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One rer...... ..IT.80 I One Bxth....,..,l .88 The great nan down, yon mark his favorite fliea. m Tlia poor .;. advanced makes - friend - of enemies. - . - , Shakeapeare. 63- a THE LATE CONGRESS A' LAME-DUCK session ' of con gress never yields results. . The ' one that passed, out yesterday ' was even more barren of fruits than some of Its predecessors.". , One or the other of the two houses managed to beat most of the legis lation offered it The house passed Mr. Taffs reciprocity; bill, but the measure -died In senate commit . teeliTbe! senate amended the per manent 'tariff board measure, and the house killed it by refusal to ac cept the senate amendments. Both the Arizona and New Mexico statehood-" measures were beaten and statehood for both postponed. , ' The senate defeated the house pension bill and the house killed the senate ship subsidy measure.. The senate rejected the house apportion ment bill and talked to death most of the other house legislation. The main" achievement of the two bod ies was the passage of appropriation bills that will probably aggregate more than a billion dollars. , ; ' - ' The session Is described by Champ Clark as one of f the stormiest In his tory The last six daystof theen- ate were devoted mainly to filibus tering, rejection, of direct election and the seating of Lorimer. For the two latter results, eight lame-duck senators furnished the deciding votes. They can now descend to pri vate life, and wait in ivain for the call of their constituents to come back. They are mostly of the "has been" or "never-waa" variety. " Their views are of the half-inch gauge, seeing only the citadels of privilege, and never reaching out upon the vastness of the broad United States. Congresses - come and congresses go. The one that expired yesterday had. Just before It convened, heard from the country. The tidings were a repudiation of Its first session, and decimation among the senators and representatives. The Inglorious end that came to it Is a valuable warn ing to the body that is to convene In extraordinary session April 4. era, strenuous lire on the run ooa- aoiiara less spent on . bonnet, ci- extension,'! of $2,000,000 The spe ily powers of our workers are el- gars or an auto ride will rescue clalties of this school for the past lowed for by a series of exceptions human being.! , Two dollars less spent 35 years have been in nost graduate andexempWhsIrajer party, two dollars work and scientific : research. The deeds are enjoined. Easter com- less for an evening suit; or two dol- new fund is to be applied, "partly to munlpn is set before the faithful as lars less for'wines, ribbons or feath- transfer the university to a new sito, a sacred and necessary duty.-; ; ters will save a life, and Mo save the but also to the extension of its work The Lenten . pastoral letter of life of even a starving heathen is a into new departments. These are to msnop acaaamg, the Bisnop in oren, pleasant recollection for any man. be; vlsva. school of applied science, gon. of : the : Protestant Episcopal i " - ' , . j. , ' - for advanced students. anrilicahU tn :-nLACK WAND j existing industries; 2d, a school of I22 . rIB "P810119 of law in Its applications commun r2S rt l7T)t " tIe.V 8d. a depart of prvonUve mkes about eigh- medicine, dealing with problems con- church, is -written in differenUtey. The text he sets to the clergy Is this: "Emphasize the spiritual. Teach the faith definitely, lovingly, fearlessly. To the laity he says, forsake not the services of the church, especially the holy communion. ! Give up amuse ments. Practice self denial. Give alms ' and , fast. Especially observe holy week, as a time for prayer .for the deepening of , our spiritual lives and for the unity of Christendom. . The present trouble of human so ciety Is diagnosed as that men have teen within the last few weeks. LaM,i.. .,- v.ww iLiuTHui wiihu iac.Knana an Italian, probably Sicilian Importa tion. It Is possible that criminals of the Italian race who have not even the distinction of real membership in this association,: of evil men for evtl The reputation of Johns Hopkins university insures the thoroughness of the projected work. "; t i . .The " otherendeijcykrcferred Ito is typified In the movement i now ends mar tnmo h ni tarted at Amherst college. steal the fearful nresti ft baam. to : atner than to enter the race for lng the ten year period his far ex ceeded that of any other portion of the country. The percentar.-w are: California, 60.1; Oregon, 62.7, and Washington, 120.4. Unless indica tions, fail the order of the last two states will be reversed when.' the census of 1920 Is completed. The census, as taken in the United States, iwith themass of detail as to occupations and industries exceed ing that presented in any other coun try Is an expensive luxury, fornear ly ; 114,000,000 will be required to pay the Wlla'U I t .-. '' i '"'" 'l ';c--.-. V 4 MONTAKA'S NEW- SEXATOR HE NEW SENATOR from Mon tana,; Henry L. Myers, who had not been a candidate for the' po- t ; anion ana was almost an acci dental choice at the last moment. tt.! highest efficiency Ondustrial uao7lofd,2,r;iemn?,e " . Tf " v ' . 'T! i J,k k.i. , m cation for which it inmnnu- fftlmM W hold about the riaht onln commercial spirit, the strain : uf money-getting exhaust the vltalitfes of men, and life is not dominated by spiritual purpose. Theresa a-time for - all-thlnga-If Lent serves to call a halt in many of the activities and amusements of life, and give a different, direction to the thoughts of men, it may benefit many who do not feel bound to heed the call of the churches in their out ward rules and observances.- Fdr, after all, as a man thlnketh so Is he. mands. " The wonder of it is that In the medley of, races from European countries, crowding through the Ellis Island gateway, Italians 'should bear this infamous pre-eminence. not suffice,' the .committee of Am- Ions oa "veral . public matters,; or eret alumnf rocentlv - nnMnto opinions, at least, as should have proposed to strengthen the i?.be acceptable to the Democrats of tellectual equipment' of the college. n,s tand the country. Senator commission adverse to rate raising, as an Irreverent and audacious de- fiance of the divine right" of railroad and trust magnates to raise prices and rates whenever and however much they .please. 'Baer believes they are authorised to do this by the Almighty, who Baer thinks has great confidence in and respect for them, but a very i small fndc poor opinion of common consume.' ; ; Great Waste of Political JjBalleyOlJrexaa,: Itt-the-expiring,, moments : of 'f congress, defeated ? a 50,000 appropriation for an experi ment in the parcels post., ' Bailey led the fight by which Lorimer was given his purchased seat In the, sen ate., The express companies wanted the parcels post killed,-and Bailey was a handy man. "The Interests" wanted Lorimer seated, and - Bailey helped to : turn the trick. -: Happily, Bailey has resigned. It was time, l hey tleslre - that- Amherst, shall stand for a liberal classical educa- CHICAGO TYPOGRAPHERS T 5' INCH THIS DAY is the first Sunday In Lent It may be worth while to supply a few historical facts, for the benefit of some who are not members of a tradition al church, but are Involved in more or less , restrictions on their usual habits by the recurrence cf the year ly Lenten period. - As ; for , the members of the RomsnjCathollc, - the Greek, and the Protestant Episcopal church, their memory runneth not ' back of the time when the weeks between Ash Wednesday and Easter Day have not been set aside for more or less ab stinence from the pleasures of llfo, and more or less observance of re ligious services of great solemnity. That Is to say that the body has had Imposed on It xules of training to fit the observer for spiritual duties, de manding higher preparation than those entering Into the family and personal life of the rest of the year. Lent is a word taken from the Anglo-Saxon. It means "spring,'' since these weeks occur when winter has passed and the earliest flowers show their heads. Its observance in the Greek church was already tradi tional when written church history began. In the Latin church the rec ord reaches at least to the fourth century after Christ. In the Greek church six -weeks before -Easter were Bet apart Be ginning in the Roman church with , only the Holy week the period of ab stinence ' was gradually extended .backwards for three weeks, exclud ing Saturdays and Sundays, except the 'Saturday before Easter. The earliest requirements were as follows: Abstinence from food till the evening of faBtlng days. Shut ting off public amusements, especial ly stage plays. .- Also the deferring till the idose J)f -Lent, celebration of marriages and birthdays. On the spiritual :.slde the attendance dally at public worship and a sermon, and specially at tho celebration frequent ly of the Holy Eurharist markedly on Easter Day. , , Such rules have descended, with but slight variations and relaxations, through the centuries to the present time in all the historic churches. The Lonton regulations. Issued by Archbishop Christie and published on Wednesday last may be studied In the lighjt of those past centuries. Thetradltlonal Immovability of Rome la distinrtlymarked. But the mod- rn rplrlt it this age Is noticeable In f -is that the , minute observances CUl i-TlcI tcliarior-onhOasraro n r.iJnntely stated here-but tlfe v :i' nc; s of our twentieth century i.n.l tha demands of tnod- HE STRENGTH of trades union discipline baa been proved dur ing the past week "when the typographers employed by two of the Chicago papers struck on the ground of alleged grievances. It ap pears "that they thereby" violated khelr contracts with their employers, and took this .Independent action without the approval or direction of the officials of their union. But, the union .being :appeajed to, the complaining men were directed - to resume work, and to refer their grievances to the mode of settlement applicable in such cases. And . the men complied.. The strike was aban doned and Its Inevitable loss and suf fering, averted. Not many, months ago" the boiler makers and other Iron workers in South Wales disagreed with . their employer! on a wage question, and, against the advice and protest of the union managers, . struck.- The off! cials of the union, one pf the strong est in the United Kingdom, consid ered the strike uncalled for and first advised and then ordered the men back to work. They refused obedi ence, continued their strike, upset all business, Involved themselves and their families in f deep : distress as their funds ran but, and inflicted on trades unionism possibly the severest blow in recent years. public opinion sustained' the env ployers and 5 the union t of f leers." Peace was eventually restored, and the defeated men went back to work without advances. , : I The two opposite experiences, in Chicago, and In Cardiff and in Mer thyr Tydfil, may not show conclu sively that discipline , in American unions is : more V Completely recog nized and deferred to In this coun try, since the only common ground of the two trades in question is that both, are. organised. -But one Infer ence may be drawn- that the bet ter,: educated- and , more thoughtful the Individuals the more surely will they bow to the rules and restric tions that their own representatives impose. ' U V v ;': . l. Trades unionism In America- is as much strengthened, by the -Chicago case as it was weakened by the wil ful action of the Welsh ironworkers. lUlians are not hardened and made' th.e t",ni!,g. of.m!f Th0 desperate by ; cruel oppression v in their own land. - They haSre not even that poor excuse. , Manyof them are excellent shall be leaders in civics, In the his tory of government, In the develop ment and significance of Institutions, Ini tbeihlstory andjmeanlng of Jivlt ization.-" . Science is not to be neg lected". .But the aim, It Is hoped, will be', n6t to turn out an engineer. a, chemist, an electrician, or a biolo gist, hut a man of broad and thor- workers, and. if settled with their families on the land, pass peaceable lives Under their own vine and flgtree. . Hut these New York criminals are desperately cruel,- - No wonder that the demand grow. louder for better exclusion of such t K""-rV . . as cannot bring with: them passports ItZKZ , TW? "V l. or certificates of character to this ?!T,ta country, The scrutiny must be thor- 1 " ough on the further side of ,"the At- fhrf9 "J St!? f T?11 ' T i.nn. this end the very hest Instructors are TV- vQ At-.n l" u" Bwureu. ana inis at salaries The New York: detective force, ef- adsnnat.. s tfiir .fi- - flcient as it Is, appears powerlew L,MM h i. i. i 25tS?25 1 cTrt,m,nal8 ?r i to.earn.money. as , test of their suppress the Crime. It seems to be success but to develop menof cre- M:u" rw,u wawnw ative and productive scholarship nave ony snown u possioje io m " Colonel Roosevelt, most strongly u.UUv.u cuuuuD iu iu iuii uioy llnrtnrsea thB nlana In a runf M; 1 P , ,D8,or ial.1 ra' ticlez-He believes that there Is In SF 2 Cf m aU g ?m the United Stafes not onlf demand, jv lu'Utt" 6CT- 4U iucu uavoi 6ul; tne necessity, for opportunities "ulu'" "OUi " vuuBuiui ior education of this order. spim wnose mriuence we ronaiy be- These topics have been brought to Heveto be powlng over all races the minds of many Portland people and classes of pur people. -They live bT the discussion of the plans for protected by our -laws, but know the Reed Institute; them only with distorted ingenuity, Presidept Poster defines Its mis- 7 i . V , Kreaif8 cu' 01 Ion, as now proposed. His words -..v. wiiu uuo oi as repprted are that the Institution the toughest problems arising from BnaU be j .a college of the ilDerai its Indiscriminate hospitality to all arts'riot to.be "termed classical. '" t modern, with a vlew of taking ..u, ufc . uluuviu wm ui nold of the, problems of the twen eessity affect many innocent Italians Ueth century, so as to tit the stu in reaching the actual offenders.. , AMt fftP ni.H.ai rir . LAW PROFESSOR ON LAW REFORM - D' EAN JOHN D.' LAWSON of the MiBsoW University Law School Is a Jurist and law teacher of exceptional ability." He thinks there Is little hope of the needed re form of court procedure " by volun tary action of Judges and lawyers. and that It must he brought about by statutes. He says that: reputable lawyers feel It to be their profession al duty to takei advantage-of every technicality, and to do everything possible of an obstructionary and even nonsensical nature to win cases. Courts, he, remarks, feel bound to follow precedents, whether good, bad or Indifferent: besides, a inAea His hope Is to "build an Institu tion of great learning, pf marvelous influence." I The scope' Is surely broad enough. Carefully weighed the'plan seems to embrace a scheme of education In tended to cover both, fields referred to above. It will be Interesting to observe if this far western college can succeed where Amherst consid ers It necessary to confine its work within narrower boundaries. Myers says he is a Jeffersonian Dem ocrat, believing In i simplicity and economy, and In an application t6 all public questions of .the r principle, "equal rights to all and special priv lieges to none." - He favors an in come tax" and an Inheritance tax, rec iprocity; with Canada. ad genuine tariff reform, and is "opposed to the monstrous :; expenditures of public money for military and naval armaments,"-which he believes to be "little less than criminal." Appareniiy senator - Myers is a Democrat who thoroughly believes in representing : the people, and It was perhaps lucky for . Montana and the country that he appeared as a dark horse compromise, and that the lead ing candidates failed. At least his substitution for Tom Carter Is a mat ter for congratulation, cot only in the mountain state, but throughout the west." ' President Baer of the coal trust railroads Is horribly shocked at the decision of the interstate commerce Abe Ruef's lawyers desire oppor tunity to: contend that "hia constitu tional rights have been violated by a defective '.Judgment, conviction without due process of law, and fall ur? to secure a 'day in court before the state supreme court." Ruef has had about 100 .times as many ' days la, court as he was fairly entitled to. there being no doubt whatever about the facts constituting his crimes. Among other things that it should have done, but did not, congress neg lected to pass a reapportionment bill. put as thev congressional elections do not occur again till November -1912 this item of neglect is unlmoortant in any case, Oregon will get one ad ditional representative, and no more, -' Litflejs being heard from Mexico these days, and it is surmised that both the government forces -and. the insurrectos , are strictly observing Lient, . A Joke fn the Rough. From Ufa." , , - i Tha Ballln Enthualaat UDUftini- eh. old man? " i , HU Victim Oh, very. i, ' SEVEN LITERARY WOMEN Jane Austen. THE "WILDERNESS" AND THE l 'MOB" WHILE THEY STARVE WO DOLLARS clipped from the price, of a spring bonnet, two dollars saved from the cost of a party gown, or two dollars that would otherwise be spent on ci gars, theatricals or a Joy ride, will save a life In China. It is a small sum In dress, or pleasure, or folly. but It Is the price of a afe. We shudder at thoughts of men. women or children In, the throes of death. The country was shocked at the Ashtabula disaster with Its dead. Humanity was appalled at the Johns town, horror with its drowned. Any railroad; accident with Its maimed and marred vlctinfs penetrates to the heart nd arouses sympathy, Life Is sweet to brute or man, and there be few who will not stretch out a hand to save it, especially at the poor cost of $2.. Parents in the famine, districts of China are selling daughters at $25 apiece and sons at $1.25 for money with which to get food. It is the last extremity In starvation, and starvation is "the last word in human suffering. No picture of human mis ery is more convincing than the sac rifice by a family of a child In order to save the rest. ' - The latest advices are that 1,000, 000 men ; women and children will starve before another crop can be harvested. Driven to desperation by hunger, bands of the famishing are roving over. the provinces preying upon those fortunate enottgh to have a pittance of food. , Missionaries at tempted to distribute a small stock of provisions JYlday and the hunger maddened natives trampled ? 21; of their number to death and Injured many; others in a wild scramble "to j get something to eat. They fought! each other like hungry wolves and only desisted when the last shred of the provisions had Jbeen devoured. When the gaunt figure of famine stalks in a land, there Is no Issue of race, creed or color. We 'who jity the hunger of a dog and "stretch out the hand to feed It, must be touched by the consuming wretchedness of human beings In. the orient . Two AMES J. HILL might, have achieved greatness in any one of several fields of action. He has . become eminent as a rail road builder and cnmitrv oval- fears that if he does not seriously I nnr w mi? hnv wnm. consider all technicalities he will be editor, for he. has the faculty of stat- auBHtiptea oi ignorance, as a prac- ing things clearly and concisely. He tical suggestion Professor Lawson is an epigramatist, and the latest in- advjses the appointment In the state stance is his statement in a letter to of ;MlBsouri of a commission to draft the commercial club that "land legislation for the reform of court without people Is a wilderness; pec- procedure. nlft without land ar a mrih A movement of this kind Is 'certain 'Among all the' "practical problems to- come. The long wait for courts that appeal to statesmen, educators, and lawyers to remedy conditions philosophers and publicists for solu- has severely tried public patience, tion, perhaps none Is niore Important and forces are gathering that will than this; How. to bring, unused compel action. Sign of this is seen land and landless people together; in the bill passed by the Jiouse at How (o settle tmoecupied land with Washington prohibiting reversals on people-who will make -the most of technical errors, There is more eyi- It; s How to entourage and aid, laftd- dence of it in the Judicial amendment less people id realize the Importance adopted last November by the Ore- of the pdssesslon and good use of a gOn electorate. , If those best fitted piece of land. - : , for it do not speedily inaugurate the The "wilderness" and tliere. are reform, it will be done by legislative numberless patches of wilderness in enactment. The public is wearying old-settled communities needs peo- nu raumpucauon oi juages as a pie to come and use It.. And what means or perpetuating a hair split- Mr. Hill calls v the "mob" great uug, postponmg ana otnerwise im- numbers of people paying rent, and plumule court proceaure. "Through trials hard as theae how oft ape aeon . .,- .. The tender aex. In fortitude serene." -.'. ANN BE WARD. Biographical literature la filled with the stories, of the Uvea and struggles f British female authors, but there IS something- considerably aoove tne exception In the story ' of ' Jane Aus ten, the . curate a t daughter, who fought ' gallantly . bar wr to twnt, and died without fully realising how substantial a place she had made for herself In literature. It is not that ahe noasessed talent tn - composition considerably above the average writer of her day, - That ahe produced more than a century ago books that are atlU widely read. - ; That no less a capable critic than Sir Walter Scott said that ahe. has "given portraits of real society far superior to anything vain man has produced of the like nature." It Is not her success that Interests the studeht of her character the moat, but her In domitable perseverance. If ever a woman possessed a super abundance of puah It was. Jane Aus ten. . No writer ever placed greater faith In htt" own ability tn herself. And no one ever had more discour agement thrown about her. . Her books that are so widely read " and admired today were written close to a score of years , before she could prevail upon any one to publish them. She offered them times Innumerable, only to have them returned to her unread. She knew such was the fact,-for she had taken methods to convince herself of her suspicions. But she was undaunted. She kept them closely locked in ber drawer, but ahe never lost heart. Most of her stories were written when Jane was quite young. She had not reached her ' twentieth 1 year when she produced ' her "Pride nd Prejudice," the moat famous of . them all. ! That was Ibv.1716. f. "Pride and Prejudice," did not appear In print until 181S.- Bhe was, at times ' almost distracted. ':' Her father waa a poor rector and they need- ed the money badly. . The first of her stones she sold -was "Northanger , Ab bey," and for only 150. The publisher rued the bargain and would not venture the printing of It ; After Jane had gotten-a foothold In literature, under a name that waa not Tecognlsed by this Bath-purchaser, she sent her broth er to buy the manuscript back at the same price. Later It , was resold for a considerable' Bum. for Jane Austen's I name had become linked with litera ture, but tt was not published until after her death. Two of her books were published posthumously for the authoress did not live even to Middle ' age, her health having - broken down ; under her hard struggles. , sne died on July 18, 1117, at Winchester, and was burled in the center of the north side of Winchester cathedral,-her grave being; marked by a siao or mack marble. . Jane Austen received her entire In struction from her father, and laid the foundation for her literary success in nis mtie unpretentious library at 8tev enton, Hampshire England. -Here' she found but few books, but they 'were of 'the very best and she soon made her self fairly "Well acquainted with thern. By the time she was 15 she was a reallv fine writer. -Her skill was hot -alone in the able and - interesting way in which she handled her stories, bat be cause she. was the originator of a new departure in fiction, a departure that meant a great deal to the world aside from US novelty. - She was the creator of the novel of domestic life. Scott had this in mind When he said: '"Thatiyoung lady had' a talent for describing the-Involve ments, reelings, and characters of or dinary life, which Is to me the most wonderful I. have ever met with. Tha1 Dig dow-wow I can do myaelc.ltke any one going; but the exquisite touch, which renders commonplace things and cnaraoiers interesting from the truth of the description, and the sentiment, is ueniea 10 me. .. . ,'.; . Lord Macau lay decla red that Jane Attsten approaches Shakespeare 'hear er than, any other writer In drawing character; and he onte "proposed to edit her worda to raise funds for a monu ment. She had many other , warm ad mirers, Including ' Warren J" Hastings. Southsy. Coleridge and, Sydney Smith., . But aside from anything else Jane Austen's chief characteristic was her belief in Jane Austen, , That . belief never faltered even when she could not see any hope of success. , Even when it seemed to be completely hidden behind the. black clouds of defeat. . But never discouraged,, she remained true to her self untiL the world came round to her and bestowed upon her the recognition which she rightfully deserved. ' ' From the New fork Evening Post1 " : If we had but Imagination to see what a price we are really paying for polltl-' cal corruption, the revelation would be" staggering. One Is In the habit of think, lng- of that cost as measured by stealing and wanton' waste, by Inefficient man agement, by bad workmanship;- but It . Is very much to be doubted whether the aggregate of . all, thia is comparable In Importance to the Injury Inflicted upon the country by the diversion of so large a part of Its civic and political energy from the consideration of real ques tions of public policy to the mere fight-, lng of political abuses. : In city, state, and nation, and in legislation and ad ministration alike, the question of mere honesty has during a large part of our htetory, absorbed an inordinate share ef the public attention. It. is true that we have prospered In spite of this. It Is true that the people of the United States are on. me wnoie Detier aituaied mate rlallyInteHectuallyand morally than -those of any other nation. But our nat ural .advantages are so enormous, the -energy of our people and the freedom;" ef our1 institution are so; superior, the -absence . of evils inherited from past ages has been . so much In our favor, that the mere fact of our being better off than other people Is by no means ' sufficient to Justify complacency. We do have bad tenement conditions, bad mine conditions, bad factory conditions, mani festly, defective laws, staring 1mperfee--J tlona In . the administration of Justice, and we are not qulcVer but slower than older peoples In remedying them. In the national domain we have allowed natural opportunities such as the world has never seen to melt away in great measure through sheer neglect In the legislation of most of our states, vaae after year, the energy that should be de voted to making the most of our poasl- ; buttles is largely expended Upon the thwarting of evil schemes. Our cities have been growing up like Topsy. while the men who might have been engaged In making them what thev should ha have either kept out ef "the mire of pol. ltlcs" or have had their hands full fight, lng bosses and boodlers. . . To what Country can wa ' ontnt in which such an exhibition would be even remotely possible? But America will ' not tolerate these things Indefinitely. They are already on the road to plete . extermination' tn some of our states, and that they can be completely exterminated Is perhaps even more fully -evidenced by the history of England Ancient wrong and abuses undoubtedly still exist there; but a condition of cor ruption by the side of which even ou condition is purity ttaelf seemed there. a century ana a nair ago, to be part of the order of nature, and of thia now no trace remains. . . News Forecast of tkc Cominp Week " Tomorrow Elizabeth Barrett Drawn. ing. - , ,- - i buying everything they- consume at trusLprices and never iJaaving real home of their own or the sat isfaction, of producing- thlngs-i--need the land. . .X-i . To decrease at once the "wilder ness" and the "mob" is a species of evolution to be worked out in the m.Im V... 14m ...... X. i cnnantauniia SYamnlaa IavaIA v I wwu luucmui, lurctsa, yet .i"T r" :riwT."u It can be quickened and strengthened much by people erf power ana Influ- HIGHER EDUCATION MONO THE GREAT schools of the east two tendencies are in evidence at. this .time. The first, - adopted by Harvard. x rnncecon ana ijommbia as A nical education and applied science. The students In ' those ) courses are fitted to meet the demands for men who can " turn ; their studies to com mercial and practical use in manu factures, sciences, and . arts. " Such men will enter for the prizes in the industries of this century based on the -developments In this -spacious field..-. -v:. 'flXil ; : ence whose efforts are' prompted by progressive and. practical ideals. ; WHAT TUB CENSUS TEACHES I N THE PAPER by Henry Gannett, - published in this issue of The -Journal,ran Intelligent summary 18' given Of thfl rnnnltq nf tha eiaie universities and colleges are census of 1010. In analyses of this everywhere working along these same kind tabular statements are to some ypung men extent inevitable. -Here figures have striving to turn their university and been reducerl to a. minimum oni college work to practickl ends in ductiomi from the tabulations large- ruit.u b iuium s assurea. iiy take-their place. iaej may not consciously follow It will appear that the Increase cor wuneim ustwaia, to whom of our population during the pre- the Nobel prize In cbemistrv WDlllrlnni iunnHa tuna . tkn .nt. ti awarded in 1909. The text of his per cent; that this countryin point . . w wkuosl uaeior niimnpra la tinv tha fn,,v or science lies In jts practical appli-1 earth, being exceeded only.hy China. 'catlona." : But Sm m , ji t lj,. ... . . .J.. '' - , ' "Y. u,avi lItam suq-Kussia, ana that our pop ? T ','' tilation'iexceedthat'iOtheUn fl??- carctly m Ilm,t tothe Kingdom and France combined. ' TLv ' fiuipment and ' f, I spite of all extensions of area SZZ?-0 durlngh-past.l20-yearshe-den. The trnatl; r W'V ' slty pf population per.square mile is The trustees of Johns' Honklns now six times as great as when the ttnlven.1 y have recently appealed for first census was taken. Tuw 1UUU. iot cnaowment and Growth nn th. p.;(.-..... i.. THE LUMBER MONOPOLY t From the. Wall Street Journal Herbert Knox f3mlth, commissioner lof corporations, has made partial re port on the lumber industry, which has beenforwardedrby- the presIdehtto congress. The commissioner finds huge monopoly in the very act of mak ing. Here are his words: .? 5 "In "the lumber Industry the bureau finds now in the making a combination caused fundamentally by a long stand ing publlo- policy. The concentration already existing is sufficiently impres sive. Still more Impressive are the possiDuities ror tne ruture... in tn last 40 years concentration has so proceeded that 199 holders, many Inter-related, now have . practically one half iof the privately owned timber in - the Invest! gation area twnjch contains so ,per ceni oi tne wnois property;." . The commissioner will, have a ; fur ther report to make on the combinations In the manufacture or aala of ' lumbar as dlstlngulBhetl from the ownership of I stanaing umMr:.vs(..,i;;.4.is 1 The commissioner says that only 40 years ago at least three fourths of the timber now ; standing was ' publicly ownea. Tne great num of it passed from1 government to 1 private hands through enormous railroad, canal and direct government sales at 11.25 an acre, and through certain public land laws wwen permitted of the assem bling of great ; tracts in spite of the legal requirements for only small hold. ings. . . ' ' , , -i . Some examples of Increases in value mat nave come under , the commission er's observation are from 15 to 130 an acre, from tTto 10 an acre, from $20 to 1160 an , acre, from , $4 to 1140 an acre, and. from 11 to 1150 an acre. Tha commissioner, by further figures shows that enormous profits have been made by individual owners of timber land. - .The .commissioner finds that the 1a now left In continental United States about 2,200,000,000.000 board feet of prl. vately owned standing timber, of which 1,747,000.0001000 is in the Investigation area covered in detail by the bureau. The present annual . drain upon the supply of aaw , timber, Is about 60,000,000,000 , feet. - At this rate the timber now sUndlng, .without allowance for: growth or decay, would last : only 'about ? years. The present Commercial value of the privately owned standing timber, not lnoludlng the value of the land, Is estimated as . at ' least " $1000,000,000. Ultimately the consuming public will have tc pay such prices for lumber as Will give this timber a far e-r.at. value, v rivi-:... ; --- -;.,'.- -T;" Mr. Smith declares that three vast holding alone, those of . the Southern Pacific' company, the Weyerhaeuser Timber company, which obtained most of its holdings from the Northern Pa cific, and "the Northern Pacific Railway company itself,-, have' 138,000.000,000 feet, or nearly 11 per cent of our Jrl vately owned timber. , ... 7 ,, ; In Minneaota, Wisconsin ani n (,t. gan there are 100.000,000,000 feet of orl- .vwiHi-inHmv-'ainngre-three: states together.1 115 holders h k cent of alt the, timber. .,: ; i -, 1, eucn concentration,- Rara the com m ssloner, "in standing , timber, If per Riltted to continue and Increaaa . tn'ou.. probable a final central control of, the whole lumber fndustry.-'A-'--.?r-.;'Mr : "Certain further factors, not1 exactly measurable. Increase etill more th. r..i concentration. First; a further Inter weaving of ; interests. coreorata nA personal, connects a great many hold. ings which the bureau haa traatu separate; Second, there are. very large total of timber so scattered In small tracts thrbugh larger ; holdings that they are substantially blockad tn - controlled by the larger holdings; third. .... vutueiii.iBviuii ia mucn , mgner in more vaiuaoie species. , Washington, March 4. President Taft, accompanied by several members of his cabinet, will depart from Washington Wednesday for Atlanta,' where lie Is to liver - an address Friday at the con cluding session of the great Southern Commercial congress. ' The Southern Commercial congress will begin Its session Wednesday and from all indications it will be ne of the most Important conventions of its kind ever held in the United, States. In addition to President Tkft the speakers will Include former President T?nn. velt. Ambassador- Jusserana, Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, Senator Fletcher of - Florida, 1 George ' Westlnghouse of Pittsburg, George W. Perkins of New York. Secreury of War Dickinson and Governor Woodrow Wilson of New Jer- sey. :.:'', -'.-y '. .. Theodore Roosevelt; will leave New York Wednesday to begin a six weeks' tour that will take him through nearly all of the states of the south and' west Thursday he will address the Southern Commercial congreas In Atlanta and the rouowing way no will speak before the National Child Labor conference In Bir mingham. Saturday will be divided be tween Jackson, Miss., and New Orleans. ? The early part of the week Is expected to bring a decision In the famous con test rover the will of the late JB. J. ("Lucky") Bafdwln. which has been on trial In. Los Angeles 'since early In December. -John F. Diets Is td be placed on trlat -Monday at Hayward, Wis., for the kill ing of Oscar Harp, a deputy. In the memorable fight at Cameron dam last October. - .. Spokane will bold its first city elec tion Tuesday under its new charter, which provides for the commiaafnn ' of municipal government. The National Child Labor conference, which will begin a three days', session -Thursday in Blrmlnham. Ala., will h.v. among Its speakers Miss Jane Addams of Chicago, Senator 3 Borah of Idaho, Governor Wilson of , New Jersey, Dn V A.d,1r ot N,w Tork' n1 Charles P. Nell!. United States commissioner of labor. ";:::" . . ,-..: The clergy and laltv of tha Pin.a.n Episcopal diocese of Kansas City wlir meet at Kansas Cltv. Mn.. elect a successor td BIehop E. B. Atwlll. Who died recehtly: v ""', The United States army transport Bu ford will sail from Seattle Friday with an Immense cargo of provisions donated ' by the peopte of the United States for the relief of the famine sufferers 6f north .China . - Mba fela, si-and Jury whloh meets in Chicago Tuesday Is expected to begin an nvestlgation of the alleged illegal coal 1 nd "trl In the Matanuska and Cook Inlet fields in Alaska. The annual convention of ' the Navy -League of the UnltM fit., wv.-h ,1 assemble Tuesday in Los Aniaa u pected to give special attention to the needs of the Pacific coast and the naval problems which will arise on the oom- pletion of the Panama canal. Horaoe Porter of New York will preside at th convention. , 1 yr-tt-A Horrible' CaseJXlo.'-'-t o ,?mment,' lMued b th West Law Publishing company, relates the follow, lng case; - On Reynold wag convloted or a misdemeanor and . Vlcrrpm: of TJMr" where he was placed" nn cuHiouy oi me warden. On a certain morning, because of some mis- vvuvuew. me waraen compelled Reynolds . to removes hie clothing and lie down aCroi" . log fao downward, where lie was held by pther men. with a leather trap about 50 Inches long 4 inches wide and three-fourths of an inch thick, faatened to staff, the warden then cruelly beat him across the email part of his bck, using both hands to wield the blows. After this barbarous cruelty the prisoner was sent out Into th hot fn ofw 6ZT 2n jrul3r' nd compelled to. work until he reeled and staggered like a drunken man, when he was sent from the field groanlna- with neiw w was given no medical attendance, and died early that evening; ! Deceased wa 4 M4uni iii juiou ronjr inat fiv3H unnnrsii. inrnr. xi uanfa m ia a. 5te. a, very Lhigh! rmirirV1? concentration in timber ownership out- Riue tnvestigauon areac, The commissioner declares that th. largest holders are cuttlnr iittu r their timber,' that they are reserving to themselves the Incalculable nroflta which qre 1 still to accrue with the growth of the country. who bring this action against the owner of the convict fnwTJ..Upreme court of Arkansas holds that defendant 1 lia ble for the conduct of tha warden, hl agent, because the whipping was with in the scope of his authority, though In - ' !SCt?Tof the JiH,on ruJ. A verdiqt r' of $3750 was affirmed. - , , X V.