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