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Oklahoma's constitution contains so many features entirely new In state government that the results will be Hatched with keen Interest by stu dents of political economy all over the Union. There are two provisions, re lating to the administration of Justice, that will be of particular Interest, for they have been discussed In many states, but seldom, if ever, adopted. One provision authorizes three-fourths of a Jury to find a verdict In all civil cases and In all criminal cases Involving an offense loss than a felony. Under the common law system of trial by Jury, adopted by statute In practically all states, unanimous action is required to find a verdict. Under such require ments, one or two men may prevent an agreement or make an agreement con ditional upon a compromise In which the other members of the Jury reluc tantly concur. The Judgment of one man Is given as much weight as that of eleven. A corrupt litigant who can purchase one Juror Is able to block the action of eleven others. The prejudice of one man who may be friendly to one of the parties Is permitted to stand in the way of Justice. The Oklahoma provision Is supported by sound reason and there can be little doubt that It will prove satisfactory, in practice. Very frequently a man who Is In the wrong in a controversy will stand trial in the courts because there Is the chance of winning one Juror out of twelve and thereby practically win ning the case. Criminals who are Clearly guilty fight a case to the end because they have some hope of pre venting a verdict of guilty through a "hung" Jury. The people bear the ex pense of such litigation while justice is hindered rather than promoted thereby. If guilty persons knew that nine out of twelve men could determine the ver dict of the Jury, there would be much less needless litigation. And so of cor ruption of Juries. One who Is willing to offer a bribe may find one or two men on a jury whom ho will dar to approach, but there is little likelihood of his finding more. To influence unduly a Jury in Oklahoma, it will be necessary to corrupt four men. for nine can find a verdict. It would be almost impossible to bribe four men after a trial has begun, without detection. The three-fourths will be a protection to honest litigants, too. in cases where the panel has been exhausted and the Jury Is completed from the "bystand ers." A dishonest litigant, in antici pation of the regular panel being ex hausted, will have the courtroom packed with friends and sympathizers In the hope that at least one of them will be draw n and accepted on the jury, by which means his case may be won. If nine men could decide the case, the probability of interruption of justice by this means would be greatly less ened. In this country the principle 'of majority rule gent-rally prevails. There are many who believe that in trial by jury a majority of the twelve men. or seven, should be allowed to govern, but this Idea has no general support. There Is little, however, to be said against the proposition that nine men should have the power to reach a conclusion. When the court has power to set aside a verdict and grant a new trial, there is small chance for Injustice growing out of such a plan. The other provision of the Okla homa constitution to :: : particular reference is made above is that de claring the right of trial by Jury in all contempt cases where the charge is the violation of an ordr of injunc-. tlon or restraint. This is. in effect, a limitation upon so-called government by injunction. There will be much difference of opinion as to the wis dom of this provision, and yet there is little likelihood of its being made the means of hindering Justice. A jury of twelve men. or. rather, a three-fourths majority of twelve men, as it will be In Oklahoma, is not likely to go far wrong. It Is as reasonable to believe that a Judge issuing and attempting to enforce an injunction will be In error as to believe that the jury will wrongfully interfere with the enforce ment of an order justly made. In ordinary contempt cases, such as the use. of insulting language toward the court or disorderly conduct in the presence of the court, the trial will be before the Judge, as in the past. But when a Judge issues an injunction, to forbid interference with a water right, or to forbid a threatened injury to property, for example, any charge that the defendant violated the injunction must be tried before a jury. The Judge will conduct the trial and instruct the jury as to the law, but it will rest with the Jury to say whether the de fendant is guilty. In all ordinary cases, if the defendant did in fact violate the order, a jury would find him guilty without hesitation. In those rare cases in which a court makes an order that is manifestly in contravention of com mon justice, the Jury would have an opportunity to resort to the "unwrit ten law" and find the defendant not guilty, notwithstanding the instruction of the court. It is remotely possible that the Jury would interfere with the administration of justice In some cases, but it Is no more probable than that the Judge would make an unjust order. These two new regulations govern ing judicial proceedings are yet to be tested by experience, however, and we shall not be able to form final judg ment as to their merits until they have been tried in actual practice. II. W. GOODE. Portland needs the energy and integ rity and ability of men like Henry W. Goode. In his unexpected death It loses a most useful citizen and a valua ble city-builder. The capacity of men for well-doing, right-living and accom plishing large things is limited, when one comes to make inventory of the assets in character of a community. Mr. Goode possessed these capacities in large measure. They made him chief of the largest industrial organization in Portland." They put him at the head of the object of Portland's greatest pride the Lewis and Clark Exposition. They brought to him wide influence in commercial and political affairs. v They gave him the confidence and respect of the community In a measure surpassed by no citizen. And they spread his name through the large industrial and business centers of the country. The members of Mr. Goode's family will always find much In his record to be proud of and for his children to emulate. Mr. Goode took hold of the Lewis and Clark Fair at a time when many dis couragements buset it. Mr. Goode en countered all difficulties with cheerful ness and resolution, and disposed of them with success and honor. The swarms of pessimists who prophesied dismally of the Exposition (and they Included Borne of Portland's wealthiest and foremost men) saw their predic tions fail, and they came to regard Mr. Goode with admiration or envy. On formation of the Portland Rail way, Light & Power Company, Mr. Goode was put at its head as presi dent. His high executive capacity and his ability to werk In harmony with the various elemerts of the city marked him as the proper man for that place. Although the chief of the largest public-utility corporation in Oregon and exposed to criticism of the pub'.ic, as a man must be in such a place, Mr. Goode conducted the affairs of his company in its relations with the peo ple with unusual skill. He -was liked by the employes of his company for his Just treatment of their require ments and for his fair dealing. If men like H. W. Goode were in charge of other public utilities, "the public would receive a larger share of Jus tice. Members of Mr. Goode's family will know that the community feels a measure of their sorrow. While their bereavement costs them dear, at the same time the community has lost one of its most Important possessions a man of great efficiency and excep tional uprightness. Such a life is worth living in every respect, even when It is not a long life, as measured by the years, for Mr. Goode. was only forty-five years of age. He had al ready achieved much, but there was more for him to do. ADDISON'S VIEW OF LONERGAN. Though a multitude of discoveries are made every year in the realm of physi cal science, there Is nothing new In metaphysics. Knowledge of the human mind, of human character, is pretty much the same today as it was in the days of Socrates and Plato. We read with passing Interest the announce ment that some man has ascertained the weight of a human soul, but,- as soon as some new sensation has been sprung, we forget it. The discovery will never find Its way into text-books on mctaphysict. There has been no material advance in the science of logic in the last few centuries. Joseph Ad dison, for example, though not famed for authoritative exposition of princi ples of reasoning, was manifestly in possession of as thorough a knowledge of logic as any modern writer. Ho lived two hundred years ago and pub lished a .newspaper In which his own opinions and those of his associates constituted the most interesting fea tures. A paragraph in one of his essays on argumentation Indicates that If he had lived In San Francisco In 1906 instead of in London in 1706 his knowledge of human character would have enabled him to disclose very promptly the ar guments by which the franchise-seekers were able to convince the members of the Board ot. Supervisors. In his essay, published two centuries ago, he says : There Is another way of reasoning which seldom falls, though it be of a quite dif ferent nature to that I have last mentioned. 1 mean, convincing a mr.n by ready money, or, as It Is ordinarily called, bribing a man to an opinion. This method has olten proved successful when all others have been made use of to no purpose. A man who is fur nished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who drawa them from reason and philosophy. Gold Is a wonderful- clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an Instant; accommodates Itselr to the meanest capacities; silences the loud and clamorous and brings over the .most obstinate and inflexible. Philip of Macedon was a man ot most Invincible rea son this way. He refuted by It all the wisdom of Athens, confounded their states men, struck their orators dumb, and at length argued them out of their liberties. In this brief paragraph, first pub lished two hundred years ago. Addison faithfully and fully portrayed the char acter and mental activities of Super visor Lonergan and his associates, and the system of logic by which they were led to the conclusion that certain fran chises should be granted. Perhaps Lonergan thought he was telling some thing new when he explained that he received a few thousand dollars and that when he looked at the machinery of a telephone plant he was convinced the company ought to be protected. But, as said before, there is nothing new in metaphysics. If Mr. Lonergan had been a student of classic Knglish literature he might have dismissed the whole subject by saying to the grand Jury: "Go and read Addison, and you will find out how it came about." XTD FOR MUD-SLINGEBS. Will there be mud-slinging in the near-by political campaign in Port- i land? With half a dozen aspirants seeking the Mayoralty and uncounted others seeking seats in the Council; with minority factions in each party, possibly bent on defeating the suc cessful nominee, as they have done heretofore, and with keen rivalry in the wards as exhibited in the South Portland Sixth Ward last week, are there signs that the patriots are mix ing the mud, sticky and foul, for a campaign like that In Chicago, where issues are forgotten amid the din of "liar," "thief," "perjurer," "grafter" and "human polecat?" The town of Elgin, Or., Is in the mud-slinging class. It has just fin ished a city election in which the patriots indulged in a variety of choice epithets. "Liar," "scoundrel," "graft er" are samples of the missiles hurled. And finally the editor of the Recorder wound up, after the election, by de claring: "A man who will make the assertions referred to, without a true knowledge of what he is saying, Is not any part of a man, Is a liar, a scoun drel and anything a degrading name can be attached to." And further: The people of Portland are a lot of chumps to submit to the exactions and graft they do. For years they have paid for and extended municipal waterworks w-lth heavy tolls levied on the consumers, while land speculators have made millions from the Increased values of their lots aris ing from the extensions. In Chicago there is a flood of vitu peration and Billingsgate In the fight .between Dunne and Busse for Mayor. Defamatory articles are printed in the newspapers, chiefly in Hearst's Amer ican, which is supporting Dunne, the Democratic candidate, and the Tribune, which is supporting Busse, Republican. The Tribune has been making a bitter fight on Dunne and Hearstlsm. It has republished Secretary Root's famous denunciation of Hearst in the New York campaign for Governor, wherein Root charged the Hearst method of journalism with being responsible for inciting the assassination of McKin ley. Hearst has retaliated with a suit for e2.500.000 damages against the Tri bune. Hearst has published defama tory articles against Busse, and that candidate seeks to even up scores by suing for 1400,000. Meanwhile. the slinging of mud keeps- up, and all places are bespattered. In Portland, one night last week, at a political gathering, there was a near approach to mud-slinging between two candidates for the Council. A beginning seems to have been fairly made. Now, if the Democratic friends and enemies of Mayor Lane shall re lieve themselves, there may be "some thing doing." In the Council there has been an ap proach to mud-slinging between the members ot that body and the Mayor. Perhaps some of that mud can be gath ered up again and rolled Into a stickier paste than ever. But it may be said that mud-sllnglng has two sides, and either side can throw it. The axiom that he who lives by the sword shall die by the sword applies to him who thinks of furthering his ends by throw ing mud. Those who throw mud first usually find that their opponents can do the same and get Just about even. It has been the- experience in Portland that it is better not to begin throw ing mud. The enemy has retaliated and bestowed more decorations than he received. THE DREAM OF A VISIONARY. The Philadelphia Inquirer thinks that the destruction of Helicon Hall by fire is a sad blow to socialism and especially to the plans of Upton Sin clair, who wrote the "Jungle" and who thought that Utopia was being started in his retreat. It Is admittted, how ever, that the project will probably be revived, "for socialism is persistent in spots, even If It does not long endure in any particular spot." The socialistic experiment Is not new In this country. It has long been the darling of the dreamer, the practical expedient of men who love their fel lowmen and who still recognize the fact that this is a world wherein the question: "What shall we eat and wherewithal shall we be clothed?" de mands a specific answer daily. Brook Farm was the most notable of many efforts formed upon the higher socialistic idea, and, after valiant bat tle, waged In the hope of establishing this idea upon a living, growing basis, its building was, like Helicon Hall, de stroyed by fire. For this undertaking, formed by George Ripley and partici pated In by many men whose names lent dignity and character to the work. ,s well as to the literary and journal istic moors or the middle period of the last century in New England, only the most profound respect is feit by thoughtful men. Its object, as de scribed by Ripley, was intended "to in sure a more natural union between In tellectual and manual labor than now exists; to combine the thinker and the worker, as far as possible, in the same individual; to guarantee the highest mental freedom by providing all with labor suited to their tastes and tal ents and secure to them the fruits of their industry; to do away with the necessity of menial services by open ing the benefits of education and the profits of labor to all, thus to prepare a society of liberal. Intelligent and cultured persons, whose relations with each other would permit a more simple and wholesome life than can be led amidst the pressure of our com petitive institutions." That this was a high Ideal none can gainsay. But that it contemplated a world of humanity made to order is equally apparent. Even the material wrought upon the best that was at tracted to this scheme of the idealist failed to respond fully and persistent ly to the stimulus applied by Ripley. And though the association at one time had seventy members and went Its quiet way without special incident for three years. It perished of inanition and was rejected to the land of dreams, where it properly belonged. Hawthorne treated it as a "Blithesdale Romance;" Emerson characterized it as "a perpetual picnic, a French rev olution in the small, an age of reason in a patty-pan;" Louisa M. Alcott sat irized it under the title of "Trans cendental Wiid Oats;" yet all of these, and others, paid just tribute to its founder as a man of high ideals and to the effort as "generous and noble." The history of this effort and the pa thos of its failure have saved from ridicule many another scheme, equally visionary, but none of them from fail ure. We can well believe that the scheme of Upton Sinclair, though more worldly wise, is foredoomed to failure, even though under the inspiration of his influence it may rise for a time from the ashes that now cover It. The Commercial and Financial Chronicle is very much aroused over an order Issued by Secretary Cortelyou j Just before be left the office of Post j master-General directing that "when the weight of mail is taken on railroad routes the whole number of days the j mails are weighed shall be usea as a aivisor ror ootaining the average weight per day." The Chronicle thinks the old practice should be continued. Under the former practice the malls were weighed for seven days in a week, but. six was used as a divisor. j Thus, if the total weight of mail for j a week wac forty-two thousand pounds. using six as a divisor wouidhow that the railroads carried an average of seven thousand pounds a day. That this would be a false showing Is evi dent, when one multiplies by the num ber of days In a week. If the roads carried an average of seven thousand pounds a day, they carried forty-nine thousand pounds a week, which is sev en thousand pounds In excess of the actual amount. Any schoolboy who ever studied the computation of aver ages knows that in order to ascertain the average amount of mail carried for a week the total number of days the mail is weighed should be used as a divisor. If the total includes the mall for seven days, seven should certainly be used as a divisor to determine the average. Any contention to the con trary is frivolous. The people of Portland have reason to be proud of the successful outcome of the effort to raise $350,000 for the erection of a home for the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. There is occasion for self-congratulation, not only be cause of the noble purpose for which the money has been subscribed, but also because the funds come chiefly from men and women ot comparatively small means. The slogan "Everybody Gives" was taken literally. The money came largely from the workers from those who most appreciate the value of the Wbrk of the Christian As sociations. While there were a few large donations from very wealthy peo ple, the bulk of the building fund will come from the pockets of small busi ness men and wage-earners. When the building shall be completed, there will be no institution of which the peo ple of Portland will be more Justly proud, or which will be more effective In leading young men and women into paths of honor and industry. Emporia, Kan., has been heard from again, and through William Alien White, of course. He voices a warn ing to the Republican Legislature, which is trying to doctor a direct pri mary law before passing it. "What is it that gets into a man when he goes to Topeka to make him forget his com mon sense?" he demands to know. "If the Republican party tries to fool the people of Kansas by giving them a direct primary, law with a convention string to It. the only sufferers will be the Republican party." And Mr.White knows what he Is talking about. Judg ing by the almost universal condemna tion of State Legislatures throughout the country, Topeka is not the only capital in which men have forgotten their common sense. A new and very plausible explanation has been found for the unsettled con dition of affairs in Wall street. It seems that in an effort to depict one of the well-known elements in the char acter of George Washington, the Gov ernment had a bronze figure made showing him kneeling in prayer at "Val ley Forge. This would have caused no trouble but for the fact that the bronze figure was placed near the entrance to the Sub-Treasury building in New York. The New York Times says the thought of prayer in New York finan cial circles is so repugnant that even the horses shy at the statue. In Washington, D. C, there Is a well authenticated account of a runaway accident in which the horse demolished the carriage In front of a doctor's resi dence, and, upon looking around and seeing the driver lying helpless In the debris, walked up the front steps and pressed the electric button with his nose till the doctor came, which shows that, though he had a streak of mean ness in him, he possessed an unusual supply of good horse sense. The assertion, made in high official circles in London, that "Great Britain, supported by America, Japan and Italy, will continue to press the considera tion of disarmament at the coming conference at The Hague" Is reassur ing. It has been supposed that this subject would be ignored, much to the regret of the many people of all coun tries. We see no end to the rivalry in the building of large and costly ships. The Canadian government is discov ering that over half of its free lands in the Northwest has passed into the control of land-grabbers, and not home-builders. The land-grabber knows no party, no religion, no country. Though Secretary Garfield will relax a little the investigating methods of Hitchcock, he has nothing to say that can be of any consolation to timber land grafters. The guilty still have reason to tremble. A New York man fell down an ele vator shaft ten stories, and suffered no. other Inconvenience than a fit of coughing. Here in Oregon they don't even cough as a result of falling that distance. In some states the law prohibits the giving of tips. But in these days we are great admirers of the unwrit ten law, which will likely prevail in the case of tips. Some of the women who didn't have new Easter hats yesterday were not sorry that rain fell. And they talk of Foraker for Presi dent. Does he expect to run against Bailey, of Texas? This is the day to keep your tem per. You'll have plenty of opportu nity to lose it. Senator Foraker has appealed to the people. And his case will be tried on appeal. The Italian comet, due the last of March, failed to butt the earth off the track- Anyway. Mount Tabor wfas visible. if Hood was not. THE PLAIN TRUTH OF THE MATTER Respecting; the President In Relation to Stocks and Money Stringency. New York Journal of Commerce. Those financiers and railroad men who keep reiterating that the President is to blame for the stock market flurry, or for what they assume to be the cause of it, are talking foolishly and will gain nothing bv such tactics. They attribute last week's break In stocks and the general disturbance of the market to the railroad agitation which they say the President has fomented. They contend that dis trust has been produced as to the future of railroad investments, and this Is why there Is difficulty in raising capital for needed extensions and improvements to Increase their facilities. The men who talk in that way are either doing it without sincerity and for a purpose, or they take a shallow and superficial view of the situation, which discredits their fitness for the responsible positions they hold. If what the Presi dent has said or done in his battle against railroad and other corporate abuses has contributed to a feeling of distrust which adversely affects the Investment market the fault lies back of him, for he has only attacked evils which need to be re formed, which never would be reformed without attack, and which If left to take their course would produce much worse consequences than any that his agitation has caused or Is likely to cause. In this "crusade" he has been doing his duty as he sees it and as the mass of the people see it, and he is not in the least likely to be deterred from persist ing in it, nor will the people be scared out of giving him their support, until these railroad and corporation magnates make up their minds to "co-operate" with him by observing the reasonable regula tion and supervision of lawful authority. Is the general scarcity of capital the fault of President Roosevelt? Ib he to blame for it? Has it been caused by "hostility to railroads" or agitation for such regulation as shall correct abuses in their operation or in their organization and management? If this has to any ex tent put the railroads at a disadvantage In the universal competition for the sup ply of capital that is to be had, they are responsible for that, and it would be more seemly for their officers and the financiers concerned to admit this, and seek to re gain confidence by discarding and dis countenancing the practices which have caused the agitation and the distrust and by accepting all the regulation needed to prevent their continuance or recur rence, than to take it out in blaming the President and trying to put the resnonsi bllitv upon him for the whole financial situation of the world. If their object is to produce panic and get their own way by exciting -groundless fears they will be disappointed. RAILROADS AND THE PEOPLE Vievrs of a Mananer Who Think the Roads to Blame for Their Troubles. New York Interview With B. F. Yoakum. Chairman of the Rock Island. , A railroad has no more business to be at the mercy of stock Jobbers than a sav ings bank or a life insurance company. The American railroads are, or should be, as much a public trust as these insti tutions. When the public Insists that they be run honestly they will begin to fulfill their rightful destiny, and, too, they will be more prosperous than they have ever been. I will be frank. The people are not without justification In their belief that the railroads have been systematically robbing them. It is not altogether fair to put it just that way; but nevertheless the public has for years been paying out a great deal of money for something it did not always get. No one is to blame for the present anti rallroad sentiment but the railroad man. agers themselves. Now the day of reck oning has come, and it will prove a bless ing not only to the natron, but to the railroads. For, in almost every case where there have been illegal operations they have been in the interests, not of the roads, but of the men who control the roads. Very often the roads have suffered heavily; frequently they have been wrecked. However, in spite of the present agita tion and the cry from some quarters that railroad Interests are in jeopardy from op pression, I cannot see that any lasting damage can be done. Wild and ruthless speculation in the securities of a railroad company should be made subject to crim inal prosecution. Stock and bond values should represent actualities, and not hot air, though even this condition will adjust itself in time. The paramount problem from the stand point of Government activity is in the control of rates. With a practical plan of Federal rate supervision In operation, most of the other abuses of managerial power will vanish. Some of them have al ready disappeared. I am not in favor of Government owner, ship of the railroads. I do not believe that under our existing political system it is practicable, but I do believe in the ownership of the railroads by the people. If every man who held property along a line of railroad held an interest, how ever small, if that line, and its control was in the hands of the men whom It was built to serve. Instead of the hands of a clique of manipulators, the railroads would be run for benefit of a new kind. Ownership by the people I would couple, as I have slid, with strict Federal super vision of rates. No railroad honestly operated need fear any Federal control that may be imposed, though under the present righteous Inflammation of public opinion they may and do fear state legis lation. Attack Abuses, Not CapItaL United States Investor. There Is no alarming indication of an ultra-radical spirit throughout the coun try, and in the main the attacks on capi tal that are now so frequently complained of are attacks on the abuses of capital and of a few capitalists, rather than any effort to deprive capital of its just dues. Much of the complaint that is now heard in some quarters is the result of anxiety on the part of a limited number of per sons lest their own doings may be put on public view in the same way that has been done in the case of financiers who have lately been subjects of Inquiry. Others use this explanation to account for market movements that are the result of manipulation and doubtful transactions or' of public suspicion with reference to questionable enterprises, rather than of fear inspired in the minds of Investors by popular hostility toward capital. Jenlousy r Hood Rver Glacier. The sage of the Wllliamette is heard once more In the land. Being at a safe distance from the meeting of the State Horticultural Society he lifts his voice above a whisper. It seems that he grows and ships his best apples in the Winter and Spring instead of the Summer and Fall like the ordinary grower. This is an easy way of raising fruit, but we doubt if it is very profitable. Other men have raised things in this way at a lavish waste of breath and finally dis covered that nothing was left but a hoarse voice. It would be tough if the Claimant of the Willamette, like the man who was playing poker, would flnally loee his voice entirely from his continued murmuring, whether awake or asleep. "Just as good." LAST POEM OF THOMAS B. ALDBICH Tribute to Long-fellow. Read at the Harvard Celebration. New York Press. Somewhere, In desolate, wind-swept space In Twilight Land. In No Man's Land Two hurrying shapes met. face to face. One bade the other stand. "Who are you?" cried the first, agape. Shuddering In the gloaming light. -'I know not." said the second shape; "1 only died last night." Tnoinas Bailey Aldrich. who wrote those lines, died last night. --ree weeks ago, on last month's last day, there was published In The Press the last poem Aldrich wrote. It was read in Sander's Theater, Cam bridge, on February 27, in the course Wot Harvard's celebration of the hund- retii anniversary ot ljOngteuow s DITTO. Even then Aldrich lay on a bed of pain in Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital, following an operation it , was ..oped would prolong his life, and i it was impossible for him to join his ) university friends in honoring the more famous poet. Charles T. Cope land of Harvard read the poem, and though he seemed Impressed by the pathos of the circumstances, doubt less neither he nor those wno heard htm dreamed it was the scholar-poet's swan song. Were it not for Aldrich's almost boyish modesty, it might be supposed that In writing the lines he traced his own epitaph, so peculiarly applicable to himself do parts of the poem appear. His lines on Longfellow run: Above bis grave the grass and snow Their soft, antlphonal strophes write: Moonrlsa awn daybreak cdme and go; SummaWvy Summer on the height The thruea-sa find melodious breath; Here kafeVa vagrant Winds that blow Across tbftorq of- the nisht WhlspeHHeatli. They do nJjVRle who leave their thought lmprlnteron Rome deathless page. Themselves may pass; the spell they wrought Endures on earth from age to age. And thou whose voice but yesterday Fell upon charmed listening ears, Thou shalt not know the touch of years; Thou holdst time and chance at bay. Thou livest In thy living word As when its cadence first was heard. O Gracious Poet and benign. Beloved presence! Now, a then. Thou stanlest by the hearts of men. Their fireside Joys and griefs are thine; Thou speakest to them of their dead. They listen and are comforted. They break the bread and pour the wine Ot life with thee, as In those days Men saw thee passing on the street Beneath the elms O reverend feet That walk In far celestial ways! Senator Brlggs, Fine Amateur Boxer Washington (D. C.) Herald. Major Frank O. Brlggs. the new Sena tor from New Jersey. Is said to be one of the finest amateur boxers In the United States. Classmates of his at the West Point Military Academy say that he held the charTtpIon-shIp of that institution two years before he graduated, and neighbors at Trenton say he has kept in practice ever since he has been a resident of the NewJersey capital, it is believed that the only two men in public life In Wash ington City who will be able to put the gloves on with him when he comes here to live are President Roosevelt and First Assistant Postmaster-General Frank H. Hitchcock, both of whom ranked high as boxers at Harvard, and each of whom, it is understood, is anxious to have a bout with the athletic new Senator. Whether Mr. Hitchcock and the Presi dent have ever faced each other is not definitely known, though that there was much quiet talk of a match between them about a year ago was a fact that created great local interest at the time. Plutocrats' Dollar Grows to $288,000. New York Sun. ' "A piece of property changed hands down at Canarsle not so long ago which attests how values have jumped in this part of the woods," said a real estate man. "This was a farm which was bought from the Indians about 150 years ago for a demijohn of very bad rum. three empty bottles and two old plug hats. I think the original purchase was made by one Jacob Schenck. When the farm passed out of the possession of the family not long ago It brought a few dollars over J283.O00. A liberal estimate of the cost would b $1." Her Cat Better Than Cloek. Kennebec Journal. A Brunswick woman received a tele phone call one morning last week from a Bath friend, asking her the time of day. The Brunswick person, surprised, telephoned back It was 10 A. M., whereat the Bath person explained that her clocks were all at 9:30.- which she said she knew was wrong, as her pet cat had just washed it face, w:hich It did every morning at precisely 10. Hereafter the Bath woman proposes to regulate her clocks by the cat's ablutions. All Aboard for the Land of Nod. Frederick B. Hodglns, In LIpplncott's. There's a popular train to the Land of Nod On the Sunset Limited Line; It's timed to leave as the sun goes down And the lamps begin to shine. It Is known on the road as "The Babies' Own," And it gets the right of way; From dusk to dawn it makes Hb run. For It seldom runs by day. It s a "Limited Special For Little Folks," With a Buffet Car behind That carries the things all babies need In charge of the Dustman kind. Sugar sticks and griddle cakes. Plum Jam and cambric tea. Marmalade and penny buns Can be had for a nominal fee. The Dustman rides on the engine's back; He lives In the big Sand Dome; He walks through the aisles of the cara at night And croons the songs of Home. He gently scatters the dust that soothes. Like talcum powder sweet; Then, when all are asleep, he takes a peep For something nice to eat. "Alt aboard for the Land of Nod! This way. please, for the Sleepers. Supper Is served In the Buffet Car; Eat hearty and close your Peepers." WILL THERE BE ANOTHER "SHOOTING-UP T I LIFE IX THE OREGON COUNTRY". Aboriginal Nobility Travels, Bickleton News. Plo-Plo-Mox-Mox and his Queen Saca Jawea passed through Slxprong Monday. Got 'Em at Church. Maybe. Coos Bay News. A man In Canada died the other day at the age of 114 without having ever bought an umbrella. But think of the number he might have borrowed during his life time. Reminders of Past Orgies. PrlnevIIle Review. The semi-annual shipment of beer bot tles made by one of our liquor houses will take place tomorrow. About 40 barrels, each containing approximately seven dozen bottles, are included. Probably Hankered for It Raw. Salem Journal. So long as eating seems to be the main object in life at the Indian training school, it is passing strange that the four moon-faced beauties, who are something of epicures themselves, should play truant. Towel Next. Prinevllle Review. The Review office had Its windows washed yesterday. This is the first time such an operation has taken place since 1878, and the editor is now able to sit In thesofflce chair and see clear across the street. Good Name for the Job. Coos Bay News. R. D. Hume is preparing to resume the publication of the Radium. W. A. Thresher, a late arrival from Las Veg-.is. N. M., Is to have charge of the office. Mr. Thresher, besides having had consider able experience In newspaper work, is also a lawyer. Curiosity la Malheur. Vale Oriano. It was a sight to be seen, when a Ger man was In town Saturday displaying himself on the streets. He looked like any other German except that he wore wooden shoes, not the kind the heathen Chinese wear, but they were the kind you would make out of regular six by six timber, and looked a good deal like miniature boats. S The Yamhill Plan. Newberg Graphic. A company of half a dozen home-seekers who landed here a few days ago. were given special attention by three Hotel runners In their endeavor to extend to them the "freedom of the city." on their way down town, while in the wake of the company followed seven real es tate mes, ready to pounce upon the prey at the earliest possible moment. The strangers hit the first barber shop on the street for a shave, apparently prefer Ing to submit themselves to the tender mercies of one "artist" at a time. One More Candidate. PORTLAND, Or., March 31. (2 the Edl ter, the Oregonlan.) Deer sur; I want 2 run fer Mayor uv Portland at this kuming eleckshun. & 1 rite u this letter 2 find out what I will hav 2 du 2 get thare. I supoze frum what I hav red about It that 1 will hav 2 file a petlshun & plat form. 1 halnt had time 2 rite up a pe tishun but ml platform iz az toilers: 1. 1 am not In favor uv ennythlng. 2. i am agin everything. 3. 1 am unalterably oppozed 2 enny body hoo iz in favor uv ennything. 4. I rite theez hear centiments wlthout no apologies 2 nobody & without the kon sent uv nobody. I am Independent & not afrade 2 stand on mi oan platform. 5. I am oppozed 2 the vested interests, the overkoated interests & the interests that halnt got on nuthln but thare shurt tale. I hav got infiooenshul friends hoo will bak me up in awl I sa. i halnt got no ax 2 grind. 1 am out fer blud. urcs truli, BINNACLE JIM. p. s. Cap. Walrus sez he wants 2 B ml cheat uv polees. 1 tel him 2 let wel enuf aloan. he may' tri 2 run again me. if he duz, doant pay no attenshun 2 him. B. J. No Rnllrond Fnvors to Anybody Minneapolis Journal. Will not the general public be better off when there are no special or reduced rates for anybody? It may be hard on fairs and conventions and other institu tions which have long been favored with special rates, and could not have succeed ed without them, but there Is nothing quite so Important in the whole rate re adjustment business as that common car riers and public servants shall play no favorites. There may be no favoritism In a special reduced rate open -to the pub lic, but even such a desirable privilege ought to be weighed carefully as against the good of an even flat rate for every body all the time, and no favors, to see that it is not overestimated. Mr. Harriman and Court-Plaster. Washington (D. C.) Herald. "Mr. Harriman," says the Cleveland Plain Dealer, "left the White House with a smile on his face." Surely our es teemed contemporary did not expect him to leave with a patch of court-plaster on it- i A Welcome Visitor. Atlanta Constitution. Up there I see him in the old mulberry tree. Last Summer's mockin' bird he's elngln' right at me! I think I hear him sayln': "Oh. the Spring Is goln' to be! Don't you see the sunshine on the mead- ows?" TTp there I see him he's lookln' at his best; Bright eyes takln' 1 In the world from rosy ease to west; Pretty soon you'll see him with the blos soms at his breast. When Springtime is sweet along the mead ows! -From th Wtshinrton Port.