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- THE MOENING ORJSGONIAX," TUESDAY, SEPTEilBEK 4, 190O fie f -f- 1 SafeareA at too Pcetofaoe at PsrOsaA. Owtaa, ec ascoad-cifcoi matter. TELEPHONES. Sdfeorijsj Hooms....l60 BiutafiM Oflee..T aSVISSD 6UBSCRXBMON RATES. Sy- aJl poetago prepaid), in Aavaae Pai-fX. WlthSundiy. per month.. . .. .. 4j J gu Sunday excepted, per year...... 00 Xtdis, with Sunday, per year . 03 Suadiy, per year...Y. .... 8 00 Tfc Weekly, per year ..-....-. X f The Weekly. 3 months....... w So aty Subscribers- 5Iy, per week, dellvored. 8untor-exeepto4U0o &Hy, per wk. delivered, Sunday lnoluded.aoo POSTAGE . RATES. United States, Canada, and Mexico: 10 to 16-page paper .................... 26 to 82-pago paper ..,.. . Foreign rates double. Xttvrs cr discussion Intended for publication tn Tfco Oregoniaa should be addressed Invariably 'Editor The Oreeonlan.' not to th name of ny Individual. Letters relating to advertising, ubscriptlosa or to any business matter should bo addressed simply "The Oreeonlan. To Oreeonlan does not buy poems or stories "from Individuals, and cannot undertake to re turn any manuscripts ee&t to It without solicita tion. Ko stamps should be Inclosed for this purpose. Pugct Sound Bureau Captain A. Thompson, effleo at 1111 Pacific avenue, Tacama. Box 033, Tacoma postofllee. Eastern Business Office Tho Tribune build I inc. New York City; "The Rookery." Chicago; the S. G Beckwith special agency. New York. Pot oale In San Francisco by J. K. Cooper. 746 Market street, near the Palace hotol, and at Goldsmith Bros.. 2S6 Sutter street. For sale in. Chicago by tho P. O. News Co, 217 Dearborn street. TODAY'S WEATHER. Cloudy and threat nin& probably without rain of consequence; continued cool; southwest to northwest winds. 3PaRTIiA3TO, TUKSDAY, SEPT. , 1900. THE FIRST ELECTIONS. The first of the elections since the issues of the Presidential campaign "were made up will be held today. "Ver mont takes the start, to be followed by Maine next Monday. The usual Repub lican pluralities In "Vermont have run from 15,000 to 29,000. In 1896 the un precedented plurality of 38,871 appeared, due chiefly to the unusual absence of Democrats from the polls. The follow ing table will show the movements of the vote of Vermont in recent elections: Plu- Rep. Deai. rallty. 1S9S ...... 8S.555 H.GSO 23,809 1898 53,423 14,855 88,571 1684 42.003 14,142 2S.521 1802 37,392 10,325 21.C07 1890 33.402 19,200 14.10S 18S3 4S.C22 10,527 2S.083 Pour years ago the Republicans made a very active campaign in Vermont This year they liave done little, and their vote will not be so large as it was in 1S9G, while many Democrats who did not vote that year will prob ably come out now. A plurality of 25,000 may perhaps be expected. In Maine, in 189G, conditions were similar to those in Vermont. Many thousands of Democrats did not vote, and not a few of those who did appear at the polls threw in their votes with the Republicans. The following table covers the vote of the state since 1888: Plu Rop. Dem, rallty. 1808 54.200 9,407 24,700 1830 80,405 34,088 45,777 1S04 09,599 30,021 38,578 1892 02,023 48,044 14.97U 1890 04.214 45.331 18,883 18S8 73,734 50,481 23,233 These figures are the vote for Gov--ernor in 1890, 1894 and 1898, and for President in other years. The plurali ties, it will be seen, have run from 15, 000 to 45,000 the latter in the excep tional year of 1896. In 1880 the state "was carried against the Republicans in September, yet Garfield won it in No vember. Should the pluralities in these two states fall to low figures now, the Re publican National Committee would see the necessity of bestirring itself and making an effort So far this year it has seemed not to suppose there was any need of organizing and pushing a vigorous campaign. CAJUVTVAL TAIilC The man who declares that Portland is a dead old place, with no enterprise, should take to the woods today, and stay, till the Carnival is over. They say that this is the best-arranged street fair ever prepared. The buildings and exhibits speak, for themselves, the pre cautions against fire are thorough, the crowds will be here this morning. It is a goad time for the croaker to make himself scarce. If he has the price, let him buy a ticket to Lower Alblna or Slab town, where he can enjoy hiB mo rose reflections without casting gloom over the general gayety. Portland, naving got a first-class move on itself, extends a hearty greet ing to its guests from everywhere, and bids them welcome. Ask all the ques tions you want to, and if any one gives a surly answer, report him to the Car nival headquarters in The Oregonlan building. If anybody is guilty of ex tortion, report him to Mr. Bowers, at the Portland Hotel, and the offender will be made an example of. Don't let your sightseeing end with the Carni val. See the new Federal building, at Seventh and Davis. See th City Hall and the Public Library and the High School. Climb up The Oregonlan's tower, get the view from Portland Heights and Willamette Heights, in spect th City Park, see the Thompson' fountain near the Courthouse, and ex amine the Historical Society's exhibit in the City HalL Any hour between 8 and 4V is a good time to sea The Ore gonlan's typesetting machines in op eration, and tho presses are running inx the basement at 3:15 and 3:45 P. M. and about 4 A. M. The busiest retail districts are Third street between Oak and Yamhill, Sixth between Washing ton and Mprrison, and Washington and Morrison between Park and the river. The most attractive residence districts are Nob Hill, from Washington to Love joy between Eighteenth and Twenty first; Johnson's Hill, just below the City Park, south of Washington street; the section between Tenth and Thirtieth, Clay and Montgomery, and, on the East Side, Holladay's addition. There are theatrical engagements this week at the Marquam and the Metropolitan Theaters. There will be races at Irv ington, and on Thursday and Friday the circus. If time suffices, much pleas Tire can be extracted from a row on the river, a ride to Oregon City by boat or trolley, a visit to Vancouver Bar jracks, or a stroll up many of the can yons between the hills west of town. Those who have never been aboard an ocean vessel should spend an hour on one of the foreign ships now in port 'Those who obtain permission from the proper sources for an expedition of this sort will find the seafaring man the most nospltable creature on earth, and will be suret of a pleasant hour. The Street Carnival ought to be the beginning of more activity and greater enterprise in Portland. Social ties and friendly acquaintance go a great ways In the making: of a city. Don't talk shop to visitors, but make a good Im pression that -Kill pave tho way for business some other time. 1 SIUKIGIPAXi REKEDIES. Anybody can tell you that the city charter is all wrong. But the remedies are as varied as the complainants. It is plain that if you want to destroy the exlBtlng order you must have some thing to take Its place. The man who is in, real estate, but not in business, approves the blanket license. He would approve of it if It were made heavy enough to do away with all taxes on land. The man who Is in business but not In real estate thinks that land should bear the tax, but that it Is mon strous to tax industry. All taxes are a burden on investment a clog on enter prise. We can't escape them, and the only way to make them light is to keep governmental expense down to the min imum. We encounter this same divergence on the subject of charter amehdment. Every man has his peculiar crotchet We printed a letter the other day from Senator-elect Hunt He is sure every thing that is, is wrong. But be will find it hard to gain general acceptance for bis remedies. Thus, he wants all elections at the same time and place, a scheme that will not please reform ers who are for separating municipal from National elections in the interest of pure local government He proposes to purify politics by striking out the civil service protection for policemen. He wants to put .the jail in the third story of the City Hall. He wants po licemen changed on their beats at least once a month, and wants them to kill every unlicensed dog they meet On the spot He wants the harbor master turned in to the police depart ment He wants the general taxpayer to stand the expense of repairs to im proved streets. Property-owners should choose the inspectors of their own im provements. All the boards that are in should be put out, but a new, board should be created to hear complaints against officers and remove the offend ers at their pleasure. Our old friend, ex-Governor and ex Mayor "X" has also aired his views at some length. He agrees perfectly with Senator Hunt that everything is all wrong. But as to remedies, he dif fers. Mr. Hunt's idea is to have every office emanate from and be directly re sponsible to the people (except for his board that Is to remove officials at will), but "X" is for one-man power. He would have the Mayor appoint, subject to his own removal, one Water Com missioner, one Harbor Commissioner, one Police and Health Commissioner, one Fire Commissioner, and one Street and Park Commissioner. In another column is the remedy of a third contributor. "S" agrees thor oughly with Mr. Hunt and "X" that everything is all wrong, but his rem edy is different from either of the oth ers. He will solve it all with munici pal ownership. Buy the street rail roads, he says, and all will be well. He forgets what a burden of debt will be laid upon the taxpayer in addition to the water" and bridge debts. He ig nores the fact that the railroads will deteriorate under the care of office -holders. He takes for granted that the roads will pay, whereas In fact they have frequently had to default In in terest or withhold wages, and all but one have passed through a receiver's "hands. He ignores the menace of a great addition to the spoils of political activity. He is blind to the injustice of compelling the general taxpayer to support an investment for the benefit of the comparatively few who ride on street-cars. The man would have been right in one respect if he had said that these valuable franchises, not only of street railways, but of telephones, gas and electric lights, should not have been given "to the corporations without some adequate return, like a tax on gross earnings. In that respect the city's interests have been sacrificed and a considerable resultant evil is the cre ation of socialistic sentiments such as are voiced by "S" in his letter. Remedies are sometimes worse than the diseases they offer to cure. Whether that is true in the cases here cited, let us not attempt to say. Let us insist only on this, that these peculiar the ories are sure to fall, because, while they please their individual author, they can't expect support from people enough to push them through. Startling plans of municipal reform are apt to turn out like the church universal once founded by a great thinker who detected the weak points In all existing denomina tions. It consisted of himself, his wife and his hired man. The London Express renews its report that Russia is to seek a loan, of about $150,000,000 in this country, but the re port is now accompanied by the ad ditional detail that it is expected to get the money from the Insurance com panies. It will not then, be a purely financial transaction. The New Tork Journal of Commerce, which ought to .know, says it will be somewhat In the nature of a ".hold-up," or, more polite ly, the licensing of companies to do business in Russia. Last year Russia tried the experiment on a small scale of Inducing an American life-insurance company to Invest several millions in Russian bonds as a condition of its doing, or extending, business in the empire. The precise terms have never been disclosed. Russia follows a uni versal practice in requiring insurance companies doing business in its juris diction tp keep a certain amount of their assets also within Its jurisdiction, but $150,000,000 Is a pretty large amount for American insurance companies to put into Russian securities as an as surance that they will not default on Russian claims. Ex-United States Senator Boutwell cites the case of China as part of the imperial tendencies of this Government A man of ability and experience, it is astonishing that Mr. Boutwell should not see that the dangers of so-called imperialism are quite distinct from the right and duty of this Government to protect Americans in life and property in China. If there had never been any war with Spain, if there had never been any war in Luzon, our Govern ment would have been obliged, as a matter of National honor and human ity, and in vindication of Its treaty rights, to rescue our -Minister and other American citizens in Pekin from peril, and yet Mr. Boutwell is so Infatuated with his anti-imperialistic man of straw that he declares that "when we entered the Philippines we were the chief oc casion of the revolution In China." Mr. Boutwell was a radical supporter of Lincoln's war policy on the floor of Congress from 1S61 to 1865, but he never was affrighted then by the im- pending shadow of imperialism or mili tarism, when there were over 1,000,000 men in arms. When that 1,000,000 of Union bayonets was no longer a mili tary necessity for the preservation of the Union, it was quietly disbanded and dissolved, without any attempt to use it. for the subversion of the Govern ment, and last week in Chicago the aged remnantbut 35,000 strong of that Army of 1,000,000 -bayonets of 1865 marched the streets of Chicago amid the plaudits of their fellow-countrymen. That Grand Army parade ought to have recalled Mr. Boutwell back tocommon sense and taught him the absurdity of naming- imperialism and militarism as the impending dangers of this Republic. OTJR STAKE IN CHINA. Our Secretary of State has already said that the policy of the-Unlted States is to safeguard for the world the prin ciple of equal and Impartial trade with all parts of the Chinese Empire; that "the United States is opposed to the partition of China, and asserts that it has the right to a voice In the settle ment of China's future." Brooke Ad ams contributes a very able and strik ing article to the September Atlantic on "Russia's Interest In China," in which he arrays a valuable mass of historical facts and figures to show that the United States is responsible for the present deep anxiety of the powers of Europe to develop the dormant re sources of China. The argument of Mr. Adams, boiled down to its briefest ex pression, -is that the United States has stimulated cheap manufacturing, min ing and transportation, until we have commanded the European market and created an enormous balance of trade In our favor, with the result that Eu rope is steadily sinking into economic inferiority, an inferiority especially marked in minerals. "For the first time in human experience the United States this year leads In the produc tion of the precious metals, copper, iron and coal, and this year also for the first time the world has done Its bank ing! to the west, and not to the east of the Atlantic." The precious metals failed Europe long ago, copper followed, and now iron and coal have reached a price which threatens to hamper com petition. Under such circumstances, Mr. Adams points out, Europe Is threat ened with, ruin if it fails to provide itself with new resources as cheap and abundant as those of America. The existence of such undeveloped re sources in Eastern and Central China has incited the powers of Europe to wring successive concessions from China. Europe means ultimately to seize the mineral deposits of Shan SI and Honan, and "he who can develop these immense beds of iron and coal by means of Chinese labor may well hope to defy all rivals." This is the statement of facts and the obvious ar gument from the facts set forth by Mr. Adams, and brings him to the startling but plausible conclusion that on the decision of the fate of China "may perhaps hinge the economic su premacy of the next century." Mr. Adams next inquires what power of Europe will play the leading part in the future of Asia. He does not think it will be Great Britain, because the Boer War has demonstrated that she Is unequal to assuming heavier burdens than those she now bears. Great Brit ain in 1899, for the first time since Waterloo, has been compelled to halt, while Russia has overflowed Into Per sia, has obtained lodgment in Corea, and Germany has secured most advan tageous lodgment on the coast of the Province of Shan Tung. England seem ingly is not willing to risk a war to stop the progress of Russian and Ger man occupation of the most valuable regions of China, and under these cir cumstances, -Mr. Adams points out, America must assume the place once held by England, if she would prevent "the successful organization of a hos tile Industrial system on the shores of the Pacific, based on Chinese labor, nourished by European capital and sup plied by the Inexhaustible resources of the Valley of the Ho Hang Ho." Mr. Adams does not believe that Rus sia can possibly accomplish the pur poses of her ambition alone, and he Is confident that the United States can not afford to allow the aid that Rus sia will need to be drawn exclusively from Europe. Russia is financially ut terly unequal to her ambition. She has borrowed the savings of Fiance until she can borrow no more. She Is build ing her Trans-Siberian Railway in a very shabby manner, at a cost of 10, 000 rubles more the versp than a French syndicate in 1891 offered to build it for. It is a costly and inferior railway, be cause it is the product "of a primitive society, which generates a defective civil service." Official bribery, corrup tion and peculation are the cancer of the Russian governmental administra tion. Russia must either undergo a so cial reorganization that will put her upon a cheaper administrative basis, or she must obtain fresh property which she can mortgage, and she can only obtain it by expansion. Russia has nothing left to mortgage, and for this reason she wants the mineral wealth of Shan Si. If Russia could absorb Shan SI, she would have the richest prize, In the development of its mineral deposits, of modern times. The conclusion of Mr. Adams is that the United States has nothing to gain by Russian absorption of the northern provinces of China; that the United States is now mistress of the situation; that an Industrial movement in the Val leys of the Ho Hang Ho and the Yang tse could only tend to her embarrass ment; that the best thing that could happen for the United States would be for China to remain as she is; that the United States cannot afford to allow the future development of China to be wholly controlled by others. If Rus sia should absorb Shan SI, she cannot organize it alone, for she has neither the genius nor the capital, but must mortgage the property. Russia Is not equal to the work, and Japan, both from a financial and an administrative point of view, is, Mr. Adams thinks, as unequal as Russia to handle such a task. The English energies are already overtaxed, but with Germany for an ally, the Russians and Germans could dominate Northern China and a strain of a very serious nature be put upon America, The final conclusion of Mr. Adams Is that Americans must accept the Chinese question as the great prob lem of the future a problem from which there is no escape. If Lincoln had been other than he was, the Democrats would either have thought more of him forty years ago or less of him now. If he had not been at all, they would be suffering Iremen- peclally since they called him an Impe- j rlalist in 1660 In a scratch, Jefferson wou)d do fairly ell for general pur poses; because' he wrote the Declara tion of Independence; but for particu lar purposes ne would do poorly, be cause he Initiated expansion and start ed us on the road to ruin. Here are the census figures for the twelve leading cities of the United States, in the order of their present size: Inc. over Pero't Popuhition. 1800. age. New York 3,437.202 994,611 S5.33 Chicago 1,608,575 598.725 54.44 Philadelphia 1,293,007 240.733 23.57 St. Louis 075,238 123,408 27.33 Boston 580.892 112,415 25.07 Baltimore 008,945 74.000 17.15 Cleveland 381.708 120,415 48.07 Buffalo 352,210 00,555 35.7T San Francisco 842.782, 43.785 14.64 Cincinnati 325,002 28,094 0.77 Pittsburg 821.010 82.000 S4.7S New Orleans :. 2ST.104 45,005 18.02 Cincinnati shows least growth. The proportional gain of San Francisco Is next smallest; and Baltimore and New Orleans follow in the line of slowest growth. Pittsburg does not show in the table for all she is worth; for Al legheny City and other environs are actual parts of her, though not in her municipality. The actual population at Pittsburg, within an area less than that of Cincinnati or San Francisco, Is more than 500,000. It Is said that we shall not have the census returns of any state until all cities of 30,000 and over shall have been reported. If a man really wanted to give capital advice that should promote the general welfare, he would probably urge It to be just, or even generous, In Its treat ment of labor. He would hardly advise Itto put on the screws a little more severely. And If he really wanted to give labor advice that would promote the general welfare, he would probably urge It to be careful to do Its full duty, render service for Its hire, live and let live. He would hardly advise it to be more obstreperous. He would counsel friendliness, not renewed warfare, on each side. But If he wanted to stir up strife and foment class prejudice, he would pursue an opposite course. That is, he would offer for Labor day the same sentiment Bryan offers: Let each one inquire whether tho man who tolls enjoys a fair sharo of tho proceeds of his labor, and if not. let him apply a remedy. Mr. Woolley thinks to demonstrate the Prohibitionist principle when he says he "admired any party that could organize church members and liquor sellers to support the same ticket." He might just as. well have said he admires any party that can induce Baptists and Episcopalians to vote the same ticket, or that can get equal support from car penters and plumbers, Germans and Irish, Christian Scientists and material ists. Many liquor-sellers are church members. Yesterday the county and city offices were all closed, and the officials were taking a holiday, because it was Labor day; but workmen were busy every where, and even the employes of the street-cleaning department were at work. xWere It not for Labor day, there would hardly be a ray of sunshine in the life of the overworked politician and office-holder. Do take off the gates at Sixth street those placards that read, "Not to be opened only In case of Are." Do show to the country people that there Is a little grammar In Portland. For gram mar also has Its place in human inter ests. Every exhibit will be better If its grammar Is good. Even electric light will be better with It than without It. And while you are correcting the grammar of the placards on the gates, how would It do to suppress that hideous- noise, in the guise of music, on Sixth street, between Alder and Wash ington? The arrival of a British squadron in an Eastern harbor would look like rati fication of the British-American alli ance, If It were not for our desertion of England at Pekln. If the antis -had waited to see what the Administration would do before they Condemned It for imperialism in China, they would have missed a good chance to talk. It's six of one to the English wheat buyer, but not half a dozen of the other to the Oregon wheatgrower, whether wheat brings a discounted silver price or not. It Is better to protect ourselves against the Filipinos by the McKinley method than to protect the Filipinos against the world by Bryan's. Roosevelt at Chicago yesterday made a speech well suited to a non-polltlcal occasion. Bryan made his usual politico-partisan speech. It's a good thing for Tammany that election comes off In cool November, else more voters would' remember the Ice trust. What Ib He Kicking; About? New York Sun. Mr. Bryan begins to make speeches at 8:30 A. M., and of his making speeches there is no end; andfthls is a pretty big piece of one which he spoke in Omaha the other day. Will you kindly have the patience to listen to it: I have my idea of what civilization should mean. Some people say that we Democrats are enemies of property. It Is not true. I have a home. I hope I may some time hare a bet ter one. I would that every head of a family had a home, and tho better the home the hap pier I would be. I want property to be the reward of Industry, and I want every citizen to be secure In the enjoyment of the proceeds of his toll. I do not envy tho rich. I am not desirous of pulling them down. I want a civ ilization that makes every poor man hope to be better off, and relieves the rich man of tho fear that hiB children will be trampled on If thoy over become poor. I want a civilization that embraces within Its benoflts every de-, serving member or society. I do ijot want a civilization that will prevent a man from rid ing In a carriage, but I want a civilization that gives hopes to the driver of the carriage as well as the man who rides In it. I want a civilization that gives hope to the girl that works In the kitchen as well as to tho one who sits lp the parlor. I wont a civilization that makes llfo worth living to every human being. That is the kind of country the United States is. Mr. Bryan has described it al most exactly. If everybody has not a home, everybody has an opportunity to have one. The driver of the carriage may live to be driven in his own. The kitchen maid may be the wife of a Pres ident. Every1 citizen Is secure in the pro ceeds of his toil, except in so far as he may be perturbed by fears of Mr. Bryan's income tax, corporation baiting and trust harrying. Every poor man does hope to be rich, although he will never become so by means at Mr. Bryan's two-dollar-for-ono thlmblerlg. What is Mr. Bryan .kicking about? Clv illzatlon In the United States is substan tially as he says it Bhould be. He ought to move to make the election of Mr. Mc Kinley unanimous. a NINE TIMES SB SPAKE. But He RefHsed to Answer Pointed Questions on Silver. Special dispatch to tho Boston Herald. LINCOLN. Neb., Aug. 23. William J. Bryan refuses to be drawn out on tho silver question. He insists that imperial ism is the paramount Issue, and declines to discuss any of the features of silver except in his own way and at his own convenience. Mr. Bryan had ample opportunity this evening to satisfy public curiosity as to his position on tho .silver question, but he would not grasp the opportunity to furnish enlightenment When Mr. Bryan was seen he was at leisure in his home. He had time to think, and the ques tions were plain. But his replies to them were unvaried. Here are the questions asked Mr. Bryan and hetje is his per sonal reply: "When the Democratic convention was held you declared that the free coinage of silver was as vital an issue as it was four years ago, and Insisted upon the 16-to-1 plank going with the platform. Is that your conviction today?" Mr. Bryan I will discuss public ques tions In my own way and In my own time. "If elected, would you exert your power to secure free coinage of silver in this country, regardless of what other nations might do 7" Mr. Bryan I will discuss public ques tions in my own way and in my own time. "Secretary Gage points out that the President could at any time order the Secretary of the Treasury to make pay ment in silver for current disbursements of the Government and of all of the pub lic debt that Is payable In 'coin' that is to say, on practically all the bonds, ex cept the comparatively small amount of refunding 2 per cents Issued within the last few months. If elected, would you make such payments In silver?" "I will discuss public questions in my own way and in my own time." ' "Would not Buch action create distrust, and result in payments into the Treasury being made in silver and its proper rep resentatives?" "I will discuss public questions In my own way and In my own time." "With the Treasury then getting its revenuo in silver and making all Its pay ments In silver, would not the Govern ment be practically on a silver basis?" Mr. Bryan I will discuss public ques tions In my own way and In my own time. "Do you consider this de'slrable?" Mr. Bryan I will discuss public ques tions In my own way and In my own time. "Would not such a situation lead to just such a movement as precipitated the panic of 1893, when holders of green backs, which are by law redeemable In gold, hastened to present them for re demption, thus draining the Treasury of Its store of yellow metal and compelling the Government to Issue new bonds to replenish the reserve?" Mr. Bryan I will discuss public ques tions In my own way and In my own time. "The same causes will always produce the same effects. Several years ago the run on the Treasury for gold and fear that the country might go on a silver basis produced distrust, hoarding of gold, contraction of credits and the greatest panic the country had ever known. Have you any reason to believe that your elec tion, pledged to make payment in sliver and unsettle the standard, would not pro duce an even worse panic than the last?" Mr. Bryan I will discuss public ques tions in my own way and in my own time. After Mr. Bryan had been interviewed with the foregoing results, he was asked: "Will you not give some decisive an swer to any one of these questions?" "I will discuss public questions In my own way and In my own time," he re peated. "Can I say you decline to be Inter viewed as an answer to all the queries?" was asked. "I have said all I wish to on the sub ject," he said. "The one reply answers for all." MEN AND WOMEN. A French physician. Dr. Hervleux. has made Investigations which Indicate that flies spread smallpox. Tho KInc of Sweden and Norway has con ferred tho Grand Cordon of the Northern Star on Professor P. Max Muller. Sir Georffe White, of Ladysmlth fame, now Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Gibral tar, will be promoted to tho rank of General In October next. Prlnco Tuan (pronounced Twan), who has been reported as dead, poisoned, Insane, and again as absolute ruler of Pekln, Is the first cousin of Kwang Su, tho Emperor, and father of Po Chlng, tho heir-apparent to the Chlneso throne. Charlotte Bronte's husband, tho Rev. Arthur B. Nichols, Is now over 80 years of ago, and spends much of his time In attending to his land business at Banagher, Ireland. Though married again, he always observes the anni versaries of his first wife's birth and death. Much to the surprise of everybody who knows ex-Empress Eugenie, She has just lent to her nephow, Prlnco Victor Bonaparte, and to his actress Wlfo her favorite castle of Arenenberg, on tho shoros of Lake Constance. The castle was so much beloved by the Ill-fated hopo of the Napoleonic dynasty, Prince Louis, killed in Zululand, that ho preferred It to any other spot In the world. Lieutenant Robert Edwin Peary, whoso two years' silence In tho Arctic is beginning to create comment, Is now on his fifth expedition to the frozen north. He sailed from Greenland July 7, 1898. The last message he sent to civil ization was dated August 13, 1898, and read: "So far all my plans havo been successfully carried out." When Peary sailed on his present voyage he not even attempted to conceal the fact that he was bound for the north pale. The daring, explorer Is a native of Cresson, Pa., and Is now In his 45th year. Long: After. Mary Rlddell Corloy In Boston Transcript. A poor street organ on the pavements brown, A tiny monkey in his tinseled gown. And far aloft. In swaying, rhythmic tlmo, Tfp to tho window, where I sit and sew, The pulsing waits notes swinging to and tro. Like fairy bells, ring out their mystic chimb. And far away, o'er fairest land and sea, On waves of sound they lift and carry me To where tho Jasmine flowers wero sweet one night; And roaes bent, nor lightest petal stirred. And stars leant low to hear a whispered word That filled tho world with love's supremost light. Somewhere, eomewhoro the snowy Jasmine blows, And in and out, each vagrant, Bcented roso Still climbs tho lattloo at its own sweet will; And still the stars may shlno on smiling eyes, Tho samo old stars, from out tho self-samo skies Though love Is old yet earth has lovers still. .But evermoro shall stars look down In vain For feet that passed and never came again. And listen vainly for tho music fled; Though starry Jasmine yield Its perfume rare, And roses nestle close In Bunny hair, My life is lived, my love of loves Is dead. Tho haunting music dies adown the street. The merry children flee with nimble feet, I take my dainty bit of work again; But over filmy web of broidcred white And trembling hands, onco .full, now empty quite, Th& tearuroni fall llko 8fcow?r3 of bitter rain. "TEID THE FACTS." WaHa Walla Union. The Oregonlan publishes Mr. Mellen's letter to tho Walla Walla Commercial Club, and with characteristic lack of fairness proceeds to say that tho Commercial Club founded its plea for lower rates on misleading and incorrect figures regarding the tonnago situation on the coast, and editorially says, "Thero are vessels enough to carry away the crop." As a matter of fact, tho petition referred to contained no Gxures regarding tho tonnage In sight or en route fcr tho present year. Tho club did state that the groin fleet for the past two years had been notoriously lnadcquato, a statement verified by tho fact that from 0,000,000 to 7,000,000 bush els wero carried over. Tho petition also stated that the grain fleet en route for tho present year la apparently smaller than for tho preccdlns year. In sup port of this statement, that the grain crop Is larger, tho Union again quotes from the Chi cago Trade Bulletin of August 13: "The Port land Oregonlan estimates tho wheat crop of Oregon at 40,000,000 bushels, and tho quan tity of wheat carried over at 7,000.000." It will bo noted In passlnrr that The Oregonlan. with Its accustomed modesty, claims tho wheat crop of the entire North Pacific as Oregon's. Tho total- number of vessels clearing from Pugot Sound and the Columbia River In the last year carrying grain Is 133, and carrying in all 22,493,000 bushel3. To carry away the 47,000,000, which, according to tho Oregonlan, says aro now on hand In the Pacific North west. It will require not less than twice as many ships. Yet the Portland paper has tho temerity to assert that there are vessels enough to carry away the crop, an assertion that It knows Is absolutely without foundation. It proceeds to lecture the farmers on tho "hold-your-wheat" policy, "which has prevent ed exporters securing ships early In tho year, when they can bo obtained at low rates," which Interpreted means that the farmer Is a very unreasonable and obstinate creature in refusing to accept whatever prlco tho exporter and mlllowner see fit to offer. The Union has stated heretofore that It does not agree with the 40,000,000-bushel estimate of Tho Oregonlan for the State of Oregon, or even the three states. The crop probably Is about 30,000,000 In Washington. Idaho and Ore gon, and up to dato The Oregonlan has fur nished no evidence, nor has Mr. Mellen. that tho rraln floet en route to arrive during the last half of the year Is at all adequate to move this crop, to say nothing of tho 7.0C0.000 car ried over. Thero has been no misstatement of facts by the WaHa Walla Commercial Club, and up to date neither the. railroad pres idents nor the newspapers In tho sleepy sea port towns that invite consignments of grain without providing sufficient shipping facili ties havo met the argument for relief as pre sented In the petition to Mr. Mcllcn. The Oregonlan denies the right of the farmer to hold his wheat until his Judgment which is probably as good as that of the agricultural editor of The Oregonlan on this subject tells him It Is tlmo to sell, a prlvllese which 13 claimed by every property-owner, and advises him to buy options In tho Chicago Board of Trade, a proposition which would strike most people as childish and ab3urd. In conclusion, tho Union would say that, whatever misrepresentation of facts and figures have entered Into this controversy. It has been supplied by Mr. Mellen and hl3 ally, Tho Ore gonlan. The Walla Walla Commercial Club fath ered some misleading and incorrect statements regarding tonnage supplies, etc., through Ignorance of the subject The Oregonlan called attention to this fact as a weakening feature of their ap peal for low rates to the East, and print ed figures the accuracy of which could be verified by every farmer in the country, showing that the amount of grain tonnage headed for Portland and Puget Sound on the date of the petition was the largest on record for a similar period. In the conclusion that a carry-over of 6,000,000 to 7,000,000 bushels is a verification of the club's statement that the grain fleet has been totally Inadequate for the past two years, the Union has certainly developed marvelous powers of reasoning. The ed itor of tho Union knows, or he should know, that within a radius of forty miles of Walla Walla there are thousands of bushels of wheat for which the farmers refused SO cents and even SO cents per bushel some time ago. This wheat Is a portion of that carry-over that is men tioned, and of course, by the Union's brilliant line of reasoning, the farmers who refused 90 cents when tonnage was plentiful would sell for 50 cents If there was adequate tonnage now. Ships were provided for that 90-cent wheat and, fol lowing the advice of the Union, the farm ers would not sell; and at a heavy loss ships were rechartered for lumber, held over with expensive demurrage charges for another crop, or diverted to other ports, the exporter's losses In either case being sufficiently heavy to prevent -him again loading up with tonnage. The farmer had the exporter at his mercy In 1897 and 1S93. and ho cinched him to the limit, but in, so doing he also frightened the exporters so that they have since fol lowed a less generous policy in securing ships, which has been expensive to tho farmer and In the long run will prove more costly than it would have been for him to let go of his wheat when tho exporter had cheap ships. The Oregonlan does not deny the right of the farmer to hold his wheat as long as ho is so in clined. The mon who are paying taxes, storage and Insurance on tho wheat for Which they refused 90 cents per bushel have a perfect right to keep on doing so. They will always find bankers in Walla Walla who can spare enough money from their newspaper ventures to make liberal advances at high Interest rates on their wheat They should not expect however, that exporters will continue to provide ton nage for that wheat which they will not sell year after year. The 7,000,COO-bushel carry-over could all havo been moved last year at 50 cents per bushel to the farmer, for Instead of there not being tonnage enough to handle It, stiff bidding was necessary in many cases to secure enough of the wheat to fill the ships that came to hand. The deliberate misrepre sentation of the Union Is shown In the ex tract reprinted from the Chicago Trade Bulletin. The Oregonlan never estimated the wheat crop of Oregon at 40,000,003 bushels. Why quote from the Chicago Trade Bulletin? Why not quote from The Oregonlan? It will probably surprise the Union to learn that every bushel of wheat that Is grown In the Pacific Northwest is not Intended for export, and that tonnage is never provide for 7,000,000 to 8.000.COO which is used for seed and home con sumption, or for the 5 COO.COO bushels which Is ground into flour for transportation to the Orient by the regular linen;. There will be ships enough In the tonnage market to handle tho wheat, but high prices will be paid, for the simple reason, that freights are high all over the world. and the action of the farmers in previ ous years has prevented exporters from securing as much cheap tonnage as they would have taken had there been any assurance of the farmer selling when the crop was ready to market Misrepresen tation doe3 no cause gcod, and the Union Is not hclplig that of the fanner by garbling and distorting facts with which the farmer should be familiar. Growth of Pacific Const Cities. St Louis Globe-Democrat. San Francisco, In the last 10 years, made a gain In population of 43,7So, or 14.64 per cent making the total 342.7S2. It Is a fair rate of Increase, yet the growth of the cities of the Pacific Coast within tho next decade is likely to bo the largest in their history. NOTE AND COMMENT. O rrcat and honored Pluvtus, wo'vo heard that you're the chap That stands besldo tho reservoir, and operate tho tap. And tf It's true, we beg that you win not feoi called upon To exercise your function till tho fair has cumo and gone. Of course, we shall appreciate some moisture by and by. But too much of It now. you know, will knocU the fair sky high. Don't think. O mighty potentate, that Ore gon's a state Where water's looked upon aa good alono to irrigate; Wo like to bathe In It at times, and drink It now and then. But when you start to pour It out you novel . call "Say when." And so we fear that when you send below th first wee drop You'll get to talking politics, and may forget to stop. It hasn't been so easy as you may perhaps suppose To get up aU'thls carnival, and if tho old thing goes We'll let j'ou gaza upon a great and most to splendent sight. And be convinced, as mortals are. that Port land Is all right. But. like tho men of Old Kentuck. the fall can't stand the wet. And so we trust that you will not turn on th tap Just yet. Keep your hands on your pockets It you get Into a crowd today. The National convention of deaf-mute Is always still In session. Fltzsimmons could have retired wlt& better taste some months earlier In th, game. Some growing city now has a chanct to achieve distinction by not demanding a recount. Croker's assertion that a young man should go Into politics is taken asi per sonal to W. J. Bryan. The Republican party can never forget what It owes to Bryan for removing Webster Davis and Potato Plngree. Don't think If you see an elk toda? whose trousers bag at the knees that ha got them that way praying for rain. Count von Waldersee may have as hard a job finding any allies In China as thu allies are now having In finding tho Dowager Empress. In the morning call mo early, say about half past three. For It will bo my busy day, I'll need tho tlmo. you see. For I'll havo to spend tho morning looking at the things I'll wear. For I'm to bo Queen of the falr mother. I'm to be Queen of the fair. The progress of work on the buildings' for the street fair, and the arrival of several cages of lions and other animals, have furnished a continuous entertain ment for the boys for the past week or two, and now that the fences surround ing all the sights are approaching a fin ish, and signs of "no admittance" and "keep out" are displayed in different places, the boys are looking a3 sorrowful as Adam did when the gate of Eden slammed behind him, and his season tick et had run out The lions are a great attraction to the boys, and If greedy looks and slavering Jaws go for anything, the boys, especially the plump ones, have at tractions for the lions. The most Inter esting thing, however, in the. Midway Plalsance to all boholders Is a big black monkey, all legs, arms and tall, which excites the envy of the boys by ths facility with which he ascends and de scends a pole. His caudal appendage is the most pliable and useful of his "limbs." While using his hands and feet In getting up the polo, his prehensile tall can reach up hl3 back over his head and grasp the pole, and ho can hang sus pended by It to rest or hunt for flea 3. Such a spectacle 13 enough to make any one deeply regret that in the evolutionary shuffle connected with the development of the human from the ape, man lost his most useful member. Every boy who watched that monkey perform would havo given all his old clothes for Buch a tall a3 he sports. PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGKAPHEU3 Tho Pace. "Misfortune always travels fast. "That's right; tho more rapid tho pace a follow goes tho quicker It overtakes him." Philadel phia Record. Precis Speech. Brown Do you over talk in your sleep? Town Not that I know of. X havo sometimes talked in other people's sleep. Bos ton Transcript. On tho Links. "You ought to bo ashamed to swear so dreadfully at tho caddy. Ho is tho minister's little boy." "Ifa all right. Hla father believes In Infant damnation." Life. Opportunity Provided. "It's no wonder those Japoneao troops cover themselves with glory.' "What do you mean?" "Why. tho other for eign commanders are polite enough to let them do all tho dangerous work." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Nice Diplomacy. He I am tho bearer of a. charmed life. Sho (sarcastically) Indeed! What great dangers havo you over escaped? He None. But I have looked Into your eyoa and heard tho sound of your voice. Chicago Times-Herald. To Send Away. "WeU, that caps the cll maxl" "What's that?" "Cook says thos folks In that little house on tho corner camo over while wo were gona and had their pho tographs taken sitting on our veranda." In dianapolis Journal. After Vacation. Its purposo was to gently intimate that two weeks' vacation was hardly long enough, hoping to reap the benefit of tho suggestion. "Tw weeks." he sold, "give a man Just sufficient tlmo to learn hdw to loaf." "I've noticed it," replied his employer curtly, and all tho rest of the afternoon tho young man devotod himself to tho most realistic imitation of work that ho had glvon stneo ho got back from his outing. Chicago Evenlni Post. What the Census Tell Chicago Times-Herald. What does the census say? Study the figures well; Hundreds of thousand of hurrying men. Each with a. story to toll ! Each with a heart and each with a souL Each with his Joys or cares. Each believing that he. somehow, Should- weigh In tho world's affairs. What does the census show? Hundreds of thousands of men Wearily quitting their taskn tonight To toll tomorrow again; Hundreds of thousands of people, each Faithfully hoping away For a gllmpso of tha chanco for th lucky striko That each la to make, somo day. What does the census tell? Does it tell of the eyes that acho? Does it tell of tho wreath on tho llttlo moundf Does It toll c- the hearts that break? Does it tell us a story of brotherhood. Of help for the halt .and blind? Does It toll of the proud who rido In front And the weary who trudgo behind? What does the census show? Hundreds of thousansd of hanii. Knotted and. rough and whlto and soft. Filling tho world's demands; Hundreds of thousands of sons of Gcd Tolling In hope, in doubt. Each with hla woes or each with his Joys That the world cares nothing about! What docs tho census say? What do the figures mean? " Hundreds of thousands o'er whom tho graaa Will some day bo growing greont Hundreds of thousands ot bubbles cast About on a troubled sua Men. tn myriads harrying paat With never a thought of mt X A