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THE. MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDKESDAY, -MA3JCH 22, 190o. : Xstered at the Postofflce it Portland. Or il second-class matter. ffOBSCXTPTION SAXES. INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. (Br MU er Zxpreaa.) Vt.ttr and Sunday, per rear.. $9.00 DcJIy s Ecaday, six months 5.00 Dally and Bandar, three months 2-53 Dally and Sunday, per month.......... .83 Dally without Sunday, per year .- 7.50 Dally -without Sunday, six months 3.90 Dally vrlthout Sunday, three months .... 1-83 Dally without Sunday, per month .65 Sunday, per year 00 Sunday, six months ................... 2-00 -Sunday, three months 90 . BY CABRIER. Daily without Sunday, per week .15 Dally per week. Sunday Included 0 THE "WEEKLY OREGONIAN. (Issued Every Thursday.) Weekly, per year -j- 1-50 weekly, six months -75 Weekly, three months 50 HOW TO REMIT Send postofflce money order, express order or personal check on your local hank. Stamps, coin or currency r at the sender's risk. EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICE. The S. 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Presepce of numerous surveying par ties, frequent visits of high officials, purchase of a great tract of waterfront at "Portland and acquisition of right of way for almost the entire . distance down the north bank of the Columbia, all lend strong color to repeated rumors that the Northern Pacific Intends to enter Portland territory on more ad vantageous terms than it now enjoys. The latest rumor has it that the North ern wltl extend its branch line from Pendleton over into Central Oregon, and will also build into the Wallowa country. In both of these new flejds there will be developed an enormous traffic Possibilities for this develop ment are so great, and the wonderful resources of the country so plainly vis ible, that it has for years been surpris ing that they should be so long neglect ed by the raJlroadB. In both the "Wallowa and the Central Oregon country are large numbers of settlers who have been waiting for years for the coming of transporta tion facilities. Pending the building of a railroad, opportunity to reap 'any thing but the most scanty- rewards for their efforts Is unavailable, but there has been such a heavy-increase in the population of these isolated localities that they cannot much longer be de prived of rail communication with the outside world. The late TV. S. Strat ton, of the Independence mine, in Colo rado, is said to have restricted continu ally the output of that wonderful mine. and, when asked for a reason for so do ing, explained that his unmlned riches could not get away from him, and he was taking the gold out as rapidly as he desired. A similar principle seems to have been followed by the O. R. & N. Cb which, with the exception of the Condon branch, has failed to extend its lines Into any new territory within the past twelve years. The assumption of the Harrlman people seems to be that none" of this big traffic which is des tlned to come out of Central Oregon or the Wallowa country can get away from them, and accordingly they can work out the mine where their shafts and .tunnels are already made, before sinking in a new place. Theoretically this may be all right, but In practice It will reveal limitations. The Northern Pacific and the Great Northern, which divide with the O. R. &. N. Co. the traffic of Oregon, Wash lngton and Idaho, have always been more aggressive in territorial acquisi tion than the Harriman roads. Both the O. R. & N. and the Northern Pacific started for the Clearwater country at the same time, the O. R. & N. over an ea6y and natural route, and the North ern Pacific over a difficult and unnat ural route. The O. R. & N. was quickly bluffed out of the race by the Northern Pacific, and the latter road Is today haullng out of a territory that Nature herself intended should come out over the O. R. & N., an immense traffic One O. R. & N. administration after another has been promising to build Into the Wallowa country, to lay the rails on the practically completed grade up Snake River from Lewiston, to go Into the Central Oregon country, and even to enter the marvelous forests of the Nehalem; but nothing has ever come of these promises. This indifference, cow ardice. lack of Judgment, or whatever may be the cause of these dilatory tac tics, -has resulted in large diversion to other ports of a volume of traffic which would naturally have sought an outlet at Portland. But the Northern Pacific Is nearlng the limit of its power for diverting traffic from Portland territory to Puget Sound. It desires to handle the traffic and develop the country, but, in order to do so, must now seek an outlet at Portland. If, as reported, this road- opens up Central Oregon, the bulk of the traffic will find its depot in this city. Even if it were otherwise, the Northern Pacific should be welcomed into lb field. The California, Nevada & Oregon road is within a lew miles of the south ern borders of the state, and is push lug northward. It is already draining away to California traffic -which right fully should have sought an outlet far ther north. .Unless a road from the north is- speedily constructed, it will be a question of locking the stable door after the horse is stolen. Portland has for years hoped that the O. R. & N. would let her into that rich field for trade, but, now that hope is dead in that direction, our chances are much better with the Northern Pacific than with a road that would come up from California. A fact that may have no small bear ing on the present desires of the North ern to- get Into this territory is that Messrs. Campbell and Woodworth, two high-class traffic men, who have re cently moved up very close to the throne on the Hill roads,- spent many years in this country and are very fa miliar with its trade possibilities. If their counsel is taken at its worth by the men who control the destinies of the Hill lines, Portlajid will not suffer greatly by the failure of her own road to grasp the situation and go after' the business so long neglected. CARABOBO, BOMBON'A AND AYACUCHO. For generations the United States has dreamed in a fool's paradise Ameri cans have fondly deemed themselves secure from armed Invaders, shielded by the Inviolate sea and terrible in lat ent military power. Now the dream is dispelled, and the hostile trumpet-call of Colonel Juan Bautlsta Lamedo, sol dier-diplomatist of Venezuela, rings In the ears of eighty million startled peo ple. Ah, the black strategy of Lamedo, the daring ingenuity of his murderous scheme! As chief military adviser to the calm and courageous President Castro, this Lamedo, filled with Cas- tllian honor and tropical ferocity, has perfected a plan to humble the United States, to chop up our citizens on their own streets and farms. 'Terhaps 30,000 Venezuelans," says Lamedo, in a burst of magnificent elo quence, "bearing the glorious national banner, that very banner whose float ing Iris illuminated the waters of La Plata with the splendor of the Vene zuelan fatherland to the echoes of 4he clarions of Carabobo, of Bombona and of Ayacucho, would today be sufficient to wash away the Insult which our glorious flag has received from the United States, In the very waters of the Mississippi." What a blood-stirring call! How grandiose the names Cara bobo, Bombona and Ayacucho! With their long, rolling "o's" they are lrideed clarions, trumpet-calls, drum-beats. Thirty thousand men chanting "Cara bobo, Bombona and Ayacucho!" would be more terrible than a Japanese army with banners and shouts of 'Banzai!" Withal Lamedo Is not bom bastic. He knows the United States has a navy and that Venezuela has none. So he calls upon Colombia, the Central American States and Mexico to grant passage to the 30,000 avengers, observing with acumen that "the North American squadrons cannot op erate In the forests." Alas, no. Our battleships lack wheels, and never op erate upon more land than Is occasion ally found In an uncharted rock. Thus Lamedo will lead his 80.000 through the. Jungles, while our fleets steam im potently up and down the Caribbean. The guile of the man! Having entered United States terri tory, what has Lamedo to expect? Let him answer for himself. "Traders will always be traders, inept and cowardly in feats of heroism." This nation of shopkeepers cannot stand up against Lamedo and his 30.000. With their gal lant leader they cry, "Our hearts swell within us and we are willing to take our stand ln'the vanguard, among the distinguished heroea of the New World, who are called once more to prove that Venezuela is Immortal and is the first to take up the glove, which Is thrown down today to the whole of Spanish America." Our traders, it will be seen. are doomed. New Orleans, wJjich once stood as bulwark against an invader, is doomed. The whole South Is doomed. It may'bevselflsb, but Oregon will pray that LameSb's vengeance may be sated before his 30,000 swollen-hearted Invad ers make a trail of blood across the Mississippi. May Portland never hear the echoes of "Carabobo, Bombona and Ayacu cho'" AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. News that the old Emperor Francis Jnwnh had betaken himself to the an dent City of Budapest to consult with Count Andrassy, ex-Premier of Hun gary, on the existing deadlock. Is very suggestive Not many years ago such a position would have been put a short end to by the sovereign's flat, support ed by soldiers and armed Interference in case obedience were not instant and complete. Today the King and the statesman meet and talk things over quietly. It will be borne In mind that the dispute has a twofold foundation. The Hungarians demand that the army which they raise and support should be bo far Independent of the Austrian that it should receive the word of com mand in the Hungarian tongue. Instead of in German a difficulty, to the ordi nary outsider, of a sentimental kind They claim more complete Independ ence of Austria in fiscal matters. Other questions there were, but they seem to be reduced now to those mentioned. If an adjustment could be reached It Is expected that the Emperor-King would be. satisfied to call the leader of the Independence party, M. Kossuth,- to a high position, If not to the Premiership, This Independence party has disclaimed the idea of Insurrection or revolution and says that it will gain its end by constitutional means. In all other mat ters the Hungarians live a free and in dependent life, the best proof being that they base their plea for restoration of comnlete national Independence on these grounds, far as the poles apaft from the grievances of the nationalities on the other side of the Russian bound ary line. The cannon In Manchuria echo through Europe, and one after another of the nationalities which have been gathered Into the huge Russian mass has awaked. All seem to have the same grounds' for bitter and resolute revolt. Tet the so-called Conservatives of Rus sla are pointing to the plight ofAustria Hungary as an awful example of what comes of constitutional government The onlooker may suggest that it might be better to give these Russian sub Jects the chance to rise to the same level of life, toglve them the same chance In the pursuit of happiness. So should each and all of these races have a voice In making their own laws, in setting the scheme of their own taxa tion. They should speak, plead, and be taught in their own ancient tongues. All classes should enjoj; equal rights and equal protection under the law. Such simple and .obvious rights have come to Austria-Hungary as the fruit of the overturn of the old system of autocracy In 1S4S. Undef them tie peo ple have prospered. So endowed they have worn lightly the bond of constitu tional monarchy through the changes of the years. While the old Emperor Klng survives, his people of many tongues," many races, will probably live In peace, with the occasional efforts at entire independence that are seen in Hungary today, and with no more Seri ous grievances to redress. He Is an old man, with a troubled life" of many trials, public and private; to look back on, probably one of the most pathetic figures on the stage of high politics to day. After him the. deluge. The open question Is whether the seething and boiling on the north and east of the Russian line will not sooner break through and over artificial boundaries. The flask of quicksilver will be 6pllle'd on the smooth floor of Europe, the glob ules will run here, there and every where. No one can predict today which will exercise the sreatest drawing power over its neighbors, and collect the unstable globules Into the largest and most stationary mass. AS TO FOOD ADULTERATION. We hear a great deal one time and another about fraud in food manufac ture. -From the wooden nutmegs of old Connecticut to the oleomargarine that has been turned out literally by the ton from Western factories; from honey that never knew the busy bee and ma ple syrup innocent of any connection with the maple groves of Vermont or Canada; from coffee that merely lends a slight flavor to chlckory, and pepper and all spices which are used merely to give pungency to prepared sawdust and pulverized barks all along the line of our common food products, we find, or our friends, the food inspectors, have found for us, pretenses and shams in the place of the things for which the labels stand. Fortunately the substances used In adulteration of most foods are innocu ous, apparently, as far as health is con cerned, resembling in this way the great colonies of microbes that we are told Inhabit our bodies in endless vari ety. They consist for the mcst part of cheap and worthless makeweights added to Increase the profits of the manufacturer or to meet competition in price They are frauds Just the same, but -not dangerous to human life. Dr. H. W. Wiley, chief of the United States Bureau of Chemistry, in re sponse to the lively Interest manifested in this subject throughout the country. has made some statements in this con nection that, while they are calculated to allay the fears of those who hesitate to partake of manufactured foods, lest their health be undermined, or per haps their lives suddenly endangered. disclose the enormous frauds that are perpetrated in the adulteration of foods. It is a fact that a food product may be so manipulated as to leave It still with the physical appearance and In the gen eral condition of the genuine article, though a largt part, it not the whole, of the genuine article has been replaced with a cheaper substitute This sub stitute itself may be a food product of value, but by reason of its greater cheapness can be profitably mixed with or .substituted for the pure product. It was upon this plea that the manu facturers of oleomargarine a. few years ago based their right to make "process butter' and offer it in the place of thq dairy product. The right to manufac ture oleomargarine under certain sani tary restrictions was not dented, but when It came to floating it Upon the market as "butter," dairymen through out the country uttered a. combined protest, which was heard In state leg islative halls, and even in Congress, with such effect that the manufacturers of the spurious article were compelled by law to label their product honestly before placing it upon the market. As long as this Is done and consumers buy 'process" butter, because of Its relative cheapness, knowing what they buy, there can be no objection to It. The right of the well-Instructed In dividual to choose for himself what he should eat, drink and wear, provided he offend none of the established laws. should be guaranteed In every possible way, but chiefly perhaps by abstaining from meddlesome legislation. There are,, says Dr. Wiley, many persons who sincerely believe that the addition of preservative substances to foods is beneficial, and who prefer to eat foods of this character. He does not see how a law could be framed to protect those who do not want foods of this kind and at the same time not Interfere with the rights of those who do. He regards the attitude of our people toward prepared foods, which are more or less ready for Immediate consumption, as unfortu nate, since it paves the way for a vast volume of "predigested foods," tne habitual use of which must necessarily lead to weakness, atrophy and physio logical Inefficiency of the organs of dl gestlon. It .appears from these and other statements based upon experience that in this matter, as in many others. It is quite as difficult to protect people from themselves as from the wiles of others. NO BEASOX FOB ALARM. A considerable rrambcr of our people are going out of their way, as it would seem, in the attempt to discredit tne rapid progress of Portland, on the as sumption that this progress Is' of a tem porary nature, and will be followed "after the Fair," by a sharp decrease in property values ihat will Involve many enterprising citizens In financial distress and enable intending buyers to get homes. and other' property "at their own price." This assumption Is not only absurd, but It Is vicious, since to the extent of Its power It lays a para lyzing hand upon a real estate move' ment that Is at once a natural and healthful exposition of the city's growth. That Portland Is growing, even these short-siRhted croakers must admit. That its growth is of a substantial na ture Is everywhere In evidence Look at the hundreds of homes that have been built in every direction within the city limits In the past year. Look at the hundreds that are now in process of construction and observe the street cars crowded to the limit of their re cently Increased number and capacity with laborers, many of whom leav their homes in the morning and return thereto In the evening of each day, having earned between S o'clock A. M. and 5 o'clock P. M. more than a good Ilvlngwage. Relatively few of this host of laboring men and women have work that is In any way connected with the coming Fair. Why, then, should they be "out of work when theFaIr Is over" and unable to keep up payments upon their homes or to make a living J for themselves and families: Again the business health of Portland was never better, the business pulse never so strong; as now. This surely cannot be due to the Fair, the opening day of wnich is still more than three months off. And where, it may be asked. Is the local pride, the decent loyalty, of the citizen who hangs upon the skirts of civic enterprise and grbwth. croaking of coming disaster? Out upon such dis loyalty, and may Intending Investors who croak of a coming "slump" in values, and of business disaster followf ing the Fair, have to pay next Fall a sharp advance upon present prices fof real estate or leave Portland for a city that has got Its growth and offers In ducements to croakers who are looking for something "cheap." It Is the belief of well-informed per sons in European countries that Rus sia's finances are In severer straits than those of. Japan, for a prolonged strug gle The Berlin correspondent of the New York Staats Zeitung reports- the Kreuz Zeitung, of Berlin, as saying that Russia's announced determination to go on with the war in the Far East at all-hazards Is merely an attempt to influence Japan as much as possible to moderate the conditions upon which she would make peace. The Kreuz Zeitung. In spite of the fact that all its sympathies are with Russia, says fur ther that the Jig. Is up with Russian military efforts in Manchuria, and that Russia within a short time will be forced to conclude a peace" The Co logne Gazette which often Bpeaks for the German government contents It self with saying that the losses at Muk den on both sides must increase the wish for peace in both Russia and Japan; while the St. Petersburg- corre spondent of the Gazette reports that the Russian government is powerless to mobilize any considerable number of fresh troops for service In Manchuria unless the mass of the Russian people approve of the continuation of the war. All the reports Indicate that artic ulate Russia, outside of the imperial Grand Dukes, Is very nearly unanimous in favor of peace To all of which may be added a very wise remark made by the. editor of the National Review in the March number, namely: "The fact is that no Westerner can understand the Russian temperament or foretell the action of Russia or Russians In any given circumstances." Turkey makes haste slowly In the march of improvements, and makes queer distinction between different branches of scientific growth. For ex ample, there Is the Sultan's ban against electricity In his dominions. There are no electric lights, yet there are gas plants; there are no telephones, yet the Turks utilize the telegraph, and the first electric railway Is yet to be built, although railway cars propelled by steam are no longer a novelty. This discrimination against applied electric ity cannot continue ranch longer. United States Consul Ravndal reports that' plans for an electric railway, and for lighting Damascus, the oldest sur vivlng city in history, are under con sideration. There is little doubt but the enterprise will succeed. In which case American electrical engineers, manu facturers and promoters will make haste to enter and possess this great field of endeavor. Engineering science has paseed to a degree that makes the explosion of a steam boiler not only unnecessary un der ordinary circumstances, but wholly inexcusable The cause of the explo slon of the boiler in a large shoe menu facturing establishment at Brockton, Mass., la not given. It may well be surmised, however, that the boiler was overworked, perhaps without the knowledge of the proprietors of the shoe plant, they having delegated their responsibility In the matter to a steam inspection insurance company. What ever the cause, the effect was terrible. It transformed a busy hive of human I T 4 I - 4 tM n 7 1 U out a moment's warning, into a human slaughter-pen, bestrewn with headless trunks and mangled bodies, around which the flames, let loose from the furnace, surged and roared. The loss In life was between three and four score, and In property about $2001000. The nine lives which a cat Is supposed to have are only a few compared with those which the Mad Mullah seems to enjoy. After periodically killing the angry man of Somallland every few years for the last third of a century. Great Britain has at last given up the task as a hopeless one. In company with Italy, she has entered into an agreement with the Mad Mullah by which he accepts a certain territory in Somallland and grazing rights in both Italian and British territory. Dis patches conveying the news state that the arrangement puts an end to the difficult and costly British expeditions against the Mullah." As similar an iouncement was made every time the Mullah was reported killed In the past. too much confidence should not be placed In the report. He refused to re main "killed" in the past, and he may now refuse to remain peaceful. The Sultan of Morocco has appointed Bandit Raisull Governor of a number of Important tribes between Tangier and Fez. As Mr. Raisull held up the greatest government on the face of the earth for a substantial ransom for the release of one of her citizens, he will probably have no difficulty in raising sufficient campaign funds to keep him In office so long as he cares to remain. Uncle Sam Is having a run of legal hard luck. He was mulcted by the sugar trust a few daj-s ago In a Su preme Court decision which cost him $5,000,000, and now the Cherokee Indians have won out In a suit Involving the payment to them of ?4.500,000. "Lo, the poor Indian," down on the Cherokee strip, must now be accepted figurative ly and not literally. Candidate Merrill Is probably right when he says the Maine towns are going 'backwards Instead of forwards, Bangor went Democratic the other day. for the Urst time in fifty years. That looks suspiciously antl-problbltlon from this distance , Mr. Merrill is not ambiguous about his platform; and no one can have any doubt about what Mr. Merrill would do If he were Mayor. Mr. Merrill Is Indeed his own' platform. There Is nothing like being perfectly well known to the pubHc. General Kuropatkin does not need to go all the way to St. Petersburg to explain how it nappenea. une Japs can tell all about it. . NOTE AND COMMENT. ' ' Song by 'the winsome soubrette. Spring Weather: 'Teasinc. teaslnsr: I was only teasing you."- Tacoma Is trying to establish a "tem perance saloon." That's about as good a way as any to lose money. Santo Domingo means Holy Sunday, says an exchange. We should have guessed It to mean Holy Moses! or Holy Smoke! or some other expletive. Testerday was the first day of Spring- by the calendar. Italy and Great Britain are now trying to take the Mad Mullah with kindness. Interview With Thompson Seton. "I cannot talk to interviewers." said Mr. Ernest Seton-Thompson-Setoa. Sadly I left tho room. Suddenly an idea struck me a heavy blow. Bending down to the keyhole. I made noisa like a hyphen. Quickly the door opened, and Mr. E. S.-T.-S. appeared. "Come In," he said; "I am always glad to add to the list of Wild Hyphens I Have Met and Made Mine." "You know." continued the great medi cine man, "I can't bear human beings. Tho only kind I can stand are the Boy Woodgraftcrs. as they have been called. Now a wild anmal Is so respectful dis tant, as It were whereas men! Well, some men actually think that animals don't think! If such an idea became common, what would become of me tho great animal psychologist? Mon are in sufferable creatures. To think that they should think they can think about ani mals thinking when I do all the thinking the animals think!" And with a wild, lopn-llke cry, Mr. E. S.-T.-S. tore 13s mane with his claws, t Alton Brooks Parker Is to be tho speaker at the Jefferson day banquet In New Tork. William Jennings Bryan will be away speechlng In Chicago and G rover Cleveland will bo away shooting duck birds. Every man to what he can do best. Some peoplo In Los Angeles want to prohibit treating In saloous. That would be the quickest way of sil to put the sa loons out of business. Americans will soon begin to think-that. ater all, they are not so far ahead of the French at canal-making. Jules Verne has the distinction of hav ing made more childish eyes round with wonder than any other writer ever known. The King of Slam Is about to ask the United States to help him In putting down gambling. No use dear boy; we can't spare Tom Word at present. Japanese soldiers smoke cigarettes; but don't tell the small boy. The contract for tho superstructure ol the C P. R. Hotel hero was let yesterday. The successful tenderer is A. Barret, of Seattle or St. Louis It Is not certain which. His price was $.100,000. Victoria. Colonist. Geo! That ought to make Seattle sore. Most writers have received at one time or another a printed slip saying that "the enclosed MS. is not suitable for the col umns of the Weekly Bazoo. Rejection does not imply lack of merit. Any one of a number of causes may render an ar ticle unsuitable for the Bazoo." That Is better than the curt English "Declined with thanks," but la far behind a Chinese example which an exchange quotes. The celestial editor says of the MS. he re turns: "Wo have read It with Infinite de light. By the holy 'ashes of .our ancestors we swear that we have never seen so superb a masterpiece. His Majesty the Emperor, our exalted master, if we were to print It, would command us to take It as a model, and never publish anything of & less striking quality. As we could not obey tflls order more than onco in 10,000 years, we are compelled te send back your divine manuscript, andbeg a thousand pardons." This Is probably an old story, but It Is such a bad one that It Is worth repeat ing. A benevolent old man, waiting his turn in a barber shop, sees a little girl with a bunch of roses going along the street. The little girl looks at the barber's sign. stopsand, at last, entering the shop, goes up. to one of the men and proffers a few roses. The man shakes his head, and the little girl goes away crying. The benevo lent old man thereupon goes up to learn the cause of the child's distress, and the barber tells him that she had seen the sign, "Whiskers Dyed Here," and had come In to offer a few flowers to decorate the grave A lobster trust has been formed. In Maine. The New Tork Evening Po3t thinks 3600O a year a bit too much pay for a chauffeur. Cut down your chauffeur's wages, or you'll have the Post after you "God Is constantly changing his mind,' says the President of Bowdoin College No wonder, if he tries to keep pace with college presidents. Some bold, bad burglars have been an noylng the people of Hood River. They recently entered the house of the post master and "went through" his trousers. but didn't get much, because, as the post master explained, his wife had been be fore the burglars. But the desperadoes didn't stop at trousers. They broke Into the henhouse of D. McDonald and stole a dozen egg3 upon which a hen had been sitting for two weeks. "No trace of the robbers has yet been found," says' the report, from which we Infer that they haven't yet broken one of -the eggs. WEX J, New York Correspondence. -Chicago Journal. s It seems fine to ride- on the street cars again. , 1 J. P. Morgan, the' Chicago -street car magnet, is here for a. few days. Easter will be solemnized at the Baptist church with special tunes and the auartet. All the cowboys have gone home and our citizens are out again. There's a strong sentiment Vhere in fa vor of a street carnival for Broadway on the Fourth, if arooKiyn aon t celebrate. Let's whoop er up. Several of the correspondents of this town in Mukden did not succeed In get tlntr captured. Earl Starring, of the Journal staff, has quit to accept a position as brake vin&n on the Central. It Makes a Difference. -New Tork Tribune. ' French papers are calling upon the Jananese io be generous in "their victory. It is to be hoped the Japanese will be magnanimous, but Russia. Germany and France, who stepped In and deprived Japan of the legitimate fruits of Its vic tory over China, are hardly in a position to urge a claim for generous treatment. Th shoe is on the other foot now, and It vseems. to make a great difference "NO TIME FOR CHILDREN' Grim Remark of Bereaved Finnish Father Shows Dour Spirit of Men That Cling to a Country Without a Flag (The desperate attempt by a crippled boy : 15 to assassinate Governor Miasoredoff at Vlbory on Monday Is a startling evi dence o the Intensity with which the revo lutionary Are consumes the Finnish heart. correspondent of the London Dally Mall describes. In the following letter, a recent Journey thro ash oppressed Finland.) The Black River runs Into the Gulf of Finland at Ralvola, and all around It are the mournful pine forests and little stony hills of the north. From the beach one may barely see, with a keen eye, the blue mm of another coast beyend. but In the night the bold white lights of Kronstadt blink clearly across the water, peering at the darkness over their bull-throated cannon for the foreign enemy that never comes. And sometimes, In the still of the day, the woodcutters and fishermen start upright to listen to' the ominous mutterof the great guns of the fortress testing their venom on the Innocent wat ers of thjs gulf. It Is a kindly country, this Finland, a hunter's and woodman's country where they breed fine, strapping, lovable men, and stout, pleasant, yellow halre'd women. They are a conquered race, still chafing savagely under the yoke of the despot, but they have the germ of freedom In them, the essence of liberty, and will not easily merge into the people that governs them and Is now viciously active in an endeavor to strangle their nationality. Tou have but to see with what a keen self-reliance and restrained dignity they carry themselves, with what an adequacy of skill and power they ad dress themselves to their simple affairs, to realize that here Is a race individuality which will not founder without a flght nor yield to" mere force The Finn is the Scotsman of Europe, with not much fire. with little showy alacrity, but tough, very tough. The analogy does not end here. In Finland today affairs have a complexion which recalls vividly the middle of the 38th century in the Highlands" of Scotland. I cannot say If -they have an Alan Breck to show, but 4t is probable, for -strained times commonly bring forth men equal to the strain, and Alan would have a grand scope for his peculiar abilities In Finland at the present time. He would find the Whig3 reproduced with added virulences in the Russian administration and its supporters, the Campbells in the Moderate party, tho hospitable French in his neighbors the Swedes, and nls own people in all the loyal nationalities of Finland. And recently the death of Gen eral BobrikofE provided an excellent loose Imitation of the Appln murder and is followed by a persecution of the loyalists even more relentless and searching than was that which brought James o the Glen to the gallows. In brief. Stevenson, with a few differences of name and place. might have staged his great romance In Finland as aptly and as much to the purpose as In Scotland In 1752, Naturally stranger will, not make much of a hand of it if he sets out to track na tionalism to Its lair. There is none of tho red rosette or white cockade here. These silent Finns have not learned the trick of cheap symbolism in politics. They take their principles raw and naked. And there are no public meetings, no stump orators, no loose talking on great themes. The taint of revolution has so deep a root that It Is not seen on the surface But be sure it Is there In the rich ground of these primitive souls and sim ple Intelligences it has such a hold, such tenacity, that evidences of Its exist ence and grim force .will not be smoth ered eternally. It is hidden, but it grows, silent but purposeful, slow but deadly. PESNSYLYANIAAr 05 FAIR. Stats Is Urged to Make Adequate Display. Philadelphia Inquirer. Although the preliminary appropriation for an exhibit of this state at the Lewis and Clark Exposition at Portland has not been approved by the Governor, there is reason to believe that matters In contro versy can be adjusted so that this state can be properly represented this. Sum mer. The time is short and it is impos sible to enter upon any extended display. but there are some things which can yet be accomplished and which ought to re ceive immediate attention. . An appropri ation of $50,00 would, provide for a dem onstration of a sort that would be ef fective It would not suffice to transport to tho Pacific Slope a sufficient material display, but there are left over from the St. Louis Fair certain exhibits which are important and domonstratlveaot the com mercial, agricultural asd Intellectual wealth of this community. It is still possible to collect maps, draw ings and educational exhibits which would make a fair showlrfg, and the dignity and importance of the commonwealth demand that thev be not neglected. As the sum is small, much would necessarily be taken ' . . ' . ."f" would remain to show to the people of the extreme Northwest that this state Is still the keystone of the republic. The mat ter is of the more local importance be cause in this city repose th6 original Journals and reports of Lewis and Clark, who made the famous expedition which is thi3 year to be celebrated. What they saw and did opened the eyes of some of the great' men of the country. It was Benton, of Missouri, who at the last pre vented the cession or that country to Great Britain without a protest. The wealth and Importance of what was then known as the Oregon Country are great today, but in the coming century they are destined to an extraordinary devel opment. There are more than a million people now In the States of Oregon and Washington. A few years hence they will be many times that number. This state should extend the glad hand to a section so rich, resourceful and enter prising. Small Women Fashion's Favorites. New York Press. Small women are "fashion's favoriites this season, for she has designed most of her nodes' for their especial benefit. Who but the petite beauty of arch man ners and a nose of a certain type (minor poets call It tip-tilted, folk of fashion use the word retrousse and plain persons say "pug") can stand the new spring hat. It Is a tiny affair, tilted up in front and about tho right size for the average doll. Ribbons and trimmings must point Jauntily skyward, and even shoulders, by the ingenuity of dressmakers, are to be raised for an inch or so. What is to be- kcomo of the woman who has been gliding ing shiffons and drooping hat? Will she I give up her pose of gracefulness and frisk ana romp wiin snori snns swirnng aoout her heels? It is to be Koped that large, stately women, in their attempts to adapt themselves to the atmosphere of the co quettish new hat, will not reach the stage of klttenlshness. Knew Him Well. Troy Times. When the late Dr. Bartlett. of Wo-, burn, was pension examiner under the late Cleveland administration he was one dayexamlning "witnesses. He asked one of them: "Terrance McCartney, do you swear that you know the applicant, Mi chael Murphy, who has made application for an Increase of pension7" "You may well say that I do." said Terrence; "me and him were shot in the same leg at Ant'etam." sure to flame The proof of its presence, which is easiest to find, consists in the measures which Russia exercises to de stroy it The whole activity of the gov ernment 13 directed to disintegrating or ganizations which It suspects to have been formed. The wolves run at their ease in the woods of Raviola this Winter, for the men of the district have been poured prodigally into Kuropatkln's fighting line. No province of all Russia has been sucked so dry in the matter of men as Finland. The war has served its turn in this con nection, for the Finn's are facing the Jap anese in inordinate numbers, and there Is not a village that has not lost its best and most dangerous members, raked up In the merciless net of the Russian mili tary system. But in the towns little do mestic towns like those of the Swiss can tons, where the village Idiot is the most prominent citizen there were men who could not with airy degree of decency be uprooted to become soldiers. A convict that is what it amounts to must be trapped, not snatched. There were law yers, doctors', agents; bankers, morchants, all the cozy aristocracy of the little town, and these could not be made to serve in the ranks. But since no one can ask questions ot the government of Russia, the remedy was simple. They were furnished with passports to- the Interior of Russia, and these passports made no provision for re turn. They were decanted, lifted from their homes and planted down In a new place, to live under the eye of a hostile police and do as best they could for themselves. There la now no Finnish flag. It may not fly; there is a price on the head of any one who rives It to the air. And though you niaj sing "The Wearing of the Green" or shout "Banzai" anywhere without offense, a bar of the old Finnish national anthem Is a key to open prison doors, and a free pass over the border. Tet, one blissful evening not long ago, coming down the Black River in a boat, borne by the current through one pine-walled pool to the stainless mir ror of the next, I think I heard It on a mouth organ, played furtively In the woods. It Is a mournful melody, eerie and proper to those troll-haunted glades, a survival of a music older than the Iliad. Heaven knows who solaced him self with it on that still evening, or who else heard him play it. Perhaps who knows? they were drilling there in the forest, as of old the clansmen drilled in readiness for the Forty-five. But where the countryfolk keep their tunes in the face of dire oppression, is It not-plain that he who made the song will In the end be stronger than they who tangle the laws? There was diphtheria in one village that I visited If I gave the name of it some poor fellow might suffer. Nine children had died in the night while men on horse back were scouring the countryside for. a. doctor. There should be a government doctor within reach, but he was not to be found that night, and one after another the babies gavo up the struggle and died, and when at last a man came back with a medical student he had chanced across at a railway station, there was nothing left to do but stralgjiten the little limbs and cover the faces. The people of the village were more silent than of wont when I saw them, and I had been talking to one of them for some time before it slipped out that in his home there had been two deaths. It was impossible to say anything adequate, such was the grim reserve of the big stricken man. No for mulaof condolence but would have been Impertinent, but one could not be dumb. I stammered eomething. He shook his head. "At the best," he answered, gravely, "these are no times for children." MARK TWAIN'S TYPEWRITER. Humorist Tells an Amusing Story" pf His First Writing Machine. Mark Twain in Harper's Weekly, I saw a type machine for the first time in what year? I suppose It was 1S73 because Nasby was with me at the time, and it was in Boston. We must have been lecturing, or we could not have been in Boston. I take it. I quitted the platform that season. But never mind about that; it is no mat ter. Nasby and I saw the machine through a window and went in to look at it. The salesman explained it .to us, showed us samples of its work, and said it could do 67 wo?ds a minute a statement which we frankly confessed that we did not be lieve. So he put his type girl to work, and we timed her by the watch. She actually did the 57 in 60 seconds. We wero partly convinced, but said it probably couldn't happen again. But It did. We timed the girl over and. over again with the same result always"!; she won out. She did her work on narrow slips ot paper, and we pocketed them as fast as she turned them out, to show as curiosities. The price of the machine was $125. I bought one, and we went away .very much excited. At the hotel we got out our Blips and were a little disappointed to find that they tilf contained the same words. The girl had economized time and labor by using a formula which she knew by heart. i At home I played with the toy, repeating and repeating and repeating. "The Boy St00d on tne Burning Deck," until I could turn that boy's adventure out at the rate of 12 words a minute; then I resumed the pen, for business, and only worked the machine to astonish Inquiring .visitors. They carried off many reams of the boy and'hla burning deck. Girls. New York Sun. To the Editor In answer to "Spinster" I would say that a girl never ceases to be a girl. All women are young, but some are younger than others. No girl is an old maid until she dies. It Is satisfactory to hear that "Spinster" has not used the term "us girls" for three years, even if it is only on account of grammar. Hasn't she read "The Jack daw of Rhelms" In the "Ingoldsby Le gends"? jfcd regardless of grammar they cried out "That's him!" A girl is always a girl. There are: Good girl, bad gtrli. jolly girls, sad girls: Battlinir. prattling; tittle-tattling girls. Stout girls. lean girls, mean girls.'clean girls, . Smoking, joking and provoking girls. Sorrowing girl and borrowing girls. Airy, fairy, very wary girls. Dark girls, fair girls, plump girls, spare girls Daring, staring, ever varying girls! Bold girls, old girls, sweet girls, spappy girls. Doubting, pouting, wretched, happy girls Shy girls, sly girls, mooney, spooney girls. Dancing, entrancing and romancing girls! Beautltul. dutiful, despotic, rotle. Ever distracting girls! But they are all girls, "Spinster," no matter what their age. At 33 a woman Is still a girl, not an old. maid, for the time may still come whei but no "matter! Live on! Hope on! L. H. John Sharp's Sharp Wlt. The Argonaut. The Democratic defeat ot last Novem ber was being discussed-by Representa tive John Sharp Williams, ot Mississippi. "It reminds me." said he, "of the farmer whose house and barns were picked up by SL cyclone and blown into tne Mississippi River. The farmer landed on "top of a sawlog. As he came to the surface, blew the water out of s 'hose,, wiped his eyes, and got a better grip on the log, he said: Well, that was so danged sudden It is ridiculous. " President Roosevelt, Please N. B. Rainier Corr. St. Helens Mist. Born On March 10, to the wife of Frits Bltte. a fine ll-pound boy; and also to the wife of Mr. Pierce, an , eight-pound girl. Rainier la strictly against race suicide