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THE MOBNING OEEGONIA2J, FRIDAY; 3IABOH"- 10, 1905. Xatered At the Postofflce at Portland. Or., as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION SATES. INVARIABLY m ADVANCE. (By Mall or Express.) Dilly and Solidity. pr year (0.00 Dally and Bun clay, six month ..... 8.00 Daily and Sunday, three months....... 55 Sally and Sunday, per month......... . -85 Dally without Sunday, per year 7.50 Dally without Sunday, sir monthi ...... 3.90 DaJiy without Sunday, three months .... L85 Pally without Sunday, per month ...... -G5 Sunday, per year ...................... 2.00 Ecaday, elr months ., J-00 Sunday, three months .60 BY CARREER. 35 ally without Sunday, per weeV - .15 IHily per week, Sunday Included -20 THE "WEEKLY OREGONIAN. (Issued Every Thursday.) ' Weekly, per year 1-50 I Welf!ir rf mnntVin . .73 "Weekly, three months - 50 HOW TO KEMIT Send postcface money order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency at at the sender's risk. EASTERN' BUSINESS OFFICE. The 8. 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Omaha Barkalow Bros., 1612 Fcrnham: Afageaih Stationery Co.. 1308 Farnham. rbocnix. Ariz. The Berryhlll News Co. Sacramento, Cal. Sacramento News Co.. 128 K street. Salt Lake Salt Lake News Co., 77 West Second street South. Santa Barbara, Cal. R. Smith. gen Diego, CaL J. Dlllard. San frauds coJ. K. Cooper & Co., 740 Market street: Foster & Crear. Ferry News Stand; Goldsmith Bros., 230 Sutter; L. E. Lee. Palace Hotel News Stand; F. TV. Pitts, dOOS Market; Frank Scott. 80 Ellis; N. Wheatley. 83 Stevenson; Hotel St. Francis News Stand. St. LouU, Mo. E. T. Jett Book & News Company, EOS Olive street. Washington, D. C. Ebbft House News Stand. PORTLAND, FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1905. IS THE MONET SAVED? The Yamhill County Referendum Committee says that It will save the -state $400,000 if it shall be able to de feat the $1,000,000 appropriation bill. If It shall fail to veto the measure, of course, it will have saved nothing:, but will lave largely increased the etate expenditure. But let us take it for granted that the people at the polls de cide against the bill, which Is by no means certain. Among the items which It is proposed especially to cut off are the following, all for improvements: Insane Asylum $87,250 Reform School . 10.B00 Mute School S.C0O Blind School jo.OTO State University (wltb additional main tenance) 02.500 Agricultural College 63,000 Boiaiers' Home iwitn aaauionai main tenance 9.220 medicine are particularly dangerous fields ior the novelist, and many a writer lius 'pictured Impossible or ex ceedingly Improbable events Involving the practice of these professions. Here, for example. Is Miriam Mlcbelson, who has written several quite clever stories In a "Yellow Journalism" series. Her latest effort in this direction Is an account of the contest of a will. In which, proceeding sensational facts are developed. ' The story of the trial is well told, -but the author represents the case as being argued before and sub mitted to a jury in a California court. The error in the storj' is manifest when it is remembered thatthe contest of a win Is always tried before a Judge with jjrobate powers or a court' of equity, jivlthout the aid of a Jury. Total S243.G70 The total amount of appropriations that It Is proposed to defeat is $373,094, of which $113,000 is for the normal schools. It is Incredible that any tax payer having at heart the rea,! Interests of the public and a humane desire to provide any state charge with suitable accommodations should propose, for ex ample, not to meet the growing needs of the State Insane AsyJum. At Salem there are something like 1300 patients In the asylum, and the number 1s con etantly growing and will continue to grow. It Is not possible to avoid the plain public duty of providing suitable quarters for these miserable and un Iiappy people. If. through the enter prise of Yamhill County gentlemen, the etate is unable to build an extension to the Insane Asylum, much hardship will result. It must further be obvious to all, including the indignant taxpayers of Yamhill' County, that if the asylum wing Is not built now It must be built hereafter, and .so must other wings be built hereafter. How much saving, then, to the etate will have been achieved by knocking out this item? Precisely the same thing is true as to the proposed improvements at the Re form School, the Mute School, the Blind School and the Soldiers Home. Who Is willing to make a "saving" at the ex pense of the inmates of these instltu tlons? It may be admitted that im provements at the State University and at the Agricultural College are on a dif ferent basis. Nevertheless, If we are to have a University and an Agricul tural College, they must be equipped wlthsultable buildings. If construc tion of the proposed new dormitories Is not undertaken now. It probably will be later." If not, the schools might as well be abandoned now. The Oregonian does not think that th.ere Is any wide spread desire or purpose on the part of the citizens or taxpayers to hamper the work of these valuable schools. The real crux of the situation is the normal schools. There are too many .normal schools; they cost too much money; their efficiency is not of the highest; they are a most mischievous Influence In our politics; they color all our legislation; all other legislative in terests must make terms with them. Their appropriation must be placed upon a reasonable basis. Now. how shall it be done? It might be entirely justifiable. If there were no other rem edy, to put all the state eleemosynary Institutions to great Inconvenience and expense and to hold back the develop ment of the Agricultural College and the State University. It might be Jus tillable, too, to close up the normal schools without warning, to discharge the teachers and to turn the students adrift. But there Is another remedy. It lies In the Initiative. A measure can be framed that will go directly to the heart of the normal school question. The people can settle- It, but before it Is set tled the normal schools will have .time to 'adjust themselves to the new condt lions. ORIENTAL TRADE POSSIBILITIES. Never since Inception of the business have the Pacific ports been called on to handle such a volume of Oriental trade as Is now pouring through Oregon, Washington and California ports for Far East. From Portland alone there have been space engagements for ship ment within the rjext sixty days of ap proximately 60,000 tons of freight, an average of 1000 tons per day. In the same period Seattle will ship nearly as much, while Tacoma shipments will probably exceed this amount. Add to these the Oriental shipments from San Franclscofor the next sixty days, and we shall have a total from the .three states of aprorimately 250,000 tons or 500,000,000 pounds of freight. The war In the Far East has, of course, been responsible for a considerable por tion of this vastly Increased trade with the Oriental countries, but United States prestige in the Philippines 13 a prominent factor in the Increase, nearly every steamer leaving the coast, carry ing liberal consignments of American products to our new dependencies. All of this big traffic at this time with the war in progress quite natur ally disturbing the situation to a cer tain extent. Is suggestive of the possi bllities that await us when peace is declared. The Russians, being so strict ly on the defensive, are not buying from us as they were when the war began, and the greater part of the present enormous traffic comes from the Japanese, who require large quan tities of American, products of all kinds to repair the ravages of war and con tinue the wonderful development which was just beginning In their empire when war was declared. But peace Is inevitable sooner or later, and, when It comes, Russians as well as Japanese will be in the market for all kinds of American products. Even now their necessities are so great that they have paid fabulous freight rates in an effort to land goods from Pacific Coast ports by blockade-runners. They, as well as the Japanese, have large damages to repair, and, regardless of the cost, they must buv "heavily in American roorts. Meanwhile, with the war creating qT, lamine in a nunarea lines ol American goods in Manchuria, American drum mers are overrunning ancient China, and the Flowery Kingdom Is buying more American goods than ever before. These goods are not only going through the Pacific ports en route to Japan, China and the Philippines, but there are also increasing quantities for Siam, Java and a number of the big Indian ports still farther south. Pacific Coast flour and lumber formed the ground work on which our Oriental trade was builded, and even yet these two great staples supply business for an Immense tonnage. These iiave been supplement ed within the past year by a steady di version of freight, which formerly went from the Atlantic Coast to the Far East by way of the Suez Canal. The Ameri can transcontinental railroads have spent large sums In Improving the physical condition of their roads and are increasing their facilities at ocean terminals. This expenditure has placed. them In the position of very dangerous competitors for the trade on which the all-water route through the Suez Canal has previously enjoyed a monopoly. The Pacific Coast ports, through which this transcontinental traffic Is now flowing, do not reap the direct benefits from It that would be notice able if the traffic originated In Pacific Coast territory. There is an Indirect benefit, however, of great Importance In the fact that an abundance of this through freight demands a frequent service between our ports and the Far East, thus insuring the best possible facilities for reaching the oversea mar kets with our flour, lumber, salmon. fruit and scores of other commodities on which we are Just now working up a good trade in the Far East. of a good town and depot -will sell for from 20 to 53 per cent more than farms of equal intrinsic qualities eight or nine mfles away. The value falls still more rapidly as distance increases. No won der when the' muddy roads for six. months In the year make one mile Into three. Who brings the railroad and motor car within reach of the village and farm Is a benefactor Indeed. It Is to be hoped that the Southern "Pacific will not rest on Its oars when the one motor has begun Its work be tween Portland and Forest Grove. The rich and well-settled district south and east of the West Side road and along the line of the old narrow gauge, now known aB the Sheridan and Alrlle line. cries loudly for more frequent and bet ter-arranged service. But the question Is first how to make the best of exist ing railroads by improving and expedit ing the service. The next question Is still more Important, and that Is how to bring the back-lying districts, fertile and productive as they are. Into easy and quick communication with the rest of the world. By all means foster the electric roads struggling to gain and keep a foothold. Watch closely the motdr car. If therein may not be found cheap and effective equipment for the light railroad of the near future. The problem of progress that wUl 'ba presented by this comparison will be well worth studying. Belief that some time the Government will be able to secure a given service for the same amount of money that it costs the civilian maybe only a Utopian dream, but there are occasional bits of evidence that' tend to show that prog ress is being" made toward the use of common business sense in Government transactions. These transactions are usually bound up by so much red tape and so many ironclad rules that the Government always has to pay for the unnecessary bother which Is created by the stupidity of its officers or the ridlc- "ulous nature of the regulations they en force. Contrary to all precedent, the Government has decided that lumber for shipment to Manila can go forward in sailing vessels as well as in steam ers. The result of this discovery is a saving of several dollars per thousand freight on the lumber and admission to competition of bids from ports that would be unable to secure American steamers to carry It, and accordingly would not be In a position to submit bids. ELEVATING THE STAGE. Most people catch the measles and fall In love during their lives. Almost as many feel at some period a great lorurlnsr to elevate the stage. Fortu nately for all of us, the measles and love and the desire to elevatcthe stage pass off without any grave effects. Da vld Blspham Is the latest person of prominence to feel called upon to do something for the stage. He Intends to abandon the concert platform for the boards In the hopo of educating the public's taste in matters dramatic While Mr. Blspham will be missed by music-lovers, it seems eminently fair and desirable that he should do some thing for us as an actor. The task of elevating the stage has of late been left too much in the hands of one class, and active as Its members may be. It Is In evitable that they take a more or less restricted view of their duties and op-' portunltles. James J. Corbett is doing much for the stage "In a werry gentlemanly way." John L. Sullivan Is also In the elevating business, although after his recent knockout of an opponent he was in such spirits that his monologue did not extend beyond "Aw. gwan!" The freckled Robert Fitzsimmons and Mrs Fltzslmmons are engaged In educating the public taste. James J. Jeffries, the champ," holds every eye as Davy Crockett, and the entire McGovern family Is provided with a drama all of its own. All these actors were famous In other professions before succumbing to the call of the stage. So was Rube Waddell, who left the diamond for the boards. Much la being done for the drama by men who have taken to act ing for the love of it, but there 13 a tendency to an oversupply Of action in the dramas of those-we have named. It is essential that these elevators of the stage knock out a villain or two In each act. and this In time palls upon an audience. With Mr. Blspham we have no doubt that situations will de mand a song rather than a three-round go. Thus the public will have the spice oX variety, while their taste Is being imperceptibly educated Many clergymen discuss methods of elevating the stage more frequently than they discuss methods of elevating the pulpit. Each person has his own plan to accomplish the desired end James S. Metcalfe, the dramatic crltlo General Kuropatkln has now been nearly a year In Manchuria. He has fought many battles, but has not a sin gle victory to the credit of his military I Biot machines sagacity or to the prowess of Russia. He held the hopes of the war party of Russia In his hand when he went forth to uphold her contention in the Far East. The prayers and benedictions of the Orthodox Greek Church encom passed him roundabout. For hours on the day before his departure from St, Petersburg he prostrated himself before the Images of the saints in a great ca thedral, seeking their Intercession in behalf of Russia against an upstart pagan nation that presumed to oppose her power. Notwithstanding all of this and of men and money furnished him without stint, he Is likely to return dis honored and defied to St. Petersburg- His discomfiture Is complete, bis plight pitiable. NOTE AXD COMMENT. Open Season In Central America. In the lands where the pineapples nans from the trees. And bananas encumber the round. "Where the song oX the raasgo la' borne on the breeze. And tortillas In coveys are found: In those lands, now the rains oC the season It. over. The dark politician's a-rover In clover. In the "sweet o" the year" he feels happy and car. And la anxious to So to the polls. So he ups and he roes In his' Innocent way To send up-caxds the other side's aotus. For he voles with a run. does this amiable fellow. And none of him, savins his skin, is of yellow. So Spring Is a signal to stab and to shoot. With Its quick-silver nre in one s veins. And in Spring this republican, goes on & toot In the state or the city campaigns; So that's how the soldier down thero eats employment. And the land's given over to scraps and enjoyment. It's disconcerting on one of these fine days to meet an old Inhabitant who in sists 'that ouch good weather now means rain all through July. Luthor Burbank should Invent a rose that will grow like a weed without at tention. SOME FAMOUS RETREATS. It seems to ba a case of "off again, on again.- gone again Flnnegan" Nwith the CHEAP When story-writers deal with techni cal subjects they are very likely to fall into errors -due to lack of familiarity AND IREQUEKT COIEUUXICA TIOX. When the motor car makes its ap pearance in Ore'gon and begins frequent trips to and from Portland and neigh boring cities within a range of fifty or sixty miles, the greatest step forward In opening the state to close settlement and Intensive farming will have been taken since the electric car made Its first Journey. Motor cars are entirely new here, and represent one of the very few modern inventions which have be gun their usefulness in the older coun tries across the Atlantic But, once tried and found to answer our needs, their use will spread In this state, if anywhere. Population in Oregon has been until recently so sparse that the railroads nave had to wait long and submit to all kinds of pressure from the outside before they could be in duced to add to the one train each way which used to be the rule. Even yet. as a Newbers- correspondent shows, In prosperous neighborhoods within thirty miles of Portland It Is an all day's bus! ness to get there and back in a day. Often the rural route carriers start early in the morning on their rounds with mall and newspapers that hav laid In the postofflces for fifteen or twenty hours since the arrival at the town of the Portland train the previous day. The motor car Is the ready and cheap means of escape from this old fashioned plan of delay. At first the motor car will find Its place on existing railroads, securing abundant time be tween the one or two passenger trains and one freight train that deal with the traffic at present. One great difficulty in extending system of electric roads in Oregon has been in the cost of installing electric motive power. The motor car, of mod erate cost, cheap operation, rapid run nlng and adapted to small population and light traffic as well as to a heavy lnterburan traffic, will- encourage the building of light railroads In many dls tricts of the Willamette Valley espe dally. Few people recognize the fact that the selling value of land varies exactly with distance, from railroad- service. into errors uue to latn. ml laiiiuinni v i uji.. . . - - i ---o o - yrltii the matter in hand. Law and J.Farms of fifty; acres within three mUesJ pie whowiU come hither-next Summer. jjiat. That squaw -work. If the new law which prohibits secur ing timberland with lieuland scrip had been in effect several years ago, the Government would notonly have been a distinct gainer, but the disgraceful timberland frauds which have pulled down so many men from high place would have been Impossible. No other such premium on crime and rascality has ever been offeerd as that which permitted the big railroad and timber corporations to exchange worthless lands In forest reserve lines for simi lar areas of the finest standing timber on earth. The workings of the absurd lieuland law were such that a bona fide settler has found It almost impossible to secure any good land In recent years, while the land thlevea have found it easy to 6ecure vast tracts. The spectacle which certain cowboys from Montana made of themselves In Washington subsequent to the inaugu ration can hardly be said to be either amusing or edifying. These men are useful In their sphere In life. They possess many of the sturdy traits of men untrained in the ways of civiliza tion, but it must be admitted that these traits are much more admirable when In suitable environment, as represent ed by the wide plains and mountain ranges, and tho great industry of which they are a part, than In polite society. We never fully appreciated tho horrors of our lot until wo- came across a stray paragraph from one of Maeterlink's es says. "Wo are alone," says the Belgian Jacques, "absolutely alone, on this chance planet, and amid all the forms of Ufa that surround us not one, except the dog, has mado an alliance with us. A few creatures fear us, most are unaware of us and not one loves us." Isn't it terri ble! What have wo done that tho forms of animal life on this chance planet should so contemptuously Ignore us. Per haps Maeterlink is wrong. "Most are un aware of us." he says. Thero aro forms of animal life of which man is far from being happily unaware' and it does not seem possible that they could bo Ignorant of man's existence. Ia the mosquito un aware of us? Does it not love us. or at least like us? We think so. The mo squito Is not compelled to feed upon u?, and it must be Impelled to do so by a lik ing for our blood. Cheer up, lonely hearts; tho anlmules and animiles of this chance planet are not so aloof as the cs&ayist would have us believe. Winter's reign is over, but we wouldn't dare to spell it the other way. Kuropatkln will soon be out of Man churia. Then if the Japanese Invite the Chinese to resume their own territory, what's Russia going to do about it? Any way, China has been bystanding so long that it's time something struck her. The trouble with the Canal Commission appears to have been too much commis sion and too little canal. Japan has captured and condemned 32 steamships with a tonnage of 100,000. If this sort, of thing keeps up, Japan will be able to declare a dividend on the war. Song by the Czar, with bombshell ac companiment: .VWhere, and, oh where, is my Rojeatvensky gone?" It's a pretty bravo thing for a little flower to como up out of the ground into the cold air with nothing warmer than a few leaves around it, but far more dar ing is the girl who now appears in the flimsy thlngamajlgs of Summer. Dead ones: Reed Smoot, Mrs. Chad- wlck, Bluebeard Hoch, Nan Patterson, Dr. Osier. "Of course, you know how many minutes there are to an hour," said a lawyer to a witness In an English court. "Well," said the witness, after pondering for a while. "let's hear your version of It." New lork Evening Sun. Without doubt, the witness was a Scotchman. Boston Transcript. The -problem of -extricating a defeated j army and conducting", masterly retreat is one of the most difficult, it not the j most difficult, that a General In the field has to meet. Before every great battle such a contingency Is planned for, but when the test comes many new things are constantly being brought-before the commander-in-chief which must be de "eided on the Instant, and the right move chosen If a rout Is to bo avoided. The General who has been worsted must not only get his troops away from tho enemy, but his guns and stores as well. The supplies for the army must be sent to the rear first, for without them the soldiers would have to fight hungry and the woundedvgo without propes attention. The guns and .army follow the supplies, and the brunt of tho fighting and a chance to win much glory falls on the rear guard. General Kuropatkln con ducted a masterly retreat from liao Yang to Mukden, and destroyed wha stores he could not remove from the doomed city. He was following in the footsteps of other Russian Generals, for Russian troops have made some wonder ful retrograde movements which havo ultimately been crowned with success, but it must be remembered that he was aided by a railroad, which was not the case of many another in his predica ment. Whether Kuropatkln proves to be another Kutusoff remains to be seen. Some military critics think that Kuro patkln may follow previous Russian strategy and make Harbin a second Mos cow. But it should be remembered that Oyama, even if he follows to Harbin, will not be like Napoleon, 2000 miles away from his base. Whatever the case, Kuro patkin's retreat from Liao Yang .to Mukden, and from Mukden north, if suc cessfully carried out, will rank well with the famous retreats of history. Napoleon was the world's master at I war, yet he lost more men In his fatal retreat from Moscow than he did on the j field of Waterloo. With a vast army of 400.000 men ho crossed the Niemen in June and later fought at Borodino, whero his losses were heavy. Then came the THE NORMAL SCHOOLS. Wst Side Enterprise The effective way to meet the objection able features of tho general appropriation bill Is through an initiative bill rather than the referendum. Tho fact Is, second sober thought of the people of Oregon turns to an Initiative bill as the only direct, way to get at the. evils complained of in House Bill 370. The most that can" be claimed for the referendum in this case Is that It. would serve as a rebuke to the Legislature. It carries no curaUve qualities whatever." It would be an expensive experiment, would cripple- the administration of state govern ment generally and. the probabilities are. would not discontinue a single Normal. School. The mother State Normal at Mon mouth will continue, and there is no as surance any of the others would close their doors. In truth, the schools have too strong a case in equity to shut down because refer endum petitions may be filed with the Secre tary of State. The Legislature has made the appropriations, objectionable as they may be. The Governor, though ho did not sign the bill, gave it the Indorsement of filing It without his veto with the Secretary of State. Each of the schools has a board of legally constituted regents, who hold. Of fice by appointment of the Governor. These regents have employed instructors and in curred other expense. To annul the contract with the teachers of the dlTerent faculties and throw them out of employment after similar positions they might have heldln other schools are filled would bo an In justice that the state could hardly afford to father. While It Is true the' Legislature provided for too many poorly equipped Nor mals, the best that can be done Is to give them two more years" lease on life, by which time the r people will have had an opportunity to get at them through an In itiative bill at the polls. Make the. Issue Clear. Salem Statesman. The matter should be properly prepared and submitted In such a manner as to per mit the people to express fully their Ideas and not with a levr to defeating the Nor- march to Moscow, the Russians retreat- I Schools by a half-negative, half-afflrma- ing before him and destroying everything a3 they marched. In the cold of the northern Winter ho turned his back on the burning city into which the eagles had been borne in triumph, and began the most disastrous retreat in history. Fam ine, cold and the Russians on his flanks and rear cut down his soldiers as they plodded, finally barefooted, through tho snow, and the army melted away as It crawled over those 600 miles of dreary waste. All Napoleon could toll the anxious people at Paris was, "My health is good." He succeeded In saving prac tically nothing as he fled. Nearly a century before Napoleon in vaded Russia, Charles XII, of Sweden, with 43,000 men at his back, marced over much of the same route and shared much tne Bame ill-fortune. After storming the Russian lines at Golovtchln, he plunged into the Vabis In pursuit of the retreating Russians, and lost mny men and guns in his haste. But he kept his face toward Moscow and reached Smolensk at last, but there changed his plans and marched for the Ukraine, with Czar Peter luring him on. Then the Rus sians confronted him, with 70,000 troops. at. fuitava where Charles was wounded and charged at the head of his trobps tlve proposition, but by one which will sub mit clearly to the people the entire matter of the Normal School question, so that if adopted as a principle of government by the majority of the voters of the state the Nor mal Schools may be made wllat they are in tended to be, schools for the betterment of the educational conditions In the state, or If the majority Is contrary then that they be done away with as state Institutions. However, one thing Is evident, and that Is that the people who have originated this movement -against the general appropriation bill are not satisfied with this effort to sub mit the Normal School question under the Initiative, but still Insist on tho referendum of the entire bill. Thus a new condition confronts uj. What Is It? Can it be that the Tamhlllers are not fighting the Normal School appropriation alone? Are they also opposed then to the state's care of the Insane, the blind, or tha education of the mute? Do they fear the future of the country under the teaching of the State Agricultural College, or are they afrald to let Governor Chamberlain's super intendent of the penitentiary have the ex penditure of the general appropriation mads for the maintenance of that institution? Just what and who may be back of this borne in a litter and was defeated, be- I proposal is hard to tell. It seems to be avt- mg iorced to retreat with his handful of men into Turkish territory in anything but a dignified manner. The allowance of the late Crown Prin cess of Saxony has, it is said, been stopped by her divorced husband, the of Life, hopes to elevate the stage by present King Frederick Augustus. The roasting the theatrical syndicate, and King is a disreputable, dissolute man. the syndicate hopes to elevate the stage I no better In morals than his late wife by locking Metcalfe out of their the- which is rating him low. Since he en- aters. Much depends on the point of I joys royal perquisites there is no good view. Metcalfe, in his zeal for the I reason why she should not. However, drama's good, brings suit against the he holds the whip hand, and that settles members of the syndicate for consplr- I it "on the European plan." acy, and we notice In the account of j , the Tjroceedintrs that Alf Hayman, one I Amonir Interestlne- devclonmpntu -r I Some teachers In Iowa have been eivintr of the syndicate elevators, was muddled the Stanford mystery Is the fact that false answers concerning their ages, be- Bhanlstan, and it and its preceding One of the most masterly retreats in history was made by Sir John Moore In Spain, in 1808-9. Ho marched his force between Astorga and Corunna in a month and beat back Soult's army at the edge of the sea before his troops sailed away for home, leaving the body of their dead commander behind to be buried without the walls on the field where ho fell. Soult retreated from Oporto, In Portugal, In the same war. and, Beresford drove him across the mountains into SpaTn after taking tho city. Wellington caught the French again In tho same war, driving tho army from Talavera, but the French retreat was good and the Iron Duke lost his advantage through Cuesta's blunder, and he; In turn, led a clever retreat before the advancing French. Bazaine, at Metz, faced much the samo conditions as Kuropatkln, but he failed to retreat beyond the city, and tho Prussians did what the Japanese hoped to do at LJaoyang. Tho most fatal retreat In all history was that of the English army under J-ord lpninstone from Cabul In Af- dent, however, that the result will be in favor of the money lenders and bankers of the state, if the Yamhill County people have their way, and maybe" this Is what is wanted. So far as. punishment of the Legis lature Is concerned nothing will be accom plished In thl3 line that will have any ertect on future assemblies of that body. in replying to a question, because, as his lawyer explained, he wasn't quite sure whether "subsequent" meant "be fore" or ""after." However, It Is well known that grammar and drama are not Indissoluble. As already said, almost every me ex periences a desire to elevate the stage, even persons who have never been In a theater. Few of those that talk about the subject ever do anything towards putting their preacing into practice, and those who are engaged In the work do not find much time left for talking. Jefferson and Stoddart, for example. Therefore it will be interesting to note how long Mr. Blspham will be In aban doning the desire to elevate the stage In favor of the desire to become an actor. there was a systematic conspiracy among the servants to "graft" their generous employer. The police think that In this situation may be found a possible motive for murder. Hardly. Servants Who are coldblooded enough to rob a kind and innocent benefactor are heartless enough to want her to live as long as possible. Beginning July 1, the Canadian gov ernment will assume full responsibility for the fortifications at Esqulmalt and Halifax. This Is significant as showing that Canada feels strong enough to stand alone and that Great Britain, re serving certain parental rights, is will ing for her to make the attempt. cause a number of school directors oppose the employment of women more than 30, on the theory that they are usually "cranky." With man played out at 40 and women cranky at 30, the child labor laws will have to be abolished. Most people, not school directors, will hold the opinion that a woman is about ten times as cranky at 20 as she Is on reaching the climacterics! age of SO. A woman in Sanborn (la.) has obtained a divorce because her husband made fun of her pancakes. Sho testified that the expression upon her husband's face when he was eating the cakes was such that it might work permanent injury to her health. It Is a misfortune not to be able to know a good thing when you have it. events will always be a dark blot; In Sngland's military annals. In 1841 the British authorities in Afghanistan lost their light grip on the natives and Sir Alexander Burns, ;a high official at Cabul, was murdered in his home. The 16,000 English troops were scattered in forts outside the town under the com mand of BIphinstone, who remained in active in the face of such a crime. Ak bar Khan was at the head of the na tives and tho English stooped to double dealings with him in order to get their army to Jellalabad In safety, but were out-tricked, although promised a safe retreat. They started for Jellalabad January S, 1842, leaving all their can non and military stores at Cabul. The natives followed on their flanks, and the conditions were so bad that the English officers gave themselves up to Akbar Khan as hostages for the safety of their troops. The army, without General Kuropatkln appears to have I -vith such power of facial expression, I leaders, at last entered the narrow pass FAMILIAR STORY TOLD ANEW. The Outlook of March 4 contains an some trouble in his successful "ad vance northward." But he keeps going somehow. The man to discover the article by Harriet W. Chapln giving a -North Pole is undoubtedly Kuropat- brief review of the inception and prog ress, to a successful termination, of the Lewis and Clark exploring expedition. Necessarily brief, this article still gives a fair presentment of the first overland Journey from the Missouri River to the mouth of the Columbia, the causes which led to It, and the results that have followed in "the intervening cen tury, As long as patriotic pride in the ex tent and-dlverslty of our vasfdomaln Is a National characteristic, and adven ture with Its spice of danger and grand possibilities of achievement appeals td sturdy American manhood with beck onlng hand, the simple story of the every-day Incidents of this sldw Jour ney through the wilds of the continent wlli find eager readers. Though old. the story is ever new. It Is Instinct with energy, big with adventure, Im posing in its simplicity, a recital that keeps the imagination aglow with an ticipation while it feeds the mind upon the plain facts of history. Reviewed, in connection with the Lewis and Clark Fair, the gates of which will be opened to visitors In this city on the first day of June of this year, -the story will be of intense Interest to thousands -of loyal Americans. It Is only by comparison that the wonderful progress of this country during the past century can be even dimly comprehended. It Is a far cry from old Fort Clatsop, where the Intrepid explorers and their hardy fol lowers passed the Winter, one hundred years ago. and the modern city in which the centennial of their achieve ment in reaching the Pacific Coast over land is soon to be celebrated; a far cry from the rude cabin that sheltered vthem and the means they employed to secure food and salt with which to kin. He'll get there, if the Japs do their part. We reckon t will not cost the aver age member of the Legislature a vast sum for transportation to Salem, where he has been asked to serve the state a few. days without pay. this husband might have been used In stead of the pianola to entertain guests. And of course web-feet don t Imply water on tho brain. Heavy firing still heard In the direction of Colorado. ' WEX. J. At this distance it is difficult to see why any one should want to be Gov ernor of Colorado. - Week-End Holidays. London World. I hear that there Is to be a crusade against the week-end holiday. In short, that the old English Sabbath Is to be revived. When revivals are about, why not let us have Smlthfleld fires and Tower racks? Surely we have grown out of medievalism. The brightening of the English Sunday and the week end In tho country are both steps for ward in civilization. It must be a strangely warped mind that sees tho devil at work when Jaded professional men and womon leave the' town behind them for 36. hours' rest and refresh ment in good country air. If there are to be' revivals, let us revive the bodies and minds of our citizens of all de grecs by encouraging these week-ends in the country. Rest is an essential A Pirate's Skin Sold. London Daily Mail. A piece of the skin of a Danish pirate. slightly larger than a shilling, was sold yesterday to Major Ind for three guineas at Stevens' auction-rooms. A lock of King Edward TVs hair, which was taken from his tomb at Windsor when It was opened In 17S9, did not find, a purchaser, however. The "Viking was caught and executed while pillaging Hadstock Church, in Es sex, over 900 years ago. and his skin was nailed to the church door as a warning to other evildoers. The relic, which looks like a Jagged piece of thick parchment. became lodged in the hinge of the massive old door, where It was discovered in 1S55. The reminder of mediaeval barbarity was an object of awestruck interest to the buyers at yesterday's sale. Sober dealers literally felt their blood run cold and their hair rise on end as they gazed on the grim lot In its glazed mahogany case. Song of the West. I sing to you a song of the weatland wild. "Where the plains are like & floor. Where heavens by smoke ore undented And tempests rage, and roar: : part of religion in this neurotic age. J whero the sky Is like a great blae" bowl and it is better to keep the hospitals empty than the lunatic asylums full. Where Creeping Bear Drew the Line. Kansas City Journal. Joa Creeping 'Bear, who says that he once played tackle on the Carlisle In dian football team, was sent to the. City Hospital last night, suffering with a severe attack of rheumatism. The Indian called at Police Headquarters for a permit to enter the hospital. While ho waited for Assistant Police Sur geon La Rue to glve-Jiira the necessary ! u in fVia k..iiHinr t hn . paper he tooK occasion to vigorously J.l 0j ,,, JLlr,P.iri nn a- I deny the roport that ho had ever sawed by magic upon the Fair grounds and to the tibundance that will greet the peo-J wood Sit the Helping- Hand. "Me saw wood!" he exclaimed, with rising Indignation. "Indian never do Above . a stretch of white. And wide the tumbleweeds run and roll Unhindered In their flight. I sing you a song of the level lands. "Where the winds are fresh and free. "Where never a hut In the silence stands And never a leafless tree; -Where the wolf and coyote roamthe snow And scud through the sullen night And hunt for the shaggy buffalo That haa -vanished away from sight. I sing yon a song of the boundless West. Of its great blue roof, the "sky. And the tide ot pride that fills the breast When pralriec greet the eye; Of the trackless wastes of snow that gleam In the smile of. the Western sun. Where the grasses' lash .the frozen- streasv Asa. tho -saow drifts scud, aaa-rua, fell upon them and slaughtered all but a few. The small party which escaped the shambles In the pass pushed on for Jellalabad, but were pursued and all killed but one. Our own Civil War furnishes one of the most famous retreats in history, and General Lee handled his troops with consummate skill In the Wilder ness campaign. The campaign was a contest between two master minds, both' foreseeing every move the other would make and meeting it with a heavy counter tilow. At the beginning Grant thought "Marso Robert" would fall back on Richmond and flanked him to drive him In. But tho Confederate turned and fought, and turned and fought again, each offensive movement onTjoth sides failing. The retreat end ed in the battle of Chlckahominy, and proved the Confederate General a past master of his craft. Lee's last retreat, which ended at Appomattox, was the last of his career, but he led the de feated army of a lost cause and had no provisions or stores when he headed for the mountains after tlje fall of Richmond. Next to tho retreat from Moscow, perhaps the most famous retreat of history qulta the most famous In lit erature was that of Xenophon and his Ten Thousand, whose story is given to every schoolboy to cut his first Greek teeth on. The Greek3 were far In the interlbr of Asia when the death of tho Prince for whom they were paid to fight left them without a cause, and they turned their faces toward tne dis tant sea and marched 3465 miles in 215- days. The retreat was a success, and the little band reached their goal in tact, after many hardships. There Is Usually a Volunteer. Life. "Thi3 is getting to be an -age Qf specialists." """Isn't It? Why, it's almost necessary for a man while ho Is making a living to hire some fellow to keep his wife amused." Dear School of Experience. Salem Journal. All this settles nothing, because in the end the bills will be paid anyhow, and In the meantime the state will use borrowed money. It Is useless to tell the unreasoning agitator that Me Is only creating disorder and putting the state In the clm o! thos who pay high prices by going in debt 'for necessities for the state Institutions. It will probably be best for the" people and the" state to learn In the dear school of experience what the referendum will do for them. Need of an Example. Albany Democrat. "-The Salem papers are red In the face over the proposed referendum of the appropria tion bill, and are yelling Initiative and everything else to distract attention. The masses of the people, though, are on to the business and can tell the difference between black and white. The Legislature needs a strenuous example even if it costs.- That's all. "Ben Hur" a Gold Mine. Indianapolis Star. A very close" friend to the recently de ceased General Lew Wallace said yesterday that he believed the estate would bo worth at least $300,000, not count ing the Blacherno apartment-house here. which was several years ago deeded to his sonr Henry Wallace, to be held in trust for his two children. This house alone Is worth $200,000. For "The Prince of India" General Wal lace received $100,000 in ten yearly Install ments. His royalties on "Ben-Hur" are not exactly known, but Its sales are re ported to have reached between 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 copies, for which it Js be lieved he received a royalty of 15 cents a copy. It is also believed that the first year of its production General Wallace received $50,000 for the dramatic rights to "Ben Hur." This source of revenue has de creased each year somewhat, "x'he Prlnce of India" will be produced in the near future, though at what figures are not known. Editor In Hard Luck. Emporia, Kan., Gazette. The editor of the Gazette Is out of. town; the business manager is sick with stomach trouble, so also Is the foreman, and their work is a burden to them: the advertising man is at home tooay nursing a badly frozen ear and a sore throat; one of the reporters is Just getting over an attack of grip; the subscription manager is home wrestling with the grip; the Job man is dividing h!3 time between his work and feeling his frozen ear to find how much ot it Is peeling off; the devil's struggle with tne furnace fire was of unusual duration this morning; the water is frozen Iivthe basement; the other members of the Ga zette force are well and happy, thank you. and trying to help out the afflicted ones. His Anti-Gambling Scruples. Collier's Weekly. fWhat reason does he glvexfornot navlnsr his wife alimony.?" jje says tnat marriage is a iotiery,-i- wnen circumaiancea. piamiy saow iSllnaonyr-U-a.mjaunaeDVaeriia no cevu mercy, hoi - Group of Innocents. New Tork Globe. Says Mr. Armour, as he makes ' c" A famine rate on stews and steaks. "There's doubtless truth In what yotifsay. That evil trusts exist today. - . But kindly note- before you go There Is no beef trust mercy, no I" Says Mr. Bogers; as he signs Death warrants for competing, mines, "I heartily agree with you That unfair combinations do - - -A deal of nasty mischief but There Is no copper trust tut-tut!" With fresh foreclosures in his hands The saintly Rockefeller stands. . These mergers, when unchecked," he sighs. "I have no doubt demoralize; ' But sin will retribution bring An oil trust? Nonsense no such thiagt" "While prices rise on anthracite. Says Mr. Baer. "It isn't right To make the tolling pu&uc bleed For the commodities they need. Cases like these tha laws should fit A coal trust? Never heard of'Itl" Says Mr. Satan, as he draws His fiery trident through his. claws,. "The world, no doubt; to sin is quick f But wherefore blame it to Old Nick,