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Tho Berryhlll News Co. Sacramento, CaL Sacramento News Co, 429 K street. Salt Lake Salt Lake News Co, 77 West Second street South. Santa Barbara, CaL S. Smith. San DIeso, CaL J. Dlllard. San Francisco J. K. Cooper St Co, 745 Market street: Foster & Crear. Ferry News Stand; Goldsmith Bros, 230 Sutter; L. E. Lee, Palace Hotel News Stand; F. W. Pitts. 1008 Market: Frank Scott. SO Ellis; N. Wheatley, 83 Stevenson; Hotel St. Francis News Stand. St. Louis, Mo. E. T. Jett Book 4 News Company, 806 Olive street. Washington, D. C. Ebblt Hons News Stand. PORTLAND. THURSDAY. MARCH 0, 1005. THE UNITED STATES AS RECEIVER. Is Is hard to form an Intelligent opln ion from the varied dispatches describ ing the action of the Senate regarding the Santo Domingo protocol and agree ment. Some of the Senators appear to have taken umbrage at the President's having entered Into a so-called agree ment with the Dominican government without previously submitting it to Ihe Senate Inasmuch as Mr. Loomls. As slstant Secretary of State, described the document on January S3 as a "memorandum of a proposed agree ment," and as Senator Cullom referred to it In the Senate as a "proposed con tract," and as the document confirming and embodying the contract In question was duly submitted by the President to the Senate and is now under discussion. Senatorial dignity cannot have been in vaded. Probably, therefore, discussion in the Senate will be based on the real under lying question as to how far, and by what means, the United States should undertake so to regulate the dealings of the Central American States with their creditors that interference of foreign governments may be Justly forbidden. There seems to be substantial agree ment as to the right and duty of the American Government to prevent such states from infringing the rights of American citizens to protection of prop erty and payment of obligations. But the question submitted by President Roosevelt in presenting this treaty for ratification is outside of that common -ground and gives rise to great search ings of heart in the Senate. How far the Senate can justify itself in the eyes of -fee people for even delaying, much less for refusing, Its approval, a very short statement of facts may show. On the first ground, that of protec tion of American citizens and their per sonal and property rights. It suffices to recall that over twenty million dollars of American money is at stake In that country; that six million dollars repre sents sugar estates, in one district, and in another that an American company owns $500,000 in 18.000 acres of banana plantations. As late as the Summer of 1904 revolutionary bands roved at large, the house of the American representa . tive was frequently pierced by shells, American naval vessels fired on, one noncommissioned officer killed, the town where most of the foreigners lived was twice bombarded and thrice stormed and taken by revolutionary parties. Meanwhile carrying into ef fect the international award in favor of the American San Domingo Improve ment Company, Tendered July 14, 1904, was both impeded and endangered. The capital sum due from the Dominican government to the American company had -been set at 54,500.000, and the terms and manner of payment were to be, arid were, settled by the arbitrators' award. Under the award the amounts due the American company were to he collected through direct receipt by an agent, named by the United States, of the cus toms receipts at Puerto Plata, and at three other Custom-Houses If neces sary. It will be seen, therefore, that 0 this award, and not any direct action by the United States Government, Is re sponsible for the presence of United States agents in receipt of 'customs dues at Dominican Custom-Houses. The award having been made, nothing could he done but to see that it was carried out without gross abandonment of the . duty of the United States Government to its own citizens. But the citizens of the United States were not the only nor the heaviest creditors of the semi bankrupt republic Italians, Germans, French, Belgians, British, were in the field, not only as creditors tor monej lent, but as owners of Dominican es tates and property endangered and in jured, precisely as were those of the Americans. Were those governments to turn deaf ears to their citizens, de manding both protection and Interfer ence? It has been suggested that joint In ternational control and possession might have been Instituted. Experi ments of this nature have been made' and always fall, generally leaving sore and angry feelings as their legacy. In such case, where would our Monroe Doctrine have taken refuge? If occu pancy of territory or rights of posses sion of national property were Involved the United States must have Interfered to prevent outside Interference, or for ever nave held its peace. Another factor now appears in the urgent request of the Santo Domingo government to the- United States to take charge of its finances, to establish at its ports oversight and control, to see to collection and distribution of revenues. Had Inquiry proved that taxes were oppressive, property un productive, commerce dead. In fact that bankruptcy was Impending from fail ure of resources, hesitation would have been natural. The exact opposite was shown. Decent, conservative, honest administration would meet all the ne cessities of the case, and this the Amer ican Government could supply. A dangerous precedent, cry th timid ones. A necessary task. Is the answer. Other bridges, if we meet them in this road, must be' crossed when we corqe to them. This path Is clear. Such facts, published in the press in January, debated and commented on since by every Journal of note, stated in public documents, enlarged on In the Presi dential message, and considered by all thoughtful men for many weeks, would have prepared any assembly of Amer icans except the United States Senate for prompt and decided action. How such action can or could do other than sustain President Roosevelt in carry ing into effect the treaty It is hard to Imagine. Great bodies move slowly, it is said. How great, then, must be the Senate of the United States. THE GOOD OLD DAYS. , Here in Oregon the old regime has passed away, and the new has taken the tiller. Just where the weather- beaten old ship is bejng steered nobody jtuuna, uiu uwure uu uui cure, uui mat It has taken Its course through untried channels is apparent alike to the old- iraier ana me tenaerroot. it is just a little startling when you sit down and think It over calmly, and essay to fig ure out what is going to happen and to whom it will happen. The initiative and referendum, the direct primary and local option these three, and tho great est of them is likely to he any of them.' The direct primary has done up the machine and the boss perhaps; but no body knows whether they will have the grace to stay done up, nor for how long. The referendum has wrecked all ancient legislative processes, and es tablishes the power of appeal from the Capitol at Salem to the corner grocery of Yamhill County. The local-option act has changed the route of the con vivial and the bibulous from the front door of the saloon to the back alley of the deadfall. Down with the 12-cent short drink over the licensed bar and up with the long and sliest drink from the Individual jug! Alas, the good old days! All remem ber when the lobby at Salem was In vaded by a delegation of representa tive citizens from the thriving metrop oils of Pumpklnville, who set forth In eloquent language that the one thing needful to save the youth of the state' from the debasing Influence of penna nent ignorance was the establishment of a state normal school. The Legis lature, if It happened to be a Repub" lican Legislature, gave thoughtful con sideration to the returns of the last election in Hayseed County (where, as Is well known, Pumpklnville is located), and, ascertaining, the gratifying fact that It had returned a Republican State Senator and several Republican Repre sentatives, recognized with pleasing promptness the Imperative necessity of a normal school In that county, and passed the bllL The Republican mem hers from Hayseed County, grateful for the considerate attention of a sovereign state, on their part delivered their votes to the candidate for United States Sen ator who happened to be a friend of the friends who had been so friendly to them. Thus two golden deeds were done a friend of education was elected to the Senate, and the rising genera tion was saved. Then who that has a memory worth having does not remember how in the long ago but not so long ago the pri mary was the occasion of the dlstrlbu tion of largess to the needy citizen a sort of political potlatch? No favorites were played by the candidate, but everybody was the equal of every body else in the eyes of the boss. if he desired to be in on the game be fore the primary. But how is it now? "We give It up. Then the good old days when we had a schoolhouse on every hill and a beer garden in every hollow before the days of local option. How Is It now. since wc have prohibition? A beer gar den on every hill and a schoolhouse In every hollow, you answer. Ah, no. There has been a mighty rerorm. Now we have prohibition, in a county or two somewhere up in Eastern Oregon, and another in the "Willamette Valley, where every man looks his neighbor calmly and soberly in the eye. and. tap ping significantly the handy flask in his pistol pocket, points thankfully to the cob-webbed shutters of the former sa loon. These be pious times. But, annyhow in the language of Mr. Dooley all may be glad that reform Is here. Nobody knows yet where he has been hit, nor how hard, but that some body has been hit by something all agree. Perhaps we shall be able to as certain the list of casualties after the next election or two. THE NATIONAL DRINK. Statistics of national subjects some times give surprising results when brought to a per capita basis. A bulle tin, for instance, issued by the De partment of Commerce and Labor, dealing with the importation of coffee into America, gives the amount im ported during the last year as 1,116,' 922,561 pounds. Exportations reduced the total for home consumption to trifle under 1,053,000,000 pounds, valued at JSl.000,000. This huge amount gives the United States' consumption of cof fee as thirteen pounds per capita. Some official with a taste for statis tical work has estimated that on the thirteen-pound basis each person In the Nation drinks fifty gallons of coffee a year, or nearly a gallon a week. Needless to say, this record puts the United States In the forefront of all coffee-drinking nations. Germany does not -use half as much, and Great Brit ain's consumption is represented by about 3 per cent of the amount. The enormous consumption here is largely accounted for by the custom of drink' ing coffee at all meals. In Europe wine or beer is largely substituted, and the British teapot further tends to displace the coffee urn. Tea is regarded as more soothing in Its effects than coffee, and this may be one of the reasons why the 'American invasion' startles the Lip- toa-soothed English. Americans drink less than two gal lons per capita of beer- and wine to gether, so that the supreme position of coffee is easily seen. Unfortunately Dr. "Wylie has not seen fit to tell us how much good coffee Is drunk by our un critical people, but there Is no reason to doubt that the percentage would ho higher than In the case of whisky, of which 85 per cent was bad, according to the eminent director of the poison squad. Perhaps this may account for the lack of enthusiasm displayed toward the National drink. There are drinking songs galore that deal with ruby wine and brown October ale and whisky. There Is even a song to tea. but America's National drink remains unsung. However, this neglect In one- direction is largely made up In another. for coffee runs the prune a close sec ond In the matter of comic paper jokes and vaudeville gibes. Through good and evil report America continues to consume half the world's crop of cof fee and to produce half the world's crop of dyspepsia. STEED RECORD NO LONGER AT- TRACTIVE. The Cunard steamship Caronla, the very latest thing In trans-Atlantic lin ers, arrived at New Tork Sunday on her maiden trip from Liverpool after a passage of seven days and nineteen hours. The time occupied In making the passage Is strikingly different from that which was expected when one of the old Cunarders came out on her mai den trip and sliced seconds, minutes. and not Infrequently hours, from the record. But the Caronla is a 6trictly up-to-date steamer without record- breaking speed. She is more than twice as large as the Cunard record-breakers of twenty years ago, and she brought over on her maiden trip more than 2000 passengers. Her apartments are said to be the finest ever fitted up on steamer, and her owners expect to find a sufficient number of passengers who are not in a hurry to make her a divi dend-payer. The action of the Cunard line in fol lowing its old rival, the White Star line. in making speed a secondary considera tion in the construction of their mon ster ships, seems strange in view of the enterprise of the Germans, who for more than eight years have held the trans-Atlantic record with their big ocean scorchers. The White Star line, after more than a generation of experi ence, settled down to slower vessels of greater size and more luxuriant equipment than the speed-record break ers .and vessels of the Cedric, Celtic and Baltic type are said to be coming Into favor with the traveling public. England, of course, with her wonderful record as mistress of the seas, has not yet formally announced her withdrawal from the speed contest on the Atlantic. and with the aid of the government Is now building two vessels which are confidently expected to beat the time of the marvelous Deutschland, which for Beveral years has reflected glory on the German flag. But these high-speed vessels, operated at enormous cost, have never been com parable to some of the slower craftfl from a money-making standpoint. As an advertisement for the line and the rest of the steamera flying the same house flag, they have undoubtedly earned their keep, and there will al ways be a certain class of travelers who will pay fancy rates for the privi lege of riding on a record-breaker. It is not because they are pressed for time, for not infrequently they will wait over three or four days or a week in order to connect with one of these much-advertised craft, but because It affords superior opportunities for pa rading their wealth. The Pacific Ocean ,ln the past served as a dumping-ground for steamships when they became too slow for the At' lantic service, but this system will never again be popular, and, on ac count of the greater distance across the Pacific, It Is highly probable that the woria s record ior ocean steamships a dozen years hence will be held on the Pacific. 'The man In quest of either pleasure or business can cross the At lantic on a comparatively slow steamer in about a week, while It would take much longer for the fastest steamer afloat to cross the Pacific, -hence the greater need for fast steamers on this ocean. tut up this monument. In the hurry and bustle attendant upon preparations for the Lewis and Clark Fair there is a matter that, in the beginning, was deemed of great im portance, but which seems now in dan ger of being overlooked. We refer to the erection In the City Park of a gran lte shaft In grateful memory of the lives and llfework of Lewis and Clark It will be remembered that two years ago, or more, when the Lewis and Clark Fair was first proposed; when, indeed, plans for it were not yet on paper and It had no commercial or In dustrial standing; when patriotic cent! ment ruled the hour and the centennial date seemed yet afar off, the Oregon Historical Society took the Initiative In the matter of having a monument to Lewis and Clark erected near the scene of their Winter's -bivouac on Clat sop Plains In 1S05. The suggestion met with favor, and, after some prelim I napes, It was decided to place the shaft, not In an out-of-the-way loca tion, wnere relatively lew persons would sec It. but on a consDlcuous ele vation In ihe City Park. This project made commendable progress, and in May, 3903, the foundation stone of the proposed monument was laid by Theo dore Roosevelt, President of the United States. The enthusiasm of that day and occasion was not In the least damp ened by a generous downpour from April clouds. The drenched multitude cheered to the echo the stirring words of the President. Almdst two years have passed. The foundation is still there, solidly set In concrete. A gran He shaft, just as it came from the quarry, rough, unlettered, lies prone on the ground beside It. This represents a condition that should not be allowed to continue an other month. This memorial shaft should be dressed, lettered and raised without further delay. Let us not al low the commercial features of the Fair entirely to overshadow the patriotic Im pulse In which the Fair idea was gener ated. It will be a remissness in civic pride, and In patriotism as well, to al low this memorial shaft to lie In its crude state, prone upon the hillside, white the park Is thronged with visitors who have come hither to do honor to the groat explorers. ' . The -cost of dressing, , lettering and raising the stone will not be great. The Historical Society has no funds that can be appropriated for this purpose. The Fair Commissioners should either assume and discharge this duty or re pudiate it. In the latter case the city should be called upon to place- this me morial stone In its park. Falling here. a private subscription should be taken up for the purpose and the work pushed to speedy completion. The growing magnitude of the Fair, and" various matters connected therewith, have sim ply overshadowed this first effort in honor .of Lewis and Clark. Neglect has followed, which, fortunately, there is still time to repair before our Summer visitors begin to arrive. Willamette Valley counties nave a common interest in many important commercial affairs which affect other portions of the state but slightly. For the purpose of promoting this common Interest a convention has been called to be held at Salem, March 23, composed of delegates from all the commercial organizations In that part of the state. A convention of this kind should be productive of much good, and will doubtless have a large attendance, es pecially since the Valley Is deeply In terested in devising means by which many of Oregon's visitors in 2905 may be induced to make permanent homes in the region between the Cascade and Coast Ranges. The organization of a Valley league should not, however, be. permitted to detract In any way from the .interest In the state league, which represents the Willamette Valley as well as every other part of Oregon. Ex-Senator John L. Wilson lacked sufficient strength in the State of Washington to secure his election to the Senate, but his strength at Wash ington, D. C, seems to be unimpaired by the fact that he no longer has a vote in the Senate. "Brother Harry," for whose scalp the anti-Wilson forces have been reaching for a long time, has received another promotion In the dip lom.atlc service. Another ex-Senator who seems to have landed his man is Hon. Addison G. Foster, who secured a berth for his private secretary, Thomas Sammons, as Consul at Nluchwang. While the ex-Senators continue to do patronage business at the old stand, the newer ones seem to be experiencing dif ficulty in holding their ground In post- office contests, with plain, ordinary Congressmen. Strange things happen In politics everywhere, but nowhere else so strange as in the Evergreen State. A Spokane man was run down and killed, by a-blcycle last Sunday. Since the advent of the automobile in such large numbers the bicycle as a man killer has seldom been heard of. That Its prowess under certain conditions Is still as great as ever is evidenced by the Spokane accident. The fact that bicycle accidents arc so much fewer than formerly may be due to. the declln lng popularity of the two-wheeled ve hicle. The number now ridden In Portland is said to be less than one- tenth as large as it was when the craze was at its height. The automobile, wherever the money Is forthcoming, is now enjoying more popularity than originally greeted the bicycle, and the people who walk or pay car fare are now wondering what will come next when the bubble-wagons cease to be novelties. Governor Pennypacker, of Pennsyl vail La, belloves In the merits of the ap propria tion for the Lewis and Clark Fair, but he does not seem willing to trust any commission except one named by himself. In this respect he resem bles ex-Governor McBrlde, of Wash lngton. The latter was vigorously op posed, to a railroad commission that placed the appointing power In the hands of the Governor so long as the late John R. Rogers was Governor, but when McBrlde became Chief Executive he labored long and earnestly to secure the passage of a bill giving him the power which he denied Rogers. Penny packer as a citizen would probably be better satisfied with the Lewis and Clark Commission named by the Legis lature than would Pennypacker the Governor. Colonists are coming into the Pacific Northwest by the tralnload. Not all of them will tarry with us, for the world contains many dissatisfied beings who never find anything they are looking for except an alleged excuse for "knocking. But to the rustler with a small or a large amount of capital there are opportunities in the Pacific North west that will appeal, powerfully, and, out of the thousands now coming west' ward on an Investigation tour. It Is a certainty that many hundreds will find great opportunities for investment of capital and labor. Just at present there Is a surplus population of jaw smiths who create nothing but trouble. but for honest workmen asking no spe cial prlvilegee and willing to do a day's work for a day's pay, both Oregon and Washington have much to offer. Captain Peary wants to , make one more effort to reach the North Pole, and, having been refused aid from the Government, he asks for contributions to his expedition fund from the American people. In his opinion the discovery of the pole would be the great historical event of the century, reflecting as great credit upon America as the discovery of America did upon Spain. Peary will probably find out, however, that the people are deeply Interested in far more practical enterprises, and that they es timate the discovery of the pole at about the same value as the riding of Niagara Falls in a barrel. In either case success merely shows that the feat can be accomplished. A Montana Mayor who was offered a bribe says If it Is repeated he will spit in the, eye of the briber. That's the way to' do it. Indeed, the Mayor would be Justified in spitting In both eyes. When Governor Chamberlain says that the normal school machine or ganized the Oregon Legislature, nobody rises to dispute. It's self-evident. Oregon apples beat the world in the English, market, and this bright Spring sunshine Is making more of them. The sunshine beats the world, too. All the able critics of Kuropatkln are at St. Petersburg, six thousand miles from the front. The poet who wrote "Hope deferred rnaketh the heart sick" must have been a Russian. A battle also seems Imminent between the initiative and the referendum. General Kurokl fights all the better for having bees, dead a. while. NOTE AKD COMMENT. To the Marquam Hill Cougar. Couc&r, cougar, stark and grim. In the tangled Jungles dim. Not & soul doth wish you ill. But please go 'way from Marquam HilL Cougar, cougar, don't you know i Wildcat schemes no longer go; Your cousin tiger now is down, Portland is a moral town. We doa'fc want to have your blood. But move, or else your name is mud; Cougar, you must cult your loir Its rent will double for the Fair. To have dog and dress In the same shade Is the correct thing nowadays. As it would be expensive to buy a new dog with each change of color, we may expect the peroxldo Pomeranian and the bleached Boston before, long. The Sparrow. Soma may sine the eagle's praise. Whose flight Is like as arrow. But aye the subject of my lays Is the plucky little sparrow i The eagle has no foes to meet. Up in the ether sailing. The sparrow's Toes line every street. And crouch behind each railing. But cats nor kids the sparrow frights. He loves the city's bustle. And hold the free-born biped's right To Jump right In and hustle. The eagle's buncoed lots of men. Whose brains, you'd think, were tougher So haliour sparrow-citizen. A rustler, not a. bluffer. Collier's' Weekly publishes a photograph of General Kurokl amusing himself Jay competing In a rifle competition partici pated in by the foreign attaches and cor respondents with his army. Kurokl and "Jimmy" Hare, tho photographer, made the same score. Neither hit the target. Vice-President Fairbanks now begins to appreciate that buried-allve sensation. It is curious how much more rhere is In a trunk after it is lost than there was in It before. This truthful observation has nothing to do with the case of an actress, who is suing a Kansas City theater for 8215, tho value "of the things in a trunk lost by the employes. In this capacious dox mere were three opera cloaks, worth $300; nine gowns, worth from $30 to $100 each; a green voile waist. worth $125; a whole raft of laces, hand kerchiefs, shawls, bonnets, gloves and "pearls"; Ave pairs of slippers, J6 each; one blends wig. 525; one pair corsets, JS; and. some other things. The Maids of Warsaw. The Colonel called for volunteers, The Cossacks answered him with cheers. Each trooper waved his flashing blade. And swore to spit a serving maid. The Colonel said, "My gallant chaps. These foes are not the dwarflsh Japs, But let no soldier be afraid. We'll chase to work each serving-maid. "The Q re at White Father nerves our arm. xao lxons save our souls from harm' And calmly, as if on parade. Each Cossack faced a serving-maid. Spurring his steed, the trooper rose To get a swing Into his blows. And well each fearless man obeyed The word to lick a serving-maid. Besom and mop were trampled down. The Cossacks won o'er all the town. The Colonel wrote the Czar, "As prayed. we ve soundly trounced each serving-maid.' The strike was broken, back to scrub. To kitchen, sink and laundry .tub. Back to her work with shoulders flayed. Forlornly went each serving-maid. Honor the Cossacks, one and all. That thus respond to duty's call:' They banish fear and In they wade To wallop well each serving-maid. And now they say that the war Warsaw saw was worse war than tho war saw. The burglar who blew open the safe labeled "Save your time; no money here." will save a few years. Explorer Baldwin three years ago dis patched a balloon message which has Just been received. Balloons are not quite so quick as the postofflce method. The New Tork Evening Sun notes that "the erection of the building for tho Clark and Lewis Exhibition at Portland" may be delayed by a strike. When the Montana Mayor threatened to spit in the eye of an unnamed briber, wa wonder bow many of the Coundlraen ducked. WEX. J. Vocal Talent. Llpplncotfs. I had been taking a horseback ride through tho southern part of Missouri, and one night, finding myself In a very sparsely settled, district, I was forced to continue In the saddle until midnight before I saw the dark shadows of a vil lage at the end of the road. Just out side this village I came to a miserable little cottage where a light still burned In the window; I knocked on the door to Inquire for a place to put up for the night. "Is that you. Tad?" came a grufC voice from within. "No," said L "Open the door a min ute. I want to ask you something." The bolt was drawn and a man attired In a cotton undershirt and overalls looked out sleepily into the darkness. "1 thought you was my boy. Tad," he explained, rubbing Wa eyes, "and, snip my ears! here he is now!" A barefoot youth came panting out of the shadow with his arms full of shoes of various sizes and colors. iGet any?" asked the man expectantly. "Yassir," replied the boy in a filial tone "seven of 'em tonight, and two of em Is a pair." "Good!" the man said, and then ho turned to me with the manner of one who thinks explanation would be polite. "You see, Tad can make a noise that sounds louder and has more worry to it and sounds more natural like a torn cat than any cat in this country can make. So he Just goes into the village and yells under windows about this time in the FalL Then he picks up what la flung out." "And you get shoes enough for Winter," I finished. "Stranger," said the man solemnly, "I can see you ain't & fooL" As Bernard Shaw Puts It. London Globe. 1 have not tasted, a fellow creature for nearly a quarter of a century." This mes sages was not, as might bo supposed, penned by a cannibal chief In a melan choly yearning, but by G. B. Shaw, in the state of emotion peculiar to ardent A vegetarians. It recalls the lively surprise and satisfaction displayed by the Fijian chief on seeing tinned sheep's tongues on the missionary's dinner table. From their size, he took them for a bonne bouche of otner days. His Reply. Harper's Weekly. Ex-Secretary of the. Navy Moody tells of the account of an explosion of one .of the big guns on tho Massachusetts, a year ago. which was given by a sailor Injured by the explosion. WeIL sir." Tcplled the jacky to his questioner. "I reeiy can't say that I knows, very much about It. . I was stand In, you see, with me back to the gun. a-facln' the port side All of a sudden I hears a hell-of-a-nolse;' then, sir, the ship physician he says, 'Set up an taTte this. " TWO VIEWS OF THE Desired Reform Can 9 Reached by Initiative. Corvallls Times. There- are two things the Yamhillers can better do than to, invoke, the ref erendum for veto of the omnibus ap propriation bllL They can, as The Ore gonlan suggests, Invoke- the Initiative for abandonment of such of the nor mal schools as they want oat 'out of hustnese. Second, they can by the same means put before the people for pass age a law that will make provision for single items of an. appropriation bill to be vetoed by the) state executive, or by the referendum. The proposed veto would serve no permanent end. It would not be a con structive measure with legislation pro viding for and settling- the future of the normals. It would merely block tho payment of maintenance money to the four schools for two years, and then dump them, accrued debts and all upon the next Legislature. It would add one log-roiling influence to be mixed up and Interwoven with the Senatorial struggle that will probably be a fea ture of that session. It Is notorious that the Weston Normal Is the child of 8euatorial struggle. The details of the bargain and sale are known state-wide. If the four normals, ridden with two years of deht be thrust back on the next Legislature, it is not impossible that the session may end with provl slon for five or even six normals. Thus veto under the present circumstances accomplishes nothing. It would make confusion worse confounded. Not so with the Initiative. A law Involving the adandonment of such of the normals as the Tamhillers desire annihilated can be put before the people to be voted on. Its provisions can be such that the future of one or more normals can be absolutely and permanently provided for, and In such a way tnat no future Legislature- is likely to attempt an Interference. Of equal virtue would be the proposal by the initiative of a law making pro vision for individual items of any ap propriation bill to be vetoed, if de sired, by the Governor. The measure would be one of the most valuable of the executive prerogatives for defense of the public treasury against legisla tive extravagance. It Is a measure that can never pass a Legislative Assembly, because the power to Join appropria tions gives a Legislature one of its most powerful weapons of offense against the executive veto. It can be made a part of the state law by once proposing It to the people, who will be quick to vote It into effect. It would be a measure to signalize the value of the initiative and referendum provision to the people. In conjunction with an initiative measure for reduction of the number of normals, It would be con structive, progressive and permanent legislation compared with the proposed referendum veto with Us dumping of debt-ridden normals and the conse quent log-rolling Influences into the lap of a Legislature that will otherwise have all the business it can attend to. A wise and conservative use of direct legislation is its surest means of per petuation. Its use on frequent, frivol ous or unsound pretexts Is the surest means of its own undoing. It can be easiest destroyed by unwise friends. Wisely used it is unquestionably a splendid instrument of a free govern ment, and by that token every citizen should desire that discretion and pru dence always attend its use. The wise thing, the prudent thing, in the present instance, would by all means seem to 'be the abandonment of the referendum and the invocation of the initiative in any designs the people of Yamhill may have on the normal schools. SOMETHING ENTIRELY NEW. Atchison Globe. This Is the story of a Kansas City girl who drew a husband at a raffle: Under circumstances that would have haunted most maidens, Miss Katharine Knoche, & stenographer living at 3706 Cen tral street, a girl of IS, last night walked bravely forward through a dense crowd and claimed as her husband-to-be a man she had won in a "drawing" at an enter tainment given by the Westport Protect ed Home Circle, in the hall at 4112 Shaw nee avenue. Tho prize" is B. L. Arnett,. of 1723 Oak street. The society had ad vertised as a feature of the entertainment that a young man would be offered as the "capital prize" In a drawing and the hall was packed. Not many In the hall believed the drawing would take place, or at least If It did there would be come sort of "fake" about It. The programme commenced at 10 o'clock, after announce ment had been made that the drawing would take place last. About Id o'clock the crowd began to get anxious and at 10:30 amid a profound hush the chairman announced that the drawing would tako place immediately. There was no response when the first two numbers were announced, but when the third was read Miss Knoche stepped forward. She was presented to the "prize" and the crowd cheered frantic ally. At length order was restored and the president of the lodge said to the couple: "Do you want to be married here now?" Arnett pulled himself together by an effort, braced himself against a convenient chair ana lopked up long enough to say: "It's up to her. Whatever she' says goes. I'mgame' Then he discovered some new charm about bis feet. The girl decided to wait and talk It over. Mirs Knoche Uvea at 3706 Central street. She la a stenographer and is employed at the Barton Bros.' shoe factory. She said: "I guess we'll be married. I hated to come through that crowd, but I don't re gret it. I was previously acquainted with Mr. Arnett. We belong to the same lodge and he has taken me home two or three times." Miss Knoche is what most persons would term a pretty girL She has brown eyes, wavy brown hair, a bright smile and Is graceful and tastefully dressed. Ar nett is not "long" on looks, but If bis ad vertised accomplishments are true he may prove to be a desirable husband. The de scription reads: He was born in Virginia, January 12, 1SS0, making him 25 years old. He was educated In the University of "Virginia, and is in business in Kansas City,' Mo. He has chestnut hair and brown eyes, hla height Is five feet eight Inches, weight 15X pounds. Does not use narcotics or Intoxicants, has no bad habits and is a gentleman In every sense of the word. He has a- Jovial disposition and Is very popular. The lodge agreed to give the couple $200 with which to furnish a home and to rent a house for them and pay the rent six months in. advance. Arnett car ries $3000 insurance on his life. It was said that Miss Knoche has been receiving the attentions of Joseph Arnett, a. brother of the "prize," and that recently they quarreled and she had told frierids that If she drew the lucky number she would claim the "prise." The society announced it would offer a-young woman as a "prize" in another drawing to be held soon. - An Episode in Arizona. Cleveland leader. He took the next train. He had stolea a horse. And was anxious to. lava Arizona, of coarse. But the well-mounted posse would catch. him. 'twas plain. So he took the next train. But the trala stopped for water, Jlls sad to relate: And ths boys Intercepted, it. Pity his fate. All his schORlnp and plotting; and plans were In vain, v " And h tJc tx neck-strain! - , i NORMAL SCHOOLS. Shall Oregon Blacken Its Fair Famt by Such Outrage?" Weston Leader. The Governor's "play to the galleries" as evoked the expected response in Yam hill Jouaty. since out w signatures are reaulred to hold up the appropriation bin until the general election In June, 1306 and these may come in a ouncn zrom nay one locality it is altogether too probable that the referendum movement will succeed. No sane man imagines that the appropriation bill will be de feated at the polls, yet meanwhile tha mischief will be done. The normal schools will be killed, as they have been runrdnjr without funds since the first of the year and cannot continue unless private bene factors come to their relief. The teachers will be turned adrift without the pay ment of their salaries after in the case of Weston, at least sacrificing themselves for the school's benefit for the past twu years. The under classes cannot b graduated, although some provision will doubtless be made to graduate the seniors. With all these people a callous com monwealth will have broken .faith. The City of Weston, which gave Its brick hall and ten acres in the heart of town to the school, will have been betrayed by the state. The State Treasurer's bank ac count will be fattened for 16 months by $1,000,000 that properly belongs to the sev eral state Institutions. Oregon must pay unnecessary Interest on state warrants to grasping shylocks who are eager to shave them for needy employes of the asylum and penitentiary, and hence urge on this senseless clamor for a referendum. And there is no excuse for Oregon's per fidy save a false public sentiment manu factured by The Oregonlan that cries. "Down with the normal schools!" and "We'll teach the Legislature a lesson!" It Is a case of petty spite a story of shame, of ignominy and dishonor. Many well-meaning educators and industrious students who have depended upon tho good faith of the state will find that their trust has been reposed in a broken reed. Shall Oregon blacken its fair fame with an outrage like this? Shall our great commonwealth stand dishonored before her sisters because a bagatelle of $3,000 was granted to the Drain Normal? Why talk of grafts? The most colossal graft ever perpetrated in this state passed un challenged $500,000 to the Portland Fair. We in Eastern Oregon know that this local show at Portland will not benefit us. but will drain this part of the state of its ready cash. The theory that thou sands of settlers will flow in here with hundreds of thousands to Invest is pure moonshine. Portland and Portland grafters will get the monoy of the East ern tenderfeet even as St. Louis got the money and not the State of Missouri. Yet Eastern Oregon did not knock and Is not knocking the Fair, but has continued to pay Its tax money without protest that Western Oregon might continue to receive millions from the state treasury whila this section. draws but the beggarly pit tance begrudged to the Weston school. Not because this school is In jeopardy, but because we have no connection with Western Oregon save as a vassal, but few common interests, and no considera tion from the powers that be save for our dollars, the Leader hopes to see', the day when Oregon is cut In ttwo at the Cascades. We are a different people, with different Ideas and aspirations, and should cease to rest content as the humble tall of the dog. Welcome the hour when Governor Chamberlain and Editor Scott, and the bewhiskered agitators of Yam hill County who follow In their train, may work their mischief as they will in a 6 by 3 "empire of their own on the other side of the Cascades. The Leader must and will hiss its' disapproval of such a miserable farce. It cannot remain quiet when an institution whose growth It has hopefully watched for the past ten years until it Is at last upon a prosperous foot ing, is butchered to make a Yamhill holiday. ODD BITS OF NORTHWEST LIFE. Nothing Doing; Chico corr. In Wallowa Chieftain. Newel Stubblefleld ran off tha grade Friday, struck a stump with the hind wheel, shook the rig up, but nothing serious. Happy Days for Luther. Battle Plains corr. Madras Pioneer. Luther Cowherd Is now employed by H. H. Curtis. Luther seems to rather enjoy picking rock and "grubbing sag brush, and as he is also a good-natured fellow his services are In great demand on the Little PJainsjand neighboring vicinities. Deadly Perils of Water. Malheur Gazette. We are sorry to announce that W. D. Patch, of Dead Ox Flat, a great opponent of bonding the district, whito crossing a piece of thin ice a few days ago fell through and thereby contracted a bad cold. Water Is such a rarity In that sec tion that when one comes In contact with It its effects are disastrous. Value cf a Ministerial Call. Corvallls Gazette. Last Fall Dock Johnson acquired the chicken habit and purchased a dozen fine hens He did everything possible to make them lay, but without suc cess. On March 1, Rev. Mr. Moses paid him a call and Mr. Jackson, during a recital of his chicken troubles, exhibited the fowl to Mr. Moses- Thereupon the hens began to lay and delivered, nine eggs. Mr. Jackson salTlt was a case of lay or di, and Mr. Moses knows why. Czar's Understudy Over in Cowlitz. Castle Rock Leader. The editor of this paper had occasion to refer to the police court docket this week and courteously asked Judge Cram for permission to do so. This the Judge refused and also peremptorily refused a demand to see It, saying he "would show the docket to any official In the city but to no one else." Of course we could have enforced our rights in tha matter but did not do so. But how 13 this for an exhibition of petty czari3m? Determined to. Be the First. LIppincott's. A mother of three little boys who had gone to the country to spend the Summer received the following postal from the eldest: Dear Mother" I wanted to be the first to write to you. so wrote this before I leit home, and will mall it when we reach I4v lnfrston. We are all well and sound, Excuse the wriUnsr, because you keep coming- into the room. Your loving: sort. The mother had said she would, send a dime to the one who wrote the first, and Master William had determined to beat his brothers, so he literally, "took time, by the forelock." Eternal Masculine. Brooklyn Life. At seventeen we meet some girl We worship fond and deep. And beg from -her a tiny cur) We e'er and aye may 'keep. "TIs thin-spun srold we ardent swss( "A mesh of fllisree," . And fondly kiss and hide It where No prying eye may see. At twenty-seven, less enthused'. With auburn-tinted curls, We. finding it. grow much confused To recollect which girl's : Fair head It lent a halo to May. Kate, or .Prue. the dears "Well, pshaw! the thing that's best f 4s Is keep It ten more years!" f At thirty-seven, then, one day, " While rummaging; we stare In absent way at it and say. Tho devil! Whose rad hair . Is this? It ne'er belonged 'to asei The bricky stuff:" Ah. Tate'i We toss It forth, and smile-1 e It crinkle, in the grate.