THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING. JULY 23, 1912. THE JOURNAL ' ivnrnrvnpvT XKWSPAPEIt. " .." 1 1 1 C. S.liACKSOX ' 1 ' ruhihh! wry wninf (except suwir) n ; ee: ,r 'riftb .uaTJUi !hfu Viritii; I'ortuoor. In ,t fortiMd. or." fr tV..Biio.igta -ou I telephones Min T173;. Hom. tmi t.. ?dD.rtmt you wint.our.won. "We are allowing our FOREIGN rADVERTISl0 REPRESENTATI VE, BtijMnl k K'ntoor C.. BruniwU BoMliw. 225 'itt.b mie, New Vwk; 118 rtop't Gil Building, Chicago . , 8abetlptlo tersn by tnll or to any addreM in tb Colted Statu or Mexico. :--T-s .-. P.ULT. " , Ont yeer, . .$5.00 P One montb . . SUNDAY. Oat y'ef . . , . , ,., $2. So 1 4)n4noatb. . PA1LV AND StN'DA Y. One year IT.5Q I One month.. .$ :5o . $ sled .1 . 9- ' Sunday Is the green oasis, the -"-little Brassy meadow in the wll- derness. where after the week days' journey, the pilgrim halts for refreshment and repose. " Cliarles Reade. K- WHT W1LSO.V WILL WIN T pT is as certain as things mortal can te that W'oodrow Wilson "wiU he the next president of the United States. If there were no other reason, the same kind of a party split '.hat put Lincoln into the "White House in 1860 will elect Wil son in 1.912. Wilson has back of him a party "that is more compact and united . than It hae been since 1892. Op : posed to him are Mr. Tnft with the Republican nomination and Mr. -s Roosevelt with a third party nomi , nation. Nobody knows in what proportion Tft and Roosevelt will divide Aip the Republican vote In the various -states. -Neither will draw percep tibly from the Democrats. " On the other hand, the fight be- tween Taft and Roosevelt has dis gusted thousands of Republicans who will turn to Wilson out of sheer contempt for the situation. . Other thousands of La Follette Republi cans will turn to Wilson beeausfe he is the only La Follette progressive candidate. A change of only six per cent of Taft's vote to Bryan in 1908 would - have given Ohio to the Nebraskan. With Taft and Roostvelt dividing the Republican strength of that Btate probably into halves, Wilson is certain to carry Ohio. . ul A change of only one seventh of - 'one per cent of Taft's vote to Bryan In Indiana in 1908 would have lost ' thaVstate to Taft. At the head of but a faction of the Republican party, there is not the slightest chance for either Taft or RooBevelt to Carry Indiana. j Even in New York, where Bryan is 'always weak, a change to him of . ' only eleven per cent of the Taft vote would have given him the electoral vote or the Empire State In 1908. . - . . JWith Taft and Roosevelt both pealing . for a halved Republican vote, and with Wilson certain to se- ffure. the! principal portion of the great detachable vote, Wilson's vic Jtory la New York Is already won. A . change to Mr. Bryan of fifteen per cent of the Taft vote of New Jersey in 1908 would have thrown the stale to "the Nebraskan. With ! will be no dump carts, no scrap iron 1 the Taft vote of 190R split in thelfloats, no sign of pork wealth, no middle in 1912, nobody has any Junk wagons in Philadelphia's lllus-1 douht that the man who carried it for governor in 1910 will carry it atalnst a divided, disrupted and de- ' moralized opposition next Novem- j Kwing Mifflin. His was a fine con A ber. But the vote of the four Atatos ' rcptlon ; it was in keeping wllh the -- of Ohio, Indiana. New York and: stature of a Mg man. It showed "- New Jersey, in addition to the states imagination, a healthy life-view. It J.. carried by: Bryan in 1908, will give gives us another name to honor, an- rarity now. The girls don't have the , states. We have even proved Its WJlson more than the 266 electoral ' other pattern by which to weave our splendid profusion of long "ringlets falsity by producing animals that ex TOtes necessary for his election. , own tapestries of life. that their mothers had. perts declare to be as fine as any ---Taft tarried Missouri In 1908. A 1 it Isn't far to find the cause. A state can produce. -Joss Of one twenty-fifth of one per ! HELPING THE CROOKS news dispatch tells us that Ihe past. In addition, wo have the market -: cent-of-the-Taft vote of thatryear! , " ' ,, , " t yt'ar'H. plan of tfV little false' hair and prices'. Nearly nine cents was will lv tho .tat to WlUnn IniT"1''' ,',OORB H aougmeu ) 1015 ICnr (a 11 nf nil nnHlff.lv thai "Wilson will carry most of the great! itates that are ordinarily overwhelm-1 inely Republican. "The change from the Taft vote necessary to throw the electoral vote, 1,0 '""""' " and in time cause loss of the natural! to Wilson in such states Is surpris- a 8f,,(,ndld conception It Is to insist :halr. , Ingly small. , !'hu, we "1,lst not try t0 8ton ,hf kmj To supply the demand for the bo-1 ' In Delaware it Is only nine-hun- i"ps ,)(,, nusp " woul1 cost 1,3 l0Bfl gus hair, we Import from Europe and dredt08 of one per cent, and in Illi nois fpurteen per cent. In Iowa a Change "of thirteen per cent will throw the state to Wilson, in Kansas nine per cent, iu Maine twenty-three, In Massachusetts twenty-one. in Michigan twenty-four, in Minnesota twenty-two. In New Hampshire six teen, in North Dakota twentwme. In Oregon nineteen. In f'nlifoniia twenty, in Connecticut twenty, and 'In Idaho fifteen. ' ', .The presidential .Onstrated that Mr. Candidate. Even speaking campaign ' ; and an ex-presldem primaries dein Ta.ft is a weak the spectacular of a president . with the most dramatic stage settings ever seen, failed to bring out more than half the Republican vote in the primar ies, a fact demonstrating that neith er Taft nor Roosevelt was strong. Roosevelt's bolt from the ("liiento convention, his refusal to allow ins delegates to nominate anybody !m himself, his rejection of the plan naming Hadley oc any other com promise candidate, and his final withdrawal from the Ropti iduan party, have enormously weakened the nolfof,the bull moose candidate on Republicans. - ThsreiB not the slighter.1 chance t6 defeat Woodrow Wilson . A DAXGEHOrs TOOL 'fT..ls npt a, return of the old - ' -.'.I jj needed." says a recent mag ' , atine article. "That ic impos sible in. modern conditions, out of harmony with modern ideas. The great need Is that women of the ' country-realize that freedom unac- ing groan and a new grave for a re-! such doctors the state pays at the apru',u;, j ;Ziy o 'o the companied by. knowledge Is one of ' volver victim every hour In the day uniform rate. , Other services, In the! wJrk Bankhead wa getting impatient 1 h r mnst, Ab n com ha nut Infn a human lusin'n hands. 1 The reluctance 'of women to face, this fact Is the most discouraging j Bide of the woman question Are: we not prone to overlook the j exigencies of the changing fashions ! 'in conduct? We have emancipated ' our.wojptfn. AVe are allowltig our young girls freedom-- that would cause our grandmothers . to beat their breasts in horror. But do we realize that free things do taot he have well by accident? Do we know that young girls loosened upon -the i highways and the byways uninstruct- upon the vital facts of life, are prey for . vultures, food for gTay wolves? 1 If we would change the fashion of young girl conduct, we must see, that they have minds that suit with If we would irwean i their freedom. them at extra- "in-rlly tender no mnat in it that thev : yearsj are -perfectly .equipped -to face the squalls and pitfalls that lurk along their way. j To this end, a thorough ground ing in sex hygiene is essential. It were better that' this knowledge Bhould be administered at home; it were better that it be taught in the schoolhouse than not at all. WHEN THE DUMP.CART GALLS J AMES EWING MFFLIN! It is a name to remember, a name to i respect, to esteem!- For. the bearer of the name is not ashamed of 'tis ancestors. He has not risen so -high Jiut that he is wil ling to pay homage to the lowly in strument that blazed his trail to fortune- --- ' - Mr. Mifflin is a Philadelphian. In October tho Quaker Cityis to give a historical pageant, a celeb-ation splendid In revival of memories of the past. When approached by the committee in charge, Mr. Mifflin said: "My ancestors made their money in the dump-cart business, and I will celebrate the fact fy pearing on the seat of a regular cart handling the reins myself." But Mr. 'Ilfflin placed his finger on a sore spot. For the committee drew itself to its full height and de - ciarea that no aump-cart snouia ; spoil the dazzle of the historic page- j ant, me memuers gave Mr. imillin ; to understand that he was supreme ly lacking in refinement and 1 taste. In other words, they declared him a coarse, ignorant fellow, who must be put In his place. It Is not known what the outcome of the inciient will be. But It Is safe to say that something that calls Itself a democracy will feast its eyes on pageantry at the appointed time, that gold and silver and diamonds will flash' resplendfchtly, that thou- sands will bask In tho glided, glory! i of the day; the festival will lose its; I M i TA.iH-.Sl. I II I ; signuicance. n win sin mieeraDiy j ap-jinto the ranks of the musical com n inn a that ran and nlcht In th rfinntrir 1a .lt Tint. V9T of nreventive medicine, in SCCi-i With Sullivan for not delivering tirnm. - edy, the vaudeville show, the mask the farce. However, those who have risen to power and position will have their skeletons closely locked from the public gaze, the origin of their "ar istocracy" will be safe from the in trusion of the common eye. There trions parade. I But out of the mire there has come to us a peril. It is Mr. James ! with the Oregonian's opposl - X 11 1 uu k"i headdress the coming year will be. revolver. It helps them to get,dcad na)r from the heads of others. ! 'I""u"n n"1 It .L i .l coin f f, t argues mat rne saie or revoi- vers in Portland will be hurt. What ioi inn proms on revolver sais. It argues that under pistol legls- '"uu" u,u "uu , ul" " LUU,U "ul i P?1 ',,9,l8 hn the., crooks ould. ine statement is iia own eoniracnc-' tlon. Is it likelv that the authori ties would license a crook to carry a conceah-d weapon and not issue a license to a substantial citizen? The chief of police ynys 'he Tort- '"" r''""' "-m-M'-uu.. .uiell(1 i .1 I t . : i..... . i ., . . iao h spieiniKi eneci. uiner ponce officials confirm his statements. On account of its benefits, the chief himself ashed that it be strn(;lh- ened Which are the better author- ity on pistols, the men who have to lace revolvers in the hands of thugs almost every day, or newspapers up in towers? We all know that the Portland pistol ordinance won't put the pis- tol out of business. It is only a be - uinnlng. AH great reforms have to have beginnings. It Is an experi - of irient that will help us in making l:n- provements in sucn legislation. Its also the right to care in the tuher use will help frame an Oregon state-' miosis sanatoria, and to medical at wide law. A state-wide law will j tendance in maternity, help frame state-wide laws in Wash-! All these benefits are to be pro inpton, California and other qtates. ! vided by the ntate. A large propor 1 11 all of them, there Is a strong ' tlon of the poor are now members and growing agitation against the I of benefit societies and clubs of all revolver. They are all beginning to realu.e that its only function' la to kill. There la not a state or a coji beqiiential city in the country tint will have anti-revolver legislation wltMtrfi few rearg. " """ Why' take the side -of the crooks? Why assail auti-revolver legislation when It Is still weak, still Imperfect, and but just trying tfMon its feet? When there is a revolver shot, a dy-1 worth whllo in naHentlv W ill do something to stop the killings? The Oregouian has got in the way of many a reform. It used to de- fend - the gamblers: It foughtthej local option law. It tried to kill the direct primary. It tried to ham- string the initiative and referendum. It. has always put the dollar above the-maa?; It has always turned Its back on change. But the Juggernaut of "progress moves right on. THAT DREADFUL IMMORAL WOMAN A N international crusade has Deen launcnea against mat "dreadful Immoral woman" who wears clothes that give too much emphasis to the lines of "r figure, uiergyjnen, juages ana oiner men ana women attribute murders, thefts and minor offenses on fhe calendar criminal to immoral dressing. "I am in favor of limiting the wo men in their attire on the street by municipal action it necessary," said one of the reformers. "The man ner in whicL women dress is an in vitation to licentious men to accdst them." There are those who contend that the fashions of today are the most attractive and the most sensible ever adopted by women. It is admitted. of course, that the intention of the fashion is sometimes abused, cor- Not one, however, presents more rupted. But what branch of life of the unusual than a catse that hap fails of corruption? j pened recently at La Grande. A There are many ideas on mod-j lawyer who owned a farm there was esty. Many, many years ago women ' a strong opponent of the Henry were required to veil their faceBr on tGeorgo theory of single tax. He had no account were they permitted to : reveal their hands on the street. In1 China, it is still the height Of in- 'ernacle in La Grande and prepared j decency for a Chinese woman to to make there a clinching address show her feet. Thomas Aquinns ! against the system. But, in order j told the women of his flock never to better understand the weak to drink out of a small glass lest in i points, he provided himself with a rbelng thus obligod to throw their ' copy of "Progress and Poverty," and ap-fheads back their throats might be read Jt, carefully, exposed. There was a time when! When the night of the meeting the use of lingerie was confined to j arrived, 400 persons were In the au- the demi-monde. Among some of jdience. All expected to hear the 'the staid peasant women of Europe speaker tear the system into shreds, i today the use of clothing under their ; But behold, Instead of a maddened outside skirts is taboo. In none of ; the, Instances were murder, theft or j other immnralltlpH nn whit ahntPrl There are thoBe who really loveless and Poverty" had converted and respect womanhood and are him. "willing to leave her to those prlvi-; leges which are the right of every : living creature. Some very senjihle i people declare that clothes werejnialned to pray made for women and not women for j clothes. It is further averred that in the last analysis, it is a question ! tliat women must decide for them-j solves. ' And after all is said andV-dono, there is much that la Informing In the words of the heroine of a recent ' short story: Take It from mi, ypertabti!ty hnn't got nothln' to do with fashion.;. It bevond the Rockies was an all-year-ain't what you got on outside that round occurrence. Wo were utterly makes virtue its what s roln on in- , , . . , side. You could put some .lamps in unable to produce our own pork. dlvln' suits and they'd corrupt tho dcvir flfh; and you could put other dames in an afternoon tea in the " of Zln lnS PP'"ation our own farmers pro and well, say! ' j duced for Oregon her own hogs, fat- And, well say! As to reforniTr'I.ned on Oregon foods and creating woman's dress aging work! at best it is discour - MILADY'S HAIR RE time and fashion vet A to make us a race of baldheaded converting. It into high-priced pork women? !Prs. We are finding out the falsity Women themselves confess of the old myth that hogs could only that beads of heavy treses are a to tie abandoned and that fiftv ; ,)cr rent of a fashionable woman's 'it is notorious that the huge addi - tlons of false hair harm the scalp China. Our bill to China In 1 1 0 for human hair was $(i95,r50. S-Vv- ctify per cent of all the false hnir our women use Is from the heads of Chinese, a fact that heightens the wonder as to why lovely women In sist on bogu.i adornment of rats, puffs and switches. DOtTOHS IX STATK K.MI'M)V A .Miiw reianon net ween a very lareo nrnnnrHnn of T.-'nrrHoV, large pioportlon or fcnglish surgeons and physicians and that portion of the public which cntnps; under the nmvltlnns f I the new-irrsUYance law Is about to be put into practice, The experiment is on an immens j scale. Thirteen niiiMonB rf the poor- er classes are entitled to tile bone- fits pf the act. Among these bene - ! fits are Included not only medical j rare and medicines In sickness but 1 rgedical supervision, to avoid slck- ness or to cure it in its earlier stages. kinds. Each society or club has a contract with some doctor for sup plying medical attention and medi cines to the members at very cheap rates. All these doctors Llovd T Clrge- proposed ihat the state snoum ennst ror service under the act. He lad thus the nucleus of the state employed medical men. Tea insured have the ri-jht to em- ploy the doctors they select, and j dent and maternity cases and to on, entitle the state paid doctors to extra remuneration. ' But the' doc tors were not satisfied with the terms 'Offeree:, ihes agitated and -convinced, Lloyd-George and his as- soclafes that they are entitled to jcomewhat better pay than, that at first proposed But the matter -of pay is' notyet 1 lHnallysettledj aKl though fee youngr men as a class and many of thr elders recognise the Immense advantages which they will-tecelverThey appreciate to the full Just such a plan of preventive medicine as the act provides, .and just such an organization of the, at present, unconnected branches of the profession r is In vlev. The pay of the doctor of the poor has been both small and precarious. Under the act we will not only re ceive more money but he has the state for paymaster. - ' ----- REMAINED TO PRAY R IOHT or wrong, true or untnie. practical or impractical, thera Is a strange effectiveness In Henry George's "Progress and Poverty." The remarkably sudden conver sion jot Tom Johnson is familiar in formation". To ,it have been added similar instances of how the book brought sudden changes in the minds of men, until the list expands into hundreds, if not thousands. made speeches in -opposition. At last, he hired the Mormlfe tab philippic against it, the orator plunged into an earnest and power- fnl nrlvncncv nf thA Hvstflm. "Prnc. Like those who heard the parson. in Goldsmith's "Deserted Village." the lawyer "came to scoff but re- FEEDING OURSELVES P ORTLAND received six cars of hogs from Nebraska yesterday, six Cars tho first of the week, and eight Several, weeks ago. But they are the first importations , of hogs for about a year. A few years ago tho arrival of hogs from But tho.-forces of change are In , motion In spite of swiftly increas- , Oregon wealth. ! Later, we shall Import no carloads of Nebraska swine. We shall keep at home the gold we have .been prof ligately sending away. We are growing more and more alfalfa and ' lie satisfactorily produced in corn t-nsld for tho Nf-hrask.i hoe-s that r. rived yesterday. The rewards of the industry are sufficient under such prices to afford great stimulus 1 to endeavor, and we should confl ..... . i dently look for a constant increase In the output. I j "ng of the Revolver. ' am little and bri-i.t. hut I bark and i , ,, ...,. i i I am carried concealed, and only 're ven led When passion prompts to kill. Vvn tho favorite tool nf knave and fool. nd society pays the bill. I do most of my work where vices lurk. And lawless schemes are laid; Noflrlminal plan of the holdup man Without counting on me Is made. Rut often, too, J'vo sint death through A child who with me plaved. I give dancerous Jov to the careless boy Who kills himself or another; 1 seldom save, out make many a grave, And ttiany a heartbroken mother, I Rettrl. tool than me to create misery The dcMi can find no other.' I When mnddon.d with hate, and reckless ' fat. (r crnz'd with whlskrv or wine i lien reason tcrsaKes It Is 1 ihe niani tak"s; It Is then that I best shout and shine; ; i For thousands of men and women have 1 then I Become easy victims of mine. 1 Th" murderous lover, the thug under cover. The Idiot hunter of game. The ye "it man most rouph. the juvenile touph I serve tlieni all the same. For crlmlnnls black, and folks who brains lack. 1 am the favorite name. I My master is Death, the stopper of breath. ' l'pnn a'l lends rnd sen, j So ! hark and bite, by day and night; I ni an al'-- or everv disease; I. ike them. I kill to obev Mt will; New grazes his kingshln please. J. P. Wager. Ilunkhcnd Named Wiliton. From the New York Globe. That It was Senator Bankhead of Ala bama, nitlnsr with blanket power for mfU1 ln ,n, Pemocrntlc national con- vention, is now fully known. HogeT Sullivan of Illinois, though he went to Wilson at the ouuet, was still working more or less ln harmony with tho anti-Wilson combine. The plan waa to rale Wilson close to the two-thirds Ised votes to Underwood. He went .to Sullivan and urged him to vote for Lnderwood on the - forty-sixth ballot Sullivan replied he would shift back to Clark, This angered Bankhead. Over the phone the day before Under wood had given him" unrestricted au thority to act" as he saw fit He saw the gatae was to kill Wilson and male another try to sine . Clark, while not carrying out promises tq UnderwootJw- c,t'. paw,:iorany: marC' - said -Bank, unaerwooa will not n used as hepd, as he hastened to the platform anli made his dramatio release of the Underwood delegate. ' : The nomination of Wilson Was clinched " th moment Bankhead with drew Underwood's name and everybody knew it The rest was a formality! Letters From tlie People Communications sent to The Journal for publication in this department should be written on only one side of the paper, should not exceed 800 words In length and must be accompanied bv the name and address of the sender. If the writer doea not desire to- hav the name published, he should so state.) Assessment Valneso v- -Portland, Or., July 24. To the Editor nf The Journal In Houston. Texas, a single taxer directs assessraanU. .. Th valuations for the city have been raised from 177,000,000 to $94,000,000. improve ments are assessed at 25 per eut. The taxes on the small home owners have bepn reduced, and franchises of nubile service corporations are valued at $2, 000,000, where formerly they were not on the assessment rolls. Over 3000 people are paying less taxes than they were, but they are not the land specu lator class. There is no doubt but what in Port land, at a very conservative estimate. fully JBO,000,000 could be added to the assessment rolls by H. D. Wagnon. every dollar of which would .rest' on big speculatlvu holdings. Any single taxer In control of the assessor's office could reduce the taxes in this city to less than 16 mills on thef dollar and at the same time reduce the taxes paid throughout the county by email resident owners. Houston's single tax assessor refused to list household furniture and personal belongings. He took that up with fran chise taxes. He estimated the cottage at 25 per cent of Its value, and made up the difference by bringing the big spec ulative holdings up to 70 per cent of their actual selling values. When the higher authority of some sort of an equalization board was Invoked the own ers of Improved property strenuously insisted that these valuations remain, and they did. Taxes are high In Portland on the little fellow. The way for the little fellow to do is to vote for a single tax er for assessor, and taxes will take a lofty tumble. Of course, the specula tlve properties held Idle or covereil with snicks in this" cTTyiisessed at lft to II per cent of the asking figures will have to take up the difference. The little fellow has the most votes, and when he votes for himself he will secure the results in low taxes. As long as he votes for big business, the results go to big buslneic. ALFRED IX CRIDGE, Comfort Stations Needed. Portland, Or., July 23. To the Editor of The Journal I being a resident and reader of jour publication would like to voice my sentiments regarding onu of the Important isues confronting the parents of our town today. I notice with great Interest the letters, pro and con, from the people concerning the sa loon and pool hall question. Just lately some beautiful public drinking foun tains have made their appearance on our streets thanks to one of our public spirited citizen. Now, between the drinking .fountains, aloons, pool halls, soda fountains, etc., we ran all get enough to drink; but where In Snm Hlil can we find a place to heed nature'a rail, outside of a public saloon or pool hall? We claim to have the healthiest city in the country. Why not help melee conditions to keep it so? A city the sire of Portland could and must some day provide a number of com fort stations. Why not now? ( (Jive nature a little thought. We drive our boys into the saloons and pool halln (the girls, not so fortunate, being barred I to seek relief. WTio Is to blame, the boys, parents, saloonkeepers or city officials? Some Portland "John Kelly," kindly take notice. HARRY HALE. The Walsh Trajedy. Portland, Or.. July 23. To the Editor of The Journal Reading of 'the .Walsh tracri-, 1 suppose the sin is the same for both and both are equally guilty, the woman and the man In ihe case. Any God-loving, self-respecting woman would not be guTfy of enticing or en couraging attentions that rightfully- be long to another the wife of the man. And n man of this type, a moral de generate is what he is, does not de sire a wife nor family. He should never marry. Let him remain single and , lael Ilr tan nut l-t? lpvuid ;vi uliiih bu I much harm nor rnn lie drag so many then he can not be capable, of doing so Into misery. The world Is a million SEVEN FAMOUS CALENDARS Egyptian The study of the calendar, In all Its various changes, is most interesting. The Egyptians divided Uielr civil day Into the same number of hours as is 1 the rule at present, twenty-four, and calculated twelve for the natural day I j and twelve for the night They count- i ?'1 from on to twplve 1,1 eHch Period, ! Practically they bean their civil day at minnigni, wntcn was inoirrerenny reckoned as belonging to the preceding l or tlie following day. j The Egyptian month was thirty days I and they arranged their months into three (Treat seasons of four months each, which they called "sha, ' Inuti- Idatlon; "per," winter; and) "shema." summer. There still remains some un certainty for the "sha" seHsnn. for, according to the Copts, there are four months from the supposed beginning of th? rise of the Nile, a few days before the summer solstice to the end of the Inundation. It would be natural, there fore, to be led to suppose that winter would be the cold season, and summer would correspond to spring and early summer. The common year of the, ancient Egyptians Is that which has been called the Vague Year, because on account of lis length of 365 days It fell short of a tropical or a sidereal year and thus passed through all the seasons. That this year was that In which the in scriptions are usually dated before the introduction of the Alexandrian year under Augustus appears from the De cree of Canopus. . The Egyptians also used a fixed year which dated from the so-called rlslrg f.liie SolliU, -wUicU was June-fti 14 also contained 315 days and It was ndjusted by the addition of another day every four yejis. The Inconveniences of the Vague Year In relation to" the festivals, led Ptolemy III to reform the calendar by lntercalculatlng a day after times better without one of his typo.1 A husband and father is supposed to be the head of the house, the pro-j vider and protector of the wife ana chiidren. A mighty poor prop they make to lean upon. They ought, to t labeled dangerous,, the same as polson. If there Is a hell, I believe u was made for ,peoole of this class. , The happy home la the heaven on earth, where immorality has no placet. It Is the Dlace where full freedom la en- Joyed and the best In us has full room for- expansion and development. IIayesTllden Commission, i ' Portland. Or.. July 24.- To the Editor of The Journal In the Hayes-TUden controversy ever the prestdenoy, how was the committee that decided se lected ? ,JDld, it .require a special., act f congress? Who were in the majority on. that committee, Democrats er Re publicans? who cast the deciding vote, and what waa his political faith? , Lk M. B. (The electoral commission of 1877 was created by a special act of con gress and was made up of 15 members. Five were appointed by the senaU, five by the house of representatives, four Justices ' of-thr supremr courtwere named in the act, and a fifth justice waa named by the other four. The Republi cans had fight members,-the Democrats seven. Under the Original plan the Jus tice to be chosen by the other four was to, have beenJ)avldLpavlat an lndepenft-J ent in. politics, but on the pay. the sen iTe pawssd the act Davis was elected a senator from Illinois and. was removed from the equation. In his place Joseph P. Bradley was chosen, and It was Bradley who cast the deciding vote foj Hayes.)' News Forecast of tke Week Washington, July 27. President Taft will be officially notified of his nom ination at the White House on Thurs day. According to present plans, Mr. Taft will receive the notification com mittee on the rear portico of the execu tive mansion, which overlooks the ellipse. He swllhpeak from the portico, with the committeemen grouped about him on the lawn. The president will probably leave for' his summer home at Beverly Immediately after the notifica tion meeting. State conventions of the Progressive party during the week will include thd following. Montana, at Helena; NewJ Mexico ai Amuquerque; uouismna, ai New Qrleans; Arkansas, at Little Rock: Illinois, at Chicago; Tennessee, at Nash ville;' Colorado, aU Denver; Indiana, at Indianapolis; Virginia, at Roanoke; Min nesota, at St. Paul; Missouri, at Kansas City, and Connecticut, at New Haven. Governor Woodrow Wilson, the presi dential nominee of the Democratic par ty, expects to continue at his summer home at Sea Girt during the week, re ceiving: visits from the party leaders and putting the finishing touches to his TiottficatrnTr-HTiareisr 1 Republicans and Democrats of Ne braska, In -accordance with the primary law, will hold their state conventions Tuesday, the former meeting at Lin coln and the latter at Grand Island. As the nominations were made In the prim aries the work of the convention will be confined principally to the adoption of the party platforms. The rivalry of the two factions in the Republican party la expected to cause a lively convention. Five aspirants are contesting for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination In Tennessee, which will be settled in a 'state primary Thursday. Former (Jov- erncr Benton McMIUIn Is among those who aspire to head the state ticket. Democrats of Kentucky will select their candidate's for representatives in congress In the) state-wide primary to be held Saturday. A state "assembly" of the Republic ans of Colorado will be held In Denver Wednesday to nominate presidential electors and select the names to be placed on the primary ballot. The state assembling are a new feature In Colorado politics. In some ways they correspond to the old state conventions, but they arc designed to eliminate the bitter contests that frequently marked the conventions. The assemblies take only one ballot on candidates for each office to be filled, and any one receiv ing 10 per cent of the total vote In the assembly Is entlUed to have his or her name on the primary ballot. A notable conference for the discus sion of molern journalism, Its Meals, trend and Its existing rendition, is to assemble at the fnlverslty of Wiscon sin Monday. The conference has sched uled prominent speakers, among them being Melville B Stone, William J, Bryan. William Allen White, Norman Hapgood, Charles H. Grasty of Balti more and Fremont Older of San Fran cisco. Other events that will figure In the news of the week will be at the notional open golf championship at Buffalo, the conference of the western states gov ernors at holse, the annual Canadian Henley regatta at BC Catherine, and the reception of the merlcan Olympic team upon Its arrival In New York. Culendar. every four years before the year next following. I.'nder Augustus a fixed year, called the Alexandrian, beginning on the 29th 30th of August of the Julian year, su perceded the Vague Year. This new reckoning was Introduced somewharo h. j Uroon s a c and E A D. Bruesch. however, has put forth a theory showing I that this 2!Uh-30th year was in use in Egypt from the time of Dynasty VI The ( Alexandrian year superseded the Vague Year, and has remained ln use to our time In that country, never hav ing been wholly supplanted by the lunar year of the Arabs, but recently It has given way to the Gregorian cal endar. At the time of Dynasty XII the Egyptians used four years the Vague Year, a solar year, a lunar year, and a lunar year with an lntercalculatlon. The second of these -years was no doubt the .Sothlae, the Beginning of which had "an original connection with the sum mer solstice, ami the duration of which was probably the Egyptian measure of a solar year. No era has been found In the Egyp tian Inscriptions. They always, If they date at all, date by the year of the reigning sovereign. There Is but one Instance, of a reckoning by the nature of an era. It Is the statement of the Interval between two distant reigns ln the stele In which, under Ranieses II, an Interval of four hundred years after a shepherd king Is mentioned, or more strictly, following the analogy of ordi nary dates, the four hundredth year of the earlier king, as though he wgre still living. Similarly the eolns 4t the Ptol mla. oue --class, present tK dates. It Is, therefore, not surprising "that the Egyptian cycles, mentioned by ancient witters, are not traceable on the monuments nor. through the coins. Tomorrow Hebrew -Calendar, Tke Mystery of Cruelty From tie Detroit Journal r the; Peruvian rubber Jungles are de scribed In recent British reports as re veailhjf new horrors of - inhumanity and oppressfon. The natives of that un happy Wilderness, at the western doors of the Panama canal, have been under ' bondage as bitter as he slavery pf the Cungo plantations, as bitter as that of the Portuguese cocoa Islands, as bitter as the worst wickedness of the.'Amerl- cjn cotton' .neltr;"v'-'"',5rT'"?" ; :yr;;r These Tew da VS Which w have Hved together,. In which- we have gone to church and to the theatre, and watched -political and business and social events, T have been to those. Indian neighbors days of blood and whippings, of ravish-. mgs ana death. Solomon might come back to earth after t3O00 years of his tory, and repeat: , . " X "So I returned, and" considered all the oppressions that are doneJ under the sun: and behold the tears of such as " .. were oppressed, and they had no com-- -fprtj'.s: lanA m Jhejida jfLthelrppres!c; sors there Waa power, and they had no , comforter. ' . ,- "Wherefore, 1- praised the dead which -aro already dead more, than the living which are yet alive." , ; t Whenever new tidings come of slavery and oppression, under whatever name, the tears of the oppressed when on the side uf -their oppressors there" is " power, fall with the weariness of the centuries, and the hopelessness of the darkest past comes back into our day, "The whole creation," St. Paul ex claimed, "groancth and travalleth in . pain together until now," and any new scene of inhumanity reveals to us the ' great sea of human suffering, that-vast " flood of tears which the 8crlptures de--7 clare are stored up by the Almighty 'against the day of retribution. We must not hastily say that the world -Is no better than when Solomon pitied the helpless. Neither must we think the world, of Its own operations, has grown entirely righteous. We must be charitable to our humankind, but we must bV wise and Just, i Therefore we... must- realize - that -In getting rid of a civil Institution known as slavery, In Europe and America, we old not -get rid of the enslaving, the " oppressing, the tyrannous lempeS.ments among us. , We came to a time when well disposed people had control of the government. They exerted that control. They swept slavery from their society, by force, even by war. But they left human na ture just where It was, to Increase and multiply, and whenever some Individuals have had opportunity, they have proved themselves still enslavers and oppres sors, and when they had power the op pressed had no comforter. "The dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty," Solomon elsewhere declares. And whenever we In our smug satisfaction over the Eman cipation Proclamation have penetrated tha daxk. .places, we have lu und,.tha..liAbji. nations of cruelty. Now they are 1A the sisal beds of Yucatan. Now they are In peonage cantonments In the south. Again they are within the snowy, whitewashed, winding corridors nf a Michigan prison. The dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty. It is important that we shall not be pessimistic. But it is o.ulte as Impor tant, perhaps more so, that we should net be optimistic. Sometimes things go better, and sometimes they go worse, and that Is why we have a struggle in the world. And one benefit the horri fying news from Peru will bring Is to crush both optimism and pessimism, and drive us Inward upon ourselves to make us study our own nature and ponder It To abolish cruelty we must abolish ourselves. Human nature must be re made in the Individual before the world can be redeemed. We ourselvea must begin, and with ourselves, ' to abolish all our own little favorite cruelties, to men and women and, as 8olomon says, to dumb brutes. Can ,we put down all our own slave driving spirit, our own oppression of those who have no com forter? When we begin this, we shall do two things: We shall understand what the great grim mystery of cruelty Is, In Peru and In our own hearts, and we shall begin also to "move upward, work ing out the beast, and let the ape and tiger die." Pointed Paragraphs He who hesitates is bossed. There is nothing so unbecoming to a woman as a last year's hat. . The average man would rather fo to church than to t family picnic. ' A bachelor finds It so easy to get married that he Is apt to be suspicious. . No matter whothef you do a thing or whether you don't people will talk about you. - The girl who expects love to come af ter marriage Is apt to bump up against a great disappointment. Contentment Is - getting near the Jumping off place when It begins to sit under a tree and watch the weeds grow. After a man hae been married a few years he Imagines every time his wife picks up a towel that she Is going to tie It around her head and do a house cleaning stunt. Tanglefoot By Miles Overboil FRIENDSHIP. I owed a dollar and fifty cents to a guy on Easy street; I borrowed it one day ln ninety-two. I had so many debts that there were ' some I couldn't meet, 0 that Is all there was for me to do. I told the guy I'd pay him when I had the cush to spare; He said; ' Why, that's all right, old man, you know." But always whenu'd meet him he'd look past me with a stare, Which plainly said: "Come pay me what you owe." The guy had lots of money and he owned a car or two, But he seemed to tuixn that dollar and a half. So I met an active member of the city's working crew, And he handed me some money with ' a laugh. . Then I paid the Easy Btreeter who had thousands In the bank; I could see that he was glad to get It back, Though he grunted when I thanked him, gave tils motor car a crank. And I felt like I waa sitting on a tack. Though I haven't paid the fellow who works dally ror his eats. And 1 know he needs the money everjr day. He Just grins whene'er he sees me, as he brushes up the streets. And he doesn't try to garnishee jnf Which l wF T wa thl e'Tn uchly that one ought' to' sort of stick With the fellow of the same degree and kind; Now I'm laying for the other with a ' gold-embelllshed brl"k 7or I hope some, day to steal the geeser blind. 4