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Co., 740 (Market street; Foster & Crear, Ferry News HBtand; Goldsmith Bros., 236 Sutter; L. E. Jkee. Palaco Hotel News Stand; JV W. Pitts, &008 Market; Frank Scott. 80 Ellis; N. IWheatley. S3 Stevenson; Hotel St. Francis News Stand. Washington, D. C. Ebblt House News Ctand. PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY, FEB. e 8. 1905. VINDICATION OF OREGON. The Senate of Oregon, by a vote nearly unanimous, expresses confidence In the Integrity of Senator John H. Mitchell. Now "will not some man in 'the Senate and some man in the House get up on his feet, -with a resolution expressing the confidence of the Legis lature in Hon. Binger Hermann, and call upon the Legislature to go on record with expression of its confidence In Hon. Binger Hermann? Such reso lution should originate, properly, with members representing counties In Mr. Hermann's district. Whatever the Legislature of Ore gon can do to rebuke the infa mous course of the National Ad ministration in prosecuting Oregon's trusted statesmen should be done.. Our independent and courageous State Sen ate leads the way. Oregon has been submitting too long to this persecution. It is time now that she should retail ate, recalcitrate, kick back, make her self felt and heard. And -while the Senate of Oregon is about it while it is expressing confidence, as in duty bound, in our statesmen at Washington why doesn't it express confidence also in the Integrity of its own members two of them who have been held up to odium, through indictment, by men representing an Administration that seems to take delight In. casting re proach on everything and everybody that bears the name of Oregon? Our State Senate also, in its resolution, might leave blank space, to be filled In, if need be, -with, the names of other members of its own body who yet may be Indicted by a malignant Adminis tration. Oregon evidently is getting lired of turning the other cheek. It Is not too late yet to with ihold the electoral vote of Oregon from an Administration thaf shows bo little appreciation ofvlts friends, Can't the two houses today send instructions by telegraph to "Wash ington, on this point? But there is no time to lose, for the vote -will be canvassed today. Evidently Theodore tRoosevelt wouldn't stand much chance in Oregon, now. He might lose as many as thirty votes. EXPORTS OF MANUFACTURES. A complete statement of exports of manufactures from the United States during the year 1904 is furnished by the Bureau of Statistics at Washington The total value was $502,764,729. Hith erto no figures approaching these have appeared, for any year. For compari son the following table Is submitted, showing the sales abroad of American manufactures, during the last eleven years: Year. 1S94 . 1805 . 1896 . 1807 . Amount. .$177,800,969 . 201,153.663 . 253,081.641 . 270.616.89S Year. Amount. 1900 $441,406,942 1901 895,144.030 1902 410.650,967 1903 421,453.915 1898 . . 307.024,994 1904 502.764.729 1890 380,787,891 It will be seen that the highest rec ord before that of 1904 -was that of 1900, which, however, was exceeded by that of 1904 by about $61,000,000. The gain of 1904 was mostly in iron and steel, In copper and mineral oil, Review of the growth of exports of manufactures by decades shows, in one important way, the progress of our Na tional industries. From 1854 to 1864 the increase was 512,000,000; from 1864 to 1874, $52,000,000; from 1874 to 1884, $44, 000,000; from 1884 to 1894, $41,000,000 Then began the great expansion which has "Continued until the present time and promises to reach imposing dimen sions. The Increase from 1894 to 1904 was $325,000,000, or six times as great as during any preceding decade. But that was not all, for the year 1901 shows an Increase more rapid than that of any year of earlier date. Examining in detail the figures for 1904, we find that, as compared with those of 1S03, the exports of iron and steel were increased by $29,500,000, more than one-third of the total increase. The gain in copper and oil amounted to $41,000,000. There were small gains in cotton goods and in leather and leather goods, while the exports of agricultural Implements decreased. The total ex ports of mineral oil and copper amount ed to more than $140,000,000. These two classes of goods are manufactured to a very slight degree before being export cd, and yet they make up more than fourth of the total. From the statements, as presented, both the protectionist and the anti-pro tectionist derive arguments. On the one side the argument is that the great increase of exports is an exemplifica tion of the good effects of high protec tion since our exports increase so greatly under it. On the other, It is urged that it Is an evil, since it enables our manufacturers to maintain high prices at home while they sell at lower rates abroad. Yet again, how far this is true, and if true how far it is an evil. is open to dispute, as all matters de pending on interest and on opinion are. ONCE MORE RAILROADS IN CONGRESS. Of all regions in the United States none is more deeply interested than the Northwest, and Oregon in particular, in these issues of far-reaching Import now being decided at Washington. It is our duty to follow and comprehend this progress from day to. day, for history is In the process of making. First let us sketch the position de fined in yesterday's dispatches. Two bills are to be submitted to the House of Representatives on Thursday after noon at 3 o'clock for final vote. The one, which is now known as the Town- send-Esch bill, is the amended- measure adopted by the Republican majority of the, committee on commerce and trans portation. The other Is the Davey bill, submitted by the Democratic minority of that committee. Inasmuch as the full force of the Republican majority will be behind the Townsend-Esch bill, it is needless to discuss the minority Davey bill. A suggestion has been offered, and it is to be earnestly hoped it may be adopted, that before the bill goes finally to the Senate Democratic opposition may be withdrawn, and that It may be projected Into the aristocratic chamber -with the united force of the House of Representatives behind It. The main points of the Townsend-Esch bill are the following: The Interstate Commerce Commission is continued in office, Its membership extended to seven, and salaries of $10, 000 a year allotted to its members. Whenever after full hearing the Com mission shall declare any existing rate or practice either unreasonable or un justly discriminative, It shall declare and order what is just and reasonable, and such order shall of its own force become operative thirty days after no tide given to the person or corporation affected thereby. But at any time within sixty days from the date of such notice any persons affected by the or der may take proceedings in the new Court of Transportation to have it re vised. Further. Svhen the rate substi tuted by the Commission shall be a joint rate and the carriers "who have to divide It between themselves fall to agree on the division within twenty days after notice of the order, then the Commission may Issue a supplemental order declaring the division, and this also may be taken to the court for re vision if unsatisfactory. The Attorney- uenerai is to nave cnarge or an pro ceedings before the court. The evi dence taken before the Commission is to make the record to be acted on by the court, and no other evidence is to be admissible unless it is such as could not be got and put in before the Com mission. But the Commission is to be gi(ven power to alter or annul its pre vious order pending the appeal. A penalty of $5000 a day is Imposed for breach of any order of the Com mission relative to rates or regulations, The Court of Transportation Is to con sist of five Circuit Judges of the United States, holding regular sessions in Washington quarterly, and "with power to hold special sessions locally. Ample powers are to be given to the court to secure the attendance of witnesses from any part of the United States, and it Is to be always open for the filing of pro ceedings and pleadings. Appeals to the Supreme Court may be taken at any time within thirty days from the date of any order or decree. The Supreme Court Is to give precedence to all thlsVj business over everything except crim inal matters. The act is to take effect on the first day of April, 1905. The rest of the bill provides machinery for car rylng the act into effect. Plainly this proposal is so far in ad vance of all proposals for legislation to control the rates on railroads here tofore made that It would be not only foolish, but unpatriotic, to throw any difficulty -whatever in the way of its passage now. It seems to be "well un derstood that if it falls of passage in the Senate in a practically unaltered condition a special session of Congress will be called to consider the question of transportation. And when the Pres ident and the House of Representatives are agreed, and the "whole force of the public opinion of the Nation Is behind them, It would have to be a very bold body of men to stand in the "way, and a very conscientious set of men to be forgiven for anything like obstruction. It is gratifying to be able to pass all the leading features of the bill without criticism. Many of the blots on the Hepburn bill, which have been noticed in these columns, have been removed. Among the satisfactory features now appearing are the right of appeal against a decision of the Commission by either party, not by the transporta tlon company alone; also the fixing of the record of evidence before the Com mission as that on which further hear ings in court should depend, and the power to the court to hold local ses sions. Another feature is the making of the order of the Commission fixing or affecting rates and regulations ef fective -within thirty days. There Is nothing In sight to prevent the passage of the bill through the House. The Na tion -waits to observe its reception in the Senate. IN THE INTEREST OF MORALITY. Various organizations of this city of as philanthropic and charitable nature will unite in forming, by means of dele gates from each, a branch of the Na tional Travelers' Aid Society for the purpose of protecting young women and girls who come here as strangers and practically without means, seeking em ployment in connection with the Lewis and Clark Fair during the Summer. The need of such assistance as an or ganization of the kind contemplated can give was fully demonstrated at St. Liouls last Summer. Already, it is said, the advance column of this class, as well as that of quite another, has reached the city. Every effort will be made to Instruct the unsophisticated in regard to the dangers that He in -wait for them, im press them with the futility of seeking to secure remunerative employment for the brief space covered by the Fair, and to induce them to return home while their money lasts. Further effort will be made to prevent such persons from becoming stranded here and so fall a prey to vice through their neces sities. The object is a most worthy one, and, with properly systematized effort, can not fail to srve the purposes of moraU jJLty, humanity, and public-economy. The, organizations that will engage in the work are the City Board of Charities, the Volunteers of America, the Salva tion Army, the Young Woman's Chris tian Association, the Woman's Union, and possibly some others. It will be practical, eschewing all sentimentality and void of sensational features mis sionary effort pure and simple without cant of eccleslastlclsm or zeal of com mercialism. Such, at least, are the as surances given by those who have taken up the work, and whose names stand for philanthropic endeavor of the prac tical type. AN EDUCATIONAL MILLENNIUM. That the son of one of the great ship builders of the Clyde should come to this country for a course in naval arch itecture is a flattering indication of American progress. In the Washington Post appears a brief Interview with M. E. Denny, the young member of a Glasgow family which builds fast mail steamers and Upton's yachts. Mr. Denny is taking a four years' course at the Boston Technical Institute, not, as he explained, for lack of good schools In Scotland&but to mingle with young Americans and to imbibe American ways and ideas. "Judging by my own experience," adds Mr. Denny, "I think It -would be a good plan for any young American lad to go to England or Scot land for his training. He will learn things over there that -will surely help him when he starts life for himself In his native country." These remarks by a young Scot, are not of particular Importance In them selves, but they are straws that indi cate the way the wind Is blowing just now. The German Emperor has on foot a plan whereby American profes sors shall lecture in German universi ties and German professors shall In struct the youth ot our universities. The Idea Is meeting with very general expressions of approval. In the mean time a number of American students are at Oxford, In accordance with the plan of Cecil Rhodes, who believed in bringing the young men Instead of their instructors. And, Indeed, the presence of these alert Americans Is producing an effect upon- Oxford greater than the visits of a "dozen pro fessors would bring about in years. Ever since universities have existed young men have sought them from for eign lands. The great American Insti tutions attract students from the utter most ends of the earth, as do the fa mous seats of learning In Europe, but It is with the specific object of acquir ing learning that these pilgrims come. There are exceptional cases, such as the protected" Indian Princes, who go to Oxford and Cambridge, but the major ity of the aliens In any university are there as students, pure and simple. A course at a foreign university Is eulo gized as having a "broadening" effect upon a young man. So it has, but the same thing is Just as true of a course in a home university. As a preparation for life, the latter, indeed, is more to be desired. As thl3 Idea of exchanging pupils and teachers shows signs of becoming more and more popular, we may witness strange resulto. Why wait until the child has outgrown the formative period to put him under the Influence of the foreign teacher? Undoubtedly the plan to be followed Is to send our public school children abroad in regiments and to receive over here regiments of trans-Atlantic children. Then in the course of a few decades those of us who are still alive may have the felicity of hearing Americans drop their "h's" and broaden their "a's," -while the English tell our stories with their appropriate American drawl. In that happy age the tables may have been turned so that we shall be supplying London with musical comedies and London sending us stories of the American Inability to see a joke. FLANS OF THE GRANGE. Among items of the programme sent out on behalf of the Grange, though not, It is to be observed, by Its direct officials is the parcels post. This is re ferred to as "of paramount Importance and within our grasp." This may be true of the first proposition. The sec ond is more doubtful. The importance of the parcels post is more obvious to dwellers In the Isolated farms In scat tered hamlets of the land. To them it is Indeed of paramount Importance. At first glance one thinks of It merely as the means of carrying to the farm the tea, coffee, sugar and tobacco, the items of dry goods, pins and needles, and the like, for which a long journey to the store at the crossroads has had to be made. But how many of the small products of the farm are wasted be cause It will not pay to make the same trip to the store for them alone, but which -would go dally by the rural de livery carrier to the town? The par eels post Is the necessary sequence or evolution from the rural delivery route. It may be delayed until necessary ar rangements are made to take care of the enormous business which will start at once. It must not be withheld. In all the countries where It is estab lished, and that is In nearly even civ illzed land but in the United States, the people would Just as soon have the tele phone ortbe newspaper withdrawn as the parcels post. When it was suggest ed there was' a loud outcry by the mail carriers. Natural enough. Let us hope that these busy public servants will not have this work also laid on their bur dened shoulders without rearrange ment of duties, more men and more pay. But the interest of the- city mouse as well as the country mouse demands it The real sufferers and the chief ones will be the express companies, Their opposition will be effective, be cause it will be felt In Congress, where they are strongly represented. They will lose much small and light busi ness, up to the eleven pounds weight proposed. They will make up for It to a large extent by the development of the requirements as well as of the prod ucts of the farm. Our friends of the Grange see rightly that on the heels of the parcels post- the development of the duties of the Government Into the debatable ground of the common carrier will come need for a cheap and easily obtained and transmitted currency of small but defi nlte amounts The parcels, going and coming, will have to be paid for, with out the need of making or giving change. But this is a distinct and com plicated subject. In the United King dom the parcels post Is a most impor tant branch of the postofflce. The rates of postage there are 6 cents for one pound, 8 cents for -two pounds, 10 cents for three pounds, and so on up to the eleven pounds limit. From the United Kingdom to the United States parcels up to three pounds weight are delivered for 48 cents, to seven pounds for 7: cents, to eleven pounds for 95 cents. Whether similar or less rates are pos sible in. the United States must be in ferred to the experts of the postoffice to advise the Nation. The rates might be tentative at first until the scope and cost of the business were determined by experiment. It Is not easy to believe that the Leg the : islature seriously considers the scheme of creating an elective railroad com mission. Oregon has had an experience with a commission that ought to be a lesson. It was first appointed by the Governor, and then named by the Legislature; but, however the members got their Jobs, and whatever efforts were made to clothe them wiih author ity and public respect, they did nothing and tried to do nothing except draw their salaries. The vers great ques tions that Congress proposes to meet by the m6re rigid control, of interstate railroads unquestionably justify intelli gent and judicious legislation; out Ore gon is suffering from no ills not com mon to all the states that cannot be cured by Federal laws, and by subse quent state lawB designed to make ef fective the government's operations. In any event, it Is all a problem that the Legislature cannot settle hastily and should not undertake except aftor the most mature Investigation and consid eration. Apparently Hoch, the man of many wives, did not rely entirely upon skill fully assisting the object of his suit In her domestic duties. Potato-peeling was all very well as a means of sapping the heart's citadel, but other measures were necessary to keep the captive a willing prisoner. Hear Sirs. Wilhel mina Rummler, one of the two-score "ex-wlves" on the subject: Twenty minutes after the ceremony my husband asked me if I had any money. I told him that I bad 46000. and within the next week he had drawn It and told roe that he had just $0000 more, and that he was solas to put the $12,000 In a safe Investment. He spoke so nicely and kissed me eo often that I be lieved him. Mrs. Rummler soon learned that a man can kiss and kiss and be a villain. for she concludes the story of her ex perience by saying "that man stole every penny I owned In the world and I was left alone with my three chil dren to make my living." Miller's Senate bill, requiring teach ers In the public schools to give thirty days' notice before resigning their po sitions, passed the House by a large majority. The measure Is a commend able one. No teacher should be so in sensible to the duty that he or she owes to the public by virtue of the position held as to drop the work at an Inopportune time, or at least without giving the employing power suitable notice. The question involved is not one of gallantry, but professional good faith. The teacher who "jumps her job" In mid-term to get married the date of her marriage having most like ly been fixed before the term began does more toward keeping down the wages of women In the teachers' ranks than the entire body of teachers can counteract by earnest petition for a living wage. Unt;I the railroad lines are left, and the county roads within fifteen or twenty miles of Portland are traveled, no one can imagine how many thousand acres of good soil inside this circle are still brush-covered, or growling up in a thick wood of young fir. Much of this land will produce the bet of small fruit and strawberries, and Is specially fit for the small truck and dairy farm. Why not put the unemployed laborers to work, who are hanging round the employment offices? It will pay well the owners of the land, and for the state there Is no better prospect than to see this now useless land converted Into homes. American farmers continue to seize upon the latest methods of economical production and distribution. The latest copy of the Philadelphia North Amer ican has a state dispatch telling of a Pennsylvania company which Is now buying the right of way for a pipe line Into Philadelphia. The proposed line is not for oil. but for milk, which will be pumped right into the principal market. Pipes will run to a central collecting point in Carlisle and thence by a main conduit to the principal Philadelphia dealers. Have the Russian Grand Dukes who control the Czar really come to their senses? Has It at length become ap parent to them, as it has been almost from the first to the nations of the world, that Russia distracted and torn with dissensions, could not cope at long distance with the forces of Japan, loyal to the core, active and full of expedi ents? This Is the report that, comes from SL Petersburg by way ot London. Let us hope it Is true, both for the sake of justice and humanity. 3"he prohibitionists are a strange lot They want to put an emergency clause In the Jayne bill, evidently that the Governor may veto the bill: and whether he does or not, that the refer endum may be cut off. Recently they opposed a constitutional convention be cause they "said it was an iniquitous scheme of the liquor interest to kill the referendum. The referendum is having a hard time finding out who its friends are. Dr. Parkhurst, who has so many 'times, told New York how it should be run, must feel a little piqued that the city's attention should now be centered upon Miss Bertha Sanford, who Is known as "The Little Deaconess-." This young woman, a graduate of Smith, was the moving spirit of a great "re vival" in Schenectady, and has now in.- vaUed the larger field of New York, where she 13 meeting with much sue cess. The "man under the bed" got In his work on a guest at the St. Charles Hotel in this city Monday evening. Per haps the woman who makes It a point of conscience to look under the bed when in a strange place before she dis robes Is not, after all, the silly " 'frald cat" that we have been led to believe that she is. In Russia the description of a govern ment as "tyranny tempered by assas sination" Is rapidly becoming assassin atlon tempered by tyranny. Argentina denies the -outbreak of a revolution and says that the affair 13 merely a rebellion. When some wlsejdiplomat shows the Russians how to let go, perhaps there will be peace. It is almost time for Lincoln Steffens to emerge from the Thomas W, Lawson eclipse. XOTE AND COMMENT. ', On the Welsh Revival. 'Taffy was, a Welshman. Taffy was a thief,: Taffy came to our house And stole a leg of beef." Taffy met a preacher. And soon profffed belief; Taffy was converted 1 But kept thelcff of beef. Two women are now under sentence of death In Eastern, states, and there Is much discussion over the question of eti quette in the matter of nanging women. Those who seek a commutation of sen tence for these two convicts bring for ward several arguments, but in viow of the circumstances only one reason has any weight, and that Is the sex of the condemned. One of the women chopped her victim into pieces and the other killed her husband in an unusually delib erate and heartless manner. The ques tion Is not a pleasant one. but all discus sion narrows down to this shall the capi tal punishment of women bo abolished? t There need be no fear for tho future of the American drama. Robert Edeson has a new play, "Strongheart." Strong heart Is a fullblooded Indian, who is first halfback and then a student at Colum bia University. It is easy to see what opportunities arc offered by having a hero of this type. New terrors are constantly being added to modern life, and the beginnings of one of the worst are revealed by a paper read before the Electric Club, of New York. This organization, which our exchange describes as "the best-dressed club in town," listened sympathetically to an article on "Ourselves as Seen by Our Servants." In the course of the reader's remarks she told how her own maid kept a diary In which she records impressions of her employers. Of the entries In vthis intimate volume one tells of a woman who, in a controversy with her husband, "hurled a flower pot at him with an aim so truly feminine that it hit the maid over the eye, closing both the optic And their relations." Another entry told how a woman slapped the maid's face soundly because she failed to open the door quickly enough on a cold day. It's going to be a nice state of affairs when every one In the house is keeping diaries. The revelations of the Nelly Blys . and toe Polly Prys who have become domestics for the sake of getting "copy" have caused much anxiety and vexation of spirit, so whaw may be expected when evory maid-servant is the prospective publisher of a journal. Ladles-In-waltlng have turned out volumes of memoirs, and valets to kings have done the same. The back-stairs gossip of the French court is plentiful and not lacking In Interest- Roy alty has been plagued by-such disclosures of kings and queens in dishabille, but hitherto less exalted persons have es caped. The future looks black. A woman may throw dishes at her husband, and yet be sorry that the world should know of her little amusement. In a dispatch appeared the information that when Senator Clark made his first speech "his young wife was the sole occu pant of the reserved battery." This leads the Kansas City Star to ask just what degree of self-sacrifice a husband may rightfully demand of his wife. If we wore a girl with red hair we should paste this quotation over the look-Ing-glass: The sun hath been her lover, and so deep Hath touched tier locks with fire no Win ter hand May shake bis kisses out. Perhaps Niedringhaus was the original juror who deplored the obstinacy of the other 11. Kung Sung Kyre, a Corean Minister Plenipotentiary, has told an interviewer that he finds nothing to do, whereupon the Bystander takes him to task for vio lating diplomatic etiquette In revealing the nature of a Minister's duties. Kung Sung Kyre should take a lesson from Minister Barrett. We have Just been reading an enthusi astic article on "What Are We to Eat?" The writer advocates abstention1 from meat and tho use of nuts, plenty of nuts. If this advice had been given in tho Chicago Packer, for Instance, we should have attached some weight to It, but o3 it appears in tho American Nut Journal we fear it Is not entirely Ingenuous. An .exchange devotes halt a column to an article on the Russians on the Hun. The head was made to read, "The Rus sians on the Run," which wasn't what the writer meant, but was' considerably more accurate. Society note: Pressing demand upon Mr. August Machen's time will keep him away from home for the next two years. , There aret, scores of bad words, but the North End thinks the Sheriff's the worst of the lot. If horses could talk, they'd have some thing to say about hauling loads on our wet asphalt streets. During an Inquest in London on a young woman who had committed suicide, it was stated that her family believed she had turned lazy but a physician testified that she was really suffering from melancholia, one of the symptoms of which was a dis inclination to work, and this, continued the physician, was often mistaken for la ziness. This explains a number of things. and as we feel a fit of melancholia coming on we must now yield to Its influence. WEX J. A Capricious Divinity. Chicago Tribune. The noble, the divine, the godlike ref- erendumymay bo dragged into court. Men who do not hesitate to deny the divinity of Jesus Christ passionately proclaim that it is blasphemy to dls pute the divinity of tho referendum. Anybody who does it is worse than an infidel and as bad as the Czar of Rus sla If the referendum is divine, how long does its divinity endure? It must be a transitory, ephemeral, paroxysmal .di vinity a JIu jltsu god. Nothlngi is plainer than that the referendum piay contradlct and reverse itself. What it declared to be expedient last year it may pronounce inexpedient this year. What a small vote In an 9ft year dis closes of the divine purpose may be obscured or eclipsed by a full vote based on "later Information." 1300 Years of Ownership. London Spectator. Fulham Is probably the oldest con tinuously owned property In the king dom. It has belonged to the Bishops of London for 1300 years, and has sur vived all the changes, ecclesiastical 'and civil, which the church and state of England have witnessed In that time. SHORT STUDIES OF FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS JAPAN (By Arrangement "With Chicago Tribune.) THE government of Japan was formed in conscious and avowed Imitation of the governments of the great constitutional monarchies of West ern Europe. In constructing their govern ment, as in building their army, the statesmen of Japan adopted Germany as their principal model. But while In legal theory Japan's political insti tutions, national and local, arc most like those of Germany, to no small de gree in theory and to a still larger de gree in their practical operation, her institutions resemble those of her friend and ally, England. The framers of the Japanese constitution meant that their country's ministers should, like the German. Chancellor, be respon sible to tho Emperor. In practice the Ministers have become, or arc rapidly becoming, responsible to the imperial diet. The constitution provides that the local governments of Japan shall, like those of Prussia, be directly and effectively subordinated to the central power. In practice the Japanese have acquired considerable control over their local affairs, and they seem dis posed to extend this control until In the measure of true local self-government they enjoy they shall equal Anglo-Saxons. The Japanese imperial constitution was promulgated February 11, 1SS9. The first election- under it took placo July 4, 1S90. The first session of the imperial diet opened November 29. 1S90. "The empire of Japan." says the con stitution, "shall be reigned over and governed by a line of Emperors un broken for ages eternal." While tho Emperor is "the head of the empire, combining in himself the rights of sovereignty." he consents to exercise them "according to the provisions of the present constitution." The Em peror makes laws "with the consent of the legislative diet." In case of urgent necessity ho issues imperial ordinances in place of laws when the diet is not sitting; but if these ordinances are not approved by the diet when it moots they become invalid for the future. The Emperor also exercises all the powers which aro usually Intrusted to the chief executive of a constitutional state, and several powers Which com monly are not intrusted to such an executive. Acting in a con sultative capacity to the Em peror is his privy council, which is appointed by him and advises him in important matters of state. He has another and a unique advisory body in the "cider statesmen," who arc un known to the constitution, and even to the laws, but who exert an impor tant influence upon Japanese public policy. Tho present chief of the "elder statesmen" is Marquis Ito, who framed the constitution and is the real father of modern Japan. While the privy council and the elder statesmen" are the Emperor's "highest resort of counsel," they do not directly partlclpatc In the work either of admin istration or of legislation. The govern ment is carried on. both theoretically and In fact by tho Cabinet. The Cabinet has a president, who is Prime Minister, and ODD BITS 0F0REG0N LIFE. Matrimony Mixed With Furniture. Prinevllle Review. A wedding in high life is sched ule! tn come off in the near fu- sofa for sale. Inquire at the Review office. Ben Morgan Equipped for Conquest. Douglas Corr. lone Proclalmcr. Ben Morgan has purchased himself a fine new buggy, and with his fine bay team, he will surely win some good-looking girl's heart. Sad Dilemma of Young Mr. Peters. Canby Corr. Aurora Borealis. We wish Mr. Peters would furnish his son with a map of the road to tho home of his best girl, so he wouldn't have to stop the citizens of Canby to inquire. Fingers and Thumbs to Burn. Arlington Appeal. The editor met with an accident last Thursday night which resulted in three fingers and a thumb getting quite badly burned. But the Appeal comes out on tlmo Just the same. Disciples of Noah Webster in Combat. Kelzur Ridge Corr. Condon Globe. Two of "the boys" here are each dar ing the other one to meet him in a spelling contest- Unless one or the other, or both, back down, there may be something doing soon. They Fed This Editor Well. Klamath Republican. The banquet, under the management of Mrs. Krause and her able corps of assistants was a feast fit for the gods. The men said it was an angel food, like manna from heaven, and that it was served by real angels. Good Subjects for Senator Coe. Myrtle Point Enterprise. There are a good many boys and girls In this town who think they are in love and think they want a husband or wife, when what they really need is a good, sound spanking and to be sent to bed without their supper. We Wonder. West Side Corr. Castle Rock Leador. I'd Tucker was the leader of the band Tuesday. Wonder who the sheep hunted? Some boys have to have strings on their best girl. Who stood on the stump making goo goo eyes? Timely Recovery of Mr. Waller. Wallowa News. Elsewhere in this issue it was re ported that M. Waller was down with the pneumonia, but just as we expected to write up his obituary Mike walked into the office to pay his subscription. Glad we did not have, to write it. Come again. Careless' Mr. Hanson. La Center Corr. Vancouver Columbian. As a result of twice falling; from the Wilson flume, Arthur Hanson Ms feeling like he had been badly abused. It was found necessary to do some work on the flume after dark, and in the darkness he fell off. sustaining a bruised shoulder. A short time afterwards he fell a dis tance of about ten feet, this time Injur ing his side. He was out of commission for a few days. Did He Find the Grubbing Outfit. Ne tarts Corr. Tillamook Herald. I. R. Payne started out on hunt of a grubbing machine outfit Wednesday on horse back, but lo and behold he run across a horse trader and traded his horse off for a sucking colt, so he had to come home afoot leading the colt and the fol lowing day he went again with his other horse after his saddle and to find a grub bing outfit. 1 Old Things In Shakespeare. -Philadelphia Press. Pundit There is no doubt that Shakespeare borrowed a great many ideas from others. Dumioy Sure thing! Why, I've read some things In his books that had whiskors on 'em 30 years ago, "when I ;was a boy. 11 other memoera. the Ministers of For eign Affairs, of Finance, of the Interior, of Justice, of War. of the Navy, of Edu cation, of Agriculture and Commerce, and of Communications. The Minister of the Interior, like the officials bearing tho same title in France, Germany and Rus sia, has oversight of the subordinate gov ernments. The Minister of Communica tions has supervision of the postoffice. telegraph, telephone and railway systems and of all other systems of transportation and communication, most of which are owned and operated by the government. For several years after the new gov ernment was organized the Ministers wcro both constitutionally and practically re sponsible to the Emperor. In 1S96. how ever, the elements which opposed the policies of the Cabinet then in office, and the elements that favored them, crystal lized into fairly regular and definite par ties, and in 1S3S tho "opposition" became so- largely in the mapority in the cham bers and made such aggressive and ef fective war upon the Ministers that they were constrained to resign. Since then It has been considered an unwritten law that when a Cabinet loses the confidence and support of the chambers it must make way for a Cabinet whose policies the chambers approve. The Ministries of the army and navy, however, have been taken out of politics, and their heads do not change when a cabinet resigns. The Imperial Diet, or Legislature, con sists of two houses a House of Peers and a House of Commons. The House of Peers is composed of male members of the royal house, of Princes and Marquises, of Counts, Viscounts and Barons elected by the members of their order?, of persons appointed by the Emperor for erudition or services to the state, and of persons elected from each fu and ken. Its mem bership is about 300. The House of Rep resentatives is composed of 363 members, who must be 30 years old. who are chosen for four years, and a fixed number of whom are returned from each electoral district. Voters must be 25 years old, and must pay a land tax of $10 per year or other taxes amounting to 520 per, year. The Ministers attend the sessions of the houses and take part freely in their de bates: and most projects of legislation originate with them. The Diet has com plete control over the finances, and it must be assembled every year. For local administration. Japan is di vided Into 72 ken and three fu. or pre fecturef?, which roughly correspond to American states. The prefectures are subdivided into shl (municipalities) and gun (counties). Each prefecture has a Governor, an Assembly elected by the people, and a Council elected by the As sembly, whose duty it Is to advise the Governor. Each county ha a Sheriff, a County Assembly and a County Council, and each municipality a Mayor, a Mu nicipal Assembly and a Municipal Council. The main business of the assemblies ot the local governments is to counsel about the budget of local expenses and about tho manner of raising taxes. There are four kinds of courts in Japan, the Local Court, the District or Provincial Court, the Court of Appeal, and finally the Supreme Court. The judicial system, like the judicial systems of Germany and France. Is much centralized, and is under the supervision of the Minister of Justice. In 189" a wholly new code, modeled on the code Napoleon, was adopted. S. O. D. GAMBLERS DELAY FUtNERAL. Topeka Capital. "Talking about your graveyard rabbit superstitions- and that sort of thing, there Is no class of people who believe in it stronger than the gamblers," said an old gambler, "and I saw it exemplified in the strangest way at Pittsburg. Kan., ten years ago. 'Kid' Jackson, one of the best known gamblers in that part of Kansas, died of consumption, and all the gamblers sot out to give him a good funeral. Thy bought a fine casket and all the flowers the room would hold, and had a proces sion fixed up with plenty of mourners, be cause there was a certainty of refresh ments below after the obsequies, even If our friend was not eirjoyfng them above. All the pallbearers were gamblers and friends of the dead man. "Well, we started out and reached the cemetery all right and the grave-digging man was on hand with his pick and shovel. We set the coffin down on tho barriers across the grave and were pre paring to let the 'kid's body down into the grave. Just then a rabbit jumped out of a thicket close by and landed right at the bottom of the grave. He wa3 killed in a second. Just who fired the shot I never could tell, but It does not matter. We all carried guns in those days and were ready to shoot at the dropping of a hat. But, anyway, the rabbit was dead. " 'The graveyard rabbit, by thunder. one of the fellows said, as the rabbit was picked up. 'Talk about your mascots, here is one for me,' and with that he be gan cutting oft the left hind foot. 'Hold up there, said another of tho pallbearers, 'let's sell these feet off and make up a pot for the "kid's" folks. If we find he has any folks, and send It to them. It was agreed, and In a minute the funeral services were forgotten and an auction bidding began at $5 for the left hind foot and was promptly raised to $10 and then to 515 and to $20, and finally the foot sold for "more than $20. The other hind foot was bid for and" brought $23. The other two feet are not considered so much in demand. When the auction was over we found that the proceeds were a little more than $100. Then we turned our attention to the body and interred It as it should have been. "Two of the boys in the bunch wno got a foot apiece were Ed O'Connor and Char lie Cropper, and I have often wondered whether their luck atter that was good or bad. But I have been away from that country and I have not heard from them In years. I got one of them and T can't find out that it has brought me anything that would not have come otherwise. Perhaps I am hoodooed." Anglo-Saxonism in the South. Washington Post. The truth is that the South has re tained the Anglo-Saxon civilization in virtually undiluted form. With the exception of one of two great seaport towns the white people of the section have preserved Intact their stock, their customs, their ideals and their institutions. Generations succeed each other in unbroken order, each taking, on something of the fruit of human progress and keeping pace with the general exaltation, but the race re mains in its original purity and aban dons nothing of its original character and Inspiration. Down in their hearts, whatever committees and conventions and zealous exploiters may say, xtho Southern people are content with the evolution which has brought them to their present state. They do not relish the Idea af alien infusions, new social problems and perilous experiments in unknown fields. They have emerged from disaster by familiar and sure paths. Along these paths they would rather Journey to the end. The Patriot. London Bally News. ' His eyes ashlne with ancient memories. His blood aglow with subtle racial fire. For him are quenched tho stirrings of de sire. Tho pageant of the world has ceased to please; Hushed aro the evening songs the lufes of ease: In the war flame, that old ancestral pyre. He casts his hopes of home, wife, child, or sire; Instinct of race, a passion more than these. The spirit of his country, holds him thrall; In him forgotten heroes, forbears, rise, Strengthening his heart to common sacri fice: Out of the darkness generations call And martyr hosts, that-unrecorded .fall. , Salute him from the void with joyful cries.