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Never was a nation more unprepared for a great struggle than she -was; never -was a nation more surprised at the unexpected and unknown strength of an adversary. Kussla blun dered Into this "war. It -was herself, not Japan, that made the conditions of it though Japan actually began the war, to the amazement of Russia, who had no thought that Japan would hazard it. Russia however, has put forth stu pendous effprts. Powerful as she Is, these efforts have weakened, and, for. the present, practically exhausted her. She finds it Impossible, therefore, to go .on with the war, on a scale and with a vigor that could promise success. If the "war should continue, all she could do is to retire from Eastern Asia and withdraw so far that the armies of Japan could not follow her. This would be confession that she was beaten com pletely out of her game. Japan can accept nothing less than total withdrawal of Russia from Man churia and absolute abandonment of ' Russia's claims and pretensions therein. It -was Russia's position In that great province, with her evident Intention to remain and to make it her own, to gether with her menace to the auton omy of Corea and consequent exclusion of the Influence of Japan from the con tinent, that gave her cause of war; and now. having beaten Russia terribly, both by land and sea, and driven her far from the Manchurlaa seacoast, she certainly will not permit Russia to re tain or to recover any kind of hold there. The first condition of peace, therefore, must be the consent of Russia to quit the country. If, more over, the war should go on, till Japan has taken Vladivostok, Russia may lose that port also forever; for Japan, com pletely victorious, will be disposed to protect herself against recurrence of so terrible a conflict as she has been passing through during more than a year past, Security for Japan requires removal of the menace to her future safety, caused by the presence of Russia in Manchuria and by her pressure on Corea. Japan may go further and de mand a heavy money indemnity. Here is a condition to which Russia would be likely to demur preferring, since ehe can't have Manchuria, to lose Vladivostok also and withdraw to the west and north of the Amur River, rather than meet a demand for indem nity in money, which would be most humiliating to her on the one hand and extremely difficult In the present state of her finances on the other. Russia always has this immense advantage, namely, she can retire into the realm of her own immense distances, beyond the reach of an enemy. She has, how ever, made mighty exertion to plant her empire oa the Pacific, and seemed to have succeeded. But it is certain now she has been defeated in her broad and ambitious scheme, and now she will be fortunate if she retains on the Pacific . what she -had before her meddlesome iritrusion In the affairs of Japan and China, at the close of the war between those countries some ten years ago. After making peace Japan will put her main energy into the expansion of her navy. Having beaten Russia, out of the field, no otlier power can ever eend armies against her, by land; but & powerful navy will be essential, as a guaranty of her security In hex islands and of the position she has won on the mainland. '"Power plants" now in operation at Niagara divert 29 per cent of the water from the natural channeL "When the plants under construction or projected shall get at work, 41 per cent of the whole volume will be. used. This will mean a diminution by two-fifths of the volume that hitherto has passed over the falls. The first effect will be to dry up the channel on the American side. A writer in Cassier's Engineering Magazine. says: "Niagara Falls will disappear.. CiUdreaaIready-iora may; yet walk drychod from the mainland of the New York State reservation to Goat Island across the present bed of the Niagara River." The flow of the river is remarkably uniform due to the fact that in flood times in the streams above the water is held in the Great Lakes; so there is not much difference in the flow at the falls, one time or another. The average volume is less than that of the Columbia. River at the Cascades. The Lower St. Lawrence carries more than three times the volume that plunges over Niagara Falls, and is much great er than the Lower Mississippi though the whole drainage basin Is less. No river, save the Amazon, sends to the sea so large a volume as the St. Lawrence. THE OLD AND ONLY WAY. "Probitas laudatur et algeL" Virtue is praised and yet freezes. It Js com mended, yet starves. Thus Juvenal, the Roman satirist, a Jong- time ago. Very little there is that's new, Iji this world we live In. Ideals are necessary though they who maintain them usually sacrifice themselves in the work, and with small thanks. .In & re cent address on "The Problems 'Of a Modem University," Professor J. H. Penniman, dean of the academic de partment of the University of Pennsyl vania, declared "that the supreme aim of a great university was or should be absolute fidelity to truth for truth's sake, apart from personal opinion or personal gain." Certainly there could be no higher purpose Jn the training of youth for the struggles and duties of life; for, as the speaker said; one of the purposes of an mstltulon of learning is, first, to conserve knowledge; sec ondly, to disseminate knowledge; and thirdly, to impart knowledge. But none of these three functions can be success fully performed without fidelity to truth unbiased by Individual prefer ences or Individual feelings. This de votion to truth goes hand in hand with a devotion to duty which itself finds application in three important objects in the acquisition of knowledge, and these are, as Professor Penniman stat ed, to interpret the past, to measure the present, to foretell the future. All of these are useless If not honestly done. In a word, it may be said that the great purpose of the teacher should be to find out the truth and tell it truth fully to the pupil. For the strongly endowed university this should be easy. Its strength In teaching, In character. In finance, should lift it above the shifting moods of the time. Thus It may impart a strength to all who come under its In fluence. And yet, the alumnus, who goes forth into the world, finds that virtue Is -praised, but freezes and starves. Nevertheless, the only security one has, or can have, when he enters the world of activity and of strife and struggles with It, is In keeping faith with his ideals. Starvation, with vir tue, after all, is not likely to happen. But shame, failure, vexation, disap pointment, remorse and death, are the proper consequences of life without ideals of virtue and duty. There are resources in decency and virtue and right living, that are sure. To these resources loose, Idle and vicious lives, never can pretend. That ship, guided by no chart, is lost on shoals or reefs usually the first that it encounters. If the straight way is not the primrose path, it certainly is the only safe one. OTTER COLUMBIA STEAMBOATS WANTED. The portage railroad at Celilo will be ready for business in a few months. The rolling stock and motive power have been purchased, and the roadbed and other equipment will be in readi ness by the time the 1SK5 wheat crop Is available. As yet no effort has been made to secure transportaion facilities on the river above Celilo. The fact that boats to be used on that portion of the river must necessarily be constructed at a point quite remote from regularly established, shipyards and machine shops, and that all of the material must be taken in by rail, makes it unreason able to expect a steamer service to be in readiness when the road is complet ed. This unpleasant situation is caus ing some uneasiness among friends of the open river who had apparently ex pected to see keen rivalry among 6teamboatmen for first place on the new route now open for them. Oregon steamboatmen have plenty of -boats and plenty of capital with which to build more whenever they are satis fled that returns commensurate with the risk will be forthcoming. "Were It possible for them to transfer some of their boats from the lower or middle river to that stretch of' water between Celilo and Wallula, they would un doubtedly hasten to give the upper river traffic a trial. But there are no boats on the upper river, and, to get into the trade, it is necessary to build and equip new ones complete from keel to pilothouse, and steamboatmen seem to be deliberating very carefully as to whether the immediate returns will warrant the investment necessary. "When R. R. Thompson and E. F. Coe built the steamer Colonel "Wright above Celilo In the late '60s, they saw before them a rapidly increasing traffic that was paying 5100 per ton freight between Celilo and "Wallula. They reduced this rate to 580 per ton and piled up colossal fortunes at the latter figure. Their successor, the Oregon Steam Naviga tion Company, made still greater for tunes with three or four larger steam ers earning freight at $40 per ton, and even less. The steamer Spray, which entered the field as an Independent boat, earned her cost three times over in five months before she was gathered in by the O-. S. N., and the Cascadilla, another opposition venture, met with similar success. There was such enor mous leeway between the maximum charge and the actual cost of the ser vice that capital In unlimited sums was available for up-river steamboats. But there has been a great change in traffic conditions along the Columbia since the day of high freights. "Wheat Is now carried by rail from points In Umatilla and "Walla Walla, the two big wheat counties of the Northwest, to Portland or Puget Sound, at $3.15 per ton. From Biggs, which is the river outlet of Wasco County above Celilo. the rate to Portland is 52.05 per ton. It would cost the Umatilla or Walla Walla wheatgrower from 50 cents to $1 per ton, and perhaps more, to get his wheat where the boats could reach 'it. This would accordingly leave the boats 52.15 to 52.65 per ton for carrying the freight over nearly 250 miles of' river, included in which distance are a number of bad stretches of water, a -portage at -Celilo and lockage at the Cascades. All of the steamboats now running out of Portland are securing from 51 to' fipei;ioa-oar-rcates-o Irom 40 lo 100- miles of easily navigated river, where fuel of all kinds Is cheap and easy of access. Upstream freights, while ma terially higher than the downstream rate on wheat, can never appeal to the steamboatmen jo long as the railroads retain the power to grant distributive rates to interior points. The portage road is a good move toward an open river, but the field for' the steamboat will not be materially widened until the obstructions between Wallula and Rl parla are removed and the canal at Ce lilo completed, so that the boats can get in the long haul from Lewlston to tide water without breaking bulk. WISCONSIN AND .OUR FAIR. The Milwaukee Sentinel of March 22 has an editorial on the Lewis and Clark Exposition, based on suggest!ons made by Charles W. Mott, of that city. The Sentinel says: "It Is unfortunate that the bill appropriating money for the state exhibit at the Portland Exposition was killed, but this need not deprive Wisconsin of the advantage such a rep resentation would gain. The money can be raised by private subscription to pay the costs that should have been borne by the state." What Mr. Mott proposes is "that a building be erected at moderate cost say 52000 to 52500 consisting of a lobby, or reception-room, and an auditorium in which moving pictures can be shown representing Wisconsin industries. These pictures can be taken In fac tories and shops, and' can be made to illustrate the processes through which machinery and other products of Wis consin industries pass while in the course of manufacture- Other pictures may be thrown upon the screen show ing Wisconsin's prosperous cities, and lecturers may entertain the audiences with an explanation of the different scenes." As to Wisconsin's trade In the West, and particularly In Oregon, Mr. Mott says: A large part of the machinery ontput of Milwaukee goes to the Pacific Coast, and particularly to Oregon. The wagon output of Racine has a. large market there. In fact, a certain type of wide-tired, mountain climbing wagon is manufactured in Racine especially for that trade. The thrashing ma chinery for which Racine Is noted also goes to this section extensively. Milwaukee prod ucts la the line of knit goods, clothing, and boots and shoes are .strongly represented in the trade of Oregon and neighboring states. The list of Important Wisconsin Interests represented there could be extended indefi nitely. Many of these firms have their own representatives on the Coast, with local agents in Portland. Others reach the trade through the jobbers of St. Paul. Minneapolis and other cities. I travel frequently to and from the Coast and come In contact with commercial and business men generally. The questions I have asked these men as to where they obtain their goods have revealed to me a business connection between Wis consin and the North Paclflp Coast that would surprise most of the citizens of this state. To all these people, and to those who buy goods of them, a practical exposition of the methods of manufacture followed In turning out the principal Wisconsin prod ucts would be of the greatest Interest. Op portunity for the extension of the trade by Interesting others would be great. The Sentinel expresses a hope that the Legislature of Wisconsin may yet act; but If it should not, the Sentinel urges -private subscription for a fund, saying "there is too much at stake to permit the matter to go by default." THE MAYOR'S BIRTHDAY. If Mayor Williams paused long enough In the midst of the felicitations of his friends on his .eighty-second birthday, it must have occurred to him that it is, after all, a fine thing to be Mayor of a city where he has lived nearly all his active life. He has his troubles, but it is the business of a Mayor to have trouble; and if he Is the happy possessor of a serene mind, a clear conscience and a fund of good humor, they need not cause him to lie awake nights. Besides, they are mostly other people's troubles. When he looks around and contemplates the ostenta tious industry of the public-spirited cit izens who know how to run the city better than he does, the Mayor has but to con the familiar axiom that, the man who has an office never serves the pub lic so well as the roan who wants one. When he Is reminded that Portland Is not all It should be. and that Seattle, for example, is a paragon of all civic virtue, the Mayor can reply by showing that its municipal finances are in a ter rible tangle; that a contractors pool has milked the taxpayers-of thousands of unearned dollars; that its Council men have been publicly accused of sys tematic graft; that its state legislative delegation not long ago "sold out the city"; that its City Engineer proposes to go on a three months' European junket at the public expense; that the City At torney is in difficulties over non -enforcement of the fire-escape ordinance, and that the Mayor has had to purge himself of contempt of court for mak ing unfounded charges against a Su perior Judge. If a "comparison is sought to be instituted between Portland and the moral and intellectual City of Ta coma, he can respond by showing that it is the only open town on the Pacific Coast, and Its gambling-houses yield a monthly revenue of 54000 to the city treasury. If San Francisco and lt3 re form Mayor are mentioned favorably, a few instructive Incidents in the process there of making bad citizens good and good citizens better may be cited. The chairman of the Board of Public Works has just been Indicted for subornation of perjury committed in an effort to shield ballot-box stuff ers; the Chief of Police has been dismissed from office for grafting, and a widespread condi tion of rottenness Is being slowly -uncovered. It Is significant that in each of these cities the old regime was turned out and the new established. The San Francisco Mayor "busted the ma chine"; the Seattle Mayor "closed the town"; the Tacoma Mayor "smashed the ring." What Portland is going to do remains to be seen. In any event there is no need to call in Dr. Osier. DODGING THE RAINDROPS. "Pleasure never is at home," says the poet, and his words seem to be borne out by the long list of Oregonlans who are sojourning In Southern California. Most of these travelers probably seek sunnier skies than those they picture as peculiar to Oregon in March, but the best-laid schemes for getting to wind ward of the weather are always gang ing agley. A paragraph in the San 'Bernardino Sun refers to some Corvallis people who went to Southern California to spend the Winter, "but find It almost as wet as Oregon." In view of the lamenta tions In many of the California papers, "almost as wet as Oregon" seems an understatement, of the facts. Tbe Los Angeles Times tells a fish story that i only the heavy rains rendered possible-. Two different men, on .their way home by. "moonlight are" -reported. -b Hie. Times to ha-ve caught fine, fat carp which were flopping about 'In the mid dle of the street. Here in Portland the most daring- spinner of yarns would hardly venture upon such a tall one as this; the amount of water In the streets would not justify it. Again, we read of a party, which Included a Portland woman, going for a trip on Santa Cata llna Island. "The party went over the trail," says the report, "and was caught In the rain. There was an Inch of pre cipitation before the visitors got back to their hotel. They were thoroughly soaked." And again: "Mr. and Mrs. William P. Swope. of Portland, Or., spent a few days at Santa Monica. They arrived in time to see the heavy storm at sea, when the pleasure piers of the beach were wrecked, entailing a loss of fully 5200,000." .These Instances lead one to the con clusion that if pleasure never is at home it very frequently is not abroad either. Those In search of a climate never are blessed, but always deem themselves about to be blessed with an absolutely flawless combination of sun and shadow, heat and cold, dryness and wetness. Needless to say, the perfect ly satisfactory climate Is not to be found this side of Paradise, but Orego- nlans at home will regret that Oregoni- ans in California are not having as good a time. John p. Rockefeller has sent to Chi cago a prayer for Dr. Harper's recov ery, together with the Implication that he intended to present the University of Chicago with 550.000,000. Whenever Boss Tweed in the zenith of his power would bestow his ill-gotten gains on some worthy, or unworthy Institution, Thomas Nast. as the illustrating In quisitor of the people, would ask, "Where did he get the money?" Chi cago, with Its record of 17 .murders. 40 assaults, 73 burglaries and 129 hold-ups since January 1, and none of the crim inals apprehended, apparently does not care where the money comes from so Jong as the piratical John Dough hands it over. It is even a matter of ques tion whether the Rockefeller prayer could not have been dispensed with, had he sent the money Instead. Executive ability in Its highest form has always been credited to American railroad men, and they have earned the reputation they enjoy. When Horace G. Burt gave up the management of the Union Pacific he was offered 5100.000 per year to take charge of the great Trans-Siberian Railroad. This offer Was refused, and now comes the news from Omaha that a similar salary has been offered him to take charge of the Panama Canal. It Is a man of rare ability that can refuse a 5100,000 posi tion. In this connection it is interest ing to note that Portland's good friend, A. L. Mohler, Is winning new laurels by the excellence of his administration of the office vacated by Mr. Burt. D. J. Crowley, of Tacoma, who died last Friday, was for years a law part ner of the late John B. Allen, In Walla Walla. He was a man of keen mind, high integrity and great personal gen iality. He occupied a conspicuous po sition In the affairs of Washington up to about six years ago, when he with drew from law practice. As a member of the stateconstltutional convention he was active and Influential, and proba bly had more to do in framing the pol icy of the constitution than any other person. It Is singular that both he and ex-Senator Allen should have expired without previous warning at the ma turity of their intellectual powers. The Washington State building at the World's Fair in St. Louis was typical of the state It represented. All other states which participated in the. big show reached the end of the advertising tether when the Fair closed. Not so with the Evergreen State, for when workmen were engaged In razing the building last Saturday It toppled over and burst Into print all over the United States by nearly killing three men. States may come and states may go, but Washington is always "there." Resenting the proposal that It Is the duty of Canada to take British goods Instead of American, the Montreal Ga zette says: "Great Britain does not buy a dollar's worth of produce from Canada for any other reason than that she can procure It here better and cheaper. She buys in every one of the world's markets on the same conditions. When we buy we should be entitled to the same privilege" The Steel Trust will distribute 59.000, 000 In increased wages among its em ployes hls year. If stock market re ports are correct, the directors and stockholders have already distributed a good many times 59,000,000 among themselves since United States Steel commenced its upward climb. "Greater Pittsburg," to include Alle gheny City and other suburbs, is at last to be accomplished. It will be a city of more than 600,000 inhabitants, and pos sibly may go beyond Boston and Bal timorewith only New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and St. Louis leading it. Warsaw's Chief of Police would be foolish to conclude that an attempt to blow him up with a bomb reflects in any way upon his personal character or reputation. It Is merely an Indication that some persons consider his office Is better -unfilled. Boodle Is the principal topic just now in San Francisco, Omaha, Milwaukee and New York. In some of the towns that come between, all that's needed to produce a similar state of affairs is an investigation. Mrs. Chadwick got 5517,000 on her loans and her paper read $750,000. The difference of $265,000 was a very reason able commission considering the kind of bankers she dealt with. The Panama Canal Commissioners threaten to quit if their pay for attend ance at meetings is stopped. Quit what? When did. they ever do anything except meet and draw pay? Rojestvenskys squadron having sailed from Nossl Be, the Madagascar champagne market resumes Its normal dullness. General Oyama talks a little for pub llcatlonj He does less for publication. But he never has any explaining to do. High finance will have something to its credit if it brings about the end of. the Russo-Japanese War. I Maxim Gorky -must begin to think I that the Russian government Is too en j,erttie & aL,7 . NOTE AND COMSIEXT. The Countess of Tackacs de Klsjoka, formerly Miss Hart, of Cleveland, has ob tained a divorce from her Hungarian hus band. What a relief it will be to abandon "Tackacs de Kisjoka" for plain "Hart." It doesn't take much to make a hero in New York. Robert -Goelet has acquired the title by pulling'a burning hat from the head of a young- woman with whom he was dining when a candle set fire to the brim. A resident in Pittsburg writes to a New York paper denying that such an abbre viation as "Pts." Is used to designate the city. He says that in Pennsylvania "Pgb." Is always used. It Is beginning1 to be known editorially as the "Panama muddle." A boy in Everett hypnotizes hl3 school mates into thinking that chips of wood are good to eat. He should apply to the Beef Trust for a job. Rockefeller is about to give 5S5.000.000 to a university In Chicago, not Kansas. Just because the World says that New York is getting most of its fresh eggs from Kentucky, the Louisville Courier- Journal makes itself ridiculous to Oregon egg-eaters only with a panegyric upon. Kentucky eggs: "Aristocratic eggs from the .Bluegrass nestle fondly amid the inner recesses of the apple pies ' that languish temptingly upon the tables ot the Four Hundred." says the Courier-Journal. "They do their heroic part In lightening the wheaten biscuits that brown in the ovens of Fifth avenue and cheer the heart of the Gotham invalids- whose physician limits his diet to poached eggs on toast. They swim In Broadway eggnogs and egg-phosphates, they decorate the bridal cakes of happy couples and give their substance to many an omlet that sizzles on the skillet." Then the writer calls upon some poet to go It about the Kentucky egg. How much more inspiring Is the Oregon egg. which it would be superfluous to label "fresh egg." as the World does with tae others. It's enough to make anyone break Into an omelette of poetry The Oregon egg, the Oregon egg But we leave the continuation to one of the poultry Journals. If Russia's sailors have done nothing else, they have established a criterion of ebriety. Counsel for the defendant In a recent case before an English court urged that the prisoner had been "very drunk"- when he committed the offense. "Do you mean so drunk that he would not know a torpedo-boat from a trawler?" asked the Judge. The editor of the Mansfield (O.) News is a flowery writer, and when a wedding is pulled off In Mans a eld he is there with the goods in the dope-sllnglng fine. Here Is a feeble specimen of his style when he lets loose on the "fragrant maiden": "Ri val lovers should not let young, ragrant maidens' allurements stir their hearts with such fierce emotions of love and jealous wrath that they will utter words that will cause fear and sorrow to. rankle in maidens tender, shrinking hearts. They should have more consideration for the feelings of the timid maiden at whose shrine of beauty and grace they want to kneel." Revelations of an International Spy. By "Q. T." (Editor's Note. These revelations are of so startling a nature that Monsieur "Q. X." 'ow ing to his Intimate friendship with th crowned heads and uncrowned feet menUoned therein, is unable to disclose his Identity. An. other, 'thing is that "Q. T.." for reasons of his own. does not wish his former laundry driver to obtain his addreas.) I THE FATAL ERROR. A hand came through the roof of the hansom In which I was driving and dropped a package at my feet. Following my first Impulse, I clutched the hand, but it came away in my grasp. It was art! flcial! Placing It In my pocket, I opened tho package. It contained a sheet of pa per bearing the single word, "Come." Wrapped In this extraordinary letter was a small piece of steel. I turned it over in my hand, but could make nothing of it, until I noticed a small blue stain on one angle. Then I remembered. It was the identical piece of an exploded bomb that I had dug with my penknife out of the leg. of the Grand Duke Twlrly- vltch. when his life was last attempted by the Internal Circle of the Infernal Reds. His blood was the bluest In Europe, and I could not be mistaken. Conscious that I might be watched. I ordered the cabman to drive to Euston, where I bought a ticket Xor Galway. Next day I was In Ireland, followed, as I had expected, by a score of secret ser vice men. How to outwit them? Speaking the Irish dialect perfectly, thanks to a -six-months visit to -Boston, I had no difficulty in persuading the Gal wegians that I was a United Irishman and that the Russian spies were from the Castle. Needless to say, the Russians were not the men for Galway, and when they be gan to recover their senses I was 'ap proaching .the gates of the Winter Palace. Just as I was about to enter by a se cret door of which I had the combina tion, a heavily-veiled woman of superb figure laid her hand upon my shoulder and whispered: (To be continued.) Benny on the Ornlthorhynchus. Chicago Tribune. The ornlthorhynchus is a small animal you read about in books. You have to use a dictionary when you spell Its name. They do not keep It on exhibition in me nageries or in parks. It lives in Australia, and has a bill like a duck, also web feet with which It can propel itself through the water with great ease. If the "ornl thorhynchus bad fewer legs and a pair of wings it would be a bird. It Is a lonely animal, and not much given to society. The reason for this Is that It has no body to associate with but ornlthorhyn chuses. and that Is enough to make any animal tired. Australia Is a wonderful country. Besides the ornlthorhynchus It produces bushmen, kangaroos, and boom erangs, but I would rather live In my own country, where we have the blessings of civilization. Let us ever strive to do good and to obey our parents. It takes me a long tima to write an essay on the ornf thorbynchus. BENNY. English the World Language. New York Independent. English In an international language. The negotiations between the Russian and' Japanese for the surrender of Port Arthur were conducted, not in French, but in English. The Japanese generals who took part and their associates talk English, and one of them Russian. One the Russian side they brought a young midshipman who had to act as interpreter, because the English of the officers was Imperfect. In Russia and Turkey the officials still prefer to use French.- but the rest of the world, "in the East as well as the IjVjtstt .turn to EnllK Is Castro Another Diaz? A New View of the Veaexaelaa Autocrat The New YorJc Asphalt Compaay aild un Effort to lavolve the United States With the Sonth Americas Republic. Richard Weigatman. In Chicago Tribune. 3UR mutual friend. Don Ciprlano Caitro. becomes exciting. In his capacity as an alleged narseoutor of that virtuous and greatly wronged concern, the New York Aaohalt Comn&nv. I took little Interest In him. What ho did to the asphalt peonle was so ohvlrtiuiv just and proper that It versed utwn the humdrum and the commonplace. Besides. ne ougnt to nave done It long before. imagine what would happen to a for eign corporation doing business in thfa country under a Government franchise after It became known that thA comnanv had not only defaulted on Its, charter ob- uKuimns out actuauiy nnanced an Insur rection. And ask yourself whether It would happen next day or after two years of humming and hawing. At all events, that L -whnr th nanhoit crowd did In Venezuela, and yet only a few days ago did the Venezuelan court finally forfeit their charter. The proper criticism ot Castro In this matter 13 not that he has sat down on tho New York Asphalt Company, but that he didn't do The United States ha nn iccritimata grievance. The alleged oppression of tho New York AsDhalt Comnanv -win Vi a moment's impartial Inquiry. Mr. Hay nimaeu saia to an intimate friend, not three month3 ago. that the whole squab ble was odious and disgusting, and it is Known oi an men who wished to know that Castro has repeatedly challenged the asphalt crowd to take the matter into the courts of this country and get a Judgment If they can. ror the rest. Venezuela Is standing squarely by The Hague award. There has been no proof to the contrary, and. so far as I know no authoritative asser tion to such effect. Castro has shown that he can manage domestic tumult and dissensions If not harrassed by foreign encroachments. AS a matter Of fact hs mnnnrori tho ilotos' Insurrection of three years ago pretty errectuaiiy. although the New York Asphalt Conmans- neonle wer aiding tt with money and advice. Who shall measure the future now open to Castro with Germany and England to protect and promote Venezuela's commerce, and with security at home In restoring tran quillity and civilization? If Castro is like the majority of Spanish-American rulers, we shall soon hear of him in Paris enjoying his for tune. While Venezuela has n. new nrps. Ident of course of Anglo-German se lection. a win nnd quite a little company of congenial spirits there. But they are not all that way. There A BRITISH DIPLOMAT'S QUESTION Put to Gen. Woodford on His Way Home From Spain. Stewart L. Woodford, in the Sunday Magazine. When I was recalled from the Spanish capita, the Interests of all American citizens were placed In the care of the British Embassy. As a con sequence of this fact, Str Henry Drummond Wolff had been directed to proceed at once from London to his post. Hearing of my approach to Paris, he had awaited me there. His note was most gracious. He explained that he was suffering from the gout, and under any other circumstances would call upon me gladly; but he begged that I would waive ceremony and come to his hotel, as he wished to proceed to Madrid at the earli est moment. No possible reason existed why I should not accede to his sugges tion. He was my superior in years; he outranked me in the diplomatic service in seniority and as an Ambassador. There fore I went. The chief subject of our conversation Is unimportant at this day, relating as it did to details concerning the responsibil ities that he as representative of the United States would have to assume. From the first quarter of an hour, how ever. I was conscious that Sir Henry de sired to say something of great import ance. Again and again I gave him oppor tunity. But he remained silent. After I had much overstayed my time and felt that I could not remain donger, I rose to leave, and said: "I beg of you. Sir Henry, to convey to the Queen Regent and to the Duke of Tetuan my sincere personal regard, and to her Majesty, the Queen Regent, the as surance of my personal good wishes for the health and long life of her son, the young King. You will know exactly how to convey these messages as the expres sion of sincere respect and gratitude for many courtesies, although they now come from a private citizen of the United States." Sir Henry Drummond Wolff was stand ing, and bowed with great dignity. We shook hands cordially; and as I turned to go the British diplomatist suddenly asked; What will you do with the Philippines when you get them?" This was the first time I ever had heard mentioned the possibility of our acquiring those faraway Islands. It was the most startling interrogation ever put to me. foreshadowing as It did new responsibil ity, new colonial policies, new army equip ments, new naval stations a new destiny for my country. My reply, perhaps, Is hardly worth repeating; but I had to make answer, and I retorted: "What will you give us for them, Sir Henry, when we get them?" . Hardly had I reached London before the cable flashed to all the world the an nouncement of Commodore Dewey's glori ous victory in the Far East. Simple Life In Jersey. Newark News. "How far Is it to Sonterville?" asked the newspaper photographer. "Nigh on to six miles," replied the vil lage shoemaker, looking up from his last. "Can I get somebody here to drive me over?" "I'll do it, if you'll wait, till I hitch up." In a few minutes the team was ready, and the cobbler and his passenger were on the way. "Pretty quiet life you lead up here in the hills," observed the photographer. "Yes, pretty quiet not much doing, like there Is down in town. But I manage to make a living." "Shoemaking profitable, is it?" "No, not very. I 'spo3e Til average 80 cents a week at that. But I do other things, you see. I carry the papers, and that's good for a dollar every week, sure. Then I drive tho mail twice a week, and that's another dollar. And I do barbering, too. Some weeks I make $4 clear, but generally not more than three-fifty. We get along somehow, me and my family, and we ain't "gone hungry yet- Once In a long while somebody wants to be took over to Somervllle, and then's when I strike .it rich. Obr you needn't think I ain't going to soak you!" And he smiled broadly upon the passenger beside him. The photographer remembered that he had less than $5 In his pocket. "How much will you charge mo?" he asked. "Well, you work for one of them big rich metropolitan papers, and Tm going to make you pay as much as 75 cents, by gum!" Keeping Peace In the Family. Miller County. Mo., Autogram. The woman" who-can make good butter, darn socks to a frazzle; cook a meal that tickles her-husband .clear to thf waist band and keep the children's neck and ears ' clean seldom figures- in a divorce have been exceptions. I knew Porflrio Diaz when he was a fugitive from Mex ico, living in New Orleansr with a pru e upon his head it he crossed the Rio Grande. He crossed, though in iS7 and ever since, with the exception of the four years between 1S80 and he has been President of the Mexican republic. He has built up a prosperous and powerful nation, introduced peace, in dustry, high civilization, established progressive institutions. I heard Gen eral Phil Sheridan say in 1S$6 that, if he were ordered to march to the Mex ican capital, he would ' want 300,000 men perhaps .more. On the other hand, the wisest financiers In the world today are anxious to invest in Mexican securities. Who knows that Castro may not hav e patriotic ambitions such as' Diaz had9 Who knows that he may not have it in him to be as a great a ruler? Certain ly be is a brilliant and indomitable sol dier. He has proved this over and over again. Porflrio Diaz was no more than a soldier when he made himself Prea dent of Mexico, soma 30 years ago. And see what he has done for himself and for his country upon that original cap ital! Surely his is a prouder and a nobler position than that of a Spanish-American exiled In Europe, no mat ter how many millions he may hava taken with him in his flight. It Is unlikely, as every one must ad mit, that Castro Is another Diaz. At tho same time It is not impossible. We must remember, too, that Diaz might never have had his opportunity had not the United States Government guar anteed it. In 1877, before Diaz fairly knew his way about the palace at the capital. Escobedo the man who de feated Maximilian's army at Quaretaro and afterwards executed Maximilian himself, together with two of his Gen erals tried to cros the RIo Grando with arms, etc., for an army awaiting him on the Mexican side. If the expedition had succeeded, others would have followed. Lerdo do Tejada. tho deposed President, was in New York with unlimited money at his disposal, and there were veteran com manders to co-operate with Escobedo. But the Ignited States said no! Thus Diaz had the chance which Castro never yet has had. It Is not inconceiv able that Castro may Intend to do for Venezuela what Porflrio Diaz has done for Mexico, and that he has entered into the arrangement with Germany and England In order to secure the oppor tunity with which tho United States supplied Diaz some 30 years ago, and without which the latter might never have known the meaning of peace and order. NO REACTION IS POSSIBLE. Visitors Will Come, Inspect the Coun try and, and Stay. Morning Olympian. The Lewis and Clark Exposition is in some respects the most important ever given. While falling short in magnitude of the Chicago and St. Louis Fairs, its lo cation at dnce lifts it far above either of these In the matter of results prom ise!. It will be a great factor in shifting population from tho East to the West. For Portland there can bo no reac tion. Setting aside the opportunities offered by the city herself, and they are very great, for Portland is fresn, beautiful and bustling with the West ern spirit, -the -certain effeot upon her surroundings Is sufficient to absolutely Insure her against a reaction. From her city limits, stretching in every direc tion for hundreds of miles, is a land that offers evervthiner that the wildest dreams ot a homeseeker may conjure up. There is gold In the hills, riches on the plains and in the valleys; there are rivers and bays teeming with fish, forests of woods for which the world is clamoring. It is the "land of milk and honey." Here 13 opportunity unknown elsewhere in the world for stockman, dairyman, farmer, orcharOIst, miner,, tlmberman. fisherman, the capitalist seeking investment, and who not? It 13 the land that hundreds or thousands are looking for. For years the people of tha East have been reading of and longing- for the West. Tho Lewis and Clark Exposition has deciSed thousands. It is safe to say that 50 per cent of those who come have In mind the country rather than the Falr and herein is tha great difference between Chicago-St. Louis and Portland. Many who come to the Portland Fair will come to stay, tho railway rates offering them a wel come opportunity to get West. No one went to Chicago or St. Louis with thoughts of settling or looking for anything save the wonders to be seen, in the booths. To Portland they com en looking for the West and the wonders that they have been told, are here. They will not be disappointed. And there is room for all who will come millions of acres of rich soli awaiting them. We have but begun the development of our resources. It makes an epoch, this Exposition In tho wilderness. Exports of Manufactures. New York Tribune. Ever since tha Dingley bill became a law free-trade writers have been con tending that it would strangle the growth of our foreign trade and that it would make impossible the sale abroad of American manufactures. But under the Dlngly tariff the value of our exports has risen from 5882,606.000 in 1895-96 to $1,460,829,000 In 1303-04. and, strangely enough, exports of manufactures have expanded at a greater ratio than ex ports of raw materials. The percentage of manufactured articles sent abroad in 1830, was only 17.8. In 1900 It was 3L6 and for the seven months ending with January, '19 05, It has risen to 34. There Is nothing to indicate that this gain in manufactured exports will not continue. As our sales of raw materials decline our sales of manufactured articles will in crease, until, perhaps, the present bal ance between the two classifications Is reversed. If a Cobdenlte is willing to admit the advantages of such a readjust ment, why should he quarrel with the conditions under which that- readjust ment Is being gradually worked out? Booth's Murderous Pistol. Springfield (Mass.X Republican. The derringer pistol used by John Wilkes Booth in assassinating President Lincoln Is in a safe In the office of the Judge Advocate-General of the Army In Wash ington, having been in the custody of the Judge Advocate-General since the trial of the conspirators. This has been brought out by the recent sale In Philadelphia of a pistol with which the crime was said to have been committed. Tho purchaser wrote on to the War Department, and learned that he had been victimized. In the Old Days. San Francisco Argonaut. The young man of today works com fortably until he meets a maid. Then he discovers that before he can have her be mubt double his earnings. And if ha succeeds in getting the necessary capi tal, he then has a series of marriage, customs to follow out, in the end wishing he lived in the old days when it was a 41m trail at night with the girl panting in his arms and the old" man- threshing around in the gully "below.