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I-OFTL4XD, TVESDAY. JCLY 21. 1"
BACK TO THE FRltiAL LIFE.
We denounce the profligate waste of
money wrung from tha paop.e by oppr
tv. taxation, through the lavish appro
priations of recent Republican cn"l
which have kept taxes high and reduced
the purchasing power of the . people ""jj
V. demand that return to simplicity ana
eonomy which befits a democratic gov
ernment and a reduction In the numbe of
useless offices, the salaries of which drain
the substance of the people. From the
Democratic National platform of mi
The triumphant Democratic return
to the wavs of simplicity and econ
omy is being achieved by the present
Democratic Congress in the form of
the greatest appropriations ever made
by arty session of Congress. Demo
cratic promises are of course more
resonant than sincere.
The current appropriation bill will
exceed $1,100,000,000. The largest
nrevlous bill, made by the wasteful
and nrofligate Republicans, did r
-eh 1 ion 000.000. Nearly every
it. 1 increased. Rivers and har
bors alone makes a jump from $41,
00.000 to $53,000,000. Everywhere
there la larger expenditure; nowhere
Je there a consistent and efficient ef
fort to reduce the burden of "oppres-
tr taxation" which is "wrung irom
the neoDle." .
Tt.it what la to be expected of an
Administration so little regardless of
the DeoDle's money that it proposes
to make an outright gift of $25,000.
000 to Colombia, so as to silence the
Markmalllng clamor of that puny-
republic?
BOOSING A VOCATION.
tn the nrofesslonal theory and
practice of education there is one point
particularly difficult lor laymen to
understand. Several points arc diffi
cult, bat this one Is particularly diffi
cult'. We refer to the venerable pre
cept that the best way for a youth to
educate himself In any given subject
4. tn rtiidv something else. Thus If
he desires to become a musician, let
him study Latin. If he would make
himself an expert In the lives and
habits, both good and bad, of Insects,
he must devote himself to mathe
matics. And so on.
Never, never should a young person
ever study the subject he wants to
learn. If he doea his mind will be
come flabby, his brain will wither up
like the flower when It Is cut down
and his mental energies will utterly
evunnratp On the other hand. If the
ambitious youth who wants to win
renown as an architect, for example.
xmII diligently apply his mind to the
study of cuneiform inscriptions he
will acquire such aji affluence of men
tal power that the rules and practice
of his particular specialty will be
mere child's play to him. The same
principle applies to every- other voca
tion. Always begin preparing for
your chosen one by studying some
other.
This is .the educational rule at pres
ent followed in most of our orthodox
colleges, and it has the hearty ap
proval of the older type of teachers.
The economic basis upon which they
have built the system Is plain enough.
They have laboriously constructed a
course f study and made themselves
expert teachers of it. A great deal of
time and money has been Invested in
the established routine. The profes
sors have spent years of their lives
and Immense effort to train them
selves In its rites. Should they admit
that their pudding Is not a universal
mental food suited to every Intellec
tual stomach and satisfying every' rea
sonable desire for education It would
be the same as if a quack doctor were
to confess that his nostrum might
fail In certain diseases. This, of
course, no Judicious quack would ever
do. The Outlook for July 18 pub
lishes an article which undermines
the very foundations of this highly
respectable educational theory- It Is
entitled "The Importance of Being
Interested." and Its author is H. Ad
dington Bruce.
Mr. Bruce makes clear to the read
er one truth that ought to be shouted
from the housetops. This truth is
tba youth will do more hard intel
lectual work anu acquire more solid
Intellectual fiber by studying a branch
that interests him than by trying to
study one that he detests. The old
maxim. study sometning mat jou
hate." fares badly at his iconoclastic
hands. His doctrine is. "study some
thing that you like and the chances of
your making a success of yourself are
doubled and trebled." Nor does Mr.
Bruce depend on mere abstract logic
for his arguments. He draws some
powerful ones from the biographies
of greatly successful men. The early
history' at such characters has been
pretty uniform, no matter what their
vocation may have been. They began
life with an unmistakable bent for a
particular subject and that bent they
followed at all costs and hazards.
Some of them, like Charles Darwin,
were temporarily diverted from their
natural Interest by one cause or an
other and the consequence was invar
iably bad. Darwin narrowly escaped
Intellectual ruin by studying .subjects
that his mind abhorred. If the cur
rent educational theory were correct
he ought to have been profoundly
benefited, but he was not. All the
great musicians have devoted them
selves to their art from early years.
Mozart Is the shining example of this
truth, but the others were like him.
though few were so wonderfully pre
cocious. Painters and sculptors, math
ematicians and linguists, preachers
and orators of the first rank have
almost Invariably chosen their voca
tion in boyhood and stuck to it with
all their energy, often In spite of par
entral opposition and the counsels of
foolish friends.
Mr. Bruce quotes Harelock Ellia'
astonishing figures which show that
out of a thousand eminent British
men and women more than SOO were
markedly "precocious." This means
that they showed In very early youth
a distinct liking for a certain vocation
and carried out their preference
against all opposition. An Interesting
point In the case is that, although
they devoted themselves steadfastly to
music, natural history, mathematics,
architecture or what not from boy
hood to old age, their health did not
suffer. The inevitable conclusion is
that the early choice of a vocation
not only makes success more certain
than It would be under the ordinary
educational practice, but that It also
makes for health and long life.
WATER AND ITS DANGERS.
Water Is an indispensable element
of life and a universal agent of com
mer.ee. But it is also among the com
monest instrumentalities of accident
and death. It appears to be impos
sible to impress the general public
with the axiom that water drowns.
Within a few days there have been
many deaths from drowning in and
near Portland. Primarily the reasons
of such deaths are that the victims
cannot swim. But it is a strange fact
also that the expert swimmer acquires
somehow the idea that he cannot, or
will not, drown, and he takes many
chances. He has become so familiar
ized with the risks of this sport that
he forgets them, it is true that many,
perhaps most, professional swimmers
end their careers by trying the Im
possible In the water.
But the majority of deaths from
ilron-ninp crimp from the ranks of the
.. ,l ln,vn,riiinreil The
river is daily tenanted by hundreds of
men and women, in boats and canoes,
or in swimming, who would be utterly
helpless in case of accident. Why
will they run such risks?
It is the duty of every parent to
teach his children to swim or cause
it to be done. It is the duty of every
person to stay away from the water,,
unless of course he is in safe hands,
if he cannot swim. The young man
who. unable to swim well, takes a
young woman or any friend on the
river. In a boat or canoe, tempts
Providence.
WILL BEAUTY SAVE?
Were the trial of Madame Cail
laux laid in this country instead of
France it would not be difficult to
predict the outcome with a fair de
gree of accuracy. The American
jurors' susceptibilities are touched by
a beautiful defendant, particularly
when her crime is the outgrowth of
what they conceive to be an overt act
against her reputation. The Ameri
can public, on the other hand, while
prone to applaud an acquittal under
the various forms of unwritten law.
with strange inconsistence thereafter
makes life as miserable as possible
for the acquitted. Mark Twain's story
in the Gilded Age of the reception of
Laura as a lecturer after her acquit
tal of murder is one of his visualizing
conceptions of human nature as It
flourishes In America. It has in spirit
if not in form been duplicated In real
life In the case of Nan Patterson and
others.
Madame Caillaux' f"te In France
will depend largely upon whether the
French Jurors possess similar emo
tional tendencies. There can hardly
be doubt that the murder Was pre
meditated, as we conceive premedita
tion. Here her only possible de
fense would be emotional insanity.
There, too, "brain storm" as a plaus
ible defense Is not overlooked by the
astute criminal lawyer.
In the conduct of the trial one
marked difference between French
and American criminal procedure will
be observed in the empaneling of the
jury. The story of the Caillaux hear
ing reads succinctly that after the
Jury had been drawn by lot in a pri
vate room the trial began. In as
important a case In America the
examination of Jurors would drag
along perhaps for weeks. Testi
mony in France is also obtained
by more direct methods. But the
French lawyer is not deprived of re
course to technicalities. Resource
fulness makes a name there in crimi
nal practice as well as here. The
name of Fernand Labor! is as well
known to American newspaper read
ers as that of any criminal lawyer of
their own country-
THE SENATE'S FARCICAL SECRECY.
The Senate has been making a
great pother because it cannot keep
its own secrets. It was Inexpressibly-
shocked when some of the proceed
ings before the foreign relations com
mittee in regard to the Colombian
and Nlcaraguan treaties leaked out
and has adopted a resolution Instruct
ing that committee to find the leak.
Senator Galllnger mortltled nis
highly indignant colleague, Senator
Stone, of Missouri, by recalling that
he had once been appointed on a
committee to conduct a similar inves
tigation and that the committee had
never been called together. He sug
gested as the reason that the chair
man or the members knew many such
inquiries had been held with no re-
ults and that there was no use in
having another. He predicted that
the proposed Inquiry would meet the
same fate, saying:
It will amuse the country a little; the
newspapers will have some new text to ex
ploit the futility of the Senate in discover
ing leaks that happen somewnere ana in
some wav and that must come from this
chamber: they cannot come from any other
source.
He did not believe that any Senator
deliberately and Intentionally dis
closed the secrets of executive ses
sions, but he thought newspaper cor
respondents pieced together sugges
tions obtained from different Senators.
Notwithstanding this frank confes
sion from one of its oldest members,
the Senate ordered the inquiry. It
did so in spite of the statement of a
veteran correspondent that he had
heard a Senator denounce the man
who had given the correspondent cer
tain information, the Senator himself
having been his informant.
Senator Borah has asked the Sen
ate to do away with this time-honored
humbug. He has moved that the
two treaties be considered in open
session. He is a member of the for
eign relations committee, but has ab
sented himself from its sessions In
order to keep clear of any pledge of
secrecy as to the Information he pos
seases. He threatened to make pub
lic what he has learned by personal
inquiry about the Nicaraguan treaty
unless the Senate permitted open de
bate, and was deaf to the pleas of the
horrified Senator Stone. He said he
could show that the treaty was "based
upon deception, misrepresentation,
fraud and corruption."
Mr. Stone expatiated at length on
the necessity of secrecy in diplomatic
affairs, blind to the fact that this
secrecy has already been violated In
the cases under discussion. In view
of the fact that the Senate cannot
preserve the secrecy it pretends, what
is the use of the pretense? The Co-
lombian treaty has not yet been made
public by the Senate, but it has been
published in the Diario Official of Co
lombia and in Paris. Then where is
the secrecy? Mr. Stone says no treaty
has been made with Nicaragua; Mr.
Bryan has merely consulted the com
mittee about a tentative draft. But
that draft has been published. He
strives to keep secret the testimony
taken by the committee, but Senator
Smith has related In open Senate the
story of the financial deals Involved,
and the bunkers concerned have given
their version.
The Senate's secrecy has proved a
mockery. It serves no purpose except
to shield those who make public frag
mentary, biased accounts of proceed
ings with the purpose to promote
their own ends or because they can
not prevent their tongues from wag
ging. Secrecy may be desirable in
diplomacy, but unless it Is absolute
the broadest publicity Is preferable.
A DIKEllOM LOST.
A tepid wave of gossip about Will
iam Waldorf Astor has overflowed
the New York newspapers. That emi
nent millionaire long ago renounced
his American citizenship and became
a British subject with a residence in
the London neighborhood most
thickly populated with Dukes. It was
his ambition to become a Duke him
self all In good time. To further this
laudable desire Mr. Astor became a
Tory in politics and acquired two Tory
newspapers. The reasons for these
moves
are not obscure. Toryism is
supposed to lead more directly to
dukedoms than. Liberalism does, for
one thing, while, as everybody knows,
the surest mode of ingratiating one
self with royalty and the aristocracy
and thu paving the highway to rank
and title is to do the reactionary
party a service. With his two news
papers and his inflated pocketbook
Mr. Astor has been doing service for
years, always with the glittering re
ward dangling before his eyes like the
famous wisp of hay before the mule.
But the wronged and betrayed mule
never got the hay and Mr. Astor
seems likely to miss his dukedom for
good and all. For reasons not dis
closed to the public he has sold his
Tory" organs in hot haste. Cf course
that means that his hopes are blasted.
The ingenious New York papers ex
plain the sudden catastrophe by a
fishy story that William Waldorf is
angry with his son's wife. This dame
has a shrewish tongue and some of
her peppery remarks seem to have
stung the holder of the money bags.
Out of revenge William Waldorf has
decreed that his son shall never be a
Duke, and to compass that frightful
sentence he must of course renounce
the hope of a dukedom for himself.
Thus doth destiny blast the pride
of man and topple to ruin the towers
of his ambition. We trust that Mr.
Astor does not miss the obvious les
son of his tragedy. True happiness
for an American millionaire is to
be found in a useful life at home
and not In snobbish apery of British
aristocrats.
ANOTHER RAILROAD WRECKED.
If the statements made in the
House by Representative Townsend,
of New Jersey, are correct, the Wa
bash Pittsburg Terminal Railway
Company's security-holders have been
the victims of manipulation only less
in enormity than those of the New
Haven road. This case differs radi
cally from that of the New Haven In
methods pursued, but the result Is the
same enormous depreciation of the
securities.
The Wabash Pittsburg Terminal
owns a valuable road connecting
Pittsburg with the Wabash system,
had contracts with the Wabash lines
which should have been lucrative,
and possesses many thousand acres
of coal land in the Pittsburg district.
In 1904 It sold i per cent bonds to
the amount of more than $30,000,000
at 90 and 92 cents on the dollar,
among the purchasers being many in
surance companies and savings banks.
Mr. Townsend charges that this com
pany seems to have been deliberately
wrecked. He tells of the means In
these words:
The freight contracts entered into with
the railroads were denounced, claims were
lodged asainst Its securities, complicated
legal proceedings designed to frighten bond
holders were threatened or begun, freight
was diverted from its railroad lines, the
Wabash Railroad withdrew its care, lease
of the subsidiary company's coal mines was
abrogated, products of the mines were
shipped over rival roads, and on after an
other those apparently having both the
power and the purpose of wrecking ttto
company proceeded to exerciso that power,
and the purpose was accomplished. Both
the Pittsburg Terminal Railway Company
and the Wheeling St Lake Erie were thrown
into the hands or a receiver; defrauded
bondholders organized a protective commit
tee, ostensibly in their Interests, and the
V received deposits of a large ma
jority of the bonds. This first committee
did nothing for two years, and a second
bondholdens' movement was started. But
through some means which it would be In
teresting to have cleared up both of these
committees appeared to be under the control
of interests unfriendly to the bond owners.
In consequence of these manipula
tions the bonds were recently sold on
the New York Stock Exchange at 7 hi
cents on the dollar. If what Mr.
Townsend says is true, the insurance
companies and savings banks, in
which are the savings of thousands,
have been defrauded. Mr. Townsend
has introduced a resolution instruct
ing the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion to examine into the affairs of
this wrecked company. It should be
adopted not only In the Interest of the
wronged bondholders, but of the peo
ple who are again thrown into the
power of the Pennsylvania Railroad
and of all honest railroad men who
are brought Into disrepute by such
crimes.
A TEST OF HONESTY.
Hearsay evidence is of great value
In some quarters. It now moves the
Pendleton East Oregonlan to support
the assertions accompanying the
$1500 exemption law that notes and
accounts are exempt in most coun
ties. "Multnomah County Is the
chief county In the state exempting
this property," says the Impression
able East Oregonian. "We know
that because more than one Umatilla
man has moved to Portland to escape
taxation on his notes."
However conclusive somebody's
professed excuse for leaving salu
brious Umatilla County may be, The
Oregonian prefers to rely on state
reports. The State Tax Commission
has published for distribution certain
tables which give tax statistics. One
of them, compiled from the assess
ment rolls of the several counties,
segregates the different classes of
property as taxed In each county.
In this table there Is one column
devoted to money and another to
notes and accounts. Foot notes dis
close that some counties list notes
and accounts under money; some
combine money with notes and ac
counts; some list the two classes
separately. But the table show con-
cluslvely, if the tax rolls and the
State Tax Commission are to be be
lieved, that notes and accounts are
taxed in thirty-two of the thirty
four counties of the state. In Mult
nomah County, where money and
notes and accounts are listed together,
the total on this class of property
for 1913 was $11,343,450. Two small
counties, and two only, Columbia and
Wheeler, do not tax them at all.
The total amount of money, notes
and accounts listed for taxation in
Oregon is, according to the official
table mentioned, nearly $20,000,000.
The exact figures are $19,S65,362.
A somewhat similar class of prop
erty Is shares of stock. They are on
the Assessors' books of the state at
a total value of $15,278,159. Money,
notes and accounts and shares of
stock called "rich men's property"
by the single taxers are on the
assessment rolls at $35,143,531. This
total Is In excess of the assessed
value of all the livestock, farm Im
plements, wagons and carriages in
Oregon. It exceeds the total assessed
value of segregated improvements on
land, aside from Improvements on
town and city lots.
The man who has a strong sense of
justice in his make-up will be con
tent with the present fair distribu
tion of the tax burden and he will turn
his attention to measures designed
to reduce the cost of government
rather than to sniffings and evasions.
A vote on the $1500 exemption Is a
test of honesty amo g those who
make Investigation.
The Green Bag. a law magazine,
says in a curious article on the strug
gle between the early Christians and
the Roman Emperors, that a strictly
legal way for a convert to escape per
secution was to procure a certificate
from a magistrate stating that he had
"poured libations, sacrificed and tast
ed the offerings." These certificates
were procurable much in the same
way as a "booze prescription" in a
dry town and were even more useful.
They form an Interesting commentary
on some of Paul's letters.
Those who pooh-pooh the agitation
for rural credit legislation on the
ground that farmers "can borrow all
the money they need on reasonable
terms" may profitably peruse the
prospectus of the American Rural
Credit Association. This thin pam
phlet states among other facts that
our 12,000.000 farmers are paying an
average of S per cent on $6,040,-
000,000 of borrowed money. The
profits of farming do not justify such
a burden of interest.
The season for forest fires is upon
us. The danger is greater tins cum
mer than usual because there has
been so little rain. Everything is as
dry as tinder. The least spark may
start a blaze and destroy life and
property. The high wind that blows
for hours almost every day makes
matters worse. Under these condi
tions carelessness is a crime. Camp
ers in the woods should leave no
spark to smolder and spread. Smok
ers should be on their guard.
Since all the alleged dynamiters are
in jail, the Chinese company building
an Army hospital in Hawaii will be
unmolested. It would have been bet
ter, however, if an American firm
did the work, even if It cost more.
The chances are that, if Diogenes
came to earth again in pursuance of
his search for an honest man. he
would not even go near the National
Capital and the straight-forward Mr.
Thompson would be overlooked.
To sit on the track and await death
by a train must require a nerve that
ought to assure a man ability to keep
on living, but it is a queer world and
the one little yellow spot sometimes is
In the most important place.
Big league players are determined
to be costly If they are neia to oe
chattels. The threat to close ball
parks Is idle. Fans are entitled to
consideration, and that action will
create Federal opportunity.
The inventor of the phrase, "It's
just one darned thing after another,"
must be a native of the Gulf region.
With the dread of yellow fever gone,
bubonic plague comes as a distressing
clement.
The editor of the Stuttgart Schwa
bische Zeitung, who was thrashed for
five minutes Sunday by two women,
can get even with the sex by taking
it out of his wife. If he has one.
The burglars who raided the home
of the head of the Union Meat Com
pany showed a sagacity that deserves
special mention. Their first operation
was on the pantry, of course.
If Joseph Knowles' experiment
should succeed, the adventurous boys,
who would in other days have gone to
kill Indians, will take to the woods
clothed "in the altogether."
Home rule Is not yet for Ireland.
The King's command for a confer
ence as if there were anything about
which to confer makes the prospect
gloomy.
There is no danger that Mexico will
find life dull and uninteresting so
long as Zapata continues his continuous-performance
revolution.
Now the Idaho Northern has been
completed to Payette Like, access will
be easy to a grand Summer resort for
the dweller at tidewater.
Several thousand fans will watch
the news from San Francisco late to
day, and the margin is too small for
comfort.
Some legislator-elect should exer
cise his brain in devising a punish
ment for the fool who rocks the boat.
Here's hoping the good health the
National Guard gained during the
maneuvers is not purely theoretical.
The man who preferred "nit" un
derwear a day or two ago hastened to
put the "k" Into it yesterday.
Moving-picture men can get a good
film by shooting all that First Nation
al money In transit shortly.
Hint to the housewife: The gro
ceryman has a day off tomorrow and
he deserves it.
It is a sign of good times when our
old friend. Car Shortage, appears on
the scenes.
Now Is the time for the forest fire
patrol to prove Its efficiency.
Half a Century Ago
From The Oregonian of July 21, 1S64.
A complimentary dinner was tender
ed by Thomas Smith, of the Empire,
to Captain Olney and his command at
The Dalles on Monday. During the de
tachment's first dress parade on the
same day a flag was presented by Mrs.
Berry on behalf of the ladies of The
Dalles.
Christopher C. Hewitt. Chief Justice
of Washington Territory, returned re
cently from Washington. Having form
erly been a resident of Illinois, he was
well acquainted with the President and
passed many hours with him. Uncle
Abe was as fond as ever of relating
stories and uttering quaint sayings.
A politician from Washington Terri
tory, whom the President and Judge
Hewitt both knew, had been a constant
caller at the White House to solicit
some favor, but had all at once ceased
his visits and bored the President no
longer. Soon after Hewitt met the
President, when the latter remarked:
"Where is your friend? I haven't seen
his auger around here for some time."
Lieutenant C. A Emery, of the Ninth
Infantry, who went East to take Ridge
ley Greathouse to Fort Lafayette, has
been attached to the staff of General
Meade with the rank of Lieutenant
Colonel. The State Teachers' Institute will
meet in Albany on August 2. Miss Bell
of Salem, and Mrs. Godley of Albany,
will furnish the music
Rev. I. D. Driver of Corvallis. will
deliver the address at the State Fair.
New York, July 19. A Niagara
Falls telegram says: C. C. Clay of
Alabama, Jacob Thompson of Missis
sippi. Beverly Tucker of Virginia and
George N. Sanders are at that pluce
devising a basis of action for the Chi
cago convention which shall end the
war and secure a triumph to the Demo
cratic partv. The propositions are be
lieved to be as follows: The return
of the seceded states to the Union;
the assumption of the Confederate
riPht- the recognition of the slaves
actually emancipated In the progress
of the war and the status quo ante
bellum as to all others.
New York. July 19. The Tribune's
special says: Sunday evening our
forces were seven miles beyond
Stroutsburg in pursuit of the rebels,
who are making rapid time up the
Shenandoah Valley towards Staunton.
New York, July 19. The Herald's
James River correspondent, under dato
of July 14, says that the rebejs shelled
General R. B. Foster's headquarters at
Steep Bottom that day for more than
an hour, une range was o &--utn
that the headquarters were moved
seven times. A number of shells went
through the general's tent. They also
opened fire on a gunboat and the pon
toon bridge. The gunboat returned the
fire and soon silenced the battery.
Grant was having an interview with
Foster when the shelling took place.
Atlanta, July 13. The enemy are
re-crossing the Chattahoochie on the
right in the rear of Roseville. A por
tion of the Yankee army is on the
south side of the river.
San Fran'-isco, July 20. A dis
patch from Rldgeley Greathouse, of
Chapman piracy notoriety, announces
his escape from Fort Lafayette into
Canada.
Ran Francisco. July 2n. Yesterday's
private telegrams say It is reported that
Atlanta Is capturea.
A very handsome specimen of gold
bearing quartz was on exhibition at the
Dennlson House yesteruay. wnicn waa
taken from a late discovery tn the
Eagle Creek mountains, Baker County.
Married In, Pacific County. W. T,
at the residence of the bride's father
on the 13th inst.. by Hon. John Briscoe.
Henry K. Stevens and Miss Annie
Wirt.
The Imperial Standard Mills, among
the finest on the Pacific Coast, are
situated at Oregon City and have lately
passed from Daniel Harvey to Mr. La
Rocque of Butteville. for $31,000.
Savior, Burnside & Co., of this city,
purchased a half interest.
The Portland fruit market is at
present supplied with the choice varie
ties of early harvest apples.
NO DESIRK TO SELL PROPERTY
African M. E. Church M--h IVanta
Place to Wortiliip, Snys I'astnr.
PORTLAND. July 20. (To the Edi
tor.) Please allow me a little space
to repudiate a few statements that
have been made against the officers
and members of the A. M. E. Zion
Church, df this fity. I noticed In The
Oregonian a few days ago that certain
Individuals in the neighborhood of
First and Halsey street, where we now
arc preparing to erect a new church,
accused us of attempting blackmail,
and that we were buying property in
districts not desired in order to specu
late and make money out of said deal.
Such statemepts are untrue. We are
only trying to erect a place of worship
for ourselves and havo not at any time
been actuated by any other motive.
Neither are we wanting to sell our
present holdings, and If by any re
mark let fall by any official of this
church anyone has been led to believes
that we were desirous of selling. It Is a
gross error and misinterpretation of
our intentions.
We have no desire to be a menace
to the comfort and tranquillity of any
one in this city and trust that wc may
only have the same consideration at
the hands of the public as other Ameri
can citizens.
We are not loud Holy Rollers or a
boisterous mission outfit holding mid
night services until the wee hours of
the morning, but we worship and sing
and pray as Intelligently as any of the
congregations of the city.
W. S. DREW.
Pastor steward. A M. E. Zlon Church.
Lay of the Parlor Cave Man
By Dean Colllua.
In days of old. when men grew bold.
And came down from the trees.
And through the forests, uncontrolled
They roamed as they mignt please.
Their garb was mere, plain atmos
phere. They had no soap nor match.
And had they one. It Is clear
They had no place to scratch.
But In the woods, sans earthy goods,
They lived a carefree round,
And scrambled for their livelihoods
About the mossy ground;
While men today In dire dismay
Would shrink from such a life.
With ne'er a grocer's bill to pay.
No pants nor pocket knife.
Some few brave souls, like Joseph
Knowles
May dare the forest rough;
The rest disdain the timber boles
And back to nature stuff.
And I admit, when pressed to it.
Though wild my life may be,
I never felt impelled to flit
Shy of my B. V. D.
My
heart
rough with caveman
stuff.
Primordial my soul;
But when somebody calls the bluff,
My name's not on the roll.
I like the wild, harsh mountains, piled
Where rugged scenes entrance;
But more I like my bathroom tiled,
My shoes, my soap, my pants.
HINDI POET SEEKING ENTRANCE
One of India's Ret Writers Imnng 400
ImmlirrnntR at Vancouver.
PORTLAND. July 20. (To the Edi
tor.) Royenda Ranet Is one of the
best writers in India He is one of the
400 Hindus that are coming to Canada.
If the English government drives those
400 Hindus back to India he is going to
make a talk to the English people In
India He is the author of the book
entitled, "How Long Are 20,000
Englishmen Going to Rule Over 400,
000,000 Hindus?"
In introducing this writer to the
American readers. I shall translate in
prose one of his poems, which Is "The
Mother and Her Child." which happens
to be the only writing of his which
we have In our possession at the pres
ent time.
The Mother and Hrr Child."
A little boy asked his mother once,
saying: "Mamma, where was I and
whence I came, and how did you find
me?" Gently the mother kissed her
little boy, and smiled.
"You were in my heart," she said, "the
essence of its pleasure, and you were
with me when 1 was a little girl, when
I used to play outside in the dust and
mouUl images tn the semblance of
those my father worshiped. So you
were in my imagination when I
was a little playful girl and you
were in the very same temple of my
family, and I used to worship you
whenever I used to go in to worship.
You were living in my hope and love,
and in the llfo of my mother. You
were nursed many, many centuries ago
by the immortal spirit that reigns over
our tribe. You were a dream of a
sweetheart that passed before my
vision at night, and when 1 waked up
I found you flying around me like a
little bird, and now for fear that you
might go away from me, 1 stretch my
arm around you and ask, 'Oh. what
charm or secret power would haply
strengthen my feeble arms to keep this
valuable treasure!'
"The End.
"The ship of death is lifting anchor,
mamma, and I am going to sail aw.iy;
good-bye! When the night throws his
dark wings and the whole world is dim
and dark, and you stretch your arms
to And your sleeping boy, you will hear
a voice from behind the darkness, say
ing, 'Your boy la here no more.' I
shall become a gentle brecxe after my
departure, and I shall klBS you when
ever I blow lu the dawn, and I shall
be the waves of the water that sur
round your body, when you bathe, and
shall kiss you with every ripple of the
water, and when the wintry wind
blows bard, and the drops of the ram
fall on the leaves of the trees, and you
are in your bed, listen, and you will
hear my voice in the wind: look and
you will see my smile flash In the
lightning, and If you watch the night.
wailing and thinking of your missing
boy, 1 shall let you hear my singing
above the stars: "Sleep, mamma, O
mamma, sleep.'
"And when the full moon sheds his
light. I shall slide down his silvery
beams and enter your room, rest upon
your bosom and lull you to sleep. And
I shall be a dream and lind my way
through your closing lids until 1 come
to the chamber of your heart, and If I
frighten you and you wake suddenly,
look and you will see me a firefly
humming around you in the darkness.
And in the holy day of Jalyla. when
the children of tho street gather around
tho . house with their instruments, I
shall become the harmony of their
songs, and I shall touch your heart to
1111 it with Joy..
"My aunt may come to visit you on
this holiday, in her hand the present
that she often brings me: she will ask
you, saying, 'Sister, where Is your boy?'
Mamma, answer her gently, 'he Is. In
the pupil of my eyes and in my mortal
body and In my immortal soul.' "
NAJIH KHI'RV.
VARIOUS ISES MADE OK N FILM
Complaint Made I'hnt It Dorin'l tt
Furn Backbone of Public Men.
Kansas City Star.
Concrete was used by the Humane
who also Invented the celebrated
Roman nose, which Is still used with
such great success. Concrete is com
posed of cement and broken stone,
which are mixed with water by a tired
man in overalls and a red flannel shirt
and converted into a sort of geological
Irish stew. The mess Is then atuf fed
into a wooden mould and when it dries
it is so hard that when time attempts
to nibble It with Its Justly famous
tooth is has to go to the dentist with
a low shriek of agony.
The Romans wasted their concrete
building bridges, coliseums and ro..i
Had they built their emperors of this
material they would have been more
durable and tho empire WOUld hnv
lasted longer. A re-enforced concrete
emperor wolld have been less fatal to
the populace, while tha sight of a
Praetorian guard pecking away at the
impenetrable crushed stone ttiorav of
his ruler with a valuable sword In
an effort to create a vacancy on the
throne would have been highly divert
ing. Nowadays concrete is- used uitli Ere.it
success in building houses, skyscrapers.
bridges, baseball parks, pavements,
sidewalks, wormlesa tombs, boats, arti
ficial legs, telegraph poles, water tanks,
artificial pipes, false teeth, cathedrals,
smokestacks and eating-house sand
wiches. Concrete has. In fact, become
the most useful thing In the world, and
many a mountain which has only been
an obstruction to traffic will be ground
up In the next few years and sold in
sacks to men who have cities to build.
Thomas Edison has recently Invented
a method by which concrete houses can
be poured to order by two strong men
while the family is unpacking the fur
nlture. This will be a great boon, and
before long we may expect to buy our
house at the store by the gallon and
to draw a cute little Queen Anne
garage out of a faucet and take It
home in a pall.
Concrete, re-enforced with steel. Is
the strongest material yet Invented;
but science thus far is only building
bridges and skyscrapers with It and
has not yet used It In providing prac
tlcal backbones for public men. When
this has been accomplished the grade
of statesmen available will be vastly
Improved and the old stylo office
holder with the gutta percha spinal
column will wabble into oblivion along
with the wooden hotel.
Cotton Staple Cloth Material.
Chicago Journal.
Tho world's production of raw silk
increases little, if at all. Japan show
a considerable gain, which is offset by
1 ..-s In other silk raising countries.
The world's wool clip Is stationary or
declining. The festive goat of Angora
persuasion Is multiplying his offspring
and his fleeces, but it will be many a
day before mohair takes a leading posi
tion In the textile trade.
Meantime, the population of the world
is Increasing, and the average Indi
vidual uses more clothing than ever
before.
This condition throws a heavy and
Increasing burden on cotton, which
more and more is becoming the staple
clothing material. Our Southern plant
ers are ready to bear this burden for
a consideration but It Is not a healthy
state of affairs for the world at large.
Viewing the situation broadly, one can
understand why any experiment which
promises a new cloth making material
is followed with such eager Interest by
scientists, manufacturers and govern
ments. '
Where Encyclopedia May Be Consulted.
PORTLAND. July 20. (To the Edi
tor.) I have the McKadden Encyclo
pedia and will gladly show it to M. M.
B., who recently asked where one
could be consulted. H. NOLLAN.
328 ft Mill street.
Twenty-Five Years Aro
i
From The Oregonian of July tl. 1WI4.
Chehalls. W. T.. July SO. The Che
halla Flume L- Aqueduct Company Is
finally organized and ready for busi
ness. D. L Stone, the millmar, baa
purchased a body of land at Hie haod
of the flume from the Newaukum River
and contracted to furnish the lumbw
Salem. July 10. Articles of tncorpora
tlon were filed today by the Bank of
Oregon; place of bualnesa. Albany; In
corporators, II. Bryant, J. W. Hlaln and
H. F. Merrill.
Salem, July 20. The Suite Board of
Agriculture was in session h-re this
morning. There were present President
Da Laahmult, Apperaon. Gallon i.
Looney, Wilson and Richmond.
Aaton .. July $0. Jacob Kamtn la
about to build a sldewheal steamer to
run between Portland and this city.
New York. July 20. Tha new North
American halt Company occupies two
columns In the eveniiMJ papers with ad
vartlalng. The prospectus atatea that
arrangements have been made for pur
chase of nearly all the salt-producing
properties on the North American con
tinent. The company Insists that It la
not a trust and as proof says that any
body may buy stock who m ill pay for It,
On July 14 Eugene and Etta Brar
man. of Salem, completed their quarter
centennial of married life, and tha oc
casion waa celebrated by a gathering
of the most intimate friends of tha
large family connection. The family
connection Included Mr. and Mrs. Ar
thur Breyman, of East Portland; Mr.
and Mrs P.. M. Watte (the laat a Me
ter of the Breyman brother). Mr. and
Mra.. William Brown ttlie Inet a daugh
ter of Werner Breyman , also Mrs. Ilol
gate, of Yamhill, and several young
ladies of different branches of tha
family.
John K. Sears, bookkeeper In tha Con
troller's office of tha O. R. N. Co..
died Friday at Denver.
Peter Duber. aged 74 years, died sud
denly laat evening.
Dick Emmons, the newly appointed In
spector atloat for the Dlatrlct of Alaska,
has returned from his first trip.
On the evening of the l!th at Aa-
torla, Colonel James Taylor and his esti
mable wife celebrated their golden waa
ding. Eugene C. Protzman has returned
from Grays Harbor.
The Misses Hadle and Jeanette Mar
qiinm. accompanied by Mra. Da Warren
and the Misses M linkers, of Salem, will
spend the Sabbath at Seaside.
The sawmill of John H. Joneg ft Co.
on tho Macadam road, next to tha real
dence of Hiram W. Terwllllger. was
burned last night. Loss about 120,000
Yesterday Richard i:verdlnga at
torneys. Judges Williams and Watson,
obtained from fudge Shattuck an al
ternative writ of mandamus calling up
on District Attorney McGinn to sign
Mr. Everdlng's complaint In a BUlt to
oust Joseph Simon from tha Polios Cajajj
mlsslonership
Meanlnat
TORTLAND. July U (To the Edi
tor.) To settle a much mooted ques
tion I wish you would enplaln to nv
the exact meaning of the "S. o, 8." alg
nal used by wireless at sea when
ship is In distress. Is It 'Shipwrecked
at sea"? ri u-r.H
Tho following Is frtuii the inagaxlne
Ocean Wlreleas News:
In talking with the wireless rater man y
passengers ask the meaning of the three
letters used In tha distress signal. "S. O. "
There eeema to be a general opinion thai
tho letters are the abbreviation of ihr.
soparate words, with a dfinlt meanlas
Persona of an Imaginative inn.l -r mlal
will tell you that the letters stand tr "
eur ohlp." "Send out succor." "Sink or
swim." or some other surh meaning, far
from It. gentle reader. Th three letteie
signify nothing but tl:at a ship Is In distress
and in need of aaelstai.ee Tho call la uoed
by ail natlora as a universal code, so that
any wlreleas operator, regar.lleen of the
language he speaks, ran Immediately la
ter). ret the call of diirrss Inasmuch aa the
call la In use by all countries It can be seen
that the signal can have no meaning la anr
one language. The character of the code
makra It a call that can he picked out
easily from other signals, being compoeeci
of the combination, three dote, three daehes.
three dots.
1 nine of International EshlbM.
BMTWUBIA Belgium, July S. (To tha
Editor.) Aa the time for the Panama -Pacific
Expo.-ltloti approaches, perhaps
Oregonlans will be Interested In read
ing about some of the effects of elhlbll
lllg at expositions, as they lnv reifne
under my observation In France and
Belgium.
In both of these countries, when pen
pla bam that I come from Oregon,
they frequently aay, "Tou II va near
British Coflitnbla, then, where they
raise the line fruit?" I admit that BrM
lah Columbia la. comparatively apeak
ing. quite near to Oregon, and that very
flue fruit la grown there; but I hasten
to add that fruit or equal quality Is
produced In Oregon and Waahlngton
This never falla to astonish my ques
tioners, who regard mo with a look of
Incredulity and at once change the sub
ject. After this had occurred several times
I began to ask such questions how li
happened that they all knew about
Canada's fine fruit (It waa particularly
apples that they mentioned), but ware
unaware that we raised good fruit In
Oregon and Washington. The responses
are Invariably tha same: "Canada
hlblted fruit at the Brusaels Exposition
of 1910; If you raise such fine fruit,
whv didn't you .xhlblt also?"
(MISS) BEATRICE YOl'NG
Ulvnree and Insanity.
PORTLAND, July 20. (To the Ml
tor.) la It possible for a man to pro
cure a divorce from his wife who Is an
Inmate of the State Insane Asylum?
INQUIRER.
Insanity la not ground for divorce In
Oregon.
Foreign Buyers
During this month the commis
sioners of the big stores and tba
manufacturers are scouring Europe
In search of noveltloa.
They do not go ao much to buy
great quantities of gooda aa ther
do to aecure "ideas" and Vamplasj"
for home reproduction.
When these buyers return their
storlea will be of great news Inter
est to every American woman.
They will bring tho meaaage of
tha new shades and shapes and
colors tha harbor of tha changing
waist line.
And the first news will coma in
the advertising columns of the good
newspapers.
This In part explains why moman
are such careful readers of news
paper advertising. It glvas them
the facta they want to know.