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0 TITO SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, POETLAXD, APRII, 11, 1909. dp ten xnmni ICOl un rOBTUXD. OREGON. Entered at Portland. Oregon. Postofnce as Eeci nd-Clau Matter. subscription Kate Invariably In Advances (Br Mall ) really, Fuhday Included, one year.. 9800 Ia.y. bunday Included, six montha. 4.23 Ijaily. Snnd;iy included, three months.. 2.25 Imily. Sunday Inu.udrd, one month..... .73 la'..y, without Sunday, one year....... 8.0O la:ly, without Sunday, six montha..... 8.25 IJH.iy. without Sunday, three montha... 1.73 I'aiiy. without Sunday, one month..... .60 tYeekl. one year 1.50 Sunday, one year 2 30 Sund.iy and weekly, one year 8.30 (Bj Carrier.) Daily. Fundir Included, one year a. 00 Ijally. Sunday included, one month... .73 How . to Remit Send poutofflce money order, express order or personal check oa 'mit lo'-al bank. Ktampa. coin or currency are at the sender's risk. Give postofnce ad dress In full. Including- county and state. I'ostuKe Kates 10 to 14 pain. I cent: 1 to ZS Hunts. cents; 30 to 44 pages, 3 cents; 41 to do paftea. 4 cents. Foreign postage double rates Kuetern Htulneo, Office The s. C. Beck- wlth Special Agency Now York, rooms 49 Bii rrlbuna hulldlng. Chicago, rooms 310-312 Tribune building. PORTLAND, SrXOAY, APRIL 11, 190. commended. Mere man never could derstand how the beauty or attrac tiveness of woman was enhanced by placing: a bale of oakum or an armful of hair from the pigtails of diseased Chinese on top of her head. As a rule, the women who thus reinforce the supply of hair given them by na ture are ao homely that public atten tion may be diverted from their faces to the extraordinary "top-hamper" they are carrying. The modern method by which the women puff their hair la at the best only a poor imitation of the styles which have been worn by the Hottentots and the Fiji Islanders for ages. Among- the heathen, such styles are interesting-- Among white women . they are neither Interesting nor beautiful, and Mr. Wanamaker"s hired man Is entitled to a medal for his effort at reform. is it not unreasonable, to say the least, ity is the home nd the father is the to place this standard "tf woman's i one to do it. " work before great-granddaughter Bes- ' PRO PATR1A ET PRO LEGIBl'S. It Is with some sorrow, yet not with hopeless sorrow for though there is distress "sunt lachrymae rerum," yet "his mercy endureth forever" that we behold those who characterized "the assembly" the other day as an effort to destroy the primary law, now preparing to hold a like assemblage of their own for the purpose of "suggest ing" candidates of their own for the THE SPIRIT OF LITERATURE. History, says Taine. has been revo lutionized, within ona hundred years, primary election. Such is the weak- by the study of national literatures, ness of human nature, such the frailty It Is realized that a body of literature of the human spirit, that these people is not a mere play of chance, but a also -want to talk over beforehand the transcript of contemporary manners, merits or demerits of their candidates, modes of thought and action, lllustrat- to "recommend" such as may be ing xne inner life of a people. From this principle, history has undergone a complete change tn Its subject-mat ter. Its system, its machinery, the ap preciation of laws and causes. A cus tom or dogma Is nothing In itself; look at the people who made it. It Is a typo and expression of their life and mind. Literatures, ancient and modern. stand alike on this basis, and on this principle are used for the Interpreta tion of history, for reconstruction of the life of peoples of past ages, and for perpetuation of knowledge of the man ners and events of the present and passing time. Modern industry and eivni in literary work have recon structed for our time an almost full knowledge of society in the days of Homer. They have reconstructed for the modern world, from the remains of Biblical literature, the life and thought of ancient Israel. The Ho meric poems mean, therefore, to our are far more than they meant before this method of study began. So do ine Hebrew and Greek Scriptures. It deemed most fit and turn down others. But here Is a ring, or clique, or ma chine, plotting to take away the sacred rights of the people, secured, as we had fondly supposed, by .the direct primary. Hence we sound the warning. But we sorrow not as those without hope, for nothing can crush the exu berant spirit even if our professional reformers do fall Into ring methods; and we shall not bate one Jot of heart or hope, but steer right onward. In spite, too, of the fact that a third section of our fellow-citizens, constituting a select yet seldom elect body we mean that more or less im aginary and ghostly train known as the Democratic party has been hold ing its "assembly" every year since the sacred primary law was enacted, to nominate its candidates in ad vance; and even now, Just now, it is proposing to do the like thing, the same thing, again. But sorrow and grief, because of these treacheries, must not be too demonstrative. When grief is inex- Is discovered that nothing is Isolated, presslble a decent veil should cover it. oeiacneu, accidental or miraculous; but the human spirit, under the vari ous changes end conditions that have belonged to each people or race. Is all In all. Thus, the literature of an age is the Our Democratic brethren introduced the assembly," and now everybody Imitates it. Even Republican anti ring patriots are corrupted by the ex ample. "The people" are to have no chance at all, in their own sacred pri- reflectlon of its existing manners and mary, In any quarter, modes of thought, ethereallzed and re fined In the alembic of genius each and every great epoch possessing its o n striking peculiarities. The truth of this position will be apparent if we turn to any of the great literary eras of the world. It Is apparent, too, from the study, and the truth lies In the nature of things, that the intellectual character of an era must be In a great measure moulded by and modified by contemporary exigencies. Therefore, of course, the brutalities of an age af feet its literature, and often are em bedded In It. But even such materials aro very often not inconsistent with the products of the highest human genius, flowing from the same sources In the same uge A word about Homer. On the thres hold of Greek literature, as Dr. Her mann Bonitz remarks in his famous essay, as the earliest work of this lit erature known not to us only, but to the Greeks themselves at the height of their historical development, stand two majestic poems, to which few other works in all literatures can be compared, either for manifold influ ence on the intellectual life of their own nation, or for admiring recogni tion amcng all peoples of high cul ture, even after the lapse of thirty centuries. What Is remarkable about them, beyond their marvelous poetic impression, is their succession of pic tures of the life out of which they sprang. The painstaking efforts of scholarship have, by the comparative method, reconstructed for the student, and even for the general reader, the general life and habits of th people of that day. one now thinks the Iliad and the Odyssey, which we call the poems of Homer, lire the work of a single poet. They certainly are not, but are made up of the separate rhapsodies of dlf ferent poets, covering a wide space of time, but brought together with skill long after their use In detached pieces. Among the latest of the remarkable books on this subject is ono by Gilbert Murray, a scholar of Oxford, entitled "The lUse of the Greek Epic." The book is not a minute analysis so much as a philosophical disquisition on the rise and growth and formation of the poems and reconstruction of the times that produced them one part of the process aiding the other. Murray work forms an Impressive illustration of the manner In which a great lltera ture grows out of the life of a people. and is both a transcript of their life and a special monument of their genius and character. Besides the Homeric poems, the literature of the Old Testament may be named as a similar and even greater monument tU-uiUs of this description are works of history and literature combined; and the tuind and spirit of the people out of which they have grown, are revealed far more clearly by their literary than by their historical side. Every groat literature is & growth. then, which differs from every other great literature of the past and even of contemporary ages by that something which Is peculiar to the mind and spirit and situation of each race or nation. But when that era is past, among any people, it returns no more, either to that people or to another. No more shall we have an Isaiah or Homer; no more a Dante, a Shake speare or a Milton. What form, what expression, great literature hereafter will take is far and away beyond pre diction, and even beyond conjecture. Imaginative and romantic literatures are now In their aphelion; who can tell wh.n they will come near their run again ? Reason there might be for despair; only we learned out of our copybooks at school that truth crushed to earth will rise again ; and, moreover, we know. In spite of every seeming apoca tastasis, that we shall find that ever the right comes uppermost, and ever is justice done. We are not disconsolate, therefore. and shan't give up, even if our Repub lican reformers shall try by an "as sembly," as our Democratic brethren have tried heretofore and now will try again, to circumvent the sacred pri mary. We are for the laws of our country, and for the rights of the people. sie, and expect her to adhere to It? 1 Where are the conditions under which great-grandmother Hephzibah lived and wrought? The log cabin, where? And the home-slaughtered hogs and home-made hominy and dried apples? What is it that the critics of women in the industrial life of today desire? A return to the only conditions that would make great-grandmother Heph zibah's part in industry possible? Scarcely, since that would make neces sary the resurrection of great-grandfather Jeremiah, husband of Hephzi bah. and the most captious critic of them all would hardly be willing to accept and play the role of Jeremiah, and Hephzibah, capable though she was, could not in the nature of things play this drama alone. And Bessie again. She who was separated from this phase of life by three generations of change in indus trial, commercial and domestic condi tionscan she be expected to live in them ? Can she in reason be censured for not adhering to them? And is she to blame in that she took up the work that became necessary through cir cumstances not of her ordering? For James Smith died, and Bessie was one of the 800,000 widows who in the last census year in the United States were earning their living and that of those dependent upon them. And there were others not included tn this class, but wage-earners still; married women to the number of 700,- 000; divorced women to the number of 60,000 one million six hundred thousand of them altogether. Appal ling la it not that these classes com bined represent a full third- of the grand total . of 4,800,000 American working women of 18 years and over in the last census year! Nor is this all. There were, according to census tabulation, 1,500,000 women. 25 years of age and over, who were earners In the industrial world. That is to say, that in a total female pop ulation in the United States, married and unmarried, working and not work ing, rich and poor, twenty-five years and over in the year 1900, one woman out of every eleven had passed her wetyiing day and was still a bread winner! All this and much more is prelim inary to the subject treated under the head of "Woman's Invasion." It shows first that changed conditions in the natural order of evolution led up to this invasion; 'second, that modern methods, as applied to housekeeping, beginning when the cookstove sup planted the crane and trammels in domestic cooking, and continuing to the gas-equipped, electric-lighted, furnace-heated kitchen, have taken "housework" in the former interpreta tion of that term away from the daughters of the house, whence fol lows the spectacle of young girls at tending domestic classes or dabbing away with pencil and notebook in the basements of our High School build ings with formulas like this: ThA T.loiilrt Milk T C IV. tbSD fat. a tosp l-ft IDP rat. In the other and fax more common example that in which the telephone of a too obliging neighbor is used by frivolous or wayward girls to de ceive their parents In regard to their associates or their whereabouts after school the neighbor is gravely at fault. It is an abuse of courtesy that should not be tolerated the second time, and, while the duty of stop ping it is a disagreeable one. it is a duty nevertheless that should not be shirked. I am ashamed to have such slllv three former gospels. Matthew. Mark and Luke, are In substantial agreement about the events of th-e crucifixion and the resurrection, and it is upon them that we must base our faith. How for tunate it is that, while the three synop tic gospels are in some measure inde pendent of one another, while they were in part composed by different men and at different times and un doubtedly represent different currents of tradition in the church, neverthe less in many important particulars they harmonize so completely. To the man who is determined to accept the Christian faith and live according to pels present no insuperable, evidential difficulties. What other religion can say as taiuch of its sacred books? talk going on over ny telephone and I Its precepts, the three synoptic gos- ln tne Hearing or my little girls," said perplexed and anxious woman re- ! cently, referring to this prevalent aouse or neighborly courtesy, by a bold and exceedingly vivacious young ! daughter of an acquaintance. Then why not put a stop to it? And if it "makes trouble," as timidly fear ed, plainly state the facts in the case and avert graver "trouble" for the friend with the possibility of being considered accessory before the fact ! after irreparable mischief has been I done. WHO IS SANET . What with paranoia, paresis, dipso mania, brain storms and all the rest. there are now so many different ways of going crazy that it is a wonder any body . escapes. The eminent Joshua Klein. Tacoma's expert in the occult, who is Just now in durance vile for assaulting Miss Dora Sauvageot with a deadly weapon to wit, a knife de clares that nobody does escape. Ac cording to him, we are all more or less paranolacs. Whether the incompara ble healer of the Tacoman halt and blind meant this for a compliment to the human race or not may be open to question-. Perhaps he emitted the THE RESURRECTION. In the mind of the Apostle Paul, the question of the resurrection of the dead was inseparably associated with that of the immortality of the soul. To us there is no particular difficulty in conceiving of an existence for the ueiphic utterance out of mere spite soul apart from the body, but Paul's because the learned doctors had pro intelligence was not satisfied with the nounced him crazy. Perhaps he had Men i- f inrv. Tilitn A loAn... At w. an TT in Tn i Tl rl f Via rllftiiTYi TtTn-v TJrtitnii was assured that the mortal body W averred that pretty nearly even? The autul trait in their story is that. would become immortal, that the cor- genius or modern and ancient times naa sunered from paranoia. If the latter supposition is true, we must be lieve that Joshua meant his broad as Bertlon for a compliment, since it is beautiful to be a genius, even at the cost of being crazy, too. How many persons could tell at once to the primitive worship of the church, which laid great .stress on active work for humanity and dwelt more lightly upon formal belief. Not that the Sal vation Army belittles the value of its creed. Its theology Is stern and un bending. Sin, redemption through, the blood sacrifice, the Day of Judgment and hell, figure with Inexorable rigor In the exhortations of its generals and captains, but after all it Is as an active power for reforming the miseries of this world that General Booth's new denomination has gained its extraor- ( dlnary following. Booth began his evangelizing mis sion in the slums of London, and his officers have extended it to the slums of almost every city .in the world. A person ignorant of human nature would suppose of course that men and women. laboring as the Salvation Army does, solely for" the good of the unfortunate, must have been wel comed from the beginning everywhere. The fact is that mankind has never welcomed its benefactors until it has done its best to kill them. If they survive the ordeal which always awaits the man who works for others and neglects his own Interests, people may in the end come to tolerate them. Thus it has been with the Salvation Army. The Insults. the outrages, which It suffered at first in English cities are incredible. To be Jailed was the least of the hardships which the preachers underwent. They were struck down on the streets, pelted with missiles, sometimes beaten senseless by the very men and women they were striving to aid. Such is human nature, SILHOUETTES rupt would put on lncorruptlon, and that from the tomb we should be raised in glory; but that In the next world, as well as in this, the ethereal part of us Would be clothed in a body of some kind he firmly believed. But unless the resurrection of the dead was placed beyond the possibility of doubt JUBt '"'hat they mean by perfect sanity he could not discern whence the im- I 11 tney were called on suddenly to do mortal body was to come. Perhaps it I so? Does sanity consist in doing pre would be more correct to say that, I cisely what others do? ' If so, then no- like -most of the ancients, the great body Is eane, for every person's con- missionary apostle drew no clear dls- I duct has some peculiarities which his tincnon between the soul and the flesh. 1 '""S"wa aeuncr imitate nor approve. Some one has said that the crown ing glory of woman Is her hair, and there are a great many admirers of the lovely creature who will agree with this unknown observer with such good taste. To these admirers the ef forts of Manager Lynn, of the Wana maker stores in New York, to force the women In his employ to abandon the use of the monstrosities which are now used for headgear are to be "WOMAN'S INVASION." The current number of Everybody's Magazine contains an article by Will iam Hard and Rheta Chllde Dorr on The Woman's Invasion," which deals In a practical way with the present in dustrial status of the women of Amer ica as compared with that of our great- grandmothers and their time. The question as presented is one of simple evolution, not of forced growth, though it Is generally treated from the latter standpoint by flippant writers and superficial thinkers. As treated by these writers, who have long been close students and intelligent observers of the conditions of which they write, the matter is one of simple evolution, that, so far from being contrary to na ture, is in strict accord with universal law of growth. It presents the pic ture of "Bessie Smith, who got through her work in a department store at 5 In the evening, went to a mart where ready-cooked food could be procured bought and carried away In little thick paper palls a mutton stew, a rice pud ding and two codfish balls; proceeded out three miles on a streetcar to a mottled brick building, wherein was kept a day nursery for children of women who worked, caught up with true motherly affection and many ca resses the boy of 3 years (fatherless) for whom she worked, and bore him" to their rooms in a fiat around the cor ner, where her evening was spent de lightedly cuddling and talking to and putting the child to bed. Over against this picture of modern life in the whirl of present Industrial conditions is that of Bessie's great grandmother, "Hephzibah Brown," whose grave is marked by a little white tombstone in a Southern Illinois burial plot. What home-flavored "hog -and hominy" and "apple sass" this tradi tional but one-time very real great- grandmother of the department store worker and buyer of cooked foods used to get ready for her men folks on the embers of a huge fireplace that occupied half of one side of her log cabin kitchen! And what a variety of "woman's work," as assessed at that day, this meal, cooked over the em bers. represented! The bacon had been "manufactured literally from the hog Jhrough several stages of its development from fresh pork in tubs of pine and huts o smoke; the hominy from Indian corn In a rough, mother-wit-devised fron tier grinding mill; the dried apples from fresh apples that had been pared cut and strung on flaxen thread b hand and swung from the rafters near the-shriveling warmth of Ihe burning logs. Having drawn these word pictures of representative women In the Indus trial life of two. centuries, the writer asks tentatively: Hephzibah Brown was every Inch a woman, wasn't she? But Bessie Smith! Isn't she far away from the right kind of life? Isn't she exploring the perilous edge of things? That depends upon the way these things are viewed and the Intelligence or lack of it that Is brought to the task. In the first place, with great grandmother Hephzibah has passed her time. Its conditions and surround ings. A good and useful woman In common phrase, a "hard-working woman" of her day she did her part, her laborious part, in the Industrial as , well as the home life of her era. But Thft Enrlcher Buttei The Thickener Flour 2 tbsp 1U tbsp atarch. What Is ltT It looks like a laboratory ex periment that would have to Involve hydro- hlorlc acid a couple or insen. lamps ana a mask over the face. As a matter of fact, it is- a sauce, a wnne mure the white suuce. the same stanaara letorlcal white sauce that grandmother isert to make nut nf . some milk, aome Hour. and a piece of butter aa big bb "that." It le the samo sauce in every respect, in pro portions of ingredients, in taste, and in nu tritive value. The domestic . scientist haj mrjly set dvb in his dialect precisely what Frandmnthflr used to do. But didn't grandmother teach mother? Then why didn't mother teach -Bessie? Why should Bessie have to go and learn it in a school? It Is extremelv difficult to answer that question except on the assumption that cook- ng is beginning to cease to De a nome art and that It la getting ready to be trans formed Into an outside Industry. And it may be added that condi tions that we call or 'miscall "prog ress," changed conditions certainly from the time of great-grandmother Hephzibah, have ordered it. Professor Patten, of the University of Pennsyl vania, a mature student of sociological developments, sums it up in the fol lowing emphatic words: The truth is. woman's work has been taken away from her home and she must follow It out Into the world. If society will stand back of her In her attempt to regain it in Its new forme, she will be able to convert the cheap lodging, as she has changed the wilderness hut into a costlier dwelling. .The obstacle that stands between Is our occidental concept ot the seclusion of aristocratic woman borrowed from the Orient and slowlv slftlnar downward to blight the energies of "half the weaitn-proauomg worio no matter what happened to them, they never resisted. They obeyed literally the command of Jesus Christ not to strike back, and for their forbearance they have been rewarded. The miser able population of the slums have learned that the best earthly friend they have is the Salvation Army, and they trust its officers as they do no other religious propagandists. As a spiritual power, the Salvation Army has been victorious over all its initial difficulties, and now its work proceeds with universal respect and admiration. The -defect of that work is that it deals He was probably not a dualist, but a 13 a person to be called sane as long w"h symptoms and has never taken monolst, holding- with many enlight ened modern thinkers that we exist as an indivisible whole and that it is scarcely rational to think of a spiritual life apart from that of the physical frame. At any rate, his concept of lm mortality was that of a renewed ex- as his conduct keeps within certain i lines? Within those lines we may dif fer from others, outside them we are to be numbered among the crazy. Who shall draw the lines? The great est benefactors the world has known have differed so widely from their pains to study causes. It raises the fallen woman by converting her soul, but it makes no effort to convert the soul of the man who betrayed her. Naturally a mission which is thus purely emotional and shuns scientific battle with the underlying causes of istence of this earthly tabernacle which neighbors in standards and action that Boci1 disease must finally change its ONE ABUSE AND ITS REMEDY. A correspondent, writing of the abuse of telephone service by wilful young girls, through holding commu nication with boys or young men who to the parents are unknown and who in many cases would be forbidden the family home, asks despairingly if "the telephone company cannot do some thing to stop it." The answer must be a plain and decided "no." Here we have a situation acknowledged to be offensive to good manners and a menace to morals. Young girls, as stated, "call up" on the family tele phone or are called up by boys un known to their parents and make ap pointments with them, hold long con versations characterized as "drivel. weak repartee and sometimes worse, to the disgust of everybody in hear ing." The astonishing part of this statement follows, viz: "Often the parents sit by in humiliated helpless ness," and It is this parental delin quency, this ast6undlng parental In competency, that the telephone man agers are asked to correct. The proposition is manifestly ab surd. Though cognizant of the abuse of the telephone service, as - above noted, it was not supposed that this misuse of the telephone, not to use a harsher term, was allowed to prevail in the home and in the hearing of "humiliated but helpless parents.' Numerous Instances have been re ported wherein a neighbor's telephone was used by wayward girls to "make dates" with boys who were not al lowed, or did not presume to visit the girls in their homes, and sympathy has been extended to parents who were thus deceived. But when the telephone in the family sitting-room or hall is used in this way, and par ents hear what Is said at least at one end of the line, what further evidence is . necessary to prove to them that disgrace Is shadowing their home? Fancy a father listening in distressed helplessness or stolid unconcern to conversation carried on between his young daughter and a lad whom per haps he does not even know, which proves a familiarity between them that trenches upon morality? is not his duty plain in such a case? And, if he shirks it, has he any right to be surprised or any call to be hu mil fated when open disgrace follows' an un maidenly association and conduct of which he .was fully cognizant? Clear ly the place to put a stop to this abuse of an indispensable public utjl- iwas to be raised from the grave and1 clothed upon with the attributes of heavenly blessedness. What was to be come of the soul while the flash slum bered in the tomb Paul does not say, and this confirms one in the opinion that he believed the whole man was buried and rested in the earth waiting the coming of the Son of Man on the morning of the resurrection. But what evidence was there that this divine event would ever happen? No evidence at all, Paul argued, unless we accept the truth of the resurrec tion of Jesus. He held to the propo sitlon and its converse in all strenuous ness. "If there be no resurrection of the dead, then Is Christ not risen, and if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. Tea, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we have tes tified of God that he raised up Christ, whom he raised not up if so be that the dead rise not. For if the dead rise not, then is Christ not raised, and if Christ be not raised your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. Then they also which are fallen asleep In Christ are perished." Paul dared to put the terrible alternative with unwavering confidence because he seemed to him self to possess the best of all proof that Jesus Christ had risen from the dead, He had actually seen him. "And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time." The inner con sciousness that he had beheld his risen Lord glorious in the heavens encour aged Paul to stake the hope of Immor tality and the happiness of mankind on the truth of ,the story of the resurrec tion. He knew from many sources that Jesus Christ had been crucified and had died. He had himself taken a vigorous part In persecuting the hum ble followers of the Galilean, and was actually on his way to Damascus to make more trouble for them when the strange miracle of his conversion came to pass. There is no hesitation in saying that next to the crucifixion and resurrec tion, Paul's conversion was the most Important event In human history. We cannot doubt that it saved the waver ing flame of the Christian religion from extinction and led the new faith to the triumphant struggle which end ed in the conquest of the world. Without Paul the Shepherd of Galilee would have been forgotten In the whirl of Roman life and all the blessings we have received and the vastly greater ones yet to come from his teachings would have been forever lost. Nor can we doubt that every word Paul says about the facts of his conversion Is true. On the road to Damascus, as he Journeyed thither raging against the Christians, he suddenly saw a great light from heaven. shining round about him, and when he had fallen to the eartii he heard a voice asking: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? Neither can one for an instant doubt that when Paul had Inquired in amazement who it was that spoke to him he heard the voice answering: "I am Jesus, whom thou persecutest." So that Paul could truthfully say he had with his mortal eyes seen the risen Lord. - i Modern science compels us, however, to set certain limits to the evidential value of Paul's testimony. Professor William James, in his great book on "Religious Experiences," has clearly shown how a narrative which Is inex orably true for the man who relates it may be worthless as evidence for any body else. Doubtless Paul's vision be longed to the wonderful world of sub jective experiences. Indeed, the ac count in the Acts revealed as much, for the narrator goes on to say that the men which Journeyed with Paul stood speechless during this marvelous scene, "hearing a voice, but seeing no man." Of course It was Paul's voice that they heard. The real evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ must be sought in the gospel narra tives of Matthew, Mark and Luke. The later, testimony of the author of "John" not only adds nothing to the credibility of the event, but it sadly mars the force of the other evidence by contradicting it in essential partic ulars. The gospel of John was a late production, written after partisanship had appeared in the church and with the purpose to discredit the supremacy of Peter. It is a sectarian document composed to advance the influence of Paul in the Christian world. But the any such definition of insanity as this would include them all, not excepting even the Savior. Who can measure the differences which, on the human side alone, separated him from the peoplo of his time? What of Socrates and Luther? Were they Insane? Cer tainly there was a wide fulf between Luther and any other priest who then lived. Was Lincoln crazy? What other man of the last century was like him in character or conduct? Is it not better to turn our definition around. and. Instead of saying that every man is insane who towers above the mul titude, conclude that the great mass of mankind Is crazy and the only truly sane people are the geniuses, the ideal ists and dreamers? methods or follow the well-trodden path which most of the other sects have traveled to quiet acceptance of things as they are. BT A. A. GREENS. i Those who have followed the debate on the Payne bill are prepared to agree with General Hancock that the tariff la a lo cal issue. e A corporation Is a small body of stock holders completely surrounded by law yers. NAMELESS TERROR. "O. monstrous shape That doth my fear-transfixed gaze compel And makes my heart to pause, affrighted! What shall I call you? By what strange, fearsome name Art known to mortals?" Thus spoke I. much afraid; Addressing what I saw before me As in the eanctuary I sat And trembled at the apparition There before and wondered how it came to church. Then rubbed my eyes and looked again And lo! It was mlladl's Easter hat. The bartender In a nearby town who beat up. a wandering evangelist of the "Billy" Sunday type would, on the face of things, seemed to have had adequate Justification. e e A man who la able to reconcile his own faults to himself imagines he Is a philoso pher. - Too many public officials are canonized as "great statesmen" for merely doing what they were compelled to do. A fat. purse frequently breeds a lean disposition. see Too often those who throw bouquets at the dead have nothing but mud for the living. see Recognize no man as an enemy toeray, for tomorrow you may recognize him as a friend. see When a man wins, it Is easy for him to believe that right always triumphs, e e Too many girls who pretend to be high toned are only mezzos after all. The chief reason why eome people take European trips is because their poorer friends cannot afford them. It requires wonderful strength of char acter to abstain from discussing the weather. GENERAL BOOTH. Saturday, April 10, 1909, was the 80th birthday of William Booth, who will probably be numbered among the religious geniuses of the world. The Salvation Army, which he founded, re sembles in some respects the other sects of Protestant Christians and in others the religious orders of the Mid die Ages. The complete devotion of the Salvation Army officers to their cause finds no parallel in the modern world. For anything of the same sort we must go back to the times of St. Bernard and Loyola. As a sect, the Salvation Army la more vigorous than any of its Protestant compeers. Its propaganda is relentless and Incessant It is carried on from morning till night In every civilized country of the globe except Russia and in many barbarous countries, with which probably Russia ought to be included. The inflexible bigotry of the benighted priests of that unhappy nation forbids the Salvation Army to carry on Its work among the miserable inhabitants of its slums Russia can tax her poor and murder them, but she does not dare to permit General Booth's Army to pray for their souls. This remarkable man was born In Nottingham, England, In 1829, of mid dle-class parents who were members of the established church. As a boy he was unusually zealous in religious matters, differing in this respect from that other great English pietist, John Bunyan, who lived a worldly life until the prime of his manhood. Booth was converted In a Methodist chapel at the age of 15. His conversion must be reckoned with that of Bunyan and the inward illuminations which visited George Fox among the epoch-making events of history. It is not the battles which have been fought by famous Generals and the speeches which the Pitts and Burkes have delivered in Parliament that have truly woven the fabric of human history, but such in conspicuous and often forgotten lncl dents as the Influx of celestial light Into some agonizing soul and the re sults of the conversion which followed. It Is perfectly conceivable that the magnitude of events as they appear on the records of eternity differs amaz ingly from the scale which Is familiar to us. Perhaps the recording angel has blazoned the conversion of Booth as the prime occurrence of the first half of the nineteenth century, and his life in the long run may count more for terrestrial happiness than Tennyson's or Darwin's. When he was converted he Joined the Methodist Church, and no doubt caught from its preachers some lingering sparks of the divine fire that John Wesley had kindled. At any rate he became a traveling evan gelist and thus pushed the Itinerant IC a which Is Inherent in Methodism to its extreme limit. When his eccle siastical rulers finally required him to settle over a regular congregation, he withdrew from the Methodist denom ination and became an independent preacher. From the beginning the miseries of the poor had weighed upon his soul. The unspeakable wretched ness of the London slums presented itself to him as a problem which must be solved, end he believed with his whole heart that the solution lay in the Christian religion. ' If these wicked and forlorn people could be "brought to Jesus" they would be saved, not only from the torments of hell in the next world, but also from the torments of ,the slums In -this one. The Christian religion, as Booth understands It, dif fers in essential particulars from the formal and academic cult of some , other Protestant sects. It is a reversion Swinburne, the poet, is dead. His quality as a poet It Is not easy to char acterize, since his originality defeats attempts at making comparisons. Master of melody, and master of as sonances, he was mastered by them, and carried by them Into new and dar ing forms of expression, whose rapid ity at times almost leaves the reader behind him. With the assonances that led him away and on and on, into sur prising intricacies of verse, there Is an undulating rhythm that often carries the reader away; yet the sound as often obscures the sense. The body or volume of his poetry is very large. As an artist In verse he has scarcely any equals In English, yet except in few pieces his rank is not among the first poets. His work abounds in highly original technique, much of which, however, carries with it but lit tle poetic feeling. But he had a voice attuned to melodies of verse, with un expected suggestion, really miraculous. Objection, now is made to Fulton by the Democratic press of Oregon, for the mission to China, because he has objected to Chinese immigration into Oregon and the rest of the United States, and therefore wouldn't be ac ceptable to the Chinese government. Ah, well! this is partisanship. Per haps Fulton may not wish to go to China, hut may conclude to meet the Philistines at home. The House passed the tariff bill merely to get rid of it and put it up to the Senate. The Senate will work at it a while, and then it will go back to the House, which will only partially concur In the amendments. and then there will be a conference committee. As a result of all, not many protected interests will get left. Nobody who has read the comments of the French press on Theodore Roosevelt will ever again accuse European Journals of lack of perspicuity. e If the musio teachers would teach do mestic harmony rather than the Import ed brand, there would be many more suc cessful duet singing of what Grover Cleveland called "one grand sweet song." see No girl arrives at the age of discretion until she outgrows the hammock habit, e It should be easy for children to believe fairy tales who listen to what their moth ers say to callers. see Only a poor man knows how to be ex travagant. see When yorj hear a floek of fond females talking to a toddling baby, you cease to wonder why we speak the language so badly. When a husband or wife goes to the -devil, he can always explain it through his family relations. e e Every woman nurses a gnawing secret whose rats are not made from her own hair. see When a man gets the political bee in his bonnet, his commonsense goes out and Jumps off the bridge. see Through the eyeholes In the mask of injured Innocence one often meets the gaze of unexposed vice. e Some people still believe the world Is square, but they must have had very lit tle experience In business, politics or love. It lHn't the first drink nor the last that makes a man a drunkard. It is the ones he takes in between. That Pennsylvania man whose wife presented him with twins, in conse quence of which exciting event his mother-in-law dropped dead of heart disease, would know better the next time how to nail the horseshoe over the door If he had not gone immedi ately to the barn and hanged himself. Now there la suggestion that Presi dent Taft may turn to Mr. Fairbanks, recently Vice-President, for Ambassa dor to Engl---nd. Very likely. Mr. Fairbanks would be a very proper man for the place and the honor. But he mightn't want the place and the honor. Both are costly. Portland should win the pennant this year, and If it be necessary a Beaver might resort to Los Angelan tactics and kill an Angel occasionally by accident, of course. A butterlne plant in Chicago burned yesterday, whereupon every cow in the land will adjust her horns and wear a smile that cannot come off. Butterlne, you know, every cow abhors. A Tale of Buttons. V There was a single man who had No buttons on his clothes, A fact that made him very sad. As you may well suppose. . He used to put those buttons on In every sort of way; With patient care he fixed them there. And yet they wouldn't stay. He hitched them on, he stitched them ot Securely, one may say. Then presently he found them gone What was the reason, pray? In time, as surely you have guessed. This man was much annoyed. He beat his palpitating breast. And with his tresses toyed. A comely maiden passing then Beheld his horrid plight. And laughing, cried, "You cliimsy men!1 And fixed his buttons right. Need more be said? They soon were wed Girls, hear the song I sing; Because their buttons won't stay on The men are marrying. Chicago News. Well, now, In Portland, on the West Side, Bu"' Run water Is cut off, and the water you use will be Willamette Valley soup. Let the whole West Bide govern itself accordingly. East Side is proud of another ad vantage It gets Bull Run first, and doesn't have to cros3 the river for it, either. Boll the water, and while it is hot Just drink a cupful for the stomach's sake. It is good for indigestion. Every faction now will have "an as sembly" or "a conference," to name candidates for the primary. Mayor Lane will be asked to run again. Of course he didn't expect it. Ever see him smile? Now It must go up In Congress from Cannon to Aldrich, and Aldrlch will be the wickedest man. Now the West Side has a small idea of what it means for the draw to be open. If the lawn grass would grow with out having to be cut, what a boon I Tltet I. orb Goat tm Africa. A lioness missed her precious cub On t'other side the globe; "Who Bhot me child!" she roared In rage, The hunter stammered: "Loeb!" A hippopotamus observed A bullet scratch hla robe. "S'death," bellowed he, "who did this Job?" The hunter answered: "Loeb!" An elephant some proof sheets found Which tried his life to probe; "Who wrote this rot?" It trumpeted. The author whispered: "Loeb!" A rhino found a photograph And did not act like Job; "Who made me look like this? snarled. The hunter stuttered: "Loeb!" New York Sun. he A Lenten Saint. The fair Prlscilla fasts through Lent; No devotee before a shrine Nor seeker on perfection bent Shows such determination fine. The fair Prlscilla eats no meat. She dinea upon a crust of toast-. She does not drive along the street She walks more miles than she can boast. And thus she goes her dally rounds In patience fasting. What's the use? Priscilli weighs two hundred pounds. And says she simply must reduce! Jhlcago Evening Poaa