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8 THE MORNING OBEGONIA2C, FRIDAY- SEPTEMBER 22, 1905. Entered at the Pottofflce at Portlaad, .Or., aa second-class matter. Eimsciurnox rates. SSTVAIUABLT IN AD VAN CX. tBr Mall or Express.) Oattj- and -Sunday, per year lir asd Sunday, six months g-W Ually aad Sunday, three months Ittty and Sunday, per month ltfly vrtthout Sunday, per year. . Daily -witheut Sunday, six months...... Daily without Sunday, three months... x.u 2&Ur withaut Sunday, per month 8eAay. pr year 8tM4ay. tx menths ! Bbaa&y. thrt months BT CARRIER. Oally wlthont Sunday, per '"'- H Sally, per week, Sunday Included THE WEEKX.T OREGONIAN. (Issued Every Thursday.) Weekly, per year -2 V5lcty. months.... ir Weekly, three months... .. "w COW TO REMIT Send postofnee money erdec. express order or personal check on yeur local bank. Stamps, cola or currency x at tfea sender's risk. v EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICE. Th S. C. Beckwltb. Special Acescy-New Xrk. rooms 4S-50 Tribune building. Gal ea, roams 310-S12 Tribune building. 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Cooper & Co.. 46 Marfcct nreet . Goidsmlth Bros.. 230 Sutter a Hot-i St Proud News Stand; L. E. I. Polar Hotel News Stand: F. TV. Pitts, Market; Fwmk Scott. SO Ellis; N. Whcatl) Movabfi News Stand, corner Mar ket astd Kearney streets; Festen & Orear. J"Vrrj Stand. SC. LtHtlt. Me K. T. Jett Book & News Coiau). mi Olive street. WMi)ctH. II. C EWWtt House. Pennsyl vania avoe PORTLAND. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 22. WORK PHLEBOTOMY. Semtor Lodge's recent speech in favor T ship svtMtatee before the Essex Club at tbm little village of Peabody, in Mas nadrasetts. Is one of those utterances whlea seem to indicate that many of our pclttfcrtajtB take the American peo ple for a nation of idiots. Our long saffertn patience under robbery, var ied, shameleec and wholesale, may lend tame countenance to such an opinion, bat let Che politicians be assured that It tc nevertheless, a mistake. What ever our National disease may be, se vere or trivial, fever or anemia, quacks f Use Lodge school have one remedy, cae sovereign panacea for all cases. "Bteed the patient" is their advice first, lart and all the time. Is there a deficit in the Treasury? Never think of less ening the exorbitant tariff which shuts oat haports and cuts off revenue, but Meed the consumer. Tax his morning coffee. De the trusts wish to extend their power over foreign markets? Bleed the homo consumer until their domestic gains are heavy enough to iMdaace a foreign loss. The American consvawr has learned to shudder when ever there Is talk of establishing a new Industry or extending foreign trade, for he knows that sooner or later he will be hied to nay for it. Senator Lodge complains that he cenld not pass the ship-subsidy fraud through Congress last year on account of the prejttdice "it seemed to excite." The Senator may rest assured that the prejudice was not a mere seeming, blteefol or otherwise; it was one of the moot real things he ever came up against, and it still exists in all its pristine substantiality. The American people do not purpose to be buncoed out of S2.WMM a year for the benefit of a New Kngland ship trust, and the sooner Senator Lodge gets that fact thorough ly -wedged Into his scholarly brain the better for his peace of mind. The sum of S2.tte.oM te what the trust wishes to begin with, but once a graft gets its suckers fastened into the Treasury, everybody knows what happens. A graft te like a wood tick, or a devil fish. :i tuckers and belly. The more blood It draws the bigger It gets; and the ship subsidy graft is no different from others. There is no Information at hand of a school for the feeble-minded existing in oaboay. Mass., but many passages in Mr. Lodge's speech lead us to believe hat such a school exists there and that r. was addressing its inmates. For one thing, he argues that since the ship rabsldy proposition is Republican doc trine, all Republicans must support it. The ship subsidy is no more Republi can doctrine than stand pat Dlngleyism Is. The wish of a few bosses does not make Republican doctrine. The wish of the votors counts for something in the matter. But. even if the absurd and Inkntitous proposal to rob the whole people to build and man ships for : New England trust had once been Re publican doctrine, which it never was, It need not always be such. It is the glory of the Republican party that it is the party of progress; that it has no nxed. inflexible and unchangeable creed, but that its doctrine progresses to suit the -changing circumstances of the Nation. And, even if the party should some time be deluded by bosses like Mr. Lodge Into accepting foolish policies like that of a ship subsidy, there is vitality and conscience enough within the organization, one would hope, to throw off the incubus and re turn to common sense. Equally inadmissible is Mr. Lodge's proposition that we must accept as whole whatever the bosses choose to de nominate Republican policy, or else stand in the position of condemning the Roosevelt Administration. We can not condemn standpatlsm and ship subsidies, this amazing logician argues without condemning Mr. Roosevelt's foreign policy also. Let Mr. Lodge wait until the next elections and he Hill see whether this feat can he done or net. Mr. Roosevelt is not on trial, The American people nave made up their minds about him and his policies which, by the way, do not include either ship subsidies or standpatlsm and neither Lodge nor any other .-boss neod worry lest an expression of public disapproval for those shabby Iniquities should be misunderstood to be a con demnation of the President The argument .for ship subsidies, such as it la, runs in this way. W have protected every Industry In the country except that of shipowners, "foreign nations subsidize ships to such an ex tent that they can carry freight cheap er than American vessels can. The re sult is that our goods are carried across the ocean In foreign bottoms, and that we pay foreigners some eighty millions every year for transportation charges. Why we ought to prefer to pay this sum to domestic trust magnates who would go to Europe and spend it for champagne the argument dos not state. "What we should really have to pay the ship trust, which would spring into being at once if the Bubsldy were granted, would be not only the 5S0.OO0, 000, but this sum plus the subsidy. The trust would not carry goods, for noth ing any more than the foreign owners. We should be out of pocket on the transaction exactly the amount of the subsidy plus what foreign trade we should, lose on account of throwing the ships of other nations out of huslness. Part, at least, of what we pay for freight is spent by foreigners for Amer ican goods. If we cease to patronise them, of course they will cease to pat ronize us, even If they do not go into bankruptcy. The probabilities are, however, that many foreign shipowners would go into bankruptcy If we should bleed our selves to pay an American trust to take away their business; for, as everybody knows, there are plenty of ships now In existence to do the carrying trade of the world. If there were any lack of ships, freights would rise and go on rising until it would pay Americans to build vessels without a subsidy. As long as foreigners will xlo this work for us cheaper than we can do it for ourseh'es, why should we add to our burdens simply to take the business away from them? MAKE IT THE DAY OF DAYS. It has been definitely decided that Saturday, September 30, will be known as Portland day at the Lewis and Clark Exposition. From the standpoint of the business men of the city, this oholce has excited some criticism. The Fair management has, however, made plain the reasons for the choice, and it now behooves all loyal citizens to acquiesce cheerfully and move as one man to make the day a record-breaking one in the calendar of admissions. It has been said Is said every day many times that Portland people are not enthusiastic boomers of their own city; that, as compared with those of Seattle, Tacoma and Spokane, they are lukewarm In Its praise, are slow to see its beauties, croak over the possible check to Its business and' homebulldlng "after the Fair," and are not ready, as becomes the people of an enterprising, progressive community, to laud Its cli mate and descant upon its manifold advantages. This is not as it should be. To the extent that such conditions prevail they are the result of thoughtlessness or of habit, and do not spring from a self recognized feeling of disloyalty. For, truth to tell, nine out of ten citizens of Portland in their hearts believe that the city Is most desirable as a place of resi dence; that it offers manifold oppor tunities for industrial development, and that it is wide awake upon all ques tions of National policy and of social and domestic Interest The fault lies in not giving voice to these convictions; in listening In silence while stock cal umnles upon the weather, the moral status and the inertia of Portland, or. still worse,- in Joining in these criti cisms in stupid, conciliators' way. For all of these sins of omission and commission the time and opportunity for atonement has come. Not vlcari ous atonement but individual atone ment represented by an overwhelming attendance at the Fair on Portland day. To this end our people 100,000 strong should pass through the Exposition gates on Saturday, September 30, each wearing a Portland badge; each, if skies should lower, taking the rain as a benl son to the country; each, if the sun shines, extolling the day as an ideal one common to Oregon in late Septem ber, and all making merry decorously but heartily, and each and all wearing a rose as Portland's guarantee of title to be known and hailed as the "Rose City." Let the people of Portland rally to this call, and, rain or shine, business or no business, turn out and make September 30 the day of days at the Lewis and Clark Fair. THE KEY TO THE SITUATION. Who's your County Prosecutor? asks the Saturday Evening Post Following the question is some excellent political advice from the viewpoint of Governor Folk and Prosecuting Attorney Jerome, After citing the fact that many coun ties of many states throughout the Union are now getting Into shape for nominations for political office, the Post says: All of these nominations should go to good men. as a matter or course. But especially should citizen flx a sharp eye upon the men who are after the position of County Prate cutor. If we had an ernclent body of County Prosecutors1 we should oon be In the -way to as nearly a political mlueniuro as this genera tlon could hope to see. The County Prosecutor Is the key to the situation. The bosses know It; tha bribers know it; the crooks of every kind and degree know It. If the people know It they give little or no elgn of- posaeeslng the knowledge. Why else are to many Prose cutors asleep or "In cahoots." It is scarcely necessary to add that the country has laws in plenty. What Is needed is their rigorous, Impartial en forceraent Take the temperance laws of our state for example. We have law which forbids the sale or gift of an intoxicant to a habitual drunkard. Yet any old soak can, if he have the price of another glass of liquor, get it The law which forbids the sale or gift of liquor to minors is stringent but as shown by the records of every-day life. it is frequently violated. It is not more law, 'but the honest enforcement of the laws 'that we have, that is required. The attitude taken by Judge Frazer upon this last point is commendable. And if he is properly supported, in the effort he is making to stop the practice of selling liquor to boys, by the public prosecutor, the practice-will be stopped. There is no doubt of that As said by the Post "the County Prosecutor has the key to the situation." Men disposed to violate this law know It and they will not take very many chances in the game at from 550 to 5300 apiece. The Hon. James Bryce, M. P., in the current number of the Independent ex presses the conviction that the United States does not need a strong Navy, and tries to swing the American reader to his way of thinking. He notes the main reason -for England's great navy Is her vast sea-borne trade, whereas ours is small. He believes that we are in no danger from invasion, but admits that our Insular possessions call for 1 development of our. sea power. Then he takes refuge in the question. Who is going to attack you? Mr. Bryce is our admirer and our friend, and he is un questionably sincere. Yankee fashion. we may ask. Who is going to attacK England? Nobody. And for good rea son. She is prepared. Roosevelt Is a man of peace, and because we desire a lasting peace, the President and the people believe with Great Britain that the "big stick" Is the guaranty of peace. On the question of a strong Navy the "United States is a unit, and will not listen to Mr. Bryce's optimism. WHAT IS THE WHOLE TRUTH? The amount of salary a man gets does not altogether determine his value to the public or to his employers.. John A. McCali gets 5100.000 per year, and what he can make besides, as president of the New Tork Life Insurance Com pany; President Roosevelt gets $50,000 per year and free rent Yet there are about 80,000,000 freeborn American cit izens who would rather be Roosevelt with nothing a year than McCali with a new million in his pockets every day. But McCali is not necessarily a. bad man, nor a dishonest -one, according to his lights. The trouble is In the ethics of the life insurance business. McCali forgot that he was a mere trustee for eomethlng like 850,000 .policy-holders, but thought he was their benefactor and patron. He didn't steal their money nor allow any one else to steal it outright; but the money was there. and it was a shame not to use it or give somebody the benefit of its use. That's where the directors and their little syndicates and the associated banks and trust companies came in. Mr. McCali makes a great virtue of the fact that he is not a rich man; not even millionaire, he says. That's very gratifying news, indeed. Possibly Per kins, who was running things in the New York Life for Morgan, thought there wasn't enough to go around. We continue to learn more and more about the life Insurance business, as conducted by the greatest companies. They contribute to National campaign funds, and we are not especially Indig nant They send a lobby to Albany and give the chief lobbyist carte blanche to spend all he pleases, and to account to nobody. We are indignant, but somehow we are not surprised. They cheerfully saddle off on the confid ing policy-holders bad loans made by their associated banks. Now we are astonished, for that is a downright swindle. These are the things that we have learned In the past few days. The operations of the back-room syndicates, and the division of profits among the directors and other favorites who were on the inside, we were told about long ago; and the advances to agents, exor bitant salaries, 5100.000 banquets, and all such things we had come to regard as quite the usual thing. But now we are again asking where and what is the end? Or is there an end? A SUGGESTION TO MRS. HIDDEN. Over the tribulations of Mrs. Maria L. T. Hidden it is impossible not to feel the liveliest sorrow, nor can one with hold a tribute of admiration for the Christian resignation and fortitude with which she bears them. To one who has drunk so deeply from the fount of every blessing as this excellent and persecut ed lady, any attempt at consolation from a lay source must seem superflu ous if not impertinent; and yet we can not refrain from pointing out for her prayerful reading one or two gems of Holy Writ which have been found pre cious by others in circumstances slml lar to hers. The conduct of Dr. Rader In leaving Mrs. Hidden to the tender mercies of a Methodist Conference, alone and unprotected, after exciting high hopes by calling her his "dear sister" more than once, cannot be sufficiently deplored. "Some way feel, my sister, he says in one of his perfidious epistles, "that you will have no trouble in carrying this case"; meaning, of course, that he expected Mrs. Hidden, with the help of the Lord, to triumph over her perse cutors; but not with his help. No in deed. For at the moment of Mrs. Hld- den's direst extremity, when the mem bers of the conference were, so to speak, rioting in her gore. Dr. Rader was nowhere to be found.. Touching his case, we refer Mrs. Hidden to the thirty-seventh psalm "Fret not thyself because of evildoers," so runs the com forting Scripture, "for they shall soon be cut down like the grass and wither as the green herb." In that same psalm the Inspired singer, who doubt less foresaw by Inspiration the dreadful conduct of Dr. Rader and selected lan guage befitting the case, went on to say: "The wicked plotteth against the Just and gnash eth upon her with his teeth; but the Lord shall laugh at him for he seeth that his day is coming. Again In this blessed psalm there is a passage which surely refers to Mrs, Hidden herself, it so exactly describes her character and conduct: "But the meek shall inherit the earth and shall delight themselves In the abundance of peace." It would be unbecoming for an out sider to take part in this lamentable episode. It is impotflble, however, to refrain from the remmrlrthat there are ways for Mrs. Hidden to get even with her persecutors. For example, she can organize a church of her own. Then, if she did not wish to deliver the ser mons herself, which would certainly be the course most pleasing to the Lord she could hire a preacher, and if his doctrine turned out to be unorthodox. she could fire him without any fear of meddlesome presiding elders and con ferences. Our advice to Mrs. Hidden is to start a church vof her own. Judge Parker explains that he noil fled the Democratic campaign commit tee to refuse all contributions front corporations in 1904. But Mr. McCali In slsts that the Judge was an adept at the business of shaking down the "fat producers" when he was chairman of the Democratic state committee. There is no necessary conflict between the statements of the two gentlemen. Mr. Parker "got good" between the time he was a mere politician and a candidate for President. He wanted all he could get in the one Instance, and wouldn take what he couldn't get in the other. Yet the Judge is now attorney for the Belmonts and a great street railway corporation at 5100,000 per year. How much money did the Democratic com mlttee refuse from the Belmonts? We should like to see the books.- In the prohibition states of the Re public, red liquor often goes as medl cine. Just when whisky ceased to be whisky and became a prophylactic de pended on the person who drew the line. But now the United States Government, which is busying Itself in many, dlrec tions, has butted in and drawn the line. Hereafter medicine with an alcoholic basis Is to be medicine when drugs are added to distilled spirits in such pro portion a? to give them a distinctly medicinal quality. If the drugs added do not have an appreciable effect on the liquor, it Is liquor, not medicine; It must pay Its tax as a liquor, and he who sells It must have a license to sell liquor. This ruling may cause some disquiet in Maine, Vermont and Kan sas, but as Uncle Sam s concern with the drinking habit is fiscal only, no real suffering Is likely to be inflicted. Ail ing customers will get their medicine just the same. The Oregonlan observes that several of the state exchanges, which make it their chief business to find fault with whatever The Oregonlan says, profess to bel offended by a recent good-natured article on the "country editor." Other. state newspapers, with more discrimi nation and greater fairness, reprint the article, evidently understanding and approving it The Oregonlan has no desire or purpose to be offensive to its state contemporaries, as a class. Yet from long experience it knows how useless It is to expect anything but misrepresentation and abuse from some of them. But no matter. Life Is too short to worry about It; and It Isn't worth worrying, about anyhow. There a very bright country newspaper printed at Irrigon In Umatilla County, that understands the whole subject of country and city press. In its current Issue it has some remarks on the mak ing of a 'country newspaper that are worth reading. They are reprinted In part today. Principally on account of the very heavy wheat and corn crop of the coun try, the railroads are once more facing a shortage of cars. Blame is certain to fall on the managers for being unpre pared, but they are now facing abnor mal conditions. The lancLXhls year has been extraordinarily fruitful. As a matter of fact the railways have been buying rolling stock and rails on a very extensive scale. Their orders are be yond the capacity of the Iron Industry to fill. By way of Illustration it may be mentioned that the Pennsylvania road recently gave an order for 17,000 freight-cars. While a car famine Is a grave Inconvenience and often is a source of loss. It is a good barometer of the country's prosperity. The Chicago beef packers may con tinue to offer their pleas in abatement and their demurrers and to flood the country with articles from their press bureau, pointing out the great merit and beauty of the Garfield report; but ultimately they will have to face the music. Four of them acknowledged yesterday that their fight against the United States Government was hopeless by pleading guilty to a charge of solicit ing railroad rebates. We have now an Administration that .purposes that the beef trust great and powerful as it ls. shall obey the law. It has been espe daily active In its efforts to break up the iniquitous secret rebate system; and it has made good headway. Mr. John F. McCullagh, an employe of Lobbyist Hamilton, showed a dis creet and commendable lack of knowl edge of his employer's business when the Insurance inquisitors got after him yesterday. He knew nothing about the checks given by the New York Life to Hamilton: he did not know whether Hamilton appeared, before the legislat ive committees; he knew nothing about his employer's bank account; he did not know where Hamilton's books were; nor did he know where to find any of the McCali checks. Mr. McCullagh made so admirable a witness as to Jus tify the conclusion that he halls from Prlneville. Isn't this enough to make the shade of the departed Indian shake his toma hawk in anger as he Joins in the chasej in the happy hunting grounds? Attor ney-General Crawford holds that the hunters' license law applies to Indians as well as to whites, and that the de scendants of red men who hunted wild game over mountain, through Valley and across plain at will must now pay a dollar a year for the privilege of kill Ing a bird or a buck for his subsistence. It may be well for Mr. Crawford to take care not to venture upon the Indians' hunting ground when he-leaves this world for a better. Is the millennium at hand? It would seem so. -Here we nave a Doay or grave and earnest men of a grave and solemn profession urging that a standard price be instituted by their association for coffins, caskets and the burial of bodies, But this is not all. Members of the profession are admonished "not to fix a price according to the length of the patron's purse." The world has long been assured that death Is a great lev eler. But It hardly expected to find an exemplification of the truth of this say ing from a professional source. Cattle and horses, sheep and hogs of high degree, are entertaining and being entertained at the livestock show this week. Beauty, utility and high breed ing combine to make this exhibit most interesting and the entertainment pro vided by It most enjoyable. It shows moreover, that the era of cheap stock. In the scrub, mongrel significance of that term, has passed in Oregon, and that the theory that it costs- no more to raise and keep good stock than poor has been reduced to practice. WhnfMvr olA ma' hf RJlli? of thft Oregon hop crop of 1905, it is alreae certain that the quality will be perfect "Choice" is not an appropriate word The entire season has been favorable for the production of perfect hops, and growers have not been so overanxious as to begin picking too soon. The light rains did good rather than harm, and Oregon hops will be known the world over as perfect in quality. James J. Hill, addressing Minnesota farmers, said: "There Is 6ne way, how ever, in which you may be helped, and that is by lessening the cost of trans portation." That's truth. Continuing, he declared: "Railroad rates would de cline more slowly under Government control than If fixed by those who In telllgently managed railroads." That's prophecy. And there are two. kinds of prophets. . A" highwayman who held up three Ta coma saloons flourished a large pistol, so the news dispatches say, 'in a firm but apologetic manner'Ethlcs in Ta coma require that all highwaymen shall be 'polite. The Post-Intelllgencer complains that the O. R. & N. Co. Is discriminating against Seattle. The nearest line of the O. R. & N. Co. to Seattle is ISO miles. The discrimination .must be something 0REG0N0Z0NE ' The Jumping Mountain of Siskiyou County. I had known that Calaveras County had Jumping frogs, or at least one Jumping frog, for Mark Twain said so. When you sec It in Mark Twain, It's so maybe so. But I never knew of the Jumping mountain of Siskiyou County until I made the trip down from Portland to San Francisco on the Shasta Route of the Southern Pacific. Shasta Is the jumping mountain, the roost marvelous phenomenon in nature. Tome it seems positively incredible that so lit tle Js known practically nothing of the Jumping qualities of this otherwise famous snow peak. Mount Shasta probably- Is even more heavily loaded, for its size, than was Mark Twain's bullfrog; Shasta Is loaded with gold, which Is heavier than leaden pellets; but she can give the Cala veras County bullfrog a running start of SO miles and then beat him another 50 at a Jump. There Is no athlete on earth that can slxe up with Mount Shasta In the. broad jump. It Is perfectly amazing. We were Jn the observation car looking for Mount Shasta. We had been looking for the peak ever since we crossed the line from Oregon. You can seo it for four hours," said the California man who had been along there before. The British tourist with the. three canes In a bundle sat with me at one of the wldo windows on -the east side of the car. We naa oeen told that the mountain was on that side. We planted ourselves In the comfortable chairs and glued ourselves down, for we proposed to get every min ute of that four hours sight of the splen did sawtooth saucer of vanilla Ice cream eternally proffered by the earth for tho delectation of the gods, who. somehow, j refuse to eat it. Maybe the gods prefer Neapolitan or strawberry. "Keep your eyes glued In that direc tion," counseled the old traveler, point ing across the beautiful valley to a series of dim blue ranges. "She'll blossom out pretty soon now." "Where Is your bloody mountain, any how?" asked the Britisher, glancing around at the free-advice man. "There she Is! See her?" cried the other: and the Britisher hastily turned back to the -window. There was no snow mountain In sight "You've got to look quick." said the Callfomian. "Now you see her; and now you don't She's like a mosquito." ' Or a flea," I ventured. "Does she jump?" "Jump? She's the Jumplngest mountain you ever saw?" "Hi never saw a Jumping mountain at all, now. don't you know," said the Brit isher, carefully adjusting his monocle. "Well, if you travel In this Western country much you'll sec several, but Shasta holds the championship," the Cal ifornia man volunteered. "It'sa phe nomenon that Is found nowhere else in the world." "Aw, Hi dare say," the British tourist remarked, scornfully. "Don't believe It, eh?" There! Look yonder, on the other side of the car! Ain't she great?" The magnificent mountain loomed up in all her majesty, gleaming gloriously In the mellow sunlight of the afternoon. We gazed In open-mouthed awe for about 30 seconds, when the mountain suddenly vanished. The Britisher took off his monocle and began sucking the head of his largest cane. "Well, Hi'm dashed!" he ejaculated. A moment later we beheld Shasta, In full panoply, scraping the sky on our side of the car. For five minutes she was In plain view, then again she suddenly van ished, and our friend from the tight lit tle isle looked helplessly at Jhe rest of us. "There she blows!" yelled an old whaler who sat near, and he pointed through the opposite window. Shasta was there, life size, having made the prodigious Jump in a few seconds. The thing was becoming interesting. Our English friend sank dow In his chair in a wilted condition and ap pealed to the Callfomian: "HI say, old fellow, Hl've "card of your Haroerlcan Jokes, don't you know. What's the Joke, now?" "Joke? There's nothing funny about that; it's sublime." "Aw, Hi see a mirage?" "No, It's not a mirage: the mountain Is real; been here, somewhere around these parts in Siskiyou County, ever since we discovered California. She docs move around a powerful lot, but so far as we know, she's never Jumped out of Slskl you. Look behind you!" We urncd around and looked through the rear windows. There was Shasta, sure as sunshine! "Hi think Hl'H be going in to dinner, don't you know," said the Englishman, gathering up his bundle of walking-sticks "Will you Join me, old man?" I Joined him, and we made our way through the half-dozen sleepers to tho dining-car. seeing Shasta' three times en route, once- on the right side and twice on the left side of the train. When we sat down at one of the small tables on the left hand side of the car. my British friend facing the front, the most astounding thing happened. Shasta had hopped down right In front of our train, and the tourist from abroad sighted her as he picked up the menu card. "Do you see It too?" he asked me, cvl dently beginning to believe that those Hamerican 'Ighballs whjch.he had imbibed in Portland had given him a touch of the tremens. "I do." was my reply; "It is most roar- - p.!?? s Marvelous, man?" Why, Hi say, the thins is devilish, don't you know! 'Ow does it 'appen?" "Well," I replied, "between you and me. I have my own theory of this jumping mountain. I don't believe the mountain Jumps at ajl. It's an uncanny thing, to be sure, but If the Society for Psychical Research should Investigate the phenorpe- non I really believe that the thing could be explained on natural grounds. It may be that Mount Shasta Is perfectly sta tionary, though that is difficult to believe, and that it Is the railroad track that does the jumping." ROBERTUS LOVE. Be Thorough, Be True, Be Just. Chicago Inter Ocean. With a fair allowance for men who hold more than one policy. It is safe to say that one American family in every 25 is directly and vitally Interested In the Integrity of the vast system which these companies represent. Nearly one-half of this Interest Is in the Equitable, the Mu tual Life and the New York Life. In the light of these simple facts it is plain that these companies are not mere private bus iness, enterprises. They cannot be treated as such. They directly affect more clu zens than even the National banking sys tem. Therefore the demand on the rep resentatives of the State of New York who are to lay hands on the affairs of these, companies is: "Be thoroughl Be true! Be justl- THE COUNTRY WEEKLY, Irrigon Irrigator. The country weekly as we see It today came into existence about 40 years ago. when the "patents" were first placed at the disposal of the publishers, and during L. - . - . these four decades the rural newspapers. as a rule, have deteriorated rather than progressed. In other words the country press has not kept step, with the march of learning and Intelligence. On the second day of the present month out of about 30 country Weeklies which carad to The Irrigator ' office, 27 had patent insldes or outsldes. and the arti cles In these patents bore date lines prin cipally of -August 23. 24 and 23. with now and then a so-called "special" dated Au gust 26. We find then that the so-called news was from seven to ten days old. which would have been a fair record for the days of the Civil War, or for an earlier data when it took a letter two days to go from New York to Phlldalephla. five days to Boston and six months to San Francisco. In the meantime our postal and tele graph facilities have been so expedited that these days between New York and Boston and Philadelphia have been cut down to hours, and the months between New York and San Francisco have been reduced to less than days. And during these 40 years the rural population has grown to be an eager army of readers of intelligent readers who want the vnews. and they have learned to rely upon their home-town papers for local news only, and to go the city dallle3, semi-weeklies and weeklies for the general news of the world. The country publishers have tried to see how large a paper they could. give their readers, regardless of the quality of the matter It contained; and the publishers or furnishers of the patents have met this demand at low figures by filling a large portion of their space with noxious and pernicious advertisements, notably of ine patent medicine and cet-rich-auick ads. So today vra find the intelligence of the average country publisher below rh intelligence of his readers, for they send iortn eacn week a creat mass of stuff which has been read days before by their suDscrioers, ana tne result Is that only that portion of their columns devoted tn home or local news is of any Interest to inem. There Is a place for the little countrv weekly, just as there is a niche for the big city dally; there Is a work a useful work for the village publisher as well as the city publisher. The work of each Is to give the news of his field, and the Held or the one Is his little local, or at most county community, and the field of the other, who is In touch with the cable and overland telegraph, 13 the world, So we say that for a countrv- nubllsher to sendout thi3 "patent" stuff week after week Is an Insult to the Intelligence of his subscribers, and the sooner this is learned ana acknowledged the better it will be for the rural newspaper fraternity of the country. In this state we have a few notable ex ceptions. Three of these we noticed on our exchange table, and there are prob ably others. Their fearless publishers are content to fill the place allotted them and leave the broader-field to be covered by the pres3 of Portland, Seattle and Spokane. Vo feel that The Irrigator has a work to do, and that work Is to educate our people along the lines of intensive farm ing on small tracts of Irrigated land. and. incidentally to build up our town and community. To that end we fill our two outsldo pages with choice excerpts along the lines of actual Irrigation and high class fruit and garden culture, to do which we take nearly every good farm paper in the United States, and glean Irom these thousands of columns the mat ter which we think is the best to show our readers what can and has been done along the lines they are treading. And then we have what many we will say most country weeklies do not' hav an editorial page, upon which we print from week to week articles written in our own office. And, by the way, in one of our exchanges, published in this state. we noticed in the last issue an article of nearlv two columns about the Russo Jap war, under the editorial head and not a line of original matter on that page. not a line of editorial In the whole sheet Then comes our local page, which enumerates such news as those who are absent would like to learn of our home doings and a little "stuff" to fill up and make people talk about us and our town. Science Data. Chicago News. A cubic foot of tearth weighs about o& times as much as a cubic foot of water. A cubic mile of earth weighs 25.6(9.200 tons. The volume of the earth Is 259,SS0,0C0.0CO cubic miles. The weight of the world without Its atmosphere Is 636,- 25O.CCO,O0O,0OO,0CO.O0O tons. To add to this the weight of the atmosphere gives a grand total of 6,665.25o.S19.eCO.C00.000,000 tons When that English submarine sunk the other day the occupants of tho vessel were given a brief warning beforehand, according to one of the survivors, by tho action of a cage full of white mice. Ac cording to this authority every submarine has a number of white mice aboard be cause these little creatures are very sus ceptible to atmospheric changes and at once give warning of any escaping gas by squeaking. An English health officer has Issued the following circular, which Is posted In butchers' shops: "With a view to prevent ing contamination by the handling of meat exposed for sale and of preventing the spread of Infectious diseases thereby, I hereby request you to provide a suitable supply of forks with which intending pur chasers may make examination of the meat in your shop." When Married Women Rival Buds New York Press. One of the ideas which the married wo men have for rivaling the buds, who. In their opinion, aro getting far too much attention this season, is tho giving of ten nls teas. The adorable debutantes, who hitherto have had things their own way. and held full sway on the tennis court, may find that the matrons will form court about them which will be far more popular than their own. The enterprls Ing women who have undertaken to rival the youngsters have formed the Idea of having tea tables placed right beside the tennis ground and of serving the delect able beverage there instead of Indoors, or on the piazza. Of course, the men aren going to quarrel with the Innovation, for they find It exceedingly comfortable to loll about and sip tea without having to make any exertion to attend a moro for mal affair and they will probably show much attention to the matrons so con slderate of their comfort. Altogether the tennis tea Is an institution much approved in the world of fashion. Not AU Bryan's Fault. Toledo Blade (Rep.). An Indiana man who ran away whll Mr. Bryan was making a( speech has been adjudged Insane. However, his mind was not Just right when the speech began: A Woman'. Smart St The great Love that was not tor her Passed on, nor paused to see The wistful eyes, the haads vague stir. The mouth's mute misery. The little Lotc she recked not of Crest cloter bit br bit. Until tor very Jack ol love She emlled and welcomed It. Not hem to choose, to irefih and part TheKreater from the less: She only strove to fill .a heart That ached with emptiness. , THE REGULAR ARMY.; ?v Chicago Tribune. , j" Is the regular Army on .trial at Wooster? The sensational pulpit has affirmed It, and a minor political party Intends making Army debauchery an klssue of the Fall campaign. Such hasty, -1 .I . . V. . generalization does not accord with tho American spirit of fair play. It is an offense to National pride. It assumes that the people have forgotten or are ungrate ful for the services of the Army. The resrular Army has been, in tho public view for more than a century. It has been commanded by men who love their country and upon whom thol country has relied without disappoint-" ment in the hour of danger. Once there was a belief, shared by many of the best and bravest, that the state had higher claims to allegiance than the Nation. Except in the days of that be lief, there has been no suspicion of tho loyalty of Army officers as a class. Sporadic cases of corruption or ineffi ciency have occurred, but they have been relatively les3 than in other pro fessions. The engineering works con ducted by the Army and the control of rivers and harbors by the War De partment have afforded examples of skill and devotion not excelled In any department of the Government. The constant clamor of the business world for officers trained in the TJnlted States Military Academy to assume control of important private under takings is a testimonial to the thor oughness of that training. The Mex ican War was a West Pointers' war. The precision and success of the Army's movements in that war bear witness to the morale of the service. The great Generals of both North and South during the Civil War were offi cers of the regular Army. America is proud of the volunteer soldier, but the few volunteers not former Army of ficers who rose to high command were the more conspicuous for their rarity. The men of the regular Army enter the ranks undisciplined, in rude health, naturally -wild, roughly critical of their superiors. Are these men controlled, trained, formed into a per fect fighting machine by weaklings or debauches? The suggestion is absurd. By the fortunes of war, vast provinces have fallen to us. Some officers of the regular Army have proved themselves capable Governors, Judges and admin istrators. Others have had only tho chance to fight. But the unknown he roes who are leaving life, or health, or reason In fever-stricken wildernesses. or are holding lonely outposts, or walk ing through streets filled with secret enemies, with no sufficient reward ex cent the consciousness of dutv ner- jSformed. are no less a credit to their country. To smear these men indis criminately with the mud thrown in an insignificant divorce case is unjust. More than that, it Is impossible. Mutuallzatlon Pretense a Farce. Boston Transcript However latitudlnarian the legal privi leges of those who conduct the Insurance business in its broadest exploitation may be at present the situation Is such that more restrictive legislation seems to. bo called for, for the better safeguarding of the millions who have their money in trusted to these stewards. As we have already stated, the "mutuallzatlon" pre tense has become altogether farcical. Under existing conditions it Is practically Impossible to get tho hundreds of thou sands of policyholders in a company to gether to be an efficient force in an elec tion. Furthermore, these hearings hava developed the fact that there Is only the barest compliance with the law requiring the holding of annual meetings, and tho majority of policyholders scattered over the country are either not represented at all, or what is the same thing, only by proxies In the hands of the Interested offi cials themselves. There is a way Dy which even distant policyholders can re cord their preferences, and that way should be made compulsory. - Salaried 3Ien Control Companies. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. . What is brought out in relation to the New York and the Mutual 'Life Companies applies to mutual companies generally. Their managements acquire an impreg nable position, and the larger the com pany the more assured Is the autocratic and dynastic character of the manage ment. And here we have an explanation of the ridiculously a stronger word prob ably might better be used extravagant salaries paid by these companies in com mon with the stock life companies. The men who take the salaries absolutely con trol the company and can do as they please. It is a self-valuation which they place upon their services, and that this should be extravagant Is only natural. Most men have a higher Idea of their worth than others entertain of them, but the life insurance managers have the ad vantage of most other men they can have themselves paid according to the self valuation. Public Control Over Management Chicago Record-Herald, v It is certainly a desirable fact to make plain at the beginning of the investiga tion that the management of the great companies la self-perpotuatlng and that their policyholders In the memory of man have never actively Intervened to shift the control under any circumstances. It Is not that this Is news to observers of life Insurance methods, but that It Is fundamental truth. It establishes a point from which all proposals of legislation must set out. The laws should, of course, provide for the greatest possible freedom on the part of the policyholders in con trolling the management and should make sure that full and exact Informa tion about company affairs is aways at the policyholders' command. But they should go further than this and provide public control over the management, just as if no control by the policyholders was possible, either ftheroretlcally or practical ly. ' Mayor Esteb Takes Up Journalism, Echo News. Mayor L. A. Esteb has accepted the po sition of local editor on the Echo News, and will assume his duties at once. Mayor Esteb needs no Introduction to the peo ple of the Inland Empire. He Is a man who Is always found at his post of duty be It at law or In his official .capacity a3 United States Land Commissioner. The people of Echo and the surrounding coun try are to be congratulated that the local news columns of the News have fallen Into tho hands of a tried and true friend On Beinsr Ten. Youth's Companion. I'm very nearly srown. you eee. Next birthday I'll be ten. And I euppose that lire will; be, Ob, very different then! Though being nine's very nice, And you do pleasant things, 1 think at ten there will be twice As many happenings! I know a girl who's ten. and r, Have often heard her say - -She doee not have to ask. but goe Just where she likes to pla$y 5 And when you're ten I think tbat-yor. May sometlme9 clt up late. At nine, no matter what you do, ' Tou go to bed by eight! I think you give your toys away, Tou feel so nearlr crown: ; Tou're very quiet 'at your play, ' Tou. go downtown alone. There's lota of things you do, I a'posa That I don't even know. Oh dear, when anybody grows It Is so very alowl But wouldn't It be very strange . "When I "waa truly ten. If I should think Td like; to change To nine year old again? Of course It always seems- to me To be tea would be flnet But do you think; I'll ever -be ' Just homesick? to be nine? , . awful;,, ' V '