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THE MORXESG ORE GONIAL, TUESDAY. . TUNE 1905. 8 Entered at the Postofflce at Portland. Or., as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION KATES. IXVARIABLT IN ADVANCE. (Ry Mall or Express.) Dally and Sunday, per year 2'S2 Dally and Sunday, alx month o.W Dally and Sunday, three months .. 2.S5 Dally and Sunday, per month -Bjj Dally without Sunday, per year Dally without Sunday, six month 3.B0 Dally without Sunday, three month.-- LS5 Dally without Sunday, per month -65 Sunday, per year. ... - 2.CKJ Sunday, tlx month LOO Sunday, three month -co BX CARRIER. Dally without Sunday, per week - .13 Dally, per .week, Sunday Included...... -0 THE WEEKLY OREGONIAN. (Issued Every Thursday.) Weekly, per year.-...- l-$j Weekly, sir months.-. " Weekly, three months oO HOW TO REMIT Send postoface money order, express order or personal check on your local hank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICE. The 6. C. Beckwitfc Special Agency New York rooms 43-50 Tribune building. 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The exhibits throughout are educational In their nature and purpose. But the school exhibit is especially- significant of the Intellectual development of the Pacific Northwest, and as such it wiy attract special at tention. Oregon was unfortunate In her educa tional exhibit at St. Louis. Those to whom the task was delegated were In experienced In the work, while the ma terial furnished was not of the best. In many respects. Jt devolved-, upon .our educators, therefore. to redeem them selves, their schools, methods and re sults, from the slur t&at was cast upon them at St. Louis. It may be said even thus early in the progress of the Expo sition that they have risen to the Im portance of the occasion and havejrnet the opportunity offered. We are proud of our schools. Let us not neglect any chance to Introduce our Summer vis itors to them as they appear In modest dress parade on the second floor of the Oriental building, inviting inspection. QUOD EST DEMONSTRANDUM. . It cannot be amiss for The Orego" nlan to recite the pleas In defense, of fered yesterday In the United States Court. Mr. John M. Thurston, of coun sel for Senator Mitchell, said: It in a regret to the defendant and his ooun sel to meet an Indictment so looiely drawn. We cannot permit our client to go to trial on such an indictment, and yet carry out our duties as counsel. We do not seek to interpose technicalities in this case. The com mon law is so wise that it provides a man ehall not be tried cither for his liberty or his lite unless on a specific charge, where by the defendant Is fully advised of the ac cusation against him. Not only that, but the purpose of the defendant's acquittal conviction on this charge ought to stand as a record of the case and guard against further indictment, such as may follow If the steps of the case are not carefully taken and the law fully complied with. What we urge against this Indictment Is not a mat ter of form, but of substance. The first thing nece-sary to show a crime has been committed is to prove that he was an or ficlal of the Government The fact of John H. Mitchell being a Senator from this tate appears not ss an allegation In this indict ment, hut in a merely recitative way. Not only must the Indictment aeeert it. but It must be proved that Senator Mitchell was duly elected and that he qualified for that position and was occupying that office when the offense is said to have been committed, An indictment not charging the election and the taking of his peat by Senator Mitchell would not stand. The weakness, then, of the indict ment. Is that it does not allege In direct terms nor sufficiently prove, that John H. Mitchell was or is a Senator of the . "United States. Unless or until this is established, of course, the statute which forbids a Senator to receive money or compensation, as alleged, cannot apply to him. In a matter of so grave import the United States must prove Its allega tions. But we do not know whether the prosecution can prove that John H. Mitchell was or Is a Senator of the United States. If it cannot,, the whole case must fall to the ground. Was Mr. Mitchell elected to the Sen ate, and when did he take his feat Ills counsel insists that these matters shall be cleared up. It is right. If man isn't Senator he shouldn't be brought to trial for what the law for bids a Senator to do. The prosecution has no right to assume that Mr. Mitch ell Is a Senator, or official of the United States. It is required to prove iL So the defense declares. The Ore gonlan utters no opinion. It simply wishes, by Its statement, to make the proceedings at the opening of the case intelligible. PEACE OR CONTINUED WAR 7 The old admonition not to shout till you are out of the wood seems In dan ger of being forgotten in the relief felt eerywhere at the prospect of peace. The situation is not as promising, we fear) as the world would fain believe it. Until one or more Russian plenipoten tiaries have been named, to meet those of Japan and discluss and arrange terms of peace, very little will have been effected. While there waa yet time for the Russian fledt to meet and beat Admiral Togo, delay, oven diffi dence, on the part of Russia in asking for Japanese terms of peace could be excused. But when the Russian Ar mada was destroyed the world knew. and Russian statesmen could not con ceal It from themselves, that their last chance of meeting Japanese envoys on any terms short of suing for peace was gone. Yet the Czar poses as if the question of the fate of the war were still in the balance. I? it to be expected that Japan will either be deceived by or will tolerate tnich tactics? Assur edly not. Japan is the admitted victor by land and eea, and knows It none better. When she declares hor terms, it will be as a victor, and as holding the power, and as having the right to ex pect to push her conquests to the ulti mate limit. Russian history shows persistent character. Her diplomacy seeks to ob tain round the council table what she cannot, or fears to, attempt by her armed force. It Is her boast not to know when she is beaten, and never to let go of a purpose once adopted. Japan has had bitter experience with her, and may be trusted not to let her foot slip again. The use of the Indemnity which will assuredly be claimed by Japan will be as much to Impede Russian efforts to fit out more "powerful fleets and ar mies in the near future as to refill her own treasury. Therefore, for Russia to back and fill at this juncture on the pretext that she will not pay a money indemnity Is proof plain as holy writ that she has a purpose behind In re fusing to appoint plenipotentiaries. If she thinks it needful to play this card, It Is In the hands of Japan to say, po Utely. as their custom is. This Is our game If you want peace in real ear nest, then send your people with power not only to discuss, but to arrange. terms. Where they meet is Indifferent to us. But representatives, not messen gers, must be accredited. And we must know. In the very beginning, that se curities will be given that conditions made will neither be broken nor de layed. No fuss and feathers would be need ed if It be only a matter of receiving and transmitting terms. Cables and dlspatchea would do that work. Of course. It Is a bitter pill to swallow but wry faces will not help it down, When the Chinese war ended. In 1895, Japan was facing not only Russia, but Germany and France. Japan ten years later Is a far different Japan. Secre tary Hay was her best friend when he practically said to the powers, -Hands off; let them fight it out, as fight they will. They have fought it out, and Rus ela Is forced to cry enough. President Roosevelt seeks the role of peacemaker. The world applauds him. and nothing but this backing and filling on Rus sla's part can bring to naught his ef fort. But until one farther stage is reached it Is too soon for the theater to be cleared and actors and audience disperse. the transactions were so many and so large that the aggregate of profits made out of the director's relations to the office by virtue of his dealings with It run up into many thousand dollars. And yet the essence of the relation of director to his corporation !s that he Is a trustee for- It- He. has no more right to make a personal profit out of his dealings than a trustee or guardian with his ward. Yet so fixed, so In grained, is this custom, that not one of these directors sees any harm In It They all do It. Evidently they assume that, provided they make it right with the office. It Is all right- Yet not one of these men would fall to see that any kind of an ordinary wrongdoer does not rid himself of the fact, or the conse quences, of his act. by replacing that which he wroffgfully took. Some of our Oregon culprits would be too thankful If they could shut Mr. Heney's mouth by deeding back the land to the Gov ernment. This Is not to suggest that a director who makes a profit by selling his stock to the company for which he is a trustee Is to be put on just the same plane as a timber thief. By no means. But the force of the argument is better appreciated by an extreme case. Restitution, especially enforced restitution, never did and never will obliterate the original fault. There is a different kind of atonement for that. But every one (except. It seems, they who practice It) knows that the acts which are now public fame are wrong. essentially wrong, and must be stopped as one of the elementary conditions of purified finance. Mr. Paul Morton will have a hard task In any case. It will be much harder if his colleagues on the board are trying to butter their own bread all the time they sit round the Equitable board. debt of the country twice over and leave a surplus that would support the government of Spain, with Its 18,009.000 people, for a year; that there are on Its payrolls 1.500.000 more men than were under arms In both armies at Appo mattox, and six times as. many as were enlisted In the war of 1S92 against' Spain. Truly, the subject Is a- stupen dous one. and the figures by which it is sought to bring It to the level of the mind of average Intelligence serve lit tle more than dimly to reveal Its vast proportions and give an Idea of what It will mean, financially. If the Govern ment . decides to acquire and operate the railroads of the United States. The Astoriarj Is a peculiar newspa perpeculiar at least In this, that It persists In talking about things of which It has no knowledge; and It com mits blunder on blunder, therefore. It now"says: With reference to the nomination of Mr. Furnish. It Is a well known - fact that Mr. Scott was the leader and the spokesman of lhi Multnomah convention that nominated Mr. Furnish and Mr. Williamson, and that they held the balance of power in that con vention and voted as a unit, leaving all ether aspirant In the minority, compelling them to withdraw from the contest and ac quiesce In the unanimous "choice of the convention." dictated by the Multnomah delegation. It will be news to everybody who had part In that convention, as It Is news to Mr. Scott, that he was "the leader and spokesman of the Multnomah con vention that nominated Mr. Furnish and Mr. Williamson." Mr. Scott was not a member of the Multnomah dele gation, nor of any delegation, had no seat' in the convention, in fact never even entered Its doors, and neither spoke nor assumed to speak for any delegation or for any candidate. NEW RAILROAD SPEED RECORD. New York and Chicago have been brought within eighteen hours of each other by inauguration of fast train ser vice between the two points. The first trains operated under this new sched ule reached their destinations slightly ahead of time, and apparently accom plished the record-breaking feat so easily that the management of the road is said to be contemplating a further reduction In the time. On the initial trip one of these trains was pulled for three miles at a speed of 127ti miles an hour, and a 26-mlnute delay by a hot box was nearly all made up in a run of 131 miles. These marvelous bursts of Another fraternal Insurance order. with a membership of more than 300,000, Is threatened with dissolution on ac count of a sharp raise in rates affecting the old men of the order. The advance was ordered so that It would be possible to make an attractive rate for the young men and thus keep the ranks from thinning. Naturally, the old men object, and the advanced rate un doubtedly will work a hardship on them. .The .problem Is not a new one. It Is one with which all fraternal or ganizations must grapple sooner or later. An order with a large member ship twenty years ago would today be facing the early payment of a propor- epeed. and the high average maintained I tlonately large number of death claims, and the prosperity and strengtn or twenty years ago thus become a weak ening and threatening factor which re tards the acquisition of young blood. AN EXCELLENT EXHIBIT. The Oregon educational exhibit at the Lewis and Clark Fair is a credit to the college and public school systems of the state, and to the industry and intelli gence of professors, teachers, students and pupils. The college exhibit, except that of Pacific University. Is not yet complete, but even In their unfinished state those of the University of Oregon, rhe Oregon Agricultural College and those of a number of smaller colleges are highly creditable. The Catholic ex hlblt is also attractive in a way pe cullar to Itself, and shows an Infinity of detail and of careful direction of the educational ideals of the Institutions of a great ecclesiastical body. But it Is the public schools' exhibit that represents the democratic idea In education and makes plain the oppor tunitles for practical Instruction In the morning of life that Is within the reach without money and without price of every child in the state, and. for that matter. In the United States. This showing Is by no means confined to the work of the public schools -of Portland or of Oregon. Many towns in different sections of Oregon and of the North west share the honors that come from this presentment of the work that chll dren are doing In the public schools. There are many exhibits at the Fair of which the people of Oregon may be proud. The grand panorama of the Fair as a whole, with its magnificent setting of green hills and shimmering waters. its glimpses of beautiful homes. Its pro DIRECTORS. The recent airing In public of the great Equitable scandal suggests to many the question If the methods of those gentlemen who held the name of directors for so many years are com mon. It is disclosed that out of fifty- two so-called directors forty were "qualified" by the loan of the neces sary five shares of stock from that owned by the late Mr. Hyde, the found er, or his estate. Moreover, the actions of that board, as learned from the pub lished minutes, were confined to record ing the acts and registering the decrees of the Inner circle, made up of the off! cers of the corporation. Many of theBe directors, qualified for the office by sham compliance with the by-laws, were men of note in the financial world. who would not, we hope, have lent themselves to practices morally wrong. and on or over the edge of Illegality. If they knew it. How comes It, then, that their moral sense is so exceedingly blunt? From habit and common cus torn. If that be the answer, surely there Is something rotten in the state of Denmark. What are directors for. unless It be to safeguard the interests of stockholders? Why do they ask for votf-s to elect them, except they Intend loyally to "direct"? If not. It is then for some selfish reason. It may be that there Is so much honor attached to the title of director of the Equitable that even a past master In the financial col lege should long for It, as a kind of voucher or hallmark of his standing. But the Equitable history, which Is now publlo property, suggests far lower mo lives than even this. The directors seem, one and all, to have been princi pals or agents in every conceivable syndicate and combination which pre pared fresh counters for the Stock Ex change games. The better known and more heavily engaged in outside finance the more certainly does that director name show In the deals with or for the Equitable. for the entire distance of nearly 1000 miles. Indicate that the limit for speed has not yet been reached. It was sev eral years after the appearance of the 22 and 24-hour trains between New York and Chicago that they were rele gated to second place by the famous Twentieth Century Limited, which cov e red. the route In 20 hours. This train, which claimed the title fastest long-distance train in the world." has been alone In Its glory for several years, and. so far as the pub He has been able to learn. It has been In every way as successful as the slower trains. The demands of high pressure civilization seem to call for fast trains, and. In catering to this de xnand. the railroad companies have looked out for increased expense by exacting higher rates than are charged on the slower trains. The timid trav eler will experience an Involuntary shudder In mentally contemplating the effect should a broken rail, misplaced switch or other cause send this flying mass of hundreds of tons of steel and wood into the ditch with Its human freight. It Is questionable, however, whether the 16-hour train has Increased the risk proportionately with the speed, A speed of a mile per minute has be come so general that there are but few railroads in the country which have not on some portions of their track repeat edly scored this time-honored limit. To a considerable degree, the 20-bour train. or the 24-hour train, to New York, Is liable to the same accidents which may threaten the train that Is moving a few miles per hour faster. Tjie record of these fast trains of former years has been uniformly good from the stand point of safety, none of the worst wrecks which have happened being suf fered by the fastest trains. This may in part be due to greater vigilance shown by every employe, from dis patcher to trackwalker, all of whom are made to bear a portion of the strain that comes with the feat Whatever may be the cause for the good record of the fast train. It Is certain that nothing has yet happened to demonstrate that It Is more dangerous than the ordinary express and mall train. There Is, of course, a limit beyond which the added risk becomes too great to warrant in creased speed, and, unless a truce is arranged between, the two big railroads now operating fast trains between New York and Chicago, this limit will be reached In a comparatively short time. It Is hardly probable that the rivalry between the roads will reach a point where the lives of the traveling public will be endangered. It is very cxpen slve business paying for wreck dam ages, whether for human llvee or rail road equipment. The fast schedules are not made out by the passenger de partment, which displays so much en terprlse In giving them the fullest pub llclty, but Instead are the work of high grade operating men. who hold their positions and draw large saalries for their technical and practical knowledge of the limit to which engineers, roll ing stock and roadbed can be worked with safety. These men think too much of their positions to place them In Jeop ardy by making a schedule in which there is too great an element of risk and for this reason. If for no other, the 15-hour train will probably prove as safe and successful as five years' ser vice has proved the 24-hour train to be. One mile in 35. seconds. 27 miles in 19 minutes, a speed at times of 103 miles an hour these arc authentic figures for the newest flyer show the highest modern development of passenger transportation under steam. And yet traffic officials declare that the new elghteen-hour schedule between Chi cago and New York could be reduced an hour without putting the machinery to Its hardest strain. It Is to be hoped this loudly heralded service may not be attended with serious accident. Even the few who cannot thole the Idea of starting an hour sooner are en titled to travel with a feeling of aver age security. 0REG0N0Z0NE Norway's rashness Is calculated to make Oscar wild. According to an energetic statistician, there are about a thousand men in this country who draw salaries larger than that of the President ot the United States. Yet It is not at all difficult, (n any political party, to find candidates who are willing to make the sacrifice. Josh Billings rote phunny stuff for years, and spelt It korrectly, but fokes woodn't reed it- Then be komenced to spel like this, and the world sed he-wux grate yumorlst. Lots of riters have Imitated his speltng, but the world won't swallow, their dialect; so It must be all in. the Josh. The California Commotion Committee has arrived in Portland. The members wear yellow badges, carry yellow popples, and are pretty fair ycllers themselves. They dilate upon the ge-lorlous climate of California and create quite a commo tion wherever they go. It Is interesting to note that the . young woman to whom Jack London Is supposed to be engaged "comes of & literary fam ily, her uncle once having been the pub lisher of the Overland Monthly." This claim to literary connection surely should .entitled the bride-elect to distinguished consideration. It is to bo hoped, however. that this uncle Is not the same publisher of the Orerland Monthly who came very near preventing Bret Harte from pub-llahlns- his celebrated story. "The Luck of Roaring Camp," In that magazine. The higher criticism at last has estab lished the fact that the. whale could not have swallowed Jonah. In Baltimore, there In on exhibition a whale 70 feet long, whose throat la only five Inches In diameter. It Is only by a great stretch of Imagination or whale-throat that wo now can accept that time-honored story This Baltimore whale, by the way. Is ex hibited In a tent, and If Its owner wants to make real money he should ship 'It to the Lewis and Clark Exposition, along with the talented spieler who Is said to tell the visitors this Interesting bit of Information: "Ket took hecm 24 hours to die. en hees bleedings made de sea like blood for a mile aroun. Keeng Edward en de Empr Villutn paid feefty dollar out of hees own pocket for de sateesfac- tion of seeing decs vhale." Goethe in Seattle. Roswell Field, In the Chicago Evening Post., runs over the pronunciations or. Goethe as heard by him on the North Side cable trains, with this result: Twenty-five men out of thirty Usually pronounce K "Gtr-ty. People who say tahhle doty Much prefer to call it "Gc-ty." There are those of Judgment weighty Who will tell you It Is "Oa-ty." Lucy parting from her Sophie Says: "Good-by. dear, this is 'Go-thy, " 12" between his teeth" j Hlues warnlngly "Go-eeth:" Mr. Field should go to Seattle and com plete his list. There Is a society matron In that Puget Athens who takes pride In knowing some little French. She has the Impression that the author of "Faust" was a Frenchman, and she pronounces It "Go-a-thay," wltn. the accent on tne may. But what most of us want to know Is, how In the name of Samuel H. Hill ought It to be pronounced? GOODWORDS FOR THE '05 EXPOSITION Saatera Newar.Warm l Their Co hubcm datl on All Agree That It Is "Wert Wiile tot See, aad a .Great Advertisement for the Facia c XorthTreat. Novelty Among Bis; Shows. Birmingham (Ala.) News. The Richmond Times-Dispatch says: "The .Portland, Or Exposition is a novelty among big- shows in tnat it opened on time and does not intend to haul the cracked Liberty Bell with a lot of Philadelphia bummers out there for exhibition." Put down one Dig. fat credit mark for the Portland Exposition. Ready on Opening Day. "Manchester (N. H.) Union. The managers of the Lewis and Clark Exposition have put out one very strong card. The show was In readiness to be opened on schedule time. "Uncle Joe" Cannon on Ice. Prov!des iR- L Journal. It will nrobablv strike most people that the Oresronlans who objected to Speaker Cannon's cooling- his head by rubblntr Ice on It are mighty particu lar. "Uncle Joe Is hot-headed nearly all the time. Summer and Winter, and It seems to be only fair that he snouia ? allowed to reduce his temperature br the most simple and available means, utnerwise ne mignt expioac Complete and Ready for Business. Worcester Class.) Post. The Lewis and Clark Exposition de-- irves unusual credit for one thing at least. It was all complete and ready for business when the gates were opened. Should Attract an Army. Henderson (Ky.) Herald. The Exposition will be an object lesson in history of a kind not hitherto associat ed with expositions, the coiumoian ponoa was at once too remote and to legendary: the Louisiana Purchase mainly a matter ot money. But Lewis and Clark bartered with the "noble savage." uewea tneir wav throuch the virgin forest, adventured on the Oregon trail. The exposition is be ing held In a beautiful city exquisitely situated and should attract an army ot the curious. Worthy of Portland. Norristown (Pa.) Herald. Oregonlans have taken hold of the mat ter on a large scale. No city of the West has ever before been so ambitious as has been Portland in having an exposition worthy the section It Is to represent. As far back as 1900 the plan was proposed by the Oregon Historical Society, and It was Indorsed by the Legislature a few months later. A corporation with $400,000 capital was organized and later the Legislature appropriated $450,000. Opens In Successful Fashion. Aurusta (Me.) Chronicle. From lt3 situation the Fair cannot nn a TrHt attnri3nML hut .Kt sincerely hope that it will b a suc cess financially as well as in all other respects. No doubt most of the tour IstWfrom tha East who go to the Pa clfic Coast this year will Include Port land as one of the places to he visited. Th Fair has a most auspicious begin nine with Vice-President Fairbanks nresent to represent the National Gov ernment, and with tha ceremonies of tha formal ooenlnir carried out In a most successful fashion. Rich In Educational Value. National Magazine. It Is apparent thus early that there will be a larger attendance from the East than, "the managers of the show antici pate. And It may safely be predicted that these who take the trip for the' first time will return home with a vastly enlarged conception of the magnitude and power of their country, to say nothing of their unforgettable Impressions of the vast plains and mountain ranges they must traverse to reach Portland. No other Journey within the borders of the United States or Canada Is richer In educational alue. Important Occasion for the Country. Baltimore (Md.) American. The Exposition which opens today will not be as great as several that have been held in this country, but It will yield to none In. Interest or In Importance to the great section whose natal day, as It were. Is celebrated. It has one advantage over all which have preceded It. It will be really, and not nominally, opened today. all of the preliminaries having been com pleted and the show In every part being ready for Inspection when the electric but ton is touched. It is a great eent for the Northwestern States, but In a more general sense it Is a very important occa sion for tbe whole country. Makes an Impressive Exhibit. Portland (Me.) Argus. Yesterday was a great day for Port land's namesake in the far West. At Portland. Or., was opened with appro priate ceremonies the Fair commemorat ing the Lewis and Clark expedition to th? Columbia River region. Although planned on a far smaller scale than the St. Louis exhibition ot last year, the Oregen Fair makes an Impressive exhibit of the re sources. Industries and progress of that Bectlon of the country, and In the archi tectural beauty of Its buildings and .va riety of display will take no mean rank among Its predecessors. The Lewis and Clark Fair will, doubtless, attract many from the Middle West and East, while the Pacific Slope will takeM special prlda In It, Two hundred carloads of sheep have already been shipped from Shanlko since the opening of tbe shearing sea son, and at least 125 carloads more are under engagement. Shipments to date are somewhat larger than last season. and, as the prices are satisfactory and the wool recently removed from the backs of the sheep sold at the highest average price received for several years, the Industry Is in a most flour ishing condition. The encroachments of the farmers have cut down the range for sheep, but the gross receipts from the Industry this year are larger than ever before. The Mississippi River has spread out to a width of five to ten miles In tbe vi cinity of Hannibal. Mo., and is still ris ing. Farms are Inundated, livestock drowned, levees broken, and the loss suffered will run Into millions. These great floods on the Mississippi now oc cur nearly every year, and seem to con firm the theory that the destruction of the forests at the headwaters of the parent stream and Its tributaries has left Nature with no storage reservoirs from which moisture can trickle out gradually throughout the season, in stead of going with a rush In the Spring. A monument will be erected over the grave of Chief Joseph, whose body was interred on the Colvllle reservation. The ceremonies will be In charge of Professor Edmund S. Meany, whose di vergent views on red men lead him to class Joseph as a good Indian and Leschl as a bad Indian. If Joseph and Leschl should get together In the happy hunting grounds and talk things over, the conversation would probably dis close a mutual hatred of the race whose able representatives are endeavoring to make heroes out of rather common cop per-colored clay. Edna Hoffman was brutally murdered by John Coleman, with, whom she had lived long enough to enable her to re lieve him of all his money. Coleman will probably be -sentenced to life Im prisonment in the Penitentiary. Those are old. old axioms that tell us that "the wages of sin Is death" and "the way of the transgressor Is hard," but the truth they contain Is In evidence In the criminal courts at all times. Two Letters. , This is the sort of letter wrltteo by a sister to a sister: My Dear Sister: I hare been so- busy sewing that I have not had time to write. I hare almost finished my cream dress. Did not make a yoke, hut made a lace, front. vest style. I hare been maklnr over sleeves until I'm tired of It. Made me a dotted swlas waist to wear with my sray aclrt: trimmed It with embroidery. Tou ought to see my sew bat: It's a dream! SubIs Thomp- tom has one which she paid i 18 for. and It is not half so nice as mine, and mine cost only I027. All well, and send love. Write toon. Lovingly, your sister, ANNETTE. This is the sort of letter written by brother to a brother: Dear Bill. Ought to have dropped you line sooner, hut you know bow it la yourself. Been busy as the derll. Went to the ball game three times last week. and. say, it was punk. Our team is the rottentst ever; they ought to take a week off and goway back and sit down. Sold a nice bill or goods yes terday and made a hundred extra. Think I'll take a vacation some time soon and go to come town where I can see a decent gams of ball- Well, so Jong. Write. Tours. JIM. Our Trouble Department. (Advice cheerfully given and no ques tions asked.) Dear Ozone: What would you recommend s a dally exercise to reduce my flesh? have been growing too stout lately, and re quire same violent exercise; hut it must be something that I shall be sure to do every day. ANXIOUS READER. We have the very thing In stock which flt vnt-r ntM. Just rent a room In one of those PortlaiMl boarding-nouses that use folding beds. You will find it neces sary to let down the bed every night. unless you prefer to sleep on the floor or choose to bang yourself to the gas fix ture. We know of no form of exercise more violent than letting down a folding bed. We have tried It, and we know. It will exercise every muscle- In your body. and probably break every bone; but don't worry about that, because after you have wrestled 20 minutes with a folding bed you won't consider a few broken bones worth paying attention to. Just begin letting down a folding bed and you will lose flesh rapidly. As a reducer of flesh there Is nothing to be compared with It. We lost about three pounds of flesh the first night we tried this form of exercise. It came off from various parts of our anatomy half a pound or so from our left shin, a few ounces from our scalp, and a large pinch out of our lett arm. We also lost some hair; also some religion. The fact Opening Ready on Schedule Time. Sedalla (Mo.) Sentinel. The Lewis and Clark Centennial Ex position, at Portland. Or., opened on schedule time. The Portland Fair Is properly a National and not an Inter national affair In Its true purpose and lgnlflcance. It does not exclude Inter national exhibits, as many or the ror- Ign contributions to the St. Louis Ex- position have been retained for present use. But no great stress nas Deen iaia on this feature. For1 the reason, perhaps. that the contents ot this six months spectacle have called for no new for eign accessions, the great rair was complete on toe day of Its opening, which Is a new fact in the record of the great expositions. Wanted to See Lewis and Clark. Brooklyn Eagle. Director of the Mint Roberts -Is tell ing a good story on an Iowa iriena with whom he recently visited tne Lewis and Clark Exposition grounds at Portland, Or. Tha Iowa man had been accustomed to receiving railroad passes and deadhead tickets at thea ters, so when he was conirontea wim a sign announcing the admission charge of 50 cents to the grounds .ha was inclined to balk. "Here." he said to his friend, Rob erts. "I don't like the Idea or. paying m cents to ret In there- Walt a minute and I'll hunt up these fellows who are runnlnc the show, Lewis and Clark, and see If I can't get a pass." Salem business men did not observe I Is. tills nightly exercise became so violent liAXLROADS AND THEIR VALUE. The immensity of the railway inter ests of the United States was. until presented by the recent International Railway Congress, held In Washington, but dimly understood. When It Is said that the aggregate assets of the United States railways reach $16,000,000,000, the mind staggers; when to help it recover Its balance comparison is Introduced, adding that this sum equals the coun try's entire wealth at the time of Lin coln's election In 1E5Q. -the difficulty of comprehension Is somewhat lessened. but. after all. there Is but little real conception of the vast wealth thus pre sented. Proceeding further In the kindly ef fort to disclose the magnitude of In- the opening day of the Fair as a holi day, but there seems to be good justi fication for their course In view of the fact that they closed their places of business on May 30. and will close again on June 14, Salem day, when the populace of the Capita? City will come en masse to the Fair. A prisoner kicked a plank from the Astoria City Jail and walked out to liberty. If Astoria Is really anxious to retain her prisoners, tbe authorities should get some fishermen to crochet a gillnet corral to take the place of a structure through which prisoners kick holes. that we were compelled to change board Ing-bduses and get a bed that didn't fold, otherwise we might have exercised our fool self to death. If you let down your folding bed every night, you will soon be so much reduced In flesh1 that you will begin to receive propositions from dime museums that want a new living skele ton. The unfolding of a bed also exercises your lungs: you learn to swear artistic ally, and but pardon us are you a lady ROBERTUS LOVE. King Meneltk of Abyssinia claims di rect lineage from Solomon and Sheba. This should entitle him to honorary Concert In a Well. London Dally MalL For many years there has been scarcity of water at Woolley, Hunting donshire, the result being mat wnen at last a new well was dug- the vll lagers thought It a most Important event. A religious service was conduct TO ao tnem as mucn jusucc as w-j - r, . " "v"V." ."..- -r-- r xr " erf nroun.l th well on Thursday after deserve, and far more than they ought wrests tnat nave oeen createa aimost '"- "'" noon ail the women and children af to expect, these men appear lo nave let the Equitable have the lion's share of profit when they were jointly in terested on the ground floor of a syndi cate, and not to have mulcted the office so very heavily -when they sold to It? that Is. in tbe way of per cents. But wholly within jl third of a century, the public is told that the main track mile age of United States railroads would reach eight and one-half rimes around the earth at the equator; that their revenue In ISM was 12,000,000.000 a sum sufficient to pay the Interest-bearinr Banker Blgelow will be assigned to duty as clerk In the Federal Peniten tiary at Fort Leavenworth. The way of some transgreseors It softer than others. tarward belntr entertained at tea. In the evening: the men of the- hamlet as sembled at the bottom of the well. which was. of course, dry. After prayer by the Rev. A. E. Farrar, the rec tor. there were songs and speecnes an refreshments were handed round. The Lesson It Teaches. ' Ansonla (Conn.) Sentinel. This Is Portland's day. The turnstiles of her big Fair have commenced to re volve, and she ha3 commenced to appro priately celebrate the expedition of Cap tains Lewis and Clark, who braved the wilds ot the West when It was more woolly than it Is today and found out for humanity the great secret of the Pacinc Coast. They not only explored but they discovered and told to others, what they had found. The Lxposltion which has opened today will commemorate fittingly the benefit which they wrought for man kind, and it will call the attention of thousands to the resources of the Pacific Coast and the opportunities which it offers. It will teach the lesson of self- denial, of education, of industry and of progress. Most Interesting of AH. New Tork Mall. It la easv to understand that this Ex position may prove one of the most in teresting, to an Eastern visitor, of all the lont list of commemorative industrial celebrations that have been held In the country since the Philadelphia Centen nial In 1S7S. The whole Pacific Slope la Interesting; and though California may have srown somewhat commonplace, the nw Xorthwest has not become so. It abounds in wonders for the Eastern visl- tor. If the exhibition contributes, as it is likely to. to the development or tnis greater England of ours In the Northwest, we mav well wish it ac-unaant success. for the more rich and populous the region Is the more use it will have for this metropolis. Good Wofds From the South. Birmingham (Ala.) News. The Portland Exposition is both na tional and International In scope. Many of the foreign exhibits which were at the World's Fair In St. Louis last year have been transferred to the metropolis of the far Northwest, and numerous others have been added. The Federal Government has taken official cognizance of the Exposi tion, and many states have also Installed special exhibits. Altogether the show promises to be the best of the kind ever held west of the Rocky Mountains. That It will prove both Instructive and enter taining is not to be doubted. At this sea son of tha year a trip to Portland from the South Is sure to be pleasant and prof itable from the knowledge one will gain of his own country, the vastness of its extent and the variety of its resources. No doubt the South will be a liberal pa tron of the Exposition, as our people have every reason to feel a lively Interest In the event Great Future for Pacific Coast Cities. New Tork Evening Sun. Only a hundred years ago Lewis and Clark blazed the Oregon trail. Our Pa cific cities have a great future before them. It Is significant that the Fair should be opened In the very week which was big with fate a3 far as the innam- tants of the other side of the ocean were concerned. When the first International fair was held at London the great struc ture was looked on by some as a symbol of the end of war and conflict between tha nations. Men were to trade together Instead of killing each other. The swords were to be beaten Into plowshares, and so on. But the optimistic political eco nomists who talked that way forgot or overlooked the fact that one of the. most oerslstent causes. It not the most per sistent cause, of war has been trade It self. It was so In the Middle Ages: it is so now. And It will be so in the future. National . pride Is not nearly so sensitive as tbe national pocket. Good Excuse to Get Acquainted. Motive of High Historical Interest.' Sacramento (Cal.) Union. Tbe Portland Exposition Is something mor than a festival or an advertisement. Its motive Is one of high historical Inter' est. since It commemorates an incident, i 1 1 -.11 ! on snl- ,Tp.s"S"r, ,:r. New York Commercial. .1 I. n tmnnptanod Thn nrtvon. I XUO Uivuucu v. ua.uu.. ' " Twu and Clark, is. In Its way. this country-a most fertile and lnterest- i .v. iii.Mnr nf th wnrM. Xn I lnc territory will be shown, and tne iur v.r mniivni in mor oiirl- Lther inducement ts held out oi a irrp routes that afford a view of the finest scenery In the world. American travelers sav that "the United States and ail its grandeur lie west of the Mississippi." Cer tain is It that beyond tnat oivioing line are some gigantic marvels of nature the Yellowstone, the Tosemlte and the Grand Canon of the Colorado In whose marvel ous immensity the beautiful Niagara would become a tiny waterfall. There Is mountain scenery that rivals the Alps and deserts that bear the vague charm of Isolation and vast solitude. The Port land Fair, besides the "show" things of commerce, art and science, -offers to Americans this Summer a good excuse to otic spirit, none was ever achieved with hlsher fortitude, and none ever resulted in larger consequences. But for this Jour ney of exploration the cnances are more than even that the Pacific Northwest would have gone to some one of the several European powera who afterwards con tended for It, with the probable result ot shutting the United States from the Pacific seaboard, tor be it remembered that the wish to acquire California was largely a consequence of our possession of the country to the north. A Leading Attraction. Chicatro News. While tha St. Louis Fair apparently I get acquainted with their country. exhausted the Interest of the Eastern States in enterprises ot this character, there are gratiffying evidences that the Lewid and Clark Exposition, which opens In Portland. Or., today, will ndt lack for patronage- For the people in the region "Between the Middle West and the Pacific Coast tbo Fair win be the leading attraction, and It Is likely lo to draw a larjre number of visitors from the East and from abroad. The St. Louis. Exposition commemorated the 100th anniversary of the Louisiana pur chase. The Lewis and Clark Exposl-1 Hon is historically of almost equal sig nificance, for It commemorates the feat of the hardy explorers who penetrated the unknown' territory of the vaut Northwest and blazed the way for civ ilization. The people of tne western Exploit Unique in Our Annals. Pittsburg Gazette. Tha Exposition succeeds the St. Louis show in a year and will In a similar way depend especially on the West for patron age. But the "out West" of today has moved from Chicago or St. Louis, and the Oregon display will afford many an Eastern man the opportunity of learning how vast is the territory beyond tne Rocky Mountains. Its promoters, more over, hope to provide distinction enough to offset any lack ot Interest that might result from the frequency of ralrs. While the Philadelphia centennial com memorated the birth of the Republic, the Oregon Fair celebrates the occupa tion of the farthest point In the territory that forrna the body of states. The man- Coast have reason to honor these hardy agers at Portland In completing the es- n-v-. tt-i i ,K., nriin! a hpfl.ii- I Viitiit in uunn Tnr tne oneninc nave siven i f 4oo acres lvinc In view l nromise iof executive aoiuiy uat ou, r,r h Pau4H Ranir lir. I malixii their ambition to maKe its aamin- ,11 onnnts f n character ta 1 istratlon- nav. and if they succeed In this 'M maintain tbe Coast States reputation they will -accomplish an exploit unique rr niihlfc snirit and enterprise. i Iff sucn unaenajunga. 4
