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Potts Roeder, ' Pine Beacb, Va. W. A. Cosgrove. PORTLAND, FRIDAY, JULY IS, 1WIT. RAILROAD LANDS AND At 11 AL jr,i- 1 , f HA. i Many persos in Western Oregon are i ' ... 1 lw.4 ' In railroad grants, Dy purtuKu num th snnthorn (Pacific, at $2.50 an acre. !. Some of them, no doubt, seek the land ' for homes; that is, they are would-be ,! "actual settlers" In good faith. But mere are many uliiuio v ilu uih .w e1-- 1 hold of 160-acre tracts .ror tneir own ' profit and enrlcnment, intending not to i iu n wn ,Vi m a, loaat nlntrtlin? :; to do no more than go through empty - forms of residence, in the same way as ; land sharks used to go through the rigmarole of residence on homestead . claims. Now this class of greedy grabbers is ', considorajble of a host; in fact, it is 1 likely to make up the majority of the "actual settlers" if the present race for - the railroad areas shall win. A town grocer or banker, or a country mer- chant or farmer, or a raiiroaa cierK or hireling, has no business on the xall- ; road land, as an actual settler claim ant. He does not purpose to make his home on the land, live there with his wife, rear their children, plant or- ..... . . .1 , nJ V. . . .. U. . . .-. . .. t n - 'CnarQS anu UUIIU uailis. lie anna tv - rab a tract of land for $2.50 an a-cre. WUILJ1 VUI -uv an ai-ic. aiiu m-- cause he sees a chance of invoking the . courts successfully, to compel the rail - road to sell at $2.50, he is rushing to the lands he knows to be most valu- able, posting his notice of settlement ' on-some tree and in the county records, aiming to acquire a prior claim to the land, in the event of a decision against , the railroad in the courts. His .suc cess means that he will sell the lands at their actual value, and probably to some already great land syndicate, perhaps the railroad itself. In cither case the public will derive '-. no 'benefit from forcing the Southern j Pacific to sell for $2.50 an acre. For it .t . '1 - COCA . . .-. An4 Ka as the public. is concerned, whether the '-railroad or greedy speculators should Bell' the land for what it is worth. In : the'one case many millions of dollars would go into the coffers of the rail- road; in the other case, the same mif , Hons would feed the maws of land sharks. . But neither the railroad barons nor i .La 1 . 1 1 . . . V. . . 1 ,T . t V. i . . 1 . . n I der. ' The profit belongs properly to the i man and w ife who are willing to bring wild land Into cultivation by living on it, and to add such areas to the pro ! ductlve forces of the commonwealth, j That man and wife deserve this : bounty. The people of Oregon want ' them to have it. Congress Intended it should be theirs. It is a .bounty large ; enough to guarantee the creation of many new farms, the addition of tens r of thousands of people to the popula i' tion, and the production of vast quan ' tlties of new wealth. . But the man and wife are not occu ) pying the land as actual settlers; at . least they are doing so in very few ', cases. They have not the means, prob ably, to fight a great railroad in the .courts. Besides, there is no sure guar antee that they could win, even if they shad the financial sinews for the strug gle. Wise heads have abstained from staking any great part of their re- sources on the venture. The litigation -'may consume years, and a man and . wife will not devote the productive 'period of their lives to an uncertainty. For these reasons Tho Oregonlan has :put little faith in the plan of wresting away lands from the Southern Pacific, by suit of actual settlers. It has placed ;all reliance In suit by the Government. ; The steps are being marked out by Mr. ;B. D. Townecnd, special United States Attorney, sent hither from North Da- kota by the Attorney-General. Mr. Townsond has a very Intelligent grasp of the situation, and has delved into . tlie questions involved farther than any representative of the Government ever hns gone. Thl? paper has confi- dence in his ability to make a strong case against the Southern Pacific stronger than railroad attorneys and most persons hitherto - have -supposed could be made. "Whatever the Government shall do, whatever kind of suit it shall bring, it should take care to curb the rapacity of a set of speculative plun derers as greedy as the railroad. The Government should not recognizes their claims. Those persons probably could not make good their' claims in any event, since they are not actual set tlers In any sense. A mandate from the courts that the railroad must sell to them at $2.50 an acre would work, misfortune upon Western Oregon; likewise an order that - the railroad must sell at actual values. The ideal solution would be forfeiture of the lands to the United States, so that the Government might dispose of them in the right manner. Tet this, perhaps, is too much to be hoped for. Yet forfeiture would be Just. The Oregon &. California Railroad and the Southern Pacific never have observed the terms under which the Government granted the lands. The railroad has sold the land in bulk and in great tracts, in violation of the proviso that it should sell only to actual settlers, at not more than $2.50 an acre and in tracts of not more than 160 acres to one purchaser. It has exploited the lands at hopie and abroad as its own fee simple possession, unlimited by ' the conditions which Congress imposed and to which the "railroad agreed. In ac cepting the lands. From the very mo ment that the land-grant acts were passed It has sought to repudiate re strictions in the laws which gave the lands into their trusteeship. The railroad sought vainly to push the acts through Congress without the restricting proviso. "When forced to admit the proviso to the acts of April 10, 1S69, and May 4, 1870, the railroad schemed to repudiate it. Congress be lieved it was granting lands in order to obtain railroads for Oregon. But the fact was that the railroad promoters promised a railroad for the particular purpose of getting hold of the land. The railroad obtained some 6,000,000 acres. This land it was to sell for not more than $2.50 an acre, and only to actual settlers. The sum turned into its hands was, therefore, not to exceed $15,000,000, or thereabouts. It has sold some 3,000, 000 acres. The proceeds have been so much more than $2.50 an acre that there Is reason to 'believe investigation will show that half the 6,000,000 acres has .brought to the coffers of the rail road the $15,000,000 maximum intended by Congress. The remainder of the land, nearly 3,000,000 acres worth $30, 000,000 or more should pass 'into the hands of actual settlers for one-fourth that sum, and the proceeds, instead, of accruing to the railroad, should go into the public treasury. The railroad has received all that justly belongs to it. The debates in Congress prior to passage of the act of May 4, 1870, show that that body believed it was .passing a bill which would prevent creation of a land monopoly and would make the lands forever open to actual settlers for purchase at $2.50 an acre. One needs but to read the record of the de bates to see how plainly expressed was this purpose of Congress. Prior to the passage of the act of April 10, 1869, there seems to have been no de bate on this question. But as the proviso in each bill is . prac tically Identical and as Congress re fused to pass either act until the pro viso was inserted, the aim of Congress was the same In each case. The very land monopoly which has grown u.p in the last thirty years was predicted by members of Congress who fought the two bills. ' Senator George H. "Will iams, of Oregon, denied the possibility of a monopoly, and on April 29, 1870, we find him speaking as follows: The objection which the Senator makes to thla bill Is not available, for the reason that the bill provides expressly that every foot of the land shall be sold to actual settlers. The lands granted are as open, under the pro visions or this bill, to actual settlers as they are under the pre-emption laws of the coun try. It simply provides that when settlers go upon these lands they may buy them ot the company. t The railroad has trafficked in the lands as its own absolute possession. It has sold or refused to sell, as it chose; charged whatever price it wanted, and disposed of as many acres to one pur chaser, in excess of 160, as it pleased. In the last four years it has. refused to sell any land at. all. Applications for purchase, presented by would-be actual settlers, its agents recently threw into the waste basket in San Francisco. It recognizes the right of no person to go upon the lands as actual settlers. . This monopoly professes to ibe greater than the law. Numerous monopolies, in the same pose, have been haled into court in the last two or three years. Let the Southern Pacific be haled into court, too. ' And in killing the railroad monopoly the Government should not make prey for the shark speculators. BTROXG WHEAT SITUATION. ' The Government crop report, which appeared "Wednesday, had an unusual effect on the market. Taking the figures at their face value, it seemed clear that the crop had failed to make any recovery from the bad condition in which it was reported by the June report. In ordinary seasons this would have been considered a factor suffi ciently bullish to warrant a substantial advance. But, instead of advancing, the Chicago market yesterday slid off nearly 2V4 cents per bushel. It is such an unusual situation to have wheat for weeks hovering around just below the dollar mark that in the contempla tion of this phase of the matter some other important conditions have been overlooked. Even if the 1907 crop should prove no worse than Is now indicated by Government reports, 'It will fall at least 125,000,000 bushels be low the crop of 1906. Trade estimates, 'based on the June report, placed the probable out-turn at 590,000,000 to 615,000,000 bushels. Accept ing the maximum figure as accurate, we would have an exportable surplus of less than 60,000,000 bushels. The comparative insignificance of this sur plus can be understood when it is noted that for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1907, our exports, flour in cluded, reached a total of 185,000,000 Dushels. The bullishness of the situa tion is Intensified by the fact that the European wheat yield is estimated by the conservative London Statist as 240,000,000 bushels less than that of 1906. With a shortage of at least" 120, 000,000 'bushels in the American 'crop and twice that amount in Europe, there will be placed on other wheat-producing countries a burden far. in excess of their capacity to handle. The Argentine, after breaking all pre vious records, with shipments of 110, 000.000 bushels for the season ending June 30 has now fallen below 1,000,000 bushels per week, and, before the new crop in this country begins to move, will have practically ceased shipping. It is difficult to find any features of very pronounced weakness in the American situation, if we except the stocks on hand, which are unusually large for so late in the old season. The American visible last- Monday showed 46,840,000 bushels, an amount that has not been exceeded on a corresponding date since 1900. There is nothing: very formidable in the size of this visible, however, when we consider that the crop now coming on will be so small that we shall be unable to ship within 125,000,000 bushels of the amount that we exported last year. The Chicago operators have been having plenty of "action" since the crop damage became tangible, and, in their efforts to keep up the excitement of the game, they have at times forced prices down lower than the actual conditions war ranted. Manipulation ot this kind is undoubtedly responsible ffor a bearish market following a 'bullish crop report. REPENTING AT LEISURE. Incessant crying of a small child in a dwelling in Cottage Grove, Tuesday, led to finding its mother lying uncon scious on a bed. Two doctors and sev eral women brought her to, only to see her go into convulsions. Some hope is entertained of her recovery. The re port is that a month ago the husband left the town to secure work and neighbors think she had no word from him and Became despondent. ; "The larder was reported empty," the story concludes. The woman is 20 years old and the baby tout a year. There are any number of morals, sev eral sermons and many lectures to be taken from this incident, but the strongest is the object-lesson to girls who plunge into married life alto gether early, aided and abetted by the masculine provider (sic) also too young and shiftless to fulfill duties of which he has no inkling. Of course "the lar der was empty," and it will be, more or less of the time in these cases of young people who succumb to the glamor of the amour. It takes hustle to support a family these times of hig-h prices. The worn-out saying that "the Lord tempers the wind to the shorn lamb" would better be changed into a prayer for the Lord to stiffen the backbone of the lamb to withstand the winds of ad versity. Going off to hunt work is an easy masculine way of dodging a re sponsibility and leaving dependent ones to the mercy of the Lord and the neighbors. It is a poor excuse of a man who cannot get all the work he wants where he is known. In these cases the hus band never runs up against an empty larder on his travels. Getting married is "dead easy"; getting along is not. And as the trouble always falls on the wife and little one, the lesson reads plain to the young woman to consider well the step and hesitate, though it "breaks the match." Years later she may rejoice. ' FENDING A MARKET FOR FRUIT. The prosperous farming Yamhill community of which Newberg is the center and shipping point w-ill, after this season, be furnished with a market for the large surplus of fruits and veg etables that are grown there. A, can nery is to be built at once to take care of this product, the purpose being to have it in readiness to handle Fall fruits andi vegetables. This is a step in unison with that of progress, and one that promises to be of permanent value. Industry that compels tribute from the soil should be matched by enterprise that turns this tribute to full account. The spec tacle of fruit, as fine as. the finest grown anywhere, rotting on the ground by the ton, year after year, had a most depressing effect upon farmers and was long viewed with unconcealed wonder by travelers up and down the Willamette- Valley. The excuse of "no market" has long ceased to be a legitimate one, so far as dried and canned fruits are concerned. "When Oregon was brought in touch with the great world this reason vanished, but the fruit in may localities has perished just the same partly in accordance with the fixed habit of letting it rot and partly because there was not among local growers men with capital and enterprise sufficient to install a cannery. Both of these obstacles have, been overcome in Newberg, and after, this year surplus fruit grown in the sheltered valley of Chehalem will not be allowed to go to waste. - WALL-STREET LOSSES. . The approximate loss sustained by the victims of the rich man's panic ia the first half of the current year havo been reduced to figures by the Eastern financial Journals. By taking the high point reached by railroad and indus trial stocks between January 1 and June 30, and deducting the low point, the net losses are shown. These losses have reached the bewildering total of $1,361,506,000 in the principal railroad securities and $609,991,000 in the princi pal industrials, a grand total of ap proximately $2,000,000,000. Of this im mense ' sum the iHill and Harrimarv railroad stocks are credited with losses of more than. $420,000,000. In these fig ures alone may be found plenty of ex cuse for the wave of pessimism which has been sweeping over Wall street and has even spread across the Atlantic, where there are large holdings of the securities that have suffered so heavily in the liquidating process. As the stocks and bonds in these rail road companies, in which this enor-, mous shrinkage has taken place, are popularly supposed to have a , value based on cost and earning power of, the property represented, a casual glance at the figures might lead to the inference that the railroads and manu-, facturing planta had lost the power to return dividends on their working; value. That this view is erroneous is made plain by a number of features of the statements. For example, we find that Standard Oil suffered a loss be tween high and low of $68,810,000, and Pullman shares showed a decline ot $31,135,000. American Steel, on its com mon and preferred stock, showed losses of $155,000,000. These three well-known monopolies are stlli supreme in their respective fields. That there should be any such decline in their securities of fers ample evidence that the prices had been forced too high by the same Wall street gamblers who had to bear the bulk of this shrinkage. . Actual railroad properties, such as roadbed, track, locomotives, cars and other equipment, were never more val uable than, at the present .time, and every other line of legitimate business has been making remarkatoly large re turns on the capital actually invested. But a large share of that lost $2,000, 000,000 never was capital actually in vested. It consisted mostly of air and water injected Into legitimate stocks for the purpose of illegitimate infla tion. The Wall-street gamblers who have become so pessimistic on' account of this slump in prices strictly speak ing have not lost $2,000,000,000. They have simply failed to unload their se curities on the general public at a fig ure $2,000,000,000 higher than seems war ranted by the law of supply and de mand. In the smash it is probable that a good many innocent legitimate hold ers of railroad stocks have suffered, for the Wall-street gamblers sometimes "copper" their betsand in the "hedg ing" process may have aided in stam peding some securities to a lower level than was actually Justified. . In such cases shareholders of only moderate means, who might have had their stocks up as collateral security for loans, would .be wiped off the boards. On the whole, however, this rich man's panic has hurt but few aside from those whose folly and thimble-rigging finance were responsi ble for its coming. Creative industry has added many millions in value to actually existing wealth in this coun try since'January 1, and there has been no disappearance or depreciation In value of any that was here prior to that date. With these facts before us it is easy to understand how the big and prosperous West, untrammeled by the ticker fluctuations of Wall street, is still booming along on prosperity's highway. So far as the West is con cerned. Wall street can continue to lose its theoretical millions so long as the intrinsic value of property and its earning power is not affected. Definite announcement has at last been' made that the steamer Lawton is to be placed ort the Portland route. The Lawton will be the largest and finest boat yet placed on the run be tween Portland and San .Francisco, and for this reason we shall feel duly thankful to Mr. Schwjerin. Now if he will let the contract "for a couple of new fast .passenger steamers for the route, he 'will soon be in a position to take care of the business that now seeks an outlet on Puget Sound, or by some of 'the small scrap heaps that amble up and down the Coast a trifle slower than, good windjammers. Joe Day, fresh from the land of Sher lock Holmes, Scotland Yard and other accessories of successful thief-taking, permitted fugitive Thompson to escape when he was within two days' travel of Portland. The New York dis patches announcing Day's arrival on the Campania said that the passengers on board1 were unaware that Thomp son was Day's prisoner. Day now has the same impression. What the great detective said when he missed Thomp son would be interesting,' but it would be very hard on a phonograph which might have had to listen to it. Customs duties collected at the Port land Custom-tHouse during the month of June averaged more than $3000 per day, and, for the year ending June 30, reached a total of $1,157,329. The in crease over .the best previous year on record was more than $300,000. Figures of this kind are an eloquent tribute to Portland's prestige in the foreign trade. They are not the trade that goes from car to ship or ship to car, but the business that Is actually han dled and distributed from this port. A prominent logger, In discussing the probable reopening of. the camps within sixty days, says that wages will iprobably be lower and charges for; Iboard higher when the camps reopen. If the sawmill men adopt this system, the price of logs will be lower and the price of lumber higher. The consum er's position in the matter cuts no figure. A resident of the Capital City wants to know why Salem cannot build an electric line to the coast, as Eugene is doing. If he really wants to know, let him prepare a stock subscription blank, put down his own subscription first and then circulate it among his fellow townsmen. 'He will find out all the whys and wherefores. It will be only a short time now until we shall receive reports of large crops of potatoes sold at high prices, showing large profits per acre. Then farmers everywhere will plan to put In potatoes next year, and when another season shall have passed the price w ill be down to normal, if not lower. Salem's fine cherry fair carinot help but stimulate a profitable industry that seldom figures in the grand total at the end of the year. Oregon's annual product of first-rate berries and small fruit aggregates a very large sum very widely distributed. r Larger and steadily increasing car goes between Portland and Coos Bay ports Illustrates again the well-known maxim: When you want more busi ness, go after it. By the way, Alaska hasn't .closed her doors against Port-, Seattle has. given the Christian En-d-eavorers the glad hand and reached out for their modest purses with the other hand by charging them Seattle prices and a little more for meals, board and other things. Moyer says he didn't conspire to kill Steunenberg, andY'Haywood also swears he didn't. They appear to be willing to admit that Steunenberg was killed and that Orchard killed him. For fun, no doubt. A local orchardist advertises Black Republic cherries. This bobtail nomen clature may be taken as a concession to the political associates of, General Killfeather, Frederick Holman and Pat Powers. Albany is to have, an apple butter factory. If it turns out a product like our mothers used to make, it will add to Oregon's fame as a food state. Long without precedent is the dally list of guests arriving at Portland ho tels. Emphasis is here given of the ne cessity for expansion. In permitting his latest shall we say last? charge to escape, Joe Day has done nothing inconsistent with his rec ord as a detective. It looks like a good proposition to let Admiral Evans and Admiral Yama moto settle it between themselves. Perhaps we ought to be thankful that no trust was formed to put screws under the price of ice cream. Perhaps if Mrs. C. M. Thomas were treated for biliousness she would write in a different tone. There is no doubt concerning Uncle Sam's determination to smoke out the tobacco trust.. THE JTEW INHERITANCE TAX LAW Feature of Measure Enacted hj the 7S ctt York Lesjrlalature. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. One of the noteworthy acts of the present Legislature was signed by the Governor and became a law of tho state. This Is the direct Inheritance tax bill, supplementary to former leg islation taxing collateral inheritances only. The tax commission of 1S97. known as the Dunbar commission, recommended a direct Inheritance tax of the uniform rate of 5 per cent, with certain moderate exemptions, deeming a graduated rate of doubtful constitu tionality. LThe recess tax committee of the last Legislature reported, in favor of a graduated tax upon the direct in heritances, and the bill it submitted has been closely followed by the measure now a law. Its provisions as to ex emptions, graduations and rates ar substantially as follows: Collateral ; inheritances, above $1000, excepting charitable, religious and educational institutions, 6 per cent. Direct inheritances, class A (father, mother, husband, wife and lineal de scendants, natural or adopted. Includ ing husband of daughter or wife of son). $10,000 or less Exempt Not exceeding $2o.OOO 1 per cent Between 23.00O and J50.000 2 per cent Between $30,000 and $100.000 :f per cent Between $100,000 and $250.000 per cent Above $230,000 3 per cent .Inheritances, class B (brother, sister, nephew or niece of decedent): $1,000 or less '. Exempt Not exceeding $23.000 3 per cent Between $25,000 and $100,000 per cent Above $100,000 S per cent This cannot be called a radical meas ure. Even though admitting the prin ciple of graduation, it Is less severe than the proposal of the Dunbar com mission. It would have been better or more equitable l the classifications had been -extended further and the rates Increased to apply only to the amoupt by which one class exceeds another, as suggested by President Roosevelt in - his Jamestown speech. For example, if inheritances of be tween $25,000 and $50,000 pay 2 per cent, let inheritances from $50,000 to $100,300 pay 2 per cent up to $53,000 of the total, and 3 per cent on the excess over $50,00, and so on up, which process would equitably admit of high er fates extended up to 15 or 20 per cent for the excess in the highest grades, as with inheritance exceeding $1,000,000 or so. But as an original effort in inher itance tax legislation, it will do, and recent decisions of Federal and state courts leave little or no question as to the constitutionality of such a law. It applies equally to the real and per sonal property, and has been calculated to yield an annual revenue to the state of $1,530,030 additional to the present state income of some $600,000 from the collateral inheritance tax. THE CODE NAPOLEON. , How a Husband May Make a Wife Happy. A Philadelphia woman seeks a divorce on the ground that her husband is dis courteous and refuses to take her to dances and the country club. The lady has a naive conception of happiness and matrimony. Yet Jier complaints are frivolous only to be' human. And to the man who married her, to the men who have married her kind, might be com mended Napoleon's letter to his brother, who was managing to spoil the temper of Hortense by neglect of the simplest, most 'fr1volous, details. The man. who had the business of all Europe In his hands yet found time to dictate thousands of letters on various personal matters of which this one Is a specimen: You treat a young woman he wrote to Louts) as one would treat a regiment, lou have the best and most virtuous of wives, and vou make her unhappy. Let her dance as much as she wishes; it Is natural at her age. I have a wife of 40, and writing lo her from the field of battle I bid her go to balls. And you wish a wife of 20. who sees her life slipping by. who has all her Illusions, to live in a cloister, to spend her days like a nurse, "always engaged In wash ing her child. " I should not say all this did I not feel an Interest in you Render the mother of your children happy. There Is only one way. It Is to show her much esteem and confidence. innappnv, you have too good a wife. Tf you had one who was coquette, she would lead yon by the nose. But your wife Is proud: the very Idea that you can entertain a bad opinion of her grieves and revolts her. You should have had one of the wives I know In Paris. She would have played you false and kept you at her knees. Dr. Osier Says Soup Muat Go.. What to Eat. Dr. William Osier, who has an opinion concerning chlorororm and men who are 60 yea old, is bitterly opposed to the drinking of soup, according to the state ments of a New lork merchant. My wife was a wreck from nervous dvsnensia." said the merchant. "Several prominent physicians in New York had treated her without success, ana itnaiiy I was advised to take her to Baltimore to see Dr. Osier. He inquired carefully about her habits, and particularly her diet. We described it without going into details, but this did not satisfy the great physician. , ' " 'Tell nie what you have for dinner, describing the nature of the courses, their number, and so on.' he Insisted. " 'Well, usually we start with some good, nourishing soup.' I began. " 'Stop right there." interrupted Dr. Osier. 'Soup must go. There is a pop ular fallacy that soup Is nourishing. That is a mistake. It Is one of the most harmful things one can eat. It is worse than lobster. Of course, there are times when a simple beef or mutton broth is not to be condemned. But as a rule soup is positively dangerous. It dilutes the gastric julct?s and It ferments too rapidly to permit it to be easily digested, it Is the greatest cause of dyspepsia and ner vous disorders. Vegetable soup should be thrown into the garbage pall, where it belongs, instead of being poured into a delicate stomach. Half the nervous wrecks among society folk who live well are caused by eating soup.' "Dr. Osier gave some other advice, which was followed by my wife in addi tion to giving up soup. Soup is never served at our table, and has not been for four years. My wife is well and strong today, and she can eat anything on the menu except soup."' ' Following: the June Battle. Albany Democrat. What's the matter of engaging Gover nor Chamberlain for the next Fourth of July celebration? He draws. Hyperbolical. 1 : Albany Herald. You will never reach the top of the lad der by waiting for the elevator. TUB RIVER. Ah! the silken, sinuous river See Its aclntlllBnt. silvery quiver! Flowers on Its "border thronging Forward lean with loving longing; While the woeful, wooing willow Seeks 1U bosom- for a pillow. Wanton winds there, too, are vying Hear their soothing, soulful sighing: Maundering, wending onward ever Flows the shining, twining- river. Goes the glancing, dancing river. Through the leafy-lattice necking Comes the sunlight quaintly specking; Clouds and nshes ghostly glimmering Wreath lta mlrrory sheeny shimmering; Lilting birds Us surface fanning; Molderlng logs its edges spanning. Mossy rocks Ilka bearded sages r Hit there iilent through the ages. On past lilies, purple, plumy: On- past caverns, o!omn, gloomy, Where ead memories have thHr dwelling, Gladnes. with the light, dispelling; On through sunshine, on through shadow. On through forest, on through meadow, From the Ice-peak to the ocean, "With a never-ceasing motion, :oes the gleaming, beaming river. Flows) the flashing, plashing river. HARHY MURPHT. MORE THEOLOGY AND" DOGMA Two Correspondents Differ Materially In Elucidating; the Problem. PORTLAND, July 10. (To the Ed itor.) Though a busy professional man, who must snatch the time to write, I offer no apology for attempting to reply to The Oregonian's comments of this date on my letter. I know the influence especially on the young of a secular paper such as The Oregonlan la far more reaching than is the re ligious press, and I honor all journal ists who, as good men, are trying to spread the truth as they see it. Sq, in that little-read story. "La Cnaumtere Indlenne," of Bernardln de Saint Pierre, better known as the au thor of "Paul and Virginia," St. Pierre makes a poor outcast tell an English doctor who has sought the world over in vain for the truth: "We should im part the truth only to good men." My references to dogma and theology were but incidental. I wished to try to neutralize to some" extent such ma terialistic, not to say agnostic, utter ances so they seem to me in the edi torial of last Sunday's Oregonian, as: "Nature is working for no object that we can see. But what is Nature?" Which recalls Pilate's "jesting" ques tion: "What is truth?" That question of The Oregonian I think the verse I quoted answers at least answers those who are not' entrenched, as The Ore gonian seems to me to be, behind a certain bitter contempt for Christian ity, and anyhow, its ordained teachers. Yet I sincerely and cheerfully ac knowledge that The Oregonian has, in certain Sunday" editorials, enlightened many doubting hearts, and given cour a8"8 to CHRISTIAN. SPOKANE. Wash., July 8. (To the Editor.) I desire to offer my tribute of appreciation to the leading editorial in last Sunday's Oregonian on the sub ject of "Nature"s Care for Individuals and the Kace." I wish to express my admiration for the author of such forcible, sensible English. One sees so much intellectual twad dle in tho press, and hears so much nonsense from the platform and the pulpit on the subject of a guiding in telligence, that to find such a logical statement in The Oregonian. is trsJy gratifying. t A. E. HOUSE. GOVERNMENT CLERKS' PENSIONS Mr. Paulsen Reason That the Proposi tion Ia Untenable. PORTLAND. July 10.-(To the Editor.) Regarding an article which recently ap peared in The Oregonian on "Elderly Government Clerks," why should a per son who has for many years received from the Government a salary that has exceeded in most Instances the amount he or she could have earned in any other vocation, and whose only excuse in most cases for poverty is extravagance and shiftlessness during the many years that such person was in enjoyment of a sure and in most Instances liberal income, even during periods of general business depression, receive any pension at all? The same reasons that are given in the article referred to against the plan of assessing this pension against the young er clerks should apply with even greater force against the proposition to pay any pension at all. The Oregonian says: "With An nouro annul.. . ant . k. shiftless clerks could spend their entire earnings from month to month. Yet this $75 would come from the pockets of other employes who owe them nothing." Do the people at large owe anything to these shiftless clerks? The man who puts in years of faithful service in the mreei-cieaning aepartment or Portland is far better enfltlfrl n a nanals... tnn these well-paid clerks, because the com pensation received By him Is small in comparison. THOMAS PAULSEN. Cat Fondles a Rattlesnake, Tulsa (I. T.) Dispatch to New Tork World. The following story is told by Dr. McConnell. of Tulsa, who knows snake5 and cats when he-sees them: Dr. McConnell was sitting on his porch when ho saw a cat coming up the lawn dragging a rattlesnake about three feet long. The cat had the snake by the nape of the neck, if it had such a thinir. and apparently was experiencing no trouble in "toting" its load. The feline carried his snakeship un der the porch, and there, for 15 min uter she lovingly fondled it with her paws. Dr. McConnell called the mem bers of Dr. Harrison's family to watch me perrormance. Finally a disagreement arose, and tne serpent was seen to strike wick edly at the cat. Tabby liked this phase of the situation fully as well as the amorous stunts, and fought back with zest. The snake and the cat kept the duel up for probably Ave minutes, when the spectators thought it was time to in terfere, and the snake was killed. -. Leopard Caresses a Sparrow. New York World. Tt happened In the Central Park Zoo. The keepers took from the leonard- mother to wean them her 3-months-old cubs, Alice. Teddy and Nicholas. The keepers put Alice in a little cage by nerseir. Decause her brothers have been treating her very rudely lately, cuffing ami even niting her. That she might un derstand she had done with food for babeR, that she might exercise her jaws and small, sharp teeth, some shinbones of beef were thrown in Alice's cage. A sparrow, just about old enough to forage for itself, flew in the cage, and, alighting on a bone, hungrily pecked at a scrap of meat. The leopard, which is no' bigger than a big domtic cat, its distant cousin, crouched, eyed the sparrow for a moment or two, and then stealthily approached it in just the way SLEEPING DOGS ' ' i' J! I i il '' ' Hffl V - S.-'i-lW TO In the Magazine Section of the Sunday Oregonian WHEN STEUNENBERG PRESERVED ORDER Full page of photographs showing the "bullpen" near the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine, where 600 men were confined after the riots in 1899. BEATING HOME IN A SMASHING BREEZE Full-page picture in colors of a yachting scene on the Willam ette River, made from a photo graph. "BILL" CHANCE, INDIAN FIGHTER Sketch of a man who killed treacherous Oregon redskins early in the ;40s, and hates them like rattlesnakes. He gives the facts surrounding the Ben Wright massacre. ONE OF PORTLAND'S ATTRACTIVE HOMES Exterior and interior views of the attractive residence of Dr. Henry Waldo Coe, at the head of Lov'ejoy street. WANTON SLAUGHTER OF TURTLE DOVES Another of Homer Daven port's biting cartoon and a lit j tie lay sermon to go with it. WILD BIRDS OF SOUTHERN OREGON W. L. Finley, the well-known ornithologist, tells of the great est rookeries on the Pacific Coast and discloses how fash ion, not law, stopped the slaugh ter of grebes. GARFIELD'S SUBSTITUTE A FAMED ATHLETE Sketch of George W. Wood ruff, Acting. Secretary of the In terior, who was once the most famous football coadh in tho country. CONSCIENCE IN THE FIELD OF ART O. Henry, the most popular humorist of the day, tells how Andy deceived a Pittsburg mil lionaire who was taking on cul ture. BILLIONS IN WORLD'S. NEW IMPROVEMENTS Dexter Marshall writes about colossal enterprises, now under way, which involve greater sums than were ever expended at one time. QUEER POPULATION OF TRIPOLI Frank Q. Carpenter's topic for the current, letter is the capital of Barbary, a desert City of 60,000 inhabitants: DR. FURNTVALL, PHYSICIAN-DETECTIVE "Tha Lodging-House Mys tery" is the title of his latest narrative, most startling in the denouement. ORDER FROM YOUR NEWS DEALER TODAY everyone has seen a domestic cat stalk a bird. The sparrow seemed not the least afraid, but kept on pecking at the meat industriously. Slowly, slowly, the leopard approached the sparrow until the bird was her certain prey. Then Alice opened her mouth and Did the leopard eat the bird? No, children, no. Director Smith, of the Zoo, and Head Keeper Snyder, who de spise a nature faker, swear solemnly that Alice thrust out her tongue and caress ingly licked the sparrow. Then Alice lay down and the sparrow flew on her back and perched there for an hour. Ulster Sunshine. Baltimore Sun. Pistr Sunshine's sweet on me. Takes rny hand and nets me free. Lifts the shadow from my face. Airily, with dainty grace.1 Hlster 8unslilne, how she smiles. Till the heart forgets Its trials'. T.own the lane she dances swe.et With the blossoms at her feet. And we follow, plater fair, Brothers of forgotten care! Sister Sunshine, oh. thou art Fweeter than an old sweetheart! -From, the New TorV World.