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Facts along the lines Indicated are known to all. Less "known are the characteristics which are a part of the life of the Japanese people the quali ties that enable them to present to the world cheerful and smiling faces In the presence of the loss of thousands upon thousands of their numbers. They do not sit down supinely in the shadow of a great grief, but take up the burden iwith courage born of true patriotism, and. as they express it, "crying within, swallowing their tears," go bravely for ward, bury their dead and send the liv ing to fill the depleted ranks ot the army. So great is the number of their dead, and so profound the desire of the people and the government to honor even the lowliest son of Japan who has given his life for the nation, that joint funerals are held for those of each com pany or battalion whose ashes have been returned to .Nippon. Rev. J. H. De Forest, correspondent of the New York Independent in Japan, furnished that journal in a recent Issue an article upon Japanese military funerals that must bring all who read it close to the living heart of Japan. It is with the deepest sympathy that he touches upon the grief of a brave people. In describing the funeral cere monies he refrains from criticism of any customs or beliefs that are foreign to the Christian religion. His effort is rather to bring out the fact that the sorrow of the liuman heart is alleviated among all peoples by religious cere monies, which in this case are linked with precious customs and rooted in the history of a nation. Dr. De Forest tells us that when an officer falls his body Is burned and a handful of charred bones is put in a cubical box about four inches in size and sent home to the military quarters where he was formerly stationed. .But where thousands of common soldiers perish, their bodies are burned In one grand funeral pyre, from which frag ments of the remaining bones" are taken and put in these tiny coffins, one for each of the dead, with his name carefully written on it. These, too, are returned to Japan and distributed in the various temples, where the last rites are performed in the presence of rela tives and friends. This custom serves the double purpose of purifying the air of the battlefield for the protection of the living and bestowing suitable hon ors upon the dead. It is popularly supposed that the Japanese are devoid of sentiment in matters of this kind. But this recital disproves this idea. These boxes are often accompanied by tufts of hair or bits of clothing cut off and sent as me mentoes to the relatives of the dead sol diers, by whom they are as sacredly cherished as are any mementoes from the battlefield that come back to any people. A picture before which men and -women of all classes in Toklo stand dn reverent -silence is that of a young mother with her little boy by her side gazing at a lock of hair, a blood-stained coat and two medals just arrived from the battlefield. The experience ex pressed in the picture is going on in thousands of homes in Japan, Indicat ing the wordless grief of the people. With quaint ceremonies and expres sions of deep grief, touched with the joy of victory, the funeral services over the dead of Port Arthur were celebrated in the various temples of Japan. The farewell words uttered by the priests of Buddha to the spirits of the depart ed soldiers implied not only a belief In the immortality of the soul, but that the spirits are very near sharing the joys and sorrows of those who remain. It is the popular belief that the souls' of the departed can 1e called together for certain anniversaries -and that they form a cloud of witnesses around the living. This belief as tangible as any other is a comfort to the Japanese. No belief can be more than this to any people. It is based upon sentiments that lie deep in the national heart, that profoundly, affect the spirit pZ patriot ism, and that account in no small de gree for the soldiers' persistent courage and fearlessness of death that have so astonished the "Western world. We may regard the black-robed priests intoning prayers to Buddha on the one hand, and the white-robed mourners on the other, as' pagans, and their solemn services as but heathen rites, but if these people are comforted and these ceremonies distill the essence of reverence, of courage, of patriotism, of cheerfulness, of resignation, it must be acknowledged that Christian belief can do no more, and that the religion of Japan is the religion suited to the Japanese. SHALL NIAGARA FALLS GO TOO? The American people are squandering their patrimony. To readers who will find it impossible to credit this tale, the future historian will tell of forests equal in area to France or Germany cajoled from the thriftless prodigal by the arts of the common swindler; of arable lands to plant an empire on granted to unworthy favorites; who in return for his easy gifts bullied and plundered him of what he had left; of a nation's highways awarded to domineering cor porations which used their power to im poverish commonwealths and ruin cit ies; he will tell of the quaint devices which these hangers-on of the Sover eign People practiced to divert the profits of Industry Into- their own treas uries, of the rebates, the icing charges, the Ingenious classifications of freight; and to cap his climax he will relate how these courtiers of the back stairs whee dled authority from their facile sover eign to despoil the historic monuments of their country. During the last twenty years nine franchises have been granted by the Legislature of New York to nine different companies o divert water from Niagara Falls; and these franchises have in every case been given away. The ancient arts of cajol ery and cunning are not less richly available to despoil a simple prodigal when he Is the Sovereign People than when he is a country gawk or a booby king. We of this generation read the thrift less tale without astonishment. Such folly has lost Its power even to make us smile, for it is the commonest com monplace of current history; but it Is worth reflecting on. The Americans claim to be a prudent and practical na tion; we boast of our genius for af fairs quite as much, to say the least, as we do of our triumphs in literature and science .and with quite as much reason. Possibly, we admit, the shrewdest of us may be fooled once, but never twice by the same trick. The man whom that calamity befalls opens the ques tion of his practical wisdom to dubious debate. What, then, shall we say of the prudence and genius for affairs of a commonwealth that has yielded with a complacent and verdant smile nine times over to the same swindle? Seven of these deplorable franchises place no limit upon the quantity of water to be diverted from the falls, but these seven are sleeping and two of them are hap pily dead. It is to be hoped that the slumbers cf the other five may outlast those of their Ephesian predecessors of a fame less evil, but that is not likely. The two companies which are actively exploiting their franchises may law fully divert 16,300 cubic feet of water per second from Niagara Falls. Cana dian companies have been authorized to divert 32,100 cubic feet per second more, making 48,400 cubic feet per second by which the flow over the falls will surey be diminished without much delay. The total average flow Is 224,000 cubic feet. The quantity to be diverted will lower the level of the water to bedrock next to the American shore, where it is somewhat shallower than on the Cana dian side. But this is not all; the plot thickens. Proposed exploitations which are not unlikely to be authorized will divert 90,000 cubic feet per second from the falls. This is much more than one third of the total flow, and will cause the" American channel to go dry. When greed has achieved this triumph over the simplicity of the Sovereign People there will be no Niagara Falls on the American side, which will be bad for the hotels, to say the least, for the vis itors to the falls now number 800,000 a year. Such has been the husbandry of New York. Canada and America In adminis tering this tremendous trust for the human race. In the guilt of its spolia tion all of them must share. Those sinister children of the law, the corpo rations, will be abused for it, and they are not Innocent; but to put the burden of blame upon them is like berating saloon-keepers because men get drunk. The corporations which hold the fran chises are about to accomplish the ruin of what has been a glory to America and a joy to the whole world, but the shame and guilt are upon the People, that prodigal who has thrown away this and other priceless possessions in gifts to his flatterers and pimps. Per haps he has begun to waken to his folly; he has been heard to aski "Is there any way to get them back?" He has even been detected boo-hooing over the matter. lamentably voicing a regret which sounds something like a growl. At least it seems likely that he will squeeze out of his beneficiaries some better ultimate pay than TImon got, or even Esau. But Niagara FaVs is not commensur ate with cash. The Roman Carnegie in the play offered Pygmalion pay by the pound for his statue, whose beauty tempted Jupiter to repeat the prime miracle of creation; but the millionaire failed to hit upon the right standard of value. Galatea was not on sale for gold. The companies which are to di vert this precious 90,000 cubic feet per second from" Niagara Falls, and a pro portionate share from the permanent happiness of mankind, have paid noth ing for their privilege; but had the trade been a double eagle for every drop, the public would still have been Immeasurably the loser. The world will be less fit to live in with Niagara ruined. Money cannot pay for a de crease in the value of life. The women of Jerusalem who roasted and ate their babies were starving. Josephus assures us. We shudder and forgive them. Over this cosmic crime of the murder of Niagara we shudder, and' shall not forgive. Nobody Is starving-for im proved breakfast foods. Nor shall we be forgiven. The school boy of the future will recite our in famy in his lessons. It will be enumer ated among the enormities that have blackened epochs. We shall be remem bered with Omar, who -burned the Alex andrian library, and the Anabaptists, who wrecked the cathedrals of the Netherlands. e bewail the theft arid desolation of our forests, but the ground is always left where the trees stood and it may yet grow wheat and apples. The great lords who domineer over our highways may In time think best to disgorge their franchises and re store the freedom of commerce; for all this there is a balm in Gilead of one odor or another.- But what consolation shall be found for the man of the future who must - look upon a mere gaping wound in the dolomite where we have beheld the emerald current of Niagara? FITZHUGH LEE, AMERICAN. In the death of Brigadier-General Fitzhugh Lee, the old South, the new South and the Nation at large loses an able man who at all times and under all circumstances held a high place in public regard. As a soldier, a diplomat and a statesman, the record of the de parted General Lee is one of which any man might well be proud. To very few men is given opportunity to play such 1 a prominent n&rt in th mnirinr nt ,t. tory as was enjoyed by the gallant Southerner who passed away at Wash ington Friday. With the blood of the famous "Light Horse Harry" Lee, of Revolutionary fame, coursing in his veins, it was quite natural that his greatest honors should come through his admirable work as a soldier; but his career throughout his life was marked by exceptional success, which comes only with merit of a high order. The hardy pioneers of the West were just blazing a trail for civilization when young Fitzhugh Lee graduated from West Point, and his first duties were in1 the Indian fights along the border. In this service he was severely wounded, and on recovery was appointed In structor of cavalry at West Point. When the Civil War broke out, General Lee, following the demands of environ ment, family and tradition, cast his for tunes with the South. He fought through that long, bloody struggle and made a record for gallantry in the lost cause that has few equals and no su periors; but it was not until the close of that awful war that he rose to the heights of true greatness. The South was conquered, but not subdued, and for years many of our best citi zens, smarting under the sting of de feat, refused all overtures for unity and a Teturn of business and social condi tions such as existed before the war. A weak man or a man of only ordi nary attainments could make but slow headway in overcoming this prejudice, but when General Fitzhugh Lee came forth from his retirement, and, under the shadow of Bunker Hill monument, right In the stronghold of the forces that had whipped his people into sub mission, made a ringing patriotic speech in which he. in effect, pledged the lasting loyalty of the South to the Union, a new bond of friendship be tween the North and the South was formed, and has since strengthened with the passing years. General Lee served for five years as Governor of Virginia, and his administration of the office was in keeping with the success which accompanied his military opera tions. As Consul-General at Havana he passed through that wildly exciting period which culminated in the blowing up of the Maine and the declaration of war with Spain. During that war he was in command fl of the Department of Cuba, and on his return to the United States closed his active career in the military service as commander of the Department of Mis souri. There may have been greater Indian fighters than the young Lieu tenant Fitzhugh Lee. .who faced the bullets and arrows of the Indians in the 50s; there may have been others as brave and daring as the Brigadier General Fitzhugh Lee, C. S. A.,' who at the battle of Winchester had three horses shot from under him, or as Gen eral Fitzhugh Lee. U. S. A., who made such an admirable record at Cuba; but his entire career, with all of its vicis situdes, has assured for him a lasting place in American history. THE INCREASE IN CRIME. The frequent assertion that the world is growing better is hardly verified by the actions of a large number of Its people. In the news columns of yester day's Oregon Ian there were stories of robbery on a magnificent scale of the state school lands; a Supreme Court de cision clinching the fate of two Oregon murderers long overdue at the gallows; a pitifully sad story of a boy. who killed his brutal father at Chehalls;- a murder In a Vancouver saloon: an attempted murder in a saloon in this city; the ar rest of an ex -Captain in the -German army for stealing; a tale of plain, ordi nary grafting by contractors, and seri ous charges against .members of the City Council. All this is near at hand in the local field, while from the East come further details of the tremendous theft by Blge low, the Milwaukee banker; of an archy In Chicago, where fiends in hu man form endeavor to further the cause of labor by throwing acid on dumb brutes and their drivers: of the New York showgirl who "bled" a victim' for a King's ransom and is charged with murdering him when the "bleeding" process was threatened Mith stoppage. Then there was Smith, the San Fran cisco embezzler, who stole $165,000 a year ago, and, as soon as friends made good the amount, began stealing again and is now a fugitive. But It is un necessary to continue the list. Each new crime reported seems to be a little worse than its predecessor of the same nature. Crime and criminals, of course, have infested the earth since the world be gan, but, with advancement toward an alleged higher civilization, we seem to have experienced no corresponding ele vation in the moral plane. There is op portunity for speculation as to how much of this latter-day "cussedness" is due to the changed environment at tendant on Increasing population, and how much should be charged up to a natural laxity of morals which has been encouraged and fostered by a. few gen erations of Indolence and growing dis regard for the rights of others. Protests are frequently filed with The Oregonlan for printing news regarding crime and criminals. And yet the pub licity given these crimes and the fear of that - publicity Is one of the strongest deterrent influences at work to prevent crime. The spectacle of BIgelow, the defaulter, thrust out of his elegant home, to spend the remaining days of his life in the Penitentiary, knowing that never again In this life will the cloud of misery be lifted from the inno cent family he has disgraced, is a most impressive and painful lesson. AH of the gaiety and pleasure that lights the "primrose path" seems dull and dread ed in contemplation of the fearful price that Nan Patterson is paying for her sortie down that wreck-strewn thor oughfare. There is a terrible warning for other young men in the sight of Lauth, the young man who goes to the tailowa for murdering his mistress at Oregon City, and the manhunt which is now on to run down Smith, the San Francisco embezzler, will cause many a one to draw back from the whirlpool of dis honesty Into which he is- being drawn. All of these examples teach most ef fectively that the way of the trans gressor Is hard, but they will not alone suffice to eradicate crime. Home train ing beginning In early youth, and on the lines of Individual responsibility and the duty of man to his fellow men, is the great agency through which a decrease in crime may be ' brought about. PUBLISHER TOM WATSON. In all its pinkness, Tom Watson's Magazine now blushes for the third tlme UDOn the bookstalls, its emblem ine leriy xeu ery muui w.iu and Its price,. 10 cents, plainly marked for the plain people. But the Demo cratic dime will not be enough to buy the magazine hereafter. In large type it is announced that the succeeding is sues will cost the reader 15 cents. "No one expects me to sell the magazine for less thane it costs," says the publisher, in something of a Beef Trust manner. "It will be admitted, I am sure," con tinues the announcement, "that there should be an equitable margin of profit" equitable being used in Its old sense, the sense understood before young Mr. Hyde widened the application of the adjective. While this Increase in price adds something to living expenses, for Tom Watson's Magazine Is probably a necessity in many homes, It must be admitted that full value is given for the money, and the magazine, it, Is an nounced, will In future be Illustrated and will prod the octopus with pencil as well as pen. In the latest number of the magazine the reader may first feast himself upon a series of discourses concerning "Poli tics and .Economics." These are signed by Thomas ;E. Watson, "Tom" being apparently reserved for the title. Here in are frequent references to "Teddy" and to ."W. J. B.," whom the reader will readily identify as President Roosevelt and Citizen Bryan. Municipal owner ship is discussed, free trade is defended, and the "india-rubber Monroe Doctrine" is tweaked. Passing on to the next cage, as the showman might say, the reader comes upon "The Lady's Slip per," by the multifarious Cyrus Town send Brady, a tale of Paris. After this an essay on "Populism," hot shot for the "Racing Trust," which is running up the price of one of life's necessities, a serial story In which mystery and baronets are concerned, and jokes In the manner of the Smart Set. Litera ture is honored with a "Character Study of Byron and Burns," which begins with a sentence of literary flavor "These names are live wires." It is a brimming dime's 'worth, this number of Tom Watson's Magazine, andfskillfully designed to bring the publisher's political views before the careless reader, who is likely to become sx Interested in "The Mysterious Duch ess" that he will read through to the end without noticing that he has passed into an article on "The Piggishness of Plutocrats." It would be Interesting to know, however, whether the Piggish Plutocrat or the Mysterious Duchess is the principal attraction to readers. A PLEA FOR THE OLD QUILT. It has been said that Hon. Jefferson rvyers is being overwhelmed with let- drs from aged women who desire space at the Fair in which to show quilts that represent the handicraft and the pains taking Industry of pioneer times. Manv of these relics of log-cabin days, quilted In wreaths and feathers and vines, while the baby stood In the chair be hind the patient worker and the other baby amused Itself with a rag doll on the floor beside -her, could tell a story equal In Interest to that of Lewis and Clark's daily joumeyings, if their small, even stitches had taken the form of letters and words. Whether of simple patchwork cut in small pieces neatly joined together, of Johnnie's first short frock Johnnie a man now. with the frost rime of time on brow and chin; of Mary's Sunday school dress of pretty pink calico Mary a grandmother now, with wrinkles in the place of the dimples that NatureJ planted in her baby cheeks; of blue and white print "like mother's dress," as stated in the letter in which the scrap of calico came by stage and steamer across the continent and up the coast (the route traveled by the old "States' mall" fifty years ago); or of the "Sun day best" of the patient quilter herself a brown gingham which hung, Sum mer after Summer, wrong side out, in careful lines behind a curtain in the cabin loft, except when it was brought out and 'worn to church, funeral or neighbor's quilting bee each and all of these pieces in the cherished quilt rep resents a tender memory of far-away years. And then the quilt plecer after the de sign called the "double peony," in red and white; the "sunflower" radiating from a white center In yellow rays; the "Rose of Sharon," containing many of the colors of the rainbow; the "Irish chain." in blue and white running In even rows criss-cross from corner to corner, and back again! Who shall es timate in this day of things "ready made" the triumph in housewifely skill and patient industry that every one of these half-century-old quilts repre sented in the days of the long ago? Grant the desire of these good women folk of the pioneer era as far as possi ble, good Mr. Commissioner Myers, and give at least some of- these domestic history-makers of a past era the old carefully preserved quilts of our pioneer grandmothers place In the Exposition. They are footprints on the sands of 'time, only a. little later on, that fol lowed the Lewis and Clark expedition across a trackless continent. PRESIDENTS AND SPORT. In his grandiose Johnsonian style, Grover Cleveland tells the readers of the Country Calendar of his affection for sports afield. "I am so proud of this devotion," says Mr. Cleveland, "that If my sporting proclivities have at times subjected me to criticisms and petty forms of persecution, I do not harbor the shadow of a desire that 'my steadfastness be looked upon as mani festing the courage of martyrdom. . . I regard these criticisms and persecu tions as nothing more serious than gnat stings suffered on the bank of a stream." It is easy to picture our for mer -President peacefully angling upon the banks of a babbling stream, mak ing perfect In solitude the orotundlty. that distinguishes his every utterance. That is one picture, and -it inevitably suggests another."Mr. Roosevelt's style of speaking Is no more different from Mr. Cleveland's than Colorado from Chesapeake Bay.. "A square jJeal for. every man." "If a tryst is bad, cinch it" "Speak softly and carry a big stick." These are phrases that crackle, and they prepare us for a picture of their author jlu-jltsulng wolves with hl naked hands, shooting bobcats out of trees, and . pursuing the grizzly in Its mountain fastnesses. Mr". Cleveland and Mr. Roosevelt have different styles, both in speaking and in recreation. Yet there is one point upon which both angler and bear-slayer are of the same heart. Both recognize the De mocracy of sport. Here is a roling ex tract from Mr. Cleveland's article: Not many years ago. while residing in .a community. I found that considerable indig nation had been aroused among good neigh bors and friends because it had been said Of me that I -was willing to .associate In the field with any loafer who was the owner of a dog and a gun. I am sure I did not In the least undervalue the extreme friendliness of those inclined to intervene In my defense, and yet. at the risk of doing an apparently ungracious thing. I felt Inexorably con etralned to check their kindly efforts by promptly conceding that the charge was too nearly true to be denied. "Too nearly true to be denied" is a way of putting it that none but Mr. Cleveland could have used. All men are equal In the hunting field, and Mr. Roosevelt Is no better than Jake Borah or any of the other Bills and Toms that are helping him to exterminate the bears of Colorado. The sage of Prince ton is on an equal footing In the field with any loafer who owns a dog and a gun. and this is the great boast of sport, that it knows no cas'te. So let the President shoot bears and the ex President take bass despite any "gnat stings" of criticism, as indeed they axe likely to do. for Mr. .Cleveland sup plements his personal observations by "the direct confession, so far as my attachment to outdoor sports may be considered a fault. I am, as related to this special .predicament of guilt, ut-, terly incorrigible and shameless." To which Mr. Roosevelt doubtless responds "Me, too." CARNEGIE'S BEST BENEFACTION. In contrast with comment upon his indiscriminate founding of libraries, no adverse criticism is likely to be sounded over the latest gift of Andrew Carne gie, who this week set aside 510.000.000, the income from which is to be devoted to superannuated college professors. In this age of commercialism, any act that tends to turn first-class talent into edu cational channels merits unstinted com mendation. Neither the pulpit nor the college attracts commanding intellect, because few men so endowed nowadays choose a calling wherein they know In advance they will live and die com paratively poor. Professorship in a college is the one learned vocation left in this country not to be designated by the overworked word "strenuous." It appeals to him who demands ample time for his day's labor, for the constant enlarging of his equlptnent, for leisurely reading, for physical exercise and for recreation. No other profession offers the opportu nity for so useful a life, free from fierce struggle and abounding In most .de lightful association. To the college chair there come no demands from Important clients, rich patients or fashionable parishioners at hours when a man is entitled to rest. The college professor's time Is his own. It will not be surprising if Carnegie's latest benefaction will at once turn the thoughts of many young men now in college from other ambitions into de sire for a career at college. Fortunate, indeed, will It be If this philanthropy shall turn from money-making voca tions a little army of men who, men tally and temperamentally, are fitted not only for Imparting knowledge, but for stimulating the pupil in its love and pursuit. Possibly the objection may be raised that a self-respecting man can accept the charity of another only In great stress; that no one fit to be a teacher can allow Carnegie or any one else to be his almoner. As we take It, Carne gie's gift is an endowment to be devoted to salaries. The "pension" Is part of the professor's wage, Just as half-pay is to the soldier after he has passed the age of 62. Carnegie's appropriation of this money is wise. Remove from the minds of young men the fear of poverty at that period when intellectual activi ties begin to wane, and you will Inspire them to enter on a profession honored above all others since the dawn- of civ ilization. Carnegie has honored him self, his adopted country and the high est of the world's high callings. MAPLE SUGAR AND RUBBER. The Bureau - of Forestry presents a study of the maple sugar industry, un dertaken with a view to obtainment of larger supplies of the real article and preventing spurious fabrications from being put on the market. It Is found that there Is no present prospect of In crease of the genuine article, for the sugar maple is of slow growth, with no great range of territory, and many sugar forests have been "tapped" to ex haustion. General adulteration accounts for the remarkable increase of the apparent supply. The extent of it is indicated by the fact that, while the amount of the raw product has largely decreased dur ing recent years, the whole quantity sold has greatly Increased, and the mar ket price at the same time been re duced. Furthermore, the price rises or falls in direct relation to the variations in the price of cane sugar. This latter fact indicates with tolerable certainty that cane sugar Is the chief adulterant. In truth, much of the so-called maple syrup on the market is simply a combi nation of sweets with a little maple mo lasses added to give the maple flavor. The Government bureau makes the fol lowing point-blank statement: "It is conservatively estimated that seven eighths of what is sold as maple syrup and sugar Is a spurious article. Most of the fabrications are entirely harm less, but they are not the real thing." Interesting facts about rubber are supplied by the Forestry Bureau. The rapidly increasing demand for this arti cle stimulates search for it In the trop ical parts of both, hemispheres. It Is stated that there are today In different parts of South and Central America no fewer than twenty-flve expeditions searching for rubber plantations. Mean while the chemists are busy seeking to find a process of manufacturing the valuable article. But, although science has determined the chemical elements, it has, up to the present, been unable to duplicate the molecular arrangement whereby rubber derives its peculiar elasticity the power to contract to its original form after being stretched. For certain purposes, however, a compound of sulphur and some low-grade oil, such as that of cotton seed, is found to an swer the purposes of genuine rubber. For hard springs, like car springs, it is excellent; it is also being used for pedal treads on bicycles, for rubber matting., for floor strips, arid a dozen other things commonly spoken of as rubber. But it does not wholly take the place of the natural gum, as there must always be some admixture of the latter to give the artificial product the right consist ency. However, the discovery Is of high Industrial importance as it tends to save the real rubber for the purposes for which it is absolutely indispensable. If the Nan Patterson case is to be decided upon sympathy, the sympathy that "married men" are supposed to feel for women in straits induced by deep emotion, it may not be amiss to consider the feelings of Ms. Young, the virtuous wife of the man of whom Miss Patterson was so extravagantly fond, and now is his sorrowing widow. It does not require a very lively Imag ination to enable any man of ordinary sensibility to understand the feelings of the wife when her husband was devot ing himself to this bold, dashing, wan ton. The simplest knowledge of human nature makes this situation plain. That which Is hard to understand is the widow's regret at the death of her faithless husband. But this aside, if this case is to be decided on sympathy for a woman, the claims of Mrs. Young upon this score should not be Ignored. One of the demands of the Klamath Canal Company in the negotiations for the purchase of the company's rights by the Government was that the company shall be granted exclusive navigation privileges on the Government's irriga tion canals and ditches. Just what reason the company has for making this demand does not appear, but cer tain It is that the demand should not be granted. Whatever opportunity there may be for navigating the canals should be "open to all the settlers who take up the reclaimed land and pay the co3t of building the irrigation system. If the canals afford a cheap means of transporting products to market, the farmers should have all the advantage that Is to be gained therefrom. That word "exclusive" is too un-American to be appropriate in granting privileges of this kind. If our visitors are to see the beauties of Oregon, forest fires must be abso lutely forbidden the coming Summer. Instances are known of Eastern people staying for seven weeks within easy sight of the Cascades, yet having not one glimpse of the real mountains. If such conditions are repeated during July and August, the effect may be dis astrous. Not only will one of Oregon's great attractions be shorn of its glories, but the impression will be produced that the timber resources of the state are In danger every year. It cannot be too strongly stated throughout the foot hill counties that he who, either by in tention or by carelessness. lets fire take hold. Is a public enemy. Forest rangers must be doubly on watch this year, and every resident should make himself a voluntary guard. Some very cheerful liars come out of the Far East since the war began. One Captain Jackson arrived in San Fran cisco a few days ago and said he was "hastening" to London to buy some steamships for the Japanese. He fur ther stated that within the past few months the Japanese had purchased "several hundred" steamships of from 3000 to 6000 tons. If several hundred was taken to mean only 200, the cost, even at second-hand prices, would be more than $50,000,000, and the world's supply would be affected sufficiently to cause an immediate and pronounced rise in freights. "Captain Jackson" has mistaken his calling. He should be do ing yellow journalism instead of buying enormous fleets of steamships. If you care for a sermon such as Christ himself preached, read on page 4S of this issue Eleanor Franklin's nar rative of the fatherly care bestowed by the Japanese government and the populace on the families of the.Ir sol diers In the field and in the grave. "Giri-nlngo" is the national motto, which means to do good unto others without a thought ef what others do to you. Either through official aid or. pri vate charity, every dependent woman and child Is provided for, the favorite method being to give them remunerat ive work for their hands. Miss Frank lin declares that Japan is a nation In which brotherhood has reached Its high est expression. Some one says and he makes affi davit thereto before the District Attor neythat the Pacific States Telephone Company placed a 55000 check In an un opened envelope and sent It to Council man Rumelln. An Inquisitive messen ger boy opened the envelope, saw the damaging . check, and told the story. The yarn is preposterous and stupid. For one thing, this kind of business is not done that way; for another, if it were, an unknown boy's story Is worth nothing. If Councilman Rumelin is called upon to meet evidence no more damaging or probable than this, he will have very little trouble vindicating himself. A hundred-thousand-acre ranch near Red Bluff, CaL, has been purchased by Spokane and San Francisco capitalists, and will be offered for sale in ten-acre tracts to small farmers. The land is very productive, and when divided up into small tracts will support many thousand more people than are now de riving any benefit from it. The day of big ranches seems to be about- over, and, from an economic standpoint, there is a decided gain to the locality in which they are located when one of them is cut up and sold to small farm ers. If the Republicans nominate Albee, the Prohibitionists will not support him; If they refuse to 'nominate Albee. the Prohibitionists will support him. What the Prohibitionists want Is a candidate the Republicans will not have, which is the same as one whom the voters gen erally will not have. "Let us stand together," says Br'er Amos to his fellow-Prohibitionists, "and we will name the next Mayor of Port land." Mr. Amos knows. That's the way the Prohibitionists have named their Mayors in the past. Representative Hearst has secured a judgment for $6000 against his col league, Representative Towne, for borrowed money. This helps out con siderably toward the great Democratic harmony programme. The President says he s not indis posed. The beajs have nothing to say. NOTE ANDJCOMMENT. r- All the world's a stage 'twas thus Said Jacques in time past: . The stage is all the world to ui When you are In the cast. Banker Bigelow misses the comfort ot his own house and Is compelled to remain in a. relative's. Another million and he would probably have been allowed to keep his home. Huge battleships are the thing just now, and the nation that isn't laying dowr the biggest ever built is as much out of it as a" woman wearing last year's hat. Paderewski has strained- his neck. It used to be that he strained other people's. The editor of the Brooklyn Eagle has been in another collision railway this time, not newspaper. Earthquakes are wasting their time in Switzerland, for that country couldn't be any more crumpled up than at present. Chicago's strikers admit that the non union may dier and permit them to be taken to the graveyard in union hearses. Death Is the great scab. Carnegie's Palace of Peace at The Hague bids fair to be completed In time for the next war. Perhaps a little ad. in the Gcrvais Star may bo the harbinger of a new order of things In society. A young man adver tises for a girl to accompany him to a dance in the neighborhood. Hereafter, when guests are prevented from attending a picnic it may be considered proper to run an ad. In the Help Wanted column Wanted: 2 blondes and 3 brunettes to go on picnic Wednesday. Must know how to make cbffee on smoky fire, and not sit in the fire. Japan and Russia appear to have for gotten that they have armies in the field. There is one good point about being a sailor nobody can refer to you as the Napoleon of the sea. President Roosevelt has issued an order that the name "White House" must be used in all official documents, instead of "Executive Mansion." It's a cinch that if Grover Cleveland ever gets back to the White House he will change it back to Executive Mansion. "The sun never sets on the Missouri mule," says Governor Folk. Number of converts Chapman party planned to make as a result of their Seattle work, 3000. Estimated number of converts who will affiliate with local churches hereafter due to the evangelists. 1000 . Estimated amount of money paid members -of Chapman party foe their soul-saving elo quence, from $3000 to $3300. Average cost of saving a Seattle soul, from $3.00 to $3.30. These figures are from the Seattle Times, a carefully-edited afternoon pa per, and serve to show the over-valuation placed upon Seattle souls by strange evangelists. Perhaps that old piece of advice about going to the ant. thou sluggard, may be followed hereafter, since two Paris ian investigators have discovered that formic acid increases a person's strength in an extraordinary manner. Formic acid is found in the bodies of ants, and it may be that in the future we shall read: "His strength was as. the strength of ten, because hchad' eaten a dish of stewed ants." There is one thing about Carnegie's career that we have never been able to understand. How did he curb his wild desire to give away money in his ear lier days? Life must have been a blank to him while everything was coming in ami nothing going out. Wo cannot sup pose that the Carnegie disposition un derwent a sudden and complete change on the day he decided to retire. The tramp who crossed tho Columbia River on a couple of railroad ties the other day is wasting his time here. Na ture Intended him for an explorer, a Stanley or :i Lewis- and Clark If one may combine the two in such a manner. Russians are said to be fleeing from the bomb-threatened districts. No one would expect Russians to display less sense than the bears that have been lighting out of Colorado recently. Delays may be dangerous, but you cannot persuade a man under indict ment to tnink so. New York women appear: to think that no innocent girl could wear such stunning hats as Nan Patterson. Murine Motoring. (Nixon's auto-boat is waiting at the Azores for a supply of gasoline.) The good old days have long since flown ' When one at sea might breathe ozone. The odor now that's most marine Is that of motor gasoline. A veracious contemporary says that the editor of the Crookston (Minn.) Times Is training jaskrabbits to race against passing trains. Two rabbits are aow sufficiently well broken to be taken out and sent against the express, and the account ends, with a touch giving verisimilitude to the whole, "as the train approaches the animals become restless and nervous, and prance about much like horses afthe start of a race." If there Is anything in this plan, some of the brotherhood who edit papers, along the line of the O. R. & N. might have a whirl at it. Going a-Maying tomorrow? Three "barefoot" plays are being produced in New York, says a para graph in an exchange. In "The Free dom of Suzanne" Marie Tempests stage husband removes her stockings in one scene. "Trilby," which is the dramati zation ot a foot, is being revived, and so is "Du Barry," in which there is a barefoot scene. The odd thing ;is that any person with presentable feet Is yet to be found In the world. A Slwash has better feet than most people, although a llootchman Is hardly the model of elegance. The modern foot was meant to be exhibited in a shoe until we come to regard a trowel as the model of its shape. President Roosevelt had better en joy himself while he may; theylre going to- ask him to settle the Chicago strike. WEX. J History Revised. Hartford Times. The boy stood on the burning deck. Whence all but him had fled. This hero's real name was not B fanes as the school books give It, but James H. Hyde, sometimes known among his intimates as "Caleb" Hyde,