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Russia cannot defend her extremities, though at times she employs and wastes her utmost energies on the effort; but her vitals, at immense distance from an enemy, are almost free from the hurt or danger of. attack. agers receive their legacies wiinout i rate results in -placing gpoa nour irom question. Mr. Carnegie. Mr. Rockefel- the Minneapolis mills In the Oriental ler, and their like, are seeking to be markets on an even basis 'with the thehiOwnexecutors. I Portland or Puget Sound manufactured The'moral of the whole Inquiry is to article, an accounting will be demanded urge that -the same rules of conscience 1 in snort oraer. fo, . From Sporting J-u-e to jdffTOntSt -ouid De saVed when the which must be paid by the Minneapolis J Mrs. Chadwlck's autobiography will " Such is the public an- jistribution of the smaller fortune was miller for freight from the mill to the soon be on the bookstalls. Will you be ONE'S MORAL NAKEDNESS. "Rev. Daniel S. Toy will tell the story of his life. "PrAnrhlntr. nouncement, Brother Toy, probably. has been a very vile, immoral and wicked man. Such confession, unhap pily, is included In his statement, or at least is to be Inferred from it. But isn't silence about such a life better than exposition or exploitation of It, for sensational purposes? Is It edi hold In public as in ' private matters; that the time for each man to be gov erned by those rules is when he is brought face to face with the necessity of action In the affairs of the day's work. Such decisions would surely pre vent the enormous fortunes which give rise to these Inquiries. But all kinds of doubts and questions, .trials and NOTE AND COMMENT. "And Summer brags on every tree." Did you ever hear of such a thing! A London newspaper man describes Rus sia's gold store of $325,000,000 as "a supremely, uninteresting, tedious and depressing spectacle." Uninteresting, perhaps, and tedious, but depressing! Tidewater mills can now secure their wheat supplies at a freight rate of $2.75 to $3.50 pes' ton, and ocean tonnage is available for Janan nort At 24.25 to 35 per ton. This gives the Pacific Coast Peer" miuer a. minimum ireigm rate oi u We would not mlnd Detting. that vcry a maximum oi 3.&u per ton oeiween llttlo oiinoslHon to th r,rrmr.l tax on me ucai prouueer ana me urieuuu cofree has developed in Battle Creek. consumer, comparea. witn ice iv riiie in hand. i THE NEW PROHIBITION PARTY. Our interesting contemporary, the New Voice, discloses that there is trou ble between the Prohibition party and consumer, exclusive 'of the cost from the wheat producer to the mill. This shows a comfortable percentage in fa vor of the Coat miller when all other conditions are equal. These other con ditions, of course, are not equal dur ing the present abnormal season, when the Orientals are demanding a cheaper flour than can be manufactured from mentioned? Constant Reader No. You have con fused photographs of evangelists in characteristic attitudes with pictures of Jimmy Britt doing phantom spar ring. tlnianizing School Teachers Hevr the XafiHeace of the Chicago Federation Is Be lag Gradually Extended to Every Town. 1 the Land. (The followinx extracts are from, an article on "UnionlxinB the Schoolteachers.'"- David Swine Bicker, in "Jhe "World Today for April. The- editors of the magazine state that the arti cla has been declared impartial and trustworthy by Miss Haley, president or the National Teachers Federation, and by & prominent rep resentative ot the Chicaso Board of Education.) the Anti-Saloon League. The New fvine. can It be conducive to the cause I yoice, long the champion of Independ- of truth and virtue, for one like Brother 3nU party action, preaches the doctrine the high-priced wheat of the Pacific I the National Dressmakers' Association. I dreds of teachers responded hurriedly to THE movement to unionize the Chicago teachers, like all other movements, was born of a condition. Its immediate oc casion was -the poverty of the Chicago School Board, which prevented that body from paying adequate wages to the teachers. -The seeds of organization were sown In Chicago as early as 1892, when me nicago Tcacners' Club was- organ ized by Catharine Goggin, who realized that in united effort lav th toncyip Miss Elizabeth White, president of I single hope of winning better pay. Hur Toy to tell how bad he has been? Again, wouldn't It be more in accord with the dignity of human nature if such an one should enter into his closet and. shut his door, and refrain, even for revival purposes, from exposure of his past life, lnlts monstrous moral naked ness Most people are decent people and of co-operation. It does "not distinctly Coast when through the Suez says that the very best way for women tes Goggin'a call and rallied around her aenue its amcnaea policy, uui u, rceius to car straps. So after this, when you see all the seats on a Washington car oc- to desire toSoln hands with anything or anybody against the saloon. The New Voice has had much trouble in convincing Its faithful Tollowers that co-operation is the proper thing. For example, we find that Chairman Bol ster, of the Iowa Prohibition party, has 9. Inn thA oxmii h -pnoiflr I tn Imnrnvo tho?- fli-iirac I V.t- -hanoHnt- I 4U1- XUQ ICiWiers Were aSKea lO COU AVAUVVUA UlgUU UiUU UiJ been in the past. moral people. They have an invinci- resigned because, he says, "our reve . . ' . i i " 1 j I t,i. ntf ant Vl n "Atitl ble repugnance to exhorters who under take to preach virtue and morality and religion by telling how bad they them selves have been The Oregonlan is afnewspaper of the old fashion. It doubts seriously wheth er the best preachers of morality and virtue are those n'ho admit they have been dissolute, but profess reformation. Doubtless It is a great thing for a woman who has led an evil life to aban don It. But she can't pcoclalm herself advantageously as a reformer. Your revival preacher who has "reformed'' Is much in the same case, yuiet re pentance and works meet for -repent ance are better, every way. There are situations in which modest stillnefs and humility are especially be- Individual or agent that hates the liquor -aU animate nature cannot be fitly j j , .... . - t .i I tffln" T c- inct a lit Ho mrnrl:lnir tn I . . . 5. coming, and Impressive, too. Brother Toy doubtless knows why he ought to repent and what he has to repent of But he needn't tell it; and it will not help the cause of virtue, if he should.. PORTLAND, TUESDAY. MARCH 28, 1803. THE EASTERN WORLD. It has been the fashion of a class of English writers, following Klnglake, to assume that England was duped and tricked by France Into the war with Russia known to history as the Cri mean. War, and that this war was bar ren of results of a positive nature. In asmuch as It only delayed or post poned, at enormous cost, the fall of Turkey, a doomed and outworn power. But It did more. It has been the key to the history of the" Eastern Hemi sphere yer since, and it affords an ex- jjjttuunuji ur yuiue iu me situation 10 day, as between Russia and Japan. xnat war, ana the conditions en forced when it was concluded by the treaty of peace, have prevented the de velopment of Russia as a naval power. through the Black Sea and the Medl terranean. Had Russia been able to develop such power Japan now would be at her mercy. England would not be predominant in Egypt, and would not have control of her short route to India and to the Orient. . By the treaty of Paris (at the close of the Crimean War) it was provided and enforced that Russia should not maintain naval armaments and arse nals In the Black Sea. It is true that at the end of fourteen years from the signature of this treaty the downfall of the French Empire enabled Russia to declare that she would no longer be bound by- this humiliating condition She may now build and maintain war ships In the Black Sea and arsenals there, but they are of no service to her; because of the understanding main tained between Great Britain and Tur key that Russian warships shall not be allowed to pass out of the Black Sea into the Mediterranean. This under standing depends, of course, as all such things must, on ability to enforce It. But It la observed that no Russian war vessels are passing out of the Black Sea to reinforce the Russian squadrons sent for operations against Japan. Even an unarmed Russian vessel, designed for war service, intending to receive her armament after she passed out, was arrested by a British cruiser. Russia Temalns "bottled up" In the Black Sea. England protects -herself by protecting Turkey, and she protects herself by protecting Japan. And now it Is hinted that Japan is to take up her part of this game, or of a similar one." Holding now, through her success in war. the whip hand over Russia, she may make t a condition of peace that Russia shall not increase her navy; for if Russia were allowed to create a powerful navy she might renew the war with Japan, under conditions that would place the lat ter at a great disadvantage. Here may be a suggestion to Japan direct from England; or it may be merely an analogy" derived from the conditions or restrictions under which Russia was placed at the close of the Crimean War. It is clear, at least, that England Is unwilling that Russia shall build up a powerful navy, with freedom of the seas. It is evident, also, that Japan is unwilling; and further limitation upon the naval power of Russia is likely to be one of the consequences of the coming peace. England Is the nat ural ally of every country that checks Russia. Enormously great and powerful, to outward appearance, Russia neverthe less Is weak; for a conglomeration of various peoples and races .having noth ing in common but the rule of a cen tral despotism, cannot be a nation of rreatand sustained power. It lacks the support of national spirit, in Important crises; it breaks down in its financial system, which Is necessarily crude and corruptly administered; and failure of finances carries down amy and" navy and everything else with it. The con ditlons that forced the peace, under the treaty of Paris, after the fall of Sebas topol. are substantially present and are forcing peace now. Napoleon, but for his haste, and rashness, could hay broken Russia In 1512. Llke every ather imperfect organlEm, she Is slug clsh. slow and inert, and she can be JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER'S GIFTS. Dr. Washington Gladden, general counselor of Congregational Churches of the United States, proposes to refuse Mr. Rockefeller's gift of $100,000 toward the missionary funds. This is on the ground that the morf'eyMs tainted by reason of its source in the Standard Oil iniquities. Says Dr. Gladden: "I hope they are not mean enough to take his money and then turn around and fight him. I hope they are not so faithless to their obligations as to take his money and shut nhelr mouths or become his apologists." "They" are doubtless the board of trustees or managers of the missionary funds. This is so far-reaching and wide an Inquiry that it demands a little consid eratlon. The first question is what de gree of Iniquity In amassing, so'affects the subsequent use of a fortune as to disqualify moral or religious men from accepting a gift of a portion of It for moral orrellgious purposes? Some of us may think that the Carnegie, Ar mour, J. P. Morgan, Lawson, E. H. Harriman, or a dozen other wealthy people's millions would have to stand side by side with Mr. Rockefeller's at the Judgment seat of popular opinion, If this test is to prevail. This popular opinion at the present time is excited, eager to judge and condemn, and under strong Influences of the monthly and dally press. Why stop at the million aires? The same rules should apply nues have been cut off," and the "Anti- Saloon League has organized to check the growth of the Prohibition party.' A gentle correspondent of the New Voice from Tonkers, N. T., says that the Anti-Saloon League is working "for the devil and hell on earth." To this Editor Wooley mildly demurs, and then he goes on to give a full statement of the purposes of the Anti-Saloon League from Superintendent P. A. Baker, who declares that the League "does not hesitate to cross party lines and sup port at the polls the candidate of any party ticket who Is against the saloon"; and again he says, "It bolts conven tions, puts principle above party, and absolutely refuses to quarrel wl.h any It is interesting to note that the horses slain In war are honored In Jaijan for their service and their sacri fice, just as the soldier dead are hon ored, with memorial eulogy and mili tary obsequies. The great Temple, MI- yagl, was the scene recently of grand funeral observances for the horses slain In the present warlhe Buddhist priests reading prayers and conducting solemn services in which the sentiments of gratitude, patriotism and humanity were blended. Whatever we, in pur material Western view, may think of these obsequies, the sentiments ex pressed must command our admira tion. The faithful servant, even though a horse, commends qimsell to the grat itude of those whom he dies to serve. If this gratitude is -not felt, so much the worse In ah ethical sense for those who fall to respond to the sentiment. A people that acknowledges kinship cupied by men while tne women are stanig up, don't write a letter to The Oregonlan on the "decay of chivalry.' Jabez. There was a young boxer named 'White, Who came over to 'Frisco to fight; - Weeks after a hit From Jamea Edward Britt, He woke, and asked. "Where did I llghtr A simple little problem has floored the entire staff of the Vancouver, B. C, World. Here It. is: If the third of 9 was 4. how much would the fauAh of 20 be? Simple as A B C. If the third of 9 was 4, the fourth ot 20 would be. of course, would be it must be the fourth of 20 must then be If the third of 9 was 4. then the fourth of 20 would be tho Fourth of July we mean of 20 would be -well, it would be some- date expenses Incurred by the printing and circulating of petitions' for higher pay. The Chicago Teachers Federation was the outgrowth of this petition move ment.. The purposes of tho organization were to secure better pay and- adequate pension laws. The School Board had displayed no desire tb help -the teachers to get either. In June. 1897. the first oe- tltion for an increase in salary .was pre sented formally to the Board of Educa tion. It was disregarded. In December a seebnd petition was presented, and, as a result, In March of the next ytar the teachers were granted an advance. It was not much, but it was something. In the Fall of the same year, 1S9S, the report prepared by the Harrison. Educa tional Commission was completed, and the teachers obtained newspaper reports of tne advance sheets of portions of It. These sheets contained the Information that under the existing tax levy it would be impossible to maintain the recently adopted salary schedule. In this report also thing, and we won't spoil the problem for I made the 'suggestion that for the traffic" It Is Just a little surprising to find the New Voice Indorsing this rad-. ical doctrine; but so it does, and does more. It prints prominently a commu nication from one Elisha Kent Kane in which -he outlines a scheme of useful termed a "pagan people." tne children by -giving the answer. But wo don't think much of the World's men. whom this simple little question causes to sing Reader of riddles, whisper low. How ar we to knowT It's a strange thing that no success ful men are "conceited." When a con- thls litlcatlon $535,000 of back taaes for the year 1S0O was paid to the Treasurer of Cook County in July. 1002. To this tax fiftht is due. according to Miss Haley, the alliance of pedagogy and labor, the affiliation of the Chicago Teach ers' FederatiQn with the Chicago ueaera- tion of Labor, une- mere xact iuat me teachers had battled with the corpora tions and that corporate Interests were arrayed against them caused the hand ot organized labor to be outstretched to them In the spirit of fraternal sympatny. In all future fights the teachers beljeved the same, forces would be lined up against them. They felt that unless tney coma get behind them as powerful a force as that which was arrayed against tnem. a force standing for the same principles as they, only defeat lay In store tor tncra. In this way things went along- peace fully with the federation pulling one way and the board the other way. until the teachers organization. In black and white. ioldjy puthseir on record as opposing the- promotional examination system as estaou8nes oy tne ooara, wmcn utiu uuuj conceives to "be an ideal merit system. Their declaration that all teachers against whom no charges of Inefficiency or uniit ness have been proved should be advanced year after year until the highest grade i3 reached, aroused the anti-federation mem bers ot the board to activity. Rev. R. A. White, a school trustee, in a sermon threw down tho gauntlet to the - teach ers by bitterly denouncing their ' organ ization as an injury to the schools, and urging upon the board the necessity of resorting to drastic measures to crush- It. This sermon brought the federation and the board sword to sword. ... On a test vote, the anti-federation faction was found to be In the minority. The Teachers' Federation controlled a majority ot the votes. It was whispered that one of the trustees had been compelled to go over to the federation by a threat of political annihilation: it was whispered that an other board member had been in duced to absent himself ' from the meetinsr. This left the vote ten betterment of the schools all sultablefifto nine against the antl-federationlst3. . i i j t . , "P'y-.-.. il. .1 7 A.hf In .V.. C, nnl Aliens ire pouring Into this country by tens of thousands every week. In the face of this tremendous flood of nixi, m iVii. PrnWWHnn nartv that sepm"! bUriiuui . . woma oe weu ior tne teacners to enust ? jA?n?ljd OUr lane' OUJ- laTO' our "ed man succeeds, he. is said to be the sympathies of organized labor. Acting to define Editor Woole s great plan of custom of labo -d of ,. dIasat. marked by magnificent egotism. on this surecstlon. Miss Haler. -with the means should be used to Increase the proportion of men teachers In the upper grades, and that "It it be found neces sary'to the securing of this end. higher salaries ba provided for men than for women in these grades. At once the teachers were aroused. ... It was suggested to Margaret Haley that it would be well for the teachers to enlist co-operation. 'I believe that the Pro hibltlon party," he says, "should estab llsh a policy of deferring its nomlna tlons until after those of the other lead ing parties have been made; that early In each campaign nominees ot other parties should be solicited for a public exposition of their position." "I regret that as yet I have met with little appro bation within our party," he adds. Once a Prohibitionist always a Prohibition 1st generally. "No woffder that Editor Wooley seems to regard himself as a heretic, having fallen into violent con troversy with such true-blue Prohibi tionists as Oliver W. Stewart, who hates the saloon and all Its works, but who hates Editor Wo61ey and all his works more. From these illuminating sidelights on the antagonism between the Antl Saloon League and the Prohibition par ty we begin to understand what is the matter in Portland. Long ago our sus picions were aroused that all was not well among the avowed foes of the sa loon. Prohibitionists set a trap for the local optionlsts, alias the Anti-Saloon Leaguers, and they fell into It. After the election they squealed. A few days ago the Mayoralty candidate of the Mu nicipal Association said that the saloon is legitimate business, if properly reg ulated, which created much anguish of spirit among brother Amos and his co horts. If Brother Amos has looked with customs of labor and of living; dissat isfied, many of them rebellious, and all of them requiring a full and strict term of probation preparatory to becoming good citizens of a republic. It is Impera tive that our naturalization laws be revised, and, pending this revision, that the present, laws be rigidly and intelli gently 'enforced. This is a simple de mand of the first law of Nature self- preservation. This Isnot the call of alarm, but of prudence of the type com mended by the wfse man In the declara tion, "A prudent man-foreseeth the evil and hldeth himself; but the simple pass on and are punished.' A recent- thaw In New Tork caused four different buildings to fall In. The New York brand seems even worse than jerry-building. Colonel Henri Watterson continues aid of Thomas I. Kldd, secured a hearing before the Chicago Federation of Labor. Before .that body she made her maiden public speech- She was received with great enthusiasm. Then began the bitter fight on the "Harper Bill"; then began the famous tax fight; then began the his career, through Spain. The following I struggle to overthrow "one-man power." At the next session of Congress, Com- mlssIoner-Ceneral of Immigration Sar gent will ask for an appropriation for the establishment, pn Ellis Island, of a display of the resources of the differ ent states. Mr. Sargent's action was prompted by the (record-breaking in rush of Immigrants from Europe. Near ly every state fn the West has a prac tically unlimited field for the efforts of the better classes of these aliens, and, by diverting them from the congested la bor centers of the Eastern cities, a good service will be performed for both city and country. Oregon could make a most attractive showing for the new ' arrivals at Ellis Island. description of Andalusian dancers from one of his letter causes the grave Philadelphia Ledger to remark that it's about time he, came home: "They melt and die away in the langour of the music, and, presto, a shimmer of white tulle, a flash of red satin and black eyes they are gojje.' A new subsUtute for nickel, called "Patrick metal," to belnc placed upon the English mar- ket. The featureof this metal Is that it is silver-white risht through. Scientific Amer ican. a policy carried out by Superintendent E. Benjamin Andrews; then was first, raised tne cry "snacKiea tsy the book trust"; then was first raised the cry that the teachers were being secretly and unfairly marked by the principals; then began what the -Teasers' Federation- has been pleased to call its "fight for freedom and democracy in the schools." Then also for the first time the federation demanded tnat tne teachers be given the right to express themselvs regarding the selection' of text-books and on all educational questions, including the curriculum, meth ods of discipline and teaching, with the But the factional flsrht in the School board, which is plainly a fight for con Mrol. has only just begun. This question naturally arises: Should such a resolution as was framed by the minority be adopt ed by the board, what would be the im mediate result would the federation with draw from the labor union, would Its leaders 'proceed in the courts to enjoin the board or would they striko? It is a moral certainty that the teachers would not withdraw from the labor union. And Is there any other contingency which might arise to cause the unionized teach ers to take up the most dreaded weapon of the labot union? This question can not be definitely answered, as the opinion Is too diversified. . . . Certain members of the Board of Education do not regard a strike of the teachers as an Improbable occurrence- Neither do some of the labor leaders. One of them said he other,,day Jhat should the engineers' or janitors union call a strike, the teachers' union would be expected to lend all possible as sistance. It is announced from Washington that throughout, or there Is no logic fn them. aDDroval upon the assiduous labors of the President will not appoint "Gas' .Every one men must stana reaay to Brother Tufts and Brother McAllister, aooicks to a roreign mission, ine ais answer, when he proposes to do any- ne has managed to keep that Interest- patch conveying this Information gives thing in the line of public service, or mg fact from the public gaze. Wher a number of reasons why the diplomatic cnanty. "wnence aid mis money come; i -prohibitionists fall out the honest sa- appointment win oe wiinneia. iiost loonkeeper gets his dues and perhaps a little moie. Ever see a Pat that wasn't white r,Snt or making recommendations directly right through? " oupennxenaent ana saara or iidu- i ""V" o' bu uiese questions tnrougn Now It is said the Russian fleets are I representative councils of tho teachers. to return home. The announcement is a recommenaauon to tms errect was con likely to paralyze all the- fishing fleets ll1"5 report-,but T?s committee for the Legislature and ap pended to the report. Although it had taken a year of tireless labor to con struct the report, and In spite of the fact that in it were incorporated ideas held by educators of the first tank n all sections of the country, from Eliot, of Harvard, and Butler, of Columbia, to Jordan, of Leland Stanford, the organized teachers defeated the bill which was appended to the report. did it, or any part of it, arise from evasion, breach or non-observance of any public law or rule of private mor als?" Who are we, and who'au; the accusers, to venture on judgmentbased on casuistry, but leading to public ac cusation and condemnation? If the rals ing of these questions now leads to searchings of heart, let us hope that purification of the ways of getting money will result, rather than the frus tratlng of attempts to put to best uses that which has been piled up. Suppose one is In possession of a fortune gained or added to by sharp practices, which lie within the law, but which He outside the lines of strict morality. Suppose that the idea of restriction to all who nave suffered has been fully considered but abandoned as utterly lmpractlca ble. Suppose such an one feels bur dened with that wealth and anxious that the money at least should be turned to account for noble purposes. What shall he do with It? ,That ques tion needs no answer. The difficulty which these trustees of the missionary fund feel would be lightened If they would reconsider their own position. It is Mr. Rockefeller, not they, who is the favored party, under obligation, when the proposed gift is turned over to them He is the man seeking to disburden himself, feeling the need to distribute, acting, as there is no reason to doubt. under the biddings of his private, per sonal conscience, which probably is strung in a far different key from the public conscience, or no conscience, which he has carried with him In the servlccof Standard Oil. These gentlemen hold an open bag lor general contributions toward an excellent end. To receive and to ad minister conscientiously the funds en trusted to them ends' their functions. The man who has obtained the money, not they, Is responsible for the sins of or entajlcd In the obtaining. To put the matter broadly: If one has stolen money, then It 'is not his either to have or to give away. But to deny a man the use of his entire for tune because he Is supposed to have stolen a part of It is to pass beyond the limits either of Jaw or morality. UNXATCKAI. TRADE CONDITIONS. Minneapolis millers are continuing to make considerable noise about their in creasing Oriental flour trade, and a su perflclal glance at the situation might create the impression that there is a degree of permanence to this new busi ness. Examination of the conditions which are responsible for this seem ingly unnatural condition of trade, how ever, does not warrant the belief that It can be maintained beyond the period when the wheat market gets back on a normal basis. As has been stated in The Oregonlan, the Minneapolis millers are delivering flour In the Orient at lower prices than can be met by the Pa of them had previously been given to the public in the terse language of Thomas Lawson. One very Important reason, not mentioned, is a slight con sideration for the feelings of the for eigners. If Mr. Addicks still hankers for the glare of the limelight, he might follow Lawson's example, and write a book on Frenzied Finance in Delaware Politics. A get-rlch-qdick concern In Philadel phia, known as the "Provident Invest ment Company," has failed, with lia bilities of $5,000,000. The "sweet-faced girl," as the dispatches describe the acting manager, has fled the country with $1,000,000 of the plunder. It has developed, since the crash, that the de funct company never possessed assets of a tangible nature. As the headquar- . - , . . . z. , I on cine uoasi mmere. cut inio uour is a t.. fn ...,. foP th(, hunco men. very cornjnon graae, ine coeapesi, in Quaker Cltv seems to have a slicht lead over the Manhattan borough, quite appropriately -termed "Tapville-on-the- Hudson.' fact, that has ever been sent across the Pacific under the name of flour.- It will attract no buyers In the better class of trade such as has made the rapidly in creasing market for Oregon and Wash ington flours, and it is being used to feed Russian prisoners, because It Is the cheapest kind of prdvender that can be found for that purpose. The Northern roads, which have been criticised for the low rate made to en able the Minneapolis millers to Teach the market for their off-grade flours, defend their, action by citing the low rates to the Orient frorn New Tork by way of the Suez. They contend that the cheap flour, which in no way competes with the select product of the Pacific Coast, was offered them at Minneapolis on a $10 rate through to.Japan, the rate being exactly the same that estab lished by the lines which would carry it by rail, lake and Suez rute to the Far East. As their refusal to handle it at the $10 rate would not have stopped the business or thrown It to the Pacific Coast mHlers, It was accepted in order that It might be sent through the Puget -Sound ports on their own steamers This is a freight movement that had been predicted as one of the probabili ties after the completion of the Panama Another bomb has done its deadly work in Russia. The Warsaw Chief of Police, a cruel, relentless persecutor of the people. Is the victim. The temper of the Russian "people is Indicative of furthereffort in this line. Members of the Imperial family imprisoned In their palaces regard the situation with dls may. Like the -man wno has taxen a dog by the ears, they are afraid either to hold on or to let go, certain that In either event disaster will come to them. on the route of the return. looks as if the Salvation-Sift bout will have to be decided on points. A volunteer fireman in Bayonne, N. J., used to set buildings afire, so that he could help put out the blaze. To such lengths will a desire for work lead us, If not checked decisively at an early age. Revelations -of -an International Spy. I THE FATAL ERROR. Br "Q. T." . . (Synopsis of previous chapter Monsieur "Q. T." receives a message from the Grand Duke Twiriyvltcb, summoning: htm .to St. Peters burg. The hand which thrust the message through the root of his hansom cab proves to be artificial, and Monsieur "Q. T." .keeps It In his pocket. As he Is about to enter the Winter Palace a heavily veiled woman lays her hand upon his shoulder and says:) CHAPTER II. . "What are you doing here?" "What am I doing here?" I muttered. "Yes," she answered," what are yon Ldoing here?" "What am I doing here?" I repeated. "Youare here for some purpose," she said. Tes," said I, clutching at the straw. 'l am here for a purpose." T knew It," returned the veiled woman, o am i. i am here ior purpose," she hissed through clenched teeth. "Q. T., I know you." mou Know merr j. saia, noarseiy. T know you," came from her Hps with diabolical distinctness. "You know me," said I, reeling under the brow. "Who are you, then?" "Who am I?" responded the woman. "Yes, who are you?" She whispered a word in my ear. The street swam before my eyes. It was she! And she had my secret! "You won't ' "Nothing can stop me," she answered. "Where is that " - At this moment tho gates of the Winter Palace swung open. ' (To be continued.) WEX. J. , Then followed action on the part of the School Board which brought the salary fight to a focus. . . . The teachers were In effect returned to the schedule which had been in force for 20 years. The fed eratlonists began an investigation. They were told that Inadequacy of school reve nues had been the cause of the cut. They learned that thl3 shortage of funds, to a large measure, was due to the failure of the taxing officials to enforce the tax laws. When these facts were presented to the federation that body delegated Miss Goggin and Miss Haley to begin action in the courts against the public officers charged with the duty of assessing cor porations, and a writ of mandamus was obtained from the Supreme Court cf the state commanding the State Board of Equalization to return and assess accord ing to the law five public utility corpora tions for the year 1900. As a result of Since the radical change In membership was made and Margaret Haley became Its actual leader, the National Federation has grown to enormous proportions. In many small towns every teacher Is Inside the "organization." Their membership Is kept a close secret Ior the reason that were It known, the local school boards, fearful of the effects of the- organization, would resort, to drastic measures to stamp out the evil before It bad rooted. The teachers in every section of the country reachpd by" locomotive or rural Jetter carrier are being organized, not collectively, not in groups, but Individ dally. In every "organized" or partially organized town the federation has Its correspondents, just as the Chicago fed eration has Its correspondents in every Chlcago school. It 13 the duty of these correspondents to keep -the central' office constantly Informed in regard to local conditions. If a teacher In a North Dakota town Is being discriminated against, the federa tion will go into that town and wage war against the discriminating school board. It will send Its forces Into town meetings. cltycounclls and state Legislatures all over the country, and fight fqr the teach ers' rights and for democratic educational legislation. Miss Haley went to New Jersey and helped the teachers of that tate In their recent fight for better con- LdrUons; she has made two trips to Wis consin to aid the teachers ot tne .Badger State in their fight against nontaxpaylng corporations. v v The National Federation meets annually at the same time and place that the Na tional Educational Association meets. One of Its crime purposes at the present time -U to wedge Itself into a position of power In this conservative body. At present it Is constructing channels everywhere, through labor unions, through women's clubs, through every agency of agitation. ODD BITS OF NORTHWEST LIFE.v Checking' Up on IVJr. Smith. Early Correspondence Wasco News. Al Smith Is a frequent visitor to Wa3CO, (especially on Sunday). In the Spring, the Younq Man's 'vFancy, Etc. Balkton Correspondence Dallas Itemlzer. Wavna Eransftn has hen snfferiner from palpitation of the heart and a. certain young lady has the same disease? Rousseau, the alleged dynamiter, de fends himself by saying that he left an infernal machine on the Cupard dock. merely to show how easy it would be to blow up a trans-Atlantic linen. The court might explain a heavy sentence by telling Rousseau, it was merely to show him how easily It could be done. CanaL American shippers through the Therefore that money which Issaid to t Middle West and along the Atlantic nave oeen stolen must oe, euner oy legal decision or by formal accusation earmarked or Identified, bucn money comes within the old Roman test. "olet," it stinks. That fund, however, is supposed to be returnable to the real, legitimate owner, by virtue of the Iden tificatlon. If not. It must fall Into the mass of the property of .the temporary seaboard have worked long and ear nestly to secure construction of the canal In order that tbey might reach the markets of the Far East without paying for the expensive rail haul across the continent. The transcontinental railroads are not yet facing the com-, petition of the Panama Canal, b.ut In the establishment hi this rate on cheap How They Do It In Klickitat'. Blckleton Newsr The ignoramus and bowling hyena that tries to run the Sentinel Is still turning his venemous ionguo loose on the editor of the News, but every person In the county knows his small nature and are acquainted with his idiotic sayings and doings, and it fc needless to say that each article of his lands mm aeeper m the mire and shows him up to ridicule, but he has not sense enough to beat -a retreat but such is the way of .some fools. He lets a hyena howl out of him about us going Into private mat ters. Ye gods, the audacity of some fools! Is his mind so weak that he has already forgotten who started this con troversy. We gave him an tne cnance in the world not to set personal, but he still tiers tats In this the only way he Chief Ifco Shirt has arrived at Chicago can conduct an argument, his mind being on his way to Washington. If the dis- too weak to do otherwise tnan get. me.o, Come Now, Tacklesoni TeM About It. Canby Correspondence Aurora Borealis. Mr. Tackleson is figuring on going to Portland on business In a few days. We are all wondering what he has in view and what attracts him to- Portland so often. Mean Man's Pre-Nuptial Precaution- La Center Correspondence Vancouver Co lumbian. Some time ago our barber guaranteed to produce a new growth of hair on the bald pate of Lester Bonner or no pay. He refused to accept the offer, and now wp understand all about it- Look out for tho broom stick, Less. It will hurt all the worse. Sakhalin, which was formerly ex changed by Japan for the Kuriles', is likely to be the scene of a battle at an early date. The possession of Sakhalin, with Formosa on the south, would give the "Island Empire" a symmetrical ap pearance, if nothing else. tingulshed "Umatlllan Is living up to his name, he Is liable to become the prey of pneumonia. possessor, which Is to be by him dealt ilour they show quite, clearly what their with as the law, or his o-n will and ionsclence, shall determine. He is consequentlj free to use. to give away, or to destroy, all or any part of it Persons who deal with him in any capacity are not required to sit Ip judgment on his methods or history Whei such an one dies, the great stat ute of limitations passes, and nospUals, charities, or missions.- and their man- attitude will be when the American canal Is completed.. So long as the roads are disposed to act fairly with the Pacific Coast miners, to whom the Oriental flour trade belongs by right of 'discovery as well as geographical loca tion, they will not be very severely censured, for -making" rates which will divert freight from the Suez route and pass It through Pacific ports. If that 7 Mrs. Chadwlck's promised autobiog raphy may not possess much literary quality. but it should long remain the standard work on how to get rich quick. The" Oregonlan wjl be glad to see anybody build a steamboat, or several steamboats, on the Upper Columbia. But who is going to do it? Exit Beck. .Mrs, Chadwlck; enter Sophia and we have decided to give you a -taste of vour own medicine, and we stana readv to back up every assertion we make In any shape or manner you .prefer. A - 11 "Merely Mislaid. Houston Post. "Doctor.'.' said the man who several weeks before bad been operated on Tor appendicitis, 'Tm all right except for a heavy feeling in the pit of my stomach and a sllzht metallic rattling when i walk." "There!" exclaimed the M. D., slapping his thigh, "I kptw that case of surgical instruments wouhi turn up eventually. Will vou nay me for them and keep them. or shall I remove them? The cost will be about the same.' -Breaking the Chinook Record. Chinook Observer. Tom Erickson's ady goose has broken all records in the egg line. She has laid 21 eggs In 20 days and Is still laying. Tom. who is a student of Macbeth, calls her Macduff because sha is laying on. About 15 eggs is an average setting, but this lady goose challenges all other lady geese to do half as. well as she will. Bring on your geese God Bless Our Home. Kelso Journal. A resfdent of Oatrander played quite jokq on a deputy assessor one day this week. This 'year only personal property .is being assessed and wlten the assessor called he was treated very kindly and on opening his assessment roll asked for a- list of the property- The Ostranderite with a wave ot his hand covering the room, said: "There Is all "my personal property-" The assessor noticed several children, but asked that he enumerate, them. "Why," he says, "there are ten bays -awT six girls." The old man Is cer tainly not worrying- over the part he Is taking In the prevention of race suicide. "AMERICAN ESGL1SB." T. P.s Weekly. American is by no mean3 always a degredation of English, as many sup pose. In some respects the "new" country is more conservative than the "old" one. It retains forms which we have forgotten. "Gotten," for exanmle. When the professor says he has gotfen a cold, one is -hack In the times, of James I., when "He hath holpen his' servant Israel" was colloquial, and longs tp ask a wife across the break fast table if she will be holpen a sec ond time to bacon. But the preserva tion of the subjunctive mood is th most remarkable instance of American conservatism. Herejs one instance from the telegraphic note 'of a reporter sent to write up a lynching" case; "The crowd demanded that he prorolse not to send the negroes to .Savannah." Is there a reporter on any English pro vincial paper witH such a reverence for the delicacies of language when in a hurry with the wire? On this side wa hav- almost dropped the subjunctive; It ljves in the "new" country. Many fine old -words live in thefr- fine old significance across the Atlantic, jos tling the new ones. As an instance of the jostling I -may mention the two gjrls from Kansas City who were com- ing up the stairway to the sun-deck of an Atlantic liner. "Hurry up!" said the one behind, shoving-. There was a friendly struggle. From my deck chair I lazily remarked- that there was, a feud brewing. "Well," said the girl in front," "If anyone tries tp boss me I get spunky." She was talking Eng lish literature and American slang in a breath. But America has: developed some .finfi swift, short and effective expressions of Its own to atone for the unnecessary length of Its "elevatoy." The railway train Is "the Cars." the permanent' way is the "track." and the nonalcoholic beverages you take on the way .are "soft drinks." For the Latin "pave ment" is substituted the English "side walk." and a splendid triumph of brev ity comes with "grip," which Is the bag in which you carry your Right's kit on the "cars." The two people who invented tho one a "lift" and the. other a "grip". should be one in language and love. ' , Both Speculations. New York Telegram Mrs. Grouchy I do wish that you would stop speculating on the stock exchange. It's onlya'game of chance, Mr. Groucbyr-Sjo is marriage. Do. yoo want to stop being-married? . , j