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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (July 25, 1905)
s THE HORNING- OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, JULY - 2p . 11905. 'X Entered at the Postofflce at Portland. Or., aa second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION KATES. 1NVAKIABLT IN ADVANCE. (By Mall or Express.) ' . ally and Sunday, per year Dally and Sunday, six months .oa Xaily and Sunday, three months -5 Dally and Sunday, per month,.... Dally without Sunday, per year - Daily -wltijout Sunday, six months a.uu Dally -without Sunday, three months... l.a Dally without Sunday, per month Sunday. pr year Sunday, six months J Sunday. thre months. - -60 BY CARRIER. Dally without Sunday, per week Dally, per week. Sundaj- Included - THE WEEKLY OREGONIAN. (Issued Every Thursday.) Weekly, per yeas .;0 Weekly, six months.. -'J? Weekly, three month. ,-5U UOW TO BEMTT Send postofflce money order, express order or personal check on your local hank. Stamps, coin or Currency are at the sender's risk. EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICE. Tie B. C. Beckwlth Special Ateacy-New York, rooms 43-50 Tribune building. Chi cago, rooms 510-512 Tribune building. KEPT ON SALE. Chicago Auditorium Annex. Postofflce News Co.. 178 Dearborn street. Dallas, Texv-Globa News Depot. 20Q Main etreet San Antonio. Tex. Irfrols Book and cigar Co., 521 East Houston' street. DeBrer Julius Black, Hamilton & Kend rlck. 806-912 Seventeenth street; Harry D. Ott, 1503 Broadway; Pratt Book Store. 121 Fifteenth street. Colorado Springs, Colo. Howard II. Sell. Des Moines, la. Moses Jacobs. 209 Fifth street. Dulutli, Minn. Q. Blackburn. 215 West su perior street. Goldfleld, Ner. C. Malone. Kaahag City, Ko Rlcksecker Clear Co., Ninth and Walnut. Log Angeles Harry Drapkln; B. E. Amos. CM West Seventh street. Minneapolis M. J. Kavanaugh, 50 South Third; I Kegelsburger. 217 First avenue South. Cleveland, O. James Pushaw. 307 Superior street. New York Clty-U Jones & Co., Astor I House. Oakland. Cat W. H. Johnston. Fourteenth lend Franklin streets. Ogdea F. It Godard and Meyers & Har- top. D L. Boyle. Omuha Barkalow- Bros.. 1612 Farnam: IMageath StaUonery Co.. 1308 Farnam; Mc laughlin Bros.. 240 South 14th; McLaughlin l& Holtx, 1515 Farnam. SacrameBto, CaL Sacramento News Co., 428 K street. Salt Lake Salt Lake News Co.. 77 West I Second street South; Frank Hutchison. Yellowstone Park, Wyo. Canyon Hotel, Lake Hotel, Yellowstone Park Assn. Long Beach B. E. Amos. San Francisco J. K. Cooper & Co., 748 'Market street; Goldsmith Bros., 230 Sutter; IU E. Lee. Palace Hotel New Stand; F. W. Pitts. 1008 Market; Frank Scott. 80 Ellis; N. Wheatley Movable News Stand, corner Mar- Iket and Kearney streets; Hotel St. Francis News Stand; Foster & Orear, Ferry News Stand St. Louts. Mo. E. T. Jctt Book & News ICornpany, .800, Olive street. Washington. I). C P. D. Morrison. 2132 Pennsylvania avenue. JUTLAND, TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1905 WHERE'S THE DIFFERENCE? The vices of the common people are lot grave vices or seldom are. But f-he vices of the rich vices excessive. lagrant. enormous how are they to be checked, curbed or controlled? The gentlemen who control the great (street-car system of Portland have put fhemsblves on record against the games f chance in which the common people ind the poorer people sometimes in Ilulge. They encourage Municipal As Relations and Citizens' Unions to make 1 crusade against common gambling; Ihey Inspire Ministerial Associations to upport the effort. And then they work Iheir own schemes In lieu of those Irhich they have suppressed. Yesterday advertising cars were run til over this city, by the holy gentle- len of this railway company, placard ed with flaming announcements, urg- lg people to go out to Irvlngton or fc'herever the racetrack Is and see the lorse races, upon which they can bet Iheir money to the extent of their ' leart's desire. Everybody saw these advertising cars. Vhat's the difference between the con duct of the moral and pious gentlemen ho do this .thing, and the conduct of lie cappers and steerers for Bla- Iler, Pete Grant and Erlckson? In any loral sense has one set any advantage Iver the other? I And Sheriff Word mighty good man -who shuts up one species of gambling It the behest of the moral reformers loesn't molest the other because the reformers get the car fares resulting ira the movement to and fro. It is coming to this, we suppose, that le saloons of the common people, and te restaurants of the common people. mere beer or plain whisky or common fines are sold, will have to be wiped it. in the interest of morality and Irtue; while those who have money to it and drink in the saloons frequented the "better classes" will be entitled exemption from molestation. Swinish rlvlleges belong In fact only to the litter classes, who have money enough hire special attendants, and If pos- sly or unhappily there should be any Itrusion by the officers, to forfeit their til. IThe advertising cars that ran yes- Irday, as "cappers" for the racetrack. covered completely from top to bttom. and from end to end. with can- the advertisements in colossal let- Irs the cars covered so completely lat you couldn't see the Inside of them; at perhaps if you could, you would Lve seen a group at these pious gen- umen gathered around a table reading lelr Bibles, or humbly on their knees, gaged In prayer for the wicked mak- it clear once more how men will Impound with alns they are Inclined to damning those they have no mind to. )f course, the sale of liquors ought to restricted. "Some think the sale Ight to be forbidden altogether. But take an extreme view. The Ore tnlan Is much Inclined to think that lie of liquors, ought to be restricted Ithe better classes, tov the first families, members of aristocratic clubs, to Irsons of high respectability, to per is who, when they get drunk, can be ried home in their carriages to turn as reformers In the next election. id pay their preachers and their rspaper men to "scold against the lality of flesh," that they "believe not themselves." KVell, undoubtedly, this matter of re- hn Is a puzzling problem. ' It seems I, must be always or chiefly In the ids of persons who stand most in of reform themselves, who have tuous fits, and in these spasms think fbody' but themselves In need of i&tkm. x e Oregor&an doesn't suppose It will i able to step ihese greater vices, by expoMtree or parallel or cempar- toons; but to strip cant, humbug and Pharisaism of their pretensions never can be amiss. SPECULATORS AND THE &TATE. Thpse speculators in state school lands who. try to Justify their violation of the law on the ground that there Is no' reason foe the conditions imposed and that the state is not wronged if the legal price be paid, will And little com fort in this declaration of the Supreme Court in deciding the case of Sehlbrede against State Land Board: The land offered for sale belonged to the state. It had a rtrht to fell It upon such trims and conditions as It might deem ad vantageous. No one was , compelled to ac cept Its term or to make a purchase unless he df rlred to do ra. and If he did. his act was voluntary and he cannot complain of the conditions imposed. Among the conditions provided by law are that not more than 320 acres shall be sold to one person, and that the purchaser has not made a contract, express or implied, to convey the land to any other person. Now, If some man purchases more than 320 acres, through the aid of a "dummy." and procures that "dummy" to commit perjury by swearing that he has made no agree ment, express or. implied, to convey the land, the said purchaser has no cause for complaint if he should be prosecut ed for fraud upon the state and for subornation of perjury. We have it upon the authority of the Supreme Court that the state has a right to sell the land upon such terms and condi tions as it may deem advantageous. In order to protect the rights of the people from the land-grabbers, the state made the condition that not more than 320 acres Bhall be sold to one person. and he who tries to circumvent' the plain mandates of the law should be made to suffer the consequences. SHIFTING THE BALANCE OF TRADE. The most common fallacy Indulged In by a certain class of political econo mists Is the belief that liberal buying of foreign merchandise produces un satisfactory trade conditions at home. According to extremists in this belief. the Ideal trade condition for this coun try cannot exist until we cease buying anything from foreign countries; but we must continue selling to them. This sentiment ia aptly put by the ship-subsidy-seekers when they dolefully assert that '"this country is losing 5200,000,000 per year by not carrying our products to market in our own ships." Of course the hardheaded business men who char ter and load these ships do not sub scribe to this theory, but, on the con trary, know full well that we are ob taining $200,000,000 worth of service for the money that is paid. 'They also know from experience that it .would cost more than $200,000,000 to secure the1 same service with American ships oper ated under the present hampering and obstructing navigation laws. Occasionally there shines through this fog of theory a light of fact so strong that it cannot be clouded by the sophls tries of the ultra-protectionists. An In cident of this nature is the attempt of of the railroads operating in the Pa cific Northwest to win back some of the cement trade which in former seasons brought such a large fleet of ships from Europe to the North Pacific ports. To enable Coast Importers of this cement to distribute it to points well in the. in terior, the railroads have reduced the rate 11 cents per hundred pounds, and hope by this low rate to regain the" trade that has been diverted to Colo rado and other states where cement is manufactured. The people of Oregon. "Washington and Idaho by this low rate will receive direct benefits from two sources. They will be enabled to secure cement at lower prices, and with a good-sized fleet of cement ships on which to draw for grain tonnage, oceart freights outward on wheat will be lower. Home produc tion should be encouraged wherever it is of benefit to the people as a whole. but In this case the Interests of the greatest number are best served by the cheap, cement and cheap freights, "Where there is one cement manufac turer there are a hundred thousand consumers, and In protecting the manu facturer the consumer naturally suffers. "While the value per barrel of foreign cement, a iter deducting the ocean freight and the duty collected by this country. Is not large. Us extensive use makes an aggregate of goodly propor tions. Here, as with the shipping subsidy. the extremists among our political economists call attention to the amount of money we are "losing" by purchas ing from the foreigners Instead of buy ing at ahlgher price from our own manufacturers. Strictly speaking. transactions of this nature, if sufficient in volume, will leave a "balance of trade" against us. But we purchase this cement and other commodities be cause we are In need of them, and it is to our advantage and. profit to do so. As long as such conditions prevail, we have no more to lose by buying heavily of what we need from the foreigners than we have by paying them $1 for earning freight that would cost our own people 51.25 to move. WAR ON MOSQUITOES. "Look for the woman," the simple sages of elder days advised when Ills befell. Their wiser children look for the mosquito. "Would you cure your malaria? Smother the wlgglers In the rain barrel with kerosene. "Would you stamp out the Roman fever, the deadly pestilence of the Campanian marshes Sleep under a mosquito -net. "Would you make an end of yellow fever Drain your mudpuddles and marshes pour kerosene upon the pojywog's stilly pool and let the wlggletail wiggle him self to swift destruction. Beneficent kerosene! Erstwhile- th bumble illumlnant of the bucolic wife washing belated dishes, the pregnant oil In duo time generated universities as Nilus' mud does alligators, and Anally behold it the panacea, or rather the more beneficent prophylactic. Since the day of Major "Walter Reed and his investigations at Havana we know that the yellow fever germ I conveyed from sick to well men by mosquito. Could this mosquito be ex terminated, yellow fever would go with It The people of Mexico City think It can be exterminated, at least in their neighborhood: so they mildly ridicule the old-fashioned quarantine. TJiey hold out the glad hand of welcome to New Orleans In spite of her .yellow- fever epidemic, which Is a good deal of a failure as an epidemic, be It said, and cry. "Come one, come all, "but leav your mosquitoes behind." Governor Vardaman, as might be ex pected. is a little more excited about it. showing symptoms of a lively faith In the orthodox shotgun quarantine while Mobile gathers up her skirts and Bays "Avauati" to all cemn from the "Gulf ports. Portland hss her Fair, and other cities are entitled to some ex citement, even If it must come from a ellow fever scare. But such scares are trifle faded nowadays. New of an epidemic "comes coo) and calm" com pared with Its raging career two or three decades ago. From drawing a shotgun on one's neighbor to pouring kerosene on a pool of wlgglers Is a step forward. Even the most determined doubter of progress must admit that. And the world Is taking a great many such steps these days. THE DROSS OF BASE DESIRE. The country will watch with Interest, and not without apprehension for its fate, the fortunes of a commercial en terprise now initiating at Baker City. Or. Everybody who has followed the course of events In the diversified em pire of business for the last few years ill admire the courage of the men who are preparing to establish a packing house In that thriving metropolis of mines and livestock: but everybody too, will wonder whence they draw their hope of success. The dispatch which gives this news does not hint that these bold adventurers have obtained au thorization from the acknowledged sov ereign of the commercial realm where they think of risking their fortunes. What will he say, his majesty the Beef Trust, of hides, horns and tallow, of lard and sausage, of pickled pigs' feet and preserved hams, of tripe and em balmed beef, by the grace of God. king, defender of the faith, and lord of emi nent domain what will he say to this invasion of his divinely conceded pre rogative? He will say nothing. Your trust Is a ery William the Silent "for parsimony of words, but. like Shakespeare's witch. 'he'll do. he'll do and he'll do." Shipping In Its "private" cars, with the rebates which are extorted from the railroad companies by using these cars, the Beef Trust can undersell the new packing house In Baker Itself. And that It will so undersell Is certain: for this great moparch Is Jealous of the smallest en croachment upon his sway. There was a time, when a company of men .undertaking a new business venture had to consider whether they had raw material pl6ntlful and near, whether they had water power or coal at hand, whether skilled labor would hire out to them. That time has passed. These matters, once essential, are now of little consequence. The really vital question is, "Is this business which we think of entering dominated by a trust?" If it be so dominated, then no local advantage of material, fuel or la bor, or of all combined, will avail. The trust, with its control of "the railroad?, can put labor, material and fuel wher ever it likes, enough of them and cheap" enough to countervail any local ad vantage whatever. Or, should It wish to destroy at less expense a new enter prise which it thinks treasonable, the trust can flood any number of local markets with manufactured goods, and. because of this same control over trans portation, sell cheaper than any com petitor. These are the facts, Vand pity tis. 'tis true." There was a time when the people of America, or the people of a state like Oregon. desiring a highway for com merce, turned to Congress or their own Legislature for. authority and funds. Thus it was with the National road over the Alleghanies. along which civ ilization marched Into 'the Valley of the Ohio: thus it was with the Erie Canal, which fixed once and for all In New York the throne of trade, till then mi gratory. Thus It was with the first Pa cific railroad; but thus It is no longer.' The commonwealth of Oregon waits humbly for the movlntr finger of Mr. Harriman to trace the paths of her ad vancing civilization; he is the Aladdin whose potent touch shall summon the tremendous Genii of her plateaus and mines to build the palaces of her future cities. The American Nation has pla cldly watched the lapse of this power over commerce and oyer the highways of commerce, which in the beginning of our history was held to be a high pre rogative of the sovereign state and the Federal Congress, Into the possession of two or three trusts and half a dozen men. One at least of the "Inherent and inalienable rights" which Thomas Jef ferson asserted for mankind we have surrendered. Our lives are still our own; the bosses have left us at least the shadow of political liberty? but the man who embarks his property in busi ness today places It absolutely at the mercy of the half dozen men who con trol commerce, finance and transporta tion in America. There is commiseration In many minds for the unhappy railroads plun dered by the Beef Trust through Its pri vate car lines. Let all tears on this account be dried. "Raise the curtain and let us see your picture." said the connoisseurs to Parrbasfus. He could not; the curtain was the picture. "De- ! stroy the Beef Trust and free the rail- 1 road companies," cry our commercial i connoisseurs. We cannot. The trust Is the railroad companies or the control ling factor in them. The men that own the Jtrusts own the railroads. The com bined revenue of these men exceeds that of many great nations. Directed as it Is without division of purpose to inexorable ends. It gives them a power greater than that of the Federal Gov ernment. They break laws and defy injunctions with Impunity. Legisla tures are their puppets, courts their in struments. The legal ability and cun ning at their command almost Invaria bly overmatches any that the Govern ment can employ. They command an Inflexible fidelity In 'their servants which former decades have seen only In men who expected the favor of a king or the applause of a nation. Hatching from an egg within a living body, the Ichneumon devours Its host. The trusts have batched within the Na tion: they now devour it Consciously or unconsciously, he men at Baker City who venture their means in a packing-house take up the fight against this Intrenched Iniquity. They fcannot win it alone. They are to fight against odds so heavy that every man on the Pacific CoatL must help .them. Their necessity will be our op portunity to strike a blow at an evil that we have all denounced. Here, It seems, will be a chance for our deeds to Justify our words. Stand by the men of Baker City. Buy their goods If they meet trust prices. If they do itot meet trust prices, buy them all the more "Burn up the dross of base 6 slrje" and stand for liberty. J. M. Partlow, who died at his hoe on the East Side last Sunday, was In middle life well known to the wide circle of pioneer life of half a century age In and aht Clckaiv&s County. He was one of three members of ap 4 Vlrai&M. faauty who ewe to Oregon la I860 and took, up their abode la Oregon City. His twin sisters. Mrs. W. L. "White, who died. many 'years ago, and the late Mrs. William Barlow, com pleted the trio. Mr. Partlow was al one time a representative of Multnomah County In the State Legislature, and was a man of pronounced but some what eccentric views, .hold tag tena ciously to early impressions upon mat ters of .public moment He was withal a quiet, orderly and responsible man, and goes to his grave full of years and attended by the simple honors that at tach to good citizenship. Oregon forest rangers seem to have displayed unusual diligence this season In keeping down the fires that every year In the past have smudged our beautiful landscape from early In July until the Fall rains set, In. Unfortu nately, the vigilance of the Oregonlans will avail not In keeping the air clear if big forest fires rage In our neighbor ing states. Washington seems to be freer than usual of these periodical con flagrations, but a great fire is said to be raging in Idaho, and, unless It Is con trolled, some of the smoke will come down In this direction. Standing tim ber is decreasing In quantity more rap idly than ever before without the aid of any more destructive agency than the logger's ax. and the greatest care should be exercised to prevent Its loss by Are. Another prominent Mexican family has been butchered by the fiendish Yaquls. The victims of the last previ ous massacre were Americans, and by exterminating a family of Mexicans the red 'devils show a degree, of Impartial ity In their operations. Some 'time both the Americans and the Mexicans living down on the border will become a-weary of this unceasing tragedy and will hunt down the Yaquls and show them no more quarter than has been given the white victims of these lawless marauders. It Is a disgrace to the two countries whose subjects are being butchered that the crimes have gone so long unpunished. Leslie's Monthly Magazine will bear that name no more. The publishers will change the name of their period ical, calling it the American Monthly Magazine. They give as a reason for this Ihe distinct difference between the present magazine and all the publica tions bearing the name of Leslie.' Af ter Leslie's death his various publica tions were bought by different persons, and for a long time there has been no connection between the Magazine and Leslie's Weekly. This last Is the old est Illustrated weekly paper In Amer ica, and always one of the best. Reports from the Grand Ronde reflect considerable activity In railroad circles. The feverish anxiety of some of the participants to get into a country which they have been fighting shy of for the past fifteen years Is remindful of that mad rush that was made to get up the Clearwater about ten years ago. It is to be hoped that the present strug gle in the Wallowa country will not prove such a flash In the pan as was the case with the Lewiston project a few years ago. A little less haste at the start and a more satisfactory finish is what Oregon, would like to see. Patriotism runs high in some hearts. At New York two men are dying and a third Is seriously wounded as the re sult of an argument over the relative merits of Norway and Sweden. In Portland on Sunday a Russian laborer killed himself because of the poor show ing made by his fellow-countrymen who are battling with the Japanese. So far as could be learned the cause of Russia. Norway and Sweden is still comparatively unaided by this sacrifice on the part of their scattered sons. The Indian Commission appointed some years ago to distribute the lands of the Five Nations in the Indian Ter ritory among the Individuals of the tribes, has completed Its work. It has distributed nearly 20.000,000 acres among 97.594 Indians. The Cherokees are the most numerous of the five tribes, their numbers exceeding 40,000. A man who pours an inflammable liquid ott a dog and then sets fire to the creature should be given a term of years In the Penitentiary In which to repent his wanton cruelty. Such a man should not be allowed to run at large In any country. There Is no means of tell ing what form his diabolical cruelty will at any time take. If It Is Improper to hold a state con vention to determine who are fit to be party nominees, how would It do to hold a state convention to determine who should not run for office, those who have knifed party tickets hereto fore and might be knifed themselves? General LlnievltcK Is said to be pre paring for a "demonstration" in Man churla. in order to Influence the peace conference. The best "demonstration he can make Is that of keeping quiet The Russian army is more terrible Just before a battle than afterward. The Los Angeles Times says the real estate boom that was so lively but a while ago at Redondo "has subsided.! ready." And the Times, reads a lee ture to those who have been platting and-speculating afresh on vast areas In Southern California. . Twenty years ago -the report of yel low fever at New Orleans would have occasioned National alarm. JToday It is an incident. liKe smallpox or raenln gitis: so much for .betterment of sani tary conditions and means to destroy germs. Chauncey Depew chose the best time to be absent from America, and is fa voring Europeans- who have long de sired to satisfy their curiosity with a glimpse of a- typical American grafter. Perhaps the Kaiser, who is somewhat given -to the spectacular, may have de cided on the aquatic Interview Just to. Jar the world and give It something to talk about. Navy officers feared the Bennington's boilers before the explosion, but their anxiety Is now relieved, and they are convinced that .their fears were right. What Czar NJchetes wants is an Em peror "of his own rank" te advise h&a to do what he wants to de. There i Just a pestlblllty that- the Kaiser has a new brew f ber that he wants the Csar to sample. There ware n TMrgatM ia Jce immr yesterday's attracOosv for steppers. 0REG0N OZONE IX the Japanese array were a member of the Legislature It would not have to fight tor passes. The new Norwegian government re quests recognition by the United States. Uncle Sam will kindly get out his fleld gUsse and try to recognize Norway, though there" arc so many little govern ments jumping around In Europe that It may be a hard task at that distance. Governor Folk, of Mtaquri. Is swinging around a limited circle lecturing on "The Reign of tLaw." There are several rncrt in the Missouri penitentiary, each duly 'labeled with a number, who are of the opinion that It was a cyclone. Mr. Stepanoff. who stepped off this mortal coll at the age'fOt SO, at Yarinsk. Russia, a few days ago. left his fortune to found "a school of beauty for ascd gentlemen." arM cut off his only son with a mere bequest of his 365 sets of false teeth. Yet the son should not regard him self as disinherited. If he cares to use the legacy he will have one change of teeth for every day in the year. The only sad thing about It Is that once In every four years on the extra 23th of February the son will have to forget his father. One encouraging sign- of the times lies in the fact that the automobile is turn ing. the tables. Instead' of the machine. driven by millionaires, killing common people. It has taken to killing the mil lionaires themselves. On the- whole, this is better than killing a little boy or girl, for the child has a chance of growing up Into a useful citizen, while the million- 'aire's career is fixed. Entanglement. "Do you love me' truly V he sighed. "From the crown of your head to the sole of your foot, dearest," she. murmured. caressingly. - - Which -'foot?" he Inquired, absent- mindedly. . , The Only Way. "So you are from the Nevada mining district?" asked the tenderfoot- -"How ls Bullfrog progressing?" "By Jumps," promptly replied the en thusiastic miner. - When the Emperors Met. The Kaiser-Hello. Nick! . '.' The Czar-Hello. Bill! - The Kaiser Say, shake again, old boy didn't know you were an Elk. "that's your lodge? Your ( "Favorite" "ool. Somebody suggests a cozy corner In the home devoted to one's favorite author. wherein may be placed articles bearing upon the life and works "of the favorite. Fine idea! Take, for Instance. Laura Jean Libber, favorite author. Items Photographs 01 Laura at periods from age of 10 to age of 20. at which age she ceased to add years; all photos decollete, such as. appear on the front covers of her books. Table with legs built of stacks of Laura's novels, no novel duplicated: legs should be Craped with fly-paper or other opaque material, as a matter of taste. Walts papered with Laura's 'press agent clip pings. Solitaire. (An episode of the Willamette River.) It was a glorious Sunday morn; The sun his hoard of rippling gold Poured out unstinted; newly-born. The. fleecy clouds with fold on. fold Of snowy vestments draped the rim Of distant mountains, wondrous fair; But naught was all of this to him those soul was stink in solitaire! Alang the placid. 'perfect' stream .The steamer glided, bearing out From city grime to fields agleam -The men-- crowd, with song and shout Of gladness. Oh. the. soul was freed For one dear dav from fret and care: But he he had no .soul to heed; He sat there playing solitaire! - The waters lisped along the bow; The white spray spang!ed?on the wheel; The volceful breezes pleaded. "Now Be glad! expand thy soul, and feel The glory of it! wondrous world So flne. so fresh, so free, so fair His legs beneath the table curled. He played and played at solitaire! On either bank the blossoms dipped Their radiant heads in greeting; plna And oak and fir were lyric-lipped. And sang in strophes, line by line. 'The conscious poesy of light By rustling zephyr, sentient air; But he his mind a murk of night Arranged the cards in solitaire! " The deckhand from his coll of rope Arose and doffed his grimy, hat And pointed up the emerald slope, An shouted, "Mates, but look at that! Now ain't It grand T But up Inside The cabin sordid, soulless there. That hopeless thing In human e Sat bowed' and bent in solitaire! ROBERTUS LOVE. German Smoke Consumers. U. S. Consular Reports. A German firm has recently patented a system for consuming smoke and pre venting the wasting of coal which, it is claimed. Is proving very successful. The system has been tested at the experi mental station of the Bavarian "Revl-slons-Verein in Munich where it was found that 72 per cent of the combustible value of soft coal from the Saar district can be utilized when this smoke consum er Is used. The conditions were unusual ly favorable at this station, but It Is confidently claimed that almost anywhere the saving of coal will amount to from 12 to 23 per cent The director of a rope and cable factory at Frankfort Germany, where the system has been In use for some time, reports a minimal develop ment of smoke only when fires are start ed or replenished; at other times no smoke Is visible and the saving of coal amounts to more than 20 per cent The owners of the patent allow to interested factories a four weeks , trial, guarantee ing a saving' of at least 10 per cest ia coal. At the end of the four weeks a con tract may be made for a period of five years, the annual charge for the use of the smoke consumer and- for keeping- it In order being J1X to SITS, according te construction ass size BrotherkDIckeys Sayings. Atlanta. Constitution De folks what loves dey oetghbor ez deyse'f la mostly In de. dtafe museums ea you softer pay ter e 'em. Wisdom ain't confined ter bo time er place. De gkUa tnrth Is dey ain't eAsagh of it la de werl ter start a pewdar fac iery. Sometimes we run ae sVevll owe C one cetsmunky only tec mak 1; ktt fee Ae fofka la H nxt fetUemenf BHter ter "ketch de fimt Intglit tram wbu. cam attog tmui ep set m a-' H watt. -fc de woa. PANAMA NO PLACE FOR WHITE MENl Yellarr Fevr a Ceastsat Meaace Name- Will Net StayHew the Epidemic Takes Oft Meat Valaaele Government Em pleycs Way Wallace LetJ. New York World. "Already the ditch the' Government Is digging on the Isthmus of Panama has cost "more in Hveff 'than it will ever be worth. Important though it promises to be to the commercial world. Panama Is not ar white rdan's country. That fact cannot be made too. emphatic" Miss Alenn A. Robinson, of No. West F!fty-sventh street matron in the hospital atjCoIon, Panama, who returned to New York on the. steamship Advance, which brought North the body of the secretary to Governor Magoon. was the Speaker. S,he has abandoned her work and he Isthmus after a year's residence in Panama. With her came Miss Mline, a Canadian nurse, who also bad finished her year. By remaining the twelve months the nurses have earned free transporta tion both ways. Six months' hard work on-the Isthmus only entitles them to free transportation one way. . "This ruling undoubtedly keeps many on the Isthmus, said Miss Robinson, "who otherwise would be likely to leave by the next steamer on finding, how un pleasant the Ufa there really Is. It costs more to go to Panama than it does to travel across- the. Atlantic "I became accustomed to the life after a time, and thought I would stay in definitely. But my vacation spent in New York was my undoing. When I returned to Colon, after a few weeks spent here, to flpd that three of the men I had known and left in the full flush -of health had died of yellow fever well, I Just could not stand it any longer. One of them had occupied the. room, next to mine. He was taken with the fever and removed from it to the hospital. They all, had everything to live for. I felt that their lives alone were worth more than the whole enterprise. It made me sick at heart "The doctors and the Panamanians do not agree as to the cause of Infection. The Panamanians hold that the houses and all the furnishings contain the germs; that these have found lodgment through the years, and that nothing short of burning the buildings' and their contents would destroy all the germs. "I believe there .would still be yellow fever on the Isthmus if -all the mos quitoes were killed. I do" not believe It can be stamped out No one In Panama blamed Mr. Wal lace, chief engineer of the ditch, for leav ing the Isthmus, it was generally said by those nearest to him that It was a case "St 'cold feet' that he was afraid of the fever but no one blamed him because of that fact. He was criticised, however. for leaving the way he did. The first rumor there,, printed in a Colon news paper, was that he was about to leave for a. short vacation. Next thing he was gone for good. "The most surprised man because of Mr. Wallace's quiet flitting was his -chief mechanical engineer, Strong. Mr. Strong simply came to Panama to help Mr. Wal lace out and did not Intend to remain. The two passed each other on the ocean the one returning to the North; the other going to Panama. When Mr. Strong ar rived as assistant, he found hlmsejf In charge and alone. I think Mrs. Wallace constantly suffered because "of her fear for her husband's safety. I never saw such a change .In a woman as In her dur ing her stay In Panama. She became haggard, and looked as if living in fear and dread possessing her constantly. "I think she wanted her husband to leave, and I do not blame her. "It is nonsense to talk of patriotism being stronger than the love of two peo ple for each other. If we do not care i.ore for our own, even than for our country, we are not good for much. "Chief Architect Morris Johnston, who was to have married in a short time a relative of Mrs. Wallace, was taken ,slck with yellow fever In her house; Within a few days after he was1 stricken down he died. The end came within two weeks of the day set for his wedding. His bride-to-be was In Chicago. And he was hur ried Into his grave, as all those must be Who die of yellow -fever. This could not but be an awful thing to Mrs. Wallace. " "Haverstock In the Government em plov . was In the best of health and spirits when I left Panama for my va cation. After six days he was. dead and was burled In Monkey Hill Cemetery. Hla ONCE MORE THE NIGGER." Mv Thomas E. Wat3on. or Georgia. anJ of varied fame, is not at all pleased with the suggestion that the South cannot approve of -Government ownership of railways because of the negro. In Ills magazine he thus replies to Mr. John Sharp Williams, Demo cratic statesman of Mississippi, and leader of the minority In the House of Representatives:' Mr Williams assutn-a that if the general Government owned and operated railroads the race feeling of the South would be dls resarded. no separate coaches would be pro vided and whites would nave to ride with blacks'. So we nave here another evtJeneo that as a constant stock In trade "the rlc Eer" is the most Indispensable as-t the Democratic party of the South evtr hau. There Is absolutely no end to the variety of ways In which Democratic cooks can serve uj this toothsome political land. No uatter what direction progress would like to take in the South she 1 held back by the ntvr-faillns cry of "NlBSerf It sickens me o the very soul to wltnew the unscrupulous skill, on the one hand, and childlike Ignorance and prejudice on the other, which make the nesro Question the Invincible weapon of Bourbon nmnm-v in the South. No matter what r reforms we need and approve. n matter what abuses afflict us politically or lnuusinnu. we must submit because of the 'nlsser." We may want this, that or the other In the war of xood thing, such as we see jther communities enjoying, but we -are denied them becaune of the ever-present and ver fertiler "aeiTQ question." x "What One Visitor Found.' Condon Times. The editor of this paper was on the Fair grounds at Portland this week -and found a big exposition, greater and grand er by far than was ever hinted at or promised. It Is a credit to the state and many people of the East consider It the best located and best arranged fair ever held in this or any other country. Hotel, restaurant and rooming-house rates are as ' reasonable as Is found In .any large city. There Is no dearth of stopping and eatkir nlaces and anyone can be accom modated . both In style and 'price. The great show Is all right and well worth the time and money spent on a visit to the same. - . Friendly Tip. Detroit Tribune. The mother of two marriageable daughters- was cbaverslng- with neighbor. . "Reallv." she said. "I don't know whether to send -Ethel and Maude to the seashore or the mountains this summer. What would you advise?" "Well." aswered the "knowing-1 neigh bor, "I would adviser Sulphur Springs for a change. Sulphur, you know, is one of the sfJneipal requisites 1b .match match i naV CoHHtl: the Chlekens. Omaha Of eh.) Bee, New. that the Portia n Bxveattis ha perfected, nrtey n,rfitHMUmm for amwd- J arsMC tiM MMtor may yrosgg te sweaace wmitsHoi, wW the ether fei- room was thoroughly fumigated and all the mosquitoes killed. Then Wentwlre moved Into It. He was sick Just six. days, took the fever very soon after oc cupying the room, thus proving to my mind that fumigation does not destroy the germs In these Panamanian houses. "He. too. died- Both had been in mag nificent condition when taken with the fever. The strong and well seem mora likely, Indeed, to contract the disease than do the sickly and those of coarser . fiber. 'When Chief Mechanical Engineer Strong first came to Panama, eight months ago, he said, hopefully: "The canal will be built In ten years. Befores I left he again expressed himself on this subject This time he said: 'We of thl3 generation will never live to see it fin ished. Thus does life In Panama change the viewpoint. "There Is something In the very 'at mosphere which demoralizes a man. . The most sane, well-balanced minds- dn a few months get crochety and erratic. I cannot account for this. I only give the fact. It Is hot but still the thermom eter rarely stands In the SOs. It Is the humidity, however, that makes life al most unbearable. You cannot inhale a full breath of air. You feel an .Iron, pressure on yor chest, contracting the lungs whenever you try. I cannot express the Intense feeling of delight when on the water homeward bound, and able to again fill my lungs with air. "No one walks In Panama, Physical exercise Is out of the question. Books are very expensive and a variety Is not to be had. There Is no good music. The monotony of life Is appalling. "The only variety Is found In love making and flirting. There Is the most . wonderful moon in the heavens over the Isthmus you could Imagine, a fact that. -I think, has much to do with the ro mances that are a feature of life- in Panama. I never was In the tropics be-- fore and the beauty of the heavens at night fairly took my breath at first The moon and stars, are so near and so bril liant. You feel it would almost be pos sible to reach up and gather a constel lation or two to serve Instead-of lamps. "Three nurses married doctors during the year I was In Panama, and I know of five more who- are engaged to marry elther doctors or clerks In the Govern ment employ. It Is chiefly the fault of the moon, although propinquity and the lonely, Isolated life may have something to do with the romances The last and the only typical American wedding on the Isthmus was that of Miss Veta Crowe, of Boston, and Dr. Edward P. Beverly, of the old Beverly family of Virginia, on June 6. They met almost a year before. Usually the weddings fol low the first meeting very quickly, as the heart beats rapidly In this hot cli mate, this being the exception. Miss Hubbard, the chief nurse In the hospital In Ancon. In which was Miss Crowe, gave a wedding dinner to the tied. "As to the weddings, three of those to come will be of doctors, one of a civil engineer and the other of a -Tew York man, who made the "acquaintance of one of the nurses on the way to Panama and was engaged to marry when the steamship landed at the isthmus. "Despite the matrimonial possimuues of Panama, I venture to predict that within a year all of the 50 nurses there will have left the Isthmus; and It will be impossible to Induce any to go there except the Army nurses. They have fol lowed the Army from Cuba to the Phil ippines, and do not seem to mind the hardships and the renunciation of all so cial ties. ' "There are about a thousand Ameri cans In Colon now. What conditions would be without Improved hospital fa cilities I do not venture to say. Before the American occupation In Panama the two hospitals were In charge of the sis ters of St Vincent de PauL In those days there was a. steady procession of dead on their way to the cemetery. The sisters would lock hp the wards at night and go home. In the mornins they would find some patients dead. The nuns did not know the first principles of taking care "of the sick. This was proved, as they worked with us for a time, helping with the diets. They thought It was cruel to compel a nurse or orderly ta sit up all night in each ward, and were amazed at the use of Icebags in fever cases, baths for typhoid patients, and at antiseptic surgery." . PLATT'S PITIFUL PLAINT, Ioulsvllle (Ky.) Courier-Journal. "Seventy-two years old a great many days and months and years: some of them fruitful, -some barren, but none worth while. It could have been much better. If I had it to do over again I should model my political, life along other lines." No. dear reader, you are wrong. The - speaker of these words Is not Chauncey, Mitchell Depew. although it Is true mat Mr. Depew' Is 72 years of age. Keep calm and brace yourself and prepare for the shock, for he Is Senator Thomas Comer Piatt Yes, "dear old Senator Flatt. Qf New York! He finds life not worth while and yet he has made and unmade celebrities. has been a oolltlcal boss for so many years that It Is hard to remember Just when he was not one, has been Repre sentative and Senator, off and on. since 1873, Is today the president , of a wealthy express company, is, wealthy himself, has political and financial Influence, gets his name in the papers nearly every day and figures about as much in cartoons as any body you can find. Life not worth living5! He himself says so. though, and the dear old soul ought to know. So "play the organ softly, turn the lights down low, speak In gentle tones and do not smile. Also make haste to bring a pall In which to catch the dewy tear that dangles tenderly upon the lower lid tjf his right eye as if loath to drop. But. above all things. If you do not enjoy disappointment do not ask hinvto change bis ways! Napoleon's Bookkeeping;. Washington Post A hundred" years ago there was one man in the world whose management of the finances of a country baa never been equaled or even approached We think he was the greatest man who has ever lived; .but in- saying this we do not mean to say that, on the whole, he was a. good man or that his life was a blessing to his country of to the world to the people of France or to mankind. Still, his achieve- . raents are well worth the study of states men and patriots, and the simple -story of French finances during his reign might, despite many obvious differences -In con ditions, be profitable to American states- men in these days of divers depredations. Lord Rose be ry says f Napoleon that "his financial management by which he sustained a vast empire with power and splendor, but with rigid ecoftemy and without a debt is a. marvel and a mys tery. In all the offices of state he knew everythlng. inspired everything." Sir William Napier, writing on the same sub ject says: " The annual expenditure of France? was scarcslr half that of EsrlaiKl; ami Napeleon rejected public loan. wMchr are the life bload of state corruption. He, left no debt. Un4er him no man dvore4 the pubUe b ttaace la Mleasw merely & was of a privileged class: tae state servants, were largely paid, test they were mad ta taier eTectully for the state. They die set' eat their bre aad Hl yatemef va&ttc aeceuKs, remark We for tts emes. s4m pltetty e camstrefceaslv. waa vttaHSr oeog to pwMfe fraud. aa4. therefore, c-Uem-ty .tmfaveraM to errsHieau- lt Is evident that under JfaTpoIeoa. m syecten )neHtd. and that ew great; Americsut. institiiUea; the JcmlMt. ,wc net . hi faaMMr alee that the rahe-eC d set-.