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THIS - MORNING OREGOyiAN, MONDAY, JULY 23, 1906. jSEfft (togtrntan Entered at the Postofflce at Portland, Or., as Second-Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 17 INVARIABLY IK ADVANCE. (By Mail or Express.) DAILY. SUNDAY INCLUDED. Twelve months 8,25 Six months Three months One month.... Delivered by carrier, per year .00 Delivered by carrier, per month....... .75 Leas time, per week -20 Sunday, one year I. BO Weekly, on year (Usuea Thursday)... I-50 Sundny and Weekly, one year 8.50 HOW TO KKMlt Send postoffice money oruer, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the senders risk. EASTERN BUSINESS "OFFICE. The 8. C. Beckwlth Special Agency New York, rooms 43-50, Tribune building. Chi cago, rooms 510-512 Tribune building. KEPT ON SAXE. Chicago Auditorium Annex. Postoffics News Co., 178 Dearborn street. St. Paul. Minn. N. St, Marie. Commercial Station. Denver Hamilton Kendrlck, 908-911 Seventeenth street; Pratt Book Store, 1214 fifteenth street; I. 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The Oregon Legislature of 1907 can accomplish much benefit for the state fcy enactment of laws for improvement of the state government. The subjects upon which legislation is desired, as in dicated by public discussion, are few but important, and if the Legislature will give to these the attention they deserve and not waste time upon sev eral hundred measures for which there is no wide demand, its record will be a proud one. All members should avail themselves of every . opportunity to 'gather information that will aid In in telligent action when the Legislature meets. Though a member sits in the legislative session but 40 days, his term begins immediately after his election and he should begin then to study, with particular interest, ail questions that are likely to come up for his considers' tion when the Legislature meet Mak ing laws for the people is a serious matter and should be entered upon with a readiness to render valuable service, The Legislature will be called upon, lor one thing, to weigh uie reoommen dations of the State Tax Commission, which was appointed by authority of the last Legislature, to investigate the whole subject of taxation. It is to be assumed that the report contains much valuable information and that the rec ommendations hflvs hMn ttiaHa fiftor caref thought. The report will be published in pamphlet form shortly and every member of the Legislature will be supplied with a copy. The fact that there is a minority report, upon several features' of the proposed changes, makes it clear that the Legislature cannot act upon the recommendations without difference of opinion. The Leg islature will have all the material be fore it long before the session begins, so there should be action early enough to avoid the dangers of hasty passage or Dills near the close of the session. Decisions of courts from time to time In criminal cases have disclosed many faults in our criminal laws, whereby men, notoriously guilty, escape punish ment. The defects have usually been such as could be taken advantage of Dy wealthy criminals, thus giving strength to the feeling that criminal laws have been made chiefly for the punishment of the petty offender. At torney-General Crawford has under taken to compile a list of the laws that need amending, and has enlisted the aid of the several Prosecuting At torneys in doing sov He will place before the Legislature Information which will enable that body to place the criminal laws in much better condition than they -have ever been before, with the result that men shall stand upon a more equal looting before the law. Adoption of the constitutional amend ment which takes frim the Legislature the power to enact city charters and requires that all such charters shall be adopted by the people of the city under general laws will make It incumbent upon the Legislature of 1907 to pass a general law upon this subject. Such a law Ynus-t be adapted to the needs of both large and small cities, and must Cover every phase of municipal Incor poration, from the first Incorporation to the enlarging restriction or changing of boundaries, the drafting of new char ters, elections thereon, and numerous other subjects: To prepare such a law will be a more or less laborious task, and should be undertaken before the Legislature meets, with the co-operation of well-informed authorities In both large and small towns, so that the new law shall be practical In Its OD' eratton. This Is one of the laws that must be passed and the legislation snould be well considered. The people of Oregon expect this Leg islature to pass a state banking law which shall provide such regulations as win secure safe banking methods and protect depositors and other creditors against dishonest or careless bankers. Modern business conditions make it necessary for all men who handle money to do more or less business with banks, and banks have, at all times. heavy deposits of money for which there is no security but the honesty of the proprietors of the banks. Since the general public is practically compelled to deposit its money in banks, the state should provide a system of inspection and regulation, with heavy penalties for violation, which will reduce the danger of loss to a minimum. The last Legislature made an appro' priation for the purchase of a site for a school for defective youth, an institu tion for the feeble-minded, and directed an Investigation of the subject. The state has now a representative in the East visiting institutions of this kind and he will doubtless make a report which will enable the Legislature to act advisedly in providing a home for that class of persons, who are not fit sub jects for commitment to the insane asy lum and yet cannot be permitted free dom at home. These and a few other subjects de mand attention from the next Legis lature. They should be publicly dis cussed between the present time and the convening of the Legislature, so that the views of well-informed per sons may be known. Secretary Cornelia Marvin, of the Oregon Library Commis sion, has very kindly volunteered to procure, for members of the Legisla ture, Information upon any subject m which they may be Interested, and members will find this service a valu able aid in their work. Oregon is in need of a few new laws, and only a few. In fact, the general opinion has been that past Legislatures have made too great an effort to pass a multiplic ity of laws for which there is no real need. If this Legislature shall pass laws that are worth while and see that they are properly drawn, it will mark the beginning of a new era in Oregon legislation. HEARST FOR GOVERNOR. The New York Sun, dropping into prophecy, declares that the "next Gov- ; ernor of the State of New York will be a Democrat," and the "next Gov ernor of New York will be the next President of the United States." That means W. R. Hearst, although there are a great many Democrats who deny that Mr. Hearst is a Democrat, and we do not find that he is himself so con stant in his assertions of fidelity to the party as he might be. For exam ple, in his recent formal renunciation of all claim to the Democratic nomi nation for the Presidency, Mr. Hearst oaid: - X am eager to see the line drawn. Irre spective of party, between those that believe In special privileges and those that believe In popular rights, between the producing classes and the plundering corporations, and wher ever that line is drawn I will gladly fight in the lead or in the ranks as required. There is no mistaking Mr. Hearst's meaning. He doesn't care what be comes of the Democratic party. Yet he has by no means quit it, and we sup pose he will not, so long as he has a chance to control its organization, frame its platforms and name its can didates. Mr. Hearst is undoubtedly a candidate for Governor of New York. His agents are active everywhere. The New York .Evening Post says that his chief resources in his campaign are money, clamor and threats "to start a Hearst newspaper" in places where the leading Democratic papers are against him. "His campaign," says the Even ing Post, "is distinctly planned to win success by the slum and rowdy vote of both parties"; and it adds, after a long review of the Democratic situation, that there Is extreme likelihood of his nomination, "unlees self - respecting Democrats bestir themselves." The class of Democrats to whom the Post appeals seldom do bestir themselves, and, when they do, are not listened to; so there is a reasonably good prospect of Mr. Hearst's nomination, especially since he has buried his differences with Tammany and made a fast alliance lth Boss Murphy. But wnat does Mr. Hearst want with, the New York Governorship? Is it vindication for the loss through theft and fraud of the New York city may oralty? Yet it was stolen from him by Tammany, which he expects to support him for Governor. Does he want to run for President, as the New York Sun clearly Intimates? But he has most definitely withdrawn his name for consideration. There is no reason to doubt that he means It, just as there is no reason to doubt that Roose velt means it. ' Hearst has probably several objects in view. He does in a measure seek vindication. He purposes to make Tammany and the Democracy repair the wrong done him in the May oralty contest by placing him at the head of the party in New York, and he wants to toe in position to make terms with Bryan when the latter shall be nominated for President, or even to de feat him if it shall be possible. FRUIT-MARKETING PROBLEMS. To strike the happy medium between over-supply and under-supply seems to be a difficult task for Oregon fruit growers. At the recent midsummer meeting of the Oregon Horticul tural Society at Salem several speak ers declared that one great diffi culty in marketing fresh fruit is that the quantity produced is not suf ficient to permit shipment in carload lots, nor enough to make it an object for packers to give particular attention to it. The loss on this account is seen in two ways. In the first place, the relative cost of shipping In small quan tities is much larger than in large quantities, and the cost must come out of the producer's profits unless the con sumer can be made to stand it, which he will . not da. If he can buy other fruits at a better figure. Again, the loss on account of hap hazard methods in picking, packing and shipping is considerable. With only a little fruit to be handled, no one makes a specialty of packing it, and no systematic efforts are made to secure the highest standard of excellence. A few commission merchants may do some packing as a side issue, but they do not give it that thorough attention it requires. If a farmer brings in cher ries that have been roughly handled In picking, many of the stems loosened In the fruit, cherries hauled to town In large boxes over rough roads In farm wagons that Jolt them around until they are covered with bruises If fruit comes in this way, the packer must take it. If there were a large crop and he made a 'business of pack ing, he could and would require that the fruit be brought to him in first class condition. Then, too, if he made a business of packing' ' he would put forth greater efforts to find new and larger markets, would pack his fruit in the beet possible manner, ship it in refrigerator cars and get it into the hands of the consumer in the most tempting condition. Because the crop is small this cannot be done, and the fruit goes upon the market largely as chance may determine. Viewing the subject "in this light, it is evident that the great trouble witih, the cherry industry, the berry industry and the grape industry is that we- do not grow these fruits in sufficient quantities to permit shipments in car load lots. But what if the desired con dition were brought about? If the farmers of the Salem district and of every other district should grow cher ries, berries and grapes anckother fruits in large quantities, would there not soon be an over-production and alien ability to find a market notwithstand ing the excellent condition in which the fruit came to the show windows of the retail dealer? A glut in the market means a reduced price, and that with out delay. How much better off would the grower toe, then. If he relieved him self of the disadvantage of shipping in small quantities only to find that he had assumed the difficulties of ship ping in large quantities? That small shipments mean an Increased cost of transportation is beyond question. But can the farmers feel any assurance that if they plant trees in sufficient quantities to permit shipment in car load lots, they will not have their fruit refused entirely or purchased only at small prices, upon the ground that the market is over-supplied T REAPING THE WHIRLWIND. , Having engaged for "many years in that somewhat dangerous pastime of sowing the wind, the Rusisan aristoc racy is now about to reap the whirl wind. The long list of atrocities and crimes -committed in the name of the law by the Russian government for generations seems to have culminated in a crisis which promises utter anni hilation of the aristocracy. After that, what? Possibly a reign of anarchy, but in the end freedom for the millions of white slaves who for so long have cringed before their royal masters. It is a fearful price that these downtrod den people are paying' for their free dom; but, while "negotiations" record ed in blood are in progress, the nobility is also yielding up its toll in victims of the bomb, stiletto and pistol. Years of oppression and injustice have edu cated the people of Russia to view with indifference almost any change and to approve mildly almost any method by which it may be brought about. Goaded to desperation, they feel that nothing worse than their present fate can overwhelm them, and that any change must necessarily be for the bet ter. This sentiment, fed and nurtured toy every overt act of the Government, is responsible for the anarchistic tend encies of the Douma. One of the prom inent Ministers, in an Associated Press interview, printed in yesterday's Oil gonian, said: "The masses are polit ically uneducated. The government represents the thin veneer of civiliza tion which covers the country, and, if this Is removed, there Is nothing to re place it. The government must hold on until a stable regime is assured, or an archy will supervene." The apparently unending difficulty with the alleged civilization of Russia is that the veneer is so thin that it neither conceals nor softens the hideous eruptions of sav agery and misrule, and the world is ever afforded a spectacle of riot, assas sination and murder which would have disgraced the Dark Ages. Every effort of the Russian govern ment has been against the cause of civilization ,nd education, for it is on the ignorance of the people that the aristocracy has relied for Immunity from the reforms which necessarily would have caueed curtailment of the unjust special privileges which they now enjoy. Russian influence has par alyzed enterprise and civilization wher ever It has come in contact with them. It is the culmination of this policy of repression that lias accelerated the movements of what one of the Conserv atives in Parliament terms a "passive revolution," which, he asserted, had been in progress for forty years. There may be and undoubtedly is some dan ger that the extreme revolutionists, in rending the present governmental fab ric, may be unable to replace it With one that will meet the expectations of the people. Beyond question, however, the inevitable upheaval will result in a more liberal form of government than Russia has ever known. That the land will be drenched with blood and that the autocracy, headed by the cowering Little Father, will make a last stand with a dictatorship whose only law will be that "might makes right," there is but little question. By extraordinary force of arms the rapidly approaching climax might be warded off for a short time, but it can not be averted. When educated, re fined men and women and even fair young maids seek to avenge tyranny with the deadly bomb and walk smil ingly to their death on the scaffold while the Czar skulks and cowers in hie palace, there is revealed a social condition so monstrously wrong that al most any cataclysm of bloodshed that would right it would be welcomed and excused. It i now a fight to the death between the autocracy and their pup pet Czar and the millions of people, and when the conflict is ended history will not have much difficulty in segregating the murderers from the martyrs. The phrase "uneasy lies the head that wears a crown" never possessed deeper meaning for any of the earth's rulers than it now has for Nicholas, Czar of all the Russlas, and the uneasiness is not confined to the Czar alone. CONVICTS WHO ESCAPE. The Btate has sixty convicts working on the public roads or at the State Fair grounds, and has lost six by escapes this season. This is one feature of working convicts on the roads that will always prove troublesome. The matter of expense places a limit upon the number of guards that may be em ployed, and. as guarding is a lazy man's Job, the beet of guards will get careless. The purchase of reliable bloodhounds toy the state might go far toward discouraging escapes, but, in view of the fact that most bloodhounds fail to make good, this kind of an In vestment is one that must be made with caution. , The problem of working convicts on the public roads is yet unsolved. While it probably makes little difference whether a prisoner shortens his time six months or a year or two by running away, such escapes must sooner or later have an injurious effect upon the discipline of an institution such as a prison. It may be assumed, and will probably always be true, that men convicted of serious crimes or who have long terms to serve, will not be put at work outside the prison walls. The men who escape will therefore be short term men. But one of the elements of effective punishment is Its certainty. The man who thinks he can commit crime without capture, or can escape from confinement, is strongly tempted to try, while he who considers capture and punishment as unavoidable will have respect for the mandates of the law. Losing 10 per cent of the men at work on the road seems excessive. If any man can be more depraved than he who strikes the wife he has sworn to love and protect, the man who deserts his bride of a few weeks or months Is entitled to rank as next lower than the wlfebeater. The newspapers have in the past week or two recorded so many instances of wife desertion that the matter calls for public atten tion. There can be no doubt that in a great majority of instances of this kind the men married the women with the intention of soon deserting them. For such a degraded being no punishment can be sufficient. He has attempted to protect himself from the penalties of the law by resort to the sacred forms of marriage, toy means of which he wrecks the life of innocent, trusting womanhood and leaves his victim to suffer the agonies of disappointed af fection and the burdens of self-support under difficulties which he has 1m- posed. Long terms in the penitentiary should be the penalty for such a crime. in order that the inhuman wretch may not repeat his offense. The wife-deserter of that class is beneath the con tempt of decent men and can find sym pathy only among those who have characters like his own. In a new item in yesterday's Orego nian appeared an expression of opinion from a railroad man that construction of a railroad to the mouth of the Co lumbia River would eliminate the, 30 cents per ton differential levied against Portland. This is obviously an error. It is quite generally known that it was the delays below, and not above, Astoria- that caused the shipowners to charge Is 3d more for grain ships from Portland than from Puget Sound. Ship ping no longer experiences any delay in the twenty-five-foot channel between Portland and Astoria. There is no charge for. pilotage, and the towing charge from the sea to Portland and return is cheaper than from sea to Ta coma and return. In addition, the ad vantages of a fresh-water harbor are eo great that even the Alaska salmon ships, softer discharging cargo at As toria, are towed many miles up the Co lumbia River to get into fresh water. The actual cost of transporting wheat from Portland to Astoria by towing it down in the hold of a vessel is about 4 cents per ton. Mr. Hill can hardly improve on this rate with his railroad. Down in Oklahoma, prospective statehood and big crops have started a genuine boom. Exclusive of Indian Territory, Oklahoma will produce this year 30,000,000 bUEhels of wheat the record crop. In -anticipation of the formation of a new state government, candidates for the Governorship are springing up on every 'side, and the question of the location of the capital of the state has started a lively fight. The statehood bill as it finally became law provides that the capital shall be temporarily at Guthrie until 1913, after which It shall be located where the people of the state may say. A cam paign between the rival cities has al ready begun, although Guthrie would seem to have a lbng advantage in an assured six-years' possession of the title. As a settlement of the difficulty, a' very novel suggestion is made that a high, healthful site be selected, and that a new and ideal city, with parks and boulevards be created expressly to be the capital. Princess de Chimay, formerly Miss Clara Ward, of Detroit, is reported dead at Paris, aged 35 years. Miss Ward was formerly a strikingly beau tiful American girl whose doting mother forced her to marry a titled for eigner. Everything that money could buy was hers, but It would not buy happiness; so she eloped with a stroll ing vagabond and went down the prim rose path with a rush. The adventures of Clara Ward, rich and beautiful, and Evelyn Nesbit, poor and pretty, show that the crimson highway, like death, to a great leveler. Miss Ward was cursed with wealth. Miss Nesbit with beauty. Perhaps the recording angel in heaven's chancery, In full possession of the facts regarding these frail creat ures, will find extenuating circum stances which on earth their own con duct concealed. There is a lesson in these misspent lives which may offset to a degree the mental anguish and sorrow that they caused. "Everything is so high," sighs the careful housewife whose "hard times" allowance for family expenses has not increased proportionately with the in crease of wages. True, everything is high in price as compared with the years of industrial stagnation and financial depression, but this is one of the items that go to make up the great sum of our abounding prosperity. The cause for complaint lies not in this fact itself, but In the failure to realize that prosperity is not in any sense a cheap thing. It abounds In industrial ac tivity, in business energy and in large profits. It pays good wages and large salaries, but it gives nothing without a return, hence the higher rents and In creased cost of living. No method has as yet toeen devised whereby one "can eat his cake and have it too." ' In the interesting nuptials of one of the land-fraud defendants it may have been noticed that . among those not present was S. A. D. Puter. However, if we understand Mr. Puter's position correctly, it is that a wedding is not a necessary condition precedent to per fect harmony of understanding .be tween two persons of congenial tem perament who happen to be in the same line of business. . Dr. Short, the Methodist pastor, has successfully explained how some un godly young man masqueraded as Dr. Short in Yellowstone Park and danced with The Oregonian contest girls. The real doctor, it seems, was asleep, and tne bogus doctor then got very busy. Both enjoyed themselves .according to their bent. But why did the doctor wait until he came clear back before be explained it? Dr. Benzon will, we suppose, stop short of trying his vital magnetism on other people's money. He is not the first Portland man to persuade the nimble dollar to abandon another's pocket and follow his beckoning fingers. There are some snarling people who will profess to be surprised that Mrs. Hartje didn't fall back on the valid Pittsburg defense that she couldn't be expected to tell a white coachman from a black one. If Banker Gourd ain is laboring under the impression that everybody who ought to toe in the penitentiary is be hind the bars, he will learn his mistake when the doors clang behind him. If Major Dreyfus will take a tip from American history, he will discover that over here we have been known twice in recent years to elect a Major Pres ident of the United States. Dr. Charles Edward Locke is again in our midst, with the optimistic theory that, there is no such thing as tainted money. And the doctor is no Baptist, either. If Mr. Gourdain will only retire to his own prison, or any other, and hang np the telephone receiver, much will be forgiven. The Czar did it merely to- show that the explosion of bombshells is by' no means a lost art around Peterhof. As to the Thaw case, the pot keeps on calling the kettle black, and proving It. PRIMARIES HAVE COMB TO STAY. Other states Follow Orrgoa la the New Method. Washington (D. C.) Star. -The Portland Oregonian says: In Oregon the political party convention is a thing of the past. Whatever else may he said against the nominating primary. It PHts out of business an oligarchy of profes sional managers even though the people In making direct nominations may not always do their work wisely or well. The nominating primary is finding favor wherever tried. In no state where par ties have adopted it is there any talk of returning to the old plan, or of Inventing a new one. General satisfaction is ex pressed with results obtained where the voters have had opportunity to register their choice as to the party ticket. Sena torial elections so decided have been so approved that no longer any need is felt for amending the Constitution in behalf of the popular election of Senators. The primary method of instructing the Legis latures gives us that in effect, and no additional machinery is necessary. In Kentucky a Democratic primary has been called to nominate both a state ticket and a candidate for United States Senator. Some objection was raised as to the date the Congressional polling day in November but that was overruled by the committee, and the battle has begun. Candidates for the state offices are an nouncing themselves, and Senator Mc creary and Governor Beckham are in the field for the former's seat. The state will toe thoroughly canvassed, and no Democrat need be without information as to where the men who aspire to lead the party stand on the issues of the-day. Every voter of that party can make an IntelllKent choice, and then await the re sult with the feeling that, come what may, he has had his say. Primaries, we are told, are expensive for candidates. That may be true. But men aspiring to office understand that it requires money to visit the people and get their views properly before voters. They are not forced to run. It la for every man who wants office and the prestige that goes with it to decide whether he is able to stand the tariff. But if primaries are expensive for can didates, conventions have "been much more expensive for the people. Conven tion day waa the signal for the fine work of caucus-fixers and tricksters, and usual ly a few expert spirits living at county seats manipulated the expression of the county. It was the era of numerous small and corrupt rings, whose members flourished on political pickings.- Primaries do not banish rings nothing can do that but they reduce their num ber and lessen the opportunities for fraud and plunder. What Gritty Determination Will Do, Kansas City Times. Six years ago John Benton, then a boy of 20. walked from CrawrordsviUe, lna.. to North Superior, la., and entered the law department of the Emma W. Kink Memorial University. All he possessed was $1170, the proceeds of a mortgage his widowed mother had placed on the old farm. By dint of careful economy and through an inborn thrift he managed to get his degree and still have enough money to visit his roommate's cousin in Wilkes City. After a brief but happy courtship young Benton hung out his shingle in Snedeker. Colo., where he is looked on as one of the most promising members of the Bismuth County bar. Not only has he kept up all interest payments as they came due, but, thanks to the unparalleled growth in the value of agri cultural lands, he has been able to in crease the mortgage to $2900. Memorial Windows for McKInley. Baltimore News. Mrs. William McKInley has presented the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Canton, O., four memorial art glass win dows in honor of the late President. The designs for them were made by one of the larerest art glass firms In the East, and are at present in the hands of the, trustees of the church.- The church at present has no memorial of McKInley except a small brass tablet marking the McKInley pew. A Catalogue, but Take Your Choice. Parkersburg State Journal. Taft wants It. Dolllver will take It. ' " Roosevelt refuses It. Fairbanks longs for it. Cannon is talked of for it. Foraker is very receptive. Beverldge la modest but willing. La Follette thinks he would fill the bill. Senator Stephen B. Elkins ought to have it. Archbishop Ireland aa Atd-de-Camp. Chicago Journal. Archbishop Ireland has accepted an appointment as aide-de-camp on the staff of Commander-in-Chief James Tanner and will ride with him in his carriage in the Grand Army parade at Minneapolis August IB. Archbishop Ireland served in the Civil War as Chaplain of the Fifth Minnesota Regiment. No Wasted Words In This Story. . Memphis Dispatch in New York Sun. "Will" Anderson, a Memphis negro, dangles from the crossarm of a telegraph pole near Tillar, Ark., in full view of the windows of Mrs. Crawford's cottage. An derson assaulted Mrs. Crawford late on Saturday afternoon. He was trailed into a swamp, captured, identified, confessed and was hanged. Mr. Debs Is "Ajcln " Mr. Bryan. New York World. - Mr. Debs declares that Mr. Bryan can not possibly be elected President in 1908. "No candidate can win," he says, "with both capital and labor in one party." In such circumstances it would seem im possible to elect a President at all in 1908. Japan Still Adding; to Her Navy. ' Chicago Record-Herald. The Japanese are getting together good-sized navy by retrieving wrecks of Russian vessels. Their -perseverance in such labor Is attested by the news that they have just floated the cruiser Novlk, which was sunk nearly two years ago. John D.'s Lock Stood by Him. Exchange. It is not surprising that John D. Rock' efeller was able to pick the winner at the French races. That man couldn't lose money If he burned it up In an in cinerator. Oh! ' Promise Her. Chicago Record-Herald. HE. Some day I shall And you In heaven. Wherever our heaven may be; Borne day I shall And you and know you. And you shall give greetings to me! It may be on yonder pale planet. Or past the last limits of scace. But, oh. I shall And yon and clasp you In long and ecstatic embrace. Era' the day of our meeting a billion Of aeons may have to elapse; The sun may cease blazing and crumble And you will grow weary perhaps: But I will not rest till I And you. Wherever our heaven may be. And I shall be richly rewarded - When you turn to give greeting to me. Some day Is far, far in the future. And who can be sure that the sky wm open for us in the morning When the night w call "Life" has gone byt And heaven, if heaven awaits us. May reach to such heights and so far That you never, ah, never can find me. No matter how gealous yon are. And even If after long aeon We meet In far stretches of space. And you swoop, as I tremble, to clasp me In long and ecstatic embrace. Why wait for such Joy or that glory. Why lay the glad scene in the sky? There's nobody looking at present- Why wait for the ecstasy? Why -4 , MEN'S APPAREL IX SUMMER. Be Has to Wear What the Tailor Say and Is Miserable. New York Sun. It would be interesting and profitable to know why Carlyle In his delectable "Sar tor Resartus" failed to tell the world the philosophy of the change of the fashions for men in the Summer time. We talk at random about the radical alterations in our climate, but after all the weather is a pretty old-fashioned and conservative sort of thin, and Summer is Summer every year, especially in the months of July and August. There was a happy tlmeNn the Infancy of some of those who now find themselves sweltering in long-bodied coats and tall collars when it was me ngni oi every man to wear white duck clothing from the top of his coat to the oottoms or nis trnusers. -vet in this year of grace only the doughty Grosvenor of Ohio has had the temerity to eonrront an asscnioiy ui his fellow-men thus clad in the garb of spotless freedom. Crash garments lor men are nauuuraij cool and comfortable, though they have a certain nnnphnlance which Is Incompat ible with upright bearing and physical boldness. But In dog days, who wishes to be upright, and who is bold? Linen, love ly, clinging, dust-defying linen, is no longer worn by men, not even In the an cient and honorable form of the duster. Women, always more wise than her infe rior in the matter of garments, wears both linen and duck. Yet women could better afford to want consideration in these matters, for whatever she wears she looks more beautiful than man. espe cially when he reaches those years In which the waist grows and the shoulders droop. The Panama hat is less fleeting than false, and at its best it is .no cooler than the primmer straw. But man. the slave of our fashionable convention, walks through Summers of discomfort wearing whatever the tailor bids him wear and suffering solely that the knight of the shears and the needle may wax fat and prospei ous. CORTLAND'S FRANCHISES. Robbed the People of Millions. Weston Leader. Thursday's Oregonian contains a com plete expose of the franchise steal at Portland, whereby the "first families" of Oregon's metropolis robbed the people of millions. The Oregonian has the sympa thy of the state at large in its fearless campaign against these plunderers. What Franchises Are For. Echo Register. Portland gets soaked for new fran chises every little while, and a new batch of millionaires arises to keep up society. The people grunt a little, but pay over their nickels and dimes as cheerfully as the French peasants hand ed tithes to the grand seignores two cen turies ago. House Bath Connected With Ocean. Philadelphia Record. Henry C. Frlck's new home, which has been in course of construction at Pride's Crossing, Mass., for the last two years, is about ready for occupancy. It contains a swimming rjool connected directly with the Atlantic Ocean, so that the bather merely has to turn a stopcock to obtain the pleasures of a swim in the sea with out leaving the house. The Hymn "America'' Finds Ita Place. New York Press. Homer Case, of the town of Lafayette, N. Y., bequeathed the church choir there the sum of $100 on condition that the choir would sing "America" every Me morial Day. Just the Rla-ht Time of Year. Lewiston Teller. The trial of the land-fraud cases has been reopened down in Oregon, where this weather is very suitable for roast ing purposes. Democracy's Dollar Dinners. Kansas City Star. But the question is, Has not Mr. Bry an's London experience spoiled him for any more dollar dinners to Democracy? The Country Editor. Toronto World. He Is the hardest worked of men, A busy chap Is he; He wields the hatchet or the pen With great felicity.- He chronicles that "Bessie Brown Waa married to William Goode," Then to the woodpile hustles down And splits a lot of wood. He writes two columns of advlc To cure the people's ills. Then dons his apron in a trie And prints a hundred bills. And if some callers then there are. His inky hands he'll wash. And trade a year's subscription for A pumpkin or a squash. He states "HI Hlgglns Is is town Upon a load of rye" And takes the upper cases down - And fixes up the "pi." And when the "pi" is straightened out The furniture he dusts Then sets a stick or two about The tariff and the trusts. His paper cheers us every week It does whate'er It can To keep the mud off Freedom's peak , And save the rights of man. ' So come, ye freemen of this land, And let's be thankful for This bulwark of the Nation, The country editor! MIGHTY S Jr ffOMTH III Buy l yfJ HONEYMOON AFTER IS YEARS. Coaple Farted at Altar Start Again oa MOOO Wit Saved. . New York Dispatch After a separation 13 years aero at the marriage altar. Mr. and Mrs. William F. Nett have started on their belated wed ding tour, reunited. When they return from a motor boat excursion through Long Island they will begin housekeeping on Fifth street. Unionport, in The Bronx. The cottage, the grounds and the motor boat were all purchased with the money Nett had been paying his wife in weekly Installments during the 13 years. Nett had a good position in the bridge department when he was married, but the young bride listened, unwilling at first, to stories that "friends" told her con cerning her husband's past life. She decided she had made a great mis take, and told her husband of an hour she could not live with him. He in sisted that the stories were false, but to no avail. A short time ago Mrs. Nett reviewed her husband's life during the years since their marriage and decided she had been deceived by malicious gossip. Every week Nett had sent her $15, w-hich he insisted she should keep, al though she had not asked for It. When the reconciliation was effected, Mrs. Nett said: "Here is J9000, the money you sent me for 13 years. I have not spent a cent of It. It is yours. It always has been yours." LIFE IN THE OREGON COUNTRY. Home-Made Joke, Portland New Age? A King has a bomb job. Ilot-Wratbrr Note. Eliensburg Capital. It is hard to preach temperance ser mons with lemons 60 cents a dozen. Everybody' Works. Rainier Register. There is not a mill in this community that can fill all its orders. That sounds better than a report that they have mora material than they can find mar ket for. Bughouse, Astoria Herald. One reason the population of Astoria does not Increase is that too many of ita people are taken to the Asylum every month. No city can stand such a steady drain as that. Philosophical. Hover Sunshine. Every successful fruit district expects and requires some hot weather. Condi tions demand it. It gives color and thor ough maturity to the fruit. So we welter through the heat with as good grace and as little worry as we can command. Whew! Eugene Guard. Rev. Dr. Brougher, the Portland reform er, states that he has seen worse places than The Oaks. The doctor probably sowed a pretty good-sized crop of wild oats before taking up the ministerial work. Seeking- Blind Pigs. Cottage Grove Western Oregon. It is rumored that there is a detective in town, a regular full-fledged sleuth, who is trying to ferret out who is who in the matter of the sale of liquor. Well, he may succeed, but if he does he is a dog-gasted' better Bleuth than we news paper guys. Just Recalling; Old Times. The Dalles Chronicle. B. S. Pague, the erstwhile weather man, of Portland, was In The Dalles last evening, and sitting up and taking notice caused the thermometer to step a little higher. Today she is up to the 81 mark, and none are Inviting her to continue her ascent. The minimum this morning waa 63. Inside Information About a Great Truth . Woodburn Independent. A change has come o'er the scene of newspaperdom. Several years ago evi dences could be seen in the issues of newspapers on the day of, or after the Fourth that the force had been indulging too much in John Barleycorn and were not up to the usual. Today 1t is differ ent; the newspaper man must always keep a clear head. As an Instance, the great Morning Oregonian on and after the Fourth displayed the same. splendid, clear-headed ability as daily evinced. Why? The whole force is composed of teetotalers, who love their work, are am bitious, painstaking, consider the past and gaze well into the future, and look upon the drinking of beer and whisky as vul gar. Hidden Well. . 1 Hlllsboro Independent. One evening last week Mr. and Mr" J. A. Messinger were eating supper on the porch of their home, on the farm re cently purchased west of the long bridge. The floor of the porch was badly de cayed and Mrs. Messinger broke through, falling to the ground several feet below. She was helped up by her husband and though somewhat frightened was not Injured to any extent. But after Mrs. Messinger found out that she had fallen on the ground only a few inches from an open well, measuring eight feet across, she was still more frightened. Had she dropped Into the well she would cer tainly have been drowned. When Mr. Messinger purchased the farm nothing was said about the well, and he did not know of Its existence until the accident occurred. It was a close call. PLEASING From the St. Paul Pioneer Press. 3