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There is a singular Impudence about the proposal that the gas company shall be "compensated" for Its perpetual franchises. If they oh all be revoked. Compensated, for what? The gae com pany owes compensation to the city for the long enjoyment of its excessive privileges. The company Is In the sit uation of a person who has lived upon a rich estate rent free for many years. When he is about to be put off be cause he has no right there, he de mands compensation. Demands com pensation because he Is finally com pelled to abandon what does not belong to him. The company may be abun dantly thankful if It is not made to pay for the use of Its franchisee in the past. The ownership belongs to the city. To pay anything for resuming control would be preposterous. No reasonable peiison wishes to put the gas company out of business. All that is desired is to bring It under proper control by the city. There Is no way to do it but to get the state to re voke the franchises, which is the first proceeding and the essential proceed ing towards abandonment by the state of its purely nominal authority over the company and its assumption by the city. It is perfectly clear that the city cannot step in until the state steps out. The gas company ought to be required to negotiate with the City of Portland for a franchise. Why not? It Is a public-service corporation, serving the pub lic, enjoying an exclusive public privi lege. Certainly the City of Portland should say how the company should conduct its business and what Its max imum charges should be, and what compensation it should pay. All agree now that the state should revoke the gas company's perpetual franchises. Even the majority of the Multnomah Senatorial delega tion concede by their votes for revoca tion that revocation is proper; but they want the company compensated if the state thall take away what by their ac tion they declare the company has no right to have. They are ingenuous. INHUMANITY. The Tacoma Ledger discerns indica tions of nascent Inhumanity in The Oregonian. Moved by that beautiful and touching species of virtue which expends itself in the reformation of other people's sins, our neighbor read us a lecture designed to recall the wan derer from the error Of his benighted ways. It Is The. Oregonian's opinions about the Graves bill whicVh stir the, tender heart of the Ledger to sorrow and awaken its anxiety for our lout condi tion. The Graves bill, readers will re call, provides that persons who plead Insanity as a defense for homicide nhall be confined in a separate ward in the Penitentiary until their recovery is assured. The Oregonian, bewrayed by an oversea lous regard for the safety of the community, and. as it seems, an exaggerated deference to the plain dic tates of common sense, ventured to ap prove of the principle of this measure. The Ledger thereupon accuses us of Inhumanity. One may Teadily admit that confine ment in the Penitentiary or elsewhere, the place io of no essential consequence, would inconvenience these "unfortu nates," as the Ledger gently designates them. It might even subject their fam ilies "to the shame and infamy of being pointed out by their neighbors as hav ing relatives locked up for crime"; but we respectfully fuibmlt that the com fort of the homicidal maniac Is not the most important consideration In the premises; and that the diegrace inci dent to hto conduct and restraint, while regrettable, is unavoidable. Wherever he was confined It would not be for crime, but for the double purpose of preventing subsequent homicides and healing him of his destructive tenden cies. If thte is Inhumane to the maniac. It is much more inhumane to society In general to let him go at large. The presumption is that a man who has once committed homicide in a fit of Insanity will do so again. He is lia ble to an attack of his disorder at any moment. No person's life is safe In his presence. The tenderness of heart which shrinks from placing him under proper restraint savors rather rankly of imorbld sentimentality. Looked squarely In the face, such a feeling Is not Inhumanity at all, but sheer cru elty. If the Ledger prefers an asylum or hospital for the place of restraint, we have no objections. The point is that restraint is necessary to the wel fare both of the homicide himself and of society. . That granted, the Ledger may confine-him la a garden of roses If It likes and establish hie nightly couch in a silken boudoir. A man who is liable to become sud denly Insane, commit a homicide and then as suddenly recover his reason la much more dangerous than the ordi nary murderer "because he is Irresponsi ble and cannot be punished. Unless some special method of restraint is pro vided for him, society is defenseless against his fury. His murderous deeds are not crimes, as the Ledger truly says; but they are more dangerous than crimes to the public and wreak all the consequences of crimes upon his vic tims. To permit such persons to go at large is the extremity of folly. THE rBSSEWISTTC RAILROADERS. Mr. James J. Hill is a great railroad man. There are others, but even at that Mr. Hill stands well nip in hi8 pro fession. And yet, despite the magni tude of his work In finance and indus try, there are frequent periods when he reverses the position of the telescope through which he gazes over his vast possessions, as well as those not yet his, but on which he has designs. Byl looking through the large end of the glass instead of the small end there is a shrinkage in the objects at which his gaze is directed, and he gives voice to a wail of pessimism which echoes round the world. When Mr. Hill began mak ing a specialty of these financial and industrial "storm warninge," the inter ested public was inclined to sit up and take notice, but their frequency and a more careful investigation as to cause have resulted in the predictions losing some of their force. All the world looked dark to Mr. Hill when Mr. Harrlman forced him to pay something like J1000 per share for Northern Pacific stock. There was an other eclipse of the Industrial sun when the courts decided that his merger was a combination in restraint of trade. Locally as well as nationally, Mr. Hill has shown a disposition to indulge In these fits of despondency. Whenever the Railroad Commissions of various states have Inserted the probe too deeply they .have brought forth wails of de spondency and predictions of utter ruin unless there was a cessation of at tempts to regulate the railroads. The frequency with which Mr. Hill appears in the limelight makes it easy to recall these moods which have made him fa mous, and, reasoning from analogy, it is hardly probable that his present gloomy prediction will have a serious effect. He tells the New Yorkers that the tide of prosperity Is turning and that there are indications of "signifi cant recession In business." In his language "the sails of prosperity are being reefc-d." The prominence of Mr. Hill In en In dustry which all over the country is now under fire for its alleged absorp tion of too much of the "prosperity" which the people have come to regard as due to their own efforts has, of course, biased his point of view, as it does that of others in his profession. President Baer, of the Philadelphia & Reading, has a similar misconception of the situation, which causes him, as it has caused Mr. Hill, to regard the railroads as the "country,'' when, as a matter of fact, they are merely only one of many great factors which go to make up the prosperity of the country. Mr. Baer exposed his misconception of the true status of the railroad position in the country in a recent protest against rate reduction by the Pennsyl vania Legislature. In that protest he made the broad statement that "the In dustrial prosperity of the whole coun try is primarily due to the extraordi nary expenditures which the railroads of the United Slates have been com pelled to make in the past six years." The theory that the country owes its prosperity to the railroads is all wrong and directly in conflict with the facts. It is the prosperity of the country that has made the railroads the power which they are in the land today, and what the big railroad, men now pretend to recognize as a turning In the tide of prosperity of the country as a whole is merely a resumption by the people of their original rights and privileges. The movement of the peo ple for low railroad rates and service in keeping with the emoluments re ceived is not intended to cripple or Im pair the ability of the roads to give a good service. It may result in taking all of the "prosperity" out of watered stock on which dividends have been paid In the past, but it will not affect the legitimate earning powers of the capital actually Invested. Both Mr. Hill and Mr. Baer should cheer up and try their reasoning powers on a busi ness forecast from a. less biased view point. WARNING FROM STAXDPAT HEAD QUARTERS. Secretary Shaw in arr address before the students of the University of Chi cago Thursday night made the state ment that "one of these fine days we are going to have an excess of inanu factures" and that when this happens "the world will not come after our manufactures." The Secretary then proceeded to draw a gloomy picture of the future for the thousands of factory hands who would be deprived of work by this overproduction and lack of markets. He does not believe that other callings than factory work can properly assimilate this surplus of la bor that will be created when the de mand for our factory products slack ens. Of the climax he says: Then will come the great danger to the country. For these men will he hard to deal With. The last century was the worst In the world a history for wars. I look for this cen tury to bring forth the greatest conflict ever waged In the world. It will be a war for the markets. God grant there may be no blood shed. It is a fact too well known to re quire argument thaT trade wars have not Infrequently brought on armed con filet between nations and in this respect history is pretty certain to repeat it self. But what have Secretary Shaw and the eminent band of standpatters for whom he is one of the principal spokesmen ever done to head off this approaching strife by the Initiation of a fair reciprocal trade policy with the countries with whom we should been Joying a much greater trade than is now In evidence? Every effort that has been made toward strengthening our trade relatione with other countries has been fought if there was the slightest Intimation of a relaxation of our unfair, hard-and-fast tariff regU' lations. Germany, a country which, with its increasing number of depend encies, could afford us a market of al most unlimited extent, is at this very moment holding over our heads a re vised tariff which, If it goes into effect, will practically shut the United States out of the vast German Empire, ex cept In the case of a few commodities which they cannot secure elsewhere. When this inevitable trade war which Secretary Shaw predicts does come upon us, there will be a wild flight to cover of that haughty, arrogant band of standpatters w ho are now flattering themselves that their position Is im pregnable for all time. It is not ex pecting too much to hope that before the crisis is reached the eminent Sec retary himself will about face and de mand that we make occasional appli cation of the golden rule In our tariff relations with foreign countries. FOR THE BENEFIT OF OREGON. Since the Portland Commercial Club began its campaign of publicity and general correspondence under the aus pices of the executive committee, In May, 1904, It "has devoted its funds toward the material development of the Pacific Northwest, arid especially the State of Oregon; but, contrary to the general custom among a great many cities, it ha6 paid little attention to boom Ideas or schemes for the special benefit of Portland. The dub's policy has been to present the actual re sources and advantages of the interior,' feeling that a great Pacific Northwest, and particularly a greater Oregon, would of necessity mean the upbuilding of a substantial city at Portland. In a circular addressed by Mr. Theo dore B. Wilcox, chairman of the execu tive committee, to the members of the Portland Commercial Club, property owners, business men and citizens gen erally, additional funds are asked for to advertise the transcontinental colo nist rates, not onJy to Portland, but to other points In Oregon. Particular em phasis is given to the $25 rate beginning March 1 and continuing until April 30, from Kansas City, Omaha, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Leavenworth, St. Joseph and thousands of other towns throughout the entire Middle West; also to the $30 rate from St. Louis and the $33 rate from Chicago, which embraces the country surrounding those cities. The subjeots dwelt upon in a brief and effective way in this circular are agriculture, dairying, logged-off lands, fruits, wheat, irrigation, reclamation fund, timber, mines, hops, nurseries, livestock and poultry. The most effective and substantial work that has grown out of the Port land Commercial Club has been the or ganization of the Oregon Development League, which is now composed of sixty-four commercial and industrial bodies located throughout the state. Many of these organizations are doing Just as good work in proportion to their resources as are the commercial or ganizations of the City of Portland. In making an appeal for additional funds it is hoped that special attention will be attracted to the low colonist rate to various Oregon points.' This advertising is necessary at this time for the reason that these same rates are available to all sections of the country, and, if Oregon can now be placed be fore the people in an advantageous way, the results cannot be otherwise than beneficial. There should be a quick response to this appeal for greater funds, for it Is desired to reach at once at least twenty millions of readers; or, to quote Mr. Wilcox" clos ing sentence, "Pay something, even if the amount is small; we want your co operation as well as your money; the trend of immigration is this way; let's push it quick and hard." "FOR THE FUN OF THE THING.' Mr. Thomas Edison, having celebrat ed his 60th birthday recently, will, it Is said, henceforth devote himself to hav ing "a good time." To suppose that this term is to be interpreted by a period of idleness covering the remain ing years of his life is absurd. A man who has spent forty-five years In ex periments with the subtlest of Nature's forces can hardly be expected to find pleasure in the stagnation of utter idle ness. The most interesting feature of the announcement of his retirement is contained in his own words, as follows: For' 45 years I have been making experi ments with electricity, but all these years I have been turning these experiments to commercial value so fast that I have not had a chance to play with electricity for the fun of the thing. But from tomorrow I am going to give up the commercial end of It. In other words, he entered his labora tory on the day succeeding the 60th anniversary of his birth not as an electrical engineer planning for his own gains and the gains of mankind, but as an original thinker and experi menter, delving into the intricacies of electrical science "for the fun of it" a pleasure which he declares he had long promised himself. It is extremely probable, therefore, that the play day of the elderly but not old scientist may be as productive in disclosing the wonders and applying the benefits of electricity as has been his long work day. The most unex pected developments have followed original and even vagrant research. Inquiries with no apparent possibility of coherent answer have sometimes re ceived a response that has startled the world and inaugurated a new era in its progress. It Is not improbable, therefore, that the experiments made by the great inventor "for the fun of the thing" may lead to the discovery of new facts that will put to rout the la bored appliances of electrical science as evolved by the years, and that his "good time" may be fertile in inven tions that will serve the purposes of commercial life even better than those that have been already achieved as the result of strenuous endeavor through long days of labor and nights devoid of sleep. MEN NEEDED FOR FARM WORK. According to the bureau of informa tion and statistics of the New York State Department of Agriculture, fully 50,000 laborers will be required on the farms of that state this Spring. There is no reason to suppose that this sup ply, or any great portion of It, wfll come from the voluntary application of men who are out of work, since a large majority of these prefer city life, with its precarious "jobs," to the steady pay and rural environment of the farmhand. The State Department of Agriculture, therefore, through its of fice in New York' City, is maturing a somewhat novel plan which In a small way proved successful in supplying the demand for farm laborers last year. It has advertised extensively, both in New York and in Europe, for agricultural laborers and as a consequence Is in daily receipt of applications from men, both married and single, who are anx ious to work on the farms of the state Jjupon being assured of a steady, sea- son's work, including such privileges for making a home for themselves as are necessary adjuncts of rural labor. Many applications have been received from Holland, the good Dutch burghers being anxious to come over and bring their families if a. foothold in agricul tural life can be secured. The immigration that merely drifts hither and halts at New York or any other large port of entry is practically worthless" as far as farm Industry Is concerned. County life, with its quiet routine, and farm labor, with its small but steady remuneration, are not what these people, In the main, are looking for; nor would they be anything but stumbling-blocks to the farmers if they undertook to supply the demand. Of the class of immigrants seeking such work and competent to do It. however, many are at once engaged by the bu reau of farm employment and sent to localities from which applications are on file. Last year this bureau placed 4171 farm laborers and hopes this year by diligence 'in advertising to place ten times as many, thus giving the farm ers of th state a chance "to sleep nights" a luxury that they have not enjoyed for several seasons past dur ing the stress of seed time and harvest. Another horror of the deep is added to the already harrowing list of disaster that has attended the first two months of 1907. The wreck in the English Channel Thursday morning was even more disastrous to life than that of a week ago on Long Island Sound. It is seldom that disaster on inland waters has wrought such shocking loss of lifa as in these instances scarcely a week apart on the opposite shores of the At lantic Ocean. The instinct of selfish ness that causes human thought to turn first to hearth and home when danger lowers finds some consolation on this side of the water in the statement that no Americans were on- board the ill fated steamer Berlin when she went to pieces in a furious gale on Hook of Holland, in sight of land but beyond reach of human aid. In all, 143 passen gers were beaten to death upon the stranded vessel or drowned In the Icy seas. In the opinion of Mr. Bailey, of Texas, he is deserving of great credit because he has not "taken a shotgun and gone after his political enemies." Mr. Bailey's entire conduct in his efforts to remove the taint of Standard Oil from his person has been such as to cause no surprise over such a statement. Even had he forfeited his right to the credit which he seems to think is due him, and instead had "shot up" his neigh bors, it is not at all clear that he would regain his place on the pedestal from which he was jarred by the oil inves tigation. Mr. Bailey is not only a fallen idol, but the language he is us ing at times tends to excite the belief tnat he was slightly "cracked" when he fell. Mr. Frederick Gates, a business rep resentative of John D. Rockefeller, says that the wealth of the oil king has been grossly overestimated. He says that Mr. Rockefeller's wealth is not in ex cess of $250,000,000 to $300,000,000, and that he accordingly is obliged to worry along on an income of only $15,000,000 to $20,000,000 per year. These official figures confirm the truth of the recent ly circulated statement of a ministerial friend of the Rockefeller family that, although they were particularly fond of oysters, the Rockefellers were too poor to buy them. If the attention of the colonist hosts next month is not called to Douglas County, It will not be charged to the Roseburg Review, which paper a few najf ago issued a supplement very thoroughly telling of the advantages of that great and growing section of Ore gon. It should be the means of get ting thousands of settlers and conse quent growth in wealth. Mrs. Holman gave to District Attor ney Jerome a complete biography of her daughter, Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, covering seventy-five closely typewrit ten pages. Naturally, Jerome shows great familiarity with the spicy details of that interesting young person's life. History has had many stories of moth ers, but never a mother like the Hol man woman. President Shea, of the Teamsters' Union, has been declared not guilty of the conspiracy charge in connection with the teamsters' strike in Chicago a few years ago. His trial was not with out results, however. It brought to light a number of strike practices which true-blue Americans never be fore thought possible in this land of the free. In many of the slot machines dumped into the bay at Tacoma it was found that the compartments that should by chance pay the large prizes were so plugged that they would pay nothing. That Is jt trick many players siuspect, yet they continue to feed the nickel- eaters. The hope of a big winning is Dorn in most of mankind. ' George Washington, if he had lived would nave been 17a years of age yes terday. Just think, too. of the un-, timely fate of Methusaleh. If he had lived he would have been 5827 years, 4 months and 13 days old. The State Legislature again killed the bill for an executive mansion. What's the use of a barn without a horse? Oregon will need an executive mansion when It elects a Governor who will live at Salem. We are to have four normal schools, after all. Legislatures may come and go, and Governors' vetoes may mark an occasional milestone along the mo notonous way, but the normals go on forever. The East Siders have shown fine ad vertising Instinct by naming It "Cor dray's Theater." It wouldn't be Port land without a Cordray's Theater; and the East Side is Portland, or part of it. A lot of State Legislatures have made trouble for the railroads this year by requiring 2-cent fares. Still, your true Legislature will never get over his strong preference for a no-cent fare. Hood River will have to struggle along a few more years as a part of the historic county of Wasco, mother of Oregon counties. Well, there are worse fates. Is- there any one, in the Legislature or out, who is willing to stand up and say that he is a friend and supporter of the Portland Gas Company? JUST PLAYING WITH ELECTRICITY ! Thomas Edison, at 59, Says It's Time to Quit Work for riesiure. New York Dispatch In North American. Thomas Alva Edison, the Inventor, said recently that when a man gets to be 59 years old" It is time to knock off work and play awhile. Mr. Edison Is 59 and his playtime begins. 'For 45 years I have been making ex periments with electricity," said Mr. Edison, "but all those years I have been turning these experiments to commercial value so fast that I have not had a chance to play with electricity for the fun of the thing. Just to see now much I can find out about It. "But from today Iarn going to give up the commercial end of it and work in my laboratory purely as a scientist. That will Be the pleasure 1 nave long Deen promising myself." v hen a reporter went out to the home of the wizard of West Orange at Llewel lyn Park a phonograph was beating out the measures of the overcoat song from "La Boheme" In the hallway above Mr. Edison's library. 'Yes, we have a phonograph in the house." Mr. Edison said with a smile. "I am getting almost too deaf to hear it, but the rest of the family are afflicted to satisfy my whim. One of the first things I hope to do In the near future is to per fect my phonograph. "It may not be long before my hearing leaves me entirely. I have been deaf since I was a boy, but it Is getting worse as I prow older. I want to tinker with my phonograph while I still can hear It. I believe that I can make the records more clear and the machine a far better reproducer of tone qualities than It is now. "There are scores of secrets ready to hand that I want to pry into. During all the years that I have been putting my discoveries into practical commercial value I have run across phenomena that invited experiment, but I did not have time to turn aside from the work at hand. I have several notebooks filled with these clews to possible new dis coveries. Now I am going back over these notes and work out at my leisure the experiments they suggest. "The fascination of it all is this," said Mr. Edison, and his face lost 20 years of its stamp as his enthusiasm rose. "To morrow pome fellow over in Germany may make a discovery and the cable flashes the news. That one discovery opens a whole new field to investigation and to experiment, out of which may be made practical application of new and untried forces. You see, we are standing in the shadow of revelation each day." "Is it possible to foretell what the next great step in the application of electricity to the mecharlics of present day life will be?" Mr. Edison was asked. "I would be a daring man to venture a prediction," he answered. "We are all busy collecting data, we Investigators, and maybe in 500 years more, we will begin to suspect something." Nfw Jersey's Silent Senntor, Washington D. C.) Dispatch. In substituting Major Frank O. Briggs for John F. Dryden, New Jer sey will send another silent Senator to Congress. It is said that Major Briggs has never made a speech or written a public document of any kind. Nor has he had any legislative experience. For a long time New Jersey has been rep resented in the Senate by men who have not displayed forensic ability. Mr. Kean, who is now serving his sec ond term, has never participated in Senate debates, although he wields no small Influence on the Republican side. Mr. Dryden has delivered one speech during his service of five years, and this he read from manuscript. It was In advocacy of the federation of insurance companies. Major Briggs was once Mayor of Trenton, and was State Treasurer by appointment of the Governor when elected to the Senate as a compromise candidate. -He Is a brother-in-law of the Roeblings, large steel and copper manufacturers, and resigned from the Army 30 years ago to inter their em ploy. It is said that he is not rich, as that term is understood in New Jersey, and that when he comes to Washington he cannot do the enter taining for which New Jersey's Sena tors nave been noted here for many years. Where Man In Really Bossed. Kansas City Journal. ' The town of 'East Clarion, Ohio, boasts of a unique record. The Shaw hotel is run by Mrs. Phoebe Shaw on a strictly temperance basis. The postof flce is in charge of Miss Nellie Cleator. The church choir is composed of female voices, led by Mrs. , Eva Armstrong. The superintendent of the Sunday school Is Mrs. Nellie Hale. The teach ing force of the public school Is com posed of women. The superintendent Is Mrs. Anne Mawson. There has not been a male doctor In the town for sev eral years, and nearly all the husbands In town wipe the dishes. Nordlca Gets Her Old Home-stead. Baltimore News. Nordlea, the prima donna, has re ceived from her sister, Mrs. William Baldwin, of Dorchester, Mass., the deed of the old homestead in Farming tonv Maine, where she was born. The great singer has decided to renovate the house and make it a sort of mu seum for her treasures. Nordiea's grandfather was "Camp-Meeting" John Allen. Probably no other operatic star has ever managed to keep so intimate ly and unbrokenly associated with her own people as Nordica. Twenty-three Houra With Head Down. London Sketch. M. Thiercelin, of Milly, Seine-et-Olse, recently met with an extraordinary mishap. He was bending down over a deep hole In which his ferret had taken refuge when he stumbled and fell into jt, head downward In sucha way that it was impossible for him to extricate himself. So he had to remain with his feet In the air for three and twenty hours, until a rescue party of sappers and firemen found him. GOING HOME TO BOSTON Great Event Planned for 300,000 Mas-tmchnsetts-Bora People. BOSTON. Mass., Feb. 14. The people of Boston are planning for a grand home coming reunion next Summer , that is likely to exceed in interest and attend ance anything of the kind that has ever taken place in a large American city. Massachusetts has a legally established "Old Home Week," beginning with the last Sunday in July of each year, and the Boston reunion will take place dur ing that week. It will be a part of the general plan for booming the city and its attractions and advantages set on foot a few months ago by Mayor John F. Fitzgerald, and In furtherance of which the Mayor has established an official pub licity bureau. Negotiations are now In progress with the various railroads of the country look ing to the securing of special excursion rates, through means of which former residents of Massachusetts now living in the West and elsewhere will be enabled to revisit their old homes and enjoy a three or four weeks' vacation. There is a surprisingly large number of natives of the Old Bay State now living in other parts of the land, and If even 10 per cent of them should take part in the projected Boston reunion they would make an exceedingly large temporary ad dition to the Hub's population. According to the figures of the last census about 300.000 of the sons and daughters of Massachusetts are now liv ing outside their native state. Allowing for those who have married and raised families, the number of those who to day can be properly regarded as of Mas sachusetts stock in not less than 1.000,000. Nearly two-thirds of the absentees are ltvinft outside of N'ew England. There are iSOOO In Virginia, 3500 in North Caro lina and 3000 in South Carolina and Georgia together, 20.000 In California. 4000 in Washington, 2000 in Oregon.-1R.000 in Illinois. 7.T00 in Ohio. 7000 in Minnesota, about 6000 each in Michigan, Iowa and Wisconsin, 4500 in Missouri, 3500 each in Kansas and Nebraska, and 5000 In In diana and North and South Dakota, 11,000 In ' Pennsylvania. 10.000 in New Jersey and 45.O0O in New York. There are 6000 Massachusetts-born people In San Francisco, 2000 in Denver. 10.000 in Chicago, 2000 in Minneapolis. 1S00 in St. Louis, 25,000 in New York Cltv, 1300 in St. Paul. 5000 in Philadelphia," 2200 in Washington and 1400 in Buffalo. The details of the big home-coining celebration have not yet been arranged, but they will probably include a military parade, literary exercises, the presence of a fleet of warships and various special excursions and observances. Grilling a Witnmn, a la Jerome. Cleveland Plain Dealer. The District Attorney: "Do you con elder yourself an expert or an authority?" The witness, hesitating: "I am from Pittsburg." The District Attorney: "I have no de sire to prejudice the court against the witness. I ask that the answer be stricken out." The Judge: "It is so ordered." The attorney: "Now. sit up and look pleasant. I want you to tell me what re lation the pneumo-gastrlc nerve bears to the epitome." The' witness, squirming: "Relatively speaking?" The attorney: "Either relatively or cor rosively?" The witness: "Tha-that page was torn out of the book I studied." The attorney: -"If a man was shot, would you decide that he was the victim of a nervous attack?" The witness, brightening up: "I would." The attorney: "And if he wasn't shot, what then?" The witness, floundering: "I would con sider that he was the victim I should say, the result of, of the nervousness t the man who missed him." The attorney: "Are you familiar with chronic anachronisms?" The witness, all at sea: "I I have only observed them unprofessionally." The attorney: "How would you treat a comatose polychrome?" The witness, desperately: "I would first endeavor to reduce the inflammation, and then I would turn the case over to my assistant." The attorney: "That will do." The witness cheerfully agrees with him. No More Loni? Gloves to Buy. Dress. There is every indication that the reign of the elbow sleeve Is drawing to a close. The sleeves on the new gowns are short, but come .well below the elbow, and the close-fitting cuff of tucked chiffon and lace lengthens them still more. The fashion has been so exaggerated and caricatured that it has entirely lost any smart effect, excepting in some elaborate gown with which elhow sleeves are ap propriate. For mid-Summer and in the thin fabrics the fashion will revive to a certain extent, but fortunately Its pop ularity has proved its own undoing, and ere long it will be numbered as a past fashion. Thirty Thousand Locomotives. Philadelphia Press. Andrew Jackson was President when the Baldwins turned out their first locomotive, and it was a tiny affair, weighing five tons. A day or two ago a pennant was flying over the great estab lishment to announce that the 30,000th one had been completed. Thirty times as much iron and steel were needed to build the last monster as were required for the first one. Cigars as Prosperity's Index. New York Times. The number of cigars smoked is an in dex of the Nation's prosperity. The cigar manufactories have doubled their output In eight years, the number for the fiscal year 1905-6 being 8,070.672,649. as compared with 4.063,169,097 for the year ended June 30, 1S98. Snow and New York Taxpayers Baltimore News. The New York Board of Estimates voted 1785,000 to pay the expenses of removing the recent fall of snow. At this rate, the song of "Beautiful Snow" can hardly be a popular one among New York taxpayers. -From the Washington Bt,r. IN THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN TOMORROW fiT if 1 -if K&2 A ri -soh iM f" f f uu llaii i i v i r ygj y Does the pentle reailer realize what ;'oes to make up a modern Sunday news paper such as The Sunday Oregonian! Take the color pages, for example, a feature that has been appreciated by Ore gonian readers. These paees are prepared by The Ore gonian 's own staff artists, and not a day passes but what they are busy on some bit of work connected with these artistic pieces of col or illustration. The Ore gonian has adopted the pol icy of presenting an Oregon subject on the first color page of the magazine sec tion. Tomorrow the subject is, "The Falls of the Wil lamette River," and a strik ing photograph taken by an Oregonian staff artist is re produced. The best writers of the present day are represented in The Sunday Oregonian. Pens are husy today in stud ies, typewriters are click ing, and pencils are flitting over pages of white paper, that The Sunday Oregonian readers may be entertained, instructed or informed. Just take a few special features in tomorrow's Sunday issue, for example, and glance over a few of the represent ative authors: Finley Peter Dunne (Mr. Dooley), who writes this week on "Expert Testi mony." His satire is aimed at the Thaw case. Professor Frederick Starr, of Chicago, who describes atrocities in the Congo. Homer Davenport, the fa mous New York cartoonist, who tells and illustrates an "Oregon Dog Story." Frank O. Carpenter, a travel story of Spanish Af rica. George Ade, "A Bunch of Mofdjr Stories Done Oyer." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the conclusion of "The Strange Case of George Ed alji," a bit of detective work in real life. Mary Stewart Cutting, "Little Stories of Happy Life." Victor Hugo's "Les Mis erables," first of a series of one-page classics; the story condensed by Irving King. The little folks are never forgotten by The Sunday Oregonian. Binnacle Jim, Dolly Drake and Bobby Blake, and The Roosevelt Bears frolic over three page8 in color. Besides, there are two pages of children's stories, to which Mary E. Wilkins and Harriet Prescott Spof ford contribute. These are just a few of the special features. All the regular, departments (So ciety, Music, Drama, two pages of Sports, Real Es tate, Markets, Marine, and Books), -will be found, as well as a complete and un rivaled news service.