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X i Cli .... V4 DAILY i IE JOURNAL AN INLrTEMTNT SEWSrATER. JACKSON:.' . . rubllrner i -.Ki-HmI fvc-y earning (eeept Sunday) as p.... t Kittn1.lv mm-Tiitii. ! Th JrmrnHl DUijU- '"'jr.ji.-'Flfih and iuhi!l atwts. I-crtUnd. Or. JtT-ri t tha pontofflra lit rortlaBd. '--t,ir UAnnutuiou. uirooga tua win ma wiuun-vw" matter. I! I ErnoNES -.Maln T173: Horn. A-"M. Ail department, reached fcr Ihe number. Till the oparator what department you want. HiRKIGS ADVERTISING BETRESFNTATIVB, Heiiimln A KentniTr Co.. Btiniawlrk Failrtlnax. ti'5 1 If tb areiiue. New Vork; 1007-08 Boyce jtdlidlnf, CMcaco. ... i Kutmerlptlon Terma hy" mail or to any addrM Id tb I'nltetf State. Caned or Mexico: . -.. ''.. .. :'. i ,.. . DAILY, ' ' . On year. 00 I On month.'. t .SO SUNDAY. ' On year $2.50 t One month...,-. '...I ,15 ' DAILY AND SUNDAY. T " ', On year..... ...IT.BO I One month........! .Ki KICKING A0AIX8T THE PRICKS v V HEX THE voters of Oregon in declare by their '.;'; ballots y y - their choice among candl- dates (or office, that declar ation is absolutely decisive and final with one, exception. That-expep-tion Is the United States senator. The man named by the people for this office Is not legally-dieted until the legislature has ratified the people's action. Indeed it 'even lies in the power of the legislature to override the will of the people and to elect as senator some man who could not command the support of one toter out of fifty.' To protect themelves from such defiance of their will the people have but one weapon and that weapon is Statement No. 1. f By means of Statement No. 1 the people secure to themselves the right to elect United States senators, just as they ; elect congressmen, govern ors, legislators nd all others who serve them In public office. They put an end to the corruption and d ebauchery which In r'tne past has commonly attended election of sena tor by legislature, and in a decent, cpan, orderly manner they namte- the man who shall fill the Office. That is all there Is to Statement No. 1. ..' No political : party has any Just ground to fear the election of sena tors by the people. - True, Statement Vo- 1 la a distinct menace to the bosses and ."leaders" who" scheme and contrive to betray the people and to override; their will. But these men are not the party. They are the foes of the party to which they profess allegiances They cause ulti mately the downfall of. the party which submits to their guidance. The Republican party has been successful only so far as it has' been responsIveXto the people's will. . How can it hope-Nfor success when It de fies that wllr? Here In Oregon a Republican newspaper Is Inculcating the monstrous doctrine that here- after the pnp1n phali nnt h Hrtwf d-f lo prevail, that the Republican party must not bow in future to the peo ple's J11 and, thaf Statement No., 1 , must be Overthrown' and eliminated. It is hard to comprehend the fatuous folly which dictates such utterances. It is strange that a newspaper can be found '..to"-- array itself thus - openly against the fundamental principle of popular rule upon which our gov-, eminent is founded. The course, which the Oregonlan Ib advocating will bring defeat and disaster upon allwbo follow it. No party is greater than the people. No party can safe ly defy the people. V Vhe party which attempts this "will stay Impotent and will die. And.it ought then to die. ' THE NEXT APPORTIONMENT IT IS HINTED that the Sixty-second congress may not be much increased in membership by the new apportionment . that will take place next winter under the cen sus of this year. The house is an unwieldy body already and probably would legislate better if smaller In stead of larger, but there will be . heavy pressure for greater represen tatlon, and the membership will doubtless be increased somewhat. Oregon want another member and will of course Join in this demand. - In the, first congress there was a representative for- every 30,000 in habitants, negroes in the south being enumerated at three fifths of their actual strength. There were but 65 members.' In J 790 33,000 was fixed upon as the number of constituents in each district, and 10 years later no change was made, although by this time growth of population had .raised the roll call to 142. Since that time there' has been a disposition to enlarge the individual representa tive's influence by making him re sponsible, with each recurring de cade, to a larger array of voters. As nearly aa practicable, the constituency-is fixed now at 194. m," "the roster showing 391 members. ; THE DAVENPORT LETTER qpIMOTHY DAVENPORT declines I to support George H. Burnett, I candidate f,or supreme judge. Both are Republicans. Both re long time "friends. ' But Mr. Dav enport in his open letter to Judge Burnett . frankly Insists, in effect, that any man who accepts an assem- . bly nomination to a Judgeship ought not to be elected. He urges that the hostility to the direct primary and other popular forms, as made manifest In the acceptance of such a nomination, - in effect, . disqualifies nny Judge from giving a fair inter pretation of the law. His argument carries with it the idea that in the Wind of isueh a judge there would j be preconceived ; prejudices against the direct primary, direct election and direct legislation, and that only a hostile state of mind would be with such a Judge as he would pu reed with the interpretation of these 1 measures. ju'U. U a candidate for the position of Justice of the highest court io the Mate, the points rnisoi by Mr. Day enport are worthy of serious ton sidcrEiiion.- No matter what may be the past. record of Mr. Burnet); as a jurist, or his standing. as a citizen, his action in giving countenance to an assem bly that the' legislature refused to legalize has to be taken into account. Judge Burnett knows that the prl mary law was passed to rid the state of machine government. He knows that the assembly, is an attempt to go back to machine government. A He knows that it Is hostile to the spirit and intent of the primary law. More than any other man, a candidate for the high office I of supreme Judge should set.an example In maintaining the dignity and majesty of the law. More than any other man, .Judge Burnett should,:by his personal and public acts, reflect respect and obe dience to the law and public order. In seeking a nomination, he should have cone straight to the, people whom the primary law designates as the assembly. Judge Burnett In identifying himself , with the assem- bly movement fully justifies -all and more than Mr. Davenport has said in criticism of his candidacy. The incident is one to challenge the at tention of all thinking citizens. , STUDYING MONKEY XANGUAGB P' ftOFESSOR GARNER has emerged from the tropical Jun gles o? -Africa, after two years' wanderings among the monkeys and other Inhabitants of that region and has brought back many phonoc graphic records of monkey language and lore, hut he has not as yet brought us much nearer to learning or appreciating or making practical use of the- monkey language which was what, we believe Professor Gaf ner went out for. It is stated that when he set out. on the expedition he was already in. possession of four sounds and their respective mean ings. Now this : vocabulary is ex panded to nine. There are 28 sounds in the language, he says, but he com prehends only the meaning of nine. To & Chicago Baptist minister who Interviewed him off Cape v Lopez, West Africa, he said that the ape sounds he has learned are used al most wholly to express pain, hunger and, joy; that he understands when the monkeys call to him from a iree, and that he can call to them, 'but that this is the extent of his con versational ', powers in the Inonkey language. ' A .; A year-old female chimpanzee can select and identify colors, and shows other signs of intelligence, hut her language is "shy.". Perhaps what is needed for the professors and mon keys to understand one another bet ter is Esperanto. JQfessor Garner-doea--Botr-hMrevft monkeys of anf .extant type to have been ' the Immediate? progenitors of man; but he believes that some day the discovery of the "missing link" will come with the finding of skele tons. He thinks dogs and horses are not as Intelligent as the chimpanzee. He is an Interesting man and nearly one sixth of his life has been con sumed It a hermit-like existence in Africa, which he has devoted to the study of the apes and monkeys, at times spending his nights in a steel cage in the forest, where, he could listen to the animals all night with-' out danger of being set upon and rent limb from limb. . . Such studies and the knowledge gained from them1 and imparted to the world, are of much Interest and some value. Professof Garner has not been, able to identify monkey language particularly with the lan guages of civilized human Jielngs, but he has at least told some interesting and entertaining things about our possible progenitors,, the monkeys WOMAN'S DRESS E' VERY" SHIFT or twist of fem inine attire becomes Important a matter of news. So the "hobble" or "tube" skirt. Is much . discussed. Women in this country and of all so-called highly civilized countries, are slaves of fash ion, but in this Instance the latest style appears to be anything but new. A writer who has spent a good deal of time in the South Sea islands says; "Everywhere on country highways in the islands one meets native wo men of" color, shoeless and sockless. paddling along the dusty road. ThelH waist line Is merely Indicated by a belt of ample span as the point where their skirts begin. At some Interme diate point between the belt and the bottom of the skirt they wear a stout cord, sometimes a f ragment of clothes line. In their travels across country they frequently ford streams, or-tra-verse expanses of tall grass soaked with the heavy dew of the tropic's morning and evening. Whenever the occasion requires they pull - their skirts high enough to clear the wet or the brambles and hold them In place by tightening their "hobble" cords. Although the consequence Is a rather liberal display of nature unadorned, the skirts are kept dry. But the cord compels them to resort to a peculiar gait and presently we may see our ladles of high sodety In dulging the 'hobbling glide after the fashion of the West Indian women." It may be disturbing to the fem inine mind to learn that the latest thing in dress comes originally from the South Seas and not from Paris. Doubtless there are other styles prev alent in that part of jthe world which could be transplanted with .equally startling effect." The idea is certain ly worth the consideration of the ihodiBtes. ' .. Fred J. Bradv had a virv unendv efter entering the legislative race, he withdrew. Like Dr. L.' M., Davis, Brady was one of the Statement N. ' 1 mrmbcrs of th. List lrcil:it nro. ' hut "wobbled" at the crucial mo ment Ilis final conclusion that he will not seek another term was. em-, inently prudent and may serve as a ; .... . , t , , useful hint to Dr; Davis. COUNTRY NOISKS I ANY CITY people complain of noises -of streetcars, automo biles, steam whistles, milk wagons, : dray horses, and other things and have at times longed and sighed for the quiet -of the country; but a man was heard the other day to say that he had come to. town to stay awhile to es cape the noises of the country. He said that the frogs, the crickets and the katydids tortured him beyond en- dnrance. Besides, there was the low ing of cows, the cackling of hens and lh'?. rustling of ripe grain stalki AH this bothered him, and did not per mit hfm to sleep. So he came back to town and has taken a' room in.a house on a corner where two street car lines pass: . LET THE EARTH REJOICE T HE GOVERNMENT'S August re port on the corn crop is en couraging. Corn will still be the king of crops, and almost If not quite the largest crop of that cereal ever produced in this country will be harvested this fall. Th'j wheat crop, in spite of earlier ad verse reports,- will probably be tlw second largest'ln the history of the country. Barley, oats, hay and most other products are making. plentiful yields. The comet did no harm. The earth produced well even in spite of the tariff. It is the bountiful har vest time. Let the earth rejoice,; No great public improvement was ever undertaken without encounter ing opposition. . There .were moss backs who objected to the construc tion of the Bull Run pipe line. There are other mossbacks who object to public docks. But,ln matters of this kind the people can be trusted to de cide.; ..: ,- ,..;.,..'.'' The horrible Democrats, some 7 or 9 of them, are making combina tions and plots again. Shouldn't the traitorous "wretches be hanged? But could anybody be proved to be a Democrat? If you do not have time io go; to the courthouse during the day, regis ter in the evening. The county clerk's office Is open until 9 p. m. It is nearly time 'for Con gressman Ellis to intimate that he was always inclined to oppose Can non. 1 i, t Congressman Hawlev Is savlnsc on Ws travels1 that hefisttfe of win ning, i,Tbey all say that. Jeffries did. ' ' . If anybody doubted that Roosevelt could ride a broncho, he is an Ana nias and an undesirable citizen. ' The corrupt practices act Is a good law and should be snstalned. It bias stopped a lot of skulfAiggery, Roosevelt never felt quite as much at home as he does now out in the wild and woolly west. It is hinted that Mr. McCamant's votes will be rather easily counted. It rained; hurrah! It rained, and yet It did not rain too much yet. Somehow, everybody Is pleased to Bee and hear Teddy. 1 The Fading Party Lines. From the Milwaukee Journal. -The people of Wisconsin care little for the husks of party names, but they value the substance of political prin ciple, -There-are--thousands -of - Demo crats who are convinced that Senator Ia Follette is at this time doing a greater service for the state and nation and for the principles of progressive Democracy than could: bo done even by a Democrat. For he, can get a hear ing where a like "plea from Democratic Hps would fall upon deaf ears. It Is not a question of party - Wltlr them. They want -results achievement." They perceive that the Insurgent Republi cans are breaking away from the high tariff, monopolistic connection, and ser vice to the special interests, which have made the Republican party the servant of Big Business, and are seeking W re store it to its original mission of "mak ing free men instead of rich." The Insurgent Republicans may not suc ceed in their efforts to wrench the con trol of their party from the grasp of the special interests, but whether they succeed or fall, they are loosening the hold of privilege upon government They are making inevitable the reduc tion of the tariff to a basis that will largely, if not wholly, eliminate' Its monopoly Increment. They" are' com pelling a recognition of the fact- that' tne interests oi me great ooay oi no people are paramount to the interests of the possessors of a few swollen' for- tunes.; They are making clear the factSjt'ans ; "ia3r be pulverized with a nut that the people may rule If they will cast aside the 'trammels of party when occasion demands." --.'. ;; La Pollgtte. ' From the Kansas City Star, s iThe biggest and most Important Indi vidual contest of tbls important polit ical, year 1s that in. which Senator La Follette of Wisconsin is defending the seat he has filled with distinguished courage and .hon.or. The most aggres sive of the pioneer Insurgents, and one of the most resourceful leaders In the national progressive movement. La Fol lette is more hated by the standpatters than any of his fellows. ' Probably more money from outside the state? Is used in the effort to defeat La Follette than has ever been employed to defeat a sen ator for renominatlon. And within the state rich men including La Follette's Immediate colleague. Senator -Stephenson, are contributing generously to the opposing campaign. . , Feeling, has run so high that it Is accepted that the stand patters would prefer to see a Democrat or a Socialist succeed Ia Follette rather than have the passionate .insurgent re nominated and reelected. ttniTl ; f 'w rjrjffrntrnwrrnarwisgonHin tan repudiate L Follette without very grievously die crediting lfself. r. That state now occu pies an enviable ilace In the progressive 2 yen is' leadership onslit tins attained .eminence for its exemplary state laws, : esneolallv for tlioso r.-inln i in a- r r r 1 1 it r a , Hons. It bas l.pen ketit In the liinelieht I of envied publicity throuch I. Foiletta s tand and nggrrssive course in the neimle. It has witnessed the growth of Insurgency In other states, especially In Minnesota, Jowa, Kansas and Nebraska, largely through the early and continu ous efforts or Its distinguished states man. I Follette has been the leading evangelist of the Insurgent cause. ' Those Democrats and Socialists who have hitherto given him their support would not do credit to themselves If they should unite at this time with standpat Republicans, greedy corpora tions and the predatory trusts to defeat this man. "The renominatlon of such a man should be regarded as a matter of course; his defeat would be paraded by the standpatters as the conversion- of Wisconsin to. their doctrine and as a blow to tha whole progressive cause. This construction would be put on the defeat of La Follett no matter who his successor might be. no .matter to which party or parties that successor would owe allegiance- And because of-4h-peculiar significance of the result of the September primaries in Wisconsin, na tional attention will be focused on that state as It was on Kansas In lt test of insurgency.' , , Letters From tLe People Latter to The Journal ahould t "Written ont aide of th paper only and abonld be aeeom panted by the nam and sddreaa of the writer. The Bam will cot be used If tb writer ak( that It be withheld. The Jonrnal la not to be nnderatoud aa Indoralog the vlewa or autemeat f eorreapondent. Utters ahould be made aa brief aa poeslble- Thoas who wiab their letters returned when not used' ahould lncloae poatac. Corraapondenta --.ere notified that letter ex ceeding 300 word. Id length may, at the dla. eretlou of the. editor, be cut dowa U that Umlt ' . No pessimist .Portland. Aug. 26. To the Editor of The Journal -Yesterdays . editorial, 'Pessimistic Predictions," and the like always amuses me people reasoned that way long ago Jesus went out tn a desert place, and a great multitude fol lowed hlro. , (There must have been an other multitude that did not follow him. because they did not see where the feed was coming from). And when, it was past chewing time, a disciple was going t$ se,n.d them away, wh-en the unexpected happened. Jesus took five loaves and two fish and divided them up Uld fed the multitude and after they had all eaten there was gathered up much, more scran tlian they had grub to commence with. Then Jesus got into a ship and told the fishermen where to cast the net, and they gathered two shiploads of salmon, and there was as many more In the net . . . .. ,The lesson 1 jdraw from this ,1s: Be natural, look out for today. Other gen erations, will look out for tomorrow. When a.11 the coal and Iron Is gone "and all the oil, timber and gas - has went with them, then as long as they have vegetation they ' can make alcohol for fuel, and there is inexhaustible beds of clay of which aluminum is made, and they cap make cement and aluminum houses. . 1 ; While th sua shine humanity will get along. When the sun cools off and ceases to shine ,then will it be endless night, and the temperature will go dawn to 500 degrees below ro, and the air will solidify and be tough like iron, and there will be no joy in life. ' p. w. BRITTS. jA,dvlce;to Campers. 'J, t".- - Prom Harper's! . Weekly .'f you haji' no woodp coSe at.hand if whlchHto pftchi yflur-; tat. foid tt np carefully and, going up to the top story of your! bouse, pitch It out of the win dow. '"-,'.'..'' I ;.. . ;- Lma,- hi rti,? vn,Trnthr easily carried about with your .other , impedimenta; -you are advised not to take them to the Adlrondacks with you, owing to the poor quality of the gas supplied by thS guides, . most of which la conversational,-and not at all suit able for fuel. If yorir. tent inate is addicted to snoring, an army blanket or a mackin tosh thrown over his head will serve materially to deaden the . sound.. If these are not successful in providing relief, try a mattress. If In the middle of tjie night a big black bear enters your te"nt,and shows a disposition to . share It with you, be courteous and kind, and do not try to e.lrct him. Rather let him have the whole tent, that his rude nature - may thus receive a 'lesson in unostentatious courtesy. - If your tent . leaks and you have no repair kit handy, a very good tenir pcrary expedient Is a porous plaster placed over the punctured spot, or If you have -jio porous plaster with you. get your guide to make a few buck' wheat- qakes of extra thickness to be us-ed instead. 'In. camping out be very careful of your draughts. In fact, it "is welt to arrange sir ; such mat ters before,, leav ing " home. A sight-draught presented in the depths of the woods is apt to find you unprepared. If the -'ground is not 'level sleep with your hesd above your feet. If In addi tion to this you do not feel that .your tent mate is on the -level, you would better not sle.ep at all If you have so much portable property that you cannot tie It to your toes. . When shutting up for the nlaht be careful to close your own mouth as well! as the tent flaps. Gnats and June bugs taken, internally!- are even more disagreeable than when used for ex ternal application only. If by somo mischance your pillow has been left at home, a nice well-bred Newfoundland dog will make a fairly acceptable; substitute, though your best expedient is to, stuff your flannel shirt Into your bunting trousers and sleep on that Should you use the dog, however, be careful - to remove the bark before 'going .to-sleep,' lest It disturb you during-the night.- Should ou find that in the hurrv of getting your things together you nave put . in the ice cream freezer in stead of the coffee grinder, the coffee cracker or ground between two flat iroma Lacking these,, fill the barrels of your' shotgun with the beans and fire the contents against a stone wall, gathering.' the grounds up afterward with an ordinary shovel. If at the end of a day's carry you find that the only camping spots in sight are marshy, a Turkish or Persian riigsspread on the suface of the swamp will serve to protect you somewhat from the damp, unless the marsh is alt water, when, you would better climb a tree and sleep in the higher branches. An. Improvised bell to summon your guide at night can be made of a tin dipper,' -with your gold watch . hung by its chain from the center of the cup for a clapper. '- This will give forth a strong metallic ..sound not dissimilar to the rhythmic chiming; of a cow bell,, and will be quite Useful as a time saver If you are careful to adbpt a system of signals Indicating your wishes, as,' for instance: v One bell., v., ... A pitcher- of ioe water Two bellH. ......... .The morning paper Three bells, .......... .A mosquito net Four hells. ........... A pony pf Ipecac Five bells . ..Volume J Encyclopaedia Brltanijlca Six bells.... A conv of Moody's Re f1"" "" tu KJlH "euus.... Some -Lambert '..chert-tea raised nesr Clatuksnle measured 3 inches each In ulrcumfoience, , , s causo. .ThrouKh th (f La Foiled.-, Wi COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGS 'TViS Clouds look good. Now for another harvest the hops. . It's also a great orop of money. ; " - Nobody ''votes t he ticket" any more. Harvest time is never over in Oregon. ;' .- - Let 'er rain, . even If it wets the hops. . - , Ellis has always had more luck than stnse. ' : . . . , Go down to AstoVIa and, have somo fUn and sea air, - , i t ;:.. ; Nobody enjoys a vacation more than a handsome policeman. . - . It rained but not enough to hurt er help much, so far. ' Well, this ts - the' week to register; let's make it about 50,000. The grangers and other voters' are prttty well "advised' all right. , It was another Sunday in which any on could be glad to be alive, . ' . , .-'..; ---' v ,, , ..'V;.: . ',: ' . Roosevelt can still ride a bronco, but rot, we'll bet, like he could 25 years ago. ' - T' J',:r;-."' ' .. 't-:;.''.' '.. ."': A . man doesn't have to own an auto mobile to be either respectable or fairly rich.. " ... 1 A Republican nomination, In some cases, law no longer "equivalent to an election.":.:- ,. Jt is a fortunate thing for the coun try that some people i really like to pick hops. American insurgents, however, are of a little different brand from those in Nicaragua., . But Mr. McCamant could have de- ciined. Or would that have been un-fA constitutlonal? "Sunny" Jim wasn't In ; the Indian scandal. There Is always something wonderful or curious happening. . a . ' The' way Chairman Geofge and Wlll Isms and the rest ; of the assemblyite bunch are working for, Bourne is one of the -wonders of modern politics. , August 29 in History John Loclce Today Is the birthday of the eminent English philosopher, John Leka, whose Wonderful "Essay on the Human Under standing", was the first work which at tracted attention in Englandvto meta physical speculation. The chief pur pose, of th.s "essay" was to find the original sources and,- scope of human knowledge. The 'conclusions neLarrived at in this study were that there is no such thing as an "innate idea;" that the human mind is a sheet of white paper, prepared to be written upon; that the knowledge thereon written is supplied by experience, and that "sensation" and "reflection" are the two sources of all our Ideas. . John Locke was born in sn atmos phere of purltanlsm. but his whole life was a battle against the enemies of freedom in worship and freedom from every unnecessary political restraint Wrlngton, England, and 1632 was the place and dateiof his birth, and Gates, -England. October S8T'lT04. Ut plaee anfr date of his death.. His father was a cap tain la the Parliamentary armyf and fought, for the principles of the Puri tans, f John waa reared in - this en vjfon menV but,, be was at. School WhlW -the contest raged. . He was educated at Christ Church college,. Oxford, and was a student for many years through the necessity of the times when he would .OM . vm.i-, .n.tntanert broader acquaintance ilea. J , iji vi v i via With men ofactlon. When a youhg man he gained the favor of Lord Ashley, afterward Earl of Shaftesbury. Locke was the first who correctly diagnosed this noble man's trouble- for he had etudied med icine for a considerable time which was due to an abcess in the chest, and the operation that i Locke recommended is supposed to hove saved .Msra Asnieys life. The result was a close and per manent friendship between the two men. Locke lived at Ashley a house In London and met there the most distinguished characters of the time. He superin tended the ' education of the nobleman's son and grandson. At the bidding of Ashley Locke drew up the fundamental laws of Carolina in America which had been, granted to. his patron' and seven others, and it is note worthy " that the philosopher, while in corporating in his scheme of, govern ment. the complete, religious , tolerance was careful to preserve the principles of aristocracy and monarchy. Locke was a very practical man. Lord . Ashley became -i the -Earl - of Shaftesbury and lord Chancellor, and Locke was' appointed to a place in the government. Afterward, when Shartes miry was charged with high treason and took refugo In Holland many devices . ..The Perfect Woman. v v From the Boston Globe, . Not the Venus da Mllo nor the Venus de Medici mere symbolic creations in etone-8hall hereafter be taken for the model of physical perfection. A Bos ton girl will have that distinction. Dr. Sargent-has pronounced -her r the-.most perfect of her sex, , Poets and wooers have all seen the absolutely perfect '-woman. Painters and sculptors also ; have , beheld ' her. Laura was perfection to Petrarch, Juliet perfection to Romeo, Phryiie perfection to Praxiteles,- and - Andrea Del Barto, called the perfect painter saw per fection in one who, to say the least, was not a perfect lady. Other artists and bards, If we take them" at their word, have found more than one perfect specimen of womanhood. Dr. Johnson's wife was , not in the premier -class physically or mentally, buts old . Sam thought his "darling,, dainty Hetty'' all that could bet desired, f Poets and artists van see Helen's beautjrin. a brow of Egypt, so Shake speare says. Burns ' made goddesses out of freckle-faced lassies, and Shelley, Keats and. De Musset , worshiped idols who had feet Of clay. .. f . -.';''" ; -But Dr.; Sargent Is hot; of that'class of idolators. He comes not with lyre or palette to the ahrlne of beauty.. He comes with a tape measure, and sen timental reasons do not Influence him to add one cubit of physical; charm to or take one tfubit of physical beauty from any specimen of . human archi tecture, i " t . ,'; : . : ' ' Poets and artists may bejdaffy, but the cold calculating eye of tha physi cal expert Is rational to the thousandth part of. an Inch. ! Woman, lovely woman, though your shoulder may be a mar vel of symmetry and your chin dimpled by the. very thumbnail of Cupldr you cannot get a certificate from Dr. Sar gent unless all your measurements jibe. Woman, lovely woman, you may be as coquettish as Cleopatra, you 'may have hair like that of Mary, queen of Scots, a hln like Mona Lisa's or a neck like Lily. Langtry's, still you are not in the premier class unless you pass the test of the expert's yardstick. ,A rosebud mouth, a Ions: evelnsh. a neonv -cheek feet a. poet or a love-struck swain, but not the physical' assayer of feminine rharmsv Ho is as impartial hh the rain that falls un the Just and the unjust. - NEWS IN BRIEF- OREGON SIDELIGHTS Paving Is going on briskly. In Grants Pass. It Is s bumper fruit crop In Rogue JJ'f'"''" .!, , , . river vailev . I' went stone blind, did this lonely hard, r ' ? a (And he murmured low, "I am dying The Douglas county farmer Is a happy j hard. . man these days, says the News. Burnperl .,..,.. , r, ' , , , . crops and sky-bigh prices for all kinds f, ilf.JPBUinle,1.?.t ,h 18 f-.eK of produce make theT "man with a lioe" "t,n,Te,o'u l - 1luml ih." Btrpet- wear a pleasant smile. '' With three separate railroad survey ing parties running lines Into the,Sliis law country, It -would seem that king bottled-up section Is to be uncorked soon, remarks the Eugene Guard. - Out of a class of 91 school teachers in 'Marlon county 40 failed to get pa pers. In Lane county at the recent ex amination but four out pf 123 failed to Ket papers. Ine is "he educational renter of the state, remarks the Eugene Register. . ,::? .'. ',: '!".":V.''--''i;-.l:.'. There are not enough small tracts, says the Salem Statesman. The colonist rates will be in force1 from September 15 to October 16, and there will be thou- sands of new people in t)regon. many of th;m looking for land in small parcels. Divide up the large farms, and kep on dividing them. y - i - ? - The spurt of fish which came Into the river during Saturday night and Sun day, aved the packers on the Columbia several thousands of' dollars as .well as enabled the fishermen : to Increase their catches to such . an extent that their earnings for he season will be fully as large if not larger than last year, says the Astoria Budget. ' ..-,1 :,. ... ... :,; f if ..,, 0, " : Mts. Dell Ellis now holds -the record at Pacific City for catching big salmon. Last week while using a trolling line sbe hooked' a big fellow that objected to cap tivity, says the- Sheridan Sun.. .After much -playing with the line he was brought alongside the boat and with a fiowerful flop the fish landed -himself rwlde. He weighed 36 pounds and Mrs, Ellis Is justly proud of her big catch. A Corvallls horse lost a shoe as a re sult of softening and hardening- or trie paving.' It had stood in -one spot;r an hour or two When some extra bltli men on top had become very soft. .He let one foot remain in a spot. too long and the bitumen hardened up, catching the animal's hoof. . When the owner started to drive away the horse gave two or three hard tugs and left his shoe, -N . j r- - were employed to obtain from Locke an expression of sympathy with the exiled nobleman or of criticism of the govern ment, but the philosopher was too wary . KA Ihlt, AMtQ nrAA : '. Later he followed Shaftesbury to Hoi. landr and while he was there an effort was made to Identify hlra with the proj ect of the invasion of England by the Duke of Monmouth, but it was unsuc cessful. He was wise enough, however, to discern the elements of success In the revolution or ibhh, ana ne cast in nis fortunes with William of Orange and returned to .England. v . V lie spent his last years In studious leisure., -. : ' ' .' i ', ... The work for which "Locke !s most widely known Is the "Essay on the Hu man Understanding." Ha made the first sketch of It in 1670, when he was 88 years old, and finished It 17 years later. It waa published In 1S90- It was sug gested In a diseussfbn with five or six frlenrtw at pford. when the question Arose as to .what Subjects our under standings are or are not fitted to deal with. . - ,.--'. The object of the completed "Essay," whiSI wa tlv product of meditation con-J tlnued through many years, was loan quire into the origin, certainty and ex tent of human knowledge. The theory Is developed, that our natural .faculties are capable of forming every notion that we possess that the action of those fac ulties takes Its rise from experience, and that the mind may, therefore, be com pared to a Sheet of white paper vtild of all characters tilt the events of time In scribe them.. " The book was "bitterly attacked, and the celebrity of its, author as a friend of civil aitd religious liberty, with the attempts made at Oxford to prevent the students from reading the work, gave it an Immediate and extensive success. On August 29. 14, New Amsterdam surrendered to the English and became New York. It is the birthday of John Henry Lambert, the German philosopher (1728); Richard Kush, secretary of the, treasury tinder J..Q. Adams 1780); Wil liam G. Brownlow, "The Fighting Par son" (1800); Oliver .Wendell .Holmes, poet and author (1809); Joseph E.' Mac Donald, statesman kwown as "Old Sad dle Bags" (1819); George F. Hoar, the Massachusetts statesman (1826)i George W. McCrary, secretary Of war ;under Havea, and David Bennett Hill, the New York politician (1843). It n the date of the. beheading of John h Baptist Sd A. D.. and, of the death of Edmund Hoyle, author of the book of Games (1769); Joseph Wright the historical painter (1797); and Brlgham Young, the Mor mon leader (1877). , He speaks no-sentimental language. He talks as unpoetlcally of you as If he were speaking. of a lioness or a colt. To him you are a physical machanlsm that measures so and so. You are a mixture of elbows, wrists, arms, fore arms and other things. L-..Thie ordeal is an awfuone, and the wonder is that any woman should sur vive it. It Is ungallant, no doubt, and unromantlc. Most of us prefer to this frigid age of scientific accuracy the age When all the world was' young, lad, . And all the world was green, ,And every goose a' swan, lad, ! And every lass a queen. Perhaps Two Roods. ; . From the Eugene Guard. '-Th "mysterious"-surveying party at Junction Is no doubt a 8outhra Pacific outfit, and the move is In line with the! only; policy that - system has -eyr pur sued Evidently alarmed by the steady progress of the ALane County Asset company in promoting a. railroad from Eugene to the Sluslaw and Coos Bay, the Southern Pacific company is pre paring:, to block ' Its progress by mak ing a bluff at building Into the spme territory, t was the probability 6f a railroad frond Roseburg to Coos Bay about four years ago which caused the Harrlman people to make the sudden bluff about building fromDrain to Coos Bay, jmd the move at Junction ta a, play of the same kind. . If the South ern aeillc company was really in earn est and would build from Junction to the coast it would be a good 'thing ''in the way -nt devolclplng Lane county re sources, but no One will have any faith m tneir sincerity until they actually see that the people of this bounty will ognize now: is that the Lane County As- iklmos and Arctic reaches.- I'm thinking set company Is regarded as worth the! of the ice up there, of snowy trails and attention of the . Southern; Pacific, anditired explorers, who eat a slice of polsr that they have found It necessary to br, and wash It dqwn with -hair ta make at least a strenuous bluff In order storcrs. I'm thinking of. the sledge and to hd thera off. We predict, however, I raft, of storms with Whleh-brave men that it will require more than a mere 1 hav reckooed; I'm hlnktng of. the. gum bluff to- accomnllsh the ohtect aistio-hr 1 drop graft, and ..heat can't -bother me a nn rurtnermore.1, that l the-SnuthBisejnonajiataiumttJB-atMt 'HcTfTb. company, should so so far as tniand if we coddls 'em and pet .'em, they'll : actually blld the line there will be two (stlck like forty kinds of tnr,' but fads roads to the const frpm, .Lane county, I awy when we forget 'em. nno of which will bo built by the Lane! 1Q, . L-ounty Asset company. iiiilLiLErOOi By Miles Overholt THE STING OF DKATH. A lonely poet hecan tn dip. .v.. z' tir.'i ,,l,uu, " J . "Down thero things grow a foot in a aay. An old man ate his new false teeth. Then loving friends sent him a wreath ;'I m particular," said the poor old dub. 'Bout What I eat, so I 'chews' grub." my An old cow kicked a man to death,' - But he sadly said with his dying breath "It a a cow-yardly ttfck for a Holstela cow, But I'd finished milking anyhow." A train cut off a poor man's head, Also his legs, and left him dead. They picked him up a grewaome chunk, haid a man: ; "Just watch 'em pack his trunk.". '- . . Some ywhltecaps tortured v south..;-. . .. ' . . ,.- .. a- man down They put padlocks on his -ears and '' mouth. -. He had no paper, so he wrote on his sbeks: -"Bring me a brush while I comb my OH, THAT ACCOUNTS TOR IT, "I always understood that water seeks Its level," remarked JewhlUeken Jones. "It. sure does." said the oracle at the grocery store. . - - ' "Well, ln that Sense then, why do : a great numberof lawyers refuse to lava anything to do with each other?' - , -' "You .said something about water being on the level, didn't you,r' - PRACTICING 'AND PREACHING.. ' He read a lengthy treatise, and the audi." 'mvxtTce waa sore, : The heat was most intense the ale was bad,,..,.- ,.; .: The men folk In the corners fanned ' ' i themselves and, sadly swore, And the guy who owned the hall went f nearly mad; , , . The perfesser kept on reading In a ting song sort of way, Though everyone would give the pest . the can, , , - The fjubiert..of his lecture, we ar most ashamed to say, . :: ' ' as, "People's Inhumanity to Man." j ' La follette. - From Collier's Weekly. . A genuine leader not Infrequently must Wait for vindication. Thousands of cautious citizens, who now stand on Important questions where Senator La Follette stood a decade and more ago. r then looked upon him as One whom they would have .called , "unsound." But La Follette waa much sounder, on the whole, than the rest of us. In his financial , and social theories and very much sounder In his personal and ethi cal composition. The taste for luxury never tainted btm. Money his never even remotely influenced bla mind, and w thin these few months he has taught the- senateand the country a lesson in the, proper spirit of a legislator whose own Interests are affected by his vote Years ago he urged regulation by com mission, long before any popularity at tached to the idea. Years ago he fought for physical valuation' of railroads, a measure to which most reasonable men ara converted now." Ha was kna.olia first to realize that government by. cor porations is not self-government ' No measure ever had his support or op position, save for considerations of the general welfare. In his present office . Ihe has 'heea the very ' terror ' of the Senate, when -ha, entered that august and crooked hall, 4 1 was freely pre dicted that be would be chloroformed within a year, - Aldrlch, whosa personal gain from political' corruption Bristow has recently made clear has been quiet ly devoting his power to the defeat of La Follette for reelection,, and the president, to. his shame be it said, is enlisted in the same unholy- causa. Wa believe the political oligarchy will ) unable to . control the proud independ ence of Wisconsin. - All Ma life he has honorably-, independently, successfully fought the people's fight To Aristldes were, by his countrymen, applied these words of Aeschylus: ' "For not at seeming Just, bnt being so He alms." . The lifelong sincerity of La Folletta deserves as high a praise. , Lincoln and Hey burn. , From th Boston Globa. Senator Heyburn of Idaho Heaped to hli feet"' as ' tha orchestra, ! reached . "Dixla" In a medley of American aira at a political gathering in bis state, and cried out, "This is a Republican meeting;! We want no such tune here," As the senator from Idaho leaped to his feet to make that protest hs also leaped tntd fame. No doubt It Waa the ' easiest way for7 him to gain It, Wa cannot imagine any other possible ac tion on his part which would haya brought him tov pur attention, at least. When Mr. Heyburn shows nlmaelf mora Republican than Abraham Lincoln and more of a patriot than the war president we all have to stt op add take notice of his existence, hitherto aomewhat over looked.' ,;.'- -Juv' '".; ; Lincoln liked ' "Dixie." Ha was de lighted with this . composition of a northern song writer when he first heard It played and sung at a min strel show In Chicago, before he Wa-s nominated for president.- He was none the less pleased with It after At had . become part, of the battle musle of the South. When a band came to the White House tO serenade him, following, the surrender of Lee, he caned for "Dixie," saying he had bee"n advised by the at torney general that the Union had cap tured lt -along , with Lee's army. - The hand obeyed, and as the stlrrljig strains of the piec resounded through the White House Lincoln's foot beat time to the music of tha. Confederacy, Perhaps the kindest assumption In re gard to Senator Heyburn's outbreak is that he does hot know the war Is over. Tkc Hot 'Dy (Contributed to Tbe Jonrnal hy Walt Mnaon, the fanoua Kansat poet. Hli proae-pocini am a regular teaturt uf . tbla column-li lha Da!l Journal.) , ' ' Ah. yes, my. friend. It's mighty hot! No man whose head, is right could doubt it. The sun is on his Job. I wot, but 'twill not help to talk about It. Men chase along- and fume and , 'sweat, and roast the climate, all together; they might be cool if they'd forget to think and talk about the weather. Some. fel low stops me In the shade, . and of the tec-'Ulmo my thoughts have Strayed to Es- l -'Mhtm Adima. U)lt)k7l 4k-