S ' THE yOBXIXG OREGpyiAJSV FRIDAY. APRIL 13, 1906. . lHfc JslLYtK LliMMj. Wni 11115 BAKU TAILIIU.. in uic uncuun wuia. I Don't Let the Smile Cone Off. Entered at the Postofflce at Portland. Or.. as Second-Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. CT XXVABXABI.T IN ADVANCE. a (Br Mall or Express.) CAILT. SUNDAY INCLUDED. Twelve month Elr TnnfVi Three month! . .... One month Delivered by carrier, per year....... Delivered by carrier, per month.... Lei time, per wetk...-. . .... Sunday, one year - Weekly, one year tissued Thursday) cunaay ar.a wcxiy. one year 2.25 . .75 . 9.00 . .75 . .20 . 2.S0 . 1.50 . S.C0 umv Tft rksctt Send Dostofflce money erder. express order or personal check on your local bank: Stamp. cola or c'TeBC3r are at the seildera risk. EASTERN BUSINESS OFTICE. The S. C. BeckwHfa Special Ageacy New York, room 43-50. Tribune building. Chi cago, rooms 510.512 Tribune building. KEPT ON SALE. Chicago Auditorium Annex. Poatolflce News Co.. 178 Dearborn street. St. Paul, Miasu N. 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TVheatlev Movable News SUnd. corner Market and Kearney streets; Foster Orear. Ferry News Stand. Wathdngton. D. C. Ebbltt House. Pens ylvanla avenue. acted. Legally, the Portland Gas Com pany does not exist. It Is a dream, a chimera, a figment or the Imagination, a beckoning shadow 'djre. It is a- bBd dream, ive admit, almost a nightmare: but actual, legal existence It has not. Quo -warranto proceeding would prob ably show that Its pretended franchise Is a pure usurpation. The physical property of this so-called corporation Is. of course, sacred, but In dealing with Jts charter the Legislature need not be hampered by any consideration of vested rights, for that which has no ex istence cannot acquire vested rights. roKTT.AND. rrtnAV. Arnn, is, isos, charged by the Indian, cat off their I xe -eKorts or tae amBtwoaa ewe e long black braid, Indian pride saffered exect in uieir wnaies are tie sirca- rERPETrAL CHAHTEKS. Mr. C. B. Watson, of Ashland, has presented in The Oregonian a striking argument to sustain the proposition that, under the constitution of Oregon, "a perpetual franchise cannot be cre ated," Hip meaning is that the charter nf every corporation existing in this state may bp repealed by the Legisla ture, Mr. Watson's argument is based upon the second article o section XI of the state constitution, which declares that all corporations, except those for municipal purposes, must be formed under general laws, and that all such laws "may be amended, altered or re pealed." It Is provided, however, that such amendment, alteration or repeal must not "Impair or destroy any vest ed corporate rights." Several cases are cited by Mr. Watson -which seem to uphold his view. The first arose under a section of the con stitution of Michigan whose language is almost word for word the same sis section 2, article XI, of our own, ex cept that it omits the clause about im pairing vested corporate rights. This clause plainly means nothing more than the ordinary rule that private property ,must not be taken for public use with out compensation and does Jiot modify or restrict the right to repeal charters. The court said in the Michigan case that an Irropealable privilege could not be conferred by the Legislature under the section cited, and, since our constl tutlon contains the same section, the decision is valid here. In fact, in the second decision which Mr. Watson quotes, the Supreme Court of the United States uses language which clearly implies that the constitutions of PROTECTION FOR THE DEPOSITOR. Mr. McLeod, candidate for the Legis lature from Union County, has strange notions as to our state and private banks. He is opposed to a law, he says. which "shall give state and private banks authority to issue bills to circu late as money." Of coarse he i. So Is every other person of sense. Judgment and experience. No one who has read the history of our country has failed to be profoundly Impressed by the lessons of ruin and disaster taught by the "wildcat" banking methods of early days. Since the Oregon Constitution expressly forbids the creation of state banks with power to issue bills to circu late as money, and no one had ever proposed a change In that particular. Mr. McLeod's declaration has-no appli cation to present Issues. "We shall never go -back to the old style of fren zied finance. We have Improved meth ods, easier and more skillful, but none the less effective. We have lately found out much, too. about modern finance, and we have learned that there Is room for Improvement. The public is beginning to think and to demand that the depositor in any bank shall have the fullest possible knowledge of Its resources, responsibil ity and methods. The time has gone by when information of this kind can be denied without exciting suspicion In the public mind that there Is something to conceal, and that, therefore, such an In stitution is not worthy of complete and unreserved public confidence. Mr. Mc Leod declares that "it Is hard for me to conceive of a better .system than our present banking system." We have no present banking system. Our state and private banks are under no restraint of law whatever except the common lia bility under our statutes. You can put a banker In jail In Oregon If he steals; but that is not enough. He should be prevented from stealing, so far as pos sible. There should be most explicit and complete safeguards 'around him to prevent any misfeasance or misconduct whatever. If we had a slate banking lav.- in this state, we should have had a better banking record. Most serious disasters have occurred among private banks, Some of them, having failed, paid noth ing to the depositors. One paid 19 per cent; another 33 per cent; another S6 per cent, and another, the Portland Savings Bank, the most disastrous fail ure in the history of the state, about 50 per cent. Xatlonal banks have failed In Oregon. In some of them the de positors got all their money back. In others a great part of It: but In none, so far as the recollection of The Orego nian goes, has the experience of the depositors been so disastrous as In the majority of ruined private banks. On Xovember 27, 1903, In course of an Interview in The Oregonian. Mr. Benja min I. Cohen, president of the Portland Trust Company of Oregon, an Institu tion that believes - In publicity, and practices what it preaches, made the following statement: In nine, out of ten bank dloaMers. the peo ple are deceived by the bank manager, who will not tell them the condition or the bank's finances. Honet banks are not afraid to make statements. DihoneK banks are. The fafe and solvent bank has nothing to fecr from publicity. Plain -word?, but true. They describe precisely the situation in Oregon. Op- the same kind ef a shock and developed the same feeling of k&tred and resent ment that would be expressed by the little white child whose carls were sud denly removed by her guardian and -teacher as a punishment for an alleged offense. The Indian dog is an Important fix ture of the Indian home, and. It 3dajor Edwards, as alleged, "wounded, crip pled and killed a number of dogs be longing to Indian -families," the Insult and injustice would rankle Just as deep ly as similar treatment to the petted and beloi'ed dog of some white child. Perhaps the system of treating the In dian as a child and a dependent Is wrong. It might be well to cut him oas, bat are subject to control and In recent years have bee a checked to some extent. It is found, however, that the health of the Cornell girl at graduation is as good, on the average, ax that of the Vassar or the Smith girl, and quite as good as that of the Toang Ladies Seminary girl, whose name is legion. A young woman of from IS to 2. who Is driven in so-called educational work. whether In Latin, 'mathematics, danc ing., late hours, unsanitary dressing and high-keyed functions of various sorts. Is yaore than apt to come through the ordeal in a fagged, nervous condition that Eavites disease or presages decline. It' is the province of the educator. whether president of a coeducational or adrift and let him take his chances with IT?1' 'e or the preceptress of a his -white or black brother, without as--W" ntehlng school, to control sucn slstance from the Government. So tters- and insist upon a normal de lone. however, an wp stick to the ays- I velent of mind and body that Is tern which they have been taught to rthy of the name of education. That regard as the proper one. It should bel te tere is In this matter, but It Is carried out without bulldoxlng methods I K to make thoughtful parents In such as have been charged against Ma jor-Edwards. As an Indian rebellion the affair Is in consequential, hut the charges made by the Indians of misconduct are of suffi cient gravity to demand an Investiga tion. We have for years acknowledged certain rights of the Indians, and any abrogation of those rights or unneces sarily harsh treatment of the Indians will provoke trouble. stst upon a college curriculum what eVerthe college that will give their daughters, "though educated," a chance for life, health and the pursuit of hap praess. Oregon and Michigan mean exactly the same thing with regard to the right of posltJon to an efficient state banking me legislature to repeat corporate ,aw comes only from those banks which have their own reasons to dread publlc- thnrters The reason for reserving this right by constitutional provision is, of course, evident. The United States Supreme Court had decided In the famous Dart mouth College case that a charter where no right of repeal was reserved was irrevocable. The repeal clause was inserted in our constitution to avert the pernicious consequences of that decis ion, whose effect war? to free corpora tions from the control of the law; and In the Sinking Fund cases, cited by Mr. Wat6on, the court says that such a re peal clause is special warning to all wrporatlons that their charters are not Irrevocable; "Under such a clause." a 'great authority remarks, "there can be no intention" to make charters perpet ual, and whatever power the corpora tion derives from Its charter Is lost by the repeal of the law granting Jt. The Supreme Court remarks In an other case that charters held under a repeal clause like that In the Oregon, constitution are "subject to be changed, modified or destroyed at the will" of the Legislature. The repeal provision, nys the court, is a part of every char . ter, whether granted directly Ty the Legislature or by a city under legis lative authority. It is hardly possible 10 believe, therefore, that any corpora Hon In Oregon formed alnce the constl tutlon was adopted holds an lrrepeal able charter. But how about the gas company? This corporation obtained its charter from the Territorial Legfe lature Just before the state constitu tion was adopted. Is It exempt from ' the repeal provision? Is it an irrevoca ble and everlasting monument to the folly of our territorial legislators? Certainly not. When the territorial government expired, all Its laws ex i plred. Xot one of them was valid until it was re-enacted. Every corporate charter granted' by the territory expired w 1th Us creator. "A corporation:" says the United States Supreme Court, "can only have an existence under the cx press law of the state or sovereignty under -which it is created." How, then. can a corporation continue to exist -when the law and the sovereignty -which created it exist no longer? It cannot. Such a supposition Is little short of madness. We cannot, there fore, escape the conclusion that the gas company's charter expired with the ter a rltorial government which granted it. t LBut perhaps It was re-enacted. Let us sec. Section 7. Article XVIII. of the constitution re-enacts all the ter ritorial laws except such as are lncon slstent with the, constitution. Thegas company's charter -was inconsistent with the constitution in two particulars, First, it -was granted by a special law which is expressly forbidden. Second it contains no provision for repeal whereas the constitution permits no charters to be granted without such provision. The gas company's charter. being thus flagrantly and doubly lncon slstent with the constitution, having exblred with the territorial govern x mcnU was not and could not be re-en uy. UMATIM-jA INDIAN TROUBLE. Indian troubles of a serious nature came to an end In Oregon when "Cap tain Jack, of the red Modocs." was offi cially dispatched to the happy hunting grounds. It has been so long since Ore- gonians regarded their red brethren in any other -light than harmless nuisances that it will be difficult to awaken much excitement over the threatened trouble on the Umatilla reservation. If the al leged twentieth-century Indian Insur rection involved other tribes than the Umatlllas, Walla Wallas and Cayuses. there might be more occasion for alarm. but the tribes named are about as near to being "good Indians" as any spec! mens of the race that can be found anywhere In the West. If any one of the numerous charges made against Jklajor Edwards, Indian agent on the Umatilla reservation, can be proven. It is quite clear that the service would be Improved by substituting another agent as soon a possible. Truthfulness has never been one of the predominating virtues of the In dian race, but the charges filed by the Indians have a straightforward Ting to them which will hardly fall to cause the general public to connect the calling out of troops in some way with the local trouble between' the Indians and Major Edwards. Stock has been driven across the reservation for a good many years, and there have been In the past slight disputes over the matter; but It has never before been deemed neces sary to .call out the troops In order to prevent -manslaughter. When Major Lee Moorhouse, In the position of In dian agent, looked after the welfare of these same tribes, every Individual member, from the chiefs down to the wildest young bucks. handled a? the Junior class In a kinder garten. Major -Moorhouse not only managed them to perfection during his administration as Indian agent, but since his retirement from the govern ment service still retains their Implicit confidence, and could undoubtedly, sin gle-handed and alone, put down any re bellion among them fully as satisfactor ily and expeditiously as It could be quelled by the Government troops. The Umatlllas are a fat. lazy, good natured tribe, and have always seemed to be well contented with their lot. With their gaudy blankets, feathers and long black hair, they have for years added a picturesque hue to the streets of Pendleton, which lies -on the edge of the reservation; but, aside from absorbing large quantities of firewater whenever the occasion presented Itself, they have always conducted themselves in keeping -with the demands of the Government. The Indian, laspiteof the efforts of the Government to educate him and lift him up to a. higher plane of civilization, etill remains a simple child of Nature, and as a child he mast be regarded. When Major Edwards, as WORTHY MISSIONARY EFFORT. Martha S. Gielow. -president-general of the Southern Industrial Association, has undertaken to increase the mem berehlp of that organization to 100,000 at 51 a year? in order to establish and maintain schools for the poor white children of the Appalachian region. The mountaineers of that region, cut off for several generations from" the influences of civilization, are mentally slow and Industrially sluggish a type of non-vicious degenerates who live as close to Nature as the very hills them selves. The ancestors of these people were the first pioneers of the idea of constitutional liberty In this country. and the tendency of Nature to follow Its environment and return to flrst princi ples when this environment Is one of Isolation Is apparent in these densely ignorant, exceedingly poor, but In the main kind-hearted, men and -women of the Appalachian district. It was from the sturdy Scotch-French stock from wmcn these mountaineers sprung that Andrew Jackson and Andrew Johnson also sprang, while another man, born In a cabin so poor that It had no windows, and of a family so poor that only two of Its members could read or write, came up through a boy hood of privation and toll and a stren uous young manhood to be known as Abraham Lincoln. Examples like these show the -quality of these people now dormant through lack of even the simplest opportunity for education. The mountaIn-ers, ac cording to Mies Gielow. are quickly re sponsh'e to efforts made through schools for the benefit of their children. Wherever education goes, she says, the mountaineers soon cut a window In their cabins and in a little time they find that two room? are necessary where one had before sufficed. "All they need," she continues. "Is a little enlightenment.' adding: "Schoolhouses can be built for from n00 to ISOO, and 5300 a year will support a missionary teacher." Herein is outlined briefly and simply a missionary effort that is so far In ad vance of tfiat which sends the repre sentatlves- of religious creeds across the seas to labor among the so-called "hea then" that it must appeal forcefully to enlightened minds. Thousands of dol lars are squandered annually through religious zeal In the foreign missionary cause, while hundreds of 'dollars are asked in valn wherewith to build schoolhouses and introduce through them to civilization the children of fathers honored in the early struggle for liberty on the American Continent, but who, at the close of the war of the Revolution, drifted In their poverty Into the mountains and there degenerated from simplicity to ignorance. These people, though living within a few hun dred miles of the National capital, have long beea out of touch with the world beyond their skyline. They have, liter ally speaking, gone back to Nature. Their rescue from further recession de pends upon carrying schools to them. Hence the appeal that is made from time to time by the Southern Indus trial Association for this purpose Is a missionary plea of the most practical kind. Common decency is In sickening re volt at the tales that tell of white women or girls in this city on terms of vile Intimacy with Chinamen. Imag Inatlon Is staggered for an explanation of the intimacy of Clara Brown, an at tractive looking young white woman of 22 years, and Tee Chow, a Chinese. laborer of the very lowest type. Ex cuse. of course, there is none. It Is In evidence cven that this young woman sought the Chinaman In his basement home, and was not pursued by him, but herself the pursuer. A solution .of such a case on any ordinary social by potbesls is impossible. It can only be dismissed from the public mind as one of the Inexplicable freaks of perverted human nature. The young woman In this case is at least equally culpable with the Chinaman, since she was cvi dently his willing slave at first and could at any time have escaped what ever bondage she was In by simply keeping away from his vile abode. Any penally 'that can be inflicted In the case would prove inadequate to so vile and monstrous an offense against de cency. It was but natural that the Jetty ap propriation bill should be placed Jeopardy by an endless number amendments which Interested parties ought to attach to it. Such a large proportion of the river and harbor bills of the East and Middle West are made up of graft, pure and simple, that It Is very difficult for a legitimate project to get a hearing on Its merits. The treat ment threatened toward this bill only serves to confirm the views of Lincoln Sleffcns, David Graham Phillips and other writers who -have made a study of legislative methods at Washington. The showing made by Major Langfltt and other friends of the Jetty bill was so conclusive that it must have been apparent to all that a serious loss con fronted the Government unless the tern porary appropriation was made. No such showing could be made for any of the other projects which an attempt was made to saddle on the Columbia Jetty bllli By A.lH. BaHard. Plate. (Suggested by Mr. Murphy's Cartoon.) The -world turns rouad and 'round Each man his horn will toot; Each tries to own a piece of grouad Everybody works but "Piute. Frew house and home and taxes high The poof man ne'er can scoot. There's no rest till he comes to die Everybody works but "Plate." 'Piute sits up and makes Us sore. Receives from all tribute. . - Everybody adds to his great store Everybody works but "Piute." The worker cannot pay for gai. It does no good to hoot. lie can only toil and sass Everybody works but "Flute. Perhaps this Mr. Piute O. CraU The people some day '11 shoot. He's really growing much too fat The mean andjgrasplng brute; Perhaps, some day, the people will Get very next to "Flute." And. with their numbers, keep him still Also give him the hoot. Throw out your chest and look up. Whoso stoops In body stoops In 'mind. Be fair and you'll win the fair. Be courajteous and you'll gain things worth while. Go to It. Stick to it. Never gUfe up. Watch' a bull pup. He can teach you something. He may be ugly to look at. but be gets there. - Life Is much like a newspaper assign ment you have to dig up the news before you can make a Kood use of It. Among the Socially Annolnted The Wouldy-If-You-Couldlcs arc going to buy aft automobile when the price gets down to fKO. A beautiful Persian tomcat on Portland Heights can tell cads on sight. He shuns his mistress and spits at most of her ac quaintances. Several, new brands of gum have super aeded the good old spruce In fashionable circle. Thu manners hereabout have passed beyond the pine-tree stage. The Has-Beens have married off an other daughter. Officers guarded the door, so that the Kroorn could not run away. Members of the Tart Set still sit through a theatrical performance without crack ing a smile. Mrs. Dennis Muggins will give a re cherche corned-becf-and-cabbage party at her residence In Slabtown Saturdaynight. Guests will arrive at S o'clock; the police at II. Mrs. One Lung and little Misses Haif and Quarter Lung took an airing Wednes day on the St. Johns electric car. Mr. E. Edgerton Spongs received an- Ca'cage Tribane. The failure of a yrlratc baaTc at Pe kin illustrates the need of state su pervision, of such banks. This was one ef the eldest concerns of Us kind in Central Illinois It bad long done a good business and was considered per fectly sound. The business saen of Pekla and the farmers of Tazewell CoUaty trusted' it Implicitly. Its meth ods of business, as often happens In sach cases, turn out to have been much less trustworthy than they were con sidered. The bank was cloielyconnected with a wagon factory, and. wishing to help the factory broaden out. made it ex cessive loans oh bad security. It also made other poor Investments. A time carae when t,he bank needed cash. Un able to get it fro na the factory er its other bad Investments. It went to the wall, causing heavy loss to stockhold ers and depositors. Its liabilities are put at 3400,300, Its assets , as scarcely $250,000. If the baaU had Tteea ttatler atate mn- yerrlnfeBi there rreiald Tsave Tseem nek lam. It would have been visited at Intervals by an official examiner. He would have called attention to Its risky investments as soon as they began and ordered them stopped. They pronaoiy would have been stopped and the fail ure prevented. If they nad not been the bank -would haver been forced to close before Its liabilities had grown much If any bigger than its assets. Official regulation Is necessary to prevent both dishonest banking and incompetent banking. There usually has been some of each when, a failure takes place In a time of prosperity. In some cases more of one. in others more of the other. Supervision Is needed In large cities, where nobody knows his neighbor, chiefly to prevent roguery. When a private bank breaks In Chicago It usually Is because people have trust ed with their money some man with whom thev are .unacaualnted and he has stolen It. Supervision Is needed In smaller places, where everyone knows everyone else, matnly as a safeguard against rashness and Incapacity. The bank at Pckln seems to have taiieu not. because its proprietors were deliber ately dishonest but because they, vio lated the Immutable principles or sate banking. Several attempts have been made to get a law passed subjecting private banks to proper public control. They bare failed because of the opposition of country legislators. The failure of the bank at Pekln should open the eyes of the people of Tazewell County and other rural districts to the dcslrabll itv of such a measure and cause them to elect legislators who will vote for It. Every coaeera Tfhlch zecelves the meaey of the public la traat aTseald be repaired, -nhen called .upom By iae proper effcla. to aho-rr what It la dolag with that aseaey. - Port Townscnd Leader. Don't let' the people from thc outside come Into your town and find you cursing your luclc The Only Drawback. . . East Oregonian. This age of big farms must pa before" Umatilla County will enjoy her best fruition. Philosophy Up in Polk. West Side Enterprise. The man who cannot trust -himself should not, expect the grocer or butch er' to trust nlrii. Much of the Navy Ashore. Cleveland Leader. "Not enough officers" has of late been the constant complaint or tne Xivr Department. So much Is the want felt that It had a great influence In the Naval Academy hazing Investigation. Mih officials feared the result or se othir remittance from home last week. I verltv In dealing with the cadets. Con- He will abandon the Bull Run cocktail grcss has been appealed to tor react. The Chicago wheat market scored a sensational advance of- l'i cents per bushel yesterday, with a very heavy volume of trading. ' There is nothing in the statistical position of wheat that warrants much of an advance at this time, but with so much "easy money" in the country the time is ripe for a good speculative bulge. The Chicago market. In the bands of a strong oper ator like Armour, and with decreasing stocks and uncertain crop reports. Is good for an advance of several cents per bushel, regardless of what the Eu ropean market might do. Up to the .present time the market has lacked a leader, and It Is not clear that this most necessary factor In an artificial boom in prices has appeared. Saturday's marketafter the Good Friday holiday. may show as much weakness a; there was strength In the slluatlon.yesterday. COEDUCATION. Andrew D. White Is authority on many things, among them being the matter of coeducation. He was former ly president of-Cornell University, and, while occupying this position, he had ample opportunity to study this system and note its advantages and defects. In a talk to a large number of the graduates of that institution in New York recently, Mr. White expressed his gratification over what he termed the "preternatural foresight of Ezra Cor nell, which led him to found a coeduca tional Institution." and declared that much of the success and honor that had come to Cornell had been due to its women students. This Is more than an empty or arbi trary opinion: It Is the view of a man with a mind well equipped both by ex perience and obecrvatlon to speak upon the subject. Mr. White at flrst had grave doubts as to the advisability of placing young men and women In col lege together, giving -them the same studies and subjecting them to the same mental drill. To use his own was as easily j words, he was not so sanguine as was Mr. Corne'l concerning the advisability of establishing a coeducational institu tion. One of the chief arguments used by the opponents of this Idea was that It would make the men students effem inate. Another, of course, was that It -would make the young women students "mannish." Not wishing to make a mistake In a matter so vital, Mr. White went to Oberlln to observe the effects of coeducation there. Among the flrst things that he learned in those rela tively far-away years was that Oberlln had sent a greater proportion of Its students to the Army In time of the Civil War than any other college. This refuted the statement that coeducation made men students "effeminate," while further testimony in regard to the quiet, orderly lives that many women who had graduated from Oberlln Col lege were leading disposed of the argu ment that coeducation made women students un womanly." s The dangers that shadow young women In a coeducational Institution are of a Dhrslcal nature, and in this respect they are "hot unlike those that hoer over "finishing" schools for girls. Had the late James A. Bailey swept over the civilized world at the head of an army destroying cities, blighting fields and slaying men, be would have been held In perpetual remembrance as a hero. Instead of sorrow and desola tion he brought innocent pleasure to millions of people In every civilized land, but no historian will mention bis name. The cursory record of his death In the newspapers excited little Inter est and no regret, yet there are few men called "great" who have contrib uted more to the happiness of their gen erallon. Some day we shall have a Hall of Fame for those who have made life pleasant, and Bamum and Bailey's names will be the flrst ones written on Its walls. Cannibals on the Admiralty group. In the South Pacific, have Just eaten German trader, and a warship has been down there shelling the village. Per haps If Germany would pursue a more liberal policy regarding admission of American meats Into her territory, her subjects would not be compelled to re sort to such extreme measures as can nlballsm in order to escape a vegetarian diet. for a while. Mr. Percy Tightstrinss was tendered a stag breakfast Tuesday by his intellectual employes, In honor of the successful year of his regime as manager of the whole sale house his late father absorbed. He has authorized an advertising appropria tion of 323 for the coming year. He who . criticises turned down. a woman hath been If you don't want to grow old. butt In some fight and get killed, or hang your self. The under dog who looks for sympathy Is posing. A man who announces gentleman Isn't. that he is a Conscious sanclty Is always hypocrisy. New Rich Men. President Eliot In- World's Work. Since the Civil War a new kind of rich man has come Into existence In the United States. He Is very much richer than any body ever was before, and his riches are. in the main, of a new kind. They are not great areas of land, or numerous palaces. or flocks and herds, or thousands of slaves, or masses of chattels. The5- are In part city rents, but chiefly stocks and bonds of corporations, and bonds of states, counties, cities and towns. These riches carry wun them or necessity no visible or tangible responsibility, and bring upon their possessor no public or seml-publlc functions. It Is quite unnec essary, however, in this country to feel alarm about the rise of a permanent class of very rich people. To transmit great estates Is hard. They get divided or dispersed. The heirs are often unable to keep their Inherited treasures, or If. by the help of lawyers and other hired agents, they manage to keep them, they cease to accumulate, and only spend. This Is one of the natural effects on his children of the very rich man's mode of life. With rarest exceptions the very rich men of today arc not the sons of the very rich men of 30 years ago. but are new men. Gold has been discovered on the Ta- coma tldeflats. and assays are now be-. ing made. Dispatches conveying the Information do not contain any refer ence to the expected value of the as says, but If the returns are any higher per ton than the prices that have been paid for some of the Tacoma and Seat tle tldelands, the owners have a bonanza. Life and baseball are uncertain games. No one can zee Into the future as far as next October, but be it re membered that the Portland Grants at the opening of the season scored three successive victories. Bamum's name endured, for business purposes, nearly twenty years after his death. Will the firm name, now that the Junior partner also is gone, go down to the American youth of the next gen eration? Gorky says Mark Twain Is the best known American In Russia. Does this mean that he is our greatest living writer, or that the Russians have bad taste? If the "Dowle family must wash their soiled linen, let the laundering be doae in the kitchen and the clothes hang in the back yard. The fleet of Europe can how take a vacation. Castro 'has resigned. Experimenting With Alfalfa. Eugene Register. F. S. Smith, who has a farm north of 9?rtngfleld. was In Eugene Monday on business regarding a shipment of Inocu lated soil from the experiment station at the Oregon Agricultural College.- at Cor- vallis. He Is to receive it0 pounds of the soil, which will be used In preparing a two-acre tract on his farm for the growing of alfalfa. He already has a one acre -tract In alfalfa, which was planted last Fall. It came through the Winter welt, and Is looking nicely. Mr. Smith Is experimenting with the forage, wishing to find out whether Fait or Spring Is the best season for planting. The soil in his alfalfa field Is what may Be termed "nfga river bottom land or "No. 1 wheat so!l. CURRENT C03I3LEXT CLIPPINGS Andrr Carnejcl rent the chars that he Is a drone, and declares that he ha pa pera to prove that he Is a Scot. Culcaro itecora-Heraid. Tenax now threatens to ro atter th Standard Oil Company. If this thine keepa up tnere a no teiuns; vnere tne price oc oil win aiopc -OJitacooEa. utaea. There Is one compensation to the ignorant in this new speHlag reform, axd It Is that arttr awhile it will be itnao-isibie to tell educated from an uneducated man by his tpeuinx;. rnuaaeipnia fresa. It Is said -that the old crulsef New Tork Is to be renamed becanse It Is no tourer a. rood enough ship to represent the metropolis of toe nation in tne iSTivj". o one aaa beard anjrthler. however, about renatnlnr the cruiser Buffalo, Buffalo Express. It has been arreed br the Carnecle spell era that the ujch can. should and must be left oft the words thoura and "throaah. Bet how about thoarhl and ourht"T How 'about "fourtn." "taujcht" and "canxhl"? How abot "daughter" aad "tlaarhter? Ia short, how far caa we wade Into this business without rolns; over our bead7 Syracuse roit-Miansaro. Perhaps it will be a rood thing- all around for the labor salens to form a party, stand en aad Ve coasted, at the pells and asaamr. far as their -rates will carry theas. the raceailMHUu of xorernsaeat. Bat It la great mistake to think that labor has ot the past. Buffalo Commercial (Rep). Rut Congressman Loudenslager. of the House naval committee, has mjectea new Idea Into the discussion, we takes the ground that too many com missioner officers are kept on snore duty at tasks which civilians couta perform fully as well as they. He asked for a list of officers on snore amy. ana was hown 14 solidlv printed pages of the Naval Register, containing their names. There are lSu officers on duty In the Nival Department In Washing ton alone, and 12 In the ew iorK Navy-Yard. This affords some idea of the diverse duties that are per formed by officers on shore. Mr. Lou- tenlnerer"s nfODOSal Is that all of these not required for technical work be released for seaduty and their places filled by civilians. He already has a bill pending to bring about a re organization for this purpose. The sug gestion, to a landsman, seems exceed ingly sensible and to promise the re lief the department needs. Naval meth ods, when they are of long standing, seem to acquire a sanctity. That does not necessarily mean that they are the best. The officers would not lose dig nity or prestige by turning" routine work they have been doing for years over to civilians. The service appar ently would be the gainer by the change, and it could be made quickly. The Murderous Trout. Country Life In America. Of all the creatures, the angler Is the least offender In the crime of killing. The very game he seeks, though beauti ful and gentle to the eye, and. at times, noble In deed and purpose. Is the most brutal killer of all the races the lovely tmiit in Its attacks upon gaudy files. the valiant bass and pike Jn devouring their -.mailer brethren, and tne muiuiuai nous sea fishes not alone In their feeding upon one another, but In their wanton murder of the millions upon millions of victims of their pure love of slaughter. How the Wind Blows Eugene Register. Straws show which way the wind blows. The Oresonlan's letters from prospective legislators Indicate a strong breeze will upset franchise-grabbers who get In the way of the next legislature. "Paral'leloplpetlHnneian." i in a recent controversy a Chicago re former called Mayor Dunne a parilleloplpe- don.1 , When I discuss affairs of state I do it with formality Yar Instance, when I talk about our srea- munldpallty 1 do not deal In terms 10 mark, me enerclopedlan; I do not say the city ouxnt ia me lorce Archimedean Tn .t.rt the care tnat if. io aei. a. Tasi. xlcanttc hereraze; Pierian drafts haTe never been my chler and dalbr beverage But when rro short and sharp of speech, and reailr rather snippy, uunse. t raise -mr brows and say: "Tou paralleloplpedonr I'm not content to live my life In what you mlcht call fossil eas, And vet. observe. I do not say that you are an Isosceles: I do not net you on the phone or dash you off a telegram Informing- you that you are but a common aaralleloaTam. Nor that you're what might he described by the unthinking: rabble a Troncated cone, or trapezoid, or even narahla I'll not descend to gibe or Jest, or let myself be grlppy. Dunne: t inalr state: "I think you are a par- allelopipedBanean. -Heroes All. . i - - Walla Walla Union. .The terrible Chamber of Commerce tire at Portland Friday developed cnouch he roism to win a hundred battles. Tom Richardson's Rescue. Boise Statesman. The City of Portland should give each of those men a gold medal in recognition of the demonstration of their manhood In that trying hour. A Fair Judge. East Oregonian. Evidently. Judge Hunt, who - tried the last of the land-fraud cases, doe not re spect either wealth or poverty. In his ad ministration of the law. Tony Blnaghi. Albany Democrat. -When men unselfishly demanded that others. zo first to safety It warms one for them In a selfish world in which mo3,t people are looking out for No. 1. Pat All the Eggs In One Basket. Baker City Democrat. Tfhere is room for the apple-grower, for the walnut-grower, for the chicken-grower, for the dairyman. In the economy of this state Where success already rc3ts special interests hav'e received special at tention. Preening His Feathers. Walla Walla Bultc,tln. A newspaper is a seml-publlc institution, privately owned. Its first loyalty Is -to the people. Its first duty to defend th" people's Interests. So It appears as an advocate, and In that sense the. forum be longs to the newspaper. I'ace to the Front. . Walla Walla Union. The happiest man. the greatest man and the safest one is he who meets faithfully, cheerfully and honorably all the obliga tions of life as they come, be they great or small. And the truest man 1s he who carries good-fellowship with him In meet ing his duties. The man who can snills In ad'verslty Is greater than a war Hero. Taxing; the Red Man. Spokane Chronicle . It dots not look unjust to ask the In dians to pay taxes. To sentimentalist there mhtht apaear to be an outrage in asking the former owners of the land to pay an assessment upon It now. but thl need not appeal to those who know that the Government has given the red man every chance and has assisted him 1 1 every way. Your Boy. AIbany Democrat. Eoys do a good many things they should not do. but they arc boys, and cannot be looked at through exactly the seme glasses as are used In look ing at the doings of men. With. the boy hls treatment should be more with a view of making him better, with a spirit of reformation- The boy is a great study, and he need3 to be viewed comprehen sively and with the right spirit.' Old Eaclld. lists a lot of names, that tell what every biped !. i But I would not aasert you're what lur&iieloolsed ia: v we(.hedren. irfwl How would It sound le har amid The city's rash I called you that, or said yea were a myraM? Or lsahedroB? What if thus-my Intellect detected to a. -- if -Tea Rhemboldr flashed out and came pretlr sear bleeetlnsyaa? Vo. rm contest- TH oaly sr. from Maiae to Mlssissispt. Daaat. Xke country kaews that I called you paraKeleptpedea. Song of Joy. , Astorian. Astoria' has lots to be glad about.. Th dull season Is past: the fisheries are about to open. With tip-top prospects tor a year, there will be hundreds more of busy peo ple around here, earning ana spenuuiy: money: the pufillc health Is excellent: tho banks are In flourishing condition: the Jail is empty: the milling business is on the increase; and there is sun .wwj in the Courthouse fund. The Pitiless Truth. ' Olympla Recorder. What need to chase the smile from th- dimpling maid by criticising the ugly mouth rather than praising the lovely eyes; to pluck away the hard-earned lau rels of age by their too critical reduction to mediocrity, or to deauen tne amoiuun of youth by doleful deductions. And. as we Idealize the hllnd goaaess as jusuv tempered with mercy, so we find the need of the world and fullest meed of happi ness to be truth .tempered with charity. That Maddening Sign. Baker City Democrat. The maddening thing about a red nose- Is not that It Is red. but that It Is assumed everywhere, even amuu. your Intimate friends, that you got it In the pursuit or a set purpose i u pose of all the Intoxicating liquors ex tant. There are any iiumuci who havo red noses wno never uran.v anything more deadly tnan city mil, but It 'would be futile for them to in timate that their trouble is- constitu tional. The red nose is .tne mar, aiw brand of Inebriety. Paint Their Names in Red Letters. Corvalli3 Times; nn R F.'D. route No. 4. a dozen of the split-log road drags are In use Farm ers along the route nave duui mem. ami Ti..h.n'er it seems to be necessary they send out the drag and work the road for an hour or two. with tne result tnat mc smoothest highways in the county an said to be In the neighborhoods where thl practice is touowea. Amuu " -who are following the plan are Rich M--Bee, Jesse Porter. R. S. Irwin. J. S. Wat kins. E. Dinger. S. S. Henkle. M. S. .Dar by. Jesse Porter. Peter Rlckard. J. VN. Jones. W. W. Starr. Ed Buchanan anil J. G. Buchanan. NEWSPAPER WAIFS. Do vou think eatinir late at night' hurw tou'" "Well. It rather depends on the sue of the check." Town, and Country. "Sar Dick, what Is this new fad they call Phonetic spelling?" "It-, the kind Jim. they used to flog you and me at school for using." Baltimore American. ' "Tou say that Faro Jim cam to his end through contributory negligence?" "Se. answered Broncho Bob. "He showed down four aces In a poker game, an' two of em was the. ace of diamonds." Washington Star. "So you used some of the liniment I Ic t here yesterday." said the agenU "Didn't you find that It worked well?" "I should Say so'." cried the lady. "I mistook it fr the furniture polish and It took alt tne skid off the piano legs In one application:" De troit Free Prese. , "As I watched you dancing, he sa!d.."t'ie. thought suddenly came to me that you were a poem set to -music." With a .hopeless sign aise turned her back on -him. for she knew something about poetry, and had made a study of the kinds that, are usaally set to music. Chicago Record-Herald. Toung Lawyer "If yea wish to get off with the minimum punishment. I'd advlsr you to confess everything and throw your self oa the mercy of the court." The Ac CEied "But if I doa't coafesa?" Tounz Lawyer' "Oh. la that case you will very likely be acquitted far want of evidence." Chicago Dally News.