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PORTLAND, J -RID AT, MAY 5, ' 1905.
THE CHICAGO IDEA.
The strike in Chicago affords a curi
ous side light on the recent demand
from the city for municipal ownership
of its street railways. These strikers
are trie same people that kept up a per
sistent clamor for years for the city to
take over all public utilities. They are
down on the corporations; they are
down on capital and property of all
kinds. Trade unionism in Chicago Is
and always was tainted with socialism
and anarchy. If these unions cannot get
their demands by peaceable ends, they
will by violent methods. They stop at
nothing. It would seem fitting, there
fore, that Chicago should be adopted as
the seat of a daring enterprise for con
ducting under municipal direction an
elaborate and complicated street rail
way system.
It is not difficult to imagine what
would happen in Chicago today if the
street railways were conducted by poli
ticians and bosses who have for years
administered all its other affairs. The
whole system would simply be .para
lyzed, and all Chicago would walk.
That is to say. it would walk in those
places where ft is safe for the average
citizen to go. The Chicago fever for
embarking upon expensive experiment
Is not confined to that city alone. Bryan
and his kind had been quick to note the
temper of the public. They are prepar
ing today to make public ownership-of
railroads, street railways and all kinds
of public utilities, a great Issue In the
next campaign. Chicago has pointed
the way. New York will follow. There,
for example, the municipality has
placed all its franchises in private
hands except the water system. There
is now well-nigh universal clamor
against the exorbitant charges of the
gas trust. Legislative investigation
has disclosed tremendous overvaluation
of the several gas properties, extrava
gant charges imposed on the consumer,
and criminal relation of the com
panies to political powers. Municipal
ownership leagues have been formed,
and in the present state;Of the public
mind it "is easy to make an issue of the
gas scandal. There is nothing left -for
the city to do but to take over the gas
companies. Then probably will follow
the street railways.
In Philadelphia the city already owns
its own gas plant: but it has given a
living illustration of the colossal futil
ity of a public corporation undertaking
to serve the people better than a pri
vate concern when the city is boss
ridden and Its administration entirely
in the. hands of corrupt and unscrupu
lous politicians. Failure of the city to
handle the lighting problem has been
admitted for years, after enormous
waste of money. At this time a scheme
has been proposed to lease the gas plant
for seventy-five years to a private cor
poration for $25,000,000. Something of
this kind will probably be done.
3n. -Kansas City the lighting problem
is an acute question, and it is proposed
to briRg in natural gas from Kansas.
So In 4iany cities over all the United
States" we find the Chicago notion
spreading or under discussion In one
form or another. It has been greatly
aggravated in many places" by abuses,
outrageous overcharges and Indiffer
ence to the public welfare by private
corporations. In Chicago the street
railway service has been very inefti
dent, the equipment badly run down
and the public greatly dissatisfied. In
New Tork valuable franchises have
been glyjen away for nothing and the
public made to pay double what the gas
is worth. The people, ready to accept
any remedy to correct undoubted
abuses, eagerly demand municipal
ownership. "We are going to have In
teresting times, not only In Chicago and
. New Tork. b'ut all over the United
State.
A -poor, cringing creature will reach
the end of a short, ill-spent life at the
rope's end in the Penitentiary at Salem
today. Frank uugiieimo is a young
man, scarcely beyond his majority,
who, according to his own statement in
hit- whimpering plea for commutation
of sentence, said that iie had not
"drawn a sober breath" for nine
months previous to the deed, shot and
Idlled a young girl who had decided
that she -.vould not marry him. Gae
lic mo will be borne, trembling and
protesting, to. the gallows. His execu
tion has been long dverdue.' While the
penalty that he is to suder Is just, he
should, for mercy's sake and for the
credit of our system of jurisprudence,
have been executed months ago. There
was no doubt whatever that he com
mitted the crime; no denial was made
of the facU. His case was hung up, so
to speak, on account of some irregular
ity in the legal proceedings at the out
set of the prosecution, and the poor
wretch has been dangling, almost lit
erally, at a rope's end all these months,
crying, cringing and begging for mercy.
His life was forfeit to society. The
forfeit should have been paid-in due
and regular form long ago.
CATCHWORDS IN CAMPAIGNING.
Great is the catchword, and its use
increases. The present municipal cam
paign is being conducted largely upon
catchwords. There Is, for example, a
fearless and fortunately peerless candi
date who proclaims in boxcar type his
insistence upon an "open town." An
other candidate, not so fearless and not
by aiu' means peerless, proclaims in a
milder manner his penchant for a
"closed town." Neither candidate
deems it advisable to say just What
makes a closed town or an open town.,
any more than the Kaiser defines his
meaning when he speaks of the "open
door" in Morocco or John Hay de
fines China's "administrative entity."
Phrases are things of power, when dis
creetly directed, and Portland's phrase
users are not making any foolish ex
planations of their intentions.
"Open town" and "closed town" are
more or less restricted .In their use,
however, compared with " the king
catchword of them all, a "business ad
ministration." What is the meaning of
this phrase? Nobody knows. If a gro
cer were made president of a great rail
road, he would make the public smile
by promising a "business administra
tion" in exchange for a "railroad ad
ministration." Why, then, should a
city be excessively elated oyer the
prospect of "just a plain business ad
ministration"? There are" many kinds
of business. Lending money at 10 per
cent is one that requires some aptitude
on the part of lis followers, yet few
will argue that Portland .has benefited
much from the services of its apt Coun
cilman. There is business in building
bridges and filling gulches, business in
digging sewers and business in deciding
upon telephone franchises, good -business,
too, for some people, but a "plain
business administration" Is probably
meant to exclude all of that profitable
endeavor sometimes known as "funny
business "
Business is business, but what is a
business administration? There are
good administrations and bad, and a
business administration may be in
either class.
EVERY MAN TO HIS TRADE.
Robbery in broad daylight of the
Woodburn bank and escape of the rob
bers to the woods with the booty shows
how easy It Is under favorable circum
stances to do a thing of this kind 'and
how necessary It Is to keep a bank's
cash out of the reach of predatory
fingers, even In a quiet sub-rural com
munity In which everybody is supposed
to know everybody else. A gun behind
the counter is valuable in a case of this
kind only when the cashier Is a man of
nerve and quickness of action.
The good farmers of that section can
scarcely be blamed for declining to beat
the bush a dense growth of wood and
underbrush, now In full leaf. In Pud
ding River bottom for the hidden and
heavily armed robbers. It will be re
membered that a determined Sheriff's
posse, reinforced by a squad of state
militia, failed to capture Tracy and
Merrill when they betook themselves to
the shelter of these same woods, not
caring to run the risk of being shot
from ambush by the desperadoes.
The Woodburn bankrobbers are prob
ably not as desperate criminals as were
Tracy and Merrill, but they are armed
and doubtless know how to shoot
Farmers, under the circumstances, are
justified in paying strict attention to
plowing and seeding, spraying trees.
training hop vines, making garden and
attending to such other work as const!
tutes their especial business, leaving
detectives and the country constabu
lary to take such risks as belong
to them. Besides, as every one knows.
Spring work is pressing on the farms
and why should farmers start out to
hunt work elsewhere? In common par
lance, why should they "butt in" when
the bush that rims their fields is to
be beaten for armed robbers?
Every man to .his trade in these days
of specialization. The farmer may. stop
his team afield long enough to answer
questions asked by officers in pursuit of
criminals, and to indicate, if he knows,
the point where the fugitives entered
the wood. Having thus acquitted him
self of his full duty in the premises, he
may return to his furrow unchallenged
for cowardice and lack of public spirit
in that he did not see fit to draw his
whip and join hot foot In the chase
after armed robbers.
"FOR COMPANY'S SAKE."
The marriage of a man and woman
well along In years took place in this
city a few days ago. James J." Gibson
and Clara E. Howe, both of Clackamas
County, were the contracting parties,
He Is 79 years old. she 60. These people
are pioneers of Oregon, and have been
neighbors and friends for many years
Both have children grown and settled
In life, but they found themselves
alone, so far as home associations went,
and they decided to be married and
spend their remaining years together
for "company's sake."
There is something in a marriage of
this kind that appeals to common sense
and to a just appreciation of the condl
tion of men and women who, bereft of
the companionship of those who walked
beside them during the burden and the
heat of the day, are expected to "Jlv
around" among their children during
their remaining years of life. In point
of fact, no one. man or woman, of or
derly habits needs a home of his or her
own at any period of life so much as
when life's shadows lengthen and it
sun declines. If husband and wife.
married In their youth, live on through
the closing years together and pass out
within a few months of each other, the
case is simplified, since thoughtful chil
dren can readily provide care for father
and mother together In the old home.
But when, as In a vast majority of
cases, one precedes the other to the
silent land by many years, the one that
remains Is. after the last child has gone
to a home of his or her own, alone, in
a sense that is appalling to true sens!
blllty to contemplate. A marriage of
this kind bears no resemblance or rela-
tion to the bringing together in matri
mony of "June and December." It is
In a decent sense a marriase of con-
enience. It is without mercenary mo
tive, pretense of love or suggestion of
passion. Its motive is succinctly set
out in the words at the head of this
article.
The first impulse Is to regard a mar
riage like the one above chronicled as
foolish, but second thought will correct
this estimate and enable those specially
interested to view it as a simple, sensi
ble arrangement which promises, such
contentment as may come to those
who
In life's late afternoon.
Where cool and lone the shadows grow.
Walk on to meet the night that soon
Shall shape and shadow overflow.
He Is a churl indeed who would
grudge a man or woman thus situated
suitable companion In this twilight
walk "for company's sake."
NEW STUDY COURSE IN THE rUBUC
SCHOOLS.
The changes in the study course pro
posed by State Superintendent Acker
man, so far as they tend to pruning off
unnecessary work in arithmetic and
grammar and strengthening work in
other branches, will be generally sat
isfactory. But the Impression Is abroad,
and Is founded on good sense, that it Is
time to apply differences in the com
mon course to city and country schools.
beginning has been made in teach
ing simple lessons in natural science
in the public school, but the necessity
Is decidedly the greater in the country
school than for city children. In older
countries a strong factor in retarding
th"e flocking from country to town Is.
found In Interest inspired in the farm
ers' boys and girls In crops and their
raising. In livestock and their rearing
and feeding. In the garden. Its friends
and enemies. The real necessity is
there admitted of adapting teaching to
the present and future surroundings of
the child.
Of course, to spend time cut off from
higher arithmetic In getting better
reading and writing out of the pupils of
tender age. or of very limited acquire
ments, is right. To wine out the need
less distinction between written and
mental arithmetic will be approved by
teachers and children alike. To call out
and strengthen memory while using
reasoning is surely good. To make the
whole process of instruction a gradual
progress through the entire school
course, to get rid of the Idea that learn
ing is to be packed into the child's head
In installments of three monthly sup-
piles, and that when each compartment
is filled it may be locked up and left in
good condition till needed, for use this
will indeed be a move forward. After
all. the real art of the teacher Is In
Inspiring the child, first to think and
then to remember. The closer the stud
ies fit to what the child sees, and hears.
and Is surrounded by, and insensibly
imbibes, the less the effort to think and
to remember. In following these ideas
Superintendent Ackerman will place
himself In harmony with both Germany
and England. During several years
past H. Rider Haggard has been, in his
Suffolk farm home, studying closely the
conditions of rural life in England. In
his native land he is gaining almost as
much reputation as a thinker and
writer on farming and country life top
ics as' from the novels by which he Is
chiefly known on this side of the At
lantic He Is urging with much success
the variation between, teaching In the
town and country schools, to which ref
erence has been made. He makes this
further point: The farmer's boy must
not be. through his school life, with
drawn from the care and handling of
the animals on the farm. Unless, says
Mr. Rider Haggard, a boy of 10 or 11
years is with, among, associated with.
familiar friend with, the horse, the cow.
the sheep, the chickens on the farm,
he not only loses Interest In them, but
he never can afterwards take the attl
tude of confidence and familiarity abso
lutely essential. To this end the course
of compulsory education In the country
schools of England is to be modified for
boys, If the present prospect Is carried
out. Whoso, by adding to the interest
of life on the farm, helps to retain on
the land the educated and ambitious
boy and girl, deserves well of his coun
try, and may be more of a benefactor
to the community than be who opens a
new industry in the citynd there at
tracts a still larger population.
RAILROAD RATES.
The country has' the advantage of
hearing the opinion of James J. Hill be
fore the Senate committee, and that of
Secretary Paul Morton at the Interna
tlonal Railroad Congress in Washing
ton. Both are of extreme Interest. Mr.
-Hill approaches the question of how a
rate should be fixed by basing it on
the cost of what he calls "producing
the transportation. If the cost of
building the railroad Is brought into
the calculation as part of the cost of
producing the transportation, the great
railroad-builder is probably logical
Evidently this was In his mind, since
he draws comparison between Eastern
and Western rates In which the cost of
the Eastern terminal facilities figures.
If this were all but complications en
ter at once with the next statement
that the "value of the service is deter
mined by the density of the traffic, and
that makes the rate." But a few lines
farther down in the report appears j
claim that the railroad should be al
lowed to fix what secret rate ft pleased
admittedly lower .than the open rates of
competitors, in order to secure traffic at
unprofitable rates, but to get tonnage,
Heresy. Is it not, Mr. Hill? The case
referred to is evidently the cheap and
poor flour from Minneapolis for Japan
carried at a price low enough to pre
vent flour going from" Portland to com
pete. '
Probably the "density of the traffic'
mentioned by Mr. Hill, which should be
the factor in determining the rate, was
created by adding the unprofitable
westward-bound rate on the Japan
flour to the profitable rate on the eastward-bound
products of Oregon and
Washington, and striking an average.
So that the cast-bound rate must be too
high, or it could not balance a defi
ciency on the west-bound rate. Docs
It not seem to follow that the Western
producer Is mulcted for the benefit of
the railroad in any event, and for the
benefit of the Eastern farmer and
miller In the case of the special con
cealed rate in question?
There is something very naive in Mr.
Hill's suggestion of almost petulant
complaint that commerce commissions
or any one else should interfere with
his railroad's sacred right to fix special,
or current, high, lew or medium rates
at its own sweet will. The end to In
crease the density and thereby the
profit of the railroad the means, mak
ing, "publishing, varying, suppressing
rates to suit each case as it arose.
Wajhington has fdihd Mr. Hill, it Is
generally supposed, a benevolent des
pot There are others. One thing Is
sure, that no schedule will satisfy the
public. East or West, which Is not uni
form, based on reason, published, and
not variable without notice enough to
enable traders to regulate their trans
actions In advance. And agljatlon will
never cease until these ends are met.
Mr. Paul Morton Is an optimist. He
has been in. the railroad service for
some years. He knows the Inside of
the Santa Fe as few men have the
chance to know It. Tet. he says, "there
are very few complaints of rates in this
country because they are too high.
Complaints of extortionate rates are
the exception, not the rule." Of course
they are the exception. Could the rail
roads live If complaints of extortionate
rates were as much the rule as they are
the exception? Short remedies would
be found and applied. Mr. Hill de
serves thanks for his outspoken plain
ness. Whether thereby he influences
the Senate committee to give or con
tinue to the railroads a quite free hand,
and to indorse a bill abolishing the In
terstate Commerce Commission, stands
In doubt.
Many rational folk with not unkind
sentiment toward our four-footed
friends, hold that. the city Is no place
for a dog to live In comfort and yet
not annoy his neighbors. The world.
old and young, loves a dog, and, despite
this objection, demands his close com
panionship. But we must discriminate.
If a dog Is to be a part of our social
life, let us eliminate entirely the "or
nery" breed. This reform Is well un
der way In Portland, thanks to the
members of the Kennel Club. Through
their annual object-lessons presented at
the Bench shows, they have been edu
cating the public taste as well as grati
fying the desires of dog fanciers. With
every year there Is wider interest in
the exhibit, and it Is pleasant to note a
steady Improvement in the quality. One
will go far to find finer specimens of
high-bred dogs than are to be seen this
week In the old Exposition building.
These shows merit every encourage
ment. Not their least beneficial feature
Is that they touch the heart of the child.
There is every prospect that John
Dickens, of Sheridan, who shot and
killed Marvin Potter at that place last
November, will be acquitted. Potter, a
man of 40 years debauched the 14-year-old
daughter of Dickens, and upon re
monstrance of the latter, coupled with
a demand that he marry the girl later
on. grew insulting and threatening.
whereupon the outraged father shot
him. If the facts are as stated, the
man deserved death, and In no other
way would this penalty have been in
flicted. When a matter of this kind
reaches an acute stage and is ended by.
the death of the libertine at the hands
of an irate father, public sentiment de
cides the case in favor of the latter, and
jury, promptly agreeing, sets the
father free. This case promises to fol
low In the regular course and release
John Dickens on the basis of justifiable
homicide.
Three Spanish bulls that were to be
tortured and killed in the arena at
Madrid last Sunday for the pleasure of
the eager populace introduced a new
feature In the ancient programme of
Spanish "sport" by furiously charging
the spectators and goring a number of
them terribly. Of course the creatures
were killed later, but they had their re
venge on the bloodthirsty crowd in ad
vance of their own sacrifice. Pity for
the human animal under such circum
stances gives place to admiration for
the persecuted and maddened dumb
creature that makes good use of the
strength and ferocity with which Na
ture has endowed him in his own de
fense, or to revenge himself upon his
tormentors or those who enjoy seeing
him tormented.
If there is to be war in Chicago and
in fact there Is war In portion's of that
city It seems rather strange Uiat but
one side should be permitted to use
deadly weapons. When a mob reaches
the stage in which the air Is filled with
flying missiles and men are set upon
and beaten to death by overwhelming
numbers, it is time something was do
ing that would compel to quick results
xne oeginntngs or a controversy are
lost sight of when this stage of conflict
is reached. Peace must come first. Af
ter that an adjustment of differences
will be possible.
Snow is playing havoo with the Pres
ident's hunting plans. In May, too,
But that's In Colorado. Next time he
will, perhaps, come "out to Oregon, where
he can be promised all kinds of game
and every variety of bear white, black
and brown. The President is in search
of fun. and he is entitled to it; but he
cannot have it In the enormous Colo
rado snowdrifts Let him come to Ore
gon. where it never snows and rarely
rains.
A favorite diversion of the Russian
Cossacks Is to fire on crowds of wor
shipers near or in some church. Seven
Roman Catholics at Lodz are the latest
to suffer from this peculiar habit of
the Czar's orthodox soldiery. Russians
are now, under the Czar's recent man!
festo, free to worship God according to
the dictates of their own conscience, if
there are no Cossacks around.
The O. R. & N. Cos legal prepara
tion for a new line from the Willam
ette River via St Johns to Troutdale Is
In keeping with Harrlman's plan of
avoiding heavy grades. This change to
a level piece of road means smaller coal
bills. Incidentally It will give a boost to
St, Johns without injury to any other
suburb.
In Topeka. the. secretary of the State
Graindealers' Association has been sent
to jail for ninety days for violation of
the anti-trust law the first conviction,
Kansas may not always be theoret
ically right on economic questions, but
she Is intensely practical. ,
Whatever may have been her experi
ence -with Caesar Toung. gentle, un
sophisticated, trusting Nan Patterson
has not always been the victim of mis
placed confidence. Score again for the
married men s jury-
Sentence to seven years imprison
ment for the cashier of the Oberlin
Bank Is one more Instance of. the In
exorable quality of Federal justice. The
United States never condones " a crime
against itself.
Of course, the City Council expects
the public te accept' those ckarce in
their Xerriluan sense.
NOTE ANDjCOMMENT.
Togo finds It superfluous to signal
"Japan expects that every man will do
his duty."
Having absolutely no knowledge of
bridge, we must admit that a third of the
jokes In the comic papers are unintel
ligible to us.
It would never occur to a man to have
blue or pink ribbons on his first layer of
clothes, and if It did, he would yet be too
stupid to make the outer layer -.so thin
that the ribbons would show through.
Gage E. Tarbcll. the second vice-president
of the Equitable Life, sends out
monthly circular letters to the company's
agents. These circulars contain lots of
excellent advice, such aa Successes ac
customed to deal out to its readers. One
paragraph which has a humorous flavor
In view of recent events was:
We are not all made to be Alexanders and
conquer worlds.
Mr. Tarbcll might now add another
aphorism to, his list: "We are not all
made to be Hydes and conquer Alexan
ders." Frst a .man comes along bearing a big
M. Then comes one withja big E. And
then one with a big R. And then you
guess that the trammelled sandwich-men
are boosting a candidate for the Mayoralty.
Troy's collarmakers are on strike, and
the makers of saw-edges will now have a
chance to catch up with the supply.
hat Is a banker to do when a man
points a gun at him and says "Hands
up"? The best banks fail to Instruct their
employes on this Important matter, but
the usual procedure Is that followed at
Woodburn. where the cashier thought
politeness the first duty of a banker.
Tax Collector Smith, of San Francisco,
explains his lapse from virtue by saying.
I was too good a fellow." It is too bad
that honesty and good-fellowship are in
compatible.
Hard cider Is tabooed in Corvallis. It
to be hoped that any Corvallis house
wife who serves brandy sauce will be
hauled oft to the cooler.
Going to church in Poland Is a danger
ous amusement with armed Cossacks
about. Naturally frolicsome, the Co
sacks can hardly refrain from shooting
Into churches, where the crowd Is so
dense that few bullets are wasted against
brick and plaster. Besides. It must be
fun to hear the women scream.
There will be no- tomorrow for 'Con
stant Reader.' " says the St. Paul Globe
In' its farewell editorial. " 'A Subscriber
must conduct the affairs of the world
through another medium. . . . We
know that tomorrow Is not to be that
the precedent of the ages Is upset by the
announcement in the Globe office that all
Is finished by the writing of
30.' "
James J. Hill has been telling how
railroad?., and incidentally -the nation1
should be run.
I have no desire to moralize on the methods
employed in the acquisition of the "almighty
dollar." That is a matter which Americana
must settle for themselves. The Duke of Man
Chester.
Of the "methods employed In the acqui
sltlon of tho 'almighty dollar' " mar
riage Is one unusual In America.
Nan Patterson is in "continuous."
Speaking of the violent deaths in "Ham
let." Max Bccrbolim says that "In 1024,
perhaps, these deaths will be omitted and
the whole play be turned into a comedy.
Modern audiences shrink from tragedy."
It is a curious fact that the persons who
shrink from tragical events shown upon
uie stage iamy aote ana gioat upon mom
described in detail by a yellow newspaper.
Murder, rape, suicide, are excellent things
to read of, but upon the stage the public
demands something farcical.
Kissing, for some reason or other, has
been much to the fore in the news of late.
A Kansas man was fined $1000 In Ken
tucky for kissing a woman against her
will, and Kansas people express their
gratification thereat. Not that they con
sider a Kansas man unfit to kiss a Ken
tucky woman, 'but because the defendant,
during his trial In CovThgton. testified
that in Kansas he sometimes kissed 20 or
50 women when leaving home, and no one
thought the performance out of the ordi
nary. Another Item concerns the Lyceum
Club, one of the numerous women's clubs
that have lately sprung up In London.
The Lyceum some time ago blackballed
Ellen Terry, thereby gaining much noto
riety, and now It Is again in the public
eye. Men are admitted to the club on
certain occasions, and last week a young
man "popped the question" to one of the
members with whom he was having tea.
When the club member said yes, the
young man, thinking they were alone in
the room, pressed upon the girl's cheek
the kiss usually considered proper upon
such occasions. Unfortunately he was
spotted by one of the older members,
who laid the horrible story before the
committee, and the indiscreet member
has been asked to resign. We think that
a man daring enough to propose in a
woman's club will snap his fingers con
temptuously at all the embattled frumps
of clubdom.
The principal impression left by a dog'
show Is that a dog's bite could by no pos
sibility be worse than his bark.'
WEX. J
"Bunk."
New Tork Sun.
In the rare Chicago air. syllables melt
away; lime Is saved: words cut like
chisel or sting like a wasp.
The Hon. Carter Henry Harrison says
honestly and frankly that the immediate
"municipal ownership of public utilities"
is "bunk."
Even "bunco" is too long for Chicago,
and has to low its tail. "Bunk." descend
ant of "bunco," la philological cousin,
perhaps, of another contemptuous con
temporary phrase, "punk," for instance:
"A punk" show; the show is on the
punk.' "
This little Chicago "bunk" fits many
other schemes and reforms besides the
municipal ownership of public utilities,
a swelling phrase which divers statesmen
like to puff out their cheeks with, wink
ing unccnsclously at the same time.
Bunk!" We thank the Mayor In the
brown fedora for that word. It sum
marizes a whole cycle, political, so
ciological and sentimental. It Is the
abstract and brief chronicle of many
great "movements." arousing of "public
opinion." speeches and silences and votes
of politicians with their tongues in their
cheeks.
Bunk! And this Is the age of it.
How He Spent His Time.
Boston Record.
A bond salesman jtwt back frost Maine
says he asked an oWTteherman in a-snow-bound
hamSet what he did with himself
eveingc.
The rely was: "Oh, wraetluvee I sit
and thiak. and then agaia I Just sit."
ADMIRAL RILES TEUTONS.
Retired Britisher Advocates War
With Germany Now.
SPECIAL CABLE.
BERLIN. May 5. The Deutsche Revue
contains an article attributed to the Brit
ish Admiral Fitzgerald, written on the
Anglo-German relations, which declares
that a direct threat has been made by
the British Admiralty against Germany.
It reads partly- as follows:
"If a war with Germany must come.
we would prefer it should happen Coday
rather than, be postponed for a number of
years, when Germany will have grown
stronger. Should Germany continue to
increase her navy at the present rate.
all loyal Britons must regard such ac
tion as a menace to British supremacy
on the sea. which must be held at all
hazards. It is absolutely essential to
Great Britain's naval supremacy that no
nation should be permitted to be in a
position to fight her vessels, ship by ship
or fleet by fleet."
LONDON. May 5. The London Daily
Mall In discussing Fitzgerald's state
ments, as cabled from Berlin, states that
"Inasmuch as the Admiral has been re
tired. It is impossible to call h'm to ac
count or punish him for his personal
opinion, therefore this can be dismissed
as simply reflecting the Ideas of an an
cient mariner, who, having, served his
time In the British navy, believes simply
what he says."
2SO LAW ALLOWING TAXES.
Hungarian Crisis Makes Action of
Government Illegal.
VIENNA. May 4. The Austrian and
Hungarian lower houses have again
met after the Easter holidays, the for
mer for Important work and the lat
ter to discuss the programme. The
situation in Hungary has experienced
no Improvement since April 16. The
budget has not been passed, and con
sequently taxes are being collected
without authorization. The recruit
ing bill and other needful legislation
is delayed.
The Austrian lower house takes up
at this session the second reading of
the new Austro-Hungarian tariff,
drafted and made public three days
ago, but only now coming to debate
In the House. The new commercial
treaty with. Germany, as well as the
pending treaties with Italy, Russia,
etc., which must become operative
March 1, 1906, are based thereon. The
possibility of Hungary's deciding to
establish an Independent national tar
iff also greatly augments the neces
sity, from the Austrian standpoint, of
the passage of the new tariff.
FRENCH REFORM FOR MOROCCO
State Bank and Schools Main Fea
tures of Scheme.
- LONDON. May 5. The correspondent
of the Times at Tangier has obtained
from a Moorish official details, which
he believes genuine, of the French pro
posals for financial reforms. They in
clude the formation of a state bank of
Morocco, which would regulate all cur
rency questions and become practically
the Moroccan treasury, administering all
government revenue, expenditures and
property, including the mosques, the sur
plus of the latter being employed for
founding and maintaining schools for the
propagation of the French language. It
Is purposed to levy a tax on everyone en
tering Morocco and to introduce a system
of passports.
New Kvupp Guns Arc Wonders.
BERLIN, May 4. After trials of the
Krupp new 3.15 inch guns, lasting sev
eral days, at Mcppen this week, they are
reported by experts to surpass In range
and penetrative power all weapons of
equal caliber. Russian and Japanese were
among the foreign officers present.
Sultan Wants Concert of Powers.
PARIS, May 4. The Matin's correspond
spondent at Fez learns from an authori
tative source that the Sultan of Morocco
recognizes tho necessity for the reforms
proposed by France, but only consents to
their carrying out by a concert of Euro
pean powers.
Dedication at Wasco.
WASCO, Or.. May . (Special.) Great
preparations are being made for the ded
ication of ' the Wasco Catholic Church
next Sunday. Pope Pius X, through
Cardinal Gotti. the prefect of the prop
aganda. has sent his blessing, and the
apostolic benediction to Rev. Father
HIckey personally and to all his non-
Catholic friends who so generously aided
in building the beautiful Catholic church
at Wasco.
Rt. Bev. Bishop O'Reilly will dedicate
the new church and preach the sermon
A choir from Portland and The Dalles
will render the celebrated "Farmer's
Mass." with violin accompaniment.
Mine Fire Under Control.
VANCOUVER. B. C, May 4. The Cana
dlan-Amerlcan Coal & Coke Company's
mines at Frank, N. W. T., about which
there was a fire scare the other day, are
running full blast again. The fire is un
der complete control, the entrances to
tho burning rooms having alt been closed.
President H. L. Frank says the accident
has had no serious effect, and will in no
way Interfere with ths plans of the com
pany for extensive improvements-. The
company 13 about to Install the largest
fan used in Canadian coal mines and a
new air system.
General on Inspection Tour.
VANCOUVER BARRACKS. Wash.. May
4. (Special.) Brigadier-General Williams
left Vancouver Barracks this morning, ac
companied by his ald-de-carnp. First Lieu
tenantrW. H. Raymond, Artillery Corps,
on a tour of Inspection to the various mil
itary posts In the Department of the Co
lumbia. They will proceed directly to
Fort LIscum. near Valdcz, Alaska, via Se
attle, Wash. On their return from Alaska
he will complete the inspection of the de
partment by visiting Fort Wright, return
ing home "by way of Walla Walla.
Chehalis Subscribes Bonds.
CHEHALIS. Wash., May 4.-(SpeciaI.)-Citlzcns
of Chehalis have subscribed to
the $10,000 bond issue that was asked of
them by the Puget Sound Eastern Rail
way Company to secure the beginning of
construction work on that line out of
Chehalis toward Eastern Lewis County.
The promoters' promised to commence
work and complete a six-milo section as
soon as these bonds were subscribed, the
money in payment of the bonds to be
held In escrow until the section was com
pleted and in operation.
Lecture by Railroad Man.
UNIVBRSITT OF OREGON. Eugene.
May 4. (Special.) H. E. Lounsbury. of
the Southern Pacific, delivered an address
before the university here yesterday on
"The Railroad as a Factor In Industrial
Development." The lecture was replete
with instructive data, with especial refer
ence given to the methods used in estab
lishing freight rates.
Contract for Heating: Plant.
OLYMPIA, Wash.. May 4.-(SpecIaI.)
The St4te Board of Control today award
ed to the Seattle Heat & Plumbing Com
uan5 the contract for the heating and
plumbing la the two nw detached wings-
at the StWiacooiK .wane Asyium. The
contract price was H238.
RAILWAY CONGRESS; OPEN.
Fairbanks Speaks on Need of Equal
Treatment for All.
WASHINGTON. May 4. The seventh
session of the International Railroad Con
gress was formally opened here today by
Vice-President Charles W. Fairbanks.
The opening ceremony took plasc In tb
ballroom of the new Willard Hotel ana
was attended by nearly 500 delegates and
as many of their friends. Three hundred
of the delegates are foreigners, and every
railroad of Importance in the world Is
represented. Mr. Fairbanks' words of
welcome and congratulation were fol
lowed by addresses by Stuyvcsant Fish,
president of the American section of the
congress, and by Ernest Glrard. tempo
rary chairman of the permanent commit
tee of the congress. The five, sections
through which the congress is to accom
plish Its work of discussion were organ
ized at once, and each will meet at 3
o'clock tomorrow to take up the duties
assigned to it.
During the afternoon the delegates vis
ited Mount Vernon and the tomb of
Washington by steamers, and In the eve
ning a private view of the collection of
the Corcoran Gallery of Art was given.
The discussions "of the sections are con
ducted behind closed doors, in order that
there may be no restraint In expressions
of opinion by delegates. The topics to be
handled are entirely scientific and techni
cal. The conclusion reached by a section
after due discussion of a topic is abstract
ed and presented to the general congress
at meetings to be held during the ten
days term of the congress. These ques
tions are printed and constitute the .work
of the organization. No legislation of
any nature is enacted by the congress
and no resolution binding railway man
agements to any line of policy arc con
sidered. In the course of his speech Mr. Fair
banks said:
The universal, urgent and unremitting de
mand is for increased carrying capacity, at
minimum cost of maintenance and opera
tion. Hand in hand with this goes the de
mand for low rates of transportation.
In the rapid evolution of this great instru
ment of civilization, it is not unnatural that
abuses should arise. Aa we survey the past
we can tee how much experience and en
lightened Judgment have eerved to eradicate
many of ttte wrongs which have exUtcd. It
Is too much to expect, where such an agency
touches the social and industrial Interests o.
so many people, at so many points, that a i
of the Inequalities should have been removed.
We may hope that a spirit of justice and am
pler knowledge may lead to the removal or
the present defects and the prevention of evil
In the future.
The railway, by Ita very nature. i9 eharged
with great public duties. It is in the high
est sense a public servant and must discharge
its functions with impartiality, giving to all
whom it serves Just treatment. Equality oC
service la the predicate of good relations be
tween the railway and the public. It la or
the utmost Importance that unjust favoritism
should not obtain; that rates should be open
and enjoyed by all alike. Jiothing so quickly
and surely lays the, foundation of distrust and
discontent as, secrecy where there should be
publicity, as inequality where there snould do
equality. Transportation charges must be
fixed with a Just regard to th owners, the
employes and the public The interests ot
none can be disregarded without ultimate in-
Jury to all.
CITY' OFFICIALS ARE ATTACKED
3Iayor and 3rarshal of 3Iontesano
Driven From Fire Hydrants.
MONTESANO. Wash.. May A. (Special.)
Employes of the Montesano Light &
Water Company assaulted the City Mar
shal and Mayor this morning, while the
Marshal was engaged in his blmontly
examination of the fire hydrants for the
purpose of seeing if they were in working
order, under an old order of the City
Council, and then notified the Marshal
and Mayor that the hydrants must not
be turned on. except for fire purposes,
which in fact was the reason why the
Marshal was turning them on. The peo
ple of the city arc much, exercised over
the occurrence. ,
Several of the hydrants bad been found
to be out of order, and it was at a sug
gestion of the Fire Department that the
Council ordered the twice-a-month exam
ination of the hydrants.
Needed for City Lots.
CHEHALI, Wash.. May 4. (Special.)
A sensational dispatch was sent out from
Olympia a few days ago to the effect that
certain Chehalis persons had purchased
a tract of land the state wanted and were
trying to hold up the state. The land re
ferred to was a tract of SO acres adjoin
ing the county road leading south from
Market street past the Reform School.
The Chehalis Land & Timber Company
has just laid out a large addition to the
town adjoining this tract, and In order
to have an outlet to the county road it
was necessary to have the SO acres. The
land was platted as far as the road for
townslte purposes and the purchasers had
no intention of offering It to the state.
There is plenty of land available about
the school for farming purposes without
blocking the growth of the city.
Dispute on Fishing Rights.
VICTORIA, B. C. May 4. The question
of provincial and Federal rights with re
gard to fishing privileges has arisen In a
case brought before the Supreme Court
by B. I. Short, who has been refused per
mission to erect salmon traps on the
foreshore fronting Victoria, although he
has been given a Federal license covering
the establishment. The refusal by the
provincial officers was on the ground that
the site was outside the territory decided
upon as open for traps
The British Columbia officials contend
the rights of the province are not confined
to the foreshore above low-water mark,
but beyond: but how far is not stated.
The Dominion's right to grant licenses is
pot contested.
Woman Publicly Insults Judge.
BUTTE, Mont-. May 4. Disappointed at
being unable to secure a divorce. Mrs.
Minnie Hardesty, proprietor of a restau
rant, stopped District Judge J. M. Bor
quln on the street, and In the presence
of a crowd told hlra she thought that per
haps If she had given him a few dollars
he would have granted her a decree of
divorce.
Judge Borquin immediately cited the
woman for contempt of court, ordering
her to appear before him yesterday. How
ever, when court was called, Mrs. Har
desty could not be found, though diligent
search was made. It is believed she has
fled from the city.
Opening of New Park.
ABERDEEN. Wash'., May 4. (Special.)
The Gray's Harbor Lighting Company
has made arrangements to dedicate its
new park between Aberdeen and Hoqulam
Sunday next- The Improvement bf the
park has cost 530.000, and it provides
among other attractions one of tha finest
ball grounds on the Pacific Coast. On
Sunday next the Hoqulam and Aberdeen
nines of the Southwestern League will
play their .second game of the season.
There will b bands of music from both
cities and a programme of speechraaking
by the Mayors and Councilraen of the
two towns.
Ijlquor License Is Denied.
ASTORTA. Or.. May 4, (Special.)
At today's session of the County Court
a petition was presented by John West,
asking for a liquor license lq Westport
precinct. The petition contained the
required number of names but Tiad not
been published, so it wajC denied. The
court stated, however, that after the
petition is published, ths court waulU
consider i further-