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This Im portance, one Is constrained to admit, comes not so much from the original ity of Mr. McCleary's views, or their soundness, as from his accidental po sition a ranking- member in the com mittee on appropriations. Remember ing his early and courageous champion ship of honest money when its cham pions were few either In or out of Con gress, a certain regret is unavoidable that the thought of the Minnesota statesman upon the tariff has not ad vanced beyond the 'platitudes and soph istries of primitive Dingleyism. "What makes the tariff so interesting Just now to the appropriations commit tee is the growing deficit in the Treas ury budget. The expenditures of the Government are exceeding Its Income this year. In time of war or of wide spread National disasters, such as ru inous financial panics or a visitation of the Black Death, a deficit in the Treasury surprises nobody. But we are not at war, unless one chooses by a strong hyperbole to call our peren nial dUSculty in the Philippines a war; and our National prosperity is unparal leled. Under such circumstances a deficit does excite surprise, and it is significant either of bad management or unwise revenue laws, or both. We htfve revenue laws, like the tariff of 46 per cent on manufactured iron, which involve a threefold injustice they produce comparatively little In come for the Government, they are a direct encouragement to trusts by ex cluding foreign competition, and they enable the trusts to sell dear at home and cheap abroad. But Mr. McCleary does not think laws of that kind un wise. He calls them "protection to borne Industry." What they ought to' be called is "robbery of home con sumers. An industry like the steel trust, which can invade foreign mar kets and undersell English and Ger man manufacturers, can have only one purpose in asking for protection, and that purpose is plunder. But Mr. Mc Cleary, as the Washington dispatches report, has no wish to free the Amer ican people from the tryannous exac tions of the steel and other predatory trusts. To lower the tariff on manufac tured iron would destroy the steel trust, give the American consumer the same price as the foreigner. Increase the revenue of the Government by in creasing importations, and efface the deficit. But Mr. McCleary does not think thai would be wise. The deficit might be remedied by measures which would at the same time enormously diminish the burdens of the people. Mr. McCleary, and the rest of the standpatters, prefer to remedy It by a measure which must increase the bur dens of the people. They wish to im pose a new tax, a tax which -will fall more .heavily on the poor man than on the rich, a tax which will Increase the cost of living in direct proportion, not to a man's income, but to the size of his family. Their remedy for the defi cit is a tax on coffee. It is Impossible to believe that all the standpatters are deliberately scheming to rob the people in the In terests of the law-defying trusts. It Is incredible that they are consciously in voking that political ruin for them selves and destruction of the Republi can parti' which inevitably Impend should this disastrous tax be imposed. The records of some of them, and espe cially the record of Mr. McCleary. de serve that we should think more char itably of their course. Let us be as considerate as possible. Let us go to the very limit of charity. Let us try to believe that they have all run mad. Phlebotomy that Is, the bleeding cure, had its day In medicine long before these modern Sangrados thought of ap plying it to a deficit in the Treasury. Under surgical phlebotomy the patient usually died; under tariff phlebotomy the American people are not likely to die. They are more likely to Imitate JesHurun and kick, though not for the same reason. Jeshurun kicked because he had waxed fat. It Is tbe coffee tax which tbe Gov ernment imposed in the danger and dis tress of the Civil War that the stand patters desire to re-enact in these pip ing times of the two-story dinner pal". When it was taken off, Mr. McCleary sadly Temarks, the Brazilian govern ment slapped on an export tax of about the same amount, thus with damnable perfidy transferring to themselves the revenue we had been receiving from Brazilian coffee. It pains Mr. McCleary, as well It may, to see Brazil get this revenue. It does not pain him at all to fee the steel trust selling Iron goods cheaper in England than In America,, thus practically giving England an enormous revenue at our expense. But no matter about that now. He thinks that if we reimpose our coffee tax Bra zil must take off her export duty. Let us see about It Suppose Brazil, not being quite a fool, should stand pat on her export duty. Her coffee might go up 5 cents a pound In our market, the amount of the tariff. If It did, it would still be cheaper than high-grade coffees from pther countries and would sell In preference to them the same as now. We should have to buy from Brazil or go without, for the rest of the world does not produce enough to supply us and the price of other cheap coffees would, of course, rise with hers. Un doubtedly we should not consume so much as now, but It Is well for the con sumer to cultivate abstinence. The trouble is that failure of consumption would imply a failure of revenue, and Mr. McCleary would still have his defi cit on his hands, or part of it. Ulti mately coffee would accumulate In the hands of Brazilian producers; they must lower their price to get rid of It: and the final penalty of our new tariff tax would be divided between the Brazilian producer and the American consumer. Both governments would get their rev enue. The standpatters' beloved steel trust would still smile on In all its virgin beauty. And the only sufferers would be the producer and consumer, who are, of course, beneath the notice of a standpat statesman. Mr. McCleary even foresees & happy 'day when his new tax will have de stroyed the coffee Industry In Brazil and transferred it to Porto Rico and the Philippines. Doubtless to the standpat Intellect this would vastly In crease our trade with Brazil, the true method of building up trade being first to ruin your customer, by their way of thinking, then subsidize ships to carry the goods, and give them away when you get there. We must give the goods away, for when we have achieved the standpat Ideal and bankrupted all the rest of the world nobody can pay us for them. MR, FOLK'S BOOM. Governor Chamberlain and other Democrats who, thus early in the Pres idential fray, choose Mr. Folk for their loader, choose well. The moral dispar ity between the leader and his follow ers will excite ome comment, but per haps they can live it down. He may feel as Falstaff did "If I be not ashamed of my soldiers, I am a soused gurnet" but he will never say so. He is more of a gentleman tttan Falstaff, and we will charitably suppose that his followers will not look quite so bad upon the march. Mr. Folk Is as good a man as any Democrat can be, and this is not said in disparagement of the great Missou rlan, for when a Democrat is good he is very, very good; but when he Is bad! The reforming Governor deserves well of his party. He has obscured certain of its brightest lights within the walls of dungeons lone and drear, but be has left others equally radiant to shine on, and for this forbearance their evident gratitude is decorous and seemly. We assume that it is gratitude, and not malice, which moves Mr. Folk's Democratic brethren to hall him as Roosevelt's successor, though If they did It out of revenge we can Imagine none more exquisite. Certainly no greater misfortune could befall him than to run for President A young man, almost in the bloom of youth, after his first defeat he would be liable to 6Uffer nomination after nomination and might In time become a second Bryan. Scandalous epithets would be heaped upon him, as upon that multi fold martyr. When he had sunk low It would not. be surprising to hear some very bitter enemy speak of him as a boy orator the Boy Orator of the Mis souri. Think of the austere and virtu ous Mr. Folk going by such a ribald name, as that Yet this Is what a Pres idential nomination would bring him to. To such base uses would he come. The eagerness of the Democratic party to engage a candidate like Folk for a long series of quadrennial offer ings is natural. Abraham was glad, of course, to see the timely ram come trot ting out of the brush to. its fate. But Mr. Folk is not a ram. He has human .feelings. He has ambitions. A long, useful and honorable career lies before him if he is permitted to follow it Why should the Democratic party wish to lure such a promising young man to his destruction by nominating him for President? Is there not Mr. Bryan? He is used to it He has almost learned to like it Take Mr. Bryan, Governor, and spare Folk. When he is old and good for nothing else, make him Demo cratic nominee for President, but dur ing his active and useful decades, spare him. . A FORTY-FOOT CHANNEL. When the highest Government engi neering authority not only admits the possibility of a forty-foot channel at the Columbia entrance, but defines the means to secure it and when such measures Involve no experimental de parture from, but the .completion of, plans already in execution what exquse can there be for failure? 'General Mac kenzie's confidently expressed opinion, yesterday, that the forty-foot channel is possible and is practicable, should set once more In activity every attainable influence over members of Congress, but especially over the Senate and House committees on whom will- rest the main responsibility of making or refusing the needed appropriation. Of course the engineering task Is diffi cult; of course the execution of the plans Is arduous; certainly there have been disappointments; but the end sought Is so all-Important that it is a case of casting no backward looks of discouragement of admitting no hesita tion or 'timidity now, but of urging on every possible means to a complete and permanent success. Though Portland must necessarily be the first and greatest beneficiary from completion of this National work, that is not to admit that the advocacy of united action must be left to her. Not a wheatgrower ia three states can af ford to be Indifferent Not one corpora tion, not one business house, interested In &n unobstructed outlet for commerce 'mustranc".-Idly ;by. .Development leagues are, now popular. Here is an object in which every league and com mercial body can be called into imme diate and responsive action. Chambers of Commerce, Boards of Trade, Manu facturers' Associations, havebeen lift ing their voices, and have done yeo man service. Again let them be heard In urgent and repeated expression, until the law is passed which secures the million dollars required from the next Congress. The forces of the mighty river re sent control. They insist on depositing their burden of 6and and silt where they mingle with the ocean waves. An other river as mighty has been con quered. Other forces of Nature, as rSSblute and hard to manage, have been brought within man's boundaries, and there held. Other feats of engineering have been pushed through difficulties and obstacles to complete success. So will it be here, provided that the repre sentatives of our Nation realize, first the magnitude and far-reaching benefi cence .of the work; second, the prospect of complete success through the plans in progress, and by the menSnow hold ing the Nation's mandate to finish the great task, and, third, that the money required, beyond that now provided, bears reasonable proportion to the end already in view. This season's work is understood to be provided for. No cessation is yet In sight such as Is disastrous to unfin ished undertakings. But a million dol lars more 'Is now essential; It can be had if each one Interested takes up the burden as his own. BRINGING PEOPLE TO THE FAIR. The Le'wis and Clark Fair might be the most beautiful spectacle ever of fered to mortal vision; yet, without people to see it the whole enterprise would be a failure. The Exposition, every one agrees, is worth seeing; and the crowns have been uniformly large. Interested and appreciative. If the rail roads had not realized fully their re sponsibility In bringing people to Port land, it may be feared that the people of Oregon, who have had much at stake In the Exposition, would have been doomed to grievous disappointment But the- railroads have done their duty, and more. They have made attractive rates from the East from the South, from California and from the Pacific Northwest They have advertised the Fair itself In the most elaborate man ner. They have made travel comfort able and sightseeing easy. They have increased the number of their trains, and have handled them with an expedi tion and safety that under the circum stances, are remarkable. To be sure, there has been occasional complaint be cause this, that or the other thing was done or not done; but this was inevita ble, in view of the enormous number of people handled. On the whole the rail roads have done a marvelous work for Oregon, and It should be acknowledged fully and publicly. The Harrlman sys tem, for example, has displayed an ad mirable spirit toward the Exposition. It made a large contribution to the original Fair fund. It made rates at the outset that seemed to be close to bedrock. Yet It has done more. On September 1, through the active Inter est of A. L. Craig, general passenger agent for the Northwest lines, a still further cut was made from Northwest points; and now It Is announced that a 30 per cent reduction from the existing California excursion rate will be effect ive from September 25 to the end of the Fair period. It will thus be possible for any one in California to come and see the Exposition for much less than the regular one-way fare. It does not lessen the credit due the enterprising and sagacious traffic man agers of the Harrlman lines that they knew that a great Increase of traffic was sure to result from reducing the fares. It may be profitable; it may not be. But certainly the Exposition will be an enormous gainer by their action. And that, we are assured. Is the most Im portant factor In determining the O. R. & N. and Southern Pacific to act as they have acted. ' r. X. MATTiriEU DAY. A day perhaps more purely historical as applied to local history than any other that has been thus far designated and celebrated at the Lewis and Clark Exposition was the day which, in nam ing the name of the sole survivor of the convention that gave a provisional government to Oregon , recalled an event of sixty-two years ago. The rec ord of this event has been given to granite and placed upon the spot where the convention of 1843 was held. The man who, as the sole survivor of that event unveiled the granite shaft at Champoog four years ago last May. still lives, a prosperous and honored citizen; and yesterday, surrounded byhis fam ily to the third generation, he received the congratulations of thousands of his fellow-citizens. Still sturdy, still gen ial, still Interested in the events of the passing day. F. X. Matthieu In his old age preserves the type of the men who made the occupation of a .wilderness possible and the advance of civilization sure. With the personal record of Mr. Matthieu loyal Oregonlans are gener ally familiar. The thousands of strang ers, however, who yesterday gave the smiling pioneer a passing glance or a frjendly handclasp will be interested in the recital of the simple facts of his life. Mr. Matthieu came to the Oregon Country in the period of his far-away youth. At the time of his coming the Hudson's Bay Company was the sole arbiter of the affairs of a mighty re gion. Civilization had planted little more than a timid step or an unpre tending outpost west of the Rocky Mountains. With others equally daring he saw the grand possibilities of empire in this then Isolated region, and, realiz ing that an early beginning foreboded a prosperous settlement he joined his voice, his influence and his effort with others In the undertaking of state building. He married in his early man hood and became attached to the soli. To him the name "Oregon" was Inter preted to mean "home," and every-pass-ing year gave new Interest to the for tunes, the development and the welfare of the state. , From a beautiful wilderness over which Indians roamed and warred at will, . Invaded here and ,there by the trapper and again here and there by the missionary, the Oregon Country has passed on through various stages of de velopment until from its broad expanse great states have sprung into exist ence. Of this unfoldment of destiny, this steady and necessarily slow -march of civilization. F. X. Matthieu has been a factor and an observer. He had but to open his eyes to see the grand pro cession move on; he had but to ob serve from the. seclusion of his own home the-work that was going on all around him, aided by hlsown Industry, looking to the development of a state. J Many things he did and prospered lri I the doing. Many things he saw and was gratified In the seeing. Life in those early days was not strenuous In the modern interpretation of that term. Rather let us say It was the simple life, lived close to Nature and In full accord with her steady, unhastlng processes. Full of years and of the simple hon ors that wait upon unassuming en deavor is this sole survivor of the band of men who established the provisional government of Oregon Territory'. Ro mance touches and Intermingles with reality in the drama of the years. To the actor In this passing drama the In terwoven realities stand out strong, clear and unromantlc; to the audience of a later generation, to whom It Is presented, all Is invested with the haze of romance. The presentment Is a pleasing one, and the managers of the Lewis and Clark Exposition In giving It under the name of "F. X. Matthieu day" are to be congratulated alike upon the simple beauty of Its unfoldment and the appreciation, worthily be stowed, upon the sole survivor of the play as cast more than three-score years ago. A citizen honored In his day and gen eration Is F. X. .Matthieu. He is hon ored also by a later generation than his own, and he will, be remembered by one yet later with his associates, fifty-two all told, whose names appear upon the granite shaft that marks the spot on the bank of "Beautiful Willam ette" where civil government In Oregon was born. Publicists disagree as to the proba bility that Japan will soon become mas ter of China and by transforming that country as she did her own, build up a commercial and political power that shall make the world stand In awe. On the affirmative side of the question comes a French writer, Rene Pinon, who avers that China today is satur ated with Japanism. This has come about with the deliberate Intent of Japan, and by means of the special ad vantages that are possessed by the Jap-, anese. Their appearance, dress, man ners, easy acquirement of the language, enable Japanese to pass unnoticed any where in China. Taking advantage of this fact a subtle conquest has been going on for years. The improvements of Chinese military methods are under direction of Japanese, he asserts, and the Chinese officers are educated in Japan. The advance In Chinese educa tion Is mainly In Japanese hands, and each year hundreds of Chinese return home from Japanese schools Instilled with Japanese notions. In this way, M. Pinon thinks, the conquest of China is now beinff achieved. Mr. George W. Perkins, Morgan's man George, pooh-bah of the New York Life Insurance Company, gets revenge on President Roosevelt or tries to. , by displaying a check for $48,000 given by the company In 1904 to the National Republican Committee. This is the response of frenzied finan ciers to the Roosevelt demand for a square deal for every man. which has made much trouble lately for all bunco men of high degree and low. It will be remembered that a loud cry went up In 1904 from certain virtuous Democrats that Chairman Cortelyou should pub lish the list of contributions. He didn't, but the President took a hand and made it clear that If any peraon or corporation made any contribution to the Republican campaign fund In the expectation that he was buying "protection," he would find himself mis taken. The Perkins Incident proves that all such were mistaken badly mistaken. Meanwhile, we shall await with interest any Perkins revelations as to the amount of the New York Life contribution to the Democratic National Committee. In Eastern yachting circles the opin ion prevails that the next challengeV for the America's cup would come from Sir Ernest Cochrane, a member of the Royal Victoria Yacht Club, through which organization, the challenge would be Issued. It Is said that the New York Yacht Club would prefer to have the next challenge come from a British yachtsman other than Sir Thomas' Lip ton, and would be willing to make every rational concession. If there is any feeling among the New York yachtsmen concerning Sir Thomas Lip ton, It Is probably because of his re ported delcaratlon that he would not again challenge until the defenders promised to build a yacht under the limitations of the new rules of the New York Yacht Club. American yachts men are ever willing to meet adver saries on even terms, but they resent any effort to be bulldozed Into doing what courtesy, under other circum stances, would prompt Although the Secretary of State at Albany has not yet given out the fig ures of the 1905 census for New York City, the newspaper guessers, active with pencil and paper, estimate the population variously, the total being from 3,957,406 to 4,265,822. Still a di vergence of 300,000 Is not large. Per haps 4,000.000 for the city and S.000.000 for the state are not far from the ac tual count In 1810 the Nation had not so many people as the Empire State now boasts. In view of this Impressive growth. It Is almost startling to reflect what the enumeration a century hence will reveal. The Mayor shouldn't be discouraged. The Executive Board turned down his scheme to put the city prisoners at work cleaning up the East Side gulches because the prisoners have to be watched. That's a good job for the de tective force. They don't have to be watched always. "The Journal never did a better busi ness than this Summer, In spite of the Lewis and Clark Fair," remarks the Salem journal. Then cheer up. You can't always be as unhappy as you try to be, even. If you run a paper In Sa Iem. Mr. Perkins' confession that he. gave $43,000 to the Republican campaign fund at least shows that somebody got some benefit out of the New York Life Insurance Company besides J. P. Mor gan & Co. The Post-Intelligencer comments fa cetiously on the display of the large" Nome gold brick at Portland, adding that "Seattle has lots of them." So we've heard. Speaking of dogs, thereare many people who think the Igorrotes are do ing a great work. Dan McAlIen-day at the Fair.- OREG0N0ZONL A Rhyme for Baby Day. Little babies, big babies. , Short babies, tall; Twin babies, thin babies, Babies full of squall; Ugly babies, pretty babies, . Good babies, bad; Walking babies, squawking babies. Such as make us sad; Rich babies, poor babies. Tiny baby tots; Bawling babies, falling babies Black and blue lri spots; . Cute babies, sweet babies. Lovely babies, brats; Dandy babies, candy babies. Kids that scratch like cats; Growing babies, crowing babies. Knowing no fatigue: Oh. what a pity They must all get big. Mrs. Sid Coffee, of Missoula, Mont, has returned home from a visit of three weeks at the Lewis and Clark Exposition, and the Missoula Mlssoullan says she en Joyed her trip very much. Of course. Mrs. Coffee did. Her cup of enjoyment was filled $o overflowing; it was sugared with sweetest band music and enriched with the cream of the exhibits. Mrs. Coffee drank deeply of the Exposition's delights. Time was when Ella Wheeler Wilcox was vknown as the poetess of passion. That was years ago. New days and new deeds call for new appraisements. Here's our toast: To Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Queen of Quilted ,Prose. Truly the most stupendous task ever mapped out by a woman for herself Is that which Mrs. Charles F. Joy. wife of a former Congressman from St. Louis, has undertaken at Los Angeles. Mrs. Joy Is not going to put on boots and explore the unpenetrated jungles of Dark est Africa; she Is not fitting out an expedition- to rope the North Pole and yank It Into the zone of civilization; she Is not proposing to sail an airship to the moon and disprove the green cheese theory. She Is going to establish a school of philosophy, of which the following prospectus has been published: "The school, will be devoted to the study of philosophy, ethics and physiology, its mis sion will be to prove that in Nature there are no contradictions, and that at the base of all warring factions of materialism and spiritualism, realism and Idealism, and monism, sensationalism and Instltu tionallsm. thore Is but one fundamental and universal principle which unites them all and absolutely accords with science." Paste this In your hat. The East Ohio Conference of the United Brethren has passed resolutions relegating political bosses "to the eternal rear." Af ter that it will take- the bosses a mighty long time to catch up. Apologies are due the shade of the late George D. Prentice for the following comment upon the birth of a baby girl to Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Knott: "The baby is a little Knott. She Is pretty, and yet she is Knott Though the father is proud of his ba"by. he Lr Knott happy. Though the doctor says both mother and child are doing well, they are Knott The Practical Joker. . See the Practical Joker. He Is not much of a sight but still he Is worth looking at as a Curiosity, as a Study in Uncommon Cunsednoss. The Practical Joker Is the offspring of asslninity run to seed. He is what was Left Over after the rest of the workl was created. There was a Slight Surplus, a mere fraction, not enough to make a- Complete Man. so the Scraps were scraped up. pressed together and moulded Into a Practical Joker. The Job was not patented. No body thinks enough of the Invention to patent It. You couldn't sell Practical Jokers for 3 cents a bunch If you should stand out on the corner of Fifth and Morrison streets and spiel till your vocal cords got tied Into double bow knots. The public Is aware of the Shell Game when It sees the layout The Practical Joker Is an Escaped Idiot from the Idlot ville Asylum, but he Is by no means a harmless Idiot When recognized, he should be roped forthwith and hauled back to his native and natural environ ment, the Padded Cell. Departtiro of the "Folks. They are gone from our midst, to return no more, perhaps Those sfevon shining Colonels, with the seven sorvice caps. j Those Generals a-glltter (count 'em six), of easy grace. With their shoulder-knots so showy and their mllefc of golden lace Their coming was resplendent, for you know they had to show; Their stay was full of startles, for they dazzled high and low; Oh, the stars that shine above us shone with less than half the gleam Of the stars upon the shoulders of Mis souri's Show Me team! i There are miles of mines in Oregon, along our mountain slopes. That yield the shining metal, but It does not come In ropes; And the ropes that decked the bosoms of the Colonels from Mlssoo Out here In Golden Oregon were some. thing truly new. They are gone from our midst, and they may not come again. For they dwell afar to eastward, in the kingdom of the hen; They are gone far away, and we're sunk In sullen gloom Since the Generals ceased to glitter and the Colonels ceased to bloom! ROBERTUS LOVE. Thought or Revival Hymn. ' Exchange. While working in a stone quarry In Wales recently, Richard William Jones was struck down by a large bowlder which fell upon and pinned him to the ground. His comrades rushed to his as sistance and with considerable difficulty the bowlder was removed from the mangled body. Jones, who regained con sciousness as his rescuers were placing him on the stretcher, said in Welsh: "Canwch, hogiau, 'O Dduw, rho i ml dy hedd!' " ("Lads, sing 'O, God. give me Thy peace. ") This is a favorite revival hymn, and to its prayerful strains the sad procession marched to the quarry hos pital, where the Injured man died shortly after. They Died 1000 Miles Apart. Kansas City Star. Separated by ICOO miles. Mrs. June John son and her husband. Allan Johnson, a banker In Little Rock. Ark., recently met death almost simultaneously in one day. At the precise hour when Mrs. Johnsbn's body was taken from the bathing waters of Coney Island, a telegram reached New York City to inform her of the death of her husband. The wife was a magazine contributor under the nom de Rlume of Helen Dixie Johnson, and the husband was president of the National Exchange Bank, of Little Rock. THE UNHAPPY CAUCASUS. New Yoric Sun. Some details from Baku in a letter dated August 6. throw light on what Is now going on in that part of the Caucasus. . The oil Industry at Baku Is carried on by companies of different nationalities, which as a rule employ mostly their own people. Thus, at the Nobel works the employes are Swedes and Germans; at the Mantacheff establishment Armeni ans; at the Rothschilds', Jewst and at the Baku company's works, Russians. These are In the workshops, refineries and offices, while the unskilled labor is almost entirely Tatar, Mussulman and Persian. Since the month of February last there have been few labor troubles, because the Armenians, who were abandoned by the others when they were being massa cred by the Tatars, refused to take any part in the strikes organized by the Rus sians and Jews. On July 29, however, strikes took place at the Mantacheff and Rothschild works and two others, and it was expected that the men in the Nobel ahd Baku companies' employ would go out An understanding was sold to have been come to between the Armeni ans and the workmen of the other na tionalities, and it was said that the strike would cover the whole oil field. But In the end. owing to some disagreement the Armenians at the Mantacheff plant all resumed work on August 1. while the Jews at the Rothschilds held out and there matters were so threatening that bloodshed was feared at the date of the letter. At the Rothschild works It was the arti sans of the different trades, mostly Jews, who" struck first and. contrary to expec tation and their habit, the unskilled Ta tar laborers made common cause with them. The reason was that a Tatar gapone, an old workman, put himself at their head. The name of this man. who was a good speaker, both In Tatar and Russian, was Mustafa, and having made the pilgrimage to Mecca he had acquired the title and reputation of a Hadji. Mus tafa organized a meeting of all the Ta tars In the Rothsehllrts" pmnlnv and nr. suaded them to stand by the Jewish workmen. His arguments had nothing to do with religion, but on the contrary he declared that the time had come for the Tatars no longer to be the tools of the Russian authorities, who Incited to race and religious hatred, and to understand that the workmen of all races and relig ions had a common interest and should unite. The Tatars, carried away by his persuasive eloquence, abandoned work and went on strike. The Rothschild manager, seeing the gravity of the situation, then resorted to a stratagem. He sent for Mustafa and other leaders of the Tatars and persuad ed them to go through the works of the other companies and organize a general strike of the Tatar workmen. Mustafa agreed and started out on the propa ganda. Two days later is was known that Mustafa had disappeared, and all attempts to find him failed. The Tatar loaders then went to the Rothschild man ager and told him they would have noth ing more to do with him so long as Mus tafa was not found, while the crowd that accompanied them kept shouting for Mus tafa and threatening to kill him and de stroy all the works. Up to the date of the letter Mustafa had not been found, and It was -currently rumored that he had been arrested and killed. As among the Tatars at Baku there are a good many Persian subjects. the Persian Consul took a hand In the affair and trlea to get the Tatars to submit, warning them that otherwise they would all be sent back to Persia, where mans would be found to bring them to reason. They therefore replied that the Consul would do better to look to his own safety and not meddle with affairs that did not concern him. and It Is said that the .Con sul followed the advice. Cinemntographed Their Wetldlnir. New York Press. Now the Marquis of Buto and his bride have broken all records for novel enter tainments given by that society called "smart." The district about Mount Stuart, their home. Is full of grouse-shooting folk, and the newly wedded couple recently sent out invitations to as many of them as their ancestral halls would hold to attend an evening reception. The fea ture of the evening which drew the in terest of the audience was a cinemato graph representation of the church wed ding and festivities at Belllngham a month before. Never did the camera store up more treasures for a rainy day than on this occasion, and the Marquis and his bride figured In an amusing array of pho tographs. There were views of the bridal procession, flowers, bridesmaids and' all. and qf the newly married couple's depart ure for Erin, showing the steamer moving from the shore as farewells were waved. Frog Cure for Typhoid Fever. Newton correspondence Charlotte News. Your correspondent, like other people, lives and learns. He discovered yester day that a toad applied to the foot of a fever patient, and kept there, would cer tainly cure the patient. It may be that tne same is a well-known remedy, known of old. but It Is new here. A young man In this county has been very low with typhoid fever for several weeks; so ill, in fact, that the physicians gave him up to die. Another young man once suffered with typhoid and took the frog treatment and was cured, and so the treatment was applied to the patient mentioned, with gratifying results. The young man Is re ported as convalescing. The toads, tho story runneth turn green and die, having drawn all the fever from the patient It seems to' be an excellent remedy, but It Is tough on the frog. The Noisiest Block In Jersey. New York Times. 'The noisiest residential block In Hud son County, which comprises Jersey City. Hoboken and Bayonne, Is that which ex tends along Ogden avenue, the Heights, back of Jersey City, from Franklin to Griffith street Right under the hill, and sending their multitude of voices Into the windows of the houses above, are: A sawmill, a stone-crusher, an iron foundry, a railroad crossing, an Iron tres tle, with trolley cars on. It; a coalyard. with Iron chutes; a base ball park, where games are frequent; a frog pond; a piano In every residence, a squad of cornet-players, two dozen phonographs. Despite the plenitude of racket the houses In the block are never vacant. The tenants say that If there was no noise there would be no life. Mrs. Gould to Publish' Journal. New York Press. During her recent travels abroad Mrs. George Gould kept a journal, which she Is now planning to have, printed and dis tributed among her Intimate friends. Mrs. Gould has been spoken of as being "In the distinguished list of automobile sur vivors," and It was after her accident that she set to work to depict her experiences In the highways and byways of Europe. The Journal, which Is most entertaining. Is written In a jocular -vein and sets at rest any lingering doubts her friends might have entertained as to her literary ability. The Interest of the Journal Is heightened by contributions In tho way of verse and sketches by many distinguished persons' whom the Goulds met In . the course of their journey. v Wiping a Nose. Exchange. A teacher was Instructing a class of Infants in the Sunday school and wa3 letting tho children finish her sen tences to make sure they understood. "The Idol had eyes,' she said, "but It couldn't- "See," cried the children. Tt had ears, but it couldn't" "Hear." said the class. "It had lips, but it couldn't" "Speak," said the chil dren, "it had a nose, but It couldn't ' 'Wipe ltr aaoutci tha little- ones. . ' IN TOMORROWS OREGONIAN Additional to the largest and most complete telegraphic news service on the Pacific Coast the following features: THE FIGHT THAT "KILLED" JACK DEMPSEY Robert Fit2slmmons gives his ver sion of the contest at New Orleans 14 years ago, and puts the blame for the terrible beating on Jlmmi? Carroll. Homer Davenport saw this fight, and glve3 his version, namely. That Fitzslmmons literally had to hammer the life out of Dempsey In order to make him quit The sto ries of this fight have special In terest in Portland because Dempsey lived, married, died and was burled here. JOE MEEK; OREGON'S PIONEER POLITICIAN Personal side of the distinguished frontiersman, who will be honored by a day at the Fair. L. A. Long, of Hillsboro, and Eva Emery Dye contribute very readable articles throwing light on an unlettered man who was a leader of men. THIS MAN MARRIED TO SIXTY-ONE WOMEN Dr. George A. WItzhoff Is a mem ber of an Eastern syndicate of big amists and murderers, and his vic tims number three score. A corre spondent tells, of the methods these Bluebeards employ to lure women who have saved money. TEACHING ENGLISH TO SIXTY-NINE TRIBES Frederic J. Haskln, touring the world for The Sunday Oregonian, writes from Manila concerning the American schools in the Philippines, where our speech Is taught to peo ple speaking 34 languages and 6C dialects. BIRDS OF THE OREGON WOODS William L. Finley concludes hi: series. Illustrated by H. T. Bohl man. with "Life In an Old Or chard." which brims over with hu man Interest. LORD KITCHENER, THE WOMAN-HATER . A special correspondent tells of his quarrel with Lady Curzon. the Chi cago girl: of the women with whom his name has been associated, and how a woman may now defeat hl3 ambition to become Viceroy of India. LONGFELLOW'S PLACE IN LITERATURE Eva Emery Dye's estimate of Amer ica's favorite poet, whose work, she asserts, must hold permanent place In the world of letters. STEER THAT TROTS RACES TO A SULKY Unique story of a Cherokee animal that makes halt a mile to the fast est trotter's mile on the racetrack. IN THE REALM OF FASHION Katherlne Anderson writes about the return of the. separate coat to favor, as usual, beautifully illus trated; and Mary Dean tells of Autumn costumes for young misses. THE LATE MRS. DIRKS" A character study In the form of a short story, by Will Levington Comfort who puts a deal of humor Into a topic that does not suggest smiles. HALF A CENTURY IN THE "BACKWOODS A pioneer woman with a bright mind. Mrs. Lavinla CUngman, who has lived on a Linn County, farm for 47 years, duringi which time she has never seen a city, visits the Fair, and gives her Impressions of the show, as well as of Portland. NEWS AND GOSSIP IN THE WORLD OF SPORTS The sporting department covers fully this field. By telegraph come full descriptions of foreign. Eastern and Coast events, while local wri ters and photographers report and Illustrate Portland happenings. The Sunday Oregonian devotes two or more pages to sporting news. This week The Oregonlan's sporting ed itor, wno attended the recent con test at Colma. writes on the after math of the Brltt-Nelson fight. REAL ESTATE REVIEW OF THE WEEK The Oregonian prints every Sunday a review of the real estate market. Portland Is experiencing great . bulldln? activity, and sales of realty are rapid. The tendencies of the market are accurately followed, and new buildings and residences are prompi illustrated in this de partment. LIBERAL EDUCATION FOR ART LOVERS The Art Museum at the Lewis and Clark Exposition has been a liberal education to lovers of art as well as to the uninitiated. Madame Anna von Rydingsvard. the well-known art critic, concludes in this Issue her series of Illustrated articles on the pictures of the Museum. GREAT -LIVESTOCK SHOW AT THE EXPOSITION Fifty thousand dollars In prizes will be given by the Lewis and Clark Exposition at the great livestock exhibit which opens this week. How the prizes will be distributed and the methods employed to secure the attendance and competition of noted herds will be described in an Illustrated article. LOGGING INDUSTRY ON UPPER WILLAMETTE The advent of the paper mills at Oregon City stimulated logging on the Upper Willamette. TM Indus try has now grown t great pro portions. How the rafting Is con ducted without Interfering with river traffic Is described In an illus trated article. SOCIETY, MUSIC AND DRAMA ' Two pages of society news, two pages to dramatic review and an nouncements and a page of music cover event3 In these departments. The' society department is making a special feature of the society hap penings at the Exposition. Wanted A Servant. Exchange. Good servants are much in demand in Washington. D. C-, as well as in other cities. Mrs. R. had searched long and vainly for a fairly good .general servant, ml. colored one, and at last In despair she stopped an elderly colored woman who looked as if she might have been one of the ante-bellum house .servants, and therefore a reliable one, and made known her wants. "I want a girl who Is trusty and a good cook. I am willing to put out most of our laundry work and to give fair wage3, but so far I haven't been ablo to engage one," said Mrs. R. "Don't you know of someone whom I can get?" "'Deed, no, lady, I don't," was the an swer. "Oh. dear," sighed Mrs. R., "what shall I do?" "I dunno fuh shaw, lady,' less'n you does as "Lhast to hire a white woman."