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THE MORNING OliEGONIAN, FRIDAY. AUGUST 3, 1906. 8 &w$onnn Entered at ths Postofflce at Portland. Or., as Second-Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION BATES.' 7 INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. "CS (By Mali or Express.) DAILY. SUNDAY INCLUDED. Twelve months Klx months 4.2j Three months - - 2-j One month .75 Delivered by carrier, per year 9.00 Delivered by carrier, per month 75 Less time, per week 20 Hunday, one year 2.50 Weekly one year (Issued Thursday)... 1.30 Sunday and Weekly, one year 3.50 HOW TO REMIT Send postofflce money order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Htamps, cols or currency are at the sender's risk. EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICE. The 8. C. Beckwlth Special Agency New York, rooms 43-50, Tribuna building. Chi cago, rooms 510-512 Tribune building. KEPT ON SALE. Chicago Auditorium Annex, Postofflce News Co., 17S Dearborn street. St. Paul, Minn. N. St. Marie. Commercial Stutlon. Denver Hamilton Kendrlck, 909-912 Seventeenth street; Pratt Book Store, 1214 Fifteenth street; I. 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Mr. (Hearst continues to be the most Interesting figure In the politics of New York, Argument, denunciation and hard names have Uttle or no effect upon his popularity, which grows apace. The Democratic voters of the state ap pear to have acclaimed him as a sort of DoIItlcal Messiah; the machine seems likely to accept him through compul sion, if not choice; and correspondents of conservative papers like the Evening Post assert that Republicans of the plain, horny-handed sort will give him their votes in preference to any other candidate for Governor except Mr. Hughes. If this Is bo, Mr. Hearst stands a fair chance to be the next Governor of New York, with the Presi dency of the United States looming like an enticing Fata Morgana on his hori zon, for the Republican machine has no love fon, Hughes and will not nominate him, if it is permitted to name anybody, except under the dire compulsion of ab ject terror. He la not the kind of a man whom machines of any sort take to their hearts and cherish. Even Mr. Armstrong's county has Instructed its delegates for Hlggins instead of Hughes, and Htggtns la an Ideal candi date for Hearst to beat. Hearst's popularity Is a phenomenon which all the Eastern papers exercise their ingenuity to explain, some in ter ror, some in exultation. The Evening Post calls him a "menace." "Dema gogue" is the least offensive of his many contemptuous titles. His record is cited against him. His wealth is made a reproach. His methods are ex ecrated. Mr. Hearst, It is alleged, uses his money to obtain votes, exactly in the same way as the corporations which he so bitterly denounces. But all this has little deterrent lnflu ence upon a great body of vot ers. They are Btill for Hearst in spite of all his sins. For his past they do not care any more than they did for Mr. Cleveland's tinder similar circum stances. In fact, the forgotten pecca dilloes of the ponderous ex-President were quite as toad as anything charged against Hearst, though they did not ex cite half the horror In well-regulated minds. Why not? Did Cleveland's known predilection for Wall street have anything to do with the different esti mate of their respective fallings? As concerns the use of money, Mr. Hearst happens to have enough of his own to do independently those deeds of campaigning for which ordinary politi cians have to beg contributions from corporations. It is not charged against him that he does anything out of the ordinary or which Is conspicuously wrong. Nothing laid to his account ap pears half as flagitious as Mr. Aldrich's notorious conduct in Rhode Island; yet newspapers which can find no name too bad for Hearst uniformly speak of AJd- rich with respect. If Hearst were for Standard Oil and the corporations In stead of against them, would the color of his conduct change somewhat? One almost fancies that it would. Some times a rose by another name smells a good deal sweeter. It is foolish for the corporations and their hangers-on to hope that the ends to be attained by the use of money In politics will remain their private monopoly forever. They must expect that ambitious men of for tune will learn their methods and ap ply them to their own advantage. The independent demagogue Is bound to present himself as a rival to the corpor ation . demagogue, and In the at tractive character of a lone fighter and free lance he will draw the people to his standard without (fail. One cannot help remembering that the opposition of the Evening Post to Mr. Roosevelt is a trifle more polite but not one whit less bitter than to Mr. Hearst Can the reason be the same in both cases, that each in his own way stands for the people against the iniquities of confederated capital? We have no intention of likening the wisdom of Mr. Roosevelt's measures to the unwisdom of Mr. Hearst's for an instant, but - the Imagination of the plain voter is not discriminating and there is ground for the belief that the Democrat who shouts for Hearst does so, however mistakenly, for much the same reason as the Republican shouts for Roosevelt Each leader in the eyes of the voter heads a revolt against In trenched wrong and presents himself as the champion of Justice. The New York electorate believes that Mr. Hearst is fighting Its battles against the predatory corporations and there is much substantial evidence to Justify this opinion. Hearst has egged on the Federal Government to prosecute some of the more flagrant trust enor mities, and he has collected evidence of lawtoreaklng at his own expense which the Department of Justice was unable to see though It lay In plain sight. However vulgarly his papers may have denounced the wrong, they have never taken sides against the right, nor have they ever failed to up- hold the weak against the strong. AH this may have been done for selfish ends, but who of Mr. Hearst's oppo nents has the right to shy a brick at him on that score? THE IDAHO NOMINATIONS. William E. Borah, who has been nominated for United -States Senator by the Republicans of Idaho, will be pitted in the coming election against Senator Dubois, who will strive to succeed him self and who will be the nominee of the Democratic State Convention. The ssue between the two candidates will be clear and well defined, although there will be no popular election for Senator such as there was in Oregon in June. The Republican candidates for the Legislature are specifically pledged by the Republican State Convention to vote for Mr. Borah in the Legislature. They cannot ignore the pledge, nor can they deny the right of a state con vention to make it for them unless they deny it now. The Republican who in tends to go to Boise and vote against Mr. Borah has no honorable course be fore him but to avow his purposes now. But by taking such a course he will place himself in a position of open re pudiation of his party's platform. There are very few legislative candidates who will be strong enough to carry an elec tion in Idaho this year If they shall assume this equivocal and difficult po sition. The question as to whether the Poca- tello convention had the right to name candidate for United States Senator is now more or less academic It did name him; and undoubtedly it had the same authority to select a Republican nominee for this office that it had to name a Governor or Supreme Judge. Party conventions are wholly voluntary affairs, and the voter may abide by its decrees or not. Just as iie sees fit; but the candidate must. Custom and the weight of party opinion require him to be in accord with the sentiments and declarations of his party made through its conventions or to take the conse quences. Mr. Borah is a lawyer of Boise, of ex cellent character, first-rate ability and wide popularity. He has been chosen as the Republican candidate for Sena tor, unquestionably because the mass of Republican voters In Idaho regard him as the most fit man in the state for the position. Mr. Gooding has been re nominated for Governor because he has made an excellent record in the past two years and because he has been independent and courageous In the dis charge of his duty. The entire state Republican ticket will undoubtedly be elected. It should be. SOME UNFRENZIED FINANCE. The flotation of $30,000,000 in Panama Canal bonds which bear tout 2 per cent Interest at a premium slightly In excess of 4 per cent would at first glance con-, vey the Impression that the Govern ment had driven a pretty good bargain with the bondtouyers. The fact that an Impecunious bank clerk, on the invest ment of a postage stamp, was enabled to reap a profit of $25,000 toy acting as middleman" in the sale ot a portion of the Issue, while a decided reflection on the method of placing the bonds, is added tribute to their value. So suc cessful was the Secretary of the Treas ury in placing these bonds at a low rate of interest and a high premium that It will not toe at all surprising if his friends over in the corn belt, who are Industriously booming and groom ing him for the Presidential race, will add this "coup" to the campaign ma terial already la store. But something more than a superfi cial examination of the transaction dis closes the fact that, in the flotation of the Panama Canal bonds, Secretary Shaw has accomplished nothing which entitles him to special credit as a finan cier. Previous to this time it has been unkindly stated toy some of his oppo nents in Iowa that the only claim to distinction which the Secretary could logically maintain was the fact that, through the prodigality of Nature, he possessed six toes instead of the cus tomary five, on each foot. This, of course, made him different from other men, but it did not strengthen his cre dentials as a Presidential candidate, and the' bond transaction has disclosed no new qualifications which would add to the prestige or distinction conferred by the extra toe. With Industrial development fairly rampant throughout the country, there is an unparalleled demand for money. Five, six, and even seven per cent can be secured by the lenders, with gilt- edge security, and under such condi tions It Is. of course, ridiculous to pre sume that any one would buy Panama 2 per cent bonds at a premium of 4 per cent unless there were other emolu ments attached than appear in the fig ures. As an Interest-paying investment these bonds would not toe considered. but they are not bought for Investment, but for use by the National banks as security for their circulation and for funds which the Secretary of the Treasury deposits with these' banks. and for- which no Interest charge Is made. The Panama bond will draw but 2 per cent, but the National bank holding it can, toy grace of Secretary Shaw, put it up as collateral for the public funds which are distributed around the coun try, and on this security funds loan-i able at a high rate of Interest are ob tained. The Government has for a number of years held a pretty large surplus of cash, and from time to time this has been shifted around and appor tioned out to banks in Subtreasury elt ies, state and municipal bonds of un- questionable value being taken as se curity. About the time the Panama bond issue was to appear notice was served by Secretary Shaw that $10.- 000,000 of these deposits would be with drawn July 1, although an extension of twenty days was given to enable the banks to gather In their funds. There la, of course, always a "waiting list" of banks anxious to secure Government funds, and the applicants were in formed that they would be available on deposit of Government bonds, for which state and municipal securities have at ways been acceptable collateral. Re cently, however, the Secretary of the Treasury has insisted on Government bonds for security. To this fact Is due the highly successful flotation of the Panama bonds, but the operation can hardly toe said to have toeen beneficial to the people as a whole. Columbia County, Washington, barley growers, who formed a pool last year and secured $18 per ton for the cereal are now forming another and have fixed the price at $20 this year, although the barley market is in no better shape than It was a year ago. There are limitations to prices for barley, wheat and other grains, which even the suc cessful manipulation of a pool cannot entirely , overcome. The Columbia County farmers will get $20 a ton for their barley if the market should lm prove so as to make It worth that fig ure. If it should not Improve, the pool will hardly succeed In forcing prices to an abnormal level. It would appear that the business of "pooling" commod ities for the purpose of forcing prices is not so pernicious a practice as It seemed a few weeks ago. Then It was charged by some of the farmers that a grain-bag pool had been formed for the purpose of making the farmers pay more for wheat and barley sacks than they were worth. Thi9 was naughty, but, of course, a barley pool for the purpose of making the buyer pay more than the cereal is worth is not "a com bination for the restraint of trade." THE PEEK-A-BOO WAIST. The Immodesty, not to say immoral ity, of the celebrated ,peek-a-boo waist has been brought forward so promi nently toy the proposed action of the W. C. T. U. against it that the public wel fare seems to require a serious and Im partial discussion of the matter. In the first place, what Is this soul-destroying piece of attire? It Is a diaphanous con fection of a few narow' strips of white cloth and a few frightfully open wrought toits of lace. Its sins of omis sion and commission are patent to every observer. How much of her divinely chiseled figure a woman may display to the pub lic without Immodesty has never been authoritatively decided. It seems to depend upon the time and place. In' a 'ballroom fashion has decreed that the waist may consist of a legal fiction, as It were; merely a hint to suggest its locality and outlines. At the beach convention is still less exacting. Of course nowhere may a lady appear ab solutely devoid of all protection to her modesty from the prying eye of the vulgar crowd, but at the beach she may approximate without reproach very closely to the innocence of Eden. The peek-a-boo waist Is less frank In its exhibition of the figure than either the bathing suit or the full-dress of the ballroom. Why, then, should it be put under the ban exclusively, while the other two are permitted to reap their harvest of ruined souls unhin dered? Ws understand that the action of the W. C. T. U. will be taken not so much to preserve the modesty of the women as to save the men of the city from bankruptcy. It has been found that the spectacle of a woman upon the pavement clad in one of these elusive garments puts a stop to all business In that vicinity. The course of trade is Interrupted. Bargain and sale cease and all men's eyes are fixed upon the sweet vision until it fades from sight. Since multitudes of women now wear the enchanting waist, It can toe Imag ined how destructive to the commerce of the city it has become. It is said that the bank clearings have fallen oft some 50 per cent since the hot weather made the peek-a-boo frequent and conspicuous on the street. Some thing had to be done" to stay Its devas tating course, and the W. C. T. U. has gallantly plunged into the breach. The ukase against the peek-a-tooo waist Is designed, therefore, not so much for the benefit of the souls of the wearers as for the pocketbooks of their male admirers. It will not do to have a whole city pausing some thou sand times a day to watch women make heart-disturtolng transits across the field of vision. The society of torave and self-denying matrons will do well to put a stop to this by their man date. But how shall the law-defying creature who persists henceforth In wearing the anathematized peek-a-boo be punished? Shall she be Imprisoned or let off with a mere fine? We rather Incline to the side of mercy, but In this as in all other such matters we shall submit our own Judgment to the su perior wisdom of the W. C. T. U. If they say Imprisonment, then Imprison ment It shall be. DISTRACTED RUSSIA. The situation in Russia Is one to ap pall humanity and abash civilization. Murder, outrage, torture, oppression run riot throughout the strongholds of the empire without gain to either side in the bitter contention. Events have not yet disclosed the faintest glimmer of the beginning of the end. The com mon people, In revolt at the cruel op- pression under which they have writhed for ages, strike tollndly at their oppressors or at the Instruments of their power; imperialism, line a proua steed reined, champs its Iron curb but refuses haughtily, stubbornly, to halt In its course. No words can convey the horrors of this most horrible conflict No prescience can see the end except through the light of history, as It dis closes the fact that human tyranny must In the end yield to the Just de mands of humanity. The Czar, now represented as a weak tyrant and now as a ruler anxious for the good of his empire and the best In terests of his people, is a prisoner ' In his great palace, distrustful of every body around him except his mother, his wife and his children. His dissatisfied, desperate eutojects clamor at the gates of the capital, seize upon his ships, cor rupt his soldiers, plan the destruction of any member of the Imperial family who walks abroad, and lay a paralyz ing band upon the Industries of. the empire. If all of the combatants In this strife were bearded men, fighting In the strength of manhood for the right to live and to work untrammeled, the sit uation would toe less appalling. But, as always, the weak and the helpless, the non-combatants who are simply borne along on this stream of woe, because there Is no other course left for them, are the greatest sufferers In this tem pest of blood and fire. The treatment of women and girls by the terrible Cos sacks, the atrocities suffered by the de fenseless Jews, the terror and hunger to which little children in the huts of the peasants are subjected these are the woes of Russia that appeal to the pity of mankind. Mutiny In the Baltic fleet will bring terrible . punishment upon the muti neers: revolt tn the army will be fol lowed toy measures of repression that will cause humanity to shudder. But the worst can only come when helpless ness and Innocence shrltk vainly for release from torture Inflicted by a brutal soldiery. Wretched Russia, striving to uphold a tottering dynasty thrice wretched Russians tearing madly at their shackles with bare and bleeding hands I The war toeing waged between the two the state and its subjects Is of a nature so implacable and so desperate as to call for the pro 1 test of civilization and the Intervention of humanity. Evidently the Idaho Republican in surgents made the mistake of their lives when they failed to tie up with Miss Belle Chamberlain. The young woman wanted to be the candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruction, and single-handed she smashed the slate to pieces. There is no knowing what might have happened if she had decided to run for Governor or Senator. Mr. Borah, who Is a gallant man, must perforce have got out of the way; or Mr. Gooding, who didn't want the Gov ernorship so much as he wanted to have things his way, would have yield ed gracefully. Perhaps It was because Miss Chamberlain didn't know whether she wanted to toe Senator or Governor that she compromised on the one place she liked, and reached out and took It. She deserves all her success. Let us hope that the voters of Idaho under stand that they will have to elevate their moral and educational standard to deserve such a Superintendent of Putollc Instruction. Let them try. A correspondent wfto says he is a farmer and has lived all his life In the vicinity of Eola, Polk County, . writes that in his opinion there Is danger of overdoing the walnut industry. He says farmers all over the Valley are arranging to set out walnut trees this Winter. He argues that men should embark In an Industry that assures a wide market, and since .the consump tion of peanuts Is much greater than the consumption of walnuts, he thinks the farmers would do better to set out peanut trees. One might toe inclined to smile at the suggestion if it came from any other place than Eola, the city that once aspired to be the capital of the state. But it Is a suggestion that de mands serious consideration, and we respectfully refer the matter to the Eola Development Club, trusting that that organization will ascertain the cost of procuring peanut trees in large quantities. Great, Indeed, would be the transformation If the fields of waving grain on the Eola Hills could toe dis placed by countless groves of peanut trees, under whose refreshing shade a certain species of politician might find appropriate rest. "The poor widow's cow" has toeen fol lowed to the Woodstock and Mount Scott districts with an edict of eject ment. She will not toe permitted, after August 14, to make an early toreakfast or a midnight lunch off of the thrifty householder's cabbage or corn patch, nor to graze at all hours by the way side In those sylvan retreats. Prog ress, as represented by the Mount Scott Improvement Association, has won the day against tears and objurgations. The pet of the household and the de pendence of the family must be re strained of her liberty at home, or be driven Ignomlniously to thcity pound after the above date in the flourishing suburbs that are putting on city airs to the southeast of us. Even Harry Thaw's mother Is con strained to abandon the Idea or the plea that her son is insane, and to co incide with the opinion of the rest of the world that he is simply the disso lute expression of misapplied wealth and prostituted opportunity. Too much money and too much leisure developed In Harry Thaw the instincts of sava gery that exist under the veneer of civilization and put the better nature that was his inheritance from a sturdy ancestry In subjection. The result Is known to all the world. The scowdwellers - along ' the river bank who are required to leave their convenient "anchorage are entitled to sympathy. They- have not, however, unfortunately for themselves, a title to anything more substantial than this very elusive sentiment, and hence must move when the pwners of their an chorage notify them to do so. Resist ance In such cases is useless and pro test is vain. Possession does not count against title deeds, and the railroad Is well fortified with the latter. Thirty-two young Kentucky women who are touring Europe have disap pointed the French, who had been worked up to a state of great excite ment over the natural anticipation that they were a "bevy of American beau ties." The French don't understand that, while all Kentucky women are beautiful, some are more beautiful than others. The State Senate could easily do worse than make Hon. Milt Miller Its president. But how can it be done? Not with the Hon. Milt's vote, for he would never spoil his unbroken record of voting with the minority. If they get him they will have to tollndfold, gag, tie and hobble him and drag him bodily to the president's chair. The grain fields of Kansas this year have produced 90,000,000 bushels of wheat and 200,000,000 bushels of corn. These figures fail to convey an idea of the enormous bulk that they represent. They simply stagger comprehension, but fix firmly the fact of a prosperity that leaves no basis for political dis content or industrial depression. There Is no trust among our Oregon lumbermen. They say so themselves. They simply take what they can get for their lumber. If the price happens to be uniform, it must be because there is an agreement, or combination, or trust, among the buyers. The W. C. T. U. has nothing but hard words and severe looks for the peek-a- boo shirtwaist and kindred feminine foolishness. We can confidently depend on the trred and true W. C. T. U. to hold out to the last against the Inva sion of the latest fashion. The Michigan Democrats are for Bryan because, as the chairman said "time has vindicated the wisdom of his position and the breadth of his Judg ment." Are we going to have an I-told-you-so campaign? A pound of hops now costs more than three times as much as a glass of beer In our wet counties. We are not In formed as to the price of beer In dry counties; tout hop prices are stable, with a rising tendency. The Nation drinks two gallons of beer per capita more than a year ago. We can already hear the sigh of satisfac tion from the desiccated wastes of our dry hop counties when they get the news. Mr. Rockefeller isn't as rich, he says. as people think he is. He'd hate to be so rich. Perhaps he says it on the the ory that every man is only as rich as he thinks he Is. If they'll put him in the Cabinet, Charley Towne will take the Vlce-Pres idency. Pretty good, coming from the statesman who broke into the Senate for thirty days on a fluke. The Russian revolutionists are able to start something every few days; but they wind up where they began. Evi dently that is what they understand by revolution. If the W. C. T. U. will only chastise the shirtwaist man with the lash of its Just indignation, we'll apply for honor ary membership. GEN. BRYAN OR GEX. CALAMITY Aay Old Name Will Suit (or a Demo cratic) Hoodoo. Washington. D. C, Post. Just before the rosea came last Spring the Democrats had the Sixtieth Congress nailed down .jind were not quite deter mined whether the majority would be B0 or two times 60, and while the party ex pected 100 majority, it was ready to put up with half that number. That was be fore the Republican Senate threw the rate bill, after a wrestle with it lasting more than 70 days. It appears to have become the settled habit of our fine old friend the Democratic party to carry the election before the campaign opens. We are now entering upon dog days. and the Republicans of August are Just as confident as were the Democrats of April. Mr. Roosevelt is not only the head of the Nation, but the head ortne party, and his presence has restored the confidence that was lacking 12 weeks ago anil carried rlismav Into the ranks of the ex-unterrifled. The issue is Roosevelt, and that is a scratch from which the Demo cratic party shrinks. They have one hope left, however Mr. Bryan, wnen ne comes he may be able to restore the battle and give the Democracy a show for Its money by the golden days of October. But there is another contingency, gen eral Calamity might get an opportunity. Another Baring failure, an early frost, a cruel drouth, a blasted corn crop, a ruined cotton crop these are things we have not known for many years, and some of us are disposed to think that these are the only things that can make a Democratic victory reasonably certain. Fate ha3 been mighty good to the u. u. P. Ben Harrison was defeated Just in time to shoulder on the Democratic party the responsibility for the panic of 1893 and the succeeding years of liquidation, bank ruptcy and industrial prostration. Then the Republicans again got power, and prosperity came with a hop, skip and Jump, and has been with us ever since. General Calamity played navoc-wun trie Democratic party, and it Is doubtful if anything but General Calamity will ever be able to dislodge the Republican party. Kipling's Protest In Vers. London Cable Dispatch In New York Sun. AdoDtinz the view largely held by the British in South Africa and by many at home, that the Government s promised grant of responsible government to the Transvaal means the retrocession of the country to the Boers, Rudyard Kipling contributes to the Standard a poem of six stanzas depicting the colonists as being sold shamefully ana Juggllngly Into bondage, and appealing to ureal Britain to prevent it. Following Is a sample of the poem: Back to the ancient bitterness Ye ended once for alU Back to oppression none may guess. Who have not borne its thrall; Back to the slough ot their despond. Helots anew held fast By England's seal upon the bond, As helots to the last. Another stanza reads: Now, even now, before men learn How near we broke our trust; Now. even now, ere we return Dominion to the dust; Now, ere gates of mercy close Forever 'gainst the line That sells its sons to serve its foes. Will England make no sign 7 The Standard offsets the poem by printing conspicuously its own Infor mation that the Governments scneme, which has not yet been divulged, se cures a majority of British representa tives In the proposed Transvaal Legis lative Assembly. Values Central Park at $200,000,000 New York Herald. Proriertv In New York City exempt from taxation, according to the list Just made DUblic. shows a total assessed valua tion of $1,117,754,537. By far the greater part of the exemption is in Manhattan, as the following shows: Manhattan $817,602,300 Bronx 74,384.265 Brooklyn ... 198,367,835 Queens n,4iz,4zi Richmond 8,907,716 Central Park is the most valuable prop ertv on the list. It Is assessed at $200,- 000,000, City Hall Park at $28,300,000. Man hattan Square $10,000,000. fostoince 600,000, the subway $40,000,000, Battery Park $15,025,000. new Custom-House $3,900,- 000. old Custom-House $4,500,000, Mount Morris Park $4,500,000, Governor's Island $5,650,000. penitentiary and hospital, Black well's Island, Jl2.ooo,ouu, ancl sc i-airic s cathedral $6,000,000. There Is practically no change In the annual valuation of the property, which includes all state and Federal buildings. municipal holdings and property used for religious or charitable purposes. Rich Girl fox a Leper Colony. Baltimore News. Another kind ot leper story comes in the news of the day. A young woman of Massachusetts. Miss Nellie White, niece of ex-Secretary of the Navy John D. Lone and the possessor or large weaitn has left her home to go to the Hawaiian Islands and there to marry the physician In charge of the United states leprosy camp at Molokal. Her fiance has re solved to devote his lite to the task of seeking a cure for leprosy. He has already done heroic and able work in fighting smallpox epidemics In Boston and In Ma nlla. So long as our civilization produces this kind of man and the kind of girl that Is willing to leave the pleasures and luxuries of home In order to share his life among a colony of outcasts. It Is evi dently not as hopeless as pessimists would have us believe. Many Would Wed a Mayor. New York Press. Eight girls practically threw them selves yesterday at the feet of Acting Mayor James W. McCarthy, of Jersey City, N. J., following his announcement that he would receive proposals of marriage between 9 and 11 o'clock daily. Mr. McCarthy Is a bachelor. 36 years old, with an engaging personal ity. He believes that everybody should tret married. Including nlmseit. His announcement that during the absence of Mayor Mark H. Fagan he would perform all- marriage ceremonies free of charge at the City Hall, and later that he would receive proposals of marriage himself, has created no end of excitement among the marriage able young women In Jersey City, Spain's Queen Suffers From Insomnia. Madrid Dispatch. The shock which she suffered from the explosion of a bomb on her wedding day Is telling seriously upon Queen Victoria's health. Recently it was reported mat sne was suffering from a cold, but her Illness Is said to be really nervous prostration, which has taken the form of hysteria and insomnia. She is an enthusiastic mo torist, but her physician has forbidden her to indulge In the sport. The Queen has become a devout Catholic and never misses daily mass. Bhe has a tiny tablet bearing the Image of St. Christopher, the patron saint of motorists, on every one of her cars. Reply to a Wedding Invitation. London Tribune. ' Mr. Black regrets that he Must-lmrfart the Information That he can't accept with glee Mrs. White's kind Invitation. Candidly he must avow. Risking being- thought unpleasant, That his means do not allow Of the purchase of a present. Mr. Black, too, would 'remind Mrs. White, without evasion. That they've met through Fate unkind Only upon one occasion. As for the prospective bride. Her no doubt delightful daughter. If her form ne'd ever eyed Something he- perhaps had bought her. Mr. Black must, therefore, state. Take all things In conjunction, That he can't participate In this fashionable function.. He is neither millionaire Nor a dog Inclined to mangers; He's Just one who cannot spare . : Charities for perfect strangers. ; THE DALLES MILITARY ROAD. How One Great Oregon Land Grant Was Obtained. Baker City Herald. It Is said of the United States Govern ment that it Is most particular. This may be true In Bmall things and where certain Individuals are concerned, but when it comes to a big steal the United States Government is a howling Infant. One of the most glaring examples of this kind Is the pseudo military road constructed from The Dalles to Boise City. The company constructing this blazed trail received from the Government the most valuable timber and grazing lands In that section of the State of Oregon. And they gave absolutely nothing In return. Not even a road. There Is no Dalles military road. It was never built and never will be, but the company has the deed to the lands. The road is one of the humorous things of these Government contracts. It runs from the summits of the John Day Pass directly across the mountains, along a route that a packhorse cannot travel. There Is no semblance of a road. The trees are not even cut, being merely blazed. The road used by the company bulldine - this military road Is a county road and is today the only road through that section of the country. The Liaues military road is marked by blazed trees, and that is all. But the comDany srot every odd section for a distance of three miles on either side of this road, and where there was land already settled upon the conipany got lieu-land scrip and took up all the good lands In the Logan Valley, Summit Valley, Crane Valley and innumerable oth er rich sections. And now this company owns this land absolutely and even charges sheep and cattle men for crossing it to get to the pasture lands in the forest reserves. There are two absolute idiots In the United States Government Administration. One Is the man who accepted this Dalles military road, and the other is the man who Is responsible for this forest reserve policy. The first belongs in the peniten tiary and the other should be in an insane asylum. On tbe Main Lead for Rascals. Western Oregon (Cottage Grove). It has been intimated that there has been much political and Individual skul duggery In high circles, so called. In Multnomah County and Portland. It Is possible that In the near future there will be some sensational stories brought to the attention of the public. The Oregonlan, the greatest pa per on the Pacific Coast, firstly, having a little ax to grind, andi secondly, for the good of the public. Is camping on the trail of a few men who have been closely Identified with some of the big deals In Portland and Multnomah County. If these men have In the past been Identified with anything that is out of the regular, It is up to them at this particular time to take a hunch and get under cover. When The Oregonlan gets on the warpath it usually accomplishes results, and In the majority of instances disastrous to the other fellow. If The Oregonlan Is now on the "main lead," and It causes the exposure of any rascality In affairs pub lic. It Is deserving of the thanks .of all Oregon. It Is hardly to be presumed that there has not been some shady deals consummated within that magic circle of tainted gain in Multnomah County, and. if so, now that we are in the midst of a general National housecleanlng, It is the proper time to bring such Juggling to a sudden and definite end. The Ore gonlan has the reputation of rarely Jump ing at conclusions. The authorities will do well to take the Up handed out by that paper and get busy. The President and Quay's Legacy. New York Evening Post. If Senator Penrose Is responsible for the report that President Roosevelt la to make four speeches In Pennsylvania on behalf of the machine candidate for Governor, he has outdone himself In effrontery. Fortunately, no friend of Mr. Roosevelt will believe any such yarn. The President Is, of course, to speak at the dedication of the new State House at Harrlsburg, an occasion which will naturally lend Itself to sonorous platitudes. But to Insinuate that Mr. Roosevelt could deliberately espouse the cause of the Quay-Penrose machine Is, to our mind, to Insult the Chief Magis trate. Theodore Roosevelt, the civil service reformer and advocate of pure politics, in his heart of hearts has always abhorred the kind of politics Quay the defaulter delighted In. He knows today that the best Pennsylvanlans, Republi can and Democratic, long for the suc cess of the Lincoln ticket, and that if he should support Penrose he might as well take the field for Dryden or for Addlcks. Some one at Oyster Bay will unques tionably speak out In a flay or two and expose the falsity of Penrose's Incredible assertion. The Stay-at-Home. Catholic Standard and Times. - Let others go For pomp and show Where ocean beats or mountain towers. I'm glad I got A homelike spot To rest In after working hours. My wife and I Contented, sigh For nothing that the haunts of pleasure By sea or lake Could add to make Our Joy In life of greater measure. Good food to eat. Despite the heat I love my meals, and so does Kitty), And not a care , What clothes to wear! We're quite contented In the city , Although to stick Where walla-of brick Encompass one In all directions Is hard, we've got A cinch. That's what! We're sponging on my wife's connections! THE KING AND SURE EXOl'GH SEA SERPENT. Two Naturalists Saw the Creature and Made a Sketch ot It. Chicago Tribune. English scientists are discussing with lively Interest a sea serpent seen and sketched off Para, Brazil, by E. B. Meade and M. J. Nicoll. well-known English naturalists, who described the creature at a recent meeting of the Zoological So ciety In London. The naturalists were Btandlng on the deck of the yacht Val halla at 10 A. M.. when they were at- trated by a sail-like object some four feet long and two feet high, waving from side to side in the water. When thoy turned their glasses on the object there appeared a huge eel-like neck, some six feet long and as thick as a man's thigh.. This neck was surmounted by a great turtle-like head, with large eyes. After a few minutes the head, which had stood nigh out of the water, as if Its ewner were inspecting the ship, was lowered to the level of the sea and violently lashed from side to side, churning the sea Into a great sheet of foam. During the following night the object was again seen, this time by the lookout and the ofneer of the deck. It was then traveling In the same direction as the ship, but going faster, the ship being un der a speed of only 8H knots. the description of the creature tallies with the sea serpent seen by the officers of the British warship Daedalus in 184S. That serpent exposed its whole length ot 60 feet on the surface. The meeting of the Zoological Society which heard Messrs. Meade and Nicoll's account Is de scribed as "listening with breathless ex citement," and the member who writes an account of the meeting for a London paper concludes with the statement: "Se riously, we can no longer regard the sua serpent as a myth." Ha The Than, Visitor From Anan. New York World.- Ha The Than, whose name sounds like the beginning of a hearty laugh and who looks like a man, but Is a woman. Is tne first Anamite to come to this country. She Is the nurse for the three children of Major Edouard Sauvaile, ot the Garde Indigene, stationed In French Cochin China, whose wife Is an American. Major Sauvaile owns a house in South Orange, where his wife's people live, and expects to spend six months in It, after an absence of three years. They had con siderable trouble with the Immigration in spectors In getting Ha The Than in. The Inspectors held that she came under the Chinese exclusion act and did not want to pass her, but an appeal to the Commis sioner of Immigration at Washington, D. C, was potential, and Ha The Than wnl continue to take care of the three chil dren, wnom she has nursed since their babyhood. She Is the wife of one of Ma jor Sauvalle's soldiers. The French government has an army of 7500 men In French Cochin China to V-eep 20.000 natives In order. One-third of this force Is made up of natives. Ha The Than speaks only French and Chinese, but hopes to learn English dur ing her stay in South Orange. New York Is Still a Country Town. New York Evening Post. New York hasn't lost all semblance of a country town. In the first three months of 1906 no less than 23,521 dead animals were found in the streets, be sides 18,584 stray cats and dogs that were taken to the public pounds and there done to death. That dead horses, cows, cats and dogs should so litter the streets Is perhaps not so remark able, but it is Just a little surprising that the list should also include pigs (24), goats (31) and sheep (51), which argues that the city must still have some aspects of a rural community. It is perhaps germane to the subject to add that the city is advertising a sale by auction of a large quantity of grass on land near the new Croton reservoir, said grass to be sold "as it stands." Social Development In Missouri. Columbia, Mo., Herald. We are getting dead swell in this good town. We eat Ice cream with a fork. Some time ago we learned to make salad at the dinner table. Then we served coffee In the library after dinner. We have had finger bowls some dozen years. We are beginning to use them even when there Is no company. One family hag finger bowls at break fast after fruit and before bacon even when there is no guest at the house. That's dead swell. We have drunk soup out of a teacup and put grass on the fried chicken, and now we eat Ice cream with a fork. Why not? These lit tle evidences of social progress are commendable. Douma a Much Bewhlnkrred Body. W. E. Curtis, St. Petersburg corre spondent Chicago Kecora-neraia. The Russian Congress (the Douma) was a motley assembly. The first thought that entered the mind as the eye passed over the tiers of seats was the unnecessary amount of hair and whiskers. The Greek priests had the most lialr. and gave It better attention. They evidently put their long manes in curl papers at night like women, be cause the hair is wavy like the mane of a well-kept horse, and they are very vain of It. The Paaslnsj of Rattlesnake Pete. Omaha, Neb., Dispatch. ' "Rattlesnake Pete," formerly a Deputy United States Marshal in Wyoming and a noted Bcout and Indian fighter, has died at his home In Ishawooa. Wyoming. His real name was William H. Liddiard, and he came from Acton Green. Eng land, when a boy. He was with General Miles as a scout during the early days, and got his sobriquet from the General because of his hatred of rattlesnakes and his care in killing them whenever he had an opportunity. THE COMMONER From the New York Press.