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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (July 26, 1905)
THE MORXiyCx OKEGOyiAX, WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 190ot Entered at the Postofflce at Portland; Or.l ac second-class xnaiier. SUBSCRIPTION BATES. INVARIABIT IN' ADVANCE. (Br. Mall or Express.) Dally and Snnday. per year.. Dally and Sunday, six months. o.oo Dallr and Sunday, three month 2.33 Dally and Sunday, per month. -& Dally -without Sunday, per year.. Dally without Sunday, sir months.. -.- 3.JK) Dally without Sunday, threes months.-- l.3 Dally without Sunday, per month .tta Sunday. pr year Sunday, six months. VOO Sunday, three 'months - .60 BT CARRIER. Dally -without Sunday, per -week.. -. - Dally, per week. Sunday Included -: 0 THE WEEKLT OREGONIAK. (Issued Every Thursday.) r Weekly, per year - "Weekly, six months - Weekly, three months - -o HOW TO KE3IIT Send postofflce money order, express osder or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender" risk. EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICE. The 6. C BeclcwSth Special Asescjj-New Tork, rooms 43-50 Tribune building. 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Omaha Barkalow Bros., 1612 Farnam: Mageath Stationers' 1308 Farnam; Mc Laughlin Bros.. 240 South 14th; McLaughlin & Holtz. 1515 Farnam. Sacramento, Cal. Sacramento News Co., 429 K street. Salt Lake Salt Lake News Co.. 77 West 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.. 746 Market street; Goldsmith Bros., 230 Sutter: L. E. Lee. Palace Hotel Newa Stand; F. W. Pitts. 1008 Market; Frank Scott. SO Ellis; N. Wheatlcy Movable News Stand, corner Mar ket and Kearney streets; Hotel St. Francis News Stand; Foster & Orear, Ferry News Stand. St. Louis. Mo. K. T. Jett Book & News Company. S00 Olive street. Washington. D. C P. D. Morrison. 2132 Pennsylvania avenue. PORTLAND. WEDNESDAY. JULY 20, 1005. THE PENITENCE OF MR, rLATT. "Few and evil." said dying Jacob, "have been the days of the years of my life." "Many and evil, mine," say? JMr. Piatt not dying yet. but bowing under the weariness of life that makes death welcome. Seventy-two years old; a Senator of the United States; president of a great and -wealthy corporation; -wealthy himself, and powerful through no accident of birth or popular favor, but by virtue of his own abilities; hon ored and envied by millions of his coun trymenMr. Thomas Collier Piatt looks upon his life and calls it evil. Whether he really thinks it evil or not is another queption. Mr. Piatt's words rarely sug gest what he is thinking. He is not an orator, and he has written little. Few men, perhaps none, know what his se cret reflections have been as he has pursued his silent and dubious career. He has not made voluble pretensions to saintllness like Mr. Depew, nor posed like his unctuous colleague as a model to aspiring youth; but it Is fair to be lieve that his life was not displeasing to him while he lived it. whatever he may think of it now that he begins to shiver in the grewsome breezes from the black water. Mr. Piatt chose his career freely. It was hip own choice to resign from the United States, Senate with Conkling in protest against Gar field's stand for the Presidential pre rogative. It was his own choice to be come the head of the United States Ex press Company and organize a political machine In the Interest of that corpora tion. When that machine elected him again lo the Senate to represent, not the State of Ken- York, but the corpora tion to which he had sold his ideals and his high ambitions, if he ever had any to sell, he could have declined. When as a Senator he has had to choose between promoting the welfare of his state and country and pro moting the welfare of the United States Express Company, he has never faltered in his consistent prefer ence of ignominy and greed to honor and public duty. With his compeers Mr. Piatt has perverted the ambition? of a whole generation. They have made official malfeasance a fashion and be trayal of the people an honored custom. They have made simple honesty a re proach to a public servant as if he lacked wit to follow the mon profitable career of peculation and treason. Of all this Mr. Piatt does well if he repents; but his penitence comes a little late. He is not the first man to cry "Vanity of vanities" at the close of a long and wicked life; nor is he the first whose condemnation of what he can no longer enjoy will be discounted. The young man deciding between noble and Ignominious ambition will appeal from Piatt shivering at the approach of death to Piatt in the vigor of his man hood." What was bis choice, they will ask, when he had hopes to achieve and passions to gratify? And that choice they will follow. His present judgment that his ".career was not worth while and could have been so much better" will not avail against "the fact that -when he was best able to choose wisely this career Is what he chose. But possibly Mr. Piatt Is not shiver ing at the approach of death. He left Yale College, mother of bosses. In -"his sophomore year on account of ill health, certainly, and has never been a robust man; but neither Is he unusually fee ble for tils 4ge. and. he may have other laurels in view. Nearlng the promised land, though not purposing to cross over for a long time yet, Mr. Piatt's penitential remarks would savor some what of a wise forethought for his com fort when he does make the journey, if we did not know what his prospects are In the .New Jerusalem. They are bright. He has nothing to worry over. Even Mf, Depew's record as a consistent fol lower of the lamb Is probably no clearer than Mr. Piatt's; but Mr. Depew has long enjoyed the earthly fruits of hl piety in the plaudits of the lord's peo ple, while Mr. Piatt has not. Not pi f ted with silvery speech, he has addressed no assemblies of youthful saints. His seat in'the sanctuary, though faithfully occupied, has always been humble. What if Mr. Piatt Is now inclined to Teap .a foretaste of that reward of his Christian living which awaits him -when he reaches the heavenly Canaan? And if such is his -wish, how could he more discreetly, and at the same time more effectively, call his merits to the notice of the Lord's people than by these self-denying remarks of his? "I am seventy-two years old a great many days and months and years, some of them fruitful, some barren, but none "of them worth the while," he says, -with more like It. All good men will com mend .such humility as this. All who know how clearly Ms. Piatt can read his title to mansions in the skies will applaud his self-abnegation. And that Is -what Mr. Piatt -wants, very likely. Hitherto, in the course of his life, his rare words have always Indicated some pretty definite purpose and helped at tain it. That these have been spoken "as a mere expression of penitence for his sins is hardly credible. Why should he repent of nins that have paid so well In this world and done him no harm in the other? He is too strict an economist of effort to do anything of the sort. To be sure, he remark? that if he "could go all over the political game again he would play different politics"; but the very words he uses betray his Innocence of any new and lofty concept of public life. Poll tics is still a "game" which he would "play." Possibly he might Improve his playing by the use of some of Mr. De pew' unction and a little of Mr. Rocke feller's benevolence but ivhy paint the my? NOT A SEA POWER. Russia, it is said, intends to. rebuild her navy. What for? The Russian people never have been able to do any thing on the sea. The "watery king dom" Is not their kingdom. They are not "at home on the rolling deep." They have no capacity for the quick mechan ical adaptation, guided by original in telligence, necessary to success in naval effort. Any man can be made into a soldier, because the land is man's na tive theater of action. But at sea he ip in the presence of new forces, wholly strange to him. He has everything to learn. The demand is for a science of which few are capable. Plenty of men, who would like to have commissions in the army, wouldn't want commissions in the navy; for life on the sea demands special preparation and special skill. But It Is not likely that Russia will attempt or begin to rebuild her navy very soon. She will make peace with Japan, because it is an absolute neces sity. The terms of the peace will be such as to cut her off virtually from all the ambitious projects she has been pursuing on the Pacific. A navy can do her no good, at either extremity of her empire. Russia is a land power, not a sea power; nor Is rtte likely to become a sea power, within the present century. If ever. To look beyond her own vast territory and out upon the sea is not her function. And besides, the probability is that for a long time to come she will be fully occupied with the "stew" in progress at home. RAKER THE PROSPEROUS. No other city in the state, distance considered. Tins sent ?o large a delega tion to the Lewis and Clark Exposition as the mining metropolis of Eastern Oregon, whose citizens are now honor ing Portland as well as Baker City by their presence in our midst. In men tioning Baker City as a mining metrop olis. It is hardly fair to stop at that, for. while the mines have made the city famous, it is also the center of an agri cultural and stock country of marvel ous rlchnesp. A considerable portion of Baker County has agricultural re sources fully equal to those of any other count in the state, and in addition has mineral wealth tVat exceeds in value of out out that of any other counts In the state. There is considerable truth in the old saw about the risk attached to having all the eggs In one basket and Baker Is very far removed from a disaster from this cause. Even her mining opera tions are nearly all of a stable nature, from which the element of chance has been minimized. Being mostly quartz mines, they are unaffected, by vlthcr dry or wet seasons. But even should the mines fail, which, of course. Is prac tically an Impossibility. Baker City, and the county .for which she 1p the finan cial and commercial headquarters, would continue to do business with tn increasing development of the latent wealth of field and forest' Nature was indeed kind to the local ity from which has sprung such a thriv ing city as the Eastern" Oregon metrop olis, and from the appearance of the citizens who are. now our visitors they are of a character to make most of the opportunities that came their wiy. i-imitations of a monopoly. The Inability of transportation men, secure in their monopoly of certain ter ritory on land, to grasp the changed conditions by which theyare confront ed when they reach the shore line of the. ocean, has always been noticeable. Their numerous failures In attempting to conduct transportation monopolies on the ocean by the same methods as those which they follow with railroads are only added tribute to the value of the ocean, or to any water highway, as an Independent field for operation open to all comers. Mr. Harrlman, by virtue of his relations with other railroads, can fix the rate we mupt pay on rail freight to the greater part of the United States, but when he attempts to vflx rates on the ocean he is confronted with the competition of the fleets of the world. The ships of all nations are roaming the seas looking for business, and when It cannot be had at top rates they will take It for those established by the law of supply and demand rather than that of profit and loss. The Portland &. Asiatic Steamship Company has tatfen the Initiative In making a liberal reduction in flour rates to the Orient This Is the most encour aging move that has been made by the line 6lnce It was turned over to the management of Mr. Schwerln. It Is an unmistakable admission that the Call fornian who holds our Oriental trade facilities in the hollow of his hand Is at lapt willing' to profit by the experience of others. Tfc attempt to hold flour rates up to $5 per Km on the regular steamers at a time when the owners of tramp steamers were falling over each other In an effort to secure char ters at from $3.50 to H per ton, was little short of ridiculous; and It was in- jcl Mentally ruinous to the buslnes of the line, which refused to meet the con ditions that demanded a ?4 rate. Mankind, whether working as Indi viduals or corporations. Is prone to ex act the maximum of remuneration for the minimum of service. But there are limitations In nearly all lines of trad, commerce and labor, which prevent that maximum reaching Improper bounds, and the conditions which cre ate and maintain these limitations must be met when they arise. The failure of the Portland & Asiatic line to meet the competition of outside steamers last Spring forced .the exporter of this city either to charter steamers themselves or else to send their freight to Tacoma, where the managers of the regular lin ers provided plenty of tramp steamers to handle flour at cut rates. This di version of flour business naturally car ried with -It much other freight and It enabled the Puget Sound lines to give a service of such frequency that It made the slow. Infrequent service of the Port land line highly Unpopular by compari son. That the situation could have been remedied by Mr. Schwerln was too plain to admit of argument The Portland exporters chartered the tramp steamers at a U rate, and even less, and with no railroad connections to bring in freight id aid In filling out a flour cargo, sent their ships out load ed to their capacity. The Portland & Asiatic Steamship Company, under its' contract with the Hamburg-American line, was even better prepared to secure cheap tonnage and make a rate that would get and keep the traffic from the tramp steamers. It could secure more steamers from the owners of those now in operation In its line, at a lower rate than was asked by the tramp steam ers. The serious nature of the handi cap which the company placed on Port land by failure to handle the business when It was offering has apparently at last dawned on the Harrlman Intellect, and there Is a brighter prospect for a much better -service than we have been distressed with -In the past A SUNBEAM FROM KANSAS. Judge Dana, of Kansas, has rendered a decision which Is destined to become exceedingly precious to all lovers of the human race. When its full Import has been grasped by the Nation, It will be cherished as one. and not the least notable, of the waymarkssm the road to freedom. To be sure. It relates. Im mediately to the jackass and his in alienable right to bray; but how easy it Is to extend Judge Dana's enlightened reasoning to cover certain rights of man hitherto often Imperiled. The kinship between man and the jackass has long eince been pointed out by philosophers, perhaps most clearly by Thomas Car lyle. who perceived It In all of his friends and most of his countrymen. "Mostly fools." that Is, Jackasses, said Carlyle of the English people; while Timon of Athens makes rtlll less reser vation. ''What are we. Apemantus? Asses." declared, that great psychol ogist Not to quote needless authori ties to establish a point which many think self-evident, let it suffice to add that the Holy Scriptures confirm the view of Carlyle. "Men are born like wild asses' colts," says Job, delicately moaning to suggest, of course, that they , grow up jackasses. Whatever right, then. Judge Dana's decision secures to the jackass 'belongs to the human race as next of kin. The ques tional -issue was of the right to bray. It appears that the postmistress of Richland, in Kansas, dwelt next door to a stable where divers of these in harmonious beasts were kept; and whenever she sat down to her liarp and began a hymn, they, as if possessed by a demon of mockery, set up a cacophon ous competition with her. She appealed to the law. The law sustained her-bra-zen-throated rivals. "The court" said Judge Dana, "will not deprive a jack ass of his right to bra'." Without pausing to point out how this decision buttresses the liberty of the press, or to note what a comfort it must be to the pulpit. let us reflect upon the consolatiwis It bears for Mr. Thomas Lawson. Consider his wretched plight had the scale of justice inclined otherwise and had Judge Dana decided that under some circumstances a jack ass has not the right to bray. For ex ample, when, like Balaam's famous mount his discords invoke ruin upon those who heed theml To what a sad and Infructose silence would this mis carriage of Justice have reduced Mr. Lawson! A CARNIVAL ENDED. With much running to and fro. with feasting and excursions, with dancing and revelry, with late hours and minds keyed to a high pitch of excitement, the boys and girls of the High School fra ternities from various sections have come and gone. Unchaperoned, un advised, their expense accounts un supervised, intent solely on having a "good time" In the youthful Interpreta tion of that term, several hundred lads and lassies mingled freely together In social functions in' this city for. a week or ten days. All were Innocent In In tent, but their visit was with a free dom and familiarity that can 'hardly pass without danger to the future hap piness of at least some of them. Either this is true or the prudence that Is sup posed to regulate the social intercourse of boys and girls at the most impres sionable period of their lives Is at fault and parental vigilance Is an outdated quuntlty. only exerted by fathers and mothers of the old school. The resentment that thlsiplaln state ment of a plain fact will arouse among these youthful members of High School "Greek-Letter Societies" will be the best proof of Its truth If. indeed, any proof is needed outside of the ordinary experience and observation of men and women who still, not far removed from youth, look back upon Its follies and temptations thoughtfully and under standlngly. Dominated by the headlong enthusiasm of youth, these young peo ple brook no remonstrance. With the feeling of Individual and class self-importance engendered by fraternity pledges and associations, they take of fense at the slightest suggestion that these fraternities stand for waste of time, waste of money and waste of ef fort The most carefully weighed words of experienced educators voicing per fectly legitimate objections to these so cieties but arouse the Ire of their mem bers and often push them to extreme lengths of impudence in their defense. Observing thiB. we are fain to ask: What Is this that taking the form of-a "fad." Is running riot In our High Schools? Answering, we "may truly say 'that It Is a spirit un-American because It breeds snobs; Impertinent In that it defies authority; reckless. In that it takes no note of pseslhle consequences, and wasteful. In that It teaches young people to a.Ur when they should be taught to gamer. It is, moreover, en tirely out of the line of the free-school Idea, which Is especially designed to give equal opportunities to all and to establish a wide fraternity of Interests and purposes among Its beneficiaries the common people. As a "fad," It will have Its day. run Its course, and die out: but not. It may be feared, until It has made much trouble for-educators who are now temporizing with it and left a deep and lasting scar upon many lives that have fallen under its influences. Mr. Park Benjamin, after a careful cummary In the Independent of the evi dence" adduced, finds grave reason to doubt the Identity of the body of Com modore John Paul Jones, now being re ceived with pomp befitting the deeds of that great naval hero by the country for which he fought so valiantly. After alt what does It matter? The patriotic spirit has been revived and gratified by the earnest desire of the Government to give sepulture to the bones of the hero. Every effort has been made by careful men to determine the Identity of the body and their assurance that they have been successful In their long quest carries assurance with it. not only tq the Government but to the average American citizen. Let this suffice. The dust of one human being is so much like that of another that Jt is not worth while to quarrel over Its Identity with a man who passed out of life more than a century ago. The statement made In some quarters that the late M. T. Hancock, million aire plow manufacturer, was hurled to his death by the reckless driving of his automobile by his own son falls to arouse pity, since Hancock pere was one of the swiftest and most reckless of automobllist?. There Is evidence that he had repeatedly broken the law In this respect In Los Angeles, and that he paid the fine imposed with a defiant air which boded 111 to any one who came In the way of his racing machine. Since there seems to be no way to con trol the reckless propensity of a man of this type to place the lives of others in jeopardy for his own sport, it is not a matter of unconquerable regret when the higher law takes him in hand, ren ders judgment and shuts off all hope of appeal from Its decision. Another party of mountain-climbers has Just had a very narrow escape from a terrible death on the steep sides of Mount Rainier. Most distressing trag edies occur among the mountain-climbers every year. The accidents do not all happen near us. although numerous victims are credited to the snow-peaked mountains which look down on this city, but at numerous other points in the world undertakers find work when the mountain-climbing fercr Is on. The diversion Is all right for goals or for guides whose disappearance from earth would not be sadly missed, but there are so many good men and good women who ripk their lives in the hazardous diversion that some effort to proti:t them against their own folly might not be out of place. Holmes, assistant statistician of the Department of Agriculture, who sold the cotton reports to brokers, has dis appeared. A "far greater scoundrel," in the estimation of the President than if be had stolen money from the Gov ernment. It is a matter of regret. Inside of official circles and without that this man was not arrested and held to an swer for the crime of using his position to make money for himself and for oth ers. It Is not enough that such ras cals are turned out of ofllce. They should be punished, proportionately, as the common thief is punished who con fines his peculations to the henroost the hatrack or the belated pedestrian's pocketbook. The wheat market which went oii a wild upward dash last week, is again gathering "sternway." The scelntific experts who produce red rust black rust chinchbug, Hessian fly. and a hun dred other pests, all by a wave of the magic wand of the pit seem to be rest ing up after their arduous duties of last week. The darky's coon trap was all right In Its way, for It "caught 'em a-comln and a-goInV but the wheat bulls and the bears do all this, and they are swift enough In their actions to see that the material for the trap never lags in Its steps. Unless the signs are wrong, another rust report and higher prices are due today in Chi- cago. The San Francisco newspapers are making savage attacks on Harrlman. alleging that he Is. by reason of insuffi cient transportation facilities, prevent ing thousands of Lewis and Clark Vis itors from going to California. After all that Mr. Harrlman has done for San Francisco at the expense of Portland, it seems the height of Ingratitude for the newspapers of the Bay City to make any criticism over a matter that Is trifling in comparison with the discrim inatory benefits which he has showered ! on San Francisco. They are smiting the hand that feeds them in this case. Do they propose to rob the depart ments at Washington in brder to re officer the Equitable? It seems that the National Capital Is the only place where first-class men work for less than living wages. Chairman Morton Is likely to find others besides the assist ant Attorney-General willing to ex change present Jobs to one where the pay check Is larger at the end of the month. The opponents of the late Coadjutor Bishop Lloyd have asked Dun's and Bradstreefs as to his standing. This would seem, however, to be a case for the recording angel. A forest ranger Is going to arrest a Mazama for cutting down a small tree for fire purposes In the Rainier reserve. The ranger saw him. His eyesight Is entirely too good. The man who puts turpentine on a dog and sets It afire ought to le sum marily dealt with. But of, course a great deal depends on the dog. After all. Peary Isn't such a fool. Vide thermometer. On Ills Trail. Catholic Standard and Tteefl. "Pa." asked the Senator's MOe ", "what's a nemeiter A nemesis. my son." replied the Sena tor, wearily, "Is a fesMte eSce seeUtr whoai. In a anient of fool' ktstilMirt edness, you proalsei to awlst" Alarmed. Houston Ftot . i Tfcere's. J on tMg I waWr sr 1 ye:" 3Crs. Aerkl mm )w better JmK ctaaaMe Sato tkeTosm at 3 a. w. "Jwt one M-'rla," wrM b. fei tousty, "ata't yen a-Ndfn -wen?" If OREGON OZONE Please Name the Girl. Recently The, Oregonlan published some verses under the title of "State Ques tions." which seem to have wandered far .from their own fireside. No answers were expected to these questions, but the Forest Free Press, of Forest, Ontario, Canada, comes out of the tall timber with the following suggestion, quoting the verses and adding a stanza: Who first prospected Portland. Ore.? What Is it makes Augusta. Ga.? And Is It history's wealth of lore That makes old Philadelphia. Pa.? I wonder If Topeka. Kan.? How much did old Columbus. O.? And won't you tell me this; old man: Whose pastures does St Joseph. Mo.? Are things in Providence. R. I.? (What struck the town? but let It pass.) Will doughty Douglass stand or fly If all the troops In Boston. Mass.? Why doesn't soiled Seattle. Wash., In Puyet Sound? (Now don't get gay!) If you would not pronounce It bosh. I'd ask you whom does Tampa, Fin.? For whom has this Tombstone, Ariz.? Did Denver. CoL? Now. by the bark Of Noah's pair of pups, gee whiz! Who built this Tcxarkana. Ark.? ROBERTUS LOVE. IN OREGONIAN. ANSWERED FROM CANADA If answers really are desired Why don't you ask a Brandon. Man.? If he can't give the facts required. There's a pretty girl In Forest. Can. The only self-made man In the world. Dr. Mary Walker, now has an oppor tunity to rejoice and be exceedingly glad. She la vindicated. A wise Judge In Pasa dena. Cal., has rendered a decision to the effect that he finds no ordinance whereby women shall be prevented from wearing trousers If they choose. Mrs. Mary John son, leader of a cult in Pasadena called "back to Nature." raised the Issue. There Is a colony of these pants-clad ladies In that city, and they may parade the streets at wilt trousered like papa, if not bearded like the pard.. Let us hope they will go up'that grand street called "Millionaires Mile" and oaxs by the home of Bob Burdette. who may find material In the scene for a new lecture entitled, "The Rise and Fall of the Skirt" New Hampshire newspapers are much concerned over the question. "Shall the White Mountains be enacted Into a Na tional park or pounded Into pulp for paper upon which to publish yellow jour nals?" That is not exactly the way they put it. but It means Just that. A shrewd New Englandcr. Roger Osgood (his middle name probably Is Williams), has bought up the whole Mount Washington range for a trifle less than half a million dol lars, and it Is understood that shortly he will begin felling the forests to feed to a pulp milt But Senator Burnham. of New Hampshire, the watchdog of the White Mountains, has Introduced a bill in the Senate for the conversion of the range into a great National park. The Issue now lies between tho park and the paper mills. It Is a momentous problem. . The effete down Eatt has troubles of Its own. and may consider the worries of the res; of the world well lost What Is the mat ter with our Eastern friends, anyhow? They have permitted stonecutters to de stroy much of the Hudson's beauty in its Palisades section. They have harnessed Niagara to the wild horses of electricity and threaten to curtail Its flow alto gether except In periods of excessive rainfall. They have made use of Grover Cleveland for an Equitable directorship. Has the East no poetic sentiment no soul? AVII1 it not reconsider these three or four violations of the poetic verities and preserve Its great natural wonders and its picturesque ruins from vandal hands? Think of what a cry of lndig nation would go up If we should suggest using Mount Hood for a shoot-the-chutes. or Mount Rainier for a "W'atch-Tacoma- Grow" sign. Sad Is the wall that comes out of Tren ton. N. J., where Washington crossed the Delaware when It was full of floating Ice. Yea. sadder even than the well-modu lated moan that murmured down from Massachusetts on the" Fourth of July, when that sacred relic of a transcen- dental dream, the homestead on Brook j Farm, was burned down by firecrackers, f Tcrradelphla has been turned into a gas works! Alas! What Is Terradelphla, do ' you ask? Tcrradelphla was the Brook ( Farm of New Jersey. It was built some j years ago by Thomas M. Terradell as an J Industrial home for the reclamation of tramps. Like Brook ' Farm. Its earlier prototype and precedent It was a failure. The vision of Mr. Terradell was too Ideal. too transcendental; It was an iridescent dream. Brook Farm was the home and haunt of Charles A Dana. George WIl- iliara Curtis and other choice spirits. They hoped to establish an Ideal commun Ity. wherein dreamers mlgllt dream and doers might do If they desired. But It was discovered that the raising of pota toes and poetry at the same time, by the same hands, was a manifest lncompat- Iblllty, and not even the urbane Bron son Alcott who never let anything bother him. was equal to the emergency of sub sisting altogether upon sublime thoughts. Brook Farm broke up. leaving only the old hulk of a house to stand for half a century, until the firecracker goblin got it Now the gas works has got.Terradel phta. In that enormous dormitory Mr. Terradell hoped that the tramps, col lected from the five ends of the earth. might learn to work together in har mony; but he reckoned without his host and without his guests, for practical work is equally as. foreign to the predil ections and propensities of a tramp as it Is to a transcendentallst. The tramps blew up the works by evacutlng the premises, and now the big building Is a gas factory. But let us not despair of the Ideal: there Is compensation; there are gains for all our losses, as the late Mr. Stoddard sang. The liberated soul of the bitumen shall go forth from Ter radelobla to Illuminate the city. An exchange publishes an obituary poem "written by request of the de ceased." We refuse to believe It Mtes Anna Shannan Moore; a corres pondent with the big "party of Maxamas and others who are climbing Mt Rainier (or Mt Tacoma take your choice), re ports that there are two women td. every man in the party. She adds quite laao- cently. that they are encasaped in Par- .adlse Valley. Why. of - course. I wonder Just how many Cha'ncyF" And Chollys Have paid tb.e price of "Facia and Fancies' Ia follies? ROBERTUS LOVS. To Miica Advice. TtM cM(t be Wiitd fee tor 2tew frem' tM- Mr evtoeaee thac Mm stetotr ftts fcM to atucA advice. STORY OF A HOT DAY IN NEW YORK AmbBlaaces Rush ts All Parts or the City -Many Kaeck. OS Work aad Factories Clese Blgr Baslaeas at Soda Fountains. . New York Sun, July 13. The mercury got up" to 9$ degrees in this city yesterday, and the effects of a really hot period began to mani fest themselves forcibly. Enervated by the .effort to sleep In the almost breezeless atmosphere of one of tha hottest nights In the history of the boroughs, working people got up yes terday unprepared to stand the assault of the sun. There has been only one hotter day In July since 1301. when, on the 2d. the silvery bands of the mer cury clasped th- 99-degree rung of tho ladded. In the unshaded and windless places where a multitude made an ef fort to do their dally work, the tem perature fluctuated between 9S and 10 degrees, and hundreds were forced to abandon work In the afternoon. Tho heat of Monday had been absorbed by the lofty walls, and rooms were ovens. Seldom has the city re-echoed with the clangs of the ambulance gongs as it did yesterday. Eight of the big hospitals In Man hattan responded to nearly 200 calls. more than 70 of which were due to heat prostrations. There were 120 am bulance call3 In Brooklyn. Up to 21 o'clock P. M. Roosevelt had responded to, 33 appeals for help, only six of which were heat prostrations, but many of the others were for cases which 'had been aggravated by heat One of the Roosevelt nurses was overcome and attended by an overworked corps of physicians and nurses. Fifteen .-of Harlem's 30 ambulance calls were for heat prostrations. Hudson had 1 cases of prostration, 12 of which wero sent home. Hudson declared that, al though Its force, like that of all tha rest of the hospitals of the town; was overworked. It could stand more exer tion. St. Vincent's, with IS calls, had seven prostration cases. ine nurses were nearly exhausted by the tax. duo In part to the demands upon tneir at tention by scores of other patients whose ailments were augmented by the weather. In New Tork County yesterday thf police recorded seven deaths ascribed to the heat 67 prostrations and nin sick cases. The totals were largely in excess of those of the day before or or any other day of the Summer. On Mon day one death and 29 prostrations wera reported In Brooklyn there were eight ueatns from heat and 3t prostrations, mak ing a total for the three boroushs of 9S prostrations and 15 deaths Among the Brooklyn deaths were two at Coney Island. There was nothing- In sight last night that gave promise of even a tem porary cooling of the superheated air. In the sunny hours of the day, partic ularly at K o'clock, when the tempera ture on tho official tower wa3 at 93 degrees, air breathed chiefly by resi dents of airships and balloons, the breeze rose to 23 miles. But. as on Mon day, it was from the west and south west, blowing right out of tne sizzling heart of Tophet Help from that point was hopeless. When the mercury was highest, however, the humidity was least, dropping to 37 per cent from 62 per cent at 8 o'clock in the morning., The throngs at all the big and little soda fountains of the town broke all records, some of the very biggest tak ing In more than $700 for fizz alone. Cascades of beer also flowed more freely than on the days when the hu- ODD BITS OFJREGON LIFE. What! Tell on a Lady? Never! Jefferson Review. Sam Pease and Fred Reed" have been trying for two weeks to get the Review editor Into a scrape. They want us to tell about a Jefferson lady "hitting a bottle" at a picnic In the Miller grove, but we won't dp it Is This Cause and Effect? Gopher Corr. McMlnnvllle Telephone Register. Milan Agee swapped horses with the Gypsies In McMlnnvllle and received a broken wagon tongue and a few. bruises soon afterwards. How Uncle Sam Gets There. Gresaam Record. That the Government Is slow but sure is evidenced by the facU that Grandma Jones has just received a letter from Miss Minnie Royer. mailed at a postofflce In Southern Oregon seven years ago. Miss Royer, who is now a resident of G res ham. remembers writing the letter while visiting friends in the southern part of the state. The envelope is yel low with age. but In good- condition. Why It has been so long on the road cannot be told. Heinous Conduct of Mr. Bradley. Athena Press. From patrons of the St Nichols dining room It leaks out that George Bradley Is about the meanest man In Oregon. As the- story goes, a lady residing In the country left some fine specimens of rasp berries with "Brad" with the understand ing that the fruit was to be sent to the Umatilla County booth at the Lewis and Clark Exposition. The accusation is made that Bradley took the berries to his boarding place, and With a few selected friends ate up the whole crate. Sad Outlook for the Cow. South Bend Journal. Amos Erabree. the sage of Coon Rock, at the head of the bay. Is now trying to ptft Luther Burbank In the shade in the way of new creations. He is trying to cross milk weed with strawberries and produce strawberries and cream on the same plant He is using the evergreen strawberry so that he can product the strawberries any season of the year and by careful cultivation and selection of the milk weed he is confident that he can produce a plant which, unlike a cow, won't go dry. Heading Off the Land-Grabbers. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. There Is a rich opportunity for land graft In the formation of the new state which is eventually to be created of Okla homa and Indian Territory. In Oklahoma 13 a section of 18.S60 acres which has been set aside lor the benefit of. common schools, colleges and public buildings In the future state. It now appears that this section Is vastly more valuable than was expected owing: to the recent dis covery of olL Politicians and scheming lawyers are busy seeking means to get hold of these lands for personal exploi tation, and the prize Is so great that fear has grown that some such robbery of the unborn state may yet.be accomplished. Day of MiraclesNot Past. Minneapolis Journal. Martin. J. Kennedy, of San Frandaco, adds himself to the list of men whose lives have been saved In. a miraculous raanaer. When, recently. Mr. Kennedy started upon a Journey his wife gave him a box of c&ars with the request that he sseke them. He oromtee. her he would aad the keeping of the premise saved his Mfe. He ted taken but three whiffs when, feeUag the Christmas cigar sieicaess sem lg.OR. he retired to the steering ear. A few mlMtee afterward the amoklsar cai raa upon, an open switch, aad was te rfte4 an4 evarr pinwa In It killetL It mr ImistrsA wiMreta consisted the misshu It tax ta Hr, t Ms M midity has been high. Electric fans that droned in dismal monotone at every fountain and betore and behind every bar did little to alleviate the' dis comfort They simply stirred the hot air into swifter motion. The public baths did a tremendous business all day. The attendants at the Battery let In to 200 persons at a time. After a 20-mlnute swim they wer hustled out and a new lot entered. A number of factories stopped work at noon and several Downtown broker let' their clerks off at 1 o'clock in th afternoon. One went so far as to pro vide each of them with the price of a trip to Coney Island and a bathing suit. Many exhausted horses dropped dur ing the day and early evening. They could be seen every few blocks alonjc the East Side. The nearest hydrant furnished water to cool them off. One of the hottest! places In the city was the Assay Office In Wall street where the men swelter In " normal weather while melting and ieflnlng th gold and silver. Frederick Fletcher, one of the Government workmen, wan found unconscious at his post and sent to Hudson-street hospital. According to the figures given out by the Health Department yesterday, the death rate for last week, 23.01 per 1000 per year, was nearly 2 per 1000 per year higher than the death rata for the corresponding week last year, which week was comparatively coot In other words. It was a hot-week death rate. Heat does not come In the same week every year. The fig ures for this week will not be com piled until the end of the week," but as nearly as the department can tell at present, the number of deaths from heat In the last thr.ee days has been 33. a daily average of It More died at pneumonia. Last week 179 persons died in Man hattan from diarrheal diseases, while 45t of these were children under 5 years of age. For the corresponding week last year, which was a cooler week. 435 persons died from similar causes, with 416 of that number under 5 years of age. The deaths In the ten ements last week of children under I year numbered 636. as against 54S for the corresponding but cooler week last year, while the number of children un der 5 years which, of course, included those under one year, was S26. as against 740 in the same week last year. That this Is comparing a hot week with a cool week Is manifest from the fact that there were 46 deaths attributed to sunstroke last week, or at the rat of one dally to every half million In habitants, as against three last year during the same period. This Is a large town. To show that Summer complaint is a Summer complaint and not a Winter complaint It is stated that in the first wek in March last there were only 33 deaths from diarrheal diseases as against 479 of last week. -In. March other diseases have the lead and make the month the deadliest of the year. Bad milk, poor food and the habit of overeating are responsible for most of the cases of Summer complaint The department is doing its utmost to keep the milk supply up to par. amd the Inspectors that ma"ke the rounds of the public schools In the Winter are now going through the tenements giv ing practical hints to housewives. There are about 110 doctors and nurses in this squad. FAMILY MONEY. OF- COURSE. Chicago Record-Herald. -"All small change belongs to the fam ily." is the dictum of Charles Ailing. Chicago's most famous bachelor, who heartily commended the much discussed decision of the Kansas City judge con cerning a wife's right to appropriate the money in her husband's pockets. "It's a kind of 'community pocket; deal and the wife Is entitled to all she can find while searching hubby's garments In the still small hours of night She has joint pos session of the clothes, anyway. Weren't the two made one? The husband hasn't any kick coming at all. They are Ju3t as much her trousers as his." This view was shared by several other prominent legal practitioners, but perhaps the most decided opinion is that of Milton J. Foreman, who declared Judge Slover "to have Solomon lashed to the mast when It comes to genuine wisdom." Mr. Foreman went on to say: "Though I am a bachelor. I recognize this wifely prerogative to be a Just and equitable one. and it is this aspect of matrimony that makes your true bache lor's heart weaken at the crucial mo ment" "Well," said Corporation Counsel J. Hamilton Lewis, as he stood by an 'Open window, considerately allowing a gentle zephyr to disport itself undisturbed amidst his profuse hirsute appendages. "It tho wife is the biggest she generally gets the treasury Into her own keeping, and If the man is. the superior she takes It from him when he's asleep. Personally I never have had the treasury; It's always been In my wife's keeping. You may draw your own conclusions." In a worried and somewhat strained tone W. H. Clark announced that as he was a married man he thought "it scarcely behooved him to say anything on the sub ject" "But" he hastily added, "my wife has a perfect right to search my pockets if she wishes." whereupon he hurriedly with drew. "I am inclined to agree with the judge." said Frank B. Hussey. "where the hus band is a lawyer. For the wife won't find anything In his pockets." and he disap peared between two swinging doors. Two Views of It. Two advertisements In Nanalmo (B. C.J Free Press. NOTICE. I hereby give notice that from and after this date I will not be responsible for any debts contracted by my wife. Geraldlne WalL J. J. WALL. Nanalmo. B. C. June 14, 1904. NOTICE. I didn't know that J. J. Wall had any credit except at saloons and breweries. GERALDINE WALL. The Breeze. Mabel Stanwood In Llpplncott's. The ran burns hot. On all the stleat street The dust lies white and thick. Alony ths road The spearmint yields its fragrance to the heat. Not even the "shade Is coot The wharves are still. But for the lazy ereaklne oi the blocks As the mall-schooner raises uieless sail. And drowsy ringing as the buoy rocks Just off the point, os every loag, smooth rwelL Across the water -where the Hae of sky Aad sea lies faint, a- clearer streak of blue Comes up and spreads, aad all the laagaers die. The march grass stirs and sways. Aiong the wharves Brisk. ager waves lap on the weedy plies: The schooner's bow throws dowa the glis tening white O hissing foam. The harbor -wakes and smiles. The south wind briags the sea'a coo 1, sa.lt ness la. j Memory.' XUtSs R- Greer la UpvifweU's. 9fcried. Is the tassost cfcawsee the kesrt Tfcere to a. &. t ikMr .as gsM. A' frssrte ttsfeg aad esswtstit. w!t Tfc Mmt JtoTMra C itsirM Jimm Ar. Mjsm Hi. vas ' . ITU, mm mXl MiMiryi a9