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THE MORNING OltEGOXIA. SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, lb06. Gfy Bu$omnn Entered at the Postoffles at Portland. Or., as Second-Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION KATES. VT INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. CJ , (By Mail or Expreai.) DAILY. SUNDAY INCLUDED. Twelve months Fix month ; Three months One month J5 Delivered by carrier, per year B.00 Delivered by carrier, per month .T3 Less time, per week. 20 Funday. one year.... 2.50 Weekly, one year (Issued Thursday)... 1.60 Sunday and "Weekly, one year 8.30 HOW TO REMIT Send postoffles money order, express order or personal check on our local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. - EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICE. The S. C. Beckwlth Special Agency New Tork, rooms 43-50.. Tribune building. Chi cago, rooms 510512 Tribune building. KEPT ON SALE. Cbiearo Auditorium Annex, Postoffles News Co., 178 Dearborn street. bt. Paul, Minn. N. St. Marie. Commercial Elation. Denver Hamilton 4 Kendrlck, 908-012 Seventeenth street; Pratt Book Store. 1214 Fifteenth street; I. 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Ought the city to sell its franchise on East Third street for the benefit of the abutting property-owners? Or ought the city at large to have the benefit of the sale or disposition of the franchise? This is a plain and exact statement of the issue presented in the ordinance now pending for grant or sale of the nee of East Third street to the South ern Pacific Railroad. Doubtleee the or dinance would require the Southern Pa cific to pay all the franchise Is worth. This is not the question. The benefits or proceeds would not inure to the proper party or parties. In other -words, the ordinance 1b cunningly con ceived and drawn for the benefit of the owners of the adjacent property leav ing .nothing, or next to nothing, to the city for the use of the franchise or street. There is a Job in it, which should be closely scrutinized by the IComnfon Council. For the franchise or easement the Southern Pacific Is to fill East Third from Hawthorne avenue to East Pine, to the full height required for the street j grade tHe fill to have a width of 'twenty feet in the center, at the top; and to pay, moreover, into the city treasury the nominal sum of $50 per annum, i It is also to fill the whole street to the top of the grade, if the owners of abutting property desire it, and will put in the bulkheads or walls, to hold the materials. . This simply signifies that the city's franchise is to be dlspose'd of for benefit of the property lying immediately on East Third street, from Hawthorne to Pine. It will enhance the value of the property by an immense sum. From Hawthorne to Pine the distance is twelve blocks. At low estimate the value of the blocks on either side twenty-four in all will be enhanced by $10,000 a block. Probably indeed their value will be doubled. Of course the owners of these blocks rightfully should pay half at least of the cost of filling the street. Instead, they are proposing to make a franchise belonging to the city pay it. The principal owner in this double tier of blocks is the Ladd estate though the Hawthorne estate has some holding, and there are a few small Owners. ' For the needed causeways over these low: lands, lying in the very center of the. city, the Ladd estate has refused through all time to do anything, and, moreover, has stood in the way of oth era. . It is not likely that the ordinance now pending, to improve this vast property at the expense of the city, came into its present form by accident; any more than the measures that led up to the enormous franchise grafts for enrichment of the first families, here tofore exposed, were accomplished without premeditation, and design. Doubtless the Southern Pacific, if it is to- get the franchise, would as lief pay the city for it as to pay the Ladd estate for it. One-half the cost of this fill, at very least, ought to be charged upon the adjacent property. Indeed, so situated is this property that the own ers could well afford to pay the whole cost of filling the street, and then have immense profits out of the increase of values. If the adjacent property were re quired to pay the cost, or a just propor tion of the cost, of the embankment or fill, the Southern Pacific could pay Into ihe city treasury a large annual sum for use of the street, instead of the nominal and ridiculous sum of $50 a year, which is inserted merely as a cover or blind to a big job for private gain. Surely the Common Council will look closely Into this scheme. No one" of the operations ..or achieve ments of' franchise-grabbing in. Port land hitherto has been less defensible than this" attempt to use a highly valu able franchise in the heart of the city for the profit of a few persons.- The change from rape of the franchise and sale of it for money to the method of disposing of the franchise so as to make it pay the cost of Improvement and-enhancement of the values of pri vate property, is ingenious; .but the transactions are of the same kind. The greed behind such schemes "hath changes and turns as many as there are tongues, and hands, and accidents, at would seem that the habit of piling up enormous wealth by absorption, through forms of law, or of 'legal ac tion, in public or in private procedure. is Incurable as it is inveterate, among our "better classes." There was talk, awhile, that there should be some street on the East Side, as well as on the "West Side, upon which no exclusive railway franchise should be granted; so that other rail roads might have a chance to enter the city; or what is called a "belt line," for use of all, on equal terms, might be es tablished. Is this idea obsolete? Has It passed out of everybody's calcula tion? Even if it is no longer to be con sidered, and the Southern Pacific i3 to get the franchise of East Third street, why should . not . the proceeds of the franchise go into the treasury of the I city? Hasn't the Ladd estate had suf- ! flcient benefits from Portland? Is there never to be an end of this business, or a check upon It? IN N'EW TORK. William Randolph Hearst Is giving hiB party brethren a lot of trouble. He is "in politics." He wants to be Gov ernor of New York. Alton B. Parker, late Democratic candidate for the Pres idency, thinks Hearst presumptuous and preposterous. But Hearst does not allow Parker to be a judge. William Jennings Bryan, who has become very conservative of late, thinks Hearst too radical, and by no means safe and sane. The "best Democratic papers of the metropolis, the World and the Times, are against Hearst, deeming him not only unfit to be a party leader but a bad newspaper man. But Hearst has a greaf following in New York, both in city and state, especially among the working people, ' who have been persuaded to think him the(r champion. Hearst is in position to give the Democratic managers of New York a lot of trouble, and doubtless he will do it. Hearst will try for the Democratic nomination; but it is believed he will still be a candidate, if he should not re ceive it. Either situation would re dound to the benefit of the Republcan party, now practically moribund in New York; for Hearst's nomination would be followed by a heavy Demo cratic bolt; or his candidacy as an in dependent would probably detach a great body of voters from the regular candidate. The Republican party, dis graced by Piatt and Depew, and split into warring factions, is in no posi tion to do anything, unless Democratic disagreement shall open a way. Should Hearst get the Democratic nomination, he would stand a good chance of election; for, though the Parker-Belmont aristocracy would "bolt," he would receive the great bulk of the vote of the party,- and the general sup port of union labor: The , enormous vote he received when running a? an Independent candidate for Mayor of New York proved that his capital as a politician was great enough for even greater men to bank on. He may yet make a tie-up, as the politicians say' with Bryan; for Bryan himself will lose many chances if his new "conserva tism" shall take him far away from the hopes, expectations and approval of the class of voters with whom Hearst un doubtedly is strong. Control of New York is still likely, as heretofore, to be necessary to the success of either party. LYNCH LAW. " - With public sentiment on the side of the lynchers, attempts to punish them can hardly fail to be futile. The report comes from North Carolina that a mob threatens to release from custody those who were arrested for lynching negroes recently, and it is difficult to see what there is to hinder if it te-in earnest. It Is all very well to talk of the duty of Sheriffs. That duty Is clear and unmistakable. Nevertheless, Sher iffs belong to the communities which elect them. Their feelings are those of their neighbors, and their deepest, though of course mistaken, loyalty is to their own friends and constituents. In general it Is folly to" count upon Sheriffs enforcing the law against the decided sentiment of those who elect them. This is to ask the impossible of human nature. The fact is deplorable, but It may as well be admitted. Even if lynchers are arrested and brought to trial, the proceeding Is al most necessarily farcical. The Jury se lected from their sympathizing neigh bors is sure to acquit them. A strong military force could, of course, prevent lynching if it happened to be on hand, had a determined commander and used ball cartridge instead of blanks. The question whether, upon the whole, it would be worth while to Introduce mili tary rule for the purpose need not be discussed. It is purely academic. Un der a democratic government it is dif ficult to see, In fact, how lynch- law can be abolished by force. If the peo ple of a section of country prefer to su persede' the Courts by mob rule their choice, bad as it is, does not seem easily preventable. One would suppose that the best way to do away with mob violence would be to remove its causes. In the' South one of these causes is fairly easy to deal with; the other is Ineradicable for the present. The manageable cause is the inefficiency of the criminal courts, which has been of late so much dis cussed and which is not peculiar to the South. The cause which is likely to give trouble long after the courts have ceased .to play at Justice and begun to do their duty is race hatred. This seems to Increase in the South rather than diminish; and until some perma nent remedy for it has been found we can scarcely hope to see the last of the negro lynchings. They are more likely to Increase in frequency and in circum stances of horror. Some observers would not be surprised to see them culminate in a war of races. PLATTAND DEPEW. The rumor that Depew and Piatt In tend to resign from the "United States Senate is not likely to be true. Men of their stamp do not fluit a Job. They belong to the horse-leech tribe, whose motto is "To suck, to suck, the very blood to suck." Moreover, they are quite as well juallfied to be Senators now as they were when they took of fice. Neither of them is more depraved than when he was elected. Neither is more dishonest or more dieregardful of the public weal. They are contemptu ous of their duties, but so they have always 'been. They prefer the Interests of corporations to those of the public, but so they always have. They were cent to' the Senate because of that pref erence.. This is not. a reason for their resigning, unless it was also a reason for never sending them there, which few of our corporate politicians would be prepared to adrnt. The only difference between the Piatt and Depew of today and the Piatt and Depew of three years ago is that they have been found out. Being found out does not make a man worse than he was before. In many cases it 'makes him better, for he desists from his sins upon exposure. -. The probability ie. therefore, that Platt and Depew will be better Sena tors for the rest of their terms than they have been. Certainly they must be less pernicious, since exposure has severely clipped their power to do mis chief. A Platt, known for what he ie. is a comparatively innocuous creature. An exposed Depew Is like a collapsed bladder. Who is there to do him rev erence or be misled by his pompous ex ample of iniquity? New York will do well to think twice before urging its discredited Senators to resign. It might find itself put to the trouble of & new: exposure unless it should, choose their successors more wisely than seems likely. , A Senator well exposed, like Platt, Elkins, or Aldrich, is vastly preferable to one of the same stamp whose plumes still drip with the purity of the white wash. With their tail feathers bedrag gled they are less likely to attempt ambitious 6culduggery. Platt, for ex ample, during the last' session of Con gress confined his exploits to' pension bills, whereas when in full bloom he was the impregnable bulwark of the express steal and the potent enemy of the parcels post and postal . currency. Before New York decides upon a change it will -do marvelous wisely to consider whether it is likely. to better itself. A Senator who does nothing Is Infinitely preferable to one who does wrong. Depew, In his besmudged retirement, is in many respects a mode'l Senator. Who can accuse him of having aided the corporations in their fight against pure food and railroad regulation? What did he do to help along the ship subsidy steal? What has he had to say lately in favor of tariff robbery? Noth ing at all. He is as good as dead, and has been so for months. Of many of his more active colleagues it were pro foundly to be wished that they were even as he. Is there not some way to investigate these also and lull them to an innocuous repose? As of the Apaches, it may be said of some of our togaed cohort, that the only good Senator is the dead Senator. Depew is not dead, but he Is next thing to it. He is in the condition of those worms which wasps sting and lay by to keep indefinitely. He fills the place. Ha keeps out somebody who might be actively harmful. To a looker on of a reflective turn it really seems as though New York were singularly blessed in Depew. That state, which is rid of Its pair, whether by exposure, imprison ment or other device, may well heave a sigh of relief and look around for congratulations. Jt Is true that New York stands exactly as if it had no Senators, but compare it with Ohio, which has two, and pronounce which is the happier commonwealth. The fact of the matter is that New York might do worse than to re-elect its silent and bedraggled pair of Senators. They are a little ludicrous, to be sure, but they are harmless. INVITING COMMERCIAL ISOLATION. One of the largest wheat-exporting firms in the Pacific Northwest has just received notice that a reciprocal treaty is about to be. concluded between the Australian and South African govern ments by which wheat will be admitted from British territory to South Africa at 4 cents per 100 pounds less than from the American Pacific Coast. This firm as well as other firms in the same line of business has, in the past, shipped a great many cargoes of Oregon and Washington wheat to South Africa, at times when the European market was unsatisfactory. T.he proposed discrim inating d-uty will be sufficient to close the doors of the South African import ers against us and our wheat will nat urally be forced to other and, not In frequently, less profitable markets. The incident, toy itself, may not be of Na tional Importance, but as it illustrates the steadily growing feeling of resent ment against the commercial policy of the United States, it is interesting. The trade and good wishes of South Africa may not be of sufficient value to cause any particular uneasiness over its loss, but it is the general applica tion of the American standpat policy that is" piling up trouble for us. Ger many, after repeated efforts to secure a satisfactory reciprocal trade arrange ment with this country, has finally re fused to grant us as advantageous duty rates on our products as it extends to the "favored nations" with which re ciprocal tariff relations were estab lished last Winter. America is rapidly progressing to a point where it cannot sell anything to a foreign country so long as it is possi ble to secure the purchasable commod ity elsewhere. By adhering to this principle it Is only a question of time until the United States will be com mercially isolated. If a foreign customer of American goods is desirous of selling us some thing, the disposal of which will in crease his purchasing power, we pro ceed to hamper -the operation with ob structive laws which tend to decrease his profits and increase to the Amer-' lean consumer the cost of the commod ity which the foreigner offers. Under such circumstances, it is, of course, foolish to expect anything like pleasant business relations with foreign buyers and sellers, and foreigners quite natur ally turn to some other country where they receive the same treatment which they ere disposed to extend to others. The United States Is now harvesting an enormous wheat crop, said to be the largest on record. There is, of course, no market in this county for all of this wheat, and approximately 200,000,000 bushels mu6t find a market abroad. South Africa, which in the past has been a good purchaser, has put up a bar which places that market out of our reach, and Germany, ' which also has frequently imported considerable quantities of American wheat, is en forcing some of the same kind of pro tective tariff of which we have been making a specialty. The worst feature of the policy of trade repression lies in the fact that' it Is one of our own creation. We can make no valid protest against the ac tion of the foreign countries in giving our trade competitors an advantage over us, for we have by our own laws alienated our prospective purchasers and incurred an ill will which, it will require years of fair treatment to rem edy. Unless we correct this evil, and, at least partially, apply the golden rule to our business transactions with for eign countries, we will shortly find our foreign trade confined strictly to lines in which we have an invincible advan tage. We have reform schools for wayward children, which doubtless do the best they can. But if there could be reform schools for parents there would be little or no need of reform schools for chil dren. Delinquent parents are to blame for delinquent children, in nine cases out of ten. If parents would do their duty; if they could be forced by state, church, society, press, public opinion, or the whips and scorns of the time, to realize their responsibility for the chil dren they have brought Into the world, then there would be no need of the State Reform School. The parents would keep that school. Its course of instruction would be admonitory and preventive. It is seldom that a child brought up in the right way by the parents will afterward take the wrong way. Greatest of all efforts for. regen eration of society Is that of teaching parents their duty and responsibility. The children, though they must suffer, are little to be blamed. Men and women, who without sense of responsi bility bring children Into the world and alow them to grow up without proper instruction or restraint, are greatest of culprits, and little entitled to sympathy when their children go wrong. Eastern newspapers-contain accounts of the completion of a handsome new passenger and freight steamship, built for the Southern Pacific, to ply be tween New York and New Orleans. The vessel is of exactly the size and type needed on the San Francisco-Portland route, and is to be followed by two oth ers of similar size and build, but none of them will be brought to the Pacific Coast. Mr. Harriman has offered no explanation for his announced intention to run all three of these steamers be tween New York and New, Orleans In stead of sending one of them out where it would be appreciated, but he proba bly fears that they would suffer by comparison with those magnificent six knot arks, the Barracouta and Costa Rica, which are now giving such "ele gant" service out of Portland." The Pa cific Coast Steamship Company's big new liner President will be ready for the San Francioco-Puget Sound run In about six- months, and will relieve the Harriman line, and Portland also, of a large amount of travel .which, with proper transportation facilities, would make the sea trip by way of Portland. Dutch' Harbor dispatches, with news of the Japanese raid on the seal rooker ies, state that "the raid was supposed to have been planned by Alec Mc Lean." Previous to the appearance of Jack London's tale of the "Sea Wolf" there was occasionally an unlawful sealing escapade that was not charged up against that mild-mannered "blue nose" sailor, who, to use an' expression of a .member of his crew, "would not fight a cat unless he was full of hootch." Alec McLean is not an angel, but his reputation as a bad man was largely acquired through unfounded re ports which read well in the yellow pa per, but' lacked the element of truth. If Captain Kidd's reputation was se cured with no more foundation in fact than is behind that of McLean, it is about ' time for history to make some necessary corrections. The Novoe Vremya, a Russian paper which Is always suffering from some kind of hallucination, has discovered an "American peril." It pretends to see in the Rio Janeiro Conference a scheme for a consolidation of the political In terests of America, England and Japan, and fears that the time is approaching when the Slav, German and Latin races of Europe will be compelled to unite for self-protection against this combi nation. The idea is rather far-fetched, and there are irreconcilable factors which will prevent the consummation of such a scheme. If, however, Amer ica, Great "Britain and Japan should form an offensive alliance, the "self protection" of the, rest of the world would be rather weak with what was left from the three powers mentioned. The farmers of Clackamas County are rejoicing inv an unusually prosperous year. Crops of all kinds have made, or promise, a full and perfect yield. Har vest festivals will be held from time to time in token of satisfaction at this re sult, and in order that sociability and neighborliness may Join hands with material prosperity In agricultural com munities. This is as it should be. All work and no play produces the pro verbially dull boy, and the ydays of dull ness in agriculture are passing. "Har vest festivals SDeak at once of prosper ity and contentment elements without which life on the farm is dreary and monotonous. When Lincoln and Grant, together with the North, were striving to save the Union, Great Britain's statesmen were more than willing to see it de stroyed. A treaty made some years after the close of the Civil War paved the way for present friendly relations. Judge George H. Williams was a mem ber of the high joint commission that framed the treaty a valuable prece dent for the .settlement of interna tional disputes by arbitration. In The Sunday Oregonian tomorrow Judge Williams recounts the work of the com mission and speaks freely of its per sonnel. It was supposed that the great com monwealth of Illinois had cut her polit ical eyeteeth years ago. But it seems that this is a mistake. It remained for the primary law, passed by the last Legislature at Springfield, to complete this Job of delayed political dentition. A test of the law has discovered to the astonished voters that it facilitates boss rule and furnishes the Cook County (Chicago) machine with a new grip. Still these defects 6how where the law can be amended, and that is a gain that the next Legislature may turn to account. " A Republican politician who has toured the West is back at Washington City, firmly convinced that "the Re publican convention will be compelled to renominate Roosevelt in 1908." That's rough on Taft, Root, Fairbanks, Cannon, Shaw and the others. But how can a Republican convention compel a Republican President, whose decision not to run again is "irrevocable," to take a renominatlon? Corporations will this year pay into the state treasury $10,000 more In fees than they did last year. The threat ened exodus of corporations iri conse quence of the enactment of -the license tax law is materializing rapidly, isn't it? With the market at 17 cents, hop growers are "beginning to worry a bit "about their pickers. Fifty cents is to te offered, but a rising market may Justify a demand for 55 and perhaps 60 cents. "Hops is hops" this year. Rather than stir the people of Port land into legislating what they want through the initiative, the City Council may attend to the Fourth-street fran chise matter. This doubtless will be better for the railroad company. They are going to find Lost Lake, by a wagon road, from the town of Hood River. Make a good road, and no end of people will find Lost Lake; for it Is one of the choicest and rarest mountain scenes In all the world. There must toe a dearth of money (or political enthusiasm) in ' the country when the Democratic National cam paign fund amounts only to $4. Uncle Sam's coinage of new silver will come in handy. The Thaw stuff grows, in the news, day by day. It is the natural and .the proper stuff for hot weather, KO BRTAX FOR JIM HAM LEWIS Sebrsiluia Would Have to Beat Roose velt and Couldn't, Saya He, Washington Post. New York. Aug. 3. James Hamilton Lewis, ex-member of Congress and now corporation counsel of the city of Chi cago, looks askance upon what he said today was "this combustible move" to make Bryan the nominee of the Demo cratic party. Mr. Lewis said: "The expressed determination of fol lowers ot Mr. Bryan to fix upon him as the candidate of the Democratic party discloses to my mind a want of political sagacity. The movement is premature and likely to be destructive of the, very ends which it seeks to achieve. When it. is apparent that Mr. Bryan must be the nominee, the Republican party will force Mr. Roosevelt to accept a second nomi nation upon the ground that he owes it to the party to save it from defeat. "The radicals in the Republican party would vote for Mr. Roosevelt on the ground that he is doing the same thing Bryan woud do. and certainly cry out: 'Why make a change?1 They would stay by their own radical. "The conservatives In the Republican party would vote for Roosevelt on the ground that they knouw what he would do; and preferred "their own devil to the one of the other fellow.' "The capitalists would urge that Roose velt woud be harmless, aa against a Re publican Senate, which was favorable to capital; also that he would, in a new term, pander to conservative wealth in order to have a fixed place In history; that, knowing he could not be renomi nated, he would do nothing to try to win the renominatlon from the masses, while Bryan woud have to go beyond what Roosevelt has done in order to win approval from the radicals and gain a renominatlon. - "The country Is Republican for such a man as Roosevelt. Thousands of Demo crats would be content to vote for him, upon the ground that he was executing the Democratic platform, and. as against this volume of support that I have point ed out. the Democrats would only have a party vote; and this divided by much of it going to an Independent candidate sup ported by the labor forces now advocating Mr. Hearst, other portions going to the Socialist ticket, particularly in the coun try districts, leaving such a minority ot strict Democratic party men as to make impossible the election of Bryan. The result would be that Mr. Bryan would have another try and Mr. Roosevelt an other' term. "Conditions, domestic and foreign, in two years may give rise to new issues, which may call for new men and may force Mr. Bryan out of the candidacy for the protection of his own ideas. We are doing an injury to Mr. Bryan by putting him in a position which would be very embarrassing. The honoring of Mr. Bryan as a Democratic and eminent citizen is highly proper; but to take such action with a view of foreclosing the question of Presidential candidacy in his favor appears to me to be impolitic and un fltatesmanllke." MR. BRYAN'S LOST GROUND: He No Longer Can Control the Far Went. New York World (Dem.) Inspired by the example of the vari ous state conventions and Legislatures that have, declared for Mr. Bryan's nomination In 1S08, the Massachusetts Democrats are heading the same way. Ex-Mayor Josiah Qulncy, of Boston, chairman of the Democratic State Com mittee. Is confident that "this feeling will find official expression at the proper time, perhaps very soon." This spontaneous demand throughout the country for the nomination of a twice-defeated candidate, as Mr. Quln cy says, is indeed a. remarkable tribute to Mr. Bryan's personal and political character. It is the most surprising development in the politics of the day. And plainly it represents a strong and genuine sentiment. But where are the votes necessary to elect him to come from? - In 1896 Mr. Bryan carried the Western States of Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Ne braska, Nevada, South Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyoming, represent ing 45 electoral votes, and secured one electoral vote In California. In 1900, although he still clung to the idea of free silver while the Democratic plat form declared anti-imperialism to be the paramount issue, he was able to hold only the four Western States of Colorado, Idaho, Montana and Nevada. In the Roosevelt landslide of 1904 even these four states went Republican, and the recovery of Maryland by the Dem ocrats was more than offset by the loss of Missouri. The ten Western States that went for Bryan In 18D6 are now Republican, and Mr. Bryan could no more recapture them in 1908 than. he could establish silver at 16 to 1. on which Idea alone he carried them in his first Presidential campaign. Doubtless. Houston Post. "Do you believe in an actual devil who rules over a burning lake?" "Sure." "Then how do you suppose he tortures his victim's?" "He probably asks them if it is hot enough for them." No Machinery Used. Philadelphia Preto. "But," protested Mrs. Newlywed, "I don't see why you ask 25 cents a half peck for your beang. The other man only wanted 15 cents." "Yes'm," replied the huckster, "but these here beans o' mine is all hand picked." A Claltter. Phladelphla Ledger. "Yes," said the gay Lothario, "I called on four ladles last night." "Huh! You must be a quitter," snorted the poker fiend. "I'd keep on raising all night if I had a hand like that." Too Explosive. Chicago Tribune. Tommy Paw, what is the "heated term?" Mr. Tucker (looking at the thermome ter and mopping his forehead) It la a term, my boy, that is not to be uttered In the presence of children. HE'S TOO DURNED BUSY HE WAS NAPOLEON'S GRANDSON Prince Marat, Killed in Auto Accident, Also Had American mood. New York World. Prince Eugene Murat, who was recently killed by the overturning of his auto mobile at Munich, Bavaria, was the elder son of Prince Louis Napoleon Murat and the great grandson of the King of Naples and Princess Caroline, sister of Napoleon Bonaparte, who placed his fighting mar shal on the throne of Naples and gave his sister to be Queen. Prince Eugene had American blood In his veins as well, being a grandson of that Prince Lucien Murat who won Miss Caroline Frazer, of Philadelphia, the marriage taking place at Bordentown, New Jersey. Both of the sons of King Joachim Murat of Naples and of Queen Caroline Bonaparte, his consort, married Ameri cans. Prince Achiile, who, during his father's reign In Naples, was known as Crown Prince, married in this country Miss Caroline Dudley, grandniece of George Washington. When Prince Eugene's grandfather mar ried Miss Frazer in Bordentown, he was an exile, as was his uncle, Joseph Bonaparte, ex-King of Spain. Both were Impoverished, and the American wife of the senior of royalty opened a school for young women, which became famous in Its day. Prince. Eugene's uncle. Prince Joachim Napoleon Murat, was born at Borden town, . and when he was over 50 years of age was engaged to Mias Mary Gwendolyn Caldwell, the American heiress who founded the Catholic University. The uncle had made his home for a long time in Paris, and when -the final settlements were to be made before the marriage, he went back to his beloved Paris and stayed there. To his friends he said: "I said nothing to my fiancee about money till we all gathered at her hotel by appointment to sign the settlements. I had expected to witness on her part some" sign of generous devotion. What do you imagine I saw? That during my lifetime I was to receive 50,000 francs, and should she die before me, leaving no heirs, the money was all to revert to her family. " 'Madame,' I said, 'you deceive your self greatly. I am not an Italian. French princes are quoted much higher in the matrimonial stock list.' And with my most distinguished salutations, I left." LIFE IN THE OREGON COUNTRY. Lively Time In Sfewberg. Graphic This is the way it happened. A gen tleman with his wife and child who were visiting in town, was on his way to the train, carrying the sleeping babe of per haps 18 months and making it by easy stages, as he had plenty of time and was waiting for the women folks who were to follow. Stopping at a real estate office, the agent being out, he laid the babe on the lounge in the back room and stepped out on the street. The agent, on return ing, eyed the innocent babe, and visions of an abandoned waif left on his hand3 arose' before him and the aUm was given. Fond mothers rushed in and many were the anathemas that were hurled at the unnatural parent. All trains and boats must be watched to prevent her escape. "The child has been doped," some one said and a test was suggested. Pinching was resorted to and the wail that was set up was good evidence that the effects of the "dope" had worn off. About this time the fond papa appeared on the scene and remarked that he guessed he. could dry the tears. The women all looked daggers at him and he beat a hasty retreat. The song of "The Lost Child" with variations Is now on at the phonograph stations. Chicken Frenka In Eugene. Register. There is one hen in Eugene that does not behave as all regulated hens should. This one has taken up its abode some where near the southwest corner 'of the west park, and when all becomes still late at night, she comes out and picks up a meal of crumbs and bugs under the arc light. The ben is easily frightened, and whenever anyone comes into sight the hen scurries under the sidewalk. The night o..cers say the hen never comes out before midnight, and never in the day time. There Is a little bantam in another part of town that Is Just learning to crow, and he thinks that what he doesn't know about crowing would fill a mighty sr.. all book. According to residents of that part of town, this little bantam starts in at about 2:47 in the morning and keeps up a continuous performance until everybody is up. Once In a while the screech seems to dwindle away, but no one Is deceived, for thereby the bird is only digging its toes Into the .ground getting footing for a still lustier effort. Warning: to Ambitions Girls. , Star of Starbuck. Miss Jennie Mays went to Dayton Tuesday, suffering with a severe pain in her side which she contracted several days ago after two weeks of extremely hard work in the harvest field cooking for an enormous crew. The young lady's ambition to be "independent" was too great for her strength and she finally had to give up the work. Some fear was entertained lest the trouble be appendi citis. Mrs. Mays accompanied her. "Kids" See the World. Rainier Review. Earnest Spitnogle and Herbert Milks departed for parts unknown last Friday with the avowed Intention of shifting for themselves. How well they succeeded is evidenced by the fact that Earnest got home Tuesday and reported that Herbert was stranded in Woodland. Mrs. Milks returned with him Wednesday. The boys have plenty of that kind of experience. A Few Vacant Datca Left. Dr. C. L. Large reports a son born to Mr. and Mrs. Avery Sherrlll at Thatcher the 3d Inst. Parties desiring the services of Dr. arge in this class of cases will greatly oblige him by giving him notice three months, If possible, prior to the expected event. Then and Now. Columbus Dispatch. "I understand that he Is a confirmed Bibliophile," said the Boston maid. "Well, he may have been," replied her Chicago cousin, "but he's on the water wagon now." 1 2D From the Detroit Ns i i i n u ll iijiji ism .a. n m SOME FEATURES OF THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN First and foremost, all the world's news by Associated 1'rr.M. special correspondents and members ot The Oregonian staff, making the fullest and most complete record of any Pacific Coast newspaper. ONE OF OREGON'S PIONEER EXPRESS MESSENGERS He ante-dated Wells-Fargo, and now lives in Portland at the age of S3, working on an Invention to save gold. He is a cousin of John D. Rockefel ler but . a different sort of a man. It is worth while to lls ten to him telling of the times ' when men who carried gold had to be not only brave and strong, but shrewd and quick witted. THE CHUMP, THE DOG AND THE SMALL BOY An original tale of domestic life In Portland, wherein Is re counted the giving of a Sun ... day morning bath to the house hold friend. No one who ever performed this duty will fall to appreciate the fidelity to truth which marks the sketch, nor will the humor of it displease him. HOW UNCLE SAM SETTLED DISPUTES WITH ENGLAND It was by arbitration. A high Joint commission, five from Gireat Britain and five from the Uulted States, framed a treaty. Judge George H. Will iams was one of them. He tells very modestly of his part In the settlement of the boundary dis pute which gave us San Juan Islands in Pugot Sound. A PROBLEM FOR PORTLAND MOTHERS Catherine Cushman writes of kindergarten training in the home before the little ones start school life. Her article is full of wise hints that the av erage ' mother can take up in the spirit of Froebel. WHEN GOLD WAS DISCOVERED IN BAKER This is the story of a lost party of prospectors who found gold In GrirHn's gulch. Eastern Ore gon, 41 years ago. The only known survivor is David Lit tlefield, now living in Baker City, at the ape of 77. with memory as bright as youth's. He recounts the hardships and dangers through which the dis coverers passed WILLIAM C. WHITNEY: AN EXAMPLE A H. Ballard writes an esti mate of Cleveland's Secretary of the Navy, whom he regarded as America's first gentleman, giving only the human side of the man, whose name will al ways be associated with our greater navy. MR. DEVERY OF NEW YORK IN FRENCH PICTURE GALLERIES "I can do four miles of Van dykes In an hour and take' em round corners at that," says the energetic American. This remark is the keynote of Mr. Devery's idea of doing master pieces. Ho then proceeds to tell his discovery of how to 6ee an average of 9000 paint ings in one day. WHEN MORGAN PLAYED WITH INDIAN BOYS Alabama's distinguished Sena tor tells of the time, early In the '30's. when his associates wore children of the Creeks ami Cherokees, for whom he had great fondness. BUSINESS, VERSUS THE LARGER LIFE A lay sermon by Edwin Mark ham, author of "The Man with a Hoe," who declares that man's chief concern la to find out his mission on earth. AWAKENING OF THE CANADIAN EMPIRE ' P. A. O'Farrcll writes of the Industrial, commercial and agri cultural development of the do minion a luminous article, tak ing in the vastness of a land that few in the United States or England appreciate. SUSAN CLEGG AND HER FRIEN MRS. LATHROP ISlljah, the new editor, believes that something or somebody or both, should be exposea In his newspaper to wake up the town. Susan confesses her Ina bility to find a suitable victim. DELIGHTFUL DAYS AT THE SUMMER RESORTS The Oregon and Washington beach resorts are now approar h- tha hlrh IH nt thlk nrftKenfc RMsnn. All of these seaside re sorts are covered by The Ore gonian, and news printed of people of Portland and the Pa cific Northwest who are spend ing their vacations there. SOCIETY, MUSIC AND DRAMATIC REVIEWS Summer outings and oi.tdoor parties make up the society news of the week. Delightful weather has given many Port land hostesses the opportunity to plan and carry out plins of entertainment that fit the sea son. In music and drama the scene has shifted to tho East, where the managers are pre paring tours and new piays for the coming season. REAL ESTATE REVIEW ' OF THE WEEK Portland's remarkable building growth Is the' theme , of the weekly building and real estate review. The page Is lliusfrated with photographs of some ot Portland's handsome new dwellings. SPORTING NEWS AT HOME AND ABROAD Two pages are devoted to the sporting news of Portland and vicinity and the worlfl at large. Special articles by experts aro found on these pagrss, as well as Illustrations of current sport ing events. PONY RIDING FAD OF PORTLAND YOUNG FOLKS To own and ride a pony is the dream of many a child. Port - land's young folks who enjoy this happy privilege are the subject of an Illustrated feature. McKInlcy Monument VnveHlnsr. Washington (D. C.) Star. Justice William R. Day. of tho United States Supreme Court, has accepted an invitation to deliver the principal address on the occasion of the unveiling of the monument in honor of McKlnley which is being erected by Ohio at Columbus. The ceremony will take place September 14. One Way to Get Reaulta. Garfield Enterprise. We read of a case of poisoning being caused by the sale of stale canned goods that had been permitted to remain upon the store shelves for an Indefinite time because the merchant did not advertise. Reference to the advertising columns of this paper will tell you. how to m&lntala your health. .