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Q Potass Kates li to 1 paces, 1 cent; vs o pages. 2 cents: 34 to 48 pages, 3 cents, to to BO pages. 4 cents; to 7 pages, a cents; 73 to 81! pages. 6 cents. Foreign post age, double rates. .at,tern Business Offices Verree & Con K lin. New York, Brunswick building. Chi cago, steger building. MI Francisco Office R. J. Bldwell Co.. T43 Market street. PORTLAND, FRIDAY, JULY SI, 191. WAR. The spark of the Austrian-Servian conflict may be the cause of a roaring European conflagration. Within one arort week the tranquil viata of ar ranged peace between the nations has been transformed into a mighty ficne of rushing armies, assembling Jl-.-ets, hushed parliaments, and ex S i:ed bourses. Not for an entire cen- lury has tliere been lta like. Isaiah tells us of the "grievousness of war" and the poet sings of glory and honor and valor In war. But the prophet was more nearly right: I hate that dram's discordant sound. Parading round and round and round; To me It talks of ravaged plains. And burning towns and ruined swains And mangled limbs and dying groans. And widows tears and orphans' moans. And all that misery's hand bestows To fill the catalogue of human woes. That is the true picture. It is strange that a wise statesman would provoke war, or a sane nation pursue it. But wise statesmen have invited war and all nations have experienced Its horrors. Possibly all this European commo tion will subside. But If it does not the present generation is probably to witness the greatest tragedy of a hun dred 'years and perhaps of all time. ROOSEVELT'S LATEST MOVE. With his customary political agility ' Colonel Roosevelt has turned circum stances to account in the New York Governorship campaign. Seeing that the Progressives, as a distinct party have no hope of success, either in that state or in the country at large, he has adroitly changed the issue to one between boss rule and good gov ernment within the Republican party, This is the effect of his statement that "the prime duty is a good citizens' movement, to save the state from the bi-partisan control of Messrs. Barnes and Murphy" and of his expression of the hope that "all independent citl- lens, whether Progressive, Republican or Democratic in their National affili ations, will stand shoulder to shoulder for clean, non-partisan government.' The Colonel has chosen as the em bodiment of the qualities he seeks Harvey D. HInman, the chief lieuten ant of Governor Hughes and a Repub lican without reproach. Mr. Barnes, as the defender of the organization, has chosen Charles S. Whitman, whose splendid record as a prosecutor of murderers and grafters leaves no room to question his personal fitness. . The choice of Republicans will thus be sauarelv between representatives of ' the two conceptions of party organlza- . tion and party duty to the whole peo ple. If the Colonel can assure Mr. Hinman the support of the mass of the Progressives and if he can rally many progressive Democrats to his cause. Colonel Roosevelt has given that gentleman an undoubted advan- . tage. If the Colonel can bring about Mr. Hinman's nomination and election, he will have practically eliminated Mr. Barnes from party control and will have cleared away one of the obsta cles to his return to the Republican party. This evidence of successful leadership will have assured him a welcome and will have created an op- portunity for mutual forgetting and forgiving of the events of 1912. But can he do these things? He has until recently insisted that no man can be true to his Progressive faith unless he leaves the' Republican party and Joins the Progressive party. He did not spare denunciation of those Republicans who supported him ; at their party convention in 1912 but refused to leave their party with him. He has drilled standpattism into his followers, has rejected every sugges tion of fusion or amalgamation. Now he proposes fusion with the Republicans provided they nomi nate his man for Governor. The standpat Progressives are enraged and may bolt in great numbers. It is possible that Mr. Hinman may lose the Progressive nomination. If he should, but should at the same time win the Republican nomination, the Colonel would figure as supporting a straight Republican candidate. If, on the other hand, Mr. Hinman should lose the Republican and win the Pro gressive nomination, he would be bound under the primary law to run as a straight Progressive candidate and would be definitely outside of the Republican party. But to us in Oregon events in New York have mora interest as bearing on Colonel Roosevelt's plans for his own future. Since hi return from South America he has been yielding more and more from his position of hostility to the Republican party. His utterances have been mainly attacks on the Wilson Administration, which have incidentally helped the Repub licans. His criticisms of Republicans have been confined to Individuals, es pecially Chairman Barnes and Sen ator Penrose, the latter of whom, however, has profited by Colonel Roosevelt's diatribes against the President. Supporting Mr. Hinman the Colonel has built a bridge on which he may cross into the Republican party. His declaration that he would support Mr. Hinman even against a member of his own party confirms the opinion held by many from the day of his bolt in 1912 that the Pro gressive party was created merely to give him a nomination for the Presi dency and that, when it no longer served his purpose, he would cast it away as a worn-out tool. Can he but achieve Mr. Hinman's nomi nation and election as a Republican his prestige as a successful leader will be restored, Mr. Barnes will be po litically destroyed and the Colonel can lead his Progressive followers, in New Tork at least, back into the fold, saying- the purpoge of bis bolt aaa bean achieved. Those practical politicians, George W. Perkins and Ormsby . Mc- Harg, are with him In his present de signs. He may keep his third party alive until 1916. to be offered as the price of the Republican nomination for President. The bridge Colonel Roosevelt is building is narrow. It may be knocked into the stream by his candidate's re jection by either Republicans or Pro gressives or both. If the Republicans reject his man, he will still have an other chance, provided the Progres sives choose Hinman, for the anti-machine Republicans might bolt in such numbers as to elect either Mr. Hin man or a Democrat. Should his man be rejected in November, the Roose velt superstition will be killed. But the odds are on his side. The New Tork Democrats are divided between Tammany and anti-Tammany and are despondent, though they have good material for Governor in Governor Glynn, George McAneny and Franklin Roosevelt. The Colonel yet has a good chance to "come back" and he is playing the game skillfully to that end. LOLK RCMOK. A news dispatch from Portland to a San Francisco paper is responsible for the information, said to be "on excellent authority." that "the J. J. Hill interests have an option to purchase The Oresonian." The same i rumor has trained some currency in Oregon, and has led to several in qulries as to its source and possible authenticity. Any statement that the Hill inter ests, or any interests, have an option on The Oreeonian is not made on "excellent authority," nor any kind of authority, for it is not true. No one has an option for purchase of The Oregonian. The Oregonian is not for sale. Gossips may spare themselves the trouble of creating and spreading their inventions, now and hereafter. The Morning Oregonian was found ed on February 4, 1861, by Mr. H. L. Pittock, its publisher, and during all that long period it has been under his direction and control. Mr. Fit- tock came to The Oregonian, then weekly, in 1853, and his connection with the Daper has therefore been continuously sustained for sixty-one years a record probably without par allel in American Journalistic annals In that time there have been efforts to buv. especially in the earlier days, but they were not encouraged and did not succeed. It may be readily under stood that The Oregonian is to Mr. Pittock 'bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. As it was the child of his younger energies, so it is the pride of his maturing years. With no pur pose to be bombastic, it is proper to say that no "morsel of meat," no sum that any person or any Interest might conceivably be induced to offer for The Oregonian would at all tempt him to sell his birthright, or even to con template its transfer to other hands The purpose of this statement Is to afford those newspapers which have printed the unfounded dispatch about The Oregonian, and those newspapers which have commented on it, and all others who may be curious or inter ested, an opportunity to know the facts. A PIONEER JTEWSPATER. The Idaho Statesman was fifty years old Sunday and the anniversary number had a section devoted to rem iniscences of early days. There are alive many in Boise and the state who remember when "Jim Reynolds,- in tense abolishionist, began publishing his tri-weekly newspaper. The town was too small for a dally and events came along too fast for chronicle in a weekly publication. The Statesman lived and thrived on opposition, for the Territory had a Copperhead and quasi-Democratic majority of several hundred. The paper began right and kept to that course. When Milton Kelly bought it he kept pace with the growth of the ter ritory and it became a dally with advent of the railway. With William A. Goulder as editorial writer, the Statesman easily led the current of thought and opinion. Mr. Kelly sold to Mr. Cobb and associates a quarter- century ago and they brought to it metropolitan ideas that have since made it a marvel in lntermountain newspaperdom. The record of the Statesman Is tne history of the Western slope of the Rocky Mountains. When it is recalled that supplies at the beginning and for years had to be freighted through hostile regions from the Coast, and with the completion of the Union Pa cific through miles of desert from Kelton, the wonder is that it lived through lusty childhood to become the dominant power in its field it is today. JUSTICE. It has been stated that the Jury which sat in the Federal Court in the land-location fraud cases was un usually representative. v e can readily believe it without looking be yond the verdict. The defendant Mi nard, in particular, was an exception ately adroit swindler. It is a logical conclusion that he had carefully and intricately -laid a ground for defense in anticipation of accusation of fraud. He had Informed himself as to the law. He was well aware that If, in the event of trial, he could make the jury believe that his intent had been honest he would go free. He pursued his faith in the gullibity of mankind by appearing in court unshaven and forlorn of aspect. A less intelligent jury might quite naturally have been deceived by his story. Yet Minard and his associates could not have been unaware of the abso lute lack of value of what they of fered for sale. The railroad grant on which they located "settlers" for a price was in litigation. The Federal District Court had declared It for feited to the Government and the case had been appealed. Congress had passed a law which would have the effect, in event the forfeiture were upheld, of reserving the disposition of the land to future consideration of Congress. If the railroad company won there was no promise and hardly a hope that the court would at the same time order the lands disposed of In strict accordance with the terms of the grant at $2.50 per acre. All that the locators had to sell was a lawsuit ana tne existence even oi that intangibility rested on reversal of a decision by the lower court and a victory for the railroad in litigation already pending. All these elements had been repeatedly pointed out -in The Oregonian. This newspaper had frequently exposed the swindle that was in process and the District At torney had issued several public warnings, all of which must have been known to Minard and his associates. The defense was honest intent. If it could have been proved that the lo cators honestly believed they had something to sell they would not have been convicted even though the set' tiers" located never could acquire the land. Minard had erected an elab orate groundwork for thi3 defense, Ho actuallv filed the "locations" at the railroad offices. His circulars mis. representing - conditions were signed with a rubber stamp and this fact enabled him to attempt to place re sponsibility for the fraudulent state ments therein uDOn an associate. He might have been able to sell a few locations if he had represented condi tions as they" were, for "some persons are always to be found who are will ing to engage in the most hazardous gamble. But the victims were many. Minard must have known they were outrageously deceived and defrauded, from the way money rolled in. Logan was not so smooth a crook as Minard. He had hardly the frame work of a defense. Sellers was un doubtedly a tool of the sharks. He received little from the swindle and was apparently taken into the deal because he had an honest bearing and had numerous acquaintances who could be added to the list of victims through his influence. There will not be regret that Sellers was acquitted and there will be much gratification that Minard and Logan were con victed. In discussing this case it is proper to commend the example set to other prominent citizens by the unprotest- ir.g presence on the jury of Mr. A. L. Mills. Mr. Mills was summoned for duty at a time when the bank of which he is president was engaged in an important consolidation and movement to new quarters. He doubt less had legitimate ground for excuse from jury service but he did not in voke it. Justice in jury trials would be more often attained were all men as ready, to sacrifice important per sonal interests to Jury duty. AN ECONOMIC ABSl'RDITY. The Oregonian has received from "A. K. T." a letter criticising a recent use of the word "wealth." W'e spoke of the value of stocks and other se curities as wealth. Our critic cites tho New Standard Dictionary as au thority for limiting this term to "those material things that men de sire to possess." Had he read a little more accurately he would have learned that the New Standard Die tionary also defines wealth as "all property possessing monetary value," with the further information that this Is the use of the word In economics. Since we were treating an economic topic in the paragraph to which he refers, our use was strictly correct by A. K. T.'s own chosen authority and there is no occasion for him to de plore a falling off in The Oregonian's "precise use of English," as he does in his letter. Our correspondent also takes Issue with The Oregonian's opinion that "prosperity produced by war is artificial and unhealthy as stimulation by alcohol." He asks what difference It makes to the United States "what causes the demand for goods as long as the demand exists." It makes a great deal of difference. A. K. T.'s error Is a common one but it is none the less serious for that. War would cause a market for our products by destroying property in Europe. In other words it would stimulate a de mand but would at the same time an nihilate the means of paying for what was received from ua. Europe has no way to pay us for what we send there but through prosperity of its own When this Is destroyed evidently the payment must be postponed. The ef fect of war is therefore to feed pres ent necessities by drawing upon the resources of the future and the "pros perity" which it causes must inevita bly be followed by a period , of cor responding reaction. This is the verdict of economic sci ence upon the question and history confirms it. There is no instance on record of a "market boom" depend ing on a foreign war which was not succeeded by commercial distress when the time came for making col lections. The analogy between this kind of illusory prosperity and the stimulation caused by alcohol is strictly correct, since in each case there Is an unwholesome draft upon the future. The prosperity caused by war is precisely like that set up in a town after a great fire. Much building goes on and money circulates freely but the wealth which the fire con sumed is irretrievably lost and the good times" are based not upon cash but upon credit; If the European armies were set at work producing wealth Instead of destroying it we could sell their various countries as much as we do in wartime, or even more, and receive in return for it actual wealth instead of mere prom ises to pay which may never be ful filled. The war debts of Europe are already so heavy that repudiation is In sight and as they increase the pros pect of repayment becomes less and less. When bankruptcy actually over takes the militant nations of the world our friend will understand how little substance there is in prosperity growing out of fire, sword and death. This letter is printed in another part of the paper. rorf-ARizr"G Shakespeare. New York enjoys the possession -of an energetic Stage Society which con tinually stirs up, if it does not uplift, things theatrical. Its current under taking is to bring over three distin guished and heretical producers from Europe to see If they cannot make breach in the traditional stu pidities of the stage. They are Max Bernhardt, of Berlin, Gordon Craig and H. Granville Barker. The two last are, of course. Englishmen. Max Reinhardt has made a terrible com motion among the old fogies of the theater in Russia and Germany by his queer productions or well-known works. His ideas are immensely pop ular and seem likely to cause some permanent changes in methods of pre senting plays to the public. There has been talk before this of bringing him over to the United States with all his subversive notions but it never has come to anything. We hope the Stage Society will have better fortune with him. It is also somewhat doubtful whether Granville Barker can be per suaded to visit these shores Just now. The purpose is to have him inject little life Into our Shakespearean actors and managers if possible. Some say they are past praying for but of course it is our duty to nope ror tne best. While yet the lamp holds out to burn the-, vilest sinner may return. Mr. Barker is singularly fitted to re vive them because he has made such brilliant success of his Shake spearean productions in London. Un der his management "Twelfth Night" ran for more than a hundred nights without a break last year and he has repeated the experience with, "A Mid- summer Night's Dream" this year. A man who can do wonders like those with Shakespeare in London ought to accomplish something encouraging in this country. If the Stage Society brings him over he will employ the same devices in New York that have been so popular over there. So it stands to the advan tage of all. good Americans to learn what they are. Mr. Barker bases everything he does on the firm ground that Shakespeare is naturally popu lar with English-speaking people. They would like him, he insists, if the actors would let them. Shakespeare speaks our language, uses our vernac ular and inhabits the realm of faery romance which the people love. Mr. Barker frankly accepts the fact that Shakespeare is in most of the plays wildly romantic and makes a pageant of the performance. He flings away "realistic" scenery, bare ly hints at the locality and surround ings and indicates the accessories of the plot by symbols rather than cast ings. He deepens the romantic feeling by insisting upon that lyric declama tion without which the plays are often irredeemably prosy. Finally Mr. Bar ker goes back to the orthodox Shake spearean practice of seating spectators on the stage so that the actors stain about and declaim among the legs and feet of the audience. Of course there are no footlights. Two more Inno vations must be kept in mind. One is the obliteration of the "star" who shines so brilliantly here whenever Shakespeare is played. The other is speed in the production. Everything moves swiftly and the audience is not bored by insufferable waits. With these changes and some others we dare say Shakespeare might become popular here. The Oregonian has been furnished the population of Austria, by races, exclusive of Hungary and Bosnia, ac cording to the census of 1910, by the kindness of William C. A. Pom, 01 Astoria. The figures are as follows compared with those for 1900: ioia mon. Inc. Germans 9,50,000 8,171,014 Iis.joo Bohemians and Moravians .... o.o, 5.953.3flT 4S0.603 4.252,4S.'t 713,517 3. 351.. 170 i::7.4:io Poles 4.HHK.UUO a. sin, ooo 1,253,000 7RK.000 7KI.0OO 25,000 11,000 Luthenlans ... Slovenes , l,lf2,7SO o,-'U Italians-Latins. 727.1"2 711.3X0 230. IM50 K.516 464.502 41. SOS Servians-Croats. Roumanians ... Hungarians . . . Not specified . . 71.00 44.040 1,484 Totals 27.064.000 26.107,804 John Galsworthy promises to be one of the most prolific playwrights His dramas come swiftly from the press and all of them thus far hold their own on the stage. The mod is his latest play but we may expect nthera verv few months. While Galsworthy, Shaw and a dozen more British writers are producing plays of high literary power and good acting quality the Americans are doing nara- ly anything. What is the reason? Should a sreneral European war break out mankind will watch with most anxiety the destlriies of England, France and Germany. Those nations have played the leading parts in mak ing the modern world and they con tain today by far the largest portion of its active intellect. It is a pity they are not allies, for out of their dissen sion may grow a conquest of Europe by hordes of semi-human slaves. It is odd . to reflect that when an American opera manager wishes to hear a new American singer he goes to Europe to find her. The reason is that the great schools for training opera singers are in European cities. Milton Aborn hopes to put an end to this anomaly by opening such a school in New York. We trust that Ameri can girls with Voices will not be too snobbish to patronize it. A new book by Claude Bragdon on the fourth dimension of space is said to throw a bright light into that baf fling mystery. Although nobody can draw a diagram of the fourth dimen sion or even imagine what it is like, still It may exist and perhaps, as some maintain, it affords a pathway ror spirits into the other world, air. Bragdon's book is called "A primer or Higher Space." Arthur Symons, the poet, asks de- spairfully, "Who is there still lives for beauty?" The answer is noDoay. 'ine fact Is that no sane person ever did live for beauty. The sanest of all men, the ancient Greeks, made beauty live for them and If we could do the same thing we should be far happier than we are. Living for beauty is like dy ing for love. Both are a little absurd. It is Just as well that Mexico seems about to suspend her continuous per formance revolution. It is not likely to attract much attention ror some time, except as a sideshow to the main performance in Europe. Huerta had a brief and stormy reign, but he is not going away empty handed. He needs a ship to take his belongings to Europe. Probably a boat could have carried them a year and a half ago. We agree with President Wilson that the Administration . is doing the right thing in putting business on an honest basis, but It should not be such an unconscionably long time about the work. The war has had at least one good effect. It has caused tne two armies of volunteers in Ireland to sit down, cool oft and think it over. It depends on a man's relations with his mother-in-law whether they compose one or two parties. The three leading Pacific Coast baseball teams are playing a game of in and out of first place. Before the storm is over the Ameri can expatriates in Europe may wish they .had stayed at home. Where is Colonel Hofer, who once upon a time was noted as a rain maker? Maybe Holland will mobilize and fry a little old Dutch cleanser on the row. If It were Roosevelt instead of Wil son, we could hardly keep out of it. Among her prize products Oregon is proudest of her prize babies. It all depends on the army of oc cupation. -The Texan is true to his toddy. Oh, for a Swiss navy just now! Dollar wheat?. GAME SUPPLIES FOR SATIRE-5IEX no Laws Govern Simple Ltfe Like That at Joe Knowles,' Aaka Writer. PENDLETON. Or.. July 29. (To the Editor.) In newspapermen's par lance. The Oregonian's stories about Joe Knowles In the business of mean dering, for 30 days, unaided, in the wilds primeval of the Sierra Nevada Mountains is certainly "good stuff." Passing by even war news, the reports of the Knowles' adventure are not only eagerly read, but you will also hear all sorts and conditions of men talking nhont th chances of our Joe comin through with the goods in the pink of condition. There is no doubt of the value to mankind of this demonstration that a real man can strip for the battle witn nature, sro boldly among untracked mountains and dense forests, and, by his brawn and brain, win out a fatten ine- bill of fare, clothe himself, and protect himself against wild beasts and all elemental enemies to his life, such as cold or heat. It is a grandly useful lesson to all the sons and daughters of Adam and Eve. It teaches us the value ot clean upright, fearless living. Indeed, it is proof positive of the power of man to rise from the simple life of savagery to the topmost of godlike eternity. For, looking centuries backward from the day when men travel under the water and Journey through the air. and figure on touring Mars, it is hard to realize that Time was, when, save their own 'painted skins, Clothing our sires had none. But in the lesson of the power of manhood that Mr. Knowles is so brave ly staging in the Oregon-California Mountains, where does the right oi man to live and move and have his be ing, without let or hindrance, ceaso and custom and law begin? Perhaps The Oregonian. or some legal light, like Judge McGinn, Colonel Wood. W. W. Cotton, W, D. Fenton or J. Hen nessy Murphy will tell ua. Is or is not Mr. Knowles up against the Ore gon game law, by freely grabbing lien fowl and beast for food and raiment? If, for a great cause, he is allowed to do so, what's to hinder other nature men from following the primitive course of courstship in the chase and capture of a charming nymph among mortal maids and matrons, for his help meet in the simple life among the wilds? However, that way of starting human life all over again, would be balked by effete modern folk. The pith of the matter is to get in formation as to how far Mr. Knowles can go, as a ticket-of-leave man, in cleaning out game, and where we com mon people come in on the fun and frolic. JOHN W. ELLSWORTH. MEATS BILLED AT MARKET PRICE. Dealer Denlea Collusion With Sub-Jail Officials on Fancy Goods. . PORTLAND, July 30. (To the Ed itor.) On July 29, 19J4, an article ap peared in The Oregonian under the cap tion, "Chicken Beef at Jail," which charges the State Market, of which 1 am the owner, as having been involved in false sales to the city for Linnton rockpile. I have been selling meats to the Linnton rockpile for some time. The orders have come in over the telephone for all kinds of meats handled by me, including chicken, round steaks, sirloin steaks, butter and eggs, and beef that was asreed to be furnished for the use of the prisoners only at 7 'A cents per pound. The other articles and meats were ordered, as I understood, for the use of the guards and officials in charge of the Linnton rockpile. Every article sent down by me was accompanied by a bill in triplicate, specifying every article by name and price per article, one copy of which is kept on file in my market, and can be seen by any person .desiring to inves tigate the same, i receiveu my cnecks reffularly, and some time after the thing had been going on. I discovered that the officials at the Linnton rock pile were putting all the stuff that I furnished under the head of "meat in their reports to the city. They told me that this was the way it had to be done, and that they received authority from Mr. Wood, city purchasing agent, to that effect. I, however, 'continue in sending down itemized bills, ren dering bills to them for balance duo as per Itemized statements, ana any arrangements they may have made between themselves and the city, or the way they carry on their own book keeping, I have nothing whatever, to do with, nor have I been a party in any way to any scheme to defraud the city or county in the supply of these meats. My arrangement for the 7c per pound was only for meat furnished to the prisonlrs, and all meat so fur nished to the prisoners has been charged at the rate of 7c per pound, and nothing else. I have never been notified by the city purchasing agent, or by anyone else, that I have no authority to Bell higher grades of meat, or chicken or butter or eggs, or any other commod ity that I handle, at my regular mar ket price to the officials, and as 1 receive my checks regularly, I had every reason to suppose that it was entirely satisfactory. I hold it to be entirely unfair to have publio charges made against me. especially in the columns of a paper having as large a circulation as yours, without first having given me an op portunity to state what the facts are from my side of the case. It is hard to repair such damage, but I take it that you have the fair ness to give me space in your paper for this communication, so that I may thus have the opportunity of stating the real facts in the case, as far as 1 am concerned. CHARLES RTJDEEN. RED CLOTHING FOR SPORTSMEN. Writer Bellevea Law Shonld Require Hunters to Wear Vivid Colors. LA GRANDE, Or., July 29. (To the Editor.) I notice that in an interview appearing in The Oregonian yesterday, W. L. Finley, State Biologist, recom mends that deer hunters wear a red shirt or coat while hunting deer In order to prevent accidental shooting. I believe that this Is a good recommen dation and that there Is no merit in the contention that a red shirt or coat will tend to scare the deer, make them harder to approach and increase their flight- Any deer hunter will confirm the statement of Mr. Finley when he states that the deer is a curious ani mal. It is a common experience of deer hunters that deer when scared by the noise or sight of a hunter will circle around In the rear of the hunter to ascertain more fully the cause of his disturbance. Last Fall while hunting deer In Wal lowa County I wore a red sweater and a red hat. I Jumped two deer one aft ernoon In the timber and the way they made tracks I thought they had left the country, but in emerging upon the other side of a pine thicket I found them not over 100 yards from me stand ing quartering with their heads over their backs looking back at me. I be lieve that It was the fact that they were trying to satisfy their curiosity excited by my red sweater and hat that caused them to stop and enable me to kill one of them. I believe that there should be a law compelling all deer hunters to wear either a red hat, shirt or sweater while hunting deer and that such a law would materially decrease the number of fatalities from this cause. Of course a special provision should be made in such a law that primitive men like my namesake, Joe Knowles, be required to paint their bodies red. J. JL KNOWLES, Twenty-Five Year Ago From The Oregonian of July 31, 18S9. Ellensburg. July 30. The coal com pany, while boring for coal at Roslyn. at a depth of 480 feet struck a flowing well, which throws a volume of water 40 feet above the surface. With this stream is a strong How of natural gas, which burns with great brilliancy. Salem. July 30. The Astoria South Coast Railway Company today filed supplementary articles of incorporation providing for the construction of sev eral branch lines throughout Oregon; William Reid. Frank J. Taylor, I. R. Warren. I. W. Case, K. P. Thompson and C. W. Fulton, directors. Salem, July SO. State Superintendent McElroy and wife returned this even ing from Nashville, Tcnn., where they attended the convention of the National Teachers' Association. Theodore Barber, of Captain M. Se bree'B office, met at Brookneld a few days ago an old shipmate whom he had not met since 1863. He was paymaster, and his friend was engineer on a gun boat, which drove a Confederate blockade-runner ashore, but which was it self driven ashore by a storm and cap tured. John Hartman, who has a machine shop on North Second street, has fitted up a buggy to run by steam. It has about as much machinery as a loco motive. The vehicle has been found to work well on the level, but the boiler is not large enough to run it up hill. Arrangements have been completed for building a stret railway out Into the Irvlngton tract, back of Albina, to a point one mile east of Fifth street. G. W. MiCalla, author of the Web foot Sketch Book, Is in the. city on business relating to his wife's claim on the estate of the lute James B. Steph ens, of East Portland. Mr. Uulnean, of the Esmond Hotel, yesterday received a dispatch from "Sunset" Cox, in Tacoma, stating that he would be in Portland on Thursday. Attorney H. X. Thompson has re turned from New Wcstni inster, B. C, where he closed a deal for construction of a railroad from that point to the boundary to connect with the Fair haven & Southern. Rev. John F. Devore, the well-known Methodist, who for 36 years has carried on his life work in Oregon and Wash ington Territory, died on Sunday at Tacoma. A number of the passengers who sailed on the steamship Corona for Alaska, arrived home yesterday. Those from Portland were: Mr. Tyler Wood ward and family. Miss Mollis Barlow, D. F. Sherman and wife, airs. Parker, A. L .Maxwell and family, F. A. K. Starr, Miss Bertha Moore. 11. K. David son and I). P. Thompson. Judge Thomas M. Cooley, chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commis sion, arrived yesterday from 1'uset Sound, and is at the Esmond. Mrs. John McConnell. wife of Judge McConnell, of Fargo, Dak., Is visiting Mrs. S. F. Dunning. She has her 8- year-old daughter with her. and the child desired to be taken out where she could see fruit growing on a tree, something she had never seen in Da kota. PROSPERITY THAT WAR lini.S Contributor I liable to Dlsrern Its Artificial or Unhealthy .Nature. PORTLAND, July 30. (To the Edi tor.) On the editorial page, July 29, you state that "the power of a "wnr scare' to annihilate wealth has been beautifully exemplified by tho reports from the world's bourses for the lust few days," etc. My new standard Dictionary defines wealth" ik "a store or accumulation of those material things that men de sire to possess." Now is it not Incor rect to term a decline in the value of slocks and bonds as an annihilation ot wealth? There has been no destruc tion of material things. Your editorial columns are usually so precise in the use of English, that I think you will appreciate my suggestion. I would also take issue with you on the statement that "prosperity pro duced by war is as artificial and un healthy as stimulation by alcohol. It will be duo to destruction, not increase of wealth . . ." Undoubtedly you mean prosperity In the United States, and I would like you to point out wherein prosperity, brought on by hlah prices paid for our wheat, for instance by Europe, is not tho same whether such high prices be due to war. or to a failure of the crop In Russia? Is it not the same with all our com modities? What difference does it moke to the United States what causes the demand for our goods, as long as the demand exists? It is true that such a demand is only ephemeral and will pass with the war in most cases, but that is the regular course of com merce. There are few industries that have a steady demand for their prod ucts. Is not our industrial history a record of fluctuating demand and sup ply? We have regularly recurrent period when there Is little demand for industrial products, succeeded usually by a period of prosperity with brisk demand. So I claim that a general European war would mean great prosperity to the United states, and should no more be termed 'artificial and unhealthy" than any period of prosperity of our 'boom or "good time." A. K T. The questions of the correspondent are answered in another column. Gnn License for Aliens. SALEM, Or., July 29 (To the Edi tor.) Please tell me If a foreigner is not allowed to keep a gun on his own place, and if not, what are the aliens supposed to do with tha guns they owned before the law came Into effect? A FOREIGNER. That law prohibits an alien to have a gun in his possession while in field or forest or in any tent, car or camp, without having first secured a gun li cense from the State Fish and Game Commissioner. Such license costs 126 and in addition thereto an alien must obtain an ordinary hunter's license. The gun license Is not required of an alien who has declared his intention to become a citizen. Apparently the law does not prohibit an alien to keep a gun in his own home, so long as it Is not carried from the house by him. Sen Law as to Carriers. LEBANON, Or., July 29. (To the Ed itor.) Please state whether tha bill raising salaries of rural carriers to $100 per month was passed. J. P. BROWN. The salaries of the rural carriers under the terms of a law recently passed are determined on the length of the route and the weight of the mail carried. Soma of the carriers were automatically passed by the law Into the $100 a month class, while some re ceive no raise In salary. Those who are entitled to J100 per month under the terms of the new law will receive that stipend for this month's work. Anto of Ennobling; Ioflnrnt-e. Judge. Frost Do you think the auto has an ennobling influence? Snow Well, speaking personally, we hav beea fined and refined. Little Editorials on Business running for Fall. f there i anything in the cM axiom "in time of jx-.n-t prppnre for war,'' we want to tlo a lillle paraphrasing an.l w?r nil biu-inr concerns thu: "in times ot ilrprrs sion prepare fr a.'peion." Whether t lit prcM-nt bu-ines im pression in rciil or imiiuinnry I lie iaet remains that (lie country is in splt'tiiliil ci'iuUtinn bumper wheat mill oat crops nnl creal pros pects f'T n niainiiiiM h corn ei'op. This country is composed largely of pe. ple wlmsp annual incunie i less than $1."0U per year. Only ;i per cent of the total number of families have an nnnunl income of more than -15nH. The 17 jmt cent will buy just us many sOioes nnil clotliin, they will eat just as much ami enjoy ns in any of t lie pleasures of life as they ever di.l. The 50 million people hn live in (owns of less than J-'iOt) imputation arp the farming elasse. They will have more money ihis Kail they will be more liberal Kpniilers than hei ctol'oiT. llurins 'he Summer every whole saler, retailer snil manufacturer in this city hhuuM plan for the Kail campaign. Make your omls known to the people and they will buy your pioils. You cannot expect the consumers to appreciate your merehaniliso as inneh as you do unless you do somethin?r to educate them. The Oregonian uants l assist you in piepuriii' your Kail cam paign. Telephone today und a rep resentative w ill call. MR VMJKH IXIl: KtMl IS Auatrians Here lie Korreil tat Itrtura Home to Kl. PORTLAND, July 30 (To the FM Kor.) I wish to cill your attention to a matter of misinformation now beliis circulated throughout this and doubt less other sections of Orca-on. regard ing tho supposed cull emanating from Austria for the return of able-lioiile.1 men In this country for service In her army. A number of my clients have culled upon me In tistres. tinting t tin t they hnve received telephonic unties from sumo unknown authority In l'ortlsnd to tho effect that unless they make Im mediate preparation to return to Austria they urn liable to ccrtnln ron iliKn punishment. In the Interest of the truth and In order to relievo the apprehension of a lurye number of this tljss of our clt-n.-iis, will you kindly Klve publicity to the fnrt that so long s any native of Austria, whether a eltisen or Intuml Ing to become itii h. Hollies to reniHin In this conniiy iioiIuiik short of the combined Mimics Mini navies of Europe would probably be equal to the task of forcing lilm to forsake tha shelter of our fUc. mid t-ven then these amsl eamnted iirmlca and navies might hao to go some. CHAIllXH J. HL'MSAHI'I. Why Are (.Iris l'eelkf Mixes! Ohio Stnte Jouinsl. If a girl Is rrolful. peevish aiol mean tempered, look to li r fret. Oianae her shoes. She Is vei y likely wearing tight, hlch-hechffi shoes, ( hangs them to comfortable, low-hroleil shoes ami notice the difference. In most rases she will become tractable an.l kindly disponed, ller-annppy and 111 grained habits will soon disappear and she will become as sweet and tranquil as a bed of lilies. Illustrated Features in tho Magazine Section of THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN Hoosicr Gowns to Show Up In Paris. Colored page illustrating tha wardrobe of a prominent Indiana woman. James Montgomery Tlagg in Words and Pictures. Artist-humorist illustrates the pleasures and foibles of automobile owners. George Ade's Newest Tables in Slang. Popular humorist tell of the Marathon in the Mud and the Laurel reath. Sketches From Life by Temple. Clever artist depicts familiar sight., and scenes in the life of a great city. Kafirs, the Great Dry-Land Food Crop. What the raisinjr of the drouth resisting plant means to American farmers. Harry Lane Tells His Life Story. James B. Morrow, a Washington correspondent, chats with "the gentleman from Oregon." Newest Scientific Discoveries and Remarkable Facts. A psfre of crisp, roneisp stories of interest to old and young:. Woman Works Wonders on Farm of 1000 Acres. How Mrs. Clara Kelly trans formed a barren tract into a jro ductive, money-making' farm. A Page for the Children. Short stories, poems, verses, pie tures and puzzles to while away an hour with the young foils. The Adventures of Suzanne. A series of modern comedies in pictures by a brilliant artist, Orson Lowell. Four Pages of Comics. There is always mnii'thin? new when Doe Yak, Uncle Jim, Ted and Tim, the District School P.oys, Mr. P.ones, Mammas Ar.el (. hnu, Hi Hopper and (Jenial (.leno get together in the comic supplement. I