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6 THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY ' 12, 1911. THE JOURNAL to lion, the fathers have sought solace money greod and the mothers un- ju$ independent newspaper. I dertaken to drown their sorrows la pabiubat Krivolities fashions. r-ossioty, ,Doia me coionei ana ino ft I, JAGKSON. TtM'te&or may be mistaken. Thus, It . ing. rum na lamniii itiwu, furuna. or. i8 easier to believe that each family, Kntmd at the noatoffir at Portland, or., conversant as u is wun in. capacities tor tnaenilaelos through the malls m aeeoud-1 and Mvlmnintnlt lrnr.ua hati r than last B..ttr. ...... t. ' lt ,x ...... iu cuiunei wnai lougiu iia rou can KT-SPHOSKS Main 717t noma, A-flOfil. fihm)1(i h Tall It is easier to believe ell the operator what department you want. J that instead of all Children being 1 i int.. j . v. i L rORHOI ADVERT18I.N0 REPRESENTATIVE. "' "u mitfveo, iuey wo uiune w F!? J. B5"a,,nf: e or steal very much to the extent ta rtfth aaeaoe, New Xork; 1Z18 peoples),. . oa Baiidiog. Chicago. ' that their fathers or mothers may lie or steal. Training has Influence. I and much Influence, but so bas birth. In either case, there is no general There are even cases, and ftnheCTtntion Ttrmi b nail na to anr address in the baited states or Meiico. j 1 , DAILY. a rear.. ...... SB. 00 una aMata.. ...... 4 JJO I rule. I doubtless bimt. whtrh th rlnnlncr a rr ...62.50 1 One motm J , . :' " . ---- DAILY AND SUNDAY, aiuigumeni oi ur. van uyna Ills. rear I7.W One month i.w iaeni are many lamuies in wnicn children are being ruined by the money greed of fathers and the A ImoraiH of one's misfortunes i frivolities of mothers. But the gen- . - . .... fla - J M a. m . a is clear rain. jsurrpiaes. i rrrai pumic is not reaay to oeiieve with the colonel that baby parrlages are signs of national prosperity, or with the doctor that the cradle is a den of iniquity, TIIE ELKS IN 1012 T"0RTLAND WON the national convention or tne uikb lor lviz I without a struggle. The mili tant campaign of the Portland "legation at Atlantic City bad fac .orshlp. ' Portland roses had their weight The weather tidings from THE TRUTH T covered the "Dick to Dick;" post script was Ash ton Brown,, former private secretary of Mr. Ballinger, one of the 'Dicks.w According to Miss Abbott, he sought at the tlme she was examining the files, to steer her away- from the document in which the now famous letter was contained, ir Mr. urowa la to tes tify. It would be passing strange not to have Miss Abbott testify. The whole truth and all the truth in this Guggenhelmlng of Controller bay Is wanted by the American peo ple. , It remains an undisputed fact that the Controller bay lands were thrown open to filing, and that be fore anybody else had a chance, the Guggenhelms grabbed tbem. They simply had advance information From whomT It remains an undisputed fact that the original ordor for opening re quired that 60 days' notice be given but that when the order was finally signed it contained no provision for 60 days' notice. All this was ad mltted on the witness stand by Mr, Dennett. He could not tell how or why the 60 days' provision was elim lnated. who can tell? Why was It cut out? suit be against the railroad, or will the railroad bring suit against the man? '-:w.":-r--'.,uf''' .:'' Married men; may well wonder If an Important precedent has been es tablished by the Georgia woman who became engaged, the other day. to one of the pall bearers while her late husband(was being burled. A newspaper head line says, "Sev en Great Gas Bags Arose and Floatr ed Away In a Race Through the Air." . Still, all the great gas bags have not .gone from among us. .COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF WHY WE I' HE LEADING authority In the United States on tubercular bacclllns told the people of Portland yesterday that he Portland as contrasted with the sun- would as soon Dlace the srerms of jwept east exercised an Influence. It typhoid fever in milk as the germs an a spienam Beginning- or wnat of tuberculous cows. He Is Dr. jhould be a delightful occasion. Ravenel of the University of Wlscon- The. Elks' convention will be fore- sin, and he said: "You not only .inner of many others to come. This have the light to demand that the ' i an era of great assemblages. The milk from tubercular cows be not nited States is a big country. soJd, but you have the right to be lovementa, fraternal societies, re- assured that milk you do" buy is ab- iglous denominations and other huge solutely pure and free from the Tganiiations must have great meet- germs ef tuberculosis. Your chil- ings as an organizing and directing dren have a right to drink milk that 'mnv PrhlfMoa hnv tn Ha Airtutan I vrtli nAn.trk f .... .1 j 1,1.1 ' , " vw , I "'"u iucui wicau ui ".declaration of war jj ueiegaieu group, ana ineso tnem. roups must meet somewhere. These things have been told the There Is no better place than a people of Portland before. The Jour- Ity of roses. There Is no stronger nal thundered them to this nubile appeal than a land of flowers. The for more than two years, and they conventions nearly always Happen in are true. r.ummer, and delegates are glad to Cheap functionaries rose no here journey to a spot wnere tne tner- and disputed the statement. Per raometer does not have to be kept In sons in official position sought to ne reingerator. break down the testimony. A nron- ne aecision oi me uiks attests aganda of selfish interests resisted the wisdom of Portland, respecting the Btruggle for milk that would in auditorium In which to bouse save, not slay. itner great conventions, me roses, a nubile official derl.rd thnt. .ne camaie ana tne new auditorium "of ten gallons of tuberculous milk, will do their part in turning great five fed to hoEa would kill them and councils Portlandward. five fed to huhtM wnM fnnn We. shall welcome the Elks In them." It was an utteranoa ttiat in iviz. m tne woras or tne song ot the light of the testimony, wan n he- Portland delegates at AtlanUc j insult to the Intelligence of the com munity. i -About the same time, a Portland dairyman declared, "the dirtiest dregs In the milk can are the best food for boys." He uttered the sen timent at a meeting f4lalrymen, and was applauded to the echo. But there Is no way to avoid or suppress the truth. Strict regula tion of the milk supply, la mere com mon sense, and officials who fail to enforce regulations strictly, are un fit, and should be dismissed. ught beautiful roses, 3ity, v "B stands " for : know. . ' F stands for Portland, the plaos whore e - tney grow. I O stands for Oregon, the land of the rair. X stands for everybody; youll be wel t coma there." STILL THE MELTDTG POT T 1 HE AUSTRIAN ceasus shows that 2,000,000 people have em igrated from that country dur ing the past ten years. About - 700,000, nearly one third, of them :ame to America and "the balance ent to other open countries. The 'population of Austria is steadily de creasing and the same is true of I other European countries. , ; At one time the tide of travel was - mainly to North America. The emi grants cleared our land, Increased the product of the Boil, furnished la bor for the mill, mine and factory. In fact, to the honest, able emigrant to the man who came over in the steerage and got his first look at America in Castle Garden we owe much of our power and plenty. Ellis Island, the new Immigrant landing point, has largely chanced this, and the stricter regulations rela tive to admission, has exercised large Influence In taming the tide ot the ' European wanderers Into other di rections. Many from the continent are beginning to fight shy of our im , migration officials, and are going to Argentina, Canada, Australia and other countries. The opening of raw , lands In these widely separated climes has also exercised effect In changing the stream ot immigration. It is wisdom to sift the worthy frdln the unworthy In the Incoming , tide, and to deny admission to all the t unfit. But we shall always need la- bor that will do the rough manual .work, labor that will clear logged- off lands, thnt will garno.- our har vests and carry our hods. The na- Uve American eldcwteps many of the groveling tasks and we shall prob ably have to contlnuj to be the great melting pot of the nations, accepting - the better class of foreigners and as similating and blending them into steady American citizens. THE WICKED CRADLE A BROKEX BUBBLE N COMMENTING on the Bixby In terview, many newspapers leave the impression that we went to war with Spain on account of the blowing up of the Maine. It 1b a false view: The Maine af fair was a mere episode. A halting administration, it is true, got behind the thrill of the explosion to lift Its voice for war. But the hearts of the American people ha I then been fighting Spain for months. Tho sober Judgment of the country would have applauded a for rescue of Cuba if the Maine had never gone down. We went to war with Spain be cause we ought to have gone to war with Spain. The inhumanities In the Gem of the Antilles were a blot on civilization. The reconcentrado camps on the Island, almost under the shadow of the Washington mon ument, were a Just cause for a na tion's wrath. Mutllr.ted men "and starving women and children, herd ed inside barbed wire corrals by or ders of thes Inhuman Weyler, thun dered in the ears of those whose tra ditions and nationalism were found ed on the Declaration of Independ ence, and were a bugle call to war. It Is not now, nor ever was of con sequence, whether the Maine was de stroyed from without or from with in. Every tradition and every prin ciple In American history and life reduces that affair to the level of an episode. Cuba saved, sanitary and sublime as it Is today, is our Jus tification for the expulsion of Spain, and it is the only apology the Amer ican people have to offer. Letters From tile People OtmmuiHot(oia aant to The Journal for pnb. llratloa In thla department ahould nut exceed 800 worda In length and must be accompanied uj iu. u.u. iuii auureae ox uie aenaer.) Philosophy Under Difficulties. To the Editor of The Journal "Make golA out of iron; ia a possibility, according- to Mr. Edison. Make a man out of a monkey la the theory of Darwin. I would like to know In which way would It be possible for void to take the place of iron, and what woulu be the object? What is wrong with iron In Us proper place; how did Iron, or gold, or copper. or Oliver get In existence, anyway? What was the object of fool nature. In making anything but gold. Contrary to all proved assertions of 100 years ago, the -X.-re.ys penetrate solid, opaque sub stances, the telephone transmits speech In distinct acoents from city to city.' When Job was asked whether he could make the lightning speak, the very ques tion knocked the pins from underneath him; at present It is done every mo ment In spite of the theory that out of nothing nothing comes, radium gives out light and heat without diminishing Itself. Radium restores sight to the blind, and destroys the germs of malig nant disease. Tiny little nitrogen breathing microbes Increase the fruits of the earth. -I can't very well wait I upon customers and write this kind of stuff at the same time, so I'll cut out stating the various achievements of the monkey made man, and ask the simple question, why have all these things ap peared after the I3d day of May, 1844? Please notice that the next day, the first message over the wire read, 'What God has wrought," and remember the words of a certain tentmaker: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise," etc. As I have no time left, let me state that all this knowledge which Is manifest on the earth today Is given by God, to teach and enable people eventually to see God In It, and praise him. D. VERLOOP. 6 MALL CHAKQa ', AH aboard for Tillamook -soon. now. It was Seattle, and Joe Day was not arrested for profanity. - . .a a Every summer, as well as vry win ter, be thankful for life In Oregon. " ... a ' . ' hig business magnates and u.uaitBia uon t wani.Diisinesa 'unrest let them quit oauaing it ,' a . a . Many educators have an erroneous or i tobi u. jiurruwiy limited conception of what education really s, or should a " a . Among the "Best Pennl. an T?S rf assambled at Atlantlo City there are "and b,ttar iaa th hrd too ort- . e e v '. .. - The small partners and confederates of Morgan and the Guggenhelma in the .""lenipmiejtt rape ot Alaska are all . ' .... "A religious mountebank and scoundrel like Bee can always secure a bunch of ucvuieu louowers anu disciples, prlnci e . pally women. Apparently Brother Charles is asking uiuiui in cunsiaeration or those Dig uio-uvuiiuuiion ana campaign contrlDu lions that he made. . a a The deadly tov ntatnl e-nr In ttm ti work attain on the tlnrinm nvi.-h When the oountry becomes civilised, the toy pistol will disappear. The city could not rid itself of 'some undesirable detectives or -at least of the burden of their salaries but per haps the county can unload Faddy Maher. ' a e Judge Taswell said that the druggist who made a practice of selling cocaine to boys was "worse than a murderer," and It might be difficult to controvert that strong statement At least the law's severest penalty does not fit the crime. Big Business already Is in a tremble on Hccount of "politics," and promises to h&va onnHnlimiH nnd InitrnQalnvlw Violent anasma until after Iha ni.1 Presidential election, is months hence. Big Business would better take an oc casional sedative and attend to its large affairs without worrying much about politics. And it might as well be under stood first as last that a presidential ticket of Morgan and Guggenheim can not be elected. OREGON SIDELIGHTS Pendleton business men " have now the convenience of , an uptown:. express Office- . i ,. .' ;:., ' ' e The admission to the grounds' during tne Astoria centennial csiuDrauon una been fixed at 20 cents. . The Elks of Astoria will oresent a Play, "Topsy TurVy," at the Astoria uiuuire, iiuiy . ana ii. . Minnesota people at Eugene will bold meir annual reunion ana picnic in want er's grove. In.' West Bpringfield, J'rl uuy, juiy HI. i ';. ... , ,;v Construction of the extension pf the sewer system at renaieton is in proir ress. It Will serve the branch asylum tor me insane. . . . .. . a a v . ' An event at Timber on the 4th was the raising of a flag 225' feet in the air, using as a part .or, tne start gigantic tlr tree. , . e a Newcort Slima.1: Vhi anta arln'.lnra have been kept busy lately and have puimnea many a Deauurui specimen which Will serve aa a . token at ra- uxemDrance or Newport ... a a . The countv eommlulrintra a .Tnao. thine county have turned over to school district No. 7 the county high school. for administrative uurDoaeB. brother wiui a runa or ituvu. urants rasa is in uuunci jno. (. The county court of Marion county has granted, a petition from --the resi dents of Aumsvllle for the incorpora tion of their village into a City. They nave a Donuiation oz nu.. thh win uuiu an viecuun juiy si. - m m A contract hii been awardad hv thai unuea mates engineers to u. w. tan' oorn a Co.. or Astoria . to deliver a. large quantity or coal at Celllo for the use of the department at that point The contract price Is ta.10 a ton. a a Eugene Rearlster: The rtooth-Knllv drive of 4,000,000 feet of logs consigned from Joe Hills' camp to the Spring field mills, arrived a.t the boom nn Friday at noon. The other drive, con signed to the Coburg mill, haa reached point opposite Thurston. a Salem Statesman Dr. D. N. Mcln turff . has purchased the Independence Enterprise from Henry E. Browne. Dr. Mclnturff la well known, having: been a Methodist minister for years. In Ore gon and Washington. In Spokane he established a large church. WASTE r DO CHILDREN naturally lie and steal. Is cruelty inborn in boys and In them is the Joy of kill ing something well marked? Does the sparing of the rod spoil the . child? . President Van Dyke of the Oregon v . Medical society is quoted as holding Aese opinions. He believes that - uoney greed In fathers, and frivol ity, fashions and women's clubs for mothers, have demoralized the American family and are threaten . ing the nation with ruin. ' The doctor has at least given us a ripping Indictment. With the colo nel attacking us because vthere are not more children, and Dr. Van Dyke i assuring ns that children are so bad, . we are -stunned. V' ; The . colonel - Insists that there ; should "be - three or "f oar Johnnies I where there' Is. but one Johnnie now, 'and Dr. , Van Dyke seems half per isuaded that air the Johnnies ought J to bo In the penitentiary.' If both ; these doctors of sociology are correct It Is not a marvel that. In despera- 'HE DISPATCHES relate that an American woman, one titled daughter, add another not yet titled, are coming back to the United States in sombre mood. Wo men are usually In mourning when they quit Europe's coroneted shores. The husband and father, who la the vein of gold in this perturbed family, has asserted himself. There had been newspaper talk about a Suit for separation filed by the wife. It had beeo rumored that she would make her future home in rondoa and gay Paris. But a polite little note from the head of the house revealed things 1 AY. m a . m tne aiamona-ciear or common ; s,h"j ,, , rati nek u ro- .v I,..- ;Spithead coronation week, was more wav . vna naio uau UU T IS ANNOUNCED that English designers have planned a new type of war vesBel that will sup plant the famous dreadnaughts. The plans are, of course, a state se cret, but they are said to avoid all the known defects of the dread naught, and will render that type of warship obsolete. It will be merely history repeating itself. If the Englishmen have not planned a craft to beat the dread naught" some other 'designers will. The terror of the seas today Is scrap Iron tomorrow. Even before com pleted, it is thus foreshadowed that our new $8,000,000 Wyoming, with 46 great guns and 26,000 tdns dis placement, Is of obsolete type. The first cost of the vast fleet that passed under royal review off New Site for Auditorium. Portland. July 10. To the Editor of The Journal In regard to a site for the auditorium I respectfully suggest that attention be "directed to a favor ably located East Side block that ap pears to be 800 by 200 feet in size and Is unoccupied by buildings of any kind, being covered with grass and having four or five old cherry trees on the westerly end. It is the block bounded by Hawthorne avenue. East Madison, Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth streets. I do not know who owns the property or whether It Is for sale, but it Is cer tainly an Ideal site for the auditorium, being near the center of the great and rapidly growing East Side, only a little more than a mile from the center of the city, easily reached by several carlinea, Ilea In a beautiful district is high, sightly and in every way desirable. Probably the old market block can be sold for enough to buy this site and have money left I hope the commit tee will examine and Investigate this. WILLIAM H. WOODRUFF. SEVEN AMERICAN FORTUNES J. Pierpont Morgan. way long enough. As I am support ing both you and the duchess. I am going to have something to say about what you do and where you live." So, with farewells to the dukes, barons and marquises, the mother and her daughters are com ing home. People call these "climbers" acci dents, but they are not. They are a direct result of the' "system." The woman is not always to blame, nor the woman's mother they are but the human marionettes aground out by the decrees of fashion and so ciety. They are the giddy imitators of their leaders forgetting the meaning of marriage and self-re spect as they drive in quest of glit tering coronas. As we view this social tragedy or comedy whichever It may be, we are reminded of the story of the-guile less child who asked as she stroked her mother's silk frock: "Where did this pretty dress come from, mother?" i "From the worm, dear," replied the mother. "You mean papa?" suggested the child Instantly. And, it is with hope that we re cord that the worm has turned. man souu.uuu.uuu. it is a sum equal to all the gold mined In this country from 1789 to 1907, inclu sive, a period of 118 years. Yet, by the news from the Brit ish designers, the whole of this stu pendous armada will in a few years be obsolete and in the boneyard. In the scrap pile, or, with the Texas, at the bottom of the sea. It is better to spend money for roads or schools. Cost of Paving. To the Editor of The Journal Re cent dlclosures in Milwaukee, Wiscon sin, and Seattle, Washington, Indicate that there have been pulled off in Portland some gigantic swindles on the people in connection with our street paving contracts. It appears that 11.45 Is sufficient to pay for irood hard surface pavement, and that all tha. rest is graft Some of the charges here have been as high as $2.80, and usually from 12.20 up. It might be possible to stop the payments on contracts about to be paid for. why not? Will the courts uphold fraud, collusion, conspiracy, rob bery? FRED C, DENTON. TIIE PRECEDENT TO RECOM. MEND . r DICK TO DICK K EWS DISPATCHE8 from Wash ington hint that the investigat ing committee Is not to call Miss Abbott, who discovered the alleged "Dick to Dick" letter. The newspapers of the country are filled with accounts of the incident, and the affair has reached the pro portions of a national sensation. It would be curious if the testi mony ot Miss Abbott should not be taken. It is quite as important as any other testimony, If, In the probe, it is desired to get the truth and the whole truth. If all the truth is not sought,, there . Is no use to Investi gate. . .", f;;. ,;V. -iThe only -. person nrenant whm J Miss Abbott Is alleged to have dls- T IS ANNOUNCED from Washing ton that, in his next message, the president will recommend estab lishment of the parcels post. Why n6t? All other civilized countries have It. Their packages are-carried at a mere fraction of what we pay. In our failure to adopt the system, we are behind even be knlghted China, which has an exten sive parcels post. The only1 reason we have not had the systom before Is because the ex press companies objected. Should we always defer to. the express com panies in a" matter so Important? Is this a government of, for and by the express companies? Why shouldn't the president recommend a parcels post? Why shouldn't congress pass a law estab lishing it? A Massachusetts Judge has laid It down as law that the husband Is boss of the household, that food such as he likes must be cooked, and the hired girl that doesn't suit him be discharged. That may be the law, but there are a lot of husbands that, for wise and prudent reasons, never attempt to enforce it. .-. . When knocked 100 feet by a pass ing train, a man' at Aylmer, Quebec who had long been stone deaf, had his hearing suddenly restored, and latef in the hospital talked with his little daughter, whose voice he had never hoard. Now, will the damage How Champ Clark Sinned and Repented. From the Columbian. Clark's first Sunday saw him at the little church where worshiped the fol lowers of Alexander Campbell, called me uiscipies or Christ Clark nut in his letter from the Christian church at Cincinnati, where he had been in the law sohool, and' was received Into full fellowship. Within a few days a steam boat trip was arranged by the young men of the town; the old steamer War Eagle, towing the barge Mamie, brass band, lemonade stand and 'all, steamed lowly up the broad river, while the full June moon rose over the picturesque bluffs of Pike county, Illinois. The music, the perfect night the odor of a thousand roses, the enthusiasm of youth all else was forgot and the young churohman danced all the way up the river to the turning-round point and then danced all the way back to the landing at Louisiana, at 2 o'clock in the morning. The next Sunday he took his way to ohurch, all unconscious of the gathering storm. Before the service began the young Kentuckian was oalled before the bar of the church, and expelled from lta membership for dancing, Jn violation of the lawa of the church. Clarlc. rr.t. fallen, but not discouraged, walked out and oooled his brow In the shade of the long rows or maples on Georgia trat It ws depressing, discouraging. But oon in, air cleared; he walked reso lutely baok to the church, si 1nnf1 in and took a seat on the last bench In the rear, observed by none There he sat and heard a sermon on backsliding that ua iu ds airectea at him alone. In the Christian church It is the un failing oustom, at the close of the serv ice, to offer an Invitation to all repent ant elnners to come forward and take a place on the front soat while the con gregatipn sings a hymn. It la a e-rvwiiv custom. The usual Invitation was given, when up rose a tall blonde and blue-eyed young man with a square Jaw the young Kentucky lawyer, who, according to the Riverside Press, had "settled in our midst" He stalked straight to that front benoh and sat resolutely down, the only repentant sinner to males' th good confession. The pastor was non plussed, the presiding elder gasped; the deacons were agitated; The book con taining the rules and laws of the ohurch wae dug up and hastily consulted; all hands put their heads together, hut there was only one thing to do a re pentant sinner , could not be 'turned away, se Clarlc went back Into the fold, and thsre abidetn to this day., ..v-;;-;'.;:.;';.;'1 Up to Date. ; ' .4 From Judge. -Do you think It la . becoming?" aha asks, appearing In her newest gown. . "Don't bother about lt-gushes the friend. "It 1 perfect! . , It is simply delicious! My dear, it makes you look absolutely helpless." J. Pierpont Morgan is one of tha most prominent of the great money kings of the twentieth century. His enormous wealth haa been heralded to the four corners of the earth. To him haa been ascribed the most extravagant titles "great financier," "noble philan thropist" "marvelous captain of Industry,'- and "friend of kings and king among men." One writer haa gone en further aaul has styled him . "Morgan the Magnificent" But not alone - la Morgan to bs glorified as a great rail road and industrial magnate, but fully as much so has he been held up to the world's admiration as a philanthro pist an encoarager and patron of art a lover of literature, a Croeaua with a mind capable of at once grasping the most intricate details of finance and reveling in the beautiea and understand ing of the ,' fine arts. Morgan cannot be classed with Van derbllt Qculd and other great mag nates as being entirely a -"self made man, for his father waa 4 millionaire. It was the; father who arose from the small beginning from the menial posi tion to the man of vast wealth. J. Pierpont Morgan was a robust man of 24 when the Civil war broke out His first ascertainable business transaction was In an army contract with the gov. ernment through a second party, sup' plying rifles. Mr. Morgan made himself universally respected as an able financier In 18CS. when he camajout victorious in a mem orable struggle for the control of the Albany & Susquehanna railroad which had fallen Into the clutches of Messrs. Flsk and Gould. This seema to have been his first entry Into the rail road business In which later be was to be come so powerful a factor. Thence forth for nearly 30 years, until the pe riod of organizing industrial trusts be gan, his chief undertakings were his banking business and what was called "the reorganization of railroads." Morgan's firat partnership in the banking business was as a member of the firm of Dabney, Morgan & Co., which firraait will" be recalled, was one of the baiWIng houses participating in the noted Kansas City railway loan of 1869. ' Ills next partnership was as a mem ber of the firm of Drexel, Morgan & Co., when he began to be conspicuous In very large transactions. One of these was the floating of the $260,000,000' United States government bond Issue of 1877. Out of this transaction the com pany was credited with making a clear pront or 6,ooo,ooa The great railroad potentates up to 188 were the Vanderbllts, Goulds. Sage, Blair and Huntington, lint through a number of very shrewd deals that he made. It was not very long before Mor gan came to the front as bhe of the foremost railroad magnates In the Uni- tea (states. His aggressiveness of char acter and action, hia truculent boldness m smashing down obstacles and his Knowledge of how to apply power and money where it would produce the best results, finally landed him In the for' most rank. Then came the period when he began to db reared ror his far reaching power. waving secured, in conjunction with W H. Vanderbllt the Philadelphia & Read ing railroad. In 1893. to his manifold powers Morgan now added that of coal magnates Millions upon millions Morgan now began adding to his fortune and finally, and within very recent years, began the work of organising trusts. J, Pierpont Morgan was one or the foremost general lBsunos. cacn accumulating success added millions of dollars to his fortune. By the end of the year 1903 Mr. Mor gan, reckoning by appearances, seemed io outran every otner American mag nate. . Between Morgan, the precoclous'young money lealot of 1861. and Morgan, the incommensurable magnate of 1902, lay a long span of some 40 years. For four decades he had Incessantly campaigned for great wealth. Of the properties he owned otherwise, there is no definite autnentic record, but the extent of his railroad possessions can be ascer tained. Moody wrote m 1902 that he was "Identified with S5.000 miles of rail road." . Thus "Morgan the Magnificent" has risen by the most rapid paces probably of any other man of the world in the accumulation of wealth. His power now embraces banking and trust, insurance. Industrial and tranaportation companies and he controls of Influences capital estimated, at the very least, at more than ten billions of dollars. How much of this stupendous sum Morgan person ally owns are ractors not definitely Tomorrow The Vanderbllt Fortune. Ixnely Wildernesses. From the Boston Herald. Kind folks in Boston who contrive sum mer outings for he children of the ten ements are sometimes disappointed to find that the young urbanltes are seised with a sickening loneliness aa night comes on in the country. Boys have been known to run away from the enter tainment thus provided for tbem and at the first opportunity they seek their congenial alums. They have an exag gerated fear of harmless wild oreaturea. and if left alone at night they are the prey to terrors that sometimes threaten serious hysterical disturbance. The man who camps for the first time in the Adirondack wilderness can sympathize with this panic of the town bred child. The loneliness of the wilderness night la at first oppressive. Pines three or four feet in diameter and perhaps 176 feet high send tholr huge, rigid shafts upward Into the gloom. ' Between these great trunks smaller trees languish, and whenever the firelight gives a glimpse into the depths the trunks thicken and thicken until one has "the oppressive sense of being in the midst f an ad vancing Brobdignaglan army. Far away a huge Adirondack owl gives its har rowing cry as of a soul in torture, and nothing else broaks the dense silence. Relief is afforded for an instant per haps, by a. piece Of woodland pyrotech' nlcs hardly to be seen elsewhere.' The tattered bark of a dead white birch la fired near the ground and the flames rush Instantly to the top with a roar and an Illumination as of a skyrocket The display la over In three or four minutes and the darkness and silence again settle down like a pall. One wakes In the morning glad that the squirrel 14 scolding In the tree over headl that tha birds are on the wins here and there, that the wilderness haa lost with daylight a little, of Us myste rious loneliness. : Some sensitive persons hardly aocustom themselves to the night aspects of the woods, - but most men come to feel the potent charm of its silence, loneliness and aloofness. ' , i a -, What ne Paid, For. , '. : 1 Conductor,-- Move i forward "A there, please. . 1 . . Casey (who has moved along twloe) Dlvlf a bit furderl , OI paid me nickel f ride, ' not ' ? kape on walkln' Boston Transcript. - i , , . .'''V 'V - "V , . . - . r Tanglefoot By Miles Overholt EVENING THBJ SCORE. An, autolat who drove a car and BiBugnierea men ana women. Who hugged himself with great de- iiK'ii a regular persimmon, Was swatted by a ton of sand hurled . by an aviator v ( . And all that- folk could laugh at was wm yuur. aeceasea s testator. THE MISERT OF LIVING. I knew a mo.n. nn rr n ttm J JVho lived, it seemed, on bales of care.' I He wasn't satisfied at all unless he tasted bitter gall. For instance, when the birdies sang And-woodlands with their music rang. He dreaded every Joyous note - inat tumbled from each singer's throat ...OKU! lum urettjr soon The notes would stop; the harvest moon Sr2!lt2 J00, PP"r and winter's chill would amble over vale and hill. wiS.'" fnl,.,?a rrowl and mope Without thai anla-htaat hit . 1 . - For well her knew when summar came ... uiu, muy un nonor, re me, WOUld rise before him rrlm .nl -n bv mm uiue an. wi.Kal" m.u K1? l0 tumbled him With wealthy trimmings in tha swim, He worried till he lost his hair For fear 'twould vanish In the air. He feared that thieves woujd rob and , Bton I. i. ' i: . i" , i ... . And scuttle him-and sink his keel. And when he married in the spring He worried let hta wr ,niA v,-? Her mother home to roost With them, Although her parent waa a gem. And When hie Mor wlfa ' "of'leH every night and day Until he grabbed another one To help enjoy his lack of fun. ' When this poor man is hustled hence. And I am sitting on the fence. " when his remains are , hauled away, I wouldn't faint to hear him say: . ' I renr tha, irfava .Vomit with iji I, fear I'll catch an awful cold V ' The national V admlnlsf rn Hon , I heavily handicapped by the activities of Brother Charles..'. . ... The Nebraska State Journal, a Repub lican . newspaper published at Lincoln, Neb , la making a poll of the Republican editors of the atate on the presidential outlook for 1912. The following ques tions' were submitted to . every ; Repub lican editor: . 'T?? ,1. Is it your Judgment that Prestdnt Tart can carry Nebraska r J. Can he be elected? . - I. Do you believe " 'stronger. m than Taft can ha nominated by tha it publicans next year?, ' In its issue of June 19. the Stata Journal prints the first batch of re plies received. They follow: Ponder, Neb., June 16. Aa between Taft and Wilson' I do not believe Taft could carry Nebraska, nor do I believe' he could be eleotcd. He Is probably as strong a candidate as the Repub licans can nam, taking the country ever, because what La.Follette would gain over him in the west he would loss in the east. However, Taft is stronger today than he was a year ago and if he will use the next year to right advantage could make himself a formid able candidate. If he does not and the Democrats nominate Wilson he win get licked to a frazzle. As between Taft and Harmon, chances are about even. C. S. Hughes, Editor Republic. Ponca, Neb., June 16. I do not believe Taft can carry Nebraska. Should Wil son or Harmon be the Democratic nom inee I believe Taft's defeat would be oertain. I regard LaFollette as a stronger man than Taft Boosevelt is still the strongest man the Republican party has; but, of course, he has made it plain that he is not to be considered. The tariff and reciprocity questions have made Taft unpopular. Charles K. Joxies, Editor Journal. ' Nelson, Neb., June 16 (1) It Is our opinion that Taft will carry Nebraska' with a gopd majority. We believe that people are beginning to realise his' tripe worth, and when the time comes they . will respond. (2) Yes. (J) We do not. and the more we see of him and his works the stronger we are for him. Nuckolls County Herald, John J. Pfelf- rer, Editor. Asniana, neb., June 17. Replying mo your questions: (1) I do not bellei1 that President Taft can carry Nebraska? (2) i do not believe that he can be elect' ed. (8) Probably President Taft would ave as good a chance of election as any Republican, but under the present oomoraiuca condition of the Republican party I conalder it Improbable that Republican will be the next president W. M. Beeker, Editor Ashland Oazette. Kimball, Neb., June 16. (1) We be lieVe Taft will carry Nebraska, (2) He can be elected. (3) We do not know of a stronger man In the Republican party at the present time. The presi dent's views are not ours on all ques tions, but we believe it the best policy for the Republican party to renominate him and do the best we can to elect him. He is probably the very strongest man now in the party. Of course no one can tell what may come up before ho is nominated. H. D. ,'llson. Editor Western Nebraska Observer. Genoa, Neb.. June 16. (1) Against a progressive like Wilson, no: against Harmon, yes, (2) Possibly next year, but not today against " a square toed progressive. (3) Yes, as things look at present writing. Cummins would be much stronger, and Ia Follette would be much stronger In the west, but things might happen to make Taft' Invincible In 1911. It would take a wise man in deed to predict conditions a year hence.-F. H. Young. Oenoa Leader. Dunbar, Neb., June 16. (1) I do not believe Tart will carry , Webraaka. (2) It Is a grave doubt in my mind. .He will possibly be elected, j He cannot beat Woodrow Wilson. (I) There are many Republicans who would run bet ter than Taft La Follette, etc. F. R. Oalbratth, Editor Dunbar Review. Wllber, Neb., June 16. (1) President Taft might not be able to carry Ne braska today, but I believe he will be able to do it next fall. (1) I belljve be can be elected next year and (3) do not believe a stronger man can be nom inated unless something unforeseen do- velops between now and then. J. A. Wild, Wllber Republican. Atkinson, Neb.. June 16 (1) To your first question answer yes unless Wil son runs. (2) Yes. (3) No, unless Roosevelt or La Follette. A. H. Yora, Editor Graph io. . Revival of Road Use. From the Lewtston Teller. One cause of 'the neglect of miblla highways has been the development of railroads which were assumed to take the place of all other means of transportation. Both wagon roads and waterways have been largely Ignored as matters of minor Importance. It is how beginning to be realised that all of these avenues of transportation need to be developed In unison; that the wagon roads and the waterways are needed as feeders and as adequate out. lets for the products of the field, forest n m4 mIk. I The coming of the auto haa e-rtiv elped In winning new appreciation of the possibilities of highway develop, ment and usefulness. The highways are not only being Improved but are being mapped and studied and uawt for the purpose of the country. The new use of the roads will bring new life to the country. It will help to turn the tide of travel tht ... uen going rrom me country to the Jt city so that It will flow more from kV7 city to the country, and restore a miX I needed equilibrium. jT I - r I 8on"fc Letter to Dad. From Runr.efia Hfnfmin They say that John Nicholas Beffel the poet wont away from home at a tender age and for a while wrote home glowing letters about his pwspecta The irncm mmijy crnHca. une cold even ing when the snow was piling up In the main street of Seneca, III., the elder Beffel sat iown to supper and looked dolefully at the vacant chair. But be neath his plate he found this note- "Dear Dad: Please meet me at the old bridge at midnight and bring a blanket or a suit of old clothes. I have a hat JOHN.' j , Tke Gun Toter 1 1 MOontrlbutfd to The Journal by Walt Mason tha famoua kausas poet. , lla pnw'bwm. . u. ,n Prison and sorrow is hls n, he s wishing he never had car ried a gun; he thought It v. m.... ... pack one forever, and aim it at neoni n spirit of fun. And It, one fine morn ing ' Went Off Without Warning ...... plugged a bystander, who turned unRla toes; and now be is wailing th- Jl.aT sorue Jail in, and 90 one has pity fort hira . in his woes. , Th hm,.;.: W rraea ,w" 'S-enuomen shrouded, and Sleeping In boxes, the victims of 'fools' of pin-headed varmints who m.rf- k..: garments with all kinds of deadly and murderous tools.' And widows arejigh ing and orphans ara orrtr,.- .11 i. oountry because of he tfoEsi whoaJ ways are piannin' to spring ? big can. croaks. Oh, . let the. law . atnn tt,l fool with a weaion. anf h, ?;n i lL!nliAd J?1?. with NarunJ::. v.v b .! ,. lv seems the Cra.tnit in building forgot to brains. - " w" Copyright, 1011. by' ' YA'W wwg auiuiew AOaos, KtdZLmJ I Iafka1