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We cannot have Chinese coming to this country as laborers. It is true that there is large demand for such work as they could do. It Is true that their la bor, in clearing land, growing fruit and working in fisheries, would be of great use and advantage to the country. But we cannot have them, nevertheless. In certain ways, though to a less extent than many imagine, they would come into competition with our own working people. Race animosity would Intensify this conflict. Many of our own people would have a sense of injurs'. The pro test would get into politics. We can not have renewal of the opportunity to Chinese to enter our country as labor ers. Twenty years ago, or thereabout, fur ther entrance of this class of Chinese was forbidden by law. The prohibition never will be removed. Something doubtless will be lost, or delayed, in the way of our material advancement. They who have work to be done In' particular upon the land cannot get it done at rateH which they can afford to pay. Consequently it will go undone, or be postponed. But we cannot have among our working people the sense of injustice and Injury which they would feel if renewal of Chi nese immigration were permitted. "We cannot have the political, in dustrial and social tumult which would be the sure consequence. No one who has any position or authority or Influence among us will ever advo cate removal of the restrictions to Chi nese immigration. As a consequence of the policy of exclusion which we have pursued during twenty years, few Chi nese remain in the United States. Most of those who were here are dead. The few who remain are old, mostly de crepit and unable to perform any real labor, while the number born in the country and entitled to citizenship Is extremely small. But we wish to trade with China, and ought not to repel, or to treat with in dignity, those who wish to enter our country for observation or for travel, or to acquaint themselves with condi tions of Industry and trade among our people. To repel such Is not .to favor any class of our own working people, hut rather to do every class Teal In jury; for a certain amount of Inter course must be maintained with every people whom we trade with. It is an Indispensable condition. Of course if we cannot maintain trade relations Avith China without opening the door to the introduction of her working people, to compete with our own, then we must give up the hope of trading with China. But the Chinese are not anxious to part with their working people, and the tendency of her policy is to discourage their emigration. But. contemptuously as some of our people may think of China, she is a proud nation, neverthe less. The United States and China may trade with each other, to their mutual advantage; but not if we do not treat her merchants, traders and travelers with respect. It is probable, however, that much mischief has been done already. by our superservlceable officials, in "holding up" at our ports Chinese merchants., travelers and others, who were really entitled to enter, and whose entrance would not be objected to even by our own working people, in whose interest, real or supposed, the drastic restriction has been enforced. Disclosures of forgery by Benjamin H. GkiskilL. of Philadelphia, who died four weeks ago. have far more than local Interest. It will tend to shake public confidence all over the country. Raising the number of shares on s stock certificate Is a novel sort of fraud that banks and trust companies are not prepared to meet. Exposure of GaskiU's methods may lead to closer inspection ot collateral, even to the point of Inquiring from secretaries of corporations a6 to the genuineness of stock issues. There never was a time when extreme vigilance by officers of financial institutions is so necessary as right new. THE WAIL OF A GAMBLER. Thomas "W. Lawson is out with an other chapter of the "Crime of Amalga mated." He continues to grill H. H. Rogers and his Standard Oil associates in a manner that is both terrific and graphic. Out of all evil some good is said to come, and the dlstfuEt created by Lawson has undoubtedly had a beneficial effect on some rather care lessly conducted financial enterprises. But Lawson's lifelong profession as a stock gambler has given him false ideas about what is right and what is wrong In this world. The assumption that all stock gambling Is legitimate is an un warranted one. "Come on, boys, this money lg all yours if you guess the cards right," cries the faro banker, arid the roulette man makes the same prom ise with his plea for an 'investment" on the black or the red. Here is the language of Lawson in his latest In stallment ot "Frenzied Finance": In Wall etreet the beat brains of all the Western world center. Fortes are there waiting for brains to carve and take; stacked up there are mliHons. which he who has bralM can pocket without a "by-your-leave." The only real difference In the opera tions of Rogers. Lawson and the rest of the "Wall-street crowd and the faro banker Is In the amount involved and the methods employed. The results are the same In both branches of brigand age, for the end sought Is securing from a confiding public large sums of money for which no equivalent Is given. Lawson credits himself with having been the bellwether which led the rest of the flock into the shearing pens of the Standard Oil crowd and In his lat est chapter he paints a graphic picture of the visions which trooped through his mind when he heard the gates of the pen shut behind him and his followers. He saw "lines upon lines of men in striped suits with cropped heads and faces branded by despair," and another procession of men bearing stretchers on which lay shrouded figures, which his conscience told him were "suicides be cause of you." The crime of Amalgamated undoubt edly ruined so many men that among their ranks were a large number of dis honest ones who landed in the peniten tiary or In suicides' graves.. These" men in following Lawson into the trap de parted from the rules governing legit imate business, and made gamblers' wagers that the Amalgamated stock would sell at high prices. To be sure, the margin demanded was somewhat higher than Is exacted for ordinary stock gambling, but the method and principle involved were the same. The men who buy stocks on a mar gin do so with no intention of putting up the remainder of the purchase price and. keeping them, and the men who bought Amalgamated took the word of Lawson and his associates and believed that the first 25 per cent payment was all that they would need to put up. In all gambling games the percentage In favor of the dealer is so great that the victims on the wrong side of the table sooner or later lose all of their money. In the case of Amalgamated it hap pened sooner instead of later. "Fren zied Finance" is interesting and It has made some Important disclosures re garding the crooked gamblers who use loaded dice and marked cards, but even at its climax It becomes only a recital of a row among gamblers over the di vision of the spoils. To the investor whose operations are confined to the le gitimate and whose money is never on the high card or In the dog-eat-dog game of high finance. Mr. Lawson's warnings are only ravings devoid of any special value. KOWKX AND LOOMIS. The President's letter reviewing the facts regarding the efforts of Mr. Bowen to discredit Mr. Loomls, his pre decessor at Caracas, but now Assistant Secretary of State, is unpleasant read ing. The whole affair might be allowed to pass without further notice, were it not for several matters of general in terest which are involved. The origin of bitterness between those two officials Is not disclosed. It must have ante dated the correspondence between Mr. Bowen and the Secretary of State, com mencing in the Spring of 1904. Evi dently a personal -grievance was inten sified by belief, on -Mr. Bowen's part, that Mr. Loomis had taken advantage of Mr. Hay's absence to Interfere In the settlement pending between the govern ments of Venezuela and of the United States, in which Mr. Bowen was then prominent The President's letter clear ly shows the lack of foundation for that Idea, as Mr. Hay was conducting the negotiation In person, Mr. Loomls' sig nature being appended merely as Mr. Hay's temporary representative. This conviction that Mr. Loomis was at tempting to "throw him down" (if this Western expression may be permitted) plainly colored, and then perverted. Mc. Bowen's mind. Thus a ready ear was lent by him to every miserable scandal pervading the air of that pestl lential city; and bad led to worse. Mr. Loomls had been Indiscreet enough to have personal dealings with the asphalt company. In these matters. which Secretary Taft, after full Invest! gation. found to be free from the taint of corruption, the opportunity for the enemies of Mr. Loomis was at hand Reading this after-history, it seems most probable that Mr. Bowen was made a tool of by undisclosed operators seeking advantage in muddying these waters. What is clear Is that to gain his point of discrediting Mr. Loomis both in Caracas and in Washington, Mr. Bowen descended to the use of means of perverting opinion which no decent man. surely no representative of the United States Government, could touch without pollulion. Relying on personal acquaintance with Secretary Taft (disclosed in the "Dear Bill.' signed "Herbert," letter), it was sought to prejudice him in advance by the "terrible scandal In the situation here" allegation. Then. In the easy descent, comes the Intrigue with the press rep resentatives, while striving to avoid being personally quoted. And at last, as the situation became clearer and ruin stared him In the face, if accusa tlons courfi not be supported, comes the effort to secure evidence, by what Pres ldent Roosevelt calls, in plain words. attempting to have it stolen. It is a pitiful story- The President's letter is eminently characteristic. His mind works too clearly to obscure the facts. He is prompt to denounce. He hesitates at the sequence of punishment after grievous fault He recognises the previous good service of the of fender, and seeks for a way out, in which justice might be done, the eil effects in the public service stopped and yet that the roan's life and career might be saved. Plainly, to him it Is a very grievous duty to order Mr. Bow en's dismissal from the service. Tet It Is done. The reasons for it are demon strated. To recede from it would be weakness, not mercy. So the blow falls, and there Is no appeal. AUTOS IN THE COOTKY. "What was said In these columns a few-days ago relative to the care -that should be taken by drivers of automo biles In turning street corners applies with no less force to those who operate automobiles In the country- In the city the "chief danger Is from collision. In the country there Is the added danger of frightening horses that are not ac customed to the appearance, noise and speed of these new vehicles. The care less driver of an auto, swiftly rounding a bend In the road; where brush-cov ered fences shut off the view, may plunge In front of an approaching team and cause a runaway with fatal results. Under circumstances such as these even the most reliable horses will be come frightened. "While It Is true that the automobile Is a vehicle andhas a right to run on the public highways, it Is also true that horses existed before autos and are In the vast majority. The auto can be kept under control, while the team of horses sometimes cannot. In a narrow road with steep banks on either side the auto can back out, even though the way be too narrow for the team to turn without upsetting ithe vehicle. It re quires no stretch of the imagination to picture a score of places where the meeting of an auto and an excitable team means certain accident unless the driver of the auto yields the right of way. What can be expected except ca lamity if a chugging auto meets a ner vous horse on one of the narrow roads built high up on the steep hillsides along the rivers in Clackamas County? "Who need be surprised if loss of life re sults when an automobile driver Insists on meeting and passing a frightened team on a narrow, high bridge, such as may be found at Oregon City, Salem and Albany? Every person who has traveled over the roads of the Willam ette Valley can recollect Innumerable places where the driver of an auto must exercise the utmost caution and yield the road to the driver of a team or jeopardize life and property. The advent of the automobile should bring about many changes In the man ner of caring for publkf highways. Ex tremely narrow grades should be elimi nated as far as possible, so that auto and team may pass with the least dan ger of accident. At short turns In roads, especially where the turn comes on a hillside, trees and brush should be removed so that the occupant of a vehicle may see far enough ahead to avoid danger. It is certain that the automobile has come to stay, but no less certain that a few fatal accidents will result in legislation placing re strictions upon the use of these ma chines on the public highways. RAILROAD BUILDING. A table published in a recent issue of the Railway Age furnishes interest ing data concerning the railroad mile age In the United States now under construction, and the mileage which will be under construction possibly within the year. As shown by this ta ble, an extraordinary proportion of this roadbullding Is In the South Atlantic and Gulf States. In North and South Carolina, Virginia and Goergla, there Is at present a total of 1156 miles of rail road in course of construction; in the Gulf States and the Mississippi Valley States the total Is 1110 miles, and in the Southwestern States 2500 miles are being built. Turning north, we find that in New England there are but 37 miles of new road under construction; in the Middle States only 465 miles; In the Central Northern States 6S1 miles; In the North western States 62S miles, and in the Pacific Coast States 923 miles. Summed up. there are 4776 miles of railway un der construction In the South and Southwest, as compared with 2734 miles being built In the remainder of the country. This shows activity and progress in the South and Southwest, certainly. But it Is indicative also of a delayed activity, and Is not at all prejudicial to the record of prosperity In the vast sec tlons In which there Is now, relatively speaking, a lull In railroad construction. The South Is Just coming up abreast of the times; the sections of the country that are not now adding any consider able amount of mileage to their rail roads have kept up with conditions from year to year, and their transpor tation needs are. in the main, well sup plied. Activity in railroad construction In the South and Southwest Indicate pros perity and development in those re gions that are- both interesting and gratifying; the activity in the transpor tation business In the other sections is equally Interesting and gratifying, since It shows a great volume of traffic on completed lines In sections where de mand has long been steady and supply has kept up with it. That the South is entering an era of wonderful Industrial and trade expan sion cannot be doubted. Every Indi cation points that way. In agriculture this development has In recent years been remarkable. Cotton, as In the old days. Is king In. the sunny Tealm. The crop of this gerat staple In 1904 aggre gated 14.000,000 bales, as against 7,000,000 bales in 1SSG and 3.S00.W0 bales In 1S75. This, though the greatest Item in the development ot the South. Is but one In. the grand total of Its prosperity. Scores of factories have been built In the part decade: Iron and coal territories have been developed, and one extensive oil field has been tapped and worked with large returns. This growth Is not remarkable, ex cept that It has been so long delayed. It Is Interesting and gratifying, how ever, and Instructive withal, as show ing the false basis upon which the In dustrial policy of the Old South rested and the grand possibilities that there awaited the touch of individual enter prise. Railroad construction follows and serves this spirit of enterprise. It does not create it. except through the influence of one activity upon another. It is a powerful spoke In the wheel of prosperity, the center of which Is the natural wealth of the country. Doubtless the O. R. & N. delegation, when they reach Shaniko, In Crook County, will receive full details of the paragraph In the dispatches of June 20. "The aggregate for the season's ship ments of about 250 cars, or at least 125.000 sheep. The sheep bringing an average price of $2 per head, by which, with the 4.000.000 pounds of wool mar keted at this place at an average of 20 cents, the sheep farmers of this section will realize over $1,000,000 for this year's harvest." No small Item In a railroad s burin ess. 200 carloads of wool and. 350 carloads of sheep. It Is not an estimate of what this undeveloped region will hereafter produce, but facts of today. No d I pom at. however faraeelng and astute, can prepare to meet every emergency. In London, tomorrow, the Pilgrims are going to give a record- breaking dinner to Whltelaw Reld. Among other things, they are going- to inflict a poem by Alfred Austin on the American Ambassador. Maybe we lack knowledge of international courtesy and perhaps we may be justly accused of wanting respect for tradition and we don't know how to wear court clothes; but we defy the whole army of carping critics to point out when and where an American poet ever thrust a collection of rhymes on Queen Victoria's personal representative at our seat of govern ment. It goes without saying that the elec tion of ex-President Cleveland as -president of the Equitable will be accepted by policy-holders and the public as a complete guaranty that the graft will be stopped and an honest and rigid regime inaugurated. President Cleve land would be no figurehead. He would run things; or at least neither Chair man Morton nor anybody else would run him. The great need of the Equita ble and of some other Insurance con cerns Just now Is a revival of public confidence. When Mr. Cleveland goes Into the Insurance business we may ex pect that It will be conducted on Its merits. The log raft Is extendhur its field for operations. When It first appeared on the Pacific the builders were unable tor- get It safely over the course from Coos Bay to San Francisco. But the route was lengthened to the Columbia River and then to Puget Sound, and now a oan rancisco firm Is 3ald to be arrang ing to tow one of the unwieldy masses of logs across the Pacific to Japan. The first rafts towed on the Pacific were not very successful, but. since A. B. Hammond began operations with them. not a raft has been lost and it is highly probable that the trans-Pacific tow could be successfully accomplished. Those former residents of Nebraska who read the account given by Dwlght B. Huss of his automobile ride through, not over, the "gumbo" roads of that state, must have experienced a feeling of gratitude that they are living In Ore gon. There Is mud In this state, but not of the sticky kind which will ac cumulate until it blocks wagon wheels. Nebraska Is a good state and has given Oregon many good citizens whose pres ence here Is evidence that this com monwealth Is the better place In which to live. Thirty law students were admitted to the bar last Monday after passing an examination before the Supreme Court. Probably not half of them will enter Into permanent practice of the profes sion, but all. If guided by high moral principles, will be broader and better men for the time they have spent study ing the history and present status of the laws of the land In which they live. May they never get away from the first rule that law Is the perfection of reason and that which is not reason is not law. A woman who committed murder in Vermont Is under sentence to hansr to morrow. Captain Lloyd Clark, brother of the man whose fame Is linked with the battleship Oregon, sends an emo tional telegram to the Governor protest ing against the hanging. He has the right to do this, but when he asks. In case the law's sentence is enforced, that his brother's picture, hanging In the Green Mountain Capitol, be turned toward the wall, he sets himself down as a meddling ass. Sol Simpson, the Puget Sound logger, bought the steamer Oregon from the O. R. & N. Co. after she was sunnosed to be old and useless. He repaired her and made a fortune In the Alaska trade. Now comes J. H. Peterson, the logger. and buys the tJld O. R. & N. steamer Geo. . Elder, abandoned by her own ers. If history repeats Itself in this case, another lucky logger, will speedily develop Into a lucky steamship man. Portland will receive today a large number of members of the California Press Association. Thev will remain until next Tuesday. As a rule, they are a fine lot of men and women who travel with their eyes open and write to their papers without restraint They will find much to praise here and here about, and It goes without saying that tney wm be generous. The best Port land has is not too good for them. The Amalgamated Association of Iron. Steel and Tlnworkers has notified the TInplate Trust that a readjustment of the wage schedule Is due-July L and. unless It Is forthcoming, there will be a strike. An advance of from 18 to 22 per cent will be demanded. If there Is a corresponding advance In the amount required to bribe walking delegates and strike managers, the strike will not be settled very easily. Carpenter Peak, of Welser Idaho, who fell Into the river while Intoxl cated and was saved from death by drowning and exposure, by the whisky he carried, has afforded an opportunity for wholesale speculation as- to where the 'moral should be placed. His ex perience has proved beyond question that whisky is both good and bad for man. Many deaths are reported from sun stroke in the East and along the Mis sissippi River lowlands there has been a vast property loss from floods. The glorious climate of Oregon has not been showing to its best advantage this sea son, but there have been no sunstroke fatalities and no floods of serious con sequence. The movement of East Side residents to secure from the Southern Pacific Company such simple passenger accom modations as every station is entitled to Is not' unreasonable No sufficient reason can be given for-turning dowp i ne request. Wonder whether Alfred Austin, the official rhymester of Great Britain, who has Indited a poem to Whltelaw Reld, hasn't got his checks mixed. .It was John Hay, not his successor, who used to work at Austin's trade. It would be not a little Interesting to see some of the first-place men In the college athletic contest? engaged In a test of haypltchlng ability in the sun scorched fields of the Willamette Val ley early next month.- - ' 0REG0N0Z0NE The Times, of Chena. Alaska, has learned that ice Chicago strike has beexr settled. but tho news has not yet reached Chicago. In the Boston Post a young woman named Mildred Champagne talks on love and sentiment every day. giving advice to the lovesick. Her talks fairly bubble with good cheer. Upon William Dean Howells has been conferred the degree of doctor of litera ture, by Columbia University. Doctors do not always agree, but most of the ob servant laymen will agree with Dr. Howells in his diagnosis of novelicltls a few days ago: "I do not believe that anyone can write a novel, with rare ex ceptions, until bo has lived at least 33 years In experience of the world." Ac cepting this as authoritative, we must conclude that most of the Six Best Sellers are merely Pale Provender for Petty Peo ple. SteoanofT. the Russian painter, has ap pealed to the American consul-general at St. Petersburg to assist In the recovery of certain Russian paintings which, he avers, disappeared Immediately after the closa of the St Louis World's Fair, where they had been on exhibition. Secretary Walter B. Stevens of the Exposition, de nies any knowledge of their disappear ance. It Is possible that tho Japs cap tured them and carried them oft as souvenirs? Poets who set stalled on rhymes for "heavens" should put "Fighting Bob" Evans In their repertoires. Who dares arise to Tdeny that republics aro ungrateful? American newspapers gave page after page of space, day after day, to a naval affair that took place on the other side of the world, between two races ot people entirely alien to us. whose respective languages mean no more to us than a mob of consonants engaged In a riot In the one case, and a series of hen tracks, in tho other. And yet when. last week, a long-drawn-out naval en gagement was fought in the vicinity of Baltimore. U. S. A., between fleets of American warships, officers and manned by men of our own tongue and blood. our newspapers accorded it no more space than was given to a reunion of volunteer firemen, a pink tea In high society, or an artistic dog fight The great ship grap pled and some went down presumably; land batteries engaged the attacking squadrons and filled Davy Jones' locker with theoretical thousands; It wa3 a fight to a finish, a most destructive battle- constructively. Was this niggard notice duo to tho fact that It was a theory. and not. a condition, that confronted us? George Fitch of the Council Bluffs Non pareil charges the Lewis and Clark Ex position officials with having made an electric light tower out of Mount Hood in order to surpass Buffalo's Pan-American electric tower and make tho memory of the glorious Cascades at St Louts resemble a counterfeit thirty-cent piece that has been run over by a mule cart. Does Mr. Fitch imagine that Mount Hood arises from the Oregon scenery in the shape of a barber's pole? Does he sup pose that linemen can go up Mount Hood with the aid of pole-climbers? But let us be crfarltable. Mr. Fitch lives In a state where the only object of natural scenery that remotely suggests a mountain is Council Bluffs, the rest of Iowa being strictly horizontal. It is mora than prob able that the Council Bluffs Nonpareil man got his notions of mountain scenery from the Tyrolean Alps on the St Louis Pike, which blazed with bulbs. The Language of Diplomats. When Minister Herbert W. Bowen ad dressed Secretary Taft as "My Dear Bill." he should have added a postscript to this effect: "Say, Bill, old boy, be sure to burn this letter; otherwise Teddy may get It if you don't watch out Tours as usual. Bert" Munscy's Many Monthlies. Mr. Frank A. Munsey Interrupted his European trip last week to cross back to New York and start another magazine. Mr. Munsey starts a new magazine every new moon. It Is stated that he has not selected a name for his latest this thing of naming the babies has become a mighty task for Munsey but of one thing we may be sure, namely, that when the magazine comes out it will carry on the front cover an original poem about like this: "This is the brightest magazine You ever seen." North Pole Notes. Last Year. The Zlegler expedition sailed today for Franz Josef Land and will push on and discover the North Pole. This Year. The Zlegler relief expedi tion sailed from Tromsoe. Norway, today, to go to the relief of the Zlegler expedl tion that sailed last year. Next Year. The Zlegler relief-relief ex pedition will sail next week .to relieve the relief expedition that sailed last year to relieve the Zlegler expedition that sailed two years ago. Year Later. The North Pole, like the star-spangled banner. Is still there. ROBERTUS LOVE. Thorny "Way of Germany. Boston Transerlnt Emperor William of Germany has a big army and a' big navy, and he wants to mak each bigger and more powerful. His sword, like Cyrano's, has cramps as It lies Idle in tho scabbard. Hk wnnt m Diovment for his amw and nnw fni- tvim. aro his. and he can launch them against any other country at his own caprice. The slaughter of a few thousand Herre ros. mere naked bushmen, In Africa. Is not enough oS a task for the imperial arms. The Kaiser, therefore, hastens to chastise Venezuela, to menace France in a blustering speech in Morocco, to Inspire arucies snowing now easily he could con quer me unitea states or England, to an net Chinese terrltorv bemtiM nf th vm Ing of two German missionaries and n train tn thrpatftl th wal-rnrn nt -.. Chinese territory the Lord knows for what He has become an international danger, a maker of mischief, a provoker ol a true, n mc ucrmans naa oeen wise, thv Tcnnlil havn rnn nn tlulp .ltrfmu way in commerce. In literature", in thought and not permitted a pugnacious young tsnperor to sport witn such dangerous tovs as a mishtr and restless armv nn o great navy eager to prove itself. As long as ne nas ims puissant army ana navy, the Kaiser will feel secure, ruffle the feelings of his neighbors, and keep the worm on tne verge or war. More Terrible Than AVar. Troy (N. Y.) Times. War Is terrible, but the plague in India is worse in the matter of loss of life than even the most sanguinary strife in tha Far East The deaths av erage oO.OOO weekly, and there seems no present prospect of checking- the dread disease, which no doubt finds conditions favorable to its spread in the habits of the natives and the neg lect of sanitary nrecautloas so typical in that region. RULER OP EQUITABLE TBmm F. Ryaa, 54 Yean Old, Worth Over SZ0,MQQe Bmtjr&t BalJt of Hrde'a Stock His Pet Hobby Is Rats la z: Helatria Cattle. Baltimore News. Thomas F. Ryan, who becomes the dominating influence in the Equitable Life Arsurance Society of New York through the purchase of the bulk of the stock of James Hasen Hyde, began his business career In Baltimore, and It was here that he laid the foundation for his great for tune, which Is estimated anywhere from 50 to 100 million dollars. He Is now prob ably the leading figure in Wall street He has been at the head of nearly every financial deal of consequence that has been consummated In Wall street In the last decade. No one identified with that powerful and resourceful group of capital lists and financiers known as the Whitney syndicate, has gained a wider measure of success than Mr. Ryan, though the pub lic nas never been acquainted with his methods, nor has it ever known of any big transaction contemplated by him until official announcement of It was made. Mr. Ryan Is 34 years old. His career has been remarkable in many ways. Its most amazing feature is this that he worked his way from absolute poverty to power and almost unlimited wealth. He was born In Nel3on Cbunty, Virginia, on October 17. 1S31. his maternal ancestors having been Scotch-Irish and his father's ancestors having come from the North of Ireland to Virginia before tho Revolution. His mother died when he was o years old. and he went to live with his grandmother. Young Ryan left the homestead and went to Baltimore to seek his fortune. Without money or friends he had a hard row to hoe. By perseverance he finally secured a small commission with John D. Barry's dry goods commission house. Two years later he struck out for New York. In this city he obtained a position with a banking house in which Barry was in terested. Ryan was thenlS. In two years he had gained, by close attention, a won derful insight of finance. This early training has stood him well in hand. At it he formed a stock ex change partnership and became his own boss. That was what he had been striv ing for all his life. He prospered so well that In 1S74 he was able to purchase a seat on the stock exchange. There he con tinued in active business for 10 years. In this short period. Mr. Ryan, by his great capacity for work, original ideas. ability for execution, together with his quiet, unostentatious demeanor, attracted RAILROADS ASJAXDODGERS. 3Ianagcrs File False Reports for "Taxation Purposes." Chicago Record-Herald. What are Illinois railroads worth a mile? That questtbn Interests the State Board of Railroad and Warehouse Commission ers, which Is meeting at Springfield to decide on the general level of freight rates in the state. Rates must allow a reason able profit, and one of tho factors in de termining reasonableness 13 the value of the property on which profits must be earned. Ex-Attorney-General Hamlin has been unkind enough to Introduce In evidence on this point tho railroad companies' own figures of the. value of their property per mllo a3 they presented them last Winter to the State Board of Equalization. The railroad lawyers were astounded at his simplicity. What had those figures to do with the case? They had only been prepared for "taxation purposes." As for "reasonable rate3 purposes" the values were ever so many times bigger. There used to be a saying that the power of taxation Involved the power of confisca tion. o one would guess it today. It would be truer now to say that the power of escaping taxation and the power of confiscating a nice little percentage of tho value of all traffic go hand in band. How long will the railroad be permitted to play both ends against the unfortunate public In the middle? Japanese Surgery. American Medical Journal. Sir Frederick Treves in a speech at tho dinner of the Japan Society in London, spoke enthusiastically of the medical and surgical skill of the Japanese. He said that anybody desirous of seeing the last thing, the most ingenious thing, and yet the simplest thing in the equipment for war. must go to Japan. Many of tha problems which concern European armies, and have been, to a large extent, a ter ror of wa In European countries, the Japanese were solving or had solved. British troops, he said, enter a war with many determinations. One is ten per cent of sick. It is what they aro accustomed to expect to get and they get it The Japanese are qulto content with 1 per cent of sick, and they get it It was a question of ambition, perhaps, he said, but one which might well bo Imitated. He was convinced that Japan not many years hence would provide one of the most remarkable schools of surgery that tho world has ever seen. "You will un derstand why," he continued; "there is tho Infinite patience of the people, their infinite tenderness. Kinder, more sympa thetic people do not exist Then comes one very Important factor, at least in the making of a surgeon; they have no nerv ous system. Nerves Is an untranslatable term in the Japanese language. I am confident that we shall find In the is lands of Japan not many years hence one of the most curious, interesting and progressive schools of medicine that this world has seen." Didn't See Their Blushes. - New York Press. A fine-looking girl In a tailor-made suit, white vest, and one of those polo turbans (Jap style), yielded her seat In a crowded car to an old woman In gloomy spectacles. As the almost blind creature took the seat she remarked gratefully: "Oh, thank you, sir. You aro the only gentleman In the car." I did not see any blushes mantling the brazen cheeks of several males who heard her. Beasts Confer on Ills of Men. Garret Smith. la New York Tribune. Now. the owl rose np and poko owl wise, -To-whlt-to-wtooo aad alas! If men could only acquire mr eyes. What a. drop there'd be in saal They'd pack their currents away- on lea And hold them for a rise. And the pipe llne'd hunt for a brand-new Job If men only had my eyes." Then the polar bear aid, with a bearish shrug-. "Garrrrali! Bless my eoul: -If men only srew some heavy furs. To the deuce rrlth clothes and coal! They'd sell their heaters for Bowery Junk And He on the ice to sleep. And the entire State of William Penn Might to to ratlins' sheep." Then the goat gulped down a casteff shirt, "Ba-a-ai You make me emile. The cost of HvinR not all in gas. And coal and kerosene He. Now. wouldn't the beef trust get thin quick And lanquish, In chronic blues If the waste from any old boiler shop Could be made into Irish stews T' Then the eagle said. "With all these things They'd do away witn rreicnt And would only need a cair o xay wings To settle the railroad rate. There'd be a state of steady declln In the home of the blr Ship Trant; They'd turn their Pullmans out to grass And leave the rails to rust. Then the monkey spoke, with a knowing wink In the monk-like way he had. Tou feUows would make up a patchwork man And you'd make It a muss, be gad! You'd make It so easy for hint Jo live Tiat you'd fooxle. the- whole blamed plan, "With sotbinsr on earth to scrap about J "What's the fun o being a manX' LIFE, OE, NEW YORK the attention of such heavyweights In tho financial world n J.iv finuid R.-Tmii t Tllden. William R. Travers. John B. Tra vor and William C. Whitney. Mr. Whit ney was especially impressed by the young man. and in 1SSS took hold of him and to gether they began the work ot consolidat es me various railway and railroad lines in this city. Since then Mr. Ryan has ex tended his operations until he and his as sociates have consolidated about every thing in sight. Including steam railroads, electric light properties, gas companies and almost every known branch of Indus try and finance. Mr. Ryan wa3 tha original promoter of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company, which by degrees absorbed practically cvery line In Manhattan. He was one of the organizers of the Consolidated Trac tion Company of Jersey City, which con nected that city with neighboring 'towns and cities. He also Is largely interested in the Atlantic Coast electric line, which runs along the Jersey coast, taking In Long Branch. Several years ago Mr. Ryan acquired tho horse car lines on Staten Island and changed the power to electricity. Inci dentally he took in the electric lighting plants on Staten Island. He was tho pro moter and builder of tho Union Elevated Railroad of Chicago, and was a member of the syndicate which purchased from Charles T. Yerkes the North and West Chicago surface roads. Ho developed tha present system of electric railways and electric lighting plants In Milwaukee. One, of his strongest qualities Is par severance. Once ho makes up hi3 mind to accomplish a thing he will bido his time, and a matter of a few years ap parently does not bother him. Tho gas trust In New York is a sample of Mr. Ryan's handiwork. In this he was as sisted by William C. Whitney and An thony N. Brady, with the backing of tha Standard Oil Company. It would take a good deal of space of enumerate all tha companies ot which Mr. Ryan Is a di rector. November 23, 1S73, Mr. Ryan married Miss Ida M. Barry, daughter of his first employer. His hobby Is raising Holsteln cattle, of which ho has several hundred head. His kennels contain some of the finest dogs in the world. He Is a member of many clubs, though he does not de vote much time to them. ODD BITS 0F0REG0N LIFE. Come Again, Mr. King. Powder Valley Echo. The editor of tho Echo desires to ac knowledge the receipt of a fine mess of lettuce. brought to this office by Georga King. Ye Editor Takes a Back Seat. Tukanon Corr. Dayton Chronicle. T. E. Gentry called on Miss M.. Sun day, so we had to take a biscuit and wait We don't think It fair for him to try and do us, simply because he 13 bos3 of the road. Bad Error ot a Discriminating Dog. Freewatcr Times. Over at Touchet a dog bit a woman on the leg and the dog was Immedi ately shot. Some of the people out that way say it wasn't right to kill a dog with such a fine taste. Why tho Boys Are Grieving. Riverside Corr. Burns News. Dan Jordan came down to this part and took away one of our fair ones Con sequently, us boys are not feeling Very welL, Ben Jordan better look out, for we don't like to have the Lawen boys take our girls. Phil's Effective Device. Raymond Corr. South Bend Journal. Some of our boys who are fond of danc ing, walked to Wlllapa Saturday night to attend the dance at that place and walked back Sunday morning. They say Phil Batson was very anxious to get homo before daylight as he didn't want anyone to know that he came homo with his shoes in hand, and not on his feet No Big FairCompares With It. The Dalles Chronicle. "I attended the Chicago Fair and also the Exposition In Paris, and can truth fully say that while our Lewis and Clark Fair Is small, for beauty of ap pointment and grandeur of scenery, these big fairs couldn't touch ours. I could never grow weary of wandering" about the grounds, particularly after the illumination." So spoke Dr. Slddall, who returned from Portland last night The Husband Beater. London Chronicle. A man appeared with his eyes black ed at Tottenham the other day com plaining that he had been beaten by his wife. He had been married for six years, and had been continually thrashed for five, he said. He obtained a summons. Patriots to the Front. Kansas City Star. "I would not accept this job for an other three years," said the Mayor of Pittsburg recently, "If the salary wore Increased to $50,000 a year." Now, why can't Kansas City land a Mayor of that kind, once in a while, Just for a change? It's Up to Luther Bnrbank. Topeka State Journal. ' If' Luther Burbank really wants to do something Important for tho hu man race, why doesn't ha invent a cucumber without any colic concealed about its person, and an onion that Is breathless? Refuge In Distress. J. "W. Foley, in Xew York Times. A fellow's father knows a lot Ot office work and such. But when It comes to "things like what A bor wants, he ain't much. For when it comes to cuts or warts Or stone bruiso on your toes, A fellow's father don't know, but A, fellow's mother knows. A fellow's father, he looks wise And says: "A-hem! A-heml" But when it comes to cakes and pies, "What does he know of themT He knows the price of wheat and rye And corn and oats, it's true. But if you cot the leg ache, why. He den't know what to do. And if you buraeC your back the tine That you went in to swim. And want some stuff to heal it why. You never go to him. Because he doesn't know a thing About such things as those. But you Just bet. and don't forget A fellow's mother knows. , , And if your nose is sunburned, till It's all peeled oJT. and you .Go to him.- for some healin etuff, He don't know what to do. 1 r He's Just as helpless as can be. But when a fellow goes And asks his mother, why, you see, Jl fellow's mother knows. A fellow's father knows a lot? But It ain't any use. "", So if a fellow's really got The leff ache or a bruise. Or if there's anything he wants He gets right up and goes . And asks his mother, for, yoa-se-'t v A fellow's mother ksows.