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THE MORNING ORKfcrOSIA(, . ZTUESBAY, JTEBRTfrOtY 6, 1906. : 0atefl it the Fettoffice at Parties. e Second. Claw Matter. SUBSCRIPTION XATBS. ET INVARIABLT IX ADVANCE. "d (By Mall or Express.) DAILY, SUNDAT INCLUDED. Twelve months ix'xaoBths . - Three months -5 One raoatfa.. Delivered by carrier, per year v.m Delivered by carrier, per soBtn . Leso time, per week - -? Sunday, one year... ...... ....... "Weekly, one year (Iwraed Thursday) . . . 1.50 Sunday aad Weekly, oae year S.&9 HOW TO REMIT Bead p&stoffloe money order, express order er personal check a your local bank. Stamps, coin or carreacy are at the sender' risk. EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICE. The S. C, Beekwlth .Special AgeBCjr New Tork, rooms 43-50. Tribune building. Cal cgo, rooms 510-512 Tribune bulldlsg. KEPT ON SALE. Calcace Auditorium Annex. PostoJflce News Co., 17S Dearborn street. 6t. Paul, Mlaa. N. St. Marie. Commercial Station. Deaver Hamilton & Kendrlck. SOS-J? Seventeenth street; Pratt Book Store, 1-lt Fifteenth street. 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Ferry News Stand. Waaeiagtem, D. C, EbWtt House, Pennsyl vania avenue. PORTLAND, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6. A DOWNRIGHT WORD. The Oregonlan enters into no con test or controversy -with any newspaper as to circulation; for there is no news paper -with which controversy or com parison is possible. Everybody "who wants a newspaper reads The Orego nlan. It is in every one's hands. For 3io one can get the 'whole news without reading: The Oregonlan; and in no other 'paper of the " Northwest is there so grreat range, fullness or variety of matter for which everybody looks to a newspaper. The evening newspaper, however good its service, cannot con tain the -whole news of the day on "which it is published, and tomorrow it cannot go back and take up the news of tte preceding day. Two afternoon newspapers are published In Portland. One of them, the organ of a local clique devoted to schemes and purposes of Mammon, has been boasting a great deal about its circulation. The other afternoon paper yesterday punctured that bubble. Incidentally, too. the plu tocratic organ has been lying vehe mently about The Oregonlan; -which is the - reason "why it gets this further basting now. Since everybody reads The Oregonlan and everybody knows that everybody reads it. The Oregonlan lias no occasion to compare its circulation 'with that of any other paper whatsoever; for The Oregonlan has no competitor by which to measure itself. It simply does all the business and has all the circulation that any newspaper can have or could have, here. Such has been its status these many years. Filling every re quirement of a morning newspaper, and in everybody's hands, Its business and circulation can increase further only Tvith the growth and progress of the city and country. During its entire 3st existence such has been the course of The Oregonian's -.growth, and such it 1b today. The Telegram is as "full and compre hensive an afternoon newspaper as can be published in Portland. It publishes Ave times the amount of genuine tele graphic news that the other evening pa per publishes. Its circulation, wholly le gitimate and fully paid, greatlycxceeds the legitimate, actual or paid circula tion of the Journal as the Telegram can demonstrate for itself. A padded circulation, not paid nor ordered; pa pers continued -without pay, never col lected for and never stopped; sent In packages seldom or never opened, or copies left over in excess of deliveries, is not a circulation valuable to any body. Of such character is large part of the so-called circulation of the organ of our local plutocracy. It hasn't newa enpugh to be called a newspaper, and as the orgaji of monopolistic Jobbers it is necessarily distrusted and never will obtain a genuine -circulation among the body of the people. Since large part of its alleged circulation is given away, why doesn't it treat everybody alike toy giving the remainder away? The capitalistic jobbers and speculators who are putting up the money to run it as an organ of their various schemes of pelf apd Mammdn no doubt could get the money, in some of, their well-known and characteristic ways. Their organ, with the swagger habit ual with it, and with them, offers to "bet," of course. The Oregonlan will not degrade Itself by betting with it, or with them, or by any comparison of itself with It. Thl6 newspaper does a legit imate .business. It makes no bets with anybody; certainly not with Portland's plutocratic gang of "first families," or with their man Friday, stool-pigeon or factotum -of their newspaper service. Their alleged newspaper is merely one of the tools they employ in thelr schemes of frenzied finance. It is not a legitimate newspaper at all, nor recog nized as uch, nor published for legiti mate purposes; but Is merely ia pander to the various selfish projects and games of grab of those who put up money for It. The Oregonlan doesn't engage with these people, or with their hired men, in any of their bunco games. It is strictly a newspaper, doing a strictly legitimate newspaper business. It has a strictly paid circulation, and every copy of it is stopped promptly, at the. expiration of tho time paid for. The same ig as true of the Evening- Tele gram. These two newspapers pursue strictly apd legitimately the business of journalism. Their standing throughout the country and the state of their busi ness 'was never before so satisfactory to their publishers as today. Much of the increased good will of the country towards them comes, we may suppose, from the contrasts they offer as public journals to the abortive- effort of the organ of the franchise-mongers, syndi-cates.-and money trust to win the con fidence of the public as a newspaper. As we have said, that organ really Is not a newspaper at all; first, because it hasn't the news, and second, because it is tainted throughout with the spirit nd purpose of plutocratic and monop olistic greed. It Is neither recognised nor accepted in any class of,4egitlmate Journalism. DR. B ROUGHER AND Ar. MASTERS. Dr. Broughcr publicly charged the City Council with balking, or endeavor ing to balk, the Mayor "in his efforts at law enforcement." To support his accusation the doctor cited .specific In stances of wanton and deliberate disre gard of Its duty by the City Council. The CouncIImen. he said Not only have done everything they could to hamper the Mayor In hl .efforts to close up the glided gateway to hell, ran by .Rich ards, but they have actually refused to take away the licenses from other -notorious Joint In our city. Many of these places' like the Waldorf, the Totem, the Badger, the Gilbert and El Key. have been raided and put out ot business to a certain extent, but the Mayor had no help from the City Council and very little from any other source. This is, and Is intended to be, ajilaln declaration that the Council had not revoked the-, licenses ot the Waldorf, Totem, Badger, Gilbert and El Bey; and twelve CouncIImen are by name hpM rftsmorndble for the existence of these "hellholes," as Dr. Broughcr de scribes them, -no doubt properly. -ut now come CouncIImen Masters and Shepherd and show that the "Waldorf and El Rey have been closed through denial of license; the Totem permitted to run only under another owner, and under more reputable auspices; that the Gilbert Is a lodging-house and never had a license as a saloon, and that no complaint had come from any source to the license committee as to the Badger. It would seem that this presentment of facts is not sufficient for Dr. Brougher, who repeats his charges be cause the Council failed, or refused, to revoke the license of the South Port land Exchange, a saloon of unrayory reputation, although The Oregonlan had said that it ought to be revoked. It should be, and The Oregonlan hopes that It will be; but that Is" Just, now another matter. The Indictment of the Council by Dr. Brougher, then, rests on charges that he lias distinctly failed to sustain by the records or "by the facts; yet he now brings forward a case which he did not at first mention, and probably; did not know about the South Portland Ex changeto bolster up his original sweeping allegation. Impugning the mo tives of a responsible and reputable body of public officers, and classifying them with the forces of vice and evil. Wc shall hot now examine or deny Dr. Brougher's strange assumption that the Mayor stands alone on every moral issue, and that the Council should fol low him without question, nor a?k him if the Mayor ever called upon the Coun cil to moveagainEt the "Waldorf. Totem, Badger and El Rey. It is sufficient to set forth the features of this contro versy m their bare outline, and to make the suggestion to Dr. Brougher that the manly course for him to pursue, when shown conclusively that he is mistaken, would be to acknowledge his error. But we are estopped from hoping for any thing of the kind by Dr. Brougher's astounding announcement that "If Mr. Masters can prove to me that he has voted right on every question that has ever come up, I will publicly exonerate him from this pulpit." Prove to him! Dr. Brougher essayed to show that Mr. Masters had not voted right on any moral question. If he failed to prove it, there was, and is, a clear obligation on him to exonerate Mr.'Mastera from his pulpit. "Will he do It? But perhaps it makes little difference whether he docs or not. OPENING THE COAST REGIONS. Incorporation of the Grant's Pass & Western Railroad Company for the purpose of building a line from Grant's Pass to the rich copper mining district lying between the Rogue River metrop olis and the ocean calls attention to an other of Oregon's many neglected re gions of great natural wealth. While the principal business for which the road is to be constructed is the copper industry, this in time will prove but a small portion of the revenue-producing traffic of the road. The famous sugar pine lumber of the Grant's Pass dis trict has a. National reputation, and it finds a ready market at prices from 500 to 500 per cent greater than can be se cured for the ordinary fir, which Is so plentiful along the entire Coast Practically all of the sugar-pine tim ber has been removed from immediate vicinity of the- railroad, necessitating long hauls by wagon and an attendant reduction in profits. The projected road will tap this timber belt, which is be yond the reach of present railroad facil ities, and it will also open up an agri cultural region particularly well adapt ed to fruit and small farming. The cop per Industry, whlch lias proved the magnet that attracted attention of cap ital, is said to be susceptible of enor mous development Its merits have al ready been demonstrated by successful operation of a iOO-ton smelter for which all supplies must be hauled forty miles by wagon. The copper district covers a vast area, and, It the undeveloped por tions show up proportionately well with those already developed, the experience of Butte and Anaconda's copper boom may be repeated .in Josephine County. The wonderful Tichness of some of these Southern Oregon mining districts directly tributary to Portland is not fully understood. A few Portland cap italists have Increased their fortunes quite materially by only a moderate In vestment in the placer or quartz mines of Southern Oerson, but the bulk ot wealth now coming out of the compar atively small portion of the developed district Is going into the hands of capi talists from Denver, Spokane, Seattle and other cities beyond the state lines. The railroad which the enterprising cit izens of Grant's Pass ore now endeav oring to build is not projected beyond Waldo, in the copper mining district but by the time it reaches that point necessity will be plain for putting it through to an ocean terminus at Cres cent City. Cal, This will give to a very rich region between Grant's Pass and Crescent City an outlet by cither rail or water, nd with such facilities great results are certain to follow. The project Is perhaps less important from an Immediate traffic-producing standpoint than the Southern Pacific extension to Coos Bay, but It will sup ply means for creation of a vast amount of new wealth, and will open up a field for exploitation by both capital and la bor. The Coast region from the Colum bia River to the California line has al ways been hampered by lack of trans portation facilities, but rlth construc tion of road .to Tillamook and-Xeha-lem, aother to Coos Bay, and this third line from Grant's Pass westward, great opportunities are afforded intend ing settlers of large or small capital, and all of the territory involved is di rectly tributary to Portland WAGNER. Wugner and Vcrdl were born the same year. 1S13, the former at Lcipsic. the latter at a little village In the duchy of Parma, in Italy. Gounod was born five years later In Paris. Verdi out lived Wagner eighteen years, dying In 101 at the age of S8, while the greatest genius In the world, of music, after an unhappy life of failure, disappointment "and abuse, barely measuring the allot ted span, died at Venice in 1SS3. Gou nod was a passing Incident in the his tory ot music; Verdi an event of some thing less than secondary Importance; Wagner marks an epoch. He did for music what Voltaire did for the pure Intellect and more. The great French man broke the chains which the tyr anny of a thousand years had fettered -upon the human spirit; the great Ger man Tel eased his art from the fetters of classical convention., but he was more than an Iconoclast he had t construct ive intellect of the highest order. -Wagner endowed orchestral music with powers of expression which his predecessors had .never dreamed of. With John Sebastian Bach tonal con struction was an exercise in mathemat ics. In hisfugues he displays a syn thetic power something such as we imagine In Archimedes of Syracuse, master of sounds as that great genius was of the resources of mechanics, but equally abstracted from human pas sion. Beethoven was the Sophocles of musical tart. Sublime in expression, cre ator of mighty harmonies. He sounded iibe deep problems of life and fate, but seldom broke the bonds of classical tra dition or wished to break them. Wag ner despised tradition and knew of conventions only to defy them.. He was the Shakespeare of music In his youth he was a student and Imitator of Shakespeare. He was far from displaying that precocity in.bte art which has been so characteristic. of musicians. Mozart was famous as a child; Wagner at the a$e of 8 showed-so little ability that his piano teacher told him he never could learn to play. He differed also from many great musi cians whose ancestry and environment have been saturated in music Wag ner's father was a police clerk, and at 16 the youth who was to revolutionize the science of harmony and gie a new voice to the human race had not yet found his genius. He was then busy with a tragedy In imitation of Lear and Hamlet a bloody tragedy, a very riot of the furies, wherein forty-two of the characters were slain, and to eke out the catastrophe the young author had to bring a small army of ghosts upon the stage But this tragedy, ludicrous in its recklessness of gore, nevertheless opened to Wagner the door of fate. He became possessed of a desire to set its sanguinary action to music and actually composed for It an overture, complicated In the extreme, probably a chaos of formless ideas, for Wagner had enjoyed at that time little system atic Instruction in music It was only when he began his course a year later at the University of Lclpric that he really devoted himself to the study of his art His case resembles that of great original men in other fields, who owe the freedom of their genius to a Iwppy escape from early scholastic In struction. Macaulay laments the fet ters which classical colleges rorge for the free Intellect Shakespeare, whom De Qulneey calls the protagonist on the stage of modern poetry, owes his pre eminent greatness In part to the wild liberty of his youth, and the same Is true of Wagner. When he finally ap proached the study of the great musical classics his mind ha'd attained a matur ity which enabled him to admire with out senile Imitation or sacrifice or his independence He was born In the at mosphere of the French Revolution and his work in music was a thorough going application of the underlying principles of that most fruitful event In secular history. It Is wrong to suppose that Wagner broke the rules of classical music be cause he did not know them. A sym phony which was his first important prpductlon displays a complete mastery of classical methods. He broke away from those methods because be had the genius to invent more powerful ones. Ecclesiastical music always had a charm for the melodious Gounod, and; despite the enormous success of "Faust" he returned indefatigably to that style. Ecclesiastical and concert music were too restricted In scope to exercise the tremendous Imaginative powers of Wagner. His next produc tion after the symphony was an opera, though It was never performed until five years after his death. All his life through, Wagner, knowing that bis works were treasures for eternity, had to console himself with that knowledge for failure and obloquy. Of other con solation he had little Like Milton, he was conscious' of writing what posterity would not willingly let die, and In that consciousness he must have found his recompense for the malignity of his enemies, the disregard of his contem poraries, the sting of poverty and the desolation of exile. He made dramatic music possible by associating a definite phrase with each character or situation, so that from a vague series of sounds more or less sweet music became In reality a lan guage He did for his art what Hegel attempted In philosophy, working out a synthesis of all beauty in the musical drama as that philosopher tried to do for all thought His achievement was the spirit of democracy working In the realm of aesthetics for the unification of beauty as Jt works tody In politics for the unification of good. Mr. Bristol may or may not be guilty of unprofessional conduct The Orego nlan doesn't know anything about It but in common with the general pub lic it Is interested in learning whether the reasons given by the President or to be given, for his prospective with drawal of Mr. Bristol's nomination to be United States District Attorney for Oregon are well founded. Two weeks since The Oregonlan printed a special dispatch from Washington saying in effect that the Bristol appointment was held up by charges that the Senate Ju diciary committee would not make pub lic but that they involved "unprofes sional conduct" This was all the in formation that could then be obtained; but it now transpires that it was wholly correct so far as It went, and it was, be sides, entirely proper Information for the public. Mr. Bristol hs chosen to take great offense at thte publication by The Oregonlan, and to throw out his chest, puff up his cheeksstlck hi nose up in the air and refuse te make any statement whatever to The Orftgoni&n in his owa defense. Which Is not a very great matter, perhaps, since it concerns Mr. Bristol more than any one else; but It Is enough to show that a very little felkrw may or may not be the next United States District Attorney for Oregon. Certainly he has not yet been confirmed. The Oregonlan has been In no wise Interested In preventing his confirmation. As a newspaper report ing the sews. It simply wished to state the reason why. This It did. so far as it could. It did not vouch at all for the truth of any charge against Mr. Bristol, it simply wished to Inform him and the public why he hadn't been confirmed. The rude curiosity tint dogged the steps of Miss. Alice Roosevelt on her recent trip to New York was uncom promisingly vulgar and unseemly.' It disclosed a trait In the American char acter of which every self-respecting cit izen of the country is ashamed, and showed the presence in the great me tropolis of a standing army of snobs. The Oregonlan protests here and now against calling these gaping, obtrusive, vulgar people "farmers." The farmers of the country are. In the main, a self-respecting, mlnd-thelr-own-busl-ness class of men and women. They may at times be curious, but they are self-respecting and unobtrusive, contenting themselves with gazing at a pageant us It passes by, without follow ing and etaring Its principal actors out of countenance It is the multitude that is behind the camera batterj and the curious, vulgar crowds of city do naughtS who arc a public nuisance and disgrace when opportunity offers to dog the steps and hang on to the skirts of noted people "Farmers" are not of that sort It is the city, not the coun try, vulgarian or barbarian who thus disports himself. And, uad to say, his name is legion. Senators and Representatives at Washington, irrespective of party, seem to agree fully on the necessity for leg islation which will serve to check indis criminate and illegal naturalization, of foreigners who are now reaching our shores In such large numbers. There will be some opposition to the bill now being framed up for that purpose, but the localities where the worst class of .foreigners congregate, and from whence the opposition through their Represent atives will come, will hardly muster enough strength to kill a measure of such great importance to the entire country. Despite all of the precautions attempted, a large number of undesira ble foreigners slip past the Immigra tion Inspectors, and more stringent laws governing the Issuance of naturaliza tion papers will. In a measure, serve to minimize the evil which accompanies this scum of the Old World to this country. Burled treasure seems to have an ir resistible fascination for mankind, and from the days of Jason In his quest for the Golden Fleece on down past Cap tain Kidd and the pirates of the Span ish Main it has always been easy to find men who would spend time and money in an effort to urn earth some fabled treasure that was reported buried In an indefinite locality. There died In New York, penniless and alone. In a cheap lodging-house, Sunday, a man who had spent $250,000 in cruises to the South Seas in search of buried treasure. From this Coast the Cocos-Island treasure has lured innumerable expeditions to that diminutive island In the Pacific, but the treasure If It ever existed. Is still burled, and it no better success attends the efforts of those now en gaged in finding Jt or those who are to succeed them, it will continue as myth ical as the Golden Fleece. "Pudd'nhead Wilson" wujj not the originator ot the thumb-mark system of identification, but he brought it into prominence In this country in the boox and play bearing his name and It long ago ceased to be regarded as the Joke of a faddist Now comes Expert Detective Joseph Faurot, who has been sent to Europe to study identification systems, with a report that the thumb-print method of Identifying criminals Is the surest and most useful feature of the Bertlllon system. "Pudd'nhead" lived long In the community In which he was regarded as deficient In Intelligence be fore the thumb-mark system enabled him to" demonstrate his ability .as a de tective but, as one of the aids In the punishment of crime, the thumb-mark now stands well up with the Yankee's camera, which 'kaln't He" James R. Keene has refused an offer of 1200,000 for Sysonby, the star gal loper of the 1503 racehorses. This is the highest price ever offered for a horse, being 512,500 more than was paid for Flying Fox, the English thoroughbred, and $50,000 more than was ever paid In the United States. The locomotive, the bicycle and the automobile have afford ed the present generation many facili ties for quick transit not enjoyed by Paul Revere and the riders of his day; but despite the Increasing facilities for getting over the ground, the horse Is still holding his own. The price refused for Sysonby is somewhat higher than that at which some of the minor "king doms" of the earth could be purchased, and accordingly lessens the importance of the celebrated offer of Richard III. Lents, six miles southeast of Portland bears the name of a well-remembered pioneer, O. P. Lent An effort Is mak ing to change the name to Mount Scott thav Is, the name of th epostofilce Mr. Lent was a pioneer of pioneers, and it was intended by those who had known him, by giving the postoffice and the village his name, to perpetuate his memory. To change the name would be to violate this Intent and to deprive a pioneer of the honor that was intended for him and which he well deserved. Students at Eugene "are required to use boiled water," and there has been so much sickness among them this year that a hospital fund Is necessary. This Is very strange In view of the fact that the city intake is all of a dozen rods from the mouth of the sewer. The stu dents'probably fell sick' for an excuse to miss recitations. All things considered, the Vaughn street field Is the most convenient Port land ever used. To the growing army of baseball enthusiasts, Its purchase by the street-railroad will be hailed with delight. A permanent athletic park for the West Side Is now assured. Postmaster-General Cortelyou's plan for faster long-distance mall service based on competitive trial for one month.te'certaln to awaken railroads of the Southwest In rails and motive power they have not kept pace with the Chicago lines. THE SILVER LINING. The case of Rhlnelandef Waldo being guyed by New Yorkers is quite la the line of usual happenings In the metropolis and may lead to results that prove that his tory repeats itself. Young Waldo occu pies the position of First Deputy Commis sioner of Police, and they S3 that life is growing weary for him. Chief Dovery's remark that Little Lord Waldcrey Is go ing to get his all right, all right If Papa never did have to work, fs going the rounds mightily, and all arc joining In the chorus. They "peeped" a little In the same fashion when Roosevelt was made Pollco Commissioner, although Roosevelt was vastly more of a personage, otad tho laugh turned back upon the Instigators. But In many Instances, memorable to a degree, the most unbridled hilarity has been rolled back upon the heads of the loudest laugherB In this very same little old New York.. When .Oliver Sumner Tcall came back from the wilds of Ari zona and plastered the town with photo graphs of himself as a cowboy, started tobogganing, "and drove tandem rigs up and down the avenue with a green veil on his hat, newspaperdom went daffy over him and everybody felt privileged to laugh to their heart's content OHIe proceeded quietly to marry a very rich girl, secure the fricndsMp of all the people of means he desired, maintained splendid offices in the Equitable building, walked about al ways accompanied by a huge negro and followed by a mountainous mastiff dog, became more and more famous, finally horsewhipped a shyster lawyer In court to defend the good name of an actress, allowed his wife to get a divorce from him. Ia now running. several big real es tate deals around Greater New York, has lots of money, and Is in fact one of the best fellows alive He used New York for advertising purposes, and made It stick. For years It was Just as permissible to mention his name In a news article as it was to print the name of Tiffany. No one laughs at OIHe Teall now. They under stand his success. Boldt Is another shrewd one who laughs at the New Yorkers. He makes something like a million a year out of his Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. He sits in his rooms and figures up his receipts, while he docs the laughing at the moun tebank crowd. Fred Gcbhardt was an other. By the general accounts of his monkeyshlncs and tripping It over several continents In Mrs. Langtrys wake, one would think that he was a stripling. As a matter of fact he was anything but a dude He could any day lick the dought iest sporting man that came along, and lie amused himself as the whim carried him until he got ready to settle down to a do mesticity of his own. He was always an excellent business man. and knew in an almost uncanny fashion how to make good bargains. New York and the whole coun try at first thought that he was running through a fortune in consequence of an infatuation for an actress who had pre viously fatigued the present King of Eng land. What they didn't know about Fred Gebhardt would fill a library. Young Wal do. I expect will buckle on the harness and show the jollce and other people that he knows something about police clubs as well as the millionaire organizations to which he belongs. Alice. Alice how could you go to New York until after you were married? If you had waited, then they would- not chase you so. 'If you allow them to make much more of a popular Idol of you, they will be mobbing young Longworth If they catch sight ot him 'before the ccromony rtally takes place. . . , , - When Hill was making noUe perhaps you thought Harriman was asleep. But he wasn't The Northwest, Is prodigious, but the West and Southwest Is ateo pro digious in its possibilities. In addition to this, it appeals to Harriman, as the climate ia milder. Thlnga are growing in all climates of the United States rail roads In advance of everything else. Mr. Harriman. how's your pockctbook? mm The question is. whether the President has Influence enough to make the Senate do things, or will he bo constrained here after to call an extra, session? The an swer Is, yes, both things are likely to occur. You cannot afford to do anything but your best. It la through seizing every opportunity that you reach higher things. King Edward and Kaiser Wilhelm are seeing which can make the worst face at each other. With that mustache, Wil helm seems to have decidedly the ad vantage of Edward. Skin Deep. Or about the 15 young ladies whom the Shuberts have engaged, at JSO a: week, for being merely beautiful,, experience un ' necessary. , Fifty bones a week is the. guerdon of your beauty. Every night and 'Saturday and Wednes day matinees. So says Channlug Pollock, as ''dignified, astute, he Sends a half a column out about the coryphees. f -. Conried pays his. chorus -twenty after protest Could you find the moral?- Well, I rather think you could! . , Here It is: Remember that efficiency 1s no test. . Come, my child, be beautiful, and' let who will be good! F: P. A. in New York MaiL Chit-Chat in Chicago. "So you are a relative of his?" "Yes, in a way. My flrat husband is, married to his second wife That makes him a you know how It is." Studies of the Vernacular. Chicago Tribune "SayHl!" exclaimed the girl at tlie hand kerchief counter. "Wotsmattcr now?' asked -the gltf.at the ribbon counter. "Alntchoogittln nutted?" -"WoJJaskln thatfur?" - , "Tooralookinkina thin." "Alntnuthcr." "Yortoo. xBetterflckshcr back hair. Scummln down.'1 - ' "Quitcherrubcrln. Mine jeroan bIzV-But she fixed her back hair. "SayHl!" ' : "SaycherscftV -x "Jewergltcherforchun told?" "Ych wunsertwlce Ever gitchoors?" "Yen. Oootole JuhT . "Erdkitsralth sayinso. CuiHtrso?"' "Notohctt" " . " "Thinkltwill?" f t "Lykasnot. Letchoono' fit doesi'V "Sayjen. Juno - Kittenbllls keepincump nyr "Awka moff!" " ' ' "Stroo zlxna stannlnccr.' "HowJeerltr ? In "Sallright. Ycolecrabout It soenuff. Say-. Jen. cantchooketch on" "Say. there, you girls!" Interrupted the floorwalker, who happened, along at this moment Go back to yor CKsteraers!" ONE SUNDAY ON THE RANGE. Correspondence Lake County Examiner. On Friday evening the Baptist Church bell pealed forth Its- tones which serves as Invitation to the faithful of that sect (and they are manifold, I hope) to come forward with all wanderers and stray sheep available to hear the word ot God. Wrapt irt Its flaky bosom overhead, the earth seemed' dreary. A sudden hungry yell or howl from coyotes on tho sliehill back of town drew an occasional bark from the town dogs; a pale, careless moon on the southeast peered above the hill tops from behind" a snow cloud; the or gan la the Baptist Church, operated by intricate hands, sent forth In sanctimo nious and heavenly tones the well-known hymn, "Nearer My God to Thee," the speaker In the pulpit balled out some ot the finest chunks of religious lore, trans mitted to him. by all appearances, from the regions ot eternal bliss. ... In a favorite resort in town where orange cider Is being consumed In large quanti ties, the violin and banjo were operated on by artistic hands and struck up the favorite tunes "Haste to the Wedding and Ptoh a Cpolea Vocth." When Mr. Dykeman, of "the firm ot Heryford & Dykeman, of the Mammoth Stables, came, tearing along the street announcing to the people that the Mammoth Stables and the opera-house, with their three acres of roof, were breaking down under three feet of slush and snow, people rushed to and fro. Heryford had 100 horses and about 40 vehicles and other property In the building. Old Bill Barry, who owns the property (If his- debts wcro paid) sauntered down Water street to ward the stables knapush in hand, and with about 11 Inches of Pete Post's tan glefoot stowed away In his commtssary departracnt. He was heard to soliloquize: "In November. 1502, the best of ray 50 years' labor .went up in smoke In this block, and now the balance goes down to tha devil beneath a snow bank." The roof creaked and groaned and rafters split. . . . Little Bill Heryford (weighing only 230 pounds) lit another cigar, spat out and struck a poor unwary fly that wandered around the electric lamp. Supplication went up from the worshippers In the Bap tist Church to the most high throne, be seeching the King of Kings to save the town. Even the stevedore was heard to ejaculate: "Oh. Jesus, whatever you may do, save the dancehall." Bill Heryford said: "It might hold up until morning, and we'll shovel the snow off." Came the dawn, and. like the Star-Spangled Banner, the flag was still there. The roof with Its lerrlble load was still Intact The electric light, which Is transmitted to us from the famous state line, was very dim, indeed, but we lighted matches, no as to find the way out to the scene of action, as it was scarcely dawn. . Roos ters crowed a drowsy crow, and from their lofty perches did Indicate that graves had cloced and daylight hath come, and now Is the time for action. Three Emeraldlslers with shovels mounted the roof Walter Russlll, Timo thy McCarthy. Irish comedian, and Bill Barry. Russlll Is a modern Hercules, and was supplied with a two-horse Iron scraper, with a crowbar for a handle: Me had- a 2x2 scoop shovel; Bill effused a lot ot air giving orders. He had so much air at large that a neighboring windmill, though being frozen; got mov ing, and BUI shouted: "If I had Frank Light here with our own chlnook we vouId clear the snow off all the roofs In town." The boys took another orange elder, and the snow went down a-flylng and at 10 o'clock 200 tons ot snow had been shoveled off. and all was safe. M'CARTHY COME DOWN. Vouched For. Boston Herald. This ia a true cat story. A certain cat. much petted and adored, Is believed to understand language. It having re peatedly acted upon what was said to it but not long since It did far more and better. It obeyed literally. The man of the house Is a great hunter. He loves to shoulder his gun and bring down small game, and one morning when ho was setting forth for sport, his wife called out: "If you will bring home- a rabbit I will make a pie!" The cat sat by. but said nothing. A few hours after while tho wife was1 busy with her sewing the cat appeared by her side, car rying n- nfbblt in his mouth, and then dropping the "game" beside his .mis tress began to sing and purr like a tin kettle on the fire. Nothing will con vince the friends of this wonderful cat that he doesn't understand all that Is said in his presence and they are now really afraid to mention a want, as tho dear fellow will think he must Imme diately gratify it, like another Mar quis of Carabas. As to Slugging. London Chronicle "The English play football and yet don't slug." That sentence from an American paper, quoted In these columns yesterday, employs the same verb "to slug," of course, which appears In "slugger." a pu. gilist, and "slugging match." a prizefight It Is own brother to "slog" and akin to "slay." Absolutely different In origin, as In moaning, la the other verb, "slug," own cousin of "slouch" and "slack." which Spenser used intransitively when he wrote ot "slugging all night In a cabin," and Milton transitively when he declared, that episcopacy "worsens and sluggs Godavari River and placed In the local Indian the most learned and seeming religious of our Ministers." Yet. curiously enough, no body knows to which of the two families "slug." a crudely shaped bullet, belongs. Is It something with which one slogs? Or something as heavy as a "slug." or "sluggish" person? Or was It supposed to resemble the slug that crawls In gar dens? The "Camera Fiend." Chicago Tribune. The camera fiend who respects neither age nor sex has taken another step toward suppression. It will not take many more such Instances ot dis gusting pursuit and persecution as that presented In New York on the oc casion of Miss Roosevelt's visit to the city to bring about the enactment of laws to regulate the use of cameras on the public streets. It Is but a short time since the foremost citizen ot Chi cago was hounded by photographers while on one of the saddest of errands. Suffering from a shock, from which, indeed, he never recovered; he had to endure this further infliction. Now a young woman who has never sought notoriety Is not allowed to make pur chases for her approaching marriage without having every step followed by photographcrs. It is one of the worst of the abuses which are collectlvely known as yellow Journalism. XEAVS.PAPISR WAIFS. "Hot' many women did you try to marry bforo you got mcV 'fht exclaimed In anger. "ou wre'' th 13th,' "he ansu-ered sadly: "and I never thought to count them before." Judge. Do you bl!eve In the faith cure?" "I should say I do." "Had a practical demon stration, enr "Yes. Somebody tried it on my rheumatism and It cured all the faith- I had." Cleveland Leader. "Yes." remarked the professor, "I rather pride myself on the discovery of another hy pothecs." "Indeed," replied Mrs. Cumrox. a little doubtfully. "T had an Idea they were quite extinct." "Washington Star. The agent ot the bultdlnr had agreed to pat new -wallpaper on the room. "What kind do you prefer" ha asked. "Something with large figure T" "Decidedly not.' said tho new tenant. "They would always remind me of the rent I $ave to pay." Chicago Tribune. Election -Canvasser What does your hus band, think -of. the fiscal question, Mrs. Hodge? Mrs. Hodge Well, sir. when 'e's a talking to a protection fat' e a free-trader, and when 'c's, talking .to a free-trader 'e'a a protection 1st,, and when e'a talking: to-me 'e'a a ravins luaitlc: Pasca. GONTROLS'iTSMPETITOPS. Interstate Commission Reports on Pennsylvania Railroad Combine. "WASHINGTON. Feb. 5. President Roosevelt today transmitted to the House the following report submitted to him .by the; Interstate Commerce Commission. In response to a resolution regarding the alleged combination ot the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and certain other roads named therewith, In violation of the anti-trust law: Washington. Feb. 2. 19U. The President: The Interstate Commerce Commission has the honor to submit the following- response to your request of Janu ary 2t. Inclosing a resolution addressed that day by the House of Representative?, which read aa follows: "Resolved, that the President of the Unit ed States be and he Is hereby requested. If not Incompatible with the public interests, to report to the House of Representative for its Information all the facta within, tho knowledge of the Interstate Commerce Com mission which show or tend to show that there: exists at this time, or heretofore, with in the last 12 months has. existed, a com bination or arrangement between the Penn sylvania Railroad Company, the Pennsyl vania Company, the Norfolk. & Western, the B. & O. Railway Company, th Phl a delpbia. Baltimore & Waahlnston Railwu' Co., the Northern Central Rallwuy Co. art the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company, -any- two or mor of said companies, tr violation ot the act passed July 2. 1SU0. and entitled 'an act to protect trade and coir merce against unlawful restraints and mo nopolies. or act amendatory thereof The only detlnlte facts .known to Commission, believed to have bearlnp on th- subject matter ot this resolution. rc ths appearing In the annual reports tlied by i companies named In compliance with iert'.- 20 ot the act to regulate commerce. eX'p" as the same facts, or some of them. haa been disclosed from, time to time In p-c-ceedlns before the Commission. From tL latest of these reports, coverinx th" yea-ending- June 30. 11M)3 the following figures and other data have been compiled. Original Peaasjlraal System. The Pennsylvania, Railroad Company as an authorized capital stock ct 5400.000,W of which $302,512,302 has been Issued and Is now outstanding. This company appears ta control and is understood to control all ,r e lines embraced In tho Pennsylvania syate-r,. io called, having an aggregate mileage t'f 10.909.StJ and gross earnings for th? Tfr named of $23S.172.32S. The term Pennav! vanla. system as here used Includes Oe lines of the Pennsylvania Railroad Compn-r the Pennsylvania Company, the Phlladelp Baltimore & Washlnston. the riulade'ipa. & Boston and the Northern Central Ral way Company, but does not Include t? Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company t Norfolk & Western or the Chesapcak- i. Ohio Railway Companies. The Pcnnsyl.acl Company, which controls all tho lines i " the Pennsylvania system west of Pltt-nburp and Erie, has an authorised capital stork e" SSO.00O.000. ot which $10,000,000 has been issued. All this Issued stock. Is owned ty the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The Philadelphia. Baltimore & Washington Railroad Company has an authorized caps tal of ?23.W0.-30. of which J2n.J03.350 has "been Issued and Is now outstanding. Of r' Issued stock, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company owns 323.400,775. The Northern Central Railroad Compac has an authorised capital stock of $2V0QJ 000. ot which $17,193,100 has been issued arl Is now outstanding. Of this Issued sts.fc the Pennsylvania Railroad Company owns $9,401,930. The Baltiomre & Ohio Railroad Corner, has an authorized capital stock ot JJGOWO 000 preferred and $125,000,000 ot comc:n. of which $50,9SU.414 of preferred and $!2I 272.600 of common have been Issued and are now outstanding. Ot this Issued stck the Pennsylvania Railroad Corapanv own $21,470,000 ot preferred and $30,292,300 common: tb-s Pennsylvania Company own $5,000,000 of preferred and $11,044,600 c" common: the Northern Centrat Ral.; "al A Company owns $1,000,000 of preferred anC $737,300 ot common: the Philadelphia. Ba" tlmore & Washlnston Railroad Company owns $1,000,000 of preferred and $7Sl.o0 -Z common. It thus appears that the Penr' vanla Railroad Company and thro? thr companies which It controls own an assre gate of $2S.4S0.0O0 of Baltimore 5 Ohio p:e ferred and $42,000,000 of common. Almost Controls 11. Jt O. The Norfolk & Western Railroad i orn pany has an authorized capital ot $2aOW 0O preferred stock and $(!tl.000.000 eomraoa a' I of which has been Issued and in now cut standing. Of this Issued stock the P-r-av! vanla Railroad Company owns $3,300 000 " preferred and $20,330,000 of common tl"5 Pennsylvania Company owns $3,000,000 preferred and $1,300,000 ot comnijn. tk? Northern Central Railway Company cw- $300,000 preferred and $1,000,000 of c:tn nion. It thus appears that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and tho two other ct'r ' panics which It controls- own In th assr Kate ?l!.0OO.0 of Norfolk. & -Wcnicrn P- ferred. and $22.530.ovu common. Otvnt One-Fourth of C. O. The Chesapeake & Ohio Rallwar. unlimited authorized capital stock, ha' sued $S200 first preferred. $S00 second r f erred and $62,790,400 common stock, w. is now outstanding. Of this Issued comn t stock the Pennsylvania Railroad Cutr-.-owns $10,130,000. the Pennsylvania Cot pa $4,000,000 and the Northern Central Ra..w: Company $1,300,000. It thus appeals t .a the Pennsylvania Railroad and two c -r companies which It controls own in the a? gregate S13.030.000 of the common stock c the Chesapeake. & Ohio Railroad Compar.- The roregolns statement shows the ex. pt to whlcli the stock of the several ral.n'aA companies named in the discussion Is owr by any other railroad company named there in. In addition to these facts of stock own erahlp the annual reports above referred show the names of the officers and d:recr- of the several railway companies named the resolution of the 30th day of June. r' Han Prevented Competition. Fmm the general knowledge and )nf - matlon of the committee, the furthe- state ment Is warranted that since the acqy's.::" by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company a-"i tho companies controlled by It of the s 3 of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Compar the Norfolk & Western Railroad C-.-r.ra'-and the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway t- pany. as above set forth, the published rate? ot tho several railroads named have been better maintained and in some instances ad vanced, and that there appears to be e competition In rates between these lines ta formerly: but thU Is also true of cmpe'i tlve rates generally In other parts cf 'he country. As to whether the facts herein vtt: given show or tend to show a vlo.atl.n ' the act of Congress referred to in tbe ro tation, the Commission expresses no "pin as It Is charged with no duty in connect o with that enactment and has no aufs-f-.ti to determine a question arising thereunde-. All of which is respectfully submitted MARTIN KNAPP. Chalm.ars GERMANY'S BACK IS STIFF Will Never Allow Prcncli Control of Morocco's Police. BERLIN, Feb. 5. Germany's attit:i toward the proposition to place the con trol of the Moroccan police in the ha"? of France and Spain Is one of Arm c -position, since the arrangement wc:::, according to the German view, araoi't practically to giving France full authir.t? over the police, which Germany hit '.ft 3 has steadily resisted. The Foreign Ofi'c says that the delegates to the confer-: at Algcclraa will devote the next few dav? while the conference la sitting to an in formal exchange of views on the subject of the management of the police in xi attempt to shape some acceptable plan for adjusting the question. Tntllandler Joins Conference. ALGSCIRAS. Spain. Feb. 5. The Fren h delegation at, the Moroccan Conference was reinforced to day by the arrival ot Count St. Rene Taillandier, who was tha French Minister at Fez during the Franco-German crisis last summer. The Count had talks with Ambassador 'White and other delegates. His- presence is considered to relate to the private dis cussions going on between the delegates on the main Franco-German issue. The Ambassadors say that the outlook continues hopeful, but they admit that the efforts of the disinterested powers arn not yet resulting in securing an exact basis for accord. France Expects Settlement. PARIS, Feb. 5. Ministerial circles hero consider it probable that the Alcec.ras Conference will terminate with1 a a month and express the opinion that ai arrangement -will be reached relative t- the customs and also the police, with whose organization, France wilt be charged upon condition that a certain number ot foreign officers bo appointed. Operation on Felix Agnus. BALTIMORE, Feb. 5. General Felix Agnus, for the past quarter of a cen tury puDiisner of tne Baltimore Araert can. .-was today operated on at Johns Hopkins Hospital for appendicitis.