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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, JULY 21, 1912. 8 IDAHO TRAINS RURAL TEACHERS TO UNDERSTAND PROBLEMS OF TILLERS Lewiston Normal School Aims to m EWISTON". Idaho, July 20. fSpe LclaL) Can the rural school ot the Lewiston State formal graduate teachers who will enable farmer girls and boys to become successful tillers of the soil, and will the farmer boy bo better enabled "to beat his dad at his own n" after he has feone to school to these, graduates? These are some of th Informal questions that are being put to Pean Earle S. Wooster, head of th rural department of the Lowiston State Normal, and these are the quea t tlons that his model rural school hopes ' tn unlvA in the next few years. Realizing the backward condition of th rural schools of the Northwest, in contrast to the Krowin and broaden- iln of the. agricultural fields. Pro- fnanr Wooster took the initiative In the , creation of a model rural school, in this I cas located at Fort Lapwai. Idaho. He planned that his students should stuay (with the teachers at the country schools, observe and see what was real- i If needed. Last week the school com J pleted Its first year, and nearly three ! and one-half score or leacners been sent out with a training that is practical and consistent with the needs of the rural communities. The feature of the Lewiston school rests In the close contact that exists J between the student and the lnhablt i ants of the rural community. Here the i student assists the regular teacher in . the school. The classes are taken in .' charge by the student, and classes are j taken over the fields and hills. When ! the country child can be brought to ' honor the vocation of his father, then a biff problem has been solved. '. Practical Value Needed. "There has been an appreciable drifting away from the farm," stated Xean Wooster in a recent Interview, "We hope by our method of teaching to check the lessening of Interest in this matter. We want the farmer boy to realize that we have something for him that will be of actual value. We have come to realize that Latin and Greek, English and French have little charm for the farmer boy. We hope to show him the mysteries that dwell In the soil." Sucoess In this particular depends on the curriculum of the rural high school, a new departure in school facilities of the Northwest The boy from the time he enters this rural school, under the direction of the trained rural teacher, gradually learns something of farming and farm life. The curriculum of manual training, coupled with a practical education, will naturally conduce to his going to a scientific school to gain more knowl edge of his future vocation. The fact that the school will be In sympathy with rural life and rural sentiments will lend much to the future success of the system. In this school the farmer girl also plays a great part. She also learns all that the three "R's" have for her, and In addition she is taught by a teacher who has a professional knowledge of the home economies cooking, sewing, practical economies, gardening and manual work. Like her farmer brother, she will learn the art of handling the saw and hammer, the hoe and the rake. She will be Just as proficient a tiller as he. because It will be pre sented to her interestingly. Effort to Get Close to Nature. A visit to Fort Lapwai discloses the fact that the teachers live in crude little tent houses. It would not be fit ting for them to occupy the best of homes. They rough it. Children play on the Improvised apparatus. Trained students mingle with and help farmer boys, rural high school boys and girls plant their plots In the Spring sun shine under the guidance of these spe cial teacher-students. At the Lewiston State Normal there are two sections of these students who live in the rural community for six weeks at a time, learning ot their needs and Sesires. In the rural life th practical Is over the theoretical, and 111 realization ot mis every euvn being made to bring It out. rn nrrhw,t hundreds of thou-1 ' -ki, ' J'i ii t J V ' 1 v n r '-? v JZe-prz j Cos. yd ?. inn ' f 1 n ands of dollars are being expended InJtaln other cases, wnich have been made so Instruct Youth That Children May Outstrip Sires at Their Own Pursuits. Course Intended to Be Thoroughly Practical OoTRoon'RURACSCHOOL 'i I ' i I I l l l I 1 I I I I M I I TJD 'MM "J LUl T' I I I I I I T-T-l I I I I I I I l-T T 1 1 I I I .Till pn I 1 ' ' i r. 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 '. U the renlacinfr of the old loe- school-, m- is t;3 n house by modern, well-lighted and ven- directors to providing modern facili tllated -structures. In this state much ties for children. FREE LEGAL ADVICE SOUGHT BY CITIZENS City Attorney Grant Believes City Should Meet Demand in Certain Cases. Policemen Need Motorcycles. THAT It would be an excellent plan for the municipal government to furnish legal advice In certain cases and that such would be perfectly proper and in keeping with the func tions of a city's law department, is the belief of City Attorney Grant. Scores of persons, both men and women, call upon Mr. Grant and his assistants every month for advice. Owing to the fact that all of the at taches of the office are so busy with actual municipal business that it is im possible for them to take up their time with such affairs, they have to decline to pay attention to these persons. Mr. Grant, however, believes that It would be a good plan for the city to provide means of supplying legal ad vice in proper cases and thinks that the results would justify such a de parture from present conditions. He believes that such a department would be able to advise the poorer classes in such cases as those recently coming to public attention wherein working people have been hounded by "loan sharks," fceing unable to employ any attorney to tell them of their rights. There are many cases, says Mr. Grant, where proper legal advice. I furnished free, would be of actual pub- He benefit and should be given. Cer- j-Egi X I mum j ii B cf R V.V v m H II n ... 1,111 8 T& M. attention Is being paid by rural school known to him, would not properly come under this class, he points out. There are some people who naturally would try to take advantage of the de partment to save themselves the pay ment of attorneys fees, but they would not be granted advice gratis, should the city ever undertake to establish a free legal department. Just plain human nature has assert ed itself so thoroughly that the police committee of the Executive Board called for bids on new motorcycles. "We need these machines," ex plained Chief Slover to the members of the committee, "for the reason that It is costing us too much to repair the present ones. The reason is that three sets of policemen are using the motor cycles every 24 hours as we now work the system. I want to get one ma chine for each of the six motorcycle men, so that each man will have his own and will be responsible for the upkeep. As it is now, if a machine Is broken, each man tries to lay the blame on the other." "That's human nature," commented John B. Coffey, the committee chair man, whereupon the committee ordered bids for the new machines. The con tracts will be awarded in the near fu ture, probably next Thursday. Incidentally, motorcycles have prov en to be of such great utility in the police department that the Chief would not think of being without an ample supply. , Mayor Rushlight spent a strenuous week,' catching up with' the official business that accumulated on his desk during the Elks' reunion. While the big convention was at its height, he was obliged to spend much time enter taining and performing the official acts necessary to the proper show of cour tesy to visiting Elks and others who made the city their stopping place then. Chief Janitor Simmons has been on duty in the City Hall for 14 years and has served so faithfully that the era ployes of the City Auditor's depart ment chipped In and bought nim beautiful pipe. The vacation season is on and many of the City Hall employes are taking advantage of the 15 working days, al lowed them by the charter each year. Mayor Rushlight probably will take a vacation in the near future and George L. Baker, president of the Council, will act in his absence. When George 1., McCord, secretary to the Mayor, goes into the mountains to tempt the res five trout on his vacation. Willard Tupper, secretary of the Civil Service Commission, probably will supply for him. - Policemen are wondering whether they will soon be taking off two days each month, as provided may be done bv an -ordinance recently passea Whether thev will depends upon action by the police committee. Something may be done by the members nex Thursday on this subject. Ralnh C. Clyde, a member of the City Council, is so proud of the fact that he has at last succeeaeo. in 6v tint- an ordinance Dassed that he in sists uDon telling his friends about It every time he sees one of them. The ordinance is one wnti wouia compel payment ui uumco, w . mitred bv nubile service companies. The only trouble Is the Mayor vetoed it and the Council sustained the veto, thereby "killing" Mr. Clyde's years work. Contracts for a large amount of motor-driven annaratus for the lire department probably will be let next week. The bias are now otsms uuu sldered by D. Soils Cohen, John Perry and Dr. H. C. FIxott, members of the fire committee. Christian Violence Sometimes Hidden by Gentleness (Continued From Faee 5.) would have become a Joan of Aro, lead ing others to Drlvilege and freeaom. TCn hi- rum would not have been spiked or destroyed, but she would hair, transferred them to the other tri wor marshaled energies used in the kingdom of darkness would be now enlisted In the kingdom oi ngnu Po it was, with both the Aposue pni and Peter. The Lord came to thpao violent characters and coveted their strength, and retained It in the ministry of his word and lite, tou re member he said. "Simon, Simon, Satan hath desired to have thee"; he covets that passion, that strong feeling of thfriA that maenificent Impulse of thinp- hut so does thv Master; "and I have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not." wvn o he would have you and me have the strength that comes from har monizing all our powers. All must be brought to Him If he would succeed In taking the kingdom. Decision Is Not All Sufficient. Hut it Is not enough for "men of violence" to have Blmply decisiveness of ourpose and harmony of powers, they must have the energy of a strong and lively feeling, jonn t-mvin wo. rls-ht when he said that me gospei awakens powerful emotions. But this is an element In cnristianity irom which the modern church has swung too far away. The Christian with deep fllnB- who can shed a tear is looked upon today, unfortunately, as a weak ling. We have discoursed so much upon the wisdom of the speeches of Jesus and upon the might of his acts among men that we have forgotten the depths of his feeling. Many are the Instances on record in which the feeling or nis great heart came conspicuously lntc yiew. All his great work, especially In his ministry of healing, cost him deep emotions. He not only gave the re quired help to that man whose only daughter lay at the point of death, and to that widow of Nain whose only son was dead and the body being borne to Its resting place, to the sisters Mary and Martha, who wept so bitterly at th erave of their only brother, Lazar eth, but he gave It with that feeling that doubled its value, inere is i world of difference between the phy loian or the nastor who merely cans at the house of sorrow and suiienng as a matter of duty, to be able to say that he has been there, and him who takes the suffering and sorrow of the stricken home on his heart and goes away melted and broken down with it. Don't think It strange ii a ten you today that I have had mothers In homes if suffering and sorrow say to Brother Reagor, don't send that wom an to call on us any more, vv e don t care for her visits, her calls." And then I have had mem say, un, would like that woman to call and see us again; she was so tender and sympathetic Our suffering was not half so severe after her visit." Feeling Is Desirable. Now, why the difference? Both of them were good Christian women. They were both loyal and liberal to the church. But the difference was one had the energy of strong and lively feel ing, while the other did not. I once had an assistant In a very tal ented Christian woman. She could fill the pulpit acceptably In my absence. She made 150 calls a month. But I learned early not to send her where there was sickness and sorrow. They would say to me, "We don't want her; nlease don't send her." She lacked the onerc-v of Rtronsr and lively feeling. The need of this element in the church is great. It is a mighty power with which to storm the strongnoias of Satan. Tears will win ana noia when words fail. I've told you the story of the little girl who had promised with the other little girls in ner sunaay bcuwi uimb to trv to do something for Jesus each week. When the teacher called the roll and thev began to tell what they had said during the week to help some one, she failed to raise her hand. And then the teacter asked her if she had not said anything to anybody that would lighten their load. "No," she said. "All I did was to go to little Jane," one of the girls in her class at school, who was sitting off by herself on the playground, cry ing. Her little brother had died and was buried the day before. And the teacher said, . "Well, what did you say?" And the little girl said, "I didn't say anything. I Just put my arm around her and cried too." Ah, that was one of the ways that Jesus stormed the powers of sin ana suffering. And it's our way if this ele ment Is in us. No one is gospel-hardened by the appeal of a feeling heart It will win when everything else fails. It is the need of the world. "The Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence, and the men of violence take it by force." "From strength to strength, go on, wresuo ano bul a w-y, . , i . I .. Tread all tne powers ot o&rsness uown i and win the well-fought day." J COLONEL ROOSEVELT'S BULL MOOSE IS BRANDED AS DESTRUCTIVE BEAST William J. Long, Called Nature Taker by ex-President, Casts Few Sidelights on Animal Chosen as Political Totem by Bandana Party Useless Bovine Would Never Bo Tolerated on Private Ground, Says Writer. William J. Long figured in a con troversy with x-Preldent Roose velt when the latter denounced him as a na.ure-faker. Mr. Long hu written the following essay for the Independent, which is copyrighted by that magazine and is reproduced with the permlsslson of that publica tion. BT WILLIAM, J. LONG. (My "Dear Editor Tours Is only one of many letters that nave lately come to my desk from editors, lawyers and especially from progressive statesmen, all asking for an expert opinion on the bull moose as an emblem or totem of a new political party devoted to the nubile food. I am deliftbtei to have your assurance that thie pure and patriotic party nas no selt-seeKers, no am bitious Dolitlclans. no nlotters for revenge that It has already exorcised all its devils and committed Itself Irretrievably to tfte so ciety of the near seraphim. For such an or ganisation the bull moose is, as you shall Dresently see. an almost Detract em-blem. At the outset, however, I must disclaim any expert knowledge of this interesting subject. I have met only three or four hundred moose, among them being a few that furnished something like a mild ad venture: but I have had the good fortun- to find in a second-hand shop an old vol ume, which tells all about the bull moose, It was written by one T. Roosevelt who, you may remember, once had considerable local reputation as a naturalist, especially among Federal office-holders whose positions were not secured by civil service regulations. find unon examination that the esteemed author actually killed two bull moose that were not looking and cnasea tnree more inat would not wait to be shot. He was also intimate with Hank Griffin, who once saw a moose somewhere out West. He speaas, therefore, with authority. In the following essay I shall quote freely from his luminous pages, omitting only the bloody details. very sincerely yours. Wll-.l'l-A-Ja J. LUrtU.J TB HE bull moose lives on the public domain and is a very wasteful feeder. As T. Roosevelt well says, "no beast is more destructive to the young growth of a forest," When his great paunch is full to bursting of the delicacies he has gathered from the common suppiy, he wanders toward his daybed, stripping the bark from tender young trees, especially of the rarer and more beautiful kind, like the mountain ash and the striped maple. His method is to strike bis strong front feet into the bark and tear off a great strip by lifting his head. He chews a bit of this, only to throw it aside and strip another tree farther on. In trailing bull moose one can often follow his course far ahead by the unsightly gashes or "peelings" which he leaves behind him. Another destructive method of feeding la by riding down young trees whose tops are above his reach. He straddles the trunk, bending it down by his great weigh', holding it under his belly while he eats all the buds and tender twigs. - A trei thus moose-ridden rarely recovers. It re mains bent or broken, like a discarded boss; it cannot breathe without its leaves; It dies and the Winter snows cover it from sight. Such a destructive nd useless beast would never be tolerated on private land or by a thrifty corporation. At one time he was of Bmall use to the early settlers, who killed him for food when they could find nothing better but they could never depend upon him. he is of a wandering and flighty disposition. His flesh, moreover, is coarse and stfingy; his hide is thick and "of very poor quality, as T. Roose velt says, and he ought to know. At the present time he is one of the lux uries of Democracy, which supports and protects him that he may minister to the vanity of a few sportsmen, most ly of the tinhorn variety, who think it a brave thing to follow him and to hang his grotesque head in A their houses; though in truth It requires less courage and skill to kill a moose than to kill a cow that has run wild In the back pasture. With such an emblem, the new party may well inscribe "Thou Shalt not steal upon Its standard. The bull moose never steals; he simply takes what he wants. He has fed on public property so long that he considers it all rightfully his. 1 once planted a garden near my Summer camp, and a bull moose used to come nightly to knock down the fence and eat every bean and pea vine that had ambition to show its head. Our authority declares (p. 205) that the legs of a bull moose are so long and his neck so short that he must go down on his knees" to crop the tender grass or to get a mouthful of snow to quench his thirst. This delusion was already hoary when I first found it in the geography. The bull moose does nothing of the kind. If he wants to crop or drink, he simply spreads his forefeet and bends his head, as any one may see who will follow a moose for an hour without trying to kui nim. If. however, we consider him as the emblem of the new party of righteous ness. In a world wholly abandoned to the evil "interests," we should Dy an means cherish this old delusion. The Dicture of the bull moose on his knees, in an attitude of grace as he eats and drinks from the public hand. Is an ad mirable one. It will be especially sig nificant If the new party has the wis om to choose a leader of almost monoDOlistlc virtue, who Is more em phatio than Moses In the matter of commandments ana wno wrestles lerhtilv in prayer before he goes out with his Gideon band of Flinns to fight the Lord's battle. Perhaps the most noticeaDie quality of the bull moose is his shyness. He avoids the crowd and eschews excite ment of every kind. 1 When you find him vou must be very still, else will his native modesty take him away out of vour sight. Once I ran across party of ladies, with their guides, who were eager to see a bull moose. At twilight I took two of them In my canoe, and was followed by the whole party in breathless expectation, wnen T called out the great bull, certain emotional ones could not restrain their admiration. One waved ner nanaKer- chief; another clapped her hands; a third cried out ecstatically, xne moose, disdaining such applause, Instantly turned and vanished Into the solitude which he so deeply loves. As T. Roose velt writes, "The bull moose is never found in a great herd, but always alone or in smaii iamiiy p" "-o. " these respects he Is an excellent totem; Via tvnifies the long-expected politician who shall settle all affairs himself, or in select tennis cabinets, taxing no of courts or constitutions or the democratic rabble, which can oniy shout and vote and leave all else to the true leader. Though the bull moose is tnus in stinctively retiring, he has another side to his nature. At times he rampages violently through the woods, exalting his horn, bruntlng, squealing, stamp ing the earth with his hoofs and thrashing the unoffending bushes with his antlers. Meeting nim now you would think him a champion, a iioi- spur, a very devil of an antagonist; but he is at heart an arrant coward and braggart, without a spark of real that is, of moral courage. If he ever at tacks It is In a nt or puna iury, uko a cornered cat He will roar defiance at all rivals and at the universe Itself; but nai a twig sharply, or bark like a small dog, and all the rampant egotism oozes out of him. ide remembers sud denly some very Important engagement -,.-2.t. o,i hr, vnn hear him I ------ - . gain he will De grunting at a s I uilc A curious fact about a bull moose at such moments of emotional excitement is that he readily answers a call and comes headlong to meet it. Almost everything will serve for an Issue when the bull moose Is In a receptive atti tude. I have called him by imitating the bellow of his mate, by pounding on a stretched skin, by grunting or chock in my throat like a rival bull, or by simply making a loud roar unlike anything on the earth below, or, trust. In heaven above. Here, again, he serves admirably as an emblem of the new type of political leader, who stays in retirement until the people call nim loudly to their service. Unfortunately, the summons to the bull moose is sometimes arranged by crafty men with guns, and when he rushes out eagerly to meet the call he goes to his own destruction. In many other ways the bull moose shows symptoms of emotional nts ana of a disordered Intellect. As T. Roose velt says (p. 229), "he frequently shows a clumsy slowness of apprehension which amounts to downright stupid ity." The leader who adopts the bull moose as his emblem, therefore, should he warv of talking too much, knowing that words are remembered, or of wrltlna: confidential letters that are almost certain to be purchased by the newspapers those vile and slanderous Instruments of the corrupt interests, without conscience or any appreciation of true srreatness. Another noticeable characteristic of the bull moose Is his Inordinate and unchangeable selfishness. Whether roaminar the woods In solitude, or tear ing up the earth, or coming headlong to the call, he is tninaing, nrst, iai and all the time of the safety of his own skin and the fullness of his own stomach. I can take off my hat to cow moose, having frequently seen her sacrifice herself to save her offspring or to protect the herd In the Winter yard; but I never yet saw a oun moose do a thing for anybody but himself. He is the inoarnation of self-interest A cow or even a calf moose, if she sees danger approaching, will warn all others before she takes the first step for her own safety; but a bull moose will sneak away silently at the first sniff of peril, leaving all others to look out for themselves. And that, by the way. is the real reason why female animal Is invariably found at the head of a band of moose or of deer of anv kind. If they are approaching danger, you will Invariably find the cows ahead, the calves close Denina, while far in the rear comes the bull, taking care not to expose his precious hide and running from a saie oistance at the first warning of danger. This characteristic of the noble totem, how ever, need not be emphasized unless, perchance, the new party goes over bodily to the suffragets. Further Indications of the bull's es sential selfishness are found In his fre quent abuse and browbeating or an other moose that are smaller man himself. He cannot tolerate a rival, but flies Into a Jealous rago at the first suggestion that there Is any other bull moose in the universe. His voice at such times is a squeaking grunt. ridiculously small for so great an animal, which sounds like ungwuh! ungwuh! Herein we have a suggestion of those ferocious warriors described in Parkman's "Conspiracy or rontiac. who always began a speech by shouting "Ongwehonwe!" which in the tongue of that tribe means, "I am the only man; all others are squaws or liars.' At all times the bull moose is easily fascinated by too bright a light. Oc casionally when I am studying the bow of my canoe, I run across his lord ship ailing himself with lush lily roots. Most animals will stare at the Jack for a time, and then turn away into the woods. Enough limelight is as rnnA as a feast for a sensible creature. Now and then, however, I meet a bull moose that stares too long at the light. much as a politician might look too much upon glory, ana ne enas oy floundering headlong toward the thing that dazrles him. At such times he is dangerous. In his blind infatuation he sees nothing but the Drignt oDject of his desire, and he clumsily knocks down everything in his path as he Jumps toward It. Once I was upset in this way by a fool moose mat tumDiea over my canoe and then floundered madly when the Jack was extinguished, hitting out aimlessly with hoofs and antlers. The only sure cure for such a bull Is darkness, oblivion. When you meet him, close your Jack, or turn It on another candidate. Any bull moose will sober off quickly If left In the friendly darkness. In the monumental work to which I have referred, the esteemed author says (pp. 216-217) that young moose are easily tamed, "and are very playful, de lisrht'lng to gallop to and fro, kicking, striking, butting and making grotesque faces." Later, he says, they become a menace, and he tells the following story: Some lumbermen once captured a young moose and shut him in a pen of logs. A few days later they captured another somewhat smaller ana put it in tne same pen. ,ha ri-at -rcmilrl crateful for a companion. But if it was it dissembled Its feelings, for it presently fell upon the unfortunate newcomer and killed it before it could be rescued. Thn hull moose emblem seems espe cially significant in view of this record. In a new party aevoteo. wnoiiy iu iii public good, there can be little personal glory, hardly enough for two and cer tainly not "enough to go round." It Is meet and right, therefore, that the chosen leader should attack a rival and despoil him of his political goods. In a cold season 1 nave repeaieiy iuuu where a big bull came upon a smaller moose in a bed that he had warmed with his own body and life blood, and the big bull drove out the little one and took the warm bed for himself. Following this excellent example, there was a righteous statesman, long ago, who found a plausible Democrat with a few patent uplift medicines which ap pealed to the suffering multitude; and he loudly denounced the poor Demo crat as a demagog and a son of Belial, even while he stole his referendum and recall. Later this same hero found a nice little party of progressives with a chance at the next election, and waiting till the leader fell sick, he prodded him off and ran away with his band of followers, precisely as a big hull moose will drive away a little bull and take his chosen mates for himself. Here, then, Is an emDiem worm naving, if the new party can only find the right sort of upllfter to wear it on his banner of victory, rmr renowned authority Is In error. however, when he speaks here and else where (p. 220) of moose "galloping" away when alarmed. I will not say that a moose never galloped; I only declare firmly that the man who saw him gallop wan not sober. The bull mose often bolts, as he has a strong tendency in that direction, but he cannot gallop, being too clumsily built for tne Dusiness. wnen alarmed, he turns stiffly and lunges hiindlv awav at an awkward trot, run ning into obstacles, knocking down dead stubs, smashing the unaerDrusn, spiasn lng and floundering through muddy bogs, getting more and more excited at the Dother he is making precisely as an excited candidate might start a bolt and an indecent rumpus at an orderly convention. The close parallel between your bull moose and your true politician may be .,rrij further. Thus, the addlepated creature often lets himself be hunted by cunning destroyers that ne migni easny ..ran. Witness this scene (p. 209) wnere . nini uw i u , n-u a 1 h I nit rt after a ..! through a thicket r - - h (in n young bull moose that he has seen to He down for his midday rest, chewing his cud In fancied security: My veins were thrilling and my heart beat, tng with that eager, fierce excitement which Is one of the keenest and strongest pleasures which make up the wild Joy ot living draw ing a bead against his black side I pressed the trigger the lifeblood sprang from both his nostrils and more of the same bluggy and butchery details which go to make up Joy and heroism. Look on that picture then on this, if you would know how true to political nature is the bull moose emblem. In a thicket of treachery and concealment an ambitious politician rests in false secur ity, meditating on the public good and all the glory and horror thereof. Creep ing upon his trail comes Boss Barnes, his Jaw set, a cold gleam In his eye, and his gun loaded for bull moose. "His veins are thrilling, his heart beating with the eager, fierce excitement'" which comes to those other appointed of the Lord, who battle at Armageddon and who know the real "wild Joy of political living." There are many other reasons why the bull moose is the true symbol of political righteousness. Note that he always makes a crooked trail, wander ing about as if lost In the woods. Though he travels a great deal he never makes any real progress, but al ways swings around to a point not far from where he started. You shall never find him at the end of a straight course, and he Is never where you would hon estly expect him to be. He is cunningly hidden, away off to one side of his own tortuous trail, and watching his own back track. As T. Roosevelt says (p. 205): he has a very provoking habit of making a half or three-quarter circls before lying down and then crouching with his head so turned that he can surely perceive any pur suer who may follow his trail. Ponder also the deep emblematlo sig nificance of this fact: every bull moosa carries his own bell. This Is the name given by hunters to the long gland that hangs from the animal's throat. No one knows what purpose this moose bell serves, but It Is filled with nerves and is supposed by some to aid the animal's hearing, by catching vibrations too faint for ordinary ears. By others it is supposed to give added weight and timbre to the ridiculous little grunt of the bull moose. In a political sense thla bell signifies that the leader Is in the habit of keeping his ear to the ground, or else that he Is always ready to sound the tocsin and to ring his own praises. There was a politician in Alexandria, in the fourth century if I remember correctly, who was Inordi nately fond of public attention, which he secured by noisy demonstration, by sounding his own praises and by con stantly rousing the city over its threat ened perils; and the Church fathers all called him cymbalum mundl, the bell clapper of the universe. If the new party could by searching find such a leader the bell of the bull moose would be the most significant part of the whole totem. In appearance the bull moose Is an awkward and most ungainly brute, a rello of some earlier and more bar barous age, when strange marsh beasts wandered up and down the earth, meet ing wild and hairy men. As our es teemed authority says (p. 213), he Is 'strange and uncouth in look as some monster surviving over from Pliocene." Among modern, more highly developed animals and men he la wholly out of place. He never learns wisdom, but comes to the same false calls and fol lows the old, primordial trails. Re cently some moose were turned loose in the Adirondacks, only to vanish, and one who watched them found they had turned away from excellent food and a good climate to follow the old forgotten moose paths northward to greater wild ness and more primeval savagery. And when you think of it seriously, the pro fessional politician, who lives all his life on the public domain, agitating, de stroying, but never creating or doing any constructive work, is also a relic and a survival of barbarism. He sel dom learns, but makes the same old holy professions and follows the same unholy practices that his tribe made and followed in the Stone Age. He noisily proclaims his virtue when It serves his purpose with the crowd, but he is very still and secretive when he is about his own affairs with the heel ers and bosses. As our authority writes once more (p. 205): "It is astonishing how quietly a moose can steal through the woods If It wishes." It Is also a matter of wonder how quiet even our loudest politician can be when he dick ers with "practical men" or with the wicked trusts over his campaign con tributions. On the whole, the bull moose Is a bully" symbol. I know of only one better, and that was suggested by the parade of Barnum & Bailey which has just passed my door. On a big wagon. resplendent with gilt, glass ana general sham, and capped by a clown blowing a trumpet, is written in huge letters. Blood-SWeatlng Behemoth ot Moiy Writ! Largest in Captivity! If the wicked Democrats could only capture that creature for a totem, the new party of the bull moose would find it hard to win the barbarian vote at the election. The Wilderness Hunter, p. 21. CUTICIM m simp oos And occasional light dressings of Cuticura Ointment will pre vent it when all else fails. fjuttearl Soap and Ointment sold thrtmgnottt the world. Wbersl simple ot esob mslle tree, wrtk 82-p. book. Address "Ontienre," Dp- . 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