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HiKh, mountainous regions, which hitherto have had few productive re sources, are destined through develop ment of electric power to become sources of wealth, once beyond imagin ation nor even yet fully conceived. Generation of electric current through water power will produce vast changes during the next few years. Much has been effected already, though it is only a beginning. Our Northwest states will be the chief seats of this develop rnent in our country; since their moun tain chains produce many steady and powerful streams, with rapid fall. Through experience and skill the loss suffered In transmission of electric cur rents to considerable and even long dis tances is being rapidly minimized. Our mountain regions which afford little land for cultivation give us streams whose energy may be and will be con verted to the uses of man, relieving labor of primary drudgery and afford ing cheap means for application of power to Innumerable divisions of In dustry, under the direction of human Intelligence. Set the streams of our mountains at work, and we shall have a force- that will accomplish more than armies of men. What has already been effected in this direction is but an in dication of what is to follow. Among the greatest sources of future wealth to us" are our mountain streams. Probably the greatest of all the sources of this new energy will be the mountains of Switzerland. The region of the Alps is surrounded on all sides by populous and powerful nations. The mountains of Switzerland send strong living streams to the Rhine, to the Rhone, to the Po, to the Danube, to the Adige. Rising in perpetual snows, these streams never fall, never run low. Their rapid fall as they descend from the mountains give the innumerable small streams that form the large rivers great power. We read, about an under taking on a single small stream, in the Orisons, a tributary of the Adda, the latter but a tributary of the Po, where an electric power station has been in stalled, said to be the greatest in ac tual operation In Europe. The stream is led by a conduit three miles- long to a reservoir, from which there Is a fall -of 1378 feet to the central station. Five conduits, fastened in the rocks in a po sition nearly vertical, carry the water to the' turbines. These wheels work twelve groups of dynamos, each of 3000 horsepower, giving 36,000 horsepower. Current will be distributed south of Lake Co mo by a cable 100 miles in length. This Is but a single undertak ing. The great cities of Milan and Turin are supplied with current by streams which issue from the Alps, and the current will soon be carried to Genoa. Supply for the minor cities of Northern Italy Is being rapidly provid ed from the same sources. AH the work at Geneva is done by power sup plied by the Rhone, at the point where It issues from Geneva Lake. Similar transformation of the Industrial life of Zurich, Lucerne and Basel has been ef fected; and electric current from Al pine streams Is being carried far into Germany and France. Yet the devel opment is still in Its Infancy. Not one hundredth part of the energy of the Al pine streams has yet been utilized. Great changes in the industrial and commercial life of Central and South ern Europe will result from the employ ment of this cheap electric power from the streams of the Alps. To -.the development of our North western and Rocky Mountain States the use of our mountain streams for electric power will contribute a factor of Immense Importance. Streams that issue from high mountains may be de pended on, and their rapid descent ' gives easy and repeated use of the power they afford. We shall find a ' large substitute for wood, coal and fuel oil by harnessing our streams. But this source of natural wealth ought not to bo permitted to fall wholly into pri vate hands, but should be bo conserved as to pay some fair return to the state. THE MISINFORMED GOVERNMENT. . Departmental ignorance at Washing ton has been responsible for many acts of Injustice against Portland, and the announcement that there is an In sufficient depth of water at the Colum bia entrance to admit of the battleships coming to this port ts in keeping with a similar line of information passed out from time to time by Government em ployes who should know better. The draft of most of the largest vessels which axe to be sent around to the Pa cific is about twenty-four feet, al though some of them draw, with full bunkers and fighting, equipment aboard. rrom zi.o to zo ieei. xi nas ueen jearo since twenty-fourfoot ships have ex perienced any trouble. In getting in and out of Portland, and no trouble or de lay Is encountered by vessels drawing from twenty-five to twenty-six feet.. Half a dozen have made the trip from Portland to the sea within the ptist few months on deeper drafts- than twenty-flve feet, the Hyndford a few weeks ago going through from Portland to Fhe sea in less than one day, draw ing twenty-five feet and ten inches. There is a wide difference between theory and practice. The men who are dispatching these steamers of over twenty-flve-foot draft are business men who load the vessels to meet the re quirements of the actual, not the the oretical, draft of water on the bar. Most of these vessels are 'on time char ter, where delays mean money, and, if there were no more water on the bar than the uninformed War Department alleges, it would be impossible for them to do business at Portland. This Is a matter, however, In which argument is superfluous. There Is the record of actual performances, and all of the theoretical platitude9 which the Government can launch against the good name of the Columbia River will not alter the fact that vessels are' ac tually crossing In and out of the Co lumbia Rive every month In the year drawing from six inches to one foot more than the heaviest draft of the battleship fleet that 'will be sent to the Pacific. As for any direct benefit from the presence in our harbor of these battleships, Portland is not concerned. There would be no special financial advantage accruing, and one tramp steamer would place In circulation more money than three battleships. The injustice of this unwarranted misrepresentation of the physical con dition of the Columbia River ports lies in the great publicity that is given them and the weight that Government "opinion" carries with it in circles where the actual facts are unknown. It will, of course, be difficult to trace a perhaps unintentional lie of this character to its original source, but it undoubtedly was given currency either by sorrfe antiquated attache of the de partment who is basing his present ob jections on the condition of the bar twenty years ago, or else it was worked up by some interested persons desirous of belittling the work already done at the entrance pt the river. What kind of battleships have we been investing in if it is unsafe to send, them Into ports on a foot less draft than is safely and uninterruptedly carried by steam ers engaged In ' regular commercial traffic? It might be well to investigate a little and find out whether it is the battleships or the men who direct their movements that are at fault in this matter. LEARNING ABOUT IRRIGATION. The annual session of the National Irrigation Congress at Sacramento early next month will be an -important occasion, so far as discussion of the larger problems of water law, con struction work and Governmental pol icy are Involved. , It is chiefly for the consideration of matters of general in terest that the meetings are held. In the very nature of things the individ ual Irrigator, who is most concerned with questions of detail, can receive but little aid from a convention of that kind for the reason that he cannot at tend and can hope to derive but scant practical assistance from the published copies of addresses. Each section "of the country has its own peculiar irri gation problems. The purpose of the National Irrigation Congress is to dis cuss those subjects in which all are interested. Irrigation farming is a new branch of agriculture, notwithstanding there are farms in this and adjoining states that have , been watered by artificial means for many years. The lands now in process of reclamation in this state will be occupied and cultivated largely by men who have never had experi ence in the use of water for Irrigation and perhaps who never saw ah irri gated farm before. Some of them have farmed where Nature supplied moisture in the form of rain. Others are city residents who have had no experience, with farming of any kind. but who have been attracted by the stories of immense crops gathered where water has been turned upon arid land. The few who already know something of Irrigation farming as result of practical experience have quite likely farmed in other parts of the country where climatic and soil con ditions are different. In general, then, the men who are to do the actual work of reclaiming our arid lands ara men who have "not mastered the first prin ciples of the science and art they have assumed to practice. They must learn. Like the hop- growers, fruitgrowers and followers of other brches of agriculture, they must. learn Dy costly experience. If one may judge by the appearance of some of the irrigated lands in a new irrigation region, thers are many be ginners who think that plowing a- few furrows for ditches and opening ' the headgate Is all that is necessary for man to do, and Nature will do the rest. Observation indicates existence of the belief that If one cubic foot of water per second for seventy acres is good, two cubic feet will be better. Men who have enjoyed the sense of sight for forty years are pretty gen erally willing to trust their own eyes, but some who have done so have learned that either water runs up hill or they were mistaken about which side of a field was highest. Thus are pointed out some of the first lessons the irrigationist has to learn. These are but a few. They are important. for they involve the loss of a crop or two or the cost of a system of ditches. While there are many lessons that will be and a few that must be, learned by experience, there is -much information that can be - Imparted by public ad dresses and by well-prepared literature. In the Klamath, Umatilla and Des- cnutes irrigation districts there are large numbers of new settlers who know little of ' the use of water fof Irrigation, but who are anxious to learn..- By cooperation of the Govern ment irrigation experts, the private reclamation companies and the Agri cultural College authorities,' means should be devised that will reduce to the minimum errors that lead to loss or failure. Farmers' institutes, planned to meet the reculiar needs of the be ginner in irrigation, should be held In every irrigation district with 'a view to giving the water-users a right start In reclamation and cultivation of their lands. A word of caution and guid ance at the outset will be worth more than criticism of errors a few years hence. Irrigation will add Immense wealth to Oregon. The state can well afford to devote some of its efforts par ticularly to the establishment of best methods among farmers who are en tering upon this system of agriculture. Let the National Irrigation Congress point out the way lnv matters of a general nature, but for detailed in formation that will be every-day use to the farmer, let assistance be given by those in authority within the state. RICHARD MANSFIELD. By the death of Richard Mansfield the English speaking world has lost its most distinguished actor. Since Edwin Booth he had no peer in America, since Henry Irving none In England. Neither Booth nor Irving had a tithe of the versatility that in Mansfield was little short of marvelous. Above all else Mansfield had prodig ious energy and industry. He was never satisfied with one success nor a dozen. While the theater-going public still clamored to see him again in some new role of his own creation, he dis carded it in order to stage another and a better product. Ambitious, restless and proud, with highest id-eals of his art and a deep sense of obligation to his vast clientele, he compressed into one year as much intellectual force as many first-rate actors would expend In a lifetime.. And he .paid the penalty. At 50, when he should have been in his prime, he collapsed. His mantle is too large for anyone now before the public. While a few actors may do Shakespeare acceptably, where will you look for a man who can adapt himself to that delightful come dy "Prince Karl" in .the afternoon, and then give an Incomparably fine- per formance of "Richard III" the same evening? How varied the talents of a man who on Monday night gives us Booth Tarkington's idyllic "Monsieur Beaucalre," and on Tuesday Robert Louis Stevenson's extraprdinary dual personage "Dr. Jekyll and Mx. Hyde." In a man of Mansfield's commanding talent acting is not a secondary art. The author of "A Parisian Romance" did not create the character of Baron Chevrial, and Mansfield's Beau Brum- mel is not a copy of the historical fop. Ana now is so versatile a. man as Mansfield to be classified? Eminent comedian, character actor, of the ro mantle school or tradeglan? He was each and all of these. He was In a class by himself. DRAGON TO THE FRONT. When the dragon stands up the Island kingdom will be lost in the shadow," is the epigrammatic state ment of State Senator Smith, a promt nent Kansas politician, who has been spending several months studying at close range the Far Eastern problem. Like most- of the returning travelers from Japan, Mr. Smith seems firm In the belief that the financial situation alone Is a sufficient bar to any warlike action by Japan. This view is also taken by ex-Ambassador Wright, who arrived in Seattle from Japan Wednes day. The rise of the Nippon- Empire Is without a parallel in the world'i his tory, but it is daily becoming more ap parent that the speed w-ith which it hustled along to glory was too great to be maintained. Japan will always be a great power in the Far East, but It has been growing too fast and must now pause and fill out, and while it is In this process of catching up with Itself, ancient China, which has been playing the part of the football for other powers having interests In the Far Ease, may at last come into its own. When Japan removed its heel from the neck of the Manchu giant It was freely predicted that it would in time take charge of Chinese affairs and whip that vast, unwieldy mass of latent fighting strength into shape where it would prove formidable to the rest of the world. But China is no longer a sleeping giant. The awakening which came with Japan's victory was not .ac companied with any wild desire to fol low the lead of the victors or assim ilate them for leaders either In peace or war. Instead, China for the first time realized the value of foreign learn ing, and with this realization came the understanding that whatever had been accomplished by Japan by reason of the adoption of Western civilization could also be accomplished by China. In this new light China saw the cause of its own weakness, and the cause of Its rival's strength, and from that date the regeneration of China began. The Empress Dowager was not easily turned . from her idpls, in fact she is still lingering with most of them, but she has ceaBed decapitating her Minis ters whOBe suggestions of reform fail to meet with her approval, and the cause has progressed to a point where a few months ago a decree was issued by the Empress granting a constitution and a parliament to the country. The ability of a people who a few years ago were densely Ignorant to discharge the responsibilities of such a govern ment has been questioned, and It may be that the experiment was tried too early, but the dragon- is beginning to "stand, up" and will surely be on his feet in the near future. The hatred for the "foreign devils" Is dying out in the most important districts, and it Is be ing forced out in others. Ample, proof of -this is round in the manifesto re cently Issued by the new Viceroy of Manchuria, which Insists on cultivation of good relations with foreigners and abandonment of anti-foreign demon strations. This manifesto was accompanied by notice of the throwing open to trade of a number of new towns in Manchuria, and is conclusive evidence that China Is at last started on the highway to modern civilization. That it will be a power that must be reckoned with in dependent of Japan or any other Far Eastern country is a certainty, and the time may come when the powers of the world will be called on to prevent its wreaking vengeance on the island king dom tor tne inaignitles of the past . Coal is king when it comes to mak ing a naval fleet effective. The cost of. drawing upon the reserve fund of His Majesty to an extent ihat will enable the Atlantic fleet of the United States Navy to become the Pacific fleet will be an enormous item in the expense ac count of the transfer, since not less than 125,000 tons of coal will be needed for this purpose. This great bulk will be distributed at various ports at which the warships will call while making the long journey around the Horn. A num ber of shipments are already afloat and the ports designated will all be supplied with this potential element of. naval effectiveness before the warships -weigh anchor for their long journey. The dis tribution of this vast bulk of coaf at oonvenlent points along the route is suggestive of a difficulty tjiat Japan will have to face- If ever Bhe attempts to bring a large fleet of warships to the western coast of the United States. Professor Battle, an English physi cian of repute, in a recent lecture In London declared his belief that the spread of appendicitis was due to the world-wide use of American steel rolled flour. The ' well-known London Lancet, a medical journal of high au thority, says: "We are inclined to think there may be good foundation for Pro fessor Battle's theory." Professor Bat tle brings forth the idea that minute particles of Iron are the real cause. He shows that the great increase In appen dicitis first occurred in America just after steel and Iron rollers had been Introduced for grinding wheat. The'in crease in appendicitis occurred first, he says, In towns, where rolled flour was first used. Then it spread to villages, and lastly to negroes, who earlier had escaped, and this spread corresponded with the spread in the use of rolled flour. An invasion of England fol lowed. The much lower cost of Ameri can flour made it almost impossible for any extensive grinding of flour to take place in this country. Professor Battle maintains that there has been within recent years a real increase of appendi citis, and that the records prove it. . Has the maximum price for domestic fuel been fixed by corporations and In dividuals who control the supply? Every householder In Portland has asked this question and no satisfactory answer Is returned. At prevailing rates coal and wood are too great a burden for wage-earners. Is any means of re lief at hand?- Possibly there is. A so lution of the problem is offered by an engineer of lifelong experience, who contributes an article to The Sunday Oregonian tomorrow. Based on fact, not theory, he holds that Portland can be heated business houses as well as dwellings by waste from sawmills at half the present expense. His plan in volves the establishment of municipal heating plants. For such Innovation Portland is not now ready; yet the views of this engineer cannot help but arrest public attention. More than a -quarter of a million per sons have acquired some knowledge of Esperanto, an auxiliary international language designed as an easy means of communication among people of differ ent speech who are familiar only with their mother tongue. It may be quick ly learned. There are less than 2000 root words to be memorised. An arti cle in The Sunday Oregonian tomorrow tells precisely what an Inquirer would wish to know concerning the language. Its devotees make the claim that It solves the problem of oral and written communication between nations. The clear setting forth of, the principles on which Esperanto is based commend the article to every intelligent reader. A story Is told of a woman, traveling upon a scalper's ticket, who was put off a railroad train on a sandy desert in the Southwest and left to perish. While the story is a3 Improbable as pathetic, it will serve to point a moral, viz., do not, unless physically robust and trav eling through a settled region, attempt to practice economy by (buying a scalp er's ticket. Regular rates may be ex orbitant, but it is the part of wisdom to pay them or stay at home. Puget Sound University 'will next year require students to give an ac count of how they spend their evenings. won't vstuaymg psychology" cover a multitude of things? If one studies the workings of the human mind at the same time that a few observations are made of the workings of a human heart, will not a report of the former suffice without an account of the lat ter? . m Over in Seattle it appears to be proved that there has been a comblna tlon between Jockey and bookmakers. and between bookmakers and horse owners, to bleed the - public at the Meadows races. It will be observed mat pretty mucn everybody had a hand in the game except the public, which was made to be swindled. No man should print or keep for sale a picture postal which would give of fense on the ground of decency if it were mailed to his mother, wife, sister or daughter. Min who do engage in the sale of postals of questionable propri ety should not complain If buyers mall them to the lady relatives of the sellers. If you would get some idea of the progress and force of the new move ment and method on the liquor ques tion, take note that the brewers of St. Louis now refuse to sell beer to places that violate the Sunday-closing law. Portland now has a larger population than the six largest cities of the United States contained in 1790. This Is a fact that gives some idea of the growth and progress of our country within little more than one hundred years. The teachers of 'Pittsburg probably understand now that Hon. Bob La Fol lette Is of the non-suppressible kind. Bob proved in the United States Senate that he doesn't nave to have an audi ence to make a speech. Very reluctantly and with a deep sense of disappointment, we surrender hope that the Pacific Coast pennant will float over the Vaughn-street grounds next season. It will be hard to make the impatient passenger believe that Portland street cars run too fast. We don't refer to Mr. R. M. Wilbur. He's a patient pas senger, evidently. Uncle Joe Cannon wants it under stood that he's out of the Presidential race. There never has been any mis understanding on our part about it. Not all of us are able to command the services of a flock of automobiles when we want to make a trip through Central Oregon, Mr. Harriman. Senator Fulton made an important speech yesterday at Corvalli's. It is published In full by The Oregonian to day. Read It. " , SIXTEEN OREGONS AND MORE. Splendid Exhibit of Our Naval Strenartb and Mobility. New Tork Tribune. The voyage" of the Oregon is well re membered. It was such a voyage as no such warship had ever before achieved or undertaken, and its completion without even the shadow of a mishap was gen erally recognized as reflecting the highest credit upon the builders, the captain and the engineer of the ship, and, indeed, upon the Navy and the seamanship of America. Now that epochal performance, multiplied more than sixteen-fold, is to be repeated in reverse order. The Ore gon was in 1898 regarded as probably the most powerful warship In our Navy and perhaps in the world. But -every one of the 16 battleships which are presently. to retrace her course Is much more power ful than the Oregon was in her prime. Together they compose such an armada as seldom has been collected on any oc casion, such as only a few other powers in the world could show, and such as never before has undertaken 'an expedi tion comparable with that upon which they are about to enter. One of the most satisfactory features of the contemplated voyage will be the route selected. There has probably never been any serious question as to what the route would be In case the voyage was undertaken, though here and there the suggestion has been made that it should be by the way of Suez. There are con vincing practical reasons for the choice of the Pan-American route. The voyage from New York to San Francisco is thou-, sands of miles shorter by way of the strait of Magellan than by way of Suez, and the succession of coaling stations is at least as conveniently distributed along the former route. As this is an American fleet going from one part of the American coast to another. It is fitting that it should proceed by the moBt direct course and by ghe one which will keep It longest Jn American waters and closest in touch wth home. And since it is in any case necessary for it to visit some foreign lands, it if preferable that they should be- our sister republics of South Amer ica rather than the countries of Europe. In several distinct respects this voyage will be a valuable object lesson. It will show to South American republics some thing of the militant resources of their great and friendly northern neighbor. It will display to our fellow citizens of the Pacific Coast the flower of the Navy to the construction of which they have large ly contributed and in which they are as deeply interested as are we of the East, but of which they have thus far seen only fractional parts. It will also give the world an Interesting view of our naval strength and mobility. The voyage of the Oregon lent a great Impetus to the movement for an isthmian canal, which had it then existed, would have saved her more than 8000 miles of steaming. The voyage of this armada will emphasize the same consideration, though happily now in contrast, with the conditions of 1898 efficient and expeditious progress is being made toward the supplying of that supreme need of Intercourse between our Atlantic and Pacific Coasts. Modern Syneretlam. The Hebrew Standard reprints this notice from The Butte City Miner: "Christian Science services held in the Jewish Synagogue, corner Galent and Washington streets, Sunday morning at 11 o clock. Subject, 'Soul.' Sunday school at 12:45 P. M. Wednesday even ing testimonial meeting, held in the Synagogue at 8 o'clock. Reading rooms open from 10 A. M. to 4 P. M., 86 and 87 Owsley block. Phone 94-M7. All are welcome." The Standard says, edl torially: "This is the result of radical reform, and then these people who call themselves Jews expect to be esteemed and respected by their neighbors. It Is evident that reform is synonymous with de-Judalzatlon." Mr. Brr is) "Topsy-Tmry." New York Tribune. Mr. Bryan is having a strong at tack of "state rights," if we may judge from reports of his latest speech in Iowa. He denounced Hamlltonianism and "centralization" as fervently a: if he had never out-Hamlltoned Ham ilton by declaring in 'favor of govern ment ownership and operation of the instrumentalities of interstate "com merce. Mr. Bryan seems to suffer from political chills and fever, and his in termlttent federalistic and anti-fed erallstic utterances give his lecture tours a pleasing air of uncertainty and variety. Striking Fame. Fliegende ;Blaetter. "Your last book, madam, had a colos sal success." "I should say so! Every one of my three divorced husbands wanted to re marry me!" COL,. J- HAM LEWIS HAS BEEN DELIVERING . SOME ADDRESSES IN ENGLAND Ladies and Gentlemen, or may I I am somewhat embarrassed. (applause) . . most Intelligent . . . handsome women (applause) Stripes entwined together (applause) north tips with splendor (applause) . day, . race . . . , . the sun-kissed heart of Africa, within a Briton (tremendous applause). .- . . You who have carried ji Ugh ten ment to the uttermost ends of the earth (great applause) . . .vast com mere! a I enterprises (applause) sturdy English husbandry . . mofcu beloved monarch (tremendous ap plause) t . . nobility of English Ideals . . . hands across the 'sea (ap plause) . ... In the words of the Assyrian philosopher. Abdomega . . As the Poet Ranunculus said . . . Britannia rules the sea (applause) . . . The battle of Waterloo (prolonged applause) . . . Bunker Hill (silence) . . . a privilege to speak the same language (applause and laughter) . . . As I once said to Theodore Roosevelt igreat applause) . . . like the rippling waters that caress this beautiful gem of nn Islnnri tremendous applause). . . . Britannia, whose peerless navy (applaufr) ... dominion over millions of grateful subject people . . . That most revered and beloved queen (great applause) . . ' . The Victoria age (applause) ... A whole world will rise and salute with cheers that shall echo through the remotest faBtness of the African Jungle . . . The icy crevasses of t' unconquered peaks of the mighty Himalayas, the lonely atolls of the 'Southern seas tap- plauee) . . . that splendid man, that mighty monarch, that good man. King Edward VII. (prolonged applause). ' , From the Chicago Tribune. ARE Corvallls Gazette. William Jennings Bryan . has long been seeking an issue which .would bring the Democratic Darty Into power and make "himself chief magistrate of the Nation. It let a mighty work, this. Many- excellent, wise and patriotic men have essayed to accomplish it and failed. Mr. Jennings himself has shown to the world how the very best fitted man. In his own estimation, among 80,000,000 may labor and swe,t and groan and yet fall of success for twice he nas found the "real issue" and led a mighty host having it in scribed on its banners to glo- igno minious defeat. He has been mis taken, not in the... man, but in the Issue. But he has found .the real issue at last. It is opposition to control of cor porations and trusts by the Federal Government because this would destroy the last vestige of state rights. He puts it thus: Centralization of power means .the doom of state rights. No threats of the punish ment of the big offenders can counter balance the proposition to deprive the states of their power to regulate the rail roads and other corporations doing business within the state. It mlg'ht be supposed that Mr. Bryan should have shown us an in stance where the Federal Government has sought to regulate railroads and corporations doing business only wl'li- in a state. But few railroads confine their business within the limits -t a single state. The moment they carry their business into two or more states they are engaged in interstate com merce and come under the control of the Federal Government as provided by the constitution. There is here no as sumption of rights by the National Government not clearly and constitu tionally its own, nor any centralization in the Federal Government of power which it has not always had. Mr. Bryan should come out into the open and demand a change In the Federal Constitution wfiieh would take this power out of the hands of Con gress where the framers of the consti tution wisely placed it, and relegate it to the several states where he would have us believe It always has belonged. But he will not do this for he knows, if he knows anything at all worth knowing on the subject, that for years Congress forbore the exercise of its constitutional power and permitted the state to incorporate, regulate and con trol railroads and corporations as they chose. He knows, too, that the states have failed, and In the very nature of things must always fall to exercise any efficient control over such organ izations, and that this flat failure is the prime and chief reason why Con gress took hold of the matter. Does this look as If Mr. Roosevelt, or any one else, for that matter, were attempting unwarranted and mis chievous centralization of power in the Federal Government? Assuredly not. Mr. Bryan knows it does not. He is simply attempting to delude men. He Is playing the demagogue. The Haywood- Csse and tbe Plain People. The Dalles Optimist. "". Laboring men union men do not see how it Is that they cannot make the coun try believe that Haywood Is a martyr. and that o the people" should get down on our marrow bones to him, and elect him to a high office. But when you hear this cry Just make up your mind that it Is like the uncertain cry of the coyotes on the plains, and that a very few men are making a great deal of noise. Look at the fiasco in Denver upon the return of Haywood to that city after the trial. The daily organ of the "gang" had announced that the "martyr was to be welcomed home by a crowd of 50.000. but the crowd at the Union Depot did not number over 500. or 600, and by the time the "grand march" ended at the Albany Hotel this number had been in creased to only about 1000. We are some-i times led to believe that the laboring men are all fools for allowing a lot of cheap-sociallstlc-anarchistic demagogues to lead them into all sorts of troubles; but some times the real working men get an idea into their heads which these so-called leaders cannot knock out, and now the union men as a body are seeing that Hay wood was proven at the Boise trial "al most" guilty so near was he to Orchard that it is impossible to believe that the latter was not in "cahoots" with the leader. And the Denver Incident shows that the better class of union men will not stand for such things, nor make mar tyrs of those who do. Making Oregon "Dry." Pendleton East Oregonian. Oregonian tells of four saloon- The Brothers, for we are all brothers . These Intelligent faces before me In the world (cries of Hear, hear) . The Union Jack and the Stars and . where the Aurora In the frozen the golden riches of Ind whose Once a Briton always WHAT THE STATE PAPERS SAYING. IN THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN TOMORROW -. nam i..i.vW4""'ia'l hl t? i? v If, a m ss 3.-VV. -J ljt E8 -r-s . rr?Ka CROSSING THE GORGE OF THE KLICKITAT Full-paere illustration in col ors of a beautiful scene on the Columbia River & Northern Railroad. HEATING HOUSES WITH SAWMILL WASTE An experienced engineer points out that the cost of warming Portland in Winter can bo ve duced one-half if the task is undertaken by the municipality. WILD ANIMALS AT THE CITY PARK Every child who has visited the park this season will be de lighted with a page picturing the creatures confined there. FINANCIAL FRAUDS ARE EXPOSED Signed article byOeorge B.Cor telyou. Secretary of the Treas ury, on get-rich-quick schemes that fleece the unwary. THREE HUNDRED YEARS ON AMERICAN SOIL How the Episcopal Church of the United States will celebrate its tercentenary next October. AMERICAN TRILBY IN REAL LIFE Brief biography of Bessie Ab bott, prima donna of the Metro politan Opera Company, who can sing only under her sister's influence. AS JAPANESE TEA COMES FROM FIELD Annie Laura Miller tells how the leaves are fired and colored for American use. ARMY OF MEN ON THE NORTH-BANK ROAD Prodigious work now in hand to finish the line to Vancouver by November 15. WOMEN CAN STOP DOCKING OF HORSES Homer Davenport makes an appeal to the fair sex to cor rect a fashionable cruelty. BEHIND THE SCENES WITH THE KHEDIVE Frank G. Carpenter has an interview with the ruler of Egypt, who has only one wife. ORDER FROM YOUR NEWS DEALER TODAY keepers who keep their places open on Sunday, in open defiance of the- law and the Sunday closing order of District At torney Manning. One place in Pendle ton did the same thing, in open defiance of the closing order. This class of saloon-keepers will make Oregon a "dry" state quicker than the prohibitionists can possibly do it. Noth ing makes prohibition sentiment faster than defiant iaw-breaklng. Many con servative people toierate the liquor busi ness and even defend it where it is con ducted on decent lines and closely regu lated by liquor dealers, but the samft con servative peoDle become rabid prohibition ists where there is open defiance of all laws and decency on the part of saloons. It fa Amusing. Pendleton Tribune. Without any necessity for it. Governor Chamberlain In substance apologizes for the appointment of a Democrat as Judge in a district that has not elected a Demo crat since anybody can remember. If the Governor had, since he thinks an explanation was necessary, plainly said that he would appoint a Democrat be cause he himself is one, and believes in Democrats being in office, the public, fully understanding that he is a partisan of the first order, would have said: "Of course, George, we didn't expect anything else. wny snouia we v Execution of a Queen Bee. London Pall Mall Gazette. If the mother-bee of a colony is get ting past her work and she cannot be sent off with a swarm in the usual way, the bees will supersede her. They will deliberately put her to death and raise another queen to take her place. This state execution of the old worn-out queens is one of the moet curious and pathetic things in or out of bee-life. One probe with a sting would suffice in the matter; but the honey-bee is a great stickler for the proprieties. The royal victim must be allowed to meet her fate in a royal way; and she is killed by caresses, tight-locked in the Joint embrace of the executioners until suffocation brings about her death. New England's Totem. Boston Traveler. Fish was the foundation of New Eng land; religion was an incident of its set- tlement.. and religious freedom a very negligible quantity. We do well to hoist the codfish to the summit of our state bouse: the f'.sh remains while the ferocity of religion has attentuated to indifference or worse. The fisherman, not the fanatic, founded the commonwealth. 1