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EQUITABLE TAXATION.
Great stir has resulted In Chicago
' from the 'decision of the Supreme Court
of 'Illinois on taxation of public fran--chlses-
or capital based 'on them. The
- -decision adds $75,000,000 at once to the
tax-rolls of the City of Chicago. It "Was
held by the Supreme Court that the1
quotations of the stocks on the stock
board might be taken as a guide to the
value of the .franchises not absolute
ly, of course, but as Indicia in making
the assessment. Application of the rule
et forth by the court has produced
something like, a panic among those
who have "been accustomed to "the usd
of great public franchises for the pur
pose of making mpuey for themselves
without rendering any return, for them.
Effort was made, of course, to get rid
of the obligation by appeal to the Fed
"eral courts; but the application was de
nled, and there is nothing now to do
fyit submit and pay -the taxes.
- -They say, however that this rule wil1
drlve'corporatlons 1 jm the State of Illi
nois to those states yhlch may not en
force this system of taxation- It may
do so in the case of manufacturing
oorporations, whose product Is sold
everywhere; for such plants may be re
vpioved. and nothing left within the jur
isdiction of the state. But the trans
pOftiltltVn' Tines of Illinois and the mu
nicipal franchises of Chicago can't be
removed to New Jersey and operated
there.
There is a popular tendency toward
taxation" of 'those corporations that op
erate on public franchises, upon a valu
''atlon that will have some-'relation or
"proportion to their a.otual money-making:
power. It Id right that this should
be done. Ascertainment of just value
may be difficult, in 6ome cases, but
it is not beyond, reach, and the corpo
rations will learn through experience
that ft Is better to be open and can
did about this mater, and help the As
sessors to a right co'ncluslon, than to
"try to defeat or balk the purpose of
the. public that taxation shall "have
aome nearer approach than at present
to -equality and fairness. v
In Chicago, stocks and bonds, based
on. public franchises, to the amount of
tens of millions, were selling on the
markets away, above par, while the as
sessment upon the companies was next
to 'nothing, This condition exists very
widely. It is to be corrected; and the
movement toward its correction is
gaining ground throughout the country
very rapidly. The longest step yet
taken in that direction Is this decision
of the Supreme Court of Illinois.
In hisxspeech at St Paul last Sep-,
tember, Theodore Roosevelt said: "The
vast individual and corporate fortunes,
the vast combinations of capital, which
have marked the development of our
industrial system, create new conditions
and necessitate a change from the old
attitude of the state and Nation toward
property." Every one sees this except
those who mistake for rights the iprivi
leges th,ey have usurped. Since he made
that speech Mr. Roosevelt has beeome
President It Is not doubted that he
will call the attention of Congress, in
an official way, to the subject he pre
sented so earnestly in the speech from
which we have quoted.
"WOODEN-SHIPS XOT WAXTED.
Puget Sound papers, announce that a
wooden ship will be launched at Bal
lard, December 1, and that the builder
has a contract for four others oX a
similar type. In the present era pt
high freights and. plenty of . business
all classes of ocean freighters are .profit
able, but it has been nearly a 'decade
since any American shipowner on, eltljerr
coast nas Dunt a wooaen snip, aitnougn
the fleets of iron and steel carriers havei
increased meanwhile more, rapidly than
ever before. The American wooden ship,
reached perfection in the magnificent
Rappahannock, Susquehanna, Shenan
doah and Roanoke, which were com
pleted, by the late Arthur Sewall in the
early "50s. No finer or faster sailing
craft were ever constructed of Vood,
but the material used was against
them; 'and "they "never secured axargo
In competition with metal ships except
at a differential which amounted to
from hundreds to thousands of .dollars
on a single trip.
As master pj bis business, Mr. Sewall
was quick to see, that' in order to keep
tle- ewan house flag in a prominent
place- on- the- high seas- it would be
necessary tc fight fof trade-with the
same -weapons used by his competitors.
At the time, the vessels mentioned were
binder construction, Mr. Seyajl had
6trong.hopea of Government aid which
would, make up the differential laid
agat&sfhls -ships dn account of -their
no,t meeting the requirements of the
trade; "His. failure to secure this aid
settled the fate" of wooden stilpbutldV
ing, and the Roanoke, Is undoubtedly
the-last wooaei "ship that .will ever be
built on the Atlantic coast Being un
able to ecurQ .Government aid, ffialchj
would enable him to continue In busi
ness with, an obsolete type of vessel,
the premier of American shipbuilders
promptly laid the keel of the Dirlgo,
the first steel palling vessel built In
America. The Dirlgo went into the for
eign, trade In competition with the fleets
of the world, and wherever she sailed
her owner secured the best rates paid
'any ship, merchants giving her the
same preference and premium over the
wooden ships of the Sewall fleet that
they formerly conceded to -metal ships
of other nations. The Dirlgo was fol
lowed up by the Edward Sewall, Ar
thur Sewall and other metal ships, all
of which have been money-makers
without the aid of a subsidy.
The wooden ships now building at
Seattle may render fair service in the
ages with lumber when the metal ships
are all busy in other lines or the mod
ern lumber schooners are not obtain
jablejljut. they will never he much of a
factor In the marine business of the
.t,e much the gainer by their
construction. The big four-masted
schooners recently fcullt at Port Blake-
Tey, Gray's Harbor and Coos Bay will
carry larger cargoes and can be oper
ated at less expense than the square
riggers, and will retire the latter from
the business in periods of depression
when the law of' survival of the fit
test comes into play. Being thus ex
cluded from protected trade by vessels
of their own flag, the wooden ship must
seek foreign business in competition
with metal ships, and here, of course,
failure is certain.
As a pretext on which to make a
plea for Government aid, the wooden
ship may be useful, but as a Tactor in
the world's commerce her day Is ended.
A. M. Simpson and others who built
wooden ships In Oregon and Washing
ton made this discovery nearly twenty
years ago, and Eastern shipbuilders
about a decade ago. It Is hardly prob
able that the experience of the Bal
lard builders will be materially different
from that of their predecessors.
TAItlFF CHANGES IMPROBABLE.
Several leading Republicans, have
lately declared themselves opposed to
reciprocity. They fear to open the tariff
question, they think the country Is
doing well enough as it Is, they hesi
tate to shoulder the odium of attack
ing -certain industries that are marked
for sacrifice on the reciprocity altar.
Their position moves the guileless Chi
cago Record-Herald to this effect:
But If they could dominate their party what
would all the talk about reciprocity amount to?
It Is In the platform of 1S02, which points to
the success of the "Republican policy of reci
procity," and reminds the people of "the bitter
opposition of the Democratic party to this prac
tical business meaEire." It la In the platform
of 1S9G,. which laments the overthrow of reci
procity arrangements by the Democrats as a
National calamity, an says that "protection
and reciprocity are twin measures of Repub
lican policy and go hand in hand." It Is in the
platform of 1000, though with a weaker note
which was prophetic of the hedging of tbese
Eastern Republicans today. Was It then all a
flim-flam, mere gabble meant to tickle the ear
without reaching the brain?
Thls-trustlmr conception of platforms
leads to' the Inference that the Record-Herald
has not been long on earth.
The idea that declarations aTe made
with a view to their realization should
by this time have been ellminatedrom
intelligent discussion Here in Oregon
we remember Well how Polk went In"
on the cry, "Fifty-four-forty or fight,"
and then gave up , the boundary con
tention; and in Chicago it ought to be
recalled rea'dlly how the Democrats
were elected to reform the tariff in 1892,
and then gave us the monstrosity yclept
tbte Wilson bill.
Reciprocity is not the only thing pro
mulgated in the Philadelphia plat
form for effect in November. legisla
tion was promised for an elastic cur
rency, but none has been passed
or will be passed. More restric
tions were to be enacted on immi
grants, statehood was promised New
Mexico, Arizona, and Oklahoma,
the Nicaragua Canal was to be con
structed, a Department of Commerce
created,' and independence granted to
Cuba. The platform also approved civil
service reform, a most transparent pre
tense, which will have to be made good,
If at all, over the opposition of the
very men who made the platform.
Of course, a good deai of the inactiv
ity that follows platform pledges Is
diie to general apathy The Injustice
of many existing tariff rates is gener
ally conceded, but the average5 busi
ness man Is well content with, tlje po
sition 'of cautious p6lltlclans who ad
vise that the tariff be let alone. There
Is a great demand for a more' scientific
currency, but It comes from students
rather than from business. The voters
generally have little Interest In civil
service reform, pension reform, postal
reform. Nobody will pretend that the
steel trust needs protection; but nobody
is anxious that the duties be taken off.
Nobody will say that the non-interest-bearing
debt should be forever left" un
paid; but nobody dares to propose re
tirement of the greenbacks.
The simple truth is that it is almost
impossible to inaugurate any radical
policy of reformation so long as times
'are good, ousiness booming and wages
high. The full dlnner-pall covers a
multitude of political sins. Mr. Han
na's philosophy of "let well enough
alone" prevails over the. "most logical
argument and the most skillful appeals
to principle. The needs of Industry for
lower tariffs are interesting, and may
be studied with edification equal to that
obtained by Investlgatlpn of the Mar
tian canals, and with about the same
bearing on practical results.
But, when the next check of industry
shall come, as come It will, when busl-
ness again shall cease to boom, as cease
It will, let the worshipers -of the protec
tion fetich look out! The like has been
seen before. There are those who still
remember 1892.
Again, has the necessity of using the
mpst Intelligent care in regard 'to the
animals' from which vaccine serum Is
procured been illustrated In the most
distressing manner. A fortnight ago a
number of children died in St Louis
from tetanus, the disease, for which no
remedy has ever been discovered, being
communicated to the Victims by means
of dfphtherla antl-toxln; now the dis
patcSes tell of a number of cases of
tetanus, most of them with fatal re
sults, having been developed In Cam
bridge! N. J., following fordlnary vac
cination. The order rendering the vac
cination of children in the public
school3compulsory has been properly
suspended, pending scientific inquiry
into the "cause. While universal and,
to make-it universal, compulsory vac-
1 cinatlon is necessary if the country
would escape an epidemic of smallpox
every few years, the most rigid and
scientific supervision of the production
of virus used for this purpose Is essen-
tlal Gtb.er.wlse tie preventive max.
well be declared to be worse than the
disease against which It undertakes to
safeguard the subject Health boards
and school boards are rising to meet
this new emergency, and the blunders
recorded as having recently taken place
in the realm of medical science will
no doubt soon be corrected, though, sad
to say, the mischief "that has been
wrought thereby cannot be undone.
A BLESSIXG IX HIS GUISE.
About two years ago a delegation of
prominent Idaho gentlemen came down
to Portland in the Interests of Colum
bia River Improvement They realized,
they said, the tremendous importance
of the undertaking, and wished to
arouse the Inland Empire to the ne
cessity of action. But the enterprise,
they thought had. always been too
much of a Portland affair. The people
of the Upper Columbia Basin had come
to look upon the proposed improvement
at the dalles and elsewhere as a meas
ure that was purely in Portland's inter
est, and therefore the general inclina
tion was to do nothing and 'let Port
land do it all. Therefore they thought
that it woutd be better for the out
side territory to be aroused to action
for a while, and let Portland take a
.back seat, inasmuch as the benefits
of the improvement would benefit the
tributary country principally and Port-
iuiiu uuiy mymtximuy. .
That is the true story, the sequel to
which is npw Been in the accusation
at Boise that Portland is not interested
in the improvement of the Upper Co- I
lumbla. We might ask the people and
the papers of the Upper Columbia Basin
what any of 'them have ever done on
behalf of the Tiver's Improvement. Who 1
got the canal at the cascades, if not
Senators Dolpbr and Mitchell? Who has
ever done any effective fighting for the
Columbia River except men from Ore
gon? The State of Washington has
habitually sent men to Congress who
have bitterly opposed all appropriations
for the Columbia and other rivers not 1
tributary to Puget Sound. This city
has always been the eource of prac
tically all the effort put forth for Co
lumbia River Improvement, and prob
ably will have to continue the bulk of
that effort Prom this it will not shrink.
from- motives of self-interest as well
as of public policy, but it Is not pleas
ant now to be told that we are in
different to the work.
In our news columns this morning
the history and status of the dalles im
provement enterprise is set out with!
some detail, tnd expressions are given
from Oregon men in. Congress. The
project Is laboring under a temporary
difficulty by reason of the . sudden
change from a boat railway, to canals
with locks. Although the boat railway
has been favored heretofore by the
powers that be, it has been abandoned
as impracticable, which It undoubtedly
is. A little time and effort is requisite
in order to transfer the Government's
support from the old plan to the new.
This time and effort will be given, and
it Is well worth while for the canals
and locks, "which will come along In due
time, will do the work, whereas the boat
railway could not. This change of plan
is progress of the best sort. If the agi
tation of the subject will only serve to
gain the active co-operation of Wash
ington and Idaho men in "Congress,
Portland will cheerfully pay the price of
the present misunderstanding.
RACIAL PREJUDICE IPT SEW EXG
" IAND.
A barber was fined the other day $20
by Judge- Almy, of Cambridge, Mass.,
for drawing the color line In refusing
to shave' Thomas S. Bruce, a divinity
student In Harvard College. A long and
very Interesting, letter from George R.
Stetson, of Washington, D. C, is print
ed In the New York Evening Post,
which proves clearly that not only in
tense racial prejudice against the negro
was bitterly manifested In New Eng
land before the Civil War, but that It
exists there today. In 1832 public opin
ion .in Boston forbade any merchant
or mechanic to take a colored clerk or
apprentice, and not long ago a con
vention of negroes In Boston com
plained of unjust discrimination by
merchants, manufacturers, benevolent
associations, private landlords; that no
distinction was made as to degrees of
color, intelligence, character, deport
ment or means; that, while Massachu
setts opens her schools to the negro,
she shuts her shops. As late as 1849
separate schools for whites and blacks
were maintained in Boston, and for sev
eral years after 1840 Massachusetts had
her ''negro" pews, "negro" cars and
"negro" stages. Colonel Thomas W.
Hlgginscn recalls having seen colored
persons put out of the local stages be
tween Boston and Cambridge,
Charles Sirtnner relates that he
walked the deck of one of "the Sound"
boats to New York with his friend,
Frederick Douglass, because Douglass
was excluded from the first cabin.
There were "Jim Crow" cars on all the
railroads leading out of Boston in those
days, and as late as 1857-58 a negro
could not ride in the public stages,
nor in the ordinary railway cars; nor,
however wealthy, could he sit In the
boxes or in the pit of the theater. If
he desired to go to church he had to
worship with people of his own color.
When Thaokeray visited America he
saw negroes turned out of the first-class
cars, and Hep worth Dixon In 1867, in
Ohio, found that negroes paying the
same fare as he did were obliged to
ride in a separate pen of most filthy
description. Nearly all the New Eng
land churches before the Civil War had
a "negro" pew placed in the church gal
lery, and sometimes on the walls ubove
the galleries. De Tocquevllle, In 1850,
wrote that the race prejudice was no
where so intolerant as in those Btates
where slavery had never been known.
While the political status of the negro
has improved in New England, his so
cial status has not Improved, and color
prejudice is today more pronounced
there than, Jn the South. Intelligent
negroes who were treated as personal
friends by Sumner and Wilson confess
that the social ostracism of the negro
not only has not declined at the North,
but has Increased. Mr. Stetson's con
clusion Is that today In New England
the negro Is not wanted as a neighbor,
or. club member, or church member, or
guest at the hotel, or in plnces of
amusement, or asa fellow workman, or
student, or as a Government official, by
his white brother. The Atlanta Univer
sity (colored) reports that "a' large per
centage of 100 colored families In Cam
bridge, Mass., had been refused work.
hecauae they were colored; a number
also said that they were unable to fol
low their trades for the same reason."
Zion's Herald, the Methodist organ in
Boston, In August, 1896, said that "Bos
ton has no room for the negro except In
the places the white men do not want;
Bho loves to educate hirn lovea to putjcaa cure or diminish H7. J,
a diploma in his hand, but with it a
ticket for the South. The color line Is
drawn silently and courteously, but
positively and rigorously." The senior
bishop of the African Methodist Epis
copal Church, when he visited Boston
a few years ago, could find bo vacant
rooms at any of the leading hotels; the
landlords did not dare vfblate the law,
but simply evaded It by a falsehoods
In New York State today negroes, are
discriminated against in the public
schools at every opportunity, and are
obliged to appeal to the law to obtain
entrance for their children to other than
a colored school. The same trouble has
confronted the negro In Ohio, Illinois
and other states of the Middle West
In Connecticut the negro "was disfran
chised until 1878. There are other facts
not olted by Mr. Stetson. In Vermont
In 1844, a state in which slavery never
existed, the Rev. .Samuel J. May, a Uni
tarian minister, of fine abilities and
culture, was mobbed by both Whigs
and Democrats In three of the leading
towns in the state for attempting to
deliver an anti-slavery address. When
Phillips Brooks, the famous pulpit ora
tor of the Episcopal Church, preached
in Philadelphia during the Civil War he
found negroes excluded from the horse
cars. The police of New Orleans did
not' exhibit any more insensate race
hate during the negro riots than did
the Tammany police of New York City.
These facts illustrate that race preju
dice and discrimination -against the
negro exists still in New England and
elsewhere at the North, rhere the negro
is not much in evidence' In the popula
tion or politics. If this is so, we need
not wonder that the racial prohlem is
far more disturbing at the South where
the negroes are neither few nor far
between. The question calls for judi
cial and sympathetic rather than sec
tional treatment on part of the North,
which Is still greatly dominated by
J racial prejudice.
The King of England Is a constitu
tional monarch who .could be expelled
from the throne at any time by an act
of Parliament. Since the Ensrllsh revo
lution of 1688 no monarch has reigned
over Great Britain by divine right. The-
King of England Is merely the repre-
sentatlve of a state. The President of
the United States Is "clothed with far
more actual executives power than Is
the King of England,' "vvjno really does
not govern at all, save' through his min
isters and the House of Commona For
example, President Lincoln, without
any other authority than his -personal
powers of office, could summon by proc
lamation a great ar&ry" into the field,
which no constitutional monarch of Eu
rope can do King William of Prussia
by an act of clear usurpation exceeded
his powers In the war of 1866 wlth Aus
tria, but if Prussia had been defeated
the King woujd have been constitution
ally punished by his Parliament, and
probably .he and Bismarck would have
become exiles. .
President Roosevelt will visit the
Charleston Exposition on the 12th. of
February the birthday of President
Ldncoln. Numerous festivities are
planned in his honor, and in attending
them he will beisubject to the danger
that overcame his predecessor on the
occasion of his fatal visit to the Buffalo
Exposition. It may be hoped that hand
shaking will be eliminated from the
programme On this occasion, as fa
tiguing andjweless, and giving unwise
opportunity for possible mischief. The
practice' is a little better than rubbing
noses, but It is unnecessary and tire
some to the Jast degree, and, as a cus
tom at all public receptions, it should
become obsolete. A beginning in this
direction was made at the late celebra
tion of Yale's bicentennial, which, it
may be hoped, will be persistently fol
lowed. The anarchist, Alexander Bergman,
who, for breaking into the office of H.
C. Frick, then, President of the Carne
gie Steel Company, in 1892, and at
tempting to shoot him, has since- been
confined in the penitentiary of Western
Pennsylvania, has petitioned the Su
perior Court to be set at liberty. Mr.
Frick may well protest against an act
of clemency to his would-be assassin
that would again place his life in Jeop
ardy. This Is not a good year in which
to deal magnanimously with anarchists.
The Insane ex-wife of the millionaire
Henry M. Flagler has perhaps the most
munificent private allowance of any
Insane patient In the world- Her phy
sician and nurses will, of course, absorb
the most of her Income, which Is just
as well, since she has no other use for
It in her present condition. It repre
sents the price her husband paid for his
release from her, with the contingent
privilege of marrying a young woman
who is in full possession of such facul
ties as nature gave her.
There will be no revulsion, no set
back. We have a country full of new
resources.-v There can be no- reaction,
no fall, as a consequence of the cele
bration we are to hold. The country
is not an old one, but a new one. I Is
going ahead. Nobody went to Chicago,
nobody has gone to Buffalo, in search
for a place to settle. But no end of peo
ple are coming to the Pacific Northwest..
It seems scarcely necessary to say
another word for explanation, promo
tion or support of the canvass for stock
subscriptions to the Lewis and, Clark
Centennial that Is to oegln today.
I This money Is to be raised. Let every
person do his part Nor let him take a
slight or limited view of his part, either.
What did Lewis and Clark come out
here for? They explored a great coun
try. But what did they come tQ the
country for, why did they trouble them
selves to explore it, if we are not to
develop it?
We shall not let the best opportunity
In a century to advertise to the world
our wonderful resources, our matchless
scenery and our delightful climate, pass
by.
It will be the duty 6f the City of Port
land to offer and supply th site for the
Lewis and Clark Centennial. The stock
subscriptions re for the celebration.
Will not our good friends at Astoria
reflect a Uttls and then cease to com
plain that Portland does not remove 1U
I self to Astoria?
No matter how great our Exposition
may be, our country will still be the
chief attraction. We want people to
see it.
"Delinquent parentage" Is chief of the;
evils that afflict this country. What
SALVATION AND IMMORTALITY.
The Question Is, What Are the Dis
putants Tallclnff AhontT
New York Sun.
We learn from The Portland Qregoniau
that In that Pacific Coast town a con
troversy has arisen- because of the nom
ination by a Methodist preacher of a
Uhiversallst minister for membership in
theMinlsteriaL Association of Portland.
The Methodist proposer takes jhe
ground that as the association is general
In character and has nothing to do with
specific religious doctrines, any minister,
Jewish Rabbi or Roman Catholic priest.
Is property eligible to membership in It
He even says that he "would freely vote
to admit a Mormon"; and he explains that
already its members of dlftei-ent churches
are in radical disagreement as to certain
doctrines, Baptists, Methodists and Pres
byterians. On the other side It Is urged that as the
association consists of ministers of the
"Evangelical" school, a Unlversallst, who
"does not believe In regeneration nor In
the need of it for the salvation of the
world," cannot be Included in It consist
ently. Unlversalism, in the early days of this
country, was not regarded by many wh6
accepted Its theory as opposed to "Evan
gelicalism." It made some headway, for
example, among the Puritan Congrega
tionallsts of New England and among the
-Baptists of New Jersey, and two promi
nent Episcopal clergymen. In Connecticut
and In South Carolina, were pronounced
advocates of It In more recent years,
however, it has so closely approximated
Kto Unltarlanlsm In its doctrine and spirit
mat tne organic union ox the two de
nominations is advocated. As a Unitarian
f has satd, the only difference- between them
is that the Unlversallsts believe "that God
Is too good ta damn anybody and the
Unitarians that they are too good to be
damned. Accordingly there came a time
when the animosity between the "Evan
gelical" churches and the Unlversallsts
was bitter.
Now, however, all such controversy has
ceased, for the "Evangelical" churches
have given up preaching the doctrine of
Hell almost wholly. Their ministers put
it aside as,of disagreeable suggestion even
where they have not given It up alto
gether. Meantime almost dally we are receiving
letters discussing the 'question whether
anybody is to be saved, or whether there
Is any immortality at all. When this cor
respondence seems to have closed It sud
denly revives and flames up with new in
tensity of controversy. A great number
of people must be very deeply Interested
In the question, unanswerable by human
science, and therefore beyond the range
Of profitable scientific discussion, whether
there is life after death or death ends all
tor man.
By the side of this question, the con
troversy aa to everlasting salvation be
tween the orthodox and the Unlversallsts
is of trifling significance, for it assumes
the immortal existence which Is now
I strenuously dented? by so many of our
correspondents who may be taken as rep
resentatives of a very large school of
thought at thlsr tfme.
Underground Wlreles Telesrnpay.
Correspondence IxJndon Spectator.
Having been present at the experiments
conducted by Messrs. Armstrong and
Orling in the transmission of electrical
1 energy without wires, I shall attempt,
with your leave, to present a few reflec
tions on them. Whereas the Marconi sys
tem works through the air, the "Armorl"
system as it Is called, sends Us radia
tions most frequently through the ground
or through the water; and these radia
tions hive conveyed the exact Inflec
tions of the human volee and have proved
to be powerful enough to direct the course
of a torpedo. The "Armoral" system
professes to- have two advantages over
the Marconi system: the first la that it
Is better for land use. and the second la
that in the conveyance of messages it pro
vides for.a secrecy as yet not secured In
practice by Marconi messages, open as
they are to all the world and to his re
ceiver. What we may look forward to from this
discovery? I do not pretend that the
Armstrong-Orllng Inventions are yet In a
practical working state. I am no enthu
siast about fledging discoveries; I know
their high rate of mortality. But no man
who has heard as I did the articulate
human vplce rise through a long spike,
devoid of wires, which had been thrust
Into the ground, can doubt that here we
have the beginnings of an Important
change. This, then. Is what we may look
forward to. Some day men and women
hwlli carry a wireless telephone as com
monly as today we. carry a card case or
a camera. We shall switch ourselves on
to tha underground radiations through the
medium of our walking sticks or our
boots. We shall then tune up our re
ceiver ta tone No. 39,451, or whatever
may be the lawfully registered wireless
telephone number of him to whom we
would speak. We shall hear no distract
ing buzslngs and wrangllngs. no echoes,
too little faint, of others people's busi
ness or dinnners. Tone No. 39.451 will go
about his business undisturbed.
Truly Homeopathic.
From the Philadelphia Post.
Senator W. A. Clark, of Montana, tells
a story on Professor N R. Leonard, who
for years was dean of the faculty of tho
Iowa State University, and who was
called recently to the presidency of the
Mining College at Butte. Mont. Senator
Clark says that though Montana Is some-
fwhat out of the circle of Prohibition in
fluences. It can now boast In President
Leonard, a rare apostle and advocate of
temperance.
Not long ago Professor Leonard, feel
ing indisposed, consulted -his physician, a
German, very scientific and acknowl
edged as one of the leading men In his
profession In Montana. The doctor ad
vised Mr. Leonard to work less at the
desk, exercise more outdoors and take
beer as- a tonic.
The professor's labors were such that
he felt that he could not devote fewer
hours to them, but he concloded at least
to try some beer, which he had never
before tasted. He did not approve of It
as a beverage, but as a medicine he felt
Justified In taking It, especially on the
recommendation of so eminent a practl-
( tloner.
The doctor met his patient a few days
later as he was leaving the college and
stopped to Inquire how he was feeling.
"About the same," replied the professor.
"Did you take the beer as I directed?"
Inquired the physician.
"Yes," responded the prof essor. "I took
It a few tlmest but It becamo so nau
seous that I had to discontinue It."
"How much did you take?""
"Why, I bought a whole bottle and took
a spoonful before each meal," answered
the professor.
1 0
Benefit to AIL
A3torian.
The energy with which Portland has
gono to work on the Lewis and Clark
Centennial celebration to be held In that
city augura well for Its success. Differ as
we may with some of the methods per-
1 slstently pursued by the business Inter
ests of our neighbor on the Willamette,
there should be no question as to the
loyalty of every section and every town
of the state to that enterprise. While
I the principal good results to follow a suc-
cesstui celebration ot the magnitude pro
posed would redound to Portland, the
tentlre state and In fact the whole Pa
cific Northwest, would be greatly bene
fited by the attention that would be at
tracted to this section, and the thousands
ot people . that would for tho first tlmo
visit this the most resourceful and prom
ising section of tho United States.
" Hoc Habet.
Montgomery Advertiser.
Tho Portland Oregonlan declares that
Booker Washington Is "the ablest and
most distinguished citizen of Alabama at
tha present time." For a paper which
purports to be fair and truthful this is
the most contemptible fling we have seen
in any newspaper In the country.
AMUSEMENTS.
A melodrama of more thon usual Inter
est, presented by a company that numbers
several exceptionally good actors, and
mounted more elaborately than anything
that has been seen at Cordray's this year.
Is "A JLlon'g Heart." which opened a
week's engagement at that theater laet
evening to the usual packed Sunday night
house. Carl A. Haswin, who Is the star
and who played the part of Rlzardo, Is aa
actor who has won a reputation In melo
drama, and whose fine presence and vokje
fit him admirably for that kind of work.
He Is aided by Carrol Daly, who carried
away plenty of honors on his own ac
count as Gaspard Dobra, a sort of assist
ant villain; B. H. Verncy, who did a fine
piece of character work in the Hrst act,
Lewis Kelnhart, In a comedy part; Frank
Eckhart, Blanche Carlyle, a dainty come
dienne; Grace Welby, as heroine, and i
host of other people, for all of whom weie
found niches In the rather Involved plot.
The house was enthusiastic, cheering the
heroics, hissing the villain, and laugMns
at the comedy without stint, and few
plays e;er appearing on that tftagy hjve
made a more Instantaneous or decided
hit.
Revenge with a capital R Is the theme
around which the tale of the play Is wov
en. A prologue develops the fact that
Klzardo, a lion-tamer, loses a wife unt
child to Gaspard. Dobre, who makes awav
with the same, much to the Hon tamer's
annoyance. Twenty years lator the daugh
ter turns up In the first act as the; wife or
Dlclc JLorlmer, a gentleman farmer. Gas
pard also turns up as the valet of Colonel
Somebodyorother, who Is a first-clays vil
lain, and presently Rlzardo drifts 1, look
ing for Gaspard, with the Intention of kl.l
ing him on sight. The Colonel, who Is In
love with Mr3. Lorimer, tips off Gaspar,
whom he wants to lose to Rlzardo, and in
the next act, which Is at a French hotel,
Rlzardo makes nn attempt to get evn
with the villain, but is stopped
bx meddlesome bystanders. In this
act a diamond necklace Is stolen
by Gaspard, and the Colonel kills
a detective, both of which crimes are
charged to tho account of the ianoceHt
Mrs. Lorimer, and fche is found in tin1
third act a convict In a French penal col
ony, of which the Colonel is In command.
Her rescue Is effected by Rlzardo, who In
the hope of getting another chance at
Gaspard undertakes to secure her relearv
from prison and deliver her to the Colonel.
He learns that she Is his daughter just at
the right time, however, and forgKe.s Gas-
pard, who turns up in the last act. ex
poses the Colonel, and that black fllaln
Is led away to prison nm'd the plaudits ot
the multitude. There are side isues In
the plot, all of which are fraught with
heart Interest, but these are the main
facts. There is also some very good com
edy, and altogether the play Is an cxcei-
t lent one of Its typo. It will be the at
traction all the week, with a special mat
inee Thanksgiving.
COMING ATTRACTIONS.
Mrs. LeJIoyne at the JIarqunm Ta-
night.
Manager Calvin Hglllg takes pleasure
In announcing the appearance at the
Marquam Grand Theater tonight and to
morrow night of Mrs. Sarah Cowell Le
Moyne In a new play, "The First Duchess
of Marlborough," a drama written for her
by Charles Henry Meltzer. It Is ba?ed
upon the dramatic episode In tlie career
of the famous Sarah Jennings, the first
Duchess of Marlborough, when she
thwarted a conspiracy of her enemies to
overthrow her and her husband, the great
Duke, and have them binlshed from the
court of , Anne, Queen of England. It la
described as a brilliantly written comedy
of manners In which there are strong
dramatic scones, the characters being all
historical personages. Mrs. LeMoyne's
fine reputation has been further enhanced
by this latest of her roles, and the Amer
ican drama, It Is said, has been enriched
by another addition of distinguished lit
erary and dramatic merit. A large and
carefully selected company supports Mrs.
LeMoyne, and a production of artistic
value and beauty Is assured.
"The Cov boy and the Lady."
The sale of seats will open this morn
ing at 10 o'clock for "The Cowboy and
the Lady," which opens at the Marquam
Grand Theater Wednesday night of thfc;
week, continuing as the Thanksgiving at
traction, both afternoon and evening at
the above theater. A hero who does not
rant, but acts in a calm, natural ami
manly fashion Is the part played by S.
Miller Kent In "The Cowboy and the
Lady." Teddy North, the leading role, in
a cowboy because he owns a ranch and
lives on It cowboy fasnion, associating in
a friendly way with the rougher-characters
of the West, he himself being a Har
vard graduate. The role Is especially
suited to Mr Kent aad he plays It with
telling effect
The WIlbur-Klrivln Opcrn Company.
The Wilbur-Klrwln Opera Company,
which will open an engagement at the
Baker Theater Thursday afternoon, ar
rived In Portland yesterday, and will take
a few days' rest before making Its how to
the Portland public In "Said Pasha." The
company numbers over 40 people, and has
been 'especially strengthened for the Pa
cific Coast tour. Its territory heretorore
having been the lager cities of the East.
"Said Pasha," the opera which will be
given as the opening attraction, is the
work of Richard StahU and is one of the
brightest and most tuneful of modern
operas. It admits of elaborate costuming,
and all the members of the company are
said to have a fine chance to display
their voices.
Thomas Jefferson.
No more praise could be given to Thom
as Jefferson, who appears In "Kip Van
Winkle" at the Marquam Grand Theater
next Friday and Saturday nights, with a
special matinee Saturday, than has been
received by large houses wherever he has
appeared since his first starring tour In
that chhrmlng old play entitled. "Rip Van
Winkle." He comes heralded here as an
able exponent of "Rip." A company of
able players will aid Thomas Jefferson
during his engagement In this city.
A Crnbshell Barometer.
London Globe.
A curious barometor is said to be used
by the remnant of the Araucanlan race
which Inhabits the southernmost province
of Chile. It consists of the cast-off atiell
of a crab. The dead shell Is white In
fair, dry weather, but the approach of a
moist atmosphere Is Indicated .by the ap
pearance of small red spots. As the
moisture In the air Increases the shell
becomes entirely red, and romalns so
throughout the rainy season.
Harvest.
Joseph Truman. In The Spotator.
A chalky itoep a ollmbhis lano
An aisle of elms a Norman fan
Whero far from illn and crowd of towns
Runs the soft line ot waving downs.
The garnered rclebe In sunlight smile.
The sea-waes lipped Its margin, mild;
The robin from rcd-berrled spray
Piped his Liight Autumn roundelay;
And la the church that nestled near
'Mid flowers and fruits and harvest cheer.
The village ralBcd a grateful strain
To greet the ingathering of the grain.
A moment's thought it was. alas!
From those fair fields of peace to pass
To where berldc a Southern main
Stretched harvests grim of death and pain.
Set has the fight's ensanguined sun.
War's ghastly chance is dared and done,
And dauntless calm has triumphed slow
Over a false and callous fo.
Now como the victories thut are
Than the Vreat soldier's harder far;
No sacred freedom to withdraw.
Or stint the boons ot equal nvw.
To close the olvlc breach, efface
The rancorous dominance of race;
To act that fairly over all,
Dutch, Briton, Aboriginal.
In generous Justice, floats alone
Tho standard of the Island throne
X0TE AND COMMENT. '
Murder will out!
Score one for the police:
The trial of Czolgosz will set 'the pace
for that of the thdgs captured yesterday.
"Hangings are not pleasant, but they are
the only means of teaching anything to
footpads.
The passengers on the Ship of State
have no reason to doubt who Is the man
at the wheel. .
There Is no punishment to fit the crime,
but hanging will do very well, under the
circumstances.
It la about time for two or three dozen
alleged widows to produce pencil wills of
the late L. H. Chang.
Turkey Is without funds, and has no
credit it looks very much as if Turkey
would have to go to wdrk.
Having mingled for many years with the
stripes, "Frank Jaraos Is now going to cul
tivate the society of the stars.
There is over JS7.CO0.C00 on deposit in the
banks of Kansas. Even the Populists
are unable to view this with alarm.
Santos-Dumont has been very successful
with his flying machine, but ho has not
I jci. sviiL uui any jmssvugur laiiii. ativcia.
Mr. W. B. Henley has been achieving
notoriety by criticising the works of Rob
ert Louis Stevenson. Mr. Henley, it must
be remombored, has books on the market,
and that method of advertising Is as good
as any other.
The return of Congressmen to Washing
ton' In December is a serious inconveni
ence to postal clerks. It 13 no small Job
to taltg care of Christmas mull, and tho
addition of deadhead garden seed Is the
extra ounce.
Iowa, one of the wealthiest states of
the country and without debt, pays Its
Superintendent of Instruction J220O. Michi
gan pays ?1000. Alabama, ?250; Georgia,
$2CC0; Idaho, JUOO; Arkansas, $1&W; In
diana, $2500; California, 52000; Maryland,
$2000. Louisiana. $200; , Maine. 51500; Ne
vada, 52000; New Hampshire, 52500; New
Jersey. 53600; Oregon, 52000. North Da
kota, ?: North Carolina, in which the
ratio of illiteracy nmong the white In
habitants Is. very high. 515C0. Vermont,
J22W; Utah, 515CO; South Carolina, H'00;
Rhode Island, $3C00; Wyoming. 5.0v0; WIs
ooikIh, 51200; West Virginia, 5-XW0, aad
VlrtfiHla, 52C0O-
A flock of pigeons owned by a Philadel
phia man gave an alarm of fire the other
morning, and probably saved the lives of
the Inmates of the house. The plgeors
are quartered In a loft at the rear of the
house, and when at 4 o clock in the morn
ing they set up a great fluttering and
cooing, they awakened a boarder. He
thought it strange conduct on the part of
the blids at that unseemly hour, and got
up to investigate. He found that the
house was fuH ef smoke, and lost no time
In arousing the Inmates, one of whom, ran
and turned In an alarm of fire. A defec
tive flue was the cause of the fire, and
clamage to the extent of 5500 had been
done before the flames were extinguished.
The pigeens were all saved.
Thomas Barer, of Sydney, N. &, W. has
recently obtained a patent for1 a Inven
tion by which the actual length of the
time that a telephpne Is used on any oc
casion can be measured, so that thzcom
paay may charge the subscriber only for
the actual service he has had. A sub
scriber who, In the course of a day. should
use the telephone, for an hour would pay
for that length of time, and not the same
aaiouat as another subscriber would pay
who would perhaps u?e his telephone
several houns each day. The "telephone
meter" consists of a clockwork mechanism
which Is quiet when the telephone Is not
In use, but which begins to move the mo
ment the receiver Is lifted from the hook,
and so registers the length of time the
Instrument Is employed. The apparatus
Is so arranged that the up-and-down
movement of the lever switch winds up
the clockwork. A dial plate Indicates how
long the telephone has been in use.
it Is well known that whenever there is
a sale of actresses' dresses in New York
tho bargains are snapped up by or on
behalf of society dames of restricted In
come. Ihe materials are always of the
best, and In the hand of a clever dress
maker can be turned to capital advan
tage, being so disguised In the new make
up aa to be totally unrecognizable. About
two years ago an extensive stage ward
robe belonging to a former society woman
was sold. Ona purchaser secured for 5W
three gowns, either of which cost thrice
as much. Costumes In the "Three
Musketeers" were disposed of at 53 each,
the original cost being $05. Six brocaded
satin "Juliet" dresses, trimmed with lace
and prarlb, were knocked down for 520.
and six "Romeo" costumes, trimmed wltn
silver lace, realized only 525. Twenty pairs
of buckle shoes worn by the chorus girls
la a comic opera sold for 54 50. Costumes
eriglnaUy costing 525,000 usually bring
about $2500.
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHED
"Ah. my frlendl" elghed old Skinfluu. who
was dying. "I am going a long, long journey."
"Never mind," replied the friend, -who knew
him; "It's all down hill." Philadelphia Record.
As He Understood It. "I reckon yo' doan'
know what de paper means by breadwinners."
"Oh! Dat's easy 'huff. It means when de head
of de fambly plays policy an comes out
ahead!" Puck.
Not to Be Expected. "I don't sea how he caa
expect to succeed as an author. Why, he can't
write common sense." "He doesn't have to.
All his stories- are in dialect." Philadelphia
Evening Bulletin.
"Mamma, what would yon do If that big
vas In the parlor should get broken?" said
Taara. "I should whip whoever did it." eald
Mrs. Banks, gazing severely at hflr little son.
"Well, then, jou'd better begin to get up your
muscle," said Tommy, "cos papa's broke 1U"
Tlt-BlU".
A Natural Deduction. "Please, sir." said the
negligent messenger boy. "I forgot to deliver
the mesage." "You did?" snorted the sar
eastle employer. "'Wei!, you take the first
train to Washington. They'll give you the
command of a vessel in tho Navy, with that
roeonl." Baltimore 8un.
A Modest Bonnet. Mrs. Neerslte Really,
now, for Mrs. Noorltch that's quite a plain
bonnet. I especially admire that modest little
rosette of green ribbons. Mrs. Sharpe They're
aet green ribbons, my dear; merely a modest
little bunch of $10 bills. Philadelphia Press.
He Knew. The kind-hearted lady picked the
lad up and brushed off his clothes. "My poor
boj," Bhe said, sympathetically, "whatever
made you take such an awful fall?" "The
attraetton of gravitation, ma'am," answered
little Harold iieaahlll. in his quiet Bostoniau
way. Chicago Put. ,
A Willing Subject. "eu will have to be
identified before I can cash that eheckv" said
the bank vaauer o the man who was unfa
miliar with the precautions of banks. Oh,
well, ga ahead, then," answered the roan, with
the ehack. in dbtgust. "I don't reckon It hurts
enny mere than beln! vaccinated, does UT"
Ohio State Journal.