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practically without exception fixed
a maximum that is meaningless
because it is above the market price
of money under conditions existing
within their boundaries. It Is per
haps not without significance that
no state, even in the east, where
values are highly stabilized, has
attempted to set a lower maximum
than 6 per cent, while the proposed
initiative measure for Oregon would
declare usurious any rate above 5
per cent, "inclusive of all broker
ages and commissions." Prospective
borrowers, we think, will prefer to
trust their fortunes to a money
market responding to normal rules,
rather than to the restriction of
competitive lending which am un
warrantedly low maximum invites.
names his preference for a rifle bul
let or the noose. It is an interesting
commentary that the prevalent
choice Is for the firing squad. Were
the grim selection to be made be
tween poison and the rope, who
would hazard a surmise on the popu
larity of the former? If the fatal
the United States, Hungary and
Belgium. It was announced that
Moscow would contribute 20,000,000
rubles, at pre-war value, for propa
ganda, and it was agreed that strikes
of a political character should be
Western states areawaking to the appraisal of the yearnings of a ro- i BY-PRODUCTS OF
neea ior conserving adequate iringes mance-ioving puunu ""u uv. mc,.., i amn af popular
THE TIMES
of timber along their highways. In
the east they have planted trees to
shelter and make beautiful the
course. Up to the pre:.n. the west
started for the purpose of causing has applied a reversed an., unnatural
revolution in western Europe, espe- '. logic and has -cut them down. The
dose was to be self-administered, ascially France, and that if the soviet redwoods of California, dim, cathe-
FKEEDOM. Of BORROWING.
Hope that money -will be made
heao and plentiful - by legislation
describing a low maximum rate of
nterest, such as would be attempted
v one of the freak initiative
aeasure3 to be' placed on the Oregon
lallot in November, is founded
teither on a sound theory of eco-
lomics nor - on .the experience of
ivillzed natlons.-Reasonable freedom
f contract as to Interest rates has
lways been- attended by --extension
,f eredtts. and - prevailing,-actual
ates of interest have been lowest in
ountries which permitted the
,-reatest tolerance. Credit," as the
vriter on . the, general topic- of
Interest" in Lalor's authoritative
ncyclopedia observes, "can no more
e arrested in society than the circu-
ation of the blood in tne nuntan
ody.". .Tlie proponents" of legtsla
ion aimed at .the creation of easy
uoney conditions by absurd limita
ions on freedom of contract invari
bly defeat their own purposes.
:nher they invite the usury which
hey seek .to prohibit, by discourag-
ng competition,- ny reducing me
:umber of.-lenJers and of disposable
apital. and by increasing 4he risk.
while the ".number arril eagerness of
lorrowers-remains the same, or they
orce on jthe desiring borrower the
lternati;e of, selling his property at
iCavy, sacrifice to obtain .funds not
rocurable in , normal money chan-
els. v It' is a curious ofrcumstance
hat so many badly";' digested mea
ures. Which pretend' to protect the
orrower have an - effect precisely
outrary toj their professed .intent.
An example of th misquotation
f history resorted to by advocates
f fr -Rk measures Is furnished by a
rt.f'.rt prepared tn , Befefise of the
2. per cent money" initiative mea-
ui-e "m quesSion. -5Tne Statement of
ho '-fisSLtiei, for eya"rnple, that "for
ars- the laws of England prohibited
y- mte.i qst charge whatever." ; and
.at "during one period, the rate was
sedj ati 3 per cent," 'and "capital
i-n Hnto? shipping and industrial
; . emprise ana Jingiana Decame me
It jninatinir power. Civil and military.
n!land; arid sea," is a perfect non
euitur. British - trade expansion
v.-' in Inverse r-ratio to enforcement
jf flaws 'denying liberty, of invesi
utiit. ' Interdiction of all lending at
nttrest in the' reign of Edward VI
as not attended by commercial
'cjvetopijnent,' which on the other
t.''"nI ,, ,-, t 1 u li n T?11tq
, 'Ll abrogation of this law and
X rr s 0t a 10 per cent maximum.
' 'Wen Anne statute Dronounced
ver'll --intract void that nrovided
Or nf.-px. .i c t
. I lle,JiCl laic Lllcl-'A W JC1 I.CJ1L,
,u His became obsolete In practice
P" Hfrr it Txrn Q frtrmallv mnpa ld
ax I'was successively attacked
J !rr,Sjdified in the reigns of George
JlH. of WilfVm IV and of Victoria,
Jand the celVhrated. resolutions re
' rvrii-terl tn the British House u com-
FAMOrS SAYINGS.
It is by the ladder of fame only
that mere men appear to rise to the
heavens. Cicero. "
He that maketh haste to be rich
shall not be innocent. Old Testa
ment.
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt,
As sages in all times assert;
The happy man's without, a shirt.
John Heywood.
His best companions, innocence and
health.
And his best riches, ignorance of
wealth. Oliver Goldsmith.
Get money; still get money, boy,
no matter by what means. Ben
Jonson.
"Yet doth he live!" exclaims the
impatient heir.
And sighs for sables which he must
not wear. Lord Byron.
I would rather be right than be
president. Henry Clay.
I would rather write than
president.- Bill Nye.
I would rather be rich than
president. William G. McAdoo.
in tfie . traditional case of Focrates,
the former method might be widely
endorsed by the most prominent
murderers but certainly not if the
condemned man were compelled to
regard his daily rations with dread
and suspicion, reflecting that any
mouthful might savor of cyanide.
Hanging has long held the ap
proval of humanitarians as a capital
means of capital punishment. It was
in 1214 that an Knglish scapegrace
of noble birth, condemned to death
for piracy, thrust his head through
the noose and, as the late Mr. Wilde
so aptly phrased it, "danced upon the
air." History records this as the
first official hanging. Bow-string
strangling, the ax, the sword, the
guillotine though the latter was
highly praised in the French revolu
tion have not superseded it in the
op'nion of civilization. Nor will the
stealthy, weasel-wise practice of
poison. While the execution is never
successful without an expiatory de
mise, the modus operandi should be
of only secondary importance. It
should be quick and cleanly and
candid.
be
be
V
RFCRI ITINO LAND-WORK ERS.
We begin now to get a glimpse of
the results of a national appetite
for luxuries and of the broad thrift
lessness which takes no account of
the needs of another'day. We have
been thinking that so long as our
ffictortes turned out enough automo
biles and silk hosiery the workers in
them somehow would be fed. But
near the close of an exceptionally
fortunate growing season and in
particular with a prospect of a tidy
surplus of bread grains the question
whether we shall be able to save the
crcps is propounded in all its war
time seriousness. The issue of wages
is not involved. These, it is prom,
ised, will "be satisfactorily adjusted
But it is a question of getting help
at any price.
Of course the land army is only a
makeshift. No farmer regards it as
permanently practicable. Th4 town
boys and the farmerettes at their
best are not worth halt their number
in experienced farm hands, skilled
and toughened in their work. Even
the casual labor that used to travel
from harvest field to harvest field
and from camp to camp probably
was worth more tlian the novices it
is now necessary to employ. Poon
or late, either urban industry or ag
riculture will be compelled to adapt
itself to the change. When farmers
reach the point of planting no more
than they can harvest by themselves
the food outlook for city folk will be
dark indeed.
-This nevertheless does not lessen
the necessity of garnering the pres
ent crop. It will be well for all who
believe that patriotism includes cer
tain peace-time duties to reflect
whether they cannot help. With va
cation time approaching and the
farms calling, there seems to be
more" than a hint of opportunity for
usefulness. There is one thing
about the farm in summer it is a
healthful place to be and the shekels
incidentally obtained may come in
handy if flour and potatoes next win
ter continue their practice of estab
lishing a new price record every
year.
jjtnons in 1818 stm stand as a classic
( enunciation 'ot the principle . lih-
- J 1 . mi I .1 . i 1
voiveu. . i-ney sum,
Resolved, thst It la the opinion of thfis
ommittee, that the lawa regulating ana
should take the military offensive, dral aisles that cheapen the reference
the workmen of various countries to human art, are left to stand beside
should be asked to refuse to fight the roads which man drove through
the soviet armies, but to overturn their majestic conference. Timber
their own governments and proclaim men themselves willingly aid and co
soviet republics. Action of this kind j operate in this purpose. For a dis-
TIIE GOD IN THE MACHINE."
Delay in synchronizing the motion
picture and the rhonograph, which
has been the dream of inventors,
suggests that there are factors be
yond the realm of the mechanical
wuh which scienists are not com
petent to deal and bids us receive
with caution the prediction of a
French physicist that groups of !
motion picture theaters in the near
future will throw the same picture
on the -screen at the same time while
actors will "speak their parts into
wireless telephone instruments."
The recent success of the wireless
concert given by Madame Melba, in
which audiences in Taris, Berlin and
Rome simultaneously heard the rich
notes of the disa's voice, gives color
to the Frenchman's prediction, but
somehow does not wholly establish
our faith that it will be made good.
It is thirty years this year since it
was first prophesied that the union
oi telegraphy with the typesetting
machine would greatly reduce the
man power required to edit and
print the newspapers of the world.
The central news service, dissemi
nated by wire directly to the key
boards of a hundred thousand
Mergenthalers In a thousand cities
and towns, is still the dream of
theorists, but it fs as far from reali
zation as it was in 1890. There is a
point at which the most resourceful
find an impasse. The machine clogs
where the factor of human co-ordination
enters in.
It may be that some genius ofa
director, not an inventor will de
vise a way to synchronize the Chap
lint and the Baras.and the Fair
banks, but there are doubts about it.
-Wt have infinite faith in the power
of the machine, but here our
credulity breaks down. The human
temperament is altogether another
aflair.
wis taken in France, for during the
rt-cent general strike the French
police captured letters from Trotzky
to three Frenchmen appointing them
directors of the bolshevist movement
in France. The British labor party
is so thoroughly bolshevized that it
countenanced a strike against trans
port of munitions to Poland, and
sent a delegation to Moscow which
fraternized with the bolshevist rulers.
The bolshevists have proved their
intention to stir up revolution in the
United States by means ot strikes,
and their present quiescence is no
doubt due to a desire not to provoke
the people to support a strongly
American candidate for x president
rather than to abandonment of their
plans. The government has recog
nized that trade with Russia would
lead to Import of red literature and
red agents, and therefore has re
fused to permit trade and has stood
firm against recognition of the
soviet. If an American delegate were
a member of the allies' supreme
council, he would have great influ
ence in opposing Lloyd George's
pernicious policy and could support
France, which now stands alone in
opposition to friendly relations with
soviet Russia. The deadlock on the
treaty, which the president has
caused and which he could break by
compromise with the senate, pre
vents our participation in the coun
sels of the allies on a matter which
deeply affects our own interests in
common with theirs.
tance of 200 to 300 feet on either
side of the road the timber is left to
stand, to re-propagate its species
and to preserve the wildness, coolth
and beauty of the highway. We are
practical people. Speaking' in terms
of tourist dollars, and altogether
apart from such trammels as the
ethical, the altruistic, the love of na
ture, the course that California has
taken be made ours with all possible
haste.
emntv lives they may have entered
with a message that made their
leaders forget themselves there is
no means of estimating, but this
mucf ho t:lfu Intii anv account that:
pretends to "do them 'justice. Like , ordinary words.
,v. r i.-iia wheeler Wil.-nx. I About the year
'ritin must he valued for i trade of England became located
the joy
The Marathon.
Br Grace) K. HalL
Fabric Taken
Front C'ltlea Where Made.
The origin of the names of popular, oft have j Kajd to that jnborn der
fabrics is even more interesting than i That seeks expression, though I
the tracing to third lingual roots or i Know not why
'The lamp burns low. the flame must
About the year 1329 the woolen , expire.
.iia aner an. wny grieve ir it
I shall (Iia-'
they disseminated rather Worsted, about 13 miles from Nor-,Tnere is BO much needs Eayln6. Ttt
than bv the standard of higher lit- W,L"- ana ,l was al lms v1"
erary criticism. Ithe manufacture of the twisted double
hnnka a n t ol n t orl inreau omn, u" ""
Btrainin the rtt t.e of Interest have beer
xtensiveiy evadrd. and have failed of thel
iffect of lmpo-sini; a maximum on such
ate; and of lat? years, from the constant
ixoesa . of thfc1 market rate of Interest
ibuva the rat limited by law, they have
iilded to. t;io expense Incurred by Dor.
overs on real security, and that sucn
orrowers hve been compelled to resort
o the mude ot granting annuities, a mode
vhich has ten made the cover for ob
ainirg higher interest than the rate Uni
ted by law, "and has further subjected
he' borrowers to. enormous charges ' or
orced them to make very disadvantageous
ales of their estates. .,
The penalty set forth in the last
sentence was automatically imposed
'o the ruin of great numbers! where
the law was rigidly enforced, and it
s distinctly not true that "England
became the dominating power ,
on land and sea" as the consequence
of . legislation restricting credit by.
circumscribing freedom of private
contract. Modification of the old
lawa "enabled loanable accomr.xoda
Lion to flow into the channels where
it-was most wanted and could be best
paid for," It saved many embarrassed
Investors from the evil necessity of
submitting, to forced ' sales of their
property at low prices, it protected
general credit and it saved immense
sums to -those who In their extremity
would have resorted to circuitous
contrivances " for the purpose of
evading the law. It was the act of
1S38, abrogating the usury Jaws in
relation to short-time loans, which
in the opinion of Lord Overstone.
proved the salvation ot British com
merce in the historic panic of TS33.
The usurer is served, rather than
embarrassed, by laws hampering
freedom of mercantile transactions
which are in themselves in conso
nance with sound publlc policy.' Not
only the history of England but that
of France and other ' countries is
replete " with illustrations of: the
workings of this rule. . Whenever it
has been necessary for the French
government to contract publicj lpans,
it has taken care, as histor ans; have
shown, not to appeal to the law of
ISO", which fixed the legal maxinum
at 5 per cent in civil matters and' &t
6 per cent in mercantile transaction.
The story of the operation of thie
French 5 law is remarkable for If.s
revelutioas cf" ingenious scb.s-.mes df
circumvention of which the subter
fuge of sale A ih power of redemp
tion is only onr of many iUistra.!aons.
State statuu-s establishing the
maximum rate of . interest Xbelow
which individuals are at liberty to
CArlTAIv rl'NISHMENT BT POISON.
Catherine de Medici, so run the
chronicles of France, was past-mistress
of the gentle but lethal art of
poisoning. She knew, that shrewd
and evil old queen, the philter that
was best suited to each instance, and
that freed the soul from the body
with neatness and dispatch. When
some obnoxious courtier put thumb
to tongue as he turned the pages of
a book there came upon him the
cenviction that he had not made a
wise selection from the royal library
'and he died. Catherine's methods
"t'e ingenious and efficient. Has
the -yraith of King Henry's spouse
wafteq overseas to whisper a sugges
tion to Oregon lawmakers?
A forter superintendent of the
state penitentiary is credited with
having aniCjpated the restoration of
capital punjshment by pointing out
the advisability of poison as the
obiii. vi aeaui. preposterous as
the proposal seems, it is said to have
caught, the fancy of certain citizens
whojfcni advocate Its embodiment in
law.i fr the more felicitous disem
bodiment of condemned criminals,
and may be presented to the legisla
ture at the next session. Proponents
of the new mode of capital punish
ment dilate upon the simplicity of
placing a deadly poison in the vict
uals of the condemned, presumably
without his knowledge or consent,
and contend that a spoonful of Irish
stew so treated will peed the
startled soul from its tenement much
more expeditiously than the rope
Ancient Greece prescribed poison
ing as the death route to be taken
by those condemned to die. And it
was so that Socrates died, a beaker
ot hemlock to his lips. But poison
ing has never intrigued the fancy of
civilization. In crime it has been
touched with the pitch of cowardice
and deceit, and if there exist degrees
of depravity in premeditated murder
it is with certitude that opinion
would point to poisoning as the most
despicable. It is quite another mat
ter, however, for justice to claim a
foifeit life, and the question of
method simplifies itself to a deter
mination of that mode which is the
ler.st repulsive and the most humane.
If poison .were indicated in this re
search, then the potion of the con
demned should be the deadliest of
draughts. But who can contemplate
without repulsion the spectacle of a
condemned prisoner, starved and
tetrified, and yet tempted to the food
that may be fatal? There is an ele
ment of cat-and-mouse cruelty in it
that is inexpressibly repugnant.
For that matter, as an artistic ac
complishment one cannot wax en
thusiastic over a hanging particu
larly if it features him. The mode of
death might be made selective at the
option of the prisoner, as it is in
enter into. , legal contracts OiSivej Utab, .where the doomed convict
DANGER IN TRADE WITH THE
SOVIET.
American interests are in danger
of suffering through failure of the
government to act with regard to
movements of the allies, particularly
Great Britain, to reopen trade with
Russia. The supreme council of the
allies last February resolved to have
no intercourse with the soviet gov
ernment, but to open trade through
the private channels of the co
operative associations. By making
tlie co-operatives a branch of the
government, the soviet let'- the allies
no choice but to make trade agree
ments with agents of the soviet.
Llpyd George did not hesitate, but
has negotiated with Krassin, a bol
shevist agent who formerly repre
sented a German company in Petro
grad, and has answered all critics
by justifying trade negotiations, in
sisting that they did not involve
recognition of the soviet and could
be kept apart from political ques
tions. This policy is supported by Italy,
but France opposes any dealings with
agents of the soviet, though con
senting to trade through private
agencies. But all such agencies
have been absorbed in the bolshevist
government, ana it is tneretore im
possible to comply with the French
conditions. Still Lloyd George goes
or., though his action opens a breach
between Britain and France before
Germany has begun to disarm. His
first plan was to exchange goods for
goods in the belief that Russia had
unlimited quantities of wheat, flax
and timber to export, but it proves
that Russia has not the goods or, if
it has, cannot transport them be
cause the railroads are broken down.
Then came a proposal that Russia
pay gold for goods, but the objection
is made that almost all the gold in
the hands of the soviet is the reserve
of the imperial government bank
and is therefore security for Russian
bonds, of which the French people
hold about $14,000,000,000, while the
rest is the Roumanian reserve, de
posited with the czar's government
and stolen by the soviet. The Lon
don Times and other British anti
bolshevist papers call the soviet
money "tainted gold" and dare
Lloyd George to accept it.
The British premier has not been
able to keep political questions out
of his conferences with Krassin. in
fact has been eager to introduce
them. He informed parliament that
he warned Krassin no business could
bo done till all British prisoners in
Russia were released, and Krassin
promised their release. That was a
political question. He requested that
all bolshevist activities hostile to
Britain in Persia and India cease,
and thus opened negotiation on a
political question of the highest im
portance and by implication recog
nized the soviet. He is condemned
in France for sacrificing French in
terests by his readiness to take
Russian gold, against which the
French have a claim, and for watch
ing British interests without regard
to those of Britain's allies. His last
justification for this policy is that
the world must have peace.
B"ut the bolshevists do not intend
to let the world have peace, and for
that reason the interests of the
United States are deeply involved.
While Lloyd George was negotiating
with Krassin, the Paris Matin pub
lished news of an international
communist conference which had
been held in Holland in February by
OTB.EPAKKDXESS IS WASTE.
While it is impossible to estimate
the addition which unpreparedness
made to the cost of tne, war, some
conception can be formed from the
statement of Representative Tilson
that "the United States had to spend
seven billion of dollars for ordnance
material and airplanes that had not
yet materialized when the war
closed."
Owing to our neglect to prepare
during the two years eight months
that the war continued before we in
tervened, also to the time which
must be consumed in preparation for
actual production of munitions, ex
pectations as to our part in it were
exactly reversed. In April, 1917, it
was predicted that we should not be
required to furnish many men, but
that our part would be to furnish
munitions, which, Mr. Tilson said,
"we were supposed to be able to
produce without stint," but:
Exactly the reverse happened. American
men were mot needed. We Kent men in
surprising numbers, and. stranseat of all,
they had to fight with foreign-made mu
nitions. Major-General Snow, chief of field
artillery, says that we had not on the
firing line on Armistice day "a single
field or heavy artillery gun manufac
tured for us in the United States
after our entrance into the war a
period of 19 months," and he added
this ominous statement:
Had It not been for the material fur
nished us by the French and British, It ia
believed that the -war would have been
lost.
Both parties share responsibility
for our unprepared state prior to
August, 1914, byt to the democratic
party must be attributed its continu
ance from that time until we ac
tually Intervened. Our experience
goes to show that, if provision had
been made for munition productfon
on a large scale at the session of
congress which began in December,
1914, quantity production of artillery
and airplanes would have been at
tained by the day when we actually
declared war. As it turned out, our
artillery production contributed noth
ing to win the war, except by its
moral effect on the enemy.
The conclusion from the viewpoint
of economy, without regard to that
of national safety, is that prepared
ness is an essential part of that econ
omy to which the r3publican party
is pledged, for unpreparedness is
most reckless waste.
TOURISTS AND TREES.
There is a road that dives into the
rorest of the Clatsop country coast,
twining its way through the ancient
timber to the white sands of Cannon
Beach. Coolness possesses it when
the fiercest summer sun Is at zenith.
Creeks spin their eddies beneath its
bridges. Quaint little wood rabbits
nip the clover of its broiders, just
beyond the refuge of tall swaying
sword fern. For miles it feels its
way to the sea and the belligerent
surf of Haystack rock, and if one
listens on that road to the many
voices of nature he will hear the far
soft coo of the band-tailed pigeon.
And all the joy and allure of the trip
are inherent in the great trees that
flank the highway. Timbermen are
cutting them down. To the verge of
the road itself thefir and spruce are
stripped, and the ruin of stumps and
debris has supplanted the dim mys
tery of the forest. In time not far
away, unless another system replaces
the deadly and exacting thorough
ness of the present, the road to Can
non Beach will be a dusty trek
through devastation.
Cannon Beach road is but one of
the many pleasant lanes of Oregon
one of the hundreds of excursional
byways that win the tourist and the
homeseeker imperiled by the com
plete destruction of the surrounding
forest. The serious character of the
circumstance, common throughout
the northwest, was touched upon by
Stephen Mather, superintendent of
national parks, when he visited Ore
gon last summer. Superintendent
Mather saw the ruin that Is being
wrought and sounded a warning to
Oregon. In substance lie said that the
demolition of broidering forests
along our highways would repel the
tourist who sensibly enough would
choose an unspoiled prospect when
he paid his money for natural
beauty; and who, for all the esthetic,
spiritual solace that stumps and fire
waste afford, might have elected to
motor at home.
The. timbering industry will go on.
No one wishes it to halt. But it might
stay its hand, with ax and saw, when
it intrudes upon highways that are
both poems and practical benefits.
Joyce Kilmer, who died in France,
testified in virile, sympathetic verse
to the truth that almost anyone may
write a poem, but that God com-
DR. HYSLOP HEARD FROM t
The late I'rofcssor William James
Is said to have promised that If it
were possible for him, after his
death, to send a message from the
spirit world he would do so at the
first opportunity presented. Profes
sor James, although he had a sym
pathetic understanding of the yearn
ings of the bereaved to communicate
with their loved ones in another life.
tegarded the phenomena associated
with so-called spirit communication
as unproved. His tolerances and his
sympathies often caused him to be
misunderstood. It is certain, however,-
that if the opportunity had
been given him he would have sent
such a message as would have gone
far toward clearing away the mists
of doubt, and as would have met the
conditions imposed on psychical re
search by honest scientists.
Now no such clarity, unfortu
nately, attends the promise made in
the case of Dr. James Hervey Hyslop,
who departed this life a few days
ago. A Canadian investigator tells
the New York Times that Dr. Hyslop
already has indicated that he pro
poses to communicate the secr-t
that all of us would like to see solved,
but that he will do so in the form of
a "scientific communication trans
mitted through an involved, complex,
intricate crosscorrespondence." Con
ditions here invite suspicion of an
alibi of some pretended medium,
prepared in advance, rather than a
plain purpose to furnish us with a
satisfying revelation. It is true that
it is in line with the writings of Dr.
Hyslop himself, who pointed out re
peatedly that there might be serious
difficulties in the way of imparting
transcendental experiences in terms
comprehensible to those who are
without understandable analogies.
"A man born blind but retaining his
hearing," is one of his illustrations,
"could, not make his auditory ex
periences intelligible to a mun born
deaf, and vice versa." But the Ca
nadian investigator knows no ob
stacles like these. He contributes
the information that "Dr. Hyslop
was rather dazed in his first mo
ti'.ents in the life beyond, but was
being attended by William James,
who conveyed his messages." Mean
while, as the Times notes, this mes
sage has been crossed, or anticipated,
by another one transmitted by a
medium frequently employed by the
Society of Psychical Research who
"received my first message Thursday
afternoon, just as Dr. Hyslop was
dying." Thus far, if we could sup
pose the Canadian message to be
genuine, there seem to have been no
obstacles to conveying at least a
modicum of news, and no reason for
believing that Professor James could
not have gone right on with his story.
The "dazed" condition of Dr. Hvslop
may well suggest an explanation of
the delay of Professor James in
keeping his earlier promise, but now
that, it is claimed that the latter
spirit has recovered his poise, we are
entitled, to look forward to such a
clearing up of the entire situation as
William James, the scientist, would
know how to supply to a waiting
world.
A pitiful phase of the psychical in
quiry is the capital made of great
names by charlatans. It was so
when Professor James passed to the
beyond, and now there is sure to be
a repetition of the experience in the
cose of Dr. Hyslop. Most of the rub
bish that will pass in a limited circle
for spirit messages will neither be il
luminating to investigators nor cred
itable to the intelligence of a sincere
scientist, such as Dr. Hyslop un
doubtedly was. We would say that
the memories of our departed were
entitled to more reverent protection,
were it not that, if they are conscious
of what is going on here below, they
must be vastly compensated by the
entertainment they are deriving
from these mundane monkeyshines.
The Broughton
the "n e w-woman" movement by
some years, yet in a sense they fore
shadowed it. Young women of the
late '60s. about the time that "Cometh
Up as a Flower" appeared, had not
nerved themselves to the point of
picketing parliaments and national
conventions in their struggle for po
litical and economic rights, but they
were beginning to chafe under the
social and sex standards of Victorian
prudery. Miss Broughton's heroines
were sprightly enough, without being
unwholesome, to catch the fancy of
a growing cult. Yet she was not con
sciously didactic and we doubt that
slio ever thought she had a mission
to perform. Her "Not Wisely but
Too Well," whose title always be
trays its story, was typical not only
of her work but of the restless spirit
of the time in which it appeared.
We shall not hastily assume that
the Broughton novels have been rele
gated to the "stacks" in libraries
chiefly because better books are
available. Many of those which are
now being written and which accen
tuate the paper famine are of the
same generally inferior grade. They
serve their purpose and they pass
away. They will not even be worth
while as historical studies in a re
mote future. But it is something to
have caught the fancy of a genera
ticn, as for example did Petrolium V.
Nasby, whose triumph was that he
cheered the immortal Lincoln In the
letter's saddest hours, but whosw
writings, read in 1920, sound inef
faceably fiat.
The United States department of
agriculture has disposed of another
fable by its determination that in
creased cultivation of land in a
given district does not increase the
annual rainfall therein, thereby
sending this widely accepted theory
to the limbo to which the notion
that deforestation invites aridity had
already been assigned. The rainfall
records show that there Vas less
pi ecipitation in the plains states In
the years from 1893 to 191.7 than in
the preceding quarter century, while
the same was substantially true as
to the southwest. Dn the northern
plains the rainfall was about the
same in the two respective periods.
That there has been a decided in
crease in cultivated area in these
regions is too well known to need
argument. Nor has there been any
discoverable association between
planted areas in various years and
the fall of rain in the same years.
The puny efforts of man are trifling
by comparison with the forces of
nature employed In bringing about
the change of climate and season.
worsted, was first made, if not in
vented. Linsey-woolsey was first made at
Linsey and was for a long time a very
popular fabric.
Kerseymere takes its name from
the village of Kersey and the mere I
close by it, in the county of Suffolk.
We have to thank Gaza, in Pales
tine, the gates of which Samsun car- !
ried away, for Baza or gauze. Gaza j
means "treasure." Voltaire, wishing j
to descnoe some intellectual but
dressy w ontan, said, She is an eagle
in a cage of gauze."
Muslin owes its name to Mossoul, a
fortified town in Turkey in Asia.
Tulle obtains its name from that
of a city in the south of France. Trav
elers by rail in Brittany often glide
past Guinganip without remembering
that it was here that was first pro
duced that useful fabric, gingham.
Damask derives its name from the
city of Damascus; calico from Calicut,
a town in India formerly celebraied
for its cotton cloth, where also calico i
was printed; cambric from Cambray,
a town in Flanders, where it was first
made, and tweed front a fabric worn
by fishermen upon the River Tweed.
New York Kvening Mail.
"Is this can it be love" sighed An
gebella, as she sat on a seat in the
park with MacCuthbert's arm around
her waist and his soft voice whisper
ing fondly in her ear. Oh, it was
lovely!
"It is. my darling!" MacCut hbert as
sured her. 'But, tell me, sweet one,
how do you feel."
"I feel," cooed the lady, "as though
my heart would leap from my throo
bing breast! My parched throat con
tracts and then expands, while my
breath comes in quick, choking sobs!"'
There was a sudden rustle in the
bushes behind them as a sleepin;;
tramp crawled forth and glowered at
them.
"I'd take .something for it, miss,"
he growled. "That ain't love you've
got, it's hiccups!" New York Globe.
expression
Is but a pebble cast into the sea:
Only a moment s ripple, then repsra-
eion
Of impetus that ends in apathy.
"The world Is hurried, worried, yea,
half maddened
With wild pursuit of pleasures
twould possess.
Yet if by word of mine one soul is
g iaddt-ned.
That shall in truth to me mean real
success:
But clamor of the rabble never ciascs,
no siyn of trepidation, no caltn ret
L'pon the clean white heights ot ruodi
tation. "Where ideals blossom in the human
breast.
"SSo why." I ask, half wearied, "keep
on trying
When the canaille the fairest light
has spurned?
What matters if the flame of ideals,
dying.
Goes darkly out? Who heeds that
it has burned?"
Then from within the Voice that never
falters,
Thatholds a tone like music sweet
and low.
That keeps the tapers lighted on
hope's altars.
Bids me to kyep my sacred lamp
The shrines are left to darkness. None
are kneeling
To worship there; few inner voices
cry;
The Marathon of ages is appealing.
And thirst for place has drained
love's fountains dry!
io. where the lever lays no searing
finger
Upon the brain, then shall that one
be held
To ke p alive the sacred sparks that
linger
way to sanity, com-
To light the
peiled
urge beyond tne Ken
well
We need a twentieth century
George Borrow to keep pace with
the march of events in gipsyland.
Times are changed in Romany since
th- automobile invaded the land, and
it is hard to resist the thought that
when Zingari has become motorized
others of its ancient traditions will
pass away. For already in gipsydom
there are few horses and fewer dogs.
the latter having been unable to
keep the pace set by the motor car.
A quaint and interesting people.
presenting the strangest ethnological
problem with which modern scholar
ship has had to deal, would seem to
be doomed by a modern instrument
of locomotion, after all the efforts
of altruists have failed to woo them
from their racial and social isola
tion. Curious descendants of the
Saracens, dwelling for centuries
among highly civilized peoples whose
customs they refused to absorb, they
the speed
implies.
mania and all Chat it
Warren G. Harding's birthday
falls on election day this year, while
Calvin Coolidge was born on the
Fourth of July. It seems to us that
a first class astrologer ought to be
able to work out a horoscope on this.
A committee of Russians Is
coming over to study the American
"proletariat," who, it is safe to pre
dict, will not be found doing forced
lubor at the order of any autocrat
of the soviet.
There Is a definite teacher short
age, notwithstanding the plenitude
of applications for positions in some
cities. Teachers have also refused
to listen to the song of back to the
land.
TASTE IX FICTION.
Rhoda Broughton, who died the
other day at the age of eighty, was
an Knglish novelist who also had a
wide- vogue in America. Her work
is a reminder of the fleeting nature
of so much of the fiction that rates
for a time in the best-seller class
but after a few "years is superseded.
A generation or so ago Miss Brough
ton's complete works were to be
found in every local library. Now it
is hardly worth while to look for
more than "Red as a Rose Is
She," or, possibly, "Cometh Up as a
Flower." The latter carries the sub
title "An Autobiography," and be
cause most librarians have a passion
for biography and preserve it as
reverently as history, it probably
owes its survival to a tradition of
cataloguers rather than to any espe
cial merit of its own.
Yet it would be easy to construct
a plausible argument in support of
the proposition that the author has
done as much as ought to be ex
pected of him who has succeeded in
entertaining his own generation. Miss
Broughton was born in the same
year as was Louisa de la Ramee,
ephemerally famous as Ouida, and
was also a contemporary of Margaret
Hungerford, "The Duchess." On this
side of the Atlantic her popularity
was shared with such writers as
Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth and
Mrs. Amelia Barr. These were a
quartette who kept the printing
presses of two continents busy for
the better part of more than half a
century. It is hard to classify thenx
with respect to the literary quality
of their writings but they do furnish
a rather accurate picture of the
middle-class literary taste of their
time. They bridged a wide gap be
tween the non-readers and those
possessing critical perception. They
v.ere not realists in any sense per-
A New York couple who entered
into a marriage by contract out of
desire to avoid publicity know now
that doing an unusual thing is no
way of keeping out of the news.
An eminent physician reminds us
that the human system will seldom
tolerate its fifth consecutive cup of
strong coffee. Neither, say we, will
the average human purse.
The city that has to account for
its decline in population by admit
ting that it stuffed the returns in
1910 is making the worst of a bad
job.
The late Dr. Hyslop's estate is
appraised at $5000, showing that he
at least received no tips on the
markets from the vale beyond.
The Elwell murder mystery is
rapidly getting into a class with the
aflair of Charley Ross and the man
who struck Billy Patterson.
taining to the life they wrote about
delegates from that country, Britain, ; passed the perfect poem ia hig trees, tut .they were very realistic in their
With a candidate whose middle
name is Gamaliel, there is another
incentive for brushing up on knowl
edge of scriptural matters.
In connection with the phrase "a
pretty kettle of fish." meaning "a bad
mess." it is related that years ago the
warder of the tower of London in
sisted that one of the inalienable per
quisites of his office was the right to
trap fish for his own use in the river
just outside one of the gates.
The warder regularly placed in the
water a fishing basket, or "kid-lie,"
which the people systematically raid
ed, denying his right to catch fish
there. The, warder, on discovering
this interference, would exclaim each
time: "A pretty kiddle of fish."
Lord Lindsay's party, while wan
dering among the Egyptian pyramids.
found a mummy which from the hier
oglyphics on the sarcophagus con
taining tne body, was supposed to be
3(00 years old. When the. mummy
was ' unwrapped, a small root was
found in one of the hands. In order
to learn how long vegetable seed-life
could exist, the bulb was taken from
that hand, which had been closed fur
3000 years, and planted in a sunny-
soil. In tim-i it sprouted, blooming
into a beautiful tree. F. H. Cheley in
"Stories for Boys."
Lloyd George, Britain's, prime min
ister, is an able French scholar, and
the story of how he mastered the lan
guage is not without interest. The
death of his father had left the fam
ily penniless, and the future states
man was brought tip in the family of
an old uncle, who was a shoemaker in
a little Welsh village. There was
not opportunity of learning French in
the village, and yet young Lloyd
George, considered a knowledge of
French necessary to his future suc
cess. The way he got out of the dif
ficulty was for his old uncle and hiin
telf to sit for hours laboriously spelling-out
of an old French dictionary
and out of a grammar the rudiments
of the language.
The feasts prepared by Montene
grins, when weddings are celebrated,
overshadow the most elaborate ef
forts along that line in America, says
Edna Worthley Underwood. in a
translation of a story. "Furor Illyri
cus," by A. Von Vestendorf. Two
serving maids and the head of the
house enter with huge, four-cornered
bottles. One little drink and a dried
fig open the meal. This is a custom
to banish the taste of cigarettes,
which are always in evidence. The
heavy, thick, ink-black wfne of Lissa
is then poured, and the diners choose
their favorite morsels from plates,
after which sugared eggs are passed
around. This is Just the beginning
of the banquet, which is followed by
minestra, baked macaroni. with
hashee made from the entrails of
young lambs, fowl roasted in sugar,
small barboni baked tn oil. baked ink
fish with citron, pullets cooked with
fresh vegetables, and beef served on
huge platters. Wine flows In abund
ance, and boisterous laughter and
loud talking prevail. The banquet is
closed with a special dish, after
champagne has been served. A roast
lamb is brought in on a wooden plat
ter, and put near the lower end of the
large table. With a lordly gesture
the master of ceremonies steps for
ward, and with a large knife, ground
as thin as a hair, chops the lamb into
four pieces with two strokes. The
guests cover their eyes with the edge
of the tablecloth while this cere
mony is performed, after which the
meal la officially over. The women I
continue to eat cakes and fruit, but
the men spend the remainder of the
time drinking.
ly some great
of man
To hold his torch, though tiny,
on high.
To plead tor nobler things that God
has planned.
To pit ad for nobler deeds that shall
not die:
Ah! Those who are entrusted with
the light
Should hold aloft their lamps with
zeal impassioned.
That when the race ends sadly in the
night.
The llamc may burn on altars that
God fashioned.
gray
HIS MOTHER'S SMILIO.
Just a brave little smile on a
little face.
As she lifted her eyes to htm.
And a big, brave err.ile from his boy
ish lips.
Flashed back in the starlight dim;
Then, the sound of the train down the
canyon road
And the clang of its ringing bell.
Then the two brave smiles were met
in one
In the doughboy's last farewell.
"You are going a weary road, my
boy.
And 1 know you must travel light.
But, pack away for your ha.dest
tasks
A smile from your home tonight."
Then he tucked away his mother's
smile
Down close to his boyish heart
And hurried away on the outbound
train
To do a strong man's part.
Just a long, gray line in the misty
dawn
And the night dews dripping low.
And a fierce, brave charge on the
Prussian front
As into the fight they go;
Then a long, low whine from a Ger
man shell
And the snap of a hidden gun.
And darkness fell on bright young
lives
Ere their day had well begun.
Just a brave little smile on a gray-
young face.
'Twas her smile he wore that day.
The one he had kept so close to his
heart
Since the night he went away.
Just a brave, bright smile on a gray
old face.
And a service tar of gold.
And the liaht of a gift that will still
b young
When the stars in the sky grow old.
And she lifts her face to the smiling
blue.
For he seems not far away.
And proudly she wears the smile he
cave
On the nicht he went away.
KLIZABKTH K. SHERWOOD.
It will take a good many of those
"marked reductions in sugar" to
bring the staple to the friendly level
of those pre-war days.
" This is the first season we recall
when one couldn't tell the difference
between a new and an old potato
by the price.
The convention that gave Bryan
an ovation and then turned down his
appeal may have been indulging In
dry humor.
How unutterably long these vaca
tion months do not seem to ambi
tious young. Americans!.
TUB IXSl F'FICIENT LIGHT
The brightest light attracts the moth.
it flutters there to perish:
Thus he beheld one glittering flame
no softer light to cherish:
Thoush one was rosy liued with love,
he failed its warmth to note
And passed in careless haste a lamp
where student delved and wrote.
He forfeited his strength and youth to
reach the golden flame
He fonnd its source at life's high noon
and paused his gold to claim.
Remembering now- the rosy gleam, he
turned but was it fate
That whispered to him mockingly,
you are too late, too late!
And then he thought to buy with gold,
but youth the thing he sought
And time to live it o'er again, with
gold could not be bought:
No satisfaction in his life from knowl
edge did abound
And as the flame consumed the moth
thus him asleep they found.
And rumor whispered that his hand
procured the sleeping draught.
The throng said thus it could not be,
"why he had gold" they laughed;
Xone paused to ask what he had not
but to the same cold gleam
As heedless as the flutecring moth
flowed on the human stream.
JEANKTTE MARTIN.
This little list of "tremendous
trifles" is given by F. H. Cheney in
his "Stories for Talks to Boys": The
COMING BACK.
A-trampin" o'er the desert eands o'
Portland's busy streets
A Shriner by the name o' Smith quite
recently I meets.
An' says to him. "Oh. Smithy, de-sw.
wherever have you been.
With all your gay regalia and panta
loons so green?'"
Said Smithy, "I've beu to Tl.-e Oaks,
a-havin' a goodTaime.
glass lemon squeezer made $30,000 for i The wa" that we've been entcrvained
tbe inventor.
The roller skate has paid $1,000,000
in royalties.
The suspender garter patent was
sold for $50,000.
Wooden shoe pegs earned $500,000
in royalties.
The automatic ink well has netted
$200,000.
The ball and socket glove fastener
has passed the million mark.
The return ball toy, a rubber ball
on a rubber string, yielded $300,000
a year in royalties for a number
years.
is something quite sublime.
They've done the very best they cooi!d
To wear my carcus out.
But what's the use of feelin' sore or
goin' on a pout?
We've marched around from day to
day and far into the night.
And seen the sights and rode in ours
it sure was a delight.
And then the eat3 I say. old man.
you know that they were fine?
And many a home In Portland here
I've wished that could he mine.
And if 1 can before next fall, and I
can have my say.
I'm goin' to quit my Job back there
here to stay.
1 III OI II lO I U 1 I
and comin"