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JTTTTXILK COURTS.
The general criticism which Profes
sor Enrico Fern applied to modern
methods of dealing with crime touches
haJUthonlle CUrta muCh les merely
than those where adults are tried and
sentenced. The great Italian cham
P on of the positive school of crimI
Sr. .ertS Wlth trutn that the law
doe. not interfere with adult criminal
Criming .m,,achIef has been done.
Criminal jurisprudence 13 largely m
he cond.tion where med.cle wis
"hen It sought only to cure diseases
and never to prevent them. BnUt
ened physicians have now come to lav
remynI of causes of disease
meted" TT " haa been " -
Intl the ordlnary Intelligence
there seems to be little resemblance
between crime and those lesion wMch
are ordinarily called diseases; stUI
such resemblances exist. Persons who
tinted 'ed thG andnves!
Mncl needCfU8e3 Whlh P6 hl
scarceH mo aree that he ls often
l"" .'1 re accountable for what he
Is than the patient who suffers from
tuberculosis. Each calamity is th
consequence of the Individual's envi!
ronment acting on his Inherited char-
nvmnr ,Th,,S dOC8 n0t mean thlt
n man of science wishes to permit
criminals to go unrestrained or un
c plined. but it does make the Idea or
vindictive punishment Irrational.
irndoubtedy M time passeg
will devote its enerpes more to the
ThTwn'l" 'nf " t0 thS Cure crimed
dl7. 1 prcced a,n two evi
dent lines: the removal of the causes,
which are now fertile in the produc
tlon of. malefactors, and the rescue of
the young from evil environment
The experience of all the ages has
J IT"? TOere P"lhment does not
crime Tt BlIhtest to lessen
Ct6: " 13 a" expensive and Inhuman
practice which never had any ex
cuse but Its supposed necessity. Now
that we have learned the superior effl
117. measurps which gc to the root
and treat causes Instead of effects, the
gallows, the old-fashioned Jail and
" to xaKe upon themselves I
a good doal of the aspect of medieval
....u.u.rulo ui torture. To their bar
barity we shall perhaps some day add
the reproach of uselessness. There
are better and cheaper ways of reach
ing the results at which they have
aimed so long and which they have
missed so badly.
The maxim that it Is cheaper to
educate men than to punish them ls
of wider application than those who
nvented It ever conceived. Education
is a word whose meaning continually
expands. Once It meant teaching chil
dren a little arithmetic and geography
with some feeble rudiments of spell
ing. Now it means character-building
as well as mind-storing, and Includes
skill ln some crart which will earn a
Jiving. More than that, we have dis -covered
that the education .which is
suitable for one child may very well be
the ruin of another. A boy whost early
years have been passed ln the envi
ronment of the slums, whose first les
sons were ln beggary and thieving and
whose home is a nest of vice, cannot
be prepared for useful citizenship by
teaching him the names of the Presi
dents and how to multiply fractions
Nowadays we all admit that it is the
duty of society to take such a boy
and If possible save him from destruc
tion. We admit It on the solid eco
nomic ground that a good citizen ls
worth more to the country than a bad
one. It follows, of course, that soci
ety, ought to deal with the boy in a
way which will accomplish the pur
pose sought and not trust to measures
which experience has shown to pro
duce the opposite effect. For exam
ple, it is sheer folly td send a boy of
that character to any ordinary reform
school, it is worse than folly to shut
him up In Jail, because the influence
of either of these Institutions, much
as some of us love them, slmpjy con
firms the evil which his heart already
contains and leads it Into new devel
opments. It was some such reflec
tions as these that Induced men and
women who cared more for the good
of the world than they did for moldy
traditions to Invent the Juvenile court
The watchword of the Juvenile court
ls education, not punishment. It seeks
to educate the child by making ln the
first place a wholesome change in his
environment. It takes him away from
his family entirely if it seems well to
do so, and delivers him into hands
which win train him tip in the way he
mould go. But this Is not the gist of
the secret. It ls part of it, but not all.
The Juvenile court has caught the. di
vine thought f Froebel that the child
must be taught to will the right by
permitting Mm the form of freedom
under a watchful and directive intelli
gence from which he cannot escape.
He Is permitted to swim, trot for all
that the current of the river bears him
without his knowing It to a, .better
world than be was iborn into. In some
Juvenile courts Froebel's idea has de
generated into muahv R.nHmnoH
Just as it has in some kindergartens
The "directive -will" of the German
master of pedagogues loses ha grip
and becomes nothing better than Jelly
like pleading, and when this happens
the boy were better lert to the thieves.
They will do him less .harm than the
court will. Mush and romanticism
are the two dire foes of the Juvenile
court. Now and then a fine genius
like Judge Lindsey, of Denver, can so
wield romantic methods that they will
bo wholesome, but they are tools for
the ordinary Judge to let severely
alone. For most of us the same old
loads of common sens are th ones
I to travel. To sarve the boy we must
give him to feel incessantly that, how
ever free he seems to be. the is
nevertheless, a power enveloDiner him
which he must obey.
SEATTLE'S GREAT FA III.
It ls officially announced by the di
rector of works that the Alaska-Yu-kon-Paclflc
Exposition buildings were
98 per cent finished last week. In pre
paredness, Seattle will equal the rec
ord of the Lewis and Clark Fair when
It opened four years ago. Portlanders
who have seen the grounds declare
that in scenic beauty the A.-T.-P. ex
position does not suffer by compari
son with our own. A summary of the
work already accomplished ls pub
lished on another page of this issue.
Oregon has more than a neighborly
interest ln this great undertaking. Our
state will be amply represented there.
A very large proportion of Eastern
visitors will be attracted by the" re
sources exhibited. " Demand for our
low-priced farm lands will be stim
ulated. Extent of the material uplift
to all Oregon industries may be fairly
measured by the unparalleled prog
ress of the state since 1905. . Self-interest
alone prompts Oregon to give
heartiest support to the fair. .
It goes without saying that the ex
position will well repay a visit. The
whole country wants to know more
about the products of the Oient and
of the undeveloped continent to the
north. This they will learn at Seattle,
together with first hand facts concern
ing the incomparable empire lying
west of the Rocky Mountains. The
Oregonlan commends the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific
Exposition to the entire
Pacific Northwest. Every one who
can afford the expense ought to see it.
VICTORY OVER NATURE.
Steadily and with increasing success,
modern farmers and orchardlsts are
fighting and subduing the dangerous
forces of nature. In the old days, be
fore irrigation became- general ln the
fruit districts, the crop was at times
threatened by a shortage of moisture.
Now the turning of a valve or water
gate regulates the supply of moisture
to a nicety. Then there were the cod
ling moth, the aphis and a few hun
dred other pests which nature had
provided for some unknown purpose,
and which inflicted their presence on
the orchardists in such numbers that
they not infrequently left ruin in their
wake. Now the spray pump and
other devices of scientific farming and
fruit culture end the career of the
Insect pests almost as soon as It be
gins. The danger from drought and insect
pests has long since been guarded
against, and until quite recently the
only serious menace to the fruit crop
has been the occasional late frosts,
that not infrequently spread havoc
among orchards forced by an early
Spring. Even the frost king has now
been vanquished and frightened away
from the orchards. The ranchers in
the Yakima and Southern Oregon fruit
districts are using petroleum flrepots,
which are kept burning during the
cold nights, the smudge arising from
the pots tempering the atmosphere so
that there is but little danger of frost
damage. Still further to eliminate the
danger, many of these orchards are
provided with automatic frost alarms,
a contrivance in which a drop in the
mercury to the danger point starts an
electric bell ringing in the house of
the orcWardist ln plenty of time to en
able him to light up the petroleum
frost-fighters.
These and other modern improve
ments in the methods for producing a
crop have done much not only to re
lieve the business of many of its un
certainties, but to make life on the
farm much more pleasant and profit
able. JUST A BMA1X, PBJEMTCJI. -The
authorities of Schoenberg, one
of the municipalities included in
Greater Berlin, have provided by leg
islation for the deposit ln a savings
bank of a small sum of money, with
accruing interest, to the credit of
every infant hereafter born ln that
municipality. The object ls to encour
age the child in saving by giving him
a start which from his earliest remem
brance will be his very own, and to
which this feeling of ownership will
Induce him to add. The deposit .will
be hut one mark 25 cents and to
guard against squandering this small
sum by the parents It ls provided that
the amount cannot be withdrawn for
a period of two years.
The proposition is a staggering one
to the American sense of a savings ac
count from Its very smallness. That
Its efficacy ls questioned even by those
who originated the plan is conceded ln
the provision above noted to keep
the hands of the parents off the store
for a brief time at least, though why
the restriction is not made perpetual,
ln view of the fact that its purpose
ls to encourage the parents as well as
the child ln thrift, is not quite clear.
The ulterior purpose ts, perhaps, to
encourage the production of soldiers
for the army, this being the chief
anxiety of the imperial government at
present. However, whether the object
of the ordinance Is to encourage thrift
or reproduclton, the premium offered
ls so small from the American view
point as to be beneath the considera
tion of capable, responsible men.
tTN ATO.BVI A.TEI) WRETCHEDNESS.
The Moslem massacres at Antioch
and vicinity have left thousands of
widows and orphans in a state of
misery and destitution comparable
only with the condition of the victims
of Italy'a latest earthquake. The male
Inhabitants of the ancient city, brutal
ly murdered, are beyond the need or
reach of human pityC The women and
children are the real sufferers, in that
their sufferings are cruelly prolonged
and their condition ls apparently hope
less of betterment.
Woman's part in war, even in civ
ilized countries, ls one of woe and
hardship; among barbarous peoples it
ls one of Inconceivable misery and
hopeless destitution. To this portion
of the population of Asia Minor who
are within the range of the commo
tion incident upon the overthrow of
Abdul Hamid, the pity of the pitiful
ls due. The world comes full handed
to the succor and relief of wretched
people bereaved and made destitute
by a convulsion of Nature, but those
equally bereft and destitute through
the convulsion of war are beyond the
reach of even the long arm of. world
wide benevolence. This fact illustrates
vividly the assertion of Dr. Edward
Young, whose "Night Thoughts," sung
ln a minor strain, rose often to the
heights of truth as verified by human
history, that "Man is to man the sur
est, sorest ill."
The experience of Miss Ellen Stone
the suypAY OREGomy, Portland,
with Turkish brigands a few years ago
was. it would seem, a sufficient warn
ing to American women to keep out of
Turkey ln the role of unprotected mis
sionaries. That this warning was lost
upon zeal ls shown by the records of
the. American Board of Foreign Mis
sions, which carries the names .Qf four
women who are now ln jeopardy
that is appalling at Hadjin. Sympa
thy for these women In their dire
peril and utter helplessness Is uni
versal and deep, but through it runs a
feeling of wonder and something akin
to impatience at the lack of discre
tion that permitted them to place
themselves ln peril of death and worse
at the hands of the unspeakable Turk.
It is, of course, useless to discuss this
point, as it is Impossible to account
for or combat with so practical a
weapon as caution the unreason of re
ligious zeal.
CONCERNING ART.
On a Friday evening in Mendels
sohn Hall, New York, not long ago,
there was a sale of pictures. The col
lection of the late John T. Martin was
to be disposed of. A large audience,
mostly women, assembled to witness
the sacred function and to show that
they felt a proper reverence for the
events about to happen they all took
their hats off. When an American
woman consents to render her head
gear Inconspicuous even for a few mo
ments, you may be sure that she feels
very solemn indeed. These women In
Mendelssohn Hall sat without hats for
hours. They expected money to pass
before them, big heaps of It. Hence
their - awe-stricken, devout emotion.
Excitement was skillfully worked up
by the auctioneer, or rather the hlero
phant. Bids grew from thousands to
tens of thousands until finally Millet's
"Going to Work" was knocked down
to H. S. Henry, of Philadelphia, for
$50,000. At that sublime Jnstant the
whole audience burst into spontaneous
applause. Were they applauding Mil
let? Did this ecstatic handclapplng
express enthusiasm for the great
French Interpreter of the lot of the
humble? Nay, not so. It expressed
enthusiasm for Mr. Henry's dollars.
Had he paid the same sum for a tin
dipper with a rusty handle, they would
have applauded Just the same, and
perhaps harder.
Up to the present moment admira
tion of art ln America, reduce to Its
lowest terms, amounts to a devout
adoration of the sum paid for a pic
ture or a statue, and nothing more.
Most people who rave over Millet or
MIchaelangelo, or any of the other
fetiches of the' Inner circle of art, have
not the slightest notion of the reason
ror their ecstasies. Most of them can
patter a more or less Intelligible rig
marole about temperament, atmos
phere, values, and so on, but not one
in a dozen of them ever dreamed of
asking what these terms mean. As a
matter of fact, they mean very little,
even to those who have pondered most
deeply over them. Ninety-nine parts
in a hundred of the current ravings
about art are like the language which
Shakespeare's soldiers Invented to be-,
fool Parolles with. It is a Jargon
which has fully served its purpose
when It has revealed the elect to each
other. Any other collocation of sounds
would do quite as well. In the days
of Greece art had no special dialect
and no esoteric ritual. Nobody went
wild over its hidden meanings. Every
body understood It and everybody en
Joyed It, because it was merely a spe
cies of craftsmanship a little nearer to
perfection than that of the ordinary
workmen of Athens. Every man made
his work as beautiful as he could.
Phidias and Zeuxes were somewhat
more adept than the rest. That was
the whole of their secret. The great
art of Greece grew naturally and with
out a break out of the arts of common
life, and that was the reason why It
was great. That was the reason also
why It flourished vigorously like the
olive trees on the Acropolis and did
not need to he stimulated by exhibi
tions and auctions where silly women
assembled to adore the bank rolls of
millionaires.
No picture that was ever painted
ought to sell for $50,000. Prices of
that magnitude do not measure the in
trinsic worth of the piece of art, but
the vanity and selfishness of those who
bid against each other for its. exclusive
possession. While the artist is alive
his work never brings anything like
such sums of money. It Is only when
he Is dead and competition begins
among millionaires for a monopoly of
his pieces that figures become so in
flated. Hence It is folly to say that
these exaggerated prices represent ap
preciation of art. They represent the
plutocrat's love of display artd nothing
more. Neither do such prices encour
age art. If the artist himself got
them, something might be said . for
them, but he never does. At least
never until he has become old and de
crepit and, like Tolstoi, lost his inter
est In earthly things. ' If the artist did
receive sums of the magnitude of
$50,000 for his pictures, It is not at
all likely that he would do better work.
Artists who paint for money usually
show but one color ln their pictures,
and that Is yellow. Irv. modern times
art has been deliberately made over
into a mystery ln order that the
wealthy, who arrogate to themselves
a monopoly of good taste, may have
one undisputed mark of distinction
from the vulgar. Once in a while they
make something of an effort to "bring
art down to the humblest home," but
the effort Is never sincere, and if It
were sincere it would be futile, be
cause art has become so intricate and
subtle that nobody can understand it
wHo has not infinite leisure to devote
to it. If we could all understand It at
a glance, we should not be much bet
ter off because when all is said and
done enigmatic art amounts to noth
ing more than a Chinese puzzle.
The art of Greece required no ex
cessive Intellectual effort for Us appre
hension. The man on the street took
it in frpm mere habitual association.
It was simple, straightforward and
even homely. Modern critics, who try
of course to magnify their calling, pre
tend to see deep mysteries in Greek
art, but common sense tells us they
are not there. It was an art for the
people, and the people knew all about
It. The complexity of our discourses
on art simply prove that our attitude
toward art is unhealthy. The pictures
which the common man can under
stand are- the best pictures. Even
Raphael's fat. women and ugly little
parodies of babies .Involve no secrets.
Undoubtedly he drew his figures the
best he could, and It his ideas of
beauty were crude It was not his fault.
He was not silly enough to confuse
1 art with mathematical equations; he
knew that art was a matter of feel
ing entirely and to the feeling of his
age he made his appeal. Our feeling is
different. We no longer love women
with faces like bloated sunfish and
children who look like stall-fed pigs,
hence we no longer like Raphael's
pictures. Of course there are people
who have trained themselves to like
them Just as there are men who relish
limburger cheese, hut the taste is not
natural. It Is. an awful thing to say,
but it ls true all the tame, that there
are hundreds of painters alive today
whose pictures are incomparably bet
ter than any the old masters ever
dreamed of. They are better because
they speak a language we can under
stand. They appeal to the feeling of
the times we live ln. When the feel
ing which they arouse ls wholesome,
the picture ls true art, and no amount
of ecstasy over the old masters can
make it otherwise.
A HIGHER FAITH.
Dr. George Burnam Foster's opinion '
that Christianity may ln time give
place to some higher faith ls start
ling but not necessarily to be rejected.
Dr. Foster Is professor of' philosophy
ln Chicago University, a ripe scholar
and a man of sedate and reverend
character. His opinions are not light
ly formed, nor are they rashly uttered.
The theory of evolution has been ex
tended to include all things human. If
religious cults are excluded from its
operation the exception Is remarkable,
to say the least, and Is not to be cred
ited until It has been clearly proved.
Granting that our faith evolves as do
other forms of truth, proceeding from
the primitive to the advanced, from
the lower to the higher. It Is conceiv
able that some new cult may in time
replace that which at present rules ln
civilized countries. We must not for
get that in all probability man ls not
the highest produA which the mind of
the Creator can achieve. The descend
ants of the present Inhabitants of
earth may be very different beings
from ourselves, with larger faculties
and more. capable intelligence.
To such beings our present form of
faith might be very unsuitable. Not
that any part of It need be rejected
as untrue, but It may easily turn out
that some parts are not the whole
truth. St. Paul hints at this In his
famous saying that we see through a
glass darkly now, but in some future
station shall see face to face. He also
reminds us that we see only ln part
and comprehend only in part, pointing
to an expectation that ultimately our
descendants will possess -broader fac
ulties than ourselves and consequently
attain to a broader and perhaps
clearer faith. In Dr. Foster's state
ment of opinion there ls much food
tor reflection.
CRIBBING AT BROWN.
The lamentable news comes from
the East that twenty-eight freshmen
have been suspended from Brown
University for cribbing. This ancient
and honorable seat of learning is situ
ated In Providence, R. I., where the
New England conscience has ruled su
preme for many generations. One
would think that It ought to have
risen superior to cribbing by this time.
But there is still a greater mystery
connected with this cribbing. Rhode
usiana is tne home of the noble and
pure Senator Aldrich. How comes it
that twenty-eight boys born and
brought up under the shadow of his
luminous wings, bathed from their
youth up, as it were, in the lambent
flood of his virtues, should so far for
get themselves as to crib In their ex
aminations? When we come to examine the
crime ln Itself It does not look quite
so heinous as it might. What the
boys really did was to hire oho of their
number to write their" 'themes" for
them. This practice has the sanction
ofv a large number of the clergymen
of the Church of England who pur
chase their sermons by the barrel.
Still, many things which are permitted
to men are not good for boys. On
the other hand, it Is to be observed
In ail fairness that nobody who can
possibly escape writing a "theme" ls
to he blamed for doing so. Of all
barren and profitless college exercises,
this Is the worst. If a boy has the
faintest spark of literary ability this
theme writing may be depended on to
quench it. If he goes to college - mute,
inglorious Milton, his work In "litera
ture and composition" ls sure to make
his muteness Incurable and his lnglorl
ousness perpetual. Before a college
graduate can do anything ln the way
of writing which human beings can
stand it to . read, he must diligently
forget all that he has been taught. If
he succeeds, he may some time be
come a writer. If h-e does not, he
can still beg or dig pitches. Fortu
nately the teaching which destroys the
mind often leaves the muscles Intact.
PDTTIJIO WATER TO WORK.
It takes but a cursory view of water
power, as applied to the industrial
progress and the mechanical devices
by which electricity is harnessed, to
establish the supremacy of water as
the great moving force ln mechanical
development, and the economy of Its
use as applied to the moving problems
of Industrial and commercial energy.
Sentiment has been pitted against It
without avail. Niagara, we are told,
ls being despoiled of Its grandeur bjr
an unsympathetic commercial spirit,
but the clamor for more mechanical
energy has drowned the plaint of senti
ment and the work of lighting great
cities and turning mighty mills from
the transmitted power of Niagara, goes
on, regardless of protest. The city of
Buffalo, scintillating under tens of
thousands of electric lights, looks un
moved upon the receding grandeur of
the great falls, the energy of which
has been drawn upon for the genera
tion of the power that -has dispelled
its darkness, while tourists find what
they miss in the fantastic display of
tumbling, roaring, foaming waters and
rainbow-lighted spray, ln the electrical
devices that have turned streets Into
avenues of fairy land and made transit
swift, convenient and ample for all the
needs of the traveler.
As with Niagara, so in a lesser de
gree with waterfalls of Inferior gran
deur and power. Sentiment has been
shocked and pioneer traditions have
been dispelled or disregarded In .our
own vicinity by harnessing the falls
of "Beautiful Willamette" to the needs
of the hour. Few, indeed, can con
template ln memory or view in pic
tured reproduction the Falls of the
Willamette as they, appeared in
former days, ln contrast with the same
falls in their despoiled beauty of today,
without a feeling of regret, bordering
at times upon indignation. Yet the
despoilment came In response to the
clamor for mechanical energy and for
the expansion, through this means, of
public utilities that have passed from
the stage of 'luxuries to those of ne
cessaries of life. Hence, the voice of
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protest has been drowned in the louder
tones of acquiescence.
Sacred to memory are the falls of
former-days not only the Falls of
Beautiful Willamette, but of the hun
dreds of other waterfalls the beauty of
which has been obliterated by the
voice of utility. But sacred to the
uses of what we call progress and to
the development which .we call civi
lization, are the utilized energies of
these waterfalls. The story of the
development and transmission of the
energy of the waterfall ls instinct with
the subtleties of magic. The tale
eclipses in wonder those of fairy land.
Nearly one hundred cities in the
United States alone are now lighted
by electricity supplied by transmitted
water power; the ingenuity of man,
taxing- Itself in the development of
this wonderful power, has made it a
thing of, magical beauty and use.
taienai interests, ever on the alert,
have awakened to surprising activity
ln many of these cities, including our
own, causing their rapid increase ln
population, manufacturing develop
ment and wealth.
The story throughout ts a marvelous
one. Its details are written In the
common Industries and utilities of civ
ilization upon every hand. Yet this
ls but the beginning of an age of water
and electricity working in conjunc
tion to supply the needs of man, pro
mote his comfort and increase his
wealth. So vast and universal is the
extent of "the world's most ancient
power" , that it ls practically incom
putable. Mr. Roosevelt knows more about a
great many things than does Mrs.
Mainzer of St. Paul, mother of eleven
children and wife of a man Inspired
to vainglorious boasting of his off
spring by "a pall of beer," but it ls
certain that she knows a great deal
more about the anxieties and worries
Incident to bringing up a large family
In poverty than he does. Large fam
ilies are not for poor people, says
Mrs. Mainzer, adding: "I have not
time or strength to care properly for
11, though I do the very best I can.
Its work, hard work, and the hardest
part ls not to be able to do for the
children what every mother feels she
should do clothe, educate and care
for them properly." One thing ls cer
tain, a woman situated as ls Mrs.
Mainzer has no time, money or oppor
tunity to go off on extensive and ex
pensive excursions for recreation and
pleasure. She ls fortunate If she gets
to lie down for an hour in quiet with
a wet towel on her head when she has
a blinding headache. And It may be
added that ln such circumstances she
does not care to hear advice or even
commendation from a man who knows
nothing whatever, and can know noth
ing, of the conditions under which she
lives and strives and suffers.
Easily the most important musical
offering of the season Is the series of
concerts by the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra and the 'Portland Festival
Chorus, beginning next Friday night.
Unlike older bu less wealthy Euro
pean cities of our size, Portland has
not yet advanced in this branch nt rt
to a point where the highest and bdt
ln the harmony of sounds is accessible
to the masses the year around. The
coming season, short as It ls, brings to
our doors one of the tlnest organiza
tions in America. Based, on perform
ances last year,' it may confidently be
expected that Portland will have a
rare feast. For young music lovers it
will be part of an education. It is
such an event, apart from the ad
mirable local feature, as commends
Itself to all classes and merits the full
est recognition.
A woman, half paralyzed and the
mother of sixteen children, was burned
to death ln a rural section of Wash
ington County a few days ago, while
cooking a meal over an open fire. An
unappreclatlve and an ungrateful brood
must hers have been to permit this
half paralyzed creature to creep about
preparing food for them. "Desire not,"
salth the Preacher, "a multitude of
unprofitable children .' . . though
they multiply rejoice not in them . .
. Trust them not In their life, neither
respect their multitude; for one that
is Just is better than a thousand; and
better 1. is to die without children
than to have them that are unprofit
able." Nobody complains about the sane
automobilist. It Is the speed maniac
the public ls after and purposes to
curb, if It takes all Summer, and
longer. Therefore It behooves the
sane automobilist not to run his ma
chine at high speed through crowded
streets and around corners. It is really
hard then for the Innocent wayfarer
to tell him from a speed maniac.
Because Seattle Is different, the fair
will be open on Sundays. Not that the
city has less respect for the day, but
because there are no strings on Se
attle. The innovation makes It the
first real exposition for all the people,
saints as well as stnners.
Those young Turks seem to know
the game. They have a sultan of their
own handy. If Abdul Hamid shall flee,
or abdicate or fall ln the Bosphorus,
with the aid of a few well meaning
revolutionists.
If sixty cases of scarlet fever at
Suninyside High School are really no
occasion for alarm, we should really
like to hear from Principal Curtis how
many would Justiry a trifling uneasi
ness. Dr. Kellaher, Republican state sen
ator from Multnomah, ls running as an
independent candidate for mayor. To
some politicians the Republican party
is good for whatever it may be used
for.
It ls not really material whether
Portland is on the Willamette or Co
lumbia. What Portland wants is per
manent assurance that It will never
again be ln either river.
There really ought to be some way
by which the Portland fans can in
voke the recall on Manager Casey's
ham-strung Colts.
It Is universally agreed among the
liquor dealers that Reinsteln ls a good
deal of an ass. Right. He was caught
In the very act. .
A great many things are likely to
happen ln Turkey within the next
twenty-four hours, most of them to
Abdul Hamid.
That Minnesota mother of eleven
says Mr. Roosevelt doesn't . know any,
thing about it. Well, she does.
SILHOUETTES
BT ARTHUR A- GREENE.
They say a woman's crowning glory ls
her hair Rats!
e e e
Wilbur Wright says aoroplan-.-s are safer
than automobiles. . So they are for
pedestrians.
e e
An astronomer has 't fyur-5.1 out th.it
we could talk to Mars if someone would
finance a S10.000.000 atjaralus for tne pur
pose. It poems pertinent to ask. however.
If he ever footed the bill after talking
to a woman over the long distance 'phone.
It requires more cleverness to avoid
revealing what one doesn t know than
to tell what he knows.
.
Mnrr'i I.nlMlr
Mary had a Uttla lobitnr
His father had the doneh
And every night he'd come around
ro see the chorus show.
He followed her to Syracuse,
H followed her to Trov:
It made the other gir's rlsht mad
At peps s gilded boy.
"U hy does our Claude love Marie koV
His relatives Inquired.
'Cause Mary ls a show-frtrl
That ls all that ia required.
f
Now JTtry wears a coo let
And graces England" courts.
And tells the co-respondent,
Claude is a prince of. eports.
;
"To himwho hath" is the law of com
pensation. ' m
I desire to call especial attention today
to tne exclusive line of passionate Spring
neckties Dr. J. Whitcomb Brougher will
wear xnia weeK.
e e e
Most of the entries ln the race of life
are left at the post.
Now ls the time when the small boy
wouia rather be a successful pitcher than
tne crown prince of Germany.
e e
A little money ! a dangerous thing for
a man with expensive tastes.
We are prone to regard the sexes from
ah entirely different ancle. For Inatiuin.
It is always the woman with a. past and
the man with a future that Interests ua
most.
Helpful Henrr'a Hhita for tJie iriniu
To Aileene My dear girl, voura la cer
tainly an unhappy lot, and I feel a deep
sympathy for you. I would artvlsn now
ever, that Instead of reading Meredith
Nicholson for consolation von lako a
course of Victoria Cross. You say that
you are 19 and the eldest of elzht ohil
dren, that your nose ls th original r-
trousse and your evpa hin h.ih.
list; yet you yearn to be a beautiful
young heiress. Since vou sav vour tn
ther has accepted a position at the
packing-house for JIB per, I don't sea
now I can do much for vou.
My best advice to you is to Invest ln
one or the new inverted flower-nr,r hut.
Then It won't make much difference how
your face looks then.
We all pity the under dog, but we court
tne acquaintance of the upper.
It's a mean man who takes a woman
first "no" as final when he asks her to
marry him.
Ifs an 111 wind that blows nobody good
Remember the umbrella makers.
DEAF MUTE SCHOOL'S NEW HOMK
Writer Shows That Location Ia Coa-
venlent, and Price Reasonable.
OREGON SCHOOL "FOR THE DEAF
Salem, Or., April 23. (To the Editor.)
In a recent 11r-,rtai in ThA n.-. . ..
with reference to the new site purchased
ior tne ileal Mute School, a .hope ls ex
pressed that this ls an exception to the
rule that the purchase of old buildings
for institutional use ls rarely or ever
sound economy. I beg to emphasize that
the force of this rule was fully recog
nized ln making the purchase referred
to.
The buildings were a very minor con
sideration, though they happen to be
fairly well adapted without expensive al
teration to the purposes for which they
will be used for a time. The old Poly
technic building, having been built for an
Industrial school, will again be used for
Its original purpose as a trades instruc
tion department, thus permitting a larger
expenditure of out limited funds upon
the main school plant.
But wholly aside from the building Im
provements, no other site offered the
same combination of desired advantages,
such aa ample area for future expansion
without crowding, excellent drainage, ex
ceptional transportation facilities, city
water supply, public sewerage, fine soil,
good fruit supply, absence of good but
unavailable buildings occupying the most
prominent part of the building site, and
avoidance of proximity to cemeteries,
the asylum or the penitentiary..
As to comparative prices, the average
price of the land purchased was $323 per
acre. Among the 18 propositions consid
ered, no sufficient site within one mile
of a carline was offered at less than J300
per acre. No other tend on a carline was
offered at less than 470 per acre. No
other land with a sufficiently elevated
and well-drained site for buildings, on
an electric line, and with city water and
sewerage ln reach, was offered at less
than 1800 per acre, and all such tracts
were considerably less than the mini
mum 20 acres considered most desirable.
Finally, for the convenience of the large
proportion of Portland pupils, and their
parents and friends, it was considered
especially desirable to have a site on the
Oregon Electric Railway, and no other
suitable site on this line could be had
S. S. TILLINGIIAST.
Superintendent Oregon School for Deaf
Mutes.
ITo Hope for Satisfactory Answer.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
"What is a Democrat, style of 1909?"
asks the New York Sun.
That ls altogether too hard a question
to be answered offhand. However, the
year !s still young. There ls yet room
for hope that an answer will be forth
coming. But It must be confessed that
there is not much room for hope that the
answer will be satisfactory.
Equal to the Emergency.
New York Morning Telegraph.
"Your grandmother died' nine times
last baseball season. What excuse can
you offer to get away this year?" asked
Mr. Grouch of his office boy.
"Grandfather has got married again."
said the kid..
Ever-Present Marvel.
"Pippins and Peaches."
Considering the dreadful things that
children eat. ls It not surprising that any
of them live to be human beings?
When the Housefly Will Get Even.
Baltimore American.
Science has doomed the housefly. The
coming Summer will develop what the
housefly will do with science.
Verses on Timely Topics
Keep Flshln'.
Hi
a ll:T uurnaest cuss
Fer catchin' fish he sure was great!
e never lined to mavA
He
. ' V! III. 1 UPS
About the klnri n ,
F.r weather, neither; he'd Jest say
i":"." a mess today,"
An' toward the creek you'd see him
slide.
A-whlstlln' soft an" walkin' wide,
says one day to Hi. says I.
How do you always catch "em. HI'"
He gave his halt another switch In.
An' -chucklin', says, "I Jest keep
f ishin'."
Hi took to readin' law at night.
And pretty soon, the first we knowed.
He had a lawsuit, won his fight.
An' was a lawyer! Til be blowed!
He knowed more law than Squire Mo-
Knab!
An' though he had no "gift of gab"
lo nrag aDout. somehow he made
A sober sort of ta.llc that ..lav.H
The mischief with the other side.
One day, when some asked if Hfd
.explain how he got in condlshin
He laughed an' said, "I Jest kept
flshln'."
Well. Ill ls Qov'ner Somers now;
A Dig man round the state, you bet
To me the same old HI. somehow;
iut; name oia cnampeen fisher yet.
It wan't so much the bait er' pole.
It wan't so much the fishin' bole.
That won for Hi his big success- .
Twas jest his flshln- an. I guess.
A cheerful, stlddy. hopeful kind
Of keepin' at H don't yeu mind
And that Is why I can't help wishln'
J moro of us would Jest keen,
flshln'.
Chicago News.
n" nays Cat Niarhta.
I hold it true
With those who say
That every dog
Must have his day.
Howe'er. I do
Not think It right
That every cat
Should have a night.
Birmingham Age-Herald.
Modern Opera.
HBJ?- from the p,t a fearsome sound
That makes your blood run cold.
Bymphonetic cyclones rush around
And the work Is yet untold.
Now they unchain those dogs of war.
The wild sarrusophones,
A double bass E flat to roar
Whilst crunching dead man's bones
The muted tuba's distant groan.
Uprising from the gloom.
And answered by the hecklephone.
Suggests the crack of doom.
Oh, mamma, ls this the earthquak
zone?
What. ho. there! Stand from under!
Or ls that the tonltruone.
Just Imitating thunder?
Nay. fear not little ones, because
Of this sublime rough house;
Tis modern opera by the laws
Of Master Richard Strauss.
Singers? They're scarcely heard noi
seen
In yon back seat they sit.
The day of song ls past, I ween.
The orchestra is it.
New York World.
Honest, Km.
If you love her as you tell her.
Would you take
And push a Spring lawn mower
For her sake?
If she overlooks' your fallings
And responds to all your waillngs.
Would you paint the garden pallngr
For her sake?
Atlanta Constitution.
Pletnre Panic.
Seated one day at a table,
I was having forty fits.
As my fingers hovered nervously
Over those Jig-sawed bits.
I know not what I was hunting
To finish a soldier's face;
But I struck one queer-shaped fragment
That fitted that queer-shaped space.
It linked all those silly features
Into one solid man;
And as I had finished his shoulder
I began to see the plan.
It helped with the background also,
A sort of guide It made; .
But I moved some other pieces.
And somehow It got mislaid!
I sought, but I sought It vainly.
That one small piece so queer.
That out of a hundred others
Fitted that soldier'B ear.
I couldn't go on without It,
I fretted and fumed and fussed:
Then somebody Jogpled my elbowl
And I gave up in disgust.
It may be that soma time or other
I will try that thing Beam;
But not till I'm in an asylum
And I doubt If I do It then!
LJfo.
F"eellnic the ntrrin.
A crumb or two on the window ledge,
a curtain half a-side;
A potted plant as a screening hedge,
was the strategy I tried.
Then, oh, the thrill of a child's de
. light, the Joy of an Infant's glee,
A tiny bird has winged its flight to
my window balcony.
A crumb of bread and a bit of cake
fit sup for the gentle thing
Who comes, a speedy call to make a
chirping note to sing.
Then,- oh, the clasp of a baby's hands,
the shine of a baby's eyes.
As the dainty bird on the railing
stands ln the throe of a bird's
surprise.
A crumb or two and a tender word;
then the cry of a child's dismay;
The long-drawn sob of a bosom stirred
when the "birdie" flew away!
Then, oh, the swell of a baby's breast.
the glow of a face elate.
When the bird returns from Its near
by nest with Its bright-eyed,
feathered mate.
Lurana W. Sheldon ln the New York
. Times.
On Spring.
I know not how it ls with other men.
Whom I but guess, deciphering myself;
For me, once felt is so felt nevermore.
The fleeting relish at sensation's brim
Had in It the best ferment of the wine.
One Spring I knew as never any sinc-e;
All night the surges of the warm South
weslr Boomed intermittent through the shud
dering elms.
And brought a morning from the Gulf
adrift.
Omnipotent with sunshine, whose quick
charm
Startled with crocuses the sullen turf
And wiled the bluebird to his whiff of
song.
James Russell Lowell.
The Balkans.
The Balkans seethe.
Display their teeth;
The Balkans boil and bubble.
The Balkans talk:
The Balkans balk
At signs of real trouble.
Louisville Couricr-JournaL
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