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H. Johnson. Four teenth and Franklin streets, N. Wheatley. Ogtlen D. U Boyle; W. Q. Kind, 114 23tii street. ' Omaha Barkalow Bros.. 1612 Far nam, Maceath Stationery Co., 130S Far nam; 240 fcouth Fourteenth. fcuc-raniento, Cal. Sacramento News Co., 4:m K street. Halt Luke Salt Lake News Co., 77 West Second street South; Rosenfeld & Hansen. Los Angeles B. E. Amos, manager seven street wagons. .Sun DIcko B. E. Amos. Long Ueach, Cal. B. E. Amosl Pasadena. Cal. A. F. Horning. ban Francisco Foster & Orear. Ferry New b Stand: Hotel St. Francis News Stand. Washington. L. C. Ebbitt House, Penn sylvania avenue. .. Philadelphia, Pa. Ryan's Theater Ticket Office. PORTLAND, MONDAY, NOV. 26, 1900. THE WASTE OF DELAY. From all riarts of the United States, where river and harbor improvements are required, the same complaint about the waste of delay arises with which 'we are so familiar here. Large amounts of money are expended and loet under a system of piddling and piecemeal; and' JhTTnmat places the work get? ahead hardly at ul!. The waste of delay and decay, of storms and seasons, pats away the work as' fast as such a eys tem renews it; often faster. The ob ject to be attained remains from year to year and from decade to decade, as distant as ever, while" the driblets of money scarce - -s-utfice to renew the structures left Incomplete, and there lore perishable. -To get resultfe, when a work is undertaken,- there is but o"ne way push it." H if the. way adopted for the Panama' Canal; - work iii which is now fairly begun, and te to be' supported with steadily augmenting 'forces. A. like policy for. all the important rivers ah-d harbor improVemen4s 'of the- country would be the wisest " that could be adopted,. If the whole- system were planned, out,, the -..money necessary raieed by issue of bonds, as in the catse of the Panama Canal, and the wbrk prosecuted without delay, im mense eump would be oaved and re suits would be attained; whereas under the present system nearly, all new.ap propriations go into renewals or -repairs of work already done and broken up through want of the protection that completion would afford. The Interest -on the debt neeeeeary for com pletion of all the most Important un dertakings of this character would be but a bagatelle compared with the waste resulting from decay or demoli tion, of unfinished work. Besides, com merce would receive -benefits that every part "of fhe country would feel bene-' llts that the present system indefin itely postpones. The eystem hitherto jiursued not only positively waste ful, but because it accomplishes1 so little often nothing it is scarcely more than a farce. We note much at tention to this phase of the subject by the preso of the "country." The New Orleans Picayune says, with emphasis: "The commercial Interests of the coun try and the masses of people as well should get behind Congrets and urge the adoption .of a sane -and liberal pol icy towards our waterways. A pro ject undertaken should be hastened to completion so the people may enjoy, its benefits" a's-arly a possible." ' Fi nally, that "it would be a saving pf inoney to pell bonds and provide for the completion of all pending projects and get them out of the way." STANDARD OIL mOSECCTION. . In tho Providence Journal we find a statement of .the method' By which the United Slates Government is proceed ing agaliirrt Standard Oil Company. It tp to prosecute Ht Chicago. Memphis and Jamestown-, N. Y., alleging in each Instance the proffer and acceptance of transportation favors by the rail roads and tho oil people, respectively. Of the facts in tho case thero is said to he no doubt; the Government is in possession of . way bills that show the date and rate of each shipment under discussion, and ia able to prove that the Standard paid les.o for its trans portation than was charged to other shippers. In view of thin incriminat ing evidence it Is believed that the oil company will make a merely technical defence, seeking to show that the In dictments as returned by the several grand Juries are fatally imperfect. It Is explained that the Government lias chosen tho single car as the "unit of "offense;" that is. it will endeavor to show "that tho Standard (n guilty of viola-ting' the law In as many instances as there were illegally transported cans.' How any better unit could be devised Is a question. It would not d'i to use an-entlre train for this1 pur rose, because no adequate record of the size of trains It kept by American railroads, whereas -each 'car'-is careful ly noted by number at every'.teniiUial. Nor -would it be feasible to constitute e tch fiscal settlement between - the roads' and the oil company, a. unit of offense, ;for this would onlye'ncou.rage both .parties to mako their dates ot settlentent fewer and further between. However, ' the oil people are expected to maintain a strong fight against the car as an offenpe unit, and in so doing w ill give another excellent proof of thq uoeeselly of -their constant resort to loopholes and technicalities in or der to evade the Just provisions of the law. " AS TO "FREEDOM" IN THK Fl'I-FIT. It cannot be thought surprising that heresy trials, so-called, are of some what common occurrence; for the growth of the "time spirit" leatls to expression of "unorthodox" sentiments in the pulpit, which the church author ities cannot always Ignore and must of necessity sometimes censure and con demn. Since conscience and . utter ance are free, any man' may preach what he pleases; but in whatever church he has taken orders he U? bound in common honesty not to preach re jection : of its . fundamental doctrines. Not long since Biehop Potter, of the Protestant Episcopal Church, New York, said in an address before his diocesan convention that the man who denies either the divinity of Christ or his miraculous birth "has no place in the ministry of this church." The statement had special reference to Dr. Crapsey, who has since been suspend ed, but takes appeal. Bishop Potter said further: If it Is his office (as he may easily believe that It Is) to emancipate the church from so gross a superstition, then he must do so from without and not from within, for it Is Impossible, in the minds of the people who hold fast to the principles of common honesty, to respect either the consistency or the Integrity of one who eats the church's bread, accepts the church's dignities, en joys the church's honors, and impugns the church's faith. The statement is fair and Just. It is a requirement also of good morals that one who ministers in-the name of a church shall not use his' office to undermine, refute, or cause rejection of its doctrines. In the outer world there is ample room for promulgation of ""free!" ideas and concepts; and even in the Protestant -churches, or in most of them, views that tend to modifica tion of old theologies are received with out objection, and even with hospitali ty. But a line must be drawn some where, and if the preacher feels that he must exceed the. limits of his liber ty, which on doctrines deemed funda mental are somewhat closely denned, his undeniable resource is to withdraw from the connection, and either seek a congenial one, or go it alone. The case is not one where freedom of opin ion and spirit can be claimed as an in alienable rigiit, unless a man shall first have put himself in position to claim it. WORKING THE INDIAN. A New Westminster, B. C special in yesterday's Oregonian announces that "The Indian Department of the Domin ion Government has decided that the Indian ' must work." In furtherance of this new policy, it is explained that the government ration houses will in the future be closed to all Indians who are physically able'-'to-Tabor, -but,' -who studiously refrain from vVork of any kind. If the Dominion Government just north of us is under the impres sion that U 16 undertaking anything new in endeavoring to make the Indian work, it is in error. If it succeeds in making the noble red man so far for get the traditions and religion of his race as to engage In menial toil, on a scale worth while, it will indeed have accomplished something which, has been pretty generally given up -as a hopeless task. From the time that Hen drick' Hudexm sailed up into the Woods above'Manhattan island and engaged in a, friendly tipple with the children of the forest, a" great many schemes have been deviled for : inducing the Indian to abandon, his habits . af. Idle ness and make an-: effort to earn -Kis "keep.". In- a. few cases, among soma of the tribes, there are found members who have developed a streak of indus try, but even there, the most of these thrifty representatives of a lazy race are either -half or quarter breeds; . The West formerly had an axiom that "the only good Indian is a dead Indian." A changing environment which has forced the Indian to conform to a con siderable degree to the laws and usages of the white man, has robbed that axi om of much of the truth which at one time It might have contained; but, while the Indian may be a better man morally than he was in the old days when the tomahawk and scalping knife were always busy, his indolence re mains much the same. , There is nothing in the experience of the past to warrant the belief that the pure-blooded Indian of the West can ever be made to work as the white man works. He seems doomed to drift on to the happy hunting grounds of the future, undisturbed by and indiffer ent to the terrors which that awful word "work" has? for those who have inherited the trait1 of shunning. SIIINOUC YOUR ROOF. In all the pages of the literature of economics there is nothing that more clearly illustrates a common character istic of individuals, communities and nations than the reply of the Arkan sas farmer who was asked -why .he did. not shingle his roof: "When it is fair weather I don't need to, and when it is raining I can't." This well worn saying, quoted before in these columns, should stand as a w arning, a reminder, rather, to those whose financial affairs are in such condition as to leave them, figuratively speaking, with a roof un shingled. These are days of fair wea ther, of sunshine, of all the brightness of industrial prosperity. To the ordi nary vision there is no cloud to be seen even on the distant horizon. Some students of finance profess to see in dications of impending storm,.but their prophecies of disaster find few believ ers. In the absence of clear evidence of an oncoming storm we are enjoying to the utmost the glories of an indus trial day, "so cool, so calm, so bright," that to think of a possible change in conditions s'eems like borrowing trouble. We have built our houses. Some of them aro one story high, some of them two and some of them ten. They are beautiful structures, bearing every ap pearance of solidity and permanence and in harmony with a spirit of pro-, gress and improvement. The vork of building has been conducted with no lack of confidence in the future, for we liave not hesitated' to go' in debt if necessary to secure the desired size and finish. But it is altogether proba ble that, encouraged 'by the pleasant weather, many have neglected that fi nal and essential work, shingling the roof. . From many sources warnings have come to prepure for a storm -in the in dustrial world. We, have been freT quently Aold . that the extravagant liv ing in which we, as a people, have in dulged will not- only hasten . reverses, but make them harder to endure when they come. But, basking in the'surt shlno of a cloudless sky; we dismiss the thought of adversity and, perhaps, censure the friend who utters the; word of caution. -We ridicule- the- idea thttt panics recur about once In twenty years. We give not even a second thought to the assertion that an era of prosperity induces general specula tive investment and that when the highest point in values has been reach ed a selling movement becomes cumu lative, like a snowball rushing down a mountain side. These are unpleas ant themes; -so we choose to see in the future' only '.brightness and -continued prosperity. . . And let us . hope that such shall be our future. Let us continue to work for the accomplishment of such a fu ture, always . remembering, however, that the best laid plans of mice and men "gang aft agley," and that no day was ever so bright that a storm could not mar its" ending.' To that man whose financial affairs are in such a condition that he is unprepared for a storm, the advice is timely, "Shingle your roof."- OBJECT IJCSSON IN TRUSTS. Lumber freight rates between Ore gon and Washington ports and Cali fornia ports have advanced- to $9 per thousand feet, with a fair prospect for an additional dollar being added be fore the turn of the year. Such ex orbitant freight rates of course are quite burdensome to the consumer, but, until there is a slackening in the demand for lumber or an increase in the tonnage available, there will be no relief. This remarkable situation throws an interesting light on both our shipping and tariff laws. Deep water freights are abnormally low all over the world, on account of . an over-supply of tonnage. As a result there is an abundance of first-darts foreign shipping in all Pacific .coast .pptts. . as well as elsewhere which is now idle and can be bought at very low figures. A large amount of this tonnage could be used to great advantage in our coastwise trade at this time, but, ow ing to the antiquated restrictions of our absurd navigation laws, our capi talists are prevented-from -purchasing it, as American registry and the right to engage in the coasting trade is for bidden by our laws. ". As an illustration of the practical workings of this policy, the case of the British steamship Duneric, now in port, is interesting. Sailing under a foreign flag, this ' vessel cannot load outward at Portland for a coastwise port. She has accordingly Deen char tered to go fo. British Columbia and load lumber for San Francisco at $6 per thousand feet, or $3 per thousand less than the rate paid by .the shippers on the American side of the line.. It, of course, does not lojjow. that, .the California consumer will secure his lumber $3 per Thousand feet cheaper, for, while theoretically he ' profits by the opening of a wider field of supply, most of tho advantage of a cheaper freight is offset by the tariff of Jl! per thousand feet which the considerate government levies' against. Canadian lumber. Considering the advantageous .posi tion of, the Canadian shipper in the way of transportation at this time, it is hardly probable that the consumer receives more than a small portion of the additional dollar still unaccount ed for, but as a practical working il lustration of the beauties of both our navigation laws and our tariff laws, the case is interesting. - The Oregonian is not in favor of the Indiscriminate extension of coast wise -privileges to foreign vessels, al though it does protest agamst the at tempts to include the Philippines and Hawaiian Islands in the territory pro tected by our'coastw'ise laws. The -injustice of our present navigation laws, as shown in the case -mentioned, lies in their refusing permission to Ameri can capitalists to buy .some of this cheap tonnage', which is flow so plenti ful all over the world, ' and which, if American registry were granted it, could be pressed into service immedi ately. In the paBt, lumber carried to California ports as low as $3 per thou sand, and at $4.50 and $5 per thousand made very remunerative returns on the investment even in high priced American vessels. A revision 6f our navigation laws, giving American citizens the same rights as are enjoyed by foreigners who desire to engage in the business of shipowning, would "at this time enable shippers to secure all of the tonnage needed-for handling their traffic at much lower rates. than now prevail, and it would also result in a material saving in the cost- to- the consumer, an individual ' who, by the way, foots all the bills, ho matter whether they are increased in ' size by a tariff trust or a shipping trust. INSANITY AND DIVORCE. . Among the causes for divorce agreed upon as legitimate by the National Congress on Universal Divorce Laws, recently held in Philadelphia, was "hopeless- insanity of the husband." The sentiment against allowing divorce for insanity is very strong in most states whore "the question has been" brought before Legislatures. In our own state the proposition has been turned down by a decisive vote, as often as brought before the Legislature.-- - - The opposition to permitting divorce for any cause over which the husband or the wife hue no control is founded ujjon an abstract principle of justice that is practically unquestioned. If the promise "for better or for worse" means anything beyond the lip service of an honorable rite, it certainly ap plies to this most unfortunate of all conditions, the mental lapse of either party to the contract. This is the high and honorable view, carrying the virtue of self-abnegation and the heroic de termination to make the bept of this saddest of life's vicissitudes. The prac tical, selfish side of the question has been urged in words depicting the utter hopelessness of a state that closes the door of home and its pleasures upon a man whose wife is an inmate of an asy lum for tho insane, and condemns to loneliness and toil a woman under sim ilar circumstance. Being asked why the insanity of a wife should not be ground for divorce equal to the insanity of a husband; the committee of the- Divorce Congress charged with the duty of formulating causes for divorce answered, saying: "A husband should support his insane wife . because her mental state might have been due to tho matrimonial state." This answer Implies that the cause of insanity should have-a deter mining influence in the question. This view may point tho way to justice in the premises, bu it leaves the matter of insanity as a cause for divorce within. Ihe realm of Judicial judgment, where all causes aro weighed those that are found wanting rejected and those that appeal to human judgment as Just allowed. Even Government ownership fails to alleviate all the troubles which in time of prosperity overwhelm tha railroads. A-BerHn-dispatcrr-ln-y-eiE'terday-'s- Ore--gonian says that "The state railroads in the commercial regions are far from being able -to- cop with the traffic re quirements, and in the Essen district a shortage of coal -cars results- in- pre venting from 35,000 to 50,000 tons of coal reaching the consumers."- A car shortage of this nature on a Government-owned road could hardly show any radical difference in effect from one owned by Mr. Hill, Mr. Harriman or any other private owner or man ager. The only difference in feelings, if there Is any, between the freezing citizens of Essen, Germany, and Pros ser, Washington, is In the tempera ture of the air. The German railroad officials have a slight advantage over those in this country, for there is less liability of irate shippers threatening them with physical punishment in case cars are not forthcoming. Some idea, indeed a ..strong hope. Democrats had . that they might elect a majority of the new Congress, yet the new Congress is Republican by 58 majority.- Mr. -Charles Edwards, Sec retary of the Democratic Congression al Committee, opens his mind on the subject, to tell why his party failed. Ha says: The man principally responsible for this condition Is one William Randolph Hearst. His defeat In New York and tho election -of every . other Democratic candidate on the ticket on which he" ran Is proof positive that .the people, do not want that kind of independence which "throws down" the nominees of the party.' Primarily Hearst was not the candi date of the Democratic party, but of the Independence League.- Through In trigue and combination In the Demo cratic convention he got the nomina tion of that party, yet ho didn't get the party's support in ' the election. Hearst, however, had the enthusiastic support of. the Ladd organ at Port land. The Deseret News, organ of the Mor mon Church of Utah, denies that "plu ral marriages" continue in the church; But in reply to the objection that the "revelations" on plural marriage have not been eliminated from the standard works of the Mormon Church, it says: "Neither have our Christian friends scratched from the Bible the passages referring to that subject, but that does not argue that the Presbyterians, for instance, are contemplating the re-es-tabllshment of plural marriages, some time In the future." Which is a sharp thrust. Morris Upham Bates, founder, and for thirty years-editor -of the San Fran cisco Commercial News, died in ' San Jose last Thursday. Mr. Bates, through his long career of conscientious work on the publication which had become almost a part of his life, was well known in commercial circles all over the Pacific coast. He was a genial, honest, unassuming gentleman, who played well his part in the great dra ma of life, and "of whom it could truth fully be said that the world was better for his having lived in it.' . The London Economist says that British- capitalists draw an income of J500, 000,000 from their foreign investments. Last fiscal year they -paid income taxes on $330,300,000, as compared with $195, 100,000 twenty years ago. The largest amount is derived. from interest on for eign and colonial government securities and the-next largest sum from divl dends and interest from foreign, and colonial concerns. ' ' '. ' - -If -Mr.- Harriman said -the -country now needs no more railroa-d'lines, but. needs development of the industries.' and resources of the' country "already" supplied w itii railroads, he .must have overlooked Oregon that moment. Ore gon needs more development of the country already supplied, all right; but it ' n'eeds a great mileage' of new roads also, for development of, new country. Members of the Oregon Bar Associ ation have voted to ask the Supreme Court to' Taise the standard of qualifi cation for admission to the bar. How many of them would have supported such a resolution prior to the time they passed the examination? How many of them would bo worrying today if they had to take a bar' examination before the Supreme Court tomorrow? If divorce becomes much more fre quent w hall have to adopt a sys tem of procedure similar to that fol lowed in marriage. Let us authorize the, county clerk to issue a license, for divorce, whereupon any minister" or magistrate may dissolve ' the bonds. That would not be so vastly different from present methods, for almost any one wanting a divorce can get it. Possibly there will be a permanent American" protectorate over Cuba, much like that of England over Egypt. There are those who insist that it Is the only way to assure protection to life and . property in the island. An enthusiastic Democrat, not cast down by past misfortunes, calls on his party to "rally .for a victory in 1908 that will reverberate from Tadmor to Yubadan." The echo of that last word may surprise him. A New York Baptist church has in troduced musical glasses as a drawing card at its Sunday services; but they haven't yet caught on to the phono graph scheme that is making that Mil waukie church famous. There are signs of an effort to de feat Jonathan Bourne for the Sen ate, with "Jack" as boss of the game. The desire is to enlist capital and open an auction at Salem. We guess it won't - go. It may sound unkind to say it, but the four venerable Portland men, aged in the aggregate 32!), who frittered away an entire evening in a game of cards were old enough to know better. Senator La Follette's Incensed col leagues may cold shoulder him and not listen to his speeches; but he will heap coals of fire by listening to theirs. That's the trouble. It is pleasing to learn that Portland's fire losses this year are much below the average, for there's more to burn, though less worth burning. William -M. "not so wise as his fa ther went into the newspaper busi ness without knowing what it meant or what it -means. . - - The turkey's lot is after all not al together unenviable. More than one will this week solve ' tho great John Dough mystery. Without the indispensable Paris house, the police would die -of ennui. " THESE HIT THK SUBJECTS. VT Pertinent and We-Isrhty Good Stuff " "In " These 'Article. -Many good editorials are published by the New. York World.- What paper. can beat 'em? Here are two: What Is a ilemoerat t - Thanks to the courage of that gifted oratoi and patriot, the Hon. Fingy Con ncrs, of Buffalo, who has set out to try the' Hon. Pat McCarren for heresy, we may eventually obtain a decision from the highest courts of the' State as to what constitutes a Democrat. . For years this has been a vexed and troublesome question. Against David B. Hill's Insistent "I am a Democrat" was the raucous denial of the Clevelandites that Mr. Hill had ever learned the alpha bet of Democracy. When Mr. Bryan be came the high priest of the party by grace of the Chicago convention he ad judicated the Cleveland-Hill controversy by chasing both of them out of the temple. For four years a Democrat was anybody who loved the heaven-born ra tio and could prove that he voted tho Democratic or Populist or the Silver Re publican National ticket in IS!.. But in spite of Mr. Bryan's vigilance various heretics sneaked back into the congre gation, and the business of mortifying Mammon was often interrupted by the urgent necessity of chucking one of the unbelievers into the street. Then came Judge Parker, and the test was more complicated than ever. The gentleman who had been clubbed out of the party in 1896 recognized in the Judge the purest exponent of -the faith of the fathers that Democracy had known since the election" of Grover Cleveland. Mr. Bryan felt that while the Judge, was a little shaky in the catechism he had the makings of a fair-to-mtddling Democrat if he would stop consorting with the publicans and sinners of Wall Street. Mr. Hearst, who was already making preparations for the rehabilitation of the historical principles of the party and for eliminating the use of money in pol itics, refused to recognize Judge Parker as any kind of . Democrat. Finally we had the campaign of 1906, in which Mr. Hearst, who had said that the word Democracy no longer denned any definite principle, obtained the Dem ocratic nomination for Governor on a platform that repudiated the Independ ence League platform, which he had drafted himself. And now comes the Sage of Buffalo with a new test of Democracy. As the Hon. Fingy . Con nors sees it,' a Democrat is anybody that had a strong enough stomach to swallow the nomination of William R. Hearst by a convention that had to steal the goods before it could deliver them. The Conners definition would exclude McCar ren. In which respect it is admirable. But it would Include Conners and Mur phy; in which respect It Weaves us little better off than before. McCarren is to be tried by seven honest and upright Hearst men and the courts are expected to do the rest. ' In advance The World tenders them the assurances of its consideration and sympathy. Mr. E. H. Harriman. Mr. Harriman styles himself "a citizen of -the United States." Hitherto Ameri can captains of industry have confined their activities to limits more or less circumscribed. The Astors have been content with a single city, the Carnegies and Schwabs with tw.o. bonanza kings with a couple of States at .most and Mr. Rockefeller with a small group of com monwealths. But no such pent-up Utlca contracts Mr. Hariiman's powers. The whole boundless continent is his. Like the lat est example of literary enterprise, he publishes, simultaneously in fourteen cit ies. Where the ordinary citizen takes a surface car to h;.s office the railway mag nate lakes a special train and is off to Chicago or .Sap Francisco or any other city, St. Paul and, Minneapolis excepted. What are boundary lines to one who traf fics in railway systems' as a Stewart or a .Claflin' dealt fn dry goods? The nation is witnessing' along with the growth of Federalism in the- Government the development of the Federal financier whose interests compass the entire coun try, ft is - a niomentohfe evolutionary process.. For Federal personalities of this character Federal legislation nas Its prop er uses Sherrtan statutes and .Elkins laws.' In a further burst' of confidence Mr. Harriman made the admission that he has no desire to become a financial sovereign. He would "give it up tomor row" if he could. ' And as an earnest of sincerity be has just relieved Mr. Fish of Mr. Fish's particular burdens in that line by ousting him from the presi dency of the Illinois Central. No doubt Mr. Harriman would help Mr. Hill get rid of his weight of troublesome wealth as he once attempted to assist Mr. Mor gan to that end. ; But fate has' doomed him to bear his cross. He must continue in tris unwill ing accumulation of railway properties, adding to the 29.000 miles of which he is master another 29.000 and doubling the $2,000,000,000 of securities he' controls rath er than that a less competent hand should attempt the task. Who can es cape his destiny? Nowhere outside of the catastrophe of a Greek tragedy is there so cruel an example of its inexorable working as' in the - case of Mr. Harri man. Tlie Crapsey Hereay. The question, says the New York Sun, was not -whether the teaching of Dr. Crapsey was true, but whether he preached and taught what, when or dained, he pledged himself to preach and teach. . The Sun, however, pro ceeds to say: We believe that wo exprentf the convic tion, jpt all -fair-minded men In the commu nity when we say that Dr. Crapsey deserves respect and esteem for confrontinK the pen alty of deprivation by avowing boldly that bis study of the Scriptures had brought bim to a conviction'- which, B be himself munt recognise, la radically incompatible with the fundamental conception of Christianity. He might have kept his opinion to ntm self, as It is feared that many of his cler ical brethren do on both side of the Atlan tic. Indeed, so far as the United States is concerned, they, are authorised to do so by the pastoral letter sent out by .the "house of bishops In October. 1904. in which cler gymen were told that If they found that they had lost their hold upon fb.e- funda mental verities they should be ellent or withdraw. rr. Crapsey's published com ment was - that "tho silence which would satisfy the bishops would not satisfy the conscience of an honest man. Ho has lived up to that declaration. He leaves tne pulpit with boner', tiullty of the Ebionlte- heresy be may be, but be has not been jrullty of suppressing what he believes to be the truth.- Dnveapnrfs -Horse. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. T't is good reportorial fiction or fact that S-alid Abdullah, a native Arab brought over by Homer Davenport to tend his Arabian horses, was taken into tiie New York horse show at Madison Square Gar den yesterday. When he saw the horses with docked tails he broke out: "It Is pity. It is wrong. Where Is their glory? Where is their tail?" When St. was ex plained to him that the tails were docked because some people thought it improved the horses' appearance. Saiid Abdullah muttered a prayer to Allah and cried: "It is not so. The tail, the leg, the head! They are all the horse. If you take one away, why not the other?" Altogether he did not think much of the display of horseflesh, but when bis attention was called to the women in the boxes, he clasped his hands and exclaimed: "Ah! they are the houris of paradise. They are perfection." After all, what is the horse show for? . Remorse. New York Sun. . Belshazzar observed the writing on the wall. "Looks like one of my wlfe'a letters I for got to mail," he cried in panic. Herewith is shown the effect of a guilty conscience.' - . ' ' BURlAlFLACE OF'COLUMBl'S. Minister Dawson Thinks His Body. Still I.les In Santo Doming. New York Sun. Thomas C. Dawson, United States Min ister to Santo Domingo, in an "address at the University Settlement, 184 Eldridge street, yesterday afternoon, discussed the subject of the resting place of the bones of Columbus, and declared his belief that they rest not in Havana, as is generally supposed, but In the Cathedral of Santo Domingo. "History and tradition have always agreed." he said, "that the remains pf Columbus were. In the early part of the sixteenth century, brought . from Spain and interred in the Santo Domingo Cathe dral, and it was popularly accepted that they had been removed thence to Havana in 1795. In that year Spain ceded to France the eastern portion of the island, and a Spanish Admiral, who visited Santo Domingo, gave orders to open a tomb, which he supposed was that of Columbus, and Its contents were taken to Havana. "The leaden box. which the Spanish Ad miral had removed from Santo Domingo, bore no Inscription. In 1877, in the course of some repairs, another leaden box was found near the spot from which the first casket had been taken. It bore a metal plate with the inscription in Spanish: 'The Illustrious and Enlightened Lord, Don Cristobal Colon.' "A controversy immediately arose as to the authenticity of the discovery. The Spanish, Cuban and Porto Rican press regarded the affair as an American fraud, but offered no convincing proof of their assertions. "I have not only read and compared all the publications I have been able to find on the question, but have personally ex amined the box, its contents and inscrip tions, and the vault from which it was taken; have minutely studied the archi tecture, structure, material, surroundings, walls, foundations; have made myself fa miliar with the different building mate rials employed in Santo Domingo since its founding; have verified the deciphering of . all the cathedral, inscriptions, have searched all the original records of the sacristy, and have cross-examined the survivors of the men who worked in the excavation of 1S77, and I am satisfied that there could have been no fraud, and that the bones taken to Havana in 1795 were not those of Christopher Columbus." A Great Comet Is Dne In 1010. Leslie's Weekly. The most famous of all comets, though not the largest and most brilliant, will again be visible in 1910. This is Halley's comet, so-called from its identification by the great astronomer who was the friend of Sir Isaac Newton- OHalley's investi gation of astronomical records led him to assert that the comet which. he had oh served in 1682 had appeared in 1531 and 1607, and to predict its reappearance In 1759. The fulfillment of his prophecy ex cited the most intense scientifiec interest and established beyond doubt the period icity of comets and their movement in orbits determined by the law of gravita tion. Its last appearance was in 1835, its period varying between seventy-five and seventy-six years on account of the per turbing attractions of Jupiter and Saturn in certain parts of its orbit. It was by that time possible to calculate its move ments with so much greater accuracy than before that it made Its perihelion passage within four days of the predicted date. It was not then a very grand object to the naked eye, but the light of its nu cleus surpassed that of second-magnitude stars, and , was comparable with that of some reddish stars of the first magnitude, such as Aldebaran and Antares. Its tail, while the comet was approaching the sun, attained to a length of- twenty degrees. For Restoration of Army Canteen. Washington (D. C.) Star. Miss Phoebe Cousins has taken up her Winter residence, in Washington, where she will, work for .restoration, of the can teen to the Army. Miss Cousins enjoys the distinction of being the only woman who ever was a United States Marshal. About twenty years ago her father died while holding that position in the East ern District of Missouri. The appointing powers in Washington gave her the place, which she held until the end of the' term for; which her father had been appointed. She had been a clerk in the office and had thoroughly mastered the details, so that when the full responsibility of the position devolved upon her she was pre pared properly to discharge it. Her rec ord in office was first-class. This Wicked Year of 1906. FJ. S. Martin in Appleton's. The year 1906 has been calamitous. Ve suvius has spouted fire; earthquake and fire have destroyed San Francisco and done, vast damage to Valparaiso. Ty phoons have swept ruin in upon Hong kong. West India hurricanes have done the like to Mobile and Pensacola. Sep tember saw Kngland blasted with more than midsummer heat, and early October saw Buffalo prostrated by a snow bliz zard. It has been a year of extremes and excesses, meteorological, political and social, and it will go xut leaving a long bill of damages for better-behaved years to pay. . "Insurance Men I Have Known.' Kansas City Times. While Senator Chauncey M. Depew was enjoying his long rest at Ardsley-on-the-Hudson he did a good deal of work on his reminiscences. He is not sure that they will ever be published, his idea being that they might be of interest to his son. In his 50 years of public life Mr. Depew has known a great many prominent person ages, and his reminiscences can hardly fail to be exceedingly readable. Although Rich, a Plain Missourlan. Chicago Journal. Colonel Thomas Conner, of Joplin, Mo., is the first millionaire ever elected to the Missouri State Senate. Although very rich, he is in all respects a plain Mis sourian. ' He made his money in mining enterprises. Colonel Conner never owned a dress suit or a silk hat in his life, though he dresses well. A PICTORIAL DEFINITION A SHOPPING '--'Mi H:;vX WHAT THE STATE PRESfS" SAVSl' Here Xow, North Yamhill Record. The time is not far distant when this valley will be producing as fino an apple, if not already, as can be', raised anywhere. Just Listen! Hillsboro Argus. If Millard Lownsdale tunes' his voice for the Willamette .Valley apple as melodiously as it is in "song and story." Hood Kiver may as well Ret off the top of Mount Hood, for Hood River will be proven a "four-tlusher." How They Knew. . - Myrtle Point Enterprise. The man who invented the calendar certainly did a very commendable' thing. If it hadn't been for his in genuity the people of this vicinity could not have told whether last Sat urday was in June or November. Not Honest as to Their Misdeeds. Albany Democrat. Several Portland attorneys are about, to he disbarred, particularly two who have .been indicted for crime. . Thero are several' left in Portland" five'times as bad as either of the men now beinR considered, regular shysters, disgraces to -the profession. Good Enough for a Bachelor. Newhcrg Graphic. As a result of being an old bachelor with no good wifo to milk the cows and carry in the wood. Will Duncan is carrying his proboscis in a sling, awaiting Nature to repair tho damage to his beauty spot. One evening last week he started to the barn to milk the cows, when he slipped and fell, striking his face on the lip of the strainer on the milk bucket with sucb force that his nose was laid open and one eyelid so badly cut Just under the eyebrow that the ball was exposed. Several stitches were necessary, to make things good and fast, and tho necessary bandages give him the ap pearance of having been the principal in an Irish wake. With a wife in tho case he might have fared better, and then again, of course, it might have been worse. The Evils of Too. Much Science. Ashland Times. It Is high time that a lot of experi menting doctors and yellow Journalists quit scaring the. people to death every day. More than one-half the illness of today is caused by lively imagination fostered by detailed publication of the theories of doctors. They may act from the best motives, but it would bo well If a good deal of their theorizing were confined to medical journals, where it would be read by -those wtio can take It for what it Is worth. Our forefathers ate what they wanted, drank water from the springs ami brooks, with never a thought of the microbe, and they lived to a green' old age. We strain and filter and boil and examine and test and worry and stew and most of us die untimely' from di gestive troubles, if we escape an opera tion for appendicitis. Let's have a little more common sense, a little less popular science and a whole lot bettor health. Six Train Loads of Popcorn. St. Paul Pioneer Press. The best paying industry in Iowa last season,, compared with the capital in vested, was the growing of popcorn by Sac County farmers. This week six train loads, 103 carloads, went through Webster City, Iowa, bound . .for. Eastern cities. This amount represented but one-half the crop in Sac County. The growing of popcorn was-commenced about five years ago and every year since more and more land has been planted to this crop. A farmer named Griggs planted 300 acres .of popcorn. He harvested from .50 to 60 bushels from each- acre.- The corn is worth on the cars from f.l to Jl.r.il per bushel, thus making the growing- of this crop highly prorttahle. Then it neids not to be planted until late in the Spring, thus avoiding all danger from frost. ' It ripens four -weeks earlier than field corn and thus gives the farmer more time to" devote to his cattle and hogs. The corn is shipped In the ear', never shelled, as it requires an especially con structed corn sheller to take the small kernels from the cobs. A large number of farmers grew pop corn exclusively this year. The industry has developed remarkably in Sac and Buena Vista Counties the last few years. Follow the Popular Will. . Weston (Umatilla) Leader. Jonathan Bourne will be and should he the next United States Senator. The Leader opposed him strenuously with the usual result his election. But this paper has no patience with those who would Ignore the voice of the people. Let the majority rule is doctrine sound enough for any fair-minded citizen. Bourne has wealth suf rtclent to be freed from tempta tion to increase his pile by serving the "interests." Should he prove faithful to the trust reposed in him, Oregon's meth od of choosing a United States. Senator will commend itself, to the Nation and bring glory to our commonwealth. Footing; It T p. ' Brooklyn Eagle. William It. Hearst says that it cost him for his campaign for the Governorship $'J5B, 370. The following simple addition of tha figures ha gives explains the result: 2 D 6 3 7 O "23" Street Ghosts.- From Life. He gazed upon her with an inward algh- Kite looked so like, a girl of days gone by; And she, too, fixed on him a tender glance, Meant for the hero pf an old romance. OF A VERY WISE MAN -Frem the Chicago Record-Herald.