THE HORSING. OREGONLtVN, FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1903. .OK .jjiiv portunlties Tor profitable investment, i position to get at tne lacts, ana tne VUCvV UiliUjKLlVlittVl- I but the foreigners, in spite of occasional estimates last year -were much more ac- Daa investments, EtlU tane me miua- I curate luu.ii uiuc uj. .cuijr lunucr . Enters t tnfflrt -t Portland. Oregon, tive In the Tvest aimougn mere is sun room lor lin ns second-class matter. ' I . I provement REVISED. SUBSCRIPTION BATES. "... .tr it, flMneV- STREBT-CAHS ABB AOT UHI allr. -with Sunday, per month..... -S3 -rp streets occupfed by the Street- AS TERRIBLE AS THE TURK. Daiii-! tfith rsnndir ne? rear.. ?-9? car lines are covered -with dust, and It The "terrible Turk" -was once a by- fcunaay, per year - i WOuld be right and just to require tne -word m an unristenaom; even uiaa- The Weekly! 3 moutfai"-" .50 companies to ret them down once stone denounced "the unspeakable To city Subscribers r every twenty-four hours. This Is the Turk" in 1877-78 at a time when the Daily, per week, delivered. .Sunday xcepted.wo iaw m other cities. There Is no reason Bulgarian Christian. -was guilty of as iMUT. per week, delivered. Buncty wuu-vu rt in Portland, friirhtful enormities at everv omiortu- IK) STAGE RATES. , "? "l"""?. " 7"" 7 " , " mul ..u il United Etatei Canada and Mexico I 'mere is lltue aanger mai ponce weaa- i iiv me jiusiciu. j.c uum io 10 to 14-page paper Ures of this sort trill ever reach the the population of the trans-Danublan 11 to-wipfc"nin""I"I""-sc severity -of confiscation, especially states, of Europe, that were formerly Foreign rates double. J under -the rule or the present council, i part oi xne xurKisn empire, are quite News or discussion intended for publication I -,t -,f vmni nhxrttv for mir local I as savaire and ferocious a neoDle as ZziS0 . .. . Z -corporations. their ancient masters, the Turks. Tup oany individual Letters relating' to adver- But this Is only an Incident of 'the key in Europe now Includes only Al tiring, subscription or to any.pusiness matter i street-sprinkling problem. It is tne I Dania ajia Jiaceaonia, wim .Bulgaria should "be addressed simply "The Oregonian. i , . other cities" that car companies I which enjoys home rule under the Sul- Eastern Business Officers 4i, is.Ai. 48 . lnkle siets: but It is not the tan as suzerain. Servia. which has M,r-4,,!:,t th. a. a. seckwith law in Portland. The attempt of the been Independent of Turkey since 1S30. Special Agency. 'Eastern representative. city authorities to screen themselves is inhabited by a very passionate and For sale in San Francisco by l. E. Lee, Pal-1 from censure behind the street-car ignorant people. Assassination has ace Hotel news stand; Goldsmith Bros., 236 ,Amn,nllc ,Hf, vatn The been common In Servian nolltics since Sutter street; F. TV. Pitts. 100S Market street: 1. " " !. Til t icik el. Palace Hotel: Foster & Orear. Ferry news I made to sprinkle them. ." The onus of 1 victim has been an odious Prime MIn stand; Frank Scot't, 80 Eins street, and J. j jjjjg miserable failure in government Ister, sometimes It has been the King Wheatiey. 813 Mission street. f ,innn trollev lines. It I of the country. The Servian dynasty For sale In Los Angeles by B. F. Gardner. ' 1 , n I ,v.nv-i i c,v, ci rt mi- a- Haines, rests upon tne mayor ana me vuuw- untiuiauj qwuiuucu j" ""- 305 South Spring street. Lame horses ana legal teenmcauues ucr cjuiy-aix years ago oi tne mrauua For sale in Kansas City. Mo., by RicssecKer ana stubborn railway officials are in- revolutionary oiler, "UiacK ueorge," Cigar Co.. Ninth saa Walnut streets. I CMnts doubtless, but as excuses they and today It is extinguished by murder 217 LSborn S ie, ?L do not suffice. It is the city govern, and the descendant of Black George is cs Washington street. menfs business to sprinkle the streets, proclaimed King. In the Interval an- For eale In Omaha by Barkalow Bros.. 1612 DUt it is busy with other things. Every other King of Servia was assassinated Farnam. street: Megeath Stationery Co 1303 day present intolerable sltua- in lS68 by the faction of Black George. Farnam street. I xt. na - Via r1t:t-mpe of I The whole stnrv renrls Hke one of the For sale In Ogden by W. G. Kind. 114 25th r"'UM . ?SVZ:' c" L "T" " .iTi; in. tt rmrvv.il 54? 2Mh street. tne city government. Dircti-uua c -"-" uumci w "'b"""iu For sale in Salt Lake by the Salt Lake Kews dUSty, true enougn; DUt now aooui uie icuua uescnueu uy iscoiw or uie euuiuiy jCo, 77 West Second South street. other streets? I terrible feuds among the mountaineers For sale m Washington. D. c. by the Ebbett p.1iv .,wnT- nnd foolish Is the of Virginia. Kentucky and Tennessee ttOUSe. new Siana. I ..... ... , n n.o- I hnwlor mnnflao TVitc n-hnlacala mnr. 4 n..... W TTamlltnn l UL UrUUBril -VH UC1B HO v ' - I .w.w ' Kendrick,- fioc-912 Seventeenth street: Louthan ments. If It is desired to make a roaa aer 01 a .rung, nis wue. his zamiiy ana & Jackson Book.-&. stationery Co., Fifteenth j anvwhere. the onlv nlace we can think I his Minister by a military mob Is ex- and Lawrence streets; A. Series. Sixteenth and - , atreetnr street, where the ceptional in the history of modern Eu- CurtlB streets. I . , ... v,a I rnn i street-car cumuaiiiea ni okuiu i . au. u. Uv., yesterday's weather Maximum tm- DUijr Qf the expense. It Is a remark- praetorian bands of Home murdering perature. C5; minimum temperature, 5S; pre- abl dlsolay In municipal idiocy or an Emperor and all his family and then cipltatlon. .08 or an inch. v.o fha nilr ?n fnvnr of a I uroelalminer hla sneressor. or like the crly winds i jju-vcu slicci. iu jc... " i "- " -1 : 1 . I Fair crounds gathers altogether about to murder a Sultan and nominate his Portland, Friday, juxe 12, 1903. Twentv-ihlrd streeL It is the worst successor. In the early days of the street 'for the purpose, and while It Kussian Empire, the Strelltzes, the 3IURDER OP the IOXG OP SERVIA. should be and doubtless" will be paved, household troops of the court, were Alexander, King of Servia, who with j it should not be paved till others have wont to play the part of praetorians his wife. Queen Draga, has been mur- o.een paved. ana muraer tneir sovereign; out tne dered bv a mllitarv Insurrection. Is the xnereis every reason against xweuty- nisrory ot moaern Europe contains victim of a family and factional feud third street as the pavea street to tne noinmg to matcn tnis wnoiesaie mas- which befran when George Petrovich, Fair, and the. only reason tnat can De sacre or a lung, his wire, family ana known as "Black Geonre " was mur- urgea in its iavor is tnat we are too jinnsters Dy a moo or revoitea soiaiery. dered in 1817 bv his rival Mllos Obre-l I poor or mean or spiritless to make a 1 Kings have been assassinated, like Gus- noric leader of the insurrection against paved street unless a street-car com- i tavus u.1 or bweaen, as an act or pri I . . .1 SA. 1 . w-, . . . f - the yoke of Turkey in 1815-"29 and 1 pany or some one eise uoes it iur us. vate revenge; jangs ana rnrae unis founder of the dynasty, of which the we know what becomes of .pavements ters have been done to death by anarch- murdered King was the fifth, being de- on street-car streets, xney araw au ists; Kings have been arrested, tried Roenrieri from n. brother of the founder, the travel oecause no street near tnem i ana puoilciy executea. JlKe unaries i The founder of the dynasty abdicated is paved, and, partly owing to the dlf- of England and Louis XVI of France, in favor of his son, Milan, in 1839; his Acuities of construction alongside car but In the whole history of modern Eu successor Michael ' abdicated In j.1842, tracks, they wear out. Morrison and I rope there is not an instance like the and the Serbs elected Alexander Kara- Washington streets are always run or present one of Servia, where King, wife, jreorgevlch (son of the' murdered Black holes, and half the time occuplea hy j family and court have been brutally George) who resigned the throne' In I repair gangs, because they are tne oniy murdered by a military mob. It reads 1859. Michael, who had abdicated in pavea routes east ana wesp. across tne nice tne story or tne storming or tne 1842, was recalled from exile and be- central portion of the West Side. Pave J New Orleans jail, when the mob, de- came in 1860 for the second time Prince J.wenty-tnira street, ana in a year it signing to kill but four Italian prison er Servia. Prince Michael was assas- will be worn out from the congestion ers, killed eleven; that is, In their blood Klnated bv the irlends or Alexanaer I ol irauic iu sum litjiu. me jp u-u. Kiumma. i mry mey coma not practice any re Karageorgevich In June, 1SCS. He was it is well enough to exact trom tne straint succeeded by his second cousin, Milan, street-car cohipanies their- proper con- Of course, a people capable of such a who abdicated in 1889 and died in Vien- tribution toward the city s maintenance, crime are a terrible people a people na In 1901. But lfc Is a Pernicious and degrading utterly unfit for free government Alexander, who has just Seen mur- habit, at every time a public improve- "When we read the story of this "Ant 4ered was the son of King Milan by ment is neeaea, to turn with one accora I werp fury" executed by the soldiery of Natalie, daughter of Colonel Keschko, to a street-car company or oyier cor- -i Belgrade, we can easily believe the of .the Russian Imperial Guard. He I poratlon to -do the,worK. n tne street- 1 story of the terrible outrages commit- was proclaimed King in 1889 On the ab- 1 car companies, are to lay tnepavements j ted by the Russian peasantry upon the dlcation of his father, but Servia was ) ana spnnKie tne streets ana; ao otner i Jews, because these Servians are of the governed by a regency nntil Alexander things ror wnicn we pa -.taxes ana levy same racial stock and religion and reached his majority and took charge, assessments, let them Sstfume'-the privi-, stand for about the same medieval April 1. 1891' ' In May, 1894, King Alex- leges as well as the burdens of govern- state of civilization. They are igno- pose .under solemn promise of marriage, repudiated his promise. But there Is not the slightest reason to suppose that It will convey a warning when ana where warning Is needed. It is not nec essary, for the sake of informing her, to tell any girl of 15 who has been de cently reared, still les3 any woman of 25 or 30, that a man Is not likely to ftiu fill a promise of marriage after a woman has fatally cheapened herself as this woman asserts .that she did in the respect and estimation of this man. This Is a matter of common knowledge a fact so well established In human nature and sad experience that It does not require the sensational and disgust ing details of a suit for seduction or breach of promise to establish or bring It out Though In the main the details of this story are old, there was something. new In the self-accusing of the plaintiff upon this point and the Indignant denial of the defendant The real surprise that was brought out by this trial, however, was not in this unique feature, nor yet In the large sum which the jury, wrought upon by the tale of woman's wrongs, awarded as recompense for her wounded affections. Verbal protesta tions of love, including a promise of marriage, especially when supported by visible evidence of substantial worldly possessions, may outweigh uncouth -sur roundings and lack. of culture even to a school teacher of mature years. But those letters, literally permeated by a deadly "spell" how could a Jury look upon a, woman who pretends to some culture and deliberately determine that after having received them she still ardently desired to stand sponsor be fore- her friends for the man who wrote them by marrying him? Herein lies the surprise that was sprung through this case upon ' a wondering community. And, It may be added, this feature served a good purpose in overshadow ing some of the more common and dis gusting features of the case. The bicycle tax collection farce is scheduled to begin In three days. There nothing In the experience of the past to warrant the belief that the amount that will be collected will be sufficient to pay the salary of the men who make the attempt at collecting. There are still a large number of bicycle-riders ho would willingly pay a tax for the purpose of building and maintaining paths on streets where they would -be of some use, providing that all riders were made to pay equally. The Ameri can spirit of fair play, however, pro tests against one man paying a tax which another evades by riding on the sidewalk Instead of on the path. Scorching Is so common on most of the sidewalks of the city west of Four teenth street that It Is a wonder that policemen escape being run down. 'The work of collecting the tax will afford an occupation for some chalrwarming poli tician, and it will not hurt the paths. ander abrogated the Constitution and proclaimed the Constitution of 1869. This allowed the King to appoint one third of the Delegates to the National Assembly, while the Constitution of 1888 provided for their election by the peo ple. King Alexander was born in 1876 and was married in 1900 to Mme. Draga Maschin, a widow, who.has the title of Queen Draga. Servia is a small -country, having an area of about 19.000 square miles, with a population of 2,288,259 in 1895. Bel grade, its largest city, has, but 54,000 people; the army is 210,000 strong, the religion is Greek Catholic It is In this small country, inhabited by a wild. fierce people, that this feud of family and faction has been kept up since 1817, -when the founder of the Servian dy nasty killed his popular rival. -Some .25 years later the partisans of the murdered Karageorgevich elevated his son to the throne. Then In 1868 the friends -of Karageorgevich murdered the King of Servia, and today they have murdered his grandson. It is a curious JUus.tration of the vitality of family feuds and factional quarrels among small, provincial peoples. It Is like the -tribal hates of Huron for Iroquois, of .Mohegon for Narragansett. of ..Sioux for Pawnees.. Crows and Chippewas. The assassination of the .King of Servia will have no effect upon the po litical situation among the Balkan states, for Servia Is completely under the thumb of Russia. "Whatever Rus sia wills Servia executes. Servia has no cause of quarrel with the Turk; for, unlike Bulgaria, Servia is not a. tribu tary of Turkey, but an independent state. The only change in the affairs of Servia that "the assassination of King Alexander will make Is that Russia will interfere far enough to dictate the suc cession. Of course, Russia could not afford to extend even a quasi protec tion to the murderers of the King or to allow the representatives of the faction who committed the murder to enjoy the spoils of victory! Some representative of the murdered King's family will be elevated to the throne and will be kept there by the shadow of Impending Rus sian Bayonets, une aeaa iting was Russian by his mother's side., and was altogether Russian in his social and po litical sympathies. ment "Let the City & Suburban be Mayor, and the Portland Consolidated the -Council. We will guarantee that President Hurlburjt will get better re sults than we have now if the streets are turned over to the Oregon "Water Power & Railway. VICTIMS OP OVERESTI3IATIOX. The failure of Eppinger & Co., the big wheat exporters, has brought forth from the California papers an admis sion that Is slightly overdue. This ad mission is to the effect that the million- ton wheat crop that Is always predicted and never realized has already shrunk to 600,000 tons, and the threshing re turns have not yet begun to arrive. The Chronicle, In discussing the failure and the causes leading up to It says: Early In the present year the out!o6k for the grain crops of California -was more prom ising than had been the case for many years past. The rainfall of the Winter had been fairly liberal and well distributed. The Brow ing conditions of the -weather .-were propitious, and operators and dealers confidently expected that the yield of wheat In, this -state would once more toucn tne .i,wv,uw-ion. marx; At the present time those best informed express the belief that whera l.OOO.WO tons of wheat were estimated as this year's yield the crop -will jiow be no. greater thai' last year, when it was about C20.0OO tons. It has been many a year since Cali fornia produced a million tons of wheat. and it is doubtful whether she ever again will produce such an amount, and yet year after year the same old claims are put forward, .and a slight damage to that fictitious crop causes sharp ad- vances in Europe and the East "while similar reports from Oregon 'and. "Wash' ington, where for years the crop has exceeded that of California, pass un noticed. California, Instead of being the principal wheat market of the Pa cific Coast Is a very poor third, both Portland and Puget Sound leading her in shipments for the current year. The shipments of wheat from San Francisco from July 1, 1902, to June 1, 1903, were 8,963,290 bushels, and during that period 1,120,000 bushels of wheat were shipped from Portland and Puget Sound to Call fornla ports, most of it being reshipped from San Francisco. Without this Ore gon and "Washington wheat to help out her tonnage engagements or take the place of wheat that was used for that purpose, San Francisco's exports for Ixrd Rothschild, in an Associated the season to June 1 would have been Press interview. Is quoted as preferring -but 7,743,000 bushels, while during the rant, superstitious,, passionate, fero cious and cruel in war or peace; they are like all peoples- who live In a con dition of political, social and commer cial isolation. This terrible story of what a Servian military mob Is capable of Is more shocking because it excites no local resentment but commands popular approval. There is no doubt that under equal provocation and simi lar circumstances a mob murder quite as terrible might stain a popular upris ing in Bulgaria, Roumania, Bosnia or the Slav provinces of Hungary, where the same savagery, the same cruelty, the same ferocious temper, prevail. An increasing number of Immigrants are coming to our shores from South ern Europe from South Russia, from Armenia, from Slavonla, Transylvania, Croatia, Naples, Calabria and Sicily. Ignorance Is an attribute of all these peoples; ferocity is a characteristic of a good share of them. Criminal propen slties are part of the hereditary equip ment of many Neapolitans, Sicilians and Calaqrlans. if this quality of im migrants come to our shores In as great numbers as did the Germans and Irish, we may expect trouble with them wher ever they congregate In large numbers. Already in New "York City the most dangerous class of criminals are the Italians, who make and "shove" coun terfeit money, for they are prompt to murder anybody who betrays them They are our most daugerous class of bandits, for they escape arrest and de tection by the terrorism they enforce. These races of Southern Europe are ut terly unlike Germans, Irish or Scandi navlans. In their Ignorance, their fe roclty and passionate cruelty they are like the wild mountaineers of the worst days of the South. American investments to those of his own country. He states that Morgan, Yerkes, the Speyers and other Ameri cans who bought heavily In British in dustrials have "not been very success- ful. They had expected to enlist the services of a large amount of British -caDital with them, but the British capi talist apparently sees better opportuni ties in America, and Morgan, Yerkes e aL have been obliged to sacrifice some of their good American securities In order to protect their British invest ments. There would be few, if any, tears shed in this country if these Anglo- American investors never received a dividend from their speculations abroad. In all parts of the United States pppor tunttles for safe investment are offered capital, and it is not at all to the credit of the Morgans, Yerkes and -Speyers of this country that It is on British and German capital that we have been obliged to depend for the development of some of our greatest "Western mines and for the building of some of our best Western railroads. tThere are still op- same period Portland exported 9,423,098 bushels of wheat and Puget Sound ports exported 8,134,662 bushels. The excessive claims put forth by the Callfornians every season not only re sult In disaster to such reckless plung- ers and short sellers, as the Epplngers, but they are detrimental to the wheat trade all over the Pacific Coast "When ever the British shipowner learns that California will have a crop of 1,000.000 tons, he immediately marks up charter rates a few shillings, and as Oregon and "Washington exporters must char ter In the same market the entire Coast suffers from the wild estimates of the California wheat men. Now that the confiding bankers of the Bay .City have learned that 1.000,000 tons Is not the regulation crop of California, and that the I. O. U.'s of chronic short sellers are not always good collateral, a little moderation may be practiced and the entire Coast will profit by it The Gov ernment engaged in this wholesale pad ding of estimates for a number of years. but recently has shown more of a dls MISS ai'CARTY AXD HER VERDICT. The emotional nature of the jury cleverly or craftily wrought upon by counsel, may be said to have found ex pression In the hardpan verdict ren dered in the United States Court in this city, in which the damage done to the affections of a spinster by the change of mind which absence or reflection wrought in her elderly wooer was as sessed at ?22,500. The case was a peculiar one unique, in fact In that It introduced something new into the annals of the old conten tlon by which a woman scorned seeks legal balm in the shape of hard cash for blighted affections and wounded pride. The woman In this case insisted that she had held unlawful relations with the man, while he as stoutly af firmed that this was untrue.. The find lng of the jury was conclusive evidence that the woman's story was believed. judgment In the case being no doubt based upon the assumption that the man for this reason declined to marry. her, giving as a pretext that he had: 'ceased to love her." If there were any reason to suppose that the public repetition of this old story would convey a wholesome lesson In prudence and In the inestimable value to woman herself of womanly modesty and chastity. Its recital might be welcomed. There Is, unfortunately; no ground for such hope, since the les son that the story conveys Is sadly, sor rowfully, tlresomely old. Its recital" may arouse compassion for the folly- stricken woman of whose lapse from virtue It treats, and reprobation for the man, who, having compassed this pur-- THE TRAIL OF WALL STREET. New York Times. October 17, 1908. "Without doubt the person whom the in habitants of those parts of this country which depend upon anthracite coal have mainly to thank for "a happy Issue out of all their afflictions" Is the President of the United States. Ha took a grave , risk when he originally Invited a conference between the representatives of labor and capital, whose differences had resulted in an industrial crisis and a general appre hension of wide dls trees. That he was somewhat moved by the perilous predica ment of the party of which he Is the tit ular head we are neither prepared nor much concerned to deny. It was plain "from the first that It was the apprehen sion of general suffering that was his chief motive In Intervening. The Inter vention was at great risk, even of the dignity of hla offlce. while the success of it was still doubtful It was described by an Indignant and well-meaning patriot as a "national humiliation." And Indeed it would have come near that if the Pres ident had Intervened In vain. . . But the event has Justified him. His interven tion, in spite of the preliminary failure. has been crowned with a success that not only argued a good deal of skillful ne gotiation on the part of somebody, but also attested the respect In which the resi dent's own character for fairness and Im partiality was held by both contending and excited factions. Tne erxorts ot tne operators to hamper his discretion, by in dicating his arbitrators beforehand, was, as they are probably prepared by now to acknowledge, a disrespectful blunder. That it did no harm Is due to the Presi dent's own eagerness to put an end to a situation, which In his own word, haa become "Intolerable." He stands higher In the confidence of his fellow citizens than he did before. New York Times. June 2. Two things conspicuous in our recent industrial history have led them to look uoon him aa an unsafe man. one is nis Interference in the anthracite strike. The report of the commission makes it plain that the strike was not Justified; hut It was a strike .attended by a good deal of lawlessness, and there Is reason, to be lieve that it was nearing Its end when the President in a most unusual and sensa tional manner, took the matter in nana. He was criticised then, and he haa been criticised ever since. It happens that the whole country Is one vast turmoil of labor disturbance. "We have never had so many strikes and threats of strikes, so many walkouts and lockouts, nor such a vast number ot demands, many of them altogether unreasonable, made upon em ployers by the employed, ana maae, too, with an arrogance exceedingly trying, even to patient men. "Whether It be true, or not that the President's Interference in the anthracite etrike has encouraged this outbreak, it is a fact that he is in a large measure held responsible for it. It Is largely be lieved that labor has taken Its cue irom the President MARRIAGE IN TBE PHILIPPINES The pocket-knife, a most vicious and deadly instrument when drawn In dispute between neighbors, has figured in two cases of neighborhood brawl, as reported In our news columns within the past few days. Fortunately, fatali ties did not follow the Introduction of this, ugly argument Into the fray, though serious consequences are likely to result to one of the victims. Noth ing less than demoniac fury would In duce a man to make a deadly weapon of a pocket-knife, and he who, allows himself, to become, thus possessed by passion should be subjected to proper punishment even though his blade wa3 not long enough to accomplish the dead ly mission on which It was sent The intent of such an assault Is so vicious that It is well enough to make an ex ample of the assailant even though the neighbor or friend placed In peril of his life may be disposed to condone the of fense. Telegraphic advices from Astoria state that Marine Surveyor Howes has Just completed the third survey of the pilot schooner San Jose, and has found her in a seaworthy condition. This being the case, she should be equipped with a few pilots as soon as the ship ping season begins, and kept in the of fing. The schooner Joseph Pulitzer, owned jointly by the Oregon and "Wash ington pilots, Is a much better craf than the San Jose, but the latter should be kept in service at least while the other boat Is inside, which at times In the past has been quite frequent The new Pilot Board contains one man, an ex-pilot who understands the kind of reform that Is needed at the mouth of the river, and If his experience and judgment are deferred to, there will be fewer complaints of bad service than have been heard during the season just closing. The persistent determination to rule out osteopathy as a branch of medical science In "Washington was disclosed In North Yakima a few days ago, when the Health Officer refused to recognize as valid or authoritative a death certifi cate issued by an osteopath who had been treating a man who had died of consumption. This refusal was no doubt in accordance with law, but it shows the absurd plight In which nar row, Illiberal professional opinion re flected upon legislation can place a com munity. In this instance the Coroner interfered, issued a burial permit and 'saved the world a nuisance," burial having become necessary, but not until th'e narrow spirit and the absurd as sumption of the law was iuiiy ex ploited. The flood conditions at St Louis are appalling. The cure of conditions of this character are In prevention. Five thousand men piling sacks of sand on a levee may relieve the present danger. but a small fraction of that number "employed at proper seasons in replant ing" forest trees 'over the area denuded by the lumber industry at the sources of the Missouri would render the labor of the sandbag-pllers unnecessary in the course of a decade or two. TXe Split Infinitive. Brooklyn Eagle. The third page of this paper yesterday contained a letter from a correspondent who Jocularly constituted himself a cham pion of the split infinitive. He was in spired to write by the "charge," which, he alleges, the Eagle made against Mr. Cleveland of having used a split infinitive 'In describing the delights of Sir lzaoK Walton's pastime." The Eagle made no charge. In the sense implied by its corre spondent In an appreciation of ilr. Cleveland's excellent essay on fishing we merely noted one slight blemish in an otherwise faultless production, we notea it too. in the same kindly, if regretful spirit that now compels us to Inform our correspondent that in tne aDove quota tion from his letter he has given to the name of good old Izaak "Walton a handle It never possessed. It is not a crime to riDlit infinitives. It Is merely a misde meanor meriting only a mild reprimand and a caution, not to do It again, a he Instances of sr41t Infinitives In the printed language ot certain ernlnent Jurists, whom our correspondent cites, prove notning. extenuate nothing. Men will continue to snllt Infinitives as long as there Is an infinitive to spilt but neither the perpet uation of the offense nor tho prevalence of it furnishes a Justification for its com mission. However, the tendency to mal treat a hard-working, serviceable and wil ling verb by driving a qualifying wedge between its component parts In no way affects the political or social status of the perpetrator. Mr. Cleveland is great, not because of his split infinitives, but In spite of them. The correspondent's "In stances ' do not maKe tne oirense less, They only show the number of offenders to be more than ougnt to De tne case. Even writers on the Eagle have thus of fended, for the blue pencil sometimes lags. Just as Homer was known to nod. Blartlng- Out the Truth. Minneapolis Tribune. Now and then a man bobs up unsophlsl- cated or courageous enough to say out loud what is the secret thought or every man. "When tho outspoken person happens to be a public otnciai, we get a mild sensation. Not long a go a man In Texas was convicted and Imprisoned for killing a teacher who had seduced his schoolgirl sister. That the man should be pardoned Is no strange matter; the nov elty is In the declaration ot tne uovernor. in his official review, that "such a base and brutal betrayal of friendship de served death at the hands of the appli cant" Everybody will agree that this Is a bare statement of undeniable truth; but everybody will catch his breath a little. that the Governor of a state should blurt It out The usual way Is to pardon such a man for a false reason or for none at all. and send him out Into the world with the stigma of conviction when he deserved public honor. The frankness or tne Gov ernor of Texas Is fairer to the man Justly pardoned as well as to the community. Not In, His Hip Pocket. Kansas City Star. Tt does not always nay to appear too in dependent especially In a courtroom. They are telling the folowing story on a former "Missourlan who is now a JUQga m UKia homa. A gambler was tried before tne Judge recently and convicted of playing poker. He appeared in court dressed In a flashy style and witn plenty oi money .in his pockets, apparently unconcerned as to the outcome or nis trial. i-coKing over nis spectacles, tho Judge In a squeaky voice said: "Jim. stand up." The gambler obeyed. "Jim. have you got anything to New York, Evening Post Recent dispatches have announced that Lieutenant Sidney S. Burbank, of the Bixtfc Infantry, stationed at Fort 3aven worth. Kan., is charged with desertion by a Filipino girl who says she is his wife. Judge-Advocate-General Davis, the com manding General In the Philippines, has been requested to investigate the case. This incident brings up the whole ques tion of marriages between American sol diers and Filipino women. The Manila newspapers bring the Information that not a few of the American vagrants just now quite numerous in Manila and neighbor ing provinces are discharged soldiers who had celebrated a common-law marriage with native women, and who were pre vented from sailing home and deserting these wives when proper evidence was presented to the military authorities. These common-law marriages were usual ly celebrated by transfusion of blood, the veins being opened in the arms of the' contracting parties, and such a ceremony has acquired during past years of sanc tion of life out of wedlock a legal status in the eyes of Filipino women. Just how far it has been wortn while to detain these men when their regiments sailed, however. Is a question. At any rate, they constitute an annoying incubus for the police to deal with, especially In Manila, where many of them have turned house breakers. Some few of the Filipino women In the capital have learned that they have re course to law to compel their support and such suits, the first of their kind In the Philippines, have been successfully prose cuted against two or three civilian clerks who were discharged volunteers. The first divorce suits In the Philippines were entered last year In Hollo, Cebu and Manila. All marriages were formerly, of course, strictly ecclesiastical affairs, and divorce Is forbidden under the Roman church. Justice of the Peace weddings are not now so uncommon occurrences among the lower classes, many of whom formerly lived out ot wedlock because of Inability or unwillingness to pay the fees. There have been almost no marriages thus far among Americans and Filipinos of what may bo termed the better classes. The writer knows of but one, that of an American teaching In the Nautical School at Manila and the daughter of a prominent half-caste Filipino of the revolutionary party, now a government official. Ameri cans will doubtless evince here, as Eng lish and Germans have elsewhere, the An glo-Saxon aversion to such marriages, and we may not look for that quite free Inter mixture of blood which tended to knit the Spanish and Filipinos together, but was too strongly counteracted by other forces. A number of Japanese women are being Imported for Immoral purposes. Manila, following the entrance of the American army, became the Mecca or outcasts ot au sorts, male and female, from the various ports of the Orient The number of such outcasts In the Orient is hinted at by the Joking question which one American, on being introduced to another In Hong Kong or Singapore, will ask another: "What was your name back In the' States?" Strict port regulations later put a stop to this Invasion of undesirable characters, in large measure at least Especially has care -been exercised the past two years In regard to women arriving without escort Somehow or other, however, an unusual number of Japanese women would seem to have gone past the port orncials last year. These women are Drougnt irom Nagasaki, Kobe, Yokohama and otner ports. A weeding out of these illegal ar rivals was begun In March, and they were deported in numbers. Manila's "red-light" district Is already more than sufiiclently cosmopolitan, with Its American women (white and negro). Austrians. British (particularly Austral ians). Scandinavians, French, Belgians, Russians, Chinese, Japanese, East Indians, besides Filipinos and Spanish admixtures Since the City of Manila came Into tne hands of the civil government, on August 7. 1S01, the system ot regular medical ex amlnation of prostitutes, as mauguratea. by the military authorities, has been con tlnued. A list of them Is kept lor tnls purpose, and they are quite closely segre gated In one portion of the city ana Kept under surveillance. They are, nowever, no longer furnished cards .bearing their pho tographs for identification. The fee paid for Inspection merely supports the run ning of the system. Hence, some of the cardinal features of a license system are avoided. JAMES A L.E ROY. NOTE AND COMMENT : This King business' has Its drawbacks. Also the Queen business. St Louis could lend us a few feet of water and still it wouldn't bother us Maybe Joe Chamberlain can see things a trifle clearer from, his new point of view on the back seat It might seem to some that 522,560 lg a trifle high to pay Just for the privilege ot calling her Birdie. The East St Louis affair makes the dinky little Willamette flood look like about 20 cents worth, of driftwood. We might be able to survive the shock of the Servian tragedy If anybody will tell us how to pronounce the new King s name. We haven't observed that the St- Louis flood reporters have referred to tt as a "devastating cataclysm." Whavs the matter? The woman's club might get a lew pointers on the rapid and orderly" parlia mentary procedure of the masculine sex by attending the sesions of the Port of Portland Board. Bre'r Hoadley writes: "The Emerson centennial Is over and as It was quite generally observed In this part ot Oregon by the writer," etc We're glad to know that Bre'r Hoadley whooped things up for so good a man as Emerson on an ex tensive scale. The Servian atrocities serve to recall the following alleged translation of a cele brated national song into the Slavonian tongue: Tengklatovltch doolcovltchko K&merousk tetoonlpsky, RldlKgllensk oaovitclx poneolodosk. Btuckorelskeno featheramonk. lnterms b&to vltch, Calledotofsky macaronltovensky. Here is an advertisement which the Portland Argus published just as it was sent Into the office. It is so much out ot the usual order of such advartlsements that It Is reproduced In the hope "Joe" will not fall to recover his dog: "Stole or Rund Away Been loose him about two tree weeks, hees almost black and white dog, him tall cut off pretty close to my body somebody find her keep it I belong to him. Joe Bordeaux." H- P. Patterson, a Civil War Veteran of Aurora. Ind., while on a visit to Get tysburg recently located tho large boulder behind which he and some comrades sought shelter from the furious attacks of Confederates on the exposed portion of the. Union flank. The rock weighs several tons, but Mr. Patterson bought It and will have it brought to his Indiana home, where it will mark his last resting place. Mrs. F. T- Paine, the dentist's wife who was mentioned In the Burdlck-Pennell tragedy In Buffalo, has printed a book purporting to give "full details" ot the tragedy. Many Rochester people have re ceived notices that packages with 50 cents charges awaited them at the office of the company, and when they paid the charges and opened the packages the company refused to return the money. The police have forbldden.the company to deliver any more of the books in Rochester. An old story, in effect that Senator Mor. gan declined an appointment on the Paris Peace Commission because he was mortal ly afraid to cross the Atlantic, was roT"- vived In New York when the Senator bought tickets for Liverpool for himself and family. For the first time, the Ala bama statesman gave his real reason for declining the honor. "I refused the ap pointment" he said, "simply because I did not believe it proper for a member of the Senate to serve on a commission making a treaty which he would have later to vote upon. I believe Senator Al lison declined a similar offer and for the same reason." Native "Wlne Too Cheap. New York Press. "Whv don't you handle native cham pagnes?" 1 said IO one ot me wmi-oireet , purveyors of food and drink for the Stock Kirhnnee. Note his reply: "Because It's too ctaean a business for my customers. Personally, I think we make the purest and best wines of any country in tne world, and I always drink native wines at my table. There is no neaaacne in native champagne, and you can rely upon the efferescence being the result ot natural fermentation. But offer it to my custom- j ers? Never! I can buy a case of the best native champagne for $11, and I wouldn't j have the heart to charge more than $2 a bottle for it A 52 champagne lor tnat Wall-street crowd! Why, they'd laugh at me. It I could charge $7 a bottle they'd buy it by the case. Money is nothing more than water to them. They want something costly and want It quick, and they don't care for the nnest tning on earth if It's cheap. Small City "Will Do. Kansas City Star. Mr. Bryan favors holding next year's Democratic National convention in Indi anapolis. If Mr. Bryan retains control ot the party Lincoln. Neb., will be plenty big enough to accommodate tne conven tion. In June. Nora Perry. So sweet so s-weet the roses in their blowing-. So sweet the daffodils, so fair to see: So blithe and gay the " humming-bird a-golny From flower to flower, a-huntlng- with the bee. So sweet, so sweet the calling of the thrushes. The calling, cooing, wooing everywhere: So sweet the water's song through reeds and rushes. The plover's piping note, now here, now there. So sweet, so sweet from off the fields of clover The west wind blowing, blowing up the hill; "The principal value of mission work?" repeated a home-coming missionary who had grown gray in the field. "Well, some-, times I'm Inclined to think It's the broad ening, humanizing process -the workers themselves undergo. We see human nature, the heathen human nature we have been sent out to teach, at first hand. and from an utterly different point ot view from that gained in any other way. We see the beauty, the nobility, heroism of even 'heathen character and while I am no less a Christian than when a quar ter of a century ago I started out in the work with a zeal that was ready to burn every other thing but my particular form of religion off the face of the earth, still." with a smile. "I am able now to see what really good Christians Confucius and Buddha and the rest of them really were," say before I pass sentence on you?" "No, ySo sweet so sweet with news of some one's Tjm Tin troln to fine vou 530 " I lover. All right Judge." interrupted the gam- Fleet footsteps, ringing nearer, nearer stilt The Salvation Army Is making Its annual appeal to the charitable people of Portland for subscriptions in aid of its jwork. The appeal deserves., atten tion. The army's work Is well done ahd Its funds are distributed honestly and wisely. They who excuse-them selves from contributing to fashionable churches otf the ground ot artificiality can offer no objection to the Salvation ists on this score. We hope this year's contribution will be a large one. The effort of the Matthews machine to lift the scalp of Simon men on the police and fire departments has not al ways succeeded so well as it seems to have -done In the case of Officer "Sloan. As a rule, 'It has been deeply,' if unnec essarily, disguised. But since when did "a political police department become improper in the eyes of the Simon ma chine? taler: "here it Is In my hip pocket." "And give you 60 days in jail," continued tne Judge. "Now, look and see it you ve got that In your hip pocket too. Shock to ZealoHs Officers. New York Evening Sun. Perhaps it was natural for a truant officer to go to the' races. Perhaps that was a likely place to look for wandering schoolboys. But when he runs over to the track again he will be more careful. His effort to arrest a 29-year-old Jockey who has been paying alimony ror years sug gests the exploit of the Children's Coclety agent some time ago. ae went Denina the scenes at the Acaaemy or aiusic ana wanted to take away a 'child actress. To his surprise he found that she had a grown-up daughter. Zeal snouia be tem pered with discretion. English Literature Ltuiffaishlngr. Academy and Literature. No man of fine taste can doubt that En glish letters are Just now In a bad way, despite Individual writers who maintain the high tradition. The small but culti vated circle of readers which made the audience of former writers Is ceasing to exist It was part of a nobleman s char acter to have a taste for and patronage of letters in the days of our ancestors; now the aristocracy is the last quarter to which one looks for literary cultivation. So near, so near, now listen, listen, thrushes; Now, plover, blackbird,' cease, and let me hear; And water, hush your song- through reeds and rushes. That I may know whose lover coraeth. near. So loud, so loud the thrushes Jcept their call ing. Plover or blackbird never heeding me; So loud the ralll-stream. too, kept fretting. falling. O'er bar and bank, in brawling; boisterous glee. So loud, so loud; yet blackbird, thrush, nor plover. Nor noisy mill-stream. In Its fret and fall. Could drown the voice, the low voice of my lover. My lover calling through the thrushes' catt. "Come down, come down!" he called, and straight the thrushes . From mate to mate sang all at once. "Come down I" And while the water laughed through reed and rushes. The blackbird chirped, the plover piped, "Come down!" i Then down and off. and through the fields of clover, I followed, followed at my lover's call; Listening no more to blackbird, thrush or plover; . The water's la. 8-5 k, t&e mill-stream's fret and fall, . PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS "In vino Veritas" means that the truth is liable to lealc out of even an exceedingly tight roan. Puck. Edith I dreamed last night that Z was go ing to be married. Kitty Funny, what absurd things come to us In dreams. Isn't it, dean Boston Transcript "Why haven't you been attending church of late?" asked the parson. "Doctor forbid It," replied the delinquent party, "He said I must glvo- up sleeping In the daytime." Chicago Dally News. Post Hoc. Propter Hoc After partaking ot refreshments consisting of Ice cream and cake. Miss Effla Buzzard sang several selections In a way that was more than pleasing to alt Jamesport (Mo.) Gazette. A little bird sat on & telegraph wire. And said to his mates, '1 declare. If. wireless telegraphy comes Into vogue. "We'll all have to sit on the air." London Fishing Gazette. Daughter (pleadingly) I am sure you will like George. He Is the most conscientious young man I ever knew. Father (a business man) Then don't you dare to marry him! Tou'll starve to death! New York Weekly. Defective. The Patron Tour picture Isn't bad, but the drawing's a bit oft, isn't it? The Artist How's that? The Patron Why. the clock says ten past ten, and the right time now Is a quarter to four. Plck-Me-TJp. Kuttea You'll excuse me, old chap, for not Introducing you to my wife. The fact is. you know, she's she's so Infernally partic ular. Dryde la everything but her choice of a husband, perhaps. I see. Chicago Trib une. "Was she happily married?" "Very! Why. her trousseau alone cost over 6000." Judge. "Cholly says he has Invented a new style drink, and It Is named after him." remarked Stager. "It must be a soft drink." said Rounder. Chicago Tribune. "I am so glad." said Mrs. Oldcastle. "that there seems to be- a promise of a real Shaks perean revival." "Is there-?" asked Mrs. Packlnghara. "It'll surely be a good thing for this town. Revivals always 'do lots of good, even if lots of the people that go for ward do backslide afterward. I never knew before that Shakespeare was a Methodist" Chicago Record-Herald. (At the "Washington station). "Delighted to be back again. How many have been indicted while I was away?" "Well, only three or four, but it Is a sad business, and the end is not yet." "Nonsense! Cheer up. Payne! What we need is further expansion. If we only h4 a few more islands to govern at Ions dlttaac we should be able to keep the departmeata at -Washingtoa free of rascals." New York Xvta Ins Pesti