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THE MORXIXG OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY. JULY 17. 1912. 10 mt(B ngtmratt PORTLAND. OREGON. i Entered at Portland. Oreion. Fostofflc M Becond-CUss Matter. eubacrlbtlon Bates Invariably la AGTaaca j (ST 1UIM Dally. Snndar Included, one Tear.. IJ-J Dalljr. Sunday Included, "la month..... Dally. Sunday Included, three month... z-" Dally. Eunday Included, on month Sally, without Eunday. on yrar Dally, without Sunday, lix month..--. J-" Dally, without Sunday, three month... Daily, without Eunday. on month Weekly, one year Eunday. on year Sunday and Weekly, on year . tBT CAR BIER.) Dafty. Bandar Included, on year.. - Dally. Eundaylncluded. on montn...... How to Remit Send roMtotaatmmrr der. express order or p.raonal cheek .on your local bank. Stamp, coin OT , ".HaJL at the sender-, risk. Gle poetoftlc adOreae In full. Including county and Mat. Post Bate 10 to 14 P- .';.., I 2 pises. 2 oent; SO to i paje """I; 0 to i pe. cent. Foreign pota. dii,er 'Bn.U.e.. OfflceVerr. Conk Jin New York. Brunswick bundle. -nt caao. Bteiter building. tm.UC Ball r ran Cisco umcer x. T2 Market street. European Ollice No. S Begent street, n. W London. POKTLAND, TVEDNESDAY, JTLY M- ENTIRELY rXOKFENDENT. The progressives of Oregon the Roosevelt progressives, that is to say are to hold a mass meeting on July 25 to elect delegates to the thira party convention at Chicago In Au gust. It la not to be a convention, of course. The ancient foes of the as sembly who formulated this call, de signed some day to have a high place in the imperishable archives of the grand young party, successfully evad ed the hoodoo by substituting a more acceptable designation for their as sembly or convention. It will be a plain but honest mass meeting. Every body who feels the spirit of revolt against either of the old parties Is Invited to elect himself a delegate. What Is wanted is numbers and en thusiasm. The deadly calm of an election day In Oregon makes It un desirable to hold a preferential pref erence primary, even a soap-box pri mary. Besides, what is the use of a Koosevelt party holding a primary to find out whom It wants for Presi dent? It knows, for the only living third-term candidate long ago held his own primary at Oyster Bay, and gave the world the result of that Impartial proceeding. The Oregon call is an eloquent document, but it fails to give light on every important matter except the election of delegates to Chicago. The other purposes of the July mass meeting are buried under the delphlc phrase "to take such action as may be necessary." No doubt that mass meeting will be a law unto Itself and do whatever it pleases, besides Joining forty other states In electing delegates to Chicago. What Is to be done about putting a third ticket In the field in Oregon, or about nominating candi dates for Presidential elector, or cap turing and swallowing the KepuDii can state organization. Is left to the doubtful and troubled future. But the day will come when there must be a decision. A Nation half-slave, half free cannot survive, said the greatest of all Presidents; and likewise a party cannot exist half enslaved, half eman cipated. The Koosevelt party of Oregon can not have failed to notice the latest edict from Oyster Bay, defining the Colonel's purpose forever to cut loose fiom the Republican party, and Inci dentally any other party, so as to complete a perfectly Independent or ganization of his own. Colonel Roose velt calmly but firmly declines to make any sort of alliance with the old machine in Pennsylvania or Mary land or anywhere else. His noble pur pose Is to take over the Republican state organizations where the progres sives control and to Insist that all candidates for Presidential elector in states carried by him through the di rect primary are his electors, not the Republican nominee's. This wholly moral and upright project will not only serve to break down the Republi can party in the Nation, but to de prive the Republicans In many states of either organization or voice, or a proper place on the ballot. The In terests stole the nomination from Colonel Roosevelt at Chicago; there fore it appears to him to be a proper and Just scheme of reprisal to steal something back. Somehow Colonel Roosevelt's an nounced plan to organize an "entirely Independent party" does not square with the methods of Its proposed for mation. The Republican party in cer tain states shall be the Roosevelt par ty; In other states some other party shall be the Roosevelt party. The Colonel will In some places stay in so as to keep the Taft people out: In others he will go out because the Taft forces are In. Nothing could be plainer or easier. Tet it appears ap propriate to quote Colonel Roosevelt himself when In 1884 he was asked to bolt the nomination of Blaine after he had opposed the Blaine statesman In the National convention. Said Mr. Roosevelt then: A man cannot act hoth without and within the party: he can do either, but he cannot possibly do both. Each course has its ad vantages and each has its disadvantages and on cannot take the advantages or the disadvantages separately. I went In with my eyes open to d what I could within the party: I d:d my best and got besten. and I propose to stand by the result. It is Impossible to combine the (unctions of a gisertlTa chief with those of a Colonel In the Regular Army: one has greater Inde pendence of action, the other is able to make what action h does take -vastly more effective. Tn certain contingencies the one can do most good. In certain contingencies the other: but there Is no use In accepting commission and then trying to play the game out on a lone hand. The Colonel's task now is to fuse the regulars with the guerillas. He will form an "entirely independent party" by taking whole regiments of regulars with him into the guerilla camp. RENAJITN'G THE MONTHS. The Oregonian has received a letter which appears today In another col umn finding fault with the names of the calendar months. There is an agi tation of some force against the pres ent irregularity in the lengths of te months, but we had not learned be fore that their names were objection able. Our correspondent, however, ! shocked to observe that in the name January" we are all honoring the "heathen god Janus," and he would change it to Paul in memory of the distinguished saint. If he had Ms way February would be called "Wash, lngton." For the seventh, eighth ninth and tenth months he gives us to understand that he could suggest more fitting names, though he does not sav what. For December he pro poses the title "Peace." Finally he wants to deprive Juno of the glory he has usurped so long and call June after Shakespeare. This scheme has its attractiveness for we English-speaking folks. We should be very proud and happy to see the calendar rechristened after i our great worthies.' After we had conquered the mlseraDie oia naon m writing "February" and had acquired the knack of writing "Washington" Instead, of course we should experi ence a blessed glow every time we dated a letter. But there are obvious difficulties in the way of making-any such change. We wonder our correspondent did not happen to think of it. The names of . V. nnnna BM nOW With SO Hie CX- UIC 111 W .1 uw ... w . - ceptions and modifications, the same in the principal European mu8u6c The fact that they are derived from Latin, which was formerly a universal language, has given all of them inter .a.n..ai titia. Thia sDtiroach to uni- formity does not amount to very much. perhaps, and yet it is someinmg. xi ought not to be lightly thrown away. It we undertook to call February Washington, no doubt the Germans, i v.Ai vaindnrloiia nride. would hasten to call it MIsmarck, while the, French would insist mat its proyei name- was Napoleon. If we change June to Shakespeare, the Russians will make it Tolstoi and the Norwegians Ibsen or BJornstjerne BJornsen." How would Mr. Wheatley enjoy reading "What is so rare as a day in r fitln.fl a ninrnqpn"? Tt IWOuld DJVl UOLJC. HQ - J"' ' hardly be so euphonious as Lowell's phrasing. Ana yet we aaruit u a scandal to pay so much reverence Juno. THE END AND THE MEANS. The prohibitionists occasionally rise to remark that the supposedly long felt want of a third party has been ..ti.foftirfiv filled for manv years by that devoted group of pioneers In that field. fosslDiy mat is one icon why they do not take kindly to the third party idea of Colo nel Roosevelt. The prohibitionists have Just had another National con vention and the Colonel's grand plan of forming himself and a few others into a great popular movement, and aiinnHTK, ty, a HpcalOStle f OT a Plat- form, brought forth these remarks from the temporary chairman, Clinton N. Howard: Posing a the "thou shalt not steal" can didate because his partisans were not pre ferred over President Talt s in the conven- i . i.. I ,Ha, ha Stole the lion, no Dmiemj ...... - - Isthmus of Panama from Colombia and let congress aeoaie iwui n - Stealing Is stealing. Mr. Roosevelt- When i . i..inMi the means. you laugni met uio cm t " ' you gave every thief a P"" o h ea ej. the vice protector and promoter, of pitt8 burg, and Timothy Woodruff, of Brooklyn. masqueraaing ae n.uvc. . .",;. What hope Is there for reform In America at SUCn UQCtew ueuiA - w. .hntiM harrllv sav that the Colo nel stole from Colombia the isthmus of Panama; but ne is on recoru declaring that he took It, and did not stop to inquire about methods, or treaties, or rights. The end Justified the means. It was tne rtooseveii. THE TWO NEW CHAIRMEN. By choosing as National chairman such men as Hllles and McCombs, the candidates of the two leading parties i iDni9vi their comDlete under standing that a change has come over political methods in tnis country. L-nonrtoHM at the s-ame as formerly played is not only of no value, but is a positive detriment to a campaiB" manager uncer me new ruiea, m oo to the candidate for whom he works. Such men as Barnes ana tag. nrnniri hinnrler eereeriously in at tempting to apply the new rules. Worse still, their names would drive away votes. The names of sucn men nave come to symbolize every political -o !,., wMfh the new rules are de signed to stop. Assessment of offi cials, the levying or coniriouuons on the interests, open or coven inumiaa tion of employes, parades and red fire, fictitious enthusiasm worked up by eulogies of' the old flag and an ap n,nriatinti a.ra the tools with which ihn have heen accustomed to work. They appeal to party loyalty rather than to men s judgment as to tne un i -an HI Hate and the better platform. They regard a platform as a trap to catch votes, to De cast asiae as ubcic after election, not as a declaration of nrinHnlea to be embodied in legisla tive and executive acts. Such men hovs hwn the issue In the controver sies within the parties and their elec Hn. tn loariprahin would revive or aggravate those controversies. They must be relegatea to me scrap-neap along with the discarded rules under which they have been accustomea to nlv The new men nave receivea meir ti-lnlnr under the new rules and irnnv tin other wRV. Above all. they regard politics as a serious business of winning votes by appeal to tne mind and conscience, not as a game of catching votes by any artifice. The shaking loose of men from parties to which they have long adhered, such as has been brought about By tne po- iii.ai rinvii s nns nt tne last aec&ue. has necessitated this new attitude. It i nnsslble for either party to win fmm the other manv thousands of votes by the right kind of appeal, while a blunder may lose either party an equal number. Funds can no lnnror he collected from vested inter ests without public knowledge, and uih pontriouuons lose more votes than they gain to the party receiving thAm h Ben narrv must reiv more than ever on the support of the rank and file and must derive its tunas more from men who have no selfish Interests to serve than has hitherto been the case. The pre-conventlon campaigns con Aiicrerl hr Mr. Hllles and Mr. Mc r'rtmha are an earnest that the final campaign Is to be more than ever edu cational and that the Issues are to be fought out on their merits. Such a campaign is becoming to the Intelli gence of the American people. W llllbW ASH FOB ISM AY. Let those who love to expatiate on the superiority of British to Amert can Justice, on the fearlessness of British officials in bringing to book any offender, no matter how powerful. study the report of the British court of inquiry on the Titanic disaster. then revise their opinions. The rec ords of the Senate In Its worst days do not contain a more glaring exam ple of whitewashing a man of wealth. rank or political Influence. Lord Mersey, presiding Judge of the court, is not content with falling to censure J. Bruce Ismay; he actually commends the man for his work In the rescue of passengers. Ismay was the managing director of the White Star Line, who "arranged" with Cap tain Smith that the Titanic should arrive at New Tork at a certain time and thus caused Smith to drive his ship at full speed through the ice' field at night. Everybody knows what it means when a managing director "arranges" such a thing with a cap. tain. If it cannot be arranged, a new captain soon walks the bridge and the word is passed around mat uaptain So-and-So has lost his nerve and is too cautious to get results. Results are what a managing director wants. even if a few hundred lives are risked in the effort. Ismay is the man who stepped into a boat when hundreds were trapped mnHnir Titnnic like rats in a trap. Ismay no sooner boarded the Carpathia than he locuea mmseii. Ju a stateroom, leaving orders that he should not be disturbed, while many of those who had half perished from cold, exposure ana nunger ia.y uuu ri!vri on deck. Ismay tried his worst to arrange a quick transfer at New York from the uarpatnia to tne c dric, which would nave taken him out of reach of any American investi gators. Then is no one censurea.' les. ronioin Smith la renRiired for not slowing down his ship, when he was merely carrying out tne arrangement with ismay. He is dead and had no title and probably no influential friends. Seaman Symons is censured for telling of Sir Cosmo uurr tioraon s bribery of his boat's crew to row a half-filled boat away from those who were struggling In the water, but there is no word of censure for Gor r. .Hiring the hrlhfi. The British Tl .J Ae T.aP. to nrmimH f HT IfS ancient lifeboat regulations. Dut sucn-i Mn.ra .ensure in without eiiect. Censure is only effective when it strikes at an individual. The ship s officers are censured for not having tninait the piwv in handline; the boats, but there is not a word of cen sure for those who hurried the ship Recommendations are . made that enough lifeboats be provided to carry all on Doara, mat an vessels ue equipped with wireless apparatus, with operators constantly on duty, and that lookouts be stationed at the DlAm n e. woll a a In the crow's nes. If the two Titanic inquiries be taken as a guiae, our toenate commit tee will compare lavoraDiy witn tne XJ 1 , ( l-V. .rw. rf innn I rV fl trt STlhSPr- vience to the interests. Senator Smith, of Michigan, may not know the uses of water-tight bulkheads, but he knows how to ferret out the facts and to report them without sparing man-np-ino director. nr men with handles to their names. That is more than can be said of Lord Mersey. TAOOMA'S QUEER CREED. A great political economist" has arisen at Tacoma. His name is M. W. Greer, and he has written a prize essay on the vital subject, "How best Tacoma may create a community spirit and commercial pride. wu have not seen the full text of the Greer product, but it took first prize, the Tacoma News tells us; and the News also prints a little brochure by Economist Greer, entitled the "Ta coman's Creed." The first gem of the Tacoma confession of faith is: I know that when the water-grade line from Tacoma to the Columbia River is com pleted, about July. 113. the traffic to and from the Pacific Coast will flow along the line at least cost, through Tacoma and the Columbia Elver gap. That sounds quite reasonable, and it seems to indicate a great 'awaken ing at Tacoma with regard to the water-level haul and the Columbia River. But having made this pleasiruj progress toward the light, the Taco man's creed then flounders Into the following additional article: I know that the Columbia River has but twenty-one to twenty-three feet of water on the bar and that modern freight ships must have from thirty to forty feet of water for safe passage. I know that the Columbia River can never be a great world port draw ing a world traffic But Tacoma, through its ultimate connection with the Columbia River, will become a great world port." Just how all that is to happen, the "Ta coman's creed" does not declare. It can hardly be dorte by maligning a river that has Just borne upon its broad bosom the battleship Oregon, drawing twenty-eight feet. A better Tacoman's creed though it might not win a prize in Tacoma would be a declaration of faith in the city's own destiny and a pledge to bear no false witness against a neighbor. 1 GENU'S AND MICROBES. Stupid people seem to extract a great deal of satisfaction from the hypothesis that genius may be a dis ease of one sort or another. They re flect with infinite complacency that if they could only catch the same malady that Shakespeare died of they could write "Hamlets" by the dozen. With Carlyle's brand of dyspepsia nothing would he easier for them than to turn off a French Revolution be fore breakfast every morning. Max Nordau was one of the first to exploit this theory, which is so consoling to blockheads. His book on "Genius and Degeneracy" made quite a stir in the world, and caused every young man who stood a little above the aver age in intelligence to feel ashamed of himself until the breeze blew over. Nordau tried to prove that Wagner, Carlyle and Ibsen were all degener ates. Carried out logically, his theory accused of degeneracy every person who is not "normally stupid," which means as stupid as the average dolt who thinks he might be a great man If he could get hold of the right kind of poison and swallow it. A recent and humble Imitator of Max Nordeau Is a Dr. Robert Tuttle Morris, of New York, who is writing a book to prove that literary and ar tistic gifts are Imparted by microbes of various species. Robert Louis Stevenson's power to write novels was bestowed upon him by the tubercle bacillus, according to Dr. Morris. Byron composed "Chllde Harold" by virtue of some germ which the Doc tor knows all about, but does not name. Rousseau, Wagner, Schopen hauer and Guy de Maupassant all owed their brilliancy to the presence of microbes in their blood. Dr. Morris has proceeded sc far In the applica tion of his theory that he is able to discriminate between the intellectual potency of different varieties of mi crobes. Thus the tubercle bacillus In spires a man with unconquerable cheerfulness such as everyone ob served in Robert Louis Stevenson. Spinoza suffered from the same dis ease, and it is a well-known fact of literary history that his spirits were calm and unruffled all through his short life. On the other hand the colon bacillus Inspires gloom. Dr. Morris finds In this minute creature the true origin of the pessimistic phi losophy as well as all literary discon tent with social conditions. For example, Rousseau was afflict ed with thhe colon bacillus and so was the melancholic Carlyle. Schopen hauer suffered in the same way. Dr. Morris says he is not . yet quite certain whether it was this bacillus or some other which gave us Ibsen s plays, but. while we commend his scientific cau tion about deciding, we have no doubt in our own minds. When we remem ber how displeased Ibsen was with the Pillars of Society In his day and coun try, how can we doubt that he drew his Intellectual powers from the same source as Carlyle and Rousseau? Dr. Morris' theory opens the way to producing at short notice as many geniuses as we may wish to have and of any desired sort. All mat is neces sary is to select some young candidate, preferably a born fool, and inoculate him with the proper Dacnius. xl w want a Stevenson or Keats we use the germ of tuberculosis. If a Car lyle is desired the colon bacillus must be employed. sinoe it Is not the bacillus itself. but the substance which it secretes in the system, that inspires genius, we may naturally expect Dr. Morris or cm, r hia .niipfljCTies tn invent a set of serums before a great while which will create poets ana arusts uy mc simple process of subcutaneous injec tion. This will be 6impler and safer than the use of the bacilli themselves. It has another evident advantage. The germs in their purity are not always obtainable on the spur of the moment, while the proper serums can be prepared and kept in store for any length of time. When we have them on hand, which will be very soon, a Milton or a Sir Isaac Newton can be produced at a moment's notice. Dr. Morris' great discovery puts an end to an. old superstition which we are .1. . u i-iri of Mow and then we - tr cairt nf a rilfutinftted voung man that ' he would be so Drignt n ne would only let liquor aione.- J.ms, . irnoir. la nure nonsense. All the brightness there Is in him comes from the liquor he drinks. It is one of Dr. Morris' pet laeas mat aiuuuui favors the development of a microbe which Is' singularly rich in poetic power. That explains why so many great writers have been sots. A young man who Is witty and elo quent in his cups is usually a simple ton when he is sober. Some might nrVr tn he a. sober fool rather than a drunken wit, but that is a matter of taste. Schiller had to soak him- Quie with mrine hefnre he Could Write He usually composed his plays in tne garden with a Dottle at nis eiuow Rrmn was far from being a teetotaler. Rnrns was a notorious toper. There is on siatnnl.xhlnir auantitv of evidence. in fact, to support Dr. Morris' views as far as alcohol is concerpeu. dui there is some on the other side. Shel ley, for instance, drank nothing but pure and sparkling water iresn irora the spring. Poe loved the wine when ie woo red hut Whlttier was an ab stainer and Longfellow was strictly temperate. In the "Autocrat or tne Rreakfast Table" Holmes ascribes mvi nr the wit and beautv of lltera ture to the effect of wine. Why not? It is reasonable to suppose that the various poisons we take into our sys tems may affect the brain In different xxrava tn snmo cases thev may de velop an unwholesome beauty of expression. Cam tr.QnileAn whlph 1 a Arteinal in emT-irrhino' ha laid down a new rule for persons who are not Invited to high-toned weddings. Tne proper nrnxooflinir for the sliehted individual is to buy a shotgun and waylay the bride. This novelty win ennance uie ini.raci rr millionaire aocietv and no doubt enlarge the lists of invitations to fashionable marriage ceremonies. We suppose It will soon De exteuueu to all social functions. We .nm m iserate the Door California woman who has gone crazy over the Thaw affair, but we are nauntea Dy the ciisnlcion that she had not far to go. A person who feeds upon crim inal literature until sne loses ner mental balance deserves pity, but the AQiamitv trt the world is not very seri- .,,o dnoA ciho nrnhahlv never had in telligence enough to errect anytning of Importance. - The new San Quentin plan of grading convicts according to char- q thiia Hivldtnir the honeless cases from the more promising Is a long step in aavance ui me uauw practice. Many a fairly decent young man has been made a permanent criminal by his associates during a short term in prison. The scene of murders of gamblers is no longer the Western mining towns; It is New York. The Western towns have become respectable and law-abiding, leaving the excitement of crime to the financial and social me tropolis. Klamath Falls has the prize fish story, that an eleven-pound trout jumped Into a boat. It Is now up to some fisherman to tell of a trout which was not satisfied' with Jumping into a boat, but hanged himself on the hook. The news that Mrs. Hetty Green has been Induced in her 78th year to think less of things earthly and to be bap tized does not necessarily mean that she Is about to enter-upon a career of reckless giving and spending. With a surplus after all they did last week, the men financing the Elks' reunion should order medals of honor for themselves and be proud to wear them for the great distinction. Bailey of Texas burst forth again in the Senate yesterday. A Democrat, naturally he calls Taft's efforts for de cency "Presidential interference." An other resignation is due. Taft will be notified August 1. Mean while he will avoid the daily newspa pers, reading only the Outlook, that he may be delightfully surprised when Hllles and Root can. How's this radicals and conserva tives among the third party men? We thought they were all radicals and abhorred the very word "conserva tive." The water in Sucker Creek belongs to Oregon, for the lands It will irri gate lie In Oregon. Malheur County needs all the water It can get. Just so long as women persist in going into the water instead of bask ing in the sun on the beacn, women will be drowned. The Grant County wool clip brought far prices nt Baker yesterday, con sidering the possibilities of tne year. Rvlrlentlv the California woman who saved 19,789 pennies in twenty months has few small cniiaren. The principals in the Crocker wed ding simply had to make a sneak, with fifty detectives on guara. Why fuss about distant Peruvian rubber fields while New York is A huge wheat' crop this year will put one Democratic slogan -into the discard. Of course sugar had to advance to meet the demand for seasonal bever ages. WHY BrB. I'TtEX . WENT A WAT Wasted to Hear Mr. RuaseH Chautau qua Management Criticised. OREGON CITY. July IS. (To the Editor.) I wonder, In a good-natured way, if it Is right for the secretary of the Gladstone Chautauqua to make me the goat for his sins of mismanage ment and discourtesy, and then get The Oregonian to drive me into the wilder ness of publicity as the creator ol a sensation?" And then to put me in the index of Monday's paper In that character. I thought it was only an Incident- The management advertised in The Daily Oregonian Sunday morning that Mr. Russell would speak at Z ffciocK Sunday afternoon. He is a Socialist writer and lecturer or international fame and many people, myself among the rest, wanted to hear him ana renea on The Oregonian advertisement- It was rumored on the grounas De fore 2 o'clock that Mr. Russell had not arrived. The platform manager, in troducing Mr. Beauchamp, mane no rei- erence whatever to Mr. Russell or to the failure of the management to ful fill the programme. One hearing the Introduction would not have suspected that Mr. Russell had ever been on the programme. Not only that, but the manager was Inclined to Ignore my re quest for an answer. When finally forced to nay attention he was cis- courteous enough to say that two or three persons in the audience might De disaDDOlnted. Of course. I went out. though not to show any disrespect to Mr. Beauchamp, who is a very pleasant and entertaining speaker, in tne re Dort the secretary also says that Sun day was a record for attendance. I saw hundreds of persons on the grounos who were there to hear Mr. Russell. Many of them had driven 20 miles from the country and told me that they came only to hear Mr. Kussen. The so-called arrangement to repay the disappointed ones their 25 per cent admission fee is so trifling as to be contemptible, and by the manner of its announcement was really aaaing in sult to injury. Finally, the reason Mr. RUBseii was not present appearea to De mat tne Shasta Limited -does not stop at Oregon City. The children In town have known that lor a long time. JBul otner peo pie. except the Chautauqua manage ment know that Mr. McMurray is a very courteous general passenger agent who tries to accommodate tne puDiic. Without doubt he would have stopped the train at Oregon City for a moment to let Mr. Russell fill his date and speak to the 3050 people who were waiting for him, if the secretary or the unau tauqua had asked lor that ravor. W. 13. U JIM. COL. HARVEY IS NOW FOR WIISOJf Difference Over Hsrpefs Weekly Sup port Are Forgotten. With an ardent prophecy of Governor Woodrow Wilson's election to the Presidency in November, Colonel George Harvey, in the July issue of Harper s Weekly. has intimated the Weekly's foreetfulness of all differences that arose alter tne watterson-w noun- Harvey incident in January. In this latest announcement of Harvey's ad vocacy of the Wilson cause, however, there is an absolute lack of ,the per sonal note. Colonel Harvey reminds the Weekly's readers that that magazine was the first to suggest Governor Wilson as a Democratic nominee, that it pointed out the advisability of the choice as far back as 1906 when Wilson was presi dent of Prir.ceton University, and that in 1910 it prophesied that Taft and Wilson would be the regular nominees In 1912. Colonel Harvey rejoices over the honesty of the Baltimore conven tion, which he attended, and which he praises for its selection of the strong est candidate and the "removal of the blieht of Bryanism." Simultaneously with a cry of gladness over the oblit eration of the "menace of Roosevelt.' the Colonel strikes a warning note. Roosevelt's "activities." he says, "will inject a new and perplexing factor in the contest," "Granting the probability of the elec Hon this year of any reputable states man." writes Colonel Harvey, "who could hold substantially the full sup port of his party, there can be no doubt that Woodrow Wilson will poll at least half a million more votes than any other whose name was presented. A PICTURE SAFE FROM VANDALS Russians Relieve This Painting Defend ltaeiz Agflinii norm. . -r II I n "t-iiio t -Ri.ecfin " A. O. . "'"5f " . . . .i " It is calculated that 10,880 persons visit "the Redeemer of Smolensk," the Palladium of the Russian Empire, every twelve hours. The picture has been famous for the efficiency with which it has always de fended itself against foreign invaders. The Tartars thought its frame was of gold and wanted to remove it, but every nav ralsH for the nurnrrtse broke in the middle. The French brought a cannon to batter it down, but an angel always wetted their powder; and when, driven to desperation, they made a nre or coais uvcr uib wutunuic 1 InJ.J lh. WTin0- WAV The picture has imparted its sanctity to the Porta Sacra beneath. Woe be to any man who attempts to go through it without baring his head! He is speed ily reminded of his negligenoe by the lOUa CrieS OI aiiaipH, mieipuv uttuuou i nTh. V, n . the Vint little father. Formerly fifty compulsory prostrations were extorted from everyone who passed the gate witnout. uncovering. Onel A Wife and Elocution Iion. PoDular Magazine. Sir Horace Plunkett, chum of Colonel Roosevelt, once delivered a lecture m Dublin. Ireland, on the best way to lm prove conditions among the poor. At that time Sir Horace was not exactly a finished speaker. His tongue could not do justice to the riches of his mind. The day following his address he re ceived from a woman a note containing this statement: 'What you need 1 two things: (1) a wife, and (Z) lesBons in elocution. To this Plunkett sent this reply: "I have received your letter saying that I need two things: (1) a wife, and (2) lessons In elocution. Those are only one." Woman of Distinguished Lineage. Newark. N. J., Dispatch. Mrs. Antoinette Rose Acken, whose father fought in the Revolution, died at her home in New Brunswick, N. J recently. She was 96 years old. Her uncle was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Mrs. Acken remem bered the visit of Lafayette to this country In 18.4 4. Train Norse for School Children. tji.iinn Ph.ftnlcln. miss (jiani vj. mi. B - - .. unusual settlement which was opened in Bromley-by-Bow, London, something more than a year ago. Miss Grant and her fellow workers, most of whom are trained nurses, concern themselves only with the families of children attending . r I a ne Vi nn nt an the council scnooi oi uw.u More Magnificence for Officer. London Tit-Bits. New naval regulations in Great Brit ain require officers to wear epaulets and medals on all ceremonial occasions. The change Is attriDutea to me aumar, t which the relatively greater mag nificence of the army officers was noted by the .bung. . American Colony In Florence. Baltimore American. ..! ofr-zinc nnn-fn-law nf John r -nnfiefeiler. numoses ioinintr the American colony in Florence. He has purchased a plot or lana near riesoie Cecil Plnsent, an arcniteci, nas sud mitted plans for the residence Profes sor Strong proposes to erect. NO WALL STREET FAVORITES Financial Leader View Campair Witn Indifference. New York American. t.u- 1 1 . mDite o much trouble for the business world." said Julius Kruttschnitt, general- manager of the Harriman railroad, in a talk on the political situation yesiorusj, "that I do not feel there is anything more tn fear, no matter how the Presi dential election goes." For the first time, probably, in its history. Wall street has no favored candidate. Wilson, rait, or nousoom all' have their adherents: but the gen eral situation is one of Indifference, coupled with extreme confusion. IJanlel t. -rteia, neaa oi wv Island system, sailing away for Europe k.fn.a TmtrAav was At nainS tO say that he didn't feel that business will be helpea or ninaerea Dy tne suc cess of either three candidates. And Mr. Held is a dlrctor in the United States Steel Corporation. on tne otner nana, mere i j persistent rumor In Wall street that . , ,. t.anir nf Pnlnnel tne OLrei ihivicolo e.o - Roosevelt and will contribute heavily to his campaign tuna. ion amiuuc of the Steel Corporation is attributed to the stand which Colonel Roosevelt has taken with regard to the regula tion or corporaiiona. tllllliidl 11 , .llCOIUCl'h ( 4- i ,1 n n ennvqeri hACaUSS Of the action he caused to be Instituted for the dissolution ot tne Bteei irusi. There is found among certain bank- .1 h-nV.,. n helief that RoOSO- velt may win Just as among certain others there is a convicuun i i,, .j- xT,,n- nt .he candidates has .....ntiran fniinwTR. There is a natural hesitancy in Wall street about expressing political preierencee. iu not generally believed to' be politically healthy for a candidate to have the public approbation of Wall street. There is, finally, -the view of the w-ii DtASt- noiitir.iana. of whom there are a few. One of them, a Taft man. said yesterday: "For the present Wall street will mark time. Up to now Mr. Perkins has been financing Roosevelt's cam paign. But aDOUt me lirat oi uv-.uuo. thta .unnnrt will he withdrawn, and, thereupon, the bottom will drop out of the Roosevelt movement. All the con servative forces will get behind Taft. RULE 80 OF LONDON EXCHANGE. Wive of Member Shell Not Engage In commercial uosinens. v.w VnrV TTveninB- Post. T T nnnn neie l Q rille of the StOCk exchange that prohibits the wives of V.. tmm .nC9?l)1C In flnV kind Of commercial activity. It is rule No. 30 of the "House, ' and it reaas: a can didate Is lneligioie if ne De ensesra e i 4-.ni .minv.. In nnv business irutUlLfai v c.i.' -' " other than that of the stock exchange. or if his wile De engagea in ouoiuc. Whatever her abilities, the wife of .i. i. ,-i.Aiia?- la Hcherred from all tne biwvr " ' " - profit-making employment, and forced to expend ner energies in cuuuicu domesticity, or as a butterfly of Tii. -aaann In that her hUS- laamuu. w band cannot be trusted to play the game. He might carry on a business of his l V. name A n A since the hOUSe is liable for his obligations, he might nvolve fellow memners in a ycume. j way. . rro..jt ...h.ncr. fa tiiatlfipd in DTO tecting its honor and good name from unscrupulous persons is ranceum. enu the burden of the whole objection to i. i- . 1 naolr iinnil the in- tne ruits la Liixvnu -" Justice and Inconvenience of denying an entirely separate iuculhj English wife, vvitn sucn mennuj iu- i.. nrnnM ha Ti n more rea- son to' deny a member's wife the right to gO into DUSinesS lur lieiaeii tneii to deny the same right to his father or it i A.ua nf onv other of his kins men with whom, by right of intimacy, he might commne ior irauuuioiiL iui- poses GEORGIA MAY IMPORT SERVANTS Negroes, It I Said, Are Too Laay and Unwilling to worn nni Savannah, Ga., Cor. New York Times. Housekeepers In savannan are trims to solve the perplexing servant ques tion by importing white women from countries in Europe to take the place of lazy and unsatisfactory negroes. Byron H. H. D. Hooft, asent of invest ment companies of the Netherlands. Belgium and France, was recently in Savannah to arrange for the location of a colony from the Netherlands. It is planned for the colonists to bring sufficient women with them to take the place of colored women. The negroes are unfit or unwilling to work on the farms, while their women are equal failures in the homes. Not With Anti-Saloon Leagne. PORTLAND, July 16. (To the Edi tor.) I notice that you refer to J. F. Burke as "superintendent of the Anti Saloon League" vouching for J. T. Wilson as a La Follette and a Roose velt man. May I correst this Item? I am not superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League and have no official connec tion with it at the present time. It is against the policy of the AntiSaloon League to participate in any partisan movement whatever, and had I oc cupied the position of state superin tendent, or any other official position with the Anti-Saloon League, I could not have consistently participated in the meeting of the Progressive League. H. L. Sheldon is superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League and in fairness to him and the position of the Anti Saloon League, I trust you will cor rect this item either by publication of this letter or otherwise. Punishment I Transferred. Today's Magazine. The fact that corporal punishment is discouraged in the public schools of Chicago is what led Bobby's teacher to address this note . to the boy's mother: Dear Madam I regret very much to have to tell you that your son, Robert, Idles away his time, is isobedient, quarrelsome and disturbs the pupils who are trying to study their lessons. He needs a good whipping and I strongly recommend that you give him one Yours truly, MISS BLANK. To this Bobby's mother responded as follows: Dear Miss Blank Lick him your self I ain't mad at him. Yours truly, MRS. DASH. Renaming tbe Month. FORT LINCOLN, N. D July 10. (To the Editor.) Will you please state if you do or do not think the world should vnnnpino- the ancient heathen deity Janus after whom the first month is CalleO i WOUia it nt wo uonw w call it the month of Saint Paul? July and August are so named in honor of Julius and Augustus Caesar. Why should not February be changed to Washington? September, October, November and December are so named from the Latin for 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th, and could be more fittingly named. For Decem ber the word Peace would be better. Would it be as well to honor Shakes peare aB Juno? p K. B. WHEATLEY. State Law on Game of Chance. Indianapolis News. From the state tax on games of chance. Including the tax on the total izator, the machine which registers race-track bets, the French government receives about $1,500,000 a year. The Snln Want "Straight Stuff." Baltimore American. Switzerland Is to put the ban on all artificial wines and ciders, beginning next year. The Summer Pest Br Dean Collins BY DEAN COIJ.INS. It was a shining Summer day. When people to the parkways swarm; It's never hot In Oregon, But still thi day wa doggone warm. I found my friend shut in hi room. Immersed in solitude and gloom. Com out! You 11 melt, cooped up mil way." I cried. He merely mumbled, "Nay." Again I spake: "Your hiding leave. Tl far too warm to stay insiae, Cooped In a narrow, stuffy room And washed by perspiration s lice. Come out and go upon a lark Within the cool and shady park." He mopped his moist and steaming brow. And grumbled sullenly, "Not now." "The world," I cried, "is gay and free; The mercury is on the wing; The iceman watches it with Joy And cries, 'Atn t it the tncKsy thin?' Come out and watch the pavement run Like sticky syrup, 'neath the sun." He merely shook his neaa a pit And narled in sullen accents, "Nit." "Come out." I cried, "for pleasures rare wait on eacn curDotunc o uwjui 1 I r Ulllie, Where ice cream cones are placed on saie, , , Wherein Is melted cream to drink; 'TnAi imnari' the hucksters spiel. .v .......- - T 4 ellnOii lemon Del. Come out and Join the Summer sport," "Nix, he expioaea, wun a enm t. "Why stay you here?" I asked amazed. "Is It in fear some deadly foe May land upon you suddenly If you Into the open go? Tell me the secret of your dread.' He raised his heavy eye and ald. Swiping his hanky o'er said eye: "I'll tell you, friend, the reason why. "I swelter here and yearn to roam In the cool park and shady wood; . But fear the pest that lurks about . i . c.n.ma nelo-hhnrhnnd. 1 no caiiuciiL ...o "The pest?" I gasped. He frowned in gloom. "An hundred wait outside this room. Who'll bleat, as soon as me tney v.owi 'Hey, is it hot enough for you?' Portlana, juiy ao. Half a Century Ago From The Oregonian of July IT. 1SS2. . . i wriiini, from Denver City under date of June 18 to a frlena in this city says: "There is a perfect stampede for the new mines on Sal mon River; everybody gone and going. I hear there are irom au.uw w v,v people going to Oregon from the At- 0.- T la aurnrlslnor to See lanuu Dww -. ' '-- - the wagons on the plains; the road is covered lor miles ana mne. i beats all that I ever saw before, and this is the fourth time that I have crossed the plains." The Carson City Silver Age publishes annnunt- nf the dASDeratS u. 11 1: 1 11.1 1 iiv. ebvu..- - - - character of a man by the name or Slade, who is employed as esc". a division of the Overland Stage Route. He Is said to be the terror of all the settlers and the dislike of all the driv ers end station keepers on his division. He has the reputation of having killed 15 or 16 persons last Summer, ana those that he is known to hive killed since will increase the number to 20 persons. The County Commissioners' Court ot Multnomah County has appointed Mr. William Grooms Coroner for the coun ty. Washington. July 6. A dispatch from McClellan to the War Depart ment, dated 1 o'clock A. M.. July 4. says: "No fighting since Tuesday night, when the enemy were repulsed with great slaughter. The position now occupied affords superior advan- 1 -veneration With the gUn- boats, of which 17 are now in the river, protecting our flanks. Our force were not beaten in any conflict. No gun have been lost since the 2ith. when McCall's division was overwhelmed ana 25 pieces feel into the hands of the enemy." Baltimore, July 7. The Richmond Dispatch announces the death of Stone wall Jackson and Barnwell Rhett. Gen eral Longstreet was wounded. New York, July 9. Burnside's entire army has formed a Junction with Mc Clellan's army. Chicago, July 8. A dispatch from Vicksburg, dated the 2d, says Farra gut's fleet was repulsed on Saturday after a fight of two hours. At the M. E. Church last evening large audience assembled to hear the address of Hon. J. C. Wilson, of Salem, to the students of the Female Semi nary. The exercises of the evening were opened with prayer by Rev. Mr. Dillon and closed with the benediction by Rev. Mr. Caffrey. The Council elected O. Rlsley City Assessor last night Steam Shovel Unearth Indian Skull. Baltimore Evening Sun. Operations were suspended for a tim on the roadbed of the Southern New England Railway, near Providence. R. I , when the scoop of a steam shovel came up with seven skulls and other human bones. An Investigation re vealed the fact that the shovel had dug into a burial ground dating bacK previous to the landing of Roger Wil liams and used as a cemetery by th Narragansett Indians and their des cendants. Let' Have the Answer. Pittsburgh Post. An early campaign orator was ad dressing a small' crowd over on the South Side the other evening. "This high cost of living is a serloua question," he bawled. Nobody disputed that, "It's a great question." vociferated the orator, " a very serious question indeed." . "We know it's a question, yelled a man at this point. "What's the an swer?" It 1 Eawy Selling Now. Minneapolis Journal. Senator Penrose, at a luncheon at the Auditorium in Chicago, told the follow ing story about an office seaker: "I hear you've got a Government Job now," one man said to another. The other answered gaily: "That's what." The first man gave an envious sigh and asked: "Is it hard work?" "Not after you get it ' was the reply. Tons; Leader to Live In Chin. New York Express. Mock Duck, the most widely-known of Chinese tong leaders in this coun try, has decided to retire- from his activities and will sail for China in a few weeks to spend the rest of his life at ease on an estate near his birth place. He has been the bead of the Hip Sing in New York for twenty years. With him will go Wong Geth. his partner In various commercial and gambling enterprises. HI First Rallromd Ride at 81. Columbus. O., Cor. Alphus Wood, aged 81 years, a prom inent farmer, and hig daughter, Mrs. John Elliott, residing near Marysvllle, Ohio, took their first ride on a passen ger train when they went to Kenton.