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THE MOltyiZiG OBEGOXIAN, MOOT) AY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1905, ktr& at the Featoffies at Pertl. Or as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION- SAXES. INVARIABLY IN XDyXNCX. (Br Mall or Express.) O&Qy and Sunday, pir year............S9-00 3ai$y lscS Sunday, six months. ........ 0.00 Dally ana Sunday, three months. ...... 25 Dally and Sunday, per month. Dally without Sunday, pr year.. ....... 7.60 Daily without Sunday, lx month - -0 Daily without Sunday, three months... 1.95 Dally without Sunday, per month - -C5 Eay. per year -.50 6s&ay. tlx month 1-25 Euaday, tares months -63 BT CARRIER. Bally without Sunday, per week. . 15 DaBy. per -welc. Sunday Included..... 0 THE TTEEKLT OREQONIAX. (Issued Every Thursday.) , Weekly, per year... L0 Weekly, six months .... .75 .Weekly, three months .39 HOW TO REMIT Send postofnes money erder. express order or personal check on your local hank. Stamps, coin or currency axe s.t the sender's risk. EASTERN BDSEVESS OFTICE. This 6. C. 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Sak Lake Salt Lake News Co.. 77 West gt rtrt South; Natlen&l News Agency. YoMewsteae Park, Vyo. Canyon Hotel, I H"tcl. Yellowstone Park Assn. Eosc Beach B. E. Amos. Sah Fraaclco J K. Cooper & Co.. 746 3fortc? ftrsfrt. Goldsmith Bros.. 226 Sutter MotJ St. Francis Newa Stand: E. E. X. Palace Hot! News Stand: F. W. Pitts. MftS Market; Frank Scott, SO Ellis; N. WfatVrr Movable NewB Stand, corner Mar is Kearaey streets; Fester & Orear, 2err- Xtxrs. Sta4. St, UhI. Mo. E. T. Jett Book & News Osmii maqr. SS OMve street. waijsKtnB, D. a EbWtt House, Pennsyl- rOKTLAND, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18. FOLK AND BRYAN. Grvrar Folk has come and gone, aiktg bis Presidential boom with him. 21s ws received -with open arms by e torater Missourlans of Oregon, most rnrtesm are. or were. Democrats. The raosxtl and the many merits of the Gov Jgr isel been widely advertised be 1 u. The Oregonlan, having t mtmi always the true interests of tfce Oregon Democracy, was at great pafaK vm point out the young Gover rs avaJlabiHty as a Democratic ?rMntiI candidate. Governor Ctsfitwhertain made an. enthusiastic ad ltK on the same subject. Other dls ttagvftfifcti Democrat nodded ap Jw1sBty. smiled unctuously, and rka,sjial-thir hands gently. Altogether tfctoga Wked very well for Mr. Folk ttt fee irem away. Then It transpired tkt nolUe apprbhatkm of The Ore eTHatM, tip generous commendation of Orsati'. Democratic Governor, and the ptauidllg of all Kissourians, had made oljr a temporary impression on the W DMMocr&tic guard. After the incl rtjf the Folk banquet, which was a Mad sdtlrt JtffRlr from soup to nuts, tfc Dmocraj' found that, after all, h only roal, Democratic banquets are be Bryan dollar-diancrs, and the only B cratlc god is Bryan. It is clear tint the reason the Missourians "were happy to see Governor Folk wsss heoiiMe he was a Missourian, and ot hooaxise he was the only Democrat "who tUd, or could, carry the grand old at at the last election. If asyotte thinks that Brran is not the whole thing in the Demo osatic part', let him turn to Colonel 1'ittKJa, of the Louisville Courier Jwrtml. The Colonel doesn't like Bryan. He never did. He bolted his mwlwatton hi lB and supported him wsth yry had graoe In 1900. Now the Ottomtl saes that the Democracy will h? a Bryaa .party in 1808, nothing less Mscialsjg mora. Brj'an win make th phuterm. So Editor "Walters on hooffally makos the best of it He htlts Bryaa will listen to the con eorvattvas. He says; Mr Uttm wiM be In 1965 twelve years h was In 1SPC, elxht years older tMkSi ke wu l iWvo. He Way come to sen . the wwiitry ihetd ever want a MestosJ Preisapat it wl turn to Eugene rT Watson, not to William Jen ltryaav aaa a radical party, to those who oafj tfcanwelvcs Socialist Democrats, at t show who call themselves Bryan Pw orate It may be that the old Demo cratic rtr has nlre&dr sne the way of the M Petferal party ana tho old Whls jsarty la that event It will not muoh mat tor Alter a ffw years eJthrr I another a of x Xivellng." like that oulmlnatlng Mtk Mrc or as era ot queer politics. Mfe that with which Know Nothinglsm aae tsstaRs llveJy and lurid, politics will sors rom the thick weather conditions Jht ow bofoir the situation, when, let us we !! have a healthier state of 3oe oHMob aad morals, with two fairly jwty rs;anlzatlons, whatever they y 4ese to call themselves. Thus Mr. "Watterson bid9 farewell to the oM Democracy and embraces the ew. Bryan and all. He hopes Bryan "tH not be as radical as formerly; but he knows Bryan will always be Bryan. That Is iskc reason Oregon Democracy is for htm. Radical or conservative, the party, what is left of It, will follow hiw. The painful Parker fiasco will tev-or be repeated. WISE RAILROAD POLICIES. The Northern Pacific Railroad for BMUiy years tried to make Tacoma the chief cky of Puget Sound, and it dis criminated harshly against Seattle In both rates and service. Then came ohange of management and wiser pol icy. Immense purchases of terminal property were made In Seattle, and fa culties were -established for competi tion with the -Great Xorthern for the iHxslseFS of Seattle in its own territory. Great -part of the Seattle waterfront sew belongs to the Northern Pacific. Its holdings of tide-land property are jMsrhaps not -exceeded in extent or value hy the Hill road. The two lines, though related in ownership, are xoday sharp competitors' for traffic v The Hill policy has been different tSThlie actually striving for a monopoly of the transportation situation in Se attle aa all but getting It Mr. Hill encouraged. Everett and BeUIngham to think that he had an equal Interest In thesa. And lie Tiad. Mr. Hill was too wise to put all his ggs In one basket, lad ateoet wise enough to persuade these three .towns to place' U1 their eggs in his tbaaket But he never -discriminated hetween them, "and he holds the loyal support of alL Now, the Great Northern and North ern Pacific are to come to Portland. All present problems are settled on Puget Sound; and Oregon Is too wide a field to be longer overlooked. Mr. Har rlman may object, but that Is no mat ter; he may try to stop them he is ap parently trying but he cannot. The north bank of the Columbia belongs to anybody who has the nerve and the money to build s. railroad there. Mr. Hill and Mr. Elliptt have both. PorU land will help them, if need be. "NEWS" VROyi PENDLETON. The Oregonlan. Is much Interested in an article in the Pendleton Tribune purporting to describe the .attitude of this newspaper toward Representative Williamson. Says the Tribune: The Oregonlan was friendly to Moody and was very jreatly disappointed and angered by his xlefeat tot the nomination nearly .four years ago. As a consequence It cave no space to Williamson In commendation of the man or his work, hut until Moody's term expired and for months afterward It devoted columns to the "greatness of Moody and hy Inference the "smallnesS" of his succescor. It endeavored to show the people of tho Second Congressional District the error of enthroning Williamson. It was therefore but an easy step to open declara tion ag&lnst Williamson and after the Inci dent at Salem all barriers were cleared tor "digging his political grave." Iyet us see how "greatly disappointed and angered" The Oregonlan was by the nomination of Mr. Williamson for Congress in 1902. The Oregonfan sup ported him cordially for election. It did more. It sent a staff correspondent to Prineville for the purpose of prepar ing an elaborate article on the Repub lican nominee, his career, his family, his relations to his neighbors and to the public; In short, to tell all about him. The purpose of The Oregonlan was to place Mr. Williamson as con spicuously as possible before the publics eye. The Oregonlan had never done so much for any other Congressional nominee. The activities of Representa tive Williamson at Washington have always been fully and appreciatively reported In the news columns of The Oregonlan. It certainly has never given him less prominence than ha deserved; it trusts It has not given him more. The Oregonlan has not contributed in any way to the present predicament of Mr. Williamson. It has not at tempted to "dig his political grave"; and If his retirement from public life shall be the result of the present land fraud trials, the responsibility must rest primarily with Mr. Williamson and seoondarily with the Government. The Oregonlan has not "exposed" Mr. Wil liamson, or anybody. It has given the news. It has reported the land-fraud trials carefully, completely, and im partially, because that is its function as a public journal. If the consequence is, or shall be, a general public senti ment unfavorable to Mr. Williamson, Dr. Gesner and Mr. Biggs, that is simply1 unfortunate for them. The Oregonlan cannot help It. Further more, it has no business to try to help It, or to do other than it has done. 1MMJG RATION. One of the problems that will be per sistently urged upon the attention of Congress at Its sessions the coming Winter Is foreign Immigration. It is expected that the reports of Secretary Metcalf, ot Commerce and Labor, Commissioner-General Sargent and Com- J missloner Watchorn, -will deal plainly with certain matters developed by the rapid increase of our foreign popula tion of the more undesirable types, while the President will urge, with the directness with which his official docu ments are charged, points that seem to demand immediate and rigorous Congressional attention to the subject Statistics show that, between 1820 and 1905. 23.000.000 aliens have found entrance and for the most part wel come and lodgment In the United States. ' They have bred rapidly, and, through connivance of politicians, have assumed the privileges of citizenship so early and so universally that today the foreign-born with their eons and daughters practically control the des tinies of the American republic. Says Henry McMahon in Public Opinion: "We are already a composite nation whether we like it or not. Perhaps one day we shall amalgamate into a com posite race." This writer does not, however, lay otJr chief national shortcomings at the door of our foreign-born element, but is rather disposed to charge them to the careless folly of Yankee legislatures in formulating easy naturalization laws, and the crimes against American citizenship to which these lead. But these are old facts that have been so frequently aired that their agitation discloses nothing new and nothing spe cially alarming. There are newer facts that are being collected and these, pre sumably, will be presented in the re ports to which reference is above made. It Is not too much to say that they are causing even the friends of unrestricted foreign immigration considerable anx iety, not to say alarm. The first of these is the height which the Incom ing tide of immigration has reached in recent years. Since 1898, the 3ear of the Spanish war, when the arrival of aliens fell to 229,299, the lowest record of any year for twenty years, the In crease has been steady and rapid, run ning from 448,572 in 1900 to 812,870 In 1904 and, approximately, to 1,100,000 In 1905. .There are indications that the flood of Jiumanlty that is being thrown upon oui shores will, unless checked, become aStldal wave. The moreNprosperous the country the more overwheimlrig the Invasion. Po litical unrest, as In the case of Fin land; famine, always . contingency to be reckoned with In some districts of Russia; excessive military exactions due to civil or foreign Ware, would add volume to the human tide that sets outward from Europe and "breaks up on the shores of the United States. While fiercely determined not to admit in any considerable numbers the yel low races of Eastern Asia, our people look on In seeming unconcern while myriads of Austro-Hungarians, Calab rlan Italians, and Hebrews of Jewish Poland are literally thrown upon our shores-prospective citizens every on and in the main eager to become elec tors. Remedial measures are not easily prescribed or enforced, but It Is clear that the country must have them, or submit to conditions representing the mightiest tide of Incursive humanity In history since the Teutons colonized thp Northern parts of the decaying Roman Empire. Among the remedial, or rather the preventive, measures suggested, is a new educational test making- literacy In his own tongue a requirement ante cedent to the 'admission of every Eu ropean alien; more rigorous physical and medical 'examinations and stricter tects -a Xo ccupatlon- And mental ability. Congress haa allowed the problem to get ahead of it, so to speak, and it will require much labor to elim inate the factors that stand In the way of Its satisfactory solution. But it can be done and In time must be done if Americans are going to keep up a semblance of ruling America in the Interest ot a higher civilization. WHAT IS THE STATE'S DUTY? State Engineer Iewis and the Des chutes Irrigation & Power Company are in direct conflict in their opinions of the proper Interpretation of the Carey act, under which the company, by virtue of Its contract with the state, is attempting to reclaim a large tract of arid land in the Deschutes Valley. The company alleges that It has re claimed 77,000 acres of land and asks the State Iand Board to apply to the Department of the Interior for a patent thereto. State Engineer Lewis contends that the land has not been reclaimed within the reasonable requirements of the law and the rules of the Depart ment of the Interior, and hesitates to sign the certificate required before a patent will be issued. A proper under standing of the question Involved re quires a brief statement of the pro ceedings that have already been had. By the terms of the Carey act, the United States offered to grant to each of the arid land states not to exceed 1,000,000 acres of land, provided the land be reclaimed and sold to settlers In tracts of not more than 160 acres each. In 1901 the State Legislature considered this offer and, after reaching the con clusion that it would bankrupt the state to undertake a reclamation project, passed an act providing for reclama tion of arid land by private corpora tions, -under contract with the state. The company, according to this law, was to pay all the expense of construct ing the Irrigation system and have a lien upon the land for the estimated cost of construction, with the privilege of forever charging settlers an annual rate per acre for water. This Hen was to be apportioned upon each 40-acre tract of the land, and any settler de siring to purchase the land could do so by paying off the Hen and applying to the state for a deed. In no event would the title to the land pass to the irrigation company, it merely serving as a construction company bound by its contract to save the state free from all costs. The Pilot Butte Development Com pany entered into a contract with the state for reclamation of something over 80,000 acres of arid land In the Deschutes country, the Hen being fixed at 516 per acre and the annual water charge at Jl per acre. This company sold its rights' to the Deschutes Irri gation & Power Company, which Im mediately began construction of an Im mense irrigation system, taking the water from Deschutes River near Bend and conveying it in canals northward and eastward. One canal Is now 31 miles long, and has a number of lat eral ditches. The other is 16 miles long, without laterals. Upon, an affidavit showing that these canals will carry three times as much water as Is neces sary to Irrigate that area, the com pany asked that the State Land Board apply to the Goernment for a patent to 77.000 acres of the land covered by its contract Its contention is that the land has now been reclaimed within the meaning of the law and practice of the department. State Engineer Lewis was called upon to sign a certificate in the usual form, declaring that the com pany has furnished In substantial canals a sufficient quantity of water to irrigate each tract in the list and to raise ordinary agricultural crops. Mr. Lewis declined to sign the certifi cate because no rule has been estab lished fixing the quantity of water to be furnished per acre to the settlers or otherwise regulating the distribution of water, and because some of the land alleged to have been reclaimed is from 10 to 30 miles from the canal. The disagreement thus presented Is of more than private and personal In terest and concern, for the State of Oregon Is involved in the transaction. For the development of its own resour ces the state has undertaken to super vise construction of reclamation sys tems and management of irrigation en terprises by private capital under the terms of the Carey act and the tti Arid land law. Directly, the state has nothing to gain or lose by the success or failure of the enterprises. Indirectly, it has much at stake, for the develop ment of a rich terrllorv nnrt h oi tion of' a large area to 'the producing ana taxpaying lands of Oregon depend upon completion of the reclamation system. The state does not stand as a disinterested medium between the Gov ernment and the Irrigation company, nor exclusively as the guardian of the settler. Its duty 15 to see that the company fulfills Its contract in letter and in spirit and that reasonable rules and regulations are adopted governing and fixing the rights of both the settler and the company. The enterprise can not be a success unless it be profitable to the company and reasonable in the Inducements it offers to settlers. The questions that have been raised by Engineer Lewis seem to be oppor tune. While there is dancer in ha?t in the adoption of rules governing the distribution of water, it would seem that when the Irrigation system has reached the stage at which the land is asserted to have been reclaimed. It la time that rules were adopted, espe cially since hundreds of Intending set tlers have already paid money to the company toward the canceUatlon of liens upon tracts which they wish to buy. There Is an appearance of un due delay ratlfer than undue haste. So aiBo of the point made regarding the distance within which the water shall be conducted by the Irrigation comnanv before the land shall be accepted as re claimed. It Is no use to quibble over the difference between a main eanai and a lateral. Thirty miles, 20 miles, or even 10 miles. Is too great a distance to leave oetween the end of a canal and the land alleged to be reclaimed. Under the most liberal Interpretation of lan guage It would be frivolous to call any land reclaimed unless water had been brought at least near enough so that the settler could irn it upon his fields within a short time after acquiring1 his right thereto. In what has been said there is.no in tention or desire to cast doubt upon the good faith of the "irrigation com pany. Any nerson who has visited th Deschutes country and has seen the- Vast scale upon which the reclamation work has been commenced will enter tain no doubt whatever that the com pany intends to go forward with its work until the system has been com nlftted. Thl. however. Is no reason why the state should be Jax-ln its re-' quirements or give the company .some -minor advantages which nilsfht pos- iioly. rMttit W zutur difficulty; The. state, as has many times been said. Is In nd way financially responsible for the reclamation enterprise. It is, nev ertheless, in honor bound to see that the Government's purpose Is fulfilled that the land shall be actually re claimed and placed in the ownership of actual settlers, if it be said that no harm will be done by accepting the work as now partly completed and cer tifying that the land has been re claimed, It may be asked what harm will be done by requiring that rules be now adopted and that the water be conducted in substantial ditches within a reasonable distance of the land? There were manufactured In . the United States during the fiscal year ending June 30 last 7,659,337,207 cigars, an Increase of about 2 per cent over the previous year. Our export trade was insignificant, and our imports lit tle more than an Inconsiderable Inci dent compared with the enormous to tal. Our population of males of "cigar age" Is estimated at 24.000,000. The do mestic output was sufficient to supply each of these with 320 smokes for the year. Of cigarettes the crop was 3,353, 212,740, an increase of 3 per cent, and the output, of smoking and chewing tobacco was 334,489,110 pounds. Value of the product is not ascertainable, but the census figures for 1900 put the to bacco crop for the year at 5263,977.514. Probably 5300,000,000 as the value of last year's product would be approximately correct. In 1SS0 it was 5116,772.631; in 1890, 5195,535,562. Of course the whole sale and the retail dealers' profits must bo added In order to arrive at the cbst to the consumer. It may safely be set down that the United States smokes and chews 51,500,000 worth of tobacco every day In the year. The Independence Enterprise contin ues to be dissatisfied with the conduct of the Lewis and Clark Exposition, it scarcely knows why. It wants the "honors and benefits passed around." They have been, so far as possible. The State Coirimisslon is doing its best along that line. The Independence paper says the citizens of Mult nomah County subscribed 5350, 000 "with a string to It." Nobody -ever saw the string, not even the eagle eyed Enterprise. Portland may not get so much of Its 5350,000 back as some people Imagine. Portland pays its full share of the 5450,000 state appropria tion. It pays its share of all other state appropriations, which contribute largely to the benefit of such institu tions as the Normal School near Inde pendence. It always has paid Its share. Now for practically the first time In the state's history, expenditure of a state appropriation Is made in Port land; and papers like the Enterprise complain. They are hard to please. All the state's money cannot be ex pended at Monmouth. It will doubtless surprise some peo ple In Oregon to learn that the practice of keeping shops open on Sunday has been growing of late In England. It is illegal, but the fine Is only five shil lings, and the shop-keepers In many Instances feel that they can afford to defy the law. Lord Avebury In an ar ticle on "The Increase In Sunday Trad ing," In The Nineteenth Century and After, shows what was the motive for opening in one instance: One of my correspondents writes to mo that, being much opposed to Sunday trad ing, he determined to keep closed. In s. short time he lost moat of his little capi tal, and then he opened and nue money. When he thought he had made enough he closed again, and now he writes m word that he la nearly ruined again and com pelled once more to open, and he ends his letter, "I am a batter. There has been much agitation for more effective legislation on the sub ject, but so far without avail. The House of Lords rejected one bill In creasing the penalty; but In the end the matter will probably be better reg ulated than it is now. A new mill with a capacity of 1000 barrels per day Is being erected at Calgary, B. C, a point sufficiently far west on the Canadian Pacific to make.it "eligible" for the Oriental flour trade. This gives Calgary jsl milling capacity of 1650 barrels per day, and as the mill Is handily situated for grinding the soft wheat of the Alberta grain fields, It will be a decidedly active competitor of the American mills, which for so long have enjoyed a monopoly of the Oriental flour trade. If the Chinese boycott should attain serious propor tions, the new Canadian mill would be right in line for picking up a consider able portion of the trade that would be lost by the American mills-. Dr. Gladden does not seem to be able to get far away from "tainted money." His sermons In Portland yesterday were simply discussions of other phases of the same subject. At the First Presbyterian Church he wanted to sep arate the sheep from the goats, but we really hope the, good doctor will not begin in Portland. Rather let us see what Is to become o the efforts of our own local reform talent along that line. -Meanwhile, we may all share with Dr. Gladden his regret that he Is to leave Portland this morning, so that, as he says, he "will not get to see the Exposition.- What's the matter? It was open yesterday; and both sheep and goats were there. The Citizens' Club of Chehalls, Wash., has issued the most tasteful folder that has recently reached The Oregonlan. Its purpose is to describe the industries, advantages and attractions of Chehalls and Incidentally of Lewis County, and It is done admirably. The Illustrations are clear and well-selected, the text well-written, arrangement of contents excellent, and the printing very good Indeed. If other towns want a model for the publication Of similar material they will do well to look to Chehalls. The Calabrian earthquake was as nothing compared to the convulsion in the local Italian colony. But now we are . to have peace and' a celebration of Italian day at the Exposition. It is worth while for families to have a lit tle jar once in a while, just to laarn how much they really think of each other and what they can do when they" pull all together. Judge Parker thinks an 1-told-you-so" is due from him. The Judge sal ary Is now the same as Paul Morton, the Insurance man's JlOff.OOO per year. Norway and Sweden seem to be at last agreeing on a plan to disagree harmoniously. And all without T. R.1- Secretary Taft haa sailed for home. His place on the lid is waiting for him. Are rou still ' Worried aTaout . that ,nslun4p' itLtv the' Fair V OREGON OZONE The Undoing of J. Henry. J. Henry Hilltop -was one of the hap piest men in Portland until Fate hit him a stunning blow. Thereafter he grad ually but surely declined Into the moat miserable specimen of humanity west of the Rocky Mountains. The story of the undoing of J. Henry is one ot the saddest in the sorrowful annals of time. Middling prosperous, with his own home paid for and a bank account calculated to keep, the wolf several blocks away from his door, and with an income suf ficient to enable him and his interesting family to live In comfort almost approach ing luxury, there was no reason for him to fear the future. He was a man of the glad hand and the winning smile. All his acquaintances loved him, and at. his club ha was the chief hall fellow well metl J. Henry was a highly favored mortal and then the blqw felL In an evil moment J. Henry "took a chance" to win an automobile. The store where he traded mad the offer of a hand some touring car, seating seven, worth to the customer whose coupon, given witn a purchase to a certain amount. should be drawn out of the box by the' blindfolded boy when the big drawing took place. J. Henry held several cou pons, taking them Just to be sociable, and having no thought of winning the prize. But when the boy drew out the coupon it corresponded with one held by J. Henry. "Congratulations, old man!" cried his friends; "It's great, and we're glad you got It. Now you can travel In style and take your family out for auto trips through our glorious climate." Naturally, J. Henry was highly pleased. Like all men. he had entertained a secret desire to own an automobile, but his life long habits of economy had withheld him from laying" out the money necessary for the purchase. But when the expensive auto came his way as a pick-up, he was happy. "Come on, boys." he .said that night at the club; "let's celebrate. I can afford lt" So there was a lltle dinner, which cost J. Henry about 5120. But tho auto was worth 52000, and he was still far ahead of the game. Engaging the services of an experienced chauffeur to show him how to run tho thing, the lucky winner soon con sidered himself an adept. "Let's take a little run down to Salem." he said to his wife one Sunday morning. and the children were bundled Into the big machine with papa and mamma apd gleefully set out on their first auto Jour ney. Things went well until J. Henry wanted to stop the machine. Then sorae thing went wrong. It had got to going and wouldn't stop. J. Henry worked every valve he could find on the monster, but it kept going. In fact. It Increased its speed until the owner knew that he was break ing the law. But his chief worry was that he might break his neck and tho necks of his dearly beloved. While ho was contemplating this calamity he camo to a sudden turn in the road. The auto hit a fence, knocked down three panels thereof and trespassed upon .a hopyard. Then It came to a full stop, of Its own accord, and when account was taken of the casualties to the machine it was found that only one wheel was smashed. The family went back home In a farm wagon, and the auto was dragged in with a pole serving In place of the wrecked wheel. The repairs cost 217.50. still, the auto was worth 52000. and J. Henry won It for nothing. He was still measurably happy. "When I really get tho hang of this thing." he said, "I Tsnow it will be great. I'm going to run this automobile or bust-' After six months of autolng, J. Henry busted. When the Sheriff tacked the sign to his door he scanned It ruefully and went to his woodshed, which he had fixed up as an automobile barn. He surveyed the machine. In some respects the same one that "he had won at the drawing, but with many parts renewed. Then he procured a large square of cardboard, wboto this philosophic legend and hung it on the out aldo of the auto bam: : Getting something for nothing r : may be all right, but when it : : comes to an automobile Td rather : : pay the original cost of the ma- : : chine and have the donor pay for : : the repairs. Tours after taking. : : J. HENRY HILLTOPS. : To tho Visiting; Milliners. (TwJc a year. In Spring and Fall, many milliners from the smaller towns come to Portland and other populous centers to study the styles.) O lovely ladles, learned in mll'inery. Welcome, thrice welcome, to our city's shores! Twice every year you visit-us, to vary Life's monotones, and do your Uttle chores.; First In the Springtime, then again In the Fall. You come to see us. Heaven bless you all! Though as a rule we don't admire a "trimmer," Wo make one sole exception in your case. How can we help It. when the goo-goo Slimmer Of mild flirtation flashes from your face? He who In such a case would hedge or trim Well. I'm not saying what to do to him. From every quarter of th'a compass com ing, We bW you welcome. Stay with us a while. And, weaving hats that set the birds to humming. Delight us with the Summer, of your smile; And It In you some of us find our fate. Pray smile on us aw, YES! your hat's on straight! ROBERTUS LOVE. Tho 3Icnace of Immigration. Fifty-four per cent of the immigrants who came to the United States from Southern Italy In 1S04. according to their own statement, were unable to read and write; 27 per cent of those from the Rus sian Empire acknowledged their illiter acy, and 25 per cent from Austria-Hungary. Twenty-flye per cent of the Slavs detained In our various state and Federal institutions are, serving penal sentences, and S3 per cent of the Iberians or south ern Latins! Of the SQ0 aliens confined in such institutions for murder, 253 were Italians; of the 373 confined for attempts to kill, 139 were Italian. Only one seventh of the 159,239 southern Ital ians seeking their fortunes in the United States could turn their hands to crafts of any sort; two-thirds wero labor ers with pick and shovel, or farm hands whose individual earnings would not ex ceed 5400 or 5S0O annually. Magyars, Poles, Slovaks, Croatlans and Slovenians make even a worse showing-. Less than one-tenth of the Hungarians ha a skilled occupation; over 15.000 out of a total of 23.SS3 were laborers and servants. In fact, practically all the aliens of Eastern Eu rope who are now coming to us (except ing the Hebrews, whose lavel of Indus-trial eiRcIency' is high) are recruited from a peasantry, the most backward as& ubm lkhttaed "in the clviUid ytozUL SOME FACTS jBOUT JAPAN. By Burton Holmes. 1. Japan has nearly 53,000,000 people, more than half as many as the United States. 2. The word "Mikado" signifies some thing: like "the sacred gate' or "tho sublime Porte." 3. The name of the reigning Mikado Is Mutsu Hito. 4. The name of the Empress is 0Haru "Spring." 5. The name of the Crown Prince is Yoshi Hito. 6. European dress Is worn at all court functions. 7. Passports are no longer required in Japan. 8. Rice Is the common food of the common people. 9. Sixteen cents a day Is now good pay for unskilled labor in Japan. Ten years ago It was 6 cents. ' t 10. Japan has few millionaires, and practically no multimillionaires. 11. Tokio is 100 years older than St. Petersburg. 12. The Japanese "Goddess of Flowers" is a god. 13. The lovely Japanese cherry trees produce no cherries. 14. On the Japanese stage male actors play the femalo roles. 15. There Is only one Japanese actress Mme. Soda Yacco. 16. Danjlro, the great Japanese trage dian. Is also the most skillful dancer of Japan. 17. Japanese ueaa are Durieo in a squatting posture, chin upon knees. 18. The mountain known to us as Fuji yama Is called by the Japanese Fuji-no-yam a. "Mountain of Fuji," or "Fuji San." 19. Fujiyama Is 12,365 feet high. thousand feet for every month, plus one foot for every day in tne year. 20. More than 10,000 pilgrims, male and female, ascend Fujiyama every year. 21. The Japanese people, even the poor. travel much and widely la their own country. 22. Modern Japanese coin's and bank notes bear legends in English as well as in Japanese. 23. Semi-nudity is common in rural Japan, and furthermore, It is re spectable and healthful. 24. The average Japanese is better bathed than the average Britisher. 25. A Japanese crowd Is "the sweetest In the world, even In hot weather. 26. Japan is the only large nation that Is literally a clean nation In the sense of bodily cleanliness. 27. Wrinkles are poetically termed by the Japanese "waves of old age." 28. It is quite proper, even compli mentary, to ask a lady's age in Japan. 29. The Japanese "hello" at the tele phone Is "MoshI Moshl," or "Ano- ne," with the accent on the "nay. 30. The Japanese farewell "sayonara." means something- like "If It must be so," or "if we must part thus, so be it." 31. Kissing and shaking hands are rarely practiced In Japan; they are imported customs. 32. Japanese mothers vio not Tcisa their children, though they may press tho lips to the forohead or cheek of a little baby. 33. Sewing- on buttons Is not a wifely duty In Japan there are no but tons on Japanese clothes. 34. Japanese Inns furassh fresh tooth brushes every morning free to every guest. 35. The Japanese tooth brush Is of wood, shaped like a pencil, pointed at ono end and frayed to a tufty brush of fiber at the otner. 36. All of the food served to a guest at a Japanese banquet and not con sumed by him at the time is taken to his homo by the servants of his host. 37. Japanese chopsticks are 'delivered to the guest In a daintily decorated envelope. The two sticks, though already shaped, 3till form one tong shaped piece of wood, and are broken apart by the guest hiraseir. 3S. Japan has one of the largest steam Bhip companies In the world, with trans-Pacific service to the United States and service to England by way of Suez and the Mediterranean. 39. These are the "san kel." or "three most lovely sights," of Japan: First, the sacred Island, Mlyajima, in the Inland sea; second, the long, low, sandy peninsula of Ama-no-hashl-Vlate, on tho western coast; third, the Archipelago of Matsushima, near Sendal, on the Pacific shore. 40. In feudal days Japanese courtiers wore wide trousers twice as long as- their legs, so that they trailed. after the wearer. Belasco introduced them In 'The Darling of the Gods,' but they so convulsed the mana gerial audience at the first dress rehearsal that literally he had to "cut them out" and off. Sake is made from rice. According 41 to a Japanese drinking song When you drink sake You feel like the Springtime, And the loud cries of impatient creditors On the outside sound Like the voices of nightingales Singing- most sweetly! 42. The five articles of the Japanese soldiers are these: First, to be loyal; second, to be polite; third, to be brave; fourth, to be righteous; fifth, to be simple and frugal. And these five articles are delivered to him with a series of straightfor ward, comment that concludes as follows: "If the heart be not true, good words and good conduct are nothing but useless external orna ments. If the heart be true you can accomplish anything." 43. The Japanese heart evidently! Is true. Photographs as Evidence. Albany Democrat. Judge De Haven, In the former . Will iamson trial, refused to admit photo graphs of certain claims in dispute, as evidence in the case. Judge Hunt admit ted the photographs as evidence. This indicates that Judgo Hunt has a good head. It is undoubtedly entirely proper to admit photographs ai evidence. They tell the truth as nearly as anything can and speak In loud tones for their sub jects. Such things are modern and em phatic in their character, and the Demo crat is glad that Judge Hunt is a man capable of grasping the up-to-date situa tion. Great 13 the present day photograph and likewise the Judge with the discern ment to appreciate the fact. After President's Own Heart. Boston Herald. Ifobert Bacon, rising six feet, broad of shoulder, of athletic build. & famous half back on the university eleven in his col lege days today a fine horseman, a clever polo player, a skilled yachtsman, is a ifian after the President's heart, and will pull well In the President's team. He is, too, fair to look upon. In Wall street they called, him the "Greek god." September Days. Outdoor Lire. Tha sweet September time is here again. Bringing aftiag ita balmy, cooling rain; Its azure skies, its soft and baa7 days, Xakft our hearts fie em lighter In their ways. We go aseld, astroam and. roam about. Seeking the wary catnsn ana tne trout, Happy, wandering through the whole day long. Filliag our souls with Nature's grand sweat sosr. Watch! the birds In tree-tops at their lay. Fearing- Die sight; we wish twre always We gas around, o'er Sela aad stream as Aac. xMtt O Gol) tMt Kt good. A f ALK WITOCXPFELIER, CWeland. O., Special to Chicago Tribune Sept 11- ' "Time alters and adjust almost every thing, it takes Infinite patience and cour-t age to compel men to have confidence in you, I believe I have "both of these quali ties, 'and I also believe they are the se crets of my Miccess." So spoke tlie richest man In the world, John D. Rockefeller, in an unusual Inter view today unusual, because Mr. Rocke feller has denied himself to the public and to reporters for many years. For years he has almost sequestrated himself In his "fortress" at Forest Hill, through whoso gates no outsider has been permitted to enter. Today, however, he broke down his rule of reserve and talked freely to a reporter on a variety ot subjects. After making the remark already quoted, he continued: T learned to cultivate the qualities of courage and patience when I was 16-years of age. My first real test was when T was making out bills of lading for the canal and lake boats here in Cleveland. There wag much to try one's patience there, and the first opportunity in my life to take a wrong course, to repel rather than compel confidence from my associates and employers. "Often a captain would want me to put down the wrong- figures. He would assure me It would never be known, that It was the customary way of doing things, and that it was the right thing for me to do. I reasoned with him: 'If this and this is eo then so and so is right. I insisted upon what I thought was right, but had patience with all who opposed me. "Soon my employers noticed my meth ods of doing business. Other employers knew that I wanted to do the right thing. Bankers came to have confidence in me, and then my success followed, step by step." "What are a young man's chances to day?" Mr. Rockefeller was asked. "Far better today in Cleveland than when I was a boy here. In those days this small city and the Industries that flourish here today were unheard of then. There were limited opportunities for a young man who wanted to make a sub stantial figure In life. But soon after wards Mr. Chisholm began to develop the iron and steel Industry here We went into the oil business. Others branched out along different lines all were suc cessful, and today every young man of Cleveland derives a great benefit from those early enterprises. The city grew up around them, and it seems to be only a matter of choice with the young man himself today. The city is full of oppor tunities." Referring to the fact that he is popu larly regarded as holding himself aloof from other men. the oil king said: "That Is something I cannot and never could understand." Then, after a moment, be added: "Time will straighten out many ot these things. In regard to what is called my seclusion, it has been imperative that I deny myself associations with people I naturally enjoy. Nevertheless, I have been much with people In fact, almost every day groups of them come to see me, and it Is a bright spot in the lives of all of us as we drive or walk about tho grounds. If never have been a club man, and have .not frequented places where people generally go for company, but I receive my friends during the hours of my recreation, many of them from my home church." Again the conversation drifted to the weather. Mr. Rockefeller said, as he looked out of the window at the drizzling rain and Autumn gloom: "I never regret the coming Fall, al though It marks the close of the outdoor season, and I have found outdoor exer cise wonderfully beneficial." T,oday the oil king's clothes were neat, of perfect fit. chosen with excellent taste. He was a picture of a well-groomed old gentleman at peace with the world, who loved people and enjoyed life. Germany's Fight With tho Sea. Exchange. Recent news from Heligoland, accord ing to the London Standard, speaks of further encroachments by the 8ea on Heligoland in the North Sea. Since tho Island was ceded to Germany, in 1S90, in exchanse of Zanzibar, it has lost a con siderable area, not alone through the collapse of the sandy cliffs which sur round its shores, but also through a defi nite sinking on its south side. Engineers have been at work since the cession in a continuous endeavor to safeguard the Island from demolition, and considerable work has been performed in filling crev ices in the rocks, while breakwaters have been built to break the force of the sea. It has been found, however, that the very sea floor on which these are con structed is without stability, and it is believed that the work can only serve to delay the encroachment of the sea on the friable cliffs. It has now a circumference of a little less than three miles, as against three and three-quarters In 1S30. Earnings of Paris Dressmakers. Harper's Bazar. The pinson Is a French songbird, and the petite couturieres of Paris aro universally called mlmls pinsons (little songbirds), because of the habit they have of singing at their work. Crowded hundreds of them in ill-lighted, badly ventilated great ateliers, during- tha busy season, they stitch and sing from 7 o'clock in tho morning' until long after midnight, and they earn tha vast majority of them SO cents a day. With this amount they must not only board, lodge and clothe themselves, but they must also make provisions for tho morte saison four months, from the middle of June till the middle of Sep tember, when the gay world of Paris being a la campagne. no orders for work Are given, workshops are closed, and the mlmls pinsons earn not one sou. What Oregon .Has Done. Ellensburg Capital. The days of the Portland Exposition ara drawing to a close and It has proved a fine educator to the people of the North west. It is a great pity that every per son could not see It. Oregon has certain ly done herself proud. How to Save Millions. Woodburn Independent. Tf th flrRboat Geonre H. William saved "hundreds of thousands of dollars' wnrth nf nmnftrtv durlnsr the recent Big fires In Portland," why doesn't that city have two flreboats? Packing: the Grip. Florenca Perry Clark In dood Housekeejlar. wncn laiocr vsciu iui There' Isn't much to do; , He chucks his best clean nightshirt la, - A handkerchief or two. Some collars and a toothbrush. And his sliver-mounted comb. There's not so much a-dolng When the old man goes from horns And daddy packs the grip! But when ma goes traveling And takes us kids along, "Why things Is Very dirfrent. And it's quite another song. She first crowds In three nighties, For the baby, me and Hay; There Isn't room for hers, she says. She don't need It, anyway; But there's brush and comb and nslmn, Eoap and powder, needles, thread; Fins and thimble and court-plaster, 'Cause onct I cut my headl Then there's camphor and witch-has! And there's vaseline and strings. Paper, pencil, stamps and crackers' And such Jolly heaps o things; For when we go traveling There's one thing we're agreed No one can tell beforehand . , Just what us kids will need. And I speaks for heraannas And Bay waats sugar lums. And ma is firm for arnica. To baths our worstest buray. Ch, there's lots o'fun a-hustllng To squeeze things-go OA and tight F.or every thing's all right , yrhta our a&a sis yaeks ta. fcria I