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AN" ORIGIXAL AXD SAPIEXT STATES MAX. Now we begin to get a line on the qualities of Mr. John S. Clarke, nom inated for United States Senator by the Democrats of Ohio and indorsed by W. J. Bryan. From his maiden speech at Akron on Wednesday we extract the following gem: The decision in the Northern Securities case Is proof positive that through all the eeven years In which the trusts have been taking possession of the business of tho country there was ample law.' If it had been enforced, to have prevented the formation of or to have restrained the actions at least of every trust engaged In Interstate com merce and most of the great ones are so en gaged. Observe that it is only seven years that the trusts have been taking pos session of the country? Why seven?' Possibly" we "wrong Mr. Clarke, "but we shall undertake to say he picks on 1S97 as the first year of trust domination be cause of the coincidence at that time of Democratic exit from and Repub lican entrance into National power. What he means is that there has been law enough for Republicans to destroy the trusts, but not enough for the Dem ocrats. The Republicans had the op portunity to destroy them, but the Democratic -party couldn't destroy them because there weren't any. Mr. Clarke seems to have overlooked some of the evidence. We submit a few trusts "that were In existence under Demo cratic administration: Organized. Capital. American Sugar Refining Co '. 1887 5:73.930.000 Consolidated Ice Co 1S03 100.000,000 National Salt Co 18S9 12,000.000 National Starch Mfg. Co... 1890 S.51C900 Sperry Flour Co 18i)2 10,000.000 American Spirits Mfg. Co...lSS7 S4.839.300 California Wlnemakers Cor poration .' 1894 10,000.000 American Tobacco Co 1S90 47.500.000 National "Wall Paper Co 1870 33.431.500 Standard Rope & Twine C0.I8OG 12.000,000 U. S. Leather Co 131.". 125.109,200 U. S. Rubber Co 1802 47.191.000 American School' Furniture Co 1S92 10.000.000 Central Lumber Co. (Cal.K.lSOO 70.000.000 American "Window Glass Co. 1890 30.000,000 American Cotton Oil Co 1SS3 30.325,700 American Linseed Oil Co...lSS7 2S.500.000 Chemical Co 1890 50.000.000 Standard Oil Co 1872 U7.250.000 Lake Superior Consol. Iron t Mines 1893 2S.722.000 American Machine Co. (sew- - 1893 10.000.000 Inlon Typewriter Co 1S03 1S.015.000 American Electric Healing Corporation v.,.1893 10.000,000 General Electric Co 1S92 20.S33.200 estem Elevator Ass'n 1SR7 l.'.OOO.OOO Diamond Match Co 1SS0 11.O0O.000 The second Administration of Grover Cleveland (elected 1S92) received as Its inheritance the Sherman anti-trust law of 1890. There were four years in which to smash the trusts we have named into smithereens and prevent the form ation of others. But it is Mr. Clarke's understanding that the trusts have been at work only since McKInley went in. Possibly when his little oversight has- been brought to his attention he will acknowledge his error and correct it; and possibly he won't. Mr. Clarke, moreover, enunciates a Philippine policy. He goes on record as in favor of granting the Filipinos Immediate independence, reserving coaling stations, which they have al ways been ready to grant to the United States, and of saying to all the rest of the world "Hands off." As Mr. Clarke is programmed as a business man, let us present his theory in the terms of business. Let us say that, in due course of trade, he has acquired a coal mine, which proceeds to mutiny. He will thereupon proclaim Its Inde pendence, and say to all the rest of the world "Hands off." As to how the mine is run, murderously, ruinously, riotously, or otherwise, he will wash his hands, merely maintaining an army and navy about it td protect1 it from the aggressions of others and from the consequences of Its own acts. It can readily be Imagined how long Mr. Clarke, If he has any business sense, would continue such an arrangement lie would speedily find, if business ex-t perlence has not already taught him as much, that responsibility cannot be as sumed without authority. He cannot stand as sponsor for the coal mine be fore civilization unless he has the power to regulate the acts of the coal mine. It will be cheaper for him to put his own superintendents, bookkeep ers and weighers In the mine than to buy or conquer it again afterward, as the British had to do in South Africa, It seems to us that the Senate con tains men enough like Clarke already enough incorruptible patriots like Till man and learned men like Dubois. Out in Montana it has been proposed to erect a monument to Sacajawea, the Indian woman who accompanied Lewis and Clark from the Mandan country to the Pacific, at "Three Forks," a spot ofi peculiar Historical an (geographical in terest. That state claims to have been first in the field in the proposal to honor this brave and tactful Indian woman, without whose assistance the great ex plorers would, hardly have been able to push on through the hostile Indian country to the Pacific Coast. It Is re called that the state was asked many years ago to erect a monument to Saca jawea. at Three Forks, but interest in the matter was allowed to lapse. It has been revived, however, by the -approach of the Lewis and Clark Centen nial, the coming Fair in this city, and the suggestion that Montana, as joint heir to the grand inheritance of the Lewis and Clark achievement, contrib ute to a- monument to Sacajawea in Portland. The Helena Record says that this last proposition is not to be seriously considered, but urges the placing of such a monument in that state as a deserved tribute to a hrave woman. This is all right. There is no reason why the people of Oregon can not build a monument to Sacajawea -in Portland and be. glad If Montana also raises a deserved tribute to her mem ory on her own soil. WHY SUBSIDIES ARE SEEDED, The Oregonlan calls the proposal to aid American deep-water shipping a "graft." Yet It would be grieved and offended if such a term were applied to the enormous ap propriations which it persistently demands for a strictly local purpose. Thus the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. What it means by "a strictly local pur pose" is the opening and maintenance of the mouth of the Columbia River to deep-sea commerce a project involving the development and welfare of an em pire in area as large as all of France and all of Italy combined, and the im provement of a waterway which is that empire's natural outlet for traffic, the only outlet, in fact, except costly as cents of lofty mountain ranges. If the Post-Intelligencer can see no difference between a public enterprise of this character and a bald proposal to take the money of the Government and pay it directly over to corporations or indi viduals with drafts on the Treasury di rectly payable to individuals or firms engaged In business why then its per spicacity Is most Impressively slight. The shipping subsidy is not In the Interest of the carrying trade, but of certain highly organized and specific carriers. It Is not In the interest of the poor farmer, on whose behalf it Is spe ciously urged; but In that of princely beggars who are desirous of plunging their arms up to their elbows in the Government Treasury. Its essentially crooked character Is betrayed by the arguments by which it is supported. When freights are high, the reason we must have a subsidy is that freights are high and the farmer must be helped When freights are low the reason why we need a subsidy Is that freights are low and there is no money in the busi ness. This is but a variation of the original -fallacy of the subsidy theory, as described by The Oregonlan five years ago, thus: "We need a ship subsidy because the enor mous profits of the carrying ' trade are be ing absorbed by foreigners; and also for the reason that there is no money In the carrying trade and profits must be provided by the Governmnt. CHEAP TALK. Ex-Secretary Long, In a recent prohi bition speech in Maine, among other things said: You read an editorial In a dally and It seems to speak with all the authority of a great paper; but think when you read It that It was written by a man In his -shirt sleeves, with his hat on his head, in a little seven-by-nlne room, and If he should but tonhole you on tho street'1 you would want to get away from him; and your opinion Is Just as good as his. This is very silly talk for a man of Governor Long's age and experience. The Edinburgh Review was founded by Sydney Smith, Brougham and two or three other obscure young men who worked In an attic and were all sopoor that they selected as a motto for the new magazine "We cultivate literature on a little oatmeal." It is of no conse qlrence whether an editorial is written by a man in his shirt sleeves or not, with or without his hat, in a large room or small; the crucial test of an edi torial is not who wrote it, or where he wrote it, or how he was dressed, or un dressed, when he wrote It, but how much truth enforced -by reason and Illustrated by fact Is there in IL An editorial's worth is not determined by turning it over like a bit of bank paper to see If there are two good names on .the back. Furthermore, "your opinion is not just as good as his" If the editorial is based on logic you can not answer and facts you do not pre tend to controvert and upset. No man has any right to exact consideration for opinions that do not date from facts and reason which rests on facts. If you cannot answer the editor's logic nor upset his facts, it will not help your case at all to prove that he wrote his article in a seven-by-nlne room, In his shirt sleeves, and hatless, and you. have no right to your opinion If you cannot upset his answer and appeal by something better than mere negation. If Daniel Webster should say that evil communications cultivate good man ners, the mere weight of his great name would not give a manifest ab surdity popular currency and it would not need a great name to obtain pop ular assent to the moral equity of the golden rule. To say that it will rain a year Xrom today is a mere speculative opinion, which, resting upon neither reason nor fact, neither gathers nor loses weight, no matter who hazards the prediction, but in the ordinary sense of opinion as separated from mere whim or preju dice, no man has any business to talk about "having a right to his opinion" unless his opinion rests on both reason and fact If the logic Is not with him; if the facts are not with him, his opin ion is not just as good as tha,t of a man who is ready with reason and equipped with fact The personality of the writer has .nothing to do with the weight of the editorial, provided that the statement of facts upon which the argument rests Is veracious. If you cannot refute the argument, if you cannot controvert the facts, you only make yourself contemptible by saying that the man who wrote it was L hatless, coatless, in a seven-by-nine room, and that "your opinion is as good as his." Your opinion is not as good as his, and never will be as good as hij, until you have refuted his logic and controverted his facts. Nobody but a seven-by-nine man ever jeers at an editor as having written his editorial in a .seven-by-nine room, so long as he cannot answer It Jesus preached in the fields, hatless and coatless. He was then an obscurity, but the only answer of his enemies was o kill him. Gover nor Long, we suppose, would have hooted him down because' he ventured to think and talk to the public without either hat or coat. Governor Long was confined to his bed for a long time last Spring- with the gripj he talks as If he had "lost his grip" on his brains. When it comes to asking "Who" wrote It?" Instead of weighing what has been written, we have -reached a court of arbitration by an aristocracy of fools. VACCIXATIOX AXD SMALLPOX. What vaccination has accomplished is set forth In an -article in Science for July 24, which clt'es. and uses the results of investigation By Edward J. Edwards as given in his "Concise History of Smallpox and Vaccination In Europe." In the centuries before 1800 this hideous disease was the object of popular dread; it was expected that almost every per son must have it once; the pockmarked face was common. In Sweden between 1774 and 1800 the annual smallpox death rate accounted for a. thirteenth of the total deaths from all causes. Jenner's discovery of t the prophylactic service of cow-pox against smallpox Is called by Dr. Edwards "the greatest sanitary fact which 'the world has evjer known." In the German army vaccination is compulsory, and in consequence small pox does not exist in that great force of over 600,000 men. Of the horrors of smallpox before the day of Jenner's discovery abundant tes timony Is found in Macaulay's descrip tion of the social condition of England under .the Stuarts in the seventeenth century. No. class was exempt from Its ravages. The lady who was the be trothed of the famous diplomat, Sir William Temple, was fearfully disfig ured by the smallpox, but Sir William loved her so well that he did not dis card her because she had lost her beauty. Thackeray In his "Henry Es mond" describes how the pestilence of the. smallpox robbed Lady Castlewood of something of her beauty and lost her the love of her husband. William III lost his Queen, Mary Stuart by this disease, and suffered from it himself so severely that he was only sad by the faithful nursing he had night and day from his friend, Bentlnck. Louis XV of France had the smallpox twice and died of the second attack. The famous orator Mirabeau was pitted with the smallpox, and so was Washington. As late as 1800 it was the exception when a man or woman escaped the disease, just as It Is today In a French Cana dlan village -where the Inhabitants re fused to be vaccinated from supersti tious belief that diseases are "visita tions from God" and are not to be pre vented. Dr. Wlnslow, of the Massachu setts Institute of Technology, says: If any fact In science Is certain, it in rr- aln that a successful vaccination absolutely prevents smallpox for a period or some seven to ten years, that after that period it ren ders the disease Jess fatal, and that Its com plete protective effect may be renewed by revaeclnatlon. The conclusion Is obvious, not only that the state should oblige pri mary vaccination, but. In the words of a minority of the Brltfsh Royal Commission, that "a second vaccination, at the age of 12, ought to be made compulsory." It was once thought that one vacci nation rendered the human subject Im mune for life, but it has been discov ered that the protection wears out in the change of the body and must be repeated. When It was the practice to transfer the scab from one human be ing to another, there was danger of conveying with it various diseases, but with the use of the lymph Irom the' calf there is no such possibility. The trans mission of tuberculosis Is precluded by the tests to which the calves 'are sub jected and by the addition to the lymph of glycerin. The occasional disagree able results that follow vaccination are In the great majority of, cases due to carelessness and ignorance, but they are very Inconsiderable! Science says on this point: Dr. McFarland In a careful review of all previous medical literature (Journal of Med ical Research VII, 1002), was last year only able to find 05 cases of tetanus recorded as due . to vaccination. The. total number of deaths from erysipelas In the United States In 1900 Was 2801, and the total number from tetanus, 1604, In a population of 75,094,575 with 1,030,094 deaths from all causes; and It can scarcely be claimed that any largo pro portion of this Insignificant number was due to vaccination. When we remember that the govern ment of Catholic Spain showered upon Dr. Jenner honors and decorations for his discovery after its use in that coun try had reduced what was an annual terror to a very small number of cases; when we remember that other countries of Europe paid Jenner similar honors, Lthere can be no reasonable doubt of the enormous value of Vaccination. When we remember that vaccination Is the salvation from one of the most -hideous diseases that ever afflicted mankind, it should be compulsory on every man, woman and child; for no eccentric in dividual objector deserves any consid eration when the safety of the whole community is at stake. TO MAKE FERTILE THE XATION'S WASTE PLACES. The United States-Geological Survey is working steadily upon 1 preliminary plans for Irrigation in states and terri tories where there are arid-land sec tions that may be reclaimed to agri culture under the new National law. .These surveying parties have had a busy season, and many of them will continue in the field until snow files, or as long as they can do effective work. The law sets aside the proceeds of the sales of public lands in the regions covered for general Irrigation work. Up to the close of the last fiscal year the money thus set aside for this work amounted to about $15,000,000. The an nual receipts showed a steady increase The total for 1901 was $3,144,S61; for 1902 it was $4,565,516, and for the year ending June 30, 1903, It was equal to the proceeds of the two former years. The states and territories entitled to irriga tion money from the sales of their own lands separately are Arizona, Califor nia, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyo min. The report Is Interesting, as it touches upon reservoirs, dams, artesian possibilities and the undertow of large streams whose beds are dry in Summer. The Government, after careful con sideration of the irrigation problem and Its possibilities, decided last year to build what are known as the Sweet water dam and the St! Mary system of canals in Montana, the Gunnison tun nel irrigation works in Colorado, the Truckee syBtem in Nevada, and the Salt River dam in Arizona. The aggregate cost of these five enterprises Is esti mated at $10,000,000. Arid lands In the region's where these works, are to be undertaken are now practically value less, except for grazing, and for that purpose will not bring $1 an acre. The great increase in value of these lands through irrigation is- predicated upon the fact that land in the same localities that is supplied with water sells now rfof $50 an acre and upward. On an average an acre of Irrigated land' will support . one person. In the United States there are 600,000,000 acres of vacant land, one-half of which is suitable only for grazing. Enough water runs to waste in-these arid and semi-arid regions every year to irrigate 75,000,000 acres. It is clear that a mat ter so extensive must be dealt with systematically, and that Its preliminary steps must be carefully taken. The five projects above noted rest upon former Investigations and engineering reports, so that no risks are involved. The lands Included In the tracts In which these operations have been decided upon have been withdrawn from settle ment, to be reopened again when water can be applied to them for agricultural purposes. Secretary Hitchcock at the beginning of last year indicated the part that the National Government proposed to take In irrigation as follows: "Water should be brought to the point where the set tlers can, with their own labor, or by co-operation, construct ditches and lat erals to reclaim the desert land. With the requirements of actual settlement and cultivation, to be followed by the payment of the cost of storing water, the speculative element will be elimi nated, leavlng-the ground free to bona fide settlers." This policy may be said to have been fairly Inaugurated, and Its continuation cannot fall In time to be of immense value In making fertile the waste places of the continent. "IT IS OVER I LOVE ANOTHER." While-another weapon lies ready to his hand, the wise man will seldom use sarcasm. Biting as It may be, there are always the dull, whose hide of stu pidity turns the. keenest edge. When Swift, in a famous pamphlet, enunci ated his plan for the1 salvation of Ire land parents were to eat their babies, thus reducing the number of mouths to be" filled and staving off hunger from those that remained wiseacres gravely debated the propriety of such proced ure and Its probable effect And now a very much smaller man than Swift has had his sarcasm similarly received. Roland Mollneux,. known to fame as the defendant in a sensational murder trial, has written a book. It is called "The Vice-Admiral' of the Blue," and from the name no one would guess that It could have any bearing upon the au thor's case. The book, however, is a discursive story of the life of Lord Nel son, and opportunity Is taken to .wan der from the highway of the story Into the byways of moralizing. It will be remembered that Mrs. Moll neux obtained a divorce from the au thor of '.'The Vlce-Admlral of the Blue," and this Is how her conduct Is referred to.In the book: Although we Idealize them, women are but human and are weaker because more tempted and more affectionate than we of the sternor sex. The husband who has ceased to bo the lover soon finds his wife no longer the sweetheart; and equally 00 the absent one Is In danger, for absence makes the heart grow fonder of someone else. It Is only natural. When years have passed since the woman looked upon her husband's face, whether the cause be war In a distant land or behind a prison's bars, the result is all but Inevi table. Although at first she Is all devotion, anxiety and love, plunged in loneliness and sorrow. In time the memory of the man be comes to her a shadow. He seems to her as one dead, or If anything more real, a living barrier against happiness; for near at hand there is some one who will promise her the happiness of which she has been robbed. And when such a moment comes into the life of a woman she Is but. honest, even If cruel, when she frankly says: "It is over; I love another." If this be not sarcasm, then have words no meaning. Critics have seen In the paragraph a defense of Mrs. Mollneux. It Is a defense, but one that harms more than an attack. The con duct of a woman, in yielding to the suitor that profits by her husband's ab sence, may be "only natural," but, for tunately for the world, woman Is in this respect more often unnatural. She pos sesses the virtue of constancy. At many a loom sits a" Penelope, possibly unnat ural, but esteemed by gods and men. Love Is not the fly-away visitor that the approving critics of this "defense" have fancied, and the love that abides laughs at separation by sea or prison bars. And should further proof of the au thor's sarcastic intent be desired, here is a conclusive paragraph: "A man, of course, may speak no such words," says Mollneux, referring to "It is over; I love another." "The bit of, chivalry that remains in us forbids." In a life of Admiral Lord Nelson, whose devo tion to his country left none for his wife, such a phrase is dellciously dam natory. The death of Hon. George H. Stew ard, which occurred at his home in Vancouver, Wash., a few days ago, closes a long life of unassuming, per sistent, upright endeavor. As a young man of quiet tastes and exemplary habits, Judge Steward Is remembered by the remaining few who are left of the pioneer community of Yamhill County, the center of which was La Fayette. He was a resident of that town for a number of years beginning with, the early 50s. He removed to Vancouver between thirty and forty years ago, and as a lawyer, legislator and citizen made an honorable record In that community. His wife, whom he married In La Fayette In 1S54, and a number of sons and daughters, all use ful members of society, survive him. A genial man, a useful citizen, a kind husband and father closed the record of a well spent life with the parting breath of George H. Steward. Again this community Is astonished at the criminal record of a youth of 20, the demands of whose vices far out ran his earning capacity. For the past six months this boy has been playing the part of lone highwayman upon the streets of Portland, becoming an in cendiary at intervals In order to gratify a drunken desire to see buildings burn, and working between whiles as plumb er's assistant in order to disarm sus picion. The duty, the necessity and the dignity of self-support, it may be pre sumed, was never urged upon him. To believe otherwise would be to discredit the wisdom of Solomon and the record of experience throughout the ages. McMinnville enjoys the distinction of Introducing to the world a bridegroom of 90 and his bride of 77 Summers. Of kindly visage and appearance, as be comes those just entering upon the sol emn state of matrimony, this' old-young couple may well bespeak the good wishes of their, friends and neighbors for a happy married life. Such a union represents one of the many idiosyncra sies of marriage, but, ifter all, it has promise of quiet happiness while It lasts, which Is more than can be said of many marriages that are entered into in the buoyancy; of youth. SPIR1F0F THE NORTHWEST PRESS Oar High-Minded Altruist Ih Actios. Salem Journal. There are a few of the old cast-oft politicians who have not. been quartered on the Lewis and Clark Exposition but they have left the state. Idea Seems to Have CaBjrht On. The Dalles Chronicle. The turn down of Knowlea as Register of the La Grands Land Office has caused some talk of running Knowlea for Con gress in that district as a rebuke to Hitchcock. Yon Forget the Sense of Duty. Tillamook Independent There Is great trouble In the state Re publican camp. The Congressional delega tion names one of Its faithful adherents for a place at the pie counter and the President turns him down. It Is enough! The President and Secretary Hitchcock must walk the plank. What does it profit a man It he gains a seat in Congress or the Senate If he Is not allowed to pay his political debts? This Would Be Different. Roseburg Review. The Oregon Congressional delegation as serted that the over-riding of their In dorsement by Secretary Hitchcock and the appointment of Davis to the La Grande Land Office In place of Knowles was an Insult to the people of Oregon whom they represent Since Secretary Hitchcock has shown that President Roosevelt made the appointment solely on his own responsibility, are we to assume that our Senators and Congress men charge the President with intention ally Insulting the people of Oregon? Engineers With Foresight Huntington Herald. , Yesterday afteroon Engineers Oliver, Drefson and Jett of the O. R. & N., were discharged at La Grande because they refused to go out when called on engine 300, one of the freight compounds, for the reason that they considered the boiler unsafe. Since the explosion of the boil er at Weatherby the men have been more or less nervous, and fear that the accident will be repeated on some of the engines which have been leaking badly. Engineers Allen and Nick Blever were also called for the same engine, but were unable to go on account of sickness. Providence Defended hy Its Friends. Ontario Argus. This has been a great year for the Ore gon citizen, probably even greater than was reasonably expected at the auspicious opening of the new year. As a people we are very busy critics and reserve the right to complain or not to com plain, but it is difficult to see where an Oregon man can Justly re proach Providence for the material condi tions by which he Is surrounded. The har vest season is now in Its culminating days and the fruits of the year's sowing are now being reaped, leaving but small uncertainty In any quarter as to what the results of the year's work will be. Specifically and generally, every crop, every Industry and every business has prospered during the year. One Display for Both. Coqulllc City Herald. Our first page this week is devoted to a lengthy description of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St Louis. The work of getting up a fine display for Coos County should be pushed forward as rap idly as possible. This is too grand an op portunity to miss. The appropriations have been made for the Lewis and Clark Exposition, and we may as well get in and reap our share of the benefits as to lay back on our oars and allow other sec tions all the advantage. As we said dur ing the agitation of the Lewis and Clark move. If we do not get our share of the benefits to be derived from this Exposi tion It will certainly be- our own fault One good display can be used for both of these affairs and will not cost a great deal either. If the County Court has no right to expend county funds for such purpose, a series of entertainments should be given for the benefit of a fund for this purpose. Great Interest in Idaho. Weiser, Idaho, World. C. B. Hurtt, Executive Commissioner for Idaho to the St. Louis and Lewis and Clark Expositions, was in the city Wed nesday on business connected with his work. He Interviewed several parties here relative to having this section ar range a good exhibition of grains, fruits, etc., for these big shows. Mr. Hurtt en listed the services of Messrs. A. F. Hitt and T. C. Galloway to take charge of the Washington County exhibit in the way of agriculture and horticulture. These gentlemen are especially well qualified for the task in hand, and it will be a pleasant duty for them to roll up a. col lection of Washington County products that will astonish the world. Mr. Hurtt Is making a tour of the state, interesting every community possible in presenting an exhibit that will bring Idaho more fame and show up her vast resources. He recently returned from 'the north part of the state and speaks in glowing terms of their advancement and resources. A Good Way to Pnt It. Cottage Grove Leader. Although the next campaign will not dawn upon the political horizon for nearly six months hence, the old battle scfirred and wily politician is beginning to quietly brush un and calk the chinks in the old party Incubator that the new-laid schemes may hatch out early in the season and come forth a healthy brood to meet the exigencies of the occasion. From all ap pearances thexe is to be considerable snap and old-time vim manifested in the forthcoming contest wherein factional strife for political preferment promises to enter into competition for public Inter est with the old partisan struggle for su premacy. There are several coveted plums maturing on the old political bush, but they hang high, among which might be mentioned, coming down to our dis trict the Circuit Judgeship and the Dis trict Attorneyship. Of course, Roseburg will be loath to pass up the succulent fruit, as Is Indicated in the building of two large evaporators this season In which to cure the forthcoming crop, how ever, our own county seat has ambitions to engage In the fruit Industry and will participate in the harvest of the forth coming plum crop. The Old Man' Comforts. Robert Southey. "Tou are old. Father William." the young man cried, "The few locks that are left you are gray; Tou are hale, father "William, a hearty old man; Now tell me the reason, I pray." "In the days of my youth." father William replied, "I remember'd my youth would fly fast. And abused not my health and "my vigor at first. That I never might need them at last." "Tou are old. father William," the young man cried, "Ahd pleasures with youth pass away. And yet you lament not the days that are gone; Now tell me the reason. I pray." "In the days of my youth." father William replied, "I remember'd that youth could not last; I thought of the future whatever I did-. That I never might grieve for the past." "Tou are old, father William," the young man crfcd. "And life must be hast'nihg away; Tou are cheerful and love to converse upon death; Now tell me the reason, I pray' "I am cheerful, young man." father Will iam replied. "Let the cause thy attention engage; In the daysof'my youthI remember'd my God. t And he hath not forgotten my age." GREAT GROWTH OF TRADE. WASHINGTON, Sept 11. The contrast between the extent and volume of our commerce in 1903 aud that of 1S93 is illus trated by some figures" just presented by the Department of Commerce and Labor, through its Bureau of Statistics. These figures show fiie imports from and exports to each of the grand divisions of the world in 1S33 and in 1S03, and thus show at a glance the growth during the period so covered. They -show that imports have grown from $S66,O0O,(ib0 to $1,025,000,000. an increase of 5159,000,000, and that exports have grown from $347,000,000 to 51,420,000.000, an increase of 5573,000,000. They show that 592,000.000 of the increase in imports comes from Europe, 555,000,000 -from Asia, and about 55,000,000 each from North America, South America, and Africa. The figures for Oceania show an apparent falling off of abenit 55,000,000, but this is due to the fact tnat the merchandise brought from Hawaii is no longer classed as imports, Hawaii being now a territory of the United States. If this we're included in the figures of imports In 1903, It would show a growth of imports from Oceania of about 520,000,000. On the export side the showing Is equally interesting- Of the .$573,000,000 of Increase. 5307,000,000 was to Europe, 594,000.000 to North America. 541,000.000 to Asia, 533,000, 000 to Africa. $26,000,000 to Oceania, and 58,000,000 to South America. In case the shipments to Hawaii were Included, the Increase to Oceania would be about $36, COO.OOO. Ih case those to Porto Rico were Included, tne Increase to North America would be over 00,000,000. Even more interesting Is a little table which shows the gain in exports to each of the principal countries of the world. This tabie Includes only ten countries, yet to these were sent 51,159,000.000 worth of the total exports of 1903, leaving only 5261. 000,000 sent to all the other countries. The ten countries, stating them in the order of the magnitude of the exports to them, are United Kingdom, Germany, France. Neth erlands, Belgium, Canada, Mexico, China, Japan and Australia. To Germany the exports show a growth of ?U0,0).QOO from 1S93 to 1903; to the United Kingdom. 5103, 000,000; to Canada, $77,000,000; to Nether lands, 440,000,000; France, 531.000,000; Mexico, 523,000,000; Australia, 522,000,000; Belgium. $21,000,000; Japan. 517.000,000; China $15,000. 000. and to all other countries, 5112,000,000. The tables are as follows: Imports Into the United States From Grand Divisions, 1SU3 and 1003. Year ending June 20. 1S93. 1903. Europe 5458,450,093 5 SaO.OooisiS North America 183,732.712 188,927,903 South America 102.207.S15 107,413,030 Asia 90,096,383 145,810,441 Oceania 26.056,S87 21.014,361 Africa 5,857,032 12.499.619 Total .....?S6C,400,922 51,025,751,538 Exports From the United States to Grand Divisions, 1S03. and lrfoS. Year ending June 30. " 1S93. 1903. Europe $661,976,710 51.029,5S7,72S North America 119.7SS.SS9 215,640,051 South America 32,639,077 41.114,01 Asia 16.792.6S6 57,954,467 Oceania 11.271,353 37.40S.036 Africa 5.196.4S0 3S.433.131 Total 5S47,6S5,194 $1.420,13S,014 Export From the United States to to Ten Principal Countries, 1803 and, 1003. Year ending June SO. 1S93 1903. United Kingdom ....5421.134.551 5 524.69t63S Germany 83.57S.9SS 193.555,495 France 46.619.13S 77.542,436 Netherlands 3S.505.193 7S.245.419 Belgium 26.740,434 47,073.160 Canada 46,794.331 123.172.416 Mexico 19,56S,63i 42.227.7S6 China 3,900.457 18,603.369 Japan 3.195.494 20,924,862 Australia 7.921.22S 32.74S.5S0 All other countries.. 149.736,746 261.052,853 Total $S47,665,194 $l,42O,13S,014 f Old Soldiers in Congress. New York "World. Although the Civil "War has been over 38 years, there will be 77 men in the 5Sth Congress1 who fought in it Forty-seven fought on the Union side and 30 cast their lot with the Confederacy. In the Sen ate there are 13 Union soldiers and 13 Con federates. In the House there are 34 who fought for the North and 17 who fought for the South. In the Senate there are three rnen who were Brigadier-Generals In the Confederate army and two who were Union Brigadiers. In the House there are three Federal Brigadiers, while the highest rank held by the ex-Confederates is that of Colonel. p. Pennsylvania leads, having six veterans in Congress. New York has five, all In tho. House. On the Confederate side Ala bama heads the list with five. There are 14 ex-Governors in the Senate. A Distinguished Scholar's Death. Denver Post General Don Carlos Hasseltono, a dis tinguished scholar and linguist, died at his home In this city Monday. He was born In New Orleans In 1S25 of Spanish parents. The General's great-great-grandfather was sent by the Span ish King to America to be Governor General of the entire Spanish possessions In the New World. General Hasseltono was a graduate of Miami, Yale and Heidelberg Colleges. At the outbreak of the Civil War he entered the Confederate army as a Major and was soon made a Lieutenant-Colonel. He was captured as a spy and sentenced to be shot, but escaped. After the war he studied engineering and was a member of Commodore Por ter's staff. ' Pierre Lorillnrd, Jr.,- In Society. New York Times. Pierre Lorillard, Jr., or Pierre Lorillard third, as he is frequently called, will bo one of the young men in society next Winter or the season after that, at tho very latest He has been at Saratoga with his father and his mother. The late Pierre Lorillard was the first of the fam ily for years to assume, the Christian name "Pierre" Instead of "Peter." The family originally came from France, and the name "Pierre" was theirs for gen erations, but there came a time in the early '30s when men of foreign origin preferred to Americanize their names, and many of the old families dropped all suggestion of French or German or Ital ian or other alien ancestry . His First Day nt School. Chicago Tribune. She lost her little boy today: Her eyes were moist and sweet And tender, when he went away To hurry down tho street. She stood there for the longest while And watched and watched him; then She said and tried to force a smile "He'll not come back again." Inslda the house, her tears would come. She-ank Into a chair And sobbed above the battered drum And trumpet lying there. The sunshine stole into the place It only made her sad With thinking of the pretty graqe His baby tresses had. She minded all his little ways; She went to see his crib Up In tho attic; then to gaze At platter, spoon, and bib. And all the trinkets he had thought So fair to look upon Each one of them this murmur brought: "My little boy has gone." She wandered through the house all day, To come on things' he'd left. And O, she missed his romping play And felt herself bereft! When he came home, with shining eyes. To tell of school's delight. She kissed and held him motherwlse With something of affright. This Is the pain In mothers' hearts When school days havo begun; Each knows the little boy departs And baby days are done; Each mother fain would close her ears AnI hush tho calling bell, For, somehow. In Its tone she hears Tho sounding of a knell. 1 J ftOTE AND COMMENT. A Texas Steer to the bar. No "respectable Island would be seen In the East Indies without a national escort Mrs. Haynle is being sued by a dentist No doubt she needed his services, after all that has been cast in her teeth. If the German army keeps right on pre paring for war, there won't be -any sol diers left when, the fighting begins. And now the Autumn days, have come, Tho saddest of the year. With baseball nearly on thebum, And football not quite here. The house of "an editor in Berne, III., was blown up with dynamite. Evidently Mr. Pulitzer is not alone in his desire to ele vate the press. The strides toward civilization of the Japanese have been most remarkable. In San Jose one has even succeeded in kill ing a woman, her husband, and himself. Eagles to the number of-15C0 attended the Fashion Show In the Madison Square Garden. Must have made John It. think of the time he was as stunning as any of the hats. E. W. Hood, in jail for attempting sui cide, complains- that there is a" curse fol lowing him. There may be people unkind enough to regret that It has never over taken him. Addison W. Hltt was divorced "between trains" this morning at Chicago, says the Boston Herald. Mrs. Hltt resumed her maiden name of Burnham. A case of Kitt and Miss. If Grace Is to be spelled Grayce, and Mamie Mayme, why not make Willamette into Wyllamette? The News of the World, London, in telling of the Morrison-street bridge accidents says 53 persons were drowned in the Wyllomette River, an evi dent attempt to modernize the name. A woman In Portland actually asks for Eastern cod. Does she not know that Boston is in terrible suffering as the re sult of a cod famine, that the output of realliterature has been almost stopped In consequence, and that the brain power of the.country is In danger of starvation? For ways that are dark and for tricks that are vain, the town of Shanghai is pe culiar, which tho same there's no need to explain since all the world knows tho gentle practice that has taken its name from the ciy of roosters. It has remained for the Times to shanghai the incautious paragraph that visits China In an ex change, and to man a column of humor with pressed mem One of Portland's most ardent sports men has been greatly troubled by carp, which have been eating the wheat he scat tered to attract duck to his ground. Un able to devise any plan for the extermina tion of the carp, the hunter took to plac ing the wheat in the very shallow water at the edge of the sloughs. Even here the carp managed to get away with the grain. In desperation, the wheat was finally scat tered over the field, at least five yards from the water. And still It disappeared. The puzzled owner decided to lie in wait one night and discover the marauder. Being tired, he dozed off, to be awakened about an hour afterwards by a splashing In the slough. Imagine his surprise at seeing what looked like a huge snake writhing about the field, the tail stretch ing down into the water, which was lashed Into foam by Its struggles. Investi gation showed that the carp had wriggled on shore after the wheat and, having taken the precaution of forming a chain by each fish biting the tail of its leader, they were able, with the aid of those re maining in the water, to get back to safety. x Religion In the Capital. , PASTOR E. HEZ SWEil EXPLAINS: "HE Wanted a Glass-eyed Wife." Sunday night, S o'c. Preaching 11 a.m. Free pews: short services. 2d Baptist Ch. Auditorium. 4th and Va. ave. s.e. Washington Star. Memories of Portland. In many corners of the earth, I've wandered far and near. But this sweet spot while memory lasts, I ever shall revere. , 'Tls no mere fleeting fancy, or transient hol low thought. But ever on my memory, Indelibly Is wrought. Mid nature's rugged splendor, it stands su perb and grand, A subject from tho easel, but drawn by unseen hand. Abounding in rich color effects and light and shade, A veritable paradise, whose beauty ne'er can fade. Beauteous gifts of Flora are scattered o'er the land; Invested Is the earth around, with Heaven's bounty grand: Roses in great profusion, whose perfumes All the air; Delicious sweets from nature's .store stand in this garden fair. Outlined in purest azure, St. Helens nobly stands. Her garb Is of tho whitest snow, made by sweet nature's hands. The eye drinks In with gladness the beauty all around. The car Is charmed with music from the waterfall's sweet sound. To feast the eye on beauty, you climb to "Council Crest," A view unparalleled to find, when nature's v at her best. Vancouver in the distance the eye can well command. The grandeur of old Oregon is seen on every hand. Columbia's grand old river sweeps calmly by its shore. While on its banks the tall pines stand whose top's toward Heaven soar; My mind could dwell forever upon such sights as these. I'll ne'er forget them whllo I live, though far across the seas. JOSEPH M'MASTER, S. S. Oakley. PLEASAXTRIES OF PARAGItAPHERS Stella How does Jack make love? Bella Well. I should define It as unskilled labor. Life. "De rich man can't take his money wld him ter de hereafter." "Xo; paper burns en silver melts In dat country!" Atlanta Constitution. "My wife excels my mother in one culinary particular, at least." "What's that?" "She makes Ave kinds of fudge." Cleveland Plain Dealer. "A French savant Eays that borrowing Is a disease," remarked MIfkins. "Yes." rejoined Blfklns. "and he might have added that lend ing Is insanity." Chicago Dally News. Skids Did your friend. Chesterlus McRanter, the tragedian, enjoy his vacation? S;ads I can't eay as to whether he enjoyed it or not, but the public did. Baltimore American. "Why do they call this a free country?" asked the unwashed anarchist. "Because," an swered the respectable citizen, "you are at liberty to leave It If you don't like It." Chicago News. "Yes," eald Miss Howells. after her solo, "I Intend to gcr abroad to finish my musical edu cation." "Huh!" snorted MUs Growells, "why not finish It right now. and save the expense?" Philadelphia" Press. Funnlman He's undergoing a species of volte training, I, believe, to fit him for his political work. Jenks Voice training? Funnlman Yes. lie's training his ."voice of conscience" I to keep still. Philadelphia Ledger.