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TIDITU aOMIT.
Th outstanding fact of th United
tales Cashier stock-Jobbing swindl
ara that ll.S40.Ot Id caah and In s
earttle and property u realised by
tha conspirators, and that $4S0.a
wnt lata their pockets aa commis
sion, that gross misrepresentation
aa used to inaita tha sales; that
personal holdings were conrerted Into
mosey aa company stock; thai pat ante
Bad not teen obtained, nor even ap
plied for. on tha various machine.
except ta on casev. whan tha public
was first Invited to subscribe: and
that tha public advertisement con'
tained flagrant misstatements. It
lmpoaalbla to find fault aruh tha Jury
ia tba Catted State Court which de
clared ail tha defendants guilty. Tha
chart against them u conspiracy
to ce the United Statea mails to de
fraud ta a atock-aeiunir schema. The
haxff has been proved.
la Ttaw of the widespread Interest
ta tha cas. ef Its remarkable charac-
tr. and of tha method employed by
men of re pat a hitherto food to ex
plott th ruIUbl Inveetor. a brief r
vla-er of th facta will be pertinent.
Th conspiracy, aa aliased In th
Oovarnraent'a Indictment, befan on or
about September. If 10. th month In
which Jir. Manefea became president
and F. it. Laalonn aaJes manar of
th company. Th concern was
ready ortanlxed at th time, Menefe
coaBlntr In as president after th capi
tal stock had been raised from 130
to tl.10e.009: so that fact cannot
It cited acainst him.
Under his contract. Menefe was to
tret ! per cent commission on all
stock sales. In Ilea of other salary.
Mosn'a contract contained th sam
proviso. It was broufht oat In the
testimony that salesmen received from
St to II I-S per cent commission, 3
par cant bains; about th average,
making th total commissions on a
larare proportion of th atock aales ap
proximately St per cent.
It was repeatedly shown from the
company's books that 60 per cent
commissions had been paid. A typl
caJ Instance: W. it. Cart, a Montana
rancher, paid $10,009 for stock. Of
this only 13000 went Into th company
treasury. S3000 coins; to th sales
men. 11000 to Menefe and 11000 to
LeMonn.
Promises of tnormooi dividends.
ranrtRa as Men as 100 and ISO per
cent, ever contained In th company's
advertisements, and. th evidence
ahowed. sera promised by salesmen.
The Government also contended that
financial statements of th company
war Jurcted to show th asaets to be
greater than they were and th llablll
ttea less. Arbitrary rises In stock prices
from S10 to I JO. It was charged by th
Government, were made regardless of
value, and Intended only to hasten
aalx.
The good faith of th defendants
as to whether they really IntenJed
to manufacture their machines, or. as
th Government charged, used the
machine and th factory operations
aa a mere pretett on which to sell
stock, entered largely Into trie case.
The Jury by Its verdict evidently took
the view that even If they war act
ing In good faith In manufacture, the
Indicted officials of th company were
guilty of selling stock under mlsrep-
rvaentstlon.
Hundreds of tetters, written by
Menefe and LeMonn to salesmen
and t en another, furnished, per
haps, tha moat damaging evtdenc. It
was shown In these letters that they
had encouraged ealestnsa to suggest
the wording of "closing" telegrams
and letters to help swing "prospects.
to which they would reply almost
word for word, these replies frequent
ly containing misrepresentations. ID
or telegram to a salesman. Mr. Men-
af as used th word: "W want stock-
!Hng don now. not machines.
There art other facts of significant
and weight la the development of the
fraud, but they need not be cited to
how th completeness of th con
spiracy nor th guilty knowledge and
criminal acts of tcs conspirators. It
ke to be borne la mind, however, that
th swindle, though colossal In Its pro
portions, wss la th stork-selling end
ef th project, and cot In th coin
changing devlc Itself. In other words,
a considerable amount of money
some tlii. waa actually turned
Into manufacturing operations, and
1140.04 In patents, and It la doubt
lees true that the promoters believed
In the merit of their Invention and
Intended In g"d faith to make and
s:i th machines. Upon this basis
they built up a structure of dishonest
manipulation and deliberate misrep
resentation which tainted the whole
venture and finally brought them be
fore the bar of Justice.
There Is a srcguUr parallel between!
the coin-counting device and the wire.
Ies telegraphy Invention. UnJoubt
d:y the discovery of wireless trans
mission of sound has been of incsl
cu table benefit to the world: yet It
was used to cheat thousands of worthy
people out oraheir earnincs In the be
lief that they would profit from the
universal use of a marvelous device.
tt It would srem that the coin ma
chine has vatue. but the Investors In
the United States Cashier Company
ara not likely to benefit by that fact.
It Is deplorable that a man like Mr.
Menefee, with aa excellent public and
private record, should have become
Involved In shady finance. Doubtless
he had faith that In the end the ven
ture would succeed: but he cannot
en that account escape liability. It Is
eevesaary that men of affairs who
lesve the solid ground of worthy prac
tices and gv deliberately Into the
twilight tone between good business
and bad business, should be made to
give a complete and exact reckoning
Th public must be protected, and
wrong must be exposed and punished.
Th United Stales Government,
through Its officials, has done a gen
uine service In exposing the crooked
dealings of the Cashier Company's of
ficers. United Stales Attorney Reamea
particularly is to be commended for
his seal, fidelity and determination
Id earning forward a Just prosecu
tion to a successful Issue.
81 BMIIIZED FEACK IECTCB.E3.
As a counterpart to the alleged In
dustry of booming the munition busi
ness by propagating war aentlment, we
now have the subsidised peace lectur
ers. The Carnegie Institute is said to
have paid for one hundred of them.
offering their services free to local
Chsutsuqus committees. From 0.000.
000 to 10.000.000 persons ara said to
have heard these lectures In the last
season, and th International Lyceum
Association Is to consider the propri
ety of permitting them. Fred High.
editor of an Independent lyceum trade
paper, has published a protest on the
ground that the us of th Chautau
qua to exercise political Influence con
stitutes a political danger and will un-
detrrmln th Chautauqua Itself.
This new activity of the Carnegie
Institute shows a doctrinaire of great
wealth to be an equal evil with a male
factor of great wealth. By rilling the
minds of susceptible people with the
pleasant-sounding sophistries of those
who teach that aversion for war neces
sarily Involves neglect of preparation
to defend their country, the men hired
with Andrew Carnegie's dollars are
preparing to make this country an easy
prey to th first Invader. Th Ameri
can people do not need to be convinced
that war Is an evil to be avoided, if
honorably possible. If Mr. Carnegie's
dollars could succeed In earning th
same conviction to the minds of na
tions which trust In armies and navies
and which drown noncombatants at
sea. they would do a real service to the
cause of peace. By propagating the
doctrine that a peaceful nation should
not prepare to defend Itself, they en
courage militarist cations to persevere
In their warlike courses.
COt all's ALOXB CAN DECIDE.
Idaho' determination to fight the
Ferris water-power bill at every point
before the people. In Congress and
la th courts ts an earnest of what
la In store If th champion of cen
trained National control and National
usurpation of state rights persist In
their efforts. This fight will not delay
development more than would passage
of th Ferris bill Itself, for no man
would risk capital under the provisions
of thst bill nntlt th constitutional and
legal questions that have been raiaed
are decided one for all. Th Idaho
Mlneowners Association Is not the
first to challenge the authority of Con
gress to dispose of Western water-
power; Colorado and .Utah hav al
ready Intervened In pending suits
which raise this question.
There Is good rest on to believe that
through Judicial decision th states
may b able to eliminate entirely the
Government's pretended right to a
vole In the disposal of water power.
That right rests not on sovereignty
over the public domain, which the
courts hav frequently declared not to
exist, but on ownership of the land.
In a suit to condemn right of way
over public land, the Government
contended that no right of eminent
domain existed as against the United
States. Th Federal Court held this
to b true only of public land that
actually used or reserved for
Governmental purposes and that as to
all other public land municipal and
public utility corporations bad the
same right against the Government as
against any other landowners.
Th sam principle should apply to
states, cities and corporations seeking
to utilize public land for the develop
ment of water-power and for the erec
Hon of transmission lines. The water
power being the property of the state.
and the Government land being sub
ject to condemnation In the sam
manner as the land of private owners.
he states csn proceed to grant water-
power leases without reference to th
Government. Th Federal authority
Is limited to the regulation of Inter
state rates and serv! -e. .
Th states occurring this strong
legal position and being determined
to maintain It. what reason have those
who favor the Ferris bill to believe
thst by Its paasage alone can th pres
ent embargo on development be raised
and early development begin? No
aane man will accept a Federal leas
and spend money under It until he
knows that th Government has au
Ihortty to grant It. Th limits of prop
erty and authority between Nation and
states must be clearly defined by final
Judicial decision before power can be
developed. No progress can be made
until such a decision Is rendered. If
one of the many states or one of the
many corporations Interested refused
to Join In a waiver of the legal ques
tions mentioned, so long as they re
malned unsettled they would be an
obstacle to the sal of bonds and might
be raised In future litigation.
The time Is ripe for a legal show
down between the Plnchotltes and the
water-power states. Until w hav It.
no amount of Federal legislation can
bring about Investment of a single
dollar IB development.
Suppose th?y should all ask damages"?
Mr. Richardson resents the Implica
tion of being unsportsmanlike, nat
urally. . He says there should have
been a backstop on the courts, and
then the ball wouldn't have gone Into
that supposedly neutral territory, but
which, like other "neutral" territory
nowadays, ia pretty dangerous. The
city would better call In a couple of
tennis champions, and learn whether
a tennis player with championship
ambitions should have allowed the
ball, regardless of how It was served,
to go so out of bounds or wherever
a tennis ball goes when it doesn't go
the right way.
There Is another thing for the city
to consider. The Rev. Mr. Richard
son must have felt pretty sheepish,
coming a-cropper before the wonder
ing eyes of a lot of children who were
there to learn from an expert some
of the fine points of the game.
Wounded pride In that case Is worth
SS0. While th premises are alto
gether different, no doubt Mr. Rich
ardson felt like the boy trying to do
a smart-alec trick before company,
and coming to grief over it It seems
he had been asked by one of the City
Commissioners to show the boys and
girls tennis as it should be end then
to have something like this hsppen!
Ctrtalnly here is a case where the
city should go Into the matter deeply.
There shoujd be a competent Investigation.
W HERE IS BRITISH FREEDOM?
The British nation is feeling the ef
fects of war not only In the losses on
the battlefield, the high ' taxes, the
higher cost of living and the conver
sion of the country Into a vast military
camp, but In the curtailment of Its lib
erties. In Its zeal to prevent aid to
the, enemy in any -form and in th
most Indirect manner. Parliament has
all but destroyed those liberties which
have been a Briton's proudest boast
for centuries.
Under th defense of th realm act
every citizen la under military law and
suoiect to nna or imprisonment, or
both, for violation thereof. Freedom
of the press no longer exists, for pub
lication of a report "likely to cause
alarm" may bring on the responsible
person penal servitude without Jury
iriai. a constable or other officer
may stop a person anywhere and com
pel him to answer questions. A house
may be entered and searched without
warrant. A civilian may be sentenced
to death without trial by Jury. A per
son rasy be arrested on mere suspicion
without warrant. Even speculation on
the plan of campaign of Britain or her
allies meana to a Journalist penal
servitude for life, and criticism of the
dietary or accommodations of new re
cruits Involves six months Imprison
ment.
War Is coming; home to the British
people in a manner they have not
known sine the wbols c our try was
In arras to repel the expected invasion
by Napoleon. It takes not only the life
snd limb of those who fight, but the
liberty of those who stay at home. Any
means are adopted to present an at
least outwardly united front to the
enemy.
mentary. In tha deeper sense of the
terms there Is. no such thing- as an
American people yet. There is only a
great mass of heterogeneous elements
trying to become a people. In the
long run they will succeed, but until
they do we must be content with a
more or less sectional and incomplete
literature. We cannot have a Dickens
because there are no fixed National
types for him to work with. The types
are forming, but not yet formed. No
body can say at this moment what
the real American when at last he
walks the earth will say or think. He
may even speak some strange lan
guage. It would not be surprising; if
out of the hodgepodge of tongues
which now roar and buzz In the United
States some form of speech should
emerge never heard on earth before.
If such a language is formed here
our great National novelist, our
Dickens, will use It in his books.
No doubt It would be a calamity if
English should ever cease to be the
common speech of the United States,
but to prevent it the public schools
must bestir themselves. To the multi
tudes who now come to us from Eu
rope Shakespeare and the English
Bible mean nothing. Dickens Is a for
eigner whose characters are alien to
Byron's dream is far more real than
any passing glimmer of the sun
But night is not hideous to all the
poets. Burns, for example, agrees
with St. Paul that those who are
drunken sire drunken In the night, but
Tarn 0'Shanters tipsy bout with the
demons is gay rather than woefuL
Very likely darkness meant hilarity for
the most part to Burns, Just as the day
meant toll. But Whittier is the poet
who has made night most pleasant to
the Imagination. When darkness set'
tied down over the snowbound world
and the fire crackled up the chimney.
everything -was bright and cheerful in
the old farmhouse. The family were
gathered by the hearth, nor were they
without guests to excite interest and
wonder. Outside the window a mimic
fire glowed in the snowbank. Within
there was security and peace. "What
matter haw the night behaved? What
matter how the night wind raved ?"
Happy hearts could defy cold and
storm. "Blow high, blow low, notalI
its snow could quench our hearth fire's
ruddy glow," nor could all the buf
fets of life quench the peace in their
souls. Changes come and sorrow
smites. Death makes vacant places
around the hearth, and the, poet knows
the bitterness of tears. "How sad it
seems with so much gone, of life and
slan. Mr. Pickwick makes no appeal j love to still live on." But it is not all
to .such immigrants. Sam Welter's I sadness, for he has In his heart the
A LITTLE ItSH RtCKET.
Ttafneai tha !! accent the r acorn
mendatlon of Park Superintendent
Convlll that the 130 claim for damages
presented by th Rev. Mr. Richard
son, lor injuries accruing irom a
gam or tennis witn tne cniiuren in
on of th public parks, be disal
lowed, a thorough Investigation should
be conducted. There Is much at atake
In this particular tennis racket: the
acrimonious score now stands "love
none" Instead of love-all. and before
th controversy Is ended there may
be the deuce to pay.'
It seems the Rev. Mr. Richardson
stepped In a hole, and In so doing
dragged th park superintendent and
th city In with him. Mr. Richard
son, suffered physical pain and ex
pense and his laudable ambition to
win th tennis championship was re
duced to a minimum. If not an Impos
sibility. Th hoi was there no doubt, and
Inasmuch as it was a gam of tennis
and not of rolf. It should not have
been there. Why was th hole there?
Mr. Richardson says It came from the
dropping of water from a faucet at
which th public quenched Its thirst.
But did It? Who knows but thst
soma over-zealous rival of Mr. Rich
ardson's caused that hoi to be there,
tempting him to Injury that would
keep him out of th title matches?
One doesn't suspect such things In
tennis ordinarily, but tennis has be
come so strenuous snd popular!
Mr. Convlll says Mr. Richardson Is
unsportsmanlike In arklng for the
110. It would set a bad example and
a worse precedent to the scores of
children who daily suffer broken fin
gers, stubbed toes or dislocated
thumb In. their pursuit ef recreation.
DICKENS AS A O'lFIEB,
A writer for the New Tork Times
has Interviewed Mrs. Josephine Dodge
Das k am Bacon. He asked her Indis
criminate questions on every subject
under the sun, and she answered with
all the assurance of a Pythoness on
her tripod, as great literary lights are
expected to do when their souls are
being searched to provide material for
a special article. Some of Mrs. Ba
con's answers were more oracular
than wise, as for example when she
pronounced the Montessorl system to
be "pathetic rot," and when she grave
ly told the reporter that if one of her
children "had a mind like a garden
I wouldn't let It come nearer me than
the laundry." Women of very dis
tinguished gifts are permitted to say
silly things occasionally because they
are apt to redeem them by sensible
remarks a little later. And this Mrs.
Bacon did when In regular course she
came to discourse upon Charles Dick
ens. It seems that Gertrude Atherton
has been decrying Dickens lately, tell
ing about the world that he Is no
longer read in England. Mrs. Dodge
counters witjt the remark that If th
English do not read Dickens It Is be
cause they live him. In his books
Britain dwells In all Ita moods
manners. "If I wanted to make peo
ple understand Just what the Anglo-
Saxon race Is," says Mrs. Bacon, "I'
tell them to read Dickens."
We think her method would do ad
mirably. Dickens hardly succeeded in
drawing a real British aristocrat, but
ha gave us everybody else to be found
In the Islands full size, accurate to th
life. The achool. the prison, the courts
of law are all In his books and so Is
the country road life, which was Just
vanishing In his day, but now, under
the reviving Influence of the motor
car. Is regaining more tbsn the old
Importance and rush. The stage
coachman plays hla part In Sam Wei
ler"s father, the pompously tricky
lawyers In Dodson and Fogg, while
little Mr. Pcrklna stands for the better
side of that dubloua profession. The
schoolboy moves through Dickens
books In all his varieties, except the
orthodox Eton and Harrow breed, w ho,
being born aristocrats, are foreign to
Dickens' . genius. But the Squeert
school, In Yorkshire Is not, omitted
nor the Fagtn school In London, where
little Oliver Twist takes his early les
sons In crime. Nor Is the school of
the debtors' prison overlooked, where
evil propagates Itself from generation
to generation, or did until those nests
of shame were abolished. That they
finally went the way they did was
owing mora to Dickens than to any
other man.
Dickens tells us as much about the
strolling players of England as the
schoolboys. The struggling landlady.
whose soul Is worried over boarders
r.d gravy, the nurse who understands
the art of twisting a patient's thumbs
to make him swsllow his dose, the
wandering gentleman of means and
Is Incomparable servant, the hypo
critical preacher, th bold adventurer.
the ambitious youth Dickens h
forgotten nobody who contributes to
the richness and poverty of British
life. Some day we shall have a nov-
Ilst who will do the same for the
United States, but his sympathies must
extend far beyond Manhattan Island,
and his intelligence will not be limited
by the formulas of the "salt water
colleges." The genuine Eastern author
believes In his heart that everybody
west of Buffalo Is either a born as
sassin or a maniac. We must have a
better understanding between the sec
tions of our, people before we can
hope to see such American novels a
Dickens wrote for England. As long
as our population is set off Into little
Mantis by hyphens and the remnants
of foreign allegiance our literature
will necessarily b choppy and frag-
Jokes are lost upon them. Their lit
erary gods bear other names and an
swer - prayers Intoned for other
tongues. There has been a vigorous
effort of late years to prevent the new
immigrants from forgetting their ver
naculars and learning English. It is
to the immediate interest of . some
sects and periodicals, to say nothing
of other agencies, to isolate them by
the barriers of language and creed.
It Is the mission of the schools to
break down those barriers and their
most potent weapon Is English liter
ature. W have not yet learned the
secret of teaching literature so as to
bring Its power to bear upon the minds
even of our own children, much less
upon the minds of foreign-born chil
dren. But It must ba done or the
unity of our language will . be lost.
and with that will go the unity of th
country. Next to the Bible. Charles
Dickens is probably the greatest unify
ing force at the command of the
schools. Perhaps he Is even more
serviceable than the Bible because he
is not burdened with sectarian preju
dices. When shall we master the art
of using his Immense treasures of
unity and brotherhood, for the Na
tional good ?
NIGHT.
Joseph Conrad's description of a
tropical night In his "Nostromo" has
been much praised by the critics. It
depicts two men on a treasure-laden
raft sailing- snail-like through Inky
blackness. Whatever stars there were
only made the darkness visible like
the sulphur flames in Milton's hell.
Readers are naturally moved by Con
rad's fine piece of writing to
make comparisons with what other
authors have done, especially the
poets. It is fair to rank Conrad
with th poets, though his writ
ing is not metrical, for he is more
imaginative than most of them and
quite as lyrical, when the mood takes
him, as Kipling- in his better days.
Tennyson seldom wrote more than a
verse or two without some reference to
night, the saddest of them all being in
the song from "The Princess," "Tears.
Idle Tears." But it is the night of
death he has In mind, coming on as
The earliest pipe of half-awakened
birds" grows faint to dying ears, "whil
unto dying- eyes the casement slowly
fades, a glimmering square." Night,
with Its stars and ghosts, constantly
haunted Tennyson's imagination, bor
rowing weird gleams from "the tender
light" of his dead days. There was
beauty as well ss terror to him In the
darkness. Oenone saw "heaven over
heaven" rising In the night, but with
all their glory she could not forget
'the night that knows not morn" and
the starry silence was filled for her
with "dead sounds from the inmost
hills."
In the Bible night means fear. Just
as It did to primitive man. The bad
air of our modern bedrooms is a direct
inheritance from the dread of wild
beasts and noxious insects that haunt
ed the midnight dreams of our earliest
ancestors. They In their weakness
framed the precept that "night air is
poisonous," which some of us still be
lieve. In our ignorance. Next to the
best text In Revelation Is the prom
ise that "there shall be no night
there." The best tells us that "God
shall wipe away all tears from their
eyes, and there shall be no more death.
neither sorrow nor crying, for the for
mer things are passed away." Milton,
who took the color of his thought from
the Bible, also saw nothing but horror
in darkness. The everlasting night of
hell was but little less painful to the
damned, than its flames. "Chaos and
old Night" made Satan's flight to earth
a voyage of sorrow, and when he
Anally came into the full radiance of
the sun he cursed Its beams to express
the full depth of his rebellion against
the Almighty, the very essence of
whose nature was light. To the great
Puritan poet in his physical blindness
light was "the offspring of heaven
first born." while darkness typified
Irremediable evil, as It did to the old
Persian theologists from whom most
of our Scriptural symbolism cornea
Probsbly the most passionate de
scription of darkness, in English litera
ture Is Byron's. Like Tennyson, he
readily lost the distinction between
night and death, and his mind was
prone to sweep forward to the end of
all things when "the bright sun" should
be extinguished "and the Icy earth
hang blind and blackening in the
moonless air." In a wonderful
dream" he gives his imagination free
rein to tell the story of the dying
world. The sun had gone out "Morn
came and went and came and brought
no day." As everlasting gloom set
tied down "all hearts were chilled
into a selfish .prayer for light." The
whole poem Is full of hideous visions,
but the worst of all is the universal
hatred which springs from the com
mon misery. As men grow bestial in
cold and hunger they grow cruel.
"War, .which for a moment was no
more, did glut himself again." The
Inst two human beings alive met by
the light of a burning altar toward
which they stretched their "cold, skel
eton hands for a little warmth." By
the flicker of the flame they looked
Into each other's faces and ' "saw.
shrieked and died." The earth as we
see the last of it is "seasonless, herb-
less, treeless, manless. lifeless." All is
death. The poet's vision Is so vivid
that he Is uncertain at last whether It
Is not real. If the "mind can make
substance and people planets of its
own." why may not this dream have a
wild reality"? To Anatole France
quenchless light of faith by which he
reads in the eternal books that "Life
is ever lord of death and love can
never lose Its own." If in the night
and s(orm of the world there has
come to you one ray of love, be it,
never so feeble, sings Whlttler, cher
ish It cherish It If there Is one
heart that trusts you, be good, be
kind, be faithful. God has nothing
to give but love, heaven has no other
Joy. Walk In Its light down to the
dark water. By Its light make the
Great Crossing. "Hand in hand they
came at nightfall to the shining gate.
And the King of the city asked him
why he should be forgiven of his many-
sins, and he answered because through
them all I have been faithful to her
at my side. And the King said be it
so. And hand In hand they entered in.'
Contributed Oregon Verse
New Tork Is to have a woman s
city club" with a very large member
ship if all goes well. Its mission will
be to stimulate civic Ideals. Such clubs
are needed everywhere, perhaps more
In rural neighborhoods than in cities.
At Dundee, Or., the Woman's Club has
wonderfully aroused the community.
There should be more work of the
same kind. '
Augustus Thomas predicts that the
United States will write its own plays
for the next ten years without any help.
from Europe. We hope he may be
right about it There Is enough In our
varied life to keep the theaters busy if
It could be properly dramatized and
presented. Going abroad for dramatic
material is merely a habit, and not a
good one. -
United States crops are unprece
dented in quantity and quality this
year. Arkansas, for instance, has
never before had such crops of corn
peas, clover, oats, wheat and sweet po
tatoes. Other states tell the same
story. Living should be cheap this
Winter, but what should be sometim.es
varies from what will be.
Englnemen on Erie passenger trains
run them sixty miles an hour and
have an excess margin of six miles
under conditions. Speedometers are
to be installed to catch anything
faster. Sixty-six miles an hour Is tame
riding to a people rapidly becoming
speed maniacs.
BYPATHS.
"Ambition- started up a hill;
Ne'er stopped, nor looked to right or
left
Straight ahead by power of will
He climbed each craggy ledge and
clelt
His eyes, uplifted to the crest
Ne'er saw the lovely ' scenes he
passed.
His plodding; feet ne'er paused to rest
ror wandered from the stony path.
And if some striving- flower grew
Between the stones that strewed his
way,
He trampled it nor stopped to rue
The helpless thing he crushed to clay.
No wounded creature knew has aid.
.o timid wild thing begged his food.
The very birds seemed half afraid
And caroled In a key subdued.
In time he reached the topmost knoll;
"Success" was there to grasp his
hand.
To lead him to his hard-fought goal.
Tho castle Fame, in Fortune's land.
He entered in and glanced around.
Expectant of a realm sublime.
Alas! The splendor which he found
Seemed not to compensate the climb.
He turned to leave, the door was fast;
Not locked, but weighted down with
gold.
Two windows only, firmly clasped
And labeled plain with letters bold.
Relieved the wall's rich hanging mass.
Contentment wras the name of one.
But it was dim, a painted glass.
' Translucent colored by the sun.
The other window, crystal clear.
Was marked "The Window of Re
gret" It overlooked his whole career.
The path he climbed, the trials he
met;
And looking down the pathway drear.
He saw the flower his heel had
crushed.
And further on a wounded deer,
Its labored breathing nearly hushed.
On either side the stony way
He saw the world's refresh'ning
wood ;
Observed wee bypaths lead away
To dells of helpfulness and good.
He caught the sunshine gleaming
through
The briers that lined the road he trod.
And standng there, at last he knew.
I nose bypaths were the ways of God,
'GENS RYLEY.
Gleams Through the Mist
By Dean Collins.
voice cry "SI'
.asp fto
Methought I heard
morai"-
And I awoke with loud and raucous roar.
And felt the air squeak In th crimping
heat..
And dripping sweat adown ray body pour.
Muse, It ia tough upon a night like this
To try to sing in rythmic measures nloa,
While the big awaat drops on the pavements
hiss, .
And tha whole universe walls aloud for lea.
But 'tis too hot for ma to sleap, slam.
And slow tha momenta of tha evening pass;
So. Muse, I call thee, coma on flapping wing.
Turn on the 'lectrlo fan and let us sing.
What though our measures, whan they stand
In print
Find the hot season broken for a timet
Though, in cool comfort, on our Unas ma
squint
It's plenty hot now, while we rhyme this
. rhyme.
Whether at Naahipur or Babylon. "
Beneath tha anger of tha August sun;
One's calm, sweat temper oozes drop
drop
As down his neck tba perspirations run.
So
by
ere my nerves ara wholly rasped and
Irayea,
Strike loud the cymbals, let the harp be
played,
And let us be as gay. Muse, as wa may.
Although 'tie over ninety In tie shade,
aaa
Let's sing to Beals a chorlo ode. In
measures full and strong! And let the
clarinet be blowed and smile the clan
gorous gong, while loud the flute Its
praises squeals in honor of E. Alden
Beals, by whom the weather Is con
trolled who makes it hot and makes
it cold.
Let's honor Beals whom all men
curse and mostly unkindly twit If
weather goes from bad to worse when
he is fixing it For it is rather doubt
ful whether, when mixing up a bunch
of weather, the Job could properly b
done to please the whim of everyone.
For some may wish for hot and some
may wish for cold no doubt and thus
no matter what may come, someone
will be put out So all the harried
weather man can do, is Just the best
he can. So let us honor E. A. Beals
who censors all the weather reels, giv
ing a nice day Then he's got one but
while we give you honor, Ed. really
when everything Is said, this last you
gave us is a hot one. -
TIME AKD TIDE.
stood on the beach in the morning.
The tide was at its ebb.
And the sand was covered with debris
And weeds of an intricate web.
The rocks stood barren and rugged.
The snags were barren and white.
All looked hopelessly sordid
In the pitiless morning light
I thought of our life In its morning,
And the many mistakes we make.
Ere we learn to weave its pattern
With a sort of give and take.
And life's sands are strewn with debris
Of things we have started wrong.
And we're frightened at the discord
In the singing of our song.
I stood on the beach at noontime.
The tide was at its flow.
And the waves were singing a love
song
With a murmur soft and low.
There was no sign of debris
Now, on the white, white sand.
Only the beautiful ocean.
And the still more beautiful land.
A Los Angeles poet wants $10,00
damages for being prevented from
reciting an original poem in public.
But then the defendants should re
member that they might have been
sued ten times that amount had they
not intervened.
The Administration has finally ere
ated a National defense council to go
over the National military policy. ' We
don't wish to accuse the Administra
tion of cribbing our thunder, but The
Oregonlan suggested this same idea
weeks ago.
"Admiral" Shepherd objects to pro
German toasts by American Army of
ficers. But even Army officers are
entitled to playful moods.
A Cuban army of 300,000 is said to
be ready to help the United States
In case of emergency we'll need all the
help we can get too.
Those citizens military camps
would be well enough if the National
Guard didn't offer a larger field for
military instruction.
Don't do it again, Wilhelm, said
Woodrow. But "Wilhelm evidently
didn't hear clearly. What will the
answer be?
Football practice Is being taken up.
But it will be hard to be a hero
through the medium of football these
times.
Of course. If It comes to the worst
we might assemble our awkward
squad and insist upon American rights.
'Red-eyed vlreo In Oregon." says
a headline. No, the item is not --of a
political character.
We are going to raise a dollar for
dollar day," even if we have to
pawn something.
Russia may move the national cap
ital. Over into Siberia, is our advice
to the Czar.
Anyway, the latest German crisis
relieves pressure of the latest Mexl
can crisis.
Storms and border raids are com
bining to keep Texas fully occupied.
Italy may break with Turkey.
Whereupon, watch the, feathers fly.
Betwixt Mexico and Germany our
diplomats are kept on the Jump.
Well, It's up to U. S. again,
are we going to do about it?
What
Bulgaria may Join the allies shortly.
But what's a few more!
Truly, the way of the transgressor
is hard.
Now to garner that Jsumper crop.
And school days loom nigh.
Glad to see you, Mr. Taft
Gosh. Some hotl
I thought of our life at Its noontide.
When we ve grasped some truth at
last.
And we're learning to rise In the pres
ent
Through our mistakes of the past
And love has covered the debris, .
And hope has given a hand.
Through faith we have walked the
. waters.
Till we're almost in sight of the land.
I stood on the beach at sunset,
A wonderful, roseate light
Shone on the waters' surface.
Its glory minded me quite
And I could see in my fancy
The gates to heaven ajar.
As night sent forth her herald.
The soft bright evening star.
Then I thought of life at its sunset
At the end of the strenuous fight
When man's heart Is filled with charity
Ere the coming of the night
The night that must come so surely.
But through which a dawn shall
loom.
To point our way securely
To the port beyond the tomb.
HORACE WILLIAM MACNEAL.
TRIUMPH.
Life, with all your delusions I love you.
I love the stress, the striving for unat
tainable ends;
Tes. I even love you for my failures.
Could success be so sweet had I never
known failure?
Could happiness 'be supreme, had I
never been lonely?
Would I hear the heartbreak in an
other's tone
Did not my own heart hide its sorrow?
Whatever it is that you bring, life.
You cannot defeat me, you cannot
break me;
will defy you. wrest success from
failure.
Happiness from sorrow, Joy from hu
miliation.
Truth from the falsehoods you have
woven around me;
Oh, I can laugh, laugh at your worst,
Only at loneliness, life, I cannot laugh.
a
Life, the lesson was hard, I was rebel-
. nous.
But I listened to another's grief, my
own is silent;
It's easy to speak the word of hope, to
assuage sorrow
And to create sunshine in lonely hearts;
Send your darkest messenger, he will
find me radiant.
For he opens another door, you, life.
. . cannot close it
MARGARET DYKE MALLORY,
Forest Grove, Or.
WAKE CP, THOU CHILD.
Wake up, thou child! From creed's
mesmeric slumber,
Give heed to thoughts that bid thy
soul be tree.
Clear from thy brains the cobwebs
that encumber.
Purge from thy soul the stain
hypocrisy.
Blast down the walls of dungeons, left
by ages.
Where mouldy minds have groped
for freedom's flower.
Plant in life's - garden midst decaying
hedges.
Such gems of thought that time can
not' devour.
Streams from the wilds in time will
make a riverr
Along their banks, the flowers will
sip the dew.
Thought upon thought the pearls from
shells, will sever.
When not polluted with the sophist's
brew.
nfold thy soul and gild with it life's
- pages;
Let truth and knowledge ' be thy
guiding light.
Stand by the rudder with immortal
sages.
Until thy soul, this world, shall bid
goodnisht
P. K. ENEBO. '
Farewell, O farewell to thee. Portland's fait
daughters.
Now headed for Seaside or Newport away.
To roam on the beach and to splash in the
And pass the hot season in jolllflad play.
Farewell; may you have a sweet respite
from bother.
Acquiring your Summer complexion of
brown.
But. girls, on tho level, 'tis hades for father
Who puts up the rhino and stays back
in town.
m
"Sir," said the Courteous Office Boy.
and sucked a hunk of ice, "forgive me
if I do annoy, but I require advice."
"How so," said I.
And then said he:
"One changes to the B. V. D. when
first the Summer waves of heat begin
upon the town to beat But when
more hot It grows again, pray tell me,
sire, what do you then, without attract
ing public scorn for looking like Sep
tember morn?"
. "Make haste, my lad. and swiftly
scoot unto the river's brink, and don
a dinky bathing suit and plunge into
the drink. That is the one place in
this weather where one may hope to
sit arrayed In almost altogether and
not get pinched for It!"
He answered me: "You're right I
think," and beat it for the river's
brink, leaving the Muse and me to ,
moan and further poetry intone. v
Smlte again the ringing lyre.
For the moment does require
Further song;
Though the tremor of tha heat
Singes us from head to feet
Right along.
Wake a wild and giddy measure
To attune our souls to pleasure.
Sing of Ice, the priceless treasure,
Loud and strong.
I looked out through the window
glass! Methought I saw the Ice man
pass! His eyes were wild; his face
was weird, and frozen dew was on his
beard. But he looked not to left nor
right and so he strode from out my
sight, and my tongue was parched and
my eye was red and the 'lectric fan
sang overhead.
Methought the moon was a frozen bit
Of cream in the distant sky.
And I strove and struggled to reach for it
But I never could cona a-nign.
And far I gazed from my window seat
To the distant summit of Hood,
Like an ice cream cone In the vasty heat
And, golly, the tning looked good.
aaa
And through the keyhole, carved in
strange device, ancestral voices bel
lowed loud for ice. "Ice! Ice!" the
warping walls and pavements screamed
and alt the English sparrows, snow
birds seemed.
Then came a gray and grim old
servitor with Jangling ice tongs swing
ing at his thigh, but though he knew
'twas ice we clamored .for, with
stealthy, cat-like tread he passed us
by, and a wild shriek from out our
dry lips brake he was the ice man
giving us the shake.
On Linden, when the sun was low.
All drifted iay the untrodden snow.
And strong the boreal winds did blow.
And sleighs went scooting to and fro;
And there were Icebergs, too, I know.
Take that mad face away, Its fea
tures daunt me! Why should It come
and stay and haunt and haunt me? I
see it look my way and grin and
taunt me! It fades, it melts into the
whirling' snow, and yet that visage
grim I know, I know! It is the ice
man, come to mock my woe!
Is that an icicle I see before ma
Distilling drops of cooling water o'er me?
Come, let me clutch thee, hold thee to my
heart.
And feel thy chill along my nerve cells dart
'Twere sweet to die, to leave this body fickle
If one could only die. stabbed by a big
icicle.
Look yonder through the frozen
colonades, who stalketh like a shade
among the shades! Hoar frost Is on
his hair, his icy eye is fixed on me
while he approaches nigh! He holds
an icicle against my lip; upon my
chest I feel it melt and drip.
And then he vanishes and leaves me
so, and yet that demon face I know,
I know! It was the ice man, come to
mock my woe.
Oh, Muse, or are you maybe Nurse?
I scarce can see. lor my eye is dim.
I fear that 1 may be getting worse.
bo ring up tne aocior or sena xor mm.
Oh. Nurse, or Muse, or are you a Doc?
1 hardly think I can bear the shock.'
For I am a snow man, aon c you see.
So don't let them build a fire by me.
For really, if such a thing were done
I'd certainly melt and probably run.
Nurse, hang up my harp with icicles strung;
tun, are you a jauae. or a iNurse, or a
Doc'l
And let no longer its tones be flung:
(The glacier Dreaks witn an lceoarg
shock.)
Ha! Ha! Tormenting thing
I know you. Nurse, take off disguise.
I know you. Muee, by your hideous eyes! -
Begone from me. for I will not sing!
I know your visage, your eyes I know
You are the Zee Man! Ho! Ho! Ho!
Downy Couch.
Berlin Man Lacht
"Couldn't you sell me a folding the
ater Seat like that?"
'Yes, but why?"
'Well, you see. I suffer from Insom
nia,, and I've nevdr slept as well any
where as here."