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PORTLAND, SUNDAY, JULY 22, 1906.
THE LOST DOG.
Did the reader see a lost dog In a
great city? Not a dog recently lost,
full of wild anxiety and restless pain
and bewilderment, but one who has
given up the search for a master in
despair, and fcad become consciously
a vagabond? If eo, he has seen an ani
mal that has lost his self-respect, trav
eling in gutters, slinking along by
fences, making acquaintance with dirty
boys, becoming a. thorough coward, and
losing every admirable characteristic
of a dog. A cat is a cat, even in vaga
bondage; but a dog that does not be
long to somebody is as hopeless a speci
men of demoralization as can be found
in the superior race among which he
has sought in vain for his master. We
know him at first sight, and he knows
that we know him. The loss of his
place in the world, and the loss of his
objects of loyalty, personal and official,
have taken the significance out of his
life and the spirit out of him. He has
become a dog of leisure.
The American young man of leisure
has become a sort of lost dog. He is
usually of a wealthy family, and is a
type of one of the cankers of society.
Our people are so busy, they have so
long associated personal importance
with action and usefulness, that it is
all a man's life is worth to drop out of
active employment; or, rather, in the
case of young men, to shun active and
useful employment. The tendency of
sudden wealth, achieved in so many
cases in our country without the sense
of responsibility that should attach to
it, is to turn its young men out on the
world, for a life of leisure which
means a life of idleness and usually of
dissipation, in one way or another. The
follies of society, so-called, are em
braced for amusement and pastime; ir
regular sexual connections are a com
mon consequence, and out of such con
ditions come most of the scandals and
most of the tragedies in which the idle
rich figure so conspicuously in our
times.
The man who hasn't work to do very
much resembles the lost dog. His hab
its of vagabondage are similar, but of
course incomparably worse in fact and
in consequence. Just as true in this
day as in the day of good old Isaac
Watts "Satan finds some mischief still
for idle hands to do." Only the truth
of the observation has far greater
force because of the immensely greater
variety of life these days, and conse
quently greater liability to run into
waywardness. But that isn't all. Even
If notorious vices are avoided, it is im
possible that the idler, or man of lels
ure, can ever hold a desirable or even
respectable position where labor holds
its legitimate rank and place. More
over, idleness, or the everlasting search
for amusement, naturally becomes tire
some. This sort of life is vice in itself,
and it breeds whole crops of other
vices. Discontent with oneself and
with others is one of Its inevitable
consequences. Yet that is very right;
for discontent in idleness was wisely
given for torture, "that man might feel
his error, if unseen, and feeling, fly to
labor for his cure."
One of the) most beneficent conse
quences of the general movement in
behalf of labor is that of cutting off
from respectability those who refuse
useful occupations and spend their lives
in idleness. In our country especially
public opinion tends more and more
to make the lost dog of the human race
the man who lives without industry
an outcast from honorable estimation.
Decent and worthy labor honors Itself
by forcing the growth of this healthy
public opinion.
WHERE LIVING IS CHEAP AND LIFE
EASY.
American Consul Jackson sends a
bulletin from Antioch. Syria, in which
conditions are shown to exist that make
that ancient and venerable city an ideal
place as a site for a universal rest
cure. There is much, according to Con
sul Jackson, in that historic town to
minister to the comfort and enjoyment
of the Individual who does not count
achievement and aspiration among the
things that make life worth living. The
climate is mild, with practically no
enow in Winter, the surroundings are
most picturesque and this is the way
the expense account runs:
At present mutton costs about 7 cents per
pound, chickens from 12 to 16 cents each
and eggs from 5 to 7 centa per dozen. Fish,
vegetables and fruits are very abundant and
very cheap. Japanese apples, peaches, pome
granates.. plums, etc., are sold at from lt
to 3 cents per oke 2.2 - pounds). A good
house, for the place, can be leased at from $5
to S10 per month. A servant is paid about $3
and a cook from $5 to $u per month.
Once one of the greatest cities of the
.East. Antioch is now but a sleepy place
without attraction save that which Is a
reflected from Its past. The third
Human city when the empire was at
the height of Its power the "Crown of
tie East," "Antioch the beautiful" and
one of the early strongholds of Chris
tianity, its sole Importance now centers
around its picturesque site and the fact
that living there is cheap and life easy.
The man of modern Ideas, tired with
the strenuous life, may turn his eyes
longingly toward Antioch upon the
showing of Consul Jackson, but he
would not be able to rest there for any
length . of time because of the desire
to see somebody else in motion while
he lay upon his back under the palms.
The awful monotony of utter do-nothingness
would put an American of the
active type out of commission quicker
than' the ceaseies-s activity that he has
come to regard as life, and for these
reasons, among others, Antioch is not
likely to become the goal of Americans
grown weary in tha pursuit of wealth
or surfeited with its pleasures.
TACOMA'S LINGERING SUSPICION.
Announcement that the . railroads
would grant the joint rate asked by the
Puget Sound millers and the Eastern
'Oregon farmers has been received on
Puget Sound with less enthusiasm
than might have been expected. The
scheme as outlined by the millers who
wanted wheat cheaper, and the farm
ers, who wanted the millers to pay
more for it, was so notoriously unjust
to the railroads, and particularly the
O. R. & N. Co., that even the great
milling interests of Puget Sound, which
in their greed for cheap wheat had
forced the issue, hardly- expected their
wishes would be granted without a
struggle. The well-authenticated ru
mor that the railroads, instead of fight
rng a joint-rate order, would acquiesce
in it, And thus expose to the misguided
farmers how they had been gold
bricked by the Railroad Commission,
has accordingly occasioned considerable
surprise on Puget Sound. This surprise
has been 'followed by signs of uneasi
ness which are poorly concealed in the
following from the Tacoma West
Coast Trade:
There is still a lingering suspicion that
there is something back of the mattei ; some
place In reserve whereby the O. R. & N. pro
poses to secure the loeg haul to tidewater.
For one thing, the company has put in effect
a rate to Portland calculated to offset the
differential charged by the shipowners' as
sociation in making tonnage engagements for
that port, but whether this is deemed' ade
quate to hold the trade, or there Is some other
scheme In reserve. Is not known, nor what
will be the attitude of the other roads re
garding the. cut. There is little reason to
doubt that the Harriman interests could have
held off the joint rate matter until they were
ready to deliver wheat on Puget Sound over
their own trackage, and that that was the
original intention has been pretty generally
conceded up to the time of last week's an
nouncement. The "something back of the matter"
which caused a "lingering suspicion" in
the minds of our Puget Sound' friends
is a water-level grade from the wheat
fields to tidewater, and the West Coast
Trade is quite correct in assuming that
the O. R. & N. Co. will continue to
capture the long haul on grain orig
inating in territory reached exclusively
by its lines. When Portland built the O.
R. & N. line into the Palouse country
and made it possible for the farmers of
that region to reach a market with
wheat that was unsalable until the
railroad supplied transportation to
market, there was no intention of turn
ing the road into a feeder for some less
acltve builders who had a road over
the Cascade Mountains,. but had never
exhibited sufficient enterprise to build
Into that portion of the Palouse from
which the demand for a joint rate is
now coming.
The Washington Railroad Commis
sion has empowered . or attempted to
empower the Washington roads with
authority to make the O. R. & N. ac
cept the short haul on wheat out of
non-competitive territory, although the
O.. R. & N., being an Oregon road, has
no power granted to it to demand a
similar reciprocal arrangement with
the two Northern roads. . It is this sys
tem of making fish of one and flesh of
another that has caused all the objec
tion to the joint rate. The lofty climb
over the Cascade Mountains has been
a severe handicap to the Washington
roads, and the commission has at
tempted to equalize the handicap by
penalizing the O. R. & N. through fore
ing It to take the short haul and act as
a feeder instead of retaining the long
haul, to which its enterprise in build
ing entitles it. The public-spirited Pu
get Sound millers, who wanted a joint
rate so that they could pay the East
era Washington farmer more for his
wheat, may rest assured that adequate
means will be found for holding the
wheat trade where it properly belongs
and even Mr. Hill himself Is spending
money like water in order that his
roads also will have an opportunity to
haul Eastern Washington wheat to
tidewater without encountering the
fearful expense of lifting it a mile in
the air and then dropping it down
again. The West Coast Trade is cor
rect; there is "something back of the
matter."
"A WEEK-DAY RELIGION."
Under this head' a week or two ago
the Saturday Evening Post said:
"When the new religion comes, or the
old faith is reshaped to meet the mod
ern needs, one thing is absolutely cer
tain it must be a religion that shall
deal with men actively six days out of
seven, instead of attending to them
only one day." Of course there is no
personal reference in this to certain of
our citizens who attend church regu
larly on Sunday, contribute largely of
their means to the support of a minis
ter who revamps religion to meet their
special characteristics, but who "are as
the hypocrites are" when it comes to
franchise - grabbing, estate - wrecking
and municipal charter manipulating.
Perhaps, however, the editor of the
Post may have been reading The Ore
gonian and thus found a text for a
sermon on "week-day religion" that
has wide as well as specific application,
However this may be, the inferences
drawn have personal bearing upon the
daily walk of a prominent but fortu
nately not a large class of our citizens.
and are worthy of attention. Among
the logical deductions of the situation
as illustrated here and elsewhere by
unuscrupulous men who don the cloak
of religion on Sundays and cast it off
utterly during the following six days of
the week in their dealings with their
fellow-men, is the statement that the
churches have failed to convince their
followers that religion is a part of real
life and that what they teach to be
worth the breath that voices the teach
Ings must be practiced in "business."
Proof of this is seen in the large num
ber of professedly religious men who
pay pulpit tax and pew rent ungrudg
ingly and generously, but who never
for one moment apply to the ordinary
activities of their lives what they pro
fess to believe are the essentials of sal
vation. To them the sermon on the
mount is as much out of date as a century-old
almanac, and the golden rule
Is fit only for the babble of children.
The Post thinks it would be interest
ing, as bearing upon the topic of
weekday religion, to know how many
of the men recently involved in insur
ance scandals, in railroad graft and in
Standard Oil methods of competition
are professed Christians and church
members. In the present condition of.
religious belief J. e., the theory and
practice of religion it would be noth
ing strange If all are devoted members
of some orthodox church. Business is
not religion, proclaims the successful
franchise-grabber, charter-manipulator
and wrecker of estates. The Inference is
tha,t the last is for Sabbath sanctity
the first for weekday spoliation, ros
sibly the Ideals of religion, based upon
the golden rule, are false to the condi
tions of human life theoretical and re
mote. If so, it were better to quote
again the Post; to adjust religion to the
world of fact and to make it an actual
working hypothesis in the lives of men.
The only religion . that will, command
the respect of the very men who need
it-most, and this class is by no means
confined to the openly depraved, is the
one that speaks to them authoritative
ly every day of -the week a religion
that wil chasten the materialism and
subdue the greed of he rich, put con
science into the efforts of those who
toil, purge the poor of envy and the suc
cessful man of arrogance, and find ex
pression in the principle of the brother
hood of man. , '.''- :
THE HAYMAKERS. '
One morning a few days ago the mel
ancholy passengers on a suburban car
were for a moment diverted from the
contemplation of their dismal fate by
the spectacle of a laborer mowing red
clover in a field near the track. He
kept his body erect, lifted the scythe to
the level of his shoulder and brought
it down with a ferocious thwack, clip
ping off a thin wisp six inches or more
from the ground. Everybody laughed.
'You just ought to see me handle that
scythe," exclaimed an old man in a
wide straw hat, a farmer, as anybody
could tell from the healthy brown of
his neck and his placid eye. Had he
been mowing the clover he would have
kept his body bent at the hips and
swung the scythe back and forth with
a swift, powerful motion, never lifting
the point from the ground and cutting
a wide, "clean swath. In rhythm with
the swing of the glittering scythe he
would have stepped easily forward
without looking up. When it came
time to straighten his hips and rest his
arms he would have set the scythe on
the tip of the snath, draw a long whet
stone from his hip pocket, and, playing
it along the keen, recurving edge, made
a melody sweeter to remember than the
Miserere in "Trovatore."
But it is only farmers half submerged
in the city who use the scythe in our
days. That primitive tool belongs-with
the forgotten grain cradle and seems
as archaic to the modern haymaker as
the sickles in the field of Boaz, where
Ruth went gleaning. Hi cuts his grass
with a mower, an ingenious machine,
not very complicated, which delights
the heart of the philosopher with its
rigorous obedience to the laws of ele
mentary mechanics. Farm machinery
made to be drawn by horses stands re
lated to the devilish devices of the elec
trical plant like a proposition in Euclid
to Green's theorem in hydrodynamics.
It is simple, straightforward, inexora
ble. A mowing machine could no more
fail to work than a cannon ball to de
scribe its parabolic trajectory. It is a
monument more enduring than brass to
the memory of Galileo, D'Alembert and
Newton. Hegel would have rejoiced to
behold how beautifully it makes a
reconciliation of contradictories, for,
while friction is its motive power on
the one hand, on the other every part
of it is devised to avoid friction. The
friction of the wide drlvewheels on the
ground is transformed by a simple
gearing into the shuttle-like motion of
the sickle. ,
But the friction of the drivewheels is
the muscular power of the horses in
another form. The energy that cuts
the grass changes its outward sem
blance like the geni in the "Arabian
Nights." First it is the nutriment in
the hay and grain that the horses eat
for their supper, then it is swelling
muscle which drags the clicking ma
chine steadily across the field, then
succesively the friction of the drive-
wheels, the whirl of the gearing, and
finally the diagonal stroke of the
sickle against the grass. A good mow
ing team mu6t be strong and steady.
The frivolous horse that is forever
grabbing at the heads of timothy or
clover as he walks along is an aggra
vation to the farmer's soul, and it is
a question much debated by casuists
whether a man is justified in putting a
checkrein on a steed which persists In
sinning thus against repeated admoni
tion. The Scriptures are clearly against
it. If the ox that trod the threshing
floor was not to be muzzled, certainly
the horse that draws the mower must
not be checked.
The Fourth of July is a critical date
in haymaking. Farmers have a tradi
tion that it always rains on the Na
tion's natal morn and never afterward
before September. Some mysterious
power not -understood opens wide the
windows of heaven on that day and
then seals them securely for two
months. During June, of course, it
rains all the time. Woe, therefore, to
the farmer who has hay ready to make
before the Fourth; the chances are ten
to one that he will have to cure it be
tween showers, or, perhaps, haul -it into
the barn yet. This is one reason why
farmers who have not silos dislike to
raise red clover, for that fragrantly
succulent forage nullifies its many and
great virtues by rrfaturing in the middle
of June, when the heavens weep hard
est. Moreover, clover hay, beloved of
cows, is not particularly good for
horses and consequently never ranks
with timothy in the city market. Tim
othy, -which is the standard hay of the
Western world, ripens so late in the
season that it is almost always easy
to cure. This shows how much the
Lord loves the farmers.
But timothy has its foes. On the Co
lumbia bottoms, where it flourishes like
the green bay tree, it -is beset by what
the local botanists call "blue pod,"
rank lupine which sometimes ruins
whole field. Nothing will eat this pest
iferous plant, but when it is in bloom
it is a lovely sight. Why is evil always
so alluring? Some farmers go patient
ly through the grass and pull it out,
but. for one plant slain a thousand
spring -up again. The high water of
June kill the blue pod, but it also
kills the timothy. This pest was fore
seen by the evangelists In the spirit of
prophecy. The text which says that
the wheat and tares must - grow to
gether until the harvest clearly refers
to it. "Tares," according to many
scholars, should be translated "blue
pod," and for "wheat" the better read
ing is "timothy." Redtop and the na
tive wild grass are not injured by the
high water of the Columbia, but the
carp will sometimes Invade a field
where they grew and lay it desolate.
After the water retires there must be
a smart rain to wash the silt from' the
grass or it is useless for pasture and
not good for hay. The silt which the
Spring floods bring down and spread
over the fields is volcanic ash gathered.
perhaps,- from the rich areas of the
Yakima and more remote valleys. Its
fertilizing value more than compen
sates in the long run for all the in
jury done by the water to the crops.
THE FLIGHT OF WELT .MAN.
The Chicago Record-Herald expedi
tion, in charge of Walter Wellman, will
son be off in' an airship for the North
Pole. That is to say, it sailed on the
steamer Frithjof for Its headquarters
at Spitzbergen, July 5, and after such
delay as is occasioned by getting off on
so important a journey, his great craft,
cunningly devised and equipped with
every comfort and safeguard known to
science, will rise and set sail in the air
for the northernmost north.
Andree's polar expedition undertaken
in a balloon some ten or twelve years
ago was equipped, as far as the devel
opments of. science then permitted, in
every-possible way for its flight, but
in a few hours after starting it was lost
in the wayward currents of the upper
air and was 6een and heard of no more.
The Wellman expedition will be
equipped with wireless telegraphic in
struments, and through the three sta
tions at Danes' Inland, Hammerfest
and Tromsoe, the daring adventurers
expect to keep in touch with the world
during the entire progress of the expe
dition. . . -
When' the great airship which Is to
convey Mr. Wellman and his compan
ions, Ave in. all, is ready for flight, it
will be the largest and most scientific
ally constructed vehicle of its kind ever
built or even attempted. The balloon
part is 164 feet in length and its great
est diameter is 524 feet. It has a sur
face of 21,098 square feet, a gas capac
ity of 224,225 cubic feet, and a lifting
power of 16.000 pounds. A veritable
leviathan of the air, truly, and under
control capable of accomplishing the
century-old dream of mariners.
The car which the balloon is to wing
through space at a speed rate largely
dependent upon the currents and coun
ter-currents of the air is constructed
entirely of steel tubing. It is 53 1-3 feet
long and contains the engme-rooin and
cabin for the crew. Its Important tow
is a basket carrying the gasoline fuel
for the motors, three in number, of sev
enty, of twenty-five and of five horse
power respectively. The speed, when
dependent upon these motors, will
range from ten to nineteen miles an
hour." According to calculation, the
flight to the pole will require 100 hours,
and, if the final rise of the airship is
accomplished by August 1, as now ex
pected, Mr. Wellman hopes to report by
wireless the success of his daring expe
dition by the first of September, or at
farthest by the middle of that month.
Busy with retrospection are those
who have followed the many attempts
of scientists and navigators to reach
the North Pole during a half-century
and more of endeavor, of daring, of
hope, of suffering, of failure and of
death. The ghost of the Sir John
Franklin expedition rises up gaunt and
gray out of the white silence; that of
Dr. Kane appeals to patriotic Ameri
cans for admiration through the long
intervening years. The ill-fated Jean-
nette, crushed like a Vessel of glass in
the cruel clutch of Arctic ice and with
a great creaking and groaning of tim
bers settling to the unknown depths
of a silent sea, touches the pity, even
in memory, of all who love a ship;
while the fate of Lieutenant De Long
and his courageous companions, living
as long as they could upon "willow
tea and finally composing themselves
in death upon the ' ice of the Lena
Delta, is recalled in detail and turned
from with a shudder. General Greely's
expedition and the return upon a relief
ship of his emaciated and mostly cof
fined crew, with grewsome tales of hun
ger's last pinch upon the blue lips of
the first, to which the second bore mute
witness, is recalled as often as his
name appears in connection with a
public duty. We turn to the safely ac
complished expeditions of Lieutenant
Peary for relief from the gnawing hor
rors of retrospection, and to the report
of the cruise of Lieutenant Schwatka
as showing that the navigation of the
polar sea is not all hardship. Much
that is of more than passing interest
has been wrested from the frigid do
main of the Far North. Scientists,
having gone there full of hope, have
returned fullhanded and- spread their
treasures before the world. Still, for
the effort made, the suffering endured.
the fatalities encountered and the
money expended in Arctic exploration,
the returns have not been large. Nev
ertheless there is a world-wide inter
est in the Wellman expedition, and, if
it shall prove successful, all the world,
even intrepid Norway, that has sent
out so many expeditions in quest of
the North Pole, will honor America
as having with unparalleled skill and
daring reached the long-sought goal.
FRANCE'S NATIONAL HOLIDAY.
The national holiday of France, the
14th of July, celebrates the fall of the
Bastile an occasion of brutal slaugh
ter of which no nation should be proud.
How much better it would have been
had the French people chosen to ob
serve as their national holiday the 17th
of June, upon which the National As
sembly came into, existence, or the 20th
of June, upon which the members of
the Assembly joined in an oath not to
separate until they had drawn up
constitution for France. .The 17th and
the 20th of June are memorable for the
achievements of brave men who dared
to throw defiance in the face of a King
and mark the end of absolutism in
France. The 14th of July recalls a day
of mob violence, broken promises and
savage butchery. America has in her
history no sucn day as that which
France delights to observe as the anni
versary of the beginning of her liberty.
but if we had chosen to commemorate
a feat of arms, as France has done,
we should probably have selected the
anniversary, of the battle of Lexington
or of Bunker Hill or the surrender of
Cornwallis, as our National - holiday.
On the contrary, we have seen fit to
establish, as the beginning of our Na
tional life, that day upon which the
colonies, through their representatives,
declared their independence of the
mother country.
The Bastile w;as a national prison
guarded by Swiss soldiers in the em
ploy of .the King of France. In the
hope of securing arms and ammunition
an. unorganized body of revolutionists
sought to capture the fortress, but were
unable to take it by storm. Confer
ences were held lor the purpose of dis
cussing terms of surrender, but no
agreement was reached further than
that the cannon of the prison should
not be used upon the people. Return
ing from the conference, the represent
ative of the people requested them to
wait before,. resorting to force, but they
rushed across the drawbridge, -where--
upon . the garrison began firing and
some 800 were killed. In response to
the demands of his own soldiers, to
whom promises of protection had been
given, the commandant surrendered,
opened the gates and let in the people.
Almost immediately a massacre began
and continued until the heads of the
surrendered soldiers were hoisted on
pikes, to be carried about the streets
of Paris. Bodies were horribly mutil
ated by the half-crazed mob.
One can find excuses for the course
of the people in thus avenging the
death of over 800 of their fellow-citizens,
for the mob was made up chiefly
of the lower classes of people, who had
been taught brutality by the government
under which they lived. The fall of the
Bastile was a necessary incident of the
revolution, and the atrocities that fol
lowed its surrender were the natural
consequence of years df injustice and
oppression. To the masses of the peo
ple the fall of the Bastile marked the
beginning of French liberty. It was an
event whose importance and full sig
nificance every man could undersand.
Yet, since the day was marked by mur
ders too horrible to contemplate, one
could wish that France had chosen to
celebrate as a national holiday the an
niversary of achievements of no less
importance, involving no less patriot-
Ism and courage and full of inspiration
for the youth of France who study the
history of their country.
A JUDICIAL LAPSE.
Pitiable is the moral plight of Chief
Justice Marshall, of the Supreme
Court of Wisconsin. Stripped of eva
sion and circumlocution, what he did
was to solicit a rebate on his life insur
ance premium; and he made the matter
worse by asking to have it paid indi
rectly through a bank, with the evident
motive of concealing his part in the
transaction. Such rebates are unlawful
under the statutes of Wisconsin. The
whole affair is edifying In the extreme.
It casts a curious light upon the secret
motives of those who contend that all
our courts and judges must remain
immune from criticism, that they can
do no wrong, that even their mistakes
and prejudices are sacred.
This was the position which Mr. Jer
ome took the other day in his diatribe
against the President for objecting to
Judge Humphrey's decision granting
immunity to the packers. Mr. Jerome
puts the judges in the same rank with
Indian medicine men. Whatever they
say or do is necessarily divinely in
spired. To question it is sacrilege.
Were his opinion to be -accepted and
followed, it would cause a relapse of
the courts to their moral condition in
the time of Lord Bacon. Newspaper
criticism is the salt that keeps the judl
ciary as well as the other departments
of the Government from spoiling.
Strange and lamentable as it may
seem, it is nevertheless true that hu
man rectitude will not flourish in the
dark. It is a plant which requires light
and a great deal of it all the time.
Grant any man or any department of
government the privilege of secrecy
and immunity from criticism and you
doom them to corruption.
What moral distinction can honestly
be drawn between the act of a judge
who accepts a pass and that of Lord
Bacon In taking gifts from litigants?
A pass may sometimes -be received in
nocently, just as the great chancellor
says his presents were, but they are
never bestowed with 'innocent intent.
No railroad ever gave a pass to a pub
lie official with any other purpose than
to corrupt him, and every officer who
accepts a pass does so with guilty
knowledge of this fact. Such being the
ethics of unsolicited faVors, what must
be said of the act of a judge who begs
a pecuniary tip from a corporation and
does so knowing that it is contrary to
the law of his state? It is to be hoped
that judges with a sense of judicial
duty as rudimentary as that of the
Wisconsin Justice are rare. It is be
lieved that they are rare. If they were
numerous, what hope would there be of
enforcing the laws of the country
against the corporations? When
judges themselves break the laws
which they are appointed to adminis
ter, whither shall we turn for justice?
WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
It is reported from Seattle that Mr.
Edward Holton James has hired out to
work for Mr. Paulhamus on his dairy
farm. Mr. James is a young man hap
pily married to a woman of means, and
Is himself highly educated and wealthy.
To milk cows for Mr. Paulhamus and
labor with the other hired hands on
the farm he has forsaken a law prac
tice and broken up his home. Most
people will say he is a fool. Why has
he done it?
The reason is simple in two senses.
perhaps. Mr. James is a socialist and
proposes to put his theories into prac
tice. In this he differs notably from
certain men who loudly profess to be
lieve in the precepts of the original so
cialist teacher, but rigorously abstain
from applying them. - We may differ
with him about the value and trdth'of
his theories, butwe must admire his
thorough-going . honesty. Nor is his
example unique. . Several cases have
been reported in the -newspapers lately
where men of wealth have ' renounced
their advantages and cast in their lot
with the common herd.
We. conclude, then, that our age is
not wholly given over to materialism.
Men can still make sacrifices for an
ideal. They can still forsake all and
follow what seems to them to be the
right. Their conduct refutes the asser
tion eo often made .that money is the
only thing which will inspire men to
effort or sacrifice. As. a matter of fact,
very few of . the world's great deeds
have been done for the sake of money
The love of money is rather the root of
evil than the spring of high endeavor.
What Mr. James has done' must be
interpreted as a sign of . changes at
hand. Not that, his example is likely
to be commonly, imitated, but that so
ciety is on the. point of making what
Mr. Griffis- calls "-a- cosmic lurch'
toward socialism, though It will stop
far short of the theoretical goal. When
one or two men' go the length that Mr.
James and Mr. Stokes have gone, many
others are ready to follow them part of
the way. This is the invariable lesson
of history. Judge Sulzberger, of Phil
adelphia, is probably .wrong, in saying
that the present strong - tendency
toward socialism indicates that the
doctrine is dead. His remark Is at best
a paradox, and paradoxes are to be dis
trusted. The truth is, on the contrary,
that the germ' thoughts of socialism
have taken deep hold on the conscious
ness of the people and will work out
in wholesome reforms of our National
life. These germ thoughts have noth
ing to do with a division of wealth or
a reduction. of all men to a uniform
standard of effort and reward. What
they pertain to Is the equitable appor
tionment to every man of the fruits of
his .labor and the abolition of special
privilege.-- In this one -nentence is
summed up all that is practicable or
desirable in socialism, and so much we
may expect to see- embodied in our In
stitutions in the course of time.
Senator Whyte, of Maryland, will find
no one in the Senate who was there
when he first entered it, in 186S, as the
successor to Reverdy Johnson. Sena
tor Allison, the oldest member in point
of service, did not enter that body until
1873. In 1868 the great Senatorial lead
ers of the Civil War period were still
at the front, though Mr. Fessenden, of
Maine, had then substantially reached
the end of his career. Thaddeus Ste
vens, the leader of the House, died that
Summer. Among the colleagues of Mr.
Whyte for several years were Charles
Sumner, Lyman Trumbull and Ben
Wade. A leaf from the past is wafted
in with each of these names so thor
oughly representative of their day and
generation, so long ago given to grave
yard granite. These men had their
strenuous, useful day and passed on.
The wisdom of keeping them in the
Senate, had they lived until the pres
ent time, would have been doubtful.
Equally doubtful is the wisdom of giv
Ing any. one of their few colleagues
who may still survive the responsibil
ity that should be borne by younger
men. The man of 75 or 80 years has
earned freedom from care, and the
quiet that is grateful to age. He should
not at this period be saddled with the
burdens that belong to younger men.
If, as feared early in the week, the
men had voted to strike, a multitude
of Portlanders would have taken up
the lost but healthful art of walking,
They would not, as now, have confined
their path of motion to streets streaked
with four lines of rails; other avenues
besides Washington, Third, East Mor
rison, Hawthorne and Union would
have been utilized by pedestrians. In
this way, old residents would have ac
quired wider knowledge of their own
town and learned more concerning the
steady march of improvement. Hap
pily, we can continue to ride, but
wouldn't it pay to have breakfast half
an hour earlier once or twice a week
and enjoy the rare privilege of using
your neighbors' sidewalk on your way
to office, store or shop? Never is the
wather so warm that an outing on
foot before 8 would be attended with
discomfort. Just pretend for once that
the cars are tied up and find out for
yourself whether an early morning
walk Isn't worth while. Such an ex
periment may lead to wholesome, reg
ular exercise. No application of these
remarks need be made to the home
ward Journey at another time of day.
It Is probable that the position of
Mrs. Clark, late postmaster of St,
Johns, was undermined and over
reached by politics in the sense of re
wards for service and to redeem prom
ises made by candidates or a candidate.
In this event, or in any event, there is
nothing to do but submit to the regular
order of things. That she was a good
postmaster, honest, painstaking, oblig
ing and competent, does not count. The
man who has both the inside track
and the whip hand is bound to come
out ahead. Mayor Valentine will doubt
less make an honest, capable postmas
ter. He wanted -the plum, shook the
tree according . to the established
method, and got it. After all is said
and done, civil service does not protect
in office those whose -positions are
necessary with -which to pay political
obligations. ' In the language of the
street, Mrs. Clark, with her simple.
straightforward business methods, "is
not in it," having been unceremonious
ly, "put out." The case is a very com
mon one. Why chafe and fret and con
tend about it?
The administrators of the estate of
the late Marshall Field have made re
ports showing property valued at ten
times the amount upon which Mr. Field
paid taxes. Probably the estate of
every other multi-millionaire in Chi
cago and elsewhere has been assessed
In the same proportion. If it were not
for the fear of being called an anarchist
by Charles H. Carey, some one might
suggest that a slight inequality exists
in taxation affairs in Chicago. It is to
be hoped the people of Illinois will not
adopt the initiative and referendum
and begin "radical" legislation, as Mr.
Carey would call it, for there is no
knowing to what extremes the fool
people might go. They might even go
so far as to make the millionaires pay
taxes on one-fifth of their property in
stead of only one-tenth of It.
Plutocracy and high finance, franchise-mongers,
charter sharps, et id
omne genus, almost always try to sup
port their pretensions through devo
tion to what they find or imagine the
prevalent religious influence. Awfully
shocked, therefore, our great public
thieves are, to find there are those who
question their pastor's concept of the
holy trinity, or are so wicked as to sit
down at a table in a beer garden.
Just about the time the public got
enough interested in the late Central
American war to inquire what It was
all about, President Roosevelt stopped
it with his little peace persuader.
However, it seems to have, been quite
long enough to satisfy all the fifteen or
twenty combatants.
Paris has invented a new verb, "cir
cuiter," to circuit, intended to describe
taking a motor drive with no special
destination' in mind. We have bor
rowed nearly all our automobiling
terms from the French, and It may be
safely assumed that Americans will
soon be "circuiting."',
Many persons say "They worked it
finely. And they got away with it."
Yes; and what have they got? The
censure, the condemnation, the distrust,
of the whole community and the whole
state. There are things better than
four millions of dollars.
The Wisconsin Supreme Judge "sees
nothing wrong" about his request for
an insurance rebate. He was merely
fortifying himself to '.'see nothing
wrong" with the practice, if a rebat
ing case ever got into his court.
Banker Gourdain has simply given
one more startling proof of the famil
iar fact that It is one thing to be con
victed and another to go to Jail.
Pittsburg - is also rapidly securing
widespread recognition as America's
leading city of smoky morale.
Where did the Government get the
notion that It would take three men to
watch Judge O'Day?
"Mexico for Mexicans" is sweeping
our sister republic like a prairie fire.
Well, it suits us.
1", " THE PESSIMIST.
In recounting his attempts to make his
grandfather good, Maxim Gorky says that
he threw the old gentleman out of the
window and smashed him with a looking-
glass. In spite of this heroic treatment
the old man did not improve. If he had
hit him with a meat-ax. and. had thrown
him down a well, his efforts would have-
been more successful.
ess
This Is a shame, '
The weather In New York was not
Very warm when Stanford 'was shot.
There came a slight Thaw;
With fear and with awe.
White moved on to a place white-hot.
Now is the time when the six-bit In
surance companies are squaring them
selves for an effort to break into the 100-
cent class.
e
'It is more blessed to give than to re
ceive." The seventy-five-cent concerns
have Just found this out. They have
discovered that it is more blessed to give
up what they owe than to receive th
roasts they have had.
e
Perspiration
Is more euphonious
Than sweat.
But It
Means the same thing.
You bet!
A simple and quite effective way to re
duce the temperature of your surround
ings these hot days is to buy a thermome
ter with a centigrade scale. Those who
cannot indulge in the luxury of one or -these
soothing instruments can obtain
the same results by an easy mathematical
calculation. When it is 95 degrees In the
shade, extract from that figure 32; divide
the difference by 9; multiply tha quotient
by 6. The result will bo 3605 degrees
centigrade. While the calorific rays will
be just as active,, 35 degrees seem vastly
cooler than 93 degrees, and the moral ef
fect will be great.
I have thought that I would never be
happy unless I had a windmill. I have
always admired energy mechanical en
ergyin all its forms. When one aze
from a vantage point of ease at toiling,
sweating humanity, struggling to main
tain Itself in this gruesome heat-ridden
world, how much more edifying It is to
turn to the cool, refreshing windmill, and
watch it spin merrily and profitably with
out effort or expense to anybody.
An automobile Is not so bad, either.
However, it has one grave objection; it
has to be wound up at least most auto
mobiles have to be wound up. A feeling
of deepest sympathy wells up from my
heart when I see a panting chauffeur la
boriously grinding away the front, or
the side of his car. Some cars require a
more prolonged exertion at the handle
than others. There is the Waterbury car,
for example. A friend of mine has a
Waterbury. He says that he is going to
sell it and get an Ingersoll. The Inger
soll has an automatic device that winds
up when the car goes down hill. I hope
that be will get an Ingersoll, because he
got in a fearful rage at me one day when
1 suggested that the mainspring might be
broken, after he had turned the crank for
half an hour and the thing wouldn't go.
He told me to go to Helena, Mont., or to
some other place that sounded like that.
I wouldn't go, an an and he said some
thing else. When I get a car, I am going
to buy one of those white steamers.- They
say that they have a steam engine to
wind the machinery.
. - .
When you hear a man whistling an im
possible tune, a. tune that sounds like
a continuous performance of an airbrake,
do not hastily assume that he is Just
learning to whistle. He may be impro
vising. e
Without the daily blowing of the
bathing whistle life to most .'Summer
visitors at North Beach would be a
chaos, a vague nothingness. There are
the rocks, the walks through the
shaded trails, the arrival of the Potter
train, the surf, the bonfires and other
things, but what are all these com
pared with the blowing of the whistle.
Without that welcome sound existence
would be a nightmare. The daily round
of activity and joy would not begin.
Disconsolate souls, like the shades in
Sheol, would wander up and down, to
and fro, bathing suits In band, wailing
and weeping, waiting for the sound
that never came. I have never seen the
care-ridden genius who blows that
whistle, but I have often thought of
the fearful responsibility which he
carries, and I wonder what would hap
pen, and who would take his place, if
he should die. No! Like Mrs. Eddy,
he will never die. Life would be im
possible without him. Once in a .de
cade or so a stranger to the life and
customs of North Beach will Ignore
the whistle and go into the surf when
he gets ready, but he never does it
again. Although the tide may still be
flowing a half-hour before the turn,
and everything propitious for a. most
successful bath, in that twenty miles
of rolling breakers he will be alone.
Thousands will warn him. "The whistle
has blown two hours before," they will
say, and he never does It again.
There was a brave man at Seaview;
His whiskers the winds blew through.
He went at ebb tide
The breakers to ride;
Now his widow she weeps. Boo hoo!
,
The ladies all busily talked - f
When down to Ilwaco they walked; -
The birds they dropped dead.
The animals fled;
But still they walked on and they
talked.
M. B. WELLS.
Lay of Ancient Rome.
Shanghai Times.
Oh. the Roman was a rarue, "
He erat, was, you bettum,
He ran his automobills
And smoked his cirarettum;
He wore a diamond studious.
And elegant cravattum.
A maxima cum lauda shirt.
And such a stylish hattum.
He loved the luscious hlchaeo-hock.
And bet on games and equl;
At times he won; at others, though.
He got It la tha neqal;
He winked quo usque tandem
At puellaa on the Forum,
And sometimes even made
Those goo-goo oculorum.
He frequently was seen
At combats gladiatorial.
And ate enough to feed
Ten boarders at Memorial;
He often went on sprees.
And said, on starting homus,
"Hlc labor opus est.
Oh, here's my hlc hlo dermis!"
Although he lived in Rome
Of all tha arts the middle
He was (excuse the phrase))
A horrid indlvld'l. .
Ah. what a different thing
Was the homo (dative, hominy)
Of far-away B. C.
Fron us of Anno Domini!