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0 THE MORXIXG OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1906. Z)t mrtmum Entered at the Postofflce at Portland. Or., ai Second-Class Matter. Sl'BSl RIFTION RATES. CT INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. T3 (By Mall or Express.) DAILY, SUNDAY INCLUDED. Twelve months 8-00 Sir months S"2 Three montha 2.j One month 'i5 Delivered by carrier, per year 9.0O Delivered by carrier, per month 75 Lees time, per week 20 Sunday, one year a. 50 Weekly, one year (laaued Thuraday)... 1.50 Sunday and Weekly, one year 3.50 HOW TO REMIT Send postofflce money order, expreas order or personal cheek on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. SASTERX BUSINESS OFFICE. The S. C. Beckwith Special Agency !fw York, rooma 43-50, Tribune building-. Chi cago, rooma 510-512 Tribune building. KEPT ON SALE. Chicago Auditorium Annex, Postofflce News Co., 178 Dearborn street. St. Paul. Minn. N. St. Marie, Commercial Station. Denver Hamilton Kendrlck. 800-912 Seventeenth street; Pratt Book Store, 1214 Fifteenth street; I. Welnsteln. ;oldfletd, Nev. Frank Sandstrom. Kansas City, Mo. Ricksecker Cigar Co., Ninth and Walnut. .Minneapolis M. J. Kavanaugh. 50 South Third. Irveland, O. James Puahaw. 307 Superior street. New York City L. Jones & Co., Astor House. Oakland. Cml. W. H. Johnston, Four teenth and Franklin streets; N. Wheatley. Ogden D. L. Boyle. Omaha Barkalow Bros., 1612 Farnam; Mageath Stationery Co., 1308 Farnam; 246 South Fourteenth. Sacramento, Cml. Sacramento Newa Co.. 486 k street. Salt Lake Salt Lake Newa Co., 77 West Second atreet South; Miss L. Levin, 24 Church atreet. Los Angeles B. E. Amos, manager seven atreet wagons; Berl News Co., 3284, South Broadway. San Disco B. E. Amos. Pasadena. CaJ. Berl News Co. San Francisco -Foster & Orear, Ferry Kews Stand. Washington, D. C. Ebbltt House, Penn sylvania avenue. ItMITLAND, TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1906. PUBLIC OWNERSHIP OF NECESSARY MONOPOLIES. For public control, that Is for public ownership, of municipal utilities, there Is a strong argument, -which. Is con stantly receiving- additional supporters. The argument Is that those facilities that every citizen must use the city It self should own. No one wants two street-car systems In one city. No one will -want two tele phone systems though some persons now doubtless think they do. They will revise their opinion later. Two water systems are impossible virtually over the same streets. More than one electric light, or gas light, system is undesirable. To these conclusions it seems clear that our cities generally will arrive. How soon must depend on conditions and circumstances in each. Because these things from the nature of the case are monopolies. Monopo lies are natural, inevitable and alto gether desirable, in the public utilities of a city. A telephone in the home or In the office Is of little use when one half the city is on some other line. The city's streets cannot be cumbered with rival water mains. Besides, it is admitted on all sides that every city should control its water supply. And If its water supply, why not Its light supply? Street-cars cannot properly serve the people if they are not all in one coherent system. Electric light poles or underground conduits for wires and gas pipes cannot clutter the streets for service of various systems. All these things ought to be, and for best resdlts must be, monopolies. Therefore all public utilities should be publicly owned. And for other reasons. The greed of private exploiters ought not to be allowed to capitalize these things excessively, and compel the pub lic to pay unconscionable rates to sup port such capitalization as now in Portland, with most of these utilities in private hands. There are franchises in Portland, long enjoyed by private Individuals and capitalized at Immense sums, that ought to be reclaimed by the city, lor for the city by the state. Franchises that were surreptitiously or fraudu lently obtained, for a long term of years, or which are claimed in perpetu ity because no conditions were made at the beginning, should not be allowed to hold. For these wrongs there should be remedies in legislation, or through the courts of law. The Oregonian, later, will endeavor to show how. Through the manipulation of greedy sharpers the City of Portland was in duced to give away its franchises. The work was secret and fraudulent. The people did not know, but the greedy franchise-grabbers did. The burglars enlered the house and rifled it while the owner was1 asleep. This now is a maxim: Whenever a franchise Is sought as Portland's fran chises wire sought, it proves that the public is to give away its own prop. erty and its own rights, and that a few are to gain profits that should go to all. They who seek franchises, with out adequate payment therefor, ask that public streets and public privileges be granted to them that they may tax the public Portland has thus been di vested of property worth millions of dollars, for private gain. The whole souled and high-toned Individuals who have this money in their pockets pose as our "best citizens." Their pulpit and their newspaper extol their vir tues. It was the franchises they sold, the city's own property. They still hold the bonds, or great part of them, representing the lesser sum that It cost to build the lines. The Oregonian believes that Portland can retake and should retake Its own. Of course the robbers of Portland, rich already beyond the dreams of themselves and their ancestors, will get no more out of the public utilities of Portland. But the booty, Portland may yet find a way to compel them to disgorge. The methods by which they achieved these large-handed robberies, whose terms run into millions, will yet undergo examination by legislative and Judicial authority. And The Oregonian will say something, also. DANGER IN HEALTHY ATHLETICS. Sad though the drownings of women and children are, and great the anxiety of parents for the safety of their chil dren, yet the pleasure and physical benefit the young people derive from bathing in rivers and lakes cannot be withheld. Except In th very few places where swimming tanks are maintained, going in swimming must be attended with danger. Hunting, boating, horseback riding and nearly all other sports seem to carry with them an element of danger greater than that met in the ordinary occupa tions of life. And yet It Is not improb able that the boy who hunts and swims and otherwise lives an active life in th open air faces less chance of un timely death than .does the inactive boy who incurs the danger of such a disease as tuberculosis. The parent who mourns the loss of a child feels in a measure guilty of neglect, or carelessness, yet his cause to feel guilty might easily be greater if he reared a boy without developing In him that manly self-reliance which can be acquired only by engaging ac tively in the battles of life. Occasion ally a weakling proves to be an effect ive member of society, but the chances are in favor of the boy who has worked hard and played hard, who isn't afraid to climb high trees or dive Into deep waters, who has learned the measure of his strength and has confidence in his own power. ANOTHER PIPE LINE. It is the belief of The Oregonian that if the resolution be taken now to lay an additional pipe line from Bull Run to Portland, the additional water sup ply will be needed and gratefully re ceived, by the time the work can be finished. The new line, with necessary reservoirs, can hardly be completed under two years. By that time there will be a large additional population. Moreover, the population now within the city limits is by no means fully supplied. It is be lieved that the new distribution, for which preparations are now making, will take up the whole present flow, and entail scarcity on the higher lev els. Indeed there is such complaint now. Another pipe line will be a neces sityas soon at least as it can be fin ished. The water rates will carry it though it cannot be expected that the rates can be reduced. Much of the present surplus Is going into new ex tensions, for distribution of water throughout the city. This is a work that never will be completed though a time will come when It will not absorb so large a proportion of the water rev enues as now. But the revenues of the whole system will, as The Oregonian believes, suffice; fully to carry the entire undertaking. with the addition of this new pipe line from Bull Run. As the river is the soul of the land it traverses, so the artifi cial water supply is the life of every city. Much saving no doubt could be effected by use of meters all over, the city, but to install them would cause heavy expense, and we shall need an other pipe line, even if we put in me ters. Our water bonds now bear 5 per cent; but we believe a 4 per cent bond would sell at a premium, and certainly at par; and we should be able to get all the water we need for years to come without resorting to other taxation than the water rate. The Oregonian is for another pipe line. The city is growing fast, and our public works should keep even pace with its growth in area and population. By the time another pipe line can be finished the city will be more than twice as large as when the original one was laid down. We believe there is nobody now In Portland who has doubts about the future of the city. PROSPECTIVE GOLD BRICK PURCHASE. The proposed settlement of the seal ing question as outlined in a dispatch from Victoria, printed in yesterday morning's Oregonian, would seem im probable were It not so closely in keep ing with the remarkable policy which the United States has followed since the inception of the fur seal in dustry. The plan said to be under serious consideration at Washington provides for purchase of all of the ancient sealing hulks that have out lived their usefulness under the British and Japanese flags, and indemnifi cation of the owners for loss of their business. It was also stated that another condition of the settlement Is cessation of all killing of seal on the Pribyloff Islands for at least one year. The demand for protection for the Pribyloff rookeries comes from British Ambassador Sir Henry Durand, and unless it is granted an agreement will not be reached. There is nothing in the outward ap pearance of this latest gold brick which our friends the British are preparing to sell our gullible Uncle Sam that indi cates the gilt to be any thicker than on others which he has purchased in the past. The Canadian sealing fleet is largely made up of American-built ves sels which were forced to fly the Brit ish flag to avoid being harassed and seized by American revenue cutters. The Japan fleet is largely composed of ancient Canadian craft which the Ca nadians had replaced with the Ameri can schooners. The United States seized a number of these schooners nearly twenty years ago, but returned them to their owners and incidentally paid a damage claim of $425,000 and in terest for tho error of Judgment. American schooners seized at the same time under exactly similar cir cumstances were not returned to their owners, and up to this time these own ers, lacking the protection of the Brit ish flag, have not received their money, although at least one of the claims re ceived a favorable report in the Senate last Winter, only twenty years after the schooner was seized. If this whole sale graft under the pretext of "preser vation of the seal herds" should be worked to a successful termination, the United States will be in the ridiculous position of having twice purchased at high prices a number of schooners which were originally owned in the United States, and which were used by the Canadians during the most prosperous years of the industry. After unloading on this country a lot of worn-out sealing schooners and se curing the protection of the Alaska Commercial Company's preserves on Pribyloff Islands for a year, it is not at all improbable that a new fleet of pelagic sealers would appear In the haunts of the seal lying beyond the three-mile limit. The Pacific Ocean is a very large ocean, and beyond a cer tain distance from the shore line it is not under the Jurisdiction of any par ticular country. Japan, Canada, the United States and even Russia might Join In an agreement promising good behavior on the part of the sealing subjects of the respective countries, but there are a number of insignificant countries lying farther south which for proper remuneration will grant regis try to any sealing schooner which might seek It. and, as the costly experi ence of the United States has proved In the past, these schooners would be immune from seizure so long as they kept beyond the limits of land Jurisdic tion. The United States has made a miserable failure of all attempts to protect the seal or regulate the sealing business, and the latest plan presents no features that indicate any improve ment on the old methods. They haye a very poor sense of val ues over in France. For example, a young man In that country learned a few tricks In the great game of bunco an American being his teacher, and then diligently cast his books baited with all sorts of tempting allurements for suckers. His success would have been creditable to a Yankee, but the French authorities after a few months captured him, tried him and sent him to prison. Now how unappreciative. Here in America the people like to De buncoed. They bite at anything from a cure-all salve to a tin box full of twenties. They enjoy being buncoed and do not mind paying the price. If the impetuous Frenchman could only see it that way, he has received value for his money in the form of amuse ment, entertainment, gratification, sat isfaction, or whatever else you may call the feeling a man has when he dis covers that he has been "done." Here was a wide-awake Frenchman who took the trouble to learn some bright Yankee tricks and teach them to his fellow-countrymen, and they are so lacking in knowledge of the underlying principles of compensation that they begrudge him the few thousand francs he made out of his enterprise. In this country we pay the bunco men well and keep still about It. It Is true that once In a while a man who has had his cupidity gratified by an American bunco man "squeals," but he is a rare exception. France has learned only one side of the bunco game. GORKY'S OPINIONS ON AMERICA. As a thinker and writer Maxim Gorky stands in the foremost rank of living men. What he has to say about American life and morals will com mand the attention of the civilized world. Some of his observations may be incorrect; some of his criticisms may not be Justified; he is not an entirely impartial witness, for his reception in America was unflattering; but man kind in general will hold both that he was a competent Judge of our social conditions and that upon the whole he has told the truth about us. Those best acquainted with our conditions will be the last to contradict him. Had he stayed longer he might have seen some things to mitigate his ver- dicT that we are a cruel people. On the other hand, he might have found reasons for making it even stronger. Gorky says we are cruel because of our fondness for the details of murders and executions. Had he witnessed a negro- burning picnic in the South, would he have modified his opinion? He says nothing of the thousands of children slowly perishing body and soul In our mills, of the annual slaughter of hu man beings by the' railroads, of the nonchalant murder of infants by street-cars running without fenders, of the daily grist of "accidents" caused by unprotected machinery. Had he known of these things, would he have changed his verdict and called us mer ciful? Gorky saw only those signs of na tional cruelty which the newspapers exhibit. He had no opportunity to see our genuine life. If he had dwelt in America several years instead of a few months, he would doubtless have con cluded that we make people suffer not because we love the sight of agony, but because we are greedy. We like well enough to see people enjoy themselves, but if their enjoyment stands in the way of a dollar, let them look out. Three facts in our social system Gorky perceived with Inexorable clearness. According to him, our religion Is Mam mon worship, our morality is hypocrisy and our life is devoid of all worthy aims. He intimates that this country set out on Its career with a passionate idealism. America was to be an exam ple to the world of what man can do when he has freed himself from the shackles of political and religious tyr anny and made a new start. The Na tion was to be governed by the people. The country was to be owned by the people. Here the human soul should expand to its noblest possibilities In absolute freedom. This idealism, Gorky says, has become covered with rust. We no longer hold up our free institu tions as an example to the old world. The worst of European evils we have accepted as necessary; the wrongs of European life we imitate humbly. More than one nation has surpassed us In social betterments. Scarcely one equals the rigorous injustice of our laws to the poor. Nowhere in all the world is the fetich of vested right worshiped as it is here. "Vested Right" is the old superstition of Divine Right masquer ading under a new name. Its essence is that there exist privileges belong ing to an exceptional few which are above all law and beyond the power of the people to alter or destroy. We hear of -corporate franchises which are so securely vested in their holders that even a new constitution must leave them unaltered. What more monstrous privilege was ever claimed by any divinely ordained tyrant of the house of Stuart? We no longer live for the high ideals of our forefathers, Gorky says. We have no inner freedom of the heart and soul. We have plenty of energy, but no lib erty. We work for our syndicated mas ters as the negro for his white-handed owner in the South. Even our religion, he intimates, is syndicated. It is con trolled for us by a trust. The mag nates of the Religion Trust are the same sort of men as those of the Beef Trust and Standard Oil; in fact, they are the very same individuals. We take our religion from them and their pulpit retainers exactly as the people of Colorado take their law from a Stand ard Oil court, and the whole country takes its meat from the Beef Trust, and It is of much the same quality. There is no beauty In our life, the great Russian declares, and no free creation of religious, political or eco nomic thought. All Is syndicated and doled out. A moralist. Gorky asserts, is a ras cal. Of course he has in mind the pro fessional moralists who apportion to us once a week our share of corporation religion from the syndicated pulpits of the land. Gorky Is himself a religious man and an upholder of all that is good, but he has sjnall respect for that kind of morality which is manufac tured by trust parasites for trust pur poses. He has no use for that sort of psalmody which has come to be known as "The Grafters' Lullaby." The sentiment of "The Grafters' Lul laby" is as old as thievery; the words are new and adapted to the special needs of our day. "Never hurt a ras cal's feelings by telling the truth about him, ' it runs. "Never expose corruo tion, for exposure shows lack of respect to our public men. Never dare to ex amine or criticise what is done by a millionaire or his attorneys, for prop erty must be reverenced at all costs." "The Grafters' Lullaby" Is a hymn to vested rights the right to plunder, to poison and to corrupt. "The grafters own this country." it continues. "America is theirs by right of conquest, arid those who do not like the way they govern the Nation may go else where to live." With these melodious numbers our rulers lull us while they pick our pockets. Gorky says that in the very heart and citadel of the cult of Mammon, In New York itself, he other observers, like all who have looked at the facts honestly, he saw a revolt coming and a mighty conflict at hand between the original American ideal of life and government and the ideal of the grafters which now controls us. He predicts that the conflict will end in a conflagration, but those who know America better believe that it will be a transformation. Any dissatisfied and unhappy citizen who thinks that he has a rough time In his daily life, and that the world doesn't treat him well, should pause long enough to consider the case of Mr. O. V. Hurt, of Corvallis. It is not necessary to enter into details as to the recent history of the Hurt family, for every one knows it; and every one feels that few men have deserved more and got less from the hands of for tune. Or Providence, than Mr. Hurt. Yet he "has complained not at all, but has met each new vicissitude with re markable fortitude and rare devotion to his high conception of his duty. The members of his family have thought little of Mr. Hurt, but they have re ceived much from him far more than many another husband and father in like circumstances could or would have given. Now he is going to see that his misguided daughter, who abandoned and reviled him, has proper legal defense in her trial at Seattle. It is a fine thing for him to do just as his entire conduct throughout his terrible trouble, or series of troubles, has been something really beautiful and noble. Now Mr. U'Ren proposes to draft a law regulating the use of money in political campaigns. Will it be enact ed? Of course it will. In Oregon the state government is divided into four departments the executive. Judicial, legislative and Mr. U'Ren and it is still an open question which exerts the most power. One fact must be consid ered in making comparisons: That the Legislature does not dare to repeal the acts of Mr. U'Ren, the executive has no opportunity to veto them, and thus far the Judiciary has upheld all his laws ttuid constitutional amendments. On the contrary, Mr. U'Ren has boldly clipped the wings of the executive and legislative departments, and when he gets time will doubtless put some shackles on tho Supreme Court. To date, the indications are that Mr. U'Ren outweighs any one. and perhaps all three, of the other departments. There is consolation in the declara tion of International Organizer W. G. Burton that there will be no strike of street railway employes in this city ex cept as a last resort. The public looks, and has a right to look, to the consider ate action of the parties to this possi ble strike to prevent what wouid be an inconvenience so serious as to approach the nature of a calamity in the height of the industrial season. Let the coun sels of wisdom and concession prevail on both sides, to the end that street cars may be kept running. The Joker who sent the false message to Taylor-street church that Dr. Wil- -Bon, pastor of another Methodist con gregation, was stricken with paralysis, has a ghastly notion of humor. The congregation prayed for Dr. Wilson's recovery. It did the doctor no good, doubtless because-fie didn't need it, and It certainly did the congregation no harm. But if the Joker ever falls into the clutches of his victims at Taylor street he will doubtless find that a praying congregation can do things be sides pray. Maud Hurt Creffleld is doing a great deal of taHtlng, and her words are not those of a demented person, but of one possessed of an implacable, deadly pur pose, the inspiration of which is relig ious fanaticism, and the objective point of which is revenge. Out of her own mouth she has been many times con demned since the murder of which she coolly assumes responsibility and over which she constantly gloats. Perhaps Evelyn was not good enough for Harry. Mother Thaw seems to take this view of the case, though to disin terested persons generally the young woman seems to have been the young man's equal in the graces and virtues that adorn social and domestic life. The New York authorities insist on treating Harry Thaw Just like any other prisoner. This will be a valua ble pointer to other hasty young mil lionaires who may contemplate mur dering former intimate friends of their wives. Mr. Bryan wants the expenses of his reception paid by popular subscription. A subscription headed by Perry Bel mont, J. Pierpont Morgan and other members of the one-gallused Democ racy at $1 each would make a sensa tion. The Indiana Judge will not appoint a receiver for Tom Taggart's French Lick Hotel and gambling-Joint. Tag gart is no gambler. And the tender feet who play at his games only think they are. There is plenty of ice in Portland, it seems, and everything would be all right if there were only wagons enough to deliver it. Why not call out the slabwood wagon reserves? The President had a long talk with Mr. Dooley, the philosopher, yester day. It is a pleasure to note that our President never fails to consult the Na tion's ablest advisers. General Kozlov was killed because the assassin thought it was General Trepoff. General Trepoff, it is under stood, greatly enjoys the joke on the assassin and Kozlov. The practical joker who fooled the several Portland preachers might as well have a good time here. Those preachers know where he will -spend the hereafter. A street-car strike would not be an unmixed evil. It would give many I Portland people their first real appre ciation of the town's magnificent dis tances. The richest untitled Englishman, Al fred Beit, was a South African mil lionaire, born in Germany. He could almost speak the English language. Defendant Hoge will feel better when he tries Mr! Heney's celebrated specific for land-fraud troubles. Either better, or worse. "The Oaks might be better, and I've seen worse," says Dr Brougher. Why, doctor! HOT HOCKS TO HIS BODY. Scientific Treatment Brings Apparently Dronoed Man to Life. Washington (D. C.) Dispatch. H. M. Knowlcs. the Superintendent of the Third Life-Savlng District, has made quite an Interesting report to United States Treasury officials of the resuscita tion of Robert Mooney from death by drowning. Mooney was In a small sail boat near Wakefield. R. I., which was up set in Point Judith Pond. When the boat was overturned Mooney was forced under the sail, and was, therefore, unable to come to the surface. Before aid reached the unfortunate man he had been under the water for a period of about 23 minutes. When first aid was given from three and one-half quarts to a gallon of water was expelled. A similar operation a few minutes later expelled about a pint of water. Mooney at the time bore the appearance of a drowned man. Superintendent Knowles spread a small motor cover of canvas and removed the body to It. and keeping up at the same time the bellows movement and friction by rubbing the limbs. A fire was built and stones heated, which in the course of 30 minutes were rolled In jackets and applied to the armpits, heart and soles of the feet. The bellows movement was kept up while others worked at the arm movement. Mooney is a blacksmith by trade, and the muscles of his arms and legs were so stiff that a greater part of the time It took the strength of a man with both hands at each arm to maintain the arm move ment, while artificial respiration was be ing kept up. The jaws were clenched, and had to be repeatedly opened by prying them apart, and then kept open by having sticks placed between them. The first sign of life was observed after the life-savers had worked upon the pa tient for an hour and 20 minutes. This was noticed when a hot stone was placed against the sole of the patient's bare foot. The constant rubbing and artificial respir ation, with renewed applications of hot stones, showed marked development of the condition of the patient, aooui jo min utes later a physician arrived, and after making a test with Instruments, reported that there was an action of the heart and pulse. The patient was then taken in the launch to the boathouse, some distance away. All the time the bellows move- n.l.Vimf. word !fnt nrv This had been going on for one hour and 48 min utes. The patient had remained uneoty scious all the time. After arriving at the boathouse the patient was worked on for some time, and later taKen to mm nume, n-horo m rpfnlnnl consciousness abOUt 1:40 o'clock the next morning. New Y'ork'sj Vacation Schools. New York Despatch. Over 300.000 children trooped into New York's vacation schools, which have just opened for the Summer months. The at tendance last year passed the half mil lion mark ar.d a much larger number will be given instruction this year. Ac commodations are provided for 600,000 children. School hours are much shorter than during the regular sessions and play is given a larger share of the day's duties. Studies include sewing and domestic science for the girls, industrial work for the boys, basketry and city historical ex cursions and kindergarten and connecting classes for the younger children. At the playgrounds there are gymnastics, ath letics and kindergarten work, and li braries and game rooms are also fea tures. A supplementary feature of the vacation school system one that commands vastly greater attendance are the vacation playgrounds which were opened on the same day. The latter include roof gar den, where band concerts are given in the eventng and where dancing is al lowed, roofed piers on East and North rivers, reserved sections of the parks, and many school grounds. All these places are in charge of men who preserve order and give all children opportunities to participate in the various games provided. Three million people, young and old, en Joyed the public playgrounds last year. Wedding; Pearls Mean Tears. Boston Transcript. Princess Ena, now Queen Victoria of Spain, wore pearls on her wedding day. She made a great mistake. Pearls worn at a wedding means tears are to be shed through the married state, so runs the Spanish proverb. When the Empress Eugenie was finish ing her toilet to go to Notre Dame on her wedding morning, an old Spanish servant of hers burst Into tears and, reminding her of their native adage, begged her not to wear her pearl necklace. Eugenie, paying no heed to the warning, wore the necklace all the same, and her life, as all the world knows, has been one long tragedy. Her necklace was a remark able one, consisting of a large number of pearls, so the bride who only wears a few need not dread the proverb so much, for, after all, no woman's life Is entirely free from tears. Sees First Trolley at 07 Years Old. Philadelphia Record. The oldest bachelor in Montgomery County, Pa., Daniel Miller, who lives only a few hundred yards across the Berks County line, came to Boyertown this week to see a trolley car for the first time. "It seems to be a most handy con trivance to get about in," he remarked, but he declined to board it. Daniel Miller was born August 13, 1808. and Is remarkably well preserved. He walks with a firm step and sees without glasses. He is six feet tall and looks many years younger than he Is. He has shaved himself until a short time ago. Seven-Year-Old Farms Ten Acres. North American. John H. Wiley. 7 years old. of Blooming ton. 111., has received a ten-acre tract from his father, and he Is cultivating it himself. He employed a farmhand to do the plowing, but all the harrowing was done by the youngster, who also planted it In corn. In cultivating- the ground he handled a team of horses without diffi culty. Young Wiley says that with the proceeds from the tract he intends to buy more land, and solemnly tells his father that by the time he Is 21 he will own a larger farm than the old gentleman. Roaring; Flnmes Make Ice Blocks. Cincinnati Enquirer. When the ruins of the ice factory at Hopkinsville. Ky., which was destroyed by fire, were examined yesterday. It was found that 16,000 pounds of ice had been made during the progress of the flames. Just before the fire started 320 freezing cans, each with a capacity of 50 pounds of Ice, were lowered into the tank of brine beneath the floor. An examination showed that each can contained a block of pure ice. The Discovery Surely Isn't Recent. Deseret News. The Oregon girls are as sweet as Oregon strawberries. Somewhere. Milwaukee Sentinel. There's a whisper In the branches of the Heaven rearing pines. And a purple blossom smiling from behind the clinging vines; There's the chatter of a chipmunk, as he. leaps from tree to tree. While the daisies yonder whisper: "Come out here and play with me." There's a path, a winding ribbon, Just the clover fields beyond. That goes stealing through the meadows to the distant plck'rel pond; There's the cool, dank, grateful shadows; there's the lazy, droning bee. And I fancy them a-saylng: "Come out here and play with me." There's an orchard where the fragrance of the fields comes lilting sweet; Where the sod Is velvet tenderness to pave ment weary feet; There are songs, without restraint, from songsters winging to the blue. And each feathered throat Is singing of its THE WELCOME TO MR. BRYAN. Regrets That President Roosevelt Wont Be There. Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Dem i. Of course there never was the most re-yj mote possibility that President RooseveR would preside at the Madison-Square meeting to welcome Bryan, but from the point of view of spectacle it is almost a pity that the thing could not have been managed. That combination of the two arch enemies of the plutocrats would have drawn Into this town every mlddle-of-the-roadster who could raise the car fare anywhere from Kansas to Aroostook County, Maine. On the night that Roose velt shook hands with Bryan the breezes up and down Broadway would have surged and burgeoned with whiskers and the stout walls of Madison-Square Gar den might have been unable to resist the assault upon them of the multitudes eager to see the momentous spectacle. Not being able to get the President, the welcomers have resorted to Tom Johnson. Alas, what a fall was there, my country men! Johnson would welcome Bryan any where and at any time, and the spectacle may not be counted on to draw largely beyond the 10-cent fare zone. Of the fer vor of the welcome there can be no doubt, but one sentence in Johnson's letter of acceptance calls up memories. In that palladium of the people's liberties Mr. Johnson speaks of "those of us who for nearly two decades have known and trust ed and loved him." Now the fact Is that "nearly two dec ades" ago Tom Johnson was not a Popu list or a municipal reformer to any con spicuous extent. In fact, he was, if not a plutocrat, vigorously striving to become one In this town of Brooklyn, -by develop ing the Nassau street railroad system. Later, when he had sold out that system, for a good deal more than it was worth and at a price that realized some at least of Johnson's ambitions for wealth, he had leisure and a bank account on which to devote himself to the woes of the com mon people. Since that happy stroke of high finance Mr. Johnson has paid his devotions to Bryan publicly and in the sight of all men. There is no desire here to suspect or impugn the sincerity of that devotion, but when Mr. Johnson puts the beginning of it "nearly two decades ago" he challenges local history. MadLson Square Garden Is, indeed, too near the old Flynn railroad routes to make the cere mony of the welcome of the leader of the anti-monopoly boasts and the champion of 3-cent street-car fares a wholly im pressive spectacle to men with long mem cries. The popular memory is short, how ever, and the oratory of Mayor Johnson on that momentous night will be received with only less enthusiasm than that be stowed upon the hero of the homecoming. The Ensrllsh Lansrunjre in Rio. New Orleans Times-Democrat. A firm in Rio de Janeiro recently sent out the following advertisement about olive oil: "Ours olives oils have garantlzed of fltts quality. Diligently fabricated and filtra ted; the consumer will find with them the good taste and perfect preservation. For to escape to any conterfelt, Is necessary to requiere on any botles this contremarc deposed conformably to the law. The corks and the boxes hare all marked with the fire." On the Ice wagon. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "What are the bugles blowing for"? said Tongs-on- Behind. "The price of ice, the price of ice," the Wagon Driver whined. "What makes you look so white, so white?" said Tongs-on-Behlnd. "I'm dreamln' what we've got to face," the Wagon Driver whined. "For they're gettin' bold and ugly, you can hear the people growl; The papers Is a-sttrrln' them an' urgln' them to 'owl. They're gettin' out their hammers, an' tho city's cryln' 'Foul!' An' they're layln' f'r the ice man in the morn In'." "What makes the off horse breathe so 'ard?" said Tonga-on-Behind. "It's bollln' hot, it's bollln' hot," the Wagon Driver Whined. "What makes the lump of ice melt down?" said Tongs-on-Behind. "A touch o' sun, a touch o' sun," the Wagon Driver whined. "They are formln' in an army, an' they're trallln' like a hound. They say the way It's goln', ice'll be a cent a pound. They're stoppin' ev'ry wagon an' they're sort o' mlllln' round. An' they're layln' f'r the ice man in the mornin'." "It's gettin' dangerous to work," said Tongs-on-Behind. "It's double dangerous to shirk," the Wagon Driver whined. "We're always workln' f'r a trust," said Tongs-on-Behlnd. "We only do It 'cause we must," the Wagon Driver whined. The trust's the only business that's employln' nowaday. They've soaked the Independents an they've driven 'em away. An' It's serve the trust or nothin' f'r the man as works f r pay. An' they're layln' f'r the ice man in the mornin'." "What's that so black agin the sun?" said Tongs-on-Behlnd. "A sign hot weather has begun," the Wagon Driver whined. "What's that a-droppin' on the rocks?" said Tongs-onBehlnd. "It's thawln' In the wagon box," the Wagon Driver whined. It's Summer good an' plenty now, the sun Is blazin' hot. The prtee o' Ice Is soartn' an' we'll have to right a lot. An' maybe we'll survive It, an' then maybe we will not. , F'r they're layln' f'r the Ice man in the mornin'." THAT AUTUMN ITINERARY D If One Could Only Reach FOR THE SUMMER THIRST. Fortune for Inventor of Nonalcoholic Satisfying; Drink. L J. W., In New York Sun. Why doesn't some shrewd American with an eye to the profits and a tongue to refreshing taste, produce a satis factory nonlntoxicatlng drink? None of the hundreds we have answers the purpose, because all of them concaln more sugar than a refreshing Summer drink should have. To offset the sugar some of the nonlntoxicants are dosed with acid. Lemonade, for example, which Is supposed to be a great thirst satlsfler, doesn't do much more than cool off the drinker for a few moments, and the sugar that Is In It excites him to greater thirst. This Is noticeable of all sweet drinks. On the other hand, the Intoxicants, as a rule, are served without sugar, and even when whisky has sugar in It the wise old drinker looks upon It with suspicion. What Is needed In tne line of a satisfactory nonlntoxlcant is a palatable bitter. Most of us remember a home-brewed beer which our moth ers used to make that was good to the taste, but one never finds that on sale, though it is still made in many parts of the country for home use. That, however, lacks the proper bitter, which is, or should be, an excitant of the salivary glands, so, that when taken Into the mouth It would take away that gummy feeling and make the mouth fresh and keep it moist. There are various vegetable bitters, such as hops. cinchona, gentian, quassia and others, which might be utilized in the preparation of a good nonlntoxlcant which would do the work of ordinary beer or ale than which there are few better thirst quenchers, although the alcohol In them sets up a degree of heat which about offsets the good effect. For years I have tried to interest druggists with soda fountains to Invent the right non lntoxlcant on the bitter principle, and while they have admitted Its need they have done nothing to supply it, at least as far as I have known. So tar nearly every nonlntoxlcant has a sar saparilla base, and Just why Is not ap parent to me, unless sarsaparllla's rep utation as a blood purifier is a good thing to advertise with. There are dozens of other f avoring extracts quite as good in every way and some much better, but the in ventor of new drinks sticks to the old things. Why don't the temperance workers, instead of wearing them selves out trying to stop the sale of In toxicants, direct their energies to the production of a nonlntoxlcant which, though not stimulating, will quench the thirst? The long-felt want to be filled is a bitter at S cents a glass, which Is beer without the alcohol. The man or wom an who invents it will get a fortune, not tn mention a wide reputation as a public benefactor. IN THE OREGON COUNTRY. Proline Tree. Blckleton News. Dr. Dodson has what might be called a prolific pear tree, as It has the second crop of pears already set and Is blooming for a third time this season. For Man and Beast. Corvallis Times. The best asset of Corvallis is her moun tain water, and neat drinking fountains in public places where the stranger will find them and where passing horses can drink from them Is the need of the hour. Grand Advice at Any Time. Hoquiam Wa-shingtonian. Whose boy is to create the next sen sation? Whose son is to be named be fpre the world as the next murderer? Look out for your boys. Curb their fit ful dispositions and guard them against hasty Judgment and reckless action. Fourth of .Inly disunities. Pendleton Promoter. Booze, while a well-bred purp. Is rather Inquisitive. He found a China bomb smok ing at one end. He investigated and is now hard of hearing. Our old dog Biddie went out on the Fourth and attempted to pick up a light ed bunch of firecrackers. We advised her not to do this, but contrary to our wishes she tried. She now wears a sad smile. Sulphurous and 110 In the Shade. Corvallis Times. The slaying of George Mitchell by his sister, melancholy tragedy that It Is, is a small part of the legacy left to this country by the late Mr. Creffleld. When the roll of the damned is made up. if the distinguished name of Cref fleld is not found far up toward the head of the list and the Illustrious Ed mund himself a chief bower at the right hand of the Devil, then hell Is not what it is cracked up to be, and the scheme of eternal punishments a misfit. The Indispensable Man. The "Old Man" his vacat'on takes, Although he thinks It rash. Convinced without his guiding hand The firm will go to smash. On his return he then finds out. Though not with unmixed Joy, The business has been finely run By Just the office boy. The same surprise awaits us all Who run this little sphere. Bowed down with grave and heavy care Of bossing far and near. There's nothing that will Jolt us so Upon the farther shore As finding out the world we left Is running as before. -McLandburgh Wilson In New York Sun. -From the Boston Herald. the Presidency This Way Jl L 1J