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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, .AUGUST 3, 1905. Entered at the Postofflce at Portland, Or., as second-class matter. sUBSCBirnoN rates. INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. fBv Mall or Exnress.) Dally and Sunday, per y ear $0.00 Dally and Sunday, elr months ...... COO Dally and Sunday, three months. ...... 2-55 Dally and Sunday, per month.......... .S3 Dally -without Sunday. ner rear......... 7.50 Dally without Sunday, six months...... S.90 Dally without Sunday, three months... 1.05 Dally without Sunday, per month...... .05 Sunday. Dr Tear .00 Sunday, elx months 1.00 Sunday, three months .60 BY CARRIER. Dally without Sunday, per "week .13 Dally, per week, Sunday Included..... THE "WEEKLY OREGONIAN. (Issued Every Thursday.) Weekly, per year 1.50 Weekly, six months .75 Weekly, three months 50 HOW TO REMIT Send postofflce money order, express ordr or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, Coin or currency are at the sender's risk. EASTERN" BUSINESS OFFICE. The S. 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In every case a directory esti mate is exaggerated. There is no ex ception. Chicago's is always ahead of the real census by several hundred thousand. Every city In proportion. The Oregon Ian believes that the As sessor's census is nearly up to the ac crual mark. The Oregonian, applying all sure tests, concludes that the actual population is 113,000 to 115,000. What are the tests? First, the school population. There can be no other so sure. Let us see what this test gives. In the j'ear 1900 the school population of the City of Portland was 20.G29. The Federal cen sus that year gave the city a total pop ulation of 90,426. Great care and long time were employed in taking that cen sus. There was dissatisfaction with the first result, and the work was reviewed repeatedly. All names were added that could be found, after systematic and thorough search. The work was "held up" several weeks, till a complete result was assured. The city then had a population of 90.426. and its school population was 20.629. The ratio was 4.39 to 1. The school population by the school census of the present year is 25,940. Using the same multiple, or ratio 4.39 to 1 the whole population now would be 113,776. It will be seen that the multiple 4.39 is a maximum for estimates of popula tion in Oregon when the figures for county and state are examined. The population of Multnomah County in 1900 Mas 103.167. and the school population 24.877. a ratio of 4.15 to 1. In the State of Oregon the population in 1900 was 413,536. and the "school population 182, 388. a ratio of 3.1 to 1. The ratio of 4.39 to 1 for Portland would, therefore, seem to be as high as might be asked rfor by people who are anxious that the comparison shall make the best possi ble showing for Portland. Ordinarily a fair comparison may be obtained by taking the registration or election figures. Here in Oregon, and in Portland, however, the greatest vote ever cast was in 1S96. Nine, years have elapsed since then, and city and state have both grown largely. Registration, too, has steadily Increased, but under the circumstances it can hardly be con sidered a reliable index of population. In present conditions in Portland the Postofflce figures are not of great value. From 1900 to 1904 there has been an in crease of $228,751 to $416,085. The Ore gonian itself pays to the Government for postage at this time fully twice as much as it paid In 1900; but the popula tion of the city and of the state has by no means doubled In that time. A considerable part of the increased postal receipts now comes tinauestlon- avbly from the transient population. Everybody knows it. Nobody denies It. What is the use. then, of fooling our selves by making estimates based on figures that come from unusual condi tions and are no true measure of the permanent and steady growth o'f the city? Moreover, The Oregonian cannot un derstand why anyone should get ex cited about the question, anyway. Portland is naturally desirous of show ing to the world that It is an important and growing city. It is expanding in all lines of industry and commerce. It has recently been the center of an im mense amount of attention from the whole United States, but Jt ought not to be anxious to go before the world on any false -pretense whatever, or to make itself ridiculous by claiming a popula tion or a business or an importance to which It Is not entitled. The Oregonian thinks it very likely that some names have been omitted by the Assessor. It advises and ura- thai jw anyone who thinks he may have "been overlooked go to the Asgewor's office and have hi name enrolled. If h-e find that he h.s not been counted, by all means let hie name be put down. But it jtits no expectation that there will be more than a few hundred such persons. In the end the figures for the city may be run up to about 115,000, which The Oregonian thinks is approximately .Fortland s population. XB OREGON LAGGARD? WHY? Foolery is nothing but foolers-. This State of Oregon grows steadily in nopu lation and in wealth, yet not very rao- idly. But it Is growing now as rapidly as at any former time. It has gained, as the school census shows, from year to year, some 60.000 or 05,000 inhabitants since 1900 nearly one-half In the single County of Multnomah. This state has but one single active center. The State of Washington has three, that compete in activity and Importance with our one: and it "has several secondary ones. to which our secondary ones are not ecrual. For example, Salem and Astoria are by no means equal to Walla Walla, Belllngham or Everett. Now, since these are facts, what's the use of deny Ing them? Capital has pushed Its efforts In Washington, but not In Oregon. The main reason has been that our "first families'," having monopolies, have ex erted themselves to keep other capital and other investors out. Everybody has known it, these many years. And the second and third generations, that suppose they inherited Oregon, want to maintain their dominion That's what's the matter with Oregon Under this incubus Portland and Ore gon have advanced as rapidly as any body could have a right to expect. The "first families" here never have wanted any business done here, unless thes could do it. They have turned capital away, by millions, during these forty years. They are dolntr It yet Thev en deavor constantly to crush everybody not in their "set" In unv n- ovurr line of business. Their banklnc svndl cate sets up its pretensions like a wall of brass against all comers. It runs a newspaper In the Interest of a close plu tocracy, which sells public franchises that didn't cost it a dime, for immense sums. It pretends to a nubile snlrfr that it may maintain conditions for op pressing the public, more and more. These things are notorious. They are in everybody's mouth. Yet Portland gets ahead, and Oregon gets ahead, in spite of all. Not as fast as they ou-rhL less fast by much than we could wish, yet very well, when it Is considered how Portland and Oregon have been ridden and oppressed these forty years ana more by an extrfmi nin greed, which has not allowed anvthlnc- to exist that would not pay tribute to it. Tne oregonian is the single excep tion; and it. fortunately, has been able to take care of Itself. POPULATION OF OREGON. The school population of Orerron this year is 163,045. Jn the year 1900 It was 133.181. . In the year 1900 the whole DODulation was 413.536. The ratio of school popu lation to entire population was 1 to 3.10. blnce, now. the number of school chil dren is 153.045. the ratio of the year 1900 would make the population of Oregon 474.439 now. So accurate an Index of the entire population of a state Is the numhnr or school children In it, that there Is no hazard in the . conjecture that this is Just about the present population of urecon. Of these over one-third., or about 3.52 per cent, live in Muirnornah County. In thi's county also practical ly one-half the gain In the whole state during the past five years has been made. COOS BAY GETS THE BAtLKOAD. Announcement was made vefterdav of the intention of the-Southern Pacific Railroad to construct without delay the long-talked-of railroad connection to Coos Bay. Congratulations are in or der, first to the patient and energetic men who have, unaided, develoned th resources of their beautiful country to a point which makes a railroad a neces sity in the eyes of the railroad president and his traffic managers; next to the people of Oregon, who will now see the distant southwestern corner of the state brought into community of inter est with other cities and counties, neighbors In actual location, but hith erto cut off by rugged mountain ranges and weary days of travel. The route adopted runs from Drain west along Elk Creek and the vallev of the Umnaua River to Scottsburg. There tne river win be bridged, and the -road will follow the south bank to the coast Then turnlnir due south, atnmr i,, coast line, the distance of somewhat over twenty miles will bring the road to Coos Bay. Probably North Bend, al ready prosperous and enterprising, will receive the added stimulus of the rail road. It Is understood that the route In auestlon has been selected on the basis of surveys already made, which have shown it to be both practicable from the standpoint of the builder and rea sonable in cost So there Is no -rood reason for delay In actual work. How rich In resources the coast coun ties region is may be gathered, partly. rrom the exhibits at the grtat Exposi tion, and from the common tes timony of those who are familiar with it From Astoria to the California line there Is a tract now but thinly Inhab ited, but Inviting settlement All the estuaries of rivers flowing from the re cesses of the Coast Range to the Pacific are surrounded by thousands of am of the richest tldelands. where dairy catue and constant feed. From Clat sop on the north to Curry on the south. at every ODenlnsr. the rmflmonF cheerfe factory are. or soon will be, most naturally placed. The tlmhfr alone of the district now to be opened win nil freight cars for many years to come. Timber cruisers report many Quarter sections with over ten millions of feet of lumber. Such figures mean little to the reader unless vivified by recollection of splendid forests where giant firs, cedars and spruces tower high in air till their tops meet in a continuous canopy of green. The coal fields of Coos have been long opened. The mines so far worked are on the southwest of the bay, and are under the Spreckels control. But the proved coal field has no such narrow limits and the railroad is all that has been de manded by capital to Induce large in vestments and energetic working. Other minerals abound In vein and quarry. Thus business success may be boldly foretold to all who follow the rails Into this new region. But this is not olL The country is full of beauties of plant and flower, teeming with fertility. Its rolling hills, and river and ocean pros pects, invite the newcomer to choose his home place and establish his family gods. Hitherto the ocean has been the high- i way for ibe cltien of the coast coun- tie, and ike enterprise of San -Francisco merchant has tied the traders of - our Oregon coast counties to the Bay Cltv. But the old order changeth, and with the advent of the railroad will come the opportunity of the merchants of Oregon. On this road there will be no retreat, and the -rain of Coos will be the gain of Oregon for many a long 3'ear to come. THE l&Oi WHEAT CHOP. In another column The Oregonian presents the final figures on the 1904 wheaf crop, together with the details or distribution. Publication of this ta ble has been delayed this year on ac count of thf ATf r-nnrrilnofv m nramnn of wheat to the East by rail Accurate figures on this rail movement were un obtainable until so late In July that It was impossible to complete the details sooner. In former years practically all of our crop has been marketed In Eu rope, and. with cargoes clearing through the Custom-House, no difficulty was experienced In ascertaining the ex act dimension's of the crop almost im mediately after the close of the fiscal year, June 30. The water shipments are complied from Custom-House sources, and for the rail shipments The Oregonian Is Indebted to Mr. R, B. Mil ler, of the O. R. & N. Co.; Mr. W. E. Coman. of the Southern Pacific: Mr. S G. Fulton, of the Northern Pacific, and Mr. Harry Adams, of the Great North ern. A more liberal allowance than usual Is made for seed and home consumo tlon, partly on account of the Increas ing population and partly on account of an unusually large amount of reseed ing last Spring, and a material Increase In the new acreasre seeded. The cron. as determined by these official figures on distribution, reached a grand total in the three states of 44.095,955. or about 9.000.000 bushels less than the Govern ment figures, which 6till pass as rella ble where the true situation Is not known. The Oregonlan's estimate. printed September 3. 1904. nave a Drob able yield of 45.100.000 bushels in the three states, but as very little Sorlntr grain had been cut at that time, it was qualified with the statement that any damage to the Spring grain would cut the amount down. Hot weather in the Big Bend country Drevented a cood yield of Spring grain, and the decrease from the estimate printed was nearly all In the Spring wheat regions of the Big Bend. That the crop would fall short of the -45.100.000-bushel estimate was apparent as early as October, and the attention of special agents of the Government Was called to the fact some weeks be fore the Government issued a quanti tative statement placing the croD of Oregon. Washington and Idaho at ap proximately 53,000,000 bushels. While admitting that the Government fisrures were "wild," the special agent, whose attention was called to the matter. stated that It would tend to discredit the Government if a chance was made. but that the matter would be corrected the following year. Misrepresentation of the dimensions of the crop was con tinually made in the interest of the for eign shipowners by a subsidized pam phlet which sought to convey the Im pression that there was a vast amount of wheat that would require tonnage to move it to market Fortunately, the wheat moved East In such quantities that there was no demand for tonnage, and the only suf ferers, by the 52.000.000-tushel estimate were the deluded shipowners. The ac tual dimensions of the cron. exclusive of any padding, were sufficiently grati fying to please the most captious, for only once in the history of the trade have they been exceeded, and In that record year of 1901 the carry-over from the preceding year was so much smaller than that which was available with the 1904 crop that the shipments for the season which closed June 30 were not very far behind those from thv isol crop. Exclusive of the sales made for home consumption, the farmers of the three states sold more than 35.000.000 bushels, from which the net returns were more than $25,000,000. On account of the much higher prices prevailing throughout the season, this Is a much greater sum than was realized from the 37.000.000 bushels marketed from th cron of 1901. The Oregonian. In accordance with Its usual custom, is now collecting data on tne 1905 crop, and early In SeDtember will print Its estimate. Our facilities may not be superior to those of other agencies engaged In collecting and com piling uiese data, but the record of es timates made for the past five years. reinforced by the details of distribu tion, which guarantee the accuracy of the. estimates, will certainly disclose the lact that something more than guess work or observations from a car win dow are necessary to secure such re sults. LEARNING FROM! JAPAN. All nations have -military renresenta- tlves.at the seat of the war between Japan and Russia, making observations and Btudvinr closely all Anomiinn, The organization of the belligerents, both on land and sea. their discipline, equipment and methods of warfare, are subjected by these observers to most careful studs as far as opportunity Is allowed. Transportation, camp ar rangements and sanitary work are par ticularly noted. All observers bear wit ness to the superb efficiency of Japan. Representatives of the United States have made numerous reports to the War Department on various phases of what they have seen. Here is one of the statements: Every piece of metal In a Japanese sol dier's carrying- outfit is aluminum. He carries an aluminum canteen, an aluminum cup, and wherever metal la required In the way of buckles taat light metal Is used. His haver sack Is made of lightweight materials and hla gun is lighter than an 'American soldier would have to pack with biro. Everything Is reduced to a minimum of weight. Because his general accoutrements are lightweight, the Japanese, soldier -is enabled to carry entrenching toola; that Is, a pick and shovel That Is a fact not generally .known, and it accounts for the compara tively email mortality on a number of fields In which the Japanese apparently fought without cover. How the Japanese fight is told by an other observer, and though the extract that follows is long, we are justified in printing it viz: Examination of the fields In Liao Tang and Mukden ahow that oa every advance the Japanese army practically entrenched Itcelf. The first line of skirmishes thrown out dug very shallow trench e. The second lice occupied them, and then moved forward. The third dug them still deeper, and the fourth completed them. But 1c trenching the Japanese showed a new trick. They dug their trenches as If preparing to bury huge tele graph poler, each bearing as many cross arms as possible. The trench la which the pole waa to lie led back to th ammunition carta and the re serve. The transverte or arm trenches ex teaded parallel with the front of the Kmalan petitions. The am-eualticm server pasted through the long trenches ruenls from rear to, front arvi were never ootemtS. to nan fire at alL Shrapnel fire might reach them, but it did not often. After having constructed the elaborate en trenchments in the face of the enemy's fire, the Japanese were ready to show another trick. That was to fall back from their trenches nearest the enemy and thus Invite blra to charge forward, only to be met by the whole strength of the organlxatlon making the attack in the last trench. Into which ma chine and mounted gunc, bad been hurried as aeon as It was completed. When-the Rus sians reached the last trench the galling fire waa too much for men entirely exposed and they went down by thousand. Another fact with respect to their field work Is that there wan no blind firing. That is, there was no shooting simply because the Rus sians were known to be In a certain direc tion from the Japanese troop?. There waa no shooting until the range finders had picked up the Russians and the distance wan accu rately measured with the belt scientific In struments the Japanese Government could bay. It is reported further 'that as the troops moved forward the sanitary en gineers pushed on with the scouts and flying columns, and always were ahead of the main army. After them came the quartermasters to assure a supply of water, fuel and forage, before the main forces arrived. By these and other precautions the Japanese armies have operated In Manchuria without having more than 1 per cent of the men In the hospital on account of sickness. Everything that human foresight can suggest is employed to minimize the dangers and diseases of the camp and to keep the men up to soldierly effi ciency. From the Russian lines very little information on these subjects Is permitted to go -out to the'Hv&rld. The probability Is that It would rbt be so flattering to Russian methods. Scotch Aleck. Palo Alto Kid and the Plunger have now the official stamp of police approval. Heretofore they have worried along the best or the worst they knew how under the special favor of a single detective or two; but through the very neat device of getting themselves arrested on a cnarge of vagrancy, they con trived to have the whole city detective force go on the witness- stand and extend to them, so to speak. the freedom of the city. These centle- men are confidence men by profession and by instinct; they are Just now pick ing up a few honest pennies at Irving ton track by serving as "touts." The detectives displayed the most compre hensive ignorance about the present ac tivities of the bunco trio. The man ner In which his fellow-deteetiyes "stood In" must have been - gratlfylnsr Indeed to Detective Day. who made the arrests. It attests his great noDUlarltv on the force and the general confidence relt in his probity and loyalty to the public interest. Mayor Hunt of Walla Walla. In his message to the Council, calls attention to the fact that gambling is being car ried on In the most onen manner: thnt saloons are violating the city ordi nances; and that the city is notoriously wide open. The "lid" has been tempor arily placed on Tacoma after more than a year of unrestricted gambllnr. and those.moat pernicious of gambling ma chines, "the ponies," have Just departed from Seattle after an uninterrupted period of successful operation. These things have been happenlnsr in a state which makes gambling- a felony, and their presence without interruption for so long a period after the passage of the law would certainly .Indicate that public sentiment In Washington State was not overwhelmingly against gam bling. "Dead" bolts and the crown sheet which they supported so asred' as to be worthless are said to be responsible for the terrible wreck of the Bennlneton. Criminal negligence must be charged up to some one who was Intrusted with many valuable lives needlessly snuffed out In that awful explosion. The mat ter cannot be quietly smoothed owr or "whitewashed." and in all orobahHIty It will result In a rigid Congressional investigation. If such an investigation will lead to placing inspection and charge of Government vessels In the hands of the regularly appointed In spectors of steam vessels, the llabllity of a recurrence of such terrible disas ters "will be greatly lessened. It Is reported that the Canadian Pa cific has secured by purchase the Bel llngham Bay & British Columbia Rail road. This. If true, will give the alien road an outlet on Puget Sound not as yet the best part of Puget Sound, but good enough for a broad enterlne wedge which may be driven home with such force that the Canadian road may become a most powerful factor in transcontinental traffic between Amer ican ports. Unless the "community of Interest" germ gets Into the Canadian Pacific system, the American shippers will have no cause to regret the advent of the foreign road. San Francisco advices state hat Sen ator Clark's Salt Lake & Los Angeles Railroad will be given jrenerous traffic concessions in Southern California by E. H. Harrlman. This will Insure for California a continuation of the over whelming competition Which has been so much In evidence In the past It also Indicates that the old Huntington rule of "all that the traffic will bear" can still be called Into use in emergencies. Oregon- Is doing the best she can to make hr Eastern visitors feel at "home. Our Summer hot spell broke all exist ing records for length and for tempera ture, we have had two thunder storms, and now the army worm has made Its appearance. We are still shy on mos quitoes and hot nights, and cyclone cel lars have not yet been called Into use, but their absence will not cause home sickness. Using the city directors ao a basis of estimating population always brings satisfactory- results, from the stand point of the population boomer; but there Is a better. Why not estimate on the basis of hotel arrivals? Secretary WHsoa's defense is that he did not know what was going on in the Agricultural Department That may be a reasonably good defense for a Cab inet officer: but why didn't he know? The President Is going to put Leonard Wood on the General Staff. The Army doesn't like It Yet the President seems to be laboring under the Impression that he Is commander-in-chief. A San Francisco scientist has Just measured Mount Rainier and finds It o be 14,530 feet high. Now watch Mount Tacoma grow. Saturday, September 30 will be Port land day at the Fair. Let all hands prepare for an attendance of es.OSo. 0REG0N OZONE ' Mistaken Identity Again. "Did you read about that Portland bar ber who was fined for charging a Cali fornia roan $2.75 cents for a shave and a hair cut?" "Ms! He must have thought he had Joaquin MUlor In the chair." In the Government Building. ."Say. Marae Boykln. whatever am dat gra' big thing wif a lonsc tall?" "Why, that Sambo, that's the horned dinosaur. "De what?" v "The horned dinosaur. Sambo." "He! he! he! but dat's de funniest dln- nah ho'n I cber sec." It Is pro mined that when Bob Burdette gets back from Europe he will read the files of Los Angeles papers and write a new lecture, entitled, -The Rise and Fall of the Aeroplane." It Is, a pity that the eternal fitness of mings is so unevenly distributed In this vale of tears. The town of Marble City, Mo., hap no graveyard. Some Lake Michigan longshoreman has carried the Chicago microbe into Porto Rico. A strike bcoke out there a few days ago, and the Infection Is spreading raplcXy. Let Chicago be quarantined. Japan is wholly Americanized at last The spokesman for the Mikado's ocace envoy. Baron Komura. declares that his party prefers the American hltrhhali to the Japanese aakl and considers It "about the best drink fnere la" Next to the highball, he places the Manhattan cock tall, with the 'mint Julep running a close third, and In the opinion of mmi of th big Japs, the kin rlckey Is even ahead of tne nignbaii. Jf our Japanese friends Imbibe all these drinks at one sitting wnen mey go to Portsmouth for the peace conference, heaven help Nicholas.' The Midway, a Xew York magazine de voted to what Its name Implies. Is not Intended as a humorous publication, but when It devotes one paragraph to a de scription of Homer' Davenport and his Pheasant farm and the paragraph imme diately following to an 1150-pound hog as "among the many, other novelties," we must class the Midway as an uncon scious humorist From Homer to hog Is a long shot, ordinarily. Chicago CItiren-Mr. Mayor, when are we going to have that long-promised mu nicipal trolley line? Have you given It up as a bad Job? The Mayor Yes. sir; I am Dunne. Constant Reader I see that they are going to colobrate the seml-centeniUal of the Sault Ste. Marie ship canal this year Doubting Tom-That so? Good thing, these Jubilee celebrations; a hundred years from now we'll be celebrating the semi centennial of the Panama Canal. "Our old friend Jim has shuffled off at last" I'Sorry to hear It What did he die of?" "The new plague, automobllllls; death very sudden." Personal Xute. BUI Dollar, a banker from Coeur d'Alene, has Just spent a week at the Lewis and Clark Exposition. When he got through seeing all the sights he was so tired that he felt like his balance after spending 70 cents'. ' ' ' - A Grass Valley View. Jahe Maria-Pa, I see by the paper that they are going to have a new crematory In San Francisco. HI HayfleW-Gosh my socks, Marlar, but who Is a-go!n' to milk the cows for them city feUers? A Sonff of Daring. If the song be worth the singing. Sing the song! Sing it loud, and send It ringing, Right along! One may hear and heed who needeth, And the song Is his that hcedeth; Sing It strong! If the dream be worth the dreaming, Dream "the dream! Light from living stars' Is streaming. Beam on beam; For the soul that 'fares attended By the higher vision splendid, Court the gleam! If the deed be worth the doing, Do the deed! Do It now! the gods are wooing Those that lead! He that scorneth not the burden. He shall win the golden guerdon 1 His the meed! - ROBERTUS LOVE. AFTER THEJVAR. WHAT? ! Indianapolis News. The realignment of Eurnn probable as a result of the Japanese trl- umpn-is indicated by the foregathering of the Czar with the Kaiser, which Is Viewed With nnm.ln... 1 .w. . i,i 7 ..v, u .111 me cnan- cellerles of Europe. With Russia being beaten to her knro th l-.i... i Improved the opportunity to create friend- .uouuus wiui .nussia, wnich put that power so much at ease that she could withdraw her legions from the German frontier. With continued disaster In the East and at the same time the develop ment Of most: irionrtR- nlilAn. v., France and England-Russia's inveterate enemy the German Emperor seized the chance to pick a quarrel with France over the remote Morneean cttuoinn much- probably, for any Interest Germany iu 11, us ior tne purpose or menacing France into a closer approach to England, or a more open acknowledgement of that approach with the effect of further weakening the bond befween France and Russia. NOW. If he Khali V aKTa tn innv(n. V.i Czar that "Codlln's the friend not Short." he will have drawn Russia to his side, will have Isolated Fran fB TT frts- tint English support, which Is" always an un certain quantity since England by rea son of her "streak of silver sea" cannot be dragged any further Into a quarrel man sne cnooses to go and will have made his own country the dominant fac tor In Europe. His recent approach to Sweden is to the same end In guarding against- a flro In the rear. Only one thing further is needed to set all Europe In a turmoil greater than It has known since the days of the Crimea, and that Is the death of the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria-Hungary, an event that may occur at any time and that has been feared of late as imminent. With the warring elements of his empire freed from the Influence of- his personality, the fear or expectation of years haa been that they would "resolve themselves apart" In a literal sense, and that the pan-Germanic element would revolt and form a union with the German empire, and so the Teutonic people would indeed become the backbone of Europe, stretch ing from the Baltic to the Adriatic. Clasp ing hands In friendship with Russia, the future would then be one that every part of the world would be vitally Interested in. This hasty view shows what may easily nappen as a result of the Russo- 1 Japanese war. UNCLE JOE ANDTHE ICE PITCHER It has seemed. It may be well to con fess, that the most Interesting and picturesque Incident In the reports of the exercises attending the opening of the Lewis and Clark Exposition at Portland. Or., last June, was the al leged use which Joseph G. Cannon, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, made of the lee pitcher on the orators' rostrum. The Jay was hot and Mr. Cannon felt the heat. Tho silver pitcher was of all things cool and Inviting. As the story goes, "Uncle Joe" finally ran hla hand Into the pitcher, plucked out a piece of Ice and applied It to his face and neck In a good old democratic way. This breach of decorum, It was re lated, so shocked the wife of the presi dent of the Exposition, who sat near by, that siie expostulated with the visiting statesman. Whereupon the honorable gentleman from Washing ton. D. O, and Danville. 111., got "riled" and refused to speak his piece when his turn came. Although the story, which received a considerable newspaper circulation, seemed to possess a certain air of probability at least. It did not appear to be In all respects an absolutely impossible event In the career of Jo seph G. Cannon we neglected to pas It any particular attention. It seemed well to be cautious. One never knows the denials a day or a night mas bring forth. The powers of Invention in the American press are so magnifi cent that occasionally we may be ap-palllnglj- deceived as to the most plaus ible narratives of interesting eyents, unless the nicest care be taken in estimating the Inherent probabilities and the general character of the source of the alleged Inforraatioo. It now appears that this caution was Jus tifiable. The facts, all of them that we shaH ever secure, are at hand as the result of very solemn official state ments by Mr. Cannon and President Goode, of the Lewis and Clark Expo sition. The honorable Speaker of the Heuse of Representatives had gone to Alaska when the narrative of the Ice plteher appeared In the public prints, and he was unable to be properlj- Interviewed on the subject until his return. This was something of an irritant to the President of the Exposition and his wife, who were much concerned over that part of the story which repre sented that Mrs. Goode had promptly protested ngain3t the Speaker's alleged breach or etiquette in thrusting his fist Into the silver Ice pitcher. Such a protest seemed to them to Imply a shocking lack of courtesy toward the distinguished visitor, and they wlsited tho world to know that no protest had been made. We agree with them in thinking that If Mr. Cannon had appropriated the Ice In the drinking water for the purpose hereinbefore mentioned. It would have been their part cheerfully to acquiesce and even to furnish more Ice for the eminent guest Whenever "Uncle Joe" pulled out a piece of Ice. more Ice should have been put in. The Speaker of the United States House of Representa tives is entitled to a whole Icehouse, If lie needs to have his neck cooled on a hot das. And that, undoubtedly, war tie Idea which the President of the Exposition would now convey to us. The assertion that evers'bods acted with the utmost propriety Is, full$- born out by the statements of the Speaker himself when he returned from Alaska, and which are now being sprea'd over the country. In justice to Mr. and Mrs. Goode, Mr. Cannon has written a leter upon this vers delicate matter. In which. It will be observed, the emphasis It$ placejcLjcm .the. .denial that he received ans affront from them In "connectlorr wlth an alleged Ice pitcher episode. As the letter is Intended for the Amer ican people. It mas properly be re printed In these columns: Mr. II. W. Good. President Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, Portland. Or. My Dear Mr. Goode: Upon my return from Alaska today I find in one of the St. Louis paper an article headlined as follows: "Cannon In row with Portland Fair. Re taliates on Officials. Claim be declined to de liver speechf." The dispatch referred to bap reference to the opening: of the .ewts and Clark Centen nial Exposition at Portland on the first of June. I have never answered newspaper articles touching myself, but aa this article alleges an affront to myself on the occasion of the opening of the Exposition by Mrs. Goode and by Mr. Theodore' Hardee, in simple Juittae to them. It may not be Inapt for me to aay that there Is no foundation whatever for the article la qufatlon. It Is made out of whole cloth, and the occurrences therein described did not take place. On the contrary, the treatment extended to me by yourself as President of the Expo sition, and by Mrs. Goode end the officials of the Exposition, waa uniformly courteous. Every attention was given to the gentlemen composing the Committee of Congress and my self, officially and personally, that could have been desired, and I voice the sentiments of the whole party when I say, we enjoyed the visit to Portland, and were gratified at tho success of the Exposition. "With heat wishes, I am, yours sincerely. J. G. CANNOX. It must also be observed that the de nial Is broad enough to include even the statement that Mr. Cannon Iced his face and neck in tho presence of the assembled multitude. He does not dwell upon that point as he does upon the detestable allegation that his free use of the Ice pitcher was rebuked on the spot, but when he declares that there was "no foundation" whatever for the article "In question," we are bound to say that this discredits the primary Incident of all. Doubtless Mr. Cannon has sometimes taken Ice from Ice pitchers for cooling hla face and neck; the practice is not unheard-of. Nor can It be maintained that under appropriate conditions and in some de gree of privacy, such an act Is to be reprehended even bs our sternest teachers and exemplars of manners. That "Uncle Joe" did It at the exer cises attending the opening of the Lewis and Clark Exposition, however, must be dismissed as one more fan tasy of tho imaginative reportorlal mind. As England Sees It. Vanity Fair. As they exist today emigration and Im migration are equal dangers to the fu ture of England. Inquiries In our villages will prove that at the present time It Is only the pick of the rural population who seek fortune abroad. Policemen's Wives and- the Law. Omaha Bee. The genuineness of the fight on Illegal registration In Philadelphia cannot be de nied since one of the leading newspapers takes two columns of editorial space to advise wives of policemen to see that the law is enforced. THE UNALLOYED TRUTH. No. Doctor Lloyd, the evidence Must He upon the shelf; "We don't dare let you have it. for You'd vindicate yourself. And that, alas! would never- do Wo aim at your disgrace. What right had. you to up and win The Coadjutor race? Majority elected'you? Majority! "What's that? I am the on that must be pleased I wear a mammoth hax I said, one day, you were a man After my ovn. own heart; I'm after--four's. I'd have you know; ril break It I. the Smart BROOK LTNNE. NO WAR ONJNSURANCE. Chicago Inter Ocean. State's Attornes Jerome, of New York; Is reported making ready to begin "war" on the Equitablo and on other Insurance companies In which similar scandalous conditions mas be charged or suspected to exist. Conourrentls. the Iroquois Club, of Chicago, begins talking about a "cru sade" for an investigation of overs- life Insurance compans, with a "National convention of policyholders," etc. Perhaps the attitude of State's Attorney Jerome mas be Incorrectly represented, and quite possibly the gentlemen who suggest the Iroquois Club's "crusade"' and profess to speak for that organiza tion suffer from the common failure of not knowing what they want and the common tendencs to go off half-cocked. It is to be hoped so. for the sake of the millions of life Insurance policyholders .and the billions they have nt stake. For to talk about "war" on insurance companies and of "crusades" against them is as sills and destructive to tha general welfare as was the Popullstlc talk of a few s'ears ago about "war" on banks and "crusades" against them. We all know, even these gentlomen of the Iroquois Club, that life insurance com panies are Just as necessary to our wel fare as banks, and that to "take an atti tude of destruction toward either Insti tution Is like burning our houses to kill the rats. Duts to those denrest to him and self preservation should Impel evers man to Insist that we have honest life insurance, companies and honest banks, and when extravagance, waste and graft ore found that thes be cleaned out and thi causes of scandal removed. But to talk as these gentlemen who profess to speak for the Iroquois Club do. and to take the atti tude which such talk Indicates. Is to fall again Into the worst frenzies of Popu lism. Let us deal with this matter with American common sense. THE APPEXDLX BECOM1XG RARE Surgeons Are Fast Eliminating sk Fashionable Source of Disease. Eversbodss Magazine. How many verlform appendices ara there In the world today? A few sav age and semi-civilized nations retain them, but the suppls In lands where the .surgeons flourish must be small, for Slasher has been at work all over. Like a sportsman who cries "Save tho buffalo!' Mr. Joseph ICidd. M. D.. of England, rises and cries "Preserve tho appendix!" and tells how It may be done. Chills following overheating, and Imperfect mastication make trou ble for the appendix. The grape seed of horrid memory deserves not half the odium It has received and too much aperient water and salts are bad for this mssterlous organ. Just as they are for all the rest of man's internal economy. Don't let the chill get you, chew the food thoroughls Gladstone masticated evers' mouthful 43 or 400 times and make Nature do the work below the diaphragm without chem icals and drugs except when a doctor sass they are necessars. We are the great drug-swallowing nation. We flood our insides with nostrums, fill the Intestines with mer cury, and bolus ourselves not merels when it Is unnecessary, but when It Is positively harmful. Doctor Legs and Doctor Arms properly employed will cure most 0 our minor Ills. Their fees are nominal, and they pay big divi dends. Ten years ago a war of ex termination was waged against th human appendix. Today It Is regarded less as a foe, but many surgeons de light to cut. Many charges brought against it were unfounded. Let those who may preserve theirs; and let all remember that surgeons do not work for nothing-. Old Jacksonville. ' " Ashland Tidings. Jacksonville has the oldest stone side walks in Oregon. They were laid In the earls fifties, when her trade was Im mense and she handled more mones-'than the rest of the Oregon terrltors'. It had a cosmopolitan population then, with rep resentatives of almost evers nation, and the old pioneers remaining tell us of the unbounded hospitality of the people of those dass. It was thoroughls demo cratic. In a word, one of the best types of the earls mining camps of the Golden West. Tramping those sidewalks today, only a few of those earls residents are encountered. but the experiences of a visitor indicate that a strain of their cor diallts has continued on down. Which Is to sas that the impress of earls training on communities Is similar to that on In dividual character. It Is never wholly eclipsed by age. Fire Drills in Public Schools. Ralph H. Graves In Harper's Weekls. Protecting crowds from accidents Is a problem of the cities. The averting1 of catastrophes in schools and theater, at meetings and on excursions, rests with the lawmakers, the police and the firemen. There have been six school fires In New York Cits during tho last year. In none of them was there a death, and the only reported Injurs was a stumped toe. Under the law the public schools must have exits and hose stations a plenty, and there must be fire drills in each building at least twice t, month. So thoroughls trained are the pupils that they drop every thing on the instant, form in double flics and march out. It takes two minutes to get 3000 of them Into the street.' Trie signal sounds so frequently- for drills that when a real danger arises the children never realize It. but go downstairs laughing and talk ing as though fires were everyday af fairs. The Looming of Loom Is. Baltimore Herald (Dem.). As the representative of this country In the conference of the powers with regard to the Moroccan situation. Mr, Loorats. would be placed upon a pinnacle that would raise him above the detractions of those who have followed his meteoric rise with criticisms of his conduct at evers point of his career. In the pres ence of this lllumlnary of Increasing mag nitude one is apt to forget that there is a Secretars of State. How will Mr. Root hold h!3 own when broughtInto constant comparison with the man who. despite the fact that he is to bo credited with the bnls eccentricities in the State De partment during ans part of the Secre taryship of the man who has given to American diplomacy its highest charac ter, is set the particular object of admin istrative admiration? John Bull's Merit. Boston Transcript. Englishmen make pretts" good public of ficials In this countrs- Greenhalge made a good Governor; Weaver Is the kind of Mayor Philadelphia has long needed, and the Detroit Journal sass of Governor Warner, of Michigan: "He has Justified every promise made concerning him, and every instance of faith and confidence re posed In. him." Two Opinions. Puck. "Oh. none of this marrying business for me." A young woman argued. In whom, there was dearth Of softness and moonshine; "X vow and de clare X Just wouldn't marry the last man oa earth." "Well. 1 would." responded a meek little maid Whose pathway war littered with mas culine wrecks; "Nor would I accept him tor his sake or mine. But simply to spite all the rest of or sex.'