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THE MORyiNG OBEGOyiAy. MONDAY, 'APRIC 24, 1905. Entered at the Postofflce at Portland, Or., is second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION BATES. INVARIABLY IX ADVANCE. By Mall or Express.) Dally and Sunday, per year B52 Dally and Sunday, six months 6.00 Daily and Sunday, three months.-...... 2.65 Dally and Sunday, per month Dally without Sunday, per year 7.60 Dally -without Sunday, six months 3.00 Dally -without Sunday, three months 1.85 Dally without Sunday, per month...... .65 Sunday -ptr year 2.00 Sunday, six months 1.00 Sunday, three months 60 BY CARRIER. Dally without Sunday, per week 16 Dally per week. Sunday included.. -20 THE "WEEKLY OREGOXIAN. (Issued Every Thursday.) Weekly, per year 1.60 Weekly, elx months "5 Weekly, three montho 60 HOW TO .REMIT Send postoffic money order, express- order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICE. t The 8. C. Beckwith Special Agency New York; Rooms 43-60 Tribune building. 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If they can destroy the fleet of Rojestvensky, they will "by that achievement end the war. It was an outrage upon humanity and upon mankind to force Japan Into a po sition which has obliged her thus to fight for existence. It was done by Germany and France, with the acquies cence of England, some ten years ago. This was the situation: Japan and China had disagreed as to Corea, War ensued, and Japan was vic torious. Japan had taken Port Arthur, and was obtaining concessions in Man churia, Then Russia, heading a Euro pean coalition, stepped irj and demand ed that Japan should give up what she had gained. Russia of course denied that she had any selfish interest. She pro lessedthatshe simply wished to preserve the territorial integrity of China. At the same time Russia obtained from China a "lease" of Port Arthur, for a com mercial port. Soon afterward she be gan to fortify the place, to make it a great naval station, and to establish her troops In large bodies in Manchuria. So to the protests of Japan the answer was evasion, equivocation, and at last indifference and silence. " Germany allowed Russia to have her way, because Germany was unwilling to antagonize Russia. France, even more complaisant, hoped (foolishly) to get Russia's support for her own re venge on Germany. England didn't want "a fuss." So the present situation came about. Japan fights for her very existence. Her victory would help the world's civ ilization. She ought to win. To this dire necessity and extremity she has been brought by jealousy of European powers of each other, or among them selves. France is the chief culprit. Her motives have been wholly un worthy of her history, of her greatness and of her services to mankind. ANOTHER INDICATION OF PROSPERITY. No question that prosperity is gen eral throughout the country. In nearly all lines activity is greater than a year ago. Industry and trade in the great centers show steady gains. This can not but be reflected all over the coun try. One sign is the bank clearings, which show extraordinary increase over those of a year ago. Another is the increase of building activity everywhere noted. Building statistics of our four greatest cities, just published, show these re sults, viz: March, March. 1S05. 1904. New York $21,300,120 $13,530,625 Chicago 6.116.655 2,037,830 Philadelphia 6,147.750 3,704,300 St Louis - 3,912.416 1.617.809 In cities of the next class, as Boston, Baltimore, Pittsburg and San Francis co, building activity is proportionately as great. In such as Portland 'and Seattle, :It never hitherto has been equalled. They who imagined St. Louis was to have a backset after the Exposition, have only to look at the figures more than doubled in the month of March, as compared with the same month of the year next preceding, when all pos sible energy was directed to prepara tion for the great coming Fair. Most of the new buildings in all places are of higher class than those formerly erected architecturally better, supplied with all the conveniences demanded in modern life, built of better materials, more solid, and attractive, and far more permanent. Even in modest dwellings there is study for artistic effects, as one may observe-in this class of structures recently built and rapidly building In Portland.' It 1e no longer easy to find tenants for the oldwfashloned and shapeless shacks that offend the eye and have no com fort or convenience about them. It Is gratifying therefore to observe that no body builds that kind any more. A ra tional studs' of style In building is one of the good s'igns of the times. One of the strongest indications of prosperity throughout the country, is -the general activity in buildingguided by the growth of taste that makes large amends for past offenses and monstrosities LEASING OF SAND ISLAND. The Secretary of Waris considering the advisability of requiring fishermen and others who make use of Sand Isl and to pay for the privilege. The Gov ernment could probably get along very nicely without the revenue which might be produced from leasing trap sites and seining grounds on the island, but there are other points involved, aside from the matTer of revenue. Ownership of the Island has frequent ly been questioned, and trap locations thereon or adjacent have been claimed by both Oregon and "Washington, and In some cases trapbwners have paid for licenses in both states. If the Govern ment will settle this interstate discis sion by establishing Its own claim to the island, all parties concerned will have a better understanding as to their rights in the matter. . The fact that there is navigable water surrounding the Island, lying in the Columbia River between the two states, seems -to relieve either Oregon or Wash ington .-of the necessity of jextending sovereignty over the disputed tract, which is .continually changing its shape and dimensions. If the Government should' decide to lease the Island and its adjoining trap sites and seining grounds, some pref erence would -undoubtedly be shown, the fishermen who by virtue of state licenses and other evidences of state control have made expensive improve ments, in the way of removing snags and driving trap piles Under- the best possible method for adjusting the diffi culty, a hardship will be worked on some -of the men -who for years have made free use of the island. In the end, however, it is possible that Government ownership and control will work to their advantage. A Government patent or lease to a tract of land imparts to the dweller thereon a feeling of security,, whiph is always missing so long as there is'even a small cloud of doubt as to ownership. The Government has been "jobbed" out of such a vast amount of its land", and Its rights to much that remains are so lightly regarded, that the assertion of ownership may be unpopular, but -if the rights of ownership are enforced with fairness for all, the bitter protests will gradually disappear. ITALIANS IN AMERICA. - The unusual and very heavy Influx of Italians Into the United States, noted in the Immigration returns and through manifest Increase of our Italian popula tion in all parts of the country, lends Interest to a book on "The Italian in America," just published by B. F. Buck & Co., New York. It Is not a con tinuous treatise, but a cento, made up of special articles by different writers, each of whom presents a separate phase of the general subject The -principal articles are contributed by Elliott Lord, special agent of the United States Tenth Census; John J. D. Trenor, chairman of the immigration committee of the National Board of Trade, and St.muel J. Barrows, secre tary of the Prison Association, of New York. Its purpose is to present clearly the contribution of Italy to American development and citizenship, and to re move some of the misunderstandings about the Italian as a desirable Immi grant. The work is done with a general breadth of view suited to the Impor tance of the subject; for it is Impor tant, since there are now probably more than one million persons of Italian na tivity in the United States, and great numbers born in our country directly of Italian parentage. Immigration continues at so rapid a rate that, during the current year. It is probable there will be an addition of not less than 200.000 to the great "Italian colony" In America. They spread to all parts of the United States, and comparatively few return to their native land. According to the census of 1900 the Italian population of the United States then was 484,207, nearly three-fourths being on our Northern Atlantic sea board. At first the disposition of these immigrants was to remain in the larger Northern cities, which indeed still hold very great numbers; but latterly they have been moving to the West and South, where they appear not only in the principal cities, but In the smaller cities and towns, and even in the coun try districts. Most .of them are good . workers. Reared and tutored through necessity in habits of Industry and economy, they have brought these qualities with them; and here most of them make .their way successfully, against whatever competition they may find In the arts and Industries. The public school, tak ing up their children, educates them rapidly In our language, customs and citizenship. Our people fromflfaly engage In every kind of labor and are foremost In all the nicer and more delicate mechanic arts. As gardeners and fruitgrowers they excel- In many localities in our Southern States, their superior thrift is pushing the negro out of these em ployments. Much is said about the poverty of the Italian immigrants who come In crowds and without visible means of support; but very few of them become a public charge. The report of the United States Industrial Commission on Immigration made to the Fifty-seventh 'Congress says: "The remarkably low degree of pauperism among the Italians Is possi bly due to the fact that such a large percentage of them are "capable of act ive labor, -coming to this country espe cially for that purpose." The Commissioner-General of Immigration for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904, re ported that of, the 15.396 aliens in the charitable institutions of the United States there were only 1230 Italians. Among the Insane the proportion was even smaller. In his article. Dr. Bar rows states his conclusion that "there is, on the whole, no warrant -for any alarmist view of Italian degeneracy In America." There are criminals among them, of course; but he Insists fthat the proportion is not so large as it is among the immigrants from other countries, and In such towns as Boston and Provi dence, and other New England ! cities to which there has been a large Italian immigration, "the percontage of arrests of Italians is less than their percentage of the foreign-born total." The report of the United States Industrial Com mission on Immigration, covering the tables compiled by the Prison Commis sion In Massachusetts, shows thati while Intemperance was the principal cause of distress In 20 -per cent of 'the German cases, 24 per cent of the Amer ican cases 2"iJar. cent "ol the English cases' and 38 per cent of the Irish cases, it was the cause In only 3 per cent of the Italian cases. The Oregonlan never has shared the apprehension of those of our people who have expressed a dread of Italian immigration. It supplies "an unlike element," Indeed; but that Is a desid eratum. This great race of Southern Europe will supply many things we lack; for we are of the Northern races, mostly, and It Is chiefly through the influence of race differences and their action and reaction among peoples thrown into contact and action with each other, that progress in new direc tions is made. Besides, there is a sort of absurdity In doubting whether any good thing can come out of Italy Italy, mother, during Its long career, of almost all things in art, science, refinement and civilization. SUCCESS, TO HOPGROWERS. The meeting of hopgrowers at Salem Tuesday will be an Important event to growers and dealers who still have hops to sell. The purpose of the meeting ap parently Is to secure agreements from owners of hops not to sell for 60 dajs, and to proclaim to brewers that If they want hops they must pay higher prices. Hops are now bringing 24 cents, which leaves a profit of 14 to 16 cents a pound to the grower, or something like .5140 an acre. A very few years' ago this price would have been fabulous, and growers would not have hesitated a moment to accept it. This year, how ever. It is asserted that the statistical situation is more favorable to the grow ers than In many years, and that If the growers will stand together they can dictate the price for the remainder of the 1904 crop. Those who are behind the movement for a tie-up of the remaining supply of Oregon and Washington hops argue that if growers are ever going to name prices they can do so now, and that If they fall In this attempt it Is useless for them ever to try again, for the Hit uatlon Is not likely soon to be so strong in their favor. Promoters of the move ment wish not only to secure the ad vanced price but to show brewers that by united action growers can have a voice in fixing the price of their prod uct. Persons who now have hops have be come speculators. Last Fall, hops brought as high as 31 cents, and many sold at slightly less than that figure. Some persons, confident In the future of the market, held for a higher price, notwithstanding the figures offered were extraordinarily high. Popular sympa thy is with holders of hops, even though they have become speculators. Hop growing is a wealth-producer for the Willamette Valley, and everything that helps the hopgrower meets popular ap proval. Without anything in . particular against the brewers, the people quite generally hope to see the growers win out In the contest, whether by agree ment to hold for 60 days, or by some other method. Oregon hopgrowers have been compelled on one or two occasions to take a price below the cost of pro duction, and no reasonable man will begrudge them the profit they can get out of their product in a year when the supply is short. The brewer always buys as cheaply as he can, and it Is the proper business of the growers to sell as high as they can. Here's wishing them success. THE ELASTIC HARRIJUX PURSE. Elasticity of the money market Is fre quently commented on In the discussion of Industrial enterprises throughout the country. Whenever a railroad man runs short on excuses for the failure of his company to provide proper facili ties, he falls back on the time-honored "tight" money market and the growls of the oppressed are quieted with the promise that something will happen as soon as the strain is eased a little. Portland has heard considerable about this elastic money market. It has seen panics come and panics go, and has drifted through fat years and lean years, and still the "tightness" of the money market keeps It out of the rich trade fields for which It Is longing. But there Is evidence that by invok ing the aid of particular Influences, elasticity of the money market may be slightly Increased, even at. a period when we are Informed that It Is prac tically at the breaking point. For illus tration, may be cited announcement in yesterday's Oregonlan of the Intention of the Southern Pacific Immediately to construct a railroad along the east bank of the Sacramento River from Sacra mento to Antioch. The Southern Pacific Is a Harrlman road, and the money for Its construc tion work comes out of the same till .that holds the earnings of theO. R. & N. Co. and other allied lines of the Har rlman system. For years the Harrlman line has annually taken several thou sand carloads of green fruit out of the section which 1t will now enter with a railroad. Rehandllng of shipments by boat was unsatisfactory to the shippers, but the stringency of the money mar ket or some other cause of equal-. Im portance always prevented the Southern Pacific from extending rail facilities to the rich river fruit district. Last year the Santa Fe, which has been dividing the spoils of the "all-that-the-traffic-will-bear" system, made a raid on this special preserve of the Southern Pacific and hauled out about 1000 carloads of green fruit with a'char-. tered boat. The business was so satis-' factory that this year the Santa Fe has built a boat and will make a more ex tensive sortie Into the field of its occa sionally aggressive competitor. To head off this diversion of business the South ern Pacific Is to provide fruitgrowers along the river with direct rail trans portation to the Eastern markets. As the Santa Fe and the Southern Pacific are supposed to have divided the business of the State of California be tween them, it is somewhat surprising that one road should force the other to spend any money to provide shippers with needed facilities. This is what has happened, however, and It has hap pened at a time when we an assured" that the Harrlman fund for building new lines Is suffering acute" pangs, on account of a stringent money market. The incident has a peculiar Interest In the Pacific Northwest at this time, for the reason that the Harrlman sys tem is in a fair way to be confronted with a. similar problem on the Snake River in the near future. Between Lewlston and Rlparia He some of the i finest fruit orchards on earth. The ship ments from these orchards by boat reach a total of several hundred car loads per year, and as all of the fruit is carried across the continent, the rail roads find it a highly remunerative bus iness. tTbe oroflts of the growers andjthe volume of business would be Increased enormously If that short stretch of rail road between Riparia and Lewlston were completed. In order that their profits and their business might be in creased, the fruitgrowers have labored earnestly with Portland and other af fected communities to secure construc tion of the road. The merits of the project are as well understood in Wall street as they are in Portland, but the old rule of addition (to the freight tar iff), division (of the spoils) and silence (regarding the clamor of affected inter ests), is still followed out. Such will not be the case when an In dependent rail line Into the Clearwater will open a traffic for an independent boat line on the river. The Wall street end of the Harrlman system, which at present deplores the stringency In the money market and the attendant al leged Inability to build the Snake River line, will suddenly strike a money mar ket fully as elastic as that which has permitted the construction of a river road In through' the Sacramento fruit districts. As to extension of the city lira its of Portland, which now inclose forty square miles, The Oregonlan hasn't much to say, for It will take "pot luck" with all the rest. ' It thinks, nevertheless, that the city lim its ought not now to be expended. Ex pansion would increase the areas to be supplied with water, light, police, schools, bridges over gulches, and the whole train of expenditures. It will Increase taxation, but perhaps that Is not Important; certainly not to those who pay very small taxes or none at all. Nothing can be more popular than the demand of the non-taxpayer that the taxpayer shall supply everything that may be wanted. But perhaps the socialistic spirit has reached a point where protest Is useless, and It Is doubtless as well to yield to the demand that property beHaxed to pay for every thing that everybody wants. The tend ency has been in that direction a long JIme, and for selfish and demagogic pur poses -H hasbeen .supported Dy tnose who now would check it if they could but they cannot. Members of the so called Taxpayers' League have steadlly encouraged ideas and demands as to "public utilities" which they now are powerless to control. The vote of the electorate Is going against all their sug gestions. For everything they want those who pay small taxes or none are going to vote taxes. The Oregonlan makes no further protest, for protest is useless. The seas are to run high, and It will take its turn at bailing the boat, with the rest. Attorney-General Crawford Is unques tionably correct In his ruling that the State Board of Health has no authority to establish a standing regulation to compel passenger cars entering the state to be emptied of passengers and disinfected before proceeding to their destination. Possibly such a regulation would tend to protect public health, but the traveling public has not been edu cated to a point where it Is willing to undergo the inconvenience and delay. The Attorney-General holds that where the presence of contagious disease is known, the Board of Health has power to require such precautions as" those mentioned, but the requirement could not be enforced from day to day re gardless of the existence of danger. If the Assessor desires to raise the tax assessment, he might begin with certain large .realty buildings, which have been assessed, for a long time, much less, than small holdings con tiguous thereto. On many of the small holdings families of limited means have homes, and just beyond the mar gin of their ground are big areas of wealthy persons paying less than their just proportion of taxes. If there Is to be enforcement of law In any direction it might be well to enforce law so that small home-dwellers will get Jus tice against big tax-dodgers. Here Is room for reform, truly. Frank Gugllelmo is playing the baby act, as every one might expect of a man who murdered a defenseless wom an whom he professed to love. Harry Egbert who fought daringly with Dep uty Sheriffs on the plains of Harney County, met his death on the gallows In a manly way. Murder cannot be con doned; but there are degrees of con tempt In which a murderer may be held. He who "takes his medicine" like a man is not such a despicable creature as the cowardly brute who slays a woman and then cries for the mercy he would not give. Henry K. Bradbury, of Hollls, Maine, who recently died after practising law for over halt a century. Is said to have had the dis tinction of being graduated from Bowdoin College at a younger age than any other of Its alumni. He entered college at 13 years and was graduated at 17 In the famous class of 1S41. But a youth having all of Bradbury's attainments -at the time of his gradua tion, and more, could not now enter as a freshman In any college of high class. There Is a lurking suspicion rising from the ruins of the May deal In the Chicago wheat pit that John W. Gates lost neither money nor prestige. In the operation. If the truth is ever Known regarding the spectacular deal. It might show that the money was all lost by the lambs who were handled with strict impartiality In the shearing-pens of both Gates and Armour. "Who says," asks the Providence Journal, "that these 'revivals' serve no beneficial purpose In the world? At one of the Torrey and Alexander meetings in London the other day a well-known writer of, comic songs was moved .to such conviction of sin by the fervor of appeal that he rose and publicly prom ised to write no more." In Italy, the military forces, called In Kto hold down the violence of the strik ers, are in charge of the railroads. Per haps we want these things done In America. Perhaps Socialism will bring us to military government. That would be Its logical end. Are the Russians so purely white, so clear of Tartar and Scythian blood, that they should warn the world against the "yellow peril"? There were 29,998 rural post routes in operation in the United States at the end of March. . Illinois led, with 2450 routes. Agents of the Equitable, despite young Mr. Hyde's remarks, Incline to the be lief that they know what they want. Apparently the bullet Is not tempered to.the shorn limjj in Klamath. County.. NOTE ANDCOMMENT. "Whom can I trust?" cries the Czar. He can search us. The photographer who "took" the Igor rote chieftains must have forgotten to tell them to look pleasant. Rockefeller's tainted money Is tp be the subject of discussion by the Congrega tional Church at large. "When the women get through with Portland markets they might begin a crusade ta have all money cleaned up. James H. Hyde employs three French clerks. He Is said to write most of his letters in French, although he talks to the agents like a Dutch uncle. The violet must have a hard time keep ing modest in view of the price It brings In Eastern cities. ; "Sec Bee" sends the following letter from Ashland: We have people In this section whom you ought to know. For Instance: There Li a proprietor ot a health resort, in the Siski you Mountain, not far away, who, until a few years ago, bade fair to become a con firmed old bachelor. He was. however, res cued by an enterprising schoolma'am who went about it to trim him up with education enough to read and keep his accounts, that he might at least be presentable and look after his business. He was an apt pupil and when he had acquired skill enough to read short paragraphs In the papers he was like a boy wtth red-top boots and took great delight in reading to the frequenters about the neigh boring saloon. One evening he had been In dustriously entertaining the loafers with short pieces ot news from the Examiner. He read to them about the "Ky-Dlve of Egg-Wipe." When he went out someone took up the pa per to eee "what be wss trying to gt through him." He found It to be the "Khedive of, Egypt." This man knew the virtue of advertising and took every opportunity to puff the vir tues of his medicinal springs. He told of -a young man who had been recently cured there, and declared that the patient, when he came, was the most "emancipated" man he ever saw. He delights in the u-e of big words, often without any knowledge of their meaning. He has a ten-acre tract ot land near by and to a gaping crowd at the saloon one day he de veloped a scheme In regard to it in this fash ion: "Say, fellers: you know that ar truck patch uv mine on the bench? Well, I've made up my mind to dig an artificial Veil up thar and Irritate my gard'lng, and I 'low as how I can raise truck 'nough to consume the hull fambly." One of his neighbors had a fractious cow that seriously injured one of his children. Our philosopher, expatiating on the incident, deplored the Injury the child had received "at the hands ot the family cow." He was un kindly charged with making "a bull of it." In early life our friend was a sailor. later a miner, but never a farmer. He had great confidence in his learning, however, and plant ed a pumpkin patch. His crop did well and he took great delight In exhibiting It. One evening in the early Fall, before his pump kins were ripe, a neighbor suggested that there was likely to be frost that night and that he had better cover his pumpkins. He proceeded to slip his pumpkins into gunnyracke, leav ing the vines to the gentle breezes. He fancied that he knew much about the climate In that locality. One backward Spring when the snow lingered longer than usual, he was asked when they might expect warm weather. He declared in a high key. "It won't get warmer till the enow leaves, and the snow won't leave till It gits warmer, by thunder." 0 In Quebec there is a law whereby the -parent of 12 living legitimate children is entitled to 100 acres of crown lands. Al ready 3400 claims have been passed. 1000 are on file, and from 100 to 200 applications are being - received monthly. Here is a tip for President Roosevelt. But on sec ond thoughts this plan might Introduce worse land frauds than we have already'. "Coax me; go on and coax me." as Del casse pang to the French Ministry. Tan shoes with high heels look kind of ashamed of themselves. Judging from the growth o saloons, the success of the Fair Is assured. Most of the wicked young buds have been on a burst lately. A London electrician is said to have established a "wireless" systom in his house, using It instead of a bell to sum mon his (servants, who should have a ready-made excuse for being late. Two California kids, aged 5 and 6 re spectively, pounded two younger children with bricks until the poundees are not expected to live. A -pity the little brlck nandlers are too young to mix up In the Equitable scrap. Lawson's howls are n8w as little heeded ap the coyote's. The Igorrote chiefs donned new loin cloths for Easter. ; The suspicion grows that Rojestvensky employs a press agent. s Tit-Bits says that some individual with oceans of time on his hands has conceived the idea of hunting through the works of English novelists for the purpose of find ing all the adjectives used to qualify the word kiss. The result Is as follows: Cold, warm. Icy, burning, chilly, cool, loving, indifferent, balsamic, fragrant, blissful, passionate aromatic, with tears bedewed, long. soft, hasty, intoxicating, dissem bling, delicious, pious, tender, beguiling, hearty, distracted, frantic, fresh-as-the-mornlng, breathing fire, divine, satanlc, glad, sad, superficial, quiet, loud, fond, heavenly,, execrable, devouring, ominous, fervent, parching, nervous, soulless, stu pefying, slight, careless, anxious, painful, sweet, refreshing, embarrassed, shy, mute, ravishing, holy, sacred, firm, hur ried, faithless, narcotic, feverish. Immod erate, sisterly, brotherly and paradisaical. After all, a kiss that Is Just 'a kiss Is the best In the bunch. The wasp waist and the pork-pte hat arc the "novelties" of the season, and they must not be separated. Boston Herald. So when a woman takes off her "pork pie" hat, she must take off that Is, shake out a reef or two? WEX. J. Whlttiers of Danvers. Boston Herald. One day a stranger strolled into the old Berry tavern at Danvers.- A number of men were seated in the office, and were asked by the newcomer: "Will you kindly tell me where I may find the Whlttler house?" A young business man, not a native ot the town, to be sure, but who had lived In It a number of years and belonged to New England., spoke up, saying: "You mean Joe .Whlttler, the contractor? He lives at Danversport." "No, no; I refer to John G. Whlttler." "John G. Whlttler? Never heard of him. The only other Whlttler In this town is Clarence Whlttler, janitor of the town house. He lives on Essex street." The stranger became both amused and impatient and said: "I am talking about John G. Whlttler, the poet; he's dead, you know. I want to find out where his home was." "Oh, well," said the young , business man, with a sigh of relief at his ability to Impart Information, "if It's anybody who's dead go. right over to Will Crosby, the undertaker, across the street, heUl tell you all about iU." - . - QUICK MARRIAGES IN THE UNITED STATES Easier to Be Wedded la America Than to Be Divorced Examples ot Happy-Go-Lncky Metfcoda la Matrimonial Affairs. An, American Woman, in London Telegraph. IN AMERICA, the "land of the free," it Is a shade easier to get married than it is to be divorced. Until recently In New York City it was possible to enter Into a common-law marriage under ex tremely simple conditions. There was no ceremony, civil or religious, not even a contract, verbal or written, between the persons entering Into the relation. To inscribe their names on a hotel register as man and wife was enough to make It a legal marriage; or It a man Introduced a woman as his wife it came to the same thing. This extremely free-and-easy fofm of matrimonial alliance has now been done away with, but the re sultant complications ai still In the courts. American girls are impulsive, and the great freedom permitted to them enables them to get easily entangled In unpre-- meditatcd matrimonial alliances. For instance, a man and a young girl were automoblling. "I am not afraid of any thing." asserted the girl. "You . are afraid to marry me right now," said the young man. "Oh, I'm game if you are." retorted the girl, and then they went to the house of the nearest justice of the peace and were married. Over the border-line, in every. State which is at all. strict in its marriage laws, there Is a town known far and wide for the celerity and ease with which couples fleeing from Irate parents may be united in wedlock. In Ohio, for In stance, where the laws are severe, young folks wishing to evade them cross the Ohio River, at a, certain point and land at a little town In Kentucky known wide ly as "Gretna. Green." "Marrying parsons." as they are popu larly known, are to be found In most ot the easy-marriage stations. These dominies are ambitious to make records, and are widely advertised by grateful clients. Persons come to them from far and near, and In a little out-of-the-way place one of these "marrying parsons" may have 1000 marriages a year to his credit or discredit. In New York City there is a famous WALLOWA PRAISES OREGONIAN Joseph Commercial Club Commends Spurring of Railroads. i Appreciating The Oregonlan's effort to , set forth the transportation needs or wai lowa County, the Commercial Club, of Joseph, have adopted resolutions com mending the work of this paper. The resolutions signed by A. Wurzweller. pres ident of the club, and George Mack, sec retary, are ass follows: Whereas, wo are carrying on business In one of the most fertile and resourceful .sections of Oregon, and Whereas, wc are laboring under great dis advantages owing to lack of better transpor tation facilities; therefore, be It Resolved, by the Joseph Commercial Club, of Joseph, Or., that we do Invite the atten tion of the Oregon State Development League In our behalf to assist us In our efforts to secure construction of a railroad Into the Wallowa Valley; that we heartily Indorse the course taken by The Oregonlan In calling the attention of Its readers to our needs; that we hope The Oregonlan will continue to pub lish such articles calling attention to the urgent need ot this section for transportation facilities, and that we thank The Oregonlan for the mention given Wallowa County in re cent articles published. A. WURZWEIL.ER. President. GEO. MACK. Secretary. JOSEPH, Or,. April 21. (To the Edi tor.) The people of this section of Ore gon arc very much pleased with the edi torials which rave recently appeared in your paper, touching on the great needs of central and eastern part3 of the state ot better transportation facilities. The Joseph Commercial Club, at a recent meeting, passed reeolutlons of apprecia tion, and I am - instructed to enclose a copy of the same. Trusting you will con tinue to probe the sides of these trans portation companies often and hard until relief is afforded portions of the state that have so Jong been neglected, I am yours respectfully, GEO. MACK. Secretary. JOSEPH. Or., April 21. (To the Editor.) Allow me to congratulate you on your editorials In the last few, papers showing the needs ot transportation in Wallowa County, which is one of the most pro ductive In the state. As you say, not the .amount of freight that now goes out of here by team, but the vastly greater amount that could be created with rea sonable transportation rates, would sur prise the people of Portland and this section. I earnestly hope that you will succeed 'in your efforts In calling atten tion to this Important matter. F. D. M'CULLY. PROPHECY AS TO TOGO'S PLAN t New York Times. Naval experts who predict that Admiral Togo will fight his great sea battle In For mosa Strait, whither the heavy Russian prows are set, serve only to nourish the vain hopes of the Czardom. The Japanese war fleet, in surroundings and under con ditions which it will be able to choose, should prove overwhelmingly superior to Rojestvensky's ships but not so soon, we think, and not off Formosa. The Russian heavy battleships that avail most In a complete fleet action tally seven to- Togo's five, a fact which justifies Mr. H. W. Wil son's opinion, cabled by the London cor respondent of the World, that the odds against the Japanese Admiral would thus be "greater than those against Nelson at Trafalgar." But the harassment of the Russian squadron has possibly commenced, and it will doubtless become exceedingly severe as tne fleet passes through the Strait of Formosa and on to the inevitable death trap In the throat of the Eastern sea, be tween Lower Nippon and Corea. The su perior long-range guns of Admiral Togo's swifter and more numerous cruisers may punctuate Its melancholy progress for 1000 miles, until In the sore straits of Corea the Czar's squadron must meet the more destructive reception of Japan's torpedo boats and mines. Surviving these, Ro jestvensky must turn his broken flanks to the broadsides of an offensive and thor oughly concerted foe unless the Japa nese Tantalus-Fabian -sea policy prevails when victory Is assured, and drags the desperate procession to its bitter end within sight of Vladivostok. Intemperance; "Cut It Out." Milwaukee Sentinel. A charming society lady living In Peru, Ind., recently became Intoxicated on Pe runa, and while In that condition went to a ball with her own husband. Young lady, young matron, do you drink? Are you aware that every drink of In toxicating .liquor taken Into the human system means one less drink for some body else? Do you know that when you take a drink of Peruna or any similar beverage you are. perhaps, taking It out of the mouth, of some poor shop girl who Is all run down? SOMEBODY MUST DRINK. BUT WHY SHOULD YOU? When Admiral Rojestvensky fired on the Baltic fleet, he had been drinking lemon extract. If a strong man was thus affected by drink. WHAT IS IT, GOING TO DO TO YOU? CUT IT OUT! church known as "The Little Church Around the Corner," although its proper title Is "The Church of the Transfigura tion." It is a picturesque Episcopal church, and Its record of marriages far surpasses that of any other church in the city. Within a year, however, the clergy of the parish have made strict rules, and It is no longer so easy as it used to be to be married there, by day or by night, with no Questions asked Failing to convince the rector or his assistants of the Little Church Around the Corner of their eligibility. Impatient couples have the city hotel chaplain to fall back upon. He can be reached at any time through any hotel In New York City, and will marrx. a couple between trains It desired. Recently an English man and his intended bride came over on one of the ocean steamships. The law In his country prevented his marrying his deceased wife's sister. American law would condone far greater offenses than that. The couple went to a hotel. werf married by the hotel chaplain and went back to England by return steamer. One does not need the services of a clergyman at all to be joined- In wed lock. There are numerous othr persons who may be called upon legally should the clergy prove reluctant. The Mayor of the city has power of this sort, and In most places the Aldermen also. In New York City the other day "Little Tim" Sullivan, a popular local politician, holding Aldermanic office, married 15 cou ples In one morning. The same week 21 divorces were granted by a single judge in 247 minutes and that in New York, where only one cause for divorce exists Throughout the rural districts justices of the peace are resorted to by the poorer classes. These civil marriages do not require a religious form in addition. It is the looseness of the divorce laws In this country that accounts, to a large degree, for the irregularities and pecu liarities of. many marriages. While a di vorce Is being granted in one room a par son or justice may be waiting In the next to make one of the parties the mate of another person. BEARDS MUST JE FUMIGATED New York World. When Captain James McLaurhlin. of the. Allegheny Bureau of Health, in starting his campaign to cleanse Pittsburg of lurk ing germs, ordered that all long beards must be fumigated, as they were excellent propagating grounds for the germs, it was looked upon In the nature of a joke by those who do not wear boards, and as an Insult by those who do. "The matter was neither Intended as an Insult, nor a Joke," declared Superin tendent McLaughlin. "But the facts have been somewhat distorted. It is a fait, however, that a great number of cases of scarlet fever last Summer were found in families where one or more of th members wore beards. These cases were mostly In the slum districts. Most of th men wear long beards to avoid shaving, and they seldom if ever take a bath. A glance at their beards Is convincing proof that they are liable to breed scarlet feer or most any other kind of Infectious germs. It was therefore decided that this class of people must keep their beards as well as their places of abode clean. "It has been found that a solution of bichloride of mercury will destroy any lurking germs that may be propagating in these unclean beards. Where the in spectors find a filthy house presided oer by a man who will not keep his beard clean, they will provide him with a bottle of this solution of bichloride of mercury and request that he use It. The Inspectors will call -at later dates to see that the order is put into force. Quite a number of bottles of the solution were distrib uted today." t The Inspectors of the health department have so far encountered no objections on the part of the bearded men. In fact, they seem to take kindly to it. as the solution has been highly perfumed. It was espe cially prepared by the city bacteriologist. ODD BITS OF OREGON LIFE. Did the Girls Walk Alone? Forest Grove Times. Some Forest Grove girls ltke to dance. Two of them walked out to Greenville and back last Friday evening to attend a social function there. Strolling Player Sent to City Cooler. Mitchell News. A wlldwest show was in progress on the streets Saturday. The performer, while entertaining a rubbering crowd played Into the hands of the City Marshal and was escorted to the city bat cave. Notes of High Rural Society. Rabbltvllle Corr., Irrigon Irrigator. Dan Sklumpsky has a -good job. He has rented his wooden leg to Dan Sneezsky, who Is digging post holes with It. We might mention the fact that Si But terbottom's oldest girl. Miss Eliza, the one with red hair and freckles, has ac cepted the position of dishwasher In the big hotel. She Is said to be an expert at the business, and we expect to see a great improvement in the trade of the Bunco House with Eliza mistress of the dish pan. If our blacksmith is the man we think he Is he will put a new pair of hinges on old man Scatterwood's front gate, for he has been the chief instrument In as sisting that cross-eyed Scatterwood girl in wearing the old ones out. Play Ball. James Montague. In New York Journal. Shut up the shop! Forget your caw! Let foolish business wait! The shouting crowd already throngs in through the grandstand gate; Already on the white-lined Held the men oj might and fame Are llthely loosening their limbs before the glorious game. On right and left and center field tha lonx sky ticklers fall. And soon the umpire's due to ehout the thrilling words; PLAT BALL! Play Ball! The magic words will ring and echo through your soul Aa strains of mighty melodies reverberate and roll; Thy bring old dreams of life and youth; ther thrill with all the Joy You knew long lingering years ago, and you'r again a boy! A boy again your tasks and trlala forgotten one and all Dispelled like ratals before the sun by those two words: PLAY BALL! There's always work enough to do tomorrow or next year; Your troubles will not vanish if you leav them, never fear. The road to age and grief and care wil! al ways stretch away Before your feet, although you may dessrt it for today. Eo Journey back on boyhood's path the white the barrier wall Twixt youth and age dissolves before the . wondrous spell, PLAY BALL! Once more along the village etreet await your turn at bat Ah! turns were few and far between la stren uous one-old-cat! Again run, shout, do ten men's wort, until the fading day Strewed shadows on th aprlngy grass to thick you couldn't play. Youth, life. hope, health and gentleness you must have passed them all Upon the road, unless you thrill with those brave words: ... i'LAX ball: