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Hnnnlck bwlidlns. cw J caro, stager building. tarip.M Orrire .to. S Beejant air. B. t W. Laudut. J rxirruivi. WEDKEBOAT. OCTOHni 4. J r- - IX) TS Tl OXI ANOTUXB. Sneaker Clark's deelaralloB la favor of aniauiloa waa as icdiecrea utterance for ana occupylEa a pe.lioa of authority, and had much to do Uh tna r.ill because of the ua made of It- William Jaanlaaa bryan. la the Commoner. Discretion la a great quality In any public man. So on know It batter thaa Mr. Bryan, and no on practice , It lea If a Democrat la to b read ; out of tb party for his oral lapses. I Mr. Bryan would hav been dead. ' burled and forgotten with the dla- astro us wreck of 18. ' . Mr. Bryan doe not forirtv In his ', old friend Speaker Clark the often : be hat a thousand time fort-Wen In , himself. Mr. Bryan la clearly seeking a pretext for a quarrel. The little : Lincoln political circle has apparently i ascertained somehow that Mr. Clark takes himself seriously as a candidate for the Democratic nomination. Naturally Mr. Bryan discover th 'mot tn the Miswourlan's near eye. llow the Democrat lor on 'another! Mr. Bra an denounce Mr. I'ndsrwood a a traitor, and 1 In re Murn characterised a a willing falsi . tier. Speaker Clark la put on th ' Bryan Index expurgatorlu along with Harmon a a Presidential Impossibility. ! Governor O'Neal, of Alabama, lose hi temper and Intimates that Gov ernor Wilson of New Jersey. U crasy. Editor Heevrst, who doea not now lov Bryan, from the safe distance of a London Interview say Governor Harmon la too conservative, and Gov ernor Wilson Is too clever. It I worth while to repeat th Hearst tribute to th New Jersey turn-about-face: Thaa thara Is Wa4iw Wilson, who ta a awry clavar man. who some tima aao waa ssartlas but ability ta orur to proia that lha Initiative, tha referendum and tha recall ware thlaaa evil ta thame-lvaa and tha adoption ,f which wouM k dalrttnaatal to tha ctmmoftw.alth. It ta Bow ualn lha hid. ablliii-a la order to prore that lha Inittnllva, raf-random an 4 racall ought In b a.lopiad aa th fundamental planka of lha Im.M-rtte pttfrrn. I don't for a momanl hint that Mr. Woodmw t liana may Bot ba parfaotly olfirara la advocatinc today what ha daaounrad yaatarday. but tnare la aa unaaar lwMn( thai If ha war ltiatall-d la tha Uhlta tlouaa th rtn:lpl ha ado-rat-a today ba mlzhl la all alaoarlty and hoMmmtj rapadlata tomorrow. Mr. Hearst think highly of Champ Clark and Oscar Underwood, and says so. Bryan . does not and say so. No Democrat could ever stand Suc re. But what 1 It about a fair pros pect of victory In 11J that makes tho Democrats hate each other so? LAM wAKl-NO B)V NrHBEaa. Among- th several Usuea raised by th attorney for th Pacific State Telephone Telegraph Company In th cas now before the Supreme Court affecting the constitutionality of the Initiative and referendum, w Ond In th brief filed by th plaintiffs on which w bellev wltl be of Interest .-"o those of Th Oregonlan reader who ar not lawyers. For our own .sake. too. but not In the hop that It WjuIJ chang tb public mind, w might well wish that the brief had been published In large edition that here might be supplied the ungratl tld requests from Innumerable de bating societies and club for printed Oatrrlal on th opposing aide of this popular subject. , Th brief Is not altogether a dry lrical argument, although It main thrme is the contention that direct legislation violate th Federal consti tutional guar an tee of a republican form of government. A bearing on this theme arguments, and quotation - from noted statesmen and writers, ar presented on "government by th greatest number." It 1 asserted that "In legislative asscmblle th minor ity rarely. If ever, falls to moderate th wishes cf th majority, however powerful reason and persuasion have their opportunity. But government by direct legislation is government by brute fore." Herein I presented a criticism which It must be admitted has been recog nise.! in Oreg-n a having some fore from an ethical viewpoint, though, of curse, th attorneys for th telephone com ran r present It a a legal Issue, contending that In this country laws caanot bo so made. Whli this fault In direct legislation ta existent large ly becaus of th Impossibility cf amending or compromising a given Initiative measure, no doubt th fault la looked upon In Oregon as of less Important- than th us of money, the lobnytng and th logrolling in leg islative consideration of measure which th welfare of ihs whole com munity demands shall be enacted. Aside frm th unamenJable and undebatable factor in Inltatlv legis lation It Is also true that in controver sies between two classes unjust laws may b proposed by th clasM numert rally the Urger and carried as a result of InJifferenc or inattention on th part of voters not directly affected. With aom qualifications might place th labor law. adopted laat year, in this classification. Therein wer th interest of employer and employ principally in hazardous Industrial l'nes. directly opposed, and th em ployes outnumbered th employers by great preponderance. Outside of th two classes dlrevtly affected th mas of voter cared tlttl about th out come. More than I7.00 voters, who r.rtlc!patd in th election, expressed no opinion on th law. This law abolished contributory nrg'.igenr as a defense tn actions to recover from an employer for Injuries suffered by an employ. W would not attempt to uphold th Justlc of regarding contributory negllgenc a a complete defense, but to abolish It dl.l not correct the undesirable Indus trial condition that extaled. The In Justic was simply shifted from th employ onto th employer and It was don by fore of number. If this "brute force" had been directed to ward th enactment of a compensa tion law fair to servant and fair to master, prals of th lnlJatlve instead of criticism would have grown out of this particular legislation. Tet labor had been denied fair treatment by th Legislature. Th Legislature had permitted an Injustice to exist notwithstanding labors pro test. Th initiative provided th means for another Injustice to super sede th on that had prevailed and th mean were grasped arid used. "Force Is Influential in both systems of laysrmaklnr and, on th whole, w cannot concd that brut fore la any more to be decried than' the fore that control legislation In our repre sentative bodies. W. of course, recognise that those observations ar aside from constitu tional Issues Involved In th cas be fore th Supreme Court. But th brief seems to rely on th teachings of numerous authorities that th rule of number trends toward . tyranny, and therefor aom comments along that lln ar perhaps pertinent. Whll th reasoning of the authorities I no doubt supported In a degree) by older history, as well as by the experi ments In Oregon, we are not alto gether without hop that some method will be devised through which the voice of the minority may be given greater consideration In direct legis lation. The broadest minds of the country will turn to the problem If the Supreme Court does not discover a constitutional barrier to direct leg islation. Discussion of measures needed to correct the abuses and faults of the Initiative is now by no means negligible In Oregon. But there Is no appreciable demand for a voluntary abandonment of the prin ciple. ' BIOTT JVDICTAL RECAXL. . "Oregon.- says Collier's Weekly, "has for years had a provision for re call of Judges, but no attempt has been made to recall a Judge during all the time the provision has been In operation." Where Is Contributing Editor Jonathan Bourne. Jr.? He knows better, though to be sure a United States Senator who visits his state not oftener than twice during his term of office may b expected to get a little rusty on home Affairs. A very noisy attempt ha been mad to recall a Judge in Oregon, and It may be renewed at any time, though Indeed Just now Interest In th Coke recall would appear to be sagging. But It Is never too late to get busy with the recall. That la what It Is for. Nor la there a specific provision In the Oregon system for the recall of Judge, a this ignorant, muckraking weekly would appear to think and to say. The recall in Oregon applies to ail elective public offices, and Judges are not exempted. Why should they be. If we are to hav th recall? A Judge who la venal or Incompetent or unfit or partial ought to be removed. Just as any other public officer should be removed for similar reasons. If th recall Is th only way to get rid of undesirable Governor or Mayors, or Councilman, elected by the people. It la the way to dismiss undesirable Judges elected by th people. If we are to have the recall, let us hav It. J At a OX UAtX THAI WAT. Jackson County has pointed the way to other counties In tho good roads movement. Whll the Governor and th Legislature hav been arguing about a new road law and th condi tions under which an ' extra session should be called to pas It, Jackson County has gone ahead to mak th beat of th present law and by a ma jority of mor thaa two to on has voted $1,600,000 In bonds to begin th work. Th vot by precincts Is significant of the condition of public optnlon on good roads. Th largest majorities, ar tn th largest centers of popula tion. Medford leading the way with a majority of 1S7S out of a total of If. 8. Jacksonville following with ltl to SI. and so on. Ashland waa the only large town opposing the bonds, the anti-bond precincts being mostly small rural settlements. Good roads will chiefly benefit the rural districts, but the demand for them Is most vociferous In the towns. Wise expenditure of the money will have much to do with the spread of ths county bonding movement. Jack eon County will need expert anglneer Ing skill to devise a general system of roads, to select the best materials and supervise construction. Every local ity will pull for roads for Itself to b built first, but the county should not allow politics or local considerations to prevent adherence to a plan which will open up every section with due regard to Its importance and make the main roads connect with those of adjoining counties, thus creating a network to cover the state. Other -counties should follow the example make the best of the road law we hav and build good roads under It. All should continue to work for a better law. but not wait until It cornea. If we go ahead now and show what can be done and how good are the result, w ahall win over many of th activ or passive opponents of the movement and shall gain experi ence which will be valuable In draft ing a new law. SLOW RKTLAMATIOX WORK. While Secretary Fisher's most Im portant task Is the lifting of the em bargo on th development of Alaska by deciding pending coal contests promptly and by securing enactment of new land laws for coal, timber and mineral land, only second In Im portance Is the necessity of Infusing som energy Into the Reclamation Bureau. A year ago the cry was that this bureau had not enough money to eompstt th projects on hand, much less undertake new onee. Congress voted It 110. 000. 000. but non of th money has been used. An explanation Is forthcoming. Th true explanation appear to be lark of energy and business sense. The Reclamation Bureau almost in variably takes mor time and money to complete ungating work than It has estimated. It often falls to let a contract because its estimate of cost Is too low an J no contractor In his sense will undertake the work at th price offered. The bureau then doe th work on Its own account and learn by experience that the con tractor was right In fact th actual coat and tlm consumed are apt to exceed th contractor" bid. Thus w find I10.009.004 In the treasury allotted to various projects, but not a cent of It expended. The land waits for water, th farmer waits for land, th money waits to tve spent In potting the water and the farmer on. tb land, and ail await the leisure of the ReclamaUon Bureau, which first pleads that It has not enough money to spend and, when It is given the money, doe not spend It. The bureau needs to be told to "get a move on." Much has been said in criticism of private irrigation enter prises, but they at least keep things moving when they have the money. THS LAST DISCOVERT. ' The seven and a half millions which wer paid for Alaska looked at the time the purchase was made like money thrown away. It was conceded that It would be a fine thing to give Russia Indefinite leave of absence from the American continent, and the long strip of coastline between Canada and the Pacific waa alluring. The hope was that some time or other the gap might be filled so that the United States would run In an un broken line from Lower California to the Arctic Ocean. But hardly anybody expected that Alaska Itself would ever be worth the money that was paid for It. The popular Idea was that the region was a barren Icefield, producing nothing during Its brief Summer but a little reindeer moss and swarms of mos quitoes. Hence every new discovery of the real treaauree of Alaska comes to the country as a pleasant surprise. Its agreeable climate. Its fertile soli. Its valuable mines hav the charm of the unexpected to enhance their in trinsic Importance. The news of th discovery of another navigable river within the limit of Alaska will not excite In credulity. We are so habituated to revelations concerning the resources of the territory that anything seems possible. Both science and trade will profit by th discovery. Five hundred mile of navigable water Is an asset of Importance to the Internal com merce which Is certain to develop In Alaska as time passes. Geographers will be interested to learn that a great river exists which has hereto fore escaped observation, minutely aa the accessible1 parts of the earth's surface have been explored. We may assume, however, with some confi dence, that the Kubak River la the last one of considerable magnitude which will ever be found. What re main of th earth's surface to be ex plored can hardly provide room for such a stream. It Is Interesting to Inquire how adventurous souls will occupy themselves when everything has been discovered on land and water. No doubt they will direct their efforts to the air. Who shall say what surprises await them there? TUB AMI KCMEXT RCXE. The Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church Is a little book which contains many useful sug gestions for ministers and members. Among other things which may be found' in It by the curious reader Is a marriage ceremony. There Is also a ritual for funerals and baptism and for the celebration of the Lord's Supper. But It la characteristic of the Methodists that they have made none of these forms obligatory upon either minister or member. A Methodist preacher may employ any legal set of words which pleases his fancy In marrying a couple. He. may compose his own ritual for funerals and bap tism, and noboby will find fault with him. Such la th love of Individuality In this most protestant of churches. Th Discipline also contains a set of rule for th conduct of members in the' various relations of life. They are Intended to supplement, after a fash Ion, thq Ten Commandments and sup ply sons restrictions, upon the .con duct of mankind which were not mentioned when the Lord gave the table to Moses an Mount Sinai, One of these rules has provoked a good deal Of controversy first and lost. It Is th one which' counsels church members to refrain from dancing, card-playing- ' and- theater going. The supposltlcnw which under lies the rule Is that a person will find Insuperable difficulties In the way If he undertakes to carry his religion with him to the diversions.. In order to Join In them he must, as It were, lay aside for the time being his consecra tion to divine things and become one of the worldly In form at least. This naturally gives Satan a much desired opportunity and may very well lead to ths loss of a souL A devout class leader once gave an inquirer the fol lowing precept as an excellent guide to follow when the question of amuse ments came tip: "Ask yourself, dear sister." said he, "whether or not you can Invite, your Savior to go with you to the theater. If you cannot, then ask yourself the further question whether or not It Is safe for you to go there without him." The sister could hardly help perceiving the grotesque appearance the Saviour would make at a modern play of the fashionable tone and, following her conscience, she concluded to stay at home. The protest against the amusement Yule In the Discipline ha been gather ing volume, tf not force, for many years. Again and again th general conference has been Importuned to relax It. but heretofore without avail. Still the struggle for greater liberty of conscience within the church con tinues and at the next meeting of the general conference in May we may expect to see the straw of controversy threshed over once more. The first protest against restriction comes, as one might expect, from Southern California. The frivolous climate of that region conduce to worldlymlnd edness. The vain perpetuity of the sunshine which It enjoys Inclines the heart to forget that this Is a vale of tears where mirth Is of questionable propriety even In a sinner, to say nothing of what It looks like In a saint. The South Callfornlan Method ktts wish to have the subject of amusements turned over to each Indi vidual to decide for himself. If he can reconcile his conscience to danc ing, let him dance. If he can take his religion with him to see "The Girl In the Taxi." let him do It the brethren praying In the meantime that both the member and his religion may return unscathed. We suppose that in the course of time those Methodists who favor th relaxation of th amusement rule will gain their point. They hav th advantage of being th attacking party and It must be conceded that the strongest wall is bound to tumble tn course of tlm If It Is continually battered. If a man should sit down tn the middle of th suspension bridge at Niagara Falls and play "Where. Oh. Wher Is My Little Dog Gone?" on a fiddle for three months without ceasing, he would break down the bridge, no matter how badly he played. Perhaps, we may remark Incidentally, It was on some such prlclpl that Joshua overthrew the walls of Jericho with his horn. We confess that we are not In en tire sympathy with the effort to make the Methodist Church a wide-open Institution. There Is good reason for requiring church members to forego some diversions which the worldly are fond of. Still the reasons for this particular rule have largely disap peared with the lapse of time. Con ditions have changed greatly In th last century, and It Is seemly that the regulations of the church should change with them. In pioneer days a dance was an orgy. Strong drink, gun play and general rowdyism were expected, and If the "boys" got back home w-ith both eyes In their orbits and neither ear bitten off It was looked upon as a rare good fortune. The best the church could do in these surroundings was to forbid dancing altogether in the hope that partial abstention would follow. A member was sure to stay away In th first Joy of his conversion, what ever he might do when he backslid, so that something was gained In any case. It la likely that the amusement rule in the Discipline never has been of much consequenoe in the city. It has mainly operated to chasten the gaieties of rural life. At present, however, those gaieties do not particularly need chastening. Life in the country tends to be dull and somber. A church alive to the exigencies of the times would not exert Its Influence to Increase the morbid blueness of rural existence. It would try, on the contrary, to Impart a touch of the Joy of living. We fancy that upon the whole religion would gain rather than lose by ceas ing to ask country people to forego what little variety life has for them when they Join the church. As for city people it makes very little dif ference what the church asks. They can be trusted to look out for their own liberty. Dr. Dyott but repeats In substance what The Oregonlan. has time and again said when municipal elections were pending (the proper time, by the way, to make such a statement), to wit: The respectable, responsible peo ple of Portland can govern the city If they will take the trouble to do It. They cannot do it by standing at gaxe while political freaks run riot at pri mary elections and at the general elec tions, either voting for the men then named as a political duty, regardless of their fitness or unfitness for the of fice sought, or assuming to wash their hands of all responsibility In the prem ises by declining to vote at all. Neither can they do It by standing aloof and telling how It ought to be done when by their neglect or conniv ance municipal offices have been filled by men unable to comprehend or unfit to discharge the 'responsibilities of such positions. It Is Idle to expect that cheap and venal politicians will become capable and honorable public servants by mere Investment with power. . A young doctor of Chicago, having married two wives within a week last January, found himself In embarrass ing complications because of his ux orious tendencies. Nothing daunted, however, he coaxed one of his "two young wives Into the woods on a bright September afternoon and used his pocket knife with such skill and effect on her neck being a surgeon that he returned to the city writh only one wife. In his own defense he states that the beginning of the trou ble was when wife No. 2 refused to apply for a divorce from him and thus leave him free to return to wife No. 1. Oh. these women! How remiss in duty they sometimes are. Senator Stephenson implies a suspi cion that men to whom he gave money for use in his campaign for Senator used It to elect themselves to the Leg islature, but what better way waa there for a loyal Stephenson man to promote the old millionaire's election than to get himself elected to a place where he could vote for Stephenson? Surely that was putting the money where it would do the most good. President Taffs admission that Mr. Bryan suggested one of the Im portant provisions of the arbitration treaties was a graceful tribute to a political opponent which the whole Nation will applaud. .Such Incidents soften the asperities of political con troversies. However many opponents Mr. Taft may have, he has few ene mies. Mayor McCarthy's defeat for re election had one good effect on him. It stimulated his love and affection for his wife. When disaster overtook him he knew where to turn for comfort and he rewarded It with gifts of real estate. With street paving under way and a progressive municipal ticket in the field. South Bend has Joined the pro gressive movement In Southwestern Washington. Perhaps Game Warden Flnley may have a word to say about pheasant feathers on women's hats, regardless of police permission. Aeroplanes compete with racing au tomobiles In causing mortality, but they are at least less dangerous to spectators. When Councilman Magulre fills the pulpit at the Second Baptist Church next Sunday he must not omit the col lection. With McCredle's team playing away from home In this momentous week. Portland fans can but hope and pray. Let us hope that Archibald Mont gomerly McCrea Is worth the tl.995. 000 his wife sacrificed by marrying him. Discovery that the Kubak River Is navigable for 300 miles ought to de velop a new gold field In the Spring. Toothache knocked out New Mexi can Democrat yesterday. The pain will be farther down next year. The slide near Moaler Is not an In cident of the strike. The elements work overtime occasionally. Mark Twain's monument will be located Just wher Huck Finn would hav it placed. - Why not create the office of physical director of the Penitentiary? Strikers and Turks ar of 'one opin ion of the ultimatum. Butter Is advancing to meet the hot calt season . Gleanings of the Day Many persons may have wondered why th result of the Maine, prohibi tion election waa so long In doubt, be ing wet on day and dry tho next. An explanation of this uncertainty and. an Illustration of how they conduct elec tions in Maine is furnished by the fol lowing copy of the third official re port of th Town Clerk In on of the Maine villages: Dear Blr I am submitting to yon M third and, I ballev. my final rport lor the orflclal tabulation. W4en I telephoned lection night that It had gone wet by ii to T I supposed that I was tellng you th truth. I waa not there myself, becauae 1 waa busy-at home, but I sent my liter; husband, whose photograph I encloee. it you aa Bt to publish It. to kp tally and I uVknow how it went. He waa Invited over to HI Chases houa Just before the polls cloaed. and whan h got back the folks had gone home. H asked Ed Peas how It went and Ed. who la a great Joker and onee played In a show In Bath for two nights for tha benefit of tha Orange, iTld That it had gon. 82 to T ' wet. Just as I eald to you. It want over tha phone, as before reported. - I now nnd that it has gona dry but t don't know by how much, aa the figures are not yet available. I hav aeked every body that I could And how they voted. and all of them said they voted dry. but I think eom of them voted otherwise. And If I ware you, under the condition. I would mak. tb flgur.. dry SO. wet e. That makes allowance for Fred Pugeley. who was arreited for ill ue of liquor Just before the polls opened and who did not get bailed out till afterward, but I have put him down wet, as he was very and would have voted so If h had a good chance, as he Is dligrac to th town, although hi wife Is a good woman and alngs In the choir practically all of th tima If I get anything late 1 will let yon know, but I shlnk this Is near enough. p. 8. Chang that vote to 20 wt ana 6 dry. I find that money was sent here, although thus far I have obtained no gen uine evidence, but a neighbor tells m the vot waa wet, and he thinks there was bribery, aa Ellery Hastings has a new pair of pants which cost him not less than If they cost a cent, and he has a gang that follows him. I will look Into the details at once. It Is an appalling revelation and I wish that I bad gone to th polls. Times ar very dull down hare. An American firm has human hair combings for sale, for It has asked Consul-Oeneral Griffiths, In London, for the addresses of English manufac turers using that commodity. Mr. Grif fiths says there Is great disposition to secrecy regarding the conditions of this trade, but ladles' hair combings are ad vertised for at about 1.30 per pound There seems to be little lack of supply from the Continent of Europe, and the imports to Great Britain range from $1,160,000 to J1.260,000. So English women wear rats made of the hair of French. German, Italian, Swedish and other European women." Powdered milk is becoming a rival of condensed milk among the products and exports of New Zealand, and Vice-Consul-General Henry D. Baker says of It: New Zealand powdered milk Is appar ently gaining considerable reputation on account of lis nutritious and keeping quaN Itles and it has become a formidable rival of condensed milk. Much attention has been paid to perfecting the process of pre paring powdered milk, so as to 1 the difficulty which usually occ ;ura in pr.-sa-vd trllk preparations, the rising of the fatty globules to the top when mlwd with water. The powdered milk Is said to be mu " mor. digestible and more suitable for Infants' food than condensed milk, aa It Is thoroughly sterilised and contains no cane or beet sugar: also the casein, in th p"mss of drying the milk. Is divided Into fin partlcLs as It Is In human milk. Pow dered milk as produced here contains about i per cnt butter tat. 22.K per cent pro telds. 42.8 per cent milk sugar, and S.6 per cent mineral salts. It consists of a flaky r.owder of cream color. Very complete sterilisation Is obtained during th process of drying olf the water, but Httl or no alteration occurs In tho santlal lmnts of th. milk. Th. milk is dried within two hour of Its being drawn from th cow, the cans Into which the milk is received having previously been washed In lime water, then in cold water, and finally steril ized with steam. Tuberculosis Is guarded asatnat by veterinary Inspection of the cows, and also by the sterilisation of th cans, which Insures th destruotlon of all bTh.'' powdered milk 1 sold chiefly for Infants food and for with tea or cof fee as s desiccated milk to which cream and lactose hav been added. This milk Is now tecommended by local physicians as superior to any of the Imported preserved milk preparatlona It has recently acquired a reputation In connection with South Polar exploration: it was used by the Bhackleton expedition, some of It having been th main food of Professor David's party that reached th magnetic pole. Two tons of this powdered milk have been ordered for th Mawson Antarctic expedition, which will leav. New Zealand for the South Polar regions In November, and it Is said that with pemirlcen It will be th sole de pendence cf the expedition in its final dash for the South Pole. The massacre of ten persons at the automobile races at Syracuse has aroused the Outlook to denounce such races as outrages and to class them with gladiatorial fights and bullfights. It quotes the advertisements as proof that so-called accidents are regarded as features and drawing cards. Such phrases as "The field vs. death which will win?" and "two men hurt. Come out to see the spill" ocurrlng. The Outlook quotes with approval the fol lowing passages from Barney Oldfleld's article in Popular Mechanics condemn ing automobll races: The Game Is Mot Worth the Candle. It has taken ten years to prove this. . . . It has keen a decad replete with black headlines and black mourning. I was nv.r famou until I went through th fence at Bt, Louis and killed two spec tators. Promoters fell over on. another to sign m up. It la th call of th. Roman arena, of the Spanish bull-ring. It is no more a sport than a hanging is sport. It used to b. called 'instructive," "developing," "use ful," but that day Is long paat In th recent rac at Indlanapolia wher. th crowd's lust was satisfied by a black tangle of shattered men and machines, nine-tenths of the entries were made against the desires of th. manufacture. Th. simpl. fact la that automobll. rac ing has ceased to have a business end. and has become a mere game, an entertainment- In which business has little part. No, If automobll racing Is to be per petuated, it must b. through the Interest of th. public. How larg. Is this Interest? Immense; but so was th interest In cock fighting, la bull-baiting. In prlaeflghts, in gladiatorial contesta So It la yet in tha at.xcsn bullfight, wher. in sport's nam. they kill cattle Instead of human belnga Ail of these hav. passed or are passing. Modern humanity will not permit them. Th morbid cry for blood atlll Uvea In a few. but the many cry for mercy. Speed madness Is one thing; blood mad ness Is another. Th. American grows sentimental about killing cattle; the Mexican prefers cattle" to human belnga It is merely a matter of taste. I never realised my foolishness on any of these occaalone until I waa In the hos pital with the doc tore standing around and th nurses looking serious. While tb. body of Basl. still lay beside his machine, women tried to cut off pieces of his clothing aa a souvenir. ... On the day after Baale'a death 10.0O0 parsons fought for front seats at the track. Many of th. newspapers hav. even ceased to treat track racing as a sport. Reports of tha big races sr. plsced on the front page, under a "ecare," with lists of the dead and Injured for the year printed la heavy type at th. head of the column. Manufacturers know that frequent death reports do aot help their business. Tha fault Is In on. place. It Ilea with tha sanction-granting association. Th. dignity of motor racing Is gona . . . It has ceased to b. racing, and has be com merely a morbid snd unelevstlng spec tscla It Is run for mony alone. Its profits ar blood money. a It Is time, says th Outlook, that the American people should make it plain that they are not willing to let a crowd here and here, however numerous, have Its savags way at the cost of the Na tion's reputation. If this pandering to bloodthlrstiness cannot be stopped by public opinion. It should be stopped by law. , ONE Boston newspaper man. Ed mund Lester Pearson, of the Bos ton Transcript, has a conception of a Joke that has a real chuckle in' it Two years ago or so, an alleged re print appeared of a curious "Qld Li brarian's Almanac" said to have been published in New Haven, Conn., in 1773, as the first issue of a librarians" series which was to be under the gen eral editorship of John Cotton Dana, of the Newark, N. J. library, and Henry W. Kent, of the New York Met ropolitan Museum. Mr. Lester contri buted a learned preface in which he as serted that only two copies of the old almanac were in existence, and that the ' author was the celebrated Jared Bean. The public "took" to the new almanac, patterned as it was after the Poor Richard style, with alternate pages of almanao and advice to librarians, every one of them being brim full of a surly, shrewd, hard-beaded old bookworm's devotion to his business. Now, Mr. Pearson thinks that the Joke has gone far enough. He has just confessed .that he wrote the book him self. John L. Matthews, in his new book "The Log of the Easy Way." relates ex periences which he says happened to him and his bride of five months, as they drifted down the Illinois and Mis sissippi rivers: "At Beardstown." says Mr. Mathews, "I hastened to the postofflce. leaving Janet in the cabin..' Two men strolled down to the river bank, cIobo by, and began slowly to put a new handle in an ax that had been lying there the task requiring apparently all the skill of both of them. One of them gradually stopped working and addressed the other, regardless of the listening femi nine ears. " 'BUI,' he said, 'Where's your ol' womanT" "Bill also stopped, and considered. '"My or woman? Oh, you mean Sail Why, she ain't my ol' woman no more. She's taken a great shine to Jake, and him to her. I see how thingrs was comln" out, so I just traded her off to Jake for them gum boots I got in the cabin and a rifle I sold to Hank Busby.' " Mr. Matthews writes very seriously but one wonders whether the lurid conversation narrated was not made with the express intention of fooling Eastern tourists. aaa The record of a down-and-outer, published under the title "One Way Out." and recently reviewed in these columns. Is in Bteady demand, and the unknown author shows. skill and luck. In keeping his Identity hidden. aaa Winthrop Packard, author of "Wild Pastures," "Florida Trails" and other charming volumes of nature essays, whose new book, "Literary Pilgrimages of a Naturalist," Is to be published this Fall has been spending the past Sum mer In the White Mountains, and his publishers say that he will write a book on the natural history of the mountains that will be different from any book hitherto published on that subject. a a . Philip was a conceited youth. One evening he called upon some friends and picked up- the new Webster's Un abridged Dictionary, which lay on the table. "What do you think of it, Philip 7" asked the host. "Well." was the reply, "so far as I have looked. It seems to be correct." Success. aaa "The Princess Kallisto and Other Tales of the Fairies," a book for chil dren, by William Dana Orcutt, is an nounced. Mr. Orcutt has based the tales for very little folks on the belief that the youthful mind Is offended by morals forced upon It, but that children will seek to imitate the noble characteristics expressed in the actions of their favor ite imaginary playmates. a a . a I remember there was one little boy of whom Longfellow was very fond, and Yriio came often to see him, says Annie Fields, in "Authors and Friends." One day the child looked earnestly at the long rows of books In the library, and at length said: "Have you got 'Jack, the Giant Killer?"" Longfellow was obliged to confess that his library did not contain that venerated volume. The little boy looked very sorrry and presently slipped down from his knee and went away; but early next morn ing Longfellow saw him coming up the walk with something tightly clasped in his little fists. The child had brought him two cents with which he was to buy a "Jack, the Giant Killer" to be his own. aaa' "Comrades," a book by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, is announced for near publication. The death of the author last January gives an added touch of pathos to the reading of this story. The last veteran ' of a Grand Army post rises from his sick-bed that he may not fall In his duty of decorat ing the graves of his comrades on Me morial day. When he Is weary and faint he discovers a comrade. Those who have read the author's recent books, "A Chariot of Fire" and "Jona than and David" will be able to antlcl nate the tender style of "Comrades." r aaa "Jane Dawson," a new novel by Will N Harben, is out. In it Mr. Harben once more portrays the typical rural Georgia community of "Ann Boyd" and his "Dixie Har." In this story of a strong woman, ostracised by her neigh bors, who despises religion because of the hardness and narrowness shown by many who profess it. the author has written a book in which religious senti ment is a vital human factor. aaa Claude Grahame-White, whose book, "The Story of the Aeroplane." has Just been published, is now flying in this country in a machine not before seen on this side, a Nieuport monoplane. This machine has shown itself the fast est air traveller built and it Is by no means an easy machine to manipulate. Mr Grahame-White expected to bring with him to this country a biplane built after his own design, but the dock-handlers' strike in Liverpool pre vented him from doing more than to bring with considerable difficulty his new monoplane, in which, curiously enough, he had never made a flight until the opening day of the recent uarvrd-Boston aviation meet. a a a The Morocco situation makes partic ularly timely anew story for boys by Bradley Gilman, "The Sultan's Rival. Mr Oilman, who is a Boston minister and a member of the famous Harvard class of '80, has spent a great deal of time in Northern Africa and few Ameri cans know their Morocco more thoroughly than he does. a a a - "Paper-Bag Cookery." a method which for reasons of eoonomy and taste . . i mtch favor, la ex- nas I ecii uv - Dounded by Its Inventor, Nicholas Sayer, in a new volume whu c. a a "The Blood 'of the Arena" is the first novel of V. Blasco Ibanez, the Spanish novelist, to be translated into English. It deals with the career of a daring bull-fighter. ' Ellen Key, whose book on "Love and Marriage" was reecntly translated into English, is the author of a little book entitled "Love and Ethics," to be issued shortly in an authorized translation by B, W. Huebsch. N. Nitts on the Honor System By Ds Collins. Nesclus Nitts, whose deep wisdom im pressed All Punkindorf Station, Inflated his chest. Dug up a fresh quid from inside his vest. And thus his admiring disciples ad dressed On the use of parole, as employed by Mayor Guest. "The May'r Boswell Guest, who was holdin' the chair The year that our plum crop went up In the air. Was one who was gentle and tender of heart. When wunst his emotions was given a start. And this- was well shown when he made Marshal Conner To turn out ten hobos from Jail on their honor. "These hobos had come when the town was all quiet One night, and had started creatin a riot. And Jedge Wiggs had given 'em each thirty days. And Conner had got 'era safe locked in his place. When volumes of sympathy ris in the breast And stirred the emotions of May'r Bos--well Guest. "He goes to the Jail and he says. 'Mar shal Connay, I orders to turn these men loose on their honor; It's sinful to leave, them all crushed and forlorn To wear out their hearts In them dungeons Nof yourn: So durin' the day times, let loose all them men I trusts to their honor to come back again." "Well Conner objected, but Boswell stood fast. And got his parole on them hobos at Conner had opened his Jail up that night. Jest one lonesome hobo come heavin. in sight; 'Go on, lock me up," says this hon'nw ble one, 'The corn on my foot won't permit me to run." "Next day, Widder Spriggs missed her wash from the line. Likewise did the Wiggses and Missus Van Duyn; And all of us wondered, together with Conner, About this display of them prisoners" honor; But Guest says, 'Success crowns my gentle intents Fer they all came back, except ninety per cent." " Dean Collins. Portland. Oct. S. Country Town Sayings by Ed Howe Because a man is a good writer, talks well in public, it does not follow that he Is a man of experience, goodness and fairness, and capable of being a teacher. It is easier to earn money than 14 is to borrow it. Every man thinks he gets the worst of it in taxes. And as a matter of fact, he does; but there Is nothing In the general belief that taxes are not collected in other communities. I don't believe the people care what Emerson said as much as some writers imagine. Emerson is like "Pinafore"; somehow his libretto doesn't fit as well now as it did when it was writ-, ten. ( . The New Thought of which we hear so much is usually old thought that has been discarded because of. lack of practical utility. No man ever possessed enough ver satillty to . combine business with pleasure. Every man who makes a success of life, does it in exactly the same way. He travels a road that is well defined and easier than the rougher road to failure and disgrace. The rules for achieving success are simple, and few in number. They are not difficult. Tet how many millions choose to be apolo gising and explaining all the time Some men drift, and, if they miss their port, drift into a better one. It isn't that way with me; if I miss my port I go on the rocks. I never had a dollar that was worth more than eighty or ninety cents. Most people believe that If they wish, for things they are entitled to them. Half a Century Ago nnnlnii rWnber 4. 1861. The United States steamer Massa chusetts was to sail from Fort Van couver yesterday evening for San Francisco. She had received no freight in addition to that brought from tho Sound, 86 wagons and military stores. The Pacific This steamer, which has been thoroughly repaired since her late accident in the Columbia River, arrived at this port yesterday morning, bringing a large freight and quite a number of passengers. She sails again this evening for Victoria. The Bteamer Express was crowded with passengers yesterday morning, bound for the fair grounds. It is said that there must have been 400 persons on board. Lone Fir Park Sognested. PORTLAND, Oct. 1. (To the Editor) I read so much in The Oregonlan about the care and preserving of Lone Fir Cemetery. Why not convert it, into a beautiful park place, remove all mon uments, headstones, etc, and open it to the city as a quiet restful place to study the beauties of nature. I refer you to other large cities which have done this, Chicago for one. There Lin coln Park contains an old cemetery which is now covered with a green carpet, beautiful trees and driveways. A playground for the children, who would never see or enjoy nature in any other way living In a big con gested city. . a Portland is a fast growing city and Lone Fir is in a very central part and this would only help to make our city more beautiful as well as a grand park to be enjoyed and revered by the Dresent generation as well as future ones. INEZ S. Latest Thing In Mourning. Sporting Times. The manager of the theater racked his brain In vain. "We must do something," he re peated, bitterly. "People will expect us to do something to show respect to" the proprietor, now that he Is dead." "Shall we close for the night of the funeral 7" suggested the assistant stage manager. "With this business? You're a fooL a fool! No; put the chorus in black stockings." And- it was even so. An Overworked Tree In Africa. London Chronicle. The leaves of a certain tree in Africa, a species of aloe, furnish material to the natives for bow strings, ham mocks, ropes and fishing Unas. J