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Eastern Business Office The S. C. Beck with Specisl Agency New York, rooms 4S 80 Tribune building. Chicago, rooms 610-512 Tribune building-- PORTLAND, MONDAY. J I F. gl, 1909. THE CALHOUN CASE. It can occasion no surprise .that the Jury refused to convict Calhoun. It was certain that If It did not dis agree it would acquit; not because there can be a reasonable doubt that Calhoun caused the money to be fur nished by which the Supervisors were bribed but it revolts all sense of fair ness and justice that public officials should rob a man who is doing busi ness, hold him up and make him pay for the right to do business, and then be permitted to save their own car casses, by confession, and send him to the penitentiary. It was almost an acquittal. Yet the grounds on which the jury stood ten for acquittal, two for conviction were not pleaded on the trial at all. They could not be, for the law cannot allow such a plea. But the Jury Inevitably would be guided, or moved to an ex tent, by a principle or sense of pro portional justice. The scoundrels who had been elected to places of authority, and had taken their oath to support the interests of the people, used the opportunity to extort money for themselves. Then, weak as they were corrupt, and each fearing one would tell on another, they all con fessed, under promise of pardon on condition that they should throw the burden on the man whom they had robbed. It is not in human nature to expect conviction at the hands of any Jury, In circumstances like these. San Francisco had been destroyed by earthquake and fire. To restore the carlines in the city as quickly as possible was a necessity. But the ca lamity was so great that money for the permanent underground conduits could not readily be had, and the con struction, moreover, would have taken much time. And Calhoun had ene mies, on all sides. Rivals, represent ing great wealth, had long been trying to hamper, embarrass and beat him Out. These same rivals have since put up very large sums of money to prosecute him. The corrupt Supervisors saw their chance to extort money from Calhoun. They .were a gang of worthless wretches, who had been elected, to gether with the Mayor, by an irrespon sible labor-union movement; and the streetcar company, moreover, was en ; gaged in a struggle with the unions. There cart be no doubt that the money drawn from the mint was used to sat isfy the rapacity ' of the . robbers, o purchase peace for the streetcar company and the right to do business. But after an exhaustive trial, the jury has refused to bring in a verdict of guilty. A week ago The Oregonian anticipated this result, giving these reasons, substantially, to-wit: First, if the people prefer to elect and do elect corrupt rascals to im portant official positions, and a man can save his property and do business only by buying them, there is a feeling that he is in some degree excusable for doing it. Second, when such scoundrels obtain immunity by confession of their own crime, on condition that they will bear testimony against the man they virtu ally forced to pay them money "bringing about his conviction that they may themselves go free the in stinct of human nature may be ex pected to make itself manifest in some of the members of the Jury. Third, since it is the rivals of the Calhoun company -who have supported the prosecution from the first, and who, by their own admission, have put up enormous sums of money to push It, there was certain to be hesitation mong members of the jury to bring in a verdict against the defendant. Of course, it cannot be pretended that the offense of which Calhoun was accused is permissible In law even in these circumstances, nor abstractly in morals. And yet any Jury was sure to feel that a verdict of guilty would, in the circumstances, be a violation of a true sense and principle of propor tional Justice. There is no probability that Calhoun will be tried again; but the prosecution, nevertheless, has ren dered a public service. It has put a etop to this species of corruption for a Ions time, for it is a lesson for the whole country. NOTHING CHEAP ABOUT SUCH LANDS. The Oregonian has recently been be sieged with Inquiries as to the pro posed opening for entry of 700,000 acres of Snokajie. Flathoart anj o,,- d'Alene. Indian reservation lands. To give all available information about this very important event, there was printed yesterday nearly a page of matter, which ought to be a sufficient guide for all who desire to partici pate in the drawing. . The drawing will occur on August 9, 1909. under terms and conditions de scribed yesterday in complete detail. . All -who are land-hungry will have a chance to get lands through homestead entry at their appraised value. It is w-ell enough for all who think they are to get something for little or noth ing not to overlook those significant words "at their appraised value." No appraisement has yet been placed on th) Coeur d'Alene or Spokane lands; but other such lands on these reserva tion. . we are told, are worth about JlOp per acre. On the Coeur d'Alene reservation there will be sold about 1000 farms, all to be appraised on the basis of values for surrounding lands, which are in possession of Indians and are doubtless not purchasable. The Flathead (Montana) lands are cheap er, having been appraised at from J1.25 to $7 per acre. For all who want lands "at their ap praised value" the August drawing -will be a good thing. But they cannot be bought or held for speculation. They must be settled and cultivated in good faith. There are, of course, lands just as good and Just as cheap to be found in many places besides these Indian reservations; but there is ah element of luck about a drawing, and of ro mance and mystery about Indian lands, that will doubtless attract thou sands. VK SHALL ALL SEE. It isn'f good for Oregon to adver tise that the state is "bottled up" by the inertia of our railroad manage ment, without hope of progress; nor is it fair to assume that the announce ment that construction of the line up the Deschutes into Middle Oregon is about to be undertaken is not made in good faith. First of all,' it was neces sary to get right of way from the United States, for any beginning of construction, without such conces sion, would have been stopped imme diately, by the Government. It will be necessary, furthermore, to clear up a number of private contests about right of way; but this should not cause any long delay. The status of water-power claimants on the river may have to be settled, and higher grades taken in places than may be desirable, causing greater expense of construction and less feasible operation; but the repre sentatives of the railroad here say they are anxious to begin as soon as possible, and that the money la at their command for construction of the line. It may be as well, before con cluding that all this is merely a pur pose of deception, to wait a little and see for the Government granted the right of way over -its lands only last week. It does Injury to the state, and no good, to be continually declaring .to the world that Oregon is "bottled up," and has no promise of relief. We want more railroads, indeed, and must have them especially into and through Middle Oregon, and a line to Coos Bay. It is . not now reasonable to suppose that the road up the Des chutes will be much longer delayed. Western, Northern and Northeastern Oregon, so far from being "bottled up," have almost adequate transporta tion. Completion of the Tillamook line is assured within a year. Perhaps it may be just as well to give our native pessimism and dis-. trust a little respite for the present, till we see whether the poject of a railroad into and through Middle Ore gon, so definitely announced, is not now shortly to be executed. Should it not be, then of course the "croak ing raven" again; and he will "bel low for revenge." But we think the men we know here such men as Cot ton and O'Brien haven't tried to de ceive Oregon. DODGING THE POINT. A communication from Olympia, re cently printed in The Oregonian, seems to have unduly incensed the Spokane Spokesman-Review. The Oregonian's correspondent asked some rather pointed questions regarding the dis criminatory rates with which the rail roads have favored Spokane, and The Oregonian in goooT faith answered the questions, assuring the correspondent that he was "correct in practically all of his assumptions." Now comes the Review vehemently charging The Ore gonian correspondent with "downright ignorance," "sheer mendacity," -"stupidity," etc., and censuses The Orego nian for its alleged "attempts to back up the correspondent's ridiculous statements." All of which is unjust and unfair, and again reveals the tre mendously biased and distorted view point from which the Spokane paper looks over the situation. The Review carefully ignores the basis and starting point for the entire contention between that city and the Coast ports. That basic feature was discriminatory freight rates which en abled Spokane to control the jobbing trade for 100 miles in any direction. these discriminatory rates permitted Spokane millers to buy wheat at points nearly 100 miles west of the city, ship it to Spokane for grinding, and then ship the product to the Coast mar kets at the same rate charged the miller 100 miles nearer the Coast, In other words, the advantage of distance from the Coast markets enjoyed by the miller at Colfax, Davenport, Harring ton and other points west of Spokane was all nullified by action of the rail roads in favoring Spokane with a mlll-lng-tn-transit rate. The Oregonian has never questioned the existence of great natural resources in and around Spokane, and in the main agrees with the Review in its statements that mis city (Spokane) Is at the heart of me miana Empire, and the Inland Empire nas an me ncn irrigated valleys and pla teaus. There Is not an Irrigated tract west of the cascade Mountains. This Inland Empire la the rranarv of the Pacinc Northwest. It produces several times aa mucn grain as is raised west or the Cas cades. The Inland Empire has all the rich, pro duclng mines of gold. eoDDer. silver and lead. There are none of these In "Western wasnington or western Oregon. But Spokane is not in the heart of the grain district. There is no grain of consequence produced either north or east of that city, and, were it not for the discriminatory milling-in-transit rate on wheat, there would be little if any more flour manufactured there than was needed for home consump tion. That "granary of the Pacific Northwest" is all tributary to Portland and Puget Sound, because at these ports alone can it find a market from which it can be shipped to the over-sea buyers. Spokane is not in the heart of the wheat country. Walla Walla, Col fax, Rosalia, Rltzville, Davenport, Garfield, Odessa' and a dozen other flourishing cities many miles distant from Spokane are much nearer the "heart of the Inland Empire." Were it not for the discriminatory rates by which Spokane has been built- up, these cities would today be much more important trade centers. . As for the mining industry, Tekoa and Northport, and not Spokane, would be reaping the benefits of that traffic, if they had been given the same rates as the railroads have given Spo kane. The Review closes its column of wanderings away from the mihiARt. with the statement that "since Spokane wants terminal rates and the Portland paper pretends to believe that Spokane is a favorite of the railroads, let us swap. Let Portland take the Spokane tariff and give us its schedule. Will it do it? Not in a thousand years." As has been repeatedly stated, It is not in the through rates from the East that the railroads have practiced the discrimination that ' has built up Spo kane as, a jobbing center. It is in the establishment of an arbitrary and inexcusable Jobbing zone 2 00 miles in diameter for the exclusive exploitation of the Spokane jobbers. Whenever great ocean liners can land goods in the warehouses of the Spokane Job bers as they land them in the ware houses: of the Portland Jobbers, we shall gladly consent to "swap" in freight tariffs. Some day Spokane will wake up to the fact that it was the Almighty, and not the railroads and the Coast jobbers, that placed the ter minal rate handicap on her through business from the East. Of course, however, Portland wouid not "swap rates" with Spokane, be cause Portland has the advantage of the sea, nor ever will, "not in a thou sand years." MISGUIDED EFFORT. They are not persons of good judg ment who make effort to "Christian ize" the Oriental races. The distance between the intellectual, moral and ethical standpoint of these races and their Christian teachers is immeas urable. The religion that takes hold of a people must be developed from within them. The Oriental races are as God made them; and their religious systems are such as have been evolved naturally from their own natures and situations. In so far as they have anv religion at all, they have such as suits them, and no effort to force an exotic system upon them can do them any good. It is effort wasted; it is seed sown in barren soil, that might be sown with promise of increase in good soil at home. The distances between the spiritual instincts and moral life of the West and of the East cannot be bridged by any missionary effort. Nothing can be done even with the Chinese in Amer ica, surrounded as they are here with every kind of influence that tends to inculcation pi ideals other than their own. The completest effect is a mis erable veneer of hypocrisy and cant, grafted on the calculating shrewdness of the Oriental mind. Our misguided men and women who give themselves up to this business, either here at home or as missionaries to Oriental countries, throw away their own legit imate opportunity of working in con ditions where they might have real usefulness yet do no good to those whom they strive to "convert." The tragedy in New York, of which so much has been reported during the past few days, is what might be ex pected by parents who, for the pur pose of "Christianizing" the Chinese, push their daughters into associations that cannot but lead to their degrada tion. These Orientals are as God made them. Let them alone. This is the view that people of rational Judg ment, who do not suffer themselves to be carried away by religious emotion and fervor, hold towards propositions and efforts to "spread the Gospel" among the peoples of the Orient. WHAT IS A LADY? In the Gould divorce suit we are admitted into many matters of mil lionaire fashion, and some secrets. We are informed that a prominent memoer or tne elite must have not less than 100 gowns every year, and "an Infinite number of dainty arti cles." She must have valets, maids, butlers and a host of other personal servants.' She is allowed to receive the attentions of men besides her hus band at hours and in places that in other social strata would be deemed decidedly improper. She may drink largely of intoxicating liquors. Her husband she may order out of her presence with epithets of "hound" and "puppy," and worse. She may kick her slippers into the air, go to bed dressed, and snore in the sight of male servants. In cases of extreme provocation, she may curse her serv ants and husband in unselected lan guage. All these accomplishment. w are led to believe and, indeed, must wait for evidence to the contrary be long to a perfect lady of Gotham's multi-millionaire set. Much as we are inclined to doubt the evidence, there it stands in un impeachable court testimony. In our youth we very much questioned the truth of the Xantippe story, but, of course, have been forced to believe it. Xantippe's husband, Socrates, didn't have in his pocket one tetradrachm to rub against another, whereas Howard has millions of corresponding coins. Whereupon we conclude that Xan tippe, had Socrates possessed several million tetradrachms, would have been a very superlative lady of Athenian fashionable society. Lack of money, therefore, was all that deprived, the wife of Socrates of a place in history as a perfect lady. Here is a list of the indispensable gowns needed each year by members of Gotham's ultra-fashiorr, according to Mrs. Gould's testimony: Morning crowns 32 No. Cost. each. $ 40 to 100 finner gowns .... i ........ . 3 5 350 to 800 350 200 350 170 ISO ISO 150 500 reception gowns 13 Street (towns 24 ' House gowns n Negligee gowns e Klding suits ......... 4 Yachting suits o Tailored suits R Evening wraps 6 250 to 100 to SO to 90 to 250 to . scans, fans, um brellas, handkerchiefs, perfumes, veils, toilet articles and an infinite number of dainty articles. The world's authorities never agree on all the fine points that constitute a lady. Some think she should be dressed thus and others so. Manners and conduct that please one expert on the subject do not satisfy another. On one point, however, there is uni form agreement a lady must have millions of dollars at her beck and call; all mode artists, tradesmen and chauffeurs tell us that. This propo sition is made the clearer by the re flection that before Mrs. Gould got hold of Howard's millions she was no lady at all, only an actress whom the Gould family disdained. ALL ROADS LEAD TO PORTLAND. There is nothing surprising in the announcement that the Chicago, Mil waukee & St. Paul Railroad will en ter Portland territory over the rails bf the O. R. & N. Co. With the neces sity for economy of operating expenses ana maintenance forcing everv rail road in the country to seek the best grades and the shortest mileage, it was a certainty that the Milwaukee would seek an easier route for reaching Portland territory than by way of Pu get Sound, the point for which the road has been heading since its Pacific Coast extension was ordered. The dominating influence in the Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad is what is known in Wall street as "the Stand ard Oil crowd." The same persons are also very heavily interested in the Harrlman railroad properties. As the Rockefeller fortune has not reached its present colossal proportions by un necessary expenditure and opposition, it is but natural that there should be no competitive railroad building be tween their Milwaukee road and the Harriman lines, in which they are also interested. The O. R. & N. line between Port- land and Tekoa, Wash., which is near the junction point with the Milwaukee road, is a remarkably well-built road, with 'Water-level grades for practically the entire distance. By the new traffic arrangement Portland shippers are given the choice of a new route to the East which will take them direct into new territory not reached by the lines already in operation out of this city. Aa the Milwaukee will, under the agreement with the O. R. & N., be in position to deliver large quantities of lumber from Portland territory in a field heretofore reached only by the Northern Pacific, there will undoubt edly be an increase in the rivalry be tween the two great systems on which the Pacific Northwest is so largely de pendent. Knowledge of this coming traffic agreement may have hastened the ac tion of the management of the Hill lines in ordering .immediate construc tion of the branch road from Connell to Adrian. This braneh will cut the Milwaukee out of the only new grain territory tapped by the road, and, as the Hill branch will afford a downhill haul to Portland, very little grain will find its way over the Cascade Moun tains by the Milwaukee road. With excellent traffic facilities over every transcontinental road now in opera tion in the United States or Canada, Portland, with a water-level route from the interior and a deepening channel at the river entrance, has nothing to fear from any other city on the Pacific Coast. This prestige, which is causing the most rapid growth the city has ever known, will be further enhanced by early completion of the Central Oregon and the Tillamook lines and extension of the electric line systems out of the city. Senor Velez, in discussing the unsuc cessful attempt of Spain to recover $60,000,000 from Cuba, expressed the opinion that "the result of the nego tiations was not fraught with the least danger to the amicable relations be tween Cuba and Spain." The Spanish Minister of Finance is said to have ex pected payment of the claim, which he considered "but a slight return, for the enormous sacrifices made by Spain for Cuba's prosperity." It is undoubtedly the recollection of what happened a few years ago, when Spain was en gaged in collecting for Cuba, that im pressed Senor Velez with the belief that relations between the two coun tries woukj remain amicable. The Spanish Minister of Finance, with an even more painful recollection of the happenings in old Cuba, will presum ably continue to regard the $60,000, 000 as" such a "slight return" that he will make no further effort to collect it. Proof of the rapid Influx of popula tion into Canada is supplied by the Canadian Superintendent of Immigra tion, who, in a speech at Ottawa a short time ago, said that 146,908 per sons from other countries had en tered Canada as settlers during 190 8, and he estimated that at least 200,000 would come in during the present year. Of these, he predicted that not less than 70,000 would come from the United States. A writer in a recent number of the Century Magazine stated that the number of persons who had migrated from the United States to Canada during the last six years was estimated at no less than 388,000 more people than dwell in the State of Vermont. The Skeena River Indians, like the Central Oregon "Indians," are trying to drive the . white settlers out of th country, and it is feared that blood shed will result. The Indians claim that the whites are Bettling on land which is theirs by right of possession. The only real difference between the red men of the Skeena and the barn burners, sheep-killers and fence-cutters of Central Oregon is that the Skeena Indians have some semblance to a claim against the land which the whites are appropriating, while the Central Oregon outlaws have no claim whatever on the land from which they see 10 anve tne settlers. Miss Mary Adele Case is desirous of singing in opera and is confident that sne can sing roles. that are impossible to many singers because nf tVioir build." Mary should remember, how ever, that their "build" has helped quite a few singers along In ODera where their voices otherwise rwonlrl have kept them on the 10-20-30 circuit warbling "When the Swallows Home ward Fly" and similar classics of the musical stage. A Kelso (Wash.) hotel DroDrietor sued to recover payment of a board bill tor which the boarder's trunk was held as security, and a jury decided the bill must be paid. The boarder brought counter suit for legal advice. News dispatches conveying the information do not state what the .advice was, bu it is not improbable that it was against holding a boarder's trunk for his bill. Coal mined at Scott's Mills is said to have an efficiency for steaming and heating that equals the Rock Springs product. Scott's Mills is in Marion County, and old line and trolley peo ple nave an eye on the possible ton nage. ' This mine may eventually fur nish Portland's cheap fuel. Mr. Harriman is in Vienna, ill and weak. A man no sooner creates a kingdom but he is unable to rule it. He strives to amass wealth, only to find money will not buy what he wants. Perverse world, this. ? v Forger Ross, who has gone to the penitentiary, made a mistake by plead ing guilty. Bank-Wrecker Ross, who didn't make that mistake, was con victed long time ago; but that's all. A Sacramento girl who two months ago eloped with her husband has eloped with another man. It is a draw back to matrimony that a girl can elope only once with her husband. Mark Twain has attached the home he gave his ex-secretary as a mar riage gift. The Joke is on Mark, and he can't see' it. Russia has had an airship built in France. We suppose there . are Frenchmen in Russia to sail it. The Columbia River salmon pack is again below normal. That makes less for the salmon-men to fight over. Mayor Lane will take some of his rubbish with him out of office, but only a small part of it. Of course Binger Hermann was one of the earliest to hear about the Cal houn jury. LIKE IX THE OREGON COTTNTRY. More to Come. Independence Enterprise. Portland has elected a Republican Mayor. Will wonders never cease? Wont It Might Have Bean. Eugene Register. Still, Mr. and Mrs. Bean who named their baby girl "Lima" have done worse, we suppose. They might have named her "Boston," for instance. Listen to tbe Fnuse. Newport Signal. People who get fooled about every time the alarm rings at the station will do well to remember that three taps followed by a pause means busi ness. Old Yamhill In Its Travels. McMinnville News Reporter. There were about 600 tickets sold to Portland at this place last week, besides a great many for other places. Our people are of the kind that enjoy the various kinds of entertainments which are being instituted all over our county at the present age. Real Fun In Prospect. Astorian. Dr. B. Owens-Adair was in the city yesterday morning on matters of busi ness, and while here announced that her big new barn on "Sunnymead" ls just about finished, with Its three floors, at a cost of practically $3000. The good doctor intends to give a regular old fashioned barn dance as soon as It is completed, and to that end was hiring a band here yesterday. Everybody Snvr It, So It's True. Pilot Rock Record. A phenomenon was witnessed in Pilot Rock Wednesday that almost passes belief. A sheet of newspaper was caught up by a current of air and carried to a height of perhaps 500 feet. The paper ascended like a balloon, be ing In no particular hurry, and went nearly straight up, although there was no whirlwind or anything out of the ordinary In the condition of the air currents to cause It to do as it did. When it got ready it came down slowly, fluttering back and forth like a bird. No person who saw it, including the usual oldest inhabitant, could give a reasonable scientific reason for the strange sight. Where Ther Drew the Line. Hlllsboro Argus. J. A. Zimmerman, of Roseland Farm, was up Tuesday, and says that several young ladles down in his section went over Sunday night and charivarled Vic tor Nord, the 37-year-old groom, and his 80-year-old bride. The young ladies, he states, found no one at the house, but later found the bride and groom at , the barn,' where they were entertaining their friends to & regular old country luncheon with a large keg of "hop Juice.". And all went merry as a wedding bell. It la rumored that the young ladles attired themselves like their brothers before they made the visit, but they couldn't stand for the beer, and refused to indulge. THE MYTH OF JESUS Something About the Records Their Interpretation. PORTLAND, Or., June 20, (To and the Editor.) The life and achievements of Jesus have had larger shares in direct ing the Intellectual and moral develop ment of Europe and America than all else combined; and yet, the details of his personal character are shrouded in obscurity. The scantiness of historical records of his life may be . attributed to two causes. In the first place, the activities of Jesus were private rather than public. Confined within narrow limits, both of duration and space, it made little or no impression on the literature or politics or tne time. Secondly, Jesus did not leave behind writings of any discrlption whloh might serve to throw historic light upon hlmsell or his career. 1 It is true, many of the words of Jesus were preserved by others which it ls believed have come down to probably with little alteration In the four evangelists. And yet, the historic data thrown upon the life of Jesus by the evangelists themselves, are in the main vague and uncritical. The evan elists were absorbed rather by the con tinuation of his Immediate return to earth as a ruler and king. They lived in hourly anticipation of this. The end of all things being so near at hand, no attempt was made to insure accurate and complete memoirs for future use. It was thought they would not be needed. In fact, the first Christ ians wrote but little about anything. Not until differences of opinion be gan to disturb the harmony of Jesus' early followers, did they see the neces. sity of written standards to which ap peal could be made, and even then were these records made chiefly for dogmatic purposes. While no historic truth was violated, such incidents only in the life of Jesus were selected as might favor : thir views of what he meant to do or teach. Their aim was more polemic than historical. Any attempt to deal with the life of Jesus upon purely historic methods. would have been regarded probably with indifference. Spinoza, and Lessing, In the 17th and 18th centuries, are the first men of erudition to deal with the life of Jesus on purely historical lines, followed closely by a host of others, including the incomparable critics, Strauss, Baur and Renan, whom tne dimlnltlve rabbi, Bimard, of Minne apolls, In "The Jewish Tribune," of 11th Inst., feebly imitates. This any scholar win readily detect. But we have not far to go in search of the reasons why the rabbi would have Jesus a myth. Jesus' declara tlon of the fatherhood of God, and the brotherhood of man, was never special ly attractive to a Jewish rabbi. C. E. CLINE. A John Brown Pageaat, July 4. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. One of the most interesting pageants planned for the celebration of Independence- day will be that of John Brown and his underground railway station at 31 Franklin street In this city. That period of the life of John Brown in Springfield will be enacted as faithfully as possible, and an at tempt will be made to show as graph ically as may be just how Brown as sisted the fugitive slaves on their way to Canada. The old house in which he lived in this city and where he sheltered many fugitives and. often held secret meetings, ls still standing at 31 a ranKiin street, and it will be the cen ter for the John Brown pageant. Fhlrty-three-Pounu Mushroom. Pittsburg Dispatch to the New York World. Dr. Allen J. Willetts. a professor at Carnegie Tech, discovered near Mill vale a mushroom 22x32 inches in di mensions, 9 inches thick, and weigh ing 33H pounds. It. is said to be the , biggest ever found except one, which weighed 45 pounds. The mushroom appears to have grown in 48 hours. It grew so fast the blades of grass cut through it. World's Reeord Tarpon Caugrht. A dispatch from Tarpon, Texas, says that L. G. Murphy while fishing at the latter place landed the world's record tarpon, measuring 6 feet and 8 inches In length. The catch was taken on a 9-ounce rod with a 9-thread line. HIS WHISKERS A LOVELY RROVW I What In the World Happened, Yon Think, to Representative Ellis r Washington Times. If any of Washington's leading tonsorlal artists receive hurry-up calls this after noon from the Capitol they'd better run quick like the medicine man. because there's big doings in the whlskatorial line up on the Hill, and Representative Wil liam Russell Ellis -of Oregon may be bent upon the destruction of the most ornate pair of long-flowing, bristling. etc. whiskers this side of the Columbia River. i-nereoy nangs the following tale: 1 1 'j me lonowing taie: i Never since the day when William Rus- iii Gnia Y- n. . f well-known barber shop of Heppner and rtar-ll v, u T - , , . decided he would grow a beard and go to Congress, has he received Buch a shock came to mm all unexpected this morn ing. When the news is flashed to Baker in Clatsop and Cmatilla and similarly euphoniously named counties in Oregon. every one of the 35,57 voters who cams out for William Russell Ellis at the last Congressional election, and many of the o,w wno were misled into votmsr for John J. Jeffrey, and some 3SB5 who ro istered their preference (Socialists tnr G. Sanders, and the others of the 26S6 who proniDiuoned at the polls with H. C. Shaffer, will rise up on their 'posterior' limbs ar-d ululate which is going some in Oregon. From Mt Hood to the Cali fornia line, Oregon will tremble with wrath and the doorkeeper in- the house on tho hill perhaps would better tremble, too, for he. say it genfly, almost ejected William Russell Ellis, of Pendleton, from the House chamber. Think of that. William Russell Ellis, his brown shining in the soft yellow electric light like walnut wood on a wet night, his brown hair slick with the parpss of an Oregon pine-backed brush, strode through mam uoors tnio tne Mouse chamber this mornlnar rendv tn rir, hu v. h 250,326 constituents out in the Second dis trict or Oregon. He wandered to a seat composedly while the doorkeeper looked and looked and looked a third time. "And who is yonder person?" murmured Doorkeeper Lyon to himself as he looked uHgerousiy at William Russell Ellis. He ;s not, methinks. a member of this august assembly. I shall put him hence." wnereupon said Mr. Lyons, being a man of action, started to put out William Rus sell. Before he got there. kind friend stayed his ruthless hflnd "That." said .the frlnH trt rtnrt.triun.. Lyon, "is Representative Ellis of Ore gon." But he had white wl-kers." "Time," remarked someone ..nt.nft. ously as they say In storv books. cnanges all tr.ings." Now many peoDle about the 1-or.ifoi wondering if time is the only thing that can chai.ge things. But meanwhile r-it- sop and Baker and Umatilla are likelv to roar tonight when they hear the news, and Washington tonsorists may be sum moned by hysteric calls for tonsoric work at the Capitol. William Rn ssall 1111. may want a shave. NEW IDEA FOR LUMBER TARIFF Put Duty on low-Class Material, Thus Protecting Hlgh-Grade. PORTLAND, Or.. June 20. To the Ffli. tor.; Apropos or the "tariff on lumber' is it not peculiar that our lumbermen have not considered what their actual requirements are in this direction?- All realize fhere should be some orotectinTi on me industry, out those who aro di reciiy interested in the buslns ior, know to what extent the protection should 00 appnea. In the manufacture of lumbni- f- in struction purposes, a vast amount of ma terial is cut into what is termed side lumb3r. The mills must have an outlet for this class of lumber, otherwise the manu.acture or dimension lumber ls pre cluded except at a nrohihitlvo t.ri Therefore, If, measures are taken in r. .cm. mo uooamg or our markets with the class mentioned it acts as a protection to the hightr grade of lumhe.r. ir a duty were imposed of 1' r thou sand feet on all sizes of lumber less than two -inches in thickness and ten lnchea in width (excepting first-grade flooring. Biumg, etc.); n per thousand on laths and pickets, with all other sizes of lum ber admitted free, ample protection would be afforded and possibly a great deal of luo B.-uafomsm manifested in Cnnn.. would bo withdrawn. - Possibly the strained situation could be ameliorated If our millmen were to dis cuss the subject on these lines and advise uui xepieseniauves accordingly. R. CHILCOTT. THE MIRACLES OF JESUS. Reversal of the Principles on Which They Were Once Accepted. MILTON, Or., June 19. (To the TO1tn- The recent utterances in The Or,cnni.n icSa.iuins me miraculous works of Jesus and the matter of the element of myth In the story of Jesus of Nazaxeth the undersigned to remark briefly that me mea. 01 an inaweiiing God, now so strongly entertained by devout thinkers does not ask for God to come Into the wunu m an unusual way, because he is already in the world. Miracles are not now so much an evidence of Christ and Christianity as they were formerly and Instead of believing in Christ because of miracles the tendency of many un orthodox persons ls to believe in the miracles because of Christ. It is a good thing to have a natural order of things about us in which we can rely, and our prayer is that God may not make miracles so frequent as to shatter our trust In the uniform action of law. Jesus did not put much emphasis upon the miracles which the New Testament records, and the strong mind forgets the signs and dwells upon me enaunng. if miracles are de ma.no.ea Dy tne administration of the affairs of time from God, these miracles uo not stana alone, but have a subordi nate piace m tne construction of the city 01 vjoa among men. ubieties, gone tongues, gone knowledge, but faith, hope and charity Jb. J. HOADLEY. Violin String Snaps Reason. Terre Haute, Indiana, Dispatch. Douglass Hall, aged 50, a rich farmer of Edgar County, Illinois, suddenly be came insane when a string of a vio lin he was playing snapped. The end of the string struck him on the shoul der and he imagined that his shoulder blade had been cut off. A number of years ago he was. under treatment at the Kankakee Hospital for the Insane. A KEW 8QLXB8. "Heard about Jinks?" "No what's hap pened?" "He's quit drinking" "Oh. poor chap! Did he leave his family well pro vided for?" Cleveland Leader. Sunday School Teacher What was Adam's punishment for eating the forbidden fruit Johnnie? Johnnie (confidently) He had to marry Eve. Life. "I see they have the same means of rounding up the lambs in Wall street as shepherds have in the field." "What is that?" "A crook." Baltimore American. He (teaching her bridge) When In doubt it's a good rule to play trumps. She But that's just It; when I'm In doubt I don't know what the trump is. Philadelphia Re cord. Shoe Salesman I'm afraid these shoes will pinch you a trifle, madam. I suggest that you try what we call our h'm our contracted No. 6. Customer No. sir: I won't wear a 6. Have you an expanded No. 5? Chicago Tribune. "So Cayuse Charley met his fate at the hands of a posse?" "Yep." answered Three flngered Sam. "What was the trouble?" "His immejit difficulty was a lack of judg ment as to speed. He helped himself to a horse but didn't pick one that was fast enough to keep ahead of the party as went after him." Washington Star. "I wish T could builH up my shoulders." declared the daughter of the house. "A phveical culture magazine." observed her father, "states that it can be done by grasp ing a broom firmly with both hands and moving it in a methodical manner across tha floor from right to left. Why don't you try it?" "Why. father, that would b sweep ing!" Louisville Courier-Journal. GERMANY AND ENGLAND. German . Pamphleteer Sees Germany Rise on British Ruins. i ,A .brllHant Pamphlet is being circu lated In Germany which describes the coming debacle of the British Empire, out of whose ashes a universal Ger m.,nJS",iCelgrnty ls to-arise. It is en titled After the Storm." the storm be ing a great European war. The result iausimia is mat her "world-wide , empire collapses like a house of cards," following "the destruction of her fleet." ! Before this "storm" v-ni.,.. ,,, vi n r.. , . ...... . ? ,1 Umii.,a.to fvery Breat BPre in turn. Victorinuj Pnio -.. f tL l , commani t England to turn DECk before the E-aree nf i-'nnc tinople; France met the same fate at fashoda, where she was compelled to strike her colors; and Germany was obliged during the Boer war to sub mit to the holding-up and searching of her proud merchantmen by British cruisers like the ships of any little piratical state." But the end of England will come, it appears, with the dismemberment and destruction of the whole British fleet off Heligoland, continues a symposium of opinion in the Literary Digest. The North Sea alrshl bombs which blow the admiral's shins to atoms. The German Tl ft. W f rtl 1 rt wn up this stroke, and th Rniriiah iron. ciads in flight are broken up by Ger man guns and aerial bombs. The news is carried to England by a German army corps. The failure of the entente cordials with France ls here pointed out. France has been Invaded and occupied by a vast German army, and Japan, which had pledged herself to send England a reinforcement of 100, 000 men, seizes Hongkonar instead Far from bringing anv asslstnnr.A n she had promised. Russia sends her Cossacks into India, and thus forestalls a second Sepoy uprising, and it is only wirougn tne intervention of Italy that Egypt ls saved from a bloody Insurrec tion. Then South Africa Tjubllshes a rl .-! ra tion of independence and hoists the flag of the United Free States of Africa. At this point our Government puts In an oar and Congress passes a resolution .that American troops are to march into Canada "for the preserva tion of law and order." The German pamphleteer rubs It In still more sav agely by his solution of the home-rule question, and Ireland becomes an in dependent republic. As German shins sweep the ocean, the commerce of Eng land is paralyzed, all the Drovlslon shios are seized and the government, seeing that famine stares the country in the face, submits to a humiliating peace. a straw may tell which wav the wind . blows, ' and the tone of "After the Storm" positively bears out the saying of the Kreuz Zeltung (Berlin): "It ls nothing but the policy of the ostrich to shut our eyes to the fact that we are constructing our fleet against Eng land and against England alone." The nerman pamphleteers and German jour nalists wno so frankly avow Germany's oDject and predict .an Anglo - German conflict find their views echoed in England, where H. W. Wilson utters many forebodings in the National Re-, view (London), supposed to be the or gan of King Edward. Here we read: "The naticn. which in 18S4 attacked and despoiled Denmark; which in 1866 attacked and defeated Austria: which in 1870-71 picked a quarrel with France, levied an indemnity of 200,000,000 upon her, and annexed two French prov inces; which in 1905 suddenly threat ened France with war unless she dis missed her Foreign Minister; and which In 1909 menaced- Russia with Invasion unless Russia surrendered to Austria, is not likely to spare England if given a chance of effecting that 'settlement' which Tritschke a generation ago fore told would be the 'last and most diffi cult' for the German people. An in demnity of a thousand millions, an ex penditure of five hundred millions on our own army and navy too late to se cure success, and the destruction of British credit, trade and Industry, will oe tne penalties 01 any weaaness on our part.' There ls only one way 'in which such a calamity can be averted by developing our armed strength to the utmost without delay, and by con centrating our whole attention upon survival In the struggle for existence which has been forced upon us." The conflict is foretold also by Gaston Dru, in the Echo de Paris, but with a different sequel. This writer charges Germany with designs on Eng land for ths purpose of establishing a universal monarchy, a purpose doomed to failure. THE "IT A RD S HELL" BAPTISTS Why One of Them Was Led to See the Merits of Education. Berea College Quarterly. The "Hardshells" had their virtues and their place, and they have not en tirely left the stage yet. A representa tive of Berea, within the last few months, found real pleasure in convers ing with two of those pioneer preach ers in different localities, some dis tance from each other. They are fear less and ready talkers. Neither they nor any of their number were ever ashamed of themselves or their views. Strangely enough, they both professed to be advocates of education. One of them told of the progress of his son in his studies; and the other was eager to relate how the Lord had shown him the necessity of "larnln"" and his own efforts to get It after it was too late. This good man said that many of his brethren to not believe In education and preach against it, but that they are in the wrong, and he can prove it to them or to any one, for that matter. And he proposes to do It as long as he lives. And this. In his own quaint way, was his proof, and, at the same time, the manner of God's revelation of the great truth to him: "You know thar hain't but one God; air they? The tiible makes that air plain; don't it? Well, now, you've seed the place in Zekiel whar it says 'Zeklel seed the four creeters in a vision? Now, Brother Jones preached on this here vision onst, an' I heered 'lm; an' he called the four creeters four Creators. Now, what is that but' preachin" aginst God's Holy Word? An' It was all owin' to Frother Jones-ea not bein" egicated enough to krectly pernounce 'creeters. So, ever since, I've ben sayin' people orter be egicated; fur God hain't a wantin' 'm to believe in any mpre gods" than him." Nods of assent greeted him from the little band that had edged in to hear what was being said; and the one that had led him out to speak so freely thought his argument might pass for sound reasoning anywhere. Chicago Makes Paper Milk Bottles. TJtica (N. T.) Press. A Chicago company has announced the manufacture of paper single-service milk. bottles In three sizes quarts, pints, and a half pint size for cream. They are made of pure fiber paper afid refined paraffin. The idea ls to have them absolutely sanitary. The manu facturers say that they can bo placed upon the market for a half cent each, and the milkman will be likely to con sider these cans at that price a measure of economy, for it means that there will be no cans to wash and scald, no breakage, no second trip back for the bottle, and they are lignt to transport Estate With a Wheelbarrow. Philadelphia Dispatch. In the will of Edwin Miller, of Ce menton. Pa, the estate was left to his widow, the testator insisting that an old wheelbarrow should always re main a part of it.