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TH TBI ST A D Tl BEBCrLOSIS.
Corporation may not have any
ouls but they have bank accounts
which, unless we are misinformed,
ther watch over with more tender so
licitude than the ordinary cltlxen feel
tor his spiritual part. When we learn
from the news of the day. therefore,
that the International Harvester Com
pany, the monster machinery trust,
has decided to search for Incipient
tuberculosis amour Its employes, the
conclusion follows naturally enough
that there Is money In It somewhere.
The old notion that an employer had
no financial Interest In the bodily or
mental welfare of his workmen was
an astonishing fallacy which It is
pleasant to see falling. It stands to
reason that a healthy, comfortable
man with a good meal In his stomach
and pure air In his lungs will do more
and better work than an anemic
starveling who eats rubbish and
breathes dust; but It has taken some
of our large concerns a long time to
find it out. The moral and physical
condition of the workmen is an Im
portant factor In the labor cost of all
articles of manufacture. Those made
by Intelligent laborers wrrklng under
agreeable and hygienic conditions cost
less, unit for unit, than articles made
in slum surroundings or by men who
are overdriven and underfed. This Is
the reason why the so-called pauper
labor of Europe, although Its dally
wage Is far below that of the Ameri
can workman, cannot compete with
him In such articles as steel rails,
sewing machines and watches. The
labor cost of these and innumerable
other goods requiring Intelligent
handling Is less In the United States
than it is in Europe or Japan.
No doubt the Harvester Company
has fixed upon tuberculosis simply as
the beginning ' of a general crusade
against unhealthy conditions In Its
factories and that disease was chosen
because It is the most common cause
of death In the civilized world. It
lurks in the systems of old and young.
It lies In ambush In the air
breathe, hides In the dark corurrs-of
sleeping chambers and enters the sys
tem In the milk we drink and the
food we eat. Get rid of tuberculosis
and a large fraction of the loss and
misery caused to the human race by
disease will be saved. The statement
that tuberculosis Is communicated to
human beings In meat and milk may
be challenged by some persons. Tears
ago It was accepted by everybody
without question, but the German
scientist Koch In one of his ill-considered
papers contested It. He declared
that the tuberculosis of cattle was not
the same disease as that of men and
that It could not be communicated be
tween them. Koch was a man of dis
tinguished scientific genius. but he
probably did more harm than good to
medical practice by his hasty conclu
sions. It was he who invented a sup
posed tuberculosis serum which
turned out to be worse than useless.
Owing to his great eminence in the
learned world his dictum about the
harmlessness of bovine tuberculosis
was accepted by many and too fre
quently precautions against infection
from beef and, milk were relaxed.
The British government, wiser than
others, begged leave to doubt and ap
pointed a commission to Investigate
the subject of bovine tuberculosis and
Its communlcablllty to man.
That commission with true British
deliberation studied tho subject for
ten years and has now published Its
report. It deals with three Immensely
Important questions: 1. Is tubercu
losis the same disease In men and
animals? S. Can it be communicat
ed between men and animals?
3. Under what conditions does trans
mission tke place? The answers are
so decisive that they ought to set all
controversy as to the safety of tuber
culous milk and meat at r-st forevt-r.
We learn from the British commlfslon
that while the bacilli of tuberculosis
in men and cows may not always be
Identical, atlll they produce substan
tially the same effects. Human be
ings can be Infected from diseased
cattle and children are especially sub
ject to the danger. Half the cases of
Intestinal and bone tuberculosis In
the young are said to arise from in
fected milk. Thl Include such ab
horrent maladlea as "scrofula" and
-hip disease." Naturally U the tuber
culosis bacillus pasaea Into the milk
of cows from diseased organs the
same thing may happen in the case
of human mothers. We can thus
understand why It is that even If tho.
malady la not hereditary. still
passes down from one generation to
another.
The obvious practical conclusion
from this weighty report is that it Is
Impossible to take too much paid to
secure uncontamlnated milk for
human use. particularly for the use
of children. The thought that the
human race is being poisoned at the
source by consuming tuberculous milk
is not agreeable. The financial Inter
est of those who are dealing out ml'.k
and beef from Infected herd ought
to be held secondary to the general
welfare of the community. There
ought to be no hetltatlon In slaugh
tering Infected animals wherever they
are discovered and the meat from
them should not be allowed In the
market. Any person who eats It runs
the risk of contracting tuberculosis.
In the face of facts like these we
can appreciate something of the dlffl
rutly of the task wlhch the Interna
tional Harvester Company has under
tsken. The extirpating of tuberculosis
from an army of workmen which
numbers tens of thousands, will re
quire much patience and Involve great
expense, but la the end it will pay.
And If It pays the harvester trust to
have? healthy employe It would pay
the "community equally well to have
healthy cltlsens. No expense Is too
heavy which promises to secure them.
RIM. REVELRY AND Kijt LIGHTS,
The Issuance of an. order to police
captains and sergeants to see that the
officers In their commands drive from
the city the macquereaux and vagrant
has a moral sound and Is undoubtedly
well enough in Its way. It does not.
however, reach the crux of that con
dition In the North End which ha
brought forth graft. scandal and
widespread Immorality.
The disrepute of the North End
rests on three factors rum. revelry
and redllghts. And the most Impor
tant of these is rum. Without it rev
elry would cease and without the ex
citement of passion by drink and car
ousal the redllght would flicker and
grow dim.
It would be Idle to assert that pro
hibition of the sale of intoxicating
liquors in connection with disorderly
or disreputable houses would wholly
eliminate the social evil In Portland
or any other city, but It is an irre
futable fact the existence of the
disorderly house and the xlstence of
a definite restricted district are large
ly dependent upon a partnership be
tween sexual vice and the saloon.
ir is within the power of the city
administration to prohibit the rent
ing of rooms that are in any way
connected with a saloon. It is within
Its power to suppress the sale of
liquor in disreputable houses. It ha
the legal power and the lawful en
forcing means to dissolve the partner
ship between boose and prostitution.
The Mayor, the Council, the police
commlnJon and the police department
will take up and use the one effective
weapon that Is at their command
the problem of the restricted district
will solve Itself. The social evil will
cease to flourish and will raise Its
head in but sporadic Instances. It
will be a vice crusade worth while. It
is the short cut to reform and to the
elimination of police graft, for which
an order against vagrancy I but a
weak substitute.
KIIXJ0 OKT A GREAT INDUSTRY.
The Iniquity of the La Follette-Un-derwood
wool bill rests chiefly, or en
tirely. In the purposes of the political
jockeys who are behind It. It was not
proposed In good faith. It was not
framed for the benefit of the wool in
dustry or for the welfare of the people.
It was devised to promote the polit
ical ends of Presidential Candidate La
Follette. and his insurgent group on
the one hand and Bellwether Under
wood and his Democratic sheep on the
other. They have conceived a grand
scheme of annoying and embarrassing
the President by "putting him In a
hole."
The Oregpn Senators, of course, are
parties to the scheme. Senator
Bourne, who left everything concern
ing the tariff to Aldrlch, who knew all
about it. now leaves It all. to La Fol
lette, who know exactly what he
wants. Senator Chamberlain, who
wrote to the woolgrowers of Oregon
that he would aid them in every prac
ticable way, contributes his share to
the general plan of agitation, excite
ment and unrest. For. uncertainty
about the tariff Is the thing that is
killing the wool industry. Senator
Chamberlain cannot escape the charge
of playing politics at the expense of
his Oregon constituency.
The woolgrower want peace; they
want certainty: they want to be free
from politics: they are tired of being
made the butt and target of every
demagogue In the country. They do
not now ask high protection, or any
protection, beyond their Just deserts.
ti... in.i.t that the tariff be adjusted
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and made permanent on the basis of
ascertained facts, men tney win sur
vive. But the Industry, being made
subject to the ambitions, intrigues and
political exigencies of the La Follettes,
Underwoods. Bournes and Chamber
lain, will perish If It doe not get help
from the tariff board and the Presi
dent. THE LIRE OF THE ABANDONED FARM.
The lure of the abandoned farm to
attractively presented In a number of
Bummer periodica, an article by Wal
ter Prltchard Eaton in the American
Magaxlne for August being especially
notable. The camera adds to this lure,
pictures of quaint old farmhouse
shaded by vines. Bits of woodland
through which cool, broad roads wind
and widen Into clearings; sunlit
meadows dotted with hay codes and
steep hillside pastures upon which a
milking herd or a small flock of
sheep are grazing; In brief, the bloom
and beauty and restfulness of a New
England landscape In Its Summer
glory are depicted.
Beautiful beyond the dreams of
fancy are these quiet scenes; restful
beyond the dreams of weariness are
the possibilities that they present to
tired eyes, and alluring to the hopes of
thousands who know the country only
by picture and story are these quiet
pictured valleys where peace and
plenty seem to dwell. Noting, how
ever, the proverbial niggardliness of
New England soil; the heavy snows
that mantle New England"s valley
from November until April: the fierce
wind that sweep her hillsides; ,
Tho hard, dull blttornraa ot cold
That chrckl mid vain tho circling- rax
Of llfotolood In th aharponad faco
Wban ineaa "winds blow aat."
and combining these elemental con
dition with the Isolation that they
Impose and the fact . that they will
make permanent occupancy of these
abandoned farm Impossible to peo
ple who were not born and bred to
them, those who present the lure of
their Summer glories make haste to
suggest the rehabilitation of these
abandoned farms as Summer homes
to be tenanted only during the va
cation season.
Following thl line of thought the
writer quoted says: "We want to- see
the abandoned farm taken ovsr by
people from the cities who have a lit
tle money to Invest in Summer home;
who delight In country life and coun
try freedom; who will learn to love it
streams and woods and rocky hills;
who know the primitive hunger that
demands "garden truck' of their own
growing, and who will mingle in the
community on term of good will and
equality which its ancient stock de
serves." Herein Ues the true lure of the
abandoned farm and following thl
line of suggestion many old home
steads have been rejuvenated and
made habitable according to modern
Ideas, by piping water into the house
from the hillside spring, turning the
kitchen bedroom into a bathroom, re
papering dingy Kails, raising and re
shlngllng sagging roofs and repaint
ing weathered exteriors. The people
who come to these old-new houaea in
Summer weary tn body and brain find
in the mountain air new vigor, in tha
TIIE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTIiAJTD,
pine woods tree of healing, in the
eml-solltudes Nature's tonic for
rasped nerves. 'Their stock," to
quote again, "Is better for the so-H
journ the country Is better for their
touch; their children grow up with
something of the old traditions, the
old heaL'h. the old background of
country life for which nothing In this
world Is quite a substitute, and the
country side is saved from one more
ruin, one more melancholy ring of
stone where the fire weed blooms, and
richer for better roads, preserved
forests and neighboring farmers' In
spired to wiser efforts."
RETIREMENT OF rROKEJiSOR MARSH.
Professor Joseph W. Marsh, of For
est Grove, whose retirement as libra
rian at Pacific University at the age
of 75 years is announced, is one of
the few remaining educators whose
lives-and energies have extended in an
unbroken line from the past to the
present educational era of the Pacific
Northwest. Forty-four years ago Mr.
Marsh went to Forest Grove a
teacher of languages in Pacific Uni
versity, then under the presidency of
his brother. Rev. S. H. Marsh.
His work In all of the intervening
years has been continuous, at time
arduous anl always that of a con
scientious, responsible educator. A
man of unquestioned integrity and
unselfish purpose he has throughout
the years commanded the highest
respect as neighbor, friend and citi
zen. He has been steadfastly loyal to
Pacific University and in his declin
ing years, as in the years of his early
manhood and middle age,' he has stoo.d
for the hlah ideals in which this in
stitution was founded.
The wise beneficence of the Carne
gie fund for retired university teach
ers has been demonstrated In the case
of Professor Marsh who through it is
able to enter upon well-earned rest,
with an assurance for himself and
wife of freedom from financiay
anxiety now that his earnlngM'ears
are over. Hundreds of men and wo
men who have known Professor
Marsh In classroom, chapel. Sunday
school and on the campus as instruct
or, guide and friend will be glad to
learn of the rest that has come to him
and Join In the sincere hope that he
will live yet many years to enjoy it.
A FOOLISH LITTLE BOOK.
There came to this office the other
day a curious little paper-bound book
by James Madison Lively, entitled.
"Constructive Energy." The author is
a man of German descent, who in his
youth, "was identified with labor
unions" and taught school. In his
maturity he lapsed Into skepticism
and began to "question his old ortho
dox tenefs." Still later in life Mr.
Lively, as we gather, returned to a
modified orthodoxy being reclaimed
to the faith by some explanations of
the more disturbing Biblical stories
which he had worked out. Thus he
explains the account of Eve and the
apple by telling us that the fatal
pome, the fruit of that forbidden tree
whose mortal taste brought death into
the world with all our woe. must be
Interpreted mystically. It was not an
apple that our common mother picked
and ate to our destruction. At any
rate It was not a real apple. What it
truly was Mr. Lively designates as
"the circle of reason." and the tree
he plucked it from was the "tree of
experience." This does very well. No
doubt Eve and Adam, too. gained a
good deal of valuable experience from
the misadventure. But why call rea
son a "circle?"
- The word circle has a wonderful at
traction for our author. He says that
each of the live senses expels "circular
atoms of force." Reason consists of
"energy arranged consecutively in a
circle." Electricity moves in a circle.
Life to caused by a "circular force
which moves to the center and back
in regular order." We wonder what
Mr. Lively understands by a circle?
It must be something very different
from the usual definition. We have
searched through his little book to
find an answer to our inquiry, but
upon this point he vouchsafe no light.
A circle to a circle Just a "pigs Is
pigs" in the famous tale. We have
read of a schoolboy who defined a
circle as "a round straight line with
a hole in the middle." W do not
believe that Mr. Lively w:ould be en
tirely satisfied with this formula, and
yet it has fully as much meaning as
most of his own remarks. It would
be an easy task to reconstruct the re
cipe by which he must have manu
factured his book. Take a dozen or so
of the more pretentious scientific
terms such as energy, life, force, elec-"
triclty, dynamic, crystallization and
so on. Throw them together Just as it
happens in any sequence of sentences
and attach a sounding title. Thus you
produce a work which to some readers
will present a sufficient Bppearance
of wisdom for all practical purposes.
The popular works of "T. K." must
have been constructed in some such
way as this, though they are not so
silly a Mr. Lively' book.
Tho volume affects the mind a
Mark Twain ald a certain little girl'
exercise In English did his. She wrote,
"The young lady was a person of
perennial vicissitudes." and Mark de
clared that at the age of TO he had not
yet fully made up hi mind that the
sentence did not mean something. All
the way through Mr. Lively book
were haunted by tho thought that
language of uch respectability, such
a solemn parade of learned verbiage
could not be unredeemed nonsense,
and yet that is what It Is. We have
puzzled our brains tn vain to find a
reason why a man who knows so lit
tle should want to make a public ex
hibition of hJs Ignorance. But perhaps
he thought he was writing something
Inspired. Mediums talk very much in
the way Mr. Lively does when they
are "under control." The curious
reader may find It amusing for a mo
ment to take one of Mr. Lively"s
scientific remarks and examine it. He
says, for instance, that "reason be
comes intelligence when It Is com
pared with the reason of others on
the same subject and found to be
similar." Since every sheep reason
precisely like every other sheep, they
must bo the most Intelligent animals
In the world, according to Mr. Lively
criterion. He must have a strange
notion of what Intelligence is. JCant
could not have been Intelligent be
cause he reasoned differently from any
other person who had ever lived.
Neither could Laplace since his Celes
tial Mechanics took a completely novel
view of the problems of the heavenly
bodies. The most Intelligent man Is the
one who never has a thought different
from his fellow.
Substantially the same Is Mr! Live
ly's Idea of sanity. He says each of
our senses sends out "circular atoms
of force." Did you ever notice any
of these odd Iltle creature Issuing
from your ears? These circular
atom Join together in the mind and
thus produce thought. When your
thought is exactly like that of your
neighbors, you ate sane. If it differs,
you are crazy. Is not this excellent
fooling? Of course, Socrates was
crazy, since nobody in all Greece
thought .like him. Bacon must have
been out of his wits, and so must Ben
jamin Franklin. Every man of origi
nal genius is Insane since his thoughts
are necessarily unlike those of his
neighbors.
Why do we take the trouble to rake
over this nonsense? Because it is a
rehash of the common notions of the
world. Is It not true that the popular
mind classes a man as a fool when he
thinks differently from others? Is not
conformity the customary test of In
telligence and sanity? Mr. Lively haa
adopted an excessively roundabout
way of expressing the notion of con
formity, but that i precisely what
he means by all hi queer lingo. Be
like uinrrs aiiu yuu Bie Bwwu nuu .
safe. Be different and you are -not !
only a fool but a criminal as wen. it
Is a pity that Mr. Lively did not con-
tlmiA hla r-onnortion with the labor
unions. By listening to the animated i
debates which so often enliven those i
assemblies he might, in the course or
time, have acquired a little common
sense.
FALL FASHIONS.
Radical changes in the style of wo
men's apparel are announced under
the head of "Fall Fashions." These
changes, if the reports are to be be
lieved, extend from hats to shoes and
include corsets, sleeves, waists, skirt
and wraps for Fall and Winter wear.
This, if true, to exceedingly gratify
ing. Certainly nothing more ungrace
ful than the short, tight skirt, the
extremely high waist line, the long
vise-like corset, the high-heeled shoes
and the enormous hats that have
been la vogue for months, could pos
sibly be devised and put on exhibition
upon living model in public places
under the name of women's apparel.
More than'ths, the fashions in these
articles of clothing have been un
healthful and immodest to a degree.
The woman thus accoutered who
leaves her home and starts on the
streetcar does not walk, in the ac
cepted meaning of that term, for the
simple reason that she cannot do so;
she merely ambles along grotesquely.
But it is only when, panting from her
tussle with her clothing, she reaches
the car and attempts to board it, that
she makes a display that would have
caused our grandmothers to turn
blushing and shocked from the spec
tacle, and our Puritan grandfathers
decourously to place a hand before
their eyes and take the presentment
In by surreptitious glances between
their fingers.
Rats, we are told, are to be relegated!
to barns and wharves and no longer
find rendezvous" upon the heads and
and nests In the hair of women;
curls and puffs are to be made Into
pillows (an economical suggestion for
Christmas presents), and corsets must
be discarded entirely, though to save
the "stout woman" from utter despair
she may be permitted to "wear a "girdle
over the hips." Skirts will be longer
and wider, thus making the wearing
of Winter underclothing possible.
Small bonnets or hats will be worn
over hair parted in the middle and
smoothed away from the temples.
If these forecasts are fulfilled, we
shall walk abroad in a new world by
Thanksgiving time. Instead of cari
catures peopling the world feminine,
we shall have modestly, comfortably
dressed women; instead of manikin
wriggling about in one-legged trousers,
we shall see women tastefully gowned
and moving about gracefully. Instead
of cartwheels decked out in willow
plume and held in place upon rat
and puff surmounted heads by mean
of vicious looking spikes, huge mush
rooms in straw coming down to the
shoulders or beehive In horse hair,
and raffia bristling iwith quill cocked
raklshly over the left eye of the
wearer, we are promised the return
of the small bonnet or round hat,
daintily set upon a head devoid of
false hair and suggestive of common
sense in the wearer.
Fulfil these promises of beauty and
utility in woman' apparel for us.
Dame Fashion, and we will, out of the
abundance of our gratitude, forgive
many of the unseemly trick that you
have played upon us under your of-;
flcial seal for month past in mak
ing caricatures of our women as they
have walked abroad.
IGNORANT STUDENTS.
Thomas Ernest Rankin, assistant
professor of rhetoric in the University
of Michigan, has done a deed which
will contribute materially to the in
struction and merriment of the world.
He set a list of seventeen questions
about men and things connected with
the Bible. and propounded to a class
of eigity-seven of his students. Fifty
one of the victims were freshmen, the
rest were older and no doubt wiser in
some things, but. if It is possible for
anybody to know lesx, about the
Scripture than these university men
from the lowest to tho highest, wo
should be glad to gaze upon the mir
aole he presents. None of the stu
dent answered all the questions cor
rectly. Only a single person tried to
answer them all and he, being the
son of an Episcopal rector, was doubt
less eager to ave his father' good
name. He did not succeed. Professor
Rankin favor the world through tho
Independent "with & table of tho In
correct answers he received from this
choice bunch of unlnstructed souls.
In some instances we think he is a
little hypercritical. For example, the
students were asked In what language
the Bible wa writen. One replied
"Greek and Hebrew." This is re
ported as Incorrect. It certainly is
deficient in deflnlteness, but It is not
inaccurate-as far as it goes.
Many of the answers are simply
ludicrous. Indeed there to something
exquisitely funny In almost any list
of the replies which poor, miserable
wretches drag out of themselves to
a grist of examination questions. One
of the mitigations of the sorrows of . a
schoolm'am' life to the amusement
she obtains from reading these un
willing witticisms. All unconsciously
they are frequently more humorou
than Mr." Dooley. One of Professor
Rankin's students thought the Bible
wa written in Sanscrit. Another,
doubtless driven mad with the misery
of the occasion, wro.to that he sup
posed the book of Exodus "was bo
named "because It to the first and tell
about the people in the beginning."
Evidently he did not know what Exo
dus meant and vaguely substituted
Genesis for it. 'No doubt It was Just
a well. Asked where Solomon's tem
ple was situated one man replied in
Babylon. Others guessed Tyre and
Asia Minor. Some thought Sinai wa
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the name of a kingdom. Other sup
posed it was the mount from which the
Savior spoke. They had R dim re
membrance of the Mount of Olive In
mind. They had once known some
thing about these subjects, but had
forgotten. One student said that Levi
was the name of a male Hebrew, while
Leviathan signified a female of the
same sjpecies. We hope the shade of
Hobbes Is not obliged to peruse Pro
fessor Rankin's article. A bewildered
freshman we trust he wa a fresh
man believed that it was Paul In
stead of John the revelator, who so
journed on the Isle of Patmos. An
other decided that this celebrated isl
and was' the place where the Israelites
were fed in the wilderness,
t They were asked to tell the circum
stances connected with Nathan's
pointed observation to David, "Thou
art-the man.". One said they were the
words with which. "Judas betrayed
Christ." Another thought the men
who arrested the Savior uttered them,
Equally perplexing was the rebuke of
Jesus to Peter, "Before the cock crow
thou shalt deny me thrice." One boy
thought Christ spoke them to the Im
penitent thief on the" cross. Another
said they were applied to Judas. Poor
Judas is made the scapegoat of almost
every denunciation by these badly
taught boys.
So we might go on endlessly andno
doubt . divertingly. There Is always
something amusing about ignorance,
and the denser it is the more riotous
the fun. But we are more concerned
to ask seriously why it Is that these
young people, the pick of half a dozen
states of the Union, know so little
about the Bible? The Anglo-Saxon
race has been nurtured on this book
and our literature has flowed from
It as from an unfailing spring. And yet
here Is a group of eighty-seven rep
resentative youths of the class from
which must come our statesmen and
authors of the next generation who
know as good as nothing about Its
co'ntenta and meaning. Are we to have
a literature without Biblical allusion
hereafter? Are the thought and in
spiration of the proplvets to play no
part in our future history? Some of
these university students believed that
Luke wrote Paul's magnificent eulogy
on charity. Can we suppose that they
care much about charity itself, if they
give so little attention to the noblest
tribute any human ever paid It? We
can conceive of no calamity more de
plorable than the fading of Biblical In
fluence out of our literature and life,
and yet that very calamity seems to
be in process of consummation before
our eyes. Can' nothing be done to stay
it? Is there no way to familiarize
the modern youth with the English
Bible?
Tears ago when the Sunday school
was a primitive affair without "lesson
leaves," trained teachers 6r any of the
rest of the recent paraphernalia, the
scholars committed the Scriptures to
memory and learned the salient facts
of Hebrew history, which is the spir
itual history of civilized man. With
the advent of more advanced methods
much seems to be learned about many
unimportant matters, but little or
nothing of the Bible itself. In our
opinion every, boy and girl ought to
be made to commit certain of the
gTeat passages to memory as aoon as
they are able to pronounce the words.
The grand significance will come later.
Prepare the vase early and trust to
time to fill it.
A dispatch from Seattle tells of a
Junkdealer at the age of 92 years,
who lived in a hut and died in the
county hospital a few days ago pos
sessed of an estate valued at $50,000.
Living In wretchedness. Indebted to
the county for a cot upon which to
breathe his last; old, worn, decrepit,
he illustrated in his narrow life and
lonely death the profltlessness of liv
ing for self alone. In the words of
Pollock:
Of all who sold eternity for time
None bargained on mo easy terms with death.
What would Wilbur Wright have?
Does Jie expect such men as the pio
neer aviators must be to shrink from
danger and pale at the sight of death?
Wilbur's own pulse" beats temperately
and keeps even time no master what
happens, but he is an exception. By
necessity, an aviator is a daredevil,
and It is absurd to grumble if he
chooses to "gamble with death." Mr.
Wright puts himself very much in the
position of the hen whose brood would
not keep out of the water. .
The goddess of fashion has an at
tack of sanity. She taboos putts,
rats, corsets and high-heeled shoes.
Anxious days are coming for the fat
woman, the short woman and the
woman with scanty hair.
The great-grandmother of all the
humpback salmon has Just been
caught at .Anacortes. She weighed
154 V pounds. The fraction is given
as object-lesson to fishermen to be
truthful.
Senator Bailey resigned again, yes
terday, from the National Monetary
Commission thi time. He scrupu
lously avoids sending anything to the
Governor of Texas, however.
Money and muscle will be united
when Harold Vanderbilt marries
Eleanor Sears, and the usual course
of domestic hostilities may be re
versed.
Aviators have Imitated successfully
the flight of land birds and have bat
tled with eagles In the upper air. Now
they dive like seablrds into the surf.
Tho only crop failure this year la
tn Wall street croD of speculators.
The farmers are .happy, the brokers
sad. which is as it snouid oe.
Mr. Morgan' Mr. Perkins blames
competition for all the ills but race
suicide. For this omission his argu
ment loses force.
T-i,A-A ihmiM be no relentlnr in the
war "on cocaine-sellers and only the
maximum prison sentence snouia do
Imposed.
The end of the world will come to
individuals with death and no alarm
need be felt over prophecies of Its
coming.
A society of the Order of the Ore
gon, of men who have served on the
battleship, will find honor in this
state. '
With frost in the Canadian - Nor Ji
west In August. American emigrants
will shiver and sigh for dear old Da
kota. "
Increased valuations for the coming
year mean increased rents, a trifling
matter to Portland's business. .
BABBLINGS FROM BILLINGS
"BT LEONE CASS BA.ER.
Tt l a mlRrtmen.nor to appear- in
vaudeville cowboy regalia at Billings,
Mont. They dress like other folk
here.
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"I believe that the best people in
Billings are gentlemen," said an orator.
It appears to me that a big half of
them are women.
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But they insist on bunching all
amusements under "shows." For in
stance. "Miss Fiske ain't in it with
Marie Dressier," and "Rlngling's cir
cus is lots better'n Harry Lauder."
a a a
Commercial royalty figures alto
gether too much in local circles. The
king and queen business is over
worked. Right within a stone's throw
lives a "sheep king"; a "cattle king"
drives in town dally, an "alfalfa queen"
is arrested seml-occasionally, and a
"sugarbeet king" has Just been sent
to the penitentiary.
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There's a French Marquute in town,
and the other evening he offered to
exchange his title for a glass of beer.
They don't think highly of pities in
Billings, the bartender said he'd bo
the loser by the trade.,
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Man here who was injured during a
local lodge initiation is suing for S20,
000 damages. Not satisfied with get
ting their goat, he wants their gilt,
o " a a
Folks out here express a contempt
for gopd books and good pictures. But
it is not the contempt that is bred of
familiarity.
a a a
A local man thinks he would make a
good actor because when burglars en
tered his home recently he pretended
to be asleep and deceived them utterly,
a a a
There's an "Utopian boarding-house"
here. The landlady keeps and labels
separately all the left-overs and each
diner receives his own old crusts in
his bread pudding,' and his own bits
of meat in his hash. .
a a a
When the natives ' dedicated the
new fire wagon last weeK the village
wag says: "May she be like the old
maids in Billings, always ready but
never called for."
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A woman here turns on the lights at
night when her baby begins to howl,
and the youngster imagines its day
light and goes right back to sleep,
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In all Montana streams the fish bite
so viciously one has to hide behind a
tree to bait the hook.
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A frenzied patron of one of the local
vaudeville shows waylaid one of the
players t'other evening and began fir
ing a revolver. Lots of us not citi
zens of Billings feel that way.
.
There's a woman here who agitates
considerably and often about straight
ening the legs of bowlegged children.
She never saw the great Hans Wagner
in action. n
a a a
The reason most married men "sped
less money than they did before they
were wed" is that they have lees of it
to spend.
a a a
Miss Calamity Step-and-Fetch-It, the
cultured, etc., lady writer of Kalama,
is spending her vacation in Billings.
Last week she wrote an epic for "the"
local paper, and spoke of the "busy
buzzing crowds." The printer got it
"busy boozing crowds," and the citizens
are naturally up In arms at Calamity.
. Billings. Mont., Aug-. 10.
Half a Century Ago
From The Oregonian. Aug. 13, 1861.
Some of our leading Secessionists
are getting up a club for the New York
Day Book, a known disunion paper. It
was proposed in the first place to send
for the Charleston Mercury, but it was
thought that it would.be difficult to
get regularly.
The synagogue belonging to the Con
gregation of Beth Israel, recently
erected on the corner of Oak and Fifth
streets, will be consecrated on the 15th
inst. at 3:30 o'clock P. M. Rev. Elkan
Cohn, of San Francisco, will officiate
on the occasion.
The Vancouver Chronicle has suc
ceeded very effectually In counting up
the chances of Vancouver for the seat
of government of Washington Terri
tory. The. vote of the people stands 1239
for Olympia and 638 for Vancouver.
The steamer Concord brought several
new Concord coaches for the Portland
Sacramento mail route.
Abg-ust Moonlicht.
Harper's Magazine.
The solemn light behind the barns.
The riain moon, the cricket' ( call.
The Auguat night, and you and I
What 1 the meaning of it all!
Ha It a meaning, after all?
Or Is It one of Nature's lies,
That net of beauty that she casts
Over Life's unsuspecting eyes?
That web of beauty that she weaves, ,
For one atrange purpose of her own-
For thl the painted butterfly,
For this the rose for this alone!
Strange repetition of the rose.
And strange reiterated call
Of bird and Insect, man and maid
" Is that tha meaning of it all?
If It means nothing, after all! .
And nothing Uvea, except to die
It Is enough that solemn light
Behind tha barns, and you and I.
Always at Sea.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox In tho Nautilus.
Always at sea, I think about the dead.
On barques invisible they seem to sail
Tha self-same course; and from the deck
cry "Hail."
Then I recall old words that they have said.
And aeo their faces etched upon the mist
Dear lacea 1 have Kissed.
Always the dead eem very close at sea.
Tho course vibration of the earth debar
Our spirit friend from coming where we
ara.
But through God' ether, unimpeded, free
They wing their way, the ocean deep
above
And' find the heart that love.
Always at sea. my dead come very near.
A growing host; some old In spirit lore,
nd some who crossed to find tho other
shore
But yeaterday. All, all. I aeo and hear
With Inner senses, while the voice of faith
Proclaims there is no death.
Dyspetics Need Apply.
Anonymous.
It' lata, perhaps, for cherry pie, -But
Just in time for berry pie.
For (oose, and ratp. . and huckleberry
temptingly In reach:
And on the vinea now flowing free
Arc squash and pumpkins growing free;
And now pan-aowaiea are w atyn
and
cobiera made ol peach.
The radiant fruits so fair- to see.
Tho flaky crust that's there to see.
Afford a luscious spectacle 'most fair to
mortal eyas :
But better worth the taking there
Than all the pastry baking there
And sweeter far i Mary In tha kitchen
making pica,
SOSSETS OF A STAY-AT-HOMB VA
CATION'ER. I.
Ho, Central. I have songs aponmyeoul.
That I would fain dispose of ere they
spoil:
Give me Parnassus 9! I fain would call
The Muse of Song to aid me in my
toil.
Is that you Muse? Grab up your tink
ling lute.
And cleave the blue empyrean to my
side!
We'll chant the praise of those who do
not scoot,
But spend vacation by their own
hearth side.
While others loaf beside the noisy sea.
Or in mosquito-haunted mountains
roam,
Nix on such Summer ramblings for
I cleTve to those who have to stay at
home.
My Job shall never be of me herert
Chiefly since I might lose it if I left.
II.
Why should one haste to flee his gen
tle Job,
And mingle with that eager caravan.
That seeks the beaches where the
wavelets sob, ... ,
To loaf abdut and get a coat of tan?
Know ye not, friend, how fast the
board bill grows.
The while ye loiter at the seaside Inn,
Accumulating freckles on your nose.
And getting sunburned spots upon
your skin?
Better within the city parkway sprawl.
After the noon hour summons you to
lunch.
And o'er your face, let the soft sun
beams crawl.
Until your nose peels oft all in.sv
bunch.
Tanned here at home, I'll shun tho
wandering horde.
Save
Summer bills, and pay my Win
ter's board.
III.
should man make his ample
Why
By useless perspiration. Just to win
t0 - .
Some bald bare mountain crest, or scala
the brink
Of some deep chasm that he might
fall into;
Spending his substance rashly Just to
climb
For hours, and on some mountain
top to sit.
Breathe through his nose and say. Ah,
'tis sublime!"
And rub his blisters where his boots
don't fit?
If one must climb, it seems to me more
meet.
Wasting no time in- rambling afar.
To seek some skyscraper, and try the
feat
Of climbing stairs to where the roof
plates are:
Then take the cage and drop from re
gions upper
You've climbed, and still get home in
time for supper.
IV.
Once, I remember, 'twas my dearest
wish,
When Summer sun arose like bur
nished copper,
To hike out for some mountain stream
and fish
All day. in hopes that I might land a
whopper.
My kopecks did I sink in lines and
hooks,
And reels, and rods of split bamboo
I bought.
And found at last, when balancing my
books, .
I'd paid six bones for every fish I
caught.
Never again those tramps through
stream and swale.
Scorched by the sun, and stung by
insects' bite,
Heaving my rod as though Id nooked
a whale.
To throw a five-inch minnow out of
, Down at the store, four bits will cop
a Daicn
That ' has it o'er the best I e er can
catch.
V.
Perhaps you fish not, but prefer to
roam
And listen to the moaning of the
ocean.
Eject that foolish notion, from your
dome.
And tumble to a cheaper, better no
tioit. Why wander from your home and trav.
el far
To watch the ships come sailing o el
the sea,
When in the city "schooners cross Un
bar"? (Blame that line cn Joe Miller not
on me.)
Does ocean s roar have sad appeal for
thee?
The cars roar louder in the city way!
Do you seek solitude? Then quietly flee
To where the coal man waits from
day to day
For customers, and there you will find
more
Real solitude than by the ocean s shore.
VI.
Others don khaki suits, and gun in hand,
Make forests start with sudden bang
and shock;
Follow large calf tracks denting up the
sand.
Thinking to bag an extra special
buck;
Or, prowling with sharp eye and eager
Amidalthe tall ferns of the forest
glades.
Are by their pals mistaken for a deer,
And get large . buck shot in their
shoulder blades.
Though forest haunts must be un
known to me.
And thoughts of game trails from my
mind I bunt.
Still, at-my noon meal, with avidity,
I revel in the glory of the hunt.
Hoping with long and careful chase to
coop .
The oyster that is somewhere in my
soup. ,
' VII.
Others for pure excitement love to
roam, ,
Seeking adventure in wild foreign
haunts.
Regardless of the fact that here at
home, '
Such danger lurks as e en the bold-
How
I .Via nitv'M t h Or O 1 T h f RFC.
OW uneu iu - ; .,-
mi.- ii,. itv Ktaiuinsr in mv trail.
Makes me to vault full 16 feet in air.
With a "honk honk" right under my
coat tail.
The streetcars whiz by hundred dif
ferent routes.
And make me duck where crowded
crossings be.
And speeding teamsters scare me with
their shouts.
And motorcycles may run Into me
Say, if excitement's really in your line.
Just let one. of them catch you in tha
spine.
VIII.
Therefore I am at peace, my heart is
glad,
While others sdurry off in nervous
race,
Seekipg such things as cheaply might
be had,
With scarcely budging from their
wonted place.
In mad vacationing they spend their
cash
On sundry foreign sports away from
here.
Nay. not for me! I will not be so rash.
And let vain jaunts my present pros
pects queer;
I'll stick in town, and ply my gentle
Job,
Nor throw my shekels "to the boni
faces That peddle high-price board where sea
waves sob.
Or bumpy beds in distant mountain
places
And when the world rolls 'neath the
Winter's stars.
Reward myself with pork chops and
cigars. Dean Collin.