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THE, MORNING . 0g6nIAN, FKTDAY,, MABCH v17, 1905. Entered at the Postofflce at Portland. Or as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. INVARIABLE XN' ADVANCE. (By Hail cr Kxpre&s.) Dally andSunday, per year ....$9.00 Dally and Sunday, six months-......... 3.00 Dally and Sunday, three jnontha....... 2-65 Daily and Sunday, per month. .. ... .85 Hally -without Sunday, per year 7.50 Dally without Sunday, elr months ...... 3.00 DiJly without Sunday, three months .... 1-85 Dally without Sunday, per month .65 Sunday, per year Sunday, six months lOO Sunday, three months -60 BY CARRIER. Daily -without Sunday, per -week....... -15 Dally per week. Sunday Included....... 0 THE WEEKLY OREGONIAN. (Issued Every Thursday.) Weekly, per year - 1-52 Weekly, six months 5 Weekly, three months ' HOW TO REMIT-f-Send postofflce money crder, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. EASTERN BUSINESS OFEICE. The S. C Beckwitb. 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Omaha Barkalow Broi.. 1612 Farnham: 94eBeath Stationery Co.. 1308 Famham. aicLaughlin Bros.. 24G 8. 14th. Phoenix. Ariz. The Berryhlll News Co. Sacramento, CaL Sacramento ' News Co St28 X streeL Salt Xake Salt Lake News Co- 77 West 'Second street South. Bant Barbara, CaL S. Smith. San Diezo, CaL J. Dlllard. Son Prandsco T. K. Cooper & Co- 74Q 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. 80 Ellis: N. Wheatley. S3 Stevenson; Hotel St. Francis News Stand. 8t. Louis. Mo. E. T. Jett Book & News Company, 806 Olive streeL Washincton. D. C. Ebblt House News Stand. PORTLAND, FRIDAY. MARCH 1" 1905. THE CITi ELECTION. The Oregonlan supposes there will be a Republican ticket for the city elec tion in June. It is Impossible to form any opinion as to who the nominees will be; but if they are men of solid worth and of representative character they will probably -be elected. A group of citizens doubtless, however, will ap pear, making claim to all personal, po litlcal, Eoclal and civic virtue; part of whose stock in trade also will be the claim that no candidates on a ticket bearing a party name can be honest. competent, trustworthy or virtuous, Our Democratic brethren are not strong in the city, and they may or may not put up a party ticket. Party candi dates are to be named, for the first time, through the new primary election law; and for each of the principal offices there doubtless will be many candidates. A minority In each case therefore may name the candidates. And yet It may be received as certain that any candidate who may obtain a nomination on a ticket of either party will have a much larger number of per sons participating in his nomination than any candidate will have who may "be named by the managers of any so- called "citizens' " or "people's" move 'tnent, "Municipal League," "reform en terprise," or wha't not; It makes little difference, for names or disguises are always abundant, enough. Any group of candidates offered on this basis will be selected by less than a half dozen men perhaps by no more than one or two. There Is no ring so close as that of a "reform" movement It is so from the very nature of the conditions A&self-constituted "committee" always takes direction of It. On the other hand, a primary election, under control and direction of law, offers the widest possible scope of ohoice. However, alter tne candidates are named, each and every elector still may do as he pleases, making his selec tions on the comparative principle. But the old objection to the primary can no longer be made; for under a system which secures entire freedom in voting and honesty in making the returns, all persons are on equal footing. There can be no more "stuffed" primaries And then, a little later, there Is the final ballot-box. It will not be neces sary to rush Into hysterics over the preparations for this little election, or over the election itself; for now at last there may be a tolerable degree of as surance of "a fair deal." ANOTHER CHANCE TO SERVE .THE PEOPLE. Beyond question there is a lot of bad music inflicted upon the world. It is 6aid to grate upon the sensitive ear, to irritate the spirit, and to impede diges tion. This Indictment doubtless Is true. Every Summer our people are asked to subscribe for public music, and the Qity Council is urged to throw in an appro priation. But if we are to have music. supported by the public and by the state, why shouldn't we have a normal school, to turn out music teachers? We can have an inspector of plumbing and of poultry: but where is our musical inspector? Is the great and growing State of Oregon going to put up forever, or much longer, with bad music, or with poor music? It is a vital question Since government is expected to do everything for everybody. It ought to minister also to aesthetic culture. Some say that nothing impairs digestion more than bad music; and as music is an at traction at public parks and beer gar dens, why shouldn't the state or city take it in hand? Every one can look out for the quality of the beer and pret nels and cheese for himself. If he doesn't like the quality of these refresh ments, he can put them away from him. But he has to take-whatever music may b furnished him. Hence It is clear that iu the matter of music It Is th duty of government to look out for him. We require therefore a normal school to turn out musicians for gratification of the public; and we require, moreover. a body of competentinspectors and crit ics, to see that the music Is all right A fine addition-might be made here to the noble army o license Inspectors, water Inspectors, sewer Inspectors, garbage Inspectors, electric inspectors, charity Inspectors, eta, etc. It Is clear that the possibilities of popular government. In the multifarious lines of beneficence. are not yet by any means exhausted. MORE NORMAL SCHOOLS WANTED. Our unhappy country Is sadly lack ing In the means and facilities of edu cation. We are spending a lot of money on common schools and normal schools and various kinds of schools. But we ore spending nothing on the 6chools we most need. What is wanted and needed most of all is a school for the education of par ents. Our echools can get along with the children all right and well enough. But how are the parents to be edu cated? How are they to be Impressed with a sense of their responsibility; how made to feel or realize what they owe to their offspring and to the state? There 'would be little trouble in this land of ours if we had normal schools for proper education of parents. Next, thing needed is the normal school for education of members of the Legislature. Most persons who are sent to the Legislature are notoriously unfit for the duties of the position. They lack study, training and experi ence. They make a dreadful mess of 1t Now if we had normal schools, organ ized and directed to the end of fitting men for the Legislature making this preparation indispensable to a seat in that body what results might we not expect? If we are to have normal schools to fit persons for teaching in the schools of the state, how much more necessary to have normal schools to fit persons to become parents and members of the Legislature? Our system of education stops short lamentably short of main ends. Say. rather, it begins at the wrong end, and tries, unavaillnglj to work things backward. And thus we get such parents and such legislators as we have who don't know anything about their real duties and are too headstrong in their Ignorance to learn. A DISCREDITABLE RESULT. Adams has been ejected from the of fice of Governor of Colorado; Peabody has been seated, but Is soon to resign, when the Lieutenant-Governor, McDon ald, will succeed him. This is a discreditable arrangement It is based on no principle. Peabody isn't liked by the Republicans, or by a faction of them; and rather than he should have the office they would have permitted Adams to remain. The ques tion of right was lost sight of. It was a mere Intrigue of factions. Adams probably received a majority of the lawful votes; but the frauds in Denver and other places, committed in his Interest, were so great that there was ground for contest, and it was fairly questidned whether he was law fully elected. Standing on this ground. the Republicans had a strong position. But they have lost It through the fac tional intrigue through which both Ad ams and Peabody have been sacrificed. Better have allowed Adams to serve out the term, and, at this session of the Legislature to have enacted laws as to registration and election that would have prevented frauds hereafter. THE ORIENT BY AN EYEWITNESS. All who were present at Consul H. B. Miller's lectures, who saw the photon graphs which he took, and listened to his explanations, touched and colored with the personal Interest of a partaker In and .eyewitness of the stirring events, tame away with a sense of hav ing been taken into the presence of the scenes described. For this all who had followed In the newspapers and maga zines the printed stories must have been very grateful to the speaker, fo; his easy colloquial tone and simple language deepened the Impression of entire trustworthiness, which his Ore gon friends ascribe to him in advance. How could .the course of the war be any other than that which history now has recorded on her Indelible page? ,On the one hand, we see the Russians lav ishing with open hands unstinted money on the docks, wharves, public buildings and fortifications of Port Ar thur, as well as on the mushroom city of Dalny; an army of officials like their nation, careless, generous. Idle, kindly spendthrifts, without thought for the future; not wanting in either ability or in loyalty toelr Emperor and na tion, but without balance or fore thought. Their ability is shown by the fortress they constructed, the cities they built, by the equipment of twentieth century development and luxury which they Imported and planted there at enormous cost; by the population they encouraged.-the Industries they started Their loyalty and devotion have been shown In half a score of losing fights, the hardest test. For whose benefit In the end? A watchful enemy was perfecting plans of revenge and retribution for a ten years' old offense, year by year training officers and men, adding warship to warship, building guns, manufacturing explosives, organizing staff, commis sariat and hospital service, adopting each improvement In communications, permeating the nation witn the war spirit until the choicest families gave up their daughters willingly for nurses, rich and poor serving and giving to the war fund, until the hour struck. Now, said the Japanese, they have Improved as far as they will go. It is time for us to take it over. Having sowed the wind, the Russians have reaped the whirlwind. No lnva slon that history records has moved with more resistless force. A rude awakening, indeed. The story Consul Miller told betokened the absolute, un reasoning confidence of the holders of Manchuria. They were in s possession by a trick, keeping possession by bluff; despising the enemy they had aroused, until too late; then hurrying and scurrying, digging trenches, fortl lying towns and passes only to aban don them; storing provisions, equip ment and ammunition only to burn and destroy, lest the Japanese secure them turning out warships to fight only to be sunk by the enemy or blown up by their own crews. It needs the pen of Zola to describe the "debacle," the rout and overwhelming destruction of theT Russian armies of occupation and de fense. As one reads of the unfaltering onfiux of the Japanese, memory recalls the African traveler's tale. In the re gion of the Zambesi he saw an army of great red ants. Pouring from the nest In countless hordes, the order of march was quickly formed and kept In close array they followed the trail of the .pio neers and every beast and lnseot pf the forest gavethem way. Lion, leopard, snakelizard, beetle, each in turn was put to flight, or else attacked and eaten where they showed fight, Noth ing stopped them, they passed straight on and through. Kill some you could. Crush others you might. There were plenty to take their places, and they bit. Where was character more strong ly shownthan when the City of Nlu chwang fell into Japanese control? ConBUl Miller was In temporary charge waiting their arrival, and as an old official resident knew all the details of the administration of the city. To him came straight the Japanese adminis trator and his Interpreter. Courteous but insistent, they' proceeded to ques tion and take notes. Till half-past twelve at night the seance- lasted, and Mr: Miller, tired -out, requested leave to go to bed! At half-past one the In terpreter found him out and "woke him with a yard-long list of questions in his hand. Sleepy but kind, the Consul an swered all and went to sleep. At three came another rousing, a fresh list of questions; so again at six. The next morning the Japanese questioners were on hand bright and early, and kepi at I it the livelong day. Late that night our poor friend got leave to go to bed. only to be stirred up the moment the information he had already yielded up was digested, and so on till the follow ing evening came. "Don't you ever go to 3leep?" said he to the Interpreter. The officer, always smiling, said: "I have had but one hour's sleep In the last three nights." Yet he was bright and seemingly untlred. What are you going to do with su.h people? The only way seems to be. as with the ants, to stand aside and let them pass. EFFECTIVE ADVERTISING TOR OREGON The name Oregon seems to be a pretty good trademark for almost any commodity, and this state is now re ceiving advertising In wholesale quan tities by reason of the wide distribu tion of the wheat crop of the Pacific Northwest More than 12,000 carloads of the cereal have been shipped out of the North Pacific States to Eastern points since the openiig of the season Not one-half of this amount was sent out of the State of Oregon, but the name of the mother state clung to all of the wheat, and every state east of the Rocky Mountains has received large consignments of "Oregon" wheat. The prestige given the Webfoot State Is In part due to the fact that all wheat grown in the three states Is sold on the trradlnsr of the Portland Chamber of Commerce, but another and probably more Important reason is that tne 'Oregon" country of the early explor ers has never passed out of the minds of the Easterners. Long before Washington began to figure as a wheat shipper, "Oregon' wheat was one of the standard grades In the Liverpool Corn Trade Exchange. The "Oregon wheat which Is now making us famous throughout the East is quite different from that which first made the state known in the Liverpool grain trade. The old grade, like the old Oregon country, had Its headquarters in the Willamette Valley, but the Ore gon wheat which is now cutting such a wide swath In Eastern grain markets Is all grown east of the Cascade Moun tains, and a large portion of It In the State of Washington. The fact that its name Is attracting such widespread at tentlon in the East will hardly be en joyed by our enterprising trade com petitors on the north, and it is some what surprising that they have not al- ItfL ti SIS the case of the famous "Oregon pine The wonderful fir lumber of this coun try has been known since its Introduc tion into the world's markets as Oregon pine, and all efforts of the Washington ians to change this name have been un successful. It still remains Oregon pine whether It comes from Oregon, Wash lngton, Idaho or British Columbia, and our wheat will probably continue to be bought and sold as Oregon wheat, no matter whether It is grown in this 6tate or in Washington or Idaho. Af ter all that we have heard -about the publicity Washington enjoys in me East as compared with that of our own 6tate, it will come as a pleasant sur- prise to many to find that the greatest grain markets in the world still recog nize nothing but Oregon wheat In the product coming out of the states carved out of the original Oregon territory, Oregon wool, hops and fruit have made the state famous wherever they have been sold, but the Webfoot State has never yet succeeded in monopollz Ing the credit for all of these three great staples grown In the Pacific Northwest. In Oregon wheat and Ore gon pine, however, we have two of the most effective advertising mediums that have ever been circulated. Whether the Chicago Board of Trade admits Oregon wheat as a contract grade or not, It has secured a prestige in the East that will add to its value In the future, and It has advertised Ore gon In every state east of the Rocky Mountains. THE CfcAK'S OPPORTUNITY. The one chance for the Russian gov eminent to kindle patriotism in the hearts of the people and make the fur ther prosecution of the war appeal to them as necessary Is In the Czar taking the field In person. The appointment of his cousin. Grand Duke Nicholas, to supreme command, will not only fall of the desired effect, but will, since he be longs to the hated circle of Grand Dukes, make the war more unpopular than ever, In despite of all wrong. and oppres sion; of all suffering, poverty and hard ship under which the masses of Russia writhe and groan, there Is still an In grained loyalty and devotion In their natures toward the "Great White Tear." This loyalty Is stifled while Nicholas hides In his palace strong holds, afraid to venture forth for fear of bombs. It would burst forth in loud acclaim were he to emerge from con cealment fearlesslj observing only or dinary measures for his safety, and proclaim his Intention of leading the troops of the empire to victory In Man churia Nicholas II has had thorough military -training. It is said that he is a weak ling only through his environment If this Is true, it Is xertalnly high time to chanse his environment, lest he be come atrophied In weakness and cow ardice. A monarch shut up In a bomb- proof castle, occasionally Issuing a manifesto pleading with his subjects to be loyal to their country; listening In a heartbroken way to news of repeated disaster to his army and childishly hoping that "when God has sufficiently tried the patience of the votaries of the orthodox Greek Chjirch" he will give victory to the arms of Russia, com mands neither the loyalty of his sub jects nor the respect of the world, Even the pity that is the weakling's due grows weary and forgets Its mission. History furnishes many examples of the power of monarchs of a different mold. Of these the Czar of Russia In his present dilemma may well take counseL Otherwise he is likely to go down In history as "Nicholas the Weak." to which the supplementary title "the last of the Romanoffs" may be added. It Is an unnecessary stretch, of naval regulations that forces a cadet at An napolis, who Is otherwise up to .the standard In physical and mental attain ments, to resign from the Naval Acad emy because his teeth are defective. Dentistry has come to be an exact and Indeed a wonderful and dependable sci ence. There are few persons, young. middle-aged or old, at the present day who are not indebted to It, either In a preservative or remedial sense, or both. for the ability to masticate their food properly. Through its Intelligent of fices toothache the scourge of a past generation has been banished to the backwoods or confined to the ignorant and he careless. Any disability that might arise from defective teeth may be readily corrected. It Is gratifying. therefore, to learn that three young men who were forced to resign from the Naval Academy a year ago because their teeth were defective have been reinstated. It Is up to the National Dental Association if there Is such body to send a vofe of thanks to the Secretary of the Navy for his ruling In these cases supposing, of course. that the cadets In question have' been to competent dentists and had the dis ability removed. A Minneapolis dispatch states that the mills of that city are "fairly swamped by orders that have been received for flour to go to the Orient, The dispatch further says that orders have already been received for 200,000 - bags of the product of the Minneapolis mills. These figures undoubtedly seem quite imposing at first' glance, but we have a miller out here at Portland who could grind 200,000 bags of flour in his own mills in four days. The tempor ary enjoyment of a discriminating freight rate may enable the Minneap olis millers to get Into the "Oriental flour trade, but if 200.000 bags "swamps them, they had beter stay out That amount would not make an average shipload from Portland t The United States Senate, through courtesy of Senator Ankeny, has been feasting on a 23-pound Pnget Sound sockeye salmon. From the reports re ceived the repast was very much en- Joyed. It Is now up to Senator Fulton to. invite his colleagues to luncheon with a royal Chinook salmon for the centerpiece. The Columbia River Chi nook compares with the Puget Sound sockeye as the tenderloin steak com pares with the variety known as 'chuck," and. the junior Senator will miss an opportunity If he fails to dem onstrate this fact In the most effective manner. "Strikebreaker" Farley Is said to be on his way to the Pacific Coast, and the object of his visit Is a mystery. The strike at the Fair grounds has about fallen of its own weight, and there are no other ripples on the labor pool Just at present, except the clash between the union sailors and the union longshore ..dvi mi. nancy rmgni Alsace-Lorraine, the man who repre be secured to Kpttli fh mnmntn,, I .j t..j. .... , . , . ?UCa n " Whether nas me ngnr to come ashore and take work away from union landlubbers. Jirs. Chadwlck selected enough clothing for twenty-five women," says Natnan Loeser, trustee In bankruptcy. "wmcn, in view of the way she has squandered her creditors' money, I con sider very bad taste." Assuming that Mr. Loeser knows how much clothing is required by a woman accustomed not to worry over bills, the Chadwlck case has surely passed beyond the stage at wmch good or Dad taste Is of much Im portance. .twenty-two Japanese warships be fore and no telling how many fishing smacics -oenind, the position of Rojest vensky, Vice-Admiral of the Russian navy. Is indeed, critical. The hope of the Russian Admiralty In this stress lies In the ability of the VIce-Adralral. as aeraonsiratea alter nis hostile en gagement off Dogger Bank, to vanquish tne enemy by flight The Labor Council of Seattle Jumps at the chance to Institute a boycot on tne Lewis and Clark Exposition. If the Portland labor unions propose to Join hands with the labor unions of Seattle to Injure the Fair, it Is their privilege: but- it will not do, the Portland labor unions a great deal of good. A significant feature of the Colorado contest was that "pledges that Pea body would resign were given by four largo corporations wnicn were active In nis support" Now we understand -why twenty-two Republicans declined to vote for Peabody under any circum stances. John Branton is probably suffering the pangs of regret in that he did not learn to spell in his youth. A man may In a clumsy way disguise hla handwrit ing, but when It comes to his spelling no disguise Is possible. The Democratic press is doing a great deal of unnecessary worrying about Mr. Cortelyou's resignation as Repub lican National chairman. What's the hurry? The election Is over. Andrew Carnegie drew J64.40 as wit ness fees and mileage in the Chadwlck case, about enough to pay for a tablet bearing hlB name over the next library to be founded. The Grand Duke Nicholas had better take along an army as excess baggage. for there will not be much of Kuropat- kln's left The California Legislature having killed the bill to prohibit prizefights. San Francisco again thinks life worth living. yyama is aim giving .tuiropatkln a great chance to enhance his reputation as the most successful retreater In his tory. Says the Russian General to the Jap anese General: "It's an Infernal short time between battles." Perhaps Russia doesn't know the. Japanese for '"Nuff." Green grow the shamrocks.-ob NOTE AND COMMENT. The, Mikado tells hla troops that they have done pretty well, but that he looks- for even greater exertions in the future. The Japanese are certainly out of the . emotional class. Henry W. Smith, "German xCatholIc and showman," of La Crescent, Minn., wants a wife who will take an in terest In the show business. Mr. Smith professionally and better known as Hank, the Handy Man. is 4S years of age and has a warm heart His appeal for a loving wife, who will take interest in the show business. Hank has cast into rhyme. Hank's Ideal must be able to sing and to double in brass; to cook and to wash; to hustle and to dress neatly. Other speci fications are best set forth In the show man-poet's own rushing words: "Who'll set up In the mornlnc and get a blta to at: . "Who Isn't fond of snoring: and who basa t-ice- cold feet; IX you know of such a gal, she's the one ra 1IV tn m But I don't care a rap for any rattle-trap who doesn't care a soap xor me. These are modest requirements. A wife that couldn't get a bite to eat would be a poor specimen and one fond of snoring would be an Impossibility in any sleepy household. As to the ice-cold feet the Winter Is over and gone, and In the sul try nights 'of Summer the application of ice-cold feet to the back would bo no more than gently stimulative. But It Is In the last line that the true spirit of Hank, the Handy Man, manifests Itself. "But I don't care a rap for any rattle-trap who doesn't care a snap for me." It Is heartier reDctltlon of "If she be not fair to me, what care I how fair she be." The Rutland (Vt) Herald says, "If we were aske'd to write President Roosevelt's biography, we should be Inclined to do It In one phrase, 'Born In captivity, " and Harper's Weekly recommends this inter esting example of sublety to students of literary expression. Jove nods, and Mayor Williams, in the announcement of his candidacy, spells "Mayor" with an "e." instead of an "o". The "wasp waist" Is once again fash ionable In Paris. Look out for the red nose that goes with It sign of impaired circulation or Indigestion or something of tnat Kind. Rojestvensky Is a discourteous sort of fellow: he won't even meet the Japan ese advances half way. Some anonymous and agitated corre spondent writes to protest against blazon Ing Ernest Thompson Seton as author of The Call of the Wild." We agree with our correspondent that such action is very wrong. Mr. Seton would never descend to the level of writing such savage stories as Mr. London's. Buck was too uncouth horo for a refined pen. Mr. Seton's animals are one and all highly Intellec tual and absolutely respectable. They don't pick up acquaintances with stran gers who have not been properly Intro duced, and they never fall to observe the nicest rules of etiquette. Russia's credit Is about exhausted and she hasn't got much to hock. Soma New York dogs now have golden bands, engraved with their monograms, placed around their fore-paws. It must e an awful thing to be a rich New York er's dog. v An exchange says that, just as a Passion Play was about to begin at Forbach. in ox-offlc receipt,. There's nothing like entering thoroughly Into the spirit of one's role. American Medicine publishes a cir cular letter, which it says has been mailed to some of its subscribers by a sanitarium company. The circu lar condoles with physicians who treat cases that become chronic, and, since they "require appliances and means that cannot be employed In ordinary prac tice," pass out of the physicians' hands into a sanitarium, thereby reducing the Income of the private practitioner. Con sequently, the sanitarium company offers "rake-off" for patients. "If you care to embark with us In this enterprise. send us a list of prospective -patients, and their maladies, and we will start after them with literature, and render you all the assistance in our power to land them." Medical journals, when not too technical, are full of interest to the layman. Paraguay must be a Utopian sort of place. The proportion of women to men is as 7 to 1, and all the hard and un pleasant work Is done by the more numor ous sex. The longshoremen are women, the motormen are women, the pick and shovel men are women. All that is left for the few men to do is lis in the shade and. hatch revolu tions. If our authority tells the exact truth, there should be a rush of wood- splitting, fire-lighting and baby-walking husbands to Paraguay. Ella Wheeler Wilcox's advice, "Do not hug delusions," has been widely com- mented uoon. Most of her critics atrrca that the advice Is good, as hugging delu sions is a clear waste of time and effort Still, we don't sea what Is to be done about it; most girls aro delusions anyway Winston Churchill not "The Crisis" Churchill, but the English one is only SO years old, but an admirer has already published a biography of the young man who, in the words of the biographer him self, "feels himself to be the Instrument of some great purpose of nature, only half disclosed as yet a. cell charged with some tremendous voltage of elemental energy." Moat persons who felt like that would chew eccae Cascara bark. Marconi Is married. Wireless messages from an Irish girl did the trick. Kuropatkln. He who fights and runs away, W1U live to ran another day. WEX."J. The Ten- Biggest Ports. Wall-Street Journal. What are the ten greatest maritime cit ies of the world? How many could name them all, or even a few of them? How many could name the biggest of all? A report Just Issued by the Department of Commerce makes such a comparison pos sible, and It Involves some surprises. The total vessel-tonnage movement (entered and cleared) of the ten largest maritime cities, based upon the reportsof either 1503 or 1S04, was as follows: Tons. HonrKonr - 13,2(M.SSD T-nndnn ..19.0a3.tC3 Antwerp - . 17,177.236. NW YOTlC 1T.SWJ.114 Himhurc : 18.G34.7B2 TJveraool l4.490.91S Itotteroam ....!,;. w,o-u Cardiff 13.170.156 Shanghai - 12.34Z.3c5 Blncapor .12.004. 913 1WX; all the others, 1203. The vessel-tonnage movement of these ten cities totals about one-half of the ag gregate of the 43 leadTnx ports of tha .world. JAP SPIES IN RUSSIA. Romanes and Strategy to Get Secrets at St. Petersburg. Mainly About People. Japs are scientific above all thjrigs. If you want proof of that think of how wonderfully theft' have carried out their system of espionage. Their spies have taken employment In all sorts of dis guises. They have been enlisted as nav vies in building the Siberian Railway; they have been porters at the docks of Port Arthur. Some of the men who have been in the disguise of Chinese blowing up the bridges on the railway have been found to be spies and officers in high rank in the Japanese army. Here is a recent story with regard to this system of espionage, which I Una In a letter from St Petersburg, pub lished In one of the French papers. It Is a vivid picture of what theso won derful, soldiers are willing to do In the Interest of their country: "Toward the end of 1S93 a Japanese from Klu-Siu arrived in St Petersburg and opened a tea warehouse on the Nevsky Prospect. Shops of this kind simply swarm In the Russian capital, but all the same the Japanese prospered exceedingly. In view of the big business he anticipated at the Easter festivities during the following Spring the tea mer chant got over five of his fellow-countrymen as assistants. These were all ex tremely agreeable, tactful young fellows. who quickly Ingratiated themselves with tne aristocratic clientele of the shop. am, despite the prosperity of their business, the Japanese did not seem hap py. Their melancholy was noticed, and at last they confessed their secret They did not In the least mind leaving Japan; they were delighted with Russia. What they did not like was to remain foreign ers on the soil of their adopted country. Their dearest wish, they said, was to be come naturalized Russians, and to be admitted into the Orthodox Church. "The Idea appealed to the aristocratic customers of the tea shop, and in due course they were admitted into the Or thodox Church and made Russian cltl zens. "Shortly after this the five new Rus sians wanted to get married and found i amines. Once more their customers in terested themselves on their behalf. brides were found in the shapo of pretty young Russian workglris, dowries pro vided by subscription and the marriage ceremony duly performed. Time went on, children were born and everything in tne various menagea seemed to be most satisfactory, when suddenly the war broke out Two days later the Russian-Japanese teamen had all disap peared, leaving their wives and families behind them In St Petersburg. St Petersburg society was flabbergasted The confidences it haa unfortunately imparted to the teamen went to Toklo In the form of private reports to the Japanese general staff, while the heroes of the story, all captains or lieutenants in the Japanese army, went back to their respective regiments." it -is very clever, but it Is also a bit ghastly. WORLD'S FAIR BENEFITS." When the World's Fair was projected for St. Louis there were plenty of pes simists who predicted dire disaster as the reaction after the close, pointing to the experience of Chicago a few years ago. The men who were responsible for the Fair believed they saw only prosperity ahead as a result of the project. Their Judgment seems to have been vindicated Here are some figures of Increased busi ness since the Fair was projected: In 1S9S the taxable wealth of St. Louis was S38G,000,000. Now 4t Is S4Jj3,000,000. In 1898 St. Louis banklnc capital waa 529.000.000. . ' Now It U S90,00,000. In 189S hank, and trust company deposits were S102.000.000. Now the j- reach 5252,000,000. In 1E0S the hank clcaringi of St. Louis were $1,455,462,062. In 1004 they wero over 32,800,000,000. In 1898 the wholesale jobbing trade or St Louis was 840,000,000. . Today It Is over $30,000,000. In 1838 the retail dry goods business ol St. Louts was $14,000,000. In 1004 It was over $20,000,000. In three months since the closing of the Fair, In mid-Winter and In a season of uncommonly rigorous weather, tha gen eral business of St Louis has shown no signs of retrograding, or even standing still, but has kept up the rata of prog ress and prosperity it showed six months before. Except for those lines directly affected by the crowds of visitors, ' there has been no diminution of business. The postofilce figures, even, are not material ly affected by the close of tho Fair. In stead of disaster, St Louis seems to have reaped nothing but good from the Fair. 0DDyBITS OF OREGON LIFE. Salvage at the Martin Fire. Long Prairlo Com TlllamookrHerald. Th reoort was not entirelv tru ahmtf the fire In Mrs. Martin's- house. One side was not burned. New Housa Needs a Mistress. Maple Creek Corr. Florence West Now, Winnie, I found a nice, new house land a clearing. What Is going to happen? l am a good guesser. Know tnere will be a cake, and hope you will remember me. Soon, Perhaps, There'll Se Two Reads Haystack Corr. Madras Pioneer. Miss Galloway, of Madras, attended the Artisan meeting Saturday night We don't know whether she rode a bronco or not, but think she came In a buggy wklch had but one Read. Up in the Santlam Forks . Sclo News. A general free fight occurred at the Bo hemlan dance, up Thomas Creek, last Saturday night with some parties from Sclo as the aggressor. If we are cor rectiy mrormed, a certain acio young man should not be so obstreperous. Muscular Christianity Has Its Uses Albany Democrat An exciting hog incident occurred at the depot A farmer received a choice 150 pound blooded animal by express. In taking him from the express wagon tha box dronoed and the animal got out of a holo made. The farmer Jumped on top of him, but he tipped him off and he fled un der a car. A desperate chase was In prog ress when Rev. Mr. Wright of the M, E. Church South, a former Arizona cow boy, was given a rope, and with a slight twist of tha wrist and a flop of the arms the bog was in a noose and safe. Mr. Tucker's Unlucky Day Lakeview Herald. J. W. Tucker had troubles of his own last Monday. He got up with his corns paining him liko . He went out to the stable and found that the family cow bad disappeared. He mounted bis wheel to ldok for his cow, but only rode a short distance when he punctured his wheel. The last seen of "Tuck" he was limping home from town muttering something to himself and declaring that the rest of the family would hava to find the cow or drink black coffee until the old cow came home of her own accord. "THE PERSONAL TAX EARCE." Explanation of the Justness sf "Swearing Off" by Rich Men. New York Tribune. The annual farce of marking up per sonal assessments on the tax books- for the sake of marking them down is or.ca mora presented to us. together with the usual outcry against "tax dodgers." The spectacle of men who everybody knows are each worth millions cutting down their assessments to a few thousand apiece, or swearing them off altogether, affords a ready theme for indignant com ment to many dear friends of the "com mon people." No doubt there Is a good deal of clever fencing with the technicali ties of the law or even downright per jury Indulged In to escape personal as sessments. It does seem absurd that a multi-millionaire should be able to an nounce the sum on which, as a matter of good will to his fellow-citizens, recog nizing his moral duty to share the public burdens, ho Is willing to pay taxes, and that If they are not- satisfied with that sum he will pay nothing at all. Yet It is not his fault that the laws permit this and that they are so utterly unequal In tneir operation that such a man may feel that he is doing much more than others of similar wealth. A state which by its laws Duts a pre mium on perjury need not be surprised tnat it gets what It bids for. Yet as a matter of fact, we believe that the swear ing on: 13 for the most part perfectly proper. In the first place, the assessments aro made at random. A clerk runs over the directory and puts Ifbwn persons of wnom he knows nothing for whatever sums strike his fancy. It is pure guess work. Stenographers and clerks wake up to find themselves possessed of large properties, .in tho opinion of the officials. The preliminary assessment la nothing more than an order to show cause: and when the cause has been shown a large proportion of the guesses are found to be erroneous. Even the most violent critics of "tax dodgers" admit that the swearing oft of these hlt-or-miss assessments Is legiti mate, but their wrath is especially di rected against known rich men who do not pay personal taxes on the popular street-corner appraisement of their wealth. This la, of course, a cry which appeals to the groundlings. Tt Ignores, however, the fact that personal taxes are levied- not upon the common estimate of a man's wealth, or even upon his ac tual wealth, but upon certain specific classes of property In excess of certain specific clasps of debt A man may be richer than Croesus and still be exempt from this particular tax. He may own absolutely and free from debt the whole capital stock of the New York Central Railroad and yet swear off a personal as sessment with a clear conscience. Tho ( law exempts from personal tax the stocks of corporation's in the hands of Individ uals, and makes that particular wealth contribute to the state by a tax levied upon the corporation Itself. This is only one instance of the many forms which personal property may take and be free from the tax. The fact that any man's person tax is small does not necessarily mean that he Is not paying his full sbar of the public expenditures. It merely mean3 that his property in the natural course of businessls, or has been, tech nically made exempt from the operation of one particular statute. Of course, this statute is unjust It Is so formulated as to put a heavy burden on small estates Invested In bonds and mortgages, and especially on trust funds of widows and orphans. The remedy, however. Is not in abuse of those whose property Is not reached by Its provisions, or a demand for more fine-tooth-comb methods of adding to the roll new names, thereby merely doing more Injustice, but in a sine, straightforward reform of an absurd and outgrowntax system, which may have answered tho purposes of a rural community where everybody knew everybody else and wealth was mostly in simple, visible forms, but which now ut terly falls to reach the bulk of personal property and. puts an unjust burden on a few. REPEAL OF "LIED LAW." And What Ought to Have Gone With at. New York Evening Post Congress at the lata session went only so far in the direction of reforming the land laws 'as to amend the lieu-land law of 1S37, which the Public Lands Commis sion had called "scandalous." Hereafter, the holder of lands which have been in cluded In a forest reserve cannot exchange them for other timbered lands, but must take lands of some other sort Thus is ended a system under which. In eight years, it is said that 2,000,000 acres of forest outside the reserves have already come into the hands of the large specula tors and land-grant railroads. A recent report from the Commissioner of the Gen eral Land ortice states tnat these roads still hold more than 2,000,000 acres in the reserves, and the amended law comes when Just half the possible mischief has already been done. But the timber and stone act, under which such lands may regularly be acquired, remains on the books, and 13 as sorely in need of revision. Under it the purchase of Government land, 160 acres to one person, is authorized at $2.50 per acre, when the applicant swears that the land is worth more for timber or stone than for agriculture. "It Is an invitation to steal," said a West ern publicist, of this statute. "Unless he can sell It 160 acres of timber won't do the Individual the slightest good. It Is not enough to warrant him building sawmills or transportation facilities to get his lum ber or logs to markets. Consequently he sells it at the first' opportunity to tha corporations who Inspired the law." Ona Incentive to fraud arises from the fact that lumbering is an Industry which must be conducted on a large scale, while the Government's policy has always been in theory to distribute the land among small holders. The commission's plan out of the difficulty is to sell merely the stand ing timber in large tracts and afterward divide up the land. Facing His Constituents. Chicago Record-Herald. "Nowj my fcflow-cltlzens," said Sena torSnugley, "I want to tell you how glad-1 am to be back among you once more. (Cheers.) I am always happy to get away from Washington and to re turn to the plain, patient people I know so well. (Loud cheers and applause.) It does my heart good to look Into your honest, open faces and know that you will line up for. me with the old, unrea soning party loyalty the next time it is necessary for the railroad companies and trusts by which I am employed to let you go through the motions or returning me to my seat back there as a member of the most august deliberative body on earth. (Wild cheers and shouts of "What's the matter with Snugley?" "He's all right!") Gentlemen and friends, I thank you for this touching exhibition of blind partisanship, and I trust that it may be my privilege to serve you long and faith fully, as I served your fathers before you. They didn't think for themselves either.' (Prolonged cheers and music by the Shag town Silver Cornet Band.) True to His Art. Chicago Tribune. The hero of the play, after putting up a stiff fight with the villain, had died to slow music . The audience insisted on his- coming' before the curtain. He refused to appear. . Butthe audience still insisted. Then the manager, a gentleman with a strong Accent, came to the front "Ladles an" gintlemen," ;he said, "tha earpse thanks ye kindly; but he says he's dead an ha' eo'in to stay dead, besobsl" v