Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, July 02, 1906, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextG THE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, JITY 2, 1906. Entered at the Postoffice at Portland. Or., as Second-Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION KATES. U" INVARIABLY IN. ADVANCE, (By Mall or Express.) DAILY. SUNDAY INCLUDED. Twelve months $8.00 Blx months J -5 Three months -x One month Delivered by carrier, per year 9.00 Delivered by carrier, per month t5 Lesy time, per week '-'! Sunday, one year T52 Weekly, one year (issued Thursday)... 1 SO Sunday and Weekly, one year 3.50 HOW To REMIT Snd postoffice money order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency re at the sender's risk. EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICE. The S. C. Beekwlth special Agency New Tork. rooms 43-50. Tribune building. Chi cago, rooms 10-512 Tribune building. KEPT ON SALE. Chicago Auditorium Annex. Postoffice Kews Co.. 178 Dearborn street. 6(. Paul. Minn. N. St. Marie. Commercial Station. Denver Hamilton & Kendrlck, 000-012 Seventeenth street; Pratt Book Store. 1214 Fifteenth street; 1. Welnstein. Uoldfleld. NaT. Frank Sandstrom. Kansas City. Mo. Klcksecker Cigar Co., Ninth and Walnut. M tnneapolis M. J. Kavanaugh, SO South Third. Cleveland. O. James Pushaw. 307 Superior street. New York City L. Jones & Co., Astor House. Oakland. Cal. W. H. Johnston, Four teenth and Franklin streets; N. Wheatley. Offden V. L. Boyle. Omahsi tfarkalow Bros., 1612 Farnam; Magvath Stationery Co.. 130S Farnam: 214 South Fourteenth. Sacramento. Cat. Sacramento News Co., 439 K street. Salt Luke Salt Lake News Co.. T7 West fcVcond street South; Miss L. Levin, 21 Church street. Los Angeles B. E. Amos, manager seven street wagons; Berl News Co.. 320 South Broadway. Han Diego B. E. Amos. l'asadena. Cal. Berl News Co. San I r.iuriwo Foster & Orear, Perry News Stand. Washington. I). C. Ebbltt House, Penn sylvania avenue. I'OBTLAM). MONDAY, JULY X, 1906. ANARCHISTS AND OTHERS. To knowledge, writes the apostle, add temperance, and to temperance pa tience. What one gathers most vlvklly from Mr. Pye's letter Is an apprehen sion that his stock both of temperance and palience is sadly depleted. Of course we are not speaking of that fero cious temperance which riots in its hatred of alcoholic drink, but rather of that serene frame of mind which sees things in their right proportions and accepts them for what they are. Herein we find Mr. Pye somewhat lack ing, especially when he utters his feel ings touching the Pinkertons. Men employed as the Pinkerton de tectives are can scarcely be either lov able or Inwardly beautiful, but it puts the point rather strongly to call . them all thugs and criminals". We should suppose that some of them may be pretty decent men, with good wives and children who get fair marks at school. To the ordinary citizen their way of making a living seems peculiar, but It Is conceivable that some of them may have chosen It from a love of adventure rather than of bloodshed. In our pol ity they seem to occupy much the same niche as the armed retainers of the feudal barons did in medieval England The citizens hated these retainers quite as bitterly as Mr. Pye seems to hate the Pinkertons. and at length they got rid of the incubus with considerable gain to law and order. This should console Mr. Pye for. the present tribulation of the Pinkertons and fortify his patience to bear with them until we are civilized enough to do without them. Concerning Gorky, we doubt whether any part of the press was "subsidized" to malign him. Our horror over his relations with the lady who accompanied him was a spontane ous tribute to the fat and complacent Widow Grundy. It was not in the least mercenary. If Mr. Pye himself were an editor, does Tie imagine that he could let slip such an opportunity to demon strate the invincible austerity or his morals? If he does, we do not. In vis iting heathen lands, travelers, if they are wise, will inform themselves con cerning the religious prejudices of the natives and be careful not to offend them. Mr. Gorky boldly committed sacrilege against our National goddess and he had to take the consequences. The breaches of technical law com mitted by Peabody and Gooding, If there were such breaches, have been explained and. perhaps, excused on the ground of necessity. What they did they had to do to preserve society. To criticise their Judgment is legitimate; being hu man, they probably made mistakes. But there Is not the least reason to Impeach their motives. Both of these men have so far been sustained by the courts in what Mr. Pye calls their "an archy." Collier's said that Parsons and Spies, the Haymarket anarchists, were "rail roaded," not "hounded," to their doom. The immediate effect of their hanging was undoubtedly beneficial; It checked the bombthrowing spirit absolutely. If such things were done when they are done, then 'twere well. The trouble is, they are almost sure of a resurrection. Whatever Parsons and Spies were on the day of their hanging, they are now, tothousande of people, martyrs. If the hurry of their exit from the world was the cause of this, then that hurry may prove ultimately to have been a mis take. The remote consequences of the best-lntentioned actions are sometimes evil. CALL TO THE TIRED. The Potter's whistle sounded the note Saturday afternoon. It was the call to the tired and the worn and the weary that vacation time is here. When the sun stares pitilessly down at noon and the shadows grow long at even; when the brain begins to addle and the blood stagnates, these are Nature's notices that the time for rest is near. Vacation is an ordained part of life. It Is not for the Idle rich, for theirs is but a vaca tion existence at best, a butterfly pass ing of time; nor is It for the very poor, for their heritage Is the eternal strug gle against a cruel foe. But for the man with warm blood, with brain, with vigor, whose every pore gasps, who finds little comfort on the shady side of the street for him was vacation de signed years upon years ago, of which time it la told "and on the seventh day the Lord rested." Vacation Is but a rest, If it be prop erly taken. It must be different from and out of the ordinary run of every day life; a change of scene, air. diet, people. It is easily to be had. There Is the sea. where one finds res, for body, mind and soul doing even nothing more than watching the tenth wave sub merge the sands its fellows vainly try to reach. There are the woods, where the arnell of the pine and cedar and the rustle of the oak leaf lull into drowsy intoxication. There Is the mountain climb for the athletic, with Its Invigo rating frosty temperature. All these are at hand. Work one must, for work is life. But a month oft, or a week off; yes, even a day off if nothing more than the long est trolley-ride with a stroll and lounge at the end is the medicine of Nature to make man content. WHO INVOKED THE REFERENDUM? In Weston there is, or was, a state normal school that gave up the ghost when the referendum was Invoked by the incensed opponents of logrolling leg islation enacted at the last session of the Legislature. Now that the people of the state have decided that the best way to rebuke legislative Jobbery is to approve legislative jobs, and the nor mal school appropriation is available, the Weston school is preparing to re sume operations. It may be assumed that next time the cautious backers of the Weston institution will know bet ter than to discharge their faculty, dis miss their students and nail the "closed" sign on their front door when the self-styled guardians of the public treasury from Yamhill and other nor-mal-schoolless counties say that they purpose to put an end to the whole nor mal school iniquity by stopping their pay. Yamhill proposes, but the intelli gent and discriminating voter disposes. We shall therefore continue to have four or more normal schools in Oregon un less the remedy suggested by The Ore gonian Immediately after the legisla tive session closed shall be adopted; and that was that the Initiative, and not the referendum, be Invoked. The Weston Leader has some re marks on this subject that Interest The Oregonian and have Inspired these ob servations. "The Oregonian," says the Leader, which is published in the shad ow of the tenantless normal school of Weston, "was the strongest influence in the state in promoting the referen dum on the appropriation bill." We reckon not. The Oregonian is fain to believe that, if it had vigorously sup ported the referendum during the cam paign, results might have been other wise an assumption to which the Leader and other good friends of The Oregonian will no doubt take violent exception. Yet why? If The Oregon ian is to bo held responsible without cause for what happened, it might as well take the credit for what did not happen but might have happened if its course had been different. Governor Chamberlain provoked the referendum, Yamhill County invoked It, and The Oregonian took to the woods. It could see no good In the whole scheme. The only result has been to withhold salaries from a large number of teachers, and supplies and new equipment from the schools, and to retard their progress and develop ment, and cause the state to pay a large additional sum as interest money, besides the original appropria tion. A definite and comprehensive plan for normal school control under an initiative bill would not have all but wrecked the Weston school and greatly hampered the work of the three others, but would have permitted them to go forward on the old basis unt'l the new policy should have been adopted; and then they could have gov erned themselves accordingly. One more remark from the Leader: "The Inference is that saloons (at Weston) exert a corrupting Influence on the students, which they do not, as the students are strictly forbidden to enter them on pain of dismissal." It is a little confusing to understand Just what is the real normal school attitude In Oregon toward the saloon. In Mon mouth, In Ashland, and (we think) In Drain there are no saloons, but there are normal schools, and in these places the schools were kept open and the sa loons closed during the late appropria tion famine. In Weston, it seems, there has been a different situation. Without passing on the merits of the saloon and normal school problem, we Gimp'.y refer the -Weston solution to the public as suggesting a way out of any unpleasant controversies over the present method of enforcing prohibition, which en courages the secret maintenance of "clubs" and "speak easies." The way to prevent the saloon from being a cor rupting influence anywhere at any time is to take its license money but to for bid the public to enter its doors. JOINT RATE CONFISCATION. The Tacoma News terms The Ore gonian's protest against confiscation of the O. R. & N. line by the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern as a demand for "the retention of the arti ficial advantage it had through dis criminating railroad tariffs." One of the peculiar characteristics of many of the Puget Sound people is a superb in difference to the legal or moral rights of any other Individual to property on which a Puget Sound man or corpora tion has cast longing eyes. In entering a protest against the establishment of a joint rate, The Oregonian made no demand for an "artificial advantage" or for discrimination of any kind. The O. R. & N., a Portland road, was built into the Palouse country by Portland men. Strange as it may seem to the Puget Sound people, the Portlanders did not put up the money for the road for the purpose of making it a feeder to a road leading to Puget Sound. When the Portlanders built the road through the Palouse country land was obtainable at $1.25 to $3 per acre. To day it Is in demand at $50 to $125 per acre. When the agricultural develop ment made possible by the enterprise of the Portland railroad builders began assuming proportions of Importance, the Northern Pacific built a few feed ers into the country and tapped some of the richest portions. At Farmlngton, Garfield, Oaksdale. Pullman, Moscow, Walla Walla, Dayton and a number of other prominent wheat points in the Inland empire, the Portland road and the Puget Sound roads compete for business on even terms, the feeders by which these places are tapped by the Northern Pacific having been built be fore railroad commission politics were in evidence in Washington. Colfax, a very rich city in the heart of the Palouse country. Is reached only by the O. R. & N.. and It was in this city that much of the artificial hot-house forcing of railroad commission sentiment was skillfully carried on by the politicians who. after many years' effort, succeed ed in loading down the state with the present commission. To the falrminded individual endowed with respect for the property rights of others. It would seem eminently proper for the Northern Pacific, if it really de sires the trade of Colfax or other points not now reached by its lines, to follow the example of the O. R. & N. and build to Colfax. Just as It has already built to the other points named. The News intimates that Portland enjoys "discriminating railroad tariffs," but the News knows, or should know, that the rates from all of the competitive points named are exactly the same either to Portland or to Puget Sound. Being in possession of this knowledge, which can be obtained from any tariff sheet, or even from the railroad com mission, it would be interesting to read the explanation of the News as to why under such circumstances- from 60 per cent to 90 per cent of the wheat at com petitive points tributary both to Port land and to Puget Sound goes out over the O. R. & N. instead of over the Northern Pacific. If, as asserted by the News and the railroad commission, the Puget Sound markets are so much superior to those of Portland, by what singular line of reasoning do the farmers continue year after year to sell the greater part of their crops to Portland buyers and only a small portion to the Puget Sound buyers? If this principle of confiscation f one road by another wefe upheld by the courts, we should in due season find the Puget Sound people insisting that the Southern Pacific turn over its Wil lamette Valley wheat to the Northern Pacific at Portland and deliver it at Tacoma at the same price at which It could be laid down in Portland. The advantage which Portland has in the Palouse country is not an "artificial" one, but, on the contrary, is one con ferred by nature when it made the water-level route over which the Port landers laid the railroad tracks from Portland to the Palouse. CONNUBIAL FAITH. Mr. O'Connors is divorced, yet would keep a watchful eye on his late helpmeet So when his friend Schultz saw her one night with Mr. Bauer at the Acorns, that delightful resort where one's Identity may be left (if so' desired) in the checkroom at the gate, he promptly told Mr. O'Connors. To learn was to act. The telephone line that would, of course, be out of order If it were needed to convey good news, was fit to work overtime, but Mr. Bauer's spouse would none of it, and all Mr. O'Connors could hear was the slamming noise of a receiver being hung up. Daunted? Not he. Taking his friend Schultz as corroborative testimony, he visited the Bauer residence. That worthy woman heard the tale, asked to be excused a moment while she went upstairs, and then came down and cov ered Mr. O'Connors with a gun while her woman friend telephoned for the patrol wagon. All of which explains why Mr. O'Connors will appear today before Cadi Cameron and repeat his tale. But what shall one say of Mrs. Bauer and her faith that would not hear such things of her liege lord? Her reward for such great connubial trust should be a sflk dress, no less; and good meas ure should add that garment so dear to the feminine heart, a silk taffeta petti coat. " As for Mr. O'Connors, his ignorance is gross. Doesn't he know that woman would make such discovery herself or have none of it? Would he take from the sex one of the rights inherent? Away with him to the dungeon for an intermeddler! As for Mr. Bauer but let us draw the curtain. FOREIGN TRADE GROWING. The Bureau of Statistics has Just is sued Its official figures on the foreign commerce of the United States for the month of May and for the eleven months ending May 31. The gain is in keeping with that which has been so noticeable during the preceding months of the season, and makes it practically certain that the $3,000,000,000 mark has been reached with the close of business last Saturday. For the eleven months ending May 31 the gain over the corre sponding period in the previous season was $327,156,272. An average gain of approximately $1,000,000 per day for eleven months is a pretty fair indica tion that our foreign trade is not suf fering so much as some of the politi cians and subsidy grafters would have us believe it is. For years some of our eminent specialists have been endeav oring to frighten us with ominous warnings regarding our foreign trade. So persistent and insistent have been these warnings that many people who take only a superficial view of such matters have got the impression that there is something wrong and. that com mercial rivals are besting us in the race for the world's trade. This erroneous impression, as will be seen by the official figures, is not se cured from any consideration of the facts, but is largely due to the con certed efforts of numerous special agents. These men generally "investi gate" foreign trade and fqrm deduc tions in line with the policies or theories of the department heads who send them on the Junkets instead of hewing to the line and permitting the chips to fall where they may. Congress made a large appropriation for this special investiga tion work a few months ago, and the reports of the young men who were sent abroad are now coming to hand. From the Far East we are informed that our merchants do not study the trade, their method of packing goods Is bad and, in some instances, they are accused of adulterating their wares. Special Agent Hutchinson has diag nosed the trouble with South America as largely due to poor transportation facilities. This reason is one of the stock-in-trade arguments of the subsidy-seekers, and is perhaps pleasing to the men who supplied the special agent with salary and expense money for the Junket. But a careful review of the official statistics on foreign trade falls to es tablish the claim that there is anything the matter with our foreign trade ex cept a few hampering and harmful laws which could be remedied at Washing ton by more powerful men than special agents. The special agent to the Orient comes back and tells us that American flour is being adulterated and is not packed in the proper manner. The Pa cific Coast exporters who pioneered the flour trade In the Orient smile at this Information, for actual experience of more than 25 years in the business has taught them that in no place in the world are the buyers so critical or so in sistent on maintenance of certain standards In goods purchased as in China. If there is any adulteration or error in packing, these same exporters have had cable advices regarding the matter from men right on the ground, and have rectified the mistakes long before the news could filter out Into the channels where a special agent could reach it. Neither the salary nor the expenses of the special agent are affected by mis takes of the nature complained, of, but the representatives of the merchants who handle the trade would be prompt ly discharged If errors which would in any way affect the volume of trade were not promptly reported and cor rected. The American business man re gards the special agent who is sent foreign to investigate trade conditions as a good deal of a Joke. To begin with, IX the special agent were sufficiently expert In the trade lines which he seeks to Investigate to render his opinions of value, he would find plenty of openings at salaries far in excess of those which the Government bestows on its em ployes. Another reason why his efficiency is Impaired lies in his fear of the results of unpleasant truths. Imagine a spe cial agent appointed by the influence of a tobacco or sugar trust Senator making an unbiased report on the su gar and tobacco trade of the Philip pines. As the figures show, our foreign trade is not suffering and it is not liable to suffer very much if we make a quick move and establish reciprocal relations with a number of good customers of ours in South America, Germany and other parts of the world. As for the Orient and Its wonderful possibilities for trade, it Is not on record that either China or Japan ever bought anything from us of which they were not In need. We learned years ago that "gold bricks" in any form were unsaleable in the Far East, and for years have been enjoying the confidence of the Oriental buyers in lines of trade only recently discovered by the special agents. With the aid of chemicals. New York dealers In liquid refreshments are now producing $300 worth of whisky at an expense of but $20. The romantic liter ature of the Kentucky "moonshiner" type is slightly on the wane just now, and this new discovery awakens tre mendous possibilities. The "Moonshin er's Daughter" of the Broadway type would be a creature so radically differ ent from the snuff -chewing child of the Cumberlands that the writer who first discovers her defending her father's il licit still under a Broadway cafe Is slated for a literary sensation. The Walla Walla saloonkeeper who testified before the Washington railroad com mission that he sold whisky on a mar gin of 10 cents per gallon should get the receipt for this economical, variety of liquor. With such a receipt, the "jobbing rate" would be unnecessary to protect him from, the Portland dealers. The public interest awakened a few years ago by Mr. Potter of Texas and Mr. Barnes of New York was mild and commonplace compared with that which is liable to develop through the exchange of compliments between Mr. Bailey of Texas and Mr. Hearst of New York. At the close of the first round, it would seem from a long-range view that the New Yorker had a little the better of the bout. If this exchange of pleasantries had occurred in ante bellum days, nothing but the duel would have restored the warm Southern blood of the Texan to Its proper Jemperature. Even, a United States Senator must have some objections to being dubbed a "Standard Oil lackey" and accused of "wearing tamely and humbly the scar let livery of the corporations," Congress adjourned without passing the ship subsidy bill, and now the American Merchant Marine League of Cleveland, with branches at Wichita, Kan.. Trinidad, Colo., and other ports which are pining away for lack of shipping facilities, can lay away Its ready-made "editorials" with which It has been bombarding the country press for the past six months. The "league" blames Speaker Cannon for the failure of the graft to get through Congress. Uncle Joe always was a lucky man. It Is understood that the real reason why the five Wisconsin timber sharks resisted prosecution and removal to Oregon was their overwhelming reluc tance to leave Oshkosh. It is not hard to understand their passion for Osh kosh in the present oainful circum stances. Even Oshkosh is preferable to an Oregon jail at any season of the year. The bank of Ladd & Tllton made only a small matter of $10,000 out of a $30,000 transaction for the Johnson es tate. The fact that the estate got noth ing is an unimportant detail. There is nothing in being an administrator and trustee except what there is in it. Of course a milkman's total abstin ence union, where the faithful members pledge themselves to drink nothing but water, will be a good thing. But the public is not thus to have its favorite suspicion disarmed. Water was made to drink, but not by a milkman. A Seattle policeman has lost his star because he made an unsuccessful at tempt to "graft" a five-cent plug of tobacco. The punishment is deserved, and will serve as a warning to the next copper that attempts to "pull off" any retail tricks in a wholesale town. Mr. Bryan has written a great many letters, but we cannot recall that he ever declined in advance a third nomi nation. He could give T. R. a few pointers on the unwisdom and inconve nience of taking things for granted so far ahead of time. In the present delightful state of com ity between Great Britain and the United States it would be well for the British Lion to put his tail in cold stor age for a few days. Mr. Bryan is about to make a Fourth of July speech in London. It will have been observed that the explosion and fire Saturday night were confined exclusively to the tanks of the Standard Oil opposition. We are glad for Mr. Rockefeller's sake that he is far away in France. An alibi will be easier. Mr. Thaw is deprived for the present of any opportunity to get rid of his money. But he needn't worry. He has retained the services of several emi nent attorneys. If we understand the situation cor rectly, the Toledo icemen were jailed for palming off artificial goods on a perspiring and unsuspecting public The election officers and all con cerned, it seems, are not to blame for the Jumble In the returns from Precinct 88. All right. But don't do it again. If we understand the Juvenile Idea correctly, the modern Fourth of July extends from July 1 till every finger Is blown off. Just two more days and it will be over. We hope so. Cleveland Politician Well Cared For. Boston Despatch. General Edward S. Bratg's pension of $50 a month, by special act of Congress, finds him in his SOth year. He has been In the Consular service for some years, but his retirement became necessary on account of age. The pension is granted nominally on account of General Bragg's Civil War record, which was excellent. As a Democratic Congressman from Wis consin and member of several Democratic National Conventions, he became a Na tional figure, especially In the Cleveland period of poUtlcs. MR. BRYAN NO LONGER POOR. A Valuation of About S70.000 Placed on Ills Property. The material possessions of William J. Bryan ten years ago, according to the assessment roll in Lancaster Coun ty, were less than $5T00. Today his wealth is upwards of $70,000, or 15-fold that of 1S6, when he was first a can didate for the Presidency. Mr. Bryan has other wealth than that returned to the Assessor, wealth that is not taxa ble and of which the Assessors know nothing. The sale of his books netted a sum in excess of $50,00). Some of hia close friends estimate the amount at $100,000. This money was devoted to the purchase of United States bonds. Mrs. Bryan has charge of these bonds. The assessment rolls in Lancaster County, which were closed today, dis close that Mr. Bryan's real estate at Fairvlew, his country estate, is valued at $40,000. His personal assessment in cludes $3000 in money In bank. His newspaper plant, where he publishes the Commoner, is assessed at $22,00). His jewelry and diamonds are assessed at $800. The Assessor had valued the Bryan horses at $120), but this amount was cut to $800 by the equalization board on representations by C. W. Bryan, a brother, that the valuation was excessive. - An Exclusive Cabinet Officer. Omaha Bee. Postmaster-General Cortelyou has be come the most exclusive of Cabinet offi cers. It is harder to see him than any of his colleagues. He has even assumed the airs of a Senator in the matter of ele vator service, which is saying a lot. He has reserved one of the elevators for his Instant and exclusive use by adopting a signal which brings the ele vator to his floor in a Jiffy. Woe betide the men who inadvertently gives the ring of the Postmaster-General. Mr. Cortel you has adopted another wrinkle. That is that certain divisions of the Postoffice Departmet may not be communicated with by telephone, except in cases of ill ness. The bond division is one of them. It is also against the rules and regula tions to give out the names of a Post master's bondsmen. That may be all right, so as to place a check upon the industry of the agents of the bonding companies, who, If they can lind out the names of the bondsmen, ma." persuade them to notify the Post maiter that they would like to be relieved because the cost of a bond given a surety company costs so little. Govcrsor'i Wife Scrub Her Kitchen. Columbus (O.) Dispatch. The wife of General Andrew Harris, who, by the death of Governor Paul son, has become Governor of Ohio, is domestic in her tastes and much at tached to her home. She is not at all pleased with the proposition of life in the city. When Interviewed at her home at Eaton she was canning cher ries and expressed the opinion that a man with three "farms to look after hadn't any time to give to public af fairs. She is a sprightly little woman, 61 years old, but active and strong. Every morning she polishes her oak stove, washes her own dishes and scrubs her kitchen. She finds time to work in her kitchen and garden, too, and declared today that she did not propose to come to Columbus to live until she had pulled her onions and laid them away for the Winter. "President's Dnughter Is Charming." London Dispatch In New York Commercial. "Belle," in the World says today: "Mrs. Longworth has pleased every one by. her great sense of enjoyment and the way In which everything amuses her. She is not pretty, but she looks smart, like every American, and she wears her clothes well. I should not say that she wears very becoming colors, but thai may be my bad taste. "The Iongworths have been allowed to go about like ordinary people, and they do not seem to resent it. We only consider them ordinary mortals. It is said that Mr. Longworth appreciated the rest and quiet of the week-end at West Park." President Roosevelt Is Left Out. New York World. Theodore Roosevelt is not so much as mentioned in the will of his uncle, Rob ert B. Roosevelt, who died a few days ago at his country seat, Sayville, L. I. Robert B. Roosevelt made his will Jan uary 15, 1901, and it disposes of an es tate valued at several millions of dol lars. The greater portion of the es tate is left in three equal parts to his three children, John E. and Robert B. Roosevelt, Jr., and Mrs. Margaret Kim berley. Children Cry for .lohn D. Rockefeller. Cleveland (O.) Dispatch. "We want Mr. Rockefeller to play ball with us." piped a small youth. "He shows us where to get such pretty flowers," chimed in a wee maiden. The Sunday school of the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church gave its annual excursion 'to Vermillion today. John D. Rockefeller is superintendent and had always accompanied the children on their excursions. He had been the prin cipal attraction and was sorely missed. A "Fresh" Reporter Salted Down. ' Washington Corr. New York World. John R. McLean, proprietor and editor of the Washington Post, was sitting in his office last night, when a new reporter came in to see him. The" new reporter was new for fair. "Now, Mac," he said, "I do not think we should do this." "See here, my boy," expostulated Mc Lean. "Don't call me Mac. That Is en tirely too formal. Call me Johnny." here Ignorance Is Bliss. Rising Young Statesman But there is another matter Just as important that has been overlooked. I am going to introduce a bill for the rigid in spection of bakeries. Constituent Prodmore, for your own peace of mind, I advise you not to do it. Chicago Tribune. Yes. It's Very True. A Kansas paper wants to know if there are men on Mars. What differ ence does It make? They can't be got into the Kansas harvest field. Goin' Swimming;. O. F. Sweet in the Des Moines Capital. "Come, Speck and Stub and Bob and Bill, It is warm enough today. Let's out from street, to dusty road. To the woodland take our way. On down the shaded path we know Till we reach the hallowed goal. Where stream runs deep and widens out Just to make our swimmln' hole." Our clothes are oft ere we reach the spot. And beneath the walnut's shade We throw our meager wardrobe down. And plunge In unafraid. Then deep recesses of. the grove Re-echo with mystic noise , Of yell and laugh, of plunge and splash Of the merry gang oi ooya. Far up the stream the cattle stand. And a "nawk soars in the sky. Out on the road on its way to town A farm team passes by. Then the sun droops low and the shadows fall. And complying to ways of men. The dripping forms don checkered shirts And one-gallused pants again. And the birds flit along the foliaged path Just to sing for the barefoot band. And the berries ripen along the way To be picked by the sun-darked hand. And what be It matter what garden weeds And the gaping wood-box say. In a land forbidden to grown-up folks We have lived an enchanted day I ANOTHER PHASE OF BAILEY. He Threatens Standard Oil With a "Saw With Iron Teetn." New York Times. A conversation at the Waldorf -Astoria; in which Senator Bailey, of Texas, parti cipated a few evenings ago. has created a great deal of comment among the per sons involved and those to whom they re lated it. The fact's leaked out yesterday. Mr. Bailey, who had made a flying trip to New' York, was seated at a table at the Waldorf-Astoria with some friends, when several persons prominent in cor poration affairs came up. Some of them were officials of the Standard OH Com pany. The gentlemen at Mr. Bailey's table were acquainted wlfh them, and Introduced them to the Senator. They sat down, and the conversation naturally turned on the recent events at Washington, the determination evident there to make things unpleasant for cor porations, and ih particular the passage of the railway rate bill, with the strin gent amendments added in the Senate. Mr. Bailey did not' say much at this stage of the conversation. He listened to the Standard Oil men. who gradually be came stronger In their expressions. They complained bitterly at the dispo sition evident in Washington to make things unpleasant for them, and sharply, attacked the railway rate bill and the Senate amendments. Presently Mr. Bai ley, who had been listening patiently, struck Into the conversation in an em phatic and menacing tone. "You gentlemen who run these corpor ations," said he, "must obey the law. If you had obeyed it in the first place you would not have this new legislation to complain of. All your properties are held by virtue of the popular respect for law, and yet you are the very men who are doing most by your acts to break down this respect for law. "Every time Congress passes a law you violate It. You have violated every law we have given you. We gave you the Interstate commerce act; you violated that. We gave you the Sherman anti trust law; you violated that. Then we gave you the Elkins law. and you violated that. Now we give you a new one. If you violate that we will give you an other that will have Iron teeth." A pause ensued after this declaration of Senator Bailey's. After a while one of the corporation officials present asked; "What do you mean. Senator, by a law with Iron teeth?" "I mean a law that will send every one of you to the penitentiary," answered Senator Bailey. After this very little was said by the others present about the unfairness of Congress' attitude toward corporations. The conversation, however, continued along the same subject for a while, and presently Mr. Bailey said: "The ownership of competing corpora tions by the same hands cannot go on. This Pennsylvania Railroad combination Is one that will have to be broken up, and will be." Afterward. In speaking of the same sub ject to others. Senator Bailey said: "These corporation officiate who violate the law. who break every law that Con gress enacts, are doing more to create anarchists and Socialists than all the propaganda that' those people can put Into operation from now till doom's day." Living; Upon Skill of Hands. Boston Dispatch. News has come of the severe Injury of the violinist Otto Roth, who sailed not long ago for Europe. On shipboard he tell and one of his arms Is broken so badly that it Is feared he may not be able to resume his work at the beginning of the season. He has long been one of the leading violinists in the Boston Sym phony Orchestra, and was for a good many years the second violinist of the Knelsel quartet, which he left on account of ill-health. He has held a correspond ing position in the Boston symphony quartet since the organization of that body, when Mr. Kneisel and his associ ates left the orchestra. It Is curious how many musicians have been injured in this way on shipboard there have been come tragic cases. Any one who depends for a living upon skill of hand ought certainly to have his members well In sured before risking himself where the footing is so uncertain. Sons; of a Cracked Voice. McClures'. When I was young and slender, a spender, a lender. What gentleman adventurer was prankier than I, Who lustier at passes with glasses and lasses, How pleasant was the look of 'em as I came jaunting by! (But, now there's none to sigh at me as I come creaking by.) Then Pegasus went loping 'twixt hoping and toping, A song in every dicky bird, a scent In every rose: What moons for lovelorn glances, romances and dances, And how the spirit of the waltz went thrilling through my toes! (Egad, It's now a gouty pang goes thrill ing through my toes!) Was I that lover frantic, romantic and antic Who found the lute in .Molly's voice, the heaven in her eyes. Call not that little youthful ghost, but leave It where It lies! (Dear, dear, how many Winter snows have drifted where she lies.) But now I'm old and humble, why mumble and grumble At all the posy-linked rout that hurries laughing by?. Framed in my gold-rlmmed glasses each lass Is who passes And youth Is still a-twlnkling In the cor ner of my eye. (How strange you cannot see It In the corner of my eye.) WHY, LIFE IX THE OREGON COUNTRY. Again In the Harness. W. G. GUstrap. after an absence of a year. Is again editor of the Eugene Morn ing Register, which paper, by the way. Is now eight pages, big, and In the first class. Free for AH. One of the feature of the Salem Fourth of July celebration will be a contest among the biggest liars, for which a prize Is offered. Albany Democrat. Where's Bill Chance? Astoria Herald. Yamhill Ban, of Course. Newberg Graphic. E. S. Craven recently completed a mam moth barn covering 66x72 feet, which he has been filling with about the finest crop of clover hay that has ever been harvested in this community. Playing; Haws. Newberg Enterprise. It looked like trouble for a few minutes Monday evening. A man claiming to be a socialist, drifted Into town late in the evening and began making a speech on the street; some one got Into an argu ment with him; next some one fired off a firecracker behind him; he was then bombarded by Roman candles until he, quit his speech; then the crowd dispersed and all was again quiet. Old-Time RlvermSD. Wood'ourn Independent. Captain and Mrs. J. W. Cochran, of Elliott Prairie, were In the city Monday. Captain Cochran came to Oregon in 1849 by way of California. He ran steam boats on the Ohio River for five years and on the Willamette River for 25 years. He built the second sternwheel boat that was run on the Upper Willamette. In 1856 he took the first boat ever going as far up as Eugene. Captain Cochran Is E4 years old, and bears his age well. He and Iris wife will move In the Pall tj East Portland, where they have had built a fine home with commodious grounds. Learning the LanKuage, Hillsboro Independent. When the grammatopheros applied to Joe Connell for the loan of his froe, this gentleman, owing to the indistinct utter ance of his petitioner's request, under stood that the Individual wanted to bor row his frau, and very promptly and straight-from-the-shoulder handed him o:ie of those soft ones, scripturally rec ommended and guaranteed to turn away wrath, and he got most beautiful results. The recipient of this mellitluously soft one now masticates his pumpernickel but Imperfectly and his enunciation of the Queen's English is even less intelligible, than It was prior to tilts pleasant episode, ln fond remembrance of which he carries in his vest pocket a handful of molars which grew in his jaw. One-Man Push Club. Hillsboro Independent. William Melerjurgen Is actively engaged In colonizing old Webfoot. Having set tled here a little over a year ago, he im mediately set to work getting his kins folk to Join him and induced quite a num ber of them to locate permanently In Washington County. Among these are his brother-in-law, Sam Pooley, who bought the George Hess farm, eight miles north of town: John Hensley, who ac quired the L. Sinclair place, four miles northeast of town; Stephen Hensley, his father-in-law, who purchased the Har wood place, east of Rellly's orchard; hU sister-in-law, Mrs. Lizzie Tample. resid ing In Hillsboro. And there are more to follow, as soon as they wind up their business and sell out. J. C. C. Heffley. of Redfleld, Dakota, and Tom Pooley, of the same shivering address, will hasten hither. The Corner Loafer. Astoria Herald Every city has corner loafers. They do not always gather at the corner, but sometimes occupy benches in front of saloons boosters for the joint. Every woman and decent man In Astoria will rejoice when the nuisance is abolished. The corner loafer is the cheapest, most cowardly and most despicable of the minor law breakers. The loafer pests in fest every city and he is known here. In some ways he Is difficult to deal with. There are two varieties of the loafer. One Is an Idle, shiftless and often drunken parasite of no particular harm to any body, but assuredly of no use in the com munity. The other variety is vicious. Im moral, and If not criminal, at least of criminal tendencies. Groups of these who congregate on the streets stand on the thin line dividing lawful from lawless assembly. They ogle women and make audible comment, that if not Insulting in word. Is invariably Insulting in the spirit In which made. Vanderbllts Plait Feast for Firemen. New York Herald. William K. Vanderbilt, Jr., one of the members of the Alert Fire Company, has extended an invitation to the mem bers of the company to be present at his country seat, Deepdale, Long Is land, July 4, and take part In a cele bration. Mrs. Vanderbilt will assist her hus band in receiving the guests, who will come from all the countryside. The Alerts will bring the Great Neck band with them to the Vanderbllts. In the evening there will be a costly display of fireworks. The Great Neck firemen have also been extended an Invitation to the festivities. Lsjaont Fortune Nearly $5,000,000. Springfield Republican. Daniel S. Lamont's alliance with great corporation interest's after leaving Presi dent Cleveland's political family served him richly In a material way. His estate Is found to foot up nearly $5,000,000 his holdings of Northern Pacific stock alone being appraised at $1,537,660 and of Great Northern stock $1,897,644. It was a lucky day for Lamont when he became Gov ernor Cleveland's private secretary. JOHN ! -Prom th.6 New Tork World.