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The trouble -with the management of state lands has been that the officials in charge have not felt it incumbent upon them to start investigations -when suspicious circumstances were pre sented, or to make any effort to pre vent fraud so long as the fraud Involved no direct loss of money. For many years state lands have been purchased by large operators through the medium ship of persons who permitted the use of their names for a small considera tion. Applications for the purchase of land would be presented in bunches by one man, who paid the money, and these applications would soon be as signed to him. Every man of intelli gence knows that transactions of this kind had no other purpose than tc evade that provision of the law which says that 6ales shall be limited to 220 acres to each person. Land officials have proceeded upon the theory that, if the legal price of 51.25 per acre be paid, it matters not how many illegal features there may be in the transaction. One clerk of the land board accepted scores of applica tions of that kind and found no fault with them. A few years later, when his personal interests conflicted with those of the land-grabbers, he hesi tated ' not a moment to declare the transactions fraudulent, and cited the records in support of his assertion. He could see no fraud when the state was being plundered but the irregularity was plain enough when his own opera tions were threatened. He did not feel the weight of responsibility when he had the opportunity to prevent fraud upon the state. This willingness to close the eyes to matters which Injure the public only is too prevalent in official circles. A County -Treasurer who has reason to suspect, if not to believe, that the Sher iff Is short in his payments of taxes collected, keeps his suspicions to him self and lets matters drift along until somehow or Qther the facts leak out and. it Is found that the Tax Collector Is several thousand dollars in default. Officials "having supervisory power over public -work approve a structure though they know or have good reason to be lieve that it is materially defective and that a fraud has been practiced upon the taxpayers. County Assessors complacently turn over their assess ment rolls td the County Clerk, al though they know, or have good reason to believe, that thousands of dollars worth of property belonging lo men of wealth or influence has been omitted therefrom. What is needed Is an awakened pub lic opinion which -will hold public offi cials strictly accountable for the fulfill ment of their trust in spirit as well as In letter. The public servant who will let his employers property be stolen and say. nothing because he chooses to regard it as "none of his business. is in effect a -party to the theft. He has broken faith with the people who reposed trust In him by electing him to an office which he sought at their hands. "When the people show a proper spirit of disapproval toward officials who neglect opportunities to protect the people's interests, there will be much less plundering of public funds or property. THAT GASOLINE MOTOR. Residents in Hllisboro and Forest Grove, and other points on the West Side division out of Portland on the Southern Pacific Railroad, will read with great Interest the accounts of the doings of the gasoline motor which, they expected to see in operation by this time. It looks now as If the electric line between Portland and Hllisboro might be constructed and at work be fore Mr. Harriman's new device is seen on its daily run. Judging from the Jour neys here, there and everywhere, ar ranged for it before It settles down to its destined labors. It is to be hoped that its demonstrated success has ere this suggested duplication of the novel motor, so that all our eggs may not be In one basket. It will be remembered that upwards of fifty motor cars have been for many months in "daily operation in England alone, so that the general principles of the car have long since passed the ex perimental stage. Improvements in the new car which was to be built for the Portland-Hillsboro run, may be many and valuable, but, even at the risk of not getting so absolutely perfect a ma chine as is likely, to emerge from these prolonged trials, people in Oregon would like to have their hopes not quite so long deferred. But all must bow. perforce, to the will of the master, and when Mr. Harriman first inspires hope and then demands patience, Oregon is resigned and waits, because It must. NORWAY AND SWEDEN. An ominous Item in yesterday's dis patches indicated that the differences between Norway and Sweden were growing more acute. Norway proposes to effect an internal loan of 10,000.000 kroner to modernize and perfect her armaments. As the two countries are at peace with the outside world, such preparations can only be meant to show her centuries-long neighbor that she does not intend to be "put upon" any longer. The only comprehensible griev ance, so far as the outside world knows. Is refusal by Sweden to consent to Nor way's demand' that she shall have sep arate consular representatives Instead of common ones. The two great ex plorers, Xansen for Norway and Sven Hedin for Sweden, have been given full hearing in the London Times for their respective countries, but, after careful reading, causes of difference to Justify so momentous a step as dissolving a union declared In 1S14 to be "indissolu-n ble and Irrevocable" remain mysteri ous. The population of Norway was a little over 2,250.000 by the last census, that of Sweden 5,275,000. The armies of each on a war footing are stated as 51,000 for Norway and 497.000 for Swe den. So if, most unfortunately, these two neighbors come to blows, the dis parity seems too great for war to be a reasonable appeal. But when the Norse blood is up, odds are not apt to count. A strange thing Is that as Scandi navians both countries are deemed by many outside observers to be in a common danger of a much more serious kind, so serious that closer union- and the strengthening of each other's hands would seem but common prudence. If the result of the Russo-Japanese war be to shut Russia off from the Pacific, It would be in keeping with her charac ter and antecedents to seek an easier outlet to the Atlantic This would fol low from an overrunning of the Scan dinavian Peninsula, which would be. for the colossus of the North, a com paratively easy task. Why so much friction should mark the relations of these two nations, within the easy ties which have held for nearly a century, passes understanding. And this rest lessness and animosity shows no sign of abating as the years pass. Previously to 1814 Norway was united to Denmark in loyalty to a common King. But she was. by the treaty of Kiel, In January, 1S14. ceded to Sweden as the price of adherence by the Swed ish King. Bernadotte, to the European alliance against Napoleon. By this transfer without their consent the Nor wegians refused to be bound, and de clared their independence. The Swedes Invaded Norway, but a bitter war to the death was averted by the conven tion of August. 1814, by which union of the two countries under the Swedish King was declared. As each country maintained its own laws without Inter ference from the other. Its own minis try and Parliament, its own fiscal sys tem, it would seem that the common representation in foreign countries by Ambassadors and Consuls from Sweden and Norway jointly was a sensible la bor and expense-saving device. But sentiment counts for as much today as when the Hungarians declared their readiness to die for the Austrian Em press Maria Theresa as their King. In its presence, what Americans call busi ness takes a back seat, and there is no telling to what ,lengths a proud and sensitive people will go. Each of these nations has its own long history, the people are passionately attached to their native land. Its language, its tra ditions, and Norway resents what she fears may be taken as lack of Inde pendence, or a badge of control by the larger and wealthier partner In the peninsula. A GREAT SEA DRAMA. A hundred years ago this month Nel son was cruising in search of the French fleet, which he brought to ac tion in October off Cape Trafalgar. To day on the other side of the world Togo watches and waits for Rojestvensky, and the clash between these command ers bfds fair to be the greatest naval fight since Nelson and Villeneuve de elded the fate of Europe. Trafalgar was the last great battle in which "masts and yards were engaged, and there has yet been no great fleet action between modern armored vessels. At Lissa less than a score of armor-clads took part in the fighting, and Togo In his Mikasa could have sunk the lot. In the Chinese-Japanese war the Chinese ships were few and were little more than targets for the faster and better handled Japanese vessels. At Santiago the numbers engaged were insignifi cant, and in the fighting that has taken place off Port Arthur the fleets but once came to grips, the Russians in that August sortie becoming -disorganized and fleeing. So if Togo' makes up his mind to fight a decisive action with Ro jestvensky for the first time In a cen tury, two powerful fleets will be 6een to meet in a great struggle which may be included In future lists of the de cisive battles of the world. Sea fights have a spectacular quality that is lacking in fights upon land. From tha nature of things, conflicts upon the sea can seldom be indecisive. Either one side or the other must be victor. Besides, there is nothing to distract attention from the fighting; The sea is the stage and there are no supernumeraries to spoil the effect of the scene. The blood' Is stirred alike by the spectacle of John Paul Jones duelling with the Serapis, the Goliath leading the British fleet between the French line and the shore at Abouklr Bay. Dewey running into Manila Bay of a May morning. No wonder that the possible battle in the China Sea at tracts every eye. Thirty armored ves sels. equipped with every modern de vice for accurate slaughter, are ready for an engagement which will exceed In magnitude of the contending forces any struggle that has ever sent seamen to Davy Jones' locker. Rojestvensky has an opportunity to make his name immortal. Should he defeat Togo disastrously, the cause of Japan may be considered lost, nnless Great Britain snould intervene. On pa per, the Russian fleet, especially with Nebogatoff s battleship and four cruis crs included, is superior to the Japan ese, but p?pcr valuations have a way of - rotting In salt water, and few ob servers doubt the ability of Togo to sweep the blue St. Andrew's cross from the seas. The" probabilities are that a few harried Russian shins will reach Vladivostok! where they will be sub jected to the "bottling" process by means of mines and torpedo craft, with the result that they win rust In impo tence. THE OUTBREAK IN CIUCAUO. The labor situation In Chicago may well be viewed with keenest apprehen sion, not to say alarm. The forces that are arrayed against Industry and busi ness, if not made up of desperate. brutal men, contain a large number of men of this character a sufficient number to make more mischief than the police force of the city will be able to quell. The history of this strike, like that of many another one; shows that it had its beginning in small things. From a garment-workers' strike, last Novem ber, for a closed shop and an Increase in wages. In which but a few hundred workers were Involved, the strike has grown, developing violence at every stage, until it has cost a number of lives, caused enormous loss to both la bor and capital, developed scenes of brutality and violence, a'nd now in volves nearly a quarter of a million of workers of various trades and grades. Looking over the situation from its small beginnings to Its present enor mous proportions, we are fain to ex claim: "Behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth." Perhaps the garment-workers, who began this contention, had a real griev ance In the matter of the wages paid. It is a fact well known that shop work is performed in the great clothing man ufacturing plants at wages that trench closely upon the limit of starvation. Competition is sharp. The customer demands faultlessly tailored garments at exceedingly low prices. To meet this demand the strictest economy In pro duction Is required and It is a painful truth that nothing in a commercial age is so cheap as flesh and blood. The demand for shop labor, though heavy, is exceeded by the supply. The contention for the closed shop Is In evi dence of this fact. There are more workers of a cheap or middle grade than there Is work for that class to do. Low wages Is the Inevitable result. Unions are formed to stand against this law of supply and demand. To main tain themselves thej- must make arbi trary rules, the operation of which trenches upon the right of the employer to control his own business and the right of nonunion workers to live. The wheel is set within the wheel. Adjust ment of its movement is clumsy and faulty, and trouble ensues, that, like everything in Nature and In human na ture", grows by what it feeds upon. Concession to the demands of trades- unions have not, sad to say. been al ways met in a spirit of gratitude. Sad. also, to ay, the employing power has not always been prompt to recognize the right of the laboring man to a liv ing wage. Dissension has begotten dissension and stubbornness, and still the simple law or justice underlying it all has not been recognized. The part of true wisdom In the contention be tween labor and capital that is now being pushed to its extreme in Chi cago is not only to concede what Is right and just, but to concede that without question, upon a fair and open showing. It must come to this sooner or later. Labor must live, and business must move on. INFECTION IN TRANSPORTATION. The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis will meet In Washington, D. C. on May 18 and 19. The exhaustive character of the work of this association Is set out in a long programme for this meeting. the topics of which cover every phase of this dreaded disease, from preven tion through early diagnosis and the accepted methods of sanitary science. to cure by means of the Open-Air Sani tarium, with its enforced rest and gen erous dieL One of the most interesting subjects to be presented is that of "Infection In Transportation." The danger from this source menaces a greater number of persons than that from any other. This Is specifically an age of travel and many of the luxuries, and a few, at least, of the conveniences of travel may be, and often are, carriers of the germs of tuberculosis. This Ls especially true In regard to sleeping-cars, both first and second-class. In which a" multitude of sufferers from this disease travel from the East to the West and back again. If their strength holds out, every year. The discussion of this phase of the question is to be opened by repre sentatives of transportation companies, who will be able to show to what extent measures are employed on railway lines most frequented by this class of travel ers for the protection of the general public from infection. We are ready to believe that much has been done in this direction, and anxious to be assured that all that can be done will be done to further minim ize the danger from this source. The desire to proceed understanding!- In this line is evinced by the hearing that Is to be given to representatives of transportation companies at the open ing of this discussion before the above named association. The question will be In charge of Dr. Bracken, of St. PauJ, and there is every assurance that he will handle it wisely. ine esiaDiisnment in various sec tions of the East, South and Middle West of sanitariums for the treatment of tuberculosis in the light of modern developments has taken hundreds of this class of people out of the ranks of travel in the past two years. The fu tility of pursuing climate to the summit of the Rocky Mountains and on to the Middle Pacific Coast has 'been demon strated year after year for many years by the death of a multitude of heroic healthseekers In the land of promise, and by the return of yet other numbers, baffled In the weary quest, to die at home. If local sanitariums for the treatment of consumptives were not able to eltect cures, they would still perform a valuable and gracious ser vice by keeping those afflicted at or near their own homes and in prevent ing the possible, and Indeed sure, dis semination of the germs of the disease by traveling about. While fewer con sumptives will travel this year than traveled last, and fewer will travel next year than this, and so on until the piti ful quest of a. pale host of semi-invalids after health by means of a change of climate will practically cease, the ques tion of protecting the general traveling public from the germs, not only of con sumption, but of more actively con tagious diseases, will ' crritinu to " be urged by health boards of various states by requiring proper disinfec tion of cars on all important railway lines. It may be assumed that railroad managers will accede, after a time, to all reasonable requirements In this matter, and one way to Insure this is not to impose unnecessary conditions upon them. The public will doubtless be Informed in due time of the outcome of the conference between physicians and transportaion agents soon to be held In the National. Capital, and many, at least, will await the report with in terest. In the month of March April returns not yet completed 2,567,951 head of live stock (575.031 cattle, 1.43S.029 hogs, the rest calves and sheep) were unloaded at Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, St. Louis and St. Joseph, from 51,834 cars. The March receipts of grain at Chicago and eleven other inland cities aggregated 65,424.084 bushels. Chicago's share was 30,431,685 bushels 16,124.050 bushels of corn, 9,895,850 of oats. 2.993.6S5 of barley, 1,301,000 of wheat, and 117,000 of rye. The tabkeeper calls notice to the extra ordinarily large corn movement nearly three times the size of the 1904 one. The quantity of grain sent East over the trunk lines by Chicago and "Chicago points" last month was 15,522,000 bush els. The ships- plying on the Great Lakes unloaded 313,498 tons of freight at Lake ports 110,731 net tons "unclassi fied," S4.168 net tons of coal, 18,225 net tons of flour. 1,944,662 bushels of grain and 23,836,000,000 feet of lumber. Mr. James J. Jeffries, a poor but hon est prizefighter, retires from the ring because there Is nothing In the game, he says. John L. Sullivan emerges from the sanctum where he has been pursuing his literary labors and says Jeffries Is a coward to get out when he (Sullivan) is just about to go back In. It Is perhaps not worth while for Mr. Jeffries to reconsider his determination long enough to persuade Mr. Sullivan also to reconsider his words, for Mr. Jeffries is not a coward. At least he Is afraid of nothing but whisky, and he Is wise enough not to try to knock out John Barleycorn. Sullivan has proved that it cannot be done, and so has many another sturdy pugilist. It Mr. Jeffries takes a sober resolution to lead a different life, he will receive more public applause than he has yet had. Complete accounts of the great battle of Mukden show that 361,500 men were engaged on the Russian side, and 400,- 000 on the Japanese, making a total of 761,500. The Japanese troops were di vided Into five armies, which operated co-ordlnatefy over a front of 100 miles, and were so ably handled that Kuro- patkin did not even suspect the pres ence of Nogi and his Port Arthur vet erans until they had gained a position which rendered the Russian lines un tenable. The extraordinary combina tion of strategic skill on the part of the commanders and of physical deter inination and endurance on the part of the men, who fought for days together In blinding snow storms, causes the London Times to express its "almost despairing admiration." In the absence of late reports from Seattle, it may be assumed that the physicians of Puget Sound's Queen City have not publloly reversed their atti tudc toward the doctors' National con vention, which promises to be one of the great events In the centennial year. Let us hope they will change their minds very soon. They are a lot of good fellows and will naturally wish to meet their own kind coming to Portland from all parts of the United States. It won't do at all for this body of men to play the part of disgruntled school boys. In the interests of uncorrupted nom enclature. let-the street-car conductors of Portland learn the correct pronun elation of streets running east and west In Couch Addition. From Ankeny to vaugnn tnese thoroughfares . were named for pioneers. It offends all old timers to hear the men in uniform on the back platform call out "Gleason" and "Savior" when they approach G1I san and Savier streets. Glisan ls pro nounced as If spelled "Glissan," and Sa vier as If spelled "Savvyer." General Manager Fuller, of the railway com pany, should so instruct his men. Nearly a month earlier than usual the snow has disappeared from the Cascade Mountains where the wagon road crosses from the Willamette Val ley into Eastern Oregon. The road from Lebanon, in Linn County, to Sis ters, in Crook County, is now open. though in ordinary seasons travel by team over that route cannot begin until about June 1. There will be no Spring flood In the Willamette River, and very probably the water will be very low this Summer. In charging the jury which tried Nan Patterson, Recorder Goff said: "A dan ger lies In the remarks of counsel which might take your minds off the direct issue. You must avoid this danger.' The warning was not unnecessary, for the "remarks of counsel" were enough to lead a listener into the belief that Rand or Levy was on trial, and not the defendant. The Rev. Charles M. Sheldon, not un known to fame, has his own ideas on what constitutes "tainted money." He has refused to allow the proceeds of a play given by Washburn College stu dents to be used for increasing the Sheldon Hall fund because the play was presented In a theater that per mits Sunday performances. "I never took anything which would affect people who were not able to stand the loss," tearfully declares Smith, the defaulting San Francisco tax-collector. It Is too bad to prosecute such a tender-hearted thief. As one remedy for the inconvenience under which the department stores of Chicago are now laboring, let that mu nlclpality establish a system of pneu matlc tubes for the distribution of par cels. An old saying declared that all Cre tans are liars. The latest news from the Island Indicates that all Cretans are bandits. War correspondents in Manchuria must feel like kicking themselves when they read the dispatches from Chicago. Just now there arc almost as many "champions of the people" In Portland as there are people. ' Again order reigns i Warsaw. 'Graveyards are" usually Jaw-abkiisg. NOTE ANDJMiMENT. J MINSK, May ..Order was restored her today. There have been many arreets. The "pax Roraana" was a Sunday- school picnic compared with . "Russian order." Jeffries has retired from the ring. To accept the presidency of the Equitable? This is the open season for the closed town. A California State Senator who accept ed a bribe has boon sentenced to five years' imprisonment. The dispatch falls to mention what crime he committed. Tipping Is Illegal In Wisconsin. Another opportunity for a legitimate illegitimate practice. On arriving at Venice the Kaiser was welcomed by 'a myriad of gondolas." Should he return In a few years he would In all probability be welcomed by a myriad of motor-boats. Venice no longer holds the East In tee, but Is worrying over the fee for municipal gas. and the gondolas that have made her famous are being displaced by chug-chug boats from America. Chicago will soon be known as the In junction City. An enterprising candidate for the May oralty publishes an admirable letter from brother, who Introduces some very skillful references. What most striken the reader, however, is the triumph of ab breviation with which the letter Is con cluded "afL. bro.," which we interpret ls "affectionate brother." The rush and hustle of American life Is evidently bringing into acceptation a number of new short-cutf. In letter writing. It may be that a girl writing homo from her boarding school will sign herself, "yr. lov. dau.", and that her mother's reply will end up with, "yr. aft mor." There are great possibilities here for the daring innovators of society. Is the man who drives a motor truck a teamster, a street-car manor a locomo tlve engineer? Few can decide such a question, and it may be that a special union will have to be formed some day. A "wild man" Is roaming about North Tacoma. barking and growling like dor. The residents want him arrested. probably on the charge of disturbing the public sleep. After having a woodtlck in his body 49 years, a Connecticut man has succeeded In having his visitor extracted. If a man hadn't become chummy with a woodtlck In half a century of companionship, It was certainly time for the divorce. Roused by Carnegie's criticism of worthless dukes, his grace of Manchcs tcr has been giving his opinion? on mat rimonial alliances. The Duke thinks that a girl should not be married into a fam ily which cannot be asked to her own family's table. It seems far more impor tant to us that a girl should not marry Into a family that can't put plenty of grub on Its own table. London has a monkey 'that can say three words, and Lloyds has insured it for 1230.000 on the condition that the pre cious animal be taken to the south of France during the four coldest months of the year. At last London challenges New York's supremacy in the matter of talking monkeys. Why has Jeffries retired from the ring? Because his wife made him do so. Woman, woman, man has hopes. But you knock htm slap across the ropes We are unable to decide which type of wife we most admire Mrs. Jeffries-, who compels the champ to retire, or the Mrs Fitzslmmons who encouraged Bob with soft erica of "Knock his block off," the block In question being-the one that or namented, more or less, the shoulders of Mr. James J. Corbctt. It is nearly time some inventive genius got busy designing a turnstile the Fair may use for recording the admissions of airships. Probably the only persons who got any enjoyment out of the Chicago strike were the girls whom some of the stores employed to deliver parcels In carriages Unluckily for the girls, the strikers soon got wise to the trick and stopped the practice. If a dog I? entitled to bite a man in self-defenye, as' a Seattle court has Just decided, we suppose that a mad dog could escape punishment for biting by setting up a plea of Insanity. This Queen of the May business should be postponed to July. Nobody can feel queenlike in garlands of flowers and heavy underwear. Tn the naval game of hide-and-seek, Rojestvensky must surely be getting "warm." It is a curious thing that a daily- news paper which prints its editorials on its second page usually doesn't amount to a stack of beans. WEX. J. Grand Total of Carnegie Gifts. New York World. AMOUNTS GIVEN IN 1005. Annuities to aged teachers $10,000,000 To University of Virginia SOO.000 To University of Maine 10.000 To Kensseiaer Polytechnic Insti tute. Troy. N. Y 125,000 To Oberlln College 123.000 To Oberlln college students who lost money because of Mrs. Chadwlck's dealings with the Otirlln Bank 15.000 To Syracuse University 150.000 To construct a laxe at .Princeton. N. J 3S3.000 Miscellaneous benefactions 250.000 Total $11,560,000 AMOUNTS GIVEN PREVIOUS TO 1005. Libraries in the United States... $ 28.000.000 Libraries In England 6.000.000 Libraries In Scotland 2,000,000 Libraries In Canada- 1.500,000 Heroes Families' Relief Fund... 5.000.000 Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg 7,852.000 EmDlores' Pension Fund. Pitts burg 4.000,000 Carnegie National University.... 10.000,000 Allied Engineers Society 1.500.000 Peace Temple at Hague 1.500.000 Scotch universities endowment.. 13.000,000 To small colleges 17,000.000 Miscellaneous benefactions In United States. 19,000,000 Miscellaneous . benefactions In Europe 10,000,000 Total Total In 1903. . J 128,332.000 . 11.560.000 Grand total S139.012.000 Reflections of a Bachelor. New York Press. No minister Is as black as he dresses himself. The pleasure about getting out of debt Is you. can get in again. Either a woman Is too cold without furs or she is too warm when she Is dressed all In open work. A woman admires her husband if he re fuses to wear dandified clothes, but It makes her pretty mad just tea same. " Generally a man has some news to break to his wife, about a hunting, trip- he is planning when .he will go to church with her without fcgkua about it. JAMES HAZEN HYDE'S PERSONALITY Vlerr of Character aa Fads af Yob as Man Win Centre! Eqaltafcle Life Aaaaraace Seclety. Lindsay Dcnlson. In World's Work. James Hazen Hyde's grandfather en tered the life insurance business as an agent-of the New York Mutual Life In surance Company in Boston and was pro moted until he was New England agent of the company. Henry B. Hyde, born in ISM. was by 1S5 cashier of the iew York Mutual Life, and within two years had suggested so many new plans of his own Invention to the administration of the Mutual Life that It was deemed ad visable to repress him. In that year, 23 years of cge. Henry B. Hyde founded the Equitable Life of New York. One of the most insistent charges against James Hazen Hyde Is that he is .too young for his responsibilities. Yet his father when he founded the company waa younger by four years than James Hazen Hyde is now. At the very beginning of James Hazen Hyde's career he lacked the stimulus of necessity. Life never stood over him with the homely old for mula, "Root, hog. or die!" Where the youth of Mr. Hyde lacked that spur which had driven his father forward the same disposition to early activity of mind was there in James H. Hyde is seized on French language and literature. At an age when his father had been over whelmed with ideas and plans for insur ance, James Hazen Hyde (with the In surance business apparently perfected be fore he reached It) fed his mental appe tite with everything that was French. Most young Americans who go to Paris, more than plentifully supplied wltn spending money, come back with a cer tain stock of experiences of no great In tellectual value. Those who arc acquaint ed with Mr. Hyde's associations In Paris and his ways in occupying his time there are united In the assertion that never was a young man less alive to the opportuni ties for out-and-out frivolity. He sought out the people through whom he was en abled to meet and to know, the lltera- teurs, the singers, the actors and the artists. To an energetically industrious study of French language, literature and history he added the determination to live as a Frenchman lives. At Harvard. where he was a member of the class of 13S. Mr. Hydo was Inconspicuous enough until he began to develop his enthusiasm for the better appreciation of French lit erature at the university. He joined the "Cercle Francalse de l'Lniverslte Har vard." and practically supported It. He extended this society into the Alliance Francalse," an organization of similar purpose, but much broader field. Only recently did he resign the presidency of the alliance, which the French govern ment had appreciated by makinc him a Knight of the Legion of Honor. One who made a rather careful study of Mr. Hyde In his college days arrived at these conclusions: That James Hazen Hyde was quite without vicious tenden cies or tasteK; that he was sincerely and earnestly Interested In the rrench lan guageand that he deliberately- planned the use of that enthusiasm to matte an Important figure of himself in the world and especially in France: that Mr. Hyde was prudent, not to say "close. In every thing that pertained to the expenditure of his college allowance and that now and then, when an expenditure seemed extravagant, it was always followed by a compensating advantage of fame or more substantial social of educational benefit to Mr. Hyde: that the young man was possessed of a self-confidence sur passing anything that had developed un der the observer's eye even In the Har vard undergraduate world. With these MR. CARNEGIE ON DUKES. Has a Little Controversy With One About Marriage. New York Times, April 27. Andrew Carnegie, Mrs. Carnegie and their little daughter Margaret sailed for Skibo Castle yesterday on the White Star liner Baltic. When he had boarded the ship and donned a blue yachting cap, the ironmaster defied the reporters to ask him a question which he couldn't answer. He seemed to take great delight In the volley of questions fired at him, and when the newspaper men ran out of ammunition Mr. Carnegie supplied them Tvith new subjects. To begin with, he waa called to account for the remark ho made about dukes wncn talking about the marriage of his niece. Miss Nancy Car negie, to James Hever, the riding master. Mr. Carnegie on that occasion said that he was glad that his niece had married a sober, moral man, without wealth, instead of a worthless duke. The Duke of Manchester afterward took up the cudgel-for dukes, and was quoted thus: "I was much edified by Mr. Car negie's announcement that he prefer red a coachman to a duke as a nephew-In-law. Perhaps, all things considered, It was more appropriate. For once I am able to compliment Mr. Carnegie on hi3 sense of fitness." Replying to the Duke, Mr. Carnegie, In the way-of a "retort courteous," as he put it. said: "The Duke of Manchester did not read what I said on the subject before he wrote his reply. I said that a coachman made a better husband than a worthless Duke. The Duke of Man chester Is not a worthless one. The cap Joes not fit him. I have not changed my opinion. T repeat It, but I say nothing which might apply to the Duke of Manches ter. Why should not an honest, worthy, educated man, even though he be a coachman, be better than a worthless profligate, even though the latter be a duke?" Tainted money was the next topic. "I am hardly in a position to discuss that subject," said Mr. Carnegie. "Be sides, I do not contemplate giving any money out just at this time. "But," someone remarked, "you did not. get your money in a 'tainted' way." "No, I did not," was the reply. "And I never give money where I think it will not be accepted. I believe that money given in any good cause will do good and bring about good results, oven though the source may be consid ered 'tainted' by some." Wed by Wire. Bowling Green (Ky.) Dispatch, to N. Y. World Mary C. Slaughter, of this city, and James Murrell, of Fort Mackenzie, Wya, although separated by 2000 miles, were tonight united in marriage through the medium of the Western Union Telegraph Company. A clergy man was at each end of the line. Tha telegraph company's bill was 12.70. The bride was attired In a white wed ding" gown and the usual veil. She was accompanied by friends, who wit nessed the novel ceremony. Murrell's regiment will leave In a few days for the Philippine Islands. His wife will leave home immediately to accompany alm. He Won Easily. TIt-Blts. Mr Subbubs You know you're only talking nonsense. What do you -want a coaple of new gowns for? Mrs. Subbubs Why, Mrs. Playne has got a dozen gowns, all of them,- much handsomer than the twp or three that I've got. Mr. Subbubs Yes. I know. .But a home ly weaa-s like that needs rich attire In order "to attract zttelki from her face. You don'ti estimates In mind, the Cambon banquet, which it has been so variously stated was paid for by Mr. Hyde, was paid for by the advertising department of the Equitable, was Intended for the advance ment of the company's interests in France (but was Anally paid for by Mr. HydeV. and which cost somewhere between J60CO and 25,0CO may be less puzllng. Mr. Hyde's Long Island home ls in a country of melancholy grandeur. It la a sort of old-fashioned wooden cha teau built in Colonial style. Here he keeps the greatest number of his horses. He is reputed to havo the most splendid stables in America. There Is a special room devoted to the harness, spotless and shining as- table silver. In a case are curbs, bits, bells, stirrups and whips. There are carved wooden cases, containing a veritable museum of old stirrups, postillion whips, and hunting horns and a great hall for carriages. Mr. Hyde has his office In the stable a room .full of tel ephones and electric bells, furnished with fine carpets, old mahogany furni ture, sporting photographs and prints, coaching trophies and hunting' horns. Next to his office Is the kitchen, which permits him and his guests to come when the whim seizes them and have supper in the stables more freely and gaily than in the chateau. It may be gathered from what has been said of Mr. Hyde that he is not without a certain pride of repute, amounting possibly to vanity. That same pride extends to the detail of per sonal apearance. Mr. Hyde's manner of arranging his hair, the cut of. his clothing and the colors of it arc all of a sort to make his fellowmen turn and look. at him. It is inconceivable that one should desire to be looked at unless one has a good opinion of one's self; It is still more inconceivable that one who comes downtown, of an ex cited Equitable morning, behind a cab horso decorated with violets,, can spend much time in trying to understand the point of view of others. To a young man of whose mental at titude these arc the outward symbolr. the appeal made by the proffer of friendship and co-operation from some of the most experienced and most se riously regarded men of financial af fairs in this country was one which the least vain of us may understand. When J. H. Schlff. of the Kuhn-Locb bank ing house; August Belmont and E- H. Harriman volunteered as friends and counselors to Mr. Hyde is there great wonder that he threw off the cbap eronage and guardianship of Mr. Alex ander (which could not but be irk some to one of Mr. Hyde's high and independent spirit)? At the time of writing Mr. Hyde seems to have com mitted his battle quite thoroughly to the hands of these gentlemen. But there arc not lacking rumors from the council chambers that he now and then rebels even against their direction. The writing of a treatise -on insur ance as a profession, of magazine arti cles on coaching in Franco, attendance at his office during banking horrs every day and often for several hours more, an extreme devotion to coach ing and driving and an almost con stant attendance on the opera, the French drama and like diversions in their seasons, would seem amply to fill out Mr. Hyde's quota of waking time. ODD BITS 0F0REG0N LIFE. Mr. Attcrlmry's Heroic Resolve. Oretown Gorr. Tillamook Herald. Lester Atterbury has gone up tOj-Tilla mook with the intentions of working .for some time. Turned White From Fright, Perhaps Elgin Recorder. John Shclton. Dan Graham and Jep Christiansen, who have been trapping and hunting in the Blue Mountains north of this city, killed a bear Thursday of last week that has caused considerable speculation as to its kind. The animal is a yearling and almost white, its color be ing between that of a polar bear and the cinnamon bear. Its fur is of the fin est, being extremely thick and long. Jim Black's Loss and Consequences. Bend Bulletin. Last Friday Jim Black, the well-known vaqucro, fell into one of the watering holes at Wctweather Springs, and inci dentally lost the full flask that is his com panion in riding the range. Frank Bogue on his way down from Rossland stopped and watered his team where Black had suffered misfortune shortly before. The liquor evidently went to the horses' feet, for they ran away before Bend was reached and It was only by good luck that Bogue was able to avoid a catas trophy. Why the Sheriff Was Knocked Out. Prineville Journal. Sheriff Smith was not a little dismayed the other morning when he picked an envelope from his mail, tore It open and read the following astounding statement: "I don't love you any more. Gue we'd better part forever." Three initials-, unfamiliar to the Sher iff, were signed at the close of this heart breaking confession, which nearly pros trated Crook County's guardian of the law. Deputies Haner and Macleod soon restored the Sheriff, to his normal condi tion and a closer Inspection of the en velope revealed the fact that through aa oversight the Sheriff had opened a letter addressed to his 12-ycar-old son, Stanley. . . AH in Mere Pleasantry. Mitchell News. Last Saturday evening, Lark Gage, who had Imbibed too freely of the contents of the flowing bowl, proceeded to carve two men in a manner befitting, his condi tion. He slashed Alfred Hampton twice lengthwise on the breast and once on the left forearm. He next turned his at tention to the city marshal. David Os born. cutting a deep cut in the biceps muscle of his left arm. At this stags of the proceedings the marshal -floored his assailant with his billet and took him to the city bailiwick, where he re mained until Monday morning. Upon being arraigned for examination the de fendant plead guilty to assault and bat tery and was fined ?100, which he prompt ly paid. The prosecuting witnesses rs fused to prosecute, hence the plea en tered. Scaring the Scot. Kobe Chronicle. At St. Andrews some years ago an old farmer and his ploughman were carting sand from the seashore. They were be hind the target on- the rifle range, but hidden by a bank of sand from' a party of voluteers who were then on foot, at prac tice. A stray bullet struck the plough man on the leg. and he immediately dropped, exclaiming. "I'm shot!" Without more ado the farmer scrambled up the bankc and waving- hjs hand to the volunteers shouted, "Hey. lads, $to'p that, will ye! You've shot a man, and it micht ha'e been the horse!" More Than One Better. . Indianapolis News. . Friends of Senator Spooner-are nor? claiming he is the "logical" candidate for the Presidency In 1998, We don't care if he. is; the friends of Mr. Fair banks can go them one better ad show that he is the "aeteQrelQg-ic-l candidate for the sense job, -