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Newspaper Page Text'4 Whg r0omat loitered at. the Postofflee at Portland, Oregon, aa second-class matter. TELEPHONES. Editorial Booms. ...160 Business Office. ...COT REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Mall (postage prepaid). .In Advance pally, with Sunday, per month x fcj X)aily. Sunday excepted, per year 7 &o Dally, with Sunday, per year it oo Sunday, per year , 2 ik The Weekly, per year- 1 Do The "Weekly, 3 months .' 5o To City Subscribers Xatly, per week. delH-red. Sundays cxcopted.l5c Dally, per week, delivered. Sundays lncludea.iOc POSTAGE RATES. "United States,.-Caoada aad-Msxico: .l0 IS-WB Mixr; r ic ll SS-P? paper.,.. ,., 2o Foreign rates dunble. Xews or discussion Intended for publication In The OregoWal should be addressed Invaria bly "Editor TheOtfROaiari" not fo the name of any IndUvjaual. -Ljftiera relating to advertis ing, subscription's or to any business matte. uuioe aaaresea simply "The Oregonian." The Orcgpnjan does npt; buy poems or stories from Individuals, and cannot undertake to rt iturn -any manuscripts sent to It without solici tation. No stamps should be. Inclosed for this Xmrposc ." Puget SJund Bureau-Captain A. Thompson, TS a Mil Pacific avenue. Tacoma. Box 9JJ. OTaconut Postofflee,.' Eastern Bosfneas. Office. 3. 44. 45, 47, 4S, 49,' Tribune; building. Now York City; 469 "Tht Kookery," Chicago; the S. C Beckwlth special agency. Eastern representative. For sale in San Francisco by J. K. Cooper, 4S Market street, near the Palace Hotel; Gold ttnlth Bros., 230 Sutter street: F. W. Pitts. jOOS Market street! Foster &. Orear, Ferry news, rtand. Bor eale In Los Angeles by B. F. Gardner, 9 So. Spring street, and Oliver & Haines, lOo ou. spring street. For sale In Chicago by the P. O. News Co., -1 Dearborn s'reet. For sale In Omaha by Barkalow Bros.. 1012 Farnam street. Forsalo in Salt Lake by the Salt Lake News v,o "W. Second South street. For sale In Ocden by W. C. Kind. 204 Twen-ty-nrth street. !.hS fl!6 ?' Bufra,. Y.. In the Oregon ex hibit at the exposition. For sale in Washington. D. C. by the Eb Dett House news stand. xT-Xt"? 6J i?enver' cl-. V Hamilton & Kehdrlck. D0G-9I2 Seventh street. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER-Maxlmum tem perature. 82; jnlr.lm.ura temperature, 02; clear. TODAY'S AVEATHER-Increasing cloudln-ss ami cooler during the late afternoon. North west winds, shifting to southwesterly. PORTLAND, MOXDAY. JULY 20, 1901. j "EXGUSII AS SHE IS SPOKE." The subject isn't a new one, but It is receiving some new Illustrations. The ogllsh language is spoken by the English people and by the American people. But the manner in which each of these peoples speak It is frequently a source of astonishment to the other Here is the Hong Kong Telegraph, with a glossary, for definition and explana tion of words used by Americans 'with whom the English over there are coming much in contact. Many of the expres sions noted were used by our soldiers to the, amazement of s their English .hearers. Some of the explanations are amus ing. "To rubberneck" Is "to look around, to see what may be seen." "Rubbernecking around" is ."the act of rubbernecking." "Cold feet." we are told, means "to be afraid." A "dope dollar" is a Mexican or other silver dol lar, except that of the United States. A "bobtail" is a soldier discharged by reason of misconduct To "hike" Is "to Cha!f onE'" whIle "hiking" Is "pursu ing." "To throw down" means "to get a chum into trouble." "To call down" IS "to make an antagonist give In; to rate any one soundly." A "rookie" Is "'a. man who has been in the service a shorter time than yourselves." "To shoot -craps": "An interesting game played with two dice on a numbered board. Sometimes one wins, sometimes the other (generally the other)." Evi dently the compiler of the glossary for the Hong Kong paper had gained some experience in the sport. For an offset to this we have In Har per's Magazine for August an enter taining paper by Julian Ralph on "The English of the English." He writes: "The hackneyed American maiden who said London was a nice place if you only knew the language was not a bit absurd. An American can hardly utter a sentence in England without calling attention to the difference between his speech and that of the people about him. Only yesterday, after eighteen months' residence In England, I rushed up to a conductor in Charing Cross Station and asked, 'Which car for Bromley?' He stared at me. and I knew I iiad spoken a foreign tongue to him. because street vehicles, like omnibuses and horse cars, are called road cars and tram cars, and there are no other cars In England." So if you say you like your meat 'rare" you are not understood, because such meat in England Is "underdone." If you say you fear the asparagus Is "canned" your man is at a loss again, because he would have said it was "tinned." To ask for "powdered sugar" will set hmr-to wondering again, for he calls it "Icing sugar," generally, though he knows it Is sometimes called caster or sifted sugar. Corned beef, or a par ticular cut of It. is called "silversldes of beer'r and to ask for a spool of cotton is to set a clerk staring at you, because spools of cotton or silk are called "reels." Chickens are not chick ens, but are "fowls," and all the cere alswheat, rye. barley, etc. are lumped together under the word "corn." A greatf many of these curiosities of sfleech--curlosltles to Americans are set forth in this Harper article. It is gratifying to find that In our Joint use of the common tongue English and Americans can be mutually entertain ing fp each other. Major-General Samuel M. B. Young, United States Army, who offi cially visited Vancouver Barracks last week, enlisted as a private in the Twelfth Pennsylvania Regiment of "three months" Infantry, April 25, 1861, ten days after, Lincoln's first call for troops. In September, 1851, he was Commissioned Captain in the Fourth Pennsylvania Cavalry (Cameron Dra goons), and did arduous service the "Winter of 1S61-62 on the picket line of Smith's division at Camp Griffin, on the Potomac. He became Major of his regiment In September, 1862, and Colonel in December. 1S64. He came out of the Civil War with the rank of Brevet Brigadier-General of Volunteers for gal lant and meritorious services at the battle of! Sailor's Creek and during the whole campaign that terminated with the surrender of Lee's army. He was appointed Captain in the Eighth United States Cavalry in July, 1866; became Major of the Third Cavalry in April, 1883. and Colonel of the Third Cavalry In June. 1897. At the outbreak of the war with Spain Colonel Young was ap pointed Brigadier-General of Volun teers, was made Major-General o"f Vol unteers for gallant and distinguished services before Santiago, July 8, 1898; was mad Brigadier-General In the regular Army. January 2, 1900, and 3Iajor-GeneraL Jn the regular Army in January, 1901. General Young is an officer of very superior military abil ity, which has been attested by over forty years of excellent service, which have Included the Civil War, the sub sequent campaigns against the Indians, the war with Spain and lta consequent war In the Philippines. PROBLEMS OF SOLAR, ENERGY. Theories about Summer heat and electrical phenomena upon the earth, many and various, are built up on the known periodicity of sun spots. It is now recalled that Professor Langley, of the Smithsonian Institution, pre dicted that last Summer would be hot ter than that of the year before,, and this Summer hotter than last. He un dertakes to show that when the spots are at their maximum In number and area the sun gives out most heat. Ob servations long continued show that the spots diminish and then reappear at intervals; and heliologists have now ac cumulated a body of data upon which the periodicity of the sun spots may be calculated with approximate accuracy. But the theory that solar heat Is high est when the spots on the sun are larg est and most numerous ought, If true, to hold good in all parts of the earth; whereas in fact this Is not an excep tionally hot Summer everywhere. On the contrary. In. many parts, and espe cially in the Pacific Coast regions of North America, it is exceptionally cool. It has been found, from the obser vations of a German astrnnnmpr. Schwabe. after many years of pains taking labor devoted by him to this subject, that the cycle of periodical change In the number and size of the spots is about eleven years and five weeks. That is to say, "if we measure from a time when the spots are at their greatest, both as to number and indi vidual size, we find that in eleven, years and five weeks there is a recurrence, generally speaking, of the same condi tions." Also, that a connection Is be lieved to exist between the number and size of the spots on the surface of the sun and the variations of the magnetic needle on the earth.. It "is noted as" a remarkable circumstance that the ex tent of the variation reaches a maxi mum at the time when the sun spots. are greatest. Sir Robert Ball, the English astrono mer, in a recent treatise, says that "the spots which so frequently seem to fleck the dazzling surface of the sun are probably mere rents In the brilliant mantle, or photosphere, through which we are permitted to obtain glimpses of a non-luminous interior." He believes that the material of this photosphere, which confers on the sun Its benefit cent and tremendous nower. is onrhnn There is probably no substance what ever that has so high a temperature of fusion as this element. "A filament of carbon, and a filament of that element only, will remain unfused and unbroken when heated by the electric current into the dazzling brightness necessary for the effective illumination of an incan descent lamp. Modern research," con tinues this writer, "has now suggested that Just as the electrician has to em ploy carbon as the Immediate agent In producing the brightest artificial lights, so the sun uses precisely the same element as the immediate agent in the production of its transcendent light and heat." The further theory la that when the sun spots are largest and most numerous thlB energy Is greatest; and, further, that It may ac count for observed variations of ter restrial magnetism. Moreover. It has long been observed that the various spots all partake of a common movement, not to be ac counted for by the supposition of any" proper motion In the spots themselves. They move across the disk of the sun from east to west, and renuir twpiv to tnirteen days for the journey across the face of the luminary. Then they require as much time for the movement around that side of the sun which is turned away from us, when they reap pear at the eastern margin of the sun. This movement is wholly independent of the periodicity of eleven years and five weeks before noted. It seems to In dicate the period of the sun's rotation on its axis about twenty-five days; but the period of the rotation seems to be different at different times, and to vary with the frequency of the sun spots. There are problems here that no doubt are beyond solution by human Intelli gence; but it may easily be Imagined that variations of an energy so tremen dous mlgh.t exert great Influence on terrestrial conditions. . THE CHINESE PERIL. The Chinese peril is abroad In the land, but It Is one of scarcity, not of overwhelming numbers. Salmon can neries here and at Puget Sound are re stricted in their operations and unable to employ all the white labor they would like, because that portion of the process which is done by Chinese has to stop for want of Chinamen. In the handling of the fish, there is work that white men and women do not like to do, and that Chinese do better, anyhow. The constantly diminishing supply of Chinese labor seems, therefore, to have reached the point where It affects not only the poor celestial seeking employ ment here, but the whole body of na tive wage-earners. That is, it reduces the total of lucrative positions open to white labor. It is obvious that when such a stage Is reached the demand of labor unions for complete exclusion of Asiatics will have greater difficulty than hitherto to maintain itself. With the organization of union labor public sentiment Is now In general sympathy; and this feel ing extends also In the main to the antipathy of the labor world to un restricted Asiatic immigration. Well paid American labor is worth lta wacre. and Is worth taking care of. Its In come enables It to consume manufac tured products in large volume, to live above beggary and crime, to educate its children, ornament its homes and hold up its head in the community's so cial and religious life. These results are worth conserving. Yet the suspicion has long been gain ing force that the menace of Asiatic labor to native labor has been- exag gerated by our unions, and perhaps wholly misconceived. Certain It Is that the ousting of skilled American mechanics by Chinese or Japanese has yet to be demonstrated. The lurid dream of agitators Is as yet unfulfilled. The fact Is that comfort and produc tion are both held in check by absence of cheap labor. Where is the member of a highly organized trades union who wants to become a section hand or a dishwasher, to pick peas or wash socks? As it is, farmers caa't get hands or .housekeepers domestics in sufficient supply to save them from personal dis comfort and actual loss of crops. Organized labor has never, cared to exploit Itself In the direction of phil anthropy or international comity. Yet is doubtful whether it would be wiil- ing to maintain the position that cheap labor should, be kept out, at whatever discomfort and. expense to. the masses of the people, purely as a concession to the sentimental and selfish aversion to foreigners. Its extreme position in mis matter might beomewhat modi fied, in view of the situation In the cheap-labor market, whose undeslra blllty Is manifest to every impartial mind, and self-interest might even be enlisted against too sweeping exclusion by exhibits such as the salmon can neries now present. Specific Instances of this sort can be adduced but very rarely, however clear might seem the general proposition that whatever re tards production lessens the opportuni ties for skilled labor. It Is idle, of course, to expect that anything can Interfere with the re enactment of the Chinese exclusion law, or with Its extension to the Jap anese as well, thpugh there are argu ments In Its favor. One is the unde sirablllty of acting the hog with na tions we are desirous of selling to as friends and neighbors by treating their subjects with "conspicuous scorn and aversion. However loudly we slam the door ion Asiatic lnhnr a ,oi hardly rebuke Asiatics for buying our flour and locomotives. We .have war ships and regiments ready to resent discourtesy to our drummers and mis sionaries, but Chinese should not resent being thrown out of the window If they venture to count on neighbsrllness at this end of the line. Nor need the housewife doing her own cooking, or the American farmer with wheat and hops perishing for Jack of hands, or the salmon canners advertising In vain for Chinese cutters, expect any sympathy from Congress They have no union. They will vote their ticket regardless, of Asfatic labor. Not so the organized trades. He would be a brave Con gressman who should disregard the still, small voice of brotherhoods and assemDiies for a mere matter of jus tice. CHARACTERISTIC SEATTLE RORS. ER- A Seattle paper, which, to use specu lative terms, is generally long on advice and short on knowledge of thn snhleots on which the advice is offered, is giving some iareweu instructions to the rivers and harbors committee. It gays: The demands for the Improvement of the lower Columola and Willamette require the expenditure of such enormous sums tHat noth ing will be left for the upper river, if Port land is given all she asks for her Immediate ocal Interests. That city U apppeallng lor tbe expenditure of enormous sums for the pur pose of dredging a channel from the mouth ot the Columbia to the city on the Willamette, to permit deep-water ships to load up that small stream instead of at the rood harbors which already exist near the- mouth of the Columbia The dredging: of that channe. would not necessarily result In the savine ot a Mngle cent to the wheat-raisers of the great Columbia basin. It Is purely a local matter in the Interest of a single city. Unfortunately for the self-appointed advisor of the'rlvers and harbors, com mittee, the committee has a much clearer Idea of what is demanded and what Is needed for the Columbia River than some of the newspaper experts who are offering unsolicited advice. On the trip of the committee from Lew iston to Portland the Seattle paper had a ve'ry able representative, who gave detailed and accurate accounts of what was needed. Had that correspondent been permitted to continue his exami nation of the river from Portland to the sea. and made the same unbiased truthful reports that he made regard ing the upper rivers, no such ridicu lous statement as the above would have been made by his naDer. This ottv to not "appealing for the expenditure of enormous sums for the purpose of dredging a channel from the rnouth of the. Columbia to th oitv nn v, wii lamette." This cltv alreadv Vmc an '. cellent channel, which will get along very well without much Improvement until there is more water at the mouth of the Columbia River. AH of the advantages which would accrue from an open river above The Dalles would be nullified if we were to abandon the work at the mouth of the Columbia River and force shipping to leave the river for deeper harbors elsewhere. This policy, of course, might throw water on the Seattle wheel but if followed out It would damage the Interior wheatgrower as much, and perhaps -more, than it would the Port land merchant. The Government has spent several million dollars In deepen ing the entrance to the Columbia River. The results secured for this money have Deen nigniy satisfactory, 8000-ton steamships crossing In and out where vessels of from 1000 to 2000 tons ca pacity experienced difficulty before the work was commenced. The Port of Portland supplemented the work of the Government by opening up a channel from this city to Astoria in keeping with the channel at the mouth of the river, and the channel built with Port land meney is today in a better condi tion than that from Astoria to the sea. Government aid Is needed to keep the river open In the best possible shape where It joins the sea. What this means for the producers of the Inland Empire Is shown in the records of the past. Before the Government and the Port of Portland gaVe this port a good channel shipowners demanded and re ceived 10 shillings per ton more for freights than they would accent from San Francisco. This difference was paid by the farmer, and If the Gov ernment falls to improve the channel at the mouth of the Columbia and the ships are again delayed as thev wem in th old days, the differential will again be demanded, and commerce driven from the Columbia. It would, of course, be very painful for Seattle to have ' the mouth of the Columbia River with its old seventeen-foot channel again In these days of mammoth steamships, and Its great solicitude for the welfare of the population In the territory drained by the great river is under stood and appreciated in its true worth. Speaking of this being "purely a local matter In the Interest of a single city," under what classification would come the Lake Washington canal, better known as the "Seattle ditph"? Port land will work for an open rlver-from Lewlston to the sea. and she will have in the future, as In the past, the" sup port of the Inland Empire, which Is pretty familiar with the reasons for In terference by a rival port. Theories and rumors of the consolida tion of railroad offices have thus far failed to recognize a notable difference between the Hill-Morgan and the Har-riman-Schiff groups. The Northern group, dominated by the Hlll-Mbrgan combination, is .composed for the most part of long lines of parallel and com peting roads; the Harriman-Schlff group Is composed of connecting rather than competing lines. Therefore the same rule will not apply to the inter nal affairs of the two groups, While THE M'"?X!XH OKFOnyiAy MONDAY. it would be entirely reasonable and practicable to consolidate offices of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific, for example, letting one office represent both lines at San Francisco, New Or leans, Omaha, Chicago, and perhaps Portland. It would not be at.all feasible for one office to represent the Northern Pacific and Great Northern at Port land. Seattle and St. Paul". The "com petition between them is too keen to permit this. So separate organizations must be maintained by each of the Northern lines, and their "harmoniza tion" goes only to the extent of es tablishing such community of interests as will prevent ratecuttlng, the In vasion of competitive territory with iiew lines, and other practices destruc tive of profits. The problems to be worked out by Mr. Hill are essentially different from those Mr. Harrlman has to aeal with, though the result aimed at Is the same cheapening and better ing of transportation service. Never before has a Congressional committee made so full an examination of the harbors and navigable rivers of the Pacific Coast as that just completed by the House committee on rivers and harbors. The better part of two months spent in this examination ought to yield results next Winter in a more intelligent treatment of this Coast, and more particularly of- the Pacific North west, In the appropriation bill to be prepared by this committee. It is not a matter merely persona and political. Great industrial Interests are Intimately conected, with the hiiprovement of navigation, and in no part of the coun try are the demands, of legitimate In dustry more entitled to consideration. The opening of the Columbia has al ready been too lone de'avPfl. --p-nof.. ern Congressmen were never able to believe that every statement of its im portance was not an extravagant story to promote a local boom. Now it Is hoped this idea is securelv hurlpri Tho members of the present committee "have shown commendable zeal in getting pertinent information, and they appear to be very willing to give it proper weight. Chairman' Burton's grasp of the subject has surprfsed and gratified all who have come in contact with him. There Is. expectation now that the Pa cific Northwest will get just 'recogni tion in the next rivers and harbors bill. It Is almost certain that distress will follow the present Invasion of Okla homa by eager homeseekers. How can it be othervIse when, passing through a drouth-smitten section, with very lit tle money, Is a multitude of people largely in excess of the number who can by any possibility be supplied with the coveted homestead acres In the Kiowa-Comanche reservation that is to be thrown open to settlement August 6? The severity, of Winter weather could hardly brine mow snffprinn- tn these moving hordes than will the pres ent season of superheated atmosphere. Scarcity of water is being already felt oj many campers who are on the ground with their teams and cattle, waiting a chance to draw lots for land. When it is considered that already 150,000 people have registered for a chance at the 13,000 claims to be ward ed, the number foredoomed to disap pointment may be computed, though at this distance the bitterness of their dis appointment can hardly be realized. Those who are brought to face these conditions through an honest desire and earnest effort to better themselves are entitled to the largest sympathy In their sufferings and certain disappoint ment. Obeying the lottery instinct, however, they must abide the decision which fortune's wheel renders at all times Without a reason. George Kennan, the American author, has been ordered to quit Russia at once, tie should not demur at this. He has a straightforward way of stat ing facts in regard to "Holy Russia" and Its methods of government church and state that the Russian authorities cannot be expected to tolerate. Tolstoi, Russian subject that he Is. would be banished from the empire or exiled to Siberia were he a younger man with a promise of popularity. Being old and out of favor, he will probably be al lowed to live out his days in Russia in a state of excommunication, subject to the anathemas of the holy synod while he shouts defiance back at that bodj The secret of this leniency toward him is told In Tolstoi's own words. "I have not 100 disciples In all Russia." An old man with so small a following as this, and whom the eccle- siastlpal powers have already visited with all possible disgrace and ostra cism, may well be considered harmless enough to live in autocratic, priest-ridden Russia. The "Vatican has decided to allow the various religious organizations in France to apply for authorization under the new law regulating associations, which as a matter of fact Is along the lines of enactments made during Catho lic regimes In France. M. Waldeck Rousseau "disclaims any attack on re ligion or church, and declares "that no religious or secular' organization that has a legitimate right to exist will be affected by the new law. and so far as the letter of the law goes the 'condi tions under which the authorization of societies will be allowed are not antl religlous, nor even anti-Catholic. Germany's draft of a new tariff bill names higher customs duties than are now In effect, and to that extent will discourage Imports from abroad if it shall be adopted. But Germany's law making body will not be in session until Fall, and when It shall get a chance at this bill there will be more or less fun. It cannot be disguised that the tendency of the time is toward lower, not higher, customs tariffs, and Germany's trade exigencies will hardly admit of the erection of a tariff wall at this time. The bill is sure to be greatly modified before becoming law. Mr. Alfred- Holman's letter In another column contains a sound suggestion. Ji Is easy to lay too much emphasis upon scenery at the expense of forests, mines and fertile fields, whence wealth may be extracted and industry cre ated. Our boards and committees should make a note of Mr. Holman's points and act upon them. There Is one thing to be noted in con nection with the fuss that is being made in naval circles about "Schley at Santiago." He was there. No de nial of that fact is possible. Samp son's whereabouts on that historic oc casion are not so definitely fixed. It can be said, however, that "he got there." "There are many hymns," says a sound critic, "that are far from being doggerel, though they embody views and sentiments of man's relations to the Divinity which belong to the past." .TI'.LV 20." MOl. WHAT TO SHOW OUR VISITOR?. May I so far presume upon my ennrac- fetr no ei en. t r ..... -... ...t.A .-. ., . sun vi ijicjsuii li sou iviww ' faction and loyalty are not weakened by uui,,:"" i" oner a suggestion relative to the entertainment and instruction of trav elers, or tourists, as the modern fashion names them, who. In these later years, are flocking to the Coast in such numbers? I am Impelled to do so because In talking with many persons after a visit to Ore gon I find they know little or nothing about the country. They are, indeed, filled with rapturous memories of the Columbia Gorge and of Mount Hood, and they all bear witness to the charm of Portland; but of material facts relative to the Ore gonian life, industry and opportunity, they have learned nothing at all. Almost uni formly they speak of Oregon as a country of physical wonders. Just as they do of the shores of maritime Alaska, to be looked Upon once with rapture and for ever after dreamed of with delight. All this is fine, truly, but it butters no parsnips. It does not summon new popu lation; it does not win capital; It does not gain commercial or political favor, nor promote advancement. In truth, it all tends the other way to give Oregon a kind of repute more damaging than help ful in a business sense, y is like the fame for brilliant oratory or bubbling humor, which sometimes destroys credit for sober sense In a man of really sound parts. My suggestion is that some share of the hospitality which Portland bestows upon rivers and mountains to less picturesque! but more ororltable thlnetn nL rt,.,lf. I w.uae who visit urcgon De diverted from and resources which make the basis of the industry and commerce of the country. 1 suggest that the attention of visitors h brought tothe Willamette Vallev, to the Columbia River Basin, to the timber fields of -the.-Cascade Range, to the fine river and tracts which lie along the Lower Co lumbia and to. the unnumbered other dis tricts whercfrom Portland draws the purees of her trade and commerce. Let them be shown so much of these things that they cannot fall to bear away with them an abiding impression of the pres en frultfulnesjs and the unequaled poten- v... a. ... " " w tlalltles of the country; so that when they speak of Oregon It will' not he m-rrtl In explolt the fine but unnrnfUnhi ,nH. ours of her majestic river and ot her many and towering .mountains. I have seen something of late years of the ways in which they entertain visitors in. this State of California, where the busi ness is developedv Into a very practical art. The handiwork of God is not slightea. veri y not; nor are the things which speak for the achievement and the ambi tion of man. As much zeal and pride and hope are exhibited In the terms In which a Callfornlan points out the orchards and tno Irrigation systems as In his references to Gray Old Baray, or to the purple Loma Prleta. A touch of this spirit would help Oregon mightily. I know of nothing In Oregon better suited to charm and instruct a visitor than a drive through the Red Hills, south of Salem, or the Waldo countrv to the cast, or the rolling panorama of Panther Creek In old Yamhill. Set down one of these districts In California and in a year It would be famous the world around, iney are not, I suspect, even so much as known to one Oregonian In 5000 outside of the relatively few who live in them or who.se business It is to travel about and collect the taxes. By way of conclusion and summary iet me say: When you talk with a visitor don t pass over slightingly the unequaled natural beauties of Oregon, but do for the sake of self-interest and progress take his eye from the Columbia Gorge and Mount Hood long enough to discover that there is something m Oregon besides a mighty river and a glory of snow peaks. , ALFRED HOLMAN. San Jose, Cal., July 25. Grover Cleveland Vindication. Boston Herald, ind. It Is appropriate to call to the public mind the vindication that comes to ex President Cleveland in the new policy to which so many Influential Democrats are now urging their party. The con trolling men among Its politicians five years ago not only left him because he sought to keep the Democrats in a con dition of sanity as resards the cur rency, but they abused him personally for the good advice he gave them. After v,cinuenng away in the wilderness of heresies In pursuit of these false gods, they have had their lessons, and, drag gled and soiled by their experience in defeat, are now coming back to the eafe ground on which he would have kept them. It will, perhaps, be too much to expect them to admit In terms of re pentance toward himself the wrong they did him. But Cleveland does not need this. Their present action is his abun dant justification. The Nation knows that It was largely due to his wisdom in public life that the Democratic party was enabled to obtain two terms in the Presidency, and that It was their folly In refusing to act on his counsel that cost them the following years of dreary defpat they are now admitting by their action. Expatriated Americans. New York Press. "There's nothlns left for me to do In the United States except to pine away," said the retired politician. "All my old friends have become voluntary expatri ates. There's Willy Astor. Why, I taught mm now io kij oames in our district and sent him to the Legislature. Couldn't get him to Congress because he wouldn't 'put up' the dough. Ran on his popular ity and got licked like . Got mad and moved to England to be among gentle men! Hal ha! Crokcr's gone because there's too much leakage In Tammany Hall leakage of Information. He's got the notion somebody's going to tell rome- ining rotten. .Poultney Blgelow ain't a naturalized Britisher yet. but lives In London so's he can keep the Enellsh men red-hot on the subject of his friend the Kaiser. He's had charge of the Kaiser about 15 years. Pierre Lorlllard only came home to die. He had no use for America. Bradley Martin likes to be near the Soclete dt Sport de l'lle dc Puteaux and to hear Viscount Ufflngton lievp 'Grandpop.' Yes. yes; they're all going. If I could Induce Larry Delmour to go with me I'd buy a plot In Picca dilly and ccttle down vfor life. This country is too dead slow." Frontiersmen In Politic. Chicago Chronicle, Dem. It has been unfortunate for the Demo cratic party that Us management dur lnir two Presidential camnnltrns hnu hpon confided to a group of men representing frontier states, and entirely out of touch with the real Democracy of the great Central and Eastern States. The chairman was an Arkansas man, the chairman of the executive commit tee was a Kansas man, the eecretary of the committee was an Iowa man. - The Presidential candidate was a Nebraska man. Living so far out of the longitudes of sound, honest and conservative Democ racy, Chairman Jones and his colleagues are not expected to understand the movements of enlightened and progres sive politics In the United States. The talk of reorganizing the Demo cratic party takes too wide a range. All that Is now necessary Is to reorginlze the National committee. Wind Enough. Washington Post. The Nebraska people have been praying for rain. Owing to the character of the politicians they raise out that way, they have never been compelled to pray for wind. Southern Democrat Pleased. Mobile Register. As for the South, the pre;s sends up an almost harmonious Jubilation over tho throw-down of th Nebraska. man (.Bryan), THE POTTER'S DUSTLESS TRAIL When you take one of these dayllsfct ! wlM ... n .. j. ... i nip's aura .rorwana to ins ocean you are ' havlnir an enlovnhl pnrlino The palatial Potter, a swift sidewh'el steamer, makc5 the run In seven hours, and In her appointments there is luxury and comfort and room room room to turn around in. From her promenade decks you get a good view of the shipping in Portland harbor. Swan Island and St. Johns, where houses are Increasing, soon skim past, and .the smelter that does not smelt, and at the mouth of the Wil lamette you see where painless dentistry has been practiced with brush-dams. Here is where the Willamette ceases Its calling to the Columbia, and the latter backs up and takes It In. If a river has a head and a mouth, does It also have a bosom? If the ocean only hns that, the river escapes the many corfi'cting emot'ons that otlnr b-sims are SUbleCt to in Tirennr'nn- tnr trlnts nnrt iot ting together at the last moment strayed Shawl-stran ar.H h.it rlnt Shawl-straDs and hat nlnt. A plcturerque panorama, indeed, is that seen alons the Willamette and'Columb'a, and If the Rhine has any prettier pic tures let It stand up and remain stand ing until it Is counted. With three snow capped mountains towering above the Cascade range there is a beautiful blend ing of hues, and the bright, cheerful coior ot tne cottonwoods shows that na ture lacked the commercial Instinct in letting them waste all their sap in leaves When thev mleht lust ns wpM hf hnrlntr fruit. But modern methods of business i are now gathering In many of them for P A r.uP"? ,, ,,. t , .K On these daylight trips there are many ET frsona,,y Prent whom you 1 wnw' b"thvLm,lBS J; I' .Motrea"' nd wder why he Is not here to form a t snnn ci"TWiirfr! ! nnAnA nisii I ,... ..wv MWM l,JtUlC UlUlig tho river banks, for there are said to be two ana one-half beer bottles broken every mlnute. and the public demands that as many more be born. Smooth traveling these steamboat trips are. There are no chuck-holes such as bump the rubber-tired dravs on eltv streets. No roadworkers have rested on ocivcia. a-u luuuwurners nave rested on their shovels and shirked the tax along tV.1. .....4 1-!1 j - .- i this Krand hisrhwav. and not n snork- nt , l "stuI"bs tJ?e Tver's surface or rises ffm the steamboat's trail. The suppres- dust disturbs the river's surface or rises S10n or nust on WalIa Walla's spacious streets costs a two-mill tar. hut th Onl umbla Is exempt from such expense. Thin In the grand Columbia In whose cooling depths no salmon are ever sunstruck. no thermometer is overheated. No flies, no lleas, no mosqultos Impede the progress of Its boats. The sightly slopes adjacent to Kalama are again covered with a coat of second growth firs, and the buyers of lots when It was a great terminus can see Irony In the fact that the big ferryboat here is named Tacoma. The dogwood trees along the Columbia have dropped their blossoms. If not their bark, and the lumbering: towns you pass wear an air of prosperity. Soon the steamboat traveler down the Columbia begins to note the extent of the great salmon Industry, and no one envies the men and horses wading Into the too cool water and hauling out the seines In the freshening breeze and white caps coming. Pillar Rock has not changed, and its growth has about kept pace with that of the scrub oaks you sea at the state fair grounds at Salem. At Astoria, the town that Its founder never saw, you see a forest of fishing boats and drying nets, and the fact that .uewis and Clark, with the whole United States backing them up, never had a steamboat with a single stateroom while here, shows that the world has grown greater. Astoria, whose ramparts the British captain Joked about shooting away before breakfast, has grown some since then. After touchlnpr at Astoria the Potter heads away towards the Columbia's mouth. The bay broadens, the water gets rougher, and the view gets grander. The Coast range to the south shows a vast stretch of undeveloped Oregon, full of forests and chewing gum which some syndicate should be suplylng to the semi naries of the world. When the ocean Is but a few miles away the Potter rounds Sand Island, the tomb of the Great Republic, where now all Is activity In catching salmon, and hundreds of cold storage sows and house boats toss In the surf. The earthworks of Fort Stevens, with their disappearing guns, are seen In the near distance, with the jetty and Tillamook head be yond. But soon Is reached Ilwaco, the city of destiny. In that no rival can build nearer to the moaning of the bar. Ilwaco Is where wheel meets keel, and the Pot ter's passengers step from boat to car, and In a few minutes are being dropped off at points along the ocean beach. There are probably 2000 people strung along the beach at present, the cpol weather keeping away another 1000. When the ocean Is out the table Is upet. and the hand-painted dollies are made from devll's-apron seaweed and the finger bowls from crab shells. But while the tide Is supposed to provide liberally, the grocer and butcher seem to do a thriving trade. Here is one of the largest oceans In the Northwest, and one of the best beaches on which to run well-Insured ships. The fine sand scarcely scratches their keels, and few of them are ever walked off again. J. W. R. Sea View, July 26. Harrlman and Harmony. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. The Union Pacific or Harrlman raid on the Northern Pacific's position In relation to the Burlington deil is now shown to have been an unqualified success. Its purpose wae to compel a recognition of Union Pacific Interests In any project bringing the Burlington system under the control of a rival transcontinental line, and the new Northern Pacific direc tory, as constructed by Mr. Morgan, is to contain an ample Union Pacific rep resentation. Indeed, it looks to Wall street as if the Union Pacific element will be the dominating one. The St. Paul. Northwestern and Pennoylvanla systems are also to be represented In the new board, which, as now planned, will bo the most comprehensive single railway directory over known representing four transcontinental lines (the Great North ern. Northern Pacjflc, Union Pacific and Southern Pacific) and the Burlington. St. Paul. Northwestern (and Vanderbllt) and Pennsylvania systems. The practicabil ity of operating this lmmensj and often times competing mileage in harmony is now to be tested. Xot In the Corn Belt. Chicago Record-Herald. Farmers who are not in the "corn belt" should not attempt tb raise corn. This is tho advice persistently sent out by the Department of Agriculture for years and which Is Just as persistently unheeded. People In the semi-arid regions of the West refuse to believe that they are not in the ''corn belt." Instead of turning their attention to products that flourish in that latitude they continue to plant corn, with the result that about nine times out of ten their labor is practically lost. The only time they have a corn crop Is when they have plentiful rains during the growing season. m . Progression. Washlnston Star. An arch of clearest blue; Tha hum of bees; A sons that whispers through The languid trees; A prlsmed twilight sky; A golden moon. Hoses that smile and die. And that Is June. The smell of asphalt hot. A breath of air That's wafted from the spot Where souls despais; A sun whose fierconeis smites The weary eye; Long, weary, sleepless nights And that's July. X0TE AXD COMMENT. , If -King Edward, desires to keep rack m . . ... . . - of all hi3 titles he had better have an abstract made. J. P. Morgan is having almjjst as much worry as If he had retained the presidency of the New York Yacht Club. The only thing unpleasant about a polar expedition these hot days Is the fact that the explorers never come back. Bryan will hold out until some Funston arises in the ranks of the reformed Demo crats and brings him into camp. Formerly when a man used insulting: language to another he was called out;, now he Is not even called down. Two Kentucky politicians had a fight, and only one of them drew a gun. What' is getting the matter with Kentucky? It was not the efforts of Mrs. Nation .... . that taught the Knnsans how to appre ciate the water that is falling there now. What a great thing for an actor would, be all this advertising which is being wasted on Admirals Sampson and Schley. The mountain climbers who ascend the Matterhorn had better come over here first and take a few lessons from tho Mazamas. We are measurably excited over base ball, but 'until we mob an umpire It will be evident that we are not really deeply Interested In the game. By the judicious disposal of a Dukedom. King Edward might be able to keep the poet laureate from writing a coronation ode. The Immunity would be cheap at flic price. If the salmon keep on running they will restore public confidence in the pio ' .w... . .v..,.,..,, wlii .w- ' lumbia River on their backs in early I .1 neers wno ted stories ol crossing the Co- times. A family of mosqultos that sing popunr airs has been discovered In New Jersey. This gives a side light on the movements of the correspondent who was last heard from at Albany, N. Y. A correspondent from Sumpter sends tho following: The present drouths in Kansas and Ne braska recall the drouths and grasshopper plagues In those states In the early 'SO. when thousands of the settlers who a few years before had settled In those states were "trekking" back to New England, the Middle and other states east of the Mississippi, In the same prairie schooners in which they had come. Nearly all of these thousands of prairie schooners wero adorned with some words explanatory- of the movements and sentiments of their owners. One schooner cover was thus adorned: Good-bje. Kansas, Nebraska, We bid you a Ions adieu; We may o to hell sometime, . Eut we'll never go back to you. Miss Mary McDowell, of the Unlverslty of Chicago Settlement, who Is In Lon don investigating the social settlement work of that city, says: "Notwithstand ing England's strenuous and many-sided, activity in behalf of the poor, I do not think thli country possesses a single agency of social reform attaining the high degree of efficiency admittedly attained by Chicago's premier social settle ment. I mean to say that Hull House. In my opinion, copes with Its peculiar conditions and .surround ings more successfully than.. any Lon don settlement copes with Its' particular problems. I have no hesitation In saying that the charities of this capital, honey combing every part of it and speaking so loudly of the innate generosity of tha British heart, accomplish more harm than good. They make the dispossessed, classes stop looking for ways of self-maintenance and engage regularly In alms-seeking, ir I were asked to say In one word what was the matter with England I should reply 'drunkenness.' " v Statement From a Silver Pnper. Salt Lake Tribune. Some papers are wondering why Mr. Towne, now that he has given up sil ver, does not return to the Republican party, which he left on account of tho attitude of the party on the silver ques tion. There was a little band of men In Congress Towne, Pettigrew. Dubois. Cannon, Teller and' a few others who did not leave the party entirely on ac count of silver. Rather, they, with othero, planned a new party, a new Dem ocracy to be put through the convention nt Chicago When Mr. Bryan was nom inated on that platform many thousands of Republicans supported him In ISM on the silver plank alone. When that plank was shivered they had no use for the outside rot of lhat platform, but the lit tle band referred to above supported Itvas part of their new polltlcaj religion. PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGUArHERS Genius. "Genius," vtwna'rked the man In th rntpn-mrt!fln nrttnrrllrtr. 1ln. ! ftlA infinite capacity for suggesting pains: De troit Free Press. Too Much Work In That. "He says th world owes him a living." "Well, so It does. All he has to do Is to go to work and collec It." Philadelphia Bulletin. Nell Mr. Weston paid mc quite a compli ment at dinner last evening. Ho told me I ate like a bird. Belle Well, he's a good Judge He runs an ostrich farm, you know Phila delphia Record. Porch Talk. "How do people enjoy trolley rides In such crowded cars?" "Oh. everjbotiy Is buoyed up by the expectation that everybody else will get off at the next corner." Chicago Record-Herald. Drudgery. Publisher Say. this same histor ical period In your book has been covered within the last six weeks by some one els. Author That's too bad. Now, I'll haa to change th dates. Brooklyn Llfo. Twenty Years Hence. "Is he what you would call r self-made man?" said one multimillion aire. "I should say so," answered the other. Why. I can remember when he had scarcely a million dollars to his name." Washington Star. Realistic "That canvas of mine that I call Sunset on the Jersey Meadows' Is the most realistic thing I ever did." "Is It?" "Ye. You see that stagnant pool In .the foreground? Well. sir. I had to sprinkle crude petroleum all over It to keep the mosquitoes off." Cleve land Plain Dealer. Impartial. Tess I never see Miss Spinner out wheeling that Mr. Wheeler and Mr. Sprcck ett are not with her. Jess Yes, she's got them both on her strlmr. The elrls are calling her "Miss Tandem." Tess But she rides an In dividual wheel. Jess Ye, but she's a "bicycle maid for two." Philadelphia Press. The Latest Fad. Mrs Nebb I am going to an observation party this afternoon, dear. Husband An observation party? What sort of a party Is that? Mrs. Nebb Mrs. Quizzer's next-door neighbor Is moving, and Sirs. Qulz zer has Invited a few friends to watch through the windows and see what they have. Boston Traveler. Hard to Tell. "I see jour names In the pa-, pers a good deal." commented the old friend. "I suppose you're really In society now." "My wife thinks we are." replied tho man who had become suddenly rich, "but sometimes I hao my doubts." "How so :" "Well, when there's a swell charity entertainment to be given, with boxes quoted at ?20O and $300 or more, the evidence seems to Indicate that we are very much In society but when some exclusive pri vate function takes place there seems to bo nothing but what you might call negative evi dence. I think possibly It might be correct to say that our money Is In society, but we are not." Chlrago Post.