THE MOUSING OREGOXIAIs, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16; 1904.
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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!