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1 C-TLA WD."' CSSGOIV .1 h . ' e y - i:::. pe' T H E O R E G AN 1 liCXKI j Pubkebed very erenJnf , -PORTLAND MUST Tr IS NOT SURPRISING that I turtu art perfectly satisfactory ' source of joy to that industrious knocker-and tire less representative of ancient and unprogressive Port UnA. the Oreronian. Indeed it seems to be a source of. genuine regret with that. Queer publication to find anything which is really advantageous to the, city or state. Everything to its advantage it belittles or frowns upon. It has done it for 40 years, and doubtless will eontinue to do it till the end of. the chapter.. For -40 years it has been the organ ot the reactionaries, oppos ing with bitterness every movement that spelled progress and hamstringing every enterprise that promised im provement.. It was then cock of the walk, t enjoying a monopoly, ani under it' it could do practically as it pleased. If Oregon has been surpassed in population, if its offspring Washington has three cities of consider able pretense where we have only one, if our secondary 'cities will not bear comparison, no agency, indeed all other agencies combined, jdeserve less credit for. that "resuirthanlhrcliief of the knockers brigade, the Port land Oregbniattv- ,".,: V' - J ? , . whn' it firt : nrinted what were alleged to be the almost complete census returns as 110,500 it proclaimed WLROAD TO- COOS . ' , FOR A CONSIDERABLE time tne ooutnern acifio has had a party at work surveying a rail 'road route from Drain to Marshfield, across the coasi ranged and How the announcement is juade that 'the road would soon be. built; As tn the case of the :0. L & N. with reference to.Vallowa THeT. the South ern Pacific evidently decided that the time had come 'when there was.tio chance of loss and was a certainty Vof much gain, under rates .which it can make to .suU 'itselCin tpnstructing thij.bfanch linj ..to the Coos county : coast, TTnr resources of the region arrgreat,-and under .favorable conditions .will develop very rapMly. . ; - That region is still handicapped by the Immense hold ings of land, chiefly timber lands, by one or more cor - porations that have so far refused "either to do anything "to develop the region or to sell lands at reasonable prices "to those who would . This incubus will probably be to eome-extetrt-lifted fn-the-ncar future, with the advent of this railroad, for if the Southern Pacific goes in there it 'will desire and demand such development of the region's resources as will afford the road a Remunerative volume of traffic. The railroads and landcorporations will doubtless continue to own andVcontrol mpst of that , region lor some year to come, ont - Ihtir flWTl miff". 'nr W1" ,on terms thkt will admit of settlement, clearing, pro-. duction and general development, and so the shadow of ; isolation .and blight ,of land-grabbing corporations-will -.by degree disappear. . V. So though not able speedily to escape entirely from the thumb pressure of land hogs, Coos county and west ' 1 era.-Douglas- are 'to be . sincerely 'congratulated ' pit : the apparent fact that at last, they are to have their, long " and ardent desire, a railroad, gratified." Eventually .that will be a populous and very resourceful.' sction of the .-.-itaffc-'.-- ; , ',, "". : ; -1:.' : GAMBLERS ON. THB ALL OVER the Pacific northwest the gamblers are being weeded out City after city and town after . ... town have declared war upon 'them' and driven t them out, or are making their lives stale, flat and un profitable. Seattle choked off public gambling long ago, . -and now TacPma,' which one would think would have ' done so first, has followed suit In some Oregon towns th6 gamblers have successfully returned to their business 'for . a little 'while,' Wt have been forced 'to quit again, i except perhaps for an occasional surreptitious game, and it will not be' long till the knights pf the green- cloth will look upon, Oregon, with as.muph disfavor as hoboes do upon a town where they are made to work allday '-''for food and lodging. vA- , Portland set the pace about a year ago,, and other 'cities have generally and with a large degree of success 'followed its good example. A lot of professional gam blers cannot possibly be anything .city, and people are finding out this Detroit Saved From Grafters.' - (i , ," ' From the Era 'Maa-aslne for July, rr Th procaclous"1organlsaton,-which has gained a atranele hold upoa munlcl .pal affaire in all Urge cities, the "raa ' -cblne," as It -ie -known In the vernacular : ' ef local politic. . baa had. a menaclnc . eontlnaent of handy men In control of -Detroit, ready at sienal to drive a ,' coachnd-sni through any salutary ordl- 'nanoe. open-handed for any scabby job, : ..keen for schemes of depredstlon to line 'their own "douah-pouch."- But sacking ,t the city departmenta by the bold fili busters who run the political machine has not been eo successful in Detroit aa In some ether cities, partly because they have nerar been able to form a concret. organisation ot faithful lootere that . 'would hold- toaother; partly beeauae ef - .the disconcerting vlcllance of some of Abe newspapers In turning on the light . at ' critical moments, wheadai1i deals j were being put through; and more be eauae there were men in the board of 'aldermen of robust and unfaltering hon- - esty, - who fought the graft system to death before It had acquired dangerous vitality and. removed the most-easily filched departments from the anna of corrupt Influences by applying municipal - ownerehip. i -f i - v " - ' ' : -.v..''.? i Biahop NQea' Experience. The following etory. Is told In the lioston Herald of Bishop NUes of New Hampshire, while he was In Boeton at tendlng the Episcopal convention; v. The bishop, who la a very tall, heavy man, was. seated on one of the low swttees in the publle garden, and when hs started to get up found that he-bed ' rest difficulty ta regaining bis feet v.'hUe In the midst of his strugglee a wee tot of a little girl eame along and 'r rtmrmA her assistance. The ' blshon mmA tnrlnm to rise. and. after survey-' the little girl critically, replied that s e was toe email to help. The little f srl persisted that sb could help, but te blehop was- Jest as ure that -she t-u-1 not . " ' ' " 1 ' v :." aaid the little girt, finally, "I've hlped grandpa lots' of times when la was lots drunker than you ere. . ; A jated Man Triumph. .1'. ; I e. TAlllrtne Freeman, the novellet n- i toward " aa ' angular woman f "!ng aspect at a tea - "loa would hardly believe," she said, t ehe wae onoe a very ' beautiful -. Ani she was aa vain and eel fish its was beeatlfaL , Ibe Jilted three young men tn - two rears. - l -1, 1 euppeee, a good time wtye O N D A I :L Y INDEPINDBNT NXWIPAFtK PUBLISHED ": DY JOURNAL PUCLISUINQ CCV Sunday) and every Sunday morning at streets, Portland, Oregon. "I.. NOT "STAND FOR THE the silly cenaua re if not an actual As a matter of the inaccuracy of BAY.n : ' . , , T discussion probably never be ticians. If Mr. Hay graauaiiy, even in tneir noimnirs he wrote iLin reasons of his (or T I dar mt the and 'none too much yuv VU. M vs fair fully, especially, OO. if thev have families exposition and view many i not all of its attractions. ; Without the cooperation "of the workingmen'of this city and vicinity there could have been no exposition. Not only did they prepare the grounds end erect the buildings and place the exhibits, at reasonable 'wages. but they contributed but a curse to any truth. . j the standards , of her beauty lasted.' Now her beauty Is gone and she ta alone in the world a hard, cruel old woman, with; a bitter tongue. -..' T "And If she once triumphed over men, men now, if . they are vindictive and cruel enough, may triumph over her. . "One of the men aha Jilted was suf ficiently cruel and vindictive for euch a triumph. She met him a few -years ago and aaid: . . . . "Let me see; waa ft you or your brother' who proposed . to me when I waa a glrtr - i . -.. ; - "1 don't know, madam, the man answered. "Probably It waa my father.' " -Quatrains From the Spanlah. Think ne evil, deareetl Par w1rk houhta Atk ivrn . bo up like eloude above we - And -seat the doors of heaven t Too well you know a heart of wax Is mine, O-dearest one I Ton, notwithstanding, geae on me 1 . Wlth those eyea of eunl , That you have lived In my heart - ""7 To remember forever I'm doomed; The vese which that perfume hae held . Remains always perfumed I Come with me, dark little girl, ' " And of a wise man we'll Inquire. Why never burn your lashee long '"Over your eyee of Are. . . ' ... ,v Try to be like to the enow , . On the far inountaln'e height; That heeer doth stoop to the plain, '. .That Itmay remain white! , New Orleana Times-Democrat . Following f Precedent ' . From the Louisville Courier-Journal. "Why do you want a divorcer aeked the Judge. "Don't you end- your -wife live happily together T , . . -Ja." -, '-.. .-. : 'i "Don't you love each etherf . " ' ' "Ja." "Then why separator'. -- "She bin a Norse women end Aa bin a Swede.".. " - .. Mr. Root's Advice,-- r From the Mobile Register. - Secretary of Btau Root advises Mayor Weaver of Philadelphia to prosecute all the dlahoneet officials of nls city. Root Is now In position to advise a higher authority than Mayor Weaver to prose cute dishonesty In -office. -He might make a few euggestlons to President Reoeevelt along that Una. JOUR NA-L lo. r oauoxx Jonmal Building, Fifth and Yamhill FOOLISH CENSUS. with a.' great flourish of trurripets that the figures would not be changed either way by more than 500. Today; three days later, it says the figures may, be run up to 115,000, which it believes is approximately correct. -It seems and indeed is very much more interested in prov ing that the population is far below what it is indicated to be than to find out what it really is.; These census figures which meet with the Oregonian's warm approval show that there has been an actual loss of.4,181 popu lation on the west side of the city in the past four and a half ' years. Could Anything be more preposterous except it be the determination of the Oregonian to iriain- ... ... f .. tarn as correct tnese preposterous ugurcsr . '-,,,- j fact nobody is sure about the accuracy of the' census, even the county assessor. He is 'watting for further returns.' Meantime something should be done Kn tk. miflfr:. anrt in order ta brine it to a' head The Journal has employed the city directory people to make a census of a' typical district, and this it will print when completed side by side with the returns made by" the assessor! enumerators. if those returns demonstrate t - ... . ..a 1 the original count inert snouia oe a complete recanvass, and the citizens of the city should pay for it by a general subscription, v "'.' ' TANLDOUESTIONREViyD., -HE RECENT DEATH of John Hay has rvived of the question: was he the author of "The Bread Winners"?; The question will now answered, if the statement be, true that Mr. Hay never acknowledged its aumprsiup even to nis most intimate friends,' but since the literary guessers have never been able to pick out any one else likely to have written the book and not been quick to acknowledge it, the general opinion will be that Mr. Hay wrote it. -The book was the greatest success of the year in which it was published, over a quarter of a century ago, and embodied a powerful delineation of the labor war and the Molly - McGuire outrages, of that period, with : strong sidelights udoo the methods anl motives of leading poli wrote it, he probably kept that fact a secret because of the criticism it aroused in certain quarters, perhaps considering that this would, detract from his success in other and more congenial lines ot effortrthoMgh-SThe Bfe4innrsasumug tbat-Hay wrote it, shows that he couldMiave succeeded in a high degree as ' writer of realistic fiction. . ;..'.. V It has been stated that the publisher of the book went so far on one occasion -to acknowledge that Mr. Hay brought him the manuscript, but not as his,- and it may very likely be that while he was .the principal author collaboration witn .some one ..w her) own desired to conceal his iden tity. But unless, the mystery is definitely tleared up, "The Bread Winners" . will generally be credited here after to 'Mr. .'Hay. ,"''" f " " : ;v - WORKINGlfEN'S DAY;.-,. . - IT WAS A GOOD IDEA, fo have a Workingmen's xTosition with the admission price-re- W , ftw..e vuv.'-w,) g-a. money with' which to take in the as is the case with most' uf them who must or should also visit the a large aggregate sum in subscrip tions, without expecting at that time a cent ot repayment. - The working people and their families need to see the exposition at. considerable length. .It will do them good. They catr afford to make some little sacrifice, if necessary, to do so. On the other hand the exposition needs the cordial cooperation of 4he workingmen, and can afford on special occasions to give them reduced rates of admission. The determination to do this should be mutually pleasing and profitable. ." " . .:; ' Forty-nine days are entirely too short for m race meet What Portland really needs is a continuous performance, for surely there if nothing to equal the races for Raising this community, ' The Vacation Fallacy. r v From the Sunday School Times. '; , f Those who work least take the longest vacattona. Those who might seem to need-vacations most because of. their ceaseless -accomplishment are least tolerant of the vacation idea, and spend the least time that way. As Dr. Trum bull used to aay, the longer a man's vacation, "the . longer It took him be forehand 'to get ready for it, and after ward to recover from It Dr. Trumbull never missed an opportunity to expose the fundamental fallacy of an Idea that a vacation, er complete cessation from regular activities. Is needed by the normal, properly working man. We do not deem It necessary, when In health, to give our stomachs complete reet from digestion for a ay or ' week or three- months; why the mind or body generally t Of course. If a man Is broken down from overwork,-that ta an other matterV a sanltavlum-oir the rest euro or a milk diet may be heeded. Fof the man In health an outing of a week or two -In tha country for refreshment and recreation would seem reasonable If one'e tastee He In that direction. But let us hope that the old idea of a two or three months' - rest euro In every twelve for a healthy man who la doing a man's work is becoming more and more a relle of the mistaken- pt-.t When the Barber Cut His Ear.- Dr.' Wallace Wood, of the University ef New York, wae talking about the love pf beauty. ; c The love of beauty," he said, "la not ao firmly planted in the peoples minds as It should be. Things only that are useful, are considered valuable; beauti ful tbtnge are too often regarded as un important . , . t ' . , "This popular Idea of the1 usefut's un speakable superiority over the merely beautiful may be Illustrated by a bap pealng In a barber shop. t . A barber in cutting a young man's hair, snipped off a piece of hie ear. - "The young man leaped from the ehalr. ' He crted In anguish and horror: -'Oh, yo have eut a piece of my ear off!' But the barber answered In a patron ising, soothing way, aa one speaks to a child: - 7- t - v - " -Shot Don't carry on so, boss. Taln't 'miff to affect ye heerln'." : py; They -Are. ' From the Somervtlle Journal. T-" A woman of (I trying to be kittenish end a fat woman trying to be melan. choir are apeotaclee fit to make the angelg weep,- ' ' . - 7. SMALL CHANGE The weather gods have little respect for the weather bureau. . ( j. -wimi of eltv emnlovea will' be per mitted to draw their salerlee, an4 none of them, will decline to oo ao iyu ma opportunity.' ".'''. . Farmers too busy to come' no'w will com later, en with fat purses, too. Baron Komura look as If he weighed about SS pounds, but Hi baggage eon lets of IS trenke. - - The 'Tads end FancieB" man did not catch Unci Russell Baa. Aunt Hetty Green; nor Philanthropist J. D. R. :' Kknui haa t.ltt Quadruped ' goats. The other kinds have not been counted. fhlnm Journal: It should be pointed out In Justification of .Senator Mitchell of Onion that he probably needed the money. He has a French duke for a son- in-law. , i . . " , . j .i . When a man retiree from politic It le usually because polltlee has .retired from him. , ',; . . - .;. StUL voune Beach y mlcht not be eon sldered a good Insurance risk,', What a happy world It would be If fish were always ready and anxious to bite as mosquitoes. . --c v Whin tsmoted ! a by bbr fancy name, think how It will sound when he ta old. . . ' ,.. - It la -hinted that Senator Lodre H no kmj-er the president's political Fldue Achate. ', .-- '''. -,' ' -v ? . - 7 'Terfume," -f remarks Atchison Globe Howe, Is a poor-substitute for a bath." Anything worth-doing at all. or any thlnjf neoassary to b done. Is worth doing well, especially if doing It .111 harms a wholo cltyfuU . v - -s 1 v . . t; '. .But from 'past experiences nobody ex pects an airship to make a trip void o accidents. - - . , ' ) Motto for airship mem If in 'many trials you don't succeed, try, try again. . . , " .. .If members of the Smart eef had brains - in - proportion to their money, blackmailing or laudatory periodicals Lwould not thdve so, welt V Mrs. Chadwlck Is probably bitterly re gretting that she did riot go into the life Insurance er the "Fads and Fancies" business. '' . - '.' , ' . Stevens and Bhonta having arrived In Panama,- they . are. probably anxiously I cxpectloa-.an offer of largersalarlee in New York. v - ' .' e -.. , - - 1 The organisation of a new mining and ameltlng eompany for the development of aorae large Oregon mineral deposits simply meant-more ore for the Tacoma emelter to reduce.-Tacoma. Ledger. Yea, but wateh Portland grow a smelter some of these daya. . , ..--, -, .; -j ". " ' ' . e. e . , . -I "; '-. That thousands of Portland people were wot - counted. Is- a. perfaotly -safe m- s-jm mm e - Cochrel'- says the Democratic party will be reorganised on rock-bottom principles. .Yee,-Jt seems to be about down to bedrock. :-. ' ., J OREGON SIDELIGHTS ' A Xost River (Klamath county) man waa hauling and atacklng his hay, and had one stack built about St feet high, when a ladder that waa, 1 being ueed broke, and the hay stack,' which had not settled, began to tip.' There were two teama below, and the driver of one of the teama 'managed to got them out wf danger, hut - the- wagon- -waa - broken. The other'-tearo waa-burled and the horeee were amothered and killed by the weight of the hay. The loss amounted to about 1189. i.V.t' v , .' e ". ''., ' ,'; 1 ' Eight years ago a man bought a farm on Cow ereek for f 1,009, paying nothing down, but' agreeing to pay In Install ments. Last 'week he paid, the last of the 11.000. and has a place worth about twice that amount " :. ' v ''. e e , . . . . . . . - Saloons la wheat belt towns are being cloaed on Sundays. . - j ., ..i.. ; .. ... - e '- e .S. ' Many 40-bushel ylelds around Wes ton. ' ,;. ..' -' v.'''- - ' "'; .'' . ; . Umatilla county hae 1.421 achool chil dren; teachers employed ITS. average aalary of male teachers H7.TT. females 141.19. --. . , -. . . e e ,'.;;-",. -! A Weston ' woman has five little or phan chickens. About a month age ahe set a hen, which grew tired of the Job after setting two weeks, and quit ' Last week five little chlcka were found.. in the nest They wero hatched by-tho The Cloverdale (Tillamook' "county) Courier is the latest Oregon newspaper. : -: . . .' - e ' ..', V--: Clatekanie Is growing steadily. e ' e '.- - -,-;.-'-.:'. A 1-year-old girl, playing'' witk matches, eet fire to an icehouse at Fossil, and it was consumed. --the lce being converted "Into hot water and steam. ;:! " 1 v. ' v ; V - ' ' ' ' Frulta Corr. Jotaph Herald; So In. tense was the heat that squirrels caught away from their burrows perlehed be fore they could reach a place of refuge. I'll prove this assertion . tn my next pepere to the Herald, else I'll leave the country. - : ' . V.u". A deed filed at Corvallls conveyed Sl.SSl acree. ., ' - '. - ,, - - f , - . , -r .': - :' 'i- -l .-' ' .. Albany aleo. needs better ' drinking water. .- . . . -. '..rv 'j, e . e 1 -'' ;- ' After 41 yeers of continuous service as Welle, Fargo CO.'e kgent at Jack eonvllle, C. C. Beekmen, eetd te be the wealthiest reeldent of Jackson county, haa-realgnad. , .. e- e v ; r ' v - . .The Tillamook Headlight hae eome eut for Dr. Wlthycombe for governor. u- - :. . '. W. C, Morton f Tillamook came to Portlands, last., week te meet-his five brothers, one of whom he hae not seen elnce 1141 and another ef whom he has only seen once elnee 1W4. . The reunion of the brothers will not be so enjoyable, for one ef them, while on hie way to the coast wae taken down with . fever gnd died at Ontario, Oregon, . , rLYTHE SEES 'FJUSCO'S CHINATOWN Samuel fk'Blvtha in New York World. - For years and yeara the pride of San Franclaco as a show place has been Chinatown, a doaen or II or 10 Squares, not rer from the center of the elty, popu lated almoat exclusively by Chinese. The first Impulse of the tourist Is to bolt to CQlnatown as soon aa ne na his hotel arranaementa made. He le elded and abetted In every possible way. Entarniialna' . veniremen. . mostly - with fierce black mustachee and tin badges showing that they are "official" guinea, stand at every corner willing, to saow aU the mystertee and horrors -of this wonderrul place for a email compensa tion. ,. .: ,v '- -i -" .... . . . '- Most of these -"official" guides, claim to have been dectectlvee -at one time or another. ( That glvee hem added value, foe aural t a detective muet know all about the secret haunts of China town. Oh. surely, and especially about tha pawn shops, for without pawn shape most ef the modern detectlvee In San Francisco and elsswhere . would - be obliged to go wut of bualneaa.' . You find alluring circulars In your boa at the hotel proclaiming the merlte of these guides, telling how they can penetrate, to the .Innermost- receeees ot the oriental life end show you all that la to be. shown, hinting at the mysteri ous slants and -aeenes .that ere to be disclosed to your view for ; the small eum of $1. or, if the guide le aa-ee- pectally aeleet one, for tt.ie. ' You bita Certalnln that ie what you aratnere for. . At the appointed hour you go to the corner of the cigar stand, and there are 'other tourists who have bitten, and the "official'' guide, wise, oh. extremely wise, end with en eye for business, .xor he collects his .fee In ad vance. .. Then you trail away after him, up1 a hill or two and come,' to Chlna-town.1':'--- .-. There are stores and. Joea houaee end opium dene end restaurants, and the only - dally" Chinese newspaper' In the United Btatee and Fish .alley, and. the Chlneae hotel and a theatre and gam bling houses only the gambling houses are all shut now with big yellow pla cards on the doors elgned by the blef of police, -earing that if any Chinaman dares-to gamble he will be garroted or hanged or meet some . other fearsome fate... .'.'' -j ' : . -.1 ' -The' eralde dreg you along.' through the smalls, up dirty stairways and back agalnv in and out end the Chinese look at you-witn es muen or a smue as a v,ni nese ever all9wajhtmslf to wear, and all tha contempt of lh4 world in hie alanted eyes. - The guide .carefully kidlcatea at whlcw-storea-yon-ahaU by-yeu aouvel nlrs - next dey, and Just aa caref igly goes around "to collect his commission. He cracka a sew. pallid Jokea and gets facetloua In the earner way at the eame time every evening. There are two houre of it. Then you go back to the hotel end take stock and fumigate your self. -. . - - t Hevt rtr-'"g r"'. "' the I hotel lobby, who came-over on the train ith you. . - "Been to Chinatown yett" he asks. - t Oh, yee; went over there last night." "Who'd you go wlthf' and yeu know there Is eomethlng coming. He looks so Cocky. -.'' -.- - -c; "One of the regular guides rrora tne hotel.'". v : , - - i . "Then he lande on you. .Toe know It le coming and. fairly ehrtvet .' -vv , - - "Why, my boy," be eoye. ,-wy b-e-y. anV surprised. Don' you know any better than IhatJLr Huhl JWenLdown there last night toe, but x aian t go With any regular guide. Not on -your life. I went with two Central Office men, ' Tsee, a friend of a friend of a friend of mine, knows the chief of police and he aeelgned two men to our party te ehew It to ue right Why, aay," and ha Iboks at you pityingly, "I saw things why, bay. If I should tell yeu what I aaw oh, what's the user xou wouldn't believe it Why, my boy, you haven't Seen one edge of Chinatown, yet I aaw It right . Yee sir, I saw it right. Them guides you get at the hotel la all fakes. Why. p-e-y" '..:. .',-. But you have had enough. Shamed and humiliated, .you determine to uee every effort to get the Inestimable priv ilege of being shown. . You consult your San Francisco friend..-' He grins and says: "I guess I can fix it" A, great load le lifted from -your heart No nan likes to think be len't as wise as the next men. r . . It le fixed. The Central Office men ap pear and you go along gleefully, . And then whatT You bee what you aaw on the night beforef with a little more de pravity thrown1 Jn, : a few. darkerA re ceases penetrated, a few doors' that were closed the night before opened, and somebody.: not saying it la the Central Office men, get a ten dollar gold piece. You have aeen it right! - ' r . Well, then, what about ItT Thla: ' -Ban Francisco's Chinatown la a tawdry Show. If you are lookrhg for depravity, you, have -eeen the climax not among the Chinese especially, but In the sur rounding territory. If you are Intent studying ' the Chlneee, you have aeen your laundryman multiplied a thousand fold. If you ars looking for souvenirs, you have been taken-, in, turned over and fleeced by the shrewdest tradesmen In -the world.- ..If you nave tried to dicker for a bolt of Bilk or a bit of brace or ot copper or .of Ivory, you have been trimmed trimmed le the exact word -until you have no brancbea left for ne matter what you-pay a- Chinese -eaer ebant for little' thing you fancy, -you have paid e.00 much. - t I auppoee. after listening to the talea of -the native eons, that in the old deys Chinatown wae a dark,- dank, myeterl oue place. " Now It la about. aa dark and dank and mysterious ao the corner of Thirty-fourth -street and Broadway. They have filled It .with . electric lights. - moved the Chlneee , up out of - the cellars, and It la a com monplace Institution of ' some If ,090 people, most of whom have thlnge te sell to the tourist Here, es 'elsewhere, tha electric light has done Its work. No one, not. even a Canton-desperado, can be dark and mysterious with two are.llghta on every corner and an unro mantle chief of police . who won't let the impassive that I believe, is the word always used to describe orientals the Impassive oriental-gamble.. . ' . Fudge on Chinatown! Jt la no differ, ent from Chinatown In New York, or Seattle, or Portland, or any other piece where there le a colony of Chlneee. If you are looking for real Chinese works ef art or for real Chlneee goods of eny kind, there are two or three stores down town where, there le more reel Chinese merchandise In one room than there la In all Chinatown. v- - . Fudge on Chinetown and fudge on the Barbery coaet end Carvllle. and. all the other eectlone of the town they tell you you muet eee If yeu would know your San Francleco. If. you like that sort of thing, you can get more of the sort of thing you' like In Sen Fran cisco than anywhere I know, but the sunshine Is too bright the perks ere too beautiful, the breese off the ocean too refreshing, the etreets too attract ive, ths club snd the fellows in them too good to be mixing witn the 411th and degradation nf these alleged "show" plaeee. Curiously enough, many gen Franciscans seem rather proud that L, they have all thla mess to shew to people who coma to town, but that pride. take. It le because eome of the thlnge are unique. Really, whet San Francisco needs ta a ftre confined te certain quar ters-.-, good, strenuous, grown-up fire, Vrnia Patwkiil f?ahla DiSptach. . Kmnanr Klpholaa la her at PeterhOf, on the Oulf of - Finland. For all the good he le doing aa e, ruler, he might Just as welf be In tha deeert of 0obt An angular, .ugly tower, painted muddy yellow, topped by an eagle-crowned flagstaff, le all that "can be seen of his abode. AU that can be eeen of hie court Is an. unromarrtlc Individual In ahlrt aleevea,-bruebing tola hair before a look ing glaaa In the tower window. It needs keen eyee and a field glaaa to see even these. - The buna red eyee JiAV gus could see no more., i- '- - The reet la monastlo eeclualon.1 lm penetrable mystery and tlreleas gossip. Persona who hire boats and row in the brown watere of Constadt bey catch, I am told, a brief glimpse ot the palace facade. But at present any one ap-nroaohlna- tha little harbor? where boata are kept jr promptly repuisea oy a oavai, santrv. - The shore at Peterhof Is muddy, stone. strewn, flat and overgrown with reera. To bathe you must ao several hundred yards from the shore. Straight la front of the palace, running, half e mile 'late the eea. Is a flimsy, wooaen pier, ana on thla nler one at the end ana one uejx way along are two Mue-rooiea. Darn ing boxes, ueed by the osar's Immediate .family. From tha shore the whole pro. ceae can be seen, ana-eteeaot tasea advantage of the occasion by erowdlag to the water's edge and exolalmlng ex citedly when the grand duebeeees trot along the pier te the neareet bathing box...- -..v - ' r-'--v i:. . Last summer the autocrat ef all the Rusetaa bathed every day, but he has not yet been In the eea this year. Peter hof possesses no beach, but two months ago an Ingenious courtier eoggeated that pne might be Officially erected. Tne coaet of Finland la famous .for Its Una yellow sand. So, from Teriokl, across the gulf, eame 10 giant bargee, manned by fair-haired, Finns, ainging their na tional chants and charged with -' the eolo task of turning what Is practically the shore of lake to a sea beach.. But the mud bank rebelled against being a beach, And the ftret atorm washed the sand away.-' ' ' , JL atory got about that tha Finns en gaged la tnle vain labor had plotted to make a . tunnel - under the palace and blow It up. 80 the Flnne were treated potenUalojuplratoraThey.. were net only photographed , and numbered, but watched by palace poUoetneo all day, and forbidden to leave the shore until their bargea were discharged. - The precautlona taken for the esar'e safety, are wonderful. Worklngmea whoee antecedents are unknown -are not allowed to 'battle either In old er new Peterhof. The names ef proepectlyo lodgers or boarders-must first be sub mitted to the police. For nearly a quar ter of a mile along the west wall ef the park .'trees and ahruba have been eut down In order te give the sentries , a alear line, and thus it win oe impoeeipie for marauders to climb the walla,- ' Between the palace and the vaet brick barraoka to the. northeast telephone wires - have been- set up. A boating party front Orantenbem waa fired -on recently by torpedo destroyer for ap proaching te within a mile of the palaoa at-nlght Altogether, Ue town le In a nervoue state, -the Intensity ot which may be gauged from the fact -that' the worklng-olaas population fondly tmag Inee that Japanese -flotilla may ateal paet Crone tad t and shell the palace which the great Peter built as a pledge of hie newly gained mastery ever the 'What Newer Japan Win Include. ''.- !', ' From Scrlbnei's. In the early stage of the-war the usual phrasing waa Xlao.tung pen insula"; but ' gradually the word ' pen lnsula has been dropped. . Aa a result In the western preee the two terms have becomes synonymous, and If. In some editorial senotuma the distinction Is still clear, it bas entirely vanished. If It ever exiated. from the . popular mind. And even with the word peninsula ap pended the phrase haa been ao manipu lated by the propaganda aa to be popu larly 'considered to mean aomething It does 'not When the average Englieh men er American reade In his morning newspaper that Japan will' probably in sist upon Indefinite or permanent occu pation and administration 'of the Llao tung peninsula, he gets the tmpreaslon that What ie meant ia the small pen insula Included in the Rueelan leese hold and on which are situated Dalny and Port Arthur. But here he la wrong. The penlneula - Included In the Russian leaeehold le the "Kwang-tung," not the Llao-tung. The Llao-tung peninsula Is that part of Manchuria eouth of a line drawn east to west from the mouth of the Telu to the port of. Nluehwang, and embraces a large territory. Including the Kwang-tung penlneula, , The "Llao-tung" Includes still more. Tung" Is the Chlneee word for east and "Llao-tung" means east ef the Llao river, which rises in the mountains of north central Men ehurla and flowa by a southerly- course into the Oulf ef Llao-tung, entering the gulf at the port of Nluehwang. - Thus !'Llao-yang'-neens- ndepertnental- -etty eest of the Llao.. and ao the signifi cance of .the terme runs through the nomenclature of the whole country. The "Llao-tung" proper, therefore, refers to all that part of Manchuria lying eaat of the Liao river and embraces fully one third of Its tptal area,. Including Mukden and Klrlh. ,tn two most im portant cities of the old kingdom. To what extent western 'diplomacy let misled by thle clever substitution of terms In. publle dlsousslan of events In .the locality ot the "er I de Hot .know, but Instance In International affairs where such subversions have been successfully Instituted Into treatlea are hot unknown ; .These Are the' Fattest Elks. ' Fro'm ths Bufato fN," T.) blspatchV.'' D. D. Budd," a member of Rochester lodge NO. . B. P. O, E., of Rochester, waa the fattest Elk to march In the parade during the recent national reunion- of . the order here, ' and the - an nouncement that he 'had won the fet man's prise - wee made thle morning. The prise le a complete anglere outfit Mr; Budd weighed I4S pound e end eight ouncee. " e' . ' :? , v ' The eondlttone oi the contest required, that-the eonteetaate- should march in the parade. August Oottwalt of Defi ance,' Ohio, did not underetand'the eon dltlona or he would heve won the prise. He failed to march In the parade. Hla weight according to affidavit filed with Buffalo lodge, le exactly 41T pouitde. Mr. Oottwalt ia only e little over five feet talL s" Rather Be-Rlch Than Right . . .'.From the Milwaukee Sentinel. - Engineer Wallace preferred: a lucre, tive opportunity to a . great one, and would ne doubt rather-se XeckefeUer than ptesldeat . ' 1 CZAR'S PALACE LIFE" y , .. i . ..,-..- - - QVZZTL xm& STORMf v.. 'jv -j'AT ' K0H.0 '. i 'f. ' ssssaesswaaass-e. from the More Obeerver. - " . .- Wind and weather went on a, rampage together, la this locality teat Friday. At noon the temperature waa It degrees . and rose , to 108 degreea by V p. m. ' Maeon work on El rod's brick building' waa suspended at noon. Teams and men generally laid off. Al Jordan suapended houeemovlng from It to ( p. m.. Intend ing to work after I o'clock. 'The wind, what ther was of It, was a scorching , breese, gathering eloude indicating rain. A few drope fell at.:4S, but not auf fl elent to lay -the duat which rose In stifling clouds -with the Increased ve locity of, the wind until :je, when we' of this part of Sherman county, from the J. W..Meeslnger and WUlUm Nor cross farme to. Klondike, a etretch of , IS miles, were treated to a veritable fun. eel-shaped cyclone. As It wobbled along down the track, it twisted hundreds of shade and : 'orchard trees . Into nothing aeaa. blsw over granaries, oatbuildlngs, barns, warehouse, etc, doing . about -tl.OSO damagea in isa than' 10 minutes. Ia More three ef the largest warehouses wee wrecked, one each belonging to the -Wasco Warehouse Milling com nary, the Gordon eompany and the Elevator com- pany. - The first- named ' eompany also ' lost a warehouse at Klondike; the Ele vator eompany one at MoDanaUuv and - me uoraon eompany one et 'DeMoaa. C B; Jones loet e big bam at' hla Ken neth farm: C K. Coohraae'a. new' barn In Moro was taken three feet ofT lte foundationa; J. W. Meealnger's machin ery ahed was ruined; W. A. Norcroee' " granary upset; Wllmer Cooper's barn damaged, eta"' '.-.' v.- --- Of eouree, ell whe have the gplrlt . of thankfulness within them feel grete- rur mat no uvea were lost ana that the damage .wae so slight WhUe It lasted - It- was a gentle reminder to those who know ef similar experiences ever en the other, aide ot the Kockies, To us of the great Inland empire It was a new and sudden aenaation, with ne Invitation for repeating tha ahew. Once la enough. ' 1 LEWIS AND CLARK In the eastern range ef the Reeky mountains. '.,- ' . .' ' .", ,... August a Captain Lewis . continued his course along the river through the valley, which continued much ae It waa yesterday,- except that It now, widens te nearly 11 miles; the plains, too, are more broken and have some scattered pines near the mountains, where -they rise higher' than hitherto. In the level parts of the plains and the river bot toma. there la ne timber .except small ooiionwoou near me margin, anq an un -.. a, der growth of the narrow-leafed willow, . l mail ironsysuoue. rossDuanes, ourrania, eervlceberrlee antt gooseberries and, a little ef a email apeelea ef blrob; it la a finely indented oval, ef a small else and deep green color: the atom ie Sim ple, ascending and branching and eel dom rteea higher than 19 er i feet The meuntaina eontinue high on each side ef the valley, but their only eeeerinfls a. small species of pitob-ptne witn a short leaf, growing en the lower and middle regions, while for Some distance below the enowy tope there le neither tlmhar .nor. herbage eC any hind.. doe, on which they breakfaetod, end i -- a ue ju a. aa . a iauejav . xiiew m er muifju gsj , after resang two a era re oontjnuea uu nierht when they reeenea tne river near e low ground more extensive than , usual From the appearance ef . the . timber Captain Lewie supposed that the . river forked above him and therefore i encamped with an. intention ef examln- ing it mere particularly in the morning. He had ow made (I mtlea, the Utter part ef which waa - for eight miiee through a high : plain eovered with , prickly pears and bearded grass, which rendered the walking very inconvenient; -; but even this was better than the river bottoms we crossed - In' the ' evening, '.' which, though apparently level, were formed Into deep boiee as u tney naa been rooted up by hogs, and the holes were se covered with thick grass that they were la danger of falling at every .' step. - Some parte ef these Jow grounds, however, contain turf or peat ef an ex- call ent quality for many feet deep, ap parently, aa well aa the mineral salts, which we have already mentioned on the ' Mleeourt They saw many deer, ante lopea, ducks, geese, some beaver . and great traces of their work, .ajid the email blrda and curlews as usual. . The only fleh which they obeerved.Jn this part of - the river la the. trout and a species .or white dsh with remarkably long, small mouth, which one of our men recognised aa the fleh called in . the eastern atatea the bottlenoee. --.' . . ' - On aattine' eut witn the canoes we found the river, as usual, much crowded with islands, the eurrent more rapid se : well as shallower, se that in many, places they were obliged te man the eo noes, double aad drag them over the -atone and gravel ef the ehanneL f Soon after we aet off, captain' ciarx, . who waa walking en shore, observed fresh track, which he knew to be that, of aa Indian,' front the large'.toea being turned Inward, and en following It found that It led te the point ef a hill, from which our camp et teat night could asew -Thla -olreumatanco- strength-., , 1 ened the belief that eome Indian had , atraved thither end hed run off alarmed at the eight of us. At two and a quar-; . ter mflee ia a small creex in a pena to--ward the right which rune down from - the mountains at a little distance; we : called it Panther ereek. from an animal of that kind killed by Reuben Flelde at ' Its mouth. It la precisely tha same anl- - mal common to Joe weetern parte ef the - - United States, and measured ?H feet.,', from the noee to the extremity of the . tall.' -Six and 'three quarter milee be-, yond thle etream le another; en the left '' formed by the drain e which convey the T melted snows from a mountain near It v under which the river, passes, leaving the low ground e en the right Side and -making several bende In its-course. On thle stream ' are - many, large - beaver - dame One mile above it is a small run on the left and after leaving which be- -. gins a very bed rapid, where the bed of , the river la formed of solid rock; this , : we passed in - the eouree or a mile and encamped en the lower point of n . Island. . Our Journey hed been only It . miles, but ths bedneae of the river .made ' It very- laborlotaa, ee the men . were compelled to be In the water during the greater part bf the day. We sew only - . deer, -aatelopea and the eommo blrde -. of the eountry, . , ',', '. , . When Laws Look fehie, , ; ; From "the St 'Louis Post-Dispatch,'. Facts hav given eome color to Qov emor Folks etatement that anr. law -. looks bias te a man whd wante to .break- - -T-t : : k Tala. of Two Cities..'' y ,."Thj "Phjlederphls, eplcdre :had ' Juet - ordered snails. -'. . !. J 1 "Yeu cannibal I" exelalae4 the 2fsw ' Terkea -!- - ' -; ' . . '-...- ' :..:,,i.:.'r. ".';. - r JA