THE , MORNING QREGONIAN, MONDAY 'AUGUST 29, 1903.
aJ Jts. - . side the reserves there "will he a ready
ill Uri v i iaVtrVtttt iTTl market for timber now held by the Gov
OlfaHIV vVlM 4 r VVy V ernment, and until then It will be well
" ' - to protect the forests from fire and
Entered at th Post-fun at Portland. Or await the future's needs. Industrial
as second-class mattter. 1 development Is not being retarded oy
revised subscription rates. reserves as long as the timber supply
By mall (posta-a nreoald In advance) meets the demand.
Dally, -with Sunday, per month $0.85
Daily, with Sunday excepted, per year T.50
sndaV r ray-.per 'rr::::::::: s.00 bryan and ms party.
The Weekly, per year 1-50 This cynical old world is doing things
weeKiy. d months........... fn "MV Bmn Ac Via Incoe 1- -alnroritv
cented 15o land youthful enthusiasm, he Grains in
"".'71 Pr "wee delivered, bunaay m- satracltv and self-controL All exoecta-
ciuaea xuo i ... "... .. .. .
pAMi . piTPc uon OI ms Doitmg tne Democratic uck-
I f I 5 v..- rr v.- I a,
10 to 14-nace uaner lo aas been dispelled, ana he even ven
16 to 30-rmr-A nnrtn ........ .20 I iivraa in nhnta tYio. "Prtntillota xtrVin think"
w "'S" paper t -n-,,,.!, V n- ti "h-Tr. Vie-t ParVpr
The Oregonian. does not buy poems or I We reprint, though at some length, for
etorles from Individuals, and cannot under- 1 It Is interesting and significant. What
take to return any manuscript sent to .It l the Commoner says on this head:
'ul solicitation, wo stamps snou. - Some o the Eastern Democrats and some
""5ea I0r this purpose.' f the PoDulIsts have criticized Mr. Bryan's
EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICES. statement giving his reasons for supporting
(The S. C. Beckwlth Special Agency) Judge Parker. The Eastern Democrats find
New York: rooms 43-50, Tribune Building. I fault because the support Is given without
Chicago: Rooms 510-512 Tribune Building. I Indorsing the methods employed to secure
KEPT ON SALE. the nomination and without holding out
in-- rtt. xr t T.vtr jh- "Raller. nope oi economic reiorm. ne criticism ia
Hews dealers, 23 Leeds Place. f ol ,VBa- -lr- oryan owes a uuiy lo ..u-
Chlrn-n InHltirinm urnin! PoitoQUce '"" uwuocrais ui iora auu. iwu M
News Co., 178 Dearborn street. as lo lne organization ana ne couia not neip
Denver Julius Black, Hamilton & Kend- "ie iicKei oy preienaing io oe aensmcu w
rick. 000-012 Seventeenth street. lne nomination, nenner couia ne nep
Kansas City, Mo. Ricksecker Cigar Co., "cues oy trying to deceive inose woo na-
,Ninth and "Walnut. trusted mm. He can do the most gooa ana
La. Anrl-R. v. r.rAntr. 259 South render the best service to the ticjcet Dy
Enrin-. and Harry Drankln. pointing out mat in spite 01 ail ne niraseu
Minneanolis 1L J. Kav&nan-h. 50 South I nas saia in spite or ail any one eise can
Third; Xu Regelsburger, 217 First Avenue say it is Better to support tne ucnet man
South. to assist In the election ot presiaent xioose-
New York Clrr X. Jones & Co.. Astor velt. He has given reasons that seem to
House. him sufficient and satisfactory, ana ne nopes
nrton w n nnflo to be able to give additional reasons
.Omnhn, -Rrtrkniow Rros.. 1612 Farnam: arter Judge farKers letter 01 accept.'
McLauchlln Bros.. 210 South 14th: Megeath ance appears. The good effect of Mr.
Stationery Co.. 1308 Farnam. Bryan's statement Is already apparent, iaany
Salt lake Salt Lake News Co., 77 west have announced their Intention to support
Second South street. I the ticket who before were In despair. j.ney
St. Louis 'World's Fair News Co.. Joseph see now that they can support the ticket and
CoDeland. "Wilson & "Wilson. 217 N. 17th st.; still continue the fight for economic reform
Geo. I. Ackerxnann, newsboy. Eighth and they see that the election of Judge Parker
Olive sta. will remove Imperialism, militarism and the
San Francisco J. K. Cooper Co., 748 Liar- I race question and clear the way for a fight
ket, near Palace Hotel: Foster & Orear, on economic questions. Neither Is the Popu
Ferry News Stand: Goldsmith Bros Se Sut- ist criticism valid. It is more important
ter; L. E. Lee, Palace Hotel News Stand: that reforms shall be secured than that
F. "W. Pitts. 1008 Market:Frank Scott, 80 tnose ref0rms shall come through any par-
Ellis; N. "Wheatley. S3 Stevenson: Hotel tlcular party. The total Populist vote Is small
St. Francis News Stand. i compared with the number of Democrats who
Washington, D. C. Ebbltt House 2ews ,je6ire reform. Mr. Bryan can do the cause of
Stand. reform more good by helping these Demo
in onntrol the Democratic party than he
YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum tern- , . . 1omln(r tne Populists. If Judge
perature. 60 degreee: minimum temperature, 06 . . ,hp Democratic Dlatform
degrees. Precipitation. -21 of an Inch. A .hj, k- nrOCTe.8 during his adminls-
TODAY'S WEATHER Showers, southerly tratlon: if he refuses to carry out the platform
winds. I iie .Kiii make it easier for the reform element
to rtgaln control of the organization.
i-oktland. Monday, august 23? low. h. of thl3 ingenious and
elaborate plea is, of course, that Bryan
THE record is THE guarantee. thinks his chances of political prefer
We are not constrained to keep silent on ment are greater in the Democratic
any vital question; we are divided on no party than outside it, to say nothing of
quesuyu; our pua .uuuuu.,, auU the handsome revenues of the Com-
-n, t. iu. -rmfi knt . moner which would be decimated by a
Government ire ask the people to continue bolt. Bryan will preserve his regular
in power, for our performance in the past, ity at all hazards, and. put himself in
our proved governmental efficiency, is a nne for the next Presidential nomina
guarantee as to our promises for the future t, 1nf nw fnr thp f?.na In
iPresident Roosevelt. I ' , . . , ,
Nebraska Lfegislature.
THE BIG STICK issue. At the same time he is not going to
It irks the Democratic soul to hear j tear any clothes trying to prove that all
the aphorism "Speak softly but carry a the party needed was to shelve Bryan
big stick." This is the President's para- and that the country will approve the
phrase of the historic dogma, "Suaviter reorganlzers after rejecting the Bryan
in modo, fortitur In re." There is no platforms of 1896 and 1900. Lots worse
objection to the latter term, if one Is things could happen than Mr. Bryan's
so constituted that he cannot use Saxon election to the Senate. In one impor
words except when he has no Latin tant respect he would be an improve-
handy. Shakespeare himself seems to I ment upon Dietrich. He has learned
have had some approximate adumbra- much in eight chastening years. Kis
tion of the Roosevelt philosophy when 1 state would have a voipe in the Senate
be put into the mouth of dear old Polo- I such as it has not had since Mander-
niiis: son retired and Thurston fell.
Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel: but, being in.
Bear't that the opposed may beware ot thee.
All this; however, is beside the pur
pose. Wno is going to vote ior .farKer
because of a desire to see his country,
in foreign affairs, the field to which the
proverb was applied, carry a little
stick? How many men have we, and
where do they live, who share the "cra
ven fear of being great" anf -ould fain
see this Nation bandied about, by every
power that Is tempted at sight of our
weakness or lack of spirit.
When Turkey insults us with repeat
ed promises she has no plan to keep;
when Russia intimates that it is of lit
tle or no significance what our shippers
think or say; when Germany proposes
td lord it over "Venezuela or Colombia;
when Germany's Admiral offers an af
front to our Commodore at Manila;
when Spanish officers at Havana make
merry and curl the lip of scorn at the
murdered Maine; when Morocco suffers
.an American citizen to be treated with
violence then what?
"Why then there is no American who
is worthy the traditions of Bunker Hill
and Lookout Mountain, no American
who rejoices in the names of "Washing.
ton and Grants P.erry and Decatur,
who will want in his Nation's hands, to
assert and preserve our honor and our
right, a broken reed, wielded by men
who cannot speak aloud on any burn
ing issue of the day, and would per
haps treat the enemies of the flag
abroad as condescendingly as they
treat enemies of honest money and law
and order at home. "What is wanted
then is the big stick, the bigger the
better.
cities handsome dwellings, new brick see It that the car contains grain, from
blocks, paved streets; etc., all tell a Oregon or Washington, the land ot
story full of meaning and more elo- plenty, where crops never fall, ana are
auent than that which Is re'lated by the not only large enough to feed our own
Bradstreet fleures I people, but also the Callfornlans, Orl-
"When the wave of financial trouble entais, Europeans and Easterners less
rolled over the Pacific Northwest a few favorably situated.
years ago, the growth of the cities had
far exceeded that of the country. The
latter has since more than regained its
place, and there can be no pause or
retrograde movement in the city until
the wonderful prosperity of the coun
try has pulled It at up to at least even
terms with the country from which all
prosperity springs. Hard times can
gain no foothold In the Pacific North
THE PARKER ARMS.
New" York Sun.'
A coat of arms Is an article easily cut
to order In these days, when the Demo
crats are returning to Jeffersonian sim
plicity. Indeed, this garment may bo
had ready made. Now regarded by many
"vThlle there is convincing force in the persons as a luxury or superfluity, a coat
reasons given why the Legislature
should enact laws that will tend to pro
tect the forests from destruction by fire,
It would not be wise for the lawmaking
body to create a forest protection sys
tem that would be costly to maintain.
The Government already employs a
larc-e number of forest rangers who
of arms was once deemed a necessity of
every gentleman's wardrobe. Jefferson
and dlver3 other "Fathers" had one on
hand. It Is gratifying to know that Judge
Parker, or rather the ancient and respect
nhl family of Parkers, has a coat of
MR. LAWSON'S PRETENSIONS.
"Holland's," New Stock Letter.
Some disposition has been noticed among
a certain element which desires to be of
ficious In Democratic politics to make use
of recent articles in a magazine, written
by Thomas W. Lawson, of Boston, in
which there were alleged exposures of the
method adopted to float the Amalgamated
Copper Corporation. No doubt Mr. Law
son's article will be read by many per
sons either ignorant of financial methods,
or having only a superficial knowledge of
them, as confirming their own Idea, and
that so often
"NOTE ANDC0MMENT. ,
Samovar and Samlsen. -
Our great serial story of the Russo
Japanese War:
(Summary of previous chunks Michael Pop
off Falls In and Is Out a. Rouble. Disguised
aa a Bale of Hay. he makes his escape from
a Japanese Prison, and Is on his way to
Nluchwang when there la a Terrific Explosion
and Popoff is thrown Into a Cloud, which
carries Him to St. Petersburg. He wakes
the Czarevitch, and his Fate Is Trembling
In the' Balance when Port Arthur Falls. Slid
ing Into the Yellow Sea, Popoff discovers a
Mine, the sale of which brings him a Fortune,
and he proceeds to Japan to buy a suit ot
vigorously exploited by
1 rll -D, , .1 ltl l""1'" lu uiyaii. i
arms of proper cut and duly laDeiea, a u', Satsuma Ware. By settling a disputed race
Buffalo 1 "wo
can people nrmiy Trunin us tentacles.
good old coat.' According to a
west so long as the territory as a whole guard against fires in the reserves, and dispatch to the New York Times, the Hon. That ,g clearjy mtimation in Jin
is producing and selling so much more
than, we are buying. The balance of
trade is all In our favor, and It prom
ises to remain In that position for at
least a number of years.
the large timber corporations maintain
at their own expense a system of pri
vate timber protection. If the number
of rangers employed by the Govern
ment Is not sufficient, doubtless the
force will be Increased upon a proper
Henrv Beverly Deas of this town,
skilled transplanter of family trees and
chief of the American Genealogical Bu
reau, has brought from England much In
formation in regard to the Parker family:
He finds that the Judge is a- direct descend-
Lawson's article, and he attempts u. some
what bewildering and, to men of finan
cial knowledge, a very amusing, although
not less dangerous, explanation of mod
ern finance.
Mr. Lawson's article is a fine illustra
tion of what half-truths, stimulated by
WELCOME, SPIELERS ALL!
Portland, Oregon, Is to have a World's Fair
next year, so the Pike attractions will be
under no Immediate necessity of looking for
new Jobs. Chicago Record-Herald.
Our esteemed contemporary has acci
dentally called attention to one of the
main advantages to be derived from the
Lewis and Clark Centennial. What
would a world's fair be without the
barkers? Echo answers, nothing worth
while. So that as we share the Chicago
paper's pleasure that these useful and
laborious gentlemen of the Pike will be
provided with a new job soon after the
old one falls them, let us also on behalf
of Portland tender them a right royal
welcome to the White City on Guild's
Lake,
A man who made the circuit of the
National conventions and the St. Louis
World's Fair says that the finest ora
tor he heard in 'all his travels was a
gifted young man who held forth on a
platform just outside one of the worst
attractions on the famous Pike. What
musical cadences, what moving periods,
what persuasive countenance, what
graceful gestures! This young man
might have been the valedictorian of
his class or a revivalist on a vacation,
such was his earnestness, such his
grace. And the proof of his power lay
in the fact that at the close of his elo
quent oration, repeated every thirty
minutes or so, his hypnotized audience
marched up to the ticket window in
obedience to the motion of his magic
wand and left their dimes in the full
consciousness that the whole show had
already passed them in review as in
troduced to their notice on the platform
by the orator of the day.
It would be unjust to Ignore also the
able assistants of this and many an
other talented spieler, who parade the
Pike with staff in hand, greeting cheer
ily each new arrival on the way, with
assurance that he is "just in time," as
if this solitary sideshow had been the
only object the pilgrim had in mind
or required to see. It Is worth many a
long day's ride to see these faithful
workers at their strenuous task, and
persons have been known to take their
meals at an expensive restaurant just
across the way. for no other reason
than to see and hear the champion
spieler of the Pike. Such is the fidelity
of these tireless workers that no one of
them has ever been "known to minimize
the virtues of the show he represents
or exaggerate tne merits or a rival
establishment.
You can talk about your Government
exhibits; your art galleries, your manu
facturesbulldlngs and the rest; but for
County of York. England. Tracing the ParK-
era Of York In a direct ilne to the New Eng
land Parkers, from whom the Judge is de
scended, Mr. Deas finds that Judge Parker Is
entitled to the following representation in tne
armorial records of American families:
Arms Vert, a chevron, between three stags
heads cabced. or.
Crest On a chapeau, a stag trlppant proper.
Motto Non fiuctu nec flatu movetur.
A Darker is a park keeper. The stags'
heads and stag trlppant proper are thus
especially appropriate, as Is the color vert.
- . I v i nun ul nuai. iicul-ui uuio, aijiiiuiaicu.
showing by the commercial bodies and ant 0f the Parkers of Broweholme and Newton, confessed feelings of resentment, dlsap-
by the Oregon delegation in uongress.
Private concerns can well afford to em
ploy a few men to guard their property
during a month or two of the dry sea
son, for the timber land cost them com
paratively little in the first place ana is
rapidly increasing in value. Experi
ence seems to Indicate that the solution
of the forest-protection problem lies
not so much in providing a means for
extinguishing fires as in preventing the
startins: of fires that are likely to get as Df the ereenwood tree; and or (gold)
beyond control. Doubtless much could agrees with the telegram or by Its yellow
v,, onnnmniiH hv a low flxincr time color witn tne piationn.
... iut ,-v, fio chnit nor The New England Parkers are a stock
m,u. sturdy of mind and body. Among them
be set, ana tne aanger oi nre in uie r- nave'been sucn men as Issac chief Jus
serves could be iessenea n every per- fJrft of Manaachusetts: Joel. Chief Justice
son entering the reserve were required f New Hamnshlre: Theodore, Dr. Wll-
to first secure a permit and notify the jarjt Amasa, who emigrated from Con
nearest ranger of the exact location of necticut to Delhi and Albany. Presumably
his camn. Such regulations would not the famous Joel, of New Jersey, was of
only make men more careful but would
aid in fixing responsibility In case of
damage by fire. When the assessea
valuation of all Oregon timber land has
been raised to an amount comparing
favorably with the valuations placed
upon other property, the people of the
state will not complain at a reasonable
expenditure for forest protection. The
state has the same interest in prevent
ing the destruction of the forests as it
has in the preservation of the salmon
Industry, for which a considerable ap
propriation is made every two years.
4
The utter folly of parents who, In
their age and helplessness, barter the
home that shelters them for a promise
to pay, in care and protection through
life, given by a son who has other and
paramount interests, has been again
shown in the lonely death, following
months of isolation, lack of care and
scanty food, of an old man of SO In his
cabin near Stayton, Marion County.
After a futile attempt on the part of
relatives to send .him to the Insane
asylum, the old man retired to a cabin
on the corner of the farm that he had
deeded to his son in consideration of
care in his old age, and thefe, after he
had been dead two or three days, his
body was found by passing neighbors.
Aged parents cannot be - expected to
heed this warning. A simple statement
of Will Carleton In his poem "Over the
Hills to the Poorhouse" gives the all-
sufficient reason for this:
Every couple's children
Are a heap the best to them.
The old people do not believe that
their boy will turn them out. This Is
the whole story. It Is dictated by Na
ture herself, and the sad sequel, so
often written in sorrow and neglect,
the same origin; also Cortland, of New
Jersey, a great la.wyer who refused great
offices
Notable In another way and still
piously remembered in Boston Is Harvey
D., whose monument is In School street.
The present Attorney-General of Mas
sachusetts Is Henbert Parker. We don t
know whether the famous English Arch
bishop Parker was of the Yorkshire Par
kers or not. If so he came of a
branch that had settled in Norfolk. Most
ot the American Parkers of distinction
have been lawyers, but there have been
ministers In the tribe, which counts at
least two bishops, Samuel, of Portsmouth,
consecrated bishop of Massachusetts in
Trinity Church. New York, 100 years
ago next month, and Linus, of Rome,
N. Y., made a Methodist bishop in
1882. Joel, of Vermont, a Hamilton Col
lege man, was president of the Union
Theological Seminary and pastor of tne
Broadway Tabernacle 50 years ago or so,
A successful race, these Parkers,
brothers in name, at least, of the Fores
ters, the Du Bols; and. distant cousins, we
suppose, of the Woods'. We leave it to
thfe heralds to say If this coat of arms
belongs to the Staggs, the Roes and the
Harts likewise. The dictionary tells . us
that "caboshed," "caboched," "cabossed,
after the French "caboche," from " ca-
boche," a head, means, In heraldry, "rep
resented alone and affronte; said of the
head of a stag or roebuck when no part
of the neck Is seen." Is there any- ety
mological connection between "caboshed"
and the modern technical expression to
"kibosh," to "put the kibosh on?"
The motto "Non fiuctu nec flatu mo
vetur" (he Is not moved by wave or wind),
Is scarcely of auspicious interpretation
now. "Non flatu movetur," he takes no
stock in windy claims Of committeemen
and politicians claiming everything, has
good sense. But If Judge Parker is
not moved by wind, how can he And the
St. Louis platform "admirable?"
"Nec fiuctu movetur. is fatal. Only
wave, a tidal wave, can move the Judge
Into the White House. To be sure, the
polntment and personal animosity, may be
made to show. There is more than a
half-truth in the general suggestion of
the article, namely, that many finan
ciers, many men of capital, were disposed
to buy properties cheap, to merge them,
to manufacture stock representing arbi
trary and excessive capitalization and
then by the familiar and hoary devices by
which the public cupidity Is tempted to
persuade the public to pay its money and
to receive these securities in exchanges
therefor.
But that is not the method exclusively
of the little group who conceived the
Amalgamated Copper proposition, and
who Mr. Lawson intimates deliberately
bunkoed the American people. It Is a de
vice of which the history of speculative
bubbles gives numerous examples. It is
not confined to New York City. During
that period of financial frenzy that pos
sessed so many of the American people
between 1SS9 and 1902 that method was
adopted all over the United States. The
first check to this speculative frenzy was
brought by the very bankers of New
York whom Mr. Lawson insinuatingly
holds up to public reproach. They by
concerted action began to limit excessive
borrowing, to call loans, and that policy
was followed by a demonstration made
by the people themselves of the fact that
they had had sorrowful and sufficient ex
perience and had paid dearly for their
cupidity.
That Mr. Rogers and Mr. Rockefeller de
llberately conspired to secure control of
copper properties, to create a corporation
which should excessively capitalize these
properties and then persuade the Ameri
can public to accept tHIs stock with tho
intent after that to cause a depreciation
in the price of these securities, so that
Mr. Rockefeller and Mr. Rogers and the
little Inner circle could buy these stocks
back at depreciated prices, Is to be only
inferred from Mr. Lawson's article, for it
Is not directly stated. But If they did this
they did no more than to exploit on a
great scale a certain feature of modern
finance which has been In practice all over
this country at one time or another from
the time of Daniel Drew and even earlier.
England knew it in the South Sea bub
ble and Law taught It to France. That
does represent a certain feature of so
called Wall-street methods, but it is pos
sible to use this method successfully only
in times of very great speculative excite
ment, when the public has lost Its head
and everybody Is in a frenzy to get rich
upon the instant.
The demonstrations that have been
made here since the first of the year make
it clear that the public will not, in this
generation at least, be induced again to
participate in great corporate promotions.
The lesson of the danger that it Is In
that has been well learned.
For Instance, in the case of the United
States Realty Company, by which locally
almost as many were as badly bitten
comparatively as in the case of the
Amalgamated Copper proposition, there
was absolute demonstration that the vlsl-
between Kuroki and Kuropatkln. Popoff -wlna
Great Honors from the Czar and the Mikado.
In the meantime. Count Serge-Suit, the dreaded
Chief of the Third Section, forces his Atten
tions upon Mrs. Popoff. Furious at his Re
jection, Count Serge-Suit visits the Popoff cot
tage and raises his pistol. Popoff in the
meantime is reminded of hi9 Wife by a blow
on the head, and plunges Into the Trackless
Forests of Central Wisconsin. He makes his
way to Havre, when he io confronted by one
of1 the Third Section hands. Mrs. Popoff.
after Count Serg'e-Suit Is killed by falling
upon a bullet he fired at her. wanders to
New York where Russell Sage takes up a col
lection and ships her to Havre. There Popoff
and Mrs. Popoff meet and after greeting one
another with a few blows they hire a Franc
and set out for PJoxtnsky.)
CHUNK XI.
The driver of the franc at once broke
out his spinnaker and, close-hauled with
the wind on his port quarter, bore away
for Pjoxtnsky. As they rattled past the
Peterhof palace, the vehicle was stopped
by a sentry, who Informed Popoff that the
Infant Czarevitch ha been pleased by
the noise of the franc on the rough pave
ment and that the Czar had ordered
then to drive backward and forward be
fore the window until further orders.
For six days and two nights the frano
was driven furiously to and fro without
a stop, and since it was evident that the
Czar had forgotten all about the orders
he had given, the Popoffs seemed
doomed to grow old and die in their con
fined quarters. They were reduced to
the last morsel of ice cream, and Popoff
was seriously thinking of killing the
curly little Samovar and a beautiful
Samlsen ho had been given by a Geisha
girl for his aquarium. At this juncture
he was struck senseless by an idea. He
jumped out of the franc, and running
into tho palan he placed, the Samovar
and Samlsen in the hands of the Czare
vitch, who goo-goo'd with joy.
For this service Popoff was decorated
by the Czar, who had been, before.
ascending tho throne, a painter- and
decorator by trade. He gave the Popoffs
the best house in Pjoxtnsky and 1,500,
0C0 tobacco tags. And they lived unhap
pily ever after, thanks to Samovar and
Samlsen.
THE END.
"-l'u'ra uu"u'"f'3 "c -, , .. fv,0 ,., "v" " , , v- was aosoiute demonstration tnat tne visi-
genulne entertainment sit down for .jnakes no Impression upon the loyal stags are more cheerful and might be bl e oi corp0raU on, both in cash
SAFETY IN RESERVE SYSTEM.
There is nothing whatever in. the ar
gument advanced in the last few days
ithat .Government forest reserves should
"be thrown. open so that the timber may
be cut and turned to account before it
is destroyed by fire. AH around the
edges of the reserves are valuable tlm
ber lands owned by large corporations
or syndicates, and the timber upon
these lands Is not being cut into lum
ber. In Lane County some of the lar
gest mills in the state are operated, and
the proprietors have timber enough to
keep them supplied with raw material
for a quarter of a century. If the Cas
cade reserve were thrown open now It
would be taken by large corporations
by means of scrip, and the timber would
vbe for all practical purposes continued
In a reserve, except that It would be in
a private instead of a public reserva
tion. It is the policy of the Govern
ment to permit the matured timber on
the reserves to be cut whenever there
is a demand for it for milling purposes,
and until there Is such a demand there
can be no industrial advantage secured
' by offering it for sale.
While few who look at our vast for
est resources today would think it prob
able that our timber supply could ever
be monopolized by large corporations,
the assertion has been made by men
familiar with timber-land affairs that
the timber in the reserves is practically
all that remains uncontrolled by lum
ber companies and speculators. If this
be .true, we may some time find that
the Government holds a balance of
power which will enable it to regulate
lumber prices. To throw all the timber
Jand into the hands of syndicates would
permit some future Standard Lumber
Gompany to occupy the same position
In the lumber business that the Stand
ard Oil ompany does today in the oil
-iss. When logging companies com
Aavrthat they can't find timber out-
ON A WAVE OF PROSPERITY.
Bradstreet's last weekly report, show
Ing the bank clearings of the country,
credited Portland with a heavier per
centage of gain than was shown by any
other city west of the Rocky Mountains.
With an average of over $500,000 per
day, the gain -was 31.4 per cent over
the corresponding week last year. This
is highly satisfactory, but not surpris
ing, for never In the history of the city
has the business outlook in Portland
territory presented a brighter aspect.
The wheat crop of Oregon, Washington
and Idaho Is smaller than some of its
predecessors but the shortage is nearly
all In the remote portions of Washing
ton, not tributary to this city. In what
is known as strictly Portland territory,
the crop Is the largest on record; and It
is selling at higher prices than nave
prevailed at the opening of the season
for more than ten years. This big crop
and big prices will follow a number of
other good crop years which had al
ready lifted hundreds of fanners from
poverty to affluence, and but little of
the money received will be needed to
made good deficits due to the mlsfor
tunes of the past.
But the wheat farmer has no monop
oly of this general prosperity that has
struck the Pacific Northwest. A news
dispatch in yesterday's Oregonlan stat
ed that fruitgrowers at Hood River had
refused an offer of ?2.25 per box for ap
pies. Hood River is not a large place
and the area of fruit land tributary Is
In a measure restricted, but out of that
little station rolled 125 carloads of
strawberries this season, and the other
fruits that are following and to fol
low will In the aggregate make a much
greater amount of business. From the
erstwhile desolate-looking "bars" lying
at the mouth of the ravines along the
Snake River, and from the sand fiats
lying higher up, this year is moving a
crop of fruit which will require 300 cars
to carry It to market. From Southern
Oregon and from the Willamette Val
ley fruit Is now moving by the train
load. The industry gives employment
to thousands of people, and the money
paid them immediately goes into clrcu
lation. It quickens the pulse of trade
and permeating every vein and artery
of commerce, shows outwardly In glow
ing colors that are but a reflection of
the health within.
Hops. 25 cents per pound, what a
sound of prosperity rings in that figure,
when we hark back to the time when
the crop sought in vain for buyers at
6 to 8 cents per pound! And our dairy
industry, not yet developed into propor
tions sufficient ,to meet the demands of
half an hour and watch the able and
accomplished orator beguile from the
passing throng their dimes Or halves or
quarters, as the case may be. Here at
Portland the Midway Is to be called
the Trail; and President Goode will fall
in his duty unless he secures the young
man we have mentioned to stand some
where along the Trail and make the
peninsula vocal with his melting tones.
There is a good deal of promising local
talent here that might be utilized to
good effect, but names cannot be men
tioned now for lack of space.
hearts of aged parents' who- are asked
to surrender their right to live in their
own home for the privilege of living In
that of another. The daughter-in-law
in this case was the offending power
that drove the old man out. One can
but wonder what the son was doing In
the three, days that the body of his
father lay unvlslted In his hut after
death "from natural causes" gave the
old man release.
supposed to run well. But caboshed
stags have no legs to run with, and a
trlppant stag Is only walking, or at best,
trotting. He has three hoofs on the
ground. One fore hoof Is lifted. He
may have good action, but he lacks
speed.
MOST EFFECTIVE ADVERTISING.
It costs nearly 10 cents per bushel
more to ship wheat from points east ot
the Cascade Mountains to Chicago and
Minneapolis and other Middle Western
markets than It costs to ship to Liver
pool by way of the Pacific Coast ports.
In spite of this handicap of freight
rates, the fancy prices which the Amer
ican markets east of the Rocky Moun
tains are paying for Oregon and. Wash
Ington wheat have resulted in a very
heavy movement In this new channel.
This wheat is going out df Oregon and
Washington in immense quantities to
supply the demands of a territory that
in former years was regarded as the
principal wheat section of the United
States. At the same time, wheat, oats
and barley In shipload lots are being
sent from the two states to California
to meet the home-consumption require
ments of a state which was formerly a
factor of great Importance in the
world's wheat markets.
The opening up of these new markets
for the surplus from our big grain crop
may cause a loss of some prestige
which Portland would otherwise have
held In the foreign grain trade. The
figures of the Agricultural Department
on grain shipments give no credit to
Portland or Puget Sound for the Coast
wise grain traffic of the ports, and for
this reason the importance of the Ore
gon and Washington ports will not be
fully recognized by the World at large.
In the case of the Eastern shipments,
there are mitigating circumstances
which may offset to a certain extent
the attendant loss of prestige. As an
advertisement of the great resources of
our country nothing to equal this wheat
movement to the East and South has
yet appeared. Our wheat Is pouring
Into the Dakotas and into Minnesota,
where the blight of bad crops falls
much more frequently, than It does In
the West. The prices at which it Is
selling are also a powerful inducement
for the Eastern agriculturist to forsake
The Victoria papers have at last an
nounced that the sealing schooner Tri
umph is lost with all on board. The
story of the disappearance of the ves
sel and the subsequent finding of
wreckage on Entrance Island was
printed In The Ore'gonlan several
months ago. Notwithstanding that the
report was based on the testimony of
masters of other vessels which were in
company with the tender oldsealer dur
ing that terrible March gale, and that
the vessel's name board and other iden
tified wreckage came ashore soon after-
Ward, The Oregonlan writer who se
cured the story was roundly berated by
the Victoria papers for printing it. In
extenuation of this attitude, the Vie
torlans argued that the publication of
the story caused much suffering and
misery for the families of the unfortu
nate crew that perished with the veS'
sel. It was and still is difficult to un
derstand how the suffering of these
people has been alleviated by prolong
ing their suspense and agony of uncer
tainty for months, especially when the
story of her loss as printed In The Ore
gonlan was corroborated by competent
authorities at Victoria and West Coast
points at the time it was printed.
Another Champion of Sane Education.
Chicago Journal.
Present reaction against fads and frills
In primary education has found an able
champion In Whitelaw Reld, chancellor
of the Board of Regents of the state of
New York. Mr. Reld wants the three
R's well taught. He holds that second
until ample provision has been made for outrlgnt these stocks.
and in real properties estimated as the
New York Tax Assessor estimated their
value, was some $6,000,000 In excess of the
aggregate value of the stock, common ana
preferred, of this corporation at the mar
ket quotations for that stock, and yet it
was impossible to Induce the public to
buy a single share of this stock. That to
some extent is true of the United Steel
Corporation. The expert authorities are
sure that the corporation possesses In
mines and ores developed, developing or
yet to be developed, assets that are far in
excess of the market value of the pre
ferred and common stock. But the public
will not buy a share and the great capi
talists are compelled to carry or to buy
giving every child a thorough primary
education. Schools managed on advanced
pedadogical lines are doing more harm
than good, Mr. Reld avers, and he cites
the startling fact that a large propor
tion of candidates for admission to West
Point Military Academy are rejected for
lack of basic elementary qualifications.
It is encouraging to note that a strong
tide of public sentiment has set in
against fads in primary schools. School
authorities should not insist upon giv
ing a child baubles when It asks for
the substantials.
Some other way will doubtless by and
by be developed so that there may be
again seccessful temptlngs of that cu
pidity which seems to be a fundamental
passion of human nature. But it will not
take the form of promotion of the stocks
of merged corporations.
Aside from the general truth of this
kind, that is hinted at in Mr. Lawson's
article, his exposition of modern finances
makes it clear that he Is either ignorant
himself of the details of true financing or
that he hopes that his readers are Igno
rant thereof.
One of the best of the entirely new
attractions at the State Fair next
month will be the complete working
exhibit of road machinery. Steam rock-
crushers will be in operation every day,
crushing granite from the quarry In the
Cascade Mountains, trap rock from
Valley hillsldesvand boulders from river
beds. Screens, spreaders, rollers, gra
ders and scrapers will be at work as in
practical roadbulldlng. This exhibit
alone will be worth going to the Fair
to see, and the efforts which have been
made in order to secure it are cred
itable to the State Fair management
and others who have taken an interest
in it.
The Fairbanks Solemnity.
Everybody's Magazine.
Tne solemnity or rairoanKs is more
than skin deep. It Is constitutional. For
instance, he has never in his life made a
speech In which he has not mentioned a
graveyard or a coffin. His nomination to
the- Vice-Presidency does not seem to
have broken the spell. The other day.
when his fellow-citizens of Indianapolis
met to express the honor they felt he
had conferred upon them by accepting the
Vice-Presidency, he began nis response
thus:
"Ladles and gentlemen: In yonder city
of the dead, where are laid the bodies of
so many of the great leaders of the Re
publican party "
At this inopportune moment some carp
ing scoundrel laughed. But unless Sen
ator Fairbanks reads this, I doubt if he
will ever know why.
The Curse of Money.
Harper'3 Weekly.
Patrick A. Collins, Mayor of Boston.
tells a story of a negro who was arrested
for stealing. He had been caught helping
himself to the contents of the cash-
drawer in the store of a Mr. Appleton.
The Magistrate before whom the negro
was brought knew him, and was much
surprised to learn the charge against the
prisoner. Looking at tho negro earn
estly, ho said: Sam, Im sorry to see
you here. Didn't "you know that no good
could come from stolen money? Theres
a curse on it
"Well, Jedge," replied the prisoner, "I
didn't know dat Mlstah Appleton stole
dat money. I couldn't tell dat by je3t
lookln' at It.
Report From the Seat of War.
General Kuroki's favorite food Is said to be
beans. New York. Evening Sun.
We notice that weather forecast of
ficials don't try to pick winners at. the
races.
The editor of the Coosa (Ala.) Argus
hardly meant exactly what he said when
he wrote this paragraph:
Owing to the crowded condition of our col
umns a number of births and deaths are un
avoidably postponed this week.
In the event of the birth of a Czare
vitch, says a European exchange, Drs.
Ott and Hirsch were each to receive
$50,000. Had the baby been a princess,
they would have received only a fourth
of that amount, , . -
This beats horseracing.
Among the attractive features of a
book soon to be issued by Dodd. Mead &
Co. Is "A Chapter on New Netherland to
1628 and Forty-six Spellings of the Island
Now Known as Manhattan." Even forty-
six spellings of one word will hardly be
a strong enough Inducement to persons
accustomed to dictate letters.
There are many candidates for the
meanest-man championship, but an
English thief, who was arrested recent
ly, seems to have great claims to the
title. This man's plan of operations was
to get three or four small boys to run
a race. They would take off their shoes.
leave them in his charge and he would
start the race. When the boys were off,
the thief started in the opposite direc
tion with the shoes.
A circular advertising the . "Interna
tional Congress of Advanced Thinkers,"
to be held at St. Louis in October, has
been received. It conveys the cheerful
announcement that "the Managers expect
that every Rationalist will do his,.,
Duty," and cries aloud in black-faced
type
Jubilee Year of Science and Reason! Scien
tists will be fully Justified at the World's
Fair Congress, October 13-18, in their speclflo
work, of uprooting the great, delusivo super
stition, known as Christianity.
Further we are Informed that "REA
SON Is alive, though Christian theology
IS DEAD." 'Rah for Reason.
WEX. J.
Vanity of the Very Rich.
Kansas City Journal.
The rich are insufferably vain. The
Goelets lost $200,000 worth of jewels
and let the whole country know about
It. When a poor family loses $200,000
worth of Jewelry it modestly keeps
quiet and nobody Is the wiser.
The Two Tides.
his less favored region and come to one
home consumption, but already adding where.there Is less liability of the crop
vast sums to the agricultural collateral proving a failure Just at a time when
which keeps the wheels of trade mov
ing! With butter at 25 cents per pound
and eggs 25 cents per dozen, the 'dairy
ing and poultry business cannot be
wheat commands the highest prices.
Wheat has been the cornerstone on
which all of Oregon's agricultural
greatness has bullded, and it will for
The New York Herald's forecast of
Republican losses in the House of Rep
resentatives is simply the usual bien
nial scare. On election day there Is
nothing to It. The Republican major
ity may be somewhat reduced, but not
to hurt. The chief effect of the Her
ald's enterprise will be to stir up the
efficient Mr. Babcock and his Republi
can Congressional committee.
The New York Times, in an editorial
much less profitable proportionately many years continue to be the most we bring by wire this morning, shows
than the wheat business. It is a long
stnrv this detailed review of all of thp
wealth that is now being created so
rapidly in Portland's territory, but the
results are so tangible and prominent
that none can overlook them. In the
more recently opened agricultural dis
tricts, new villages and towns have
come into existence within the past
year or two, and in the older districts
every city, town and hamlet show in
disputable evidence of prosperity. In
the smaller places this prosperity is re
fleeted In numerous new dwelling-
houses, a store or two that were not
Is casting gloom over the Democratic
camp. What the Times says about
milk-and-water statesmanship Is per
fectly true. There Is only ruin In such
letters as Parker's and speeches like
Bailey's.
powerful factor In the commercial life 1 how the .Parker policy of equivocation
of the state. There are still large areas
of land throughout Oregon and Wash
ington which will for many years prove
more profitable in the growing of the
premier cereal than for any other pur
pose. - The distribution of pamphlets
and the writing of letters may call the
attention of Intending settlers to these
lands In the Pacific Northwest, but
neither of these methods nor In fact
any other method can equal In effect
iveness the sight of the wheat Itself.
It Is a. splendid opportunity to adver
tise our resources, and .on the side of
Heres wishing the nopplckers a
drenching rain to settle the dust and
wash off the vines, followed by bright,
cool weather in which to pick1, the. hops.
David B. Hill says he Is going tp re
tire from politics. This is important-
there last year, sidewalks and other lm- .every car leaving the . Pacific North- pthat is to say, What game is he up tp
provements. In the larger towns and I west should be a banner, telling all who noyv the Governorships
Edith M. Thomas, in Scribner's.
Child, I beheld thee, one night, swept In
by the Tide on this known shore of
Being; .
Naked thou wert, and unfaln to be here, and
thine eyes were averse to all seeing;
Bitter and small was thy first uttered cry,
and filled wtlh unnamed desolatlon-
Thou, so encompassed by Love and "by Joy
In their marveling proud salutation!
Child, in thy turn thou shalt see me, rapt
by the refluent Tido swiftly flowing:
AH sound shall be stopped from these Hps
save only the last sigh of breath in
outgoing;
The face thou shalt watch will grow strange;
the word thou wouldst hear It shall
not be spoken!
Then shalt thou sweep the dim seas for
beacon, and storm the locked heavens
for token!
O child, in that hour of the Ebb, left alone
on the Ignorant shore, crying "Whith
er?"
I charge thee, Remember, naught didst thou
know of the Tide that once brought
thee hither.
Loth to thine heritage thou, the darling
of Life, whom the banquet invited;
So much, and no more dost thou know.
what awaltoth tho outbound pilgrim
benighted.
What sovereignty royal what dream be
atific fulfilled In Youth's restoration-
What galaxy crowding In welcome what
guest fltcs what marvelling proud- sal
utations -
A Warning. "r
Lincoln Journal.
Two Omaha physicians nearly lost
their lives recently from the use of pat
ented headache tablets which they used
without suspecting the presence of dan
gerous ingredients. No unfavorable
symptoms developed until the men were
in a state of collapse. When accidents
of this kind occur to men skilled In the
use of drugs the general public certainly
needs a warning against the indiscrim
inate use of mnknown remedies. An oc
casional dose taken under proper advice
to alleviate pain may do no harm, but
cases of persistent headache require a
search for and a removal of the cause
rather than the palliation offered by the
ordinary remedy.
Ask Me No More.
Chicago Chronicle.
(Tho following pathetic lyric In which Henry
Gassaway Davis voices his anguish to Tom
Taggart. Is after the fashion of a poem of the
same name by Thomas Carew, an English
poet of the 16th century, who Is said to have
gone to School with the Democratic Vice-Presl.
dentlal nominee.)
Ask me no more. Tom Taggart, please.
In suppliahce on your bended knees.
My wealth was given to have and hold,
I will not throw away my gold.
Ask me no more; you've asked enough.
I dare not, must not, cough up stuff.
Leggo my leg and let me go.
You've made It too long by a foot or so.
Ask me no more to loosen up
And pour my money In your tin cup.
'Twas pelf, and that alone, I see.
That made them make me a-nomlnee.
Ask me no more, with tears that flow,
To let my hard-earned dollars go.
Thougrf I may seem decrepit, old,
I'm not too- old to hold my gold.
Aak me no' more. Begone! Away!
Why hanker for shekels night and day?
I gave you a nickel one day last week;
For. mercy's jaKe, JCoriiny, tafce a sneak.
OUT OF THE GINGER JAR.
Wo all have our trials, and most of us like
to report them In full. Philadelphia Record.
Alice Herbert says he Is a self-made man.
Kitty How he must suffer -from remorses-
Harper's Bazar.
'De Bible tell de sluggard ter go ter de ant;
but In dese days de most er dem goes ter-.de
father-in-law." Atlanta Constitution.
'My husband Is a fatalist; he always main
tains that men are not free agents." "You
must remember that your husband Is married."
Town and Country.
There is quite a color scheme Involved In the
attempt of Russia to get her fleet out of the
Black Sea, through the Red and into the Yel
low. Toledo Times.
First Doctor Then we decide not to oper
ate? Second Doctor Yes. wnat ao you minx
we ought to charge him for deciding not to
operate? Brooklyn Life.
'Do you believe everything you tell.thepub-
11c?" "Certainly not." answered henator faor
ghum; "and I don't believe the public believes
It either." Washington Star. ,
'Some men." said Uncle Eben, "is habitually
ontruthful. foh de reason dat dey wants' to be
In de conversation an' ln't smaht enough to
dig up any real facts." Washington Star.
She After all, George, I think a public wed
ding would be better. He And give up the
elopement? She Yes. You see. papa has re
fused to lend us his automoDiie so waat s the
use? Judge.
Passenger (on ocean liner of the future) Will
you please direct me to my stateroom? It's
No. 727. Clerk It's about half a mile aft.
Take trolley car on starboard promenade.
Chicago Tribune.
'Your wife Is rather strict in her Ylews on
the temperature question, lsn t one?" "i
should say so! Why, since our district voted
dry she has abolished the mosquito bars,"
Cleveland Leader.
Senior Partner What's the new cashier's
name? Junior Partner John P. Johnson- Most
people call him "Honest John." Senior Part
nerThey do, eh? Well, you Just hand him
two months' salary and ask for his resignation
at once. Houston Chronicle.
Mrs. Hiram Offen Tell me, -why did your
leave your last place? Pretty Maid The mis
sus caught the master kissing me, but you
needn't be afraid of that. Mrs. Hiram Often
Well. I should think not. Pretty Maid No.
ma'am, I've seen your husband, and he ala t a
my style. Syracuse- Telegram.
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