reclaimed and Tlliumook has. or will son have, two competing lines. The lines up the Deschutes have ex tended half way across the state and are projected to cover the rest of the distance. The east and west Harrl man line may be expected to come next In order. It Is by no mean a wtld prediction that the next census will find all these lines completed and every part of , Oregon within easy reach of the locomotive. The develop, mer.t which mill follow these new mean of transportation mill Jestify the statement that the opening of Ore gon has only Just begun and that the Increase in population and wealth be tween 1910 and 1:0 mill equal. If not surpass, that of any other state. I1RMT IN MW Bl'SINESS. The disreputable distinction of hav ing, been first to print the infamous Pick-to-Dlck forgery belongs to a Portland paper, the Journal. It mas a "scoop" for which no other paper anym-here desires to claim the credit or discredit. It mas a clumsy, wicked and stupid fabrication, having for Its purpose the covering of that President of the United States mlth dirt and the further humiliation of his late Secre tary of the Interior. It would be decidedly to the point now If the Portland paper m-ould give the true story of the origin of the Dlck-to-DIck invention and Its prog ress from the hand of Its Washing ton correspondent to Its own columns and then Into the hands of the muck raking Abbott woman, mho later pro cured Its publication In the Phil adelphia North American, six days after It had seen the doubtful light of day In the obscure columns of the Portland paper. But it mill be noticed that the Portland paper, hav ing given birth to the Dlck-to-DIck monstrosity, refuses to acknowledge its paternity, but finds refuge In repe tition of the stale and exploded false hoods about the earlier history of the Interior Department under Secretary Fallinger; for It Is not true, and la known not to be true, that "one of Balllnger" employees In the Interior Department prepared a letter eulogis ing Balllnger which the President signed and gave to the public as hta own." The Lawler memorandum and the Presidential letter bear Intrinsic evi dence that the old calumny, now re vived In Portland. Is baselcps. It Is no light matter. In any case or for any reason, to assail the Integ rity of the President of the United States. It Is peculiarly atrocious to attempt to drag the name of the Pres ident into the mire through a criminal conspiracy involving forgery, false hood and deceit and the careful and systematic substitution of records. THE OVERLORD OF I-A FIVE. If Governor West shall bring the Deschutes Land Company., or. any other Central Oregon Irrigation com pany, to terms, so that It will carry out Its contract with settler, actual and prospective, he will have performed a monumental service to the people of the state. AVhy should the pres ident of the Deschutes Land Company be permitted to defy the state authori ties and tell them In effect that he mill do what he please about his obliga tion to the state and to the settler who have gone on the company' lands? Who is Morson? Is he the suzerain of La Pine? Are the settlers hi subjects, as they are clearly his dependents? Is he doing for them what he ha agreed to do? Or Is he taking his own so-erelgn leisure about It and letting the settlers wait and the state go hang? . The whole Central Oregon Irrigation matter In all Its phases merits the dil igent attention of Governor West and his land board. Some "of the compa nies there have doubtles done tneir i .. v. . not All-should be urei , i'iih i - held to strict accountability under their contracts. The aeve.inpraem o iHlMilnn ,nfrrHa.ea should bo TOOT' for the benefit of the settler and Ie for the benefit of the promoter. COMEl, LEWI' FRENCH. Sadness and sorrow furrow the .u . ahii-h are adorned bv the world-famous pink whiskers, for the all-embracing ambition or tneir owner has met a check. Jamee Hamilton Lewis has won fame a a lam-yer. ora tor, legislator, ladles" man. longshore man, globetrotter, but Paris gently hint that aa a linguist he is below her standard and suggests -that he speak his own language hereafter. ft.. n . K n-i a n ' a tn miV have been pained by the Colonel' struggles nriAtinn of their t ii II V smoothly Homing tongue or they may have been moved Py sympainy to spare .m iki affnn it mir be that, like the Seattle audience he used to ad dress, they are content simply to hear that musical voice roll out swelling periods without unaerstanuing he says. In that case, he might Just as WrU speak In English, which many of them do not know, aa in French, which they are equally unable to un derstand. Since they enjoy the mere sound of his voice, he might give them equal pieaure If he talked Chinook. DEATH IS THE WATER The toll taken by drowning; aeemg to have been heavier thu far this Snummer than usual. The Sunday toll especially Is high on the Columbia Island beache above and below Van couver. These places seem to be es pecially attractive to young people who cannot smim and to whom river bathing In the shallows where lurk the unexpected "deep places" Is particu larly dangerous. Norn- It Is the beach or slough at Washougal that lures the unsuspecting or recku?sa bather be yond his or her depth: now the lovely shaded shores of Government Island, and again the shelving, sandy hore of Bachelor's Island which exact the toll of death from pleasure-seeker. Each account of these disasters, when published, create surprise in that the risk that ended so tragically was so I foolishly taken. There I not much variation In the circumstance under which these deaths by drowning occur. There is usually the merry picnic party of young men and women on the beauti ful wooded bank that shelve down to the sandy beach, lapped by shallow waters; the skurry Into bathing suit behind leafy dressing screens: the "wading out." carefully at first, by the young women whose personal contact with water has been confined to that In the bathtub, and who do not Intend to get beyond their depth, the merry challenge of comrades, or the seduc tive charm. of the water leading them on: the sudden unvrary step Into deep water, the frantic calls for help, the gallant attempt at rescue, sometime successful but too often duplicating the toll of the water; the terror of be holders, the frantic grief of relatives who witness the struggle for life, but are powerless to render aid, the ghastly aftermath of the grappling Irons and the return of the drenched and lifeless bodies to the home left In anticipation of a pleasant outing a few hours before these are the Incidents of brief chapters written year after year, mithout variation except as to names and dates, the latter shifting from season to season, the former mithout special significance except to ' the few m ho are tragically bereft by the disaster. The -story, though given wide pub licity and read mith shuddering dis may, does not close the volume wherein It Is written. There Is always space left for another chapter, and yet another, that Is as sure to be written as the heat of the Summer and the lure of he water invite to beach bath ing In the Columbia pleasure-seekers m ho cannot swim. The toll taken by drowning was unusually heavy In July of this year. It can only be hoped that August will not duplicate It. REMl-LTS OF A LANDSLIDE. A landslide carries a mass of mud, rocks and uprooted trees from a slde hlll over th land below. The Demo cratic landslide In New Tork carried a mass of political material of the same nature from the side of Mount Tammany, which la New York City, over the whole of New Tork State. The result is seen In broken pledges. v-Kisiatlon passed In the Interest of Tammany, wholesale expulsion of Re publican from office aid wholesale substitution of Democrats, creation of office with nothing to do but draw salary and work for Tammany. A weak and pliant Governor obediently doe the will of the boss, who plun ders the state aa he ha plundered the city. New Tork Is the one state which took a step backward In the elections of 1910. Almost every other state, regardless of party -preference, elected a clean administration, which strove to give the people better laws and bet ter execution of the laws. Some mis takes have been made, but they have generally been honest mistake ac tuated by a desire to serve the people. New Tork alone ha chosen to hand over her state government to the po litical parasites organlxed Into Tam many. The greatest state of the Union, which should lead the way onward, turns backward. New York' neighbor. New Jersey, presents a contrast to her. Instead of a landslide of political mud. New Jer sey had a purifying tidal wave mhlch swept sway the accumulated corrup tion of years of misrule. New Jersey elected a Governor In Wood row Wil son who worked to carry out his plat- rorm pledges, we naa a wsipiMurc to deal mith of whlch'one house was cotrrolled by his political opponents, but with a skill In managing men equal to that of Murphy, the Tam many boss, he Induced the Republi cans to Join the Democrats In carry ing out Republican pledges and gave his state laws, m hlch secure the people control of their government and re move most of the abuses mhlch had grown up under the control of men of Murphy's type. The people of New York are getting what they voted for. They knew that the Democratic ticket mas dictated by Murphy and they knew m-hat sort of government Murphy had given New York City. They have no cause to complain m-hen he gives the" whole state the same kind of government. Next year will show whether they have rued their bargain. Even If they have, they will find escape difficult. The Tammany Leg islature has passed a new elections lam-, of which the OutlooK says: It I so framed aa to render Independent movements asalnat fthr parly machine, or asalnat tti alllanra of the two party ma chine, vary difficult and discouraging ; It place obstacle In th way of voter who llva In tha rural dtatrlct. and thu enhance th power of tha Tammany machine and tha other party machlnea In the cltlea of tha tate: It take away certain of tha afe guard that hava hltharto xlted to protect the baliot-box atalnt Incompetent or cor rupt election official. In other words, the next time the voters play with the Tammany bosses they mill discover that they are play ing with loaded dice. Having got con trol of the state. Tammany does not Intend to lose It very easily. ARE RIEF ON PRISON REFORM. From the perusal of a little pamph let written by Mr. A. Ruef In hi dun geon cell and sent to the California prison director we are Inclined to believe that the former boss Is em ploying his time In prison to far better purpose than he ever did outside. Instead of moping In confinement or Inventing harebrained plans of es cape. Mr. Ruef has directed his real abilities to the observation of his fel low captives, to meditation upon the general policy of the prison authori ties and to maturing plans for the bet terment of the prospects of discharged convict. All this is excellent. How much better It mould have been for himself and the world had Mr. Ruef employed himself In some such use ful manner from his J oath up instead of tempting destiny by defying moral ity and the law of the land. He brings to the notice of the prison directors to begin mith the appalling fact that of the population of California one person In every 300 Is a criminal, as the term goes, and one In every 600 a convicted felon. Mr. Ruef uses the expression "branded felon," but evi dently he prefers that as a more emo tional synonym for "convicted." To make the number of convicts atlll more Impressive he presents the total of all who have passed through San Quentln and Folsom prison. It 1 58.130. quite sufficient to compose an effective army. Unfortunately this force I now, for the greater part, ar rayed against society. Mr. Ruef is still more deeply die quieted by the fact he say it Is a fact that a great many of these per sons who must bear the prison stain throughout their lives are Innocent. This la hi deliberate Judgment after ufficlent time to learn the circum stances and weigh the probabilities. If Mr. Ruef mere an ordinary crimi nal or a weak sentimentalist - we should naturally pass this conclusion over aa unm-orthy of notice. With all the tenderness which our court seem to show to accused persons. It Is startling to think that innocent men are actually convicted in noticeable numbers. Still Mr. Ruef say he be lieves they are .and his opinion com pel attention. It may be after all that our legal technicalities help the guilty more than the innocent. How ever that may be, the Imprisoned boss la convinced that fully 60 per cent of the California prison inmates are not criminals at heart. They are not con genital rebels against society nor do they prefer crime to honest labor. Upon leaving the prison they would become respectable citl2ens If they could. The other 60 per cent of the inmate are, he thinks, real criminals, but fully half of them are docile enough to be reformed If proper meas ure -were taken for their benefit. Thla leaves only one-fourth of the convict in the Irreclaimable class, Mr. Ruef ha also geen thinking to excellent purpose upon the conditions which surround the convict when he Is released from prison. He I given a suit of clothe which marks him In all Instructed eyes as a criminal. The state presents him 'with 15. barely enough, Mr. Ruef remarks, to pay his bills for a day. Everymhere he goes the prison taint pursues him and blights his efforts to earn a livelihood. The Dollce are his foes. Respectable employers do not wish to have him about. All resources seem to be de nied. There Is nothing left for him but a new crime, suicide, or charity. Mr. Ruef appears to think that either of the former alternatives is prefer able to such charity as is usualy of fered to 'the released" prisoner. The simple truth la that he is first pun ished for hi actual crime, and then, for the remainder of his life, pun ished still more cruelly because he has once been In prison. The effect of all this is seen In the large number of men mho regularly return to the penitentiary after their first term. In the prison where Mr. Ruef la confined 15 per cent of the Inmates are recidi vist. This Is disheartening. It ought to set intelligent minds at work every where on the problem of caring for 'released convicts. Why not sentence every convicted person for life and have done with it? Why go through the miserable farce of pretending to et him free only to drive him Into new crime and reiterated punishment? The best trait of Mr. Ruef s letter Is its constructive spirit. He loses no time making complaints. HI subject Is discussed - philosophically and his observations lead him to a plan which he thinks would materially better the statu of. the man who is sent out into the world after a term in prison. In California, a in most state, there Is a prisoners' aid society. These socle tie go by different names in different plact, but their purpose 1 every where the same. They wish to aid re leased convicts. Mr. Ruef thinks their Intentions are excellent, but their achievements a little disappointing. To co-operate with these outside societies he proposes that the Inmate of the prison shall form an organization among themselves and raise funds to support released convicts while they are undergoing the trying experience of finding employment. Of course this is the critical period for them. If they can once obtain regular work secure from persecution, they can re gain their respectability. If they are thrown upon charity repeatedly. If they are hounded from place to place mithout means of earning an honest livelihood, they.are lost. The co-operative society among the prisoners mhlch Mr. Ruef suggests has other purposes besides raising money, but this is its main one. There la no ap parent reason 'why it should not be en couraged by the officials. It might not succeed, but on the other hand it might not fall. When a man of ex ceptional Intelligence secures such an opportunity aa Mrx Ruef enjoys to study the prison problem, soclety ought to make the most of his con clusions. If It Is true, as Secretary Fisher says, that Ryan's Controller Bay fil ings are subject to revision and can cellation, m-hat a smoke there has been from a small fire. Mr. Fisher Is a man whose m-nrd cannot be doubted. He I a conservationist who out Plnchots Plnchot, and he Is known the country over as an uncompromising enemy of graft. If he says there is no danger the chances are heavy that there Is none. The spirit of '78 Is not dead by any means. It breaks out In all sort of ways, some of them more strange than wise, perhaps, but Invariably pleas ing. The two little boys who are going to ride from ocean to ocean without sleeping under a roof show the same qualities which kept Washington's army together at Valley Forge. When virility exists It will find a way to ex press itself It does not necessarily follow that Jim Ham Lewis' French Is disagree able to Parisian ears. Possibly the elegant habitues of the boulevards are so fasclaated by his mellifluous Eng ii. h that tKv nrefer it to their mother tongue. The language of Shakespeare flowing In honied tone ainwan ine whiskers of Mar is enough to charm anybody. About all that survives of the Wil son tariff law of 1834 Is the provision against the operation in the United States of trusts organized abroad. It 1 to be Invoked In cases where the Sherman law does ont apply. For an ex-trust attorney, Attorney-General Wlckersham Is most persistent In his prosecution of trtists. The Lorlmer Inquiry has brought to light two railroads mhlch stood pat against the pass graft In Illinois. They are trie Pennsylvania and the Balti more & Ohio, and had eeemlngly found that Illinois legislators work under the sign of .the "double cross." ' The tie of home and country have overcome the fascinations of Paris and Mr. Shonts will not seek legal sep aration in order to become an expatri ate. That is one victory over the de mon of domestic disunion which ravages New York society. ! aomethinf wroiii in the system when the War Department finds occasion to repruvo iu m- inn ?1 i-liin I rtoraemAnshin. in a i " i ' - - There was nothing of the kind in the days when Old Man Grant was In the saddle. Hoqulam Joins the list of cities that have chosen Mayors from the ranks of clergymen. This ought to spur to In creased endeavor our Mr. McPherson, who essayed to Join the body of Coun cilmen a few months ago. While applying the golden rule In its r.iatinTii with the Indeoendent. the steel trust might apply it also to those employes who worn twelve nours a day for seven days a week. There Is no time to be wasted In haggling over the site or the contract if the Auditorium is to be ready for the Elks in 1912. Small hats will rule .this Fall, but exaggerated pins to hold them will give the fair sex the usual "gangway" in a crowd. Excessive consumption of gasoline Increases the cost of living more than high prices for foodstuffs. Just keep an" eye on your Uncle Tim Hill when railroad building to Coos Bay begins. When Wlckersham meets Wicker sham, then begins the battle of Alaska. Now for some naval maneuvers iround Cubs, THE SENATE LESS AUGUST. Individual Membership la Below That of Fifty Tfejara Ago. Washington Letter to Providence Jour TIB 1 It Is liot altogether surprising that Senator O Gorman, of New or, snuum begin to feel that he gave up the sub stance for the shadow in sesigning his long-term, high-salaried Judicial office of dignity and power for a seat in the United States Senate. Th. o-niai and brilliant .Irishman who did this to become the colleague of Ellhu Root is not the first man to find out after it is too late that political office, even of the exalted character of a United States Senatorshlp. is not al waya. to put it plainly, what it is cracked up to be. Thomas B. Reed Is reputed to have said once inai no man niia-ht to come to Congress unless he were so able or so rich or so conspicu ously both that be would stand out above his fellows as a power either In the halls of legislation or in the no less attractive social world or tne cap' itaL Although Judge O'Gorman has had no opportunity to demonstrate his ability since he came to Washington, it is gen erally believed that he possesses it In a very high degree. That is his repu tation in New York, and he looks like a man Intellectually above his fellows. What, apparently, has disturbed his peace of mind and caused him to doubt whether he did not make a poor ex change In leaving the bench for the Senate is that he has found out what has long been the belief of those who have had occasion to know that while the United States Senate as a legisla tive body has perhaps maintained its exclusively high standard, its member ship, considered individually, does not measure up to the standard of 100, B0 or 26 years ago. Mr. O'Gorman has been In the Senate less than five months, and already the bloom la off the peach. It was "Jim" Nesmtth, the Illiterate miner and stags driver, who came to the United States Senate from Oregon soon after that territory was admitted to the Union, who was responsible for the famous story that has been at tached to the personality of a thousand public men since that time. When Senator-elect Nesmlth came to Washington he was so modest and had such a poor opinion of his own merits that he was actually afraid to appear in the Senate chamber. So for a day or two he sst up in the gallery with his wife. After looking the statemen over he said to her again and again: "When I think of my limitations and of the august char acter of this body. I cannot for the life of me understand how I got here.1 A month or two later NeBmlth. who was personally a very popular man, i good story-teller and mixer from Mix ervllle. said to his wife after he had become acquainted with his colleagues and swapped stories with them in the cloakrooms, dined with them in the Senate restaurant and associated with them on the floor, "Now, I wonder how in h 1 they got here. It is true that the high standard of United States Senators, estimated as Individuals, has deteriorated; it Is also true that the manners and customs of doing business in Congress and of liv ing In Washington have changed so materially In the past quarter of a cen tury that It does not mean the same thing to be a Senator of the United States now as then. Numerically larger, tne email men are lost in the shuffle, aa ii were, ana tne ricn ones are so rich that the man of moderate means can make no show at.all WEST'S MISTAKE INDULGENCE. Why Did the Governor Commute Cas aeday'a Senteacef Spray (Wheeler County) Courier. One of Governor West's recent moves to keep in the limelight the commut lng of the sentence of Casseday. the Grant County murderer and traitor, sentenced to be hanged July 28 is causing considerable comment. Con sidering that mithout Casseday's aid and consent the horrible crime could not have been committed, and that had he simply performed the duty to which he had been appointed at his own re quest the other three young men now serving life sentences might be at nome with their families, it looks as though Casseday was only getting what m-as coming to him. One of the reasons given for com muting the sentence is that Casseday was not getting a fair show, consider ing that the others got off with lire Imprisonment. Did Casseday giveSny- oer, me sneep nerder. who was nnc tlcally forced to kill Green, a fair show m-hen he kicked him out of the buggy and told him to "Get out and take your medicine?" or when he fired a shot through the body of Snyder, whom he naa allowed to be murdered? With Casseday's sentence commuted for such a crime, it , is hard to imagine what crime would merit hanging In Gover nor West's estimation. We understand that quite a pressure was brought to Dear on Lsovernor west to secure the commutation, Casseday at one time having considerable influence; but had Snyder, the sheep herder, been " sen tenced to be hanged for killing Green we venture to say that his neck would have "stretched hemp," the merits of the case or Mr. West's policy notwith standing. . Wishes All Sprinkliaa; Prohibited. MYRTLE PARK, Or., Aug. 1. (To the Editor.) In view of the threatened water famine, would it iot be fair to all the public to prohibit the use of m-ater for hose or sprinkling purposes at any hour of the day or night, until sufficient water has accumulated to insure the public safety? Neither favorites nor favored localities should be permitted to appropriate all the water that ran be used, to the serious detriment of the other inhabitants of the city. We pay the city for water for household uses, but do not get it. Those more favored by official favor or loca tion, waste enough water to satisfy all those from whom It is withheld. If the issue is whether babies or beets and bushes shall thrive, I am on the side of the babies. S. W. HENRY. A SONG OF SADNESS. John D., in echo to his pastor's strain. Decries the fruits he garnered from his strife For shining bucks, belittling his gain "Great riches take the Joy all out of life." O John, despair not: Tve a remedy: If all thy raft of riches pains thee so. Shuffle a fraction of it onto me. And let me help thee bear thy bitter woe. If riches make life sorrowful, egad I am, by several million beans, too gay; Oh weight me with the load that makes thee sad. And take those hunks of happiness ' away. ' Let my long face hang sadly, and let tears Blot out the places where the grin marks are. Let me be miserable on Imported beers, And weep to light a 60-cent cigar. Groaning, the crisp coupon I'll sit and clip. Til sigh to be the keeper of a yacht. And tears adown my nasal bridge shall slip Into my sterling silver coffee pot. If riches take, thy Joy away, O John. . Remember, I'm a million times too glad: Here stand I, always ready to take on All you can spare "of that which .makes you sad. DEAN COLLINS, August 1. WE are accustomed to speak with bated breath or to respond with cheers m-hen m-e hear mentioned the names of the great historical figures of the American Revolution, forgetting for the moment that the men referred to were creatures of flesh and blood such as we, and liable to all human shortcomings. ' Now comes a translation into Eng lish of Dr. Johann David Schoepfa "Travels In the Confederation, 178J 1784," Just published In two volumes, the translating and editing being the work of Alfred J. Morrison. Dr. Schoepf traveled in this country before our Constitution was adopted. He was a Hessian that is to say, he was a Ger man surgeon, one of the surgical chiefs of the Ansbach troops, and with them was cooped up In New York during most of the Revolutionary War. After this. Dr. Schoepf traveled over the re gion south of New York. "Just to see what the country was like." Ke says In his memoirs that although Balti more Ls a great city (the time of which he writes is 1783-84) he ,f ears that "its supremacy may be menaced by two rl vat towns, Georgetown and Alexan dra." Washington, D. C, did not then exist. Here is his estimate of the great Patrick Henry: "Among the ora tors, there ls a certain Mr. Henry, who appears to have the greatest influence over the House. Ke has a high-flown and bold delivery, deals more in words than in reasons, and not so long ago was a country schoolmaster. Men of this stamp, either 1 naturally eloquent or who become so through their occu pation as e. g., lawyers, invariably take the most active and influential part in these assemblies; the other members, for the most part farmers, without clear and refined ideas, with little education or knomiedge of the world, are merely there to give their votes, which are sought, whenever tne House Is divided into parties, by the insinuations of agreeable manners and in other ways. The Legislature was a disorderly body, full of loud private conversation, with a doorkeeper almost incessantly and with a loud voice calling out mem bers' names: with a tumultuous ante room where the conversation was all of. horses, races, gambling, tfolitics and runaway negroes, and with solons wearing "boots, trousers, stockings and Indian leggins. a a a In Dr. Schoepfs day. the people of Virginia must have reckoned them selves as the salt of the earth: "Who In America would dare count himself the eaual of the noble Virginian? The poor New Englander, who gains his bread in the sweat of his brow? or the Pennsylvanian, who drudges like a negro and takes butter and cheese to market? or the North Carolinian pitch-boilers! or the South Carolinian with hts everlasting rice? Above all these stands the Gentleman of Vir ginia, for he alone has the finest horses, the finest dogs, the most negroes, the most land, speaks the best English makes the most elegant bow, has the easy grace of a man of the world The Virginians have a rather superior look: thev are for the most part well built, slender and of an active figure,' their faces well modeled, and one sel dom sees among them crippled or de formed people, those excepted who have been maimed In the war or by acci dent." a For the edification of teachers and others who have to do with schools and colleges. Felix Arnold has pro duced a book which he calle "Outline History of Education." Its purpose is to show the educational theories and practices of the world's greatest teach ers In ancient and modern times and to give a resume of the educational systems that are In use at the prtfuent time In the principal countries or the world. a "The Gates of the Past." by Thomas Hunter Vaughan, an entertaining story of modern London, partly in Zola esoue vein, dealing with characters of whom three are reincarnated souls of ancient Egypt. There are two plots and they are not so much love stories as passion stories. One deals with the attraction that a certain very beauti ful, soulless woman of the bohemlan world has for an English painter. At length he sees her true character and falls In love with a simple-hearted hospital nurse. The other is the con tinuation of a tragedy on which the curtain fell In Egypt 6000 years ago. a a a Orison Swett Marden has Just re ceived copies of four of his works translated into Bohemian. A Japanese teacher in Tokio has also written for permission to add "Every Man a King" to the list of Marden books to be trans lated Into Japanese. a a Editor What makes you feel so sure It would be a best seller? Author My dear sir, the hero keeps a valet, smokes rose-scented cigarettes, wears a silk dressing gown, drinks brandy and soda and says "d n." Life. a a The great development of outdoor life ls indicated by a'recent rough estimate that over 100,000 boys and girls are In camp every Summer, Irrespective of semi-military organizations. That camping should be an exact science ls Indicated by the recent report of an outbreak of typhoid fever in a Boy Scout camp near Cincinnati. The sani tation of camp life ls explained In de tail by Dr. Eugene L. Swan in "Camp ing and Scouting," a book Just pub lished: and he emphasizes the neces sity of examining the sources of drink ing water and exercising the greatest care. These directions are a part of chapters which lay down specific rules for maintaining sound sanitary condi tions when living out-of-doors. a a imeiia TC Burr. 79. still writes two nnvnia o vpaT And is said to have the largest income of any American woman novelist. Her first novel, --jan veauers Wife," was written when she was 53, hut she had crevlously written short stories and nem-spaper articles. a a a The University of Wisconsin has a course on the modern English novel. and in the coming university year John Galsworthy's "The fatrician- wm De used as the chief text book, the great er Dart of the course being given to an alyzing and discussing It. a a a William McAdoo, former Police Com missioner of NeW York -and author of Guarding a Great tjlty, nas receivea the following from Beekman Winthrop, Assistant Secretary of tne Navy: "Your book, entitled 'Guarding a Great City,' has been read, approved and adopted by tha department for ships' libraries. I am sure that it will be valuable to the sailors visiting new iorK ana otner cities, and I congratulate you upon Its adoption for use in the Navy." a a Another romance of the tropics is announced. It ls by H. de Vera Stack noole. ls entitled "The Ship of Coral," and is concerned with the West In dies, whose beauty awakens tne nero to a new life. At the same time is is sued a new edition of Mary MacLane's m-ell-known book, "The Story of Mary MacLane." It contains a new chapter by Miss MacLane on her recant experi ences, said to be "as frank and orig inal as the self-revelations m-hich as tonished the reading public nine years ago." - Advertising Talks By William C. Freeman. A series of interesting articles ap peared recently in the Plttafleld (Mass.) Journal, relating happenings of the old days in Pittsfield as far back as 150 years. One of the articles showed an illus tration of the first office of the Pltta fleld Journal, which mas then a small paper with limited means, and it told that the proprietor was very dubious about its future. t Josh Billings was a friend of the pro prietor of the paper as well as an oc casional contributor. .The proprietor told Josh Billings all about his difficulties and troubles .and the obstacles which lay in his way and which appeared to him . to be Insur mountable. - Josh listened to all he had to say without replying. At the end of the talk he gof up and walked to the dooc and stopped there a moment took out a pencil and apparently made some mark on the door Jamb. He then went out. The Pittsfield Journal proprietor walked over to ste what he had writ ton, and there in Josh Billings' char acteristic handwriting was the follow ing: "Tew stea iz too win." The Pittsfield Journal did stay am1 it won. The object of this story is to' bring home to the advertiser a fact he should remember, namely: It Isn't easy to ancreed la bnatnea even when that bualneaa ls advertised. There are difficulties of all kinds in the way, but if the advertiser has de termination if he peralata in his ad vertising he will succeed, because "tew stea lz too win" in anything. The advertiser who has faith, who is Intelligent, who advertises with regn larlty and persistency, will surmount all difficulties and will ultimately suc ceed. (To be continued.) Country Town Sayings by Ed Howe rr.i BAAn.a n IavA a. meeting wherein speakers tell him how Industrious, how patriotic and how pa tient he is; how he is the builder and supporter of the home, the school and the church, and how he is kind and long-suffering, but how terrible he is if his rights as an American citizen are interfered with. , An elderly person ls a mighty poor Judge of a circus. If you hate a disagreeable but honest and necessary task, perform It, and hats It afterwards. The man who is half drunk half th time. Imagines that people "don't notice It." But they notice much . .smaller tilings than that. Would you rather have the sympathy of the under dog or the success of ths dog on top? People in big towns are always sel fish; I should rather live In a little town, where people sympathize with you when in trouble: and where. If you have no trouble, they look up some for you. Walk toward a big mirror, and ten to one you will remark that you have a more awkward walk than you imagined. When a woman likes to wait on a man, that settles it; she loves him. . Smart men have been trying for mans centuries to make hard work easy; but they couldn't do it. and you can't. The average man's Judgment ls so poor that he runs a risk every time he uses It. (Copyright, 1911, by George Matthew Adams.) Half a Century Ago Th, nrpvnnlan. Aunist 2. 1861. The Mountaineer says that the Ten nlo has made her last trip to Lewlston on account of the falling of the water. Two trips, if necessity requires, will be. made from The Dalles to Walla Walla every week. There are parties at Walla Walla making arrangements to put on a line of stages from that point to the mines. In this way direct communication will be had with the mines during the year. Goods will be carried by wagons and packed to the mines from Walla Walla. Judge Lander got the entire vote in Bitter Root Valley for delegate. He must be a very popular man there, or rather the patronage of Government, still in the Buchanan interest, must have great power there. Fort Colvllle There are rumors that this post Is to be abandoned. We hope not. There is evidence that it is not to be the case from the packing of sup .11.. fVnm helnw to the fort. It is said that the British Boundary Commission will Winter in coivnie. The navigation company to uisia $22 per ton for transporting goods from mi. ti.. li,.- n Walla. WaJla- J UD Ac.. . r . ti i . . Ciio-dha arrlvaH at iVl r. uruuiicji, " n 1 Canemah on Wednesday last from Springfield in Lane County with two flatboat loads of flour. He says the expense is about half what it wouia cost him to ship by steamer. Brad's Bit o' Verse Jerusalem the golden, with milk and honey-blest, no longer is to be a place of quietude and rest. The streets where good King David roamed with Absalom the vain, may soon be wearing modern names like Broadway, Wall and Main. 'Tis all to be remodeled, and brought right up to date; for the Turks have sold the franchise to a Yankee syndicate. The Mount of Olives may hecome a city reservoir; the site where on the temple stood, a board of trade nnce more: and where the watchman called the hours in days of long ago, you'll call three double nine eight one and get the glad "Hello." Where once the palm and lily grew by wayside fountain fair, the trolley cars will buzz and whirl around the market square. They'll take you down to Betmenem oy interurban line; they'll whisk you out to Jordan's banks and home in time to dine. By cool Slloam's shady rill they'll start up packing plants; and dark Geth Bemane may go for railroad switching grants. The modern bug is busy, and nothing old can last; we see our land marks battered by the stern Iconoclast. Tt mav be well: and yet somenow it makes me sigh and pine to think of modern marts of trade in good old Pal estine. (Copyright, 1911. by w. P. Meng. Old-Time Teacher of Mark Twain. 'Baltimore American. . Cantaln Abner Martin, the oldest Ohio-Mississippi River man in that sec tion of the Ohio valley, just ceieorated his 91st birthday at East Liverpool, O. Captain Martin taught Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) all tne latter Knew about ateteamboat, and when both were working on the old river packet Penn sylvania "told Sam he would never make a hit as a steamboat, man."