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Ebbitt House News Stand PORTLAND, PHI DAY, DECEMBER 1C, 130 BEWARE OF GREEDY FISHERIES. " Salmon fisheries of the Lower Colum bia River want longer time for catching lish. They caught so many fish last season that few were left .for .hatch eries; still they are hungry for more than the present open season brings them. The laws now ordain that fishing shall cease August 15, "until September 10. Lower river interests refused to obey those laws and kept up their work of extermination in defiance of them. But they fear that next year and there after, the Fish Warden of Oregon and the Fish Commissioner of "Washington may feel constrained to end the open season August 15, if the present man date of the law shall continue; hence, they desire the Legislature to put off tho closing day to August 20 or 25. Then they would, have sanction of law for what are now unlawful depreda tions. The fisheries have demonstrated that' they lack wisdom to guide the salmon industry aright and to propose laws for its protection. Much as they profess to desire the ultimate security of the in dustry, their immediate selfishness twists their vision and they find this year's needs forgetting next year's promise. They are composed of dis cordant elements whom mutual jeal ousy makes selfish and whom competi iun makes greeds. They advocate pro 'pction of the industry, of course, but d"wn in their hearts they scheme to rromote their own interests first. And th dictator of those Interests is imme diate gain. April, May and June salmon have ben almost exterminated. July and' August fish have been saved by hatch eries and closed season. Having ex hausted the early runs, the fisheries now wish to turn loose on the late schools. But it is reasonable to pre sume that the safeguards which pre served the late schools from extinction are necessary to their perpetuation and' that it is dangerous to alter those safe guards until sure information has been acquired that will indicate effects with some degree of confidence. Besides, hatcheries give evidence that the open season is already long enough. Salmon were scarce at hatcheries this year. The schools were said to be un usually small, yet the pack -was not short. Do not these facts indicate that more salmon would have reached the hatcheries if fewer had been caught by fisheries, and that fewer would have been caught, had fishing stopped Au gust 15? The fisheries ignore the law because that course suits their Interest; there fore the Legislatures should beware of them In making law. The August open season should not be extended at this time; two years hence will be soon enough. Then it will have been better proved whether the conditions that have made the salmon late are stable. If they are stable, the change nronosed now be made more safely then. The' habltB of salmon have been so Irregular in the past that positive knowledge of them as yet amounts to little or nothing. MARYLAND AND COLORADO. In the Baltimore News, an independ ent paper of Democratic tendencies, which gave Its support to Parker in the Presidential contest, -we find a statement of the various kinds of trick sy that were resorted to In Maryland by the Democratic' managers of the tate, under their new election law. Hore are some of them: The refusal of information to Republican f rxTvteorB as to the arrangement of the bal . the printing of various forms of ballot r ta same polling precincts, with the I roocratlc wsae uniformly pjiaad vtrhli he RopMBltean Iramoe were shlf tod" about; the j-jpplylng of common lead ponetJs ln polling -v-iik and the rejection of Republican votes ir- ause marked by thote pencils; the cvidontly -audulem marking of ballet by ethers than he voters, for the purpose of getting them r--feted: and other things too numerous to rr.nttion. The Republicans got one elector in Maryland; the Democrats the other s ven. It is not merely probable, but t-rtaJH, that these tricks and devices tade a difference of several thousand .ues, mostly against the Republicans. i-ecause the election machinery was 1n Ui9 hands of the Democrats. The Bal ; more Ne-ws makes this comment: It K a malancbo' catalogue. To realize fall importance, one must exercise a little aUattM. Suppose that thte clo& aiootlon ' a . occurred In a year when the Presidency utxed anmi the vote of Maryland. In what uaiioa rtenM we 2nd ounwlve.iT The eyes the wli.'V country would be o Maryland. . wf. we t-hoold be exposed as the state in t iiirh. jiTer a twenty jwt strusRle had -dffi. in the iMLOtmeit of a the roughly honest : ioa law by the Repvm1Ma. who had , i.hed :t wjth absolttte fairaeeti and" grace- 1; retirt.i p tv-rt they were beaten, the first rnc rb Ivtvuijus did vra i dnHberately tIo Uat wort., jtvi make systematic fraud UT ; -t ft our o'.'srtlfHi .practice. IVhat um jrtry hae to say to such a : S w iat plea could Mariano" make t i cr o" de-icae? orse, however, was done in Denver an5- throughout. Colorado, some of the details of which are now coming out dSHy through the press reports. -- ' , THE PORTLAND EXI'OSITIOX. It Is gratifying to note the increasing interest which the Eastern press is showing in the Lewis and Clark Expo sition. Journals in every part of the country are giving it cordial treatment. Their work is directing attention to the Pacific Northwest, to an extent never "before avltnessed. Every newspaper has matter about this coming fair, about theOjgon Country, its history, its resources and its progress. The ef fect is sure to be seen in the movement of population thisway. Persons com ing into Portland ifrom different parts of the Pacific Northwest tell us that the movement of the people hither, tin der the impulse thus given, Is manifest already. The low rate announced by raHroads will do wonders. "Multitudes will make the trip to see our Pacific States; and many will remain, to take -up 'permanent residence. Even theiost skeptical of our people now realize that the Fair Itself will be a thing of excellence and beauty large and variecLenough for every .purpose, but not so large as to confuse the mind with excessive multiplicity of objects. Every visitor to the grounds is aston ished to see the extent and magnitude of the preparations. The site is one of surpassing beauty, and the plan of im provement brings its features tmt, with every possible advantage. The Gov ernment's buildings on the peninsula, with the connecting causeway over the lake, will make an imposing appear ance, and their contents will be highly varied, interesting and attractive. All the people of the. Pacific States will de sire to see this Fair, and the newspa pers of the country and the efforts of the railroads will advertise it as widely through ail the states as our most en thusiastic promoters could desire. We shall see great results from it PUTTING A CRIMP IN MYTHOLOGY. Jehu, were he alive today, would at tract but little attention, drove he never so furiously. Whizz-cars, jetting steam or gasoline, have ruined. the pub llo's sense of wonderland awe. A run away horse in the streets attracts few eyes, and the plunging fire engine, fear ful joy of our youth, nowadaj's crowds no -windows with eager faces. Some little interest is displayed in the char iot race that is heralded in the produc tion of "Ben Hur." but it results from extraneous causes. What iiomeric driv ing, then, must have been that of Chris Burlej', whose passage through the streets of Marahfield drew sober citi zens from their beds in the scant attire of night. The dogs did bark, the children seream. Up flew the windows all;. And everj soul cried out, "Well done!" As loud as he could bawl. And what a team Burley must have had to make his hell-for-leather dash over Coos County roads the talk of the state! One must go back to mythology for such doings. The shining horses 6f the sun cannot have been superior to those that startled Marshfield, and Phaethon was no more reckless than Burley. Phaethon lost control of his steeds, so did Burley. Phaethon left the road; so did Burley. Phaethon was smitten with a thunderbolt by Police man Zeus, arid plunged sizzling into a. river. Burley was pinched" and ended his career In the waters of the bay. Phaethon's veins Avere full of ichor; Burley, it is hinted, was full of liquor. Proprietor Beckett, of the North Bend Hotel, sent Burley to bring home a load of Christmes turkeys from Marshfield we recount the skeleton details, fancy can supply the covering for the bones. Burley set out on his return journey late in the evening. He galloped madly over the streets, screaming turkeys fly ing the coop at every jolt. Marshal Carter gave chase, but wrong out stripped the law. At length Burley was arrested. His employer balled him out in the hope of finding some of the turn keys. You can imagine how the tur keys felt. Think of a batch of victims on the way to the guillotine; the tum bril smashed to pieces, and freedom in sight Burley set out again. This time he drove over- a forty-foot bluff Into the Pacific. Beckett was out one horse, killed in the fall; a load of turkej's and 510 bail not too great a price, surely, for such- an addition to the gayety of Oregon. Prose is a weak thing. Let us take another stanza from Cowper and apply it to Buries', who has out-Gilpined Gil pin: Now let us -sins. Jong live the King! And Gilpin, long live he; , , And when he next doth ride abroad, May I be there to secsi , ' NATURE'S COMMERCIAL HIGHWAYS. Long before the first locomotive ever turned a wheel on rails, the waterways of the country were the only highways over which traffic in even moderately large quantities coMld be transported. The bateaux of the trader and the raft of tlie lumberman moved over these natural highways, linking together sec tions of the country which it was, a dif ficult matter to join by the land trails. The employment of these water courses as commerce-carriers played a very im portant part in the4 early development of the Mississippi and Missouri Valleys as well as in the Columbia and Willam ette River territory. There are still liv ing plenty of pioneers who will remem ber when all of the traffic in the Wil lamette Valley reached Portland by water, and a still greater number can remember" when the first steamboats on the Upper Columbia made wheatgrow ing possible in Eastern Oregon and Washington. The coming of the railroads on both sides of the Rocky Mountains was fol lowed by a decline in water traffic, and in some localities the land routes have entirely superseded those provided by Nature. The steady 'growth of the con solidation idea, as applied to railroad operation and management, has In many places eliminated "competition, leaving, communities and oven com monwealths at the mercy of one trans portation company. This fact and the Increasing demand for cheap transpor tation have resulted ln growing tend ency to return to original methods, and at this time the waterways of the country are receiving more attention than ever before. The most stupendous enterprise for the purpose of giving commerce a cheap highway to market is that of connecting the Great Lakes with the Mississippi River. The scheme is not a new one, in fact it has been under discussion for more than fifty years; but not until a few years ago, when the Chicago drainage canal was completed, did the matter assume such shape that it. could make a favorable showing fdr Congressional aid. Congressman Lorjmer has appeared before the House committee oh rivers and harbors, urging that the matter bV-faken up for consideration at this session of Congress. The survey has been made for a fourteen-foot channel from Chicago to the Mississippi River by way of the drainage canal and the , Illinois' River. ""This proposed waterway' would bring -the entire Lake region in direct water -communication with New Orleans, and would undoubtedly at tract a greater volume of traffic than has ever been carried over any other inland water route in the world. The report of -the engineers who have made the final surveys on the route will be ready shortly after the holidays, and is expected to be quite favorable to. the project At previous sessions of Con gress, when the subject came up for action, objection was raised on account of the great cost of the Chicago division of the enterprise. This objection has, of course, been removed by construc tion by the -City of Chicago of a $40, 000,000 canal across the rocky divide separating the lake from the river basin. ' This canal carries twenty-two feet of. water, and. extends south from the lake a distance of twenty-eight miles, making the first section of the canal which Congress is asked to com plete,, , This project will undoubtedly have pretty unanimous support from the Mississippi Valley' and Lake regions, except where railroad Influence is domi nant At the same time it is by no' means certain that It can be speedily rushed through Congress. Out here in the Pacific Northwest, whore the coun try is far from being as well served by the railroads as it is in the region, drained by the proposed Chicago canal to the sea, even' effort to secure rea-. sonable appropriations has been fought by some of the same men who are now seeking support for their own project which possesses no proportionately greater merit than our own. Yet there will be little or no opposition to the scheme from men living west of the territory affected, providing, of course, 'that the engineer' report is as favor-, able as is indicated by unofficial ac counts of the enterprise. - - CONGRESS AND CIVIL SERVICE. The Oregonlan is again JiT daily 're ceipt of that valuable and interesting publication, the Congressional Record, which it desires thus formally to wel eome .to its exchange list. Parties may come'and go, politicians may fret and fume their brief hour upon the stage, administrations may formulate policies for one generation only to have them forgotten by another; but the Record goes on forever. We are glad of it We find much to interest, much to in struct, and much to amuse In the Rec ord, and, if it were not for the thought fulneec of the Public Printer, we are surft we should make immediate annil. cation to ascertain the regular sub scription rates. On Thursday, December S, occurred in the House or Representatives a most spirited debate on the enlivening sub ject of civil service reform. The Asso ciated -Press gave us a summary, but on the broad pages of the indispensable Record we find the entire symposium set forth in minutest detail. The press reports told us of the touching suffu sion of spirits in one harmonious lam entation between Mr. Hepburn (la.) and -Mr. urosvenor (O ) for the Republicans, and Mr. Williams (Miss.). Mr. Bsrr- lett-(Ga.) and Mr. Maddox (Ga.), for me uemocrats; but they omitted a, de tail or two that it may bo worth while to resurrect. Here is the -item in the appropriation bill thatproduced the oratorical avalanche: Civil Service Commission For three, oem mbwloners. at $3500 nach- rhlr rin.. $3000; secretary. SS0O0; assistant chief 'exam iner. $2299; law clerk. S20M): iwaklnh r di vision, at $2000 each; eight clerks of clasa 4; xs cierKS oi as 3; 16 alerks of claws 2; 32 eterks of das 1; 2o clerks, at $1000 eaoh; ten clerks, at 5000 each; eight clerks, at $840 each: one messenger; engineer, ?St0; two are men; iwo wotcinnen; one elevator conductor, $720; threp laborers: and boys, at $a eack-. In all. 104.810. , It aas thus proposed to create twenty-three new officials for the Civil Service Commission, and to Increase the salary of the secretary from 52250 to $3000. The interesting fact was devel oped that the secretary, who had been struggling along on his miserable sti pend for a great many years a beauti ful Illustration of the security and per manency of a job under civil service, though it disclosed also the niggardli ness of an unfeeling Government had finally accumulated a few dollars, and had been married. So the sentimental chairman of the committee (Mr. Gil lett) proposed to raise his nav. Mr Grosvenor wanted to abolish the Com missioners and retain the secretary to do the work; and he narrated the pa th4tic incident of the humble rural mallcarrler Who had trouble with the entire United States Government be cause he left his route to go to th' polls and vote for Roosevelt; and Mr. Hep burn longed eloquently for the return of the old spoils system; Then Mr. Williams. Democratic leader, took a hand and seriously offered this policy: Does the gentleman Mr. Glllett) know that another aystem would bo better than either the "spolfc! system" or thie, whA. I think, he must grant must lead at least to a civil service pension list? Does not the gentleman think that It would be better for the com mittee of which he is the distinguished chair map. I believe, to bring In a bill for a fixed period of public serviced Lef It be for five, eeven. 12 or 15 years that makes no differ encebut let It be Umlted; lot the time bp fixed, ao that each roan who holds a Federal appotntmant may know. Just as a Sheriff or Clerk In one of our counties knows, that When a certain time cornea he must g (ack to pri vate life, and during the period of public life he may save his money so that when he goes back to private life ho may go back out of d$bt and respected. Mr. Glllett did not "know, but said that that solution had been discussed by the committee. But he added: Personally. I do not believe that it Is the remedy. I will admit, of eouree. that the present system does tend to superannuation. There is a Mil n the calendar vf thi House that, if passed, will relieve that. There Is a provision that when a man gets lo be 70 yean of age he shall leave the service. That prevent the danger of Inefficient service. But Mr. Gillett knows, and so dses Mr. Williams, and every other thought ful critic of the civil service, friendly or unfriendfy, in Congress or out, that something must soon be done to pre vent' the constant and, growing accu mulation on the. Government payroll of old and inefficient men and women. There are now 270,000 persons in the classified list, and they rarely die, never resign, and constantly grow old. Mr. Williams has suggested one remedy that would seem to xhave merit; Mr. Gille'tt another that would doubtless lead to improvement of the public ser vice, but would be attacked on the ground that the Government has no business to turn out of their places without a pension old men who have spent their Jives In working for the Government and are therefore unfit for .anything else. The solution is riot easy, ana at wm not soon oe made. The House gave it rupj for it unanimously passed the appropriation after' Its fu tile protest, except that it failed to be moved by ihe little romance fn the secretary's, life and gave him ."simply his old. salary. For the present, we give It -up, too. The Needlework Guild as co-laborer In the work of the Visiting Nurses' As sociation in this city performs work that is invaluable in the care of the sick and destitute. The one thlng that sick 'people must have to make the ef forts of Nature, of physicians and nurses skill in their behalf effective, is sufficient clothing of bed and body to keep Jthenv .Clean. Destitution in this line, as reported by the Visiting Nurses' Association, is often most pitiful, and, unless relieved, greatly hampers the work of the nurse. Urtthrlft 13 never more productive of evil consequences, and never so discouraging to the efforts of philanthropy, as when it sends the sick to bed wlthput provision for' keep ing them -clean. While In- the estima tion of the thrifty and energetic there Is no excuse for destitution of this kind, itt this country, the fact that it exists closes all argument upon the subject and rests the ense not upon its merits, but upon the facts as they exist The Needlework Guild meets the conditions in such cases and its members are justly hailed as "helpful, energetic workers," who contribute unquestion abb', as directed by their officers, to a pressing and pitiful need in the sick rooms of the 'destitute. -According to a recent statement made by the Department of Commerce and Labor;" the savings banks of the United States are carrying at the present time nearly 30 per Cent of the total banked savings of the world, the amount being over 53,000,000,000. The figures of the department do not corroborate the popular belief that our people are the richest on earth, for the average sav ings per inhabitant is but 537.38, com pared with 596.41 for Denmark, which heads the list. Even Germany and Norway, which are always sendlng'a stream, of emigrants over here to get rich, are more thrifty with their sav ings than we, for the former iscredlted with $39:08 per' capita, while Norway has 539.94 per capita. The savings bank habit seems to have a strong hold on Japan, for she .has 100,000 more deposit ors than the United States and 2,500, 000 more than are credited to Russia. The resignation of City Engineer" El liott from office Is an acknowledgment that the criticisms against his admin istration are well founded. Mr. Elliott lays the entire blame upon his subordi natesassistant engineers and inspect ors "most of whom were wanting in practical experience, executive force and integrity of character." These sub ordinates, he says, for the most part received their positions through polit ical influence. All this may be admit ted, for It is known to be truer but it does not relieve the City Engineer of his direct accountability. -We may blame and denounce the political ma chine for Its misdeeds, but we. cannot on that account acquit its creatures or its agents who are in the public service. A man is on trial at Baker City for having shot and killed his mother-in-law. Strange to say, he does not set up a plea of self-defense in the case, but boldly declares the shooting an ac cident and challenges proof to the con trary. It will probably devolve upon hlm.tp show that the relations between himself and the murdered woman "were of an amicable nature, that she was a welcome guest in his home, and that he regretted exceedingly the unfoYtunate mistake that deprived his home of her presence for good and all. The testi mony of the neighbors on' the subject is awaited, with some curiosity by the community in which this trial Is at present the special sensation. What Is all this twaddle In Eastern newspapers that one of Oregon's elecr tors is disqualified? He is not; but if he were, it would be nothing. The other electoss, acting under the law of the state, would choose another, In his stead. So there could be no possibility that a vote might be lost. It isn't now important, since the election is all one way; but if the result depended on a single vote In. Oregon, as.lt did once before, and one elector was disqualified, the other electors would simply elect one .qualified to be an elector, to fill thfc place. There cquld be no contest over it-and no doubt about it. The gold standard has attractions for capital that are not in evidence In countries having a less stable monetary system. The Mexican government which recently joined the procession of progress, had a practical illustration of this last week when a 5C.000.000 loan was oversubscribed in New York as soon as it was offered. The loan, Which bears 5 per cent, Was taken at par. The money will be used in extending the road which runs into the interior from Salinas Cruz. A woman who 'drags out a wretched existence and is starved, and beaten by a husky husband who "works, but drinks up all Ills earnings," excites the pity that humanity is ever ready to bestowt upon a suffering creature, whether human or brute. It is usually impossible, however, to protect such a woman from the cruelties that "she suf fers, for the simple reason that she seems to find virtue Jn endurance. "The beaten spaniel's fondness is not so strange." The head of the watchdog with wide open, sleepless eyes that graces the up per left-hand corner of the Andrew Carnegie note upon which Mrs. -Chad-wick realized 5250,000, looks singularly out of .place" -updn this fraudulent piece of paper. He may, Indeed, well feel disgraced at the. company into which he has been introduced. Secretary of State Dunbar has issued his biennial report of several hundred printed pages. It contains i, vast amount of information upon every sub- are most lniercmeu uji; amount OWlees collected and retained by the Secre tary in violation of the constitution. owe It may be supposed that thero- are several aged capitalists who will not worn' this year about the size and con tents of Mrs. Chadwlck's Christmas stocking. Mrs. Chadwick. In jairat Cleveland, says she is "delighted to be again with her friends." Mrs. Chadwick is evit dently In for a future o'f.'uninterrupted pleasure. - ; Thegigantlc steamship Minnesota has arrived, and Seattle may now be ex pected . to demand enlargement of the ocean in order to give her room. NOTE AKl) COMMENT: I . An Adventure. I trudged along through the blackening night. Behind me followed my Irish-aettor. .Whtn the swltohllght turned' from green lo white "There wa3 something doing," ald Tetter. I thought an attempt" to wreck the flyer: Four men I saw, crouched in the dark: A flame went flaring, higher and higher. And then I heard a whispered "Harkl" bullet sang thro' the evening Air. Twaa a .3$, I'll bet a dollar; As It whlssed. It softly khued my hair. "Police!" was then what they heard mo ' holier " ' Hero the young man's pipe went out. : B. p. They are all ready to jeer at Mrs Chadwick -now. " Nan Patterson will be getting jealous of Mrs. Chadwick. Colonel Greeno may have been long on copper but was short on lead. "Don't borrow' trouble." says Mrs. Chadwick. "Devote all your attention to money." It Is this having to buy 17 Christ inas presents with available assets oi 59.36 that makes Chadwicks. Gresham ncods a lawyer-brleklayer. .When he cets out there the bricklayers will think him a good lawyer and the lawyers a cood hrlcftlayer: - A Russian adventurer succeeded in having a canard accepted by several foreign newspapers. American cus toms aro becoming more appreciated. Swiftwatcr Bill is said to be looking for another wife. It's nearly time for his ex-wives to form the Society of tho Wives of Swiftwatcr Bill. Such an or ganization would be superior to tho D. A. R. in point of numbers. "The main defenses of Port Arthur are still Intact." any3 a cablo dispatch "The Japanese have pierced the main line of defenses," sa;3 another cable dispatch. "Wake me when the placa is captured," says tho public . - "Mrs. Chadwlok rose, at S o'clock. "Mrs. Chadwick ate breakfast "Mrs. Chadwick wont out of her coll at 9:30. "Mrs. Chadwick dined at noon on a glass of water and a toothplclc" - There is: nothing. like being promi nent . At last we havo it. A historical novel colled ".Lantech" comes from San Francisco. One of the characters In the book is Uncle Methuselah, the real, original and Only Methuselah, who made the longevity record. San Fran cisco is going some, and we fancy that Indiana can never close up the gap. Tho Chicago Chronicle- sings this psalm of finance: Tell me' nt In ragtime rhyming ' Life is bet an empty show ' " For behold haw Caasie Chadwick Got together all that dough. . . Courage, then, bo up and doin;, .V Doing everyone you can,. . "Working people . now seems easy On this new hypnotic plan. A wine merchant has brought suit in Paris to recover payment for 14,000 bottles of champagne ordered for deliv ery "at Port Arthur. - The defense said that there was nothing to prove deliv ery, and the Judgo postponed the trial for three weeks, remarking, says the dispatch, that something might happen in tho meantime to make it easy to know whether the wine had been de livered or not. If many orders of such magnitude were filled for Port Arthur it is not hard to understand the lack of worry shown by the garrison over the. destruction of the water-supply. Who would worry over tho lack of water with a magnum- at hand7 - - One of the leaders of the Prohibition party 1n Maine was fined in Portland recently for a display of bad manners: although that in not exactly what tho offense was called in court A firm of liquor dealers, it appears, .sent tho Pro hibitionist a prico list, "undoubtedly in ignorance of his "views regardinxr alco hol: says the Boston Post, and- in the hope that he," like many other Maine residents, .would buy his booze outside the state. Tho Prohibitionist sent back the price list with "Ungodly Rumsell era" written below the printed address on the firm's envelope. Then the Post olflce Department got busy and had tho man arrested and fined. From all o which one may learn that politeness" 13 tho best policy. ' WEX J. End of the Elevated. Will the elevated railroad structures be removed from- Now York? The New York Times expresses the opinion that they will, for the reason that under ground roads are found to be so much more satisfactory by the public, and to get rid of the noiso and dirt raado by the .trains in tho air. The Times believes that the Sixth avenue line will be the first to disappear, as It will be absolutely, unnecessary when, a subway is built underneath it. ' As for the others, the Times says: t'ltlnjatej the Ninth, Third and Second a.v nue4l&rieL with their appurtenance?, will doubtlcrii ' tSbappear. The streets of New York, toget&pr with the light, air and access which are the ancient rights of abutting property owners, will be rec'alroed for busi ness and residence U6en. The dignity of the long avenues will be reasserted, and the af front put upon them by an imperative public need years ago will be removed. Tho kindly light of heaven will descend upon milt of darkened pavement, and the grateful eye will see once more the fine linea of our longest and broadest public ways. The comeliness of the city will be enhanced, tho pleasure and convenience of its people promoted, when the last alevatcd railroad pillar fhall have been razed. We feel confident, too.' that ways will be found to convince the gentlemen of the Manhattan and Interborough 1 companies that- they too will be better off. Filial Sorrow. Success. The late William M. Evartg usod to. tell a good story about himself. While he was In the United States Senate, his wife and children were in their mountain home in Vermont One of the latter was looking out of the window thinking of her father and .winning that she could see him, when a donkey in a contiguous pasture came to the fence, poked his head over the top rail, and brayed most dolefully. The child wiped u few lonesome tears from nor eyes and then called to the donkey: "Never mind'. Don't be lonesome, for papa will be home Saturday evonlng." An Unfortunate Condition. Washington Post. Braddock. Pa.. Is without funds to main tain Its $100,000 Carnegie library, and does not feel Justified at this time In asking Mr, Carnegie to irfsn any-notcs that' might be used for raising the desired cash. WeU Defined. Dallas f Texas) News, s "What Is -scientific Socialism?" is an inquiry which moets the eye. Answer "Something for nothing." GREAT SAILORS OF MODERN TIMES MICH AKL ADRIANZOON DE RUYTER- (By Arrangement with the Chicago Tribune.) It Is my 'duty to obey the commands of the Gtate. De Huyter's remark before starting, on the cruise on which he was killed. WHEN the great powers nowadays discuss projects for the reduction of armaments, or for the carving of Turkey, they .don't think of consulting little Ho' Uihd. vYet less than two "ana a Ivjtht cen turies ago this now weak and diminutive country was the proud mistress hf the seas, and was sweeping from. the iac of tl.e walora the flags of the combined fleets of France and England. Holland ivcd her naval ascendency in the 17th century to the courage and patriotism of her yw pie. "She owed It to a long time of audiT cloua and capable seamen. Most of all, she owed it to the daring, the patriotism, and the genius of Michael Adrianzoon de Ruytcr, who. tho son of a brewer's Jour neyman, raised himself Jo be the un crowned king of the sea. . .Ruytcr. was born in the seaport town bC Flushing, and one of the first sights that met liis eyes was that of the forest of masts that covered the waters of the busy harbor. He was an unruly, turbulent lad, and his father sent him to sea as a cabin boy when he was but 11 yours old. When, he was a common sailor of 15 his ship had an encounter with a Spanish privateer. Ruytor. the first to board the Spaniard, was taken prisoner, made his escape, and begged his way across Europe from Spain to Zealand. He was captain of his own vessol nt 82. A Dunkirk pirate chased him once when he was carrying a valuable cargo from Ireland to Flushing. With ready wit, Ruyter smeared butter over the deck and rigging of his ship. The moment the boarders from the pirate stepped on deck they staggered and fell like drunken men." Astonished and filled with supersti tious terror, the robbers precipitately ned, and" Ruyter sailed peacefully homeward. At 45 years of age Ruyter- was a prosper ous, stout, phlegmatic burgher who ex pected to spend the rest of his life peace ably at his own flrcsido with his con genial pipe and his good spouse. .But he was yet to fight 35 battles and to looe his life .while struggling to uphold his coun try's flag upon the seas. War broke out between England and The "Netherlands In 1662. Ruyter was mttdo a Rear-Admiral. He was escorting to Hol land a fleet of 60 merchantmen, when, r6ar Plymouth, Sir George Ayscue at tacked him with an English fleet of nearly twitfe the strength of his own. - The Eng lish, were glad to end the contest by re treating to Plymouth Sound. ' Ruytcr and Do Witt later made an unsuccessful at tack , upon Blake at the mouth of the Thames. Two months later they beat Blake off Dover. Being sent to protect Dutch trade in the Mediterranean, Ruyter swiftly swept the Algerlne pirates from j the sea. In 165S Ruyter was sent to aid the Donee In. their war with Sweden. He was now commander-in-chief of the Dutch navy. For his effective services in this war. tho King of Sweden ennobled him. In 1664 trade jealousy and rivalry again brought England and the NetherlandH to. blows. Hurrying homeward from the' Med iterranean, De Ruyter sailed from the Texol .late in May, 1866. with 100 ships, conveying 5000 guns and 22.000 men. At tho North Foreland ho met an English fleet of SI large men-of-war, commanded by Prince Rupert, Monk and Ayscue. There ensued one of the most stubbornly contested battles In the history' of naval warfare. Four days the combatants struggled with the greatest fury. Each side lost" 20 ships. Dutch portinacity at last prevailed, and tho English retired. Their victory had cost the Dutch heavily, but 10 days later De Ruyter set sail for the Downs with S3 ships of war. Ho again met the British, 00 ships strong, under Monk,-near North Foreland: The Dutch- BITS OF OREGON LIFE. Fun for All on Wheels. Eugene G.vd. Watch for the opening date of the skating rink. C F. Smith. Competition the Life of Trade. Corvallls Times. -Highest price paid for young pul lets. S. B. Bane". Bring-your chickens to Moses Bros. Alarming Growth of Bad Eyesight. Oakland .Cor. Roseburg Review. Dr. Lowo. tho skillful and trust worthy optician, was In Oakland on last Monday looking after his growing patronage in this vicinity. Salem Headquarters for Lebanon Vis itors. Lebanon Express-Advance. . Thre Lebanon boys Charley Irwin, drvillo Ferguson and Harve Loveall aro now employed in the same barber shop In Salem. , Ye Editor Must Keep Warm. Lebanon 'Criterion. Our patrons please remember that we will take wood on subscription, and need a fow more cords to fill out our Winter supply. Bring It along before It gets too muddy. , Vegetable Miracle in Animal Kingdom West Side' Enterprise. Professor Ryan, the hypnotist, -left Friday for Sheridan. He taught seme of tho young men horo to oat raw po tatoes and onions for peaches and flour and wator for ice cream. Huskin Bee a Hummer. Eugene Register. . Nq one went away disappointed. S'rom the extensive preparations made and ihe voluminous Advertising, jjraat things were oxpectod at tho huskln' bee. The house was packed scarcely a seat being vacant in tho entire the ater, and no other sentiment is heard on every hand but encomiums of the highest order. .Much of the local tal ent appeared before the public last night for the first time, and It is put ting It very mildly to say that they possess i-oally remarkftblo histrionic talent. Perhaps there lias been noth ing on the boards so' far this season that would equal some of the special ties, Who Would Have Run Better? Philadelphia Press. Democratic papers, led by the Now York World, are worrying themselves ovor tho small vote . polled by Judge ParkeV. From General McClellan to Colonel 'Bryan tho Democratic popular vote quadriennially grew. With Judge Parker it shrank. But who would have run any better? Would Cleveland? He would have polled more gold Democrat votes, but even in New York the Bryan vote would havo gone solid for the Repub lican ticket Bryan? Just the same, only with the conditions reversed. Ol Jiey? His borm would have been lost in the Borkshire hills, and, besides los ing tho Bryan vote, the labor unions would have united agsiinst him. Hill? It In ridiculous to think of his vote. Gorman? Still worse. Judge Parker ran as well as anybody could run. Merely RbarJng in the Index. Chicago Intor Ocean. , ' Lawson's stories of "Frenzied Fin ance" have been merely very readable magazine articles. They have offered nothing really new. unknown or im pressive." They have merely threaten ed to do all these things. fleet became separated, and Ruyter was left with but eight ships to wlthhtand tho fire from 22 Britishers. Ho valorously de fended himself, but finally had to retreat with his battered ships 'to the shallow water of Zealand. ...... The British were now masters of the Northern seas. The dissolute court of Charles II sncmrthe-WInter of 1666-67 In festivities and revelry. The sober Dutch spent it in unprecedented exertions to equip anotjier licet r In Juno. 1C67. De Ruyter boldly sailed'' up the Thames to within 30 miles of London, burned throe unrigged men-of-war. the largest ships in the British navy, and made off with a vast quantity of arms and ammunition. Eng lish pride was humbled in the dust Th peace of Breda, signed July 31, insured the safety .and liberty of Dujch commerce. The peace of Bredft and the' triple al liance between. Grout Britain. "Sweden and the United Provinces, excited" the jealous apprehension of Louis XJV.- The French King had long coveted the rich land of thft Netherlands,. By skillful negotlatfr.g he detached England from' thV alUanco and induced her, in conjunction with France, to declare War upon the Dutch. Assailed upon the land by. Louis XIV. then at the zenith of his power, and upon the sea by England, little Holland ap peared upon'the verge of destruction. The Dutch fleet was swiftly raised to 01 fri gates and ships of th? Hncand PoJFtuyter. appreciating the advantage-of striking the Irst blow, suited within a month after war was declared in enrelr of- the one my. At Solebay he came upqn the- allied BnglWh and French fleet of 140 men-of-war, under the command of the- Duke of York. De Ruyter drove his flagship, the United Province, straight for th flagship of the English commander, and a furious light began. TWeaty-flve thousand pounds of powder and 350 balls were fired from the United Provinces alone. Tho result was Indecisive, but the moral ad vantage was with the Dutch, who pre vented a contemplated descent upon the coast "of Zealand. In the midst of the war the De Witt brothers, who had long governed tho country, were supplanted by the you.ig William, Prince of Orange, who became stadtholder. The Prince of Orange relied upon his land rather than upon his sei arm. and under his administration th Dutch navy rapidly declined. The Eng lish and French fleets of 145 sail, of which 53 were ships of the line, on June 7, at Sohoonevclt. attacked Ruytcr. who had but 52 badly equipped and Incompletely armed vessels. The unequal fight lasted all day. The Dutch ships were almost wrocked. but they a second time prevented an In vasion. Two months later a powerful British fleet under Prince Rupert again attacked the Dutch. Again Dutch valo and pertinacity prevailed. The English were compelled speedily to seek their own shores. It was the last time Holland and England" were to measure their sea power against ea.ch other for ICO years. Peace between the two countries was soon ar ranged. ' Tho war with France continued. De Ruyter was sent to hunt the French fleet In hc Mediterranean. The Dutch navy had decayed until the great Admiral com manded but IS ships. Near Agosta. under the smpklng "crater of Mount Etna, he was attacked by a vastly superior force under the French Admiral, Duquesnc. Ruyter was standing on the quarter deck of his flagship, the Unity, giving Order? when he was struck by a ball, which carried off his left' foot and shattered hts left leg. "Like Nelson, he fell in the hour of victory. The French were forced to take refuge at Messina. A week later De Ruyter' died at Syracuse. With him expired Holland's naval greatness. S. O. D. COSTLIEST CITY IX THE WORLD Lesllo's Weokly. New York, under a .Tammany Hall Mayor has the-most exponsive city government'- on record. According to Mayor MpClellan's first budget it will cost New York City $110,500,000 to conduct its mu nicipal affairs in U0S. There are in the neighborhood of 4.000.0CO Inhabitants In New York City at this moment, allowing liberally for the gain which has been made in these days of Republican pros perity, thopopulation In 1000, being 3.437. 000. No other people in tho world pay anything like this sum. pep-capita, for the expenses of their government. Canada's 6,000.000 people pay $52,000,000 for running their government in 19M: Mexico's 14.000,000 pay $68,000,000 for a like service, and Brazil's 1S,OCO,000 disburse $S0. 000,000 for this object. None of the other countries In the AVestern Hemisphere Cfcmes anywhere near Mexico's total. Bel gium, the Netherlands. ' Switzerland, Swe den, Norway and Portugal occupy places of considerable prominence on the world's map. All of them have a. larger popula tfon than New York City. All of them, on account of the necessities of defense, have to place themselves under heavy tax burdens, yet none of them pays as much for government as do the people of the American metropolis. In her vari ous tributary states and colonial possess ions Turkey has about 40,080,000 people, and some of these have aspirations, for liberty which leads the home government a pretty strenuous lifo; yet Abdul Haxnid does not exact quite so much tribute for the expense of government as does Mayor George B. McClellan's regime. . Shock for the Lawyer. . Philadelphia Press. A well-known lawyer of this city; whose office is located close to -tho City Hall, received a tremendous shock th'e other day. He was counsel for A man charged with larceny, and: as' the evidence was conclusive, ho advised his client to plead guilty. "You know that "you havo a bad record and you have' "practically confessed your guilt," said thejdwyer in a soothing man ner, "and you will be sentenced to about three years in Jail."" This. ,last sentence .completely dum fnunded the prisoner, but after he had looked about his cell for several minutes h.c 'turned to- nls attorney; and n a very serious manner said: "Will you kindly go out and get me a good lawyer?" , As soon as the lawyer recovered from tho shock he told the prisoner- he would argue tho case for him. The Flag. " Arthur .JIacy. In the Youth's Companion. Here comes The Flag! " 'I' . Bail hi, - -Who darea tq .drag , "C-t-a- Or trail It? " Olve It hurrahs" - .'.'.'ft Three for the stars. '-,. yj, Three for th bar, .- ."3 Uncover your head to it I ."Vjs The soldiers who tread to ft' ; Shout at the right of r.; ' , The justice aad right of it. ' The unsullied white" of it, " '" Tlw blue and the rfd ofVft. ' And tyranny's dread of It? t- J ' ' ' -S ' ' ,-r. J, Hero comes The Flagi - j,' Cheer it i -v'!i.'"V Valley and crag - , Shall er It. ' . " Fathers shall bleaj !. - ; ""l Children enters it. , -All shall maintain U. " : - -" " No one shall stin its.- Cheera for-' th& soldi jra that fought 'en the wave for. It, ' . Caoer for the seldters that always were brave for It. Tears for the men that went down to the grave for It; Here comes The Flaac!