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THE MORNING OKEGONIAX. PRIDAT, JTJIiY. 28, 1905. tSkmU. t the PertefSce at Pertla, Or., m seeeni-etass aaattr. BCBeCWPXION- KATES. IXVARIABLT IN ADVANCE. (By ifsil er Express.) at SAr. lx stonths. 5- m Kiitm4y. three montbl. - DaJir and 8ndr. er month -J Xfeny -without &Ha'. per year. . i Dally -Kitheut SuaAay. tlx month.. Illr -without 8ub4i. three months... X. ruilv- without SviEflar. per month. -j,-- tfuadar. Pr year f)X tVundty, six months ,'Ssaday thrsa months. .1 BY CARRIER. I Daily withoat Sunday, per week.. ir pCi TTCCJL, CUUBW 1 lziz nx.ca-u'- w..-"- (Isesed Every Thursday.) Weekly, oer year........... - ... L50 "Weeklr. six months. - -fi Weekly, three months - unw to MMTT-Send coitofflce money prder, express order or personal check on yur local bank, stamps, cum are at the sender's risk. -''EASTERN' BUSINESS OFFICE. The 6. C Beckwltb Special Affacy-New Terlc. rooms 43-50 Tribune building. Chi cago, rooms 510-512 Tribune building. KEPT ON SALE. 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Osahft-Barkalow Bros.. 1612 Farnam: Maceath Stationery Co.. 1308 Farnam; Mc Laughlin Bros.. 246 South 14th; McLaughlin 4k Holtx, 1515 Farnam. Saorameeto. CaL Sacramento News Co a. street. Salt Lake Salt Lake News Co.. 77 West Second street South; Frank Hutchison. Yellow erne Park, Wye. Canyon Hotel, Lake Hotel, Yellowstone Park Aesn. Long Beach B. E. Amos. San Fraaclseo J. K. Cooper & Co., 746 Market street; Goldsmith Bros.. 236 Sutter and Hotel St. Francis News Stand; IsJr-tt-Plce Hotel News Stand: F. W. ?ltts. 1008 Market; Frank Scott. 80 Ellis; N. "Wheatley Movable News Stand, corner Mar ket a-nd Kearney streets; Foster & Orear, Ferry News Stand. tit. Leak, Mo. E. T. Jett Book & News Company. 806 Olive street. Washington. B. C P. Dr Morrison. 2132 Pennsylvania avenue. ' PORTLAND, FRIDAY, JULY 28, 188. THE RACE QUESTION IN OUR AFFAIRS. Race antipathy is founded chiefly on color. It is persistent Insuperable. The social Instinct of the white races an other term for a principle implanted in them for their own preservation sets barriers against lntercouse between the white and colored races, on a common plane. With this Instinct or principle it is useless ,tq argue. It will not be argued -vviti it is the oasis 01 the opposition the admission of Chinese Into The pj United States. le negro was admitted Into the United States because he came as J slave. His color was a badge of his In ferlbrity, and was the Justification of his enslavement. He was an inferior being. He was a chattel. If now there were but few negroes In the United States and It were proposed to admit more, there -would be even louder 'pro test than is made against admission of Chinese. But we have eight millions of negroes in the united States. They constitute one-tenth of our population. We must establish a basis upon which we may deal with them on principles of Justice, with regard to their rights of person and of property. But it is and forever will be Impossible to re move the social barrier which race and color establish. And this condition es tablishes other barriers, as In politics and business. There are, indeed, race antipathies and prejudices of grave character between different branches of the white race; but none that are In 3noe"raTMo Members of the various branches of the white race may not like each other often. Indeed usually do not But English and Irish and Scotch, Germans, French, Scandinavl ans, Poles, Slavs, Jews, Italians and Spaniards all of us. in progress of time, thrown together, fall In with each other, and the material is wrought Into a common mass all the better because of the variant constituent elements that have made It up. The Influence of race on race Is, therefore, one of the capital facts In the history of mankind-. To descend from a large generalization to a particular incident the reason why the progress of Oregon during a very r .long period was so slow, was this. chiefly, that the people, who first occu pled the country were almost wholly homogeneous; and, until the railroads came, distance cut off accessions of new material to the first population. There was lack of the necessary forces of differentiation But the Chinese could not have sup plied these forces, nor could the negro, Had either of these races come In large numbers, there would have been no af filiation between them and the whites, The race barrier was Insuperable; and the race barrier is mainly the color line. Had the conditions in our Pacific States, when the settlement began, been such that our predecessors could hav Imported Chinese-as slaves,' we should now have conditions here similar to thoee that exist in the social and Indus trial order of our Southern States where the negro, though powerful in numbers, has no sort of standing In the political, social and business life of the community. Slavery could not have continued: but social conditions, based on race distinctions, accentuated and emphasized by color, would have grown to what they are in our states where the negroes are very numerous. "We have gained greatly, and still are gr.lnlng. not merely in numbers, but In ibe forces that go to isake up a great civilization, by admission into our country of multitudes of people from Europe, representing -various "branches and natloas of the wake race. Our first eettlers In the United States were almost U of common kin. In 130 our population alMttt ten Mllltess. lv was mainly of Xgl-Stxn origin, and nearly all C-j Gran4c race. It' wh ty Jiwhimwb for greatest variety t dvHteed aeUvHy. Stace ISM lmmta.-atl trofit auiay otmtria itujaod she k oppw to a circa tJftx- the ln nriurlnr In. with Increasing flood I eAnon-hof ifitammtiui nn njr!rvA ir I another, bat on the -whole growing from one decade to another till now the stream of Immigration Is more powerful than we have ever known It. Of the twenty-three millions that have en tered our country from the Old World since 1820, about fifteen millions belong- to various branches and elements of the Teutonic or Germanic race, and the remainder to the different branches of the Latin, Slav. Polish. Hungarian and other races kindred to them. During recent years these last have been com- Ins In larger numbers supplying an element that Is Introducing new thought, new methods, new activities. Into our National life. The children of all these, passing through our public schools, become Americans. They speak English; they fall in with the Ideas of the country; they Intermarry with all the rest- But where you find the one great race barrier the color line the loC process stops. It is the basis of the one insuperable distinction of classes. All other distinctions, in our country, may gradually melt Into each other. This never can be melted Into the rest There Is an instinct here though few attempt to define it that shows why were is so strong opposition In our country to immigration of Asiatics. The opposition Is specially strong In our Pacific States, where there has been more contact and. more expert ence than elsewhere, with the oriental races, it is not - that our people would harm members of these races, or treat them with harshness or injustice; but they are unwilling to ad mlt them here and will nof except un der closest restrictions as to numbers and character. Our working classes feel bat they are specially exposed, in the social and labor scale, to the pres sure of the races that would compete with them In -ways that would reduce their Importance in the body politic and social; and they are moved by all their natural Instincts, and resolved through the conclusions of their Judgment and reason, not to be put in ims position 01 aisaavanjage ana humiliation, xne race question, mere- fore. Is the gist of the immigration question and of the labor question. Our country, has many millions of Africans. It is our own fault. "We brought their ancestors and have bred them here. "We must take care of them, or give them all possible opportunity for them selves. But we should not -wish we do not wish to aggravate these difficulties by admission of millions from the races of Asia. A SHORT VINDICATION. The Dalles Chronicle Is greatly ag grieved over the manner In which the land trials have been carried on at Portland and the results thus far. Here is part of Its plaint: The Jury convicted Senahjr Mitchell. Not roan in Oregon believes he had a fair and Impartial -trial. Many believe he was guilty of a violation of the statute. Whether guilty as charged or Innocent, he was deprived of the kind of a trial which everr American citizen believe he himself entitled to and without which none are -safe, namely, a trial before sn unprejudiced Jury. The Individual Jurors who sat In the Mitchell case ld they were unprejudiced, and If they bsd not read the Oregonlan the year prior to the trial. they may have been: otherwise they could not have been entirely free from prejudice. Not good, for several reasons; these first: The Oregonlan, when the accusation against Senator Mitchell was first made. discredited utterly the ability of Attor ney Heney to prove It, and said so re peatedly. It was not till the state ments of Tanner and Robertson came. and Mr. Mitchell's letter to Tanner, sent through Robertson, was given to the public, that The Oregonlan could see that the prosecutor had any case could not shut Its eyes to those revela tions and their consequences. It said so, plainly, uut oeyona this it was wholly silent It had no editorial com ment whatever. Nor has it said any thing since the trial. For it was certain that nothing it might say could aggra vale or mitigate the penalty or force of the fall. It could have said much. but has said nothing. No homily it could write on Mr. Mitchell or his ca reer could have added In the least de gree to the lmpresslvenesa of the les son; but any such thing from The Ore gonlan, from first to last, -would have been deemed unseemly or ungenerous. by many minds. The political death of Mr. Mitchell was the verdict of the Jury- The Oregonlan did not "hew the head off," nor has it "hacked the limbs." To this answer, grave and serious, may be added another, slightly face tious, perhaps, or sarcastic. The Ore gonlan could not plead guilty to the accusation of The Dalles paper, that the result was brought about by news paper Interference, chiefly through The Oregonlan. For this paper of The Dalles has heen one of the most vehe ment and persistent, of all, in the as sertion during year past, that "The Oregonlan has no influence." Then "let it go at. that," A QUESTION OF VERACITY. NOT OF TRUTH. For sneakinsr nlainlv about her nastor and repeating words which she asserts that he snoke In reirard to an orthodox tenet of the creed of his and her church. a well-known woman of Vancouver, Wash., was recently haled before a committee of the church, as provided In the book of discipline, convicted of ly ing,, and expelled from the communion of the saints. Now no one is bound to believe In the blood atonement of Jesus, but any one who -doubts this cardinal point of or thodox belief should withdraw from a church that makes It a requirement of membership, decently and In order. without waiting to be kicked out by the elect, who scorn to do their own thinking. This remark mayor may not apply to the preacher or to the expelled member in -this instance, according to the way in which the evidence is read and Inter preted. But it applies to many others. both of the ministry and laity, who. when they outgrow a dogma that they. perhaps only last year, conceived to be a vital truth, suck to tne cnurcn or- ganlzatlon and make trouble for thoee of less inquiring mind. Such dissenters are out of place in the church. Why they should remain In It and argue, and tattle and contend, until they are kicked out with unholy clamor and furious denunciation, passes (he comprehension of self-respecting people! who believe in spiritual and mental growth. ad are not ashaaaed to own It, Of course K is unchurehly to charac terize a grayer meeting as a "circus, a the convicted &r4 expelled lay mem- ber in this ctee Is said to have done. and whck sfee te not 4env havhg done. If this -was fcr cdl etJa, pious order, the open course or mae- nendent action lav before her. She could. If so constrained of conscience. have denounced the clown and his methods in open meeting, where he himself furnished the evidence to sus tain her charge, withdrawn from the show. later' asked In a quiet, dignified way for her card of withdrawal, and thus saved the community a church scandal and herself the unpleasant no toriety of being publicly branded as a liar by the hot Iron of ecclesiastical wrath. Converts-to orthodox religion are not made in this way, nor are churches honored nor beliefs thus verified. . It merely serves jlo show to what extent of un-Ch'rlstlan fury and Intolerance people are driven who put God on the defensive through their creeds and con stitute themselves the champions of his power and his truth. The question In the case cited is one of veracity, not truth a statement of "you did" and T didn't," hurled back and forth with most un-Cbristlan spirit. Or perhaps it may be more properly designated as "sound and fury, signifying nothing." THE PLEA OF THE ri RATES. Had Governor La Follette made the same remark a few years ago which he made at Galesburg the other daj he would have been numbered thenceforth among Incendiary anarchists. "I should like." said the Governor, "to have a hand in hanging Stuyvesant Fish." The Nation does not shudder; It merely wonders why Mr. La Follette should limit his sanguinary Impulse to Stuy vesant Fish out of the great multitude who are ripe for the halter. Indeed, a very audible sigh of regret ascends from the American people that the bel ligerent reformer cannot proceed from the wish to Its fulfillment. Neverthe less. Stuyvesant Fish Is a great man and Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish is something more than a great lady. He is presi dent of the Illinois Central Railroad. and she has declined to be the wife of the President of the United States. To H RnrA cSfl Aflln without rkplnir Mkedf but it is the feeling of the heart. .rp rf,mimh.r. that counts, not the external circumstance. Later, and at a Chautauqua Assem bly, too. where Incendiary utterances must fall upon the timidly correct con gregations, one would suppose, like a band of pirates upon a nunnery, Mr. La Follette -violently denounced that pillar of the church, the college and society, John D. Rockefeller. It Is added in the account that what he said was appauded. Trifling in themselves. such facts as these are far from trivial when they must be taken as symptoms of a profound ethical revolution in the Nation. They are the surface wavelets which - tell something of a deep dls turbance In the ocean of society. It Is not unlikely that the American people are feeling Just now the Initial stirrings of a tremendous revival. Not a re vival of ecclesiasticism. or of any kind of fetich worship, but of vital and effi cient righteousness. That this Is com Ing there are many signs. The endur ing popularity of Theodore Roosevelt. who Is a righteous man in the sense of Matthew Arnold and the Hebrew prophets. Is one sign. It is another, most ominous for evildoers In high places, that the wrath of the people against them does, not burn Itself out. The -public does not weary of the con tinuous flood of exposure and denuncla tlon In the newspapers. As people waken to the meaning of It, they are fascinated and enraged. They are stricken with the wholesome, old-fash loned conviction of sin, not in the grafters only, but in themselves. A whole nation is crying "Lord, be mere! ful unto us miserable sinners." The belief Is coming home to all of us that caimic luuay una an nuom man. ae wouiu oe si 1 11 less succespiui man no was in Athens two thousand years ago. The Nation sickens of its moral filth. How will it fare with pillars of society like Fish and Rockefeller in that day of wrath which seems to be at hand? No sane person looks for a bloody, and. possibly, richly deserved, ' retribution upon these men; but there is going to be a fearful coming to Judgment of some sort. What can they say In their defense? They can- say, for one thing. that they are symptoms, rather than causes, of the National disease. Rocke feller can successfully plead In reply to Miss Tarbell. for example, who indicts him again in the August McClure's, that he has not made the Nation dis honest; but, rather, that the dishonesty of the Nation gave him his opportunity to achieve his bad eminence In piracy. He was born into corruption, and, like the iarvae of certain Insects, he found It uniquely adapted to his nature, and throve in it. Not one of his schemes could have been manned or executed in a community with sound moral Ideals. All of them must have failed In a coun try where adequate laws- were faith fully enforced. Mr. Rockefeller found the law neither adequate to cover the conditions of modern commerce, nor en forced when its antiquated rules did apply. For every principle of law he found a method of evasion with as good, or better, standing in the courts. He has used the law as an apparatus r Plunder; but he found law and law I jers rcuuj to his hand. He created neither of them. Nor has he ever failed to find plenty of helpers in all his pred atory undertakings. With the soul of a miser and the in tellect of a Bacon, Mr. Rockefeller was born at a time when lax morals and In adequate laws Invited avarice to plun der. He accepted tne invitation witn determined zeal, and for many years he spent all his energy. Jn devouring his abundant and easy prey. A student of the evolution of Mr. Rockefeller would naturally call this the larva, or grub. period of his life. The student would also expect to see him emerge from this lowly estate, as all grubs do, and soar above the earth as a winged creature. Mr. Rockefeller, and all his genus, try very hard to complete their evolution and show themselves as something of a finer nature than mere devourers. No one enjoys the hatred of his kind. In these men the hunger for approbation even overcomes their avarice, and. without forsaking their evil ways, they I PY enormous sums to buy the praise. or, at least, the silence, of thoee who lead public opinion. They find both the praise and the silence for sale: but they find also that In this matter public opin ion will not be led. It moves more and more strongly toward condemnation and begins to repudiate the leaders who would, as It thinks, mleCcad. These criminals, who have ae long defied the law and deepieed the "rules ef manly fair dealing, and who now wjefc t po&e as phhaatJtrotot8 andbnefactcs of human Ky. har nethteg from the great jmblte hvt mttn aad satire. They jriay vltimatily bear tupsHilng wrsc Impatient of hypocrl-y. Bat. whatever may befall, they arc entitled to plead that the Nation which now condemns them tempted them to commit their misdeeds by Its own inadequate laws, pliant Judiciary and lax morals. The plea for the institution of drink ing fountains at suitable and conven ient places throughout the city is a timely one. and one that might well engage the attention and enlist the aid of practical citizens. Dogs with lolling tongues, horses with expanded nostrils, birds drinking from noisome pools at the curb left by rhe "passing sprinkling tank, make dumb appeal for places to drink, while pedestrians on our streets, and especially strangers within our gates, feel the need, every hour of the day. of- places where 'they can get a drink of pure, wholesome water. The Oregonlan agrees with Mr. Shanahan that It would be well to take steps at , once to erect Inexpensive Iron fountains at suitable points in the city, from which man and beast may quench their thirst. Portland has certainly passed the village stage, wherein foun tains thus placed, as was the case in several Instances some years ago, would be allowed to fall Into a disgraceful state of disrepair or be broken and de faced by Idlers Intent upon mischief. Let us have the fountains and then let orderly citizens assist the police In pro tecting them from vandalism and the water supply from needless waste. Tuma desert. In the southwest corner of sun-blistered, semi-arid Arizona. presents Ideal possibilities for Irriga tion. Hot o hot that Its coolest breath Is scorching: dry so dry that its dampest breath is parching, the soJ of Yuma is still said to be wonderfully suited to agriculture. The waters of the Colorado River, running to waste through this region, suggest the means whereby this desert land may be made to riot in abundance and "laugh into plenty." The hot season tlere is longer than anywhere else In the United States. Irrigation, it Is claimed, will turn this fact to account in a multi plication of crops each season the out put of which will be In bulk enormous. and In variety all that the agriculturist can desire. For these reasons, chiefly, the Government has engaged In an un dertaking the cost of which will be J3.000.000. whereby the waters of the Colorado River will be turned to ac count In transforming the desert Into a garden. The compensation of President Mor ton, of the Equitable, has been fixed at the modest sum of JSO.000 per year. This is Just ten times the amount re ceived by Secretary Morton as Cabinet officer, which goes to show that the policy-holders of the Equitable appreci ate the services of a good man tenfold more than the Government does. Pres ident Morton says he has Inaugurated reforms which will result In a saving In salaries alone of J500.000 per year. It was not especially hard to do. By the simple process of cutting off the Alexander, Hyde, Depew and slmflar salaries, the half-million mark was speedily reached. However, It was never done, and never even contem plated, until Morton took hold, so that likely enough It will be found that the new president's services are cheap at fSO.000 per annum. Portland's fleet of excursion steam ers is inadequate for the crowds of visitor who wish to see the matchless scenery along the Columbia and Wil lamette Rivers, so two flyers are com ing from Puget Sound. Naturally there will be competition for business. Speed Is one of the attractions of travel, but I 41.1. m. . 1- the eense that engines are tested to the straining point. On a pleasure trip live minutes more or less is nothing. Pas sengers on rival Doats like to see a race, and most of them have little thought of danger. Owners should forbid masters and engineers to race at full speed. Navigable waters of Oregon and Washington have been singularly free from accident Involving human life. Ilet the good record be kept up. Horror at the act of wanton cruelty perpetrated upon a dog by one Henry Harvey, of Multnomah County, as de tailed In the letter of W. T. Shanahan. published in The Oregonlan yesterday. Is succeeded by astonishment at the light penalty Imposed by Justice Seton upon the perpetrator. The case, ac cording to Secretary Shanahan. of the Oregon Humane Society, surpasses in cruelty any that has been brought be fore the society In the thirty years of its existence, yet the human brute who Inflicted the torture upon the animal escaped with the paltry fine of 525! Mr. Shanahan Is Justified In denouncing the verdict in this case as an outrage to the sensibilities of a humane commu nity. The full penalty of the law 60 days in the County Jail and a fine of $100t-1s all too mild in an extreme case. of which this is chief in our annals. Interesting is the rumor that Emperor ! William will combine navies with the Czar to bluff England. In this game. as with the great American game, the man with the biggest hand won't "layl down." King Edward stilL holds four aces and is sitting behind a tall stack of blue chips. . Congressman Williamson's nephew, to avoid court summons. Is doing big stunts In Eastern Lane County, closely pursued by Deputy Marshals. Why wasn't he practical by Joining the bunco men in Portland, whom officers of the law are unable to find? While the country will rejoice to know that Dr. Roosevelt and his youngsters had the skill to cook their own break fast In camp, it would like to have a hint as to the quality of the meal, to say nothing of details of the menu. No significance attaches to the fact that M. Wltte took passage for the. United States In the steamship Kaiser 1 Wllhelm dor Grosee. Maybe he Is trav eling-on a pass. The Acting Chief or Police is con vinced that Portland Is not overrun with thieves and other criminals." Cer tainly. His detectives tell him so. They know. . Commander Peary Is-oft. Tor the next fortee mowths he wH4 be the one American Mt competed te read atoriea f pvbMc and .private graft. Bryan's IilMle Jake. If the iMaaefctrt ytttartM, tot im ifct the ttt T M. EMsttr tW te ihsac feed ta. a OREGON OZONE A- Yarn From Tap. fAdrices from Tp. in the Carolina Is lands, say that the contest over the million dollar estate of Klng CKeefe. of the Islands, has been compromised, the estate being divided equally between, the American and native widows oC the dectased mon arch.) Have you heard the yarn from Yap? King 0Kcef was quite a chap, In his day: What with women and with wines In the far-off Carolines. He was" gay. 1 Once a lady from the States He annexed, although of mates One he had. There In Yap a native (like Jimmy Bludso, late of Pike), Which was bad. Then he dled-this King O'Keefe: Woe! alas! his reign was brief. So he croaked: But he left a million (psha'w!). In securing which the law . "Was Invoked. 'II el I can widow (No. 1) Said she wouldn't be outdone By a Yap Lady with a kink of hair - And a thlcklsh Up, so there Was a scrap. But at last the widows said, "Gimme half." each one. Instead Of It all; So they compromised, and each Now may Summer at the beach -Until Fall. King O'Keefe, as I hav.e sald Was a gay one but he's dead. Poor old chap! 'Tls a tearful tale, and sad. Though the story's not so bad For a Yap. A Montana paper prints a chunk of doggerel entitled "Miles Keogh's Horse." with the explanation that It is "one of John Hay's popular poems." It Is tan gled up with crippled feet and reeks with vaudeville gallery sentiment. That John Hay never perpetrated such stuff is a foregone conclusion. "Why slander a man when he Is dead? There should be a pub lic inspector of the literary remains of poets, J.o protect noble reputations. The hand that wrote "Jim Bludso," who "had one wife at Natchez-under-the-hill, and another one here In Pike," and "who held her nozzle agin the bank 'till the last soul got ashore," never stooped to this baseness: "And a regimental formation Of the Seventh Cavalry, Comanche draped in mourning and led By a trooper of Company I," etc A. W. Gregory, son of a late Governor of Rhode Island, offers a reward of 53CCO for the return of hla vermiform appendix. which be lost somewhere between the Nebraska state line and Denver, on his way out to Portland. There are plenty of us who would be glad to lose our ap pendix. It we could do It without a sur gical operation. Mr. Gregory had his in a Jewel box and seems to have left, It on the train. The gentleman probably goes upon the theory that an appendix In the band Is worth two hundred In the ab domen. Surgical Slang:. The Physician What are you bellow- Ing about now? The Patient I'm afraid I've got appen did tls; there's an awful pain In the re gion of my appendix. The Physician Aw. cut It out! Yuba Damme'd. (There' is talk of damming the Yuba River at the point known as the Nar rows. Sacramento Wednesday Press.) Now If they dam the Yuba, It's sure to be as slow As progress down In Cuba; For Yuba Jammed, you know, Can never be o rapid As this, you say. Is vapid? Well confound It! "Where the Line Is Drawn. "Look here," said the Easterner In Portland, "this thing of calling a sa loon a cafe Is new to me. Now, where do you draw the line between a real saloon and a cafe?" 'At Ankeny . street. promptly re plied the Portlander. As -Shakespeare Says. All persons in office, and particularly those connected with expositions which are of few days and full of trouble should take half a day oft now and then to reflect upon the wise re mark of Shakespeare, to-wlt: Man, proud man. Trntf! In a little BRIEF anthoritv. Plays euch fantastic .tricks befora high heaven As make the angels weep. To Be a Boy Again. . Oh. to be a boy again! -Fresh and fair and free as then Freckles on my face and- nose; Bruises on my shins 2nd toes: What a'joy Just to be a barefoot boy! Oh. to be a little tyke. Chasing lizards up the pike. Rolling corn-silks f or a smoke. Making friends with poison-oak! Just to be Limber-legged, and climb a tree! Ah, to be a careless brat; Wlth a ten-cent straw J or hat. And a shirt, of muslin check Minus b'ntto'n at the aeck! Just to wear Clothes for comfort let 'cm tear! Oh, to be a boy. and swim In the creek, with Jee and Jim! Holdyour"breath and take a dive Good ind-long. till sake alive!; Jim and-Joe Hold THEIR breath aaa trailer "Oh! ROBERTUS LOVE. Prohibition a Farce. Springfield ReaubHcaa, Maine's Liquor Law Xnferceet Com mlseion is busy geisg tnm cewaty te county stlrriag up things. The resait i the arrest of many.l'tqaor dealers aaaltse imposition of many Iteea. The eat come of all Ihie activity l llkety te be a streag aeatimeet eallittg tar the reraiaitaatoa t the Deoele ef the who) MMettea ef the prohibitory poHey. The spctale of bav- a camaWMipa to m the weric wrnea the 9fcerMa are P&M to perform ht act generally nmM. The -ultimate reaaK may be that Maine wal eame te the leoal- eatMA law. wMca prerana la waHMi of. ttmaa aoaam-rtia Mtch a- twee tflK .IMpaaC-Og RECORD YEAR IN FOREIGN EXPORTS FHrarcn tor the Aaaaal Period Eadlajc Jaae 30, 1995, Reach the Sts- Bead sua Tetal ef $1 5184238 Irajerts Abe Increase, Reading: WASHINGTON. July 27. The foreign commerce of the United States In the fiscal year Just ended exceeds that of any preceding year, having been 52,- 625.970,332. In comparison with 52,451,- 914,642 in 1904, the previous record year. An analysis of the statistics of for eign commerce during the year ending June 30, 1905, Just prepared by the De partment of Commerce and Labor through Its Bureau of Statistics, shows that both Imports and exports made new high records. Imports having ex ceeded by 592,000.030 the total recorded In 1903, and exports having for the first time surpassed the figures of 1901. In 1903 Imports first passed the billion dollar limit, with & total of 51.025.719. 237; In 1904 they again fell below Sl.OOO.COO.OOO In value, being 5991, 0S7.371. and for the year Just ended are 51.117,507.500. Exports first rose above 51.000.000.000 In value during the fiscal year 1S92. but fell below that limit In the following year, and so remained until 1S97, wnen the total was 51.050,993.558. In 1S93 the total exports were $1,231,432,330: in 1930. 51.39. 1S3.0S2; in 1901, 51.437,764. 991. a total which was not again equaled until 1905. when the figures stood at 51.51S.462.833, not only sur passing the record made In 1901, but for the first time in the history of our com merce -passing the 51,500,000,000 limit. An unusual feature of the statistics of the fiscal year 1903 Is the very small Increase in customs revenue, despite the very great increase in dutiable Im ports. The year's Imports were valued at 51.117.507.500. as against $991,087,371 In the preceding year, an Increase of $125,420,129. The Imports of dutiable merchandise 'during 1905 were valued at 3600.071.238. as against $536,957,131 In 190-1, an Increase of 563.114,107. De spite this fact, however, the customs revenue derived from the largely In creased dutiable Imports of 1905 Is less tnan Jl.00rf.000 in excess of that de rived from the Imports of 1904, being $262,060,515 for 1905. as gainst 3261.274.563 for 1904. This decrease in customs revenue Is In part due to the admission of Cuban products., especially sugar and tobacco, at a reduction of 20 per cent from the regular tariff rates, under the reciproc ity treaty of December 27, 1903, and in part to the unusually large amount of dutiable merchandise remaining In warehouseat the end of the year upon which duty had not been paid, as well as to several other causes which can not be fully stated until complete details of the year's imports are available. Details of commerce for the 12 months are not In all cases available. but a careful examination ot the com plete figures for the 11 months affords an opportunity to determine the arti WILD LIFEJN OREGON, A Keepsake. Grass Valley Journal. ' Clyde Harris and wife captured a large rattlesnake on Saturday and brought it to Kent In a half-gallon glass Jar and preserved Itin alcohol for a keepsake. The Lady, the Dog and the Bear. Pitner Corr. Tillamook Herald. Mrs. F. M. Lent while going over the hill lo Round Prairie met a bear In the road and fearing her revolver she had with her would only cripple him she eet her little dog on him and ran him Into the woods passing on In safety. Mrs. Wood and Mr. Porcupine. Athena Press. Thr lm one ' oorcuplne leas In the world, thanks to the steady nerve and true aim of a woman, jars, nenry -u. Wood. Mr. Porcupine was iaia low in death by two shots from a revolver fired by Mrs. Wood, both shots taking effect. Shot a Bear From Up a Tree. Canyonville Corr. Roseburg Review. -Sam R- Perdue, while out prospecting near Perdue this week, came in close contact with a large black bear. Hav ing his rifle, he shot and. wounaea tne animal, and then the bear made a ngnt. Sam ran up a tree with the hear in close pursuit. After reaching a place of safety Sam fired the second shot, which killed the bear. Panther Terrifies Neighborhood. Spray Courier. A. B. Stanley, who came In from Lone Rock yesterday evening, reports that the oeoDle of Lost Valley, six miles trom Lone Rock., are greatly stirred up over the presence of a large panther that la roaming at will through that neighbor hood and that many of the settiera nave temporarilji' abandoned their homes. .Many calves and sheep of the neighborhood have been slain by the ferocious animal. The panther is said to be a very large one and nobody teems willing tov attempt his capture. . The Good Old Times. Henry Watterson In the Louisville Cour ier-Journal. I take no stock In the lamentation of the sentimentalists about what tney call the srood old times." There Is a deal of stuff and nonsense trolled of on this text. Every man over fifty who Is not precisely a boor Is described as "a gentleman of the old school." We need but turn to the English- satirists from Fielding to Thackeray to learn that all the essential Ingredients of vanity Fair had their existence one or two hundred years ago. In the proportion that there were more nature and coarser fibre there were livelier doings. In proportion that there were fewer dramatis persona e upon the stage there was better play for the Individual- confess that I like a little blood in mUlnd. Sincerity even In wickedness has a flavor oulte Its own. But he who falls to see the world as It Is and ra fuses to take It as he finds It falls In evltzhly betwixt the three-legged stool of a very false philosophy and the high-backed chair of a very Ill-Judged perversity with consequences some times serious and always humiliating. Not In His Line. Boston Herald: An ex-president of the Bos ten & Maine Railroad, . who was well known both for his clerical style of dress and his pic- tsresque profanity, happened to be stop ping at-a hotel in Plymouth. J. H., which was also headquarters for quite a nam her of Metsedist ratakrters attending their aaaaal conference. It was on the first day ef the conference, and many of the clergymen were strangers to each other. The elerlcal-leeklng railroad president entered the dtatng-roem wHfe the party of Twlnintnn. ,and the head waiter, selecting aim as the most fmpsetBg- aad dtgaified of the jtumher. gave him a seat at .the head ef tfee table. A memehUry sHease fen cm the arty; tha tk-fc minister at Ms rfgac, aata-essang Mm, saidr "BrsOter. wal ask fied's Mssswc ea th Jed Flsehuc a hmd basic oC so ear and Mmlac.iMurd Mm. as as rm T ! aaart hsar cles In which the principal" Increases c. decreases occur. ' . On the Import side the largest la creases occur In the classes "manufav: 'urers' materials, wholly or partially manufactured. In which the figures will bo about 370.000.000 In advance of those for the preceding- year, and In "luxuries and other articles ot volun tary use." which seem likely to bo more than $15,000,000 in excess of the figures of 1904. "Articles of food and, anlmals"have Increased by over $45,000, 000, and "manufactured articles ready for consumption" have fallen off about $4,000,000, as compared with 1904. These figures Indicate the Increasing ability of the United States to supply its man ufactores and its growing reliance upon other countries for certain of its food products and materials for use In the manufacturing Industries. Tills view Is strengthened by an examina tion of the statistics of articles Im ported. On the export side there Is a decrease of over 353.000.000 In agricultural pro ducts, but this Is more than offset by a large increase In exports of manu factures. The less Important classes, products of the forests and the fish eries, show a slight net decrease as compared with 1904. The articles showings the largest in creases In exportation during the It months of 1905 for which details are available are: Corn, an Increase of $16. 000.000. as compared with tho corres ponding period of 1904: copper manu factures, an increase of 325.000.030. about one-third being in exports to China, where large amounts of copper are In demand for coinage purposes: cotton manufactures, an Increase of 322.00J.000, principally in exports of cotton cloth to China; raw cotton. n Increase of 35000.000 (during the 12 months): iron and steel manufactures, an Increase of 323,003.000. Exports from the United States of wheat, during tho fiscal year Just ended, have been even lower than the year before. In the twe foremost European grain markets, the British and the German, the lead ing position has been taken by wheat of Russian and Argentine origin, wheat imports from the United States showing unusually low "figures for the period under consideration. Tne following table shows the com merce of -the United States at decen nial periods from 1S00 to 1900. and an nually from 1900 down to date: Total Imports. .$ 01.252.768 . 83.400.000 74.430.000 62.720.93S 0S.238.70a . 173.309.328 . 333.616.119 . 435.038.40S . 667.954.746 . 789.310.409 . S40.941.184 . 823.172.165 . 903.320.048 . 1.025.719.237 . 991.087.371 . 1.117.507.300 Total exports. 3 70.97l.7S0 66.757.970 69.691.869 71.670,733 123,668.932 144.375.72 333,576,037 392.771.763 833.63S.63S S57.S2S.6S4 1.304.4S3.0S2 1.4S7.764.001 1.381.719.401 1.420.141:670 1.460.S27.271 1.51S.462J333 1800 1810 1S20 1830 1840 1S30 1860 1S70 1830 1890 1800.... 1S01 1902 1003.... 1004 1903 THE HEN. Dalas (Tex.) News. An elated Kansan says of the Kansas hens: The hens of this state have educated thou sands upon thousands of boya and slrls. The University at Lawrence and the Agricultural College at Manhattan are filled with student whose expenses are paid by what mother brings In her apron from tho henyard. The poultry products of this country have amount ed . to -more than the total output ot all the sold mines that have ever been discovered since the world began. The henhouses of this country yield bigger dividends every year than all the gold mines In the world. In Kansas alone they yield enough to pay all ot the. state and city taxca and leave a comfortable balance. The product last year was 23 per cent more than was paid to school teachers and superintendent. It was more than three times as much as was paid for school 4lte. buildings, furniture, rentals, Tepalrs, librar ies, apparatus, fuel, lights and Incidentals. The poultry yards came within 14. per cent of paying the entire cost of education In Kansas last year. Yes. It Is a. big- story. The orator adds: "Prices -were not high last year, but the surplus from the henyards not including all the cg?s and chickens thai -were used at home was within 2 per cent of the total value ot all the cows owned on the great catle ranges of Colorado, New Mexico and Utah: more than the value of all the cattle in Oklahoma, -with the swine of Colorado, Montana, Nevada and Wyoming added. The sales of eggs and poultry In "Kansas last year were more than the value of all the sheep in the six New England States and New York included; nearly as much as all the sheep In Texas; and Texas Is the second sheep state in the Union." This Is good as far as it -goes: nut it stops short, leaving out the Texas hen. She Is equal to the Kansas hen. fcne is a diverslficatlonist and an educator from 'way back. There are In Texas thousands of men and women who might engage In the poultry business and greatly better their financial con dition and standing In society. The speech of the Kansas orator will an quite as -well In Texas. The hen Is a reliable and generous helpmeet. The Danger of Mixed Drinks. New York Sun. To the Editor of the Sun: Sir: Why all this controversy over mixing drinks? Let me settle it at once and forever. Wine on beer, beer on wine; whisky, beer, wine on top. In the middle or underneath mix 'em any way you please, the result Is always the same- . , Feel frisky, eh? Makes you feel like hell, and that's all there is to It., I know, for I've been trying for a week to find out by practical experience. KATZENJAMMER. Toronto, July 16. To the Editor of the Sun: Sir: The sen sible man's version: "Wine on beer, or beer on wine? "Why argue? Nose of that for mine. Beer on beer and wine on wine. The morning after, feeling fine. Old Advice Laugh and Grow Fat Cleveland Leader. Mental worries are fatal to hearty laughter. The man who broods over real or Imaginary Ills seldom laughs. Thafi. the reason worry makes people lose flesh. And the moral to all this is, don't worry. Join the frivoltles of the silly season. Go to farces, to vaudeville, bump the bumps and shoot the chutes. .Get Into crowds tkat laugh and join In their laughter.. It is easier 'to laugh heartily In a crowd than alone. Never mind the heat you won't notice It when you laugh.. And you won't get too fat you. will acquire the amoun that Is necessary to serfsct health. Yon cannot be beapy unless you are healthy and you can set be healthy unless you are happy. CeurteoHS Miss Smith. Maafetee Times. I wish to stats through the columas ot your paper that the. .persons who claimed to have seen Hade .pictures made by bh or at my p&ee oTbusiness are- both liars: and blackmaHera. Aad the trath is net In them, as I would not maka -Hh J4c tarss. It only originated from a Wet that is a dfsgraee to mankind. And olytltt I coastder the car beneath me I wewrtd ser tamhr borsewma Mm. as he deserts. It Is such as he whs'- es masts a seeds te lwavc tawa who wujd se'a- erestt to ,"Mj5s1-"LB ' S. SMXTK. V i't.,: V