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KKIPUIT COBIX) FL'UMEN.
Tn 1620 the Pilgrims landed on Plym
outh rock. Boston was founded in 1630
SSTthln three-quarters of a century
she produced Benjamin Franklin.
What other American city has done so
weir Indeed. Boston herself has neer
ouite equaled this early achievement.
She has given the United States many
creat men and some good ones, out
Sever another Franklin. What a queer
thing it is. when one stops to think,
that America should have produced- so
many men of the first rank within a
ccnturv and a half -after Jamestown
was settled, and so few in proportion
since. Compare the Congress now in
session with the body which, framed
the Conetltution, for. example.
It is especially remarkable that
FrankHn. born when our civilization
was so primitive, seventy years before
we begun to call ourselves Nation,
should have surpassed his successors In
different directions. Except
nrrhns Mark Twain's, no American
books have been so much read in Eu-
miio or o often translated as J?ranK
Mirs. His Dithy apologues are quoted
Uh Aesop's fables for their -imperish
able wisdom. His humor was ripe,
ecrcne and classic; nor did it ever fail
him in his writings any more than in
nn;iti: vmcjnpfts or diplomacy. Poor
Richard's Alm?nac is a sufficient text
book for the conduct of life. The Au
tobiography is a tale of great achieve
ments from small beginnings, of stead
fast endeavor, of difficulties overcome.
of hisrh ambition worthily pursued: and
ii is written In a literary style so clear.
so simple and so pure that it ranks wlt,h
the orks of Defoe or Swift.
Franklin was only an amateur in sci
once, but no discovery made on this
continent since his day has gained even
a small part of rtie celebrity of his proof
that lightning was an electric dls
charge, and none has deserved it.- As
a constructive statesman, modern opin
io:t ranks hUn second to Hamilton, not
bei vupe of inferior ability., but because
vhe:i he st in the convention he was
m"r' tY.zn SO years old. -He had worn
hi:n elf uut in that noble preliminary
service which made' the Union and the
Cons;jtM:'n possible, and the work of
construction feil necessarily in great
part to younger men. Our only diplo
matist who can be compared with
Franklin is John Hay. This compari
son I? permitted' not because Hay ac
complished as much, but 'because he ex
hibited gifts of an order which were
equal to any crisis: and if he had served
as long as Franklin and In emergencies
as momentous, he might have rivaled
his predecessor's fame.
The tle of what Franklin -said and
did Is almost endless. What he said is
Invariably wise and witty; what he did
was always sensible: but neither his
deeds nor his writings, nor all together,
quite account for his place in the'mem
ory of the world. Franklin was appre
ciated in his own time, arfd 'Is're'mem
nered in ours, more for whet he was
than for what he said or -did. -He was,
in the old and high pense of. the word,
a philosopher. He" had mastered tbe
art of living. He knew .how. jto live,
what to live for. and throughout his
four-score j'ears he calmly and Inflex
ibly put. his knowledge in practfee. A
elf-madc man if there ever was one,
he hd done a good job. He had fash
ioned of himself not a hog. a boor or n
pirate, but a complete, rounded, benig
nant, lovable human being, .such ae all
the schools, of the world had been try
ing to produce from the most select,
material for many centuries and failed.
He had taught .himself whatever was
interesting In literature and science.
Starting with nothing but his hands
and brain,' Franklin earned a fortune
before he was 50; and. when he had
earned it, he stopped money-making
once snd for all. He knew
when he had enough. Master of all his
passions., greed never controlled him.
and he thus had half a lifetime for
sheer living. And how nobly "he lived, '
and well: how -imperishably he wrought
for his country! Compare his public
life with that of a Piatt, an Aldrlc.h, a
Dryden. and measure, if possible, the
depth of the descent.
No American ever lived who Was a
better man of business than FrankHn,
but he was always the master, never
the slave, of his affairs. He was never
too busy for reading, writing, improv
ing the city, for politics and public en
terprises and scientific experiments. He
qven had time for fads. Before he ran
avay from Boston he had adopted
vegetarian theories, and for some time
ate no meat; but on the boat going to
New Tork he looked down Into the
water and saw the fish devouring one
another. With his marvelpus-'cemmoja
sense he reasoned that if Nature per
mitted cod to eat herring it could hard
ly be wrong for men to, eat cod, and
the vegetarian ted passed. But an
other replaced It. He fell Into the fash
ionable infidelity of the early part of
the eighteenth century. This, of course.
was also transient, and Franklin's life
long religion was that steady confidence
in the Almighty which Is above ell for
mal creeds. It was he who' moved to
open the sessions of the constitutional
convention with prayer.
By the time he was sent to France to
attend to the European interests of the
revolted colonies. Franklin was one of
the most widely known of anen then liv
ing, and his reputation was such as no
other person has enjoyed before or
since. Europe nd America rejoiced In
him as the Wise Man, one who had
realized the aspirations of the old phil
osophers and achieved the summum bo-
num. Though he was of lowly birth,
the French nobles never dreamed that
he was not their equal. Though he was
a colonial, the world of wit wild culture
accepted him as a denizen. Though he
was self-made, the finest courtiers de
tected no flaw in his gentility. He had
made himself a genuine citizen of the
world, Interested In everything human,
ruler of his passions, kindly in his feel
ings, master of the great art of living.
and as such he was recognized, accept
ed, trusted and loved by his contempor
aries. Because he was trusted nnd
loved he was able to befriend his coun
try in the hour of her extreme peril and
finally to construct the treaty which
made her an independent Nation. With
the exception of Lincoln. Franklin is
the most interesting American who ever
lived, the one whose life presents the
deepest problems and whose history
will -best repay the study of nobly am
bitious young men.
THE RICHARDS CASE.
The Lane administration has deter
mined to put Hotel and Restaurant
Keeper Richards out of business. Ig
noring other resorts of known deprav
ity and of equally bad or worse repute,
it has turned all the batteries of Its
spurious virtue against this man Rich
ards and his so-called hotel. The Rich
ards hotel Is an immoral place, perhaps,
but The Oregonlan doesn't know.
Nor do the .police. If we are to judge
from the blind, stumbling, desperate
and discreditable methods they are em
ploying to get testimony. To that end
they are subpenalng as witnesses every
person of every walk of life, high or
low, who, through any chance, has
during the past several weeks appeared
at the Richards place as diner or lodger.
In the discharge of its function as a
purveyor of public news. The Oregonlan
yesterday printed the list of witnesses;
obtained from the records t the police
station. If there were others, the
names were not furnished by the au
thorities, as these were. The results
were astounding. The list included a
minister, several officers of the Munici
pal. Association, a lot of men about
town, and one well-known woman of
assured respectability. The Oregonlan
1? told that it was an "outrage" to print
these names. It would have been an
outrage to suppress them and thus by
silence to keep the public In Ignorance
of what measures this Lane adminis
tration is taking to make a case against
Richards. The police have for weeks
had their spies .watching Richards'
place. They made a raid a week ago
last Saturday night. They have been
gathering their evidence, and issuing
subpenas to witnesses since, and In that
pursuit they have not hesitated to asso-
of men and women of high character
!, to. ,we c,...,,. -ix
with low rounders and prostitutes. We
can only suppose that the "purpose, of
this shameful policy was to deter other
ladles nd gentlemen from going to
Richards'. And that will finish Rich
ards, for Richards has to go. .
. Meanwhile, it- is to be assumed that
the lady whose name has been dragged
by Mayor Lane's police through the
mire of this .petty inquisition into the
unexpected and .unpleasant publicity of
the Police Court records will Ignore the
summon?: and then we shall see If the
police will adopt the extreme measui
of haling- her 'before a ar to testify in
a nasty case about which she. of course.
knows nothing, and in the nature of
things can know nothing.
TDK HERMAN TARIFI" TROUBLE.
Washington advices report that "t
prominent member of the Administra
tion, who Is consulted -by the President
as well as by leaders in Congress in
regard to all tariff matters," has made
a. statement of the German-American
tariff situation in which he recom
mends that the United States strike
back at Germany with a -25 per cent ad
vance Over the Dingley rates on 1I
goods Imported from that country. The
present tariff trouble which Germany
hopes- to force to a settlement by the
discriminative rates which slip will in
a few weeks, nut In force arainst tho
United States, was cnused hv ihi .
cesslve tariff levied .on German bulbs.
toys and other similar articles. Very
few of these imports from Germany
come Intd any kind of competition with
American articles or products of Amer
ican origin, and, for that reason, Ger
many has been-for years endeavoring
to secure a reciprocal trade agreement
.which would not leave the trade bal
ance between the. countries so one
sided as t Is now becoming.
The figures quoted by th!s expert ad
viser of the "Administration show quite
plainly that Germany has been getting
the' worst of 1t for 'the past ten years.
In 1895 we Imported from Germany
goods to -the value of $81,000,000. and our
exports were valued at 592.000,000, these
figures showing a reasonably even ex
change of business, which was satis
factory to both countries. Last year
we imported $118,000,000 worth of goods
from Germany, and for the same period
the exports from the United States tp
Germany were valued at $194,000,000. -In
other words, our exports to Germany
ten years ago were but little more than
10 per cent in excess of our 4mports,
while last .year they were more than 60
per cent greater. The showing will, of
course.- prove' very gratifying to that
that a healthy trade condition cannot
exist unless Ave sell the foreigners much
more than we buy from them.
The German agrarians started this
.movement against the United States to
protect their own interests, and they
were aided by the toymakers, the bulb-
growers-and others who were forced to
cav a high duty in order to reach the
tnrln miiT-kPtK at tho amo Mm
"111 X "
into ueniiaii nee w. uuy. uic uiuieu
States undoubtedly has the power and
Is in a position to enforce an obnox-
ious retaliatory tariff measure against
" .
vrcrmauy -a wu us uic hch vrenu&ii
"tariff begins to CVU down our exports
to that country. The highwayman who
goes out on the road and holds up his
victim not Infrequently gets away with
the -booty, but the old maxim that
"might makes right" is not always a
safe one to follow to Its conclusion.
Even if Germany Is bluffed or bullied
out df the position which she has as
sumed, there is no assurance of per
manent peace Sn our trade relations,
nor will there be any permanent peace
In our foreign trade relations until the
sacred tariff Is sent to the repair shops
or the scrap heap.
Trade wars have led to other wan, at
frequent Intervals in the past, and Just
so long as the American "standpatter"
goes strutting up and down the earth
with the tariff chip on his shoulder we
are In grave danger of having It
knocked off and being forced to light or
else absorb our humiliation In silence.
Jn addition to buibs. toj's nd small
manufactured articles. Germany last
year sent to this country 205.000.0000
pounds of beet sugar. If the matter of
placing an additional retaliatory tariff
of 25 per cent on this sugar was sub
mitted to a popular vote In the United
States, the sugar tru;t and their
"standpatters" would have a -practical
Illustration of the fact that high-tariff
sentiment In the United States was not
unanimous.
MARSHALL HELD.
The announcement of Marshall
Field's death excites regret, but no
surprise. -His disease, pneumonia, is
excessively dangerous to the young and
,h ,vh(m ait-eked by it
amost invariably succumb. Mr. Field
was n merchant who achieved great
success by means entirely worthy. No
political deals advanced his fortune; no
class legislation accumulated profits for
him at the expense of the public: no
railroad rebates enriched him with the
spoils of his competitors. He made an
enormous fortune, but he made It by
clean methods, through the exercise of
an ability in commerce which on may
fairly call genius.
Marshall Field was not college man.
Such formal education as he had he
acquired at the public schools and the
academy In Conway, Mass.. where he
was born, and at 17 he began his ca
reer in business, first In Plttstfeld and
later In Chicago. In 1ST1. the year of
the great fire, Mr. Field was already a
wealthy man. His firm lost soinethree
or four millions In that terrible calam
ity, but, like other Chicago men. they
quickly recovered and seemed Inspired
to new enterprise by their losses. It Is
said that the fortune which this great
merchant leaves may perhaps amount
to JIOO.'OOO.OOO. His methods In business
were uniformly 'safe. He used his
credit ns little as might "be and dis
couraged Ms customers from buying on
long - time. His wealth accumulated
from small percentages of profits on
very large sles. His amazing abili
ties were displayed not only in the ex
tent but also in the rapidity of his sales
with remarkably slight losses.
Marshall Field, though of close busi
ness habits, was a generous man. He
gave a library to his native town and
to Chicago the Field Columbian- Mu
seum. He was also one or-tne oeneiac-
tors of the Chicago University. He had
in mind at the time of his death the
munificent endowment of a museum In
Grant Park, which, with other public
benefactions that can only be guessed
at as yet, has probably been provided
for in his wIlL To acquire fortune as
Mr. Field acquired his and to use It as
he did Is a worthy career for an Amer
ican cltir.cn. Great success honestly
and Juu Vtaleved is an honorable
monument to great abilities. It is a
testimony also to the fundamental
soundness of our institutions that they
permit a young onan without smirching
his character. If he so wills, to rise from
small beginnings to large fortune.
Marshall Field's career Is better worth
imitating than some that have been
more loudly trumpeted. He did not
take the shortest rood to wealth, but
he took the one which he could retrace
in memory upon his deathbed with the
least regret.
THE STl'DV I" NATIVE FOOD I'l.VNTS.
Within the past few years, notably
slnce the Institution of the National
Department of Agriculture, the study
of plant life as applied, to such plants
as can be made to contribute to the
sustenance and comfort of man under
modern conditions of civilization has
become a feature of our industrial en
ergy and of scientific research. Until
recently, civilized agricultural people
have depended upon relatively a few
domesticated food plants to meet their
wants, and even now the vegetables
upon the farmer's table for half the
year consist mainly In potatoes, cab
bage and perhaps a few roots that In
this climate stand In . the ground all
Winter. There is. however an In
creasing tendency to make every de-
partment of Nature even every freak
of Nature that Is the product of cross-
fertiiizatlon-icontribute to our comfort
and welfare. Professor Blankenshlp. of
the experimental station of the Mon
tana Agricultural College, has made a
careful study of the native economic
plants of that state, "and' in a paper
upon the subject pays tribute-to the
Indians of the Rocky Mountain region
for their zeal a.nd success in their prim
itive state .in finding. sustenance, in the
native plants of that section. He. con
ceives that it Is of importance to seek
out. study and catalogue plants which"
the Indians found available In supple
menting the food supply furnished -by
the chase, lo the end that the properties
that contributed to the sustenance of a
wild race may be improved by cultiva
tion and made to play a valuable part'
in the economies of civilized. life.
The work undertaken by Professor
Blankenshlp is important, and may well
be extended to our own "state, to the
end, as he expresses it. that "the valu
able food1 properties -that the Indians
utilized may, fill some vacant niche . In
our own household economics, or at
least prove valuable In times of need."
In pursuance of this object the chron
icles of the early explorers, trappers
and settlers, when, in straits for food.
4in- nlllrrMl -tl'Vl o f stamA n V. n n .1
to the Indians themselves that the In
vestlgator must look for the bulk of in
formation that he desires to secure
upon this subject, and the time for 6C
curing It is now and within the next
few years. - As said by Professor Blank
enshlp:
The pressure of settlement will not lowr per
mit the occupation of lame and valuable tracts
of land as practical same preserve by
relatively few Individuals? of tbe primitive In-
rmm adopt the ways of the white man In or
i der to avoid extinction. o mat In a few
Reneratlons, under thee new condition of
I ufe. all knowledge of tbt properties of our
nRt,ve ,PtafnU aTiby tbrmIltnroaKh on
I ajres of trr of famine, of climate and of
irib.l warfare will be lot and can hereafter
be secured only by long- experimentation.
therefore behooves the botanlrt in thte West
ern Statef where the Indian yet retains
somewhat of primitive habit and many of
the men active in the early settlement of
the cguntry arc still allv to secure Ua In
formation and nuke It available for future
we.
The study Is an Interesting one and
practically without limit. We know
that for untold generations prior to the
coming of the white man a vast multi
tude .of people subsisted upon the
bounty of wild Nature In the Western
world. Not an acre of soli was culti
vated by these people. ' Their depend
ence was mainly upon flsh and game,
but perhaps not so much as we are
wont to believe. Wild fruits, we know,
were utilized by them, and roots and
barks were made to supplement their
needs. In the search for plants that
could be cultivated and Improved to
meet the demands of modern life a J
search that is being prosecuted with
vigor In foreign lands, by agents of the
Government It may be well to look
about us.. to the end that the bounty of
which Nature Is so prodigal In vegeta
tion be not slighted.
Attorney-General Crawford has de
cided that Sand Island Is In Oregon,
where, U has been since the state lines
were established. A brief to this effect
has been prepared and will be filed In
answer to the claim of the State of
Washington of jurisdiction over the
island, which lies at the mouth of the
Columbia. According. to the findings or
the Attorney-General. .Washington has
missed the proper boundaries by from
2t tou miles. From this It Is apparent
that our neighbors on the north were
proceeding under the ancient, rule
which advises first comers to "claim
everything as far as you can see and
twice as far as you can think. Tne
Washington desireto possess- even so
-mall and poor a portion of Oregon as
Sand Island is commendable, but for
the present, at least, she will be obliged
to worry- along.with no more real es
tate than is confined within the state
lines.
Bank dciMJSlts of $2,500,000 in the City
of North Yakima offer a fine testimo
nial ,to the great value of Irrigation.
Nearijc1J of this money Is deposited
by farmervho have become wealthy
In raising frulU vegetables, hay. hops,
etc. One farmer a few miles out of the
city netted $10.000 " f rom ten acres of
pears last year, and quite a number of
others secured equally good returns.
All of this money has been taken out
of soil which, prior to the coming of the
irrigationlst. produced nothing but
sagebrush and other dry-land plant life
in sufficient quantity to support the
Jackrabblts and prairie dogs, for which
alone the country was supposed to be
adapted. The magical change that has
come over the Yakima country, as well
as that around Wenatchee and Payette,
augurs avcII for the future of the vast
areas which will feel the touch of the
lifegivlng water within the next few
years. Nearly all of the managers of the big
warehouse systems which were repre
sented at the wheat congress held at
Pullman last week have expressed their
Intention of sending to the next wheat
congress as many as possible of their
warehouse employes. This is an excel
lent testimonial to the value of .the in
formation obtained at the Initial meet
ing of the organization. The most
striking feature of the meeting at Pull
man was the apparent lack of knowl
edge on the part of growers and In
terior warehousemen of shipping and
market conditions at tidewater. For
this reason It might be advisable for the
next meeting to be held at some tide
water point. The meeting Just held
was productive or so much good to all
concerned that It is a certainty that the
railroads would grant to the farmers a
sufficiently low rate to induce them to
attend In large numbers.
"For ways that are dark" and tricks
which are perhaps not In vain, the
"heathen Chinee" is still as peculiar as
he was In the days of Bret Hart?. De
spite the fact that the antics of the
Mliin" immltmttion inspectors have
so grossly offended the Chinese that it I
Is almost regarded as a crime against
Confucius to purchase any American
goods, some of the thrifty Orientals are
sliding around and through the trade
embargo that has been erected. There
Is still considerable sale for American
flour, but the most of It must go for
ward In sacks which bear no marks dis
closing its origin, or else it must go in
sacks from Australia or Canada. Of
course If some of "hoi pollol" dis
cover the deception, the deceivers may
be boiled In oil or subjected to some of
the other forms of entertainment that
have made China famous.
The man Jasper Jennings, who Is on
trial for his life at Grant's Pass for
the murder of his father, may be Inno
cent of this special crime, but Jf ever a
man deserved to be hanged on general
principles he certainly ought to be. Not
content with attempting to escape the
gallows by charging the crime for
which he is being tried upon his young
sister, he brutally dragged his mother's
name, coupled with a shameful allu
sion, before the court as a possible ac
complice. It may well be said that Na
ture blundered In allowing the. mur
dered man to live until he begot .this
disgusting degenerate.
Why should other states start Inves
tigations Into the life insurance busi
ness? We know enough too much.
What every policy-holder wants now Is'
reorganization, reform and protection.
We appear to be on that track now. If
further Investigation Is made, it can
but develop what has already trans
pired In New York. The public has
palled on the insurance sensation, and
it would take an extraordinary fraud
to attract the slightest attention. Let
us forget the Insurance troubles, if we
can, and hope lor the best after we die
and our policies are paid.
It seems that a sheep was caught
among the goats. The name of a well
known minister is enrolled in the list
of those furnished by the polic4- as able
to tell something to the point when the
Richards case is called.
Senator Brackett, a Republican, de
clares himself "ashamed of the repre
sentation of New York In the Senate by
either of the present Senators." Trea
son! Treason!
Your Uncle Chauncey Is good enough
for Now York. New York aays so, 34
tol.
Of course the Goodnough building
will come next.
Was your name written there?
THE SILVER LINING.
"Well, my little deary." !ald the ven
erable gentleman, "can you tell me
why It is cruel to dock horses" tails
and trim dogs' cars?"
"Because." answered the precocious
young girl, "what God has joined to
gether let no man put asunder."
Claude Barker, of Salem, who has
just completed a 51 -day fast, says that
he was moved to do It b the prompt
ings of the -Divine Spirit." He objects"
to publicity In the matter also. At the
other end of the gamut of eccentric
impulses comes the ImpelHng predilec
tion of the darkey to steal chickens.
And he. too. objects to publicity. A
fasting preacher and a feasting negro
arc In the same psychologIc-.il category
one at one end of the line inspired by
alleged spiritual elation, and the other
at the other end of the line Koad.cd on
by the devil. If each enjoys himself,
who cares?
The howl going up from the football
dovotccs. as they see their pet beastll
nossos in the ame successfully as
sailed, is like a child's voice when you
take away the candy.
He :& Chinaman) ran Rive all Miner n
UmmIUIo odd an yet win. . . . Who
U to train America. M aurvlve in the laevl
tMe encwater? W1k but the man wlwm
nattire has so rarely equipped with Industrial
rwrer. Xot exclusion, not isolation, but
cheer aMetaOon. l the demand of the ex
teener faeias .nRte-Saxolm. Rev. Dor emus
Careful lacjtuace. thai of the Rev. Uoremus
ScinMer. but tmmttakabie the meaning. l.et
- encourage Chinese Immigration, marry our
ftiURKlftr t the immigrant, and thus 1m
IHwe the nbitr race to that America can
Mil! maintain her supremacy In tho strutrKte
for the Industrial supremacy of the worW
thaf the meanlnc. And well, why not? Why
not. Indeed? Maybe that's the solutlfn of
the problem. Maybe the Rev. Dorcntu i
rieht? Hut ieT?wally wc must confess to a
real reeling of Rladnew. a deep sense of sat
isfaction in the thoHRht that, before the day
dawns when the American people will bo a
comroelto ot the white and yellow race, wc
rthall be very dead, and nicely burled so deep
we m not sec S. F. ArsowuU-
Amen!
The meanest thing in the world,
both for yourself and everybody
around you. Is enry.
Several years ago a man working on
the .staff of the New York Herald fell
Into a considerable fortune and quit
work without a word, lie painted a
red streak around the world and went
to work as a proof reader on the Herald
eight years afterward. He was short
of money and obtained an order on the
cashier for a small sum. When he
presented it to Mr. Brown, that Immacu
late individual cashed It and. reaching
to a yigeonhoje. said. "Mr.
there Is a memorandum here for you.
Please sign this receipt." And the
long lost man was handed 5S5.00. the
remainder of his salary left unpaid
eight years before when he quit the
office in a hurry with his pockets full
of money. The cashier went on about
his work as If the occurrence was not
at all unusual. That old cashier was
the peach of New York. No matter
how big your bill he paid It without
a word of emotion. And he would
make you wait an hour if he had a
chance to chat with a woman, let her
he "only just pasaably good-looking.
AVhen a bunch of men and a girl came
before the window, he always beck
oned to the irlrl and, attended to her
imt. The liovs crowled. but the
caviller's rule were his pleasure and
they were as unalterable as the laws
of th? Medes and Persians.
The projected automobile highway
between London and Brighton is a
move in the right direction. "When the
locomotive and train were perceived to
be an essential factor In human pro
gress the railroad came Into being.
Now that it is clear that the automo
bile Is destined to stay as a permanent
means of long-distance transportation
mankind is quickly preparing special
highways for the autocar. Highways
connecting New York. Philadelphia.
"Washington. Boston. Albany, etc., may
start the movement In America. Old
settlers think and dream ot the old
turnpikes! If the Genesee turnpike of
olden days were now turned Into
modern auto highway the palmiest
coaching days would be transcended.
Lie not at all. But If you are.golns:
to do it all. stand up to the mark and
do It like a man.
A husband Is less likely to be neg
lectcd when he Is suspected.
There is a joke going the rounds
about Fay Davis, the actress, who pro
verbially has a Puritanical sense of
propriety. She Is almost as bad as
Georgia Cayvan was before OlHe Teall
took a horsewhip Into court to defend
the falV Georgia's honor. It seems that
in a geaeral conversation some one
said he hud seen Fay Davis k!ss a man
.good-bye at the Grand Central Station
In New York. Now, gossip Is nowhere
more deadly than In the world of
player folk, and an English friend of
hers rose to the occasion with the best
intentloncd gallantry. He said that to
his personal knowledge the man was
her husband. Miss Davis Is now pray
Inir to be saved from her friends. As
It happened, the man was her brother.
Art is long but artists are frequently
short.
The humorist never knows when he
Is at his wlt3 end.
V
A cood susTKOstlon Is made that
afety razors be provided with phono
ir'raphp. iro that wc will riot ' miss the
barber.
There Is an ominous undercurrent of
desire going around, the country which
put Into words Is about this: "Gosh
.we wish Hughes conducted that Mis
souri Investigation. Perhaps Mr,
Rgers would not have-been so forget
ful antl so humorous." -Thirty-days for
contempt ot court wotua nave ur
prised and quioted that Standard Oil
pUlar.v -
r-loitirx; don't make the man: the
break him. especially if they are his
wife's.
An auto set Are to an Equitable of
fleer's -wife. He got on fire down town
at the office and she got on Are up
town on tho boulevard. There was
hot time In that family beyond a doubt
A young merchant recently presented
to his belter half an elaborate piano
lamp. He was much flattered when she
told film she Intended to give it his
name, until he asked her reason for so
DCcullar a oroceedlng,
Well," said she. "you know, dear,
it has a good deal of brass about It
it Is handsome to look at: requires a
s:od deal of attention: Is remarkably
brilliant: Is sometimes unsteady on its
legs; liable to explode when only half
full: flres up occasionally: It is alway.
gut at bedtime, and is bound to smoke.
PROPOSES ASSAY OFFICE.
Fulton Plans, to Attract Miners to
Northwest Metropolis.
OREGONLAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington. Jan. IS. Senator Fulton today In
troduced a bill authorizing the" establish
ment of an assay office at Portland. The
bill provides for an assayer and nielfcr
at $223): chief clerk at JltOO. and author
izes an annual expenditure of $13,000 in
payment of salaries to assay employes,
including the officials named. No specific
appropriation is made for the establish
ment of the office, as it is customary to
make these appropriations in regular ap
propriation bills.
A favorable report was made today on
Fulton's bill ratifying the treaty with
the Klamath Indians, whereby they re
linquish title to the disputed portion ot
their reservation in consideration of
SOi.OOO. which the bill proposes to pay
them.
Fulton today called on the President
and requested him to vacate the order
of the Interior Dt-partment Issued March
3. 1803. suspending patent on all public
land entries In Oregon. The President,
after listening to Fulton's statement
showing that numerous bona fide entries
were being held up unjustly by this order,
said that the request seemed reasonable,
and he asked the Senator to submit a
full written statement, pointing out the
necessity of removing this restriction.
Tho Senator feels reasonably certain that
his request will meet with favorable con
sidnratlon. This Is the same matter Senator Gearin
took up with Secretary Hitchcock and
before the order is revoked it is probable
that the President win confer with the
Secretary.
FA YOKS ALASKAN HOME KUIjK
President Declares for Tcrvitorml
Government and Delegate.
OREGONlAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington. Jan. 16. Senators Piles. Lodge
nnd Allison and unofficial Delegate S. S.
Ryan, of Alaska, today called on the
President and elicited from him a prom
ise that Alaska should have homo. rule.
odge and Allison, the two strongest men
i the Senate, said they favored this
move, and the President heartily prom
ised to give It his support.
As a cornerstone for the new regime.
he promised v to appoint an Alaskan as
Governor to succeed Brady, who will soon
resign because of the Indiscretions which
have destroyed his usefulness. Ills suc
cessor has not yet been chosen.
Incidentally, the President expressed
his desire that Alaska have representa
tion In Congress, and in view of this at
titude It 13 probable that the Alaska dele
gate bill will pass this session.
Never before has any President taken
so advanced a stand with regard to
Alaska.
JJEVEKS REPRESENTS COAST
Portland Man on Comniltlco of River
ami Harbor Congress.
OREGONlAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington. Jan. 16. At the concluding ses
sion of the River and Harbor Congress
today. A. H. Levers, of Portland, was
chosen a member of the executive com
mittee, and he. with John W. Ferris, of
San Francisco, will have charge of all
Pacific Coast waterway projects which
are to receive the attention of tills Con
gress. J. N. Teal today addressed the body.
Speaking especially for the Columbia
River, he said the Columbia Is a National
river which should be Improved partly at
the Government expense, but he admitted
the fairness of the Burton Idea of appro
priating Federal funds for those rivers
that are partly Improved at local expense.
STEVENS TESTIFIES ON CANAL
Tells Senate About Labor and Saul-
I
tary Questions.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 16. Chief En
gineer Stevens, of the Panama Canal
Commission, appeared before the Sen
ate Investigating committee today. He
talked of conditions on the Isthmus,
discussing sanitary. labor difficulties
and questions of like character, deal
ing with the administration of canal
affairs, with greater detail and free
dom than In his published report. He
denied the stories of alleged importa
tion of women Into the Canal Zone for
Immoral purposes.
ALL CONFIRMED RUT BRISTOL
Senate Acts on Appointment of Mar
shal of Oregon.
OREGONlAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington. Jan. 16. The Senate today con
firmed Charles J. Reed as United States
Marshal of Oregon. Yesterday the nom
ination of J. M. Lawrence as receiver of
the Roseburg Land Office was confirmed.
Judge Wolverton was confirmed several
uuys ago.
The entire slate Is now cleared, save for
District Attorney Bristol, whose nomina
tion has not been reported from the Ju
dlciary committee. It Is not known what
Is holding back this nomination.
Examining Vancouver Officers.
OREGONlAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington. Jan. 16. The examining board ap
pointed May Z last to meet at Vancouver
Barracks has been dissolved, and in lieu
thereof the following board Is appointed
to meet at Vancouver Barracks for the
examination of officers ordered before It
for promotion:
Lieutenant-Colonel James Irons. Four
tccnth Infantry: Major Alexander B.
Dyer. Artillery Corps; Major John S,
Parke. Jr.. Fourteenth Infantry: Captain
Charles Flagg and First Lieutenant Rob
ert Richards, assistant surgeons: First
Lieutenant Lawrence D. Cabell, Four
tecnth Infantry, recorder.
Wlckcrshnm to Answer Charges.
OREGONTAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington, Jan. 16. Judge James A. Wlcker-
sham. of Alaska, whose nomination Is
held up in the Senate committee on judl
clarv on account of charges, has been re
quested by the Attorney-General to come
to Washington and appear before the
committee In self-defense. Judge "Wick
ersham'a friends say he will be able to
clear himself without difficulty, and pre
dict his early confirmation.
- 'Mark Boundary Between States.
OREGONlAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington. Jan. 16. Senator Heyburn intro
duccd a bill appropriating 523.000 for tho
rcsurvey and marking of the Idaho
Washington houndary from the mouth of
the Clearwater River north to the inter
naticnal boundary, a distance of 1S3 miles.
There Is some doubt as to the location
of the old lines.
Another Reserve in Idaho.
OREGONlAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington. Jan. 15. The Secretary of the In
terior has withdrawn 1,300.000 acres In
Kootenai County. Idaho, and adjoining
counties In Montana for the Cabinet for
est reserve. Heyburn is opposed, and
will fight Its creation.
New Rural Carriers. -
OREGONlAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington, Jan. 16. The following rural car
riers have been appointed for Washington
routes: Oakesdale, route I. Homer B.
Hughes, carrier; Samuel B. Hughes, sub
stitute. Seattle, route William E.
Strain, carrier; Louis Strain, substitute.
FULTON IN CENTER OF STAGE,
Speech on Rate Question Raises Livej
Issue in Senate.
OREGONlAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington. Jan. 16. Senator Fulton today
opened the way for railroad rate discus
sion In the Senate by a speech which oc
cupied nearly two hours. He spjoke on his
amendment to the Dolllver rate bill, and
before he concluded drew out some lead
ing Senators who will later figure promi
nently in the rate light. Bailey, who. in
the debate, questioned the constitution
ality of Fulton's amendment, later told
the Senator he had made a splendid pre
sentation of the case, and he did not know
but what Fulton's plan was right, after
all.
Spooncr heartily concurred In Fulton's
view, and so Foraker of " Ohio, though
Foraker would go further than Fulton
suggests.
As a result of the sentiment shown up
by interruptions of his speech todny. Ful
ton believes his amendment, or some sim
ilar amendment, will bo adopted to the
Dolllver bill. His speech, which was the
first gun to be lired In open Semite on
rate legislation, was attentively listened
to by the full Senate, and frequent inter
ruptions from both sides of the chamber
attested the interest shown by Senators
generally.
It would not be surprising, .in the light
of today's developments. If the future de
bute on the rate bill should center about
the question raised In Fulton's amend
ment, namely, whether or not courts shall
have power to name a rate when tlte rata
fixed by the Interstate Commerce Com
inission shall prove confiscatory. Fulton
says 73 per cent of the rates complained
of will be satisfactorily adjusted by thu
commission, leaving only 23 per cent for
determination in the courts, whereas tit
Foraker bill would leave the determina
tion or all questions to the court ami
swamp them with business, resulting in
delayed determination of all rate wises.
POINTS AT ISSUE ON MOROCCO
French Claim to Control Contested
by Germany.
ALGECIRAS. Jan. 16. On the eve of
the Moroccan conference. It is well lo
define the essential issues presented,
as these will clearly indicate the gen
eral scope of the meeting and the chief
danger of the issues involved.
On September 1S last, M. Rouvier. for
France, and Prince Radolin. for Ger
many, reached an agreement on the ox
act programme .of the conference. This
programme is quite short, as it was
part of Rouvler's skillful diplomacy to
bring the conference within the closest
possible limit. The programme asreeu
upon follows:
The two governments arc In accord
in proposing to the Sultan the follow
ing programme:
First Organization, by interna
tional accord, of tho police, except on
the Algerian frontier.
Second Surveillance and repression
of contraband arms, except along the
Algerian frontier.
Third Financial reforms, with the
creation of a state bank, with the priv
ilege of issuing currency.
Fourth Study of the customs anu
new means ot raising revenues."
The agreement contains some outer
minor features, but the foregoing are
the essential questions to be presented
to the Morocco conference.
France throughout the controversy
and up to the opening of the confer
ence has maintained that she had a
special or privileged position in Morocco.
That is the vital question about to oe
considered, for the questions of con
traband and customs are largely detail.
Jf the special position of France Is rec
ognized, then he conference will turn
over to Frnnce the orKanlzatlon of
the police and military and the
surveillance of contraband. Jn short.
all of the questions Involved hinge
upon the main question, as to whether
the special position of France Is to be
clearly recognized.
By the foregoing agreements. Ger
many has recognized the need of some
outside supervision ovec Morocco. It
remains to decide who will exercise
this supervision. Germany will doubt
less contend for international super
vision, in which she and all other pow
ers shall take equal part, something
like the international administration
of Macedonia and Crete.
On the other hand, France consist
ently upholds her special and para
mount right, based on geographical po
sitions, to safeguard the future of Mo
rocco, acting thus as the virtual trus
ted for the nations.
The issues before the conference are.
therefore, comparatively simple: First,
shall France be charged with tho nec
essary reforms for Morocco, and. sec
ond, the detailed consideration of tho
various reforms relating to finances,
police and customs and contraband.
REBEL
LEABERS CAPTURED
Government Punishes Disloyal Offi
cers. While Terrorists Slay.
ST. PETERSBURG. Jan. 16. All the
members of the Workmen's Council, num
bering 21 persons, were arrested during
the- night. The police seized many revo
lutionary documents and a mass- of cor
respondence. The government ofneiuls
consider that the future action of the
revolutionists will be hampered by the
capture of the members of the Council
and the revolutionary documents.
The police also discovered the headquar
ters from which the propaganda in the
army and navy has been conducted, and
seized Important documents. Including a
cipher list, through which it is said the
ramifications of a wide organization will
be rovealed. Two girl 'students who were
In charge of headquarters and a score
of sailors have been arrested.
Realizing that reforms in the army and
navy must come from above, the Council
of National Defense has determined upon
a thorough housecleaning. cashiering and
relieving by wholesale officers who showed
Incompetency or culpability in the recent
troubles. Several officers of the mutinous
Rostoff Grenadiers, of Moscow, were
dropped recently. It is said that 70 of
ficers of the Black Sea fleet will be tried
b court-martial.
The agrarian disorders which have
broken out In the outskirts of St. Peters
burg have assumed an ugly phase. The
peasants have sacked the estates of the
DUfte of Mccklenburg-Strelitz and Prince
Korsikoff, and have burned the buildings
on an estate In the district of Tsarkoe
Selo. almost In sight of the Emperor's
palace.
The Terrorists organization Is including
In its death roll not only officials but also
leaders of the Conservative organizations.
A dispatch from Smolensk. Middle Rus
sia, says that President Koutoff, of the
League of Banner-Bearers, formed to de
fend the autocracy, has been murdered at
his residence by eight Terrorists, who
operated with the utmost boldness, and
left a notice to the effect that the same
fate- will befall all the members of the
League of Banner-Bearers.
Tjlqtior 3fcn Retaliate on Theaters.
MINNEAPOLIS. Jan. 16. In retaliation
for the Mayor's order closing saloons on
Sunday. E. S. Cary. representing a fac
tion of the Houor retailers, today served
warrants on six "theatrical people, charg
ing them with violating the Sunday the
ater law. Arraignments will be made td
morrow. National Bank at Joseph.
OREGON! AN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington, Jan. 16. The First National Bank
of Joseph. Or- has been authorized to
begin business, with $25,000 capital. L.
Knappen. president; ., K; H. Blaesserv
cashier. '
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