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Or.; but it hazards the pub lication, viz: It would be more fitting a paper occupying the high position held by your paper to re train from glorying in the downfall of a man who has done as much for his atate as Sen ator Mitchell has done for Oregon, and more especially when this downfall was caused by the personal enmity of another man high in office and by the traltorism of a trusted friend. Smator Mitchell may be guilty of the crimes of which he Is accused; but where is the Senator who has not committed public misdemeanors equally as great and greater? If there be one. It is not because of his high honor, but because he hae not been tempted. Many of your readers scattered over this broad state of ours hold the opinions here expressed. The personality of Senator Mitchell snakes it a painful subject, and The Oregonian -will not dwell upon it But it is Incumbent on The Oregonian to say a. word on the elhlcal or moral view of the subject contained in the above statement: First, howeverlt will say that it has not "gloried" at all "Jn the downfall" of Senator Mitchell. It is a newspaper and has published the testimony; but It has refrained from comment. It could have said much; but it felt that since 3t has been a critic of Mr. Mitchell dur ing a great part of his career, it might be censured, or at least misunderstood or misrepresented. So The Oregonian has left it to others to make the com ment and to point the moral. Mr. Mitchell, during his long career an the Senate, has certainly been an ac ave and Industrious man. Much of his fwork, however, has been done for indi viduals; very little for the state., He has attached multitudes to himself by the industry with which he has pressed their claims of all sorts upon the Gov rnment as he pressed these which have brought him Into the present trou ble. This activity on his part, in behalf of so many who have sought his assist ance tor their private Interests not "his -work for his state" has been ai rways the real source of his strength 5&nd the main source of his popularity. That he has been an indefatigable worker for private interests atrairist the Government explains both his career and his falL But it is the justification attempted !by Mr. Faucett that demands attention. "Senator Mitchell." he says, "may be guilty; but where is the Senator who has not committed public misdemean ors equally as great or greater?" There must be some such, or there would be no standard of morals in such a matter. Set if every Senator did the like, would that make the practice any better? Rather, wouldn't it make it worse? As an ethical argument, this is too weak lor consideration. Yet the spirit of it is widely prevalent. From a multitude of sources the excuse comes, "They all do it." "Which is equivalent to saying it is right. We think Mr. Faucett, of Medford. makes a serious mistake. He should subject his opinions to a careful review. WHY THEY SUBSCRIBED. The world .breathes freely once more, It knows who subscribed for "Fads and Fancies." Could we now, by some hook or crook, find out what "William said to Nicholas, life would have little more to offer. Strange as it may appear, the subscribers to the great literary 'work to be published by Town Topics are not all fools. Some of them have not been hitherto known as cowards, either, A fool would subscribe for "Fads and Fancies" because he is a fool; his case needs no remark. A coward would sub scribe because he dreads exposure. But why should Mr. Thomas "W. Lawson subscribe? His advice to the people of America to smash the trusts by selling all our stocks and bonds to them at panic prices rescues him permanently from the category of fools. His monthly scalpdance shows that he is no coward. Is it possible that a man of Mr. Lawson'a lofty and unbending vir tue .gave $1500 -for a copy of "Fads and Fancies" because he wished to see his noble countenance pictured side by side with Perry Belmont's. Mr. Harrlman's and Charles M. Schwab's? Heaven for bid! Those gentlemen are all members of the "System" which Mr. Lawson despises and abhors. Moreover, asper sions have been upon 3Ir. Schwab's character. He is no fit companion for Mr. Lavvson. and Mr. Lawson knows it. The question why he subscribed for "Fads and Fancies" turns out distressingly difficult to an swer: one almost regrets asking- it. But there 1b a third hypothesis. He may have taken a copy and had his picture printed in the book In order to make it known that he moves in the best soci ety. All the subscribers, the fools, the cowards and the rascals, move in the very beft society. In fact, they consti tute tne best society. They are our upper class. Light of Intellect and light of virtue, they would naturally rise to the top. Is it equally natural to see Mr. Lawson among them? SCIENCE AND EPIDEMICS. "When, about A. P. 1375, the Black Death was ravaging Europe, the stricken populations appealed for help to the medical faculty of the University of Paris. Help, of a certain sort, they got abundantly. "The cause of the plague." decreed that sapient body, "Is the conjunction of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn." And its cure waa, among other things, "to eat only email river fish" for diet: "to refrain from bath ing." and- to shut oneself in a close room at night. The church prescribed more active remedies. Of course these in cluded prayers, bellringlng and proces sions; but it was generally held by the pious that to torture and burn a choice selection of witches would do even more to avert the divine wrath and check the plague. The Black Death, was probably the most dreadful pestilence that ever desolated Europe. In England it left alive, so -some writers assert, only one Inhabitant out of ten. Whole parishes were smitten to the last man, and great tracts of plow land reverted to marsh- and forest because none were left alive to till the soil. All over Europe the case was similar, or worse. The Al mighty seemed to have decreed the an nihilation of the human race. Before the plague struck there were fearful outbreaks of religious mania. In the cities along the Lower Rhine thousands of people would suddenly leave, their houses by one impulse, unite In a wild mob. and dance day and night with furious calling upon God until they dropped dead. "Witches were sought out and tortured with Implacable franzy as allies of Satan. In .Bavaria, before and during the pestilence, 12,000 Jews were put to death to avert the wrath of God: and to make sure of pleasing him. they were racked at their trials, torn by mobs on the way to Jjhe stake, and finally burned with lingering fires. In the City of Strasburg, in one street, still called the Street of Torture, 2000 Jews were massacred as only a terror- stricken mob can massacre in the transports of Tellgious frenzy. Such were the remedies of that age for Its measureless calamity. God was angry, the people believed. because witches and Jews were aHowed ' to live: therefore he had sent the plague. In a similar way Sophocles ex plains the plague that desolated Thebes in the prehistoric time of his tragedy; and the compilers of the Books of Moses thus account for the plagues of Egypt. The later Greeks were more rational. "Every man may account for it In his own way." says Thucydides of the pes tilence that half depopulated Athens during the Peloponneslan war; but he says nothing of the wrath of the gods. DeFoe is equally skeptical In recounting tne causes wnich the people assigned for the great plague of London. He mentions them all. the comet, the sins of the nobility, the profligacy of the rich; he recites the omens, the dreams, the portents, which had heralded Its com ing but it is with cool skepticism. It is unlikely that minds lttse those of DeFoe and Thucydides ever believed that Destllences had a supernatural cause. Even the mob during the hor rors of the Black Death mingled some thing like a frational explanation with their superstition. To say, as they did, that the Jews had poisoned the wells, was an advance in good sense over the theory of an angry God. Doubtless the wells were poisoned, though not by the Jews. The filth of a thousand years was rotting in the drinking -water of Europe. The religious cult of filth was univer sal at that time. It was Introduced by the early Christians. St. Anthony, for example, expected a reward in heaven because he had never washed his feet. Certain monks having impiously re solved to bathe In a stream near their monasters, the Lord saved them from thus Imperiling their salvation by dry ing up the water. Filth and piety were synonyms. "A stinking wave of air" hung over Europe, we rood. Dwellings were never cleaned. The rush -floors were piled over one stratum after an other of decaying garbage for genera tions. The open wells accumulated ordure century after century. It was not merely useless to clean up; It was wicked. In one monastery 900 Carthu sian monks perished by the Black Death, but no one dreamed that filth had killed them. As late as 1859, Dr. Hecker. In speculating over the origin of this plague, does not suggest filth as a cause. Even JennerB great discovery did lit tle for the prevention of filth diseases like the Black Death and typhoid fever, or of those like consumption fostered by poor food and bad air; for smallpox Is independent of dirt and poverty. In its palmy days this pestilence smote high and low, rich and poor, clean and unclean alike. Two million people died of it, some years, in Russia; in 1510, the year the Spaniards brought it to Mexico, three and. one-half millions of the natives died. It annihilated whole tribes of the American Indians. In years when it was only mildly preva lent every tenth death In Europe came from smallpox. Then Jenner maoe his great discovery, and now, while it is still somewhat more dangerous to have the smallpox than the Itch, it is scarce ly more excusably. When Jenner trans ferred the drop of cowpox pus from Sarah Isolmes' hand to the boy James Phlpps. he earned the gratitude of man kind, bat he did little for pure science. Jenner never knew why vaccination would prevent smallpox; and therefore. scientifically his discovery was sterile; while it left the filth diseases exactly where they were before. Cholera is a filth disease. When It first invaded England, in 1832, one case in three was fatal, but it was remarked as a curious circumstance, quite un accountable except on religious grounds, that the victims were nearly all among the vicious and the poor. The obvious inference was. of course, drawn, pov erty and vice being equally unaccept able to the British deity; but when, in 1ST9. Hoch demonstrated the cholera germ and showed what it thrived on, the ancient belief that cholera and other plagues chose their- victims for eschato lotrlcal reasons had to be given up. These victims were chosen because they were dirty. Such was the verdict of science, and -the world had to accept It. From burning a witch or torturing a Jew to slaying germs when pestilence rages Is a long stride. It is a long stride from prayer to kerosene when yellow fever threatens. But .mankind has taken many s"uch strides during the last century, and, unless all the signs fail, it will take many more. THE FEDERAL JUDGES HIP. Mr. Cotton says he was not offered more money to stay with the Union Pacific: and he was not given enlarged powers. He simply didn't want the Judgeship. He didn't seek it in the be ginning, because it had no attractions for him: but his friends and others per suaded him that he ought to want It, and so he concluded that, if they want ed him to want it. that was what he wanted. But the more he argued with himself that he wanted it. the more he knew he didn't: hence his declination. Mr. Cotton does not exactly say so, but it Is obvious that he thinks he is not the man for the place. He knows he would be unhappy on the bench. He has no doubt heard, as we all have heard, about the case of James B. Dill, who gave up a 5300,000 law practice to take an unremunerative Judgeship: and the equaly striking case of Ellhu Root, who abandoned wealthy New York cli ents to become Secretary of State at $8000 a year. These men have been widely praised for sacrificing personal interest to public duty. The reward of an approving conscience, universal" ap probation and dignified position is theirs. Besides, they wanted the jobs; or we presume they dkL Besides, too. it seemed that no others were so well suited to fill lhese.respectlve places. At least, everybody thought so; and they could not gracefully resist. With Mr. Cotton It Is different He is sure he would not like the Judgeship, and questions, not his abilities, but his aptitude: and he Is sure that there are other eminent citizens of Oregon who would make acceptable Judges. Be sides, they or some of them will not be caiicu on to sacrifice so much In taking it Heuce it is gratifying all around to fr( that the Union Pacific's gain in keepinsr Mr. Cotton is not the Federal Judiciary's loss. CRISIS FOR TICE CANAL. Washington dispatches regarding the expected extra session convey the hint that some of the eminent statesmen on the Senatorial payroll may use that most important measure the Panama Canal, Tor filibustering purposes. Their object is said to be postponement of consideration of a railroad rate bill which the President is very anxious to force through Congress at the nex.t ses sion. The extra session will, of course. be too short for accomplishment of any thing in the way of railroad legisla tion, and. if It assembles, it will be for the purpose of making a final decision as to the type of canal which is to be built. If there are Senators and Repre sentatives who. In obedience to rhe constituency that elected them, dosire to defer construction of the canal, the situation presents a golden opportunity for delay. There is a difference of millions in the estimated cost of the two types of canal that have been discussed, and there Is also a difference of years in the length of time that will be required to com piete them. By Invokln-r the aid of parliamentary law. which has killed so many good measures, not only could the railroads be spared enactment of a rate bill, but they would profit, or at least they think they would profit, by the postponement of action on the ca nal matter. Progress on the canai to date has not been of a nature to in spire fear In the minds of the railroads, but. on the contrary, has been of a character that cannot be otherwise than ageeable to them. The difficulty In securing men to take charge of the work, or to remain at their posts after they have been se cured, has been exasperating, and the ravages of the yellow fever In equa torial latitudes is this 3ear greater than ever, or at least it is receiving greater publicity than usual, all of which tends to retard work on the canal. Just how far railroad Influence wHl extend in de laying completion of the canal is diffi cult to estimate, but there is a factor In the situation with which both the rail roads and the friends of the canal must reckon. All opposition. In Congress or out of Congress, will not save the transconti nental railroads from a competition more drastic than can ever be possible from the Panama CanaL English cap italists of practically unlimited means, working harmoniously with the Mexi can government under a fifty-year con tract, are laying eightypound steel across the Isthmus of Tehauntepec and are spending millions in building fine harbors at both the cast and west ter mini of this short line between the two oceans. The promoters of this great work" promise to have' their equipment In shape by the end of 1906, so that they can deliver freight between the Ameri can ports on the Atlantic and those on the Pacific in twenty days a feat that will be impossible by the Panama route, on account of Its lying so much farther south. It is thus quite plain that any delay to which the Panama Canal may be subjected will not save the transconti nental rail lines from very warm com petitors for the carrying trade between the two oceans. . Facing this inevitable competition from an alien country. It would seem the part of wisdom as well as patriotism for them at once to hasten completion of the Panama Canal, which is strictly an American enterprise, and as such gives this country a strong strategic position which may some time be of value to the country, including the railroads. The railroads have noth ing to gain and may have much to lose by delaying the canal project, and if they pursue the course which they have followed in the past, the effect may be as serious for them as for oth ers. The Puget Sound Navigation Com pany is calling for bids for two new steel steamers for the Puget Sound trade. The Pacific Coast Company will at once begin building two new steel passenger boats for the San Francisco run. Business is neavier wun tnese lines than It has ever been before, and. with customary enterprise the transpor tation men are preparing to handle it as it grows. It is, of course, expecting too much of the Harriman lines to show such enterprise. At the same time, Mr. Schwerin might Improve his present Portland service by securing some of the steamers now in use on Puget Sound as soon as they are cast aside to make way, for the new steamers. That would help some. The pronunciation of Willamette. Wahkiakum. Skamokawa and a few others of our Indian names is some what uncertain for our Eastern visitors. who are inclined at times to make sar castic remarks regarding such nomen clature. To all such critics Is referred an Item in yesterday's telegraphic news from Paterson. X. J., stating that the steamer Mueometcong plying on Lake Hopatncong had struck a rock and sunk in a portion of the channel known as the River Styx. There are Indians and Indians, and so far as the names they leave behind them are concerned, the effete East does not seem to be many laps ahead of the wild and wooly West. A life-size crayon drawing of Carrie Nation in the State Historical rooms at Topeka, Kan., was totally destroyed by some vandal, who apparently had a grudge against the hatchet wielder. In adopting this method for revenge,- the vandal displayed fully as much sense as was shown by Carrie when she was raiding saloons and defacing property. The net results in good accomplished are the same in both cases. Cranks are said to have been Instrumental in many reforms in this world, but it Is doubtful If any of them were of the same stripe as Carrie Nation or the In dividual who has just destroyed her portrait. Well, indeed, the Lewis and Clark Exposition Is advertising the Pacific Northwest. From ten thousand sources it concentrates attention on the Pacific Northwest. Thousands of newspapers take or make occasion to publish mat ter about the Pacific Northwest. The railroads, this year, direct their folders and circulars and general advertising matter to the Pacific Northwest. Visit ors from even part of the United States are In the Pacific Northwest. The prophecy of those who conceived the idea is fulfilled. Elbert Hubbard's coming to Portland seems not to have raised the excitement among the clergy that he anticipated. Rev. C. T. Wilson has "heard of no ob jection to Hubbard speaking here." Rev. E. S. Muckley says the "minis ters have too much sense" to object. Rev. J. R. WiLson appears to think that nobody cares. Rev. E. L. House scout ed the Idea. All's well that ends wall. Fra Elbertus will come and explain the gospel of work, which is, we suppose, to labor hard six days in the week and rest on the seventh. The Rosebud Indians having invested most of the money received for their lands. In firewater, are now becoming restive and belligerent, and may at any moment begin reducing the white population in the vicinity of the reser vation which once was theirs. It is sup posed to be rather late In the day for any more uprisings and massacres on the part of the American Indians, but if the thrifts white whisky-sellers put out a sufficient quantity of red liquor. tftere may yet be another tragedy of the plains. The Astoria regatta, which has be come a distinctive feature of Summer life in the interesting city by the sea, will this year be held during the clos ing days of August, The management this year is headed by Mr. Herman Wise, one of the most enterprising rustlers In that community. This by itself Is an assurance of an entertain ing programme, and Portland, as usual. will jro down in force and take many of her Eastern visitors along with her. One can hardly restrain, even at this distance, a feeling of exultation at the thought of the myriads of mosquitoes that have fallen by the sword of sani tary science in New Orleans In the past week. While we deplore the fact that yellow fever has Invaded that city we find consolation in the thonght that this unmusical musician of the insect world has been discovered as a carrier of the plague and is being slain by tens of thousands. "Never will I conclude- a shameful peace or one unworthy of great Rus sia." says the Czar. All of which has a lofty and high-minded air about it. but. to cet down to facts and conditions as they exist, the Czar may have to ac cept any kind of peace that Japan of fers. There is nothing very "great" about Russia these days except her rrlevous blunders. .These have proved the wonder of the world. "No salmon, no suckers," was the al literative description of a bunco artist who had found financial conditions strained at Astoria a few seasons ago. The fact that a wandering forger suc cessfully passed twelve checks of an aggregate value of 521S in Mr. Astor's town a few days ago would inoicate that the salmon run was excellentJust at this time. Dog days seem to be coming earlier than usual this year. Last week two Portland firemen indulged in a fierce fijrht over an unkind remark made by one about a dog owned by the other. Sunday at Aberdeen. Wash., in a row over a dog. Henry Gustavenson was stabbed and dangerous wounded by Gus Mueller. Witness Starr came back with some reluctance, but he could not remember clearly what he said at the former trial. It is wonderful how much may be for gotten in eight days when one tries dili gently and conscientiously. The old Equitable directors are to be sued for Illegal profits made by them out of the society. The policy-holders refuse to be depewed any longer. If Bluebeard Hoch escapes the gal lows through the intervention of Mrs. "Wilson, we trust he will show his grat itude by marrying the lady. Perhaps, It will occur to ex-Judge Cot ton that one sumptuous dinner is due to the Oregon Bar Association et aL Burton. Dietrich, Mitchell and Depew. Who'll be the next? Bad fruit, to, must go. These are Eorry days for the unfit. . 0REG0N OZONE Remarks to Bill 2ye. We were cronies, long together," - Bill Nye. (Chummed In calm and cloudy weather, Bill 'a' I Did. and ne'or were separated. For it seemed we two were fated To be comrades, closely mated. Bill 'n' I.) Now and then we 'had a quarrel. Bill Nye, Which the same was quite unmoral. Blll 'n' I Couldn't help It. After all. sir, I'd have liked to take a -fall, sir. Out o' Bill; we both had call, sir Bill 'n' I.) But we always stuck together. Bill Nye. Never minding what the weather. (Bill 'n' I. We were bound to one another. And as brother unto brother Clung, and one was true as t'other BUI 'n' I.) Yet you swore "you never knew me. Bill Nye? Well, you didn't (Listen to me: Bill "n I ' Were a" creditor and due-bill. And the man-who owed me shoo. Bill! Never paid. We stuck like glue, Bill Bill 'n L) The Grammar of It. Spink What Is the difference between the Alaskan ""Yucon and the Russian ikon? Minx Merely a personal difference. The Most Unkindcst Cut. The Question Mark How is the joke market now? The Humorist It's fallen fiat. The Question Mark Same as your jokes. Sea Weeds. Johnny (at the shore) Maw, Is the oceata paw dead? Mother Why, Johnny, what a funny question! What makes you ask that? Johnny Well. I read the other day about the sea's Insatiate maw, and I've been wondering If she's a widow. v At the Fair Today. Paleface Hey, there, Redskin; who are you? Redskin Me Clark; see badge? Paleface Are you a native son? Redskin No; me native grandson. His Uncle Had It. ..His Wife Come, now, put on your drees suit, and We'll go to the ball. Her Husband Sorry, but I can't wear It tonight. His Wife Why not. dear? Her Husband Because I've already taken It to three balls. An Appeal to Fra Elbertus. (Elbert Hubbard, the Philistine pastor. wires the Oregonian a literary effort de signed to reconcile the Portland preach ers to his coming to deliver an address on "The Gospel of Work" by invitation of the Lewis and Clark Exposition. Fra Robertus seeks thus to encourage Fra Elbertus:) Come along, now! you won't hurt us, Fra Elbertus; Come and preach your gospel, Hubbard. Long we've rubbered Just to get a glimpse of you, sir - Just a view, sir. Of your face and phiz Bhillstine And your piston Rod of rhetoric and grammar With a glamor Of your grace enllght, engirt us, Fra Elbertus! Do not wobble, do not waver! You're a savor Of the gods of high Olympus. Do not skimp us; Give us full and generous measure Of your treasure. Yea. O Fra Elbertus Hubbard. From the cubboard Of your wisdom hand us victuals Tis as little's Any one can be content with. Since you're sent with Many messages to Garcia Be not harsh; you Can't afford It; nay, be gracious! Efficacious Is your teaching, and we need it. Come we plead it! So, "Be kind" (you'll get the money) Kind and sunny; Smile upon us don't desert us, Fra Elbertus! ROBERTUS LOVE. Mighty Men at Washington. New York Times. To be a United States Senator and to get Into jail Is as cruel a fate as one would wish to have befall his very worst enemy. In Washington a Senator is a very exalted personage bo exalted that they all seem personally cognizant of their greatness, and to no other officers of the Government is there so much reverence paid by koktowlng and humil ity. No others bear themselves so grand ly. In the company of Senators a mem ber of the President's Cabinet looks like a farmer. But Washington is the worst city in the country for practicing the arto of a crook particularly the official crook. A Government officer or department em ploye who is detected In criminal doings may be sure that the country will ring with the story of his misdeeds, and that he will be relentlessly pursued. Scandals and corruption make Administrations an gry. A rigorous inquiry is always in sisted on, and when conviction follows the punishment is severe Mitchell usad to make very long speeches and he was rather quick to re sent any attack upon himself. Not hav ing taken the precaution to become a millionaire before entering the Senate, he attempted In weak and foolish ways to repair the defect of fortune, and getting caught at It. he must suffer the conse quences. The Real Tragedy of It, Hartford Courant. John' H. Mitchell has a chance yet such as it is. His appeal is still to be heard and decided; the reviewing Judges may find some flaw in the record sent up from the court below. But in his 71st year,, political autocrat of his state. Senator of the United States, father-in-law of a French Duke, he has stood be fore the bench of Justice like any ordi nary criminal and heard the blighting words, "Six months penal servitude." Life-can never be the same for him again, whatever the reviewing Judges do. And the wretched old man Is reaping only what he sowed; that Is the real tragedy of It. Makes Purchase of Realty. Abraham Cohn. manager and secretary of the Pacific Grain Company, has pur chased the quarter-block, at the northeast corner of Thirteenth and Washington streets, from George A. Craw, vice-president of W. J. Van Schuyver & Co., for H5.00O. Mr. Cohn states that in the near future he will improve the property by the erection of a substantial structure. FLYING MACHINES THAT DO NOT FLY Principle la Entirely Correct, but Practice X, Well, It Is Different Professor Langley and His Aeroplane Recall the Flight of Darlns Greejt. Richard Weightman in Chicago Tribune. WASHINGTON. (Special.) .experimen tation in the line of flying machines con tinues, notwithstanding the tragedies and failures that attend It, To be sure, someone occasionally goes up In one of these aeroplanes or tetrahed ral kites, as they are respectively called, and sails about for a little while without doing any great Injury to himself or any body else, but quite as often the struc ture collapses at an unfortunate moment,' as happened In California about a week ago. or refuses to soar at all as In the case of the Langley bird, constructed here by the head of the Smithsonian in stitution, with the financial aid ot the War Department. In California last week. It was an aero plane which crumpled up In midair at an elevation of.3C00 feet, killing the unfortu nate aeronaut who was manipulating it. A curious but highly suggestive feature of the incident is the fact that the bal loon which lifted the flying machine de scended safely after the man In the aero plane had cut It loose, while the flying machine promptly collapsed, as I have stated, and killed Its passenger. Science, however. Insists that while the balloon does actually ascend and descend. covering sreater or less distances mean while and seldom hurts anyone, the "prin ciple" Is all wrong, and not to be respect fully considered. Science will tolerate nothing but the aeroplane, or the tet- rahedral kite, because that machine 13 constructed upon the only true hypoth esis. . Thus Santos-Dumont and other ignorant persons make pleasant little journeys through the air. returning safely to their friends and families afterwards. whUe the high priests of science go on building things according to correct principles which are of no sort of value, practically speaking, and which, whon they are arti ficially lifted and are left to their own devices usually go to smash ami extermi nate the reckless persons who may be at their mercy. It should be said to the credit of -our own Professor Langley. who already has constructed several aeroplanes, that he never yet has made an ascent in one him self, and all Washington is proud of the fact that the only human being who ever volunteered to undertake It survived the venture with ."light Injuries quite tem porary In their nature. The Professor has given many years of study to this subject. He has" spent several Summers in Europe In the Interest of science, ot course, and presumably In his official ca pacity examining- the various flying ma chines Invented by impudent and Hl-ln-formed foreigners, and subsequently hold ing them up to well deserved ridicule and execration. As a result of all this effort and Inves tigation by the most prominent scientist In the Government service (he must be the most, prominent, for he holds four different 'offices), the War Department two or three years ago set aside JSO.000 to aid in the Langley experiments, and it ODD BITS OF NORTHWEST LIFE Casts a Pall Over the Community. Wilholt Cor. Oregon City Courier. Frank Scott lost a valuable vermin dog. which is bad for the neighborhood, for he caused the death of many vermin. Child Captures a Doc. The Dalles .Chronicle. A little 7-year-old girl up the. Hood River Valley has captured a pet any child, and many "big folks," would envy her. The dogs frightened a young doe Into the garden and the little girl gave chase, the frightened animal running down into the field, with the child fol lowing. Finally the doe gave up and the child returned home with her pet. Sure Cure for a "Week Back." South Bend Journal. The other day a man from the head waters of Smith Creek came Into the Journal office and said to the "devil:" "I want Ave of your papers for a week back." The "devil" looked at the man sort of pityingly, and said: "If 3ou want anything for a weak back you had better go down to Johnny Myers drug store and get one of his porous plasters; one with holes In 'em." This Picnic n Sucress. Junction City Times. A hay rack load of young folks went out to the river on Wednesday evening to enjoy a brief outing. They took the raw" material along for a sumptuous meal on the banks of the Willamette, where "It flows to the moon-made sea." After walking about seven miles through the timber the river was finally found. The steak was smothered in ashes, the potatoes were burnt on one side and raw on the other, roasting ears were scorched to the queen's taste, and the other condi ments were all that a hungry, sweating, exhausted, hilarious crowd could wish for. No fatalities. The Lady, the Ax, and the Snake. Pilot Rock Record. Miss Eva Belts was driven to the cool breezes- which waft through the tall trees in the rear of her home on East Birch Creek, early In the week, to escape the torrid heat, where she made her bed. under the canopy of heaven. The crick ets were at their best, the frogs croaked and the rippling stream on whose banks she had placed her couch sang a lullaby as It meandered in the direction of Pilot Rock. With all this sweet music about her. Miss Eva was not long in falling Into a state of coma, but while Neptune coyly fanned her face she dreamed not of serpents, but of "seraphic arms and trophies..' Possessed, like all other wo men, of an ear that can hear a mouse creeo at ICO yards. Mies Eva was sud denly aroused, and was certain she had heard a snake. And sure enough she did. With help she returned to her bed upon the lawn, and with the aid of a lantern and an axe a huge rattlsnake, with ten rattles and a button, was dispatched. Miss Belts did not faint and create a dra matic scene when she saw the snake. She -simply said: "Hand me the axe." The next minute there was a headless rattlesnake. Her aim was perfect. Easy Enough. La. Grande Chronicle. It Is easy to tell the Republican papers of the state that have been allied with the Mitchell wing- of the party. They dare not come squarely out in the open and Justify the acts of those who are un der the ban or censure of the Chief Ex ecutive, who Is back of the movement to purify the administration of public af fairs. But there are free suggestions of political jealousy, prejudice of the pres6. unfair trials and the like, all of which is traceable in most Instances to a source that has had a stand-in with Mitchell, Hermann or Williamson In the past. British Inns. London Lancet. The traveler who makes holiday in Great Britain by means of a driving, cy cling or motoring tour Is not catered for fn anything like the satisfactory way in which, he is in even the smallor towns or villages of provincial France. The Brit ish innkeeper in the home counties, at any rate, does not seem to care in the very least about the comfort of his guests. His only ohject is to sell Intoxicating drinks. " must have been some time last September that everything was ready for the test. The Professor himself had been for two months or so In Canada he suffers great ly In warm weather but he came dewn tst preside over the ceremony. Yaur trta scientist is ever a martyr to his prapo ganda. Then the completed serptae was transferred to a species of caal-bat or ark and placed upon a sort of tram way running lengthwise of the vessel. A powerful spring suddenly liberated set tie car or cradle which held the flying ma chine In motion at hlsh velocity. Tie cradle stopped at the end of the ark. and the aeroplane, which had been greased me the occasion, was hurled into lis native element. Professor Langley's proposition was that a flying machine so construcMd and so launched inevitably would rise In grace ful circles like the turkey buzzard, after which It had been lovingly medaJcd; mak great sweeps through the air" over mws or less vast areas, ther settle softly a the waiting earth. It fcad been buHt in accordance with the most approved setn tine theories. It represented the pdrfet principle of aerial navigation. Every e ot the European schism? and errors had been resolutely discarded. What the Langley machine did ws to fly exactly IS feet In the direction of the Maryland shore the Potomac River Is only about a mile wide at that potaw ad then dive with great violence nuo tA stream. The aeronaut was rescued suc cessfully, likewise some of the ribs and wings ot the Langley bird. Not long afterward the experiment mi repeated, and with a precisely similar re sult, thus triumphantly dissipating the last remaining doubt as to the Laagley aeroplane and proving to the s&ttaf&eUBCi of the most "hardened cynic that tmvma being3 could embark la that flying ma chine without the slightest danger C gtc tlng dashed to the earth from grat eH vatlons. and with no noed of R" ether protection than that of a good, reliable swimming jacket. It gives me great pleasure to pay this tribute to the virtues of i he Langley af plane. In which all Washington takes aa affectionate and proud Interest especially at a time when the Smithsonian Institu tion Is In financial difficulties, owing to a defalcation on the part of one of its sub ordinate officials to the extent of several thousands of dollars. Professor Lowgksy Is down on the-official lists as the head the Smithsonian Institution, the ker of the National Museum, the director the astraphysical observatory, and It Vs known besides that the National Zootog-. Ical Park Is also a charge upon hte time and talent. Nevertheless. In the mWst of all these cares, he flnds time to construct safety flying machines of the im-st apiroved pat ternmachines, which, whatever else tfcey may not accomplish, at least do not soar Into dizzy altitudes, collnpse with a sick ening report, and dash their occupants to a sudden and a frlshtfui death. PORTRAITS OF SENAT0R DEPEW $50,000 to SI 00,000 Worth Said to Be Possessed by Buffalo People. Buffalo Evening Times. A conservative estimate of the amount of money lost In the Depew Impcoverat Company by Buffalo jieonte la 5IWi. Men Interested In financial affair? loeottar say that the sum Is nearer $Htt.W0. and the holders of stock for the most part haws given up all hope of getting any portteR of that sum back. All that they have new Is very attractive looking stoek certlUcnMs on which a fine half tone cut of SenattK Chauncey M. Depew appears. Those cer tificates hre about the n'cest things that the stockholders recolved for their rvony. and none of them has made any effort to start an investigation of the roanagrant locally. Henry B. Sill, of the fl-m of Worthtog ton & Sill. Is a stockholder in the com pany. Mr. Sill holds $5000 worth of stock. The stockholders were largely among the depositors of the American Exchange Bank, which wont out of existence a few years ago. Mr. WilUame. the late president of that bank, wao one of the foremost promoters of the company, and he disposed of considerable of the sek. The association of Chauncey M. Dnw and other New York city raMllonalroa with the venture Is what Induced a num ber of Buffalo people to take stock. The assurances given out at that time weca that a profit of 15 per cent on the invest ment waa inevitable and that further profits might be easily anticipated. The number of women who . were in duced to go into the company le axca tlonally large, and several of thoee wom en recently virited New York City for the purpose of seeing Senator Deew and endeavoring to get land in Mt of their stock. Their efforts to see the some times genial Senator were without fruit. Charles W. Hlnson, who ws; atturnjr for one of those women, wrote a tetter to Senator Depew prior U the tin of the foreclosure of the Equitable LKe mortgage. Mr, Depew"? name had Juet been sent out at the hovd of th pros pectus of the Depew Gold Mining Com pany, and In his letter Judge Htosn asked: "Is the Depew Gold Mining Com pany as much of a gold briek as the Depew Investment Company?' JtM?e Hinnon's client is a widow who hod SB! In the Erie County Savings Bank. The money was received after the death of her husband as a back pension. She was Informed by the promoters of th km company that she would receive J per cent on her Investment and ought not to leaveher money In the bank, where it would draw but 3 per cent interast. This woman Is now out of the city and her name is withheld, as it te not kaowa that she would care to have any puMleits attached to her negotiations. Her daugh ter rtated today, however, that her moth er had been to New York trying to nee Senator Depew and some of the tbei-s Interested but had been unsuccessful in her efforts. Neither the letter written by Judge Hlnson nor those that the woman wrote herself were ever answered. SkltP and Jilts. "Is the Zemstvo congress itoto? real -wewkS" "I don't knovc- abotit the rest of tne nets--sates. But the man who (alls th reM is." Waahlnsten Star. "What a horrid scar Charlie baa en Ms terc hfad. hasn't he?" "Oh. no! Net at aM4 Why. he got that in an aatemoene aeeleeat." Detroit Free Press. "But why didn't the superinten4ent et fc surance Investigate before?" "Hew (mr onable! Why should you expect Mm to knew anything until ho rees it in the jjcy Brooklyn LKe. Visitor T wish to we your eraplnyer. Of fice Boy I'm sorry to say fce's net In. Vtalta? Why are you sorry to say It? Qfltre Se Because it goes ag'in me reneeleeee te Kit lies. Cleveland Leader. Finnlgan Th scientists be sayia" thet be foor -ions thare'H be tweiee as ataaay peopto as th' counthry kin support. Muingan Niver ye- moind. Be thot tetme yure denar!) only buy half as much, anny way. Judge. "Wbat'i your father's bualaes?" asked Mr. Packinbam. "Business?" exctatistd Leo! Harry. "My dean sir. my fatfeab has no busi ness." "Oh;' excuse me. I thought he might be leading a blameless life. What's Ms graft?" Chicago RcconJ-HenM. He A marvelous discovery, my dear lady! That life can be produced la sterilized heute ion by the action of radium. W'hdt trahui of thought It gives rW to! Why, this may na.ee happened in this -world of owrs mlWuus . ef years ago I She Er yes, of sours' I Mnder stand that there might hnve been raelnat. then, but er where did Uiey get the bex tea? Punch.