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OREGOXIA3T, PORTLAND, SEPTE5IB1TR 1903. PORTLAND. OKEGOH. Entered at Portland. Oregon, Fostornc a Second-Class Matter. Bubeerlptloa Batee Invarlablr t Advance. By XU- DIIt. Sunday fnelndsd. m rr ?? Dallv. Bundar Included, six month!.... 4.29 Dsiiv. 6under Included, thro months. S-iS Dalir, Kundar Included, on month.... -79 I'::r without Sunder, one year...... aOO Dallr, without Sunder, six months..... a.23 L-allv. without Sunder, three month.. 1.TJ Dallr, without Sunder, one montn..... Weekly, one rear ISO Sunder, on rear..... S-30 Cnadar and Weekly. n rear......... a-M CBir Carrier.) Danr. Sunday Included. eoe year Oally. Sunday Included, on month..... .To How t Remit Send poetofflce money rder. xnress order or personal check on your local bank. Stamp, coin or currency are at the sender risk- Give postotflc ad dra in full, including eounty and atata, Poetac Bate 10 to 14 pages. 1 cent: IS to 2a nea-ee. S eente: SO to 44 sum cents: 40 to 60 pesos, 4 casta, Foreign post age uouoie ratea Eastera Beninese Offlc Th 8. C Back with Special Agency New York, roome 48 00 Tribune banding. Chicago, rooms elo-oia i no jm ouuoing. PORTLAND. BJUifDAY. SEPT. ST. . 1S08. IOFT7LAR RTJLB THROUGH RKPRESEXX ATIVK GOTEB"MIT. "Shall tbe people rule?" Undoubt edly. They do rule; not In our coun try alone which In some ways Is the most advanced of democracies' but in most other countries whatever the special designation of the form of gov. eminent In Russia and Turkey only, of great modern states, the people cannot be said to rule. "Shall the people rule?" is not at all a question in the United States of America. But how they shall rule, by what methods. forms and measures, and to what ends. Is the most vital of questions, and al ways win be; for the course of life of a nation presents no finalities. But though In our country the peO' pie rule, and always will rule for It is not conceivable that they ever be come so degenerate as to lose Interest in government they realize, and they have ordained that rule and govern ment shall be directed and controlled on certain large and defined principles, established through forms, and guided and held in check by constitutional limitations. It is a common saying, however, that "the people know what they want; It Is the right of the ma. Jority to declare." From every side you hear about "the people's will,1 "the people's desire." But the people have deliberately bound themselves, for their own safety, and for preserva tion of orderly government, to meth ods and principles written in funda mental laws; and for further security have purposely and expressly made it difficult to change those fundamental laws. The whole system under which we live is based on the idea and pur pose that no majority shall at once have Its way, in matters that concern all, but must conform to constitutional restrictions and limitations. We have no unqualified democracy, that can work its will as a majority may wish, but a representative democracy; in the words of the National Constitu tion, "a republican form of govern ment. Its leading methods are all pre cisely denned. No attempt of a state, of a political party, or of any body of citizens, to supersede them, or to ad minister the government upon & dif ferent plan, or to substitute a new or different method for one distinctly prescribed, can have any validity whatever; and , every "promise" or "pledge" that may be made to do so , Is void from the beginning. Such promise or pledge no citizen or body of citizens has a right to demand none a right to give. The people elect their representa tives, and it is the duty of these rep resentatives to act with care and de liberation in the execution of their trust. But while they are to consider the wishes, the recommendations, the petitions and requests of any portion of their constituents who may ad dress them, yet the Judgment and re sponsibility rest with the represents tlves. It is the very basis of the sys tern. Senator Heyburn, of Idaho, is taken to task by a faction in his state, because he asserts that there is a lim it to his duty to obey "Instructions' from a portion of his constituents, or even from a majority of the Legisla ture of hla state. Whatever may be his temporary loss of popularity. Sen. ator Heyburn undoubtedly laid, down the true principles of the representa tive's action. All the writers and statesmen of any note or authority will be found to sustain his position though we do not observe that he quotes from any of them. Burke, greatest of all. friend of liberty, cham pion of America, exponent of the prin ciples of democratic representative government, without peer Burke re fused. In certain grave matters to obey "lnstruettlons" or "mandates." "What sort of reason," he replied, "Is that in which the determination pre cedes the discussion, tn which one set of men deliberate and another decide, and where those who form the con clusion are distant from those who hear the arguments?" Proceeding, ha said: "I did not obey your instructions. No. I conformed to the Instructions of truth and nature, and maintained your Interest against your opinions with a constancy that became me. A representative worthy of you ought to be a person of stability. I am to look, indeed, to your opinions, but to such opinions as you and I mnst have five years hence. I was not to look to the flash of the day. I knew that you chose me. In my place, along with others, to be a pillar of the state, and not a weathercock on the top of the edifice, exalted for my levity and ver satility, and of no use but to indicate the shiftlngs of every fashionable gale." The passages are Immortal, and should be tha more valuable to Ameri cans because Burke had refused to obey "authoritative Instructions" from his constituents, requiring him to sup port the crown In the measures It was pushing against the American colonies, and at the same time against Ireland. Tha measures that his constituents had de manded were carried through Parlia ment against his protest and hla vote. In rendering his account he said: "From war and blood we went back to submission, and from submission plunged back again to war and blood, to desolate and be desolated without measure, hope, or end. I am a royal ist; I blushed for this degradation of the crown. I am Whig; I blushed for the dishonor of Parliament. I am a true Englishman; I felt to the quick for the disgrace of England I am a man; I felt for the melancholy reverse of human affairs In the fall of the first power in the world." On this same subject of "obeying Instructions" It may be well here an now to quote from other great think era and writers. The following Is from John Stuart Mill's "Representative Government:" If It b an object to possess representa tives tn any Intellectual respect superior to averag electors. - it mnst bo counted upon that the representatlv will sometimes differ In opinion from the majority of his constituents, and that wren he does, his opinion will be the oft en est risht of tha two. It follow that th electors will not do wisely If they Insist on absolute con formity to their opinions aa the condition of hi retaining his seat. To the same effect passages might be cited from Sir Henry Maine, Jeremy Bentham and many more. The fol lowing Is from Waiter Bagehot: Constituency government Is th prcis epposlt of Parliamentary government la th government of immoderate persons far from th seen of action. Instead of th government of moderate rereon close th oen of action. Tet these writers would not have "the constituent's deference to the representative's superior knowledge. arising from his position and sources of Information go to the length of self- annihilation"; which la right, too, for there Is a Just and proper mean which representatives of the people will no disregard. But for a portion of the representative's constituency, most of whom are opposed to htm, anyway, in politics or on principle, to make de- mands upon him that would annlhl late free will in his Judgment would be to make a farce of representative. or republican or constitutional gov ernment.. tt SHALL THE LIVESTOCK SHOW FAIL? The Country Club Fair and Live stock Show for 1908 Is over. It Is use less to say that results were satisfac tory. They were not. There was present, indeed, every element of success but attendance. The exhlbl tlon of stock was superb, the races were excellent, and ail arrangements for the entertainment, instruction and convenience of the public were ad mirable. But public Interest for some reason was lacking. It should not have been. It Is inconceivable that the people of Portland Intend by their neglect of this Oregon Institution that It shall faiL It must not fail. It is an enter prise that goes to the very life of the livestock industry In Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. It is the means. the best available means, of showing the world what Oregon has In fine horses, fine cattle, fine sheep and pedigreed stock of various kinds. It Is an evidence of the Interest Oregon has in the livestock Industry. If we are to have no livestock show then Indeed, we might almost as well have no livestock. But we have the live stock, and Oregon must' have the show. The company of Portland citizens who have undertaken to make this exhibition an annual feature of Port land's industrial activities deserve and should have the cordial support of every citizen of Portland and of Ore gon. They have already paid out for this enterprise a very large amount of money, and up to this time have had Insufficient returns. They must be en couraged to proceed and to carry out their original plans. . The people of Portland should make it manifest now that they want this livestock exhibi tion to be held every year In Port land, and means should be devised to Insure a large attendance. The Oregonlan has undertaken to promote a plan by which there shall be taken now by the people of Port land and vicinity a large number of season tickets, at o eacn, lor tne livestock show. In 1909. If these should be sold now they will in a measure guarantee the success of next year's fair and show. "TUB SIMMONS OF THE SOUTH." Mr. Richard H. Edmonds, editor of the Manufacturers' Record, of Balti more, addressed the Southern Society of Boston last Spring, bearing in his speech "The Summons of the South" to her wandering sons and daughters. The burden of this message was: Come home; the South needs you." This address, remarkable for the strength, directness and reasonable ness of the plea, has lately been print ed in pamphlet form and Is being widely distributed. Mr. Edmonds tens his fellow-coun trymen that If they will but "come home," untold wealth awaits them, providing they will seek It with any thing like the courage and Intelligence that they show in the pursuit of gain ful occupations In the North and West, In support of this statement he has compiled figures that are some what startling, setting forth the extent and variety of the sources that wait development In the South. He quotes from the reports of the United States Geological Survey, showing a total of known Iron ore supplies In the South to be 10,000,000,000 tons, or about five times as much as the known ore sup plies of the Lake Superior region nearly as much, indeed, as the known ore supplies of that region and of the whole of Europe combined. Supple mental to this statement he predicts that In thirty yea a single genera tion the present known supplies of the Lake Superior region will be ex hausted, giving the South practically a monopoly of the iron Industry, un- ess other sources of supply are In the meantime discovered. But this is not all. The South has 62,000 square miles of coal deposits. nearly 50 per cent more than the" en tire coal area of Europe. These beds. on account of their proximity to the ore, can be and Indeed are now being worked with unusual profit The South has also a seemingly exhaustless sup ply of petroleum, and to crown all it possesses water power of vast poten tiality In streams that flow down the eastern slopes of the Appalachian ranges. As to agricultural products, a total of $700,000,000 worth of cotton a year has been produced for the last five years. So much or tnis great staple is shipped to Europe that as pointed out by Mr. Edmonds, If It were possible to gather annually every ounce of gold mined on earth and pour It into tha South, the sum would still fall short by 1100,000,000 of paying Europe's Indebtedness to that section for cot ton." In agricultural products other than cotton, the South is shown to be strik ingly productive. Besides the 800,- 000,000 bushels of grain annually pro duced, the culture of fruits and vege tables Is enormously profitable. Citrus fruits in Florida yield $500 an acre, onions In Texas yield $1000, and rice growing makes land in Louisiana worth $100 an acre, whloh twenty years ago could have been bought for 23 cents. So runs the marvelous story, as told by Mr. Edmonds, of actual achieve ments and reasonable possibilities In development In the South. It Is a fair story, and one that should make the hearts of loyal Southerners swell with pride and cause those who sojourn In other parts of the country to turn their Bteps homeward. Calling aloud to the army of absentees, Mr. Edmonds savs: The Sooth call to yon; It calls with deep' earnestness, come home. It promises you a wider field for capital, for muscle, and for brain than any other equal area on earth, and It calls you not only by season of what It otters In material possibilities. but because tn shaping Its destiny It neede the hearty co -operation of those who, broadened by travel and study and tha In termingling with the people of other sec tions, are the better prepared to help formu late and oarry to fruition th policies which make for ethical and religious, as well aa for material advancement Come heme. Such are the industrial attractions and the riches awaiting development In the South as assessed by one of her broad-minded, loyal sons. Such the material evidence of the utter ground lessness of the old contention that without slaves to work the land the In dustrial life of the South would cease. Surely there is no excuse for homesick Southerners to pine in Northern lati tudes, or dwell, 111 content, on bleak Western areas, when the sunny South land calls to them in tones so elo quent of prosperity and power. TUB WEEKLY PAYDAY. The most satisfactory conditions result when the worklngman is paid once a week. Tears ago the Typo graphical Union, at once the most progressive and most conservative body of organized labor, insisted on having the weekly payday recognized In Its scale, and the result has been satisfactory to employe and employer. Waiting until the end of the month, and then a week or two more for the clerical force to catch up, necessitates a store account and the account at the store leads to extravagance. Goods are bought because going into debt is easy, whereas on the other hand the ordinary person with cash in hand Is disposed to ponder for it Is human nature with most of us to hang on to the coin and many an unnecessary article Is not bought for the reason the buyer mentally reckons the cash may not hold out To be sure, there are reckless spenders, buff they are few compared with the frugal many. Then, too, the dollar that revolves Is worth half a dozen that make a sin gle appearance but to vanish. Cash gets the bargains, also, and the dol lar goes farther. The weekly payday means an even financial flow of life. while pay on the 10th or the 15th or the 20th brings affluence for a few days and a distressing relapse and financial gloom the weeks that fol low. The sharks reap the benefit The change might cost the average em ployer a trifle extra for bookkeeping, but the Improvement he would find In the spirit of his corps would repay the cost WHY FORAKER FOUGHT TAFT. The bitter hostility displayed by Senator Foraker in his efforts to de feat Secretary Taft for the Presidential nomination until quite recently has been unexplalnable. Taft as a friend of Roosevelt and generally regarded as the logical legatee of the Roosevelt policies, was, of course, in a measure distasteful to Foraker, but this fact alone was Insufficient to warrant the Ohio Senator In displaying such ex treme rancor and bitterness as were noticeable In his attacks on Taft This pronounced hostility was not clear at the time it was much in evi dence, but It has ail been made clear by the recent exposure of the Foraker connection with Standard Oil. Smart ing under the merited punishment ad ministered by Roosevelt, it was but natural that the great oil trust should be antagonistic to the President or any of his friends who might be placed In position to carry out the reforms which he had undertaken. 'The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau." It was Foraker 'that charged up and down the State of Ohio, putting forth mighty effort to defeat Mr. Taft for the nomination, but It was the Stand ard Oil that supplied the motive and expected to profit by his defeat and the elevation of one of its own pup pets. In the light of recent disclos ures of Standard OH tactics, it Is not at all difficult to trace the programme of that lawbreaklng trust Baffled in Its attempt to secure one of its own hirelings for the head of the Republi can ticket, it was more fortunate with the Democrats, and we find the Bryan campaign In charge of a man whose direct connection with Standard OH and its devious methods is established beyond the possibility of a doubt Now that the relations of Foraker and Standard Oil have been exposed, the opposition to Taft as a possible successor of Roosevelt pledged to carry out the work begun by the foe of the trusts, Is so easily understood tlfat it cannot prove otherwise than benefi cial to Mr. Taft. The antagonism of Standard Oil in this campaign is a far greater asset than Its friendship. Had Mr. Taft been satisfactory to the em--plovers of Governor Haskell, the Foraker opposition to his nomination would never have appeared. BUFFALO BOX. There has been a man In Portland for two days who Is a living example of the power at advertising. His best-known name Is "Buffalo Bill." It is a long stretch of time from the lithe scout of old .General Reynolds' Third Cavalry at Fort McPherson in West ern Nebraska, clad In dilapidated hat and fringed buckskins. In the very early '70s to the prosperous owner of a great show in 1903. Ned Buntllne began it when ,he made Bill outwit old Spotted Tail and Red Cloud, on paper to be sure, but h put Bill in the limelight by recovering the for lorn maiden from the redskin and the hero has remained In the brightness ever since. Everybody wants to see the man the papers tell of, but the fact that they want to see him a sec ond time shows there must be some thing to him. And there is. He is the last of a vanishing race of Bills, and because he remains it must be that he Is genuine, while the other ones were counterfeits in other words, bad bills. Tet, despite that he has .hobnobbed with Emperors and been hail fellow with Kings, if it were ot for the combination of newspaper and merit, his show might lack pat ronage. At Tacoma the report got out that BUI was not with the show. and the traction company hauled empty cars back and forth. BUI was there, however, and satisfied his pat rons of his presence by scalping his press agent. Hence the truth of the opening sentence. ACTCM3T. One of Bryanf s prettiest poems de scribes the death of the flowers in Au tumn. It is the one which begins with the lovely line, "The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year," and goes on through many verses to bewail the tragic end of everything beautiful in Nature. Toward the close the poet describes the first frost He sings how the goldenrod blooms on the hill and the aster by the brook, latest and bravest of the flowers, till the frost falls "from the clear, cold heaven as falls the plague on men, and the beauty of their smile Is gone from upland, glade and glen." Bryanf s poem is charming, but It shows how little attention poets pay to truth. The flowers do not die In Au tumn. No vegetation dies. What Is done Is to clear away the rubbish of a finished season and get things ready for the next one. The old leaves fall, not because death has seized them, but because life is pushing behind them in young buds, and the flower stalks of Summer do not wither until they have treasured up their store of life in seeds. If there Is one season of the year which more than all the oth ers overflows with expectation and hope, it is Autumn. It Is Nature's chosen time to sweep away the rubbish of the past and in troduce the future. Wiser than men, she does not permit herself to be ham pered by what was done long ago. She submits to no rule of the dead hand, but, when one generation of leaves and blossoms, has done Its work, away It goes to make room for the next one. But we human beings lapse Into dumb reverence before the deeds of other generations and are prone to think that the work of blooming and ripen ing has been done once for all in the long ago. Nature has no reverence. In her scheme each Summer's growth must live Its own life as if It had no predecessor. All she asks of the past Is to pass on its vital principle unim paired, and she commands the present to do with it what it will. So It Is everywhere. When we" seek in the world truth Instead of delusion, we discover ever new grounds of hope and nothing which moves us to despair. Hope-Is the child of knowledge, de spair belongs to the brood of Ignor ance. DELETERIOUS gTXSHXNK. A picturesque quarrel Is raging among the New Tork doctors over a nice point in what they elegantly call "phthisiotherapy." Who would ever guess that this barbarous combination of silent and misapplied letters signi fies nothing more wonderful than "the treatment of tuberculosis"? The point In dispute relates to the Influence of sunshine on the sufferer. When it was discovered some years ago that the germ of tuberculosis throve and waxed fat in dark chambers, every body rushed to the seemingly obvious conclusion that the more sunlight a consumptive could have the better It would be for him. Dr. Renault in Robert Herrick's new novel, fell a vic tim to this mistake, and, in pursu ance of the delusion, hied him away to Colorado when he found his lungs dis appearing from the attacks of the ba cilli. But Colorado, with all its sun shine, did him no good, and he finally found his cure by living in the open air, Summer and Winter, in Vermont Pertinently to the New Tork shindy among the medical luminaries, it is cited that consumptive soldiers In our Philippine army almost invariably per ish. In spite of the tropical sun which bathes them perpetually In Its beams. Dr. Woods Hutchinson has an enter. tainlng discourse on consumption in a late Saturday Evening Post where he points out that sunshine is not the whole thing In the treatment of that dread disease by any means. Rest and freedom from worry play an Im portant part in "phthisiotherapy," while abundant food, well cooked, is perhaps the most weighty factor of all. The patient must Indeed sun himself, but he must stuff himself also, and the more he stuffs the faster he will recover. Dr. Fletchers theory -or pro longing life by starvation may be all very well for those who need no physi cian; but it Is anathema for consump tives. What they need above all things is to keep the furnace well stokeg with the best of fuel. The Oregonlan has more than once before remarked upon the common delusion that a human being cannot have too much sunshine for his good, pointing out how singularly the cloudless cli mate of Southern California has af fected Its Inhabitants. If there is a mania under heaven that does not find votaries in that falsely enchant ing region, it would be a comfort to learn what it Is. The simple truth is that too much sunshine' is good neither for the mind nor the body of human beings who have not been made immune to its de structive influence; and even when physical immunity has been acquired it Is by no means certain that the In telligence does not still suffer. To be sure, Greece nas a ciouaiess say xor much of the year, particularly Attica, where the Hellenic stock burst into Its perfect bloom. The Athenians are de scribed by their poets as "ever deli cately marching through most pellucid air," and their mental alertness is contrasted with the dullness of the Thebans, whose sky was often over cast. But while the bloom of the Hellenic intellect was Incomparably brilliant it was also transient Per haps their sunshine acted upon them like strong drink, which first illumin ates the Intelligence and then kills it Why may we not find the key to the evanescence of the successive empires which have risen and fallen in the de lectable plain between the Euphrates and Tigris, in the everlasting glare of light which beats down upon the land? No breed of men seemed to be capable of enduring the stress of that fatal sunshine for long without losing Its Initial energy. It Is one of the com monplaces of history that the Roman stock, which began its career with an overplus of virility, presently sank Into Impotence and had to be recruited from the cloudy north. Is not the reason clear enough from what has been said above? At first the Romans were shepherds who found shelter in shady woods from the lethal splendor of the Italian sun, but when they mi grated to the city the light wrought its full effedt upon their unprotected heads, and this most able of human breeds sank Into decay. This theory becomes all the more probable when we remember that the Romans did not wear hats. The astuteness of the Mahommedahs Is shown not alone in their being the only sect in the world besides the Jews to adopt monotheism, but as well by their wise custom of protecting their skulls from the malignant sun of Asia by thick turbans. May we not dis cover in this custom a feason why the Arabians have continued through all the ages since Job to be intellectually as well as physically alert? Every traveler speaks of their manliness as well as their indefatigable activity, which do not seem to suffer at all from the' blinding glare of the desert Bun. But 1t is the Jews who perhaps furnish the most convincing proof of eur thesis that human beings must bo protected from too much sunshine or it will injure them. Nobody, we ap prehend, will think of disputing the statement that the Jews are, upon the whole, the most virile, persistent In telligent and capable stock that has ever appeared upon the earth. Wher ever they are permitted to compete with other breeds upon terms which are even half fair they triumph, no matter whether the competition Is In tellectual or physical, or merely flnan cial. The secret of this amazing fit ness for life may undoubtedly be found In the apparently insignificant fact that the orthodox Jews always wear their hats, both Indoors and out In deed It is said that the protection of the head from too much light is one of their articles of religious faith, as It la in a metaphorical sense with all creeds: but the Jews do It In reality, the others only figuratively. What sunshine will do to the human being when It has its fell way with him may be seen In Africa. Whether Southern California will ever evolve a race of men similar to the inhabitants of Guinea and Soudan It would, of course, be rash to predict;, all one can say now Is that the signs are ominous. GRANGE! TAXRS. . . The exhibits at the Milwaukie Grange. Fair this week have made creditable showing of the industry and skill of the members of that organlza tlon, as well as of the products of their fields, orchards and gardens. The so cial feature of the fair, like that of Grange gatherings generally, was strong point. To the Grange through out the Willamette Valley the credit of banishing isolation from farm life Is at least primarily due. Before the trolley line, before the rural free de livery, before good roads in the mod ern sense were thought of before the railroad era even this force was working in earnest neighborly fashion to bring the farmer folk in touch with each other In a social, hospitable way. Women Joined with men In this work, and boys and girls entered the lodge room as members as soon as they were old enough. The result has been told in many neighborly gatherings, in not a few suitable marriages,-and in much hos pttable entertaining and feasting. The Grange Fair Is a later development of the movement, and the effort that dominates It is praiseworthy. A num ber of fairs similar to that held at Milwaukie this week are scheduled in this vicinity In October. At each of these ' the fat of the land will be brought out, exhibited with Just pride and partaken of with wholesome rel lsh. Speechmaklng and music lend variety and charm to these meetings, and the ever-popular "baby show" furnishes a fitting finale to the festi val. The Oregonlan bespeaks for these fairs, one and all, a full attend ance, and, recalling the pleasures of past festivals of similar nature, feels Justified in promising all who attend the "good time" for which everybody is looking. THE ' STUDY OF ADOLESCENCE. Boys have been boys since the world began; they will continue to be boys while it lasts. Misunderstood, often misjudged, with a faculty of being In the wrong place and blundering to get out of It the average boy stumbles through the years between 1 and 18, a nuisance to everybody but his mother and often her despair. Why, it has been asked, is a boy at this period of his Ufe clumsy, a bungler, careless In his manners? Why does he, shirk his work? Why Is he whim sical, bashful, often obstinate and pro fane, always chafing at restraint? Until recently no one has taken the trouble to answer these questions. Parents of boys have managed to live through this period, and later, in the pride of the achievements of their sons as men and citizens, have forgotten the anxieties and vexations of these transition years from boyhood to man hoqd, or remember them only to be thankful that the boy came out all right and "made a man of himself." Now, however, we find men of prom inence in the educational world giving time and thought to the study of ado lescence. The results of their obser vations must prove Interesting not only to parents, but to the community of which boys everywhere form a large, active and not infrequently a perplexing part Dr. G. Stanley Hall, who Is one of the best authorities on the growing boy, gave an article on the subject through Appleton's Maga zine that looks with rare insight into the idiosyncrasies of the adolescent period. "The boy's character from 14 to 18 is ill balanced," says Dr. Hall, "because his body is." He is having a lot of trouble in the matter of self adjustment. What can he do when his large muscles and Joints grow faster than his fingers and lips? When his lengthening bones stretch the unaccommodating flesh into "growing pains"? When the heart and arteries grow unequally, causing palpitations? When the column of blood must rise nine inches ln three or four years and forty-four pounds of added tissue must tax the undevel oped digestive apparatus? When he is conscious of his manly stature, of his treatment abroad as a man, as a child at home, and ot his outgrown mental equipment? Discerning parents of adolescent boys will ponder these .questions care fully and find in Nature the solution of a problem tne Buoueuea oi wnicn have long perplexed and baffled them. With statistics of Indisputable ac curacy showing us the rapidity with which we are nearlng the end of our supply of magnificent timber, the fear ful waste by forest fires continues. The big tract that is now burning in Cali fornia, based on cruisers' estimates, will be figured as a loss of from 60 cents to 60 cents per thousand feet, and in some of the remote districts at less. Even at these figures, the amount is running up to enormous proportions, but It is Insignificant In comparison with the actual loss that must legiti mately be charged up against the dis aster. Every thousand feet of timber destroyed, regardless of whether its stumpage value is 60 cents or $1, vniH if it rpmflinprt rreen until it snouia oe reacneu u iua muw, sent an addition to, the wealth of the country of from $S to $30, according to the quality of the lumber Into which It was converted. This sum would be distributed through many channels, and, on Its roundabout route from the woods to the consumer, would be a most important factor in the trade of the Pacific Coast. . The steamship Nebraskan, of the American-Hawaiian line, 'is in port as the pioneer of a regular line which gives Portland a fast and excellent freight service between this city and the Atlantic seaboard, and also to Eu ropean ports. This line. In connection with the Tehuantepec Railroad, can deliver New Tork freight in Portland ir less than thirty days after It leaves New Tork, and from European ports In from forty-two to forty-five days. On the Initial voyage the steamer brought in 1000 tons weight and meas urement and her outward ship ment la about 600 tons, the busi ness for a starter being quite satisfac tory to the agents. The maintenance of this regular service is of great im portance to Portland, as It leaves our merchants Independent of the rail roads on an Immense business that can be handled to as good advantage by water as by rail. More than ever before are Portland Jobbers In posi tion to treat with indifference the at tempts to establish Jobbing centers without the. advantage of the ocean route for cheap movement of freight A cable from Le Mans, France, says that the friends of WUbur Wright are urging him to fly across the English channel. The water, of course, (offers some advantages In case the machine should lose headway and the laws of gravity assert themselves. Mr. Wright however, should not forget that the water In the English Channel Is in many places so deep that he could not wade out and drag the machine after him. For this reason, he will prob ably decline tc make the attempt at this time. The Argentine, which by all past performances should have ceased ship ping wheat a month ago, is sttll dump ing It on the world's markets at the rate of about 1,000,000 bushels per week, with the end of the season not yet In sight. Fortunately for the fairly large American crop, the Southern country Is about the only competitor this year, and, as a result, prices are full and strong around $1 per bushel. "Why Isn't T. M. Stevens under ar rest for bigamy?" asks the Spectator. Probably because the District Attorney is too busy getting the papers ready for arrest and Indictment of the man who may sell you an apple or popcorn, or black your shoes, on this bright and beautiful Sunday. Crime must he suppressed. The moral, social and re ligious interests of the city have first claim. There Is no objection to Senator Gore's Oklahoma policy Oklahoma guaranteeing the ( deposits of her banks. What New Tork objects to and Oregon objects to Is a system which would require them or their banks to guaranty the banks of Okla homa. We don't know about Okla homa except that In general It's a cowboy, Indian and wildcat country. It la somewhat embarrassing to Mr. Bryan to find that Governor Haskell, of Oklahoma, who wrote at Jbryans Hlriatlon tha Denver Dlatform. and was the one man whom Bryan could trust h treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, (Haskell's ac cess to the Standard Oil barrel making thin Imnortantl should have been smoked out and forced to resign. Any promise and pledge, and every promise and pledge, that violates the Constitution and contravenes public policy on the lines established by the Constitution, is void. It has no valid ity from the beginning, and binds no body neither "him that gives nor him that takes." "Who is The Oregonlan supporting for President?" asks a reader who carps and carks and gibes and sneers and girds and flouts, and is mean and malignant generally. Well, everyone can guess for himself. The Oregonlan thinks It is not supporting Bryan. "Will you please answer this ques tion?" writes a reader of The Ore gonlan. "If the Presidency belongs to Roosevelt why shouian t ne oequeatn it to Taft?" We think this question should have been addressed to Senator Bourne. fanrHrlata Ch'afln claims to have shaken hands with half a million per sons during his campaign tour. But Mr. Bryan can give Mr. Chafln a lit tle Inside Information on the subject of handshakers as vote-getters. ThA unundance- of a most abund ant season has been checked by the untimely arrival of Jack Frost. Still there Is plenty ana to spare or tne products of fields, gardens and orch ards. Tn anil tL ha.nana or a package of nnnrnrn In Portland on Sunday is aw ful. But there Is no time perhaps no need to push indictments against bigamists or bank swindlers. . The Democratic committee doesn't even appear to have tried to help Haskell get his foot out of his mouth before they consigned him to Okla homa. Two Wheeler County men who stole $30 horse paid $1200 lawyer's fees. and will eo to the penitentiary also. This is a big price for a scrub animal. Haskell should also sue the Demo cratic National Committee for cruel and unusual punishment They sent him back to Oklahoma. Nothing the matter with the late Country Club Fair and Stock Show, nos even the weather. Only the at tendance. Well, if Chamberlain should be elected Senator, why, of course, tfcere is the recall- , SILHOUETTES BY ARTHUR A. GREENE. Among the other sacrifices a young man must make to win a girl's heart is to lose hi own head. e e A Fall Foma This Is about The last call For open-work hose And airy Clothes. It's the pall That puts the Kibosh On all Summer Fol-de-roL Including Spooning on the porch. Baseball And heat Prostrations. Old Sol Will soon Take a long Vacation And leave The earth To Pluvlus, The ooal man, The umbrella And ail The other Penalties) of Fall. Those who never hope troubled by disappointments. e e Abeenoe makes the heart grow fonder. It also frequently gets senti mental letter-writers Into trouble, see After 85 a man should have oon quered his natural passion for red neckties. I think the President is getting Just too peevish for any uee. He might let Just a few of the boys take some of Mr. Archbold'a things home with them. Hi Reverie. The songs are sung. The torles told; I am sitting alone And my heart Is cold. The olub has grown Quiet, They've all gone home. My bachelor' dinner wag a great suc cess. There was nothing to mar Nor disturb It unless But how could they know When we drank "to the bride" I was thinking of you and the night you died? The songs are sung. The stories told; I am sitting alone And my heart Is cold. The club has grown quiet. They've all gone home. e . . Among my acquaintances Is a man who Is so conceited he contemplates! Incorporating and selling stock la himself. e e e I note with a poignant regret that almost amounts to misery that In Sa lem amateur violinists are still per mitted to play the intermezzo from "Cavalleria Rustlcana." Those who continually pick the bone of contention make but a lean living. e e e Men who look like Bryan and know It' are becoming almost as numerous as McKinley "doubles" used to be. e e Took It Literally. One day during the Spring term of the Mount Tabor School one of the bad "Bills" was handing out some obnoxi ous conduct and the teacher, Mies Hale (that Isn't her name), told him sharp-' ly: "William, leave the room!" BUI walked to the door and was command ed: "William, go back and get your' books!" Bill got the books and re-' turned as far as the door, when the ' teacher again .' arrested him with: "William, come back and take your seat!" Bill went to his "'situation," dropped on his knees and began to unscrew the legs of his bench from the floor. "William, what are you do ing?" "Well," drawled Bill, "you told me to take my seat" Bill stayed in after school. (Contributed.) The New Bryan. New York Sun. A number of the Southern newspa pers of the conservative kind are now speaking of "the New Bryan" and re galing themselves with ardent but In expensive speculations as to the re sults If he had been as moderate and reasonable In 1896 and 1900 as ha Is today. It does not seem to occur to them that he Is cautious Just now be cause the public are weary and afraid of the ideas he advanced 12 yeare ago. Apparently they do not reflect that he has merely adjusted his utterance to the current breeze without having abandoned a single one of his original incendiary convictions. The campaign is Just opening, how ever. We may get a better light on Bryan later. Supposing he help to Illuminate the New Mr. Bryan by answering this plain question of Mr. Taft: "If you were rresiaent ana an exi gency should arrive in which you were to be called upon to exercise your discretion affirmatively to main tain the parity between gold and sil ver, what would you do?" Progress of the Campaign. New York Sun. Mr. Bryan puts up his mascot mule for presentation to the Democrat most instrumental In effecting the largest percentage gain in the precinct vote in the United States, and the State of Columbia, a C asks for a subscription to the Democratic campaign to tha re frain: "Blow the bugle, beat the drum Let the campaign money come. For Bryan and Kern are running some, While -Proxy' Taft Is bum, bum, bum." Thus Bryan's comicality is Infectious. Tbe Humorous Spectator. The Spectator (Portland). The Spectator is thinking of offer ing a prize for the best essay on "Why Senator Bourne Thinks Taft Should Be Elected." Second money will go to the stenographer who makes a fuU report of Governor Chamberlain's speech urg ing Statement No. Oners to vote for Bryan. Just What. . New Tork Evening Post William R. Hearst the politician, is j depriving W. R. Hearst, the editor, of the best "beats" of th year.
