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TO THE ttO.SE
A sunbeam warmod thee Into
bloom;
A zephyr's kiss thy blushes
gave:
The tears of evening shed
perfume, '
And mom will bram upon
lliy grave.
How like to thee, UiOu tran
fiient flower.
The dom of all we love on
earth;
Beauty, like thee, but decks
nn hour,
Douy feeds on It from ite
birth. -Bolm.
IN OLIt AllUN.lA.VC'K
been set forth- eTho silvery , gray
appearance. Is probably due to, , air
Cavities and not to destruction "of
the. : pigment. . Hair pigment ' can
only be destroyed by the most vig
orous chemical .treatment.
Dry hairs contain' more air. cells
and 'therefore will; seem lighter in
color than moist ones; but black
hair ; may be vdried to the ntmost
without becoming white. The hair
of mummies dried through cenr
turles still show their pigment pre
cisely as do freah hairs,- -
The explanation of the familiar
color changes of the . hair' is prob
ably to be found-not in a destruc
tion of" pigment already . present,
not- in any "bleaching of hairs al
ready Tormed but rather in a com
plete renewal Of the half. Pig
mented hairs fall out and are re
placed by .- unpfgnie&ted or" white
ones.
From all this we conclude that
gray or white hair Is attributable
to ; the formation of a new hair
coat rather 1 than an alteration of
the old one. Sometimes the pro
cess of pigment formation may
cease during the development of a
hair. Ih that event the tip will
remain pigmented though the base
appears white. '
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A:FEW SMILES
miles via the canal. The distance t the layman to decide? ; A Paris !
from New " York to Boston via physician says women are fast de-
Nantucket Light is 402 miles. , It terloratln--physically owing .to
will thus be seen that the economy J their exaggerated efforts, princl-j
in distance Is very great. Lpally the intellectual efforts they
Another ttdvantatro of the canal are making toward what they call
Is the factor of safety. The dan-' emancipation. On the other hand f
gers of the Cape Cod coast are a cmcago aressmaker asserts mat i
well known and it is said to be a , American women , are ; becoming
historical fact that had it not been more plump and more healthful on
for the shoal waters of the7 coast account of the - prevailing dress,
the Puritans would have" landed at .-Every man from his own viewpoint.
Nrw .YnrV: ihnlr n-ts'lnal dentin ft-) ' . - . - . '
tlon. The -Mayfloweri: ran into rhe collapse of the Rapp divorce puts the windpipM in.wNationai Food
breakera and he navlRtrr: dls-lcase not surprising. It all goes
cou raged, turned back around Cape lu uemonstraie tnat a woman wno
Cod and came to Plymouth
The Cape Cod canal has no locks
and canibe approached from each
end without any influence of cur
rent, enabling barges and tows to
more nearl. approximate schedule
tine.
As soon as the canal Is opened
to traffic its effect will be mo
mentous on the vast tonnage, ir
respective of the: shipping of New
York and Boston, which is moving
up and down, the -coast and which
involves -5, 000 cratt each year. .
EXECUTIVE INFLUENCE
MIGHT IiE WORSE
w
NINE hundred million bushels
is the estimated wheat crop
of the United States for 1914.
It Is almost half the
world's yield of wheat. It is a
- new rrpord for the United States.
It Is 137,000,000 ImShcls more
- than was ever grown in this coun
try before in any one year.
There hre also very large esti
mates oi the .yield of oats and
barley. In each the expectation
is that the yield will be the second
largest in the history of the
country.
In wheat there Is an added area
of more than 4,000,000 acres, and
-the quality is above, two per cent
better than at the same time in
1913. The indicated yield of Vln
ter wheat is 18.1; bushels per acre
against 1 tSrG last year.
The wheat yield of the United
'States for 1913 was, 7."3,233,000
.bushels; in 1912, .730,267,000; in
"1011. B21, 338.000; In 1910, 635.
121,000; in 1909. 683,379,259; in
1908, 664,602,000; in 1907, 634,
087,000. Previous to 1907, the
, largest .total was 748,460,218, in
i9oi.
The great wheat crop 1b also
attended with heavy production in
' all linen on American farms. It
is probable that the farm products
. ; for 1914 will exceed the colossal
iigures of last year when the
American farmers produced more
than ten billion dollars worth of
. products. .
It is an enormous contribution
to the prosperity of the nation.
The ruoney transactions involved
In the marketing of this stupen
dous output mean processes of ex
change of .which there can be no
measure. When the farmers are
' paid for these products and when
they in turn square off. their an
'nual balances and make their in-
vestments, it-moans a distribution
;ot wealth and prorits almost be
yond calculation and entirely be
yond the power or the imagina-
tlou.
In the midst of the great abun
dance yielded to the nation by our
. farmers, the year 1914 is certain
- - to be a season of. abounding na
I tlonal prosperity.
HAT if the clouds do lower
and ; the , heavens gently
weep, it might be worse"
It might be snowing as
it was in Paris yesterday when
two and' a half Inches fell on the
'Avenue Des Champs Elysees and
j the thermometer stood a few de
I grees above freezing.
Again tbTe heat might be over
powering as it was in New York,
where one death and many- pros
trations occurred, or in St. Louis,
where the thermometer reached 95
degrees, or In Chicago where three
deaths, directly due to the' heat,
were reported.
Mount Hood, like Mount Lassen,
might be sending out a column of
steam 700 feet high.
Tornadoes might be devastating
as in Minnesota, Wisconsin andXhe
Dakotas, overturning barns and
6mall buildings and interrupting
wire communication. "
What then if we do have to
carry an umbrella to the corena
uon of the Queen. What if it
should happen to sprinkle, it might
ne worse.
1NDUSTKIAL ELECTRICITY
T
WHY HAIK HltOWS CiKAY
- '"V NE by one all our most cher-
I 1 Ithed traditions are falling
l uciore the attack of cold and
analytical science.
Krom generation to generation
: it has been-firmly believed that
' , man's hair turns white from fright
m a single night. Now comes the
uournai or the American Medical I
1 Association saying that a careful I
study of the reputed instances on
whiCh this belief was founded
prove them to be mythical. It
seems that the popular story that
Marie Antoinette grew gray during
the night after she was condemned
to be executed is only one of the
fairy tales we- hear every day.
While It is true her hair was gray
at death her 1 biographers record
that it had been gray long before.
It is suggested that possibly' the
change in the color of her hair
- while iu prison was due to the
; fact that she did not have access
io nair ayes ana other toilet
- preparations. '
The task of finding, an illuml-
, natlng account of the factors which
may moauy or determine the
; growth of hair will usually he a
vain one says the medical Journal.
Experimental studies in this field
t caa not be readily conducted on
.man. Certain facts though are
, matters of common observation
The beard grows anew after shav
Ing. It also grows more rapidly
- in summer man in winter."
. If the pigment which produces
thV natural color of the hair, is
: lacking the hairs present a gray
' or white appearance. The silvery
j color may further be due to the
presence or more or less air, in
. the balr. 1 ' '
To account for the blanching of
't the hair, the. familiar accompani
ment of old age and a phenomenon
i which frequently ?. begins befor
. v middle, age,, various views . ,have
HOMAS" EDISON recently de
clared ; that only twenty-five
per cent of the problems of
electricity have been solved.
Thirty years ago electrical de
vices were playthingB of the'phy
sical laboratory. It was said then
that the cost of producing the elec
tric current was so great that the
electric light would never be prac
tical and that the electric motor
could never be used in commerce.
Today the boys of thirty years
ago are telephoning across the con
tinent and sending wireless com-
munications over the waters. They
are riding to and from business
on electric Etreetcars, reading, by
electric lights, Newspapers printed
Dy electric power. Some are even
traveling about in automobiles pro
pel iea uy electric batteries.
In the opinion of Edison and
Prank J. Spraguej father of the
electric street railway, the next
great development in. industrial
electricity is the electrification of
main trunk nne railroads. Nearly
an terminals have made, or are
about to make the change and
plans are being made In suburban
traffic all over the country to
aoanaon locomotives entirely
Charles Francis Brush, who in
vented the ;aic dynamo and larnn
predicts that within a few years
ordinances will be passed prohib
iting norse drawn vehicles from
crowded city streets. Only elec
tric trucks twice as fast and with
four times the capacity will be al
lowed to operate, he says.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz. con
suiting engineer of the General
Electric Company, looks forward to
the time when the better paid
workers in the cities will live in
the suburbs and ride to and from
their work in electric automobiles,
me urst cost of which will not ex
ceed $500, and which can be oper
ate", ior not more than $10 a
month.
When the progress of the nant
few years is considered, all these
predictions do not seem unreason
The man; who has an automr.hliN
and is worrying about an advance
in tne price o gasoline should take
neart.
The man who has not an'nntn.
mobile for like reasons should not
grow discouraged but begitf to save
like Schumann-Helnk,. has beefl a
good mother, to eight or nine chil
dren, cannot be an immoral wo
man.. She only made a mistake
in marrying an unmorarman.
The common expression "laughed
out of court" has been literally in
terpreted In the case of Schumann
Heink's husband. It may be some
day that people will learn not to
write foolish letters. '
Johnny, out to Sinner, thrice refused
chicken ra ry. of which he was very
fond. His hoetess,
who fcd added
macaroni to the
gravy, finally said:
"Why, ; I thought
you liked chicken
gravy t'r-
: "1 do sometimes."
replied Johnny, "but
my mamma never
Magazine.
. -roresBor. what .has - become of
Tom Appleton? . Wasn't he studying
nm in ciug last year 7
"Ah, yes! AnDle-
ton, poop fellow! a
fine student,1, but
absent minded in
-the use of chemi
cals very. Thai
THE menace of the presidential
office is the subject of an ar
tide by Senator Cummins of
Iowa in the New York Inde
pendent, .
Using President Wilson as an
Illustration, he makes a discrimi
nating distinction between influ
ence and power. He conceives the
influence of the presidential office
over the authority of -Congress to
be a public danger.
While conceding the right of the
judiciary to nullify legislative acts
Letters From the People
Tommnuicatioua ent to The Journal for
piiblhmtioi In this department shoiilil be writ
ten on only one side or the paper, should not
exceed .5W words in length and mimt be ac
companled bf the bhus and adrtren of the'
aeiider. . It the writer does not desire to
naTe tbe uaae published, he ahouid o atate.)
.'J'1IKt,M,IB' ta ,he Kreatest of an reform
era. It tatlonallaea everyUiIng It touches. It
robs principles of all fale sanctity and
thPowathein back on their reasonableness. If
they have no reasonableness. . it ruthlessly
crushes then) out of existence ami sets up Its
own conclusions iu their stead." Woodiw
n ilson.
Governors on Prohibition.
Portland, June 8. To the Editor or
The Journal We have heard diverse
opinions as to the prosperity or fail
ure, of states under prohibition. It
discoloration on the
ceiling- notice It?
"Tea."
"That's Tom."
"I'm not i sur
prised. I always thought Tom would
mane nis mark If he got Sv chance."
While playing wfth a pair of shear
nttle Laura severed one of the pret-
or nejr golden
curls.
"My deaf child,
why did you do
that?" asked j Aunt
Mary, who came to
call soon after
ward. "I wanted 'em so
1 could take 'ern'ofT
and hang 'em on
the bureau," explained the little girl.
just line mamma does.'
PERTINENT. COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
: dMALL CHANGS ;-, - . I
Human nature xeta a man'ue'a a.
Judge of hie neighbor. , ; - .
The only--cheap thlna that satisfies
giddy woman is a compliment. ; -V.
Every lime She loses 98 cents ah
worries a dollar's worth.
, . . , 4 -- :
Unleia a . man keeoa movlnr h
world will soon leave him in the
lurch. - ;
.. - -y ' ' . f
Never Judge a married man rt ttia
actions when he la away from home.
.4
And many a horse has been badly
raced because money talked to tbe
joiatjr. i
! !
If It wasn't for the weather lota of
people would have no excuse for talk
ing, t .
Sometimes a girl does a young man
a great favor by. Jilting him.- .
With the exception of chocolate
caramels there Is nothing sweeter to
a girl than loves young dream,
.
It Is well to jnake a good start and
it is also well to remember that it Is
the finish that- really counts.
' '
A man may never realise what It
is to be disappointed In love until
after he has been led to the altar by
the female of his choice.
: OUgGON ' SIDELIGHTS
"rtet-mleton at the approaching school
election will vote on the question, of
free-text books. - ; :
.. . . , , . : ' .
The stone work on the new packing
plant on the outskirts of Burns is
completed and the News says it will
take but a short time now to get the
plant In operation.
Condon' council has decided that
the Jim Hill mustard must be eradi-
and the marshal has been Instructed
to prompt property owners accord-
Ingly.
- Weather report In Burns Times-Herald-
Prairie .City correspondence: "A
little snow fell at Prairie City Thurs
day, it waa welcome but was about
six month too late for last winter and
six months too early for next winter.
Bumpter American: A story drifts
In from the Greenhorns of the recov
ering of $73 In gold from one pan ot
dirt. IJttle comment and no excite
ment has been caused by the story, as
Bi:ch find are not uncommon In tbe
Ureenhorn district. This lust find was
made by Bam Kershaw, who several
years atro was one of tne discovereia
of the Famous pocket taken from tuo
Belmont claim near ureennorn.
Progress of lllllsboro as measured.
in terms cf modern transportation,
by the Independent: "With two elec
tric lines running on almost a street
car sctiedule and local and visilins
IN EARLIER DAYS
By Fred IxwkUy.
Senator Cummins holds that by Uuto&T H'
virtue of its potentialities the of
flee of president is capable of ex
ercising an .influence in directing
legislation which, if foreseen by
the fathers of the government,
would have been rejected.
In order to remedy this condi
tion Senator Cummins implies that
our constitutional government
should be reconstructed.
. It might be well to suggest to
the senator that domination by the
executive , is permitted only by
men who play politics and who do
not think for themselves. There
can be no dangerous influence un
less there are men that want to be
influenced.
What is needed Is not a presi
dent with' less backbone but con
gressmen with more backbone.
WEIGHT OF SOCLS
A
PHYSICIAN of Haverhill.
Massachusetts, claims that he
has succeeded in weighing a
soul. The process consisted in
marking the change in the weight
of a dying man's body when death
occurred. . The difference was
found to be three fourths of an
ounce. . .'''V '!;- : j ..
This ascertainment ' does not
seem to have any practical' value.
Souls, like brains,, vary so much In
An old soldier, on leaving the army,
wrote to hi colonel in the following
terms : ,
"Sir After what 1
have suffered, tell
the army to go to
grass."
Imagine his aston
ishment on receiving
a reply in the usual
official' manner:
'Or- Ann -1. n-n-.
w.iii "!J.T',m,"al.nes-. governor of j gestions or Inquiries as to movement
mkt77 ine oanaers and econo- ot troops must be entered on army
V,, ! h tate have only to look, form 123 X. Y. Z.. a copy of Which I
. , r" 4-H lo "na tnt, witn am inclosing, Tours, etc.
" ii'uiuuu ui omy aoout 742,000 peo
ple, we have assets in our 48 savings
um.iih, trust companies and 37 1
introduced at recent hearings on na
tional constitutional prohibition.
William
nan
and building associations amounting
to $165,784,505, or an average of about
$224 for every inhabitant of the state,
which is something of an argument
that prohibition does prohibit. In our
state, 225,159 people have deposits an
nually In our savings banks averaging
$401. The gain in our savings banks
annually for the last 10 years has
been about $6,500,000, running from
$4,000,000 to $11,000,000 each year."
Lock Craige, governor of North
Carolina, said: "Total revenues from,
all sources during 1908. the last year
during yhich whisky was sold under
license, were $2,866,439.62. During the
year 1913, the last year under prohi
bition, the total receipts from all
sources were $4,297,000. North Caro
lina in all her history has never known
a period of greater prosperity than
that through which she haB passed
since prohibition was adopted."
L. B. Hanna, governor of North
Dakota, testifies: "We have practical
ly no poor houses in the state. Out
of 50 counties, 44 have none at all, and
in the other six the poor houses are
really more what might be called coun
ty hospitals, where some sick old peo
ple can be cared for." He further
states that a recent Brewers' Tear
Book shows the number, of gallons per
capita of intoxicating- drinks con
sumed lp, 1911 in North Daketa was
nothing. It is represented in their
quality that it only Creates new
perplexities. There liave been souls ' Dook y tw0' ciphers. This is not. of
so heavy that the course of nations urse, strictly true, as there is some
has been changed. Their weight
cannot be computed.
On the other hand there are
souls that are grossly estimated,
even at three quarters of an ounce,
souls that are born shriveled and
keep on shrinking.
The problem is not to ascertain
the weight of souls so much as
It is , to nourish and enlarge souls,
a work that has kept religion and
philosophy busy for centuries.
liquor used, but the amount used is so
small that the cipher comes nearer rep
resenting it than any other 'number
possibly eould. -
MRS. ti. H. ADDITON.
peoplewould rake in the coin from the
travel, and the farmers would pay the
bilfs. If they want to eliminate Hood
River, and take scow passage up the
Columbia, let them go to It. The tax
payers Of Hood River county are stag
gering under the loads they are carry
ing now, and It will cost $8800 per
year to maintain that $75,000 road;and
we don't want It at the present time.
O. M. DEWITT.
i . ' '
CITY DWELLERS
A'
money to buy the coming cheap
electric car.
C
AN IMPORTANT CANAL
OINCIDENT with the' comple
tion or tne Panama canal is
the opening of the Cape Cod
canal.; This connects the wa
ters of ; Massachusetts bay with
tsuzzaro s bay. By July the Cane
Cod canal r will be , navigable for
vessels drawing not over twelve
feet and by August It is expected
to have ft depth of fifteen feet.
While the Cape Cod canal is
much less in magnitude than the
Panama canal yet it is of great
importance to the shipping induB
try. from New York to Boston. It
is eight miles long and will-cost
$12,000,000, being a private en
terprise. '
; This cut of, eight miles reduces
the length of I the water journey
from New. York to Boston from
326 juiles via Pollock Rip to 260
CCORDINO to a bulletin Is
sued by the Census Bureau
39,700,000 of the people of
the United States are living
in cities and 69,100,000 are living
outside cities at present. In the
term' cities is included everything
above ,8000 population-
The proportion of city dwellers
is larger in New England than in
any part of the country, being
five to two, or 4,830,000 living in
cities and 2.130,000 outside of
cities.
The proportion of rural popula
tion in New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania is somewhat larger
i 1 ... w- . - T
man in iew England, .notwith
standing the enormous concentra
tion of people around : New . York
City and Philadelphia. The fig
ures for these throe states are 13,-
500,000 Jn cities to 7,400,000 in
the country. .
In the states from Ohio to Wis
consin, whicn a generation ago
were considered agricultural, the
city dwellers - and the country
dwellers are now about equal.
In all the territory south of the
Ohio and west of the Mississippi
the rural population Is far in ex
cess. In the three states bordering
on the Pacific the city population
again becomes? prominent and tho
proportion of urbanita to frurallte
is about equal, i ; '
On the other hand there are
thousands Of towns and villages
scattered all over the country with
from 1000 to 8000; population
Which have public water supplies,
lighting systems", paved streets and
other advantages of city life.
The trend r of population from
the farms to the towns and vil
lages during the past quarter cen
tury has been as notable as the
growth of th large- cities.
If J;hen a comparison were made
between those 'who live on" farms
and those who' are living la either
Maine Farmers and Prohibition.
Nehalern, June 6. TO the. Editor of
The Journal I noticed a recent asser
tion that the- farmers of Maine would
not vote for the repeal ot the prohib
itory law in that state. The assertion
is correct to a certain extent, and
there-Is a "reason. A long time ago
prohibition got a very- good start in
Puritanic New England. Every state
tried it. Most of them became sick of
the theory right away and repealed
the law. ' In Maine, along about 1884,
there was a feeling of discontent. The
fire broke out red hot when, some fel
low discovered that a man could and
would get drunk on apple cider, and
the officer began ' to pinch the farm
ers. There Was an awful howl from
all over rural Maine. The overthrow
of the prohibitory law was imminent.
The prohibitionists saw there was only
one way of fixing the curse upon the
state and that was by getting it Into
the constitution. But how was this
to be done? The farmers were dis
satisfied with the law because it pre
vented them from selling their cider.
Cider contains 8 to 10 per cent of al
cohol; more than beer and as much as
wine. The farmers were in a majority.
Someone put the argument uf this
way: "The farmers must be permitted
to sell their cider. Cider Is intoxi-'
eating, but we must have the farmers.
Let them sell their cider. Shut out the
rest of the drinks. Give the farmer a
monopoly." Every farmer swore by the
new prohibitory law.
Then the framers Of this new Joke
on the people of Maine went up and
down the state crying against beer and
for more cider, and cider it has been
ever since. Any farmer can go down
Into thfe cellar and get drunk, and it
does not cost him a cent. After a boy
has done a few. successful turns with
the cider barrel, he i ready for any
thing a city blind pig affords, from
carbolic acid to blue vitriols Cider
does not possess one single quality to
recommend it to anyone. It is manu
factured In the most unsanitary sur
rounding and ia reeking with flies and
eerms while it matures. v
But It has tied the farmers up to
prohibition, ; and that Is all the pro
hibitionist want. am. j. t-vnuw.
Protests a Road Bond Plan.
Hood River, Or., June . To the Ed
itor ot The Journal That Hood River
bond Issue of $76,000 for the Columbia
River Highway we voted down for the
reason that our valley roads are badly
in need of improving, and the majority
of the farmers are gong t vote "no"
on any bond Issue or special tax that
comes up. ' ' - -j . -i -
At one of our meeting we were In
formed by one. of the oldest resident
of the valley, who has built-bridges
from The Dalles to Portland, that
there was a road built from TheDalies
to Cascade Locks for $19,000; and at
the. same meeting ! we were told by
Thomas Lacy that there was only a
mile and a half Of the route that- was
Cities or villages, the total jiopula- not passable" at present with, a team
tlon living where they have atfvan- an,f -waf?L.anf, !n,y J!"'8 l four
tages of community life would s be Lake it a fair road, and they want
In excess of the census estimate of - $76,000 for that. I believe the people
nearly 40,000,000 city dwellers. at Cascade. Locks should have a decent
- -: ; j road -out but this thing of making a
TTrr 7 , i boulevard for Portland iriotoristaJ am
V W hen, -doctors; disagree how Is ! not in favor of. The garage-and betel
a Climate and Its Effects. '
Prom Reedy's Mirror.
May not this truth, if established.
also account for the fact that even
among, the i human race, monogamy I
most prevails in temperate climes,
where the conditions of life are fairly
wen balanced; that polygamy appears
mostly among the races of tropical
climes, where the tendency is to pro-
auce an exeess of females, while poly
andry is seen only in cold and barren
regions where- the conditions of life
are so hard that the males far outnum
ber the females.
. My conclusions from these premises
are that nature is Jealous of her per
petuity; that she Is insistent that life,
ana aounaant lire, snail persist every
where within her domain. Tet she is
Just, and has bo arranged her law of
division of the sexes that where there
is lack of food or happiness, - there
shall not appear an overabundance of
life. In that regard, therefore, Mal
thu may be tight; that Is, that- the
tendency of nature is to produce such
abundant life that there will be a ten
dency to, "press upon the mean of
subsistence." That is, she may go the
limit, but never beyond the limit.
. It will readily be seen that in a com
munity where the female Is born in
greater number of individuals than the
male, the population of such commun
ity will more rapidlymultiply than In
a like community where a majority o:
Offspring are males.
in. all animal creation and perhaps
even in the vegetable, if we could see
it all. It has always been the rule that
the female shall receive the most care
ful protection,; since the perpetuity of
the race is only conserved in that way
So we See .that, instead of It being gal
lantry, as some of us men seem to
claim, it is merely a wise provision of
nature establishing this as one of the
innate attributes of the male sex.
Now, it lias been shown that where
the means of subsistence are abund
ant, there the, female will outnumber
the. male. Where conditions of life are
hard and food scarce the male will
outnumber the female. I apply this
fact to the mind as Well as to physical
life. That is, where happiness Is most
the rule, chiefly among adult-females,
there will be a tendency to produce the
female, while ; If sorrow mostly pre
vails, the tendency will be the re
Verse. 4
There is a beautiful philosophy in
this .fact. That is. that the "sterner
sex. appears in greater number where
stern conditions exist, while the gent
ler sex" is born where happier clrcum
stances prevail.
There Is : Nothing New.
From the Omaha World-Herald.
It is said that Robert Louis Steven
ton was once -reeding a book and sud
denly slapped his face with it. When
asked what so excited him, he replied
"I have Just come across a sentence
Identical with a thought of my own
expressed in the identical language
that I used In my last publication.
The book was Very old, but Bteven
son had never seen it until he took It
un that morning. The fact Is, tha
all Of the fundamental truths are old,
although men' often think that they
are expressing something new. When
Tolfltoy said that "the rich will do
anything for the poor except to get
off their "backs he doubtless though
he was uttering a new thought, but
it had many time been uttered before
Tolstoy wrote the words.' Lincoln
made almost exactly tne same remark.
Many a farmer following the plow
In the early nineties Imagined that he
had discovered some new principle in
economics and ' went to the . next
Farmers' Alliance meeting and ex
rdolted the discovery with all his na
tive eloquence; Many times afterward
h found that the same thing had been
aaid by Mill, Ricardo or some other
economist in j a much more forcible
way than he xould utter 4t. If men
AitniA nniv inherit an education the
constant restatement of truth would
not be necessary, ut -unrortunatel
every generation must be educated
anew and the: old truths are as new
to them as when first uttered. They
are the foundation on which society
rests. Whenever ., abanaonea, distress
is sure to follow and the foundation
must be . repaired and the structure
rebuilt,, using to a great extent the
old material. Just a all the new build,
inga that are; going up in , the world
are using practically the same ma
terials with which the pyramid were
Constructed. The' latest statement is
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From the Tacoma Ledger.
As long as young blood runs 'hot.
there will be a readiness and willing
ness to pay the tolls that Mars ex
acts as the price of wars. The cost
reckoned afterwards. We talk a
great deal about the cost of war, but
few of us realise what it actually
means until we are confronted by the
actual figures and these are staggering.
Going back to the wars that have
occurred in the time of recorded his
tory, is estimated by an expert in the
library of congress that wars and their
direct -results have collected an esiii
mated toll ot 15,000,000,000 lives, nine
times the present population of the
world. Six million men were killed in
the 20 years of the Napoleonic wars
alone. Of these Lafayette said 3.000,-
000 were Frenchmen, the very flower
of the youth and virility of the nation.
Look at Napoleon's wonderful army
of 600,000 men, the flnest that ever
stood In line, which set out for Mos
cow, and then at the pitiful remnant
of 20,000 frostbitten, . famished' spec
ter who staggered back over the
bridge of Korno the following Decem
ber. The average stature of the
Frenchman decreased two inches after
the Napoleonic era, and after 100
years one of the greatest problems of
France still Is a decreasing population, !
The most reliable Civil war statis
tics show. a loss of 350,000 men of the
Union armies and 150,000 Confederates.
WHAT WARS HAVE COST
' "Some people eeem" to think the fall
a railroad official has to do is to -s4
tight, hold on to his Job and draw his
salary,- said William McMurray r w
ecntly. "Why. a railroad 'man ha U
work , harder than anybody else te
make good. He not only has to please
the people that pay him his salary. .
but he must plead the people that
help to make the eivldends. If yod
think It is an easy job to please the
traveling public, you don't know, that's
all - Just as an instance, some time
ago I was In charge of a apecial train .
carrying a noted prima donna to ait
engagement in New Orleans. Someone
happened to mention having -.ured a
fine Mexican hairless dog in El Paso.
She at once sent tor me and told me
to wire ahead to our agent there and
tell him to buy a Mexican hairless dog
and have it at the der-ot. I did to.
When we got to El Paso my distin
guished passenger wassail anxiety to
see her dog. The Southern Pacific
agent met me and told'nie he had been
unable to find a hairless dog for nale.
I told the prima donna. She aaid:
Very well; we will stay here till ha
does. She told her manager he
would nor- sing a note till sh got her
hairles dog. It was the one great de
sire or her life, i-ier manager said:
Gu OUt Mllrf tt n iir TV AI1V
cutomobi lists forming an almost Von-'price, and iT you, can't buy one, steal
jtant procession Hiiisboro is tasting one, I started out with our agent In
desperation. Suddenly we ctaw a dog
of the right shape, only it had hair.
Our local agent said. 'Kid. what will
you lake for your dog? I'll give you .
five dollars.' The boy callad. his dog
and handed hi in over, grabbed the
money and ran. We took the dog Into
a barber shop. 'What will you charge
mu to shave thin doT our local agent
said. The barber wanted to throw via
both out, but finally connented t
have-the dog for $5. We hurried baik.
gave the prima donna the hairiest! dog
and the special got under way. I heard
later that the prima donna wan furi
ous, when- her hairless dog became as
bristly as a porcupine and she gate'
It to her maid."
Carl Gray, formerly president of the
Seattle. Portland A Southern, told n:
this story along the same lines:
"I once was stationed at Wichita,
Kansas. What wa now know as Okla
homa was at that time known as the
Cherokee strp. -The country south Of
the ioys of metropolitan lifn and th.i
agile skip from curb to curb dodglmt
electric and honk honk cars en route
has replaced the leisurely saunter that
was once the fashion."
Include the property and slave losses
of the south, nor the pensions paid
since the conflict The last Mexican
war cost us $100,000,000 and the Span
ish war $362,101,900. The cost In life.
in sorrow, in the destruction of effi
cient human beings, cannot be Includ
ed in mere tabulation. But the coun
try feels it in Us impaired vitality and
in the deeper shadows which are thrown
upon thousands of lives.
The great powers or the world are
staggering toward bankruptcy under
their war debts. Seventy cents of
every dollar spent by our government
goes for war purposes; 'Our naval ap
propriation in 1887 was one tenth what
Considering the economic side, the
wars in which the United States, has
engaged from the Revolution to this
time have cost the country in dollars
expended for military and naval oper
ations a grand total of $ll.S96,S85,40s
The Civil war alone cost ua over $10,
00,000,000. and that estimate doe not
it is today. Since the war with Spain ,u, ttna. iin. u a . . ,..,. i.,,nt.,
we have spent. $700,000,000 more on PArajue In those day. Quail and prai
the navy than is necessary to pay otf He chickens, wild turkeys and deer
tne national oeot purely a war aeoi,
by the way. Our army appropriation
has increased four times in-14 years.
were plentiful lalong the Walnut and
Salt Fork and the Arkansas river.
With my 45-7o under my arm. 1 wn
walking up the trail toward a. deer
lick when I met an Indian, who
t a i ' "PPed me and told me to Veep a good
or loou : lookout for a very larjre. cougar that
Viil h nai1 tracked Into the vicinity of the
In England alone last year there
were 1,086, "07 paupers people de
pending for every mouthful of
and stitch of clothing on charity.
aer me nusn oia ae periHion om i 6rr ,lrk n ,n in.,..i
12.000,000 people are entitled to this Bund0wn there Was a flurry of snow,
public charity to permit them to end As Jusk Came on I became chilled
th,r liv8 J-fny- the one and I atnrtf .1 up the trail
Yet England continues to persist in . for camp j XxSxAn l sorie fiir when l
what she calls the "two-power stand- j heard a snapping of twig in the brush
. .. . . . .7 " i oy me eiae or tne trail, and out stepped
navies of her two most formidable op-
Ish outlay of Germany. France and the
United States. The efforts of one na
tion to increase its strength are Imme
diately neutralised by the similar ef
fort of other countries.
It ia well to have these facta and
figure in mind when Jingoes denounce
President Wilson for hi patient deter
mination to keep us out of another
war with Mexico.
the cougar. It was too dark to see It
ponents this in the face ot the fever-,j distinctly, but it was the largest cou
gar I had ever seen. We both stoppe I
In our tracks and looked at each other.
1 was shaking like a leaf. 1 ralaed my
gun and the front sight began wavu.c
! circles around that cougar" head. I
GOVERNMENT'S RAILWAY FINANCING BILL
By John M. Osklson.
One of three bills now before con
gress Is designed to put the control of
railway financing In the hands of the
Interstate Commerce commission. If
passed, it will require the roads to se
cure the sanction Of that body for tne
Issue of stocks and bonds.
Two set of interests are concerned
vitally, the people Served by the roads
and the Investors. Railway men gen
erally oppose any plan to put tbe con
trol of financing in government hand.
They say that it will result In cur
tailing railroad extensions and . im
provements.
Investors, however, ought to pray
for such legislation, for tbe simple
reason that it will help to save their
Investments. Her is the situation:
Railroad men are primarily inter
ested in building up "systems," in
opening up new territory, creating
traffic where none existed before.
They have the pioneering spirit. As
long a they can get the money, they
will spend it to build and develop.
They shut their eyes to the question.
"Will auch extensions pay?"
Investors who listen to the optimis
tic talk of the railroad men are led to
buy a road's stocks and bond on a
false basis; they do nof think Of their
purchase as speculations of a pe
culiarly hazardous kind, which they
are. They believe they are putting
their money where it will be safe and
earn a fair return.
A a matter of faot, their money
Is not safe; it 1 an axiom ot Ameri
can railway experience that every
road must pass through bankruptcy;
and not a few of them have been
plunged Into that gloomy state more
than once.
A very large share of the unwise
borrowing and unjustified stock Issue
wonld have been prevented by the
Interstate Commerce commission If It
had ponsesned the power which the
new bill proposes to give it.
The new bill la In line with the
bills which have become laws in a
number of states those which put tho
control of the financing of public util
ity companies in the hands of com
missions. Such state laws have
worked well, and you hear very little
protest against them either by the
companies or by the bankers who are
charged with the duty of raising
money for their support and exten
that the great block of stone in the
pyramids which have so puzxled archl.
tects and builder are simply cement
blocks, and a superior cement to that
used in the great buildings now being
erected. Solomon was pretty nearly
right when- be said 'there is nothing
new under the sun.
"Music Hath Charms."
From the Philadelphia Telegraph. .
Honorable Robert McKenty gave a
"matinee musicale" on the afternoon
Of Monday last at his spacious stone
residence. Twenty-first street and Fair
mount avenue. It was a great success.
It was attended by over 1400 guests,
who thoroughly enjoyed tbe efforts of
tho talented artists engaged by their
.host to provide for their entertainment.
The program wa long ana varied,
and was composed of classic and popu
lar, serious and humorous Selections,
ehieflv of the ballad variety. Mem
bers of the Orpheus sooiety supplied
the vocal talent and it is safe to say
they have seldom sung to a more ap
preciative audience.
The concert wa a sort of experi
ment. It wa not that the selections
were futurist; they were strictly or
thodox and not a little ehopworn. It
was not that the audience was ultra
critical. It wa decidedly the reverse,
almost low-brow tn fact. The experi
ment waa ia quite another direction; it
concerned the vindication of humane
man's belief In the truth of the old
adage, "Music hath charms to soothe
the savage breast."
Warden "Bob" McKenty na scored
again with his "matinee musicale" at
the Eastern penitentiary. -'Music proved
that its charms were potent enough to
disarm nearly 1500 prisoner and their
guards who mingled freely with visit
or for an hour in the prison corridor
with formal discipline thrown to ihe
winds and naught but a common ele
mental emotion of the better kind hold
ing all tn voluntary submission to the
best' of U; kinds of restraint self
maatery, their word Of honor and re
gard for the man whose humanity and
wisdom have won thla .unique tribute
from his quondam guests.
This experiment In humane penology
was a severe one and fraught With in
finite possibilities of danger, consid
ering the weak morality and low men
tality tompoelng Warden -Bob'" so
cial material.' It astonishing success
only strengthens belief in the efficacy
of humane' treatment to .do -it heal
ing work among the socially sick. In
cidentally it suggests the use of music
as an agent of incalculable value and
Immeasurable Influence as a solvent
of many a difficult social problem
other than of a merely penological
character.
Life Savers.
An English policeman entered the
house of a publican one morning and
Informed him that It would be neces
sary to hold an inquest there in the
afternoon. .,
Now the landlord bad a great objee
tlon to anything of the kind, and said:
"Oh, I can t be troubled with inquest
In my house. Here, what'U you have
to drlnkr
Robert said he'd have a drop of
Scotch, which he did.
"Have a cigar, too." said the hdst.
After the consumption of two
Scotches and cigar the constable said
he thought he could get the inquest
held somewhere else, but a he wa
leaving the landlord remarked:
"By the way. who are they going to
hold the inquest on?"
"No one a I know of now," said the
man in blue; "but it 'ud 'a' been on me
If I hadn't had these drinks an'
smokea.
L- .
The Ragtime Muse
was afraid to wound it, for I didn't
want any ml. up with a wounded cou
gar, so I decided that the next time
the front, slsiit wobbled Into lint- with .
lis head I would pull the trigger. Sud.
fenly 1 heard a lot more crackling in
ihe brush. My leg were too weak lo
nun, bu i siuwa as it 1 were aniiioreu
there till $ or 14 little pigs rrivout o
the brush to their mother. My Imagi
nation and the dusk had turned that
gt.unt. mti-l-wvered old sow Irto - a
crtrUchlne; cougar.
"Speaking of wild animals," contin
ued Mr. Gray, "one of our paisenger
trains In Missouri, a few year ago.
had a little bad luck with a freight
ttaln. Nobody was hurt, but several
of the box cars wt-re wrecked. One of
our trarflc official happened to be on
the passenger train, so he took imme
diate charge, lie ticked up a bra he-man-
lantern, and as he hurried down
the track toward the wrecked rrelght
h- saw a man in uniform skulking al
a fence corner. Thinking It wa one
of the train crew, he called out: 'Here,
you! Come out of that. I want you
to take a message to the next station.'
'I ren'l go, sir,' the man nald, '1 am
holding some of our . stock that got
lo se in the wrecked ram.' IJo ahead,
. . .
. n hcw iiini tii niuvit uoti 4 gel bwm.
What kind of stock I It. anywayT the
railroad man asked.' Lions, air it was
our clrcu train you ran into.' the man
answered. "Stay right where yon are;
I'll take the message myself.- If very
important, so I will have to hurry, and
for Lord's sake don't let those linn
get away from you" the railroad offi
cial called out over hi shoulder as he
printed down the track."
-
The Scotch are very canny.' John
M ftcott, general passenger agent of
th Southern Pacific, In no exception.
Recently a man Interested hi a small
way 1n politics, and more Important In
hi own eye than in any one' else,
wrote Mr. Boott a letter aettlnst forth
the renson why he should have a pas.
Mr. Scott wrote a very diplomatic not
and said h would find hi request an
swered in the following refereiu-eff in
the Bible. The re.Mp.ent of Mr. Scott'
letter -lost no time looking them up.
Here they are:
Numbers. x :l: "In Ihoea days there
Were no passes."
Mark.-kii:30: "Thla generation shall
not pas."
Judge. 111:28: "Suffer not a man to
pea."
Isaiah. xxxv;15: "None shall ever
pass."
Jiahtin, 1:1a:
"The f eked shall no
In Adland. .
Against pale, lemon colored ekles.
Shot through with flame of scarlet
fire,
I ee a purple city rise.
The city of the Tvransing Lyre!
j is vn.iens an advertise ;
On every dome and roof and antra.'
Tbe sun at evening1 and at mom
Peep through a net of lordly height
That advertises "Breakfast Corn"
Or other cereal delight.
The wind I made to blow a horn:
. They harness! tip the moon by night!
And tbey have rearranged the stars
The constellations move about
To advertise 6 cent cigar.
.The? name of which the atars apell
Vut.
fThough this the floor of heaven mar.
- ins pian a unique oeyond all doubt.
They u-ve the mountain and the sea.
They ue ther1ver and the plain
To advertise their wares. Vou see.
Their, only thought ia sordid gain. "
It would not do for you and me-
Such things would cauae us grief and
pain!
more pass.
Number. xx:lt: "Thou fehalt not
puss."
"Jeremiah. v:J2: "Though they roar,
yet thev nhall not pa."
Jonah, :3: "So he ptd hie fare and
went." - ' .
An Ancient Kandwlcli :
From Everybody' Magazine.
A tourist "doing" one of the many
old Inns of England had ordered tea
and a sandwich. The waiter waa bor
ing her with bis tiresome description
of the historic connection of eafh
piece of furniture.-and the legend sur
rounding every article in the house. - -
"So every thing in thla house has a
legend connected with It." she le
marktd When he paued. "Well, do tell
me about t his -H(4nt old ham sand-
! wich." - --T
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