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PORTLAND. TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1005.
fusion of flowers. lts stately architect
ure &no its sno-w -cappea mountain
peaks In perspective. Inspires more than
admiration. 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.
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