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The two hostile factions in Cuba government and revolutionary have full opportunity to adjust their quarrel and to save their island from invasion by a peace force of the United States and annexation to this country. Mr. Tart, possessing plenary powers con ferred by President Roosevelt, has had abundant pretext to assert the author ity of the United States if this country had annexation designs. But he is holding off, playing to the utmost the tactful role of a pacific mediator, and proving to the world the sincerity of President Roosevelt's declaration of September 14: Our Intervention in Cuban affairs will only come If Cuba herself shows that she has fallen Into the Insurrectionary habit; that she lacks the self-restraint necessary to peaceful self-government, and that her contending factions have plunged the coun try into anarchy. Representatives of the warring ele ments are to come together before Mr. Taft and Mr. Bacon to etate their re spective claims. The verdict of the mediators doubtless will inipoee sacri fices on each side, which must be ac ctfHed by both, else the United States will bring peace by force. In that event it is quite likely that the Amer ican people, seeing that Cuba lacks the "self-restraint necessary to self-government," will maintain their authority in the island indefinitely. A few persons in the United States would be directly benefited by annexa tion, chief of them owners of large sugar and tobacco properties in Cuba, who seem to have been encouraging the insurrection so as to lead up to an nexation and secure free admission to this country of their products. Annex ation is wanted also by the commercial interests of the island, which are cen tered at Havana and which, according to news dispatches, are crowding about Taft and Bacon, urging intervention and declaring that the security of prop erty cannot last unless enforced by an American drmy. "But," says a news dispatch from Havana, "he (Taft) con eiders it is the duty of the United States to give the republic another chance and believes it would be bad policy for the United States to keep a force in Cuba longer than is required to supervise the laying down of arms." In this Mr. Taft is pursuing the pol icy enunciated by President Roosevelt on September 14: "Our intervention in Cuban affairs will only come if Cuba herself shows she has fallen into the Insurrectionary habit," adding: I solemnly adjure all Cuban patriots to band together to sink all differences and personal ambitions and to remember that the only way that they can preserve the Independence of the republic is to prevent the necessity of outside Interference by rescuing it from the anarchy cf civil war. This comes from the same President Who himself withdrew the American Army from Cuba and put the island in possession of Its own people, under its chosen government. Seven years they have prospered as an independent peo ple, four years under their own rulers. This they may continue to do indefi nitely if they will but put aside per sonal ambitions of rival leaders and end their strife. Whoever are to blame for the strife the United Stateswill not wait to learn before pulling the wranglers apart. The first offender really appears to be Pres ident Palma himself, whose govern ment used coercion in the late elections to maintain itself, the came way as other petty American republican gov ernments are wont to do. The upris ing appears to be an intemperate pro test against the unconstitutional poli cies of the Palma administration, of a kind that shows its doers lack "the 'self-restraint necessary to peaceful self-government." This ' is borne out by the fact that while many are op posed to revolution, few are rallying to the support of the government. Presi dent Palma evidently has a weak power behind him, and well may he resign, as the late dispatches intimate he thinks of doing. He would have shown a greater wisdom had he con tinued to be the "president of all the people" instead of becoming the head of a party which has controlled him. The government, .instituted ,in May, 1902, ran along smoothly enough until Palma allied himself with the Moder ate party lad year. Then followed epi sodes which, now looked back upon, preeaged this present trouble. On April 17, 1905, Senator Manuel Sangully. one of Cuba's ablest and most respected public men, called at the palace and virtually charged Pres ident Palma to his face with the use of his official position for the advantage of his own and his party's interests. In the evening of the same day General Maximo Gomez, at an indignation meeting at the Liberal Club, said that he "felt the beat of revolution in the air," and that the time had come "to put a stop to the abuses of the gov ernment and to the attempt to set up an oligarchy." The Presidential cam rjaijrn. in which this was one of the opening incidents, was marked by many unfortunate experiences. A town hall was burned, Bnrique Vie luendas was assassinated, elected Lib eral officials were remove from their places and Moderates were appointed to succeed them until there were few, if any. Liberals left in office or in gov ernment employment. Scores of Lib eral leaders were arrested on various pretexts and put in jail. The situation culminated in the withdrawal of Jose Miguel Gomez, the Liberal candidate, from a contest which, under the cir cumstances, was evidently hopeless. The island was ripe for revolt at that time, but the friends of Cuba held their faith in her ability to pull through with out a conflict. Their faith was Justi fied, mainly by the attitude of Senor Gomez, who refused to plunge his country into civil war. It was general ly believed that the, crisis was past. About four months ago careful observ ers noted the reappearance of storm clouds, but encountered only derision if they called attention to them. The storm came suddenly and unexpected ly. It is probable that it broke before its leaders intended it should. But in spite of grievances It behooves the Cubans to lav them aside and sup press their indignation, for the sake of their own independence. They should seek to adjust their difficulties by other methods than by armed conflict. In America we bottle up our wrath until the next election. The Cubans must learn to hold themselves In check In this same manner if they would have the "self-restraint necessary to peace ful self-government." THE NEW YORK CONTENTIONS. Both the Republicans and Democrats of New York hold their etate conven tions today; the former at Saratoga, the latter at Buffalo. The principal in terest of the conventions lies in their choice of candidates for Governor. Both parties being divided into hostile factions headed by men who seem at present to be irreconcilable, all predic tions concerning the results of the con vention are hazardous. Still,- Mr. Hearst, who has already been nominated for Governor by his own Independence League, le perhaps the strongest candidate who will go be fore the Democratic convention. Many county delegations have been instruct ed to vote -for him to the end; he has the delegations from Buffalo and Syra cuse, and at least part of the strength of Tammany, led by Murphy. Hearst and Murphy xhave been ene mies, and each has bitterly denounced the other. Hearst has gone so far as to declare that he did not want Mur phy's support and would not accept it; but papers like the Evening Post doubt his sincerity and boldly assert that there is a deal between the editor and the Tammany chief, both of whom are anathema to the old-line Jerome and Parker style of Democrats. Jerome is himself a candidate for the nomination, but, unless something very unexpected happens, he 6fands but a slim chance against Hearst. Of course it is possi ble that some third man, like Sulzer, may carry off the prize from both. Hearst's weakness before the regular party convention is that he is not and never has been a loyal party man; but these are days when party loyalty does not count for so much with the voters as it once did, and Hearst's undoubted strength with the discontented masses may outweigh all his sins of independ ence at Buffalo. Whom the Republicans will nominate is still more uncertain than the Demo cratic choice. Mr. HIggins will proba bly control the convention, since he carried the New York City primaries, routing the Odell forces. President Roosevelt has in one way and another intimated his confidence in HIggins, but for all that he would be a weak candidate; and it is fortunate for the party and the people that he has de clined a renomination. The intellectual papers of New York favor Mr. Hughes for the Republican nomination. He has another advantage in being personally agreeable to both HIggins and Odell, while with the vot ers he is immensely popular. But Mr. Hughes has not sought the nomination and may decline it if offered. It is said that he is the only Republican now before the public who is at all likely to defeat Mr. Hearst, should the Demo crats indorse the latter. A STRANGE PROCEDURE. Judge Prater, of the Superior Court of King County, Washington, has pe culiar ideas of law and of justice as applied to the punishment of crime and the detention of criminals. They are, indeed, so peculiar as to be all his own, and withal so remarkable that none are found to Indorse them. . A murder was committed in Seattle some weeks ago by a fanatical young woman; the murdered man was her brother. An accomplice before the fact was another young woman of unbal anced mind. Both were subject to idio syncrasies, miscalled religion. Having been taken into custody and called upon to answer, it was found that the young women were warped mentally in a way and to a degree that did not justify the infliction of the death pen alty upon them. They were classed as irresponsible, but at the same time as persons whom it was unsafe to set at liberty. The duty of Judge Frater was plain. The State of "Washington maintains an asylum for the insane at Steilacoom, and to this institution these misguided, half-crazed women should have been committed, as persons unsafe to be at large. Instead of pursuing this plain and simple course. Judge Frater or dered that the women be deported to Oregon! The basis of this Btrange pro cedureif It can be said to have a basis was that Maud Creffleld and Es ther Mitchell had formerly and Just prior to taking up their residence in Seattle lived in this state. v The utter absurdity of this order Is apparent. It would Indeed be ludicrous were it not-likely, in effect, to prove serious. That it is untenable in law cannot be doubted; that it is shameful from the simple standpoint of common humanity is plain. The case, according to Judge Frater, may be thus simply stated: Maud Creffleld and Esther Mitchell are Irresponsible criminals; it is not in the province of the law to punish them for the crime which they committed in Washington, nor is it safe for them to be at large. There fore the court orders that they be de ported to Oregon. 'Why Oregon? Why not send them to Montana or Idaho? The fact that they lived in Oregon before taking up their residence In Washington, in which state they committed the crime of murder, has no bearing upon the subject. They are not In the custody of Oregon officials; they have commit ted no crime in Oregon that warrants their arrest at this time by any mem ber of its constabulary. Who is au thorized to ttlen the order for commitment to the Oregon Insane Asy lum? Surely Judge Frater is not em powered to do It. The proceeding is not only unusual, it is outrageous.ince in effect it can only result in turning looser in this state two women of notorious life and character, whose criminal tendencies and instincts render it unsafe for them to be at large. In this event the Seat tle court may be called upon to deal with them later, since, being free to choose their place of domicile, they will doubtless prefer to return to that city and there re-establish themselves. PORTLAND'S SI2E AND SEATTLE'S. That Portland is the largest city in the Pacific Northwest is clear from comparison between it and Seattle, of statistics that cannot be padded school census, voters' registration and postofflce receipts. For the two cities they are: ' Portland's Seattle. Portland. lead. School census (1000) 2.ir9 23 r.no 2.341 Voters' registration 22,707 2o.266 2.49 Postoffice receipts (year ending Mar. 1 31. 1906) 1402.044 $495,503 $38,549 For Seattle to assert its suprtmacy in the face of these figures is ridiculous. There can be no surer guide to popula tion than these, except an actual cen sus, taken according to the methods of the National Census Bureau. The last National census, in 1900,. gave Portland a lead of 10,000 over Seattle, and that Is probably not far from Portland's lead at the present time, as indicated by'' the 2341 names in the school census and the 2499 more names in the voters' registration. , These figures cannot be "doctored," even at Seattle. They show unmistak ably that the metropolis of the Pacific NorttfWest is Portland. Against them Seattle tries to put padded bank clear ings and "directory statistics." But such ' fakes cannot deceive. Seattle's clearings are swelled each day with heavy unpaid balances of the day be fore, while Portland's are paid daily in cash. And Seattle's directory popula tion is swelled by inclusion of persons whose names do not go into a legiti mate directorj". Besides, the Seattle system expands real estate transfer to tals by enlarging to actual values deals which go into Portland's total .at $1 and by marking up building permits to full fcost of structures, while in Port land only the partial cost is Included. This padding makes a big exhibit, to be sure. But it cannot . be put into school census or voters' registration or postofflce receipts. Where Seattle can not apply its padding "system" it falls behind Portland. Does Portland wish to adopt this sys tem? If so, its banks can make a showing that will outdo Seattle's and stop that city from leading the weekly clearings of this city by 40 per cent. Its real estate buyers and sellers can mark up $1 deals to true figures, and its contractors and builders can include full cost "of construction in building permits. The possibilities within range are so immense that Seattle would be far outdistanced. Seattle boasts of 206,000 population (city directory). Its actual population is about 115,000. Portland's directory makes out 185,000 for this city, though why it stopped at this figure is not clear, when it could have passed that of the other city. The actual popula tion of Portland is about 125,000, ar.d, with suburbs included, less than 140,000, as is proved by the state census of 1905 (ilO.000), and the school census of 1906. Seattle's smaller school census and voters' registration make plain that its population is less than Port land's. . WHEREIN DOWIE JAILED. His parting message to the band of followers at- Shlloh House Sunday af ternoon reveals the fatal weakness of John Alexander Dowie. Appeal for a little money, confession that his heart was broken and once more laying the blame of his downfall at the door of his wife, show that he lacks much of the fighting spirit of Napoleon, with whom he has often been compared. Now that he is dpwn and out, it is interesting to inquire what manner of man Dowie was. Contemporary opin ioTl by shrewd, observing neighbors Ju dicially inclined may be safely accepted as correct; therefore value attaches to the following estimates from Chicago newspapers, called forth by the ZIon City election last Tuesday, when by vote of the commonwealth its founder and chieftain was formally renounced and banished. Says the Chronicle: No absolute charlatan, no mere quack, no comple'e impostor, ever has done the things that Dowie has done. To begin as a street preacher and to foud a sect numbering al most 100,000 members scattered over all the world, to build a city and to establish flour ishing industries, to gain 'and hold (until physical ills impaired Intellectual vigor) the loyalty and unquestioning obedience of every one of his people these are achievements Impossible to any but a man- of commanding force, of dominating temper. No mere adven turer or aelf-consclousj pretender would have been capable of them. It has been frequently asserted by people who saw him from a dis tance that Dowie was a make-believe and im postor that he laughed in his sleeve at the claims to Inspiration which he made the basis of his ecclesiastical organization. Nothing could be further from the truth. With the Elijah incident in mind, the Tribune is disappointed but not down cast because there was nothing sensa tional in the exit; because no whirl wind triumphantly enveloped him and no chariot of fire bore him dramatic ally to celestial regions. Concerning his integrity, it says: "If he imposed on others, he imposed also on himself. That he believed unequivocally in him self, and to a degree at least in the honesty of his mission, may be freely admitted. At no time since the begin ning of the troubles that have over whelmed him has he admitted his falli bility or receded from a position of God-given prerogative. To the last he was defiant and self-assertive." Dowie's biographer will write the story of a unique achievement by a man of commanding force. Under new leadership, or a commune with only nominal governing power, Zion may slowly fall to pieces; it willrobably begin to grow weaker at once. Al ready it is less cohesive. While in many ways Dowie was strong, lie seems to have lacked intellectual vital ity; he had not the mental endurance to hold his self-created place of spirit ual and temporal dictator. And his biographer, recording the- Immediate cause of his failuae, cannot overlook the fact that he was .deficient in com mon business sense. Evidence that brain work is condu cive to longevity is offered by the 70th anniversary of Professor Edward Zel ler's promotion to the degree of doctor, simultaneously with the retirement, at S2, ' of Professor Kuno Fischer from Heidelberg and -the completion of his 70th year by Professor Johannes Ranke. The .youngest ,of .the' three Is best, known to the general public by his book, "Der Mensch," of which Virchow said that Germany ought to pride her self on having produced it. Fischer for more than thirty years has been the most popular professor at Heidelberg. His knowledge, Imagination and elo quence enabled him to make a lecture on a dry metaphysical problem so in teresting that the students would ap-' plaud it like a play or a political ad dress. To the venerable Zeller, now in his 93d year, all the honors possible to a scholar have come. He has been made honorary doctor of all four fac ulties in succession by the Universities of Heidelberg, . Tubingen, Edinburgh and Marburg. He began his career as a theologian and stands at the head of historians of .Greek philosophy, as Fischer does of historians of German philosophy. The illness of the Sultan calls atten tion to the attitude of the Turkish court toward modern medical science. Abdul Hamid II was brought up under the' care of a Greek physician, Mawro genl Pasha, who taught him the rules of personal hygiene from his childhood. He advised the ruler to abandon the old palace and build a new one on higher ground. He was responsible for numerous modern hospitals in the prov inces as well as the capital. But he fell into disfavor and was supplanted as head of the medical staff by Beiram Effendi, an Albanian, who scorned medical science. He knew nothing whatever of surgery, and antagonized it fanatically. Bernhard Stern ' relates in his recent volume on the Sultan that during the last war with Greece Bei ram would not allow the wounded to be operated on, his argument being that if God willed It they would recover anyway, and, If not, amputation would be a crime. He rejected antisepsis. Llsterism and iodoform, and spoke dis respectfully of the microbe theory. The Sultan's personal attitude at present is by no means hostile, to medical science. September weather, though in the main pleasant and enjoyable to urban residents, has been vexatious and in a degree disastrous to farmers of the Willamette "Valley. This is especially true of hop and prunegrowers. Up to the first of September both of these crops promised large returns to grow ers, but rain, succeeded by several days of Summer heat, caused the prunes first to crack ano? then to drop untimely "and drove hop-pickers from the yards. While a large percentage of both crops will be saved in excellent condition in some localities, a consider able proportion of both will be lost in others. The conditions are those against which no foresight can provide. The loss will be overcome to some ex tent by the good prices that are in prospect for hops. The situation rep resents one of the vicissitudes of agri culture to which farmers in every land. however favored, are liable. Thrifty hop-fcickers are coming home with substantial earnings, notwith standing some days of disagreeable weather in the fields. The hop harvest means in aggregate thousands of dol lars' in .wages every year a healthful and pleasant outing ' in pleasant weather.'Bchoolbooks for a multitude of children, fresh paint and paper on many family living-rooms, the final payment on many homes, and the as surance of money wherewith to pay taxes on many farms. The boomer's method of finding a city's population is not to count the people, but to take a city directory, count the pages, multiply them by the names on a page, and the result by whatever multiple the fancy of the boomer suggests. This is a most rea sonable and satisfactory method, for if you don't get enough population to suit everybody you can either increase ;the number of pages or the multiple, and get any result you wish. According to the estimate of School Superintendent Robinson, of Multno mah County, the saving to the people of the state by supplying free text books to pupils of the public schools would be $30,000 a year. Professor Rob inson is an educator of! large experi ence and of devotion to his work. His view of the subject, given in detail in The Oregonian yesterday, is worthy of the consideration of legislators. ' Tha bmintv nf TTnnd T?ivr nrfharc astonishes all but the owners. They1 know what it takes to make the apple crop "of that region abundant, and every specimen of the output toothsome and fair to look upon. This knowledge applied to planting, cultivating, spray ing, picking and packing sends an abundant and faultless apple crop, year after year, from the orchards of Hood River to market. The Missouri River has not been used by steamboats in Missouri for twenty years; but now great popular excitement has "been created by putting in a new steamer to ply between Kan sas City and St. Louis. It will be the function of the new steamboat line to bring the railroads to time. Evidently the Missouri has some points In com mon with the Columbia. The People's Lobby proposes to keep its eye on Congress, and report its misdeeds to. the country. The idea is not original, for some very startling volunteer work has been done along the same line for the past several years. But no doubt It will help a lot if Congress knows it is being watched. Candidate Adorn, af Buffalo, might make a powerful point for himself by raising the issue as to whether Niagara Falls was the original site of the Gar den of Eden. Mark Twain says it was, and he seems to know as much as any body about it. I The American bluejacket thinks he is entitled to go into any public place he pleas.es, and is going to law about it. The usual bluejacket method is to go in anyway and let the other fellow go to the courts. Speaker Cannon says he isn't run ning for President. Mr. Gompers hasn't even made him stay at home to run for Congress. But he is running very well just the same, under absent treatment. From ' one "view the Cubans can hardly be blamed for wanting a change aften seven or eight years of peace. Their patience, compared with that of their cousins in Central and South America has been extraordinary. If Mr. Taft will steam up and come back t full speed, he may get home before the 'Cubans fall to again. But let them try it while he is there! . We'll see today whether they can put Mr. Hearst off at Buffalo. BRYAN 1ST THE SOUTHLAND. Government Ownership of Railroads Is Repudiated. Savannah News. It is a well-known fact that all of the southerners who went to New York to welcome Mr. Bryan on his return to this country urged him to drop this question of government ownership of railroads in his reception speech, but they succeesed only in getting him to modify his re marks in respect to it It is doubtful if there is man of prominence in public life in the south that favors government own ership of railroads. Southerners object to 4it on account of the centralization tend ency of such ownership and because of the race complications that would be brought about. It would be hard for Mr. Bryan to arouse great enthusiasm in the South as the Presidential candidate of the Democratic party if he should insist upon his proposition relative to the government ownership of railroads. Not Jefferson Democracy. Dallas (Tex.) News. No intelligent person who has studied Jefferson and other teachers of sound Democracy can fall to note that Mr. Bryan's scheme is directly antagonistic to the same. The fundamental principle of Jeffersonidn democracy was opposition to centralized governments Jefferson re garded that as the beginning and sure forerunner of political corruption and de cay. Thomas Jefferson is supposed to have been a Democrat, but if he was a Democrat then it is difficult to under stand the democracy of the man who would ignore and subvert the fundament al principles upon which the high priest of democracy based all his arguments in favor of free government. Destroys State Sovereignty. ' Houston Post. Federal ownership of railroads would practically destroy the state sovereignty of which we are so jealous. There many people in Texas who once claimed mem bership in Hhe Populist party and they nominally favored government owner ship, but there is no reason to believe the property-owning people of this state wouJd, after full discussion, ever be will ing to surrender their control of trans portation to the Federal government, nor would they be willing to issue hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of bonds to be sold at a discount in order to acquire the least valuable lines. ' Flouts Southern Opinion. , Louisville Herald. Not a ghost of a chance would Mr. Bry an have for the Presidency without the support of the South. Yet he deliberately sets at naught what he must know to be the fundamental belief of the South in the matter of government ownership of railways. Does he think that the South ern white man is prepared to accept any and all doctrines he propounds without doubt or Investigation? Doe? he think that the South is bound to him hand and foot, that he has but to command, the serf obey? Time, if such be his belief, for the South to assert herself. - Impossible In Every Way. New Orleans PlcayuneN The simple fact is that there Is no practicable way in which the government can get possession of the roads without paying an enormous amount of money, and that would so load the American peo ple with taxes that they would not stand for It. This taxation would create a bloody revolution at home while confisca tion would bring on foreign wars, and in either case, as matters now stand, gov ernment control of the railroads is im possible. Pleases No One But Himself. Charleston News and Courier. Mr. Bryan can have no excuse for tan. gentiai aberrations at this time. Indul gence in dreamland reveries about gov ernment ownership are useless even if harmless and can serve no other purpose than to please Colonel Bryan. Gives Estate to a Former Walter. Denver Dispatch in New York. Times. David H. Moffat, the banker and railroad builder of Colorado, whose particular friend is Thomas Gay,' ex head waiter of the Fifth-Avenue Hotel, New York, desires Gay to live near him, and as the first step in that direc tion has purchased 158 acres in Routt County, near Steamboat Springs, on which he is erecting a commodious Summer home for Gay. The land will be fenced, and will have an artificial lake, golf links, a tennis court, etc., making a place where Gay can.pend his Summers and entertain Mr. Moffat. Good fishing and hunting can be had within a few miles of the place. The news of Mr. Moffat's latest gift to "Old Tom" Gay, waiter and head waiter of the Fifth-Avenue Hotel, for the last 53 years, occasioned only mild surprise to his friends here. The Den ver banker has taken "Old Tom" with him twice to Europe, has carried him around the country in his private car and entertained the veteran waiter in hlB own home. Their friendship is" of many years' standing. Thomas Gay is a man of considerable education, and has known all the great men oi two generauons. Prick's Star In the Ascendant. Wall-Street Journal. It is becoming dally more and mora evident that the -name of Henry C. Frick must be added to the constellation of railroad stars composed of Morgan, Har riman. Rockefeller, Hill, Cassatt, Gould, Moore and Vanderbilt. The star of Frick is in the ascendant. It may be that one or two of the other stars who appear to be somewhat In the shadow may in the process of stellar realignment be eclipsed altogether. Kansas Blows a Long Toot-oot. Exchange. Corn near Lake View, Kan., 15 feet high, with ears 15 inchss long; apples at Lone Star that weigh a pound apiece; plants at Lawrence (the calladlum elo- phanta) with leaves 8 feet 3 inches long, 3 feet 1 inch wide and 11 feet 6 Inches in circumference. The owner of the corn had to use a nine-foot step-ladder to get to the ears. ' NEWSPAPER WAIFS. Knlcker "Which side of the house does the baby resemble?" Bocker "The outside. Don't you see bow red he Is?" Harper's Basar. In Debtors' Heaven "What do you under stand by the promise that the first shall be last. In the hereafter?" "Why. It refers to the first of the month. I suppose. Gives a fellow four weeks more, you know." Puck. Foreigner "Scientists agree that climates are changing all over the globe. Is there not fear that the American climate may change for the worse?" American (confidently) "Oh, no. It couldn't." New York Weekly. "You don't realise that there are other considerations in lite than money," said the censorious friend. "Yea, 1 do," answered Senator Sorghum. "But whenever I want any thing done 1 can't get the other fellow to realise It." Washington Btar. Mrs. Hlghmus "You ought to have heard the sermon at our church last Sunday. It was on Beelrebub." Mrs. Sudden-Klymer - "Ah. yes; he's an Interesting character. By the way for I seem to nave forgotten for the moment what does the B. L. stand for?" Chicago Tribune. WHERE LIES THE SHAME. Some Papers Think It Is In Being; Caught. Bend Bulletin. The Prineville Review. In speaking of "the shame of Oregon ' due to the land fraud exposures, says: "The public would never have known it was injured by any of the defend ants except Puter had it not been for Hitchcock and The Oregonian." "The public would never have known!" Does the Review mean to imply that the shame of a rascally deed consists only In being caught In the act? Is it honorable to steal as long as you are not found out and as long as the public does not know that it is being robbed? Wherein lies the real shame and dishonor of unlawful deeds in the deed itself or in being caught and exposed? Which would react ultimately more to a state s shame and dishonor: To have a horde of thieves holding her high offices and corrupting her citizenship, or to have the office-holding thieves and their accomplices exposed and pun-. ished? This silly ranting by some of Ore gon's papers against the Government's land-fraud prosecutions is disgusting and in Itself is a cause for shame. It must be evxaent to anyone wuo iwi- lowed the evidence in the recent trials In Portland that the defendants were guilty guilty of an elaborately laid conspiracy to rob the Government in other words, to steal. Just ordinary. every-day, "low-down" stealing. It would be much more to Oregon's honor for her citizens to unite In condemning such rank rascality, rather than to de fend the accused and attack the Gov ernment's policy of prosecution. Complains of Too Much Salary. Chicago Chronicle. ;Charles E. Hunter, chief clerk In the District Court of Oklahoma City, has established an astounding record. He declares his Intention to resign his po sition and gives as his chief reason the fact that the fees of his office are exorbitant. A month ago he gave em phasis to his views on this matter by writing to the Department of Justice suggesting that court clerks in the ter ritory be put on a stipulated salary of $3500 a year. In 90 days the clerk fees in Hunter's district amounted to more than S6000, which is at the rate of about $25,000 a year. Hunter insists that this is little short of wholesale robbery of litigants, and that the evil should be corrected. He was a Rough Rider 6ergeant in the Spanish-American War and owes his present position to President Roosevelt, who admires him. Lace Found In? a Loaf of Dread. Philadelphia Record. A novel case of smuggling at New York has been reported to Acting Sec retary of the Treasury Reynolds. There arrived at the New York postoffice a neat package with the Brussels postmark on it. As is customary in such cases, the addressee was notified to call for the package, which was to be opened In the presence of a customs officer. When the strings were cut out rolled a loaf of bread, beautifully browned. The sus picions of the inspector were at once aroused, and, breaking open the loaf, he found several hundred dollars' worth of expensive lace wrapped in oil silk. The sender, adopting the argument of the ostrich with its head In the sand, thought no preying inspector would think of looking in a loaf of bread for rare old lace. Girl Wins In Six-Mile Swim. Mount Vernon Dispatch in N. Y. Sun. Miss Corlnne Vlolett, the 18-year-old daughter of Atwood Vlolett, a broker, who Is living for the Bummer at Pel ham Manor, defeated Dennlson Hatch; Jr., yesterday In a. match swimming race from the Country Club of West chester to Great Neck, L. I. The dis tance of six miles was covered in two hours and a quarter, and. considering the strong tide at this point, the time is good. Miss Violetfg only condition was that they swim from the Country Club to Great Neck Point, which is a treach erous piece of- water. The couple started at 10 o'clock In the morning, followed by the club's launch. Both swimmers kept close together, the lead changing often. Miss Vlolett won by several lengths. Golf Is a Grandmother's Game. Baltimore News. Elihu Root, Secretary of State, ; used to be a golf player. He was one of the founders of the Nassau Club. He gave up playing golf when he went to Washington and began riding horse back. The President says golf Is a "grandmother's game." , Change of the Three Hundred. Kate Packard In New York Sun. (The new reform spelling contains a list of BOO words. News Item.) Wurd reform! Wurd reform. Progress e'er onward. Into the Rozevelt Book. Went the three hundred. "Sncl wurds as they be red. Chance al the books. he sed. Into the Nu Reform, Went the three hundred. Rozevelt to rite of them. Andl to left of them. Change al arond them. Volled and thundered. Ml, how the papers yel, O. how they al rase hel; Wudn't it shok U wel? Out of ther old-time form. Nu Form three hundred. When can ther glory fade? O, the wild chance they made, Al the wurld wiradered Webster turns In his grav, Al the "old timers" rav Nu Form three hundred. THE FIRST DOWN i-jt irk fc. uk , t j - 1 ii n-r-.-A-T. lit "" v ' From the Chicago Chronicle. TBT) HEADS OF THE VARIOUS COLLEGES HAVE COMBINED TO ELIM INATE ALL ROUGHNESS FROM THE GAME OF FOOTBALL. MESSENGER BOY'S PROMOTION. Hard Work Takes Edward J. Nnlly From Low to High Place. From messenger boy to vice-president and member of the board of directors of a 3100,000,000 corporation, with much of the executive work ot the concern placed in his charge such is the story, in brief, of the meteoric career of Edward J. Nal ly, until yesterday official head In Chi cago of the Postal Telegraph-Cable Com pany. Mr. Nally was elected yesterday, at a meeting of the governing officials of the company in New York, to both of the high positions named. His new duties will ne cessitate his removal to New York in two weeks. It will be some time before his successor as general superintendent of the Postal Telegraph-Cable Company will be in full control here, and in the interim he will flit between Chicago and New York, spending much of his time In this city. For 31 years Mr. Nally has been in the telegraph service, without the break of a day. He has risen by hard and con scientious work. The change of duties decreed for him is in the highest sense promotional. The story of Mr. Nally's rise from the place of hiessenger to a commanding po sition In the management of one of the world's greatest enterprises Is a romance of. American business life a reminder that the days of opportunity for the poor boy's acquirement of position and fortune have not vanished, even In these days of Immense corporate aggregations of wealth. It was as messenger boy In the St. Louis office of Colonel R. C. Clowry, now president of . the Western Union Tele graph Company and then its manager in Missouri and the Southwest, that Nally first took up the work of telegraph serv ice. He was then 15 years old. The Job of messenger boy was not Mr. Nally's first position, for he then had been seven years a "working boy." When only 8 years old he was forced by the necessity of aiding in the family's sup port to seek employment. With less than two years of "regular" schooling, he started out in life in St. Louis. He wonted at all sorts of odd jobs until his chance came In the form of an offer to run er rands for Colonel Clowry and sweep out his office. It was in 1875 that Nally entered Colo nel dowry's office. He remained with him five years, during which time he learned the business of telegraphy and became an expert operator. Then he secured a position In the operating-room of the Western Union Company. There he remained until 1890, when he was of fered and accepted the position of assist ant general superintendent of the Postal Telegraph Company at Chicago. About this time Colonel Clowry was promoted to the position of general superintendent of the Western Union Company In Chi cago, where hJhfound his chief rival was his former office boy. Five Ilulloons to Go at Once. Pittsfleld Dispatch In New York Times. The Aero Club of America Is planning the biggest demonstration In, ballooning that has ever taken place in America. It Is proposed to send up five large balloons from the Aero Club Park here In one day, each balloon carrying from three to five passengers. The plans for the ascen sion are being made by Homer W. Hedge, president of the Aero Club of America, and the latter part of this month has been selected for the time of the ascen sion. Those who will make the ascension are A. N. Chandler and party, of Phila delphia; H. Clay Green, of the Lambs' Club; George P. Butler. Beals C. Wright, Raymond D. Little, Homer W. Hedge, Leo Stevens and Dr. Thomas and party. The Pittsfleld Gas Company has agreed to furnish the balloonlsts with gas, and Leo Stevens will arrive here shortly to complete other arrangements. EnWllnh Hospital Officials Thanked. Salisbury Cable Dispatch in New York Times. At the annual hospital service in the cathedral yesterday a letter from Pres ident Roosevelt to the officials of Salisbury Infirmary was read by Bish op Webb. The President says: "I have heard so much of the gener-' ous care you have lavished upon the American sufferers In the lamentable train wreck that I wish to write you a line of acknowledgment on behalf of our people. As one of those you took care of has written to me, from chap lain down to hall boy, no sacrifice has been too great for you to, make on be half of those who so suddenly came under your care. "I thank you from the bottom of my heart." Conrled and His Chorus Singers. Boston Herald. Herr Conrkd claims to be very gen erous with the chorus singers he has brought to this country, their pay being far higher than they could get on the other side. In Italy the singers who take small parts get at the outside only to a week. In France those who take small parts get at the highest IS. Here they get 2o a week, and Conried claims that they can live as cheaply over here as they can auroad. If they want to. The compensation doesn't look exorbitant, compared with the sums paid the leading artists. ' Interjects Songs Into His Speeches. St. Paul Pioneer Press. Thomas Bent, the Premier of Vle toria, Australasia, introduces songs in his speeches. A word or phrase strikes a chord of memory, recalls some half forgotten melody and then the Pre mier breaks forth into song. Reply ing to criticism, Mr. Bent says he never Introduces songs of the present day, of which he has a very poor opinion. A Riddle t The Panama CanaL Kansas City Times. It is dug out ot the ground, but never carried away: It Is worth countless millions; how much none can say; The future may see It, the past never did. Men have sought it In vain, though its place is not hid. .:,. S t