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PORTLAND) WEDNESDAY, JULY 23.
MR. RCSBKLL SAGE'S WILL.
Exactly how the late Russell Sage
disposed of his money by will Is not
known, but the belief seems to be
common among his associates on Wall
street that he gave a very large sum
for charities, of one sort or another.
Like many men of miserly habits, he
seems to have gloated during the last
years of his life over the .prospect of
surprising people with his benefactions
when he must finally give up once for
all the pleasure of manipulating hie
dollars with his own hands. Had the
dollars a sensibility of ther own, one
could Imagine them feeling uncom
monly relieved to turn from the satis
faction of a millionaire's Insatiable
greed to- works of charity, but the merit
which a imiser can acquire by post
mortem benefactions does not seem
very great. StiH. a millionaire's money
must go somewhere when he himself
passes to his reward and between a
horde of distant relations and the pub
lic he shows a commendable sense of
justice In choosing the latter for his
heir. Most of these great fortunes have
been taken from the public by one de
vice or another without much return
except in the sad lessons of experience,
and it seems therefore no more than
right to make restitution when the
possessor must relax his grip for good
and all. The restitution at best must
be Inadequate, for the original victims
from whom the separate dollars were
squeezed can never be determined. Ap
proximate justice only is possible, and
this is best attained toy making a lump
donation for some good work. In a
fortune acquired by plundering the
public ownership can be only permis
sive. The successful acqulsltor re
tains his booty through the good-na-i
tured tolerance of his victims. He has
no just title to it; and, if he has none,
what shall we say of his relatives to
the fourth and fifth degree?
What shadow of an equitable claim
have the nephews and grand
nephews of the departed millionaire
to his fortune? They have not formed
habits of dependency upon him for
support. If they had, one might admit
' the parasite's plea of being un
able to dig and ashamed to beg.
But Sage made none of his "rela
tions parasites. He probably looked
upon the whole gang much as old Jonas
Ohuzzlewlt did. At any rate, he kept
them at a safe dtotance. As the re
porters put It, he was not upon good
terms with them; which Is another way
of saying that he knew them to be on
the lookout for crunubs and pickings
and preferred to keep the whole him
self. None of this sorrowing band
was encouraged to expect anything
from Mr. Sage's benevolence during his
life. They have acquired no vested
rights in his kindly Intentions, for they
knew very well that no such intentions
existed. The equitable claim of a good
wife that she has helped by her for
bearance and economy to found a for
tune does not exist in the case of re
mote relatives who have not contrib
uted in the least, 'but have stood by
with envious eyes, licking greedy chops
while it grew.
The law which distributes among re
mote relations the fortune of a man
who dies Intestate is probably a mis
taken piece of legislation. It is one of
those blundering devices which hu
manity adopts through indolence and
want of thought. When we become
wiser, money left without a will to dis
pose of it may go to the school fund
or be spent In building roads. Cer
tainly there Is no good reason, and
wonderfully few bad ones, for be
stowing it upon distant connections
of the dead man. In most cases It
does them no good. It may even ruin
them. It is a rare man who is the bet
ter for receiving money wrlch he has
not earned. If It would be bad for a la
borer to become possessed suddenly of
a share in the plunder of his million
aire superiors, how much better is It
for a greedy poor relation to fall heir
to a fraction of the Sage estate? It is
no kindness to any man in normal
health to place him beyond the need
of working for his living. The only
true beneficence possible in this mat
ter is to give him fairly all that his
labor produces. The reproach is "com
monly, but unjustly, made, that the
modern worklngman wishes to get from
the plutocrats something that he has
not earned. The fact is that the pluto
crats not only wish but actually suc
ceed in accomplishing their wish to
take from workingmen and everybody
else a great deal that they have not
earned. AH that any sane working
man wishes is to enjoy the fruits of his
labor. What the plutocrat wishes Is to
enjoy the fruits of everybody's labor
but his own. The poor relation of the
dead millionaire feels the same desire
and hires a band of lawyers to help
him realize it
He hopes to get something for noth
ing. This is the sin which all the
clergy denounce in the gambler. It
is the crowning demerit of the social
ist in the eyes of his plutocratic crit
ics. But if It is a mistaken policy to
distribute the estates of intestates
among poor relations, it Is a much
worse one to break a will for their ben
efit, especially a will by which the de
parted millionaire hopes to make tardy
restitution of his plunder to the public
When a man postpones all his good
deeds until he is dead, it seems almost
like sacrilege to thwart his accomplish
ing them. Mr. Sage ought not to be
compelled to spend eternity in regret
that his fortune did not go to found a
university or hospital as he Intended.
This would seem to be a piece of ex
quisite cruelty which the law should
not encourage. But how much more
cruel for him to have to look down
and see a horde of relations rioting
upon it whom he had hated all his life.
If a man's written will is not to be re
spected concerning his money, why
should we be urged to respect the writ
ten win of men who lived a century
and a half ago concerning the princi
ples of government?
As a matter of fact, there is no rea
son why the will of a dead man should
be allowed to control the living In any
particular. His part in the affairs of
men is played out. He has lived his
life and hie successors must live theirs.
Each generation has its own problems
with the right and duty to solve them
according to its own lights. There is no
law of God which subjects living men
to corpses. On the other hand there is
no equity in dividing the fortune of a
departed millionaire among a flock of
harpies and their lawyers. The law,
as Mr. Roosevelt has suggested, should
assume control of such swollen ac
cumulations of wealth and use them
for the public good.
APPEARANCE OR REALITY f
One need not conclude that the Ill
ness which seems epidemic among
the defendants in the land-fraud
cases 19 wholly simulated. In vary
ing degrees, according to the char
acters of the patients, It is prob
ably factitious, but it must not be for
gotten that a mind diseased may react
disastrously upon the 'body. Just as a
mind hale and cheerful makes it vigor
ous. It is a common saying that worry
depletes the 'physical powers more rap
idly than work. Shame and sorrow kill
as quickly as fever. Kings who lost
their thrones were proverbially short
lived in the tales of old wars, and the
heroes of tragedy die 'without delay
when shorn of their greatness in the
fifth act.
Some say the body is but the outward
semblance of the mind, shadowing
vaguely both those inner realities which
are of eternal duration and its passing
disorders as well. Without going so
far, we may admit that the physical
and mental parts of man exist in won
derful concord, sharing good and ill
without reserve. Remorse, or a guilty
conscience, soon wears down the
strongest frame; but perhaps there is
no passion which so quickly saps the
vital forces as cowardice, nor is there
any which so hardly escapes contempt.
The world requires that one who has
had the courage to break - the law
should show equal fortitude in facing
the consequences. Or, if he is falsely
accused, his manhood ought not to
blench in the crisis when he must as
sert and defend his Innocence. A guilty
man who puts on a brave front at his
trial fails not to win some reluctant re
spect from his brothers who have been
less sorely tempted, while a criminal of
capital guilt who should forget to die
game would shock all the convention
alities of his calling and violate a great
tradition.
Crime may be forgiven, but not the
cowardice which weakens and sickens
over the fear of punishment. Defiant
sin extorts its meed of admiration even
from the messengers of social revenge;
honest penitence wins respect if it in
clines toward restitution; but the cra
ven fear which cowers and falls sick at
the judgment bar is despised: by gods
and men.
RECORD-BREAKING FOREIGN COM
MERCE. The foreign commerce of the United
States for the fiscal year ending June
30 aggregated $2,970,000,000. This with
out including the trade of Porto Rico
and Hawaii, which was formerly in
cluded as foreign trade. If added this
year, it would swell the total to more
than $3,000,000,000. Exports for the year
exceed those of the previous record
year, 1905, by $225,000,000, and imports
are $109,000,000' greater than for any pre
vious year. The excess of exports over
Imports was $517,000,000. The showing
Is a remarkable one. A better idea of
its importance can perhaps be gained
by the statement that the exports for
the twelve months ! were $861,000,000
greater than for the same period end
ing with June, 1896, and the Imports
were $447,000,000 greater than for that
period. These figures, taken in connec
tion with those for the preceding ten
years, tell a story of steady and almost
uninterrupted prosperity since the de
feat of the free-silver forces in 1896.
The gain was slow for the first five
years after 1896, but when the act of
March, 1900, removed all doubt about
the stability of our money standard
capital was turned loose and we began
a career of prosperity that has never
been equaled either in this country or
In any other country on earth. New
wealth has been created in the United
States within the past five years more
rapidly than ever before. There has
been an expansion In all lines of indus
trial endeavor, and the natural re
sources of the country have been ex
ploited on a scale never before ap
proached. This wonderful activity,
which has produced such gratifying re
sults, was induced by the feeling of se
curity which followed settlement of the
money standard.
But this commerce, as imposing as it
now appears, is, with proper encour
agement, susceptible of vastly greater
growth. Even now it represents only
the smallest part of our Industrial and
agricultural growth, for the home de
mands of 80,000.000 of the most prosper
ous people on earth take up the largest
and an ever-increasing proportion of
the products of the country. It was the
great activity of our own people in
providing for this home trade that pro
duced the surplus which we are now
marketing abroad in such seemingly
large quantities. That eminent army
of "standpatters" who point with pride
to this great foreign trade as one of
the results of intensified protection do
not consider that these results have
been attained in the face of a policy
which has been so restrictive of trade
that nothing but the enormous weight
and bulk of the surplus which we had
to sell enabled it to break the barriers
which interfered with its progress..
We sent foreign last year $1,000,000,000
worth of agricultural products, but not
a single one of the countries which paid
the American farmers euch immense
sums gave American products a pref
erence. England and Germany were
our best customers, but they bought
nothing from us until they had ex
hausted the available supplies of every
other country on earth that had the
same line of commodities to sell. The
"balance of trade" in our favor in this
record season was more than $500,000,
000. In other words, we sold he for
eigners half a billion dollars' worth
more goods' than we purchased from
them. This "balance of trade" Is used
as a standing argument in favor of our
protective policy, but it Is not at all
clear that It is a good thing for the
country at large to have It.
Perhaps, if we should enable our con
sumers to buy in competitive markets,
it would be to their advantage. Our
gigantic trusts might not get such a
large proportion of their earnings, but
they would have more to spend else
where among the smaller tradesmen
and producers. This . decrease in our
pet balance of trade -would necessarily
be accomplished by a corresponding in
crease in imports. This would mean
establishment of reciprocal relations,
which, of course, would promote the
good feeling necessary if we would
have the same standing in foreign
markets as is now enjoyed -by our com
petitors. We are breaking records in
foreign trade while under a serious
handicap in the way of a restrictive
trade policy. Our customers buy from
us only as a last resort, and because
they are forced to do so. What we
have accomplished under such adverse
conditions augurs well for what may be
done when we adopt a policy more
equitable for our customers, who would
like to sell us something in return, and
more reasonable and fair for our own
buyers, who dislike to be robbed by the
all-powerful trusts.
AN INDUSTRIAL OUTING.
The hopgrowers of the state are in
hopeful mood they no longer b
Like the careful plowman -doubting stand(s).
Lest on the threshing-floor his hopeful sheaves
prove chaff. '
The vines have made a luxuriant
growth; the young burrs are thickly
set in generous clusters; spraying has
forestalled- the efforts of the prolific
hoplouse to make of the vines a favored
breeding-place, and, with the. harvest
but a month away, all things point to a
clean and abundant yiel-d. - Withal the
values are already set at figures that
will enable the grower to make money
for himself out of the crop and pay his .
pickers fair compensation for their
work.
The picker is the only element In the
hop industry that is as yet unreckoned
with for the season. That he will prac
tically make his own terms with the
producer is foreshadowed; 'by the de
mand for labor in every department of
industry, agricultural, mechanlcaL-and
constructive. With the foresight that
is a feature of successful endeavor In
industrial life, hopgrowers have cast a
careful glance over the labor field and
sought to secure such help as will be
necessary for the September harvest.
Some of these have been successful,
others are still seeking, but with the
reasonable prospect that supply will
rise to meet demand when the. time
comes. -
Hopplcklng is the one industry, in
which families engage in the WSlam
ette Valley. Frultplcking is in the
same line of concerted effort, but as
yet the commercial orchard, requiring
the work of many hands for several
weeks, isl not a feature of our horti
culture. The hop harvest takes the
form, first of a family outing, then
of a neighborhood festival, and
finally of a remunerative industry
in which children work with their par
ents, unchallenged by the Child Labor
Commission on the score of age proud
to earn their Winter's clothing or the
year's schoolbooks by their own ef
forts. The work Is wholesome, the sea
son Is short, and the pay is usually
satisfactory. It is proper, however, in
view of occurrences in the hopyfirds
of some past years ..to warn parents
against sending their boys and girls un
accompanied by older persons in au
thority to the faopyards. If the par
ents can go, so much the better; but if
not, there should be others, steady, ob
servant men and women to whom par
ental authority is delegated. With this
precaution hoppicking time may well be
anticipated as the family outing time,
not less enjoyable to those who cannot
afford an idle outing than is the season
at the Ibeach or in the mountains - to
those who can afford in a financial
sense a vacation of idle enjoyment -
RUSSIA'S RULERS. -
It is said that the Grand Duke Mi
chael, brother of the Czar and until the
birth of the little Czarowltz heir to the
throne, frightened the timorous Nicho
las into the act that has plunged Rus
sia Into revolution and threatens the
throne itself. This young man Michael
is a physical weakling and the favorite
of his mother, the Dowager Empress,
who is herself a power behind the
throne. Though In her girlhood, as
Princess Dagmar, of Denmark, she
was as gentle and considerate of the
rights of others as is her sister, Queen
Alexandra of England, her sojourn for
more than a generation at the most au
tocratic court In the world has made
her an implacable enemy of progress
and filled, her with an utter contempt
for the downtrodden masses of the em
pire. Her daughter-in-law, the Czar
ina, the just, generous, high-spirited
daughter of Princess Alice of England,
brought up at the democratic court of
Hesse-Darmstadt, she regards with
jealousy and aversion, hating her first
because she did not bring an heir to the
empire, and when a son was finally born
doubly hating her because her own son,
the sickly, pampered Michael, -was
thereby relegated to the second place
in the line of succession.
Nominally a woman cannot rule in
Russia. Actually, however, the policy
of the government is dictated by this
woman the Czar's mother. The influ
ence of two women of opposite views
upon important political matters may
indeed be said to account for the
Czar's vacillating policy, his wife coun
selling to Justice and humanity in deal
ing with his - subjects, his mother to
stern repression, not only of liberty,
but of its semblance. It is thus that
he halts between two opinions and in
his action represents trie monarch who
does not know his own mind now led,
now driven, but always in leash.
- It may be hoped, whatever befalls
the rest of the imperial family In the
rain of red fire that has been Invoked,
that the Czarina and her young chil
dren will escape the doom that threat
ens the house of Romanoff. For the
rest, from the cowering Czar and his
imperious mother to the Grand Dukes,
useless cousins and brother of the ruler,
the pity that is born of humanity is
their due. Beyond this the world re
gards their plight with indifference.
To what desperation the gang of
franchise-mongers in Portland is
driven by exposure" of their grab and
graft methods is evpm.nl ffifl tho -
sertion of their organ that Editor Scott
was xriDea" ty "jack" 'Matthews'
promise to make him United States
Senator, when The Oroo-nnion fnutwi
their reputed honesty and allowed
mem to put ineir $4,000,000 blanket
franchise steal through "Jack's" City
Council in Novtrnhpr toast -ni i.nn.
ary, 1903. Scott was away from Port
land during this MUls-Lewis-Ladd-Swl-
Krt-jamjDeii-xeai graft in the Coun
cil, most of the time in Europe from
early In September, 1902, untH after the
deal was accomplished. Lying Is such a
habit With thi TlllltftrrstU -ana- that
any distortion of the truth "looks good"
to mem it m their own interest. But
of course the He is a small matter; al
most SnV lie WOllM lf InalirniflMint
compared with their $4,000,000 steal
train me puoiic.
The British Admiralty, which has
been carefully guarding all of the se
crets of the great battleship Dread
naught, has at last taken the public
into its confidence to the extent of giv
ing up a few particulars of this great
est of fighting machines. Aside from
an equipment of ten 12-inch. guns, per
haps the most remarkable feature of
this great ship is her speed of twenty
seven knots and a bunker capacity
which will admit of her steaming 3500
miles at a speed of 18 knots per hour.
The Dreadnaugbt will have twenty
seven 12-pound guns to be used against
torpedo-boats. The cost of this invinci
ble floating fortress, including guns, is
$9,000,000. There is a possibility that
these particulars are now made public
for the moral effect they will have.
The Dreadnaught would only require a
few minutes in which to wipe out of
existence the entire navy of some of
the minor powers which occasionally
make wry faces and spit fire at John
Bull
The talents of the forger are -diversified,
and there is a greater variety of
gold bricks now on the market than
ever before. Yesterday's news dis
patches told of a number of laboring
men in New York being victimized by
purchasing forged certificates of ad
mission to a labor union, and- another
modern financier as endeavoring to sell
forged Union Pacific certificates of
stock. Mr. Harriman is not mentioned
as the innocent purchaser of this bogus
stock, but it was not very long ago that
he paid between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000
for a limited amount of inaccessible
property in Seattle which any one else
could have bought for one-third the
amount paid. Perhaps the forger of
Union Pacific stock had heard of the
railroad king's experience with the Se
attle sharpers. v
If any Willamette Valley farmer will
take a glance around his ranch he will
see scores of nooks and corners near
fences and buildings where grass has
grown tall and become ripe and unfit
for feed because he kept no sheep to
eat it down. The dry grass is not
merely waste, it is also a menace to his
property, for, In case of fire, it affords
a means of conveying the destroying
element, from one part of the -farm to
another. In Western Oregon, where
sheep may be kept on Fall wheat and
on clover fields in the Spring, with
benefit to these crops, every farmer
should have a small flock of these al
ways profitable animals. '
The British steaimshlp- Beckenham,
wMich. is under charter to-load lumber
at Portlands is escaping dirydock ex
penses by going on the sands near As
toria at high tide and having her hull
cleaned and painted. The facilities are
perhaps not equal to those of the dry
dock, but the expense is lighter, and,
in an emergency like the tpresent, when
the drydock is otherwise employed, it is
quite a convenience for steamers to
make use of the natural drydock be
tween tides. As the Puget Sound har
bors are not favored with any safe
places for vessels to take the sands,
they must either wait for the drydock
or proceed with foul hulls.
Another Astoria fisherman made his
last drift Just outside the river Mon
day. It was more than a generation
ago that Astoria's eons of the sea be
gan tempting fate by venturing too far
out in their quest for salmon, and Old
Neptune has never abandoned his de
mands for toll. Some seasons the vic
tims are few in number and again they
are many, but never a season comes
and goes without some fatalities among
the fishermen. The blue Pacific is a
beautiful ocean, and it croons soft lul
labies to those who view It in its tender
moods, but ever and anon It claims new
victims who undervalue its dangers.
The steamship Richmond, carrying
3,000,000 feet of lumber and drawing
twenty-two feet of water,' left Portland
at 4 o'clock yesterday morning and at
3:30 yesterday afternoon crossed out
of the river en route for China. This
trip from Portland to the sea was made
in about one-half the time required by
a steamer in making the trip from
Tacoma to sea.
In compiling facts cencerning the
productiveness of the Oregon country
Tom Richardson should make note of
the seventeenth child born to a woman
at the age of 50 in Pocatello and triplets
to a younger woman in Clackamas
County. .
- Whatever comes out f the terrible
Russian affair, and whoever wins in
the end, it seems certain that the out
look is exceedingly black for the Jews.
If they could leave Russia, they would.
But how can they?
Seattle Is Justly proud of the fact that
at last it has pulled oft a prizefight in
which "a Teal champion was principal."
It Is useless longer to deny Seattle's
claims to greatness.
Why do women always choose
smokers' seats on street-cars?" asks a
complaining - correspondent. - They
don't. Why should smokers have
seats?
One sign that the worst of the Sum
mer's -heat is past was posted yester
day; the price of straw hats was re
duced 50 per cent.
The Bix-bit companies have been
overrated. Some of them will pay only
four bits, or as much as they can
afford."
Mr. Sage's distant relatives are rap
idly forgetting the distance always
maintained by Mn Sage during his life
time. To Democratic party managers east,
west, north and south: Keep your eye
on Hearst; he's loaded.
The Czar cannot fool any of the peo
ple all the time, nor all of the people
some of the time.
WHITE SCOURGE! IX FRANCE,
Dreadful Ravaaes of Consumption
Csnae Many Deaths.
. Washington, July 13. A report received
at the Department of Commerce and La
bor from Consular Clerk Augustus E. In
gram, stationed at Paris, contains the
statement that 150,000 persons die each
year in France from tuberculosis. This
represents 39 deaths out of every 10,000
Inhabitants.
This appalling death roll, it is reported
by Mr. Ingram, has led to a critical ex
amination of French vital statistics, and
many interesting facts have been brought
out, showing the basis on which these
statistics have been established.
Definite Information was received from
only 713 cities and towns, having a popu
lation of more than 5000 inhabitants, mak
ing a total of 12,000,000 inhabitants, among
whom the mortality . from tuberculosis
amounted to 42,000 a year. This has
served as a calculation for the rest of
the country, and to it is added the deaths
from chronic bronchitis (approximately
50.000), making in this way a total of 150,
000 deaths from tuberculosis.
Professor Albert Robin has established
from the statistics of 1901, 1902 and 1903
that tuberculosis increases in an almost
regular proportion to the density of popu
lation. In Paris, for example, the per
centage of deaths from tuberculosis is
45.2; in cities of 100,000 to 492,000 popula
tion, 84.4 per cent: in cities of 20,000 to
80,000 inhabitants, 30.8 per cent; in cities
of 5000 to 10,000, 23.4 per cent, and in cities
of 1000 to 5000, 20.4 per cent.
The question of the effect of certain oc
cupations on this disease haB been care
fully investigated In France. It was found
that those trades that bring persons Into
contact with dust are especially danger
ous. Inquiries among policemen, postal
employes and laundry-workers revealed a
disastrous condition of affairs..
Among- 257 workmen carefully kept un
der observation, consisting of carpenters,
joiners, floor layers and packers, all liv
ing under practically the e;ame conditions,
the mortality from tuberculosis amounted
to more than 30 per cent.
Laundry-workers, however, were found
to be the most seriously affected. In some
neighborhoods the mortality among laundry-workers
from tuberculosis reached
the total of 75 per cent. So deadly is the
handling of - indiscriminate soiled linen
that young women succumb after an av
erage of 15 years, while men last from 12
to 23 years.
The Paris bakers a few years ago
formed an organization for the improve
ment of the unsanitary conditions under
which they have to work. It is asserted
authoritatively that, despite the govern
ment Inspection of bakeries and the mod
ern hygienic apparatus, 240,000 out of 400,
000 bakers in France suffer from tuber
culosis. The campaign against tuberculosis in
France has assumed such national im
portance that the Academy of Medicine at
Paris has, during the past three months,
been discussing the necessity for the com
pulsory declaration of cases of tubercu
losis by the doctors In attendance, but
this has met with a storm of opposition,
it being contended that thereby the large
army of consumptives would be deprived
of means of support, since no one would
then knowingly employ them.
It has been suggested that school chil
dren suffering from this disease should
carry a booklet reporting the progress of
their physical condition, so that the teach
ers could separate the unhealthy from the
healthy. Paper handkerchiefs have also
been proposed for distribution, but their
use, French physicians declare, would be
undesirable, if not dangerous, unless the
handkerchiefs were systematically col
lected and destroyed. The Minister of
Education has recently issued an order
that inasmuch as the permanent commis
sion for protection against tuberculosis
had learned that recent Investigations had
shown that in certain countries 60 to SO
per cent of the cattle were affected with
tuberculosis, all milk consumed In board
ing schools should be pasteurized, boiled
or sterilized.
LIFE IN THE OREGON COUJfTRY.
Fnn With the Feline.
East Oregonlan.
Owing to the hot weather the Rader
bob cats have been taken from their
pen In the furniture store window and
are now enjoying an outing. Mr. Ra
der has prepared a place for them in
his yard and the young wild cats are
now doing well. Not long ago a tame
cat belonging to the family of J. W.
Maloney came over to visit with the
bob cats and was placed in the pen
.with them. However, the rough meth
ods of the bob cats did not appeal to
the Maloney cat and he proceeded to
climb the ceiling. Thinking a game
was on the three bob cats took after
the tame one and according to eye
witnesses one. of the swiftest cat races
In history was enacted before the civ
ilized cat was' rescued by J. .Maloney,
Jr.
Ellensburs'a Aborlsrlnal Centenarian.
Capital.
Old Nancy, has been going about the
streets alone lately, with only her
three dogs to keep her company. She
carries no string with which to lead
behind old Toby. She was asked a
day or two ago where her old husband
was and said: "Kopa illihe; hyas
sick; bye and bye memaloos; halo
nanich; halo turn turn; ahnkutte
skookum; halo alca skookum; bye and
bye memaloos." All of which means
that old Toby is at home; he is very
sick; bye and -bye he die; he cannot
see, can't think; long ago he was skoo
kum (good), but he no good now; he
die soon.
One Oregon Man's Success.
Joseph Herald.
Peter Beaudan, the multi-thousand
sheepman, has closed his shearing
plant. Seventy thousand sheep were
fleeced at these pens this season, 20,000
of which were his. In 1879 Beaudan
was engaged in hauling cariboo poles
down from the mountains to. his pres
ent home; you may see a great big pile
of poles lying rlfear his dwelling today.
Then his stock in trade was cariboo
poles thousands of them. Now It is
Merino sheep tens of thousands of
them. His success comes from stick
ability. Fell With Dynamite.
Weston Leader.
J. C Carlile was in rather an awk
ward predicament a few days ago
while blasting a road on the Umatilla
River below J. F- Thompson's place.
He slipped and fell with his arms full
of dynamite, and preferring not to
drop the stuff he did not try to recover
his balance and sprawled for about
six feet. "Jumbo" is now in town
nursing a broken rib, but feels thank
ful that he wasn't blown into kingdom
come.
Profitable Crop.
Roseburg News.
D. E. Wilson completed his gather
ing of his crop of "Telephone" peas
and he certainly found that there was
"good money" In raising this product.
From 71 rods of land he raised peas
for which he received $110 in cash, be
sides he left a good wagon load on
the vines, as the price got too low for
him to bother farther with them.
Peek-s-Boos Barred From Commnnloa.
Wilkesbarre, Pa., Dispatch.
Father Jordan, of St. Mary's Parish,
Pitts ton, has followed the lead of Father
Lynott. of Kingston, and will decline to
allow women wearing peek-a-boo waists
to come to the communion railing. He
has notified women worshipers that he
considers waists with short sleeves, low
necks or open-work In front immodest,
and that it is Improper for women to
wear them to communion. He expressed
the wish ' that they would refrain from
-shearing such waists at any time.
UP-TO-DATE FIFTY-FOUR FORTY.
Involves Fight Over Land Frauds Un
der Section 3440 of Revised Statutes.
Bend Bulletin.
In the days when Oregon was occupied
jointly by the Americans and the Brit
ish much was heard of tne phrase,
"Fifty-four forty or fight." the meaning
being that the American boundary should
go up to the parallel ot m aegrees w min
utes or there would b war.
In these militant days we hear much
of another flftv-four forty and it means
a real fight in every case not witn tne
British, but with home-grown greed, in
trenched in slimy politics. This fifty-four
forty Is section 5440 of the Revised Stat
utes of the United States, under which
most of the land-fraud indictments are
brought. It is a conspiracy statute.
It provides that if two or more persons
conspire "to commit any offense against
the United States or defraud the United
States tn any manner or for any purpose,
and one or more of said parties do any
act to effect the object of conspiracy." all
shall be liable to a penalty of "not less
than $1000 and not more than $10,000, and
to Imprisonment not more than two
years."
The fencing of public domain, procuring
and "expediting" unlawful land entries
and other offences fall under this Btatute
in Oregon, because of the peculiar polit
ical condition that - prevailed here for a
long time. In which there was "safety In
numbers" and the many links made a
chain of great strength and smoothness.
But the "numbers" that made fraud' a
"safe" business In Oregon failed to find
security when there was no response from
Washington. The Washington Govern
ment is more disposed to enforce the
fifty-four forty of this day than it was
the far-off cry of a past generation, and
the dreams of many "Influential" citizens
are thereby muchly disturbed. '
POOR SEXTET OF TROUBLE.
Every Show Girl After Notoriety
Claims to Have Been in It.
New York. Corr. St. Joseph News-Press.
Florence Evelyn Nesbit Thaw is now
being mentioned as a member of the now
world-famous original "Florodora" sex
tet. The statement that she was one of
the six Is an error.
"If there had been six times six girls
In the original 'Florodora' sextet,' said
John C. Fisher, the producer of "Floro
dora," today, "the number would not be
half large enough to account for the girls
whom press agents and newspaper men
have declared were members of the orig
inal six. Every show girl who attained
notoriety, enviable or otherwise, is brand
ed a member of the "original "Florodora"
sextet.'
"Nan Patterson was one of these, yet
she never saw the original six. Mabelle
Gilman ditto. And so on a score of
others. As a matter of fact, the six girls
were Marie Wilson, Margaret Walker,
Vaughn Texsmith, Marjorie Relyea, Ag
nes Wayburn and Daisy Green. Most of
them married well, and they are now out
of the - profession. Not a one of them
ever did anything to cause unenviable no
toriety. "As for Evelyn Nesbit, I remember
her very well. She was one of the most
graceful and beautiful girls on the stage,
and secured her position in the 'Floro
dora' company through the friendship of
Stanford White and George W. Lederer,
the manager of the show at that time.
She was kept out of the sextet, however,
by her diminutive size."
Mrs. . ThaTra Serious Poses Are Beat.
Philadelphia Record.
A professional model of this city who
has not yet succeeded in marrying a mil
lionaire says of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw,
whom she knew here during her days of
posing, that it was the girl's ideal beauty
more than any ability which made her so
much in demand as a model. "She could
get all the serious expressions," says this
authority, "sueh as sadness, appeal, medl-.
tation and the like, without trouble, but
when It came to trying for gayety she
was a failure, and her smile, unless a
very slight one, was apt to look silly. All
the artists and photographers knew this,
and that is why you see more serious
than smilinsr pictures of her. She could
smile and be gay In real life, but her at
tempts before the camera were never sat
isfactory." A Penny for Each Chnrchgroer.
Kansas City Times.
Rev. H. A. King's plans of offering in
ducements to children to stay after Sun
day school for the preaching service was
given Its first trial yesterday morning. It
succeeded, too. Nearly 300 of the young
sters of his congregation at the Oakley
Methodist Episcopal Church responded to
his plea. He had advertised he would
give each young worshiper a bright, new
penny. jnd he kept his word. In addi
tion, he preached a sermon with "A
Penny" for his text. The pastor has an
nounced that one Sunday each month he
will preach a sermon to children and each
one who attends will receive a gift. Next
time the souvenir will be a copy of a cele
brated picture.
Soothing- Syrup for an "Infant" Trust.
Washington (D. C.) Post.
The cry that the steel trust is putting
up over the armor-plate awards lends
color to Its claim of being an "Infant"
Industry.
Love Song- of the Future,
" Puck.
Tell me, darling, ere with rapture
We shall sink In love's eclipse.
Ere with joy a kiss I canture.
Have yon sterilised your lips?
Tell me. darling fairest creature
Etver born the sales beneath
Ib your hair a natural feature?
Are they yours those gleaming teeth?
Tell me, tell me, charming lassie.
When you're angry, and your eye
Stares at me with stare that's glassy.
Pray, what does that signify?
' Is your stomach In condition?
Have yon pains around your back?
Does your heart fulfill its mission?
Is your liver out of whack?
Tell me, O bewitching creature.
Whom I love In fiercest way.
TeU me, ere I call the preacher-
i-arnns, are your lungs O. K. T
LEAVE THEM AT HOME
TRANS-ATLANTIC TRAVEL.
Tourist as Distinguished From Immi
grant aad Emigrant.
New York Times.
- Below Is an interesting little table giv
ing the figures of passenger traffic of the
ocean liners for the past seven years, di
vided between saloon passengers and sec
ond cabin, and including those going out
and those coming in. This table prac
tically covers all of what may be called
strictly tourist travel, as distinguished
from Immigration and emigration. It may
be remarked also that the accommoda
tions now afforded for the second-cabin
passengers are so nearly equal to those
enjoyed ten years ago by the saloon pas
sengers that there Is little substantial
difference in the classes that use the two.
Between them they embrace nearly all
who travel for pleasure or for business
from one shore of the Atlantic to the
other:
TRANS-ATLANTIC PASSENGERS.
Second
Cabin.
40.000
02,000
1889 Saloon.
Out 5S.OOO
In 65.000
1900
Out 66,000
In 68,000
1901
Out 81.000.
In 84,000
1902
Out an, ooo
in ou.ooo
1903
put eyooo
In 67.000
1004
Out ns.ono
"In 68,000
1908
Out 7.ooo
In 77,000
52.000
70,000
43.000
64.000
4t!.onn
7,000
53.000
93,000
87.000
93.000
60.000
107.000
The first thing to be noted in the dis
closures of the table is that the number
of Incoming saloon passengers increased
in seven years by about 40 per cent and
the number of Incoming second-class pas
sengers considerably more than doubled;
the increase in the two classes combined
was nearly 70 per cent. Probably this
fairly represents the growth of the habit
of travel among our people. As the in
crease in population has been in that time
less than 10 per cent, the change is re
markable.
THE RICHEST BABY INJURED.
Common Broken Arm for Exquisite
John Nicholas Brown.
Newport, R. I., Dispatch.
Despite the fact that he is the richest
and most carefully cared for child in the
world. John Nicholas Brown was injured.
No sterilized firecracker burned him; no
gold-mounted Roman candle went off too
soon. The child; in a most commonplace
manner, fell and broke his arm.
The accident was not generally known
until yesterday, when he was allowed to
go out of the house for the first time
since the accident. He went riding in his
pony cart. With him was one nurse and
a coachman. The child's left arm was in
splints.
John Nicholas Brown is, strictly speak
ing, the richest child in he world because
he already has more than $12,000,000 in his
own name. Other children, the heirs of
the Rockefellers and Vanderbllts, for in
stance, will have more money than he
when they get their Inheritances, but
John Nicholas Brown has Ms money in
his own name.
In 1900, when John Brown, Jr., was 2
years old, his father died. The senior
John Brown's wealth came from John
Carter, the East India merchant. The
baby Brown inherited $6,000,000. Later an
uncle. Harold Brown, died and left the
baby $4,000,000.
And the most is being made of John
Nicholas Brown, Jr. He was a frail child,
but he has been cared for so carefully
that he is robust now. His food is looked
after with the utmost care. Squabs raised
on his special farm, steaks from his spe
cial stall-fed cattle, eggs marked with his
initials from his milk-fed chickens, vege
tables from his own hothouses, fruit and
berries from his own trees and bushes,
and carefully tested cereals compose his
diet. The cooking is done in sterilized
dishes.
Would Teach Graft In Schools.
Louisville (Ky.) Dispatch.
Graft as a course in the schools of the
country was advocated by ex-Governor
Bradley in an address before the teachers
of Jefferson County. He wanted the sub
ject taught in the schools, so that the
rising generation will know what It is and
how to avoid it. Denouncing graft as a
deadly curse of the United States, he said
It was necessary that something be done
to check it, and he believed the public
schools to be the best place.
' Rich Indian Cattle-Ralsera.
Deadwood Cor. Duluth Herald.
The Indians are becoming extensive cattle-raisers,
and the Government Is buying
a large amount of beef from them. At
the close of the fiscal year just ended the
Government will have purchased from
the Indians for that year about 1,000.000
pounds of beef, and will have bought from
contractors another 1,000,000 pounds.
Love Meets Its Locksmith.
-Washington (D. C.) Post.
An Indiana locksmith shot a girl who
jilted him. It Is getting dangerous, ap
parently, for love to indulge in Its old
time sport of laughing at locksmiths.
Indebted.
Puck.
O Summer bards, right dolefully
Ys chant your "Grace la by the Sea";
Ye alng of "Mabel's Coat of Brown,"
Of "Dearest Margaret's Bathing Gown,"
When "Ethel Drives Off From the Tee."
A myriad of genus she
Take oft our Summer bats to ys
Blaves of the tired, horrid town,
O Summer bards!
Madge, Elsie, Gwendolyn, Marie,
Blanche. Amy all of us agree
To grant to you the laurel crown
For that ye give us our renown.
All that we do and are do we
Owe Summer bards.
Fresh Dally Doses.
Philadelphia North American.
The cable ticker clicks
Every day
Another interview from '
William J.
From, the Pittsburg Dispatch.