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I THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND. . FRIDAY EVENING, JULY , 28. 1911. THE JOURNAL AN INJENDKNT NEWSPA.PEB- c .Jackson... .Pabl1anr FaMlahee' rery stoning" (exrept Similar) and ' entry Sunday morning at The Jnnrnal Bnlld . - lac, Flfla and Yamhill erreets. Portland, Or. totmi at tht poetoftlce at Portland, Or., far traneailialoa through tbe malls aa eecond laaa matter. K TELEPHONES Wain T178; noma. A-WW1. I all depart men ta reached by theee nnmhtra. , v tall Iba operator what department yon want in the sanitary condition of the Isl-j matter of bookkeeping? Wasn't J. ands they would leave a monument j P. Morgan , given $5,000,000 for for which they would deserve to be j merely aiding the steel corporation held in gratetul remembrance. Not i to organize? c Did" he not receive an- fOttEJOH ADVERTISING RKPRKHKNTATIVK. Reniamhi At Kontnor Co.. Branawlek Building, Klftb etenne. New Tort; 1218 Peoplta 6a Building. Chicago. Babeerlprtoa Terme by mall nr ta any addrrna to the United Statea of Mexico. DAILT. Oa year....... .13.00 I in month I M SON DAT. Oaa year (2.80 I One month., ...... I M ' .. DAILT AND SUNDAY. One year...". ....$7.80 One month I M '. Conscience has more to o with gallantry than It has with politics. Sheridan. r only in Manila, but throughout the provinces the twin scourges of the Filipino in the past cholera and smallpox have been almost exter minated." The great sums expend ed in the Philippines, In Cuba. Porto Rico, and the Canal belt, may not have brought returns in dollars to the treasury hut they represent an unselfish expenditure for the good of man. Memory may well revert to these great achievements, and take heart, when festering cesspools are uncovered In political and municipal life at home according to Woodrow Wilson's vigorous lruage. A RIDICULOUS PRETEXT OPENING THE BOOKS Q PLENDID SERVICE Is rendered . the country by the . Investiga te 1 tions'of the house committees 'at Washington. The) facts com lag to light fully Justify the people la voting for a change in the control of the house. , Wednesday a long hidden report - by B. D. Townsend on the harvester trust was dragged out of obscure re- - cesses In the department of Justice. It was made by Mr. Townsend as a ' special investigator to Attorney Gen ,". eral Bonaparte during the Roosevelt administration. There was a clear violation of the Sherman law, but no prosecution was ever pushed. The report reveals that the steel . corporation and harvester trust "are virtually one." Four of the lx dl rectors of the harvester combine are directors of the steel combine. The steel trust secretly rebated 1 3 a ton on steel used in the manufacture of -" harvester machines exported. ' In the report, Mr. Townsend says, ' "I have learned; of many dishonest acts of the International Harvester company, su.cn as legislative bribery, tg dodging, etc." Plantstbat were ; purchased for the sole purpose of destroying competition are enumer ated, and machines were sold $6 to $20 cheaper" to foreigners than to American farmers. And, for aiding In the organization of the harvester trust, J. P. Morgan v was paid a, fee of $5,000,000. In vestlgatlon by the came committee Into the steel trust disclosed that for bis aid In' organizing It, Mr. Morgan was paid $5,000,000." . ' The same committee, investigating the sugar trust, brought out the fact - that for organizing that benevolent utility, H. O." Havemeyer received , $10,000,000. ' It is supposed that these huge, Incomprehensible fees harmonize with the character 6f the service rendered, and that these exr 'pensive tollers In tho vineyard were , Worthy of their hire. -, Meantime, the inquiries should go on. The books should all be opened, . ' and the records all be searched. The facts already brought to light indi cate that no better service can be rendered the country. EXPANDING RAILROADS POOR'S MANUAL of Railroads for 1911 has recently been pub lished. There are'now 242,107 miles of steam railroads in the 'United States, showing an Increase . of 3751 miles during the past year. Further testimony as to the growth of the business is given in details of Increased size, and proportionate cost of rolling stock. Thus, one new locomotive for the Atchison road weighs 231 tons or with the ten der, 350 tons as much aa an entire train would have weighed a few years ago. The Interstate commerce commis sion, using the reports for the year ending June 30, last, calculates the gain In gross earnings for the year as showing an increase of gross earn ings of somewhat over 14 per cent. The increase In net earnings is fig ured by Poor at 7.85 per cent. - The capital stock of American rail roads has grown to the enormous ) sum of over eight billions and a quarter In 1910. The bonded debt for the same year Is given as $9,600, 000.000. Both the value of the railroad properties and their earning power have Immensely Increased. The gross earnings in 1900 were $1,501, 695,378; net earnings, $488,247,52. In' 1910 the corresponding figures are $2,804,580,939, and $919,060, 812. : These great institutions have sure t ly prospered under the regime of su pervision and control by the national commission. H OW COULD tho statesmen of Europe reconcile it to thrir consciences what excuse could be offered If three or possibly four nations were plunged into war on any such grounds as this Moroccan misunderstanding shows? The question as between France, Germany and Spain, so far as the world knows, Is the ownership of certain mining claims and prospects in the Moorish mountains. Not the nations buV various so-called finan ciers or speculators of German, French or Spanish origin are the real parties in interest. Their mines are not in existence, their commerce between the paltry town of Agadir on the Atlantic coast and the moun tain ranges in the hinterland is no less mythical than are the German merchants" for whose protection the German cruiser was dispatched. What sort of diplomacy Is that hich would even dream it possible to involve the honor of three great nations, to move fleets and armies, to pour out blood like water, to waste millions on millions of the hard earned money of the peoples, to set back human progress for a decade, to cut the ties of friendship between all Europe for such stakes these? The world has heard too much by far of speculators pushing their ven tures into savage or uncivilized coun tries in the hope that the national power of their country would come to their rescue, and protect them. If the game went against them. But there never was a more flagrant in stance than that at which we stand wondering today. Is there no sense of proportion left? If all Morocco, with Its mountains and sandy wastes. Its scanty oases, its savage, warring tribes, were the prize it would not be worth the mov ing of a slngJe dreadnaught, or the life of a single German) French or English soldier. So says sober rea son- . ....... It seems incredible that no peace ful solution of these paltry questions will be found within the next few) anxious days. other. $5,000,000 for his assistance In launching the harvester trust? Did not "Havemeyer receive a bonus of $10,000,000 for his ponderous ser vices ..hr pumping life into the sugar tnst? . .Since business in Wall street is so much' a matter of inflation and paper, how natural that it should be tried In . Philadelphia with the Jani tors and office boys as barons of the curb! Why not the ragged boy on the street get a new suit of clothes for helping launch an insurance com pany or two, if Mr. Morgan got $5, rlcultural necessity on the free list. It Is bitterly opposed by the "Inter-' ests," and all the cunning of privi lege will be invoked for its defeat. Its progress in the senate and at the White House will be watched with interest, and Its success or fail ure be a test of whether professions are to be crystallsed Into perform ance. . ' ;, - ... .. Letters From tke People COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF SMALL CHANGE Ah hat back. The hot wave could corns ( Comoro ndeatlona aent to The Journal for pab llritlon In thla department should not exceed 300 worda In length and mnat be accompanied by the name and addreea of the tender.) The Menace of the Truck. Portland, Or.. July 26. To the Editor 000,000 for performing a similar ser- f Th9 Journal. Man who take their vice for the steel trust and another 1 families In any sort of vehicle on the SE. 000. AAA tnr tha hrRtr tnintt PUD" roads and streets Of this town But the men that the boy aided have been sent to the penitentiary. ESCAPING WOODEN NUTMEGS I are becoming afraid for their Uvea. There is a new danger: on tbe highways, and It is the gravest menace that has ap peared. The enormous power trucks that have suddenly come Into use here in large numbers are being driven at reckless speed, and by a class of men who show but little regard for human Ufa. These monster trucks have been pot T IS OF CONSEQUENCE to the country to be assured that Dr Wiley is only to be "admon ished." His further official sur- I Into use by the transfer, sand and gravel vlval Is provision against the return companies to save time. They are being of the wooden nutmeg. ways between the business district and We long consumed fruit Jelles that Council Crest As a time saver they are never saw fruit. All their approxl- obviously a success. They are being mation 'of fruit was artificial, the down. tho!8 re. & ""TT ,.xi v.i ' "Pda ranging from 15 te 11 miles aa jJtiujo tsu uiu aceav7i a ucm-r au I qoUI approach to real fruit aa any of the I The automobile speed manlae to bavd contents of the can. I enough, but when the pewetMrook- Even under restrictions, fond fr1ht-r driver gets the bug I think , . . . . ' , I it is raising the limit. imuuo uuiam. a rwoui m-uotue 101 All the b,ill roads are narrow and an emulsion which causes butter to I have sharp curves. The drivers of "absorb its weight In water. At the those power trucks do not care how nar- end of ten minute, hv It use th .r"w i"" roaa. xney own lt - mey j , J I j - - - j.Keep m tne middle of the road and thun anaier nas two pounas 01 Duuer jer ahead, and all other vehicles flee where he had but one before, and the to the ditch. The language and the buver never knows the difference. actions or these drivers is: A T,nn.o mn ffr. . nnr- "ut of T9r be dlff. and - y t0 1 with -you. ciuer vinegar made or water ana one And woe to the family automobile. apple. He places his simple concoc- carriage, horseman or delivery wagon tion within reach of all by marking tnal dOM not ""o0 " rinding a safe it .t -n t, plaoe to pass. I have eeen an auto it at only four cents a 3llon. He truck KOlng Aown th Twenty.flrBt aiso maKes pure appie ouiier, street hill from the Alnsworth school using but one apple to the gallon I to Page's corner at 16 miles an hour. of hiitrar Hnma nf tr.n nrhn kp " children In this quiet residence dls . . - .t , . . , I trlct fleeing tight and left for safety, partaken or tne mixture are unaoie Yesterday (Sunday) I saw two of to aistinguisn 11 rrom me genuine these trucks driven by apparently man apple butter that mother used to iacal drivers, round the curve and come jnnlj- down the grade past Strohecker"s gro- . . . , , , I l'ery at 25 miles an hour. The narrow n-ocnesier pernou 01 invenuve roadway was bumnv. and the bin-, lum. genius treats sawdubt with molasses berlng truck was bounding up and down, to aid In adulterating enlces. and na smewise. it made a noise like a none but experts can detect the J?1"'?" of "crap jn aI0ng . . ,T " M , through a ten story office building fraud. Hov many of us have and landing on a full line of hardware smacked our lips over sweetened in the basement The vehicle containing Bawdust and called for more will al ways be conjecture. Before we had pure food laws, we ate everything from chalk and sweet ened sawdust to rectified rotten eggs, and even with the pure food THE NEW WAY FT EW YORK HAD Ice riots dur ing the late hot wave. Par ents stormed the ice plants and struggled for ice for parched and panting children. When the sun was hottest and the heat fiercest, the price of ice rose 20 per cent. Investigation followed, and it is now disclosed that the American Ice company owns the stock of the Knickerbocker Ice company, the Manufacturing Ice company, the Knickerbocker Steel Towing com pany, and all or a part of tbe stock of five other ice companies doing uslness In New York. It operates through subsidiary companies in Maryland, Pennsyl vania, New Jersey, Maine and the District of Columbia. It dictates the conduct of the ice business in New York and in the principal cities of the other states. The benevolence of Its purpose aa a trust was revealed In the advance In the price when fee was a neces sary of life, and when children were dying by scores for lack of it. The offense of the trust was the more felonious because deliveries were re stricted as a means of lifting the price. There Is provision for a Jail sen tence for crimes of this sort, but the usual penalty Is a fine. A few offi cials jailed would dissolve such a trust In a day, but not one enters a Jail door. Our new and benevolent way of doing business through combines re quires a new style of administering Justice. my family was backed half way through the Strohecker gate and entirely out of the roadway, and so all escaped dis aster and possibly death. My family was equally fortunate a week ago when one of -these great trucks. keeping tbe middle of the road on Mont- ffnmsrv Drlva. atrnlr th hnK nf mv laws we trust . to Providence and car in passing, but did no serious dam- shudder at the thought Of what our age. Bo far as my observation goes. provender may be. a fact that makes trucks of the consolidated Auto v. . Truck company are the most dangerous, a happy episode that an armed There are many others including trucks neutrality has been declared at hauling cement gravel and cordwood to Washington with Dr. Wiley merely I the various districts around Council to be "admonished." - I Crest and Portland Heights. now, no man is graveiy concerned aa Ia wh,t Han irk. mut. An , V. a pa. 4 I NOT WAVING FLAGS h has room to ret around tt That 1. merely a Question of cautious and cara- HE HARD,- HEADED and un- ful driving on his own part But Port- T AN OVERNIGHT BOY FINANCIER T THE REBIRTH OF MANILA WHEN THE DEEDS of the American people for thp last 'decade are summed up for -. good or ill what ..he London Times calls the rebirth of Manila will surely be carried to the credit aide of the account. . A correspondent of that paper In a recent issue describes. the old town " called "Intramuros," with its con gestion of 200,000 Inhabitants in fllthy nd disease breeding condi tions, as ft was when Americans took possession. He then tells of the ' plans of Mr. JD, H-. Burnbam of Chi cago for a modern city of 2,000,000 , Inhabitants, and of the progress , made towards their realization. He mentions particularly the new capi tol building, fn which tbe legislative assembly ;will hold It sessions.1 Y !;' The communication ends thus, "if the-Americans were to evacuate the Philippines tomorrow, ' In "the, im provement which they have wrought ''' i-s f ..i- V'v: ',"" !; " ' v" ', i -'-v ' HREE PROMOTERS In Phila delphia organized bogus insur ance companies with a water capital of $1,500,000. The rev enues from their activities, as ap peared from the testimony in court, reached $2 7,000 a month. A ragged boy of 19 was picked up on the street and taken to-the apart ments of the gay financiers and made president of two of the companies and a director in a third. As part of the process, he was given a new suit of clothes and provided with spend ing money appropriate to his new station. In the court proceeding it ap peared that not only was the hungry lad of the street thus elevated into the great busy world or finance, but Janitors in the building, office boys and elevator tenders were with equal ease made directors, secretaries, vice presidents, treasurers and other functionaries, to become big figures in the theatre oft business.-";';.-' ' f--tJ .y And why not? Is not Dig Busi ness as disclosed by the testimony at Washington respecting the sugar, BteeJ , and 'harvester trusts mostly-a jf ''.1 1 ''I ':y! ,' ' .'. ';'!' "'!.'' sentimental business world fig- land Height people who drive vehicles , ... j . -.n ., ,v, . are facing a condition of narrow drlve- ures that trade follows not the way8 curveB wher. thw- ta no flag, , but docks. Contracts escape from the Irresponsible who are amounting to $26,765,750 havabeen, terrorizing these roads with the thun- let for Improvement of the port of dertnK power truck. Bueno. Avrea Bvery da7, very n,M ana 8un(Jy. th Power truck, and often prooesstons The Improvements will consist of of three or four, rush maii by on tne additional docks, and quays nearly a curves and dangerous grades of Mont mile In length. An area Of 100 acres Kmery Drive, Terrace Road, Paon ........ . . Road, Talbot Road and Mount Zlon will be devoted to warehouses for Rosa. which one" million square yards of The terror and torment of It has land must be reclaimed from the reached a stage where the people of river Platte. The extension will ac- r11"? He,nt" not ?n,y .dmanJL r ..... . , lief, but we are going to get It These commodate 25 steamships. r(mdB are our roalll, Wlth lnflntu care Even South America has grasped and more than average expense we have the meaning of adequate water ter- converted these hills, into homesites. minalsr Business brains in every f !" uLLtT?$ but .... . . , , , tlcally no benefit from taxation, either part of the world Is planning for the for roads or anything else. Both city era of big steamships and a great and county have practically ignored the ocean transportation. road question on Portland Heights. We j . . . t have had no police protection, and al- Trade Is not an Issue of sentiment. m08t n0 tlkCtr1c rh The ew paM. banners and brass bands, but of djv- able roads that we have are now being idends. The question of the day la torn to pieces by the power-truck not "how old is Ann." but how to Juggernant rt j V , U . , These power trucks property belong m get business, and how to handle traf- the cla wltn fre,Knt c, "tn nc at tne lowest cost. city permit freight trains to run amuck Buenos Ayres answers with more on its public streets? docks, more quays and more ware- Ther ,s a ban upon funning; freight . cars on street car tracks, where they houses. Europe answers with more can be operated with safety to the docks, more quays and more ware- public. Is it reasonable to permit a far houses. United States ports on the ieaB desirable sort of freight car to Pacific are spending $100,000,000 trftV' tne pu,w, .rkoadwayB: dJlven at . , , ' ' . speeds exceeding the street car limit for more docks, more quays and ftnd worse than that driven by men who more warehouses. evidently lack every characteristic that Nobody is waving flags as a means "houid govern sane and safe travel on Now nice It would be to be an ocean in aog aays. - The homicidal revolver must be re airictea, ir not suppressed. a a And Still mora of the Lava ea.se ana right in tbe hot weather, too. e What a dull dark day It would be that contained no mention in the newspapers ox jtiinei onrrymore. Governor Johnson of California seems to consider himself an Oregon Judge ana jury, in tne wuae ease. a ' - How Indignant the roosters and tom cats would be if they understood what some people are saying about them. e Convicts doing road work near Sub limity are to have a dinner, given by me ramiuea or tne neignDornooa. fiobos Darrea. e e Hoke Smith Is not the first man to be governor and senator at once. . There was David B. Hill, and also our own v;namoeriain. . a ... - The greatest news that could come rrom Haytl at any time would be that no revolution was in progress or fo menting mere. man had not had a revolver, he would not have killed a street oar conductor ana two women. e a The duty on sugar causes it to soat the people of this country about fltl, 000,000 a year more than It would if duty free. The sugar trust gets most or tnis sweetness. A French playwright and a dramatlo cnue got out tneir swords and runs and pistols, and had a duel. A little skin puncture, after many shots and inrusia, sausiiea : nonor." amy Tares, e a A New Tork woman suffrage leader says eventually women will rule. They have come pretty near doing so for a long time. Does she mean that all men's "rights" are to be taken away? Nothing less would satisfy some wo men. e a Every day there are several funerals father, brother, wife or son 'cause some drank or bating fellow had a deadly little gun. To state's prison, to the gallows, many a man his way has won, just because his thought of mur der could be acted with a gun. Many a youth and rosy maiden; even many a younger one. He in graves because too easy, was the access to a gun. Worst of all is the revolver: awful is Its re cord run: crime and sorrow are the mlsson of this hidden pocket gun. OREGON SIDELIGHTS Why Schools Fail to t , Educate A ' M arshfieM 1welar . ha erdare i from New Tork a street cloak, weight iivu pounas. , , From Hampton's Magaslne, We are beginning to realise that our' publlo school system the very basis of Woodhurn Is flomrtnar on' a water I Imarlnn .i.n..i tern sufficient to" serve a town of 66oo ZlZ. v"" """a Inhabitants. . , , . I ' "noma, it does not edu- t, w "v: '-.:. nninery is all there; fine The time has come for the reora-ant- I bulMlnra- f . , . action of th. lternrl.. fir. rtnrfnt ' " oompuisory according to the Record Chieftain. . ,aw"'! booll nd Parapher- Prairle Cltv now boasts' of a flrat olass modern hotel, built of brick -and nalla. But there's a cog loose aome- ""ra It aoDeara tha .lh The Hermiston Herald believes that on the Hermiston project the broom- Why? An answer to that - question was . SEVEN POPULAR PASTIMES Horse Racing. com Industry would thrive. The Her. I 'ought in New Ynrlr f th.,. al? Pr.P8 also a broom factory at W by social workers attached to the ... a , V ir "traet settlement Miss Mary Falls City News: Soapstona Is to be oilrv 7k- ? ma n ln' i i- - , m I o.uiry into the caAa nt mnn hiM. and as It Is a valuable article of oom-jwr "School before entering the high mores, we may expect 11 to DO put-OB I V the market some time in the future. . . Misa Flexner visited the homes and - "imrviowea DOtn Children and rr.nt Wallowa and Union counties have And she found, in at least 160 Mses lned -fnrcea in united f(k inlnat I tv... ,u. eBBt lov cases, the rates exaoted by the Ho penuoui ieiejjnuna company, wiui a i. ., v -. a-wuii' r,t ,nn,n.iH.. v.., . ng. but because thw niia nn, k-. i.. restore original rates. lau',to eonttoue In their classes. In .!,wora' tM endured school only Wlllamlna Times: The finest aim. I until they reached th a e t a nC.. pies of grain we havs eeen came from ty-elx of them failed to endure it that Dan Savage s ranch on the Wlllamlna. long. In the majority of cam-n i.w Th natai muBi i m wkut I ...?.' ",mJorlly or cases the law and tlniothvl feet Tel ona fellow aaw I najP . youngsters "did time' sorted the sou la this locality wasn't S J0"" a the compulsory xeruie, u""" aecreea. The restless ml- Inority sawed thronirh th k m yunuon i imaa xamrnr iiiron, : an I waj amiarm u0 xpiratlon Of their aen old Ume sheepmaa of this oounty, is tenoe. , ; " rftvlnav aa t- Ammn TnwitMw n a a I w r Sbo'ut-lfoo KrZ'iy&w&KuZ ft f holds at tJO.000. He let an old baohelor. M. n.n,nber of those children were rents his land and stars wherever n uemonstraung the faot that It was bv pleases him. I no means indifference to eduoatlon " " iwnicn leq tnara to forsake the cbua. Davtea Tribune: The M. XL ohurch I room. More than inn.. .i , . , . . . 1 1 . , . I - . w v. bllWJl W OI W " i?'K ana w uon rouna in evening hlh schools atuvina- cumpieiea win oe a most attractive atennvranhv knirk..a-- V . . " building. Rev. 8. J. Kester Is not only "f.n ,?!LpnT' , bookkeeping, dressmaking, a good preacher but a first class car- m. , , T' Plumbing, cabinet making, penter and Is diligently working on the bricklaying. and other practical church and parsonage. branches. Others were found at bust. a i neae coueerea ana tr NeWberr Bnternriee: ' The new bridge I schools. at the Junction of the two roads leading Conditions of this kind exist in every to the ferry and -through the Fern wood city in the United Btatea. Tha school district will be feet in length, it They know hat 7k 1 feet wide and will assume the shape . ' 7, . ' r,kno w tnat "othing or a "Y" when completed.. It will be 77. K uoa laws, ng- 1 to 15 feet above the gVound, thus ,d,y enforced, keep children ln school, removing all danger from overflow. I The educators know that the children leave because they want a kind of train- Gold Hill News: Goods and chattels lnar. or a kind of work which tha n-knni. &fi"Jf..wh not supply. In desperation the rived mis weex. ana were nauiea out v , to th new homes which theee neonle era duelng manual tralnfng. trade hlrh building on their tracts of the McDon- I schools, organised play, recreation cen ald ranch, on Rogue river four miles terw, athletic associations, school gar. aens. etui tne exodus continues. What can be done to stop It? There Is one city ln the United States where they think they have found the answer. In Gary, Ind.. they have worked out a school system which solves the problem of how to keep children ln school. They have simply devised means west of Gold-Hill. of bringing trade. MILWAUKEE INSURES SCHOOLS T the public roads? I am for progress, but not at the ex- censa of sane hlahwav control. T am ITS glad to bear my share of maintenance of the roads, but I want my share of the safe use thereof. HP! PT?nr.RF.SSTVin lairlalatnra, ln tneee rest moving aays a man f-, . . , ... .1 in lies u ii hi ii mm uoi vva auu uiuvfl B.10I1K Wlnpnnain noa 1nt naHAil an I . . j nveiy. ir no lacKs the pace and the act allowing the city of Mil- skill to keep up with his fellows, he waukee to do its own insuring must fall by the wayside or drop out Of Its school houses. ?z lne Procession. That is all very well. 4 a . . . I iui on n nnrrow ruaa. win a oiirr on Provisions are made for raising in . aten h m, o th. th $25,000 a year by taxation from the and a thundering power truck coming time the act goes into force to form down tne grade, with a bare-headed, a t,mA nf tmn rinn Thon .. grinning maniac at the gas throttle and , 1 . ' 1 x, . " a puny foot-brake his only means of amount raised from taxation Is to saving the lives of you and your family . a a. - Sa4nav . I .. .... " do reauceu to iii,ouu a year until wen, that is another story. the fund reaches 1200.000. It Is a story that will be told before Ti.,.. h to- i. u. ino coroners jury Derore long, ir Mayor . . , . . . , . . I o ... iiwiivo uu Ituv io.cu iu iiioci iu.Bt, in cAtesB oi tne rise to the needs of the situation. inieretsi irom tne investment or tne ine aanger may not seem real to a $200,000. fund, hut the nrlnrlnnl nf great many people who live and travel th fimrl la to he malntnlnaH In nor on Dr"" "a1" streeis. dui to tne hill the rund is to he ma ntalned in per- dweUer-on the winding roads-the petulty. So the city is to be its own menace of these aato trucks is terribly insurer. real. The people of Portland Heights know, and they are hoping that these racing freight wagons will be controlled by the city authorities before some fam njiUulii yjr mo wool I of a tu oh. If tha trucks nannnt ha tariff, but a lesser reduction controlled by their owners and the po. than that of the Underwood llce Power of the city is not sufficient bill. Is provided in the La Fol- i0 aIuI' a., J a . . . I W ""'a j aocj iiva. 1IIVVV IVf iBuo. ameuuunui wuicu passea Uie I nublio defense will be to claoe On tha senate yesterday. The president can-1 ballot this question not consistently , refuse annroval In "Shall the power trucks be permitted Horse racing Is one of the oldest of the popular forms of recreation add skill. The earliest recorded organised trials of speed with horses were the chariot races at the Greek National festivals, of which the most notable were the Olympic games held every fourth year. The amusement of horse racing was practiced in England ln very early times; Indeed there Is some reason to believe that It was among the pastimes of the Anglo Saxons, as Hugh Capet sent severai running horses as a pres ent to Edelswltha, the sister of Athel- stan. Fitzstephen mentions horse - rac ing as a favorite diversion with cltisena of London; and aa a proof that in the middle ages there were certain seasons of the year when the nobility lnduged themselves ln this sport we are told, ln the metrical romance of "Sir Bevls of Southampton," that at Whitsuntide the Knights j, A course let they make on a daye, Steeds and palf raye for to assays, . Which horse that best may ren." In the reign of Elizabeth, race horses were prised on account of their breed, and the sport was carried to such an excess aa to ravage the fortunes of many of the nobility. Private matches, ln which the gentlemen were their own Jockies, were then very common. In the reign of James the First publlo races were established In many parts of the kingdom; and It appears thai the discipline and modes of preparing the horses upon such occasions, wert much the same as are practiced in the present day. In the latter part of the reign of Charles the First, races were held ln Hyde park, and at Newmarket After the restoration, horse racing was re. vlved and much encouraged by Charles the Second, who frequently honored the pastime with his. presence; and when he resided at Windsor, appointed races at Datchet Mead, for his own amuse ment Newmarket however, soon be came the principle place, where the king entered horses, and ran them ln his own name, and established a house for his better accommodation. In the horse races ln Italy formerly the horses ran . without riders, and to urge them on, little balls with sharp points ln them vgwre hung te their sides, which, when the horse is employed ln the race, act like spurs. They had also pieces' of tinfoil fastened on their hind parts, which, as the animal run, make a loud rustling noise, and frighten them forward. A gun was fired when they first started, that preparations might be made to receive them at tho other end; when they had run half Tanglefoot By Miles Overholt THE! SPONTANEOUS J0KE8MITH. wav anothar mn waa fir.ii an a thiii of giving the children the kind of edu- wnen they arrived at the goal. Z. " .7" 1 """" To ascertain without dispute, whloh th,r. want but what the actually do net ra nn that W-aaaa an s-a.aaji I . vaa a,aw tava aat u a eni vr aaaa stretched across the winning post dipped in red lead, which the vlotor breaking it leavaa a red mark on his chest, and this mark Is decisive. To guard the course, a great number of soldiers un der arms, are ranged on eaoh side from one end of It to the other. In Persia.- horse racing has always been deemed an amusement worthy of tne particular patronage of the king; and there are annual races, not only ln the capitol. but in all the principal cities of the kingdom. The distance they have to run, is according to the age of the horse; but It la seldom less than saven miles, or more than 21. The object of these races Is not so muoh to try th speed, as the strength, of tho horses, and to discover those that can he depended on for long and ranld marches. Tha hnra ir ilnva ridden hv hnv hutvMn tha f 1 He sneaked Into the office, removed and 14. Mares never run at the races J1" hat- c,oarel his throat and laid the in Persia, nor are they used ln that following on the desk of the scholarly country for military purposes. person with the large, able bodied nose In America, the first and natural anfl partially bald knob, and then stood home of the thoroughbred was ln the aloof so that the person might read and south, where the early settlers were tnn hurst Into loud and un trammeled or the class which ln Erfgland mada uluw: the breedinar and cara of hlarh n,itiJ "I've always noticed that the sense a maa has, the happier he la." "Well, don't sing it." Observing a pained expression en the the breeding and care of high mettl horses one of their delights. Breeding establishments known all over the world are scattered throughout Kentucky and Tennessee, and there are many en thusiastic owners of thoroughbreds. Kven In the north flat racing flour- isnea as early as 1812. self-acting face of the scholarly person, tne loxesmitn stepped boldly forward and painstakingly said: "Fins Joke, that Idea Is that the AFTER RECIPROCITY A case of agreement between house and xvJjr .'. JT.y.'l , . i jicuii, van iuidi .mi may are ro- senate conferees, for he character- ing to rule the roads they have dedl ized the woolen schedules as most o11 t0 public use. If we cannot be savea rrom inese wiia freight cars. any other way. We will put them out of busi ness; ; , J. , , p. M. . HYSKELl "iniquitous. , The farmer's free list bill is a necessary step after reciprocity and the amended wool duties. It is a bill, originated by the house directly in the Interest of the. farmers, .plac ing as It does, many articles of ag- if i jn.t',?JBavj.x. iC.'W.V.".. '." :, '.' I,;,! Results. , " '. Vrom tha RtlrHfnn Vinti ' One reason we admire a hen Is be cause she doesn't cackle over what she is going to do, but what she has done. Make It Saner. From the Chicago Record-Herald. The United States has observed the sanest Fourth since the barbarisatlon of the "celebration." So has Chicago. The list of casualties Is shorter than In any previous year. There was . less nerve-shattering noise. There were few er fires. Still, the reform isn't complete when we have to record for the city two deaths and SI serious injuries as the result of the use of firearms, cannon and fireworks ln celebrating Independ ence day. Reform these things alto gether, yanieh the individual explo sions. There la no sense ln them. Chi cago has the power to amend her sane Fourth ordinance and should not neglect to exercise It Lot there be no miscel laneous trafflo - ln "death packages" next year. Give all dealers ample warn ing and abate the nuisance entirely, , Surely we are old enough to put away childish things. Celebrationis without tetanus, wounds; perils and riotous dis order and noise are as patrlotlo as the kind we have tolerated so long through foolish, misdirected Indulgence. Let us conserve Young America. and save It from Its andt our folly. ; ;w '.' , Not a Square DeaL " " From the Baker Herald. , -Now that the Cunningham claims to vast coal lands in Alaska have been declared by - the Interior department to be fraudulent and illegal, the .question naturally arises where is Louis R. Ola vis? He Is the man' who was turned out of office and humiliated for the sole reason that be contended that the Cunningham claims were fraudulent. No man ever suffered a greater indignity than Glavls. Secretary Bellinger seemed to .have a grudge against him and he was discharged It now turns out that Ballinger, whom; President Taft stoutly proclaimed was an honest and capable The Civil war was a temporary ehtwk second man la handing the first speak- to thoroughbred racing, and although er JaD ' BRrca,m and wejl, you see scarcely a city of any size was with- u Jon't 7u?" , out a course, It was not until the Amer- Fearing to Injure the Jokeamlth's lean Jockey club was formed, with the feelings, the person listened attenttve late August Belmont as chairman and ,y tothe description of the funny seo- Jerome Park (ln 1886) was made theltlon or the contribution and a pathetlo mecca of that sport Leonard W smile spread aoross a half section of Jerome, that racing in the modern sense angello front for a moment Then became a widely spread pastime. Sara- 6,1 WM at,u "ava th 'w sobbing of toga has long had an annual meet of th wlna through the hair of the city importance, and the Washington Park editor as tbe janitor sadly led the J ok fe ci uo or cnicago and the Kentucky Rao- amun away. ing association have an antiaultv errant. er than any of the eastern associations. . Doesn't Know It's Over. ua lunaamentai amerence between From the Philadelphia Record. Imirlciii anil Vn.ll.k . l. . .1 - ....... ...v. . .lot, uiurvuanDrea wr i w race conraa. la that )h.fn.. ... t.IT "Bv" wiuming amy wmo ine earth rionra an th. ? last 40 years that the Civil war was with a close fitting carpet of grass W" """iiiT Jn,B.takaa or thB rrrt - . . . . . . . - . j n.w. haa not raar.hM Hnvhnnt aan.n jliiq auvoiu ot American jockeys In Knar- land ln the veara lSOJ-oi ,r . from Idaho. He is thoroughly aroused. plete revolution ln the style of riding an ,uI,y llT8 td th felonious purposes in a flat race, and their fame has ex- of tns B0Uth ln sundering the union. He tenaea to every part of Europe where never loses a cnance to snow now patrl thoroughbred racing exists. I otlo he Is and how much he abhors ee cession. On the great Issues of retain Tomorrow Chess. ing in a sinecure a colored employe who ln early life had served Jefferson Davis. official, really was an enemy of tha 8T,atot Heyburn deemed It necessary to traupi ana mat uiavis was their friend, r " " " "J l" " It Is not right for a Just government nfamou" cause." It Is a great pity that to discbarge a man from office for Heyburn wa" not born enough to doing his duty and then to proceed as if undertake the Job of putting down the w. wruna- nt aia was ngnt The Amer ican people love a square deal and Gla vls has not received one. rebellion single handed. Why the Soft Nosed Bullet. From Harper's Weeklv. Many persona know that certain sr. I former's as old as It looks, .... 1 I TV aa 1ettat'a aa as raua a. aa. mor-piercmg shells have soft metal Caps Depends on Your Mood. Here's the difference 'twixt humor ln DOCKS And that which we hear after meals: on the point, with the result of greater effectiveness over those not so provid ed; but the way in which the cap acts ta not generally well understood. ' A needle may be driven into a board with a hammer when it la thrust through a cork, whereas It would break off unsupported. Many havs thought that the soft cap supports the hard point of the projectile In the same way. A British authority, who has given much study to the mutual action of projeetile and armor, states that a shell frequent ly falls because of the fact that a very small Piece of the point Is forced back Into, the mass, thus splitting it A larger piece , Is . then - similarly forced back, and so on. The main advantage of the soft cap. in the opinion of this authority, is to prevent such, splitting. " Ten Barrels of Flies. v' From the Worcester (Mass.) Dispatch. Over 10 barrels of files - were gath ered by the 232 contestants ln an anti fly crusade, which began on June 22 and came to ah end July IS, ' , The winner, who gets a prise of $100, turned In 86 quarts, or a total of 1,2 1 000 flies, captured in traps of his own I construction, and claims the world's championship. ; He Is Earl C. Bousquet, 13 - year' old i-'' Mr'.?',(v'''"Wr I y The entire collection of flies will be placed on exhibition ln Clark university. . The letter's as young as it feels. vainono etanaard and Times. Hard rVork ' (Oontrthated.to The Jonrnal by Walt Maaon i tka f.Oiou. K.1. poet. HI. primi regular featare ot this column la The Dally It's hard to take your pen in hand and write a lot of cheer up verse, when heat Is slMllng through the land, and every minute growing worse. It'g hard to swelter in your den and write a lot of helpful truck, and hand out good advice to men, when you would like to run amuck. ; It's hard to be serene and wise, a guide, philosopher and friend. when on your hairless head the files are holding meetings without am t... so much .easier - to nag, to make oom- . plaints, and whine and kick, and shed some tears, and chew tha rag, and slua- the old world with a brick! t op? lm Ism merely meant to dance and sins? ' when all Is right, it wouldn't, then, be worth a cent; it's when the world is in 1 a Plight the bptlmlst should loom un strong, and wear the silver lining erln and, yodel forth a gladsome song until the peelers run him, In. , And thoush v tue files cause me dfstre.s. and though I'm slMllng ln 'my grease. I say tne ' rrtfn?.B,0Mwl U happi. . . nes and peace,' v " : j " Cryrlht. Ill, by 'K- ' ht " " Oeorga Matthew Adams.: ., l&Oiijlft! ' '.it:. 'V.v jil.V.'Vvv' ,;!,; ' '-, " . , '