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THE MORNING OBEGONiAN. TCESDAY, MAKCff 14, 1905. (Shsgmtimt Entered at the Fostoffice at Portland. Or as second-class matter. SUBSCRITTIOX BATES, i - IKVAPJJLBLT IN ADVANCE. (By Mail or Express.) Dally and Sunday, per year.. .$8.00 Dally and Sunday, six months 5.00 Dally and Sunday, three months'. 2.53 Dally and Sunday, per month .83 Dally -without Sunday, pea year 7.50 Dally without Sunday, six months 3.60 Dally without Sunday, three months .... 1.95 Dally without Sunday, per month ...... .65 Sunday, per year 2.00 Sunday, six months LOO Sunday, three months -60 BT CARRIER. Dally without Sunday, per week 15 Dally per week. Sunday Included -20 THE WEEKLY OREGONIAJi. (Issued Every Thursday.) Weekly, per year 1.50 Weekly, six months .75 "Weekly, three months 50 HOW TO REMIT Send postofilee money order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency r at the sender's risk. EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICE. The 6. 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Omaha Barkalow Bros.. 1612 Farnham: Mageath Stationery Co.. 1308 Farnham. McLaughlin Bros.. 246 S. 14th. Phoenix. Ariz. The Berryhlll- Newa Co. Sacramento, Cel. Sacramento News Co., 420 K street. Salt Lake Salt Lake News Co., 77 West Second street South. Santa Barbara, CaL S. Smith. San Diego, CaL J. Dlllard. San Francisco J. K. Cooper & Co., 746 Market street; Foster & Crear. Ferry News Stand: Goldsmith Bros.. 236 Sutter: L. E. Lee. Palace Hotel News Stand; F. W. Pitts. 1008 Market; Frank Scott. SO Ellis; N. tVbeatley. 83 Stovenson; Hotel SU Francis News Stand. St. Louis, Mo. E. T. Jett Book & News Company. S06 Olive street. Washington. D. C. Ebblt House Ntws Stand. PORTLAND, TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1803. ' - - WHAT CHANCE FOR PEACE? The war ought to cease. Russia is beaten, and can entertain no fair hope of .retrieval. To her the war, which has been in progress more than a year, has been a series of unbroken and unre lieved disasters. In no instance has she sained an advantage. She is beaten on 'and and sea. Driven back out of Corea, driven back out of maritime Manchuria, and Port Arthur wrested from her, beaten in great battles on her lines of defense northward, forced out of Mukden, the capital of the great province vahe was stealing from China, her vast armies rolled back with terrible losses and the remnants scarcely able to reorganize forTesistance to. the progress of the vic torious Japanese Russia, boasting her self one of the greatest of powers, stands foiled and beaten before the world, by a nation whose warlike prow essjshe had hitherto; refused to take Into account Her answer is that she will send other armies. .But will she? Can she? Or would it avail, if she could and should? Why should not the impartial world now intervene, to stop this dreadful tragedy? Nobody can imagine that other armies which Russia may send can be as efficient as those which Jupan has defeated and practically destroyed. On the se'a Russia remains as helpless as she has been from the first. She hasn't the spirit even to hazard a com bat on the sea; and still, as from the first, she keeps studiously out of the way of it. Is France the friend of Rus sia? Then France ought to urge Rus sia to make peace: for certainly France cannofcpossibly desire herso-calledally to be humiliated further in a war that for Russia can have no triumphs. Possibly Germany' might wish to see Russia weaken herself still further; for such result might tend to separate Russia snd France and to relieve Germany of the menace of their alliance. English-speaking nations, of course, would be glad to hear of overtures for leace, which in the present state of affairs could hardly come from Japan. France is the nation which oiight to take the lead In suggestions of peace; and Rrahee probably will speak as soon as she gets an intimation from Russia that such intervention would be wel conie. RICHES FOR MARKET GARDENERS. The correspondent who urges farm ers to diversify their vegetable crops, instead of making the raising of pota toes their chief care in this line. Is wise. It , was formerly said that the chief products of Posey County, Indiana, were "lumber and fruit," or specifical ly" "hoop-poles and pumpkins." and that it required a mighty and persistent effort to induce producers to tarn even a portion of their attention to the grow ing of corn and wheat. But enterprise and effort triumphed and the hoop-pole and pumpkin era of exclusive produc tion long since passed from Posey County. Until within relatively recent years, the- agricultural products of the Wil lamette Valley were chiefly wheat and potatoes. The price of the former was generally low in those years of anti-expansion, and limited shipping facili ties, while for the great bulk of the latter crop there was no price at all, at least none that would justify the pro ducer in digging and hauling his pota toes to market. Still the fields were sown to wheat the next year and J.he potato patch was " as diligently planted as though there was nothing else that the jsofl would produce. The force of this habit was at length broken, as the at tention that has been given to hop and flax-growing, horticulture, dairy ing, stockralsing and a fair diversity of vegetable-growing attests. It may "be, however, that too much attention Is still given to potato-raising;. True, the prices that consumers have paid for potatoes in this city dur ing the past season and are still paying -do not justify .-this estimate;, but that overproduction may follow this fact and leave no margin of profit for the pro ducer this year Is probable. The pru dent farmer can readily provide against this probability by diversifying his veg etable crop. The time is now, and the wise farmer will attend to it. The acre planted to -cucumbers, the half-acre to carrots, turnips, cabbage or any other of tlie standard' table or stock vege tables will, if carefully cultivated, in localities reasonably favorable as re gards market facilities, produce a pay ing crop. Then there are the earlier crops of green vegetables. Is there the slightest probability that the Portland market will be adequately supplied during the coming Summer months with fresh home-grown green peas, string beans, asparagus, early beets and corn, Sum mer squashes and garden-grown let tuce? Housekeepers know how it was last year, when the demand upon the market was only normaL This year the demand will be much greater. Herein lies the farmers' and gardeners' opportunity, not to "cinch" consumers but to meet a sure demand with an am ple supply, at prices which will give adequate returns for their labor and foresight, and thereby put money In their pockets. ANOTHER SIDELIGHT ON NORMALS. President Kuykondall may not have put himself under obligation to the normal school machine In Douglas County when he won the leadership of the upper chamber of the Oregon Tci fi lature; therefore his defense of the Drain Normal appropriation may have been gratuitous, but how about the fol lowing facts: t Senator Coshow, Democrat, of Doug las, was the shield and buckler of the Drain School. Senator Coshow blocked the combina tion of Democrats and antl-Kuykendall Republicans in the fight for organiza tion of the Senate. Mr. Kuykendall confessed obligation to Coshow and gave him better commit tee assignments than to a number of Republicans chairmanship of the com mittee on military affairs, and places on the committees on printing, ways and means, and revision of laws, all highly important. In order to make way for Coshow on the committee on revision of laws and yet not crowd oft others to whom he was Indebted, President Kuykendall had that committee enlarged from fie members to seven. Against attempts to abolish the Drain School, President Kuykendall and his friends, including Senator Booth, used their influence, and bills to cut off Drain were defeated In the House and Senate almost simultaneously, one week before adjournment. President Kuykendall Is a Regent of the Drain School. Members of his famllv ha.vp flratm pay in that Institution as teachers. Douglas legislators whosaton the ways and means committees of both houses, Senator Coshow and ReDresentatlve Graham, did not oppose the 562,500 spe cial appropriation for the State Univer sity at Eugene, nor did Senator Car ter, of Ashland's normal school county, nor Senator Loughary. of Monmouth's normal school county, nor Representa tive Vawter, of Ashland's normal school county, nor Representative Blakley, of Weston's normal school county. And President Kuykendall may not have put himself under obligation to Senator Loughary. who was hiB stead fast adherent in his fight for the Presi dency, nor to Senator Carter, who gave up the fight against hini and went Into the Kuykendall camp and was prom ised Immunity from vengeance and a place on the ways and means com mittee. The normal school machine worked a you-tlckle-me-and-I'll-tickle-you craft from start to finish. And did President Kuykendall stand In? He certainly did not stand-outl He may not have been aware that the people of Oregon wish the normal graft cub off. Just as he "did not understand that there was any serious protest against putting the nor mal schools into the general appropria tion bill"? if so, President Kuykendall was so busy at Salem that he did not read the constant "serious protest" voiced in the newspapers. SPOKANE'S TERMINAL KATE IMPROBABLE. D. C. Corbin, of Spokane, who built the Spokane Falls & Northern Railroad and sold it to James J. Hill, says that he will Immediately build a road from Spokane to the boundary line, where it is expected connection will be made with a branch of the Canadian Pacific This would give Spokane a new con nection .with the East, and the news papers of the city are already assum ing that the foreign road will grant ter minal rates to Spokane as soon as it enters the city. This deduction Is hard ly warranted by existing conditions conditions which will exist long after the road Is completed. Terminal or common-point rates are made to all Pa cific Coast points where deep-water ves sels can land. These rates are made not because therailroadscare to haul freight through some Coast ports to points many miles away at no Increase In re muneration, but because water competi tion must be met. The deep-water port, which the railroads might attempt to ignore by withholding terminal rates, would immediathely have recourse to water shipments on so many classes of goods that the Tallroad would of neces sity abandon the attempt at discrimi nation and grant the rates desired. For Spokane or any other city located several hundred miles inland from tide water, the grant of terminal rates can never be otherwise than unfair to coast ports, nullifying as they would all ad vantages of location at the terminus of a water haul, -which Is always cheap er than a land haul. Any assumption that the Canadian Pacific will grant terminal rates to Spokane is probably based on the fact that the road Is an alien line and has less In common with other transcontinental roads than any of the American roads. In other words. It Is expected to have sufficient power to make and maintain rates independ ent of the action of other roads. But there are obstacles in the way of such an exhibition of independence. The Canadian Pacific has always got on fairly well with its American competi tors. It annually lands thousands of tons of freight at Coast terminal, points on the American side of the line, and it also hauls other thousands of tons out of these ports. It also handles an Immense passenger traffic on which in the past the American roads very gen erously gave it a differential to offset the longer route necessary where pas sengers were- taken out of the United States on one side or the continent and brought back on the other. The foreign road has occasionally en- gaged in rate -wars with the American roads, but so far as known has always fallen back Into line after a very brief period of warfare. Its Interests at termi nal points on the Pacific Coast are so nearly identical with those of the Ameri can Toads that it is by force of circum stances compelled to adopt a policy dif ferent but slightly if any from that pursued by its active competitors on this side of the line. -Not only on land has the big company a number of well exposed vulnerable points, but also at sea. Every one of Its liners arriving from or departing for the Orient car ries large quantities of freight for or from terminal points on the Pacific Coast, which the alien road could not reach except'by paying tribute to the American roads that would be injured by a terminal rate to Spokane. The country to be tapped by the pro posed road of Mr. Corbin is 'rich In lat ent resources, and will produce a great traffic which will help Spokane and also bring dividends to the railroad com pany. It Is for this purpose that the road is to be built, and not for the purpose of demoralizing rates by ex tending unwarranted tidewater rates to a city that is several hundred miles from tidewater. DEFENDERS OF A NORMAL GRAFT. Who were the legislators that voted against abolition of the Drain Normal School? Behold: Senators Booth. Browne!!. Carter. Coke. Coshow, Hodson, Holman; Pierce. Rand, Smith, Tuttle, President Kuykendall 12. Representatives Batlej-. Bingham. Blakley, Burses, Burns or Clatsop, Burns of Cocs, Capron. Cole, Col well. Cooper, Edwards, Gra ham, Gray. Griffin. Henderson, Holcomb, Hud nan, Jackson. Jayne Lawn Ltntaleum, Mayger, McLeod. Meats. Mulr. Munkers. Shook, Sits, Sonnemann. Smith ot Baker, Smith of Jo sephine, Stoiner. Vawter, Von der HeUen, Welch, Speaker MIIls-36. Much as Multnomah legislators have since announced themselves desir ous of reform of the normal school abuse, only three vote! to cut out the drainage at Drain Senators Malarkey and Nottingham and Representative Killingswbrth, all of whom were trou blesome spirits to the Multnomah "or ganization." The other Multnomah lawmakers stood in like good fellows. Is this circumstantial evidence that the Multnomah and the normal machines were run by the same pulley? A week later, thre of the lawmakers who professed themselves hostile to the present normal school system and do so. yet, and who voted for the Drain school, turned about and voted against the omnibus bill containing normal ap propriations Brownell, Hodson and Holman. This change of heart, while not consistent, was gratifying. Even "Bob" Smith, of Josephine, hon est watchdog of the people's treasury, changed his bark to deep-voiced wel come as the normal graft drew near home, and Jie is found bidding welcome to his machine enemies like Bailey, Capron, Hudson, Linthicum. Vawter and Speaker Mills. But such Is the common fate of honest watchdogs. AT THE WIRE'S END. When Roberts set out for Kandahar, his army was swallowed up by a sea of mountains, and an anxious nation heard not a. word of the little force for weeks. When Younghusband's mission, the .other day,, adventured over . the "roof of the world" and found them selves in a country as little known,, al most, as the planet Mars, a lengthening wire-Hashed over Himalayas and under ocean $ news of their progress to Lon don. Even when the tiny force was beleaguered by Thibetans, the wire re mained intact, thanks to the Ingenious lying of a British Captain who remem bered the nursery tale of "Hop-o'-My-Thumb." "We are strangers in a strange coun try," said this teller of fairy stories to the Thibetans. "No person has been be fore' us to blaze a trail. We are anxious to return shortly by the way we came; therefore this guiding wlre' The Thibe tans looked at the wire, admitted the force of the explanation, and, .since they desired a speedy return journey for the Invaders, left intact the thread that was to guide the unwelcome guests out of the labyrinth of passes. Again, when the name of the great war correspondent Archibald Forbes is mentioned, men think of his wonderful ride after the defeat of the Zulus at Ulundl. Over 120 miles of trackless country, full of savages, Forbes rode to the telegraph station on the Natal frontier, and his brief dispatch to Sir Bartle Frere was the first news of the victory received in London. A day or two ago what appears likely to be re garded as the greatest battle of modern times ended in the crushing defeat of Kuropatkin. Here was no daredevil riding by correspondents. A field tele graph connecting with the trunk line on the Siberian Railroad took the mes sage across Asia, Europe, the Atlan tic, and the North American Continent, so that Portland readers had a full and clear account of the battle before the echoes' of the' cannonading had died away around Mukden. Telegraph or telephone wires are the aides-de-camp of today. The "galloper" no longer "dashes through a hail of lead" to carry the commander-in-chiefs .message to a distant division. The impetuous Nolan, who took Raglan's message to Lucan. at Balaclava, taunt ed Lucan before his own men and was partly the cause of sending the Light Brigade Into the valley of death. To day the Japanese General has every unit of his force at his wire's ends. His messages are not misunderstood, and he does not sacrifice men through Igno rance of other parts of the field. Re cent reports indicate that Kuropatkin did not keep in touch with his subordi nate commanders. Oyama thus beat the Russians with his nerves of wire ts Kitchener crushed the Soudanese with his bands of railway steel. Victories today are known the world over before the ambulances reach the wounded. There will be no more bat tles of the Boyne to be celebrated ten days after the date upon which It was fought. Russia finds the'flnanciers of Europe shaking their heads over her credit before the Czar has finished read ing his "regret to report" messages. There is little opportunity for such a maneuver as that executed by the worthy Nathan Rothschild, who, by fu rious driving and a passage across the Channel, in a gale, was the first to reach London with the news of Wel lington's victory at Waterloo, and made a fortune with his knowledge. The tele graph wire has put a stopper on such methods of high finance. The wire Is now first in war, as It has long been first In peace. It is stated that if the contractor for the American Inn finishes his structure with plaster boards Instead of meeting the demands of the striking plasterers, the latter will lose about $7000 in wages. This Incident would not be without a precedent on the Coast. When the union bollermakers and riveters struck at the Moran yards in Seattle, and promised to ruin that great shipbuilding indus try,, the Morans Immediately Installed a pneumatic riveting system by" the aid of which a boy could, after a few houra instruction, do more work than half a dozen skilled riveters could do by the old method. Building a J2.000.000 bat tleship Is not as great an undertaking as a 510.000,000 fair, but the -Morans de feated the strikers, built their ship on time, and Incidentally won lasting peace with their" employes. John Branton, of Lane County, now In Jail at Eugene pending inquiry in re gard to the death of John Fletcher, his late partner, may yet rival Jobarm Hocb, of Chicago, "in matrimonial achievement. He has to his credit in this line three wives, all of whom died at an opportune time, and two of whom carried life insurance In favor of their uxorious spouse.. He has been a "lone, lorn creature" since last December, though negotiations were pending In at least two Quarters looklnc to the rHef of his wifeless state. While he has only one-fifth as many wives discreetly laid away as Hoch had married, he Is still a young man and was until this last misadventure a marrying man of seem ingly Irresistible attractions. As in all other instances in life, we know what has happened in the eventful career of John Branton; but we can only surmise what further would have happened If this unlooked-for check In proceedings had not occurred. The condition of the Winter wheat crop throughout the Pacific Northwest Is said to be fully as good as at a corre sponding period last year. This year there is a much larger acreage than ever, and, accordingly, with continua tion of favorable weather conditions, the country will undoubtedly harvest the largest crop on record. The in creased acreage is due largely to the abnormally high prices at which the cereal" has been selling for the past six months. These prices caused an in creased acreage of Fall grain, and the area of t Spring grain will also be much larger than ever. Wheat is still king in Oregon, Washington and Idaho, and another good crop at prices even slight ly lower than those now being paid will place more millions In circulation than have ever before been paid for a wheat crop in the Pacific Northwest. . Editor Hearst makes it plain that he proposes to keep up his war on Tam many. He doesn't like Mayor McCIel lan and says so. He will not support him for re-election. He makes this sur prising statement in his New Tork paper: "We shall . collaborate gladly with Governor Odell if he has an hon est man to oppose McCIellan, with the Citizens' Union and with all intelligent citizens. It would be difficult, perhaps impossible, to select a man that we should not support as against McCIel lan." Hearst adda that all his papers will "do what they can from now until election day to keep New York City from a second dose of Mayor McCIel lan." Tho New York Democracy may look forward to a very troublesome time. Sixteen Multnomah legislators voted against the Klllingsworth car bill, which was passed to save small rail road enterprises like the, Tillamook project from strangulation. The big railroad interests were very much sur prised at the passage of the bill; so was the Multnomah "machine." Multno mah legislators In the House defeated the project for extending the portage railroad from Big Eddy to .The Dalles and Senator Whealdon's bill for that purpose was lost by one vote. Thus the Multnomah "machine" got even on the Wasco "machine." But how Port land's commercial Interests were bene fited has not yet appeared. Washington had a late start In her preparations for the Lewis and Clark Fair, but she seems in a fair way-to make up for lost time. According to reports, four of the large counties, King, Pierce, Spokane and Snohomish, will expend in the aggregate about $50. 000, and a dozen other counties will have very Imposing exhibits. The rapid fire energy of the Washlngtonlans is such that they can probably accomplish more In less time than almost any other state In the Union, and, when the Fair gates swing open, the crowd will find a Washington exhibit In every respect a credit to the big state that made It. "Stories of Old Oregon," by George A. Waggoner, is a sketch book of observa tions and adventures In Oregon, in pio neer times. The sketches are readable and entertaining. 'The author haB lived In Oregon since 1S52, and relates things "all of which he saw and part of which he was." He has- long resided at Cor vallis. His sketches are the fruit of close observation and show much nar rative power. For the reader of the present day they will be found to pos sess interest, and to the future student of our early history will have a distinct value. The town of Tillamook has raised nearly $35,000 of a subsidy asked for a railroad. .This would be & small sum of money for a city like Portland, but it is an exceedingly liberal subsidy for a place the size of Tillamook. It illus trates how thoroughly in earnest the Tillamookers are in their efforts to se cure railroad connection with the out side world. Such enterprise should not go unrewarded, and It Is to be hoped that the thriving little seaport will soon have the desired facilities for develop ing her wonderful natural resources. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer -has under way a campaign of civic im provement, and is printing a series of horrible-example pictures that show vividly the need of a thorough cleaning up. The way to get at this problem is to call public attention to. it, and this the Post-Intelligencer is doing ef fectively. It has even better material to work on than is to be found in Port land, and that is saying much. The wind near San Francisco, 100 miles an hour; snow in Northern Ari zona, and a thunder storm in Southern California, make interesting reading, from the sunny Southland. Philadelphia ministers re praying for their Mayor, but they take care to ex press their views to the newspapers as well. The Golden dale method appears to be an improvement over the Oregon meth od of suppressing the Holy Rollers. NOTE AND COMMENT. "Hello. Billboards!" A Seattle man says that he will fly from that city to Portland. Any man with wings sprouting must certainly feel lonely In Seattle. For being married on the Trail a girl wants $200, Instead of being thankful that she's saving hubby the minister's fee. "Commercial Clubs" are booming in some of the towns, but this doesn't in dicate a boom in trade. It Indicates that the antls have beon busy. Mrs. Adair, president of the Yakima County Medical Association, in a letter to the Oregonian says that right living on the part of parents would in time pro duce in this country "a race of Roosevelts, Willards and Sbakespcares a condition too delightful to contemplate," Shakes peare is very properly placed last as we have writings and to. spare now, but we question If even a trust-busting Republi can would contemplate with delight a world full of Roosevelts. Give unto the thumping heart Space to rest, how short soever. What a hurly-burly world It would be if all tha Republicans were Roosevelts and all the Democrats wera Roosevelts. The Irresistible force and the Immovable object would be nothing to it. What crowded pages of hl3tory would be given tbo world by America, then. The school boy of the future would be snowed under when ha attempted to tackle the story of tha first all-Roosevelt decade. A fortune of $300,000 has Just been left to a New York cop. Them as has, gits. Guilt Is Invariably proven when a man Is tarred and feathered. If the tarred and feathered one Isn't guilty of anything wrong, then the others are. Mrs. Chad wick can't attract tho spot light, even by fainting and by being found guilty. The thief who Is making a specialty of stealing trousers, might at least leave hi3 victims a barrel. Portland's ministers are not satisfied with the manner In which he does his work, but we have not heard what Chief Hunt thinks of the ministers' conceptions of their duty. Two men in Seattle expect to find the Yesler treasure through prayer. Their be lief in the efficacy of prayer, however, doe3 not prevent them from using a spade as well. There are more than two men up there, of course, that get their money by preying. Paul Morton, bead of tho American Navy, is a railroad man, and tho Earl of Cawdor, head of tho British Navy, is another railroad man. This teaches an important lesson, but wo don't know what it Is. According to the New York Sun, the philosophy of liquor regulation or prohi bition in Massachusetts rests upon two grand propositions: L Mind somebody else's business. 2. Drink out of a flask; It Is cheaper. A paragraph from a London paper con veys the information that a lawsuit be tween the families of the Count do Torres Cabrera and the Marquis of Slana, which has occupied successive courts for SS8 years, will be decided finally by the Madrid Court of Cessation In January, 1307. It looks as if the murderer would have as good a chance In Spanish as In Oregonian courts. Berlin with its Society of Active Friends of Animals Is not so much ahead of New York after all. A flourishing organ ization there Is the Society fpr the Pro tection of the Feline Family. It Is pleas ant to think that, however, the pooor members of the Human Family may struggle along In New York tho raem bers of the Feline Family are not without Influential friends. In Baltimore a young man who ap plied for a marriage license had to con fess that he couldn't remember tho name of his promised bride. He had courted her four years, but In all that time we suppose he had never called her any thing but his Tootsy-poo lay or his Mary land Rose. After all what normal young man would bother thinking of a name when he held the reality in his arms. Besides. If the young man had, as is quite possible, another girl on a string, be could never create an awkard situation by inadvertently addressing Alice, -say, as Mary. A customer who found a pearl in an oyster at a Hamburg restaurant Is being sued by the proprietor for the value of the Jewel, on the ground that bones and so forth "belong to the house." It would, of course, be unreasonable to ask a res taurant owner to supply a pearl with each dish of oysters, but after a person has risked a good tooth on a pellet of shot or a pearl It seems only fair that he should keep his find. By the way, would n't a pearl be an aristocratic thing to be found In the appendix when the harmless necessary operation is performed? WEX J. Astoria Paper's Opinion of Astoria. Morning Astorian. Had it not been for the' parsimonious policy of the Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Hammond would have built a $500,000 saw mill at Astoria Instead of going o Eureka. Had it not been for the obstacles thrown in the way, and the selfish spirit of that now defunct organization, Mr. Hammond would have probably spent $1,000,000 In de veloping the resources of Clatsop County, instead of there being about 14.000 popu lation, Astoria today would have been a live, bustling city of at Ipost 25,000. There Is no doubt but the Chamber of Com merce drove Mr. Hammond away from Astoria, with the assistance of some of the individual members. When our Heav enly Father in his Infinite wisdom can see his way clear to remove from tills vale of tears a few of the members of this obscure organisation it is believed that Mr. Hammond will again return to As toria and take up the work of developing the resources of the county, as he con templated doing when he constructed the railroad. He has several times expressed a desire so to do, but when he thinks of the Chamber of Commerce he takes an other trip to Eureka, in order to forget the past. , Sonnet. New Orleans Times-Democrat. Where spirits walk, rem embering mortal1 things. There Kosciusko walks with Bolivar And Washington. Not on' men's II pa they are As once tbey were in those old days when . Kings Seemed toppling all to ruin, and murmuring Were borns unto all people, breathless, far. Of risen hope: when Liberty's one star Rose high, that still for ns In ether swings! One's work was shattered ere begun, one wrought But Freedom's semblance: Washington in stead Saw rise her perfect form beneath the sky. Tet equal glory gilds then to my thought; One aureole hath Freedom far the bead Ot these wao win or lose or lire or die! CORNERING A How MacXafeGm Was Trapped at lake Fate The parallel between the campaign ot the Germans In France In 1870 and that of the Japanese in Manchuria in 1305 is so close that to 'recall tho events of the former is of more than passing interest at this time. In each case the military Judgment of the commander-in-chief of the beaten army was overborne by Instructions from the home government. In France Marshal MacMahon, at the head of four army corps, one of which had suffered se verely in previous engagements, and another in the course of a long retreat haJ lost its baggage, had announced' bis intention of retreating. In advance of the enemy, to the walls of Paris there ,to rest, reconstitute and reinforce his army. But the Paris government in sisted on his- abandoning this plan in order to relieve Marshal Bazalne who, at tha head of another French, army, was striving against superior numbers of Germans to avoid being shut in the fortified camp of Metz. The pressing orders of tho Paris government pre vailed and the disastrous resolve was taken to try to push northeastward towarjs a Junction with Bazaine. Count von Moltke, chief of the German gen eral staff and the strategic head of their campaign, had provided against every contingency. Lest MacMahon should take a defensive, position north of Chalons, on the flank' of the general progress of the German armies to wards Paris, a fourth army of 50,000 men wag- formed, under the command of tha Crown Prince of Saxony. On Au gust 22, only four days after the great battle of Gravekttie. this army was on its westward march, with Chalons as Its objective point. - On August 25 the news was brought in that MacMahon had broken up his camp, and struck off in a northerly di rection. It seemed impossible that an eminent French commander had or dered such a movement, hut the Ger man reports were clear, abundant and trustworthy. The situation was instant ly plain to Count von Moltke and as promptly met. The new army of the Crown Prince ot Saxony should meet MacMahon and stop him in face. By rapid marches the third army, of the Crown Prince of Russia, should arrive in time to sweep round on his right flank and hem him in against the Belgian frontier. Mac Mahon could succeed only If he could outstrip his enemy; but. his two col umns, only reached Sedan on August 30, having spent seven days In making 50 miles. By that time the two German armies -were in his neighborhood and seeking to bring nlm to bay. The Ger mans had over 230,000 men, the French about 100,000. Many days ago (writes the war correspondent ot the London Dally Xews) thto whole maneu. ver ot doubling up the French line by swinging round upon It, left shoulders forward, had been arranged by the chiefs of staff. It was calcu lated that by almost superhuman efforts in the way of marching, the Fifth and Eleventh Prussian Corps, the Bavarians and Wurtem bergers might effect such a concentration. The Sixth Corps was hardly able to gat up in time by any efforto-that is to swing round In time In Its wide circle to the westward but It would be ready to guard the left flank of the Ger mans, and to act as support to the Wurtem bergers in case of need. Hero waa the trap ready laid. The wonderful forced march of the army of the Crown Prince- of Prussia explains the catastrophe. The dogged pluck of the Prussians in marching, their utter indifference to( fatigue, has dona more than their steady firing to win successes for King William. . . . The battle of Sedan was begun by the Ba varians. General von der Tann, of the First Bavarian Corps, was ready In the gray twi llght to open fire, prevented only by the thick THIBET: BY THE FINDER. From Sir F. Younghusbaad's paper before the Royal Geographical Society, Lon don. In few other places in the world were to be found such a variety of rare but terflies, so many different orchids, and such a wealth of trees and flowers as in Slkklm. Just cross one pass and all was changed. Oa the far side of the Kongra-lama Pass not a tree was to be seen. The most lovely lake he had ever seen was the Yamdok Tso. In shape it was like- a rough ring, and in color It varied to every shade of violet and turquoise blue and green. What caused Its mar velous coloring none of them could say, but one cause must have been the in tensity of clearness In the liquid Thibetan sky. The Dalai Lama himself even wrote to me, an act of unprece dented condescension on his part; and he sent his High Chamberlain to say that If we went to Lhasa his religion would be spoiled and he would die. I had to Inform him. In reply, of tha ! delicate and painful position in which I was placed; for if, on the one hand, I went on to Lhasa. I understood that his holiness would die, while if I stayed where I wa3 I would myself die. as I would undoubtedly have my head cut off. To many who had supposed, because it was so scheduled, it must be a kind of dreamland city, it was. I dare say. disappointing, for it was after ail built by men, and not by fairies. Its streets were not paved with gold, nor were its doors of pearls. The streets were, Indeed, horribly muddy, and the in habitants less like fairies than any I have so far seen. All the leading men here came before me, and with them I reasoned and argued and chaffed day after day and week after week. Oa the whole I formed a low estimate ot their mental caliber. It Is Impossible to regard them as much else than children. The Tl Rlmpochl held the chair of divinity in the Gaden monastery, and was universally reverenced as the leading ; lama in Lhasa. But even he, pleasant, benevolent, genial old ' gentleman as he was, had really very little intellectual power. He liked his little Jokes, and wa were always on the beat of terms. But he was firmly convinced the earth was tri angular. The general run of abbots of monas teries and leading lamas had even less to recommend them. .One monastery at Lhasa contained no less than 10,000 monks, and another had 7000. But I do not think any one saw these monks without re marking what a degraded, nasty, sensual looking lot they were. I fear I have not sufficient time ade quately to describe these monasteries and, temples. I carried away with me an Impression of immense Impassive figures of Buddha forever gazing cajpily and tranquilly downward., of walls painted with grotesque demons and dragons, of highly decorated wooden columns and roofs, of general dirt and grlminess, and of Innumerable bowls of butter burning night and day, as candles are burnt in Roman Catholic churches before figures ot the saints. Odd Names for Newspapers. Philadelphia Ledger. The names of American newspapers are a study In nomenclature- In Ar kansas are the Buzz Saw and the Back Log; California, the Condor, the Wasp and the - Tomahawk; Colorado, the Rat tler and Yesterday and Today; Iowa, the Postal Card, the Unit, the Nucleus and the Firebrand; Kentucky, the Salt River Tiger, the Push, the Boomer; Mis souri, the Missing Link and the Cyclone; Nevada, the Rustler. Oklahoma rejoices in the Dinner Bell and the Plain People. South Dakota has a- Plain Talker. In West Virginia Is the Irrepressible. Mis souri has the Crank and the Entering Wedge. " Wyoming reads' Bill Balon's Budget. GREAT ARMY Sedan Will Kuropatkin Meet- at Tie Pass T mist at 4 A. 31. in the valley of the. iltuse. Tou njhst fancy a great half -circle closing in to form k complete circle of Are round the town. Place yourself at the Crown Prince of Prussia's station on the hill. . . . , it Ts a eight ot terrible interest. Loud rattlo the volleys of the mitrailleuses. Four or five pieces are planted on the hill and work hard to keep back the Prussians. But the dark masses of King William's soldiers press cO and gain several acres. All about the llttsi cottage and the two trees I on the hilltop Is A fierce encounter. Lines of Infantry stand flriSkg at each other, and" many men fall killed and weunded. What a wild confusion it is! Both fight splendidly, but the Prussian fire prevahs and the French wither before iu There la an other rally by the French Infantry. Once more they come on. The thin blue smoke rises above Ihe line, and they almost run in their wild attempt to push, the charge home. But the at. tack withers away, and nothing can be seen of the regiment that made it. Heavy loss on both sides, it is easy to see. Other points are carried by the Germans, and the circle ot whlta smoke 'clow round Sedan. Then a fresh at tempt to break through, as though soma oh of importance were to be cut out at any cost. There Is a gradual cessation of the cannon ade, and by 5 o'clock all Is quiet, save for a. few dropping shots from the batteries near the King's position. A great outburst of flames and smoke in the town, and then a rumor that the white flag has been hoisted by the French. Then It la whispered that all these crowded troops 60.000. 70,000. perhaps SO.000 men must surrender; for they have no food. Kot only they, the Imperial soldiers, but th Em peror, too. The GermaEk troops are wild with Joy. They have caught him then, and thera will be an end of the war. Two days pass and then as strange a scene of military disaster as can be Imagined. A large army shut into a space which on division might' have occupied. To have gone on fighting would have been madness, for the Germans held every approach. Generals de Wlmpffen and Von Moltke arranged the terms ot the surrender. Not an Inch ot their past gains had been neglected by the Germans. Masses of Infantry were posted on eyery ap proach to the town, guns were pointed., and masses of cavalry ready to sweep down on any stragglers who should, perchance, get through In the confusion ot a sortie. Altogether a des perate case, a thorough checkmate of a fine, though disheartened, army. De Wtmpffen was convinced of this when Von Moltke pointed out how carefully he had prepared bla plans. Saa ly and reluctantly the French General agreed to sign, as the only thing to be done. Arms, horsea, artillery, war material ot all kinds to be given up. the town ot Sedan thrown open to the Germans, the French soldiers to be taken out to the meadows in tho bend of the River Meuse, and there encamped Until their depart ure for Germany could be conveniently man aged. It is noteworthy that though the large features of strategy remain un changed, though the lessons of the war . of 1S70 we see worked out on the largest scale by Oyama and his army commanders and to parallel results, the tools with which they work have un dergone evolution as great as In all other branches of human activity. If strategy is the same, tactics, the han dling of men In the field, are vastly different. Loose formation, perpetual entrenching, the use of heavy artillery to destroy positions even more than to kill men, the use of the railroad in supply, of the telephone in reporting and commanding the movements of the troops. Then the hygiene and the hos pital service, all are really new crea tions since the great war of 1870 came to its end. But tho winning factor after all stands true, the spirit of the nation which animates and Informs its ar mies. The catastrophe of Sedan waa the staggering blow, the determining point of that war. Will not history re peat Itself In 1905? ODD BITS OF OREGON LIFE. The Widow and tfer Friend. Madras Pioneer. Tom Burden, the widow's friend, ot Agency Plains, was doing business oa our streets lost week. Something Doing in Malheur. Malheur Gazette. Last" week was a busy one here.- It worked a hardship on the high kickers and gosslpers. The Vale people are mighty good people, but you want to keep them down to their knittin.' Mishap to An Indulgent Husband. Grizzly corr. Madras Pioneer. Henry Montgomery got up last Sunday morning to light the fires and was cut ting shavings and run a sliver under his thumb nail. He has been laid up with a sore thumb ever since. I think a good moral for Mr. Montgomery 'is: Let 'his' wife get up and build the fire. Unknown Lady Makes. a Hit. Haystack corr. Madras Pioneer. The Artisan Lodge held their semi monthly meeting at Culyer Saturday. Mr. Gerow, of Opal Prairie, was present and helped with the entertainment. Mr. Gerow is an excellent 'singer and we think it Is safe to say that his music on the accordeon can not be excelled. After the regular programme. D. W. Barnett gave in his usual jig dance which Ts always good. Then coma Mrs. . Ah! well, wo have forgotten the lady's name, but from the way she danced we think she has at some time traveled with a circus. Retribution Comes to a Heppner Man. lone, Prtclalmer. "Jnoultka." the female palmist, after a couple ot days In lone, packed up her Junk last Saturday and left for greener fields. She found all the men folks too busy to pay a strange woman with oxy dized hair a dollar each .to have her hold their hands for five minutes. An In teresting Incident happened at the Junc tion tho day she left. On the same train was a man she appeared to know, and she "bawled him out" and made htm com to the center with two Iron dollars, for a debt incurred when they were both in Heppner. Essays of Little Bobbie. Milwaukee Sentinel. GREAT MEN. Grate men ore only a few and we doant get to know many of them beekause thay keep busy staying grate. most of the grate men alnt living now thay are ded or else thay are like the rulers of Russia thay wish thay was. ded and thay will get thare wish all rite. I doant know any grate. men myself I think Pa knows sum of taem but he nevver brings none of- them home to dinner I guess he thinks thay will be afrade of Ma the salm as he Is but I guess grate men alnt afrade of no women you see Pa alnt grate. 1 will try to tell you about sum grate men one is general Kuropatkin he Is grate In sum ways he is a grate runner.-. Saint Paul was a grate man who had a city naimed after him It Is a grate city too but Milwaukee is grater thare Is moar doing here I think. mister Bryan Is a grate man except in politicks whare he aint as grate as sum others. mister Jeffries is the gratest man, he can lick anyone one tinje Pa was mad and said "I wudent take that from Jeff ries," and Ma said Shaw he can lick S like yu. ' Cause and Effect. Xew Orleans Times-Democrat. We often see In this, our life, ' , -A. pensive man, . ' , Expensive wife! ' . '.