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Omaha Barkalow Bros., 1612 Farnham; Mageath Stationery Co.. 130S Farnham; McLaughlin Bros., 246 South 14th. Phoenix, Ariz. The BerryhiU News Co. Sacramento, CaL Sacramento News Co., 429 K street. Salt Lake Salt Lake News Co., 77 "West Second street South. Santa Barbara, Cal. S. Smith. 6an Diego, CaL J. Dlllard. San Francisco J. X. Cooper & Co., 746 Market street; Foster & Crear, Ferry News Stand; Goldsmith Bros.. 236 Sutter; L. E. Lee. Palace Hotel News Stand; F. W. Pitts. 10S Market;- Frank Scott, 80 Ellis; N. Whcatley, S3 Stevenson; Hotel St. Francis News Stand. St. Louis, Mo. E. T. Jett Book & News Company. 806 Olive street. Washington, D. C. Ebblt House News v6tand. PORTLAND, MONDAY, APRIL 17. 1805. r . METHODS IN CONTRAST. Doctor Chapman, the revivalist, gives it out from Seattle thathe finds that city a cleaner and more decent place, better, morally and spiritually, than Portland. That opinion is based on two conditions -worth examination. Iaet it b judged how sound they are. First, on coming to Portland Doctor Chapman fell into the hands of a group of persons who, for reasons of their own, represented Portland to him as a veritable Sodom. That is, they misrep resented the city to him and defamed it, during his whole stay here. By so doing they made opportunity to vaunt their own self-righteousness: which w ould carry the corollary that as they were "the best people," the government of the city and the. control of its affairs ought to be in theirown hands. Among these people are certain ones who as sume a financial dictatorship of Port land, as well as the proprietorship of its morality and spirituality, too. Largely for promotion of their own various schemes, they Joined in this undertake ing and exploited it; and during the stay of the "evangelists" the terrible iniquity of Portland -was the one thing dinned upon their ears. But at Seattle ihey get a reception of a very different kind. At Seattle everybody stands up for the city church people, bankers, mer chants, politicians, manufacturers and the entire population. In the church circles, -where the revivalists naturally were introduced first, every man, -woman and child had a good "word for Seat lie. It was the business of every one to show the best side of the city, in all things, to avoid exposure of every f ea ture not favorable to its good name; to make it plain that vices few or none ex ist there, and no irregularities In the management of the city's affairs. The people of Seattle, following their habit of telling all comers that theirs is model city in all -ways, took It upon themselves to impress these visitors es pecially with an idea of its purity and perfection In government and in bust ness, as well as "morally and spirit tially." whereas at Portland, there was defamation of the city from the beginning, by those who brought the revivalists here. No one in Portland can have a wish to say aught against Seattle.- As It becomes no individual to say, "I am holier than, thou," neither does it .be come any city to make such comparison between itself and another. Eom crit Seal remarks about Seattle, therefore The Oregonian will refrain. But It has a right to say that It becomes no citi zen of Portland no dweller In this city to revile and defame her. Portland from the first was, throughout her entire career has been, now is, a city In which order, oecency, morality, good behavior, public virtue, private virtue, and sense of civic duty, tprevail and control her life. The lessons' and monitions which this community received from its ancestors it has not forgotten, nor ever will. Hence, in its sense of civic duty,. In its devotion to Ideals, moral, political, edu rational; in its adherence to sanity,' so cial, moral, political, religious this city holds and ever has held, a first place in the Pacific States. "Without casting flings at others, it is the right of any citizen of Portland to say these things of Portland, because they are true all revilers within and without her agates to the contrary notwithstanding. It Is -not pretended that there is no vice nor wrongdoing in Portland. Nor is it supposed that vice and wrongdoing can ver be wholly eradicated from Portland, or from any other consider able city. But it is right and necessary to protest against sensational exag wgeratlons and false and mean compari Bisons, made for sinister purposes. "With a heightened emphasis, indeed, if The Oregonian could command it, this jour nal would repeat the declaration that, from the first foundation of Portland to this day, the good people of this city. they who made this city -what it island who passed on the sense of duty to their descendants, have prevailed here, .in person or in spirit. The result is a great and strong city and a great moral city, not free from faults nor asking to be exempt from criticism or e'en from censure, but asserting her right to pro test against misrepresentation of her character and against defamation of her life and spirit, instigated by her Maw worms of politics and religion, for their selfish ambitions. THE PROGRESSIVE PRINCIPLE. The state, is to take control, direction and administration of "public utilities." Chicago has set the new example. It is spreading rapidly. In New York the idea is getting a foothold. In San Fran cisco the agitation is already extreme. But what are "public utilities"? The idea is socialistic It begins with pub lic schools, the postofilce, waterworks, lighting plants and street-car systems. Already it has advanced far. The next proposal will be inclusion, of the Tail roads of the country; next the -manufacturing establishments and next the banking business, which also is In. the nature of a private monopoly. The state, it will be argued and urged, could conduct and administer such business on terms more fair than can be expect ed from private monopoly. As to the newspaper business, it is quite unimportant, and it will have to take its chances with .other small things that lack the quality of "public util ity." But the socialistic programme will have to be considered. The term "pub lic utilities" is of wide and widest range. The socialistic programme, now starting anew on its career, like a giant rising refreshed with new wine, will claim the logical right and the ethical right, to advance from one step of con quest to another. Its theory includes the whole scheme of the production and distribution of the goods necessary for all the people. Only so, it is insisted, can private m6nopoly be cut out. To descend to particulars, why shouldn't the socialistic state provide the people with gum shoes and chewing gum, now great private monopolies, as well as with coal oil and sugar, now great pri vate monopolies? Let no one mistake. The theory will be pushed with rigor and vigor. "Will any of those socialistic philanthropists who have carried it forward to its pres ent state, tell how they are to stop, and where? Combinations and monopolies are making enormous profits out of plows, Wagons and sewing machines, at the expense of the people. And as to Insurance fire and life why shouldn't the Government take up the business, cut out the private .monopolists and give the people the benefits of their own co-operation? And here is the street-car system of Portland. Monopolists have the use of the streets and practically the main use of them for which they pay noth ing. They say they have "franchises" for which, however, they paid nothing that are to run yet these twenty-five or thirty years. But suppose the people of Portland rise up at any time to take possession of their own again? The "franchise," in fact, is worth nothing at all; and if the owners should claim anything they could get only what their cheap roadbeds might be valued at. So with the telephone. So with the meat business under modern conditions an other private monopoly. "We shall all find out where we stand after a while. . BASIS OF THE STRENGTH OF JAPAN In a way It is true that when the United States, broke into Jajian, that wonderful country, which now is fight ing successfully one of the world's co lossal powers, was in the Infancy of development not yet even In the gris tle of youth; yet in fact Japan had had a growth antecedent to that time, upon which is based the strength with which he now astonishes the world. The strength is based upon an eco nomic organization of very Ipng stand Ing. Agricultural industry, with its close economies, Jles at the root of it. The Japanese of today are not carry ing their burdens alone their ancestors in a very direct sense are helping them; and one way in which that help is ex tended is through the simple and sens! ble habits set up by those ancestors, and, with equal good 'sense, continued by their descendants down to our day. Count Okuma brought all this out re cently In a little speech made by him before a club of Japanese bankers. He said that the problem of, Japan, long ago, was that. of adjusting a rap idly increasing population to a fixed amount of arable land. The group of islands constituting Japan then and now Is relatively small, and only about one-twelfth of the surface of these Isl ands is available for cultivation. The long-continued policy of exclusion had the effect of developing internal re sources to the uttermost. "The leading and most natural result of the situation," Count Okuma says "was the exaltation of the farmer class." The cultivation of the soli was raised to the dignity of .a profession and, Indeed, of a fine art? "Every ef fort was made by the government not only to improve the condition but also to cultivate the self-respect of the agri cultural classes. The farmer of Japan was made to rank next to the soldier of Japan in the social scale; and nothing could have been better devise to estab llsh.tbe individuality and Independence of the tillers of the soiL" This, he ex plains, is the basis of the strength of Japan. "The pinching and searching economies enforced upon the masses having become not only the law, but the fashion, even In the higher ranks of society, have resulted in that stm pllclty of living, and consequent free dom from superfluous wants, which have practically made the Japanese, In the best sense of theword, the most in dependent people of the world." This is Interesting, indeed, 'and even wonderful. Further explanation is sup plied by the Japan Daily Advertiser, from which the following quotation Is made: Japan Is rich beyond compare in .precisely the same sense as is France, one of the -wealth lest nations .upon the globe. The wondrous power of recuperation which the latter eaowed after her -war -with Germany, and the ease with -which she paid the enormous Indemnity exacted from her, finds a close parallel here In the Far East, -where habits of thrift and economy have been for centuries sedulously inculcated, resulting in great accumulations of small savings anions: the- common people. It Is a lesson for every nation. of the world. The people of Japan are able to subscribe to the loans necessary for their great war, and they do it. The journal from which the above quotation is made, in its comparison of the forces of the combatants on either side in the present war, says: "The financial as well as the military situation may be summed up in the simple statement that -the -one government has behind it people who can be depended upon to the last grasp, while the othec must look for help abroad In a world growing daily more unsympathetic and distrust ful." Russian credit today is largely maintained by buying with state money such Russian bonds as are pushed to sale, and thus keeping up the price; while Japan calls upon foreign mar kets only for amounts sufficient to cover her foreign purchases, thus protecting" her gold reserve, and paying all other bills at home from that stock of small avlngs accumulated by the Japanese people, who, as the Advertiser says, raise no question of any expenditure in the cause of their beloved country." WHEAT FAMINE NOT IMMINENT. The Agricultural Department, which annually places in circulation a pleas ing array of figures purporting to' rep resent the wheat crop of the country. has made another remarkable discovery regarding the cereal. Facts are mat ters of small concern to the Government wheat-crop experts, but they are quick to get a "half-hitch" with the red tape lariat on any new theory that conies cavorting their way. There was a short crop of wheat in the United States last year, and at the same time an abun dant supply of money that is, pros perity was rampant in the land. Thus, with an increased purchasing capacity and a wheat crop below the average, we experienced the highest average prices for wheat In evidence for many years. Prices soared so high, in fact, that Americans held their wheat and the millers in some cases were forced to buy supplies from Canada. Secretary Wilson, basing his opinion on the record of the past year, is out with a statement that the time is ap proaching when the United States will be unable to produce a sufficient amount of wheat to meet our own require ments. This warning has been taken seriously by the Eastern papers and Is being quite generally discussed as an Immediate probability, Instead of the remote possibility which It seems to be. The deduction arrived at by the Secre tary regarding removal of the United States from the list of wheat-exporting countries might be fairly correct a gen eration or two hence, but even under our present careless, slipshod methods of farming, the new acreage coming in each year is more than sufficient to meet the requirements of the lncreas- ing population. The United States wheat crop last year was the smallest har vested since 1896, although there was probably but little difference in Its dimensions and that of the crop of 1900. Prior to this season this country has been shipping about 200,000.000 bushels annually to Europe. In fact, from the record crop of 748.000,000 bushels in 1901, we exported 234,000,000 bushels. These enormous exports kept reserves in this country down to such small pro portions that, when the approximate dimensions or last years crop were known, the statistical showing was so strong that wheat moved slowly throughout the season. But, in spite of the short crop and high prices, we have continued to ship an average of about 1,000,000 bushels per week since the sea son opened, and there will be no fam ine before another crop is available. It would be a decided advantage to this country if we could use all of the wheat grown here, instead of being obliged, to sell it to foreign markets in competi tion with wheat-grown by pauper labor of Argentina, India and the Euxlne. But the present generation will hardly witness this great economic change. If the dimensions of the 1905 crop ap proximate the average for the past five years,, we shall not only be unable to use more than three-fourths of It at home, but we shall probably be obliged to sell It abroad at much lower figures than have prevailed for the past year. The experience of the present season has demonstrated that Europe can get along with but very little' wheat from this country, and the outlook today is that we shall be forcing supplies on her at low prices within six months. The American wheat famine is yet quite a distance in the future. ACTORS AND ADVERTISING. Blanche Bates, the actress, has a maid, who has absorbed much talent from the artistic atmosphere In which she lives. This maid got on a street car In St. Louis the other day, and paid her fare. Soon the conductor returned. and again demanded a nickel, and when his fair passenger declined, rude ly ejected her from the car. A damage suit for 10.000.10 $10,000 for Injured feelings and bodily pains and 10 cents for the unreturned fares swiftly fol lowed; then Interviews with the tearful maid'; Indignant protests from the beau tiful Blanche; sympathy from the gen eral public, which turned out en masse to "The Darling of the Gods," and smiles at the overflowing theater treas ure box by the ingenuous Miss Bates satisfied manager. While this spectacular episode Is breaking through the columns of the appreciative newspapers. Miss Bates' manager, Mr. David Belasco, Is making things very tropical for the theatrical syndicate in the courts of New York. "We are Just a trifle vague ahout the immediate cause of the trouble, which arose over division of the profits of "The Auctioneer," presented by David "Warfleld under the joint direction of the syndicate and Mr. Belasco. The syndicate is really on trial, for Its meth ods are being shown up by Mr. Belasco It seems that the syndicate Is made up of a number of enterprising gentlemen who control nearly all the first-class theaters of the country. They have an arrangement for orderly booking of at tractions, assignment of territory, di vision of profits, and exclusion from their playhouses of all "independent' attractions. The syndicate says this is "business"; the opposition says it is "monopoly." The syndicate says It pre vents ruinous competition, helps the profession artistically, guarantees steady and better pay, and insures flner productions. The opposition says it crushes Individuality in the actor, and makes him a mere menial, supplant art with commercialism, makes stars out of minor actorsj gives the public wtiat it does not want, lowers the tone of the stage, makes excessive charges for bookings, robs the local managers and piles up Inordinate profits. "We find it hard to plead for Mr. Belas co, for he seems to be able to keep the wolf from the door through the agency of such charming actresses as Mrs Carter and Miss Bates. "While we sus pect that what he says Is true or large ly true, we also suspect that what the syndicate says Is also true or largely true. Here In Portland, where we de pend greatly on the syndicate, we have not had much consideration during the past year; but while the syndicate has not done much for us, we have done very little for the syndicate. Perhaps that Is the reason we have not seen much worth seeing. But we have done as well by the syndicate as by qur local stock company, which failed, or by some of our vaudeville shows, which have had 1 to seek pastures new; or even by the delightful Miss Bates her self, who was here with, a play that no body understood. "We are impartial In our lack of theatergoing enthusiasm. Syndicates don't worry us much. The truth Is that in Portland- there are, or were, too many theaters more actors than patrons. If Mr. Klaw, Mr? Erlanger, Mr. Hay- man et al., pursue the startling devices of the press agent, In order to keep In the public eye, we observe that Mr. Belasco and his popular protege, the amiable Blanche, are not so slow at that sort of thing. Syndicates may come, and syndicates may go, but an actor's an actor for a' that. The Lewis and Clark Fair will be ready June 1, and in that respect It will be unique in the history of exposi tions. The unfinished condition at St. Louis at the date set for opening a year later than originally planned was widely advertised and did much to di minish the total attendance. The 1905 Fair will be rsady for visitors the first day, andthey cap see practically every thing thenthat is to say, all that can be seep In a day. And there will be more. The foliage, flowers, trees and entire landscape will be at their fin est, and the whole will make an im pression oh the visitor never to be for gotten, No miBtake will be made by any one who comes here June 1 and remains as long as he can. Andrew Carnegie is preparing to dis tribute $12,500,000 among, fifty colleges throughout the "West. As the Carnegie millions were rolled up by much the same methods as those followed by John D. Rockefeller, it would seem that here is- an opportunity for the presiding elder of some of-these educational in stitution's" to get in 'and ride on a favor ite hobby. It Is notexactly clear where the steel dollar has any advantage over the Standard Oil dollar. In this con nection It might be mentioned that, If Mr. Carnegie would spend $12,500,000 In an effort to secure tariff revision, he would benefit more people than he can possibly reach by the library or college plan. Rulings by the Postofilce Department concerning place names have caused some annoyance In California, where the romantic and musical Spanish names have In some instances been chopped short or altered, and the San Francisco Argonaut laments the re sults. San Buenaventura becomes Ven tura, El Rio is pressed into Eirio, as Dos Palos becomes Dospalos. Las Lla- gas, which means the wounds of Our Lord must be written Llagas. or let ters will go to the Dead Letter Office. It is a little contest between senti mental associations and business rush, and as usual business rush Is the victor. ban Jcrancisco aavices state tnat a gas war Is imminent between the ven erable Claus Spreckels and the Rocke feller-Addlcks combination. As the sin ews of this war have all been provided in advance by the dear public, the ap proaching conflict with its probable dis tributlon of accumulated surplus from sugar and oil dividends will be viewed with a feeling akin to joy. Oil and water may not mix, but. If reports are true;'Oll and sugajy.are about to mix in San Francisco, and the progress of the "mix-up" will be watched with great interest and not much sympathy for either of the contestants. German merchants are asking their government to move for the Inroductlbn of an international postage stamp. The merchants say that lettera from abroad frequently remain unanswered because return postage Is not inclosed. The adoption of this proposal' would be one of those little Improvements that count for a great deal. Persons with corre spondents In other countries would find such a stamp of the greatest conve nlence. At last President Roosevelt Is out of the glare for a while. In the wild he need not worry over a possible slgnlfi cance to be attached to his most casual remark; he can even do what he pleases without reading next day a long ac count of his deed and guesses at its motive. For the time he is just an ordi nary nonofflcial citizen, who can go his way without remark or criticism. It would seem to be sound judgment that the state should not subsidize or guarantee the bonds of any system of waterworks or other Improvement for any municipality within its limits. Yet this question now agitates Port Town- send, and other towns, in the State of Washington, which desire to take ad vantage of the state's credit, for their own behoof. Dr. Grant says Rockefeller Is not s thief, but just a hog. Yet the good doc tor thinks that the churches are under no obligations to Inquire whether his money is tainted. That Is right enough One dollar looks very much like an other, and, if It Is a trifle greasy, the oil can be rubbed off. If Davy Jones had claimed the bones of John Paul, this rising cloud of doubt as to their present whereabouts would never have appeared, and the great naval hero's fame would shine as bright and last as long. On one point both parties to the controversy agree John Paul Jones Is dead. San Francisco has Jusf paid $90,000 for 'a season of twelve operatic per formances. From the numerous tales of starvation and despair printed In the yellow journals of the Bay City, it is apparent that the California metrop olis has it better ear for music than for misery . Don't be too hard on Dleutenant Commander Knapp for making Mrs. Costello eat at the second table. The Navy has got to keep busy with some kind of trouble, even In time of peace. . There are no indications that the "little colleges" will reject Carnegie's money as tainted. They will take It and probably ask for more. The President Intimates that he doesn't propose to hunt bears with a brass band. Give the bears a show, Mr. President. The soft drinks, which Dr. Chapman says are the only kind sold In Seattle dancehalls, produce some pretty hard characters. - At last we beat Seattle in one thing: if you- hear our home Ptiarisees. '. JY'e .are more Immoral' "" ' , -' ""u NOTE ANDJGOMMENT, . Morally Bnd spiritually. Seattle Is ahead of Portland. The Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman. Seattle won't be nearly so pleased as If Dr. Chapman had said "she was finan cially and commercially ahead. It Is reported from lone the California one that a negro escaped from jail by kicking out a brick wall. The story must be wrong, because butting would have been the natural way of breaching the wall. . General Stoessel is being tried behind closed doors In St. Petersburg-. That's how he was tried at Port Arthur. Six families and a cow live In one house In South Portland. Such overcrowding cannot be healthy for the cow. With the Fleets. SINGAPORE. April lS.-(By trolley-car.) A seagull Just arrived Is believed to have sighted the Russian fleet yesterday. If so, the ships were probably In line abreast and were steaming northwest at eight knots, south-southeast three knots. SAIGON. April 16. (By overland subma rine cable.) Three dozen champagne bot tles (empty) have been washed ashore "near this place. Tho Russian fleet Is believed to have slipped past in the dark. SINGAPORE, April 16. (By Pineapple Press.) Heavy firing can be heard dally. Most of the correspondents have already been fired, however, and the supply will soon run short. DUTCH HARBOR, April 16. (By craw fish to Nome.) Rojestvensky has not been sighted here. TILLAMOOK, April 16.-(By heck!)-Nor here. SINGAPORE, April 16. (By trolley-car to the Pineapple Press.) The Russian squadron "mistook two American cruisers, British battleship and a German mall steamer for ten Japanese destroyers, and sank all the vessels. lone, In two syllables, seems easy enough, but a stranger recently referred to it as "Eye-wun," or One Eye twisted round. Since Carnegie got his new fad, don't you wish you were a small college. newspapers In Egypt supply Jerome Hart with good copy in the current num ber of the Argonaut. The brief, matter- of-course way In which news stories are handled is enough, as the writer says, to give an American city editor fits. Con trast the following paragraph with the pages and pages devoted by the San Fran cisco papers to a similar discovers" GHASTLY DISCOVERV.-Tlie body of woman wun tno head, hands and feet cut off -was found yesterday on the banks of the Mahmoudteh Canal, near Ramlch. some otner paragraphs that would be spread upon" over here are as follows: BIG FIRE. The enormous Walkcr-Mclmarchl tores were destroyed by fire yesterday. Two firemen were killed and many injured. Loss 00.000. THE MECCA PILGRIMS. Over SOOQ nersons nave arrived since Wednesday from AlKiers. Morocco and Stamboul. en route to Mecca. Near Djcddah the last lot of pilgrims found a for midable force of Bedouins awaiting them for piunaer. After the fight the pilgrims with drew, leaving 52 of their number dead on the field. iie.UArUHOL.T DEATH. Yesterday after noon a clerk, who Is very well known and In the employ of a prominent merchant, commit ted suicide in the merchant's office by blow uui uruina wun a revolver, ills face was much disfigured. It Is said that the Duke of . Manchester will go to work as' a Yailroud .clerk in this country. However, we don't suppose he will. be' allowed to damage the road too To Be Settled on the Ocean. New York Sun. There is good ground for tho intensity of interest with which intelligent persons an over the world arc watching the move ments or the Russian and Japanese fleets In the Far East. Especially is it not surprising that at Tokio and St Petersburg suspense and expectancy are wrought to tho uttermost point or tension, for never has a nati&n's future hung so completely on the outcome of naval operations since Nelson, search ing ror tne vanished French warshlns undertook a wild goose chase to the West Indies, while the vast array assembled at .Boulogne by Napoleon needed to con troi tne British Channel for only a few days in order to effect an invasion of England. For the British aristocracy, Wellington was and still Is an idol, for in the Peninsula and at Waterloo he per sonified the triumph of their Continental policy. The masses of the British peo ple, however, are not thrilled at the mention or his name, and it Is a right insunc mat prompts them to look else where for a hero.yand to recognize Eng land's savior In the victor of Trafalgar. wnat nelson was to England. Toro may be to Japan. Oyama, the vanquisher of Kuropatkin. and Nogi. the conqueror of Port Arthur, are names not to be for gotten in the annals of the Janancse but the Mikado's humblest subjects know tnat tne destiny of their country is to be seined on tne ocean, and that a mis calculation, an oversight, a stroke of evil fortune on the part of Admiral Togo may compel thera to renounce the hope of expansion on the Asiatic mainland and condemn them to eventual suffocation within their narrow, insular domain. lassoing in Executive Mansion. ' Nebraska State Journal. A unique plan of entertainment, a lasso. Ing match, was carried out at an lnfor mal party given recently at the Execu tive Mansion by ilr. and Mrs. J. H, Mickey. The first thing on the pro gramme was a hunt by the gentlemen for the ladles who were hidden In the various rooms with a general "round up" In the halls. The crowd of fair fern inlnity was then driven to the "rosebud agency," In other words, io the ballroom on the third floor. Here the flnal fun began. Each man took his turn at lasso ing a partner for supper in the order of the number he had previously received. The whole plan was a great success, but could scarcely be carried out satlsfac torily In an ordinary house lacking ball room facilities. English as a World language. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. In arranging the terms of the surrender of Port Arthur the Japanese .and Rus sians talked English. Neither side could talk the language of the other with such fluency as to allow either of those tongues to be used. Commonly heretofore In all dealings between countries using different languages French has been used. This has been the case since Louis XIV's days. Most of the peace pacts, too. from that which ended the seven years' war in 1763. In which most of the world was engaged at one time and another, onward to that which brought the Spanish-American conflict of 1S38 to a close, have been framed in Paris. For many generations the language of International intercourse has been French. Chance Tidings. Julia Elizabeth Dodge. Dead and I knew it not! How couldst thou so Away from earth. And not one moment's passive shadow throw Across ray mirth? Methdusht I ehould have heard thy partins Or felt the chill of sorrow drawios nish If thou ahouldst die.- ,. .'."'. "1 THAT ROCKEFELLER $100,000. The Views of Some Religious Con temporaries. Congregatlonallst. Tho protest of these ministers repre sents a fine and praiseworthy ethical passion. It Is one of the many tokens of our time that indicate righteous im patience with things as they arc and burning desire that the kingdom of heaven shall come to the American busi ness and industrial world as well as in far off Asia and Africa. We dissent not from the spirit, but the method seems to us ineffectual. Even Mr. Rockefeller deserves Christian treatment from the prudential committee; and if there is to be a great contest in this country with the Standard Oil Company, the right weapons and the right agencies must be employed. There are other universal ly applicable, more normal and more effective way3 of curbing the money power In this country than" by turning down Mr. Rockefeller's gift to the Amer ican board. Churchman. In general. It would appear that where offerings are made to God through His church by the ordinary channels, tho representatives of the church are not at liberty, much less are they called upon to investigate the sources of those of ferings; but representatives of the church assume a grave responsibility when they solicit or exploit gifts from those who are notoriously charged with violating principles which she Is in tho world to teach and to preach. Christian Register. Would It be better for the morals of the community If the rich men of today, who seem to be honestly interested in good things and are giving great sums of money to endow good institutions, were men who were spending their money for luxury, In vicious indulgences. and In the support of public amusements which are demoralizing? A generation ago we had a set of roystering rich men who rade their money like thieves and spent it like pirates. Their example was certainly not more conducive to good morals than It would have been if they had given their money to colleges and churches. Only a generation has passed and now through its children,. In whom the moral Instincts, lying la'tent In their fathers, have waked up their millions are being turned to good account, and nobody protests. Let only one genera tion pass, and money. If administered by clean hands. Is purged of Its evil as sociations. If all good men and women would agree to say together, we will not allow ourselves to be made responsible for any man's reputation because he gives money to sustain the good works In which we, arc Interested, the air would be cleared at once. Christian Work and Evangelist. We enter upon no defense of Mr. Rocke feller; on the contrary, wo believe, that his methods of business are not such as to commend him to the favor of his coun trymen. The papers publish lists of his benefactions, exceeding the great sum of J33.00O.O0O. But these, if reports are correct, amount in the course of his busy career to a year's income: we rejoice to believe that countless thousands have given proportionately more than our multi-millionaire; we believe the poor widow "tops" Mr. Rockefeller, In tho matter of giving whose benefactions carry no spirit of sacrifice. But even so. we leave the rich man and the poor widow with Him who will judge us all. and from whose judgment there is no appeal, while we rejoice whenever the hand of opulence opens and relieves tne sufferings of the poor or helps forward the work of carrying the Gospel to the benighted regions of the earth. HOW EMPIRE STATE HANKS First in Population, Wealth and Manufactures. New York Sun. New York, the Empire State, ranks first In the populations of our family of states with 8,500,000 people, or more than one-tenth of the Nation's entire popula tion. New York ranks first in banks, bank deposits, bank clearings, bank dividends and banking business generally. New York ranks first in Increase (L-'s,- 720) of population between 1S0O and 1900. New York ranks first In population (4,060,571) living in cities. New York ranks first both In male and female population abbut cually divided. New York ranks first In white popula tion, both native and foreign born. New York ranks ilrst in population (1.639,395) of militia age. New York ranks first because It has the greatest number of children of school age and the greatest number attending school. New York ranks first because It has. proportionately, by far the least number of Illiterates. New York ranks first because it has the largest number of males of voting age. New York ranks first because It has the greatest number of married couples. New York ranks first because It has the largest factory payrolls of any state in the Union J40S.000.000 a year. New York ranks first because It has the largest amount (Jl,615.210,000) of capital invested In manufacturing enterprises. New York ranks first In number (78,- 65S) of factories within its borders. New York ranks first In number (849,056) of factory wage earners, of whom 605.686 are males of over 16 years of age. 230.181 women over 16, and only 13,159 children under 16 years. New York ranks first in tne manufac ture of collars and cuffs, leather gloves and mittens, hosiery and knit goods, salt. and paper and wood pulp. New York ranks first in the number (60,358 of the total. 78.65S) of factories owned by Individuals; also in the 13,578 owned by partnerships and in the 4523 owned by corporations. This rather up sets the oft-repeated assertion that New York's manufacturing Interests are con trolled by "trusts." New York ranks first In the number (5839) of water wheels in use In its power plants. New York ranks first In manufacturing Interest, with an annual output of $2,500, 000,000 worth of American made goods. New York City ranks first In manufac turing among the cities of tho Union, with Its 39,776 factories, using $922,000,000 capital, paying $24o,000,000 yearly wages to 462,763 people, and turning out $1,371. 000,000 worth of manufactures yearly, as shown by the census of 1900. Discussed in Verse. From The Green Bag:. (In the case of Harvey Steel Company vs. United States, the Court of Claims recently rendered a judgment, by a majority of tour of. the five Judges, the majority opinion being written ay riott. raier justice, and a dissent ing opinion by Wright, Justice. The follow ing lines are dedicated to Mr. Justice tVrlgbt:) That "Wright Is Wright and Nott Is Nott, logicians must concede. That Nott Is right and Wright is not. Four Judges have decreed. That Nott Is right and Wright Is not, "We all must now agree; Then Nott la right and Wright la Nott The same thine, to a. t. It Nott IsNott and Wright Is Nott, It comes without a. wrench That we have not. If not two Notts, Five Judges on tho bench. 11 only four, as shown before. And three agree with Nott, The. Judgment Is unanimous. And Wright's dlesent is naught. - The knot is not, la Nott not Nott? But is Wright right or not? Is Nott not right? What right has .Wright To write that Nott la not? Do I do right to write to Wright Tbie most .unrighteous rot? C0PHETUA ANDBEGGAR MAID New York Evenlns; Post. The recent engagement of a young mil lionaire to a girl who has worked In a cigar factory hag fluttered the dovecotes not merely on the East Side ef this clt . but throughout America. In sivfog liirge space to this affair of the heart, the prrs3 though It has often passed all bonne' 1 of taste has but followed the most re spectable literary tradition. A poor girl who marries a thrifty young mechanic has achieved no mean success; sHe en vied If she attracts a woalthy rak wJmj Is In desperate need of reformation; and when she gets both the money and hus band who Is a modal of all the virtues, she becomes a heroine, worthy of r three-volume novel or an epic- No wondr that men and women of all degree r eager to see her picture, and to rend what she has said. The world has hung braatfc less on the adventures of her prototypes In fiction; it is ecstatic over the realisa tion here and now of the theme'of a thou sand romances. For the story is almost as old as th language of man. Cinderella gives tm qm version of it. Ruth, the lonely gleKoer. lifted to high estate by Boz. that "mighty man of wealth," is another. Somewhat less familiar is the bftlfed of "King Ce- phetua and the Beggar Maid." Still . fourth variant is one of the most popular novels ever written in English. Richard son's "Pamela." ... Men, and above all women, will never be so sopuisticatcd. so disillusioned, that they will not turn with fresh hope U every repetition of the history of Ktihj Cophetua and the Beggar Maid. The sor did background of a commercial era but heightens the charm of the romance. Pub lic solicitude in the urcsent instance need not, then, be set down wholly to the mere vulgar sort of prying. It is a ign that. busy as we arc with stocks and bonds, we still recognize instinctively a thome fit foe sages and poets, we still leap at a pretext to throw to the winds the teachings of the worldly wise and to renew our daekiratle of sentimental Independence. ODD BITS 0FJREG0N LIFE, Looks Suspicious. Harbor corr. Por; Orford Tribune, A certain individual seems to have a. good many excuses for visiting unyor Yv'lnchuck of late, and he alwuys return ho- e smiling. Bridge Creek's- Obduracy. Mitchell Sentinal. An effort was made Saturday to chaitga Bridge Creek back in it okl channel; hut Sunday morning it was back to where ft was changed from. Jilfc Is Well Worth laving. Cresweli Corr. Eugene Guard. Creswell is booming. A socml Inet night and a show tonight. Since w haafo got our new hall there is somethlufr" to go to almost every night. How to Make- a. Postofficc Popular. Rainier Corr. St. Helen's Mlet. Miss C. IS. Pomeroy is Interfering With the U. S. males not mails at the post office now. "She Is a good girl and voey efficient," says Postmaster Clark. Fate of the Delinquent Subsurlbor. Mitchell Sentinel. Breathes there k man with soul m dead, who never to himself hath sold. "I'll pay, before I go to bed. the k?b& I owe the printer?" There are somo we know full well who never rfuch a tte can tell; but they, we fear. wlH go to well, the place where there's no wtafar. Apostrophe, to Llmburser Cheque. Frecwatet Times. OvIng. to the fact that the reeteiMns went out of business the "HMt or S weeK. tne editor and sunt are oacning that and other reasons ami yeoterduy a rural subscriber brought us in a niece of limburger cheese, saying that If we didn t care to eat it we could use It to drive away ants. W1U it drive away ants? Will it! Verily I say unto you. it will drive dogs out of a tanyard; It will drive buzzards away from a carcass: it will drive a herd of buffalo through a burning forest and a mule through a barbed wire fence; it will drive a nmrt crazy if compelled to stay within feet of its polluted presence; indeed, it wilt drive away anta and uncles,' teo. and mothers and fathers, brothers, sisters and grandmothers, even to tho ' seventh generation: still there are some who claim to like Limburger. An Idea for the Mission Board. WHITE SALMON. Wash.. April 1. (To the. Bditor of the Hood River Glartw:.) Iw weal thto do for a compromise between the pses I who are willing to accept' all the money Mr. Rockefeller wants to donate to mifskm a4 the folk who look upon his money jus Me4 money, polluted in the getting"? "Whereas, Mr. J. D. RocKefeller. wwm ca pacity and generosity are well known ameoK men and aUo among angels, has offered te furnish needed lubrleation to the otherwise dry roadway of our mteeionary zeal, aad "Whereas. The chalknoda ot the Brute coast are said to be made up ot the poweersd skeletons ot countless millions of living er ganlnw that have eaeh contributed Its attte to the general result; and "Whereas. Mr. Rockefellers 'system' rtoce to the dignity of being almost supersatural la Its facilities for grinding wealth out OC- Ua hslplessneio of the people, and as sueh com mands our undivided admiration aad awe; new. therefore, be It "Resolved, That while we recognize in the 'system' a cruel dteregan! of individual 'liberty and aspiration, yet we want the money and trust that God, who notes the sparrows teM, will bless Its use in the conversion of the heathen to the benign religious faith that Mr. Rockefeller represents. "Reeolved, That with our eyas on neaven, and our upturned palm outstretched beatnd our hack to receive the benefactions from the Organized Brotherhood ot Burglars of Amer ica and the Modern Highwayman's Soeloty e the United States, we hereby condemn petty larceny as sinful and demoralizing." S. W. C. The "Perfect Office Boy." Chicago Inter Ocean. The paragon of office boys, the boy who never made a mistake and who earns $75 a month as a result thereof, has been discovered. His name is John K. McKeough. He is office boy at the Board of Education. He is 13 years old and began working five years ago at $4 a week. ' "John is the boy who lias never made a mistake in all his service for the board," said E. G. Cooley, superin tendent of schools. "I never have known him to do anything that was not done just right. The finance com mittee raised his salary to 575 a month last week. The committee had to, ot it would have lost John. He was wanted at the City Hall. "If another boy of John's character exists. It would be like hunting for a needle in a haystack to find him. He walked In here quietly five years ago. He was never in the way, but If any thing was wanted he know where to lay his hand on it. Then the finance committee raised his salary because he was worth it. John Is ready to' work nights and holidays. "A great many requisitions are han dled up here. It wasn't John's work to look after them, but he soon became- so proficient that it becamo part of his work to assist with that kind of work. He learned to use the type writer. The knowledge has proved useful to him.". Different Dissipations. Atchison Globe. Girls are always finding spota that would- jnake Ideal picnic grounds; and older" women see lawns, that ' would be Ideal for a church social. '